Chapter 252: Some People Are Naturally Arrogant
Chapter 252: Chapter 252: Some People Are Naturally Arrogant
In the end, even after racking their brains all night, they still couldn’t figure it out.
Wang Biao downed half a bottle of baijiu, looking utterly defeated. "I feel like this couple is really different. At least, different from all the other people we’ve extorted before."
Zhai Mi was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Yeah. The people we met before were all normal."
"Those two are just... strange." ’To put it nicely, they’re strange. To put it bluntly, they’re nuts.’
Gu Shengsheng was locked in the cellar with good food and drink, and she just lazed around sleeping all day. She never once seemed to worry about her husband, and she never even took out her phone to contact anyone.
’Even strangers wouldn’t act like this, would they?’
And that was just her—that Lu Shijing was even more abnormal.
Lu Shijing wasn’t worried in the slightest. He had immediately launched an offensive on Rui City’s business market. He’d been busy with inspections lately, and he’d probably end up acquiring quite a few more companies.
His business empire was about to expand into Rui City...
Originally, Zhai Mi and Wang Biao had booked separate rooms at the grand hotel next door. But after talking late into the night, they were now sharing a room, each in his own bed.
They just couldn’t wrap their heads around what was going on with this couple.
They could rack their brains all they wanted, but they still wouldn’t understand why.
As they chatted late into the night, Zhai Mi suddenly sat bolt upright. "Wait a minute... Is this couple crazy? Lu Shijing comes here to expand his business empire."
"And this Gu Shengsheng refuses to come out of the cellar. Is there some kind of conspiracy going on?"
Wang Biao was dead tired. "Brother, I think this whole thing is bizarre too. But we’ve been monitoring them and watching the situation."
"We haven’t seen her do anything. The wife just eats and sleeps. It’s not like we’ve got nothing better to do than check if she’s having a good time every day."
As he said this, Wang Biao added helplessly, "Bro, let’s just get some rest. Otherwise, Lu Shijing will have another hundred million in his account while we haven’t made a dime lately."
"Other people are making money while we’re losing it. How are we supposed to live like this!" Wang Biao sighed.
"Let’s just sleep. We have to figure out how to drum up some business tomorrow." After Wang Biao said this, Zhai Mi could only sigh in frustration; there was nothing more to say.
He was resentful, but a sense of powerlessness washed over him. The kind of helplessness where you don’t know what to do.
Having to just sit by and watch someone else make money—that feeling was even worse than losing money yourself.
Just as Wang Biao was about to fall asleep, Zhai Mi spoke up again. "Tomorrow, let’s pull our guys back and go make some money ourselves. There’s no point in using all our manpower to watch them."
"It’s a waste of time. The wages I pay out every day are in the tens of thousands."
Wasting all this money on monitoring this couple was just unsustainable.
The main thing was, they didn’t dare do anything to Gu Shengsheng or Lu Shijing.
Originally, the plan was to use Gu Shengsheng to threaten Lu Shijing. They’d tell him his wife had been captured and demand five million from him.
Lu Shijing, with a wave of his hand, offered fifty million instead. They thought they’d hit the jackpot, but after the money was in escrow, that Gu Shengsheng decided she didn’t want to come out.
So the problem now was... the fifty million was stuck in escrow. No one could touch it, because as long as Gu Shengsheng refused to leave, the transaction couldn’t be completed.
But with a figure like Gu Shengsheng... if she didn’t want to leave, you couldn’t force her! You could only politely ask.
They had to use some serious methods just to get her into the cellar in the first place.
If they used illegal means to "invite" her out now, their careers would be truly over.
First thing the next morning, Zhai Mi pulled his men. Seeing that the situation had quieted down, Gu Shengsheng started digging up the cellar with the two young girls.
Ding Hong and Zhang Xiao knew Gu Shengsheng needed them, so they worked with all their might.
They said, "Sister Gu, don’t worry, we’re really good at digging."
"Mm, about this cellar," Gu Shengsheng needed to clarify this point, "if we dig up what we’re looking for, do we need to pay anyone for the land?"
She didn’t want to find what she was looking for only to end up in a heap of trouble, especially if it involved important things like cultural relics.
Zhang Xiao shook her head. "Sister, this is just unwanted land! We can clear it for our own use anytime."
"Anything dug up here doesn’t belong to anyone, right? Anyway, around here, no one should come looking for trouble."
"But according to what we learned in our textbooks, it should belong to our Huaxia." At this, Zhang Xiao got very excited. "All of us, all of our land, it all belongs to Huaxia."
"Everything as far as the eye can see. Sister, have you ever seen Tiananmen? And the Great Wall! And the Forbidden City."
Ding Hong also smiled. "Sister, since you’re in Beijing City, have you seen them?"
"I have," Gu Shengsheng said with a gentle expression. "I’ll take you all to visit them someday."
"Yay! Yay!"
The three of them dug diligently for a whole day.
Around the time they finished dinner that evening, Wang Biao’s assistant came running over in a hurry, stopping before Gu Shengsheng looking dusty and dejected.
"Miss Gu..." he began, then hesitated.
Gu Shengsheng stared at the food in his hands and said, "Hand it over."
The assistant was helpless. "Miss Gu, when will you be willing to leave? Mr. Lu gave us fifty million for you to leave. If you don’t go now, you’re putting us in a very difficult position."
Gu Shengsheng held out her hands and said with a smile, "Then you’ll have to take me away yourself."
The assistant’s voice trembled, his face a mask of helplessness. "Miss Gu, I don’t dare. I really, really don’t dare. Please don’t make things difficult for me."
"You want me to leave, but I don’t want to. Why should I have to walk out on my own? Are you going to take all the benefits for yourselves?"
"So you’re saying I don’t even have the right to stay here?"
Her voice was gentle and she spoke calmly, but not a single word she said was pleasant to hear.
It was enough to scare Wang Biao’s assistant so badly he didn’t dare to breathe too loudly.
A gentle knife, but every cut is fatal.
He never understood what that phrase meant before, but now he finally got it.
Gu Shengsheng hadn’t said much, but every single sentence placed an invisible pressure on him.
She had a way of sitting on that small stool as if it were a grand leather armchair.
Her expression was placid. "If there’s nothing else, you can go."
"I’m putting the two kids to bed early tonight, so don’t bother me." She had a smile on her face, but her words were anything but nice.
At this, the assistant gave a bitter smile. "But my mission today is to convince you."
"If I go back like this, I’ll be fired. Miss Gu, please have some consideration for me. You’re taking care of these two children and are willing to help them, so why won’t you help me?"
Gu Shengsheng found this hilarious. She asked, "Now this is interesting."
"Does helping others mean I’m obligated to help you too?"
"I, Gu Shengsheng, do whatever I want. Your job is certainly interesting—trying to morally blackmail me. After digging up so much information on me, didn’t you find out that I’m a person without morals?"
"Miss Gu, you’re willing to help these people, so why won’t you help me?" the assistant pleaded pitifully. "I need to support my family, too, but if you don’t leave, I’ll lose my job."
"I’m sure you can’t be that heartless."