Diary of Getting Rich Quick in the South

Four million!

I stammered, "That...that's what my brother owes you, and my sister-in-law has already divorced him. If you're so capable, go find my brother. What kind of skill is it to bully a woman?"

Zhao Hongqi raised his hand and slapped me across the face.

"I'm giving you two choices: one, find Wang Long for me."

"Secondly, one hand is worth one million. You choose."

I lowered my head and said I had no money.

"Then we'll choose the second one!"

Zhao Hongqi beckoned to his subordinate, who handed him a machete.

Seeing the knife in his hand, I struggled and shouted, "What you're doing is illegal, it's a crime! You can't escape even if you cut me!"

Zhao Hongqi sneered and patted my face with the back of his knife.

"Kid, do you even know what Qiangsheng Group does? They do earthwork. You're lucky; I used you to drive live foundations twenty years ago."

He waved his hand, signaling his men to press my hand onto the table and raise the knife high.

"I've explained the reasons to you, and you chose this path yourself. It was all clearly written down in black and white when you borrowed the money. Blame your brother for not paying it back!"

"don't want!"

Just as the knife was about to fall, Su Wan ran out of the bathroom and blocked my way: "If you want to kill someone, then kill me. This has nothing to do with Chen An."

Zhao Hongqi looked at me with a smile: "Didn't you say you were alone?"

He reached out and pulled Su Wan into his arms, saying with a wicked grin.

"I didn't expect Wang Long's wife to be so pretty. But your husband is such a good-for-nothing. He left such a beautiful woman like you behind and ran away. Could he have already planned to use you to pay off his debts?"

Su Wan looked at Zhao Hongqi with a mixture of anger and fear.

I struggled and yelled at him, "Let go of Sister Wan! If you've got the guts, come at me! So what if I chop off your hand? Come on, if I blink, I'm your son!"

Zhao Hongqi slapped me across the face: "Stop playing the damn sentimental card with me. Pay back the money or have your hand chopped off."

Su Wan cried out, "Give us our money back! I'll sell the house and the car to pay you back!"

"Sell the house?"

Zhao Hongqi sneered: "You've already mortgaged your house to the bank, what are you going to use to sell it? That Land Rover is worth at most seven or eight hundred thousand, how are you going to pay off the remaining three million?"

"I...I..."

Su Wan gritted her teeth and said, "I'll be your mistress, your fourth mistress, as long as you don't make things difficult for Chen An, I'll do anything you ask."

How could I let her suffer for me?

I struggled to rush toward Zhao Hongqi, but the two stronger men could barely hold me down.

"You want money, don't you? Sell me, sell my corneas, sell my heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs, as long as you release Sister Wan, you can do whatever you want to me."

Zhao Hongqi pushed Su Wan away and waved his hand at his subordinates: "Alright, alright, I'm getting goosebumps from listening to this. Are you acting out a romance drama with me? You guys aren't embarrassed, but I am."

When the two people who were holding me released my hands, I was completely stunned.

What does this mean?

However, I quickly pulled Su Wan behind me to keep a certain distance from them.

"I am not an unreasonable person."

Zhao Hongqi dusted off his suit and gave me and Su Wan a deep look.

"Six months. I'll give you at most six months. If you can't pay back the money, I'll sell you to northern Myanmar. Don't even think about running away. Otherwise, once the land is filled in, everything will be over. Understand?"

After saying that, Zhao Hongqi turned and left.

Are you just going to let us go like that?

I was still in a daze until Zhao Hongqi left.

Just now he was about to fight and kill us, and I thought I was going to lose my hands and feet, but he suddenly let us go.

Perhaps money is more important to him than my hands and feet.

Otherwise, as he said, if several tons of soil were pressed down, not even a splash of water would be made.

As soon as Zhao Hongqi left, Su Wan and I collapsed to the ground almost simultaneously, our clothes completely soaked.

I almost became a cripple.

In the end, it was Su Wan who spoke first.

She wiped away her tears, stood up, and comforted me: "Chen An, don't worry, I'll go sell the car as soon as it's light. If all else fails, I'll sell it. I won't let anything happen to you."

I stood up, leaning against the wall, and said, "Sister Wan, how could I let you sell yourself? Zhao Hongqi gave us six months. I will definitely work hard during these six months and earn enough money to pay him back."

"But...but we only have six months, where are we going to get so much money?"

Actually, I don't know either, but this is not the time to say discouraging things.

I said, "There must be a way. Although Zhao Hongqi doesn't seem to be making things difficult for us anymore, we should still keep our distance. You should rent a place to stay outside for now."

"And what about you?" Su Wan asked.

I told them I would still stay in the dormitory, where there are security guards, and it's a legitimate company, so they wouldn't easily cause trouble.

That night, none of us could sleep, and we just sat there until dawn.

Zhang Dongting called me many times during the process, but I didn't answer any of them.

She messaged me again, asking what I meant and why I stood her up.

Family scandals shouldn't be aired in public, and I didn't know how to explain it. Su Wan was right next to me, so I couldn't answer the phone.

I could only lie to her in the message: I was hit by a car, I was unconscious for a while, and I just woke up. I need to take two days off.

Afraid that Zhang Dongting would ask me which hospital I was in, I sent another message saying my phone was out of battery and I was dizzy and wanted to sleep. I would explain when I got back to the company, and then I turned off my phone.

We went to the used car market to sell our car before dawn these past two days, but things haven't gone very smoothly.

I don't know if the other party knew we needed the money urgently, but they offered a very low price.

Unfortunately, my cousin sold his Land Rover for 76 yuan, far below market price.

As for Su Wan's 12 Ford, that's even more ridiculous; it can only be sold for two thousand.

Su Wan wanted to sell it, but I stopped her.

Compared to a debt of over three million, a difference of two thousand or two thousand doesn't make much difference; it's better to keep the money and keep the business running.

"More than three million? Where are we going to get that much money to pay back? Chen An, if we really can't pay back the money, just go home. This matter has nothing to do with you, and I believe they won't make things difficult for you."

Su Wan sat by the flower bed, massaging her aching calves, looking somewhat dejected.

I told them I wasn't going anywhere, that there's always a way out, and that I would find a solution.

I thought for a moment and said, "Sister Wan, when I first came here, my cousin took me to meet some of his good brothers. He said that those brothers had a life-or-death bond with him, and that many of them had borrowed money from him and had never paid it back."

"They also said that if I encounter any problems in Kunming in the future, I can go to them. I even exchanged phone numbers with them when we met last time."

"This isn't my problem, it's my cousin's problem. They should be able to help, right?"

I found Brother Wang's number in my contacts and called him.