Chapter 710: The Situation on the Ground
A young man from the East with a flexible mind and strong skills, Tommy thinks he is a little interesting, maybe his actual purpose is to protect his girlfriend from the shadow of kidnapping, but it also invisibly helps Tommy solve some hidden dangers in the future.
Tommy Ha smiled: "We are already friends, so let's come here often when we have time, if your girlfriend doesn't object." ”
He already knew what he needed to know, and he had to leave the rest to his subordinates to investigate.
Wang Bai's goal has been achieved, as long as the red-haired Tommy comes forward, those kidnappers will soon be unable to sit still, and will definitely seek a quick deal to resolve the matter as soon as possible.
Tommy may not be a big deal, but the kidnappers don't want to mess with the Stirling family.
At the same time, after the matter is resolved, he believes that Tommy will take special care of the Chinese students at Leiden High School, and the security in the neighborhood will even be raised to a higher level.
Wang Bai left the strip hall, walked a flight of stairs and came out into the street, and he noticed that the woman who had just danced to him was wearing a thin coat, standing in the cold wind and shivering to attract customers.
Maybe because her hair color was black, it made him feel a little compassionate, and he stepped forward and accosted: "You have earned a lot today, why do you have to work so hard for Lu?" ”
The woman turned her head suddenly, and if she looked closely, she actually looked pretty good, Caucasia, brown eyes, although the heavy makeup made it impossible to tell the age, but judging from her skin, she should not be very old, about early twenties.
"Hey," she recognized the generous guest and smiled: "Although my harvest today is not small, compared with my tuition fee next year, this money is far from enough, so I have to continue to work hard." ”
Is this her usual rhetoric for dealing with guests? Wang Bai flashed this thought. But she didn't think it was, her eyes were very clear, she was just seriously describing her situation, and she didn't have any special purpose.
Wang Bai looked at his watch, it was half past one in the afternoon, and there were still three hours before Huang Wen got out of school, he had to find a place to pass the time, and at the same time wanted to find a local to learn about the local situation.
"Are you a local?"
"Why do you ask this?" The woman was a little alert, taught by some of the "seniors", and she knew that the questions of the guests needed to be considered before answering.
"I need to know something about the local area. If you feel like you can help me, I'd like to talk to you and I'll pay you. ”
Although the woman was a little moved when she heard the payment, she smiled embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I'm at work." I can't talk with you, there are rules in the ballroom. ”
"It doesn't matter. As long as you want. I can go talk to Tommy and take you away for a while. What do you think of the pay of ten pounds a minute? Wang Bai asked indifferently.
Ten pounds a minute, the woman was bluffed for a moment, and subconsciously shrank down and said, "I'm sorry, sir." I don't sleep with guests......"
Although she works in a strip hall and sometimes dances in full nude, she has never sold herself, at least not yet.
The main reason is that Wang Bai's offer is too high. Ten pounds a minute, she immediately thought that he wanted to treat her in a very perverted way, and immediately emphasized that she was not engaged in that kind of transaction.
Wang Bai looked at her for two seconds and said, "If I really want to sleep with you, I will tell you directly, instead of using that kind of shabby excuse." ”
Then he pointed to a café diagonally across the street, "I just wanted to take you to that place for a sit and ask you a few questions." ”
The woman hesitated, but was persuaded by him, saying that she would be willing to talk to him if the ballroom was released.
Wang Bai took her back to the ballroom and said hello to Tommy, who all showed a knowing smile, including the red-haired Tommy, who readily agreed, and wished "Miyamoto" a good time.
The woman went back to the dressing room, changed into overalls, put on a pair of black trousers and a brown sweater, and then left with Wang Bai in her coat.
They went to the café across the street, ordered two cups of coffee, two sandwiches, and some snacks, then sat across from each other and started talking.
The woman's name is Sarah, which may be her real name or a dance name, and Wang Bai will not delve into it.
At the beginning, he asked if there were any similar "characters" in the vicinity besides Tommy, or if Tommy had any enemies.
Sarah doesn't know much about this, but she's sure Tommy is the most powerful big brother in Tottenham, and the neighborhood thugs are all at his behest and don't dare to disobey him.
Probably because she was in a café and close to her place of work, Sarah seemed relaxed and talked a lot.
She moved here two years ago because the rent in the neighborhood is cheaper, and she is a 20-year-old student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and she has been self-reliant since graduating from high school because her family is not very good.
