Chapter 618: Easily Obtained

A young man with yellow hair lay on the ground, howling like a slaughtered pig. Seeing me come over, he struggled to climb up from the ground, but after climbing halfway, he fell heavily to the ground due to exhaustion.

One look at his hooligan attire and his ruffian appearance, and the guilt I had felt earlier vanished.

In recent years, a batch of young people like him had emerged in Hengyue City, idling away their days and making a living by helping others settle scores. They deliberately dressed themselves to look fierce, either shaving their heads or dyeing their hair golden or other colors. Some even deliberately got tattoos of dragons and phoenixes on their arms and chests, opening their mouths with coarse and harsh words. If you really asked them to wield weapons, they would run faster than dogs.

I saw he wasn't seriously injured, so I said coldly, "Get up, what do you want?"

He lay on the ground and refused to get up, looked at me, then at my car, and a smile flashed across his face.

"I've been hit to death by you." He said, groaning, and was about to take out his phone from his pocket to call for people.

I sized him up and said, "Friend, stop the nonsense, tell me, do you want to settle this officially or privately?"

He turned his head cunningly and asked, "What if officially? What if privately?"

I laughed, "Officially, I report to the police and let the traffic police handle it. Privately, you tell me, how much money do you want for compensation?"

He didn't take the bait, dialed a few numbers on his phone, and said, "I'm not settling officially or privately with you. I'm calling my big brother, you can ask him."

I began to lose patience; this kid was clearly trying to extort me, and he was smart, knowing to call for people.

I had seen plenty of small-time thugs in Hengyue City; to be honest, I wasn't afraid of them. It was just that being entangled with them wasn't a pleasant life. These people were shameless to begin with, and encountering such an opportunity, how could they let it go easily?

I had been squatting to talk to him, but hearing him say he was calling for people, I simply stood up and turned to leave.

He shouted behind my back, "You're tough! Let's see how tough you are in a minute! I just got out, I'm not afraid of you."

I turned my head and said, "No problem. I'm not tough either. Since you just got out, if you call people to cause trouble now, I'm afraid you'll be going back in."

He also sneered, took out a cigarette, and lit it, saying, "I even dared to hit someone from the province, would I be afraid of you?"

My heart skipped a beat, thinking of Xu Mengda's car accident, so I turned around, walked over, squatted down, pulled the cigarette from his mouth, and handed him one of mine, saying, "Come on, friend, smoke mine."

He was stunned for a moment, then laughed, saying triumphantly, "Scared, aren't you? In Hengyue City, my boss has never been afraid of anyone. I'll tell you the truth, my boss is someone who eats both black and white. If you're smart, be quick about it, private settlement is fine too."

Now I didn't want a private settlement, so I lit his cigarette and said, "Brother, tell me, who did you hit from the province?"

I feigned a very serious expression, looking at him with immense admiration.

Sure enough, he grew even more smug. After taking a deep drag of his cigarette, he pointed at the intersection and said, "Right here, half a year ago, I hit a guy and left him crippled."

"From the province?"

"Yes. Heard he was a big boss."

"How did you hit him?"

"Isn't that simple? My car was parked right there." He pointed to an intersection, "When he came, I hit him."

"So, you did it on purpose?"

He looked at me alertly. I immediately showed a smile of disdain and mocked him, "Brother, if you blow a big bubble, it'll burst just the same."

He got anxious, sat up from the ground, glared at me, and said, "I'm telling you, I did it on purpose."

"You don't even know him, why hit him?"

"I don't know him, but someone else does. This guy is a busybody, ruining my boss's business. I'm telling you, this guy has a lot of luck, he didn't die."

A chill ran through my heart; who wanted Xu Mengda's life?

"Who is your boss?" I asked tentatively.

"Stop the nonsense. I won't tell you." He threw away the cigarette butt and looked up toward the end of the street.

I knew he was waiting for someone, waiting for someone to come and cause me trouble.

If the person he was waiting for came, it would be very difficult for me to get away easily. They were like chewed gum; once they stuck to you, it was hard to scrape off.

So I smiled and said, "Brother, let's just do this, we won't wait for your boss, you name a price, and I'll pay you."

He looked at me hesitantly, then looked at my car and said, "Friend, I can see you're not an ordinary person, and I don't want to talk nonsense. How about this, you pay me this much, and we go our separate ways."

He opened a palm and waved it in front of my eyes.

"Five hundred?" I said, while reaching into my pocket for money.

"What?" He shouted loudly, "Friend, are you trying to dismiss me like a beggar? Five hundred yuan? That's not enough for me to take a sauna."

"Five thousand?" I asked hesitantly.

He still shook his head and began to groan again, saying that the hit I just gave him must have caused a concussion. A concussion is a mental illness, and he hadn't even married a wife yet, and he wouldn't be able to marry one in the future, he would have no descendants, because no one would marry a mentally ill person; this was a huge matter, and I had to be responsible for him.

I was between laughter and tears, but a fire was burning in my heart. If it had been anyone else, I would have kicked him long ago.

