Chapter 62.

After dinner, the drizzle continued, and Jing naturally accepted Lai Ying’s kind offer to stay the night.

Together, the trio continued to play Snowman Brothers, which they had failed to clear last time, and this time the trio insisted on playing until they had cleared the level before going to bed.

With the experience of the last time, there was nothing to argue about this time regarding the allocation of beds.

Cheng Ming sleeps with Cheng Li and Jing Jing sleeps alone in Cheng Ming’s bed.

Everyone is content and there is a bright future for all.

Lin Jingyi closed the door, and sheepishly unlocked it before she flung herself onto the bed, hugging the pillows and rolling around on the bunk, burying her head in the pillows, surrounded by Cheng Ming’s scent.

Lin Jingyi said intoxicatedly, “Ah, this is Xiao Ming’s flavor.”

I slept straight through my last staycation and didn’t enjoy it at all, so I couldn’t miss this one.

Ahhhhh ……

Lin Jingyi’s legs cheeks were getting redder and redder, like fire, kicking her legs in embarrassment.

Aren’t I just like a pervert?

But it really smells good, a desirable and addictive smell.

On Saturday morning, Cheng Ming went out with his backpack, intending to meet Wang Hao at the library.

“Xiao Ming, are you really going to the library to study properly? It’s not going to borrow novels to read again, is it?” Lin Jingyi asked suspiciously.

“Of course not, look how hard I’ve been studying this week, and now I’m also going to the library to catch up on my work.”

This week Cheng Ming was indeed studying well, Lin Jingyi saw it all. But when Xiao Ming stayed with Wang Hao, it always felt like the two would study and run off to play in a game hall or something like that.

Lin Jingyi proposed with her palms together;

“Why don’t I come with you guys to the figure, it just so happens I have some questions left to do.”

“No, no, we’d be uncomfortable if you were there.”

Cheng Ming and Wang Hao were going to go to an internet cafe afterward, so of course they couldn’t take Jing with them.

And if Jing is going, her sister is sure to follow.

“What do you mean, it’s not like I’m interrupting your studies.”

“It’s just quiet you’re there, instead I’ll be too quiet to study, my head will be thinking nonsense.”

“Don’t we sit together during our evening study sessions? And I didn’t see you unable to learn.” Lin Jingyi rolled her eyes and said.

Hiss ah, hit the nail on the head.

“Actually, I want you to stay with Ri to watch the house, if we all go out, wouldn’t it be too pathetic for her to keep the house all by herself?”

“Then we can take her to the library with us.”

“If you take her to the library you really won’t be able to study properly.”

My sister is one of those people who seem to be quiet but in fact are completely restless, and trying to get her to study properly is completely impossible.

It would be okay to let her read storybooks and comic books and be quiet for a while, but she’d soon get tired of wanting to go home.

“That’s also true, then I’ll stay and accompany Xiao Li well, really study hard ah, we don’t have much time left.” Lin Jingyi urged again and again, Cheng Ming nodded his head obediently and said yes.

Cheng Ming met up with Wang Hao at the library and went directly to the Datang Internet Cafe.

I’ve been too busy studying this week to do much work on the Internet Cafe Management System. But still added a little bit of new features and optimized the bugs, so I can’t live up to the expectations of the ponies.

At noon, Cheng Mingzhe went to the old street to look for Shen Xiao, who was still the only one at home.

“Sister Shen Xiao, when will Sister Shen Xi come back?”

“I had surgery yesterday, I think I’ll be recuperating for at least a month, have you had lunch yet?”

“Not yet, just thought of coming over to you to rub your nose in it.” Cheng Ming said cheekily.

“Why don’t you sit and wait a while, I’ll have lunch ready in a minute.”

Shen Xiao still quite liked this feeling of being needed.

After a nice simple lunch it was time to get down to business.

“This list is the people who still live in the old street after the demolition, I didn’t see Ye Binsong and Huang Yong have met. But we can’t rule out the possibility that they’ve met in places we haven’t seen.”

Shen Xiao handed Cheng Ming the results of the week to access, still handwriting the list.

“So many people, more than expected.”

The list is two pages long and is quite detailed, with home addresses, financial situation and sources of income mentioned.

“After getting the eviction money, a section of the population is acting like boomers who have won the lottery and are not utilizing the money wisely to look for a house. For various reasons they squandered the money and had to rent a room for a living.” Shen Shin said with a sigh.