Her dream is to be an actress, and in order to pay for her tuition, she can only use her time without classes to work in places like striptease to earn money.
Wang Bai also learned about the security situation here through her, as well as the opinions of people nearby about foreign students. Sarah told him that people in the neighborhood have the impression that international students are rich and start buying luxury goods at a very young age, and many business people like these small customers.
When she was working in the dance hall, she also received some international students who came in groups, and they were really generous, but sometimes they would take the opportunity to do something to her, which made her very unhappy.
Wang Bai asked her if there was any place near her where she could gamble, and Sarah told him that she knew that there was a more famous casino near the road, but in the town of Haringey, close to the Tottenham neighborhood, when she first came to work, she was taken there by a colleague to try her luck, but unfortunately she lost all the money she earned from dancing all night, and she never went to that kind of depressing place again.
"Can you take me to that casino once in the evening?" Since Yao Shunlong, who is very suspicious, likes to gamble for money, he may haunt the famous casinos nearby. Judging from the current situation, Wang Bai's suspicion of Yao Shunlong is getting heavier and heavier, and he feels that the casino is one of the places he must step on.
"Yes," Sarah nodded in agreement, "I'm on the day shift today, and I'll leave work at seven o'clock in the evening." However, I advise you not to stay there for too long, everyone who goes there thinks that luck is on their side, but in fact luck is always on the casino side. ”
The experience of a night of abject poverty seemed to have left a deep impression on her.
For her unintentional emotion, Wang Bai smiled faintly, he looked down at the time, it was close to three o'clock in the afternoon, and an hour and a half had passed since the last time he looked at the time.
In fact, they had only been talking for about an hour when they walked into the café, but he didn't bother, he took out a stack of fifty bills, counted twenty and handed them to Sarah.
"It's your reward, thank you."
Sarah's heart pounded as she looked at the stack of money, she had never made so much money at once. Although she was moved, she still excused herself: "Sir, you said that ten pounds a minute is too much, only five hundred pounds is enough." ”
She wouldn't take the initiative to reduce the price of the agreed price, but she also looked at the time before entering the café, and the two of them talked for about fifty minutes, so it was a little cheaper for him.
"Well, you need it more than I do." It's not that Wang Bai underestimates money, he specifically refers to these pounds, he has thousands of dollars in hand, all of which are leftovers from the last time he came to the UK, and when he returns to China, it is almost equivalent to waste paper, because it is not in circulation, and ordinary people don't even recognize it at all. "Besides, I still need your help to lead the way at night, which can be regarded as a tip for you in advance."
Sarah thought to herself: With so much tip, he wants me to stay with him all night, right?
She struggled a little in her heart, looked at Wang Bai's face again, felt that it was quite pleasing to the eye, and finally convinced herself that she decided to make an exception, accepted the money, and was mentally prepared that she might need to dedicate herself.
"Well, sir, I will take you there in the evening, so where shall I be waiting for you? Some? ”
"After work, you can wait for me at this café, I will be here around half past seven, and if I can't come if something happens, I will send someone to inform you." After saying this, Wang Bai stood up and left the café.
Sarah immediately went to a nearby bank and deposited the money into her own account, and then returned to the ballroom to work, and when she was changing clothes in the dressing room, her colleague teased her: "Sarah, aren't you known as not going into the water, why did you do this?" Is that guest really so likable to you? ”
Even if these dancers make that kind of deal with their customers, they are also looking at people, because they are actually protected in the ballroom, so they don't have to look at the faces of their customers like prostitutes, and if they don't want to, they don't want to. But once in a while, when you meet a handsome guy who makes you feel excited, you will want to hook up.
"No, no, no, you misunderstood, I just sat with him in the café across from him for a while and chatted with him, not what you think."
"And that kind of thing?" The colleague frowned strangely, thinking that this girl was claiming to be innocent, right?
Wang Bai returned to Wu Moxin's residence, and Liu Yongping and the others had already retrieved the money, put it in two black lockboxes, and guarded it together, waiting for Wang Bai's next order.
He opened the box and made sure that there was nothing wrong with the money inside, so he lifted the box and went upstairs, making it look like he was going to store the money upstairs for the time being. Then he put the box in the ring and walked down.
During this time, the kidnappers did not contact again, in this case, Liu and Sun were helpless, they could only obey the orders, Wang Bai told them to stay here and wait, if the kidnappers called again today to demand the ransom, they told them that the money would be ready tomorrow, and then left the place again. (To be continued......)