Chapter Ten: It's Hard to Be a Good Person

  "My brother is afraid that others will know I'm his sister, so he lets me pretend to be his neighbor. My brother can't make much money here either." Yuèyuè said with some regret, revealing herself as the bald man's sister, "Please don't tell anyone, or else my brother will..."

  Lu Xiaoqian was slightly moved by the little girl's filial piety, after all, there were not many children who were so sensible. It seemed that Zhou Jie was quite strict with his subordinates.

  "I won't tell anyone, I'm still good friends with Baldy!" Lu Xiaoqian slammed his hand on the table in anger: "Damn it! Baldy is really not being a good brother! Something happens at home and he doesn't even tell me! He's just too concerned about saving face! It's infuriating!"

  "Huh?" Moon and the other three girls were all stunned by Lu Xiaoqian's words, and Lu Xiaoqian's angry expression really made it seem like that was what had happened.

  "Here, take this money first." Lu Xiaoqian stuffed the bag of money on the table into Yueyue's hands, still grumbling that Baldy was not a good brother.

  "No! I won't do it! I can't just take someone else's money!" Yuèyuè immediately returned the money.

  "What's the point of taking it? I still owe Guangtou 50,000 yuan! Now it's just right to return it!" Lu Xiaoqian saw that Yueyue seemed somewhat disbelieving and was about to use his trump card when the door of the private room was opened.

  The bald man stared coldly at Lu Xiaoqian, and with one swift motion, pulled Yueyue behind him. No good deed goes unpunished. The bald man eyed Lu Xiaoqian warily, while Lu Xiaoqian smiled faintly, revealing a set of pearly white teeth.

  "Come out with me for a moment!" The bald man's expression was somewhat uncertain.

  Lu Xiaoqian smiled and followed Baldy out of the private room, leaving behind four stunned girls.

  "Why did you do this?" The bald man coldly sized up Lu Xiaoqian.

  "No need for an explanation." Lu Xiaoqian was too lazy to explain anything. Would he be believed if he said he was helping out of kindness?

  "Bald head's mouth twitched slightly as he threatened in a low voice: "I don't care what you're thinking! But I advise you to stay away from my sister, this money is considered borrowed from me, Bald Head never owes anyone anything! When I have the money, I'll pay you back immediately!" After finishing speaking, Bald Head solemnly took out paper and pen, wrote an IOU and handed it to Lu Xiaotian.

  Lu Xiaoqian smiled and took the IOU, stuffing it into his pocket without even looking at it. He turned around and entered the private room. In his heart, he thought that this bald-headed man seemed to have been a policeman before, doing things with quite some principle. No wonder he couldn't make ends meet over there. It's likely that if he wasn't in urgent need of money, he wouldn't have resorted to such means, and even less would let his sister come here to accompany people drinking.

  "Take the money back home." The bald man instructed Yueyue and took her out of the private room.

  Every month when she saw her brother taking money from Lü Xiaoqian with an attitude that was extremely poor, she couldn't understand it in her heart, but in front of so many people, she didn't dare to ask anything.

  Lu Xiaoqian let out a sigh, being a good person isn't easy either. If the bald man had come in earlier and directly taken the money before leaving his sister in the private room to accompany him, Lu Xiaoqian would have definitely taught this beast of a brother a lesson. Looking at the bald man's expression earlier, he was probably afraid that Lu Xiaoqian had some ulterior motives towards his sister.

  Under the Manhan Building.

  "Monthly, did that Lu Xiaoqian just now make any moves on you?" The bald-headed man asked his sister with a tense face.

  "No way, isn't he your friend?" Yueyue felt that her brother's question was a bit strange. "If he dares to lay hands on me, humph! I'll kick him hard in the crotch!"

  "Really?" The bald man was somewhat puzzled.

  "How did he owe you so much money? Brother, you can't make that much money here either." Yueyue asked somewhat strangely.

  "Oh, it's all old debts." Baldy brushed it off with a sentence.

