I had a vague bad premonition, and I always felt that He Yongqiang might have known that Mrs. L had found me in private. But I'm not sure, but I'm always a little apprehensive.

I sat on the edge of the bed, smoked a cigarette, and thought about it.

Although I am still quite resistant to He Yongqiang, I also know very well that I am not qualified to refuse him now. So after smoking this cigarette, I changed my clothes and took a taxi to his bar.

As for what he came to me for, I can only resign myself to fate now.

At 9:05, I arrived at He Yongqiang's bar as promised.

Business at this bar is quite good, and the nightlife has just begun at this time, but the booths on the first floor are almost all full. I stood there and felt a little trance inexplicably, as if I had suddenly melted into a world full of lights, deafening music constantly filled my ears, and everywhere I looked, there were men and women immersed in it.

I habitually lit a cigarette for myself, and then walked towards the box where He Yongqiang was on the second floor.

A moment later, I pushed open the door of the box and saw He Yongqiang sitting in the center of the sofa.

In addition to him, Ah Chang and Cuntou were also there, and there were seven or eight horses sitting on the edge of the sofa on either side of the sofa smoking cigarettes.

There was not a single woman in the entire box, and even the music was paused. It made me feel a solemn and oppressive atmosphere, and it made me realize that something bad was likely to happen next.

I tried my best to stabilize the uneasiness in my heart, and then said hello to He Yongqiang with a smile.

"It's coming, Zhaoyang."

He Yongqiang also smiled at me, then beckoned to me and motioned for me to sit next to him.

I answered and walked over and sat down next to him. After a slight pause, I smiled and asked, "Brother Qiang, what are we going to talk about?" ”

"Don't worry, let's have a glass of wine first."

He Yongqiang, still looking like a smiling tiger, poured me a glass of wine, and then pushed the glass in front of me.

I picked up the glass of wine, pondered the meaning behind his smile, took the initiative to touch him, and then drank all the wine in the glass in one go.

Putting down the wine glass, He Yongqiang raised a hand and put it on my shoulder, and he asked casually, "Have you been busy these past few days?" ”

I still don't know what he was trying to say, so I replied truthfully, "It's okay, not too busy." ”

He Yongqiang smiled and said to me in a tone that was similar to a joke: "Really? I thought you were busy, and I didn't bother to look for you these days. ”

"Brother Qiang, don't say that, if you want to find me, just call me at any time, I will definitely come over as soon as possible."

"I love to hear that."

He Yongqiang raised his eyebrows, patted me on the shoulder twice, and then said to me: "Zhaoyang, let me tell you a word from the heart, I really like you now, and I really regard you as a brother and want to make a lot of money with you, do you understand?" ”

I couldn't comprehend why He Yongqiang suddenly told me this, but I immediately nodded and responded: "Understood, Brother Qiang, can I not understand this?" ”

He Yongqiang pursed his lips, as if he had some regret.

He shook his head slightly, then moved the hand on my shoulder to the back of my neck. He squeezed it twice, and then said to me with a gloomy face, "If you really could understand, you wouldn't have done that kind of thing that chilled my heart, right?" ”

When this sentence came to the last few words, He Yongqiang's tone had completely changed. This sudden outburst of anger made me realize in an instant that he definitely knew that Mrs. L had come to me.

At the same time, the force with which he pinched my neck suddenly increased several times. Before I could react, he pressed down hard and slammed my head on the coffee table.

"Bang!" I was stunned.

Severe pain and a heavy feeling of dizziness immediately swept through my body, and my nose and forehead seemed to be bleeding.

I felt a little weak and instinctively stretched out my arms to get up from the coffee table. As a result, in the dim afterglow, I saw several people coming behind me. Without saying a word, they dragged me to the door, and then fixed me left and right, not giving me the slightest chance to resist.

I gasped and looked at He Yongqiang in front of me, who was sitting there with a cold face, looking at me with a hesitant gaze at the moment.

I was a little panicked, and quickly said to him: "Brother Qiang......"

I was about to open my mouth to explain, but He Yongqiang interrupted me with a wave of his hand.

"Ah Chang, you go and help him have a long memory."

Ah Chang nodded at He Yongqiang, and then stood up and walked in front of me, he didn't say a word, just kicked me in the stomach.

This violent pain made me feel suffocated for a moment, and my whole stomach hurt as if it was twisted together, and it turned over and over, as if it was about to spit out of my mouth with stomach acid.

After this kick, Ah Chang pulled me by the hair and pulled me up, he stared at me viciously in the eyes, and then punched me in the face.

The corners of my mouth were broken at that moment, and the fishy sweet smell lingered near my nasal passages, constantly stimulating the nerves throughout my body.

I'm really upset at this moment, and I really want to fight to the death with this group of scum now.

