Chapter 1058 — Old Yu Gets Conned

If Wei Zhao had still only been a formidable fighter at the late Yellow Rank back then, he would have been no match for Wu Gonggao at all! The fact that Wei Zhao had actually been willing to take such a step was proof enough of just how much he cared about her! Feng Xiaoxiao was deeply moved, and heedless of the fact that they were at the school gate, she threw her arms around Wei Zhao and burst into sobs.

Her crying gave Wei Zhao quite a fright. What on earth was going on? She had been perfectly fine a moment ago — how had she dissolved into tears in the blink of an eye? Had Feng Xiaoxiao been possessed by that crybaby Lai Pangzi?

"Xiaoxiao, what's wrong?" Wei Zhao was a little frightened, and a little embarrassed too. After all, this was the school gate, and a young girl was clinging to him and weeping. Those in the know would think nothing of it — Feng Xiaoxiao was, more or less, his girlfriend. But those who had no idea what was going on?

"Wuu... Wei Zhao, darling, you're so good to me!" Feng Xiaoxiao said between sobs, overcome with emotion.

"Huh?" Wei Zhao was dumbstruck. How exactly had he been so good to her?

"In Yanjing, at the auction house — you knew perfectly well how formidable that old bastard Wu Gonggao was, and you still stood in front of me!" Seeing Wei Zhao's confusion, Feng Xiaoxiao explained.

"Uh..." Hearing her words, Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears. "That business you're talking about..."

"Wuu... I'm so touched. From childhood till now, no one has ever been this good to me!" Feng Xiaoxiao meant every word. Because of his work, Feng Tianlong had never been able to stay by her side, so Wei Zhao counted as the person who had treated her best.

"Then stop crying... This is the school gate. It's not good if people see us..." Though Wei Zhao hardly cared what others thought, this was, after all, a little awkward, so he spoke up to remind her.

"I don't care. I just want to hold you and cry. Let me be moved for a while!" Feng Xiaoxiao had begun to wheedle and play the spoiled child.

Helpless, Wei Zhao could only let her cling to him. But Feng Xiaoxiao stayed moved for quite a long while, and at last Wei Zhao could not hold out any longer. "All right, Xiaoxiao, let's head back to school?"

"No! I want to keep holding you!" Feng Xiaoxiao was enamored of this feeling of leaning against Wei Zhao's chest and did not want to let it go.

"If you don't behave, I won't be good to you anymore," Wei Zhao said, resorting to a threat.

"Oh... all right..." The trick worked; only then did Feng Xiaoxiao reluctantly release him. In truth, the tears on her face had dried long ago — she had simply wanted to linger in his arms.

Feng Xiaoxiao and Wei Zhao returned to the classroom, and the whole way there was uneventful. The young miss and Shen Yushu knew about the relationship between Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao, so they turned a blind eye to the two of them. Xie Yufeng, however, shot them a venomous look as they came in.

It was because of Feng Xiaoxiao and Wei Zhao that he had lost five million! That debt — Xie Yufeng was determined to collect it.

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Yu Ren was the owner of a small grocery store, running a modest business. His family's finances were tight; because he had no capital to speak of, the store had never expanded, and the money he earned each day was just barely enough to keep the family fed.

Still, Yu Ren was not content to let his family stay poor forever. He too had been mulling over how to change things, so on the occasional day when business was good, he would buy a few lottery tickets for fun. Yu Ren dreamed that one day he might win the five-million grand prize, and then his family's life would finally improve.

"Old Yu, what are you thinking about?" Near closing time at the market, the owner of the butcher shop next door came over and asked.

"Nothing much. Getting ready to pack up and head home..." Yu Ren said as he tidied his things.

"You free tonight? I'll take you to see something exciting!" the butcher said.

"Oh? What kind of exciting thing?" Yu Ren was taken aback, unsure what the butcher meant, but then he shook his head. "One of those porn shows, is it? I'm not going. My wife's a terror — if she finds out, I'm done for!"

"Hey, I always said you were a coward, and I was right!" The butcher shook his head in disdain. "Porn show? It's a boxing match! Underground bare-knuckle fights — you know what those are? Very exciting!"

"A boxing match?" Hearing that it was not a porn show, Yu Ren did not rush to refuse. "Is the ticket expensive?"

"Free!" The butcher chuckled. "A brother of my nephew's on the streets gave him a few tickets, and I got two off him! Come on, let's the two of us go see what it's all about!"

With that, the butcher draped his greasy hand over Yu Ren's shoulder and affectionately tried to drag him off.

In truth, the butcher had come to set Yu Ren up. The man had a rotten heart; he had taken five hundred yuan from his nephew to hoodwink Yu Ren into going to the underground boxing match. Otherwise, he would never have thought of Yu Ren when such a good thing came along.

"Free? There's such a good deal?" Yu Ren was skeptical. "Even if there were, would you think of me?"

Yu Ren was no fool. His relationship with the butcher was nothing more than ordinary. If the man had not gone to anyone else but had singled him out, Yu Ren found it rather odd.

"Ha! Didn't you watch my stall for me half a day a few days back? Even sold some meat for me. So when something good comes my way, of course I think of Brother Yu first!" the butcher said with a smile.

"Is that so!" Hearing this, Yu Ren believed him a little more, though he still asked uneasily, "Really free? I don't have a single cent on me — my daughter Yu Yuanyuan took all my money home!"

"No money needed!" The butcher laughed. "Let's go, just come along with me!"

Only after hearing this did Yu Ren set his mind at ease, and he went off with the butcher to watch the match.

At first Yu Ren was still not entirely at ease, but once he and the butcher had entered the venue and taken their seats in the stands, he truly understood: he really had gotten in to watch the match without spending a single cent.

With nothing left to worry about, Yu Ren naturally struck up a conversation with the butcher. "This boxing match — who organizes it? Is it any good?"

"Ha! This is an underground boxing match, of course it's good! It's real man-on-man combat!" The butcher chuckled. "Those are fights to the death! I hear they absolutely won't stop until one of them is dead!"

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