  "Brother, how can you have a friend like him? He's not a good person." Yuèyuè pouted.

  "Oh? How come you don't know he's not a good person?"

  "He asked me what services those classmates had, and at a glance, he's a pervert. And with him and Zhou calling each other brothers, they can't be good people." Yuè said, then noticed her brother's awkward expression, and immediately explained: "Brother, I'm not talking about you, you and Zhou are together for our family's sake too."

  "Alright, Meimei, don't tell mom about what happened here, got it? When you get home, just give the money to mom."

  "Alright, got it!" Yueyue pouted her mouth cutely, "Brother, I won't have to come here anymore, right? We've got so much money now, Dad and Mom will definitely be overjoyed. Brother, you can quit your job too."

  "Alright, you don't have to come anymore. I'll stay here for a while longer and then resign." The bald man affectionately patted Meimei's head.

  Zhou Jie, who had just finished washing up and returned to the second floor of Man Han Building, saw that there was one less girl beside Lu Xiaoqian and hurriedly asked: "Lu brother, why are you not satisfied with that girl? Bald head! What's going on?" Zhou Jie had already slammed his hand on the table and shouted loudly towards the outside of the door.

  "Uncle Zhou, it's none of his business. Baldy is also a friend of mine." Lu Xiaoqian hastily interjected as soon as she saw Baldy enter.

  "Huh?" Zhou Jie's eyes darted back and forth between the two, and he saw that the 500,000 yuan on the table was gone. He thought to himself, "Could it be that Lu Xiaoqian has taken a liking to something?" Ah! I've heard that this kid has a taste for that sort of thing. Zhou Jie's thoughts made him smile knowingly at Lu Xiaoqian: "Alright, Baldy, you can go now."

  Lu Xiaoqian naturally understood the meaning of this smile and didn't explain it. "Older brother Zhou, I think that's enough for today. My family is still waiting."

  "Upon hearing this, Jay Chou burst out laughing and raised an eyebrow at Lu Xiaoqian, saying: "Is it inside the house or outside?" After finishing speaking, he also gave a meaningful glance at the empty seat where Yuèyuè was sitting earlier."

  Lu Xiaoqian knew that Zhou Jie's misunderstanding was getting deeper and deeper, so he smiled bitterly: "Let's go home tonight and deal with it tomorrow."

  "Alright, since Brother Lu has something lucky to attend to tonight, I won't force you. Are you free tomorrow night?"

  "I should be there tonight, I'll come to Man Han Lou at 8 o'clock tonight." Lu Xiaoqian estimated the itinerary and wrote on the note to Sun Wanhong that he would return home today. If he didn't go back, he might be despised again.

  "Alright! It's settled then! Tomorrow night, I'll bring my brothers and wait for you here, Lü. We'll make a big scene at Suzhou Electronic Game City tomorrow night! You can play all you want, Lü, if anything happens, I, Zhou Jie, will take responsibility." Zhou Jie was initially overjoyed, then he magnanimously patted Lü Xiaoqian's shoulder, his sly smile reminiscent of the time he tricked new recruit Zhang into blowing up a bunker.

  Lu Xiaoqian refused Zhou Jie's offer to drive him home, not wanting Sun Wenhong to worry about him hanging out with the gambling boss. However, after leaving Man Han Lou, he discovered that he only had one yuan left and ended up walking back home on foot. When he returned to Baisha Villa at 9 pm, he saw Bai Yanni's police car parked outside and felt a wave of displeasure - this foolish woman treated his place like her own home, coming and going as she pleased.

  She opened the door with her key and took a glance at the living room. Bai Yanni was not there, but Sun Wanming was staring blankly at the TV on the sofa, and the papers she had modified for the spiral super loop were still on the coffee table.

  "What have you been up to? Did you walk back?" Sun Wanming heard the sound of the door opening and saw Lu Xiaotian returning, so she quickly went up to ask.