Xuanxia

Chapter 98 Gu Zhengqing

After passing through the noisy casino and walking through a small guarded door, Fu Qingzhou was led into a tea room.

Different from the smoky outside, the tea room was elegantly decorated, with incense wafting in the air and pots and pans filling the room. A thin old man sat at the tea table, and next to him was a beautiful woman with long, delicate hair, who was making tea gently.

"Master Gu."

Brother Sha and Brother Dao bowed respectfully and said, "We have brought the people here."

Then Sha Ge smiled and said, "This young man has a ring on him, which is worth six hundred taels."

Gu Ye——Gu Zhengqing said calmly: “I understand.”

After saying that, he looked up at Fu Qingzhou and said, "Sit down."

Fu Qingzhou acted nervous and sat down at the tea table.

The beautiful woman smiled and handed him a cup of tea.

Fu Qingzhou took it in a panic and gently stroked the woman's palm.

The woman blushed slightly and pulled her hand back.

"Boy, don't be so impatient." Gu Zhengqing laughed dryly: "When you win the money, you can find any woman."

Fu Qingzhou chuckled and said nothing.

Of course, he didn't suddenly develop lustful thoughts, nor was he acting, but he wanted to find out more about this woman.

When he touched her just now, he clearly felt many calluses on her palms, but the calluses were not thick, not like those of someone who had practiced martial arts for many years. At most, she had done some rough work, so she was definitely not from the group of the woman in black.

"Give me the ring, let me see it." Gu Zhengqing said calmly.

Fu Qingzhou hesitated for a moment, then carefully handed the ring over: "Master Gu...Master Gu, please be careful, this thing is very expensive."

"Haha." Gu Ye chuckled: "Any ornament in my house is worth more than this price, there is no need to covet your little thing."

Fu Qingzhou laughed awkwardly.

Damn it, isn’t it just because you were a little greedy here and a little bit there that you accumulated such a huge fortune?

Gu Ye took the ring, looked at it several times, and nodded: "Well, it is indeed worth six hundred taels... But young man, let's make a deal. This thing is in my hands, and I can only give you five hundred taels. If you want to redeem it, you have to pay six hundred taels."

Fu Qingzhou waved his hand vigorously: "It's okay, it's much more conscientious than the pawnshop!"

"it is good."

A smile flashed across Gu Ye's face: "Xiao Ling, go get the contract."

"Yes." The woman next to him nodded slightly and stood up.

She went to the cabinet in the corner of the tea room and rummaged around. For some reason, the smell of incense in the room became stronger and stronger, making her feel drowsy.

Fu Qingzhou naturally noticed it, and before he could do anything, the smoker laughed first: "It's funny, he must have tampered with the contract, so he used this incense to make you drowsy and coax you into signing."

As he was speaking, the contract was brought up.

The words on it were small and dense, making them difficult to read, but this was still too easy for Fu Qingzhou, who was used to Qingsongzi's illegible handwriting and had his pupils opened.

He understood it with a simple glance...

This is not a mortgage contract, it's clearly an IOU!

The above did not mention anything about the loan with pledged property, but directly wrote that he owed Gu Zhengqing eight hundred taels of silver!
That’s right, not five hundred taels, not six hundred taels, but eight hundred taels!
Not to mention the interest, which is three times the interest a day, and the interest is compounded. After just a few days, even the richest businessman won’t be able to pay back the money!

The ancient casinos and loan sharks were really wild... Fu Qingzhou naturally wouldn't say that he had seen through this crude routine, but he pretended that his eyelids were fighting and his mind was confused under the effect of the incense, and without any hesitation he picked up the pen and signed his name.

Of course he would not sign his own name, and instead he would use a pseudonym he once used - Tang Zhou.

In ancient times, there were no ID cards and no facial recognition. It was clearly a low-level world where there was not even soul recognition. Whether this contract was useful depended entirely on how many thugs the creditor had and how good his relationship with the local government was.

After finishing the last stroke, Gu Zhengqing smiled and said, "Xiao Ling, give this... Brother Tang some silver."

Not long after, a handful of silver ingots were brought up. Fu Qingzhou's eyes lit up, and he held the silver and dived into the crowd at the gambling table.

The agreement was for eight hundred taels, but only five hundred taels were served. With so much money in hand, it was natural for him to spend it more lavishly.

Fu Qingzhou's face flushed, his teeth gnashed, and he shouted loudly among the crowd, almost no different from a real gambler.

At the edge of the casino, Gu Zhengqing, supported by Xiao Ling, watched silently for a while, nodded slightly, and smiled with satisfaction.

"A lot of our fat sheep have died recently."

He whispered, "Someone is targeting me...Xiao Ling, do you think I should be more restrained?"

Xiao Ling lowered her eyebrows and said softly, "In this Wanshi Town, Master Gu is the king. If you show weakness, won't the murderer be able to take advantage of you?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Gu Ye laughed quietly, his skinny hands sliding on Xiao Ling's willow-like waist: "It's a pity for Zhou Lesheng, that boy is a good dog."

"He colluded with the murderer and intended to steal your money. He deserves to die." Xiao Ling said sweetly.

Gu Ye smiled and slowly moved his hand down from Xiao Ling's waist.

Xiao Ling's face flushed and she lowered her head: "Master, there are so many people here..."

Gu Ye glanced at Fu Qingzhou, who was pounding the table angrily because he lost a game of Pai Gow, and said with a smile, "Then, help me into the house."

The casino was still bustling that night, and Fu Qingzhou was still playing the role of an emotional gambler, but there were a few more people with meaningful looks at the gambling table.

For a professional gambler, when he wants you to lose money, he doesn't even need to cheat.

Emotions, eyes, movements...all of these are the key for professional gamblers to manipulate the game.

Fu Qingzhou had participated in many anti-gambling and anti-fraud propaganda campaigns when he was in the police academy in his previous life, so he naturally understood this. Some things cannot be acted out, so he simply didn't act them.

Now that he has obtained the five hundred taels, the next thing Gu Zhengqing needs to do is to continuously squeeze resources from himself... Therefore, he will definitely arrange for professional gamblers to drain all his money bit by bit.

If things go well, the five hundred taels of silver will be back in Gu Zhengqing's hands by tonight.

This is of course just the first step. Next they will force him to sell his wife and possibly do hard labor...

What Fu Qingzhou is looking forward to is naturally the next step.

Only then will he know what Gu Zhengqing is planning, why the women in black are targeting him, and who the murderer is.
So, he put aside other thoughts and really became someone who wanted to win money.

Without using any of his martial or spiritual abilities, he just threw money around and banged the table, spending the money bit by bit.

The night was exceptionally long. When Fu Qingzhou stared in amazement at the last loss of his money, it was just midnight.

Just at this moment, two hands quietly hugged his neck.

Brother Sha was on the left, and Brother Dao was on the right. The two climbed over and sneered, "Brother, now you have to find a way to pay back the money, okay?"

(End of this chapter)