Xie Li got the address from Yuli, and when he arrived at the western restaurant, he was just in time for the climax.
He saw the two people sitting by the window through the glass window, and saw the middle-aged man stretch out his hand and hold Yu Rui's hand on the table.
Xie Li stopped, and a few seconds later he pushed open the door of the restaurant and strode inside.
"Welcome, sir, how many of you—sir, this gentleman?"
The dazed welcome followed behind Xie Li.
Those voices were inaudible at all.
Xie Li just lowered his eyes and thought, there must be something on Yu Rui's body, something particularly attractive—either white that is so clean that people want to smear traces, or sharp and sharp hidden under false softness and gentleness, or It's something else - that's why there's always someone as sick as him and the middle-aged man inside.
Xie Li thought and laughed.
The smile was inexplicable, with a gloomy coldness that frightened the waiter behind him.
The waiter took two more steps to catch up, opened his mouth to say something, and stopped when he saw the slender boy in front of him—then stretched out one hand to a high-backed chair beside him.
The waiter was surprised:
With his years of experience in the service industry, this is definitely the rhythm of things going to happen!
The waiter instinctively rushed to stop him, but before he could reach out to hold down the chair or the young man burst out, another voice came first.
"boom!"
"Whoa!"
"!"
The waiter looked up in shock.
At a table not far from them, the middle-aged man was pinned on the table with his arms twisted backwards, his expression distorted in pain, and his mouth cried out.
And the boy who did all this turned to them with a gentle smile on his face.
"Uncle, I'm young, and I'm just a student. I don't care about the shame... You're different. So you should think about some things before you do them."
After he finished speaking, Yu Rui's hand slammed so hard that he heard the man screaming again, then he stopped his hand and turned away without expression.
The people in the restaurant were stunned by this change, and when the waiter recovered, the boy had already walked past him with cold brows.
The restaurant was so quiet that only the middle-aged man cried out in pain.
The waiter looked around, only to find that the boy who was standing in front of him was gone.
After coming out of the restaurant, Yu Rui calmly walked towards the place where he had parked his bicycle. He shook his hand as he walked, with a bit of cold disgust in his eyes.
He found that when he was also provoked by those words, he only had the urge to slap him on the ground to Xie Li, but when he met this person just now, he could not wait to chop him up and let him be touched by the other party. Spray the hands with disinfectant to kill and sterilize.
So, as expected, he still included Xie Li as a close friend because of his previous relationship
Yu Rui frowned unconsciously, and leaned over to unlock the bicycle.
Just halfway down, he straightened up again and took out his phone from his pocket. The screen was on, and the note on the caller ID made Yu Rui's brows even tighter.
Yu Rui picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Yu Rui, right? Didn't you come here last week to see Mr. Zhan? He happened to be here today, come over here."
"… it is good."
Yu Rui put away his phone and stepped on the bicycle.
He didn't see that there was a tall and straight boy standing beside the signboard of the western restaurant, and when he left, he followed him out.
From beginning to end, that gaze never left Yu Rui's figure.
—
Yu Rui went to that old neighborhood. Probably because it was the daytime, the food stalls were locked in the corners, and the shops on both sides were open sporadically, and the doors were cluttered.
The second time he came, Yu Rui found the dilapidated and dimly lit staircase, and followed it up to the second floor.
When passing the bar that left a very bad impression on him, Yu Rui instinctively stopped. The memories of that night popped into his mind and reminded him of the middle-aged man just now.
Yu Rui turned his face away and frowned.
At this moment, his figure froze slightly. After pausing for a few seconds, Yu Rui slowly turned his head and looked at the stairs he came up.
Although it was daylight, the corridor was still dark. Like the mouth of a beast that eats people, it squatted there quietly, motionless.
Yu Rui frowned, "...Is it an illusion?"
He turned around and ignored it, thinking that it was something unpleasant or too many memories that happened today that he was hallucinating.
Yu Rui stepped forward quickly.
There were no people on the second floor, and even the bars we passed by before were closed. Only in the room where Yu Rui came in, he just walked a few steps when he saw one of the four people who gathered together and didn't know whether to play cards or push mahjong, one got up from his chair.
The man walked over with a cigarette in his mouth, pulling his shoes, frowning and looking at Yu Rui, "Why are you here?"
Yu Rui's eyes moved slightly, his smile was gentle, and his tone was calm, "I came here last week, and I received a call today asking me to come to Mr. Zhan to pay back the money."
"Just pay back the money, you have to find Mr. Zhan..." The man muttered angrily and threw the cards on the table, "Come with me."
Yu Rui complied.
He followed the man through the dimly lit corridor and stopped outside the very end door.
There was a bit of noise in the door. The person who led Yu Rui in pricked up his ears and listened for a few seconds, then carefully reached out and knocked on the door, then pushed it open.
"Mr. Zhan, someone who looks like a young student came over and said he wants to see you."
It was quiet inside, and after a while, a voice sounded: "Let him in."
"Hey."
The man retracted his body and motioned to Yu Rui, "Go in." After speaking, he turned around and left.
Yu Rui pushed the door open.
The room behind the door is very large, about a hundred square meters, but it is also empty, and there are no partition walls except for a few load-bearing columns.
There were a few tables scattered around in the corner, and men in casual clothes were sitting around the table, sitting or standing, some were playing poker, some were playing mahjong.
The sound is not too loud, just a little cluttered because of the crowd.
Yu Rui stood in front of the door for a moment, glanced at an area a few meters away, and then fixed it. There is the only place in the whole house where sofas, coffee tables and cabinets are placed in a decent manner.