Unfortunately, I couldn't do it anyway. There were so many people on the other side, and I was still in such a passive situation. So I don't have the qualifications to fight with them at all, and I can only be regarded as going to death at best.

Thinking about this clearly, I forcibly swallowed this breath and said to He Yongqiang again: "Brother Qiang, there must be some misunderstanding between us......

"Misunderstanding you is paralyzed! Grass! him! ”

Ah Chang yelled at me, and then kicked me in the body. The horses next to me also followed me at this time.

In an instant, I was knocked to the ground.

These people scolded and shouted at me. The hot pain was like dynamite on my skin, exploding one after another. It didn't take long for me to feel numb from the pain.

I instinctively curled up in a ball and tried to protect my head.

After a while, I finally heard He Yongqiang say to these people, "Okay, let him get up." ”

The horses quickly stopped, and two of them rudely pulled me up from the ground, then dragged me to my knees, one left and one right.

I stretched out my tongue and licked the blood from the corner of my mouth, but I didn't speak, just looked at He Yongqiang motionlessly.

He Yongqiang took a puff of his cigarette, and after exhaling the smoke, he frowned and said to me with a little doubt: "I heard that the night before yesterday, Mrs. L specially invited you to a meal?" ”

"Yes."

"Why did she invite you to dinner all of a sudden?"

I grinned and didn't answer.

Ah Chang came up and gave me a slap and scolded: "Laugh at you for being paralyzed? Grass! Brother Qiang asked you, you can't hear it, can you? ”

I glared at Ah Chang, then turned to He Yongqiang and said, "Brother Qiang, don't you know what she is looking for me for?" What else can she do with me other than cooperating with her to gamble on stones? ”

He Yongqiang flicked the cigarette ash on his hand, then took another puff, and then said to me, "Then what did you tell her?" ”

"I asked her to give me some time to think about it."

"So what are you thinking about now?"

I looked at He Yongqiang's ugly face, and I really felt disgusted. But I'm really too weak now, and I don't even have the slightest room to resist in the face of him. So I could only whisper to him: "I've thought about it, I'm ready to reject her." ”

He Yongqiang nodded, seemingly satisfied with my answer.

"Zhaoyang."

He extinguished the cigarette in his hand, then leaned back on the sofa, looked at me condescendingly, and said, "You must know that Mrs. L is a merchant who collects jade. And I'm taking you to gamble on the stone, just to make her money. I'm sure you should be able to understand what's at stake. ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "As for me, I hate others for cutting off my wealth the most. If I find out that someone has done this, I can't spare him. So, that's all for this time, and I won't bother with you anymore. However, if we don't take this as an example, otherwise, things wouldn't be as simple as they are today. ”

I nodded at He Yongqiang, and replied weakly: "Thank you, Brother Qiang, I will definitely do a good job and promise not to damage your interests." ”

He Yongqiang picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine, and then said to Ma Zai next to me: "Okay, let him go." ”

When the boys had stepped away, I staggered to my feet.

He Yongqiang raised his eyes to look at me, and his eyes seemed to have some deep meaning, and after a while, he said to me very calmly: "You can call Mrs. L now and tell me what you think, so as not to make people wait too long, which is quite inappropriate." ”

I sneered in my heart, He Yongqiang, the old fox, he deliberately asked me to make my words clear in front of him. In this way, I will inevitably offend Mrs. L, and he will no longer have to worry about me going back to cooperate with her.

"Okay, I'll call her."

I took out my phone and dialed Mrs. L's number.

I knew very well in my heart that rejecting Mrs. L would most likely cause me a lot of trouble. But I don't have a choice now, He Yongqiang is staring at me at the moment, if I can't satisfy him, then I may not even be able to get out of this box tonight.

This situation of having a wolf and a tiger made me feel so uncomfortable that I wanted to break free, but I couldn't do anything about it.

While I was thinking, Mrs. L finally answered my call.

"I thought you wouldn't call me today."

There was a hint of resentment in her voice, as if she was blaming me for calling her too late.

I smiled awkwardly and said to her, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting." ”

"It's okay to wait a little longer, the main thing is that you have thought about it now?"

"I've figured it out."

Mrs. L didn't speak, she was waiting for me to continue.

My heart was still entangled, and after a while, I looked up and looked at He Yongqiang. It was as if he was warning me with his eyes not to talk nonsense. At that moment, I thought of many possibilities, but none of them were feasible. So in the end, I licked my lips and said to Mrs. L very apologetically, "I still decided not to cooperate with you." ”

There was a dead silence inside the earpiece.

Mrs. L didn't seem to expect me to reject her, so the silence lasted for a long time before she said coldly to me, "Say it again." ”

I could feel the anger and frustration between her words, but I had no choice but to do so.