"Is it fifty thousand?" I sneered, "Brother, your mouth is a bit too big."

"Big?" He laughed triumphantly, "I'm mentally ill now, can this little money cure me?"

"Can you take less?" I asked, suppressing my anger.

"No." He told me firmly.

"I'm reporting to the police." I said, taking out my phone to report. Of course, this was a bluff. I wouldn't report to the police because I already had an idea in my heart.

"Report then! If the police come, you hit me, I didn't hit you. I'm driving a motorcycle, you're driving a car. You know that." He was getting ready to call for people again.

I held his hand down and said, "Brother, you can have fifty thousand, but you have to promise me one thing. Otherwise, even if we go to the ends of the earth, I'm reporting this to the police."

He was stunned for a moment, and then I saw a flash of surprise slide across the corners of his eyes. I knew he was tempted!

So I added a bit of strong medicine, "If it really goes to the traffic police, you'd be lucky to get five hundred. Because you're definitely driving without a license, right?"

He hung his head after I said that. Then he stiffened his neck and said, "I'm not afraid!"

I laughed, "I know you're not afraid. But there's a lot of trouble, and it won't be easy for you to get my money easily."

He hesitated and said, "Friend, I can see you're a man of the world. How about this, you tell me, what conditions do I have to agree to?"

"Tell me who your boss is." I handed him another cigarette, "If you tell me, I'll give you fifty thousand right now."

"For real?" He looked at me in disbelief, took the light I offered, and took a deep drag of the cigarette.

"Do I look like someone who tells lies?" I looked at him with a half-smile.

"Why do you want to know who my boss is?" He was still hesitating; I could see that fifty thousand yuan was a temptation of no small magnitude for him. I even saw his whole body trembling slightly with excitement.

"Nothing special. Just want to make a friend. Maybe we even know each other." I laughed loudly, "Hengyue City is only this big, we see each other all the time, if we're not relatives of relatives, we must be friends of friends."

He stared at me suspiciously for a long time and said, "You're not trying to fool me again, are you?"

I held up an index finger and waved it in front of his eyes.

"Fine, give me the money first." He stood up from the ground. I had to marvel at the tenacity of this kid's vitality. The impact just now was so strong, and he had almost flown his whole body to smash onto my hood before falling to the ground. For an ordinary person to fall like that, it would be almost impossible not to break bones. But here he was, like nothing had happened, brushing the dust off his butt, leaning his body against my car hood, and reaching out a hand to me.

"Do you want cash or a card?" I asked.

I had cash in the car; ever since I had a car, I always carried cash. And the amount wouldn't be less than ten thousand.

"Cash is king." He said, looking at me eagerly.

I opened the car door, found a piece of paper and a pen inside, and handed them to him, saying, "You have to give me a receipt. Otherwise, if you take the money and don't admit it, I have nowhere to reason."

He waved his hand and said, "I'm not writing it. I don't know how to write."

"You don't even know how to write your own name?" I asked.

"No." He said stiffly.

I feigned helplessness and sighed, "How about this, I'll write it for you, and you can press a thumbprint over your name, that should be fine, right?"

"That can be considered."

"Let me see your ID card." I said, "I have to write it according to the name on your ID. Otherwise, if I write it wrong, we won't be able to clear it up later."

He handed me his ID card without hesitation.

I wrote down his ID number and name on the paper, wrote the receipt, and handed it to him to press his thumbprint. He asked hesitantly, "How do I press it?"

I took the pen, unscrewed the barrel, dripped a drop of ink onto his finger, and signaled for him to press it.

He looked at the receipt very carefully first, making sure I hadn't written anything wrong, before pressing it over his name. From the way he looked at the paper, I understood that this guy knew how to read!

After pressing the thumbprint, he reached out and said, "Bring the money."

I folded the paper and put it in my pocket, saying, "You haven't told me who your boss is yet."

He was startled and glared at me, "Trying to go back on your word?"

I smiled faintly, "Don't worry, I won't."

He then said helplessly, "My boss is called Gouzi. But I know he's not the real boss; there's someone behind him, and not an ordinary person."

"You don't know who it is?" I asked.

He shook his head and said, "How could someone of my rank know so much? To tell you the truth, big brother, last time I came to hit someone, it was agreed to give thirty thousand, but in the end, they only gave me ten thousand. And it cost me half a year in jail!"

"This person is dark!" I laughed, "Brother, I can see you're a man of the world, in the future if I have trouble, I'll have to ask you to settle it!"

He waved his hand readily and said, "No problem, a small matter. I'm telling you, in Hengyue City, there's nothing Luo Dabiao can't settle."

I took fifty thousand yuan from the car and gave it to him, helped him to the side of the road to sit down, then got into the car and stepped on the gas to slip away.

The sudden car accident left me both shocked and happy. This guy named Luo Dabiao, I'm going to check your background!

Not long after I left, I saw several motorcycles arrive at the scene of the accident in the rearview mirror; they were looking for me everywhere in confusion.

I suppressed a laugh, hummed a song, took out my phone, and prepared to call Hao Qiang. ===== CHAPTER 619 =====