There was a man sitting on the sofa with his back to the door, and the person standing next to him was bending over to light a cigarette for him - this scene gave Yu Rui the illusion that he had strayed into the set of a big guy in a Hong Kong-style movie.
Yu Rui didn't observe for too long, the person who lit the "big guy" straightened up and saw him, "Come here."
Yu Rui walked over.
"This is Mr. Zhan." The man gestured to the man sitting on the sofa. Then he lowered his head and reminded, "Mr. Zhan, this is the son of Yu Lusheng."
Yu Rui nodded at the man, "Mr. Zhan."
"Yeah." The man smoking a cigarette raised his head and glanced at Yu Rui, "If you have something to say, say it."
Yu Rui did not speak in a hurry, but first took out a kraft paper envelope from his backpack.
He weighed the envelope in his hand.
"There's 20,000 yuan in it, and I'm here to pay back the principal owed by Yu Congsheng."
"...What about the interest?" the person standing next to Mr. Zhan asked coldly.
Yu Rui frowned slightly, but the smile was still gentle, "Yu Congsheng is an alcoholic, he only spends money but can't make money. I am the only one in the family who has an income—the 20,000 yuan is the most I can afford so far. "
"You want to lose interest?"
"Of course not." Yu Rui turned his head and looked at the man sitting on the sofa, "I just want to ask Mr. Zhan to be lenient. I will pay the interest in installments. If you really can't wait, then Mr. Zhan can make conditions, as long as it is within the legal scope. I can do anything or work within my power.”
Mr. Zhan didn't speak, and the person next to him sneered, "You are a hairy boy, what can you do?"
Yu Rui didn't say a word, he just stood there with his eyes down and the same smile.
The air on this side was quiet for a few seconds.
Mr. Zhan suddenly leaned forward and asked, "What if I don't like both answers."
Yu Rui still lowered his eyes quietly, "Then I will keep the money, after all, Yu Congsheng owes you. The rest of the money, just use Yu Congsheng's life to pay it back."
"…!"
As soon as these words came out, the person sitting on the sofa and the person standing next to him were stunned.
Even at the card table not far away, a man who heard the movement looked up in surprise.
The one who lit the cigarette stammered, "What do you want to take back?"
"Bumpy life." The young man's smile was gentle, not at all aggressive, as relaxed as he was talking about a breakfast or something, "If Mr. Zhan chooses this answer, please do it cleanly. Let me If you get rid of the clutter, even if you don't bother to care about it, I will definitely pay the remaining interest as soon as possible."
After these words were said, the surroundings became even more quiet.
Mr. Zhan, who was sitting on the sofa, didn't speak, and stared at Yu Rui for a long time. The boy's face changed from a smile to his eyes.
After a few seconds of dead silence, Mr. Zhan suddenly laughed.
"Okay, Lao Liu, this is the good student you told me about? I don't think it looks like it?"
Old Liu was the one who lit a cigarette for Mr. Zhan before. Hearing that, he wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead and smiled, "I didn't expect this..."
"I heard that you study very well. You are still a monitor and an outstanding student representative in the school, right?" Mr. Zhan turned to look at Yu Rui, "It's a pity."
"… "
The smile in Yu Rui's eyes cooled down slightly.
He didn't know the background of this Mr. Zhan, but he checked him easily, and they must know Yuli's school and information.
If they're going to do something to Yuri...
Yu Rui narrowed his eyes lightly, and clenched his fingers unconsciously.
"Will there be a fight?"
"What...?" Yu Rui was distracted when he suddenly heard Mr. Zhan ask.
"Can, fight, fight?" Mr. Zhan repeated slowly.
Yu Rui's smile remained unchanged, "No."
"No?" Mr. Zhan smiled, "No and no."
As soon as he finished speaking, he leaned back on the sofa and clapped his hands at the same time.
The people who were playing cards in the corner stopped their hands, and seven or eight threw down the cards in their hands, stood up one after another, and walked towards this place.
Yu Rui smiled slightly, "Mr. Zhan, what does this mean?"
"I dare to come here and say that you can't fight, I really don't believe it." Mr. Zhan raised his chin, "I have accepted the principal, and the interest will be paid as you said—do something for me. But my business is not Anyone can do it, fight them, this is your test."
"… "
Yu Rui was silent for two seconds, then threw the envelope containing the money into the backpack, zipped the backpack, tightened it by him, and slowly wrapped it around his arm.
Mr. Zhan looked at it and laughed, "That said, you won't fight. But I thought you would at least refuse?"
Yu Rui looked back, "Is it useful for me to refuse?"
"No."
The young man lowered his eyes slightly and opened his military fist posture, "Then what more is there to say."
"...It's interesting." Mr. Zhan laughed softly, and just as he raised his head to signal, there was a sudden "bang" behind him.
Everyone in the room was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the location where the voice came from—
The door when Yu Rui came was opened again at this time, but it was not a "kind" way to open it, because the people who followed the opened door and the few people Yu Rui saw at the door just now came in.
The one at the head was the most miserable. It was dragged in horizontally, and fell on the ground for a long time without getting up. The black T-shirt on his chest still had a gray footprint printed on it.
The other two or three dodged back in, their eyes still looking outside, and the corners of their mouths were hurt.
"What's the situation!" Lao Liu reacted and asked coldly.
"Brother Liu..." The man on the ground stretched his finger to the door, "Someone is making trouble!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a boy about 1.9 meters in size leaned in from outside the door. He was throwing his coat over his shoulders, his eyes were lazy.
After he came in, he didn't care about anyone, his eyes turned around and fell on Yu Rui.
Xie Li paused for two seconds and smiled.
"Good afternoon, squad leader."