Chapter 87 Begging with Style (1/2)
”What are you looking at?” The woman continued, ”can you afford it?”
”Then what do you want?” Zhou Yuan wiped his sweat and asked, ”What do you want us to do?”
”Give me twenty thousand. Then this will be over!” The woman lay on the ground and leaked an almost imperceptible smile on her face as if she was glad that she had succeeded so easily today.
”Well,” Zhou Yuan scratched his head, ”Wait a minute.” After speaking, he rushed towards Hao Ning, causing Hao Ning to have a bad feeling in his heart. As expected, Zhou Yuan said to Hao Ning with a red face, ”Hey, could you lend me five thousand yuan?”
”Geez!” Hao Ning stared at Zhou Yuan, thinking that this moment god must be a freak that he was fooled so easily. However, he still patiently asked, ”What are you doing?”
”The woman wants twenty thousand to settle it down. I only have fifteen thousand. Could you lend me ...” The more Zhou Yuan spoke, the softer his voice became, as though borrowing money was something disgraceful.
”You pay her?” Hao Ning could not help but ask, ”Are you out of your mind? You give…”
”Give a shit!” Hao Ning had not finished speaking when a voice came out from the side, ”What's in your mind!? Are you stupid? How come you pay a person like that? Achoo!”
When Hao Ning heard this familiar voice, he couldn't remember who it was immediately. Thus, he turned his head to look, and what he saw made them extremely astonished. It was a teary-eyed Zhang Chihang who was being supported by Xiao Hong. He was sneezing as he got out of the car. It was also a Maserati, but it was slightly better than Zhou Yuan's version.
”Even an Avalokiteshvara can catch a cold?” Hao Ning was suspicious in his heart, but it was not appropriate to ask about this at this moment. Zhou Yuan did not know that this master in front of him was the one who provided the medicinal pellets to save him. He frowned, seeming to be indifferent to Zhang Chihang's ridicule.
Zhang Chihang walked in and looked at Zhou Yuan, and laughed a little, then started coughing fiercely. While coughing, he tried to cover his mouth with his handkerchief. He coughed so miserably. It seemed like he was going to cough out his lungs.
Xiao Hong immediately stroked Zhang Chihang's back, and sighed at the same time: ”Your tuberculosis is severe. Let's see a doctor first, in case you make other people infected. The people that were previously infected by you are in the Intensive Care Unit, and eight out of ten of them are already dead.” Unknowingly, Xiao Hong's voice was so loud that the few people around could hear him.
”Al-choo!” Zhang Chihang did not speak, and instead coughed out a thick piece of phlegm. There were blood clots in it, the bright red blood clots along with the thick, yellow phlegm were coughed out onto the ground not far away from the woman. The clots were like red strawberries on a birthday cake. As soon as they hit the ground, they attracted a dozen flies. The flies climbed up the clots, sucking the liquid from the clots from time to time before climbing onto the thick sputum and continuing to wipe their eyes with their claws. The woman was scared that she even forgot to moan. Zhang Chihang waved his hand and said to Xiao Hong, ”Call, call, call the traffic police.”
”Traffic police?” Zhou Yuan whispered to Hao Ning in surprise, ”You're already coughing up blood, shouldn't you look for a doctor first?”
Hao Ning seemed to understand something and indicated for Zhou Yuan not to speak but watch.
”Fine!” Xiao Hong did not say a word. He merely dialed the number.
When the woman heard that they wanted to call the traffic police, her face changed slightly. She turned her head and told Zhou Yuan, ”Today is your lucky day. Just give me five thousand then you can go!”
Before Hao Ning could even speak, Zhou Yuan's face suddenly lit up with joy. Just as he was about to take out his cell phone to ask for the woman's account, Zhang Chihang coughed once again and suddenly spat out a mouthful of phlegm. This time it fell even closer to the woman, and his phlegm was full of blood, but what was even weirder was that the road was downhill. The woman was lying on top of the mucus, but the blood seemed to have a life of its own. It did not flow downwards, but instead, it was flowing straight towards the woman who was lying on top of the hill.
”Jesus!” The woman jumped out immediately without much thinking, obviously afraid that the bloody phlegm would touch her. Since it was just a small matter of money, being infected with tuberculosis wouldn't be easy to deal with, so she jumped up hurriedly in her panic, and meanwhile, she took off her grey wig. This time Hao Ning recognized that she was not even thirty years old. No wonder she didn't let Zhou Yuan touch her earlier. It turned out that she was afraid that Zhou Yuan would find out about her disguise.
