At dawn, Li Qing drove to the border. Beside the humble post, a loess road extends to the lush forest area in the front.
Sitting in the car, he watched Du Huasheng bow slightly and talk to the border guards like a wolf dog with a tail. He looked like a little daughter-in-law who had just married into his mother-in-law's family.
Li Qing glanced outside the window and counted the number of border guards.
"Sixteen..." he thought in his heart, "there are absolutely no more than twenty people, including those I haven't seen. If I deal with them, one minute is enough..."
However, his main purpose is to find Lin Mengdie, not to break through the border. There is no need to kill something that can be solved by soft means.
After a while, Du Huasheng counted out a few tickets and stuffed them into the hand of the border guard. He nodded with a smile and turned back.
The armed border guard took the money, removed the wooden fence on the side of the road, stepped back two steps and waved to them.
Du Huasheng returned to the car and his eyes twitched slightly.
"Let's go," he said in a low voice.
Li Qing quickly started the car and drove down the Loess road.
The car bumped all the way and turned to the foot of the mountain. The post in the rear was no longer visible.
"What the hell!" Du Huasheng spit out of the window and scolded angrily, "these dogs / sons of bitches... Have taken all my money away!"
"What?" Li Qing turned his head and looked at him in amazement. "We are penniless again?"
"These big soldiers suspect that our car was stolen and robbed. They want to suspend the investigation. They can't solve the problem without giving more money."
Li Qing nodded: "the eyes are very sharp. This old car really came from a wrong way."
"The key point is not how the car came from, but they think there is a problem. Isn't this a one sentence thing? Ha ha, as long as it's detained, they won't want to come back."
Li Qing grinned and then asked, "how long will it take to get to TESAN?"
Du Huasheng gently left his mouth and answered carelessly, "it's noon today."
"But we have no money. Do you have any friends in TESAN?"
"Friend?" Du Huasheng smiled grimly. "If I have no money, I seem to have no friends."
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief and asked stuffy, "there should be no ATM in that place? I also have a gold card with me."
"Gee, what have you done?" Du Huasheng hissed and twisted in the co pilot's seat. "You don't withdraw more money in Sri bagawan. Now you're out of Darussalam, and you want to find an ATM? Hehe, there's no savings office in the poor place of tesana."
"That's troublesome. We have to find some way to get money. It's still a long way. We can't eat grass like animals?"
Du Huasheng frowned and thought silently for a while, aiming at the platinum wedding ring on his finger with the corner of his eye.
"Fuck me." Li Qing fiercely turned the steering wheel. The rear of the car suddenly shook the goods.
Du Huasheng's head slammed into the door and showed his teeth in pain: "do you know how to drive?"
"I really want to ask you!" Li Qing shouted angrily. "I'm thinking about my wedding ring again! I said, selling liver and kidney, this can't do! If Qiuqiu knew I left my wedding ring outside, she..."
"All right, all right! What a shame to the old man. Shut up!"
Li Qing bit her teeth and stopped talking.
After a while, Du Huasheng was still impatient and said with a grin, "can you borrow it for use? Give me a happy word!"
"Borrow? How?"
"There's a casino in TESAN. I've been there before. Bet your ring and let's play."
Li Qing quickly shook his head: "absolutely not."
Du Huasheng was so relaxed that he collapsed on the seat: "there's no way. Not only can't find Lin Mengdie, we have to starve to death."
"Can't you think of another way?"
"I can't think of it. I'm already waiting to die."
Li Qing scolded, "really? It's a waste!"
"Brother, it's hard for a skillful woman to make bricks without rice. What can you do if you lend me the ring?"
Li Qing heaved a deep breath and paused for a moment before asking, "are you sure?"
"Don't worry, I'm absolutely sure." Du Huasheng turned his head and stared at him without blinking. "It's just a mortgage. We'll pay you back when we make money in the casino."
"Here you are!" Li Qing frowned, suddenly pulled off the platinum wedding ring between her fingers and threw it to him, giving a fierce warning, "if I lose it..."
"Don't worry." Du Huasheng raised his hand to hold the ring, took it to his eyes and looked at it carefully. A faint smile appeared at the corners of his mouth, "just wait to collect the money with a sack."
"I hope you keep your word."
As like as two peas, Du Huasheng put the ring in his chest pocket and asked, "a little ring, even if it is lost, what can you do? If you hit a same exact one, your wife will not be able to distinguish it."
