The Whale in the Mountains
Chapter 366 The Big Patsy
“Profound inner strength? Martial arts master? Really? He doesn't look like a martial arts master at all!”
Li Ziqing was puzzled. She couldn't believe that a martial arts master would do something like staging a traffic accident.
After all, they have so many ways to make money!
Chen Xiao said, "That's why I'm curious. Let's follow him and see what he's going to do with the money he got from staging the accident."
Chen Xiao and Li Ziqing quietly followed the round-faced man, keeping a distance of more than ten meters.
The round-faced man took the money and went straight to a massage parlor.
The pink light box at the entrance of the massage parlor was still on, obviously open all night.
It was self-evident what kind of place this was.
The doubt on Li Ziqing's face grew even stronger. "Chen Xiao, are you sure you're not mistaken? Would a martial arts master come to this kind of place?"
"Uh, well... martial arts masters have physical needs too. Live and let live!"
Chen Xiao coughed awkwardly.
Li Ziqing rolled her eyes and snorted coldly, "Hmph, men..."
The round-faced man didn't go into the massage parlor. After knocking on the door a few times, a woman with heavy makeup and sexy clothes came out to open the door.
The woman was yawning, obviously having worked hard all night without sleep.
"Why is it you? Why are you here again?"
When the woman saw the round-faced man, she suppressed the yawn she was halfway through.
"I've done what I promised you."
The round-faced man pulled the woman out and shoved the plastic bag into her arms. "Here's ninety thousand yuan. I've counted it, but you can count it again if you don't trust me."
When Chen Xiao withdrew the money, he took exactly ninety thousand yuan to make it a round number, not the eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight yuan that the round-faced man said.
When the woman heard this, the expression on her face was extremely shocked, as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
She peeked into the plastic bag, and saw bundles and bundles of brand-new banknotes.
"Are you really giving me this money?"
The woman asked in disbelief.
"Of course. I keep my word. But after you take this money, you have to live a good life, and don't do this kind of work anymore..."
The round-faced man earnestly urged.
In this situation, the woman almost burst into tears, and said with a sob, "Brother, how can I thank you..."
"No need to thank me. I'm leaving. You must remember what I said, and turn over a new leaf and start a new life!"
The round-faced man waved to the woman and turned to leave.
The woman looked at the round-faced man reluctantly, then turned around and went back to the massage parlor.
After watching the whole process, Li Ziqing was speechless.
"Is that it? Chen Xiao, do all you men like to persuade prostitutes to be good?"
Chen Xiao was also extremely embarrassed and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Just then, the round-faced man walked towards them.
"Oops, he found us!"
Li Ziqing cried out inwardly, feeling a little guilty.
Chen Xiao smiled and said, "What if he finds us? I've been swindled out of ninety thousand yuan. I have to know where it's being spent."
Chen Xiao had known for a long time that with the round-faced man's level of skill, it was impossible for him not to notice that he was being followed.
"You two have watched enough, haven't you? Can you leave now!"
The round-faced man said to them with a smile, not angry because they were following him.
"You swindled our money just to do this?"
Li Ziqing looked unconvinced. Although she was rich, she couldn't stand people wasting money, especially in this way.
The round-faced man didn't refute Li Ziqing's words, but smiled and said, "Hehe, as the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. I have a karmic connection with this woman. She's in trouble, and I can't stand by and do nothing."
"What kind of karmic connection do you have? What kind of trouble is she in?"
Li Ziqing insisted on getting to the bottom of it, otherwise this ninety thousand yuan would have been wasted too unjustly.
"Uh, this, last night I came here..."
The round-faced man paused, as if thinking about how to phrase it, "...to patronize her business..."
Li Ziqing understood immediately. The karmic connection that the round-faced man was talking about was the connection between a prostitute and a client.
"Miss, don't look at Xiao Hong with colored glasses. She has her own difficulties."
"She's doing this just to help her younger brother raise eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight yuan for the bride price. She'll stop as soon as she's earned enough money."
"And I was her first customer... Since I encountered this, I should pull her out of the mud and help her escape the sea of suffering..."
The round-faced man gave a passionate speech, as if he were a magnanimous hero.
Li Ziqing's eyes almost rolled to the sky.
"Two questions. First, I'm not a 'miss'. Don't call me 'miss'. Second, how old are you this year?"
"Oh, I'm over fifty..."
"You're over fifty, and you still believe this old-fashioned nonsense?"
Li Ziqing didn't know what to say.
If it weren't for her trust in Chen Xiao, she wouldn't waste her time on this kind of trash.
The round-faced man frowned slightly. "Madam, please don't talk nonsense. You don't know Xiao Hong at all. How do you know she's talking nonsense? You have to know that I had a heart-to-heart talk with her all night last night. I believe her."
"I don't know her, but I have eyes. Why don't you look back yourself?"
Li Ziqing said with a sneer.
When the round-faced man turned around, he saw that 'Xiao Hong' was enthusiastically soliciting customers into the store.
He was dumbfounded. After a moment of silence, he sighed and beat his chest.
"Alas, it seems I've been taken for a sucker again..."
At this moment, Chen Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly, "I know, you're Lu Datou!"
Li Ziqing looked at Chen Xiao inexplicably. "He is indeed a sucker, but is there anything to be excited about?"
Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Ziqing, the 'big sucker' I'm talking about is not the 'big sucker' you understand."
Li Ziqing was confused. Was there a difference?
Chen Xiao then asked, "Ziqing, have you heard of the Four Wonders of the Heavenly Ranking in the martial arts world?"
"I've heard of them."
Li Ziqing was slightly stunned. Although she wasn't a martial artist, as a member of the Bamboo Leaf Green who had been in the martial world for many years, she had naturally heard of the names of the Four Wonders of the Heavenly Ranking.
"Aren't they the Southern Madman, Northern God, Eastern Hero, and Western Sucker?... Wait, are you saying he's the Western Sucker?"
Chen Xiao smiled slightly and looked at the round-faced man.
"If I'm not mistaken, you are Lu Datou, the Western Sucker among the Four Wonders of the Heavenly Ranking, right?"
The round-faced man didn't deny it, and smiled freely.
"I didn't expect you two to be so young and still have heard of my name. That's right, I am Lu Datou!"