Chapter 588 What's going on
She didn't help Li Wen, but just looked at her coldly.
"What happened?"
Li Wen is her friend. Although what she said just now was too much, looking at her current state, it is obvious that she is in big trouble.
"My bar..." Li Wen finally got to the point, her voice filled with tears and endless regret, "The bar is going to be gone..."
"What's the meaning?"
"I met a scumbag!" Li Wen practically gritted her teeth as she spoke these words. "He cheated me out of my money and ran away with all my savings! Not only that, he secretly used the bar as collateral to borrow a large sum of money from a loan shark!"
Ji Wan's pupils suddenly shrank.
"Now the creditor has come to my door and said he'll kill me if I don't hand over the bar within three days!" Li Wen's voice was shaking at the end. "Wanwan, that bar is the only thing my parents left me. I can't live without it... I really can't live without it!"
She cried heart-wrenchingly, attracting the attention of people around her.
Ji Wan's face darkened.
She leaned over, pulled Li Wen up from the ground, and pushed her back into her seat.
"Sit tight!"
Her voice was not loud, but it had a soothing power.
Li Wen sobbed and didn't dare to make any other moves.
Ji Wan took out a tissue from her bag and threw it in front of her.
"Wipe it clean."
"Tell me the number," Ji Wan looked at her, his tone calm and decisive, "How much money do you need?"
Li Wen was stunned and looked at her with tears in her eyes.
"No matter how much, I'll help you pay it back first. Let's save the bar first." Ji Wan said without hesitation, "We are friends."
Hearing this, Li Wen's tears flowed even harder, but she shook her head with all her strength.
"No...it's not about the money..."
"What do you mean it's not about money? Isn't loan sharking all about money?" Ji Wan frowned.
"They don't want money!" Li Wen's voice became sharp, filled with fear. "I told them I could pay them back, even double the amount! But they don't want it!"
"They just want my bar!"
Li Wen grabbed Ji Wan's arm tightly, her nails almost digging into her flesh.
"Wanwan, they're gangsters! They said they're interested in the land where my bar is. They're not after the money at all! They just want to take over my bar!"
underworld!
These two words hit Ji Wan's heart hard, stirring up a cold chill.
She lowered her eyes and looked at Li Wen's face, which was distorted by fear, and the knuckles that were deeply embedded in her arm and turned bluish-white.
pain.
But the anger in my heart burned a hundred times more fiercely than this little physical pain.
This is no longer a simple scam or usury.
This is blatant robbery!
"Who is the other party?"
Ji Wan's voice was cold as ice, without a trace of warmth.
This extreme calmness made Li Wen, who was still on the verge of collapse, tremble suddenly and subconsciously raised her head.
"I, I don't know. They only call the boss Brother Leopard." Li Wen's teeth were chattering. "That area is their territory. No one dares to mess with them..."
"Brother Leopard?"
Ji Wan chewed on the name, his eyes becoming colder.
She didn't ask any more questions.
She pulled her arm out of Li Wen's grip expressionlessly, without even glancing at the deep nail marks on it.
Under Li Wen's desperate gaze, Ji Wan took out his cell phone and dialed the number he knew by heart.
The call was answered almost instantly.
"Wanwan?" Chi Wenyan's smiling voice came from the receiver, and he seemed to be in a good mood.
"Chi Wenyan, I need your help."
Ji Wan went straight to the point, his tone serious and leaving no room for negotiation.
Chi Wenyan on the other end of the phone immediately noticed something was wrong, and his voice instantly became gloomy: "What happened? Where are you?"
"I'm with Li Wen." Ji Wan briefly recounted the situation. "She was set up, and the bar was mortgaged to a loan shark. Now the loan shark doesn't want the money, just her bar and the land. Three days to return it, or she'll be killed."
Chi Wenyan was silent for a moment, then asked, "Who is the other party?"
"A guy called Leopard Brother, a gangster."
"Brother Bao?" Chi Wenyan scoffed, his voice filled with undisguised contempt and disdain, "When did such a fool who doesn't know how to live or die appear in our area?"
His words, with absolute authority and a sense of oppression, instantly relaxed Ji Wan's tense heartstrings.
"Don't worry about it." Chi Wenyan's voice returned to a gentle tone, but it was filled with a firmness that brooked no argument. "Tell Li Wen to stay here peacefully and don't go anywhere. I'll have Assistant Chen go over and take care of it right now."
"How long will it take?" Ji Wan asked.
"Before dark," Chi Wenyan said calmly, as if discussing a trivial matter, "I'll have this 'Brother Leopard' come personally to your house, return the contract to your friend, and kowtow in apology."
Ji Wan hung up the phone.
The entire bar was still noisy, but the atmosphere in her and Li Wen's little world was completely different.
Li Wen was still immersed in great fear, staring at her blankly, the tears in her eyes had not yet dried.
"Okay." Ji Wan put the phone back into the bag calmly.
She met Li Wen's helpless eyes and said clearly, word by word:
"Chi Wenyan will take care of it."
"Everything will be resolved before dark."
"You and your bar will be fine."
Li Wen's lips trembled. She wanted to say something but couldn't utter a single word.
The next second, all the fear, despair and regret she had accumulated completely burst out in Ji Wan's calm statement.
She lay on the table, no longer howling hysterically as before, but crying silently, suppressing her voice and trembling constantly.
It is the release after being saved.
It is the blessing of surviving the disaster.
A week later.
The most upscale private restaurant, in an elegant private room.
Li Wen held up a glass of freshly squeezed juice, her face filled with gratitude. "Wanwan, this is for you! If it weren't for you and Mr. Chi, my bar, my life! They'd all be gone!"
She drank it all in one gulp and put the cup down heavily.
"You didn't see how cowardly that Leopard brother turned out!" Li Wen felt relieved when she talked about this, her eyebrows dancing with joy. "When Mr. Chi's Assistant Chen arrived, that idiot's legs went weak. The next day, before dawn, he personally held the contract, knelt at the door of my bar, and kowtowed in apology with tears and snot. That scene, wow, was more exciting than a movie!"
Ji Wan ate his food slowly and calmly, and when he heard this, he just curled his lips lightly: "It's fine as long as it's solved."
She never doubted Chi Wenyan's methods.
That man either doesn't take action, or when he does, it will be with such force that the other person will never be able to get up again.
"It's solved, completely solved!" Li Wen patted her chest, still feeling a lingering fear. "From now on, I'll never dare touch those messy things again."
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