”You!” Zhou Yuan saw the woman jump up. However, just as he was about to ask ”Lady you feel well?” he saw the woman's wig fall off. Thus, he realized that he was fooled. His face turned red, and when he thought about his previous performance, he felt even more ashamed. After holding back for a long while, he asked, ”So you are a liar?”
”You!” The woman looked at Zhou Yuan, then at Zhang Chihang, not knowing whom to scold.
”Why is it you again?” A traffic policeman walked over from behind, ”Are you blackmailing people again?”
”Huh?” The woman turned around. When she saw the traffic police, her face softened as she smiled, ”Why are you here? I am not blackmailing anyone. See, I'm fine.” As she spoke, she took two steps forward and jumped a few times.
”Hng-hng!” The traffic police did not say anything but looked towards Zhou Yuan and the others. Before Zhou Yuan could say anything, the traffic police waved his hand, ”This person is a habitual swindler. She has been imprisoned for a few times, but she always scams again. How much did she scam you guys this time? One or two thousand? ”
”Twenty thousand...” Before Hao Ning started speaking, Zhou Yuan had blurted out.
”Twenty thousand?” The traffic police glared at the woman and scolded her with a smile, ”Are you trying to trick a person and get enough money for the Spring Festival holiday? What idiot would give you so much money? Do you think everyone is that stupid! Don't move! Come with us! ” The traffic police said as he intended to take the woman back to ”re-educate.”
As Zhou Yuan heard the traffic police saying ”idiot”, his face reddened even more. Also, Hao Ning strived to hold himself not to laugh out until his belly hurt.
The woman looked at Zhou Yuan and the others, and knew that Zhang Chihang had messed up her plan, so she scolded him fiercely, ”You damned nosy person, I curse you not to have a good ending.”
”You can't decide if a person would end well by cursing.” Zhang Chihang stopped coughing. He stood up straight and looked at the lady, and laughed.
”Humph!” The woman took out a jade Avalokiteshvara statue from her neck, placed it in her palm, and clasped her hands together. ”A person like you will not be blessed by the Avalokiteshvara!”
”Err …” Hao Ning was speechless in a daze. Avalokiteshvara would naturally not bless Zhang Chihang, because he would not be able to bless himself. However, in this sort of situation, it was quite subtle that this person said it out.
”Pfft!” After Zhang Chihang heard this, he immediately flushed red and cursed, ”You don't do anything in this world and only know how to cheat money. How could you say something like Bodhisattva Blessing? Forget that Bodhisattva Blessing is fake, even if it's real, it won't protect an evil person like you! No, you are not a person at all. You are just a parasite. You are young, and you clearly have hands and feet, but you don't work hard to earn money. You want to cheat others of their money to live. You are doomed to fall into the Tongue Pulling Hell, Intestine Taking Hell and Fire Hell. You cannot even reincarnate. Do you dare to curse me? You should think of how to accumulate some merits so that you would receive less punishment after your death! Otherwise, you are destined to enter the Land of Ninth Nether after your death and will never be able to reincarnate! Bodhisattva Blessing? You are not worthy of Bodhisattva's blessing! Not only will you not be blessed, but ghosts will also haunt you. If you dare to cheat again, you will lose your soul and end in a horrible death! ”
Hao Ning was stunned. He never expected that Zhang Chihang's reaction would be so intense, and he was shocked by the ”judgment” of this Avalokiteshvara.
”Pah!” The jade status in the woman's hand exploded into powder. The woman cried out in fright, and the traffic police also took a step back in shock.
It might because he was in a cold or something else, Zhang Chihang's eyes were red as he stared at the woman. Hao Ning suddenly understood what Zhang Chihang meant that he did not fulfill someone’s wishes, because evil guys who took his statue but cheated others would not make good wishes.
”See, you are not only blackmailing others with a fake wound, but even your jade Bodhisattva statue is also fake. The quality is so poor, ” Hao Ning could roughly guess why that statue would explode, but he'd better make some excuse to cover the truth. ”Officer, take this cheater away. By the way, big sister, you'd better not cheat people again. Even the Bodhisattva statue in your hands disagrees.
The woman was stunned upon hearing Hao Ning's words. Even the traffic police looked at Hao Ning and Zhang Chihang in a strange face before bringing her to leave.