I took a deep breath and calmly said to her again, "I've decided not to work with you." ”

"I said, I hope you make the right choice."

"Whether it's right or not, I've already decided."

Mrs. L did not speak, and we fell into a long silence.

After a long time, just as I was thinking about whether to say something to hang up the phone, Mrs. L finally spoke, and she only said four words: "Are you sure?" ”

Her tone sent me chills to the bone, but I stiffened my head and responded, "Sure." ”

"Okay."

Mrs. L seemed to smile faintly, and then she said to me, "I hope you don't regret it." ”

After saying this, she hung up the phone without waiting for my response.

I put away my phone helplessly, feeling very panicked, and I always felt that she would not let me go easily.

At this time, He Yongqiang beckoned to me and motioned for me to come over.

I nodded and sat down next to him.

He Yongqiang patted me on the shoulder and said to me with a smile: "I am very satisfied with your performance just now, don't worry, as long as I am here, Mrs. L will not treat you badly." You just have to help me gamble with all your heart, and as for the rest of the things, I will help you settle everything. ”

I pondered He Yongqiang's words carefully in my heart.

Normally, after this kind of thing happened, he should have questioned Mrs. L in person. But the old fox had no intention of confronting Mrs. L from beginning to end, as if he didn't even know that Mrs. L had come to me alone.

According to He Yongqiang's character of retribution, there is only one reason why he can choose to do this. That is, he has some jealousy of Mrs. L, otherwise, he would never let this matter be so easy.

Thinking of this, I reluctantly squeezed out a smile and once again expressed my attitude towards He Yongqiang: "Knowing Brother Qiang, I will definitely do my best to win every gamble." ”

"Well said!"

He Yongqiang handed me the cup full of beer and said loudly: "Come, drink this wine, we are still brothers." ”

I looked at his fake face and really wanted to smash it with my glass, but I finally held back. I touched him with my glass and drank it all.

After drinking this glass of wine, He Yongqiang beckoned Ma Tsai to turn on the music, and then asked them to call some women in.

He told me that he didn't want to do this tonight, and said that he hoped I wouldn't think about it too much, and that I would have some fun and relax later.

This way of slapping a sweet date made me feel very disgusting, although I didn't show it, I still said to him: "Brother Qiang, I have to go on a business trip tomorrow, I won't be here to play with you tonight, you have fun, don't worry about me." ”

He Yongqiang pouted and nodded, and then said to me: "That's okay, then we'll contact you when you come back from a business trip." It just so happens that in the recent period, Boss Xu should get back a batch of new stones, and let's take a look at them together when the time comes. ”

"Okay, no problem. Brother Qiang, I'll go first. ”

"Go ahead."

Coming out of the box, I felt like I had walked through a ghost gate.

This sense of humiliation of being powerless to resist is unforgettable to me. I clenched my fists and swore secretly that I would not spare anyone who trampled me under my feet today! I'm going to make them pay dearly for it!

With this hatred in mind, I went into the bathroom and carefully washed my face. The wound at the corner of my mouth was still painful, and after washing away the blood, I looked up at myself in the mirror.

Reality is cruel after all, and in order to achieve my goal, I must take one step at a time and climb up as soon as possible.

I pulled out a cigarette and lit it for myself, slowly exhaling a cloud of smoke before turning around and leaving the bathroom.

Walking down the stairs, just around the corner, I happened to meet Shishi walking towards me.

When she saw me, she subconsciously raised her hand to cover her mouth, obviously startled. She blinked her eyes several times in a row, and then pulled me aside and asked with a concerned face, "Brother Zhaoyang, what's wrong with you......"

"Nothing, you don't have to worry."

I forced a smile, and then I wanted to go straight away, because I really didn't want her to see me like this.

But Shishi pulled me tightly, and she said to me very distressedly: "How can you not worry, you are injured like this, is Achang troublesome for you again?" ”

I shook my head and explained, "I'm fine, don't think about it." ”

Shishi glanced at me resentfully, she should have sensed that I didn't want to say more about this matter, so she didn't ask any more. After a few seconds of silence, she said to me gently, "You come with me, and I will help you take care of your wounds." ”

I was a little resistant, not because I didn't want to be with her, but mainly because I felt useless right now, so I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. So I smiled awkwardly at her and said, "No, you can go and get busy." ”

"No, if you don't see it, forget it, but since I've seen it, then I'll definitely have to deal with it for you, otherwise I'm not at ease."

After Shishi finished speaking, she pulled me upstairs, I didn't expect her to be so persistent about this matter. My heart warmed inexplicably, and the words I wanted to say were swallowed back into my stomach like this.

At this time, a scantily clad woman walked out of one of the boxes on the second floor, she glanced at us, and said loudly to Shishi: "Shishi, what are you doing, come here quickly, Boss Huang has been waiting for you here for a long time!" ”