Chapter 1062 — The Excited Feng Xiaoxiao: Just as Yu Ren Was at His Wit's End, Not Knowing What to Do, Someone Came Looking for Him and Brought Him Backstage at the Boxing Arena, Before Everyone

"Yu Ren, you borrowed five hundred thousand from the arena before. When do you intend to pay it back?" Little Mule asked Yu Ren with a cold face.

He had received his orders from Young Master Wen and meant to get this matter settled as quickly as possible. It would also serve as a reward for Boxer Li's victory tonight.

Yu Ren was struck dumb! He had never imagined that the moment the match ended, they would come to him to press the debt.

But five hundred thousand was a sum Yu Ren could never in a thousand years produce! Five hundred thousand! To Yu Ren, that was a fortune of the very highest order.

"That five hundred thousand... wasn't it all taken back by your arena anyway... so how about we just forget it? It's my first time here, I don't know the rules..." Yu Ren said cautiously.

"Ha?" The moment Little Mule heard this, he was tickled pink, and tickled in the most brazen way of all: "Hahahaha! Old man Yu Ren, have you lost your mind? The money was indeed taken back by our arena, that's true enough — but you lost your bet! If you had won, would you have refused the money?"

"That..." Yu Ren was speechless at once. Yes, he had lost his bet. But if he had won, could he really have refused the money?

"Yu Ren, I've already investigated your background down to the last detail. Hand over the five hundred thousand, nice and clean, and there's no trouble between us!" Little Mule gave a cold smile. "Otherwise, don't blame us for being unkind. Our arena is a place that keeps its word — yes means yes, no means no. Don't go nursing any false hopes. I'll give you five days to raise it. If you don't pay within five days, I'll have your whole family dragged here to fight in the ring!"

Drag his whole family in to fight in the ring? At Little Mule's words, Yu Ren's heart went cold with dread.

"You... you mean you want me to go up and box?" Yu Ren was badly frightened. With his dried-up, scrawny frame, how could he possibly box? A few moments in that ring and he'd be finished!

"Not you — your whole family! Your whole family goes up in the ring! Gah gah!" Little Mule said with a cruel, cold laugh.

Hearing Little Mule's threat, Yu Ren nearly blacked out and pitched to the ground! He was afraid. He was truly, terribly afraid!

Little Mule was not like the ordinary run of small-time thugs. Yu Ren ran a stall in the market, and though he had been shaken down by petty thugs now and then, those petty thugs still knew their limits. They might make trouble and keep you from doing business, but murder and arson were things they still had not dared to do.

Little Mule was a different breed. With his own eyes Yu Ren had just watched three men die in three boxing matches! Those were human lives! Yu Ren believed there was nothing this young man before him would not dare to do.

"What... what you people are doing is against the law!" Yu Ren could only grit his teeth and put up a fight.

"Gah? Against the law? Hahaha!" Little Mule laughed wildly. "Go ahead and call the police — but think hard about the consequences first! We're a criminal syndicate, not some little neighborhood gang! You call the police, and you can just sit there and wait to die. As for your wife and daughter, I'll have them sold off down south to a whorehouse to work the streets, and let them be fucked to death. Gah gah!"

Yu Ren shuddered from head to foot! This young man before him was nothing short of a demon! The consequences he described were more horrifying than death itself! At the thought of his wife and daughter suffering such unspeakable humiliation, Yu Ren was scared witless and hastily snuffed out any thought of calling the police.

Just then, a lackey from the arena dragged Red Dragon's corpse into the office where Little Mule was and asked for instructions: "Brother Mule, what do we do with this dead man?"

"Check whether he's got any good organs on him. Cut them out and sell them. Throw the rest in the crocodile pond to feed the crocodiles!" Little Mule glanced at the motionless Red Dragon on the floor and waved a hand.

"Yes, Brother Mule!" The lackey dragged Red Dragon's body out of the room again and went off to carry out Little Mule's orders.

Yu Ren's scalp crawled! These people were too savage! The man was already dead, and they still wanted to cut out his organs and sell them for money? Simply too evil!

And yet it only made Yu Ren more terrified still. These people truly were capable of anything at all.

In fact, this whole scene had been deliberately arranged by Little Mule, for the sole purpose of frightening Yu Ren. Otherwise, if people died every single day, and he had to be consulted over every death, it would have worked Little Mule to death.

"Yu Ren, five days, did you hear me? If you can't scrape the money together in five days, then get ready to go up in the ring!" Little Mule waved him off with some impatience. "You can get lost now. And don't go nursing any ideas about running off. I'll have men watching your home in secret."

Yu Ren's body gave a shudder. He had indeed thought of running! If he could not afford to provoke them, could he not at least hide from them? He figured he would give up the grocery store here too, take his wife and child and leave Songshan City overnight, and hide away somewhere else to start over.

But such a plan was impossible now. Yu Ren sighed. He could only go home first and think of something there.

He truly regretted it now. He never should have listened to the butcher's sweet talk and come to watch some underground boxing match — and even more, he never should have let his heart be stirred by that pie in the sky that could never fall into his hands.

Yu Ren stumbled out of the arena. Little Mule watched his receding back, and a cold sneer slid across the corner of his mouth.

In the blink of an eye Friday came around. These past few days Wei Zhao had been driving Tang Yun and Feng Xiaoxiao to and from school, and he had gradually grown used to this way of life.

Xie Yufeng seemed to have quieted down a great deal. Ever since Wu Chengtian had given him a beating, Xie Yufeng had become much more low-key as a whole. He made no moves, and Wei Zhao could not be bothered with him.

Watching Xie Yufeng, who had spent days stirring up trouble only to end up with a bruised and swollen face again and again, Zhong Yongliang let a cold sneer slide across the corner of his mouth. What a fucking idiot — he hadn't even figured out his opponent's level, and still he was leaping and prancing about. This time he'd taken a loss for it, hadn't he?

Zhong Yongliang was now a cunning, underhanded schemer with brains. On the surface he showed nothing, but in truth he had all along been quietly watching the conflict between Xie Yufeng and Wei Zhao.

"Brother Liang, that Xie Yufeng seems to be finished, doesn't he? He's gone quiet?" Gao Xiaofu had naturally been keeping an eye on Xie Yufeng as well.

"Hmph, a fool. Pay him no mind." Zhong Yongliang felt that a man like Xie Yufeng was no longer in his weight class. The next thing Zhong Yongliang intended to do was fight at a higher level; he would not be trotting out middle-school-level tricks anymore.

Feng Xiaoxiao was very happy and very excited today, because Wei Zhao had promised to take her racing tonight!

So all through class she was in a state of high excitement, her face flushed and glowing, breaking into cheer after cheer, which left Wei Zhao's thoughts straying restlessly.

Though she and Wei Zhao were boyfriend and girlfriend, in reality, most of the time, Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao treated each other with mutual respect and courtesy.

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