"As I said, it was sent by an old friend, which is very important to me and Qiuqiu." Li Qing's voice was slightly heavy. "He and his younger martial brother died in Longxi."
"What's your name?"
Li Qing didn't answer. He didn't want to mention Huo Yi's name to an outsider.
"Forget it." Du Huasheng turned his head out of the window and hummed a song.
At noon that day, the two arrived in TESAN.
"Drive forward, right, right, turn at the intersection ahead." Du Huasheng sat in the car and coughed with the dust pouring in from the window.
He raised his hand again and pointed at the oblique front: "stop there."
Li Qing stopped the car according to his instructions, blinked and asked, "right here?"
"Let's go." Du Huasheng kicked open the door and walked three steps towards the low house on the street.
As soon as he looked back, he saw Li Qing following behind him and immediately said, "you can wait outside. Someone in the house smokes heavily. The smell is very strong. I'm afraid you can't stand it."
Li Qing rolled her eyelids and said angrily, "you take my wedding ring to gamble. What if you lose it?"
"OK, OK, then you follow." the voice fell, and Du Huasheng had bowed his head and entered the room.
Li Qing followed and saw that half of the house was underground, so it looked low.
There is plenty of rain in places like Southeast Asia. Although the house is high, there is still a thin layer of water in the house.
A mighty man stood at the door, his muscles tangled with ferocious scars. He stared round and carried a large 30 cm long knife on his shoulder.
There were five or six tables in the room, and many people were gathered. They were making a lot of noise.
Du Huasheng looked around and walked to the counter not far from the door. Behind the counter sat a young woman with rough skin and a face white with cheap cosmetics.
He leaned against the counter, took out the platinum ring and bargained with the woman in Malay.
Li Qing frowned at the bad smell in the room. He leaned over to listen to the two people, but he couldn't understand them at all.
There was a glass jar on the counter, which was a little red and seeping. Li Qing was also bored. He looked closely and found that there were dense fingers in the jar, which were white with potions.
"There are too many delinquents. Sometimes we have to think of some measures." Du Huasheng took some tickets from the woman and said with his head tilted.
Li Qing said, "how much is it to chop a finger?"
Du Huasheng turned slowly: "why do you ask?"
Li Qing looked at him: "I find you have a lot of fingers."
"Oh." Du Huasheng grinned and walked towards the card table, "come, too."
"HMM." Li Qing nodded and couldn't help looking back. The woman behind the counter took away her wedding ring and threw it into a small drawer on the right.
There are several young girls in the house who are Dutch officials and wear cheap broken flower skirts, but they look very good.
When Du Huasheng walked around the card table, he reached out and pinched the girl's ass, with a cheap smile on his face. No one else took this seriously, not even the little girl who dealt the cards.
He sat down on a bench and waved to Li Qing, "eh? Why do you look at me like that?"
Li Qing sat down beside him and said in a deep voice, "do you dare to wipe the oil of the Dutch official? Believe it or not, put your fingers in the jar in a moment?"
"Oh, is the sense of justice bursting out?" Du Huasheng sneered. "Then why is he Guan a shuilingling little girl, and the aunt on the counter is as ugly as a ghost?"
Li Qing wanted to say "in order to make the guests feel good", but he thought about it and felt that there was something wrong.
Du Huasheng spread his hand: "isn't it obvious? The casino owner also wants to tell you that as long as you have money, you can engage in anyone you want. But you can't move the money manager on the counter."
Li Qing's pupils suddenly shrunk and he felt a little uncomfortable all over. He raised his head, looked at the little girl who was dealing cards, and muttered in his heart.
Underage? You must not be an adult
Du Huasheng patted him on the shoulder and said mysteriously, "we'll make money soon. If you like which one..."
"Roll, roll."
"OK, you are always a saint. Jue Tianli will kill people's desires." Du Huasheng shouted with a smile and took his hand back.
He made a bet, knocked on the table, and soon a card was pushed in front of him.
Li Qing didn't want to see him gamble. Instead, he focused his attention on the little girl who dealt the cards. He didn't feel good.
The suffering of some people in the world is destined to have nothing to do with you.
As time went by, Du Huasheng gradually accumulated a thick stack of tickets at hand, which was obviously fruitful. This novel has been translated by www.novelhall.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stopped our translation