Cheng Ming sighed, “After all, it’s easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but hard to go from extravagance to frugality.”

The poor get rich at first sight and the sky is the limit.

Because of the demolition of overnight wealth after the delicious and lazy, buy luxury cars, eat big meals, play beautiful women, the most afraid of drug addiction and gambling addiction, but also the precursor to the destruction of the family.

Eventually spend all your money and resort to borrowing to maintain your paper life.

There are people who have taken out loansharks as well as those who are desperate to commit crimes for money.

“There’s a lot of good gamblers in this crowd.”

“Nothing to do but play cards and rub mahjong all day long, and there are several grocery stores on the old street that have casinos in them.”

Cheng Ming circled the gamblers, took out a bundle of banknotes and a stack of envelopes from his schoolbag, and said, “Sister Shen Xiao, come help load the money.”

“Cheng Ming, what are you doing?”

“Didn’t we talk before about my dad compensating the victims of the demolition back then?”

“Then only Huang Yong was beaten and broke his leg because of his opposition to the demolition, he didn’t get to the doctor in time and fell sick, there were other people who were also beaten back then. But not as serious as Huang Yong, and they all moved away, and they couldn’t find anyone even if they wanted to compensate.”

“Well, it’s said to be just compensation, but it’s actually a trap, Sister Shen Shin, remember to write on the envelope that Ye Bin Song sent this money.”

“Why don’t you send the money in your father’s name? There’s no need to give him the reputation for doing such good deeds, is there?”

“It seems like a nice way to give away money, but it’s really a disguised admission that there was a violent execution of the demolition process back in the day, and that kind of name wouldn’t have been necessary to get my dad’s name on it, and it’s not like I’m trying to exonerate my dad. But I still don’t think he’s the kind of person who would order a violent demolition.”

After preparing the envelopes and money, they were delivered door to door. If someone was home they would explain, if no one was home they would slip it through a crack at the bottom of the door.

“Sister Shen Shin, is Huang Yong home now?”

“He would usually come home for dinner at noon and in the evening before going to the casino, even if he didn’t have the money to gamble, he would still watch from the sidelines, completely sick to death.” Shen Xiao shook her head and said.

“It’s almost evening, let’s go to his house now and keep watch.”

In front of Huang Yong’s house squatted a group of small gangsters who looked like they were flowing, smoking cigarettes, and looked like they were helping people to collect debts.

“He’s kinda popular.” Cheng Ming said with his hands spread out.

“What kind of popularity is this, these are all hypocrites.” Seeing this battle, Shen Xiao couldn’t help but lean towards Cheng Ming, these days she was doing the job of gathering intelligence, she also had to follow Huang Yong in and out of casinos and that kind of cloud and dragon mixing place, she could only dress up like a big mom in order to feel at ease.

The middle-aged man who walked with a pout appeared in the alley, and the group of punks immediately surrounded and blocked Huang Yong inside.

“That person is Huang Yong.” Shen Shin said as he introduced himself to Cheng Ming.

The lead punk shoved Huang Yong’s shoulder and said;

“Cripple Huang, when are you going to pay back the money you owe our head, not to mention the principal, this month’s interest must at least be paid, right?”

“I’ll pay back the money when I win, or you guys can ask the boss to lend me some more money to poker once more.” Huang Yong grinned, revealing a mouth full of black and yellow teeth.

“Still want to borrow money? Do you know how much money you owe ah! The interest rolls up, all owe our head more than a hundred thousand dollars, if you don’t pay back today, let you eat it all.”

The punks pushed Huang Yong around, the limping Huang Yong didn’t stand still and fell straight to the ground, he patted his still normal leg and said:

“I really don’t have the money to pay you back. Why don’t you break my leg again? Then this debt will be canceled?”

The punk’s spit directly spat on Huang Yong, letting loose with a vicious statement, “I bah, this cheap life of yours isn’t even worth more than a hundred thousand dollars, and a leg, if you don’t pay back the money today, you don’t want to see your wife and child tomorrow.”

These days it’s still very chaotic, the fight against gangs and evil is not thorough enough, there are many dead ends in the surveillance and sky net, cases like trafficking in women as well as children are common, it’s impossible to tell if they are just putting out harsh words or if they really have that in mind.

“Sure, but my wife and kids should be more than a hundred thousand dollars, right? How about two hundred thousand?” Huang Yong directly started bargaining.

“You’re a fucking scumbag.”

It’s kind of nice to be able to make scum call out scum.