After finishing his meal, Ma Yunfei left the mayor's house.
Mayor Gu Le said to Liu Fei, "Wife, go to the bank tomorrow and withdraw five thousand yuan."
"Why are you taking out the money? Are you going to lend it to Gu Tian? Let me tell you: lending money to Gu Tian is like throwing a meat bun to a dog."
"Wife, now that Gu Tian has spoken, we can't let his words go unanswered."
"Honey, didn't you just have Xiao Ma's buddy, Abbot, beat up Gu Tian and kick him out of Qinglong Town? Why did you give him money?"
“Wife, the most effective way to deal with people is to use both kindness and severity. Gu Tian is my cousin after all. Whether his father is really sick or not, since he asked, we have to give him some money. That’s called doing a favor.”
“Honey, it’s not easy for us to save money. I took out the savings book the other day and counted it. We only have 220,000 yuan in total.”
"Honey, we've already made a lot of money with 220,000 yuan. I think we're one of the richest people in Qinglong Town. Giving us 5,000 yuan is nothing."
“Honey, I can’t bear to part with it. Let’s just give Gu Tian a thousand yuan to appease him.”
“Wife, you women are all talk and no action. Think about it, how many bad things have I made Gu Tian do? If I anger him, I’ll be in deep trouble. He’ll lose his job as mayor, and then our losses won’t just be 50,000. I’m only in my forties, I can still work for more than ten years. Even if I only make 100,000 a year, I can still make more than a million. You have to do the math.”
Liu Fei said with dissatisfaction, "Honey, you shouldn't have let Gu Tian be your henchman. Look, he hit the deputy mayor with a stick, what good did that do? The deputy mayor will recover from his injury and still compete with you. And that cadre who talked back to you, you scared him, although he may have submitted on the surface, I don't know what he was thinking."
Gu Le sighed and said, "I'm just too proud. I don't allow people to challenge me. Maybe it's a flaw, or maybe it's a strength. Anyway, Gu Tian has helped me a lot, so giving him five thousand yuan is only right."
Liu Fei pouted and asked worriedly, "Honey, you just gave Gu Tian five thousand yuan so casually. What if he comes to ask for money every few days?"
“Honey, that’s exactly what I was thinking. I was worried that he would often try to extort money from me, so I had Xiao Ma’s buddy teach Gu Tian a lesson and make him back down.”
Liu Fei sighed and said, "It's not a pleasant feeling to have to vomit up what I've eaten."
"Wife, we should take a long-term view and not worry about immediate gains and losses. We should look at the bigger picture."
The next morning, Ma Yunfei called the abbot to a corner of the storeroom and said, "Third brother, we're in trouble."
The abbot asked, "Has Erlu gotten into some trouble again? Damn it, I'm going to beat him up again and see if he submits."
Ma Yunfei waved his hand and said, "Erlu didn't cause any trouble, but the mayor gave us a difficult problem."
"Ah! It must be Erlv who told on us behind our backs. He's determined to ruin the sales station, blocking our way to make money and taking away our livelihood. I...I'll fight him to the death."
“Abbot, you need to change this impulsive habit. Don’t throw your fists at the drop of a hat. This time you beat up Erlu and almost went to jail. Perhaps you don’t realize how serious the matter is. Let me tell you: if I hadn’t taken some measures, you would have been taken away by the county public security bureau by now.”
The abbot raised an eyebrow and said, “Boss, I heard the police say in the detention room that I would be transferred to the county soon, but then I was suddenly released. I knew then that you must be pulling strings for me outside.”
Ma Yunfei said, "Last night, the town mayor gave me a task: to persuade you to teach someone a lesson."
"The mayor wants me to beat someone up?"
"Yes, you know this person. He's the mayor's cousin, the short man named Gu Tian."
The abbot nodded and said, "I know this person. He came to our sales station before."
The abbot asked, puzzled, "This Gu Tian is the town mayor's cousin, why would he hit his cousin?"
"Third brother, even brothers have internal conflicts, and fathers and sons can turn against each other. It's not surprising. I think maybe they had a conflict."
The abbot rolled up his sleeves and said, "Since the mayor ordered me to beat someone up, then I'll do it."
“Abbot, I thought about it all night and realized that since the mayor ordered you to hit someone, we can’t refuse. However, there’s a proper way to do it.”
"Is there any etiquette to hitting someone? Oh, I know: you told me not to hit his head or chest."
Ma Yunfei shook his head and said, "I think there are three things you need to remember: First, you can't use your fists, you can only use a belt; second, when you hit someone, you have to cover your head with silk stockings so that the other person can't see your face; third, when you hit someone, you have to say one sentence: 'Kid, if you ever come to Qinglong Town to extort money again, watch out, I'll take your dog's life.'"
The abbot nodded seriously and repeated, "Boss, I can do all three of these things. However, I need to memorize the third one several times. You know I have a bad memory, and I hate memorizing things when I was studying."
The abbot repeated the words he was going to say when he hit someone twenty times in a row, and said with a smug look on his face, "Boss, I was right, wasn't I?"
"Yes, that's what I'll say."
The abbot asked, puzzled, "Boss, where do you want me to whip him with the belt?"
"Third brother, you can have your head kicked anywhere else."
The abbot looked at Ma Yunfei's belt and pleaded, "Boss, can I borrow your belt? Look, this tattered belt of mine is almost broken. I'm afraid it will be ruined after only ten strokes."
Ma Yunfei took off his leather belt and handed it to the abbot.
"Third brother, you're too frugal. You can't even bear to buy a belt."
"Hehe... Boss, I need to save money to build a house and prepare a bride price. My mom said she's going to find me a wife from a nearby village. I heard she's quite pretty, with two dimples on her face. We have a custom here that if a bride has dimples, you get an extra two thousand yuan for each dimple, and four thousand yuan for each dimple."
Ma Yunfei laughed and said, "Third brother, if you work hard with me, you can marry ten wives, let alone one. Even if all ten wives have dimples, you can still bring them home."
The abbot chuckled and said, "Boss, do you want me to break the law? If I married ten wives, I wouldn't know who to sleep with at night. That would be a real problem for me. It's better to have only one wife."
That evening, Ma Yunfei took the abbot to the town mayor's house for dinner.
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