Chapter 12: Knock Them Out
"Can you tell us your story? For example, the environment in which you live, the people and things you come into contact with, and your brothers. β
After a long silence, Gu Chen raised his head, "Can you exchange money after saying it?" β
"Yes, I can do anything."
Gu Chen took a deep breath, and then began to narrate, "I am from the Red Prison Star, two hundred years ago, the Red Prison Star was an interstellar prison, and then it was abandoned, all the imperial troops were evacuated, and the prisoners of the prison took over this planet, in order to survive on this planet with no resources and almost no contact with the outside world, they established a rudimentary order, and my brother Li Fan and I are the descendants of those prisoners. β
"Why did the Empire evacuate the Red Prison Star?"
"Nobody knows."
"Okay, you go on."
"We were born in a slum, although I don't know why my mother gave birth to me in that environment, but I was born, Li Fan is my only friend, brother, my mother died when I was eleven years old, and since then only Li Fan has been with me, oh, and his sister Li Lin."
"Not long after, his mother died, and the three of us were left to rely on each other."
"Wait." Chu He interrupted him, "What about your father? β
Gu Chen smiled and shook his head, "I don't know, maybe I'd have died a long time ago, if there was an adult man in the family, we wouldn't be living in a slum." β
Forehead... Chu He was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend, you continued." β
"When we grew up, we joined the Red Blood Gang and moved out of the slums, although the life of licking blood with knives was not easy, but compared to the days we used to be in the slums, it seemed to be nothing, we have long been used to it."
He's a ruthless man, but how did he end up in this field? Chu He motioned for him to continue.
"Li Lin has some small problems, she loves to steal things, it is said that we don't need to steal things to make a living now, but she is still like this, we have said her a few times, she did not change, and it turned out to be an accident, she stole something from our second-in-command lover, and we took something to apologize as soon as we knew it, it was useless."
"I said that we would pay ten times the compensation, and only begged him to let us go, but he refused, and wanted to help deal with it and remove an arm. Li Fan was in a hurry, we raised the price to twenty times, thirty times, it didn't work, they pulled Li Lin to do it, we stopped them, and then they fought, we all hung the lottery, Li Fan was seriously injured, they stopped, and expelled us from the gang. β
"And how did he die?" Chu He was a little curious.
"I thought that this was the end of the matter, and we could accept the result, but I still gave all the money I brought with me to the second-in-command, and when we went back, we decided to start again in a different place. Early the next morning, Li Lin and I went out to rent a house, and when we came back, we found that Li Fan was dead, and the valuable things in the house were also taken away. β
"Did the Crimson Bloods do it?"
Gu Chen nodded, "Our territory is all the territory of the Red Blood Gang, no one else dares to mess around, I also asked some people later, it should be the person arranged by the second-in-command." β
Oh, these two in command are really ruthless.
"So you're going to take revenge, you know you're going to die, and you have to get some money to leave for Li Lin? With all due respect, this matter is all because of her, and you have done everything you should have done, so there's no need for it. β
"What then? Watching her die? Or go back to the slums? We've been working so hard for so many years just to get out of there, and we can't let her go back as a woman again. β
Chu He didn't understand it a little, but that didn't prevent him from appreciating Gu Chen.
"How much do you want?"
"All the lifespans are exchanged for 20,000 star coins, it should be okay, just leave me a few days of life."
"You should be sensible, I'm afraid it's hard to take revenge if you're alone."
Chu He refused his request to trade life, he felt that such a figure should not just die.
"Two thousand star coins for the necklace around your neck."
Gu Chen was silent for a while, agreed, took off the necklace around his neck and put it on the table.
Chu He summoned the contract, and Party B's necklace was traded for Party A's 2,000 star coins, and the cash was delivered immediately.
After the two sides pressed the handprints, the transaction was completed, and Gu Chen left calmly with the money.
Looking at Gu Chen's departing back, Chu He was a little silent, he felt that his persuasion seemed to be useless, this person would still go, but what could he do? He is a businessman, and giving 2,000 Star Coins is already the limit.
This hellish place is still an interstellar civilization, and people are not doing well, and in just a few days, there are two poor people who come to trade their lifespans.
It's a little wrong, he thought about it for a while, the interstellar civilization is so developed, most people should be very rich, why are the people who come to the pawnshop poor.
"Xiaoice, let me ask you a question, why don't there be any big people in the pawnshop? Are there any restrictions? β
"Master, isn't Chen Yang's customer a big shot?"
"How can that be counted? He was brought in by his wife, and I mean there were no big names among the pawnshop's automatic customers. β
"According to Xiaoice's analysis, the big people you said belong to the upper echelons of society, and they are extremely material and spiritual, so they generally do not have particularly strong needs, and naturally they will not be led by pawnshops."
Oh, I see.
"Then how can you find a way to get them to trade?"
"People who don't have the desire to trade pawnshops won't be introduced, and Xiaoice can't do it."
"But if they don't come, the pawnshop will be very slow to upgrade."
"Master, you are already very fast, the pawnshop will soon be upgraded to the second level, although some of the current customers are poor and have little purchasing power, but as long as there are enough customers, the pawnshop will still be upgraded quickly."
Lost, said is equivalent to not said. Chu He stopped talking, and thought about it in his heart.
There was nothing to be made from the poor, and even when he was a second-hand dealer, he never thought about making the poor man's money.
But if those big people don't come, how can they make money from them?
By the way, I can train some people and kill those big guys, and their money will not be mine, right? What a good idea, why didn't you think of it before?
Think about the current customers, Chen Yang is a strong party, the governor of Tianlin Mansion, but according to Lin Muqing, they are not peaceful, feudal dynasty, it should not be difficult to make a reaction.
Wu Zuowei once had the opportunity to join the imperial army, and he was also a person, he now wants to join the bloody revolutionary army, since there is a revolutionary army, it means that the Yutong Empire is also unstable, with his own help, he should be able to make some achievements.
Gu Chen's brother can be regarded as an old boy, he can fight out of the slums, he should also have some strength, the Red Prison Star is almost isolated from the outside world, and the army has all been evacuated, there should not be too advanced weapons, if he is given a few martial arts cheats, he should be able to break through the sky.
Xiao Chenyang, this kid, is going to be admitted to the Mecha Academy, and he should enter the army in the future, this can be invested depending on the situation, if he can become a big man, it will be worth it.
Wow, if you look at it this way, these customers are not bad, but only if we find a way to make them work for me, and if we want to make the supplies they captured in the war mine.
"Xiaoice, can the pawnshop trade with the customer's future earnings?"
"Yes, master, after signing this contract, the customer's future income will be automatically collected by the pawnshop."
YesοΌ That's what I want, but such a contract is equivalent to a deed of sale, and I have to find a way to get them to sign it.