Chapter 242 — Something Overlooked: Sun Jingyan Curled Her Lip, Refusing to Believe a Word Wei Zhao Said

Wei Zhao's skills were solid, and that much Sun Jingyan did believe. Even the heir of the Iron Hand Wu family, famed for lightning-fast hands, had fallen to Wei Zhao, and that alone was proof enough of how formidable he was.

Formidable he might be, but Sun Jingyan would never believe that Wei Zhao's senior uncle was the world's greatest thief. If he really were the world's greatest thief, how could Wei Zhao be scraping by in a small city like Songshan, even taking a fee of a thousand yuan? Was that not far too shabby?

The world's greatest thief — just how rich would a man like that have to be?

Besides, if his senior uncle was a master thief but his master was not, then what kind of strange sect was that?

So Sun Jingyan instinctively took Wei Zhao's words for bragging.

"Fine, if you are set on taking half of what the other side offers as your fee, then I can agree to that!" Sun Jingyan said. "But you cannot back out!"

Wei Zhao frowned as he looked at Sun Jingyan's rather odd expression, and suspicion stirred in his heart. Could there be something wrong here? Yet thinking it over carefully, nothing seemed wrong at all!

Could the price the other side offered actually be very low? But that was impossible. If the price was not high, why would Sun Jingyan pass over what was near to seek what was far and come to him? And why offer him a high price on top of that?

Although Wei Zhao faintly sensed there was something off about all this, for the moment he could not figure out exactly where the problem lay.

"Hey, will you agree or not?" Sun Jingyan grew impatient this time. "Little Junjie, though you are younger than me, you are still a man. A real man means what he says, like water spilled that cannot be taken back. A gentleman's word cannot be caught even by a team of four horses!"

"Heh... fine, I will not back out! Whatever price the other side names, I will take half!" Wei Zhao felt rather helpless. The words had indeed come from his own mouth, and going back on them now would hardly be right.

"Good, you said it yourself!" Sun Jingyan was a little excited that Wei Zhao had actually agreed. "Come on, let us eat first and talk over the meal. I will take you to a great place!"

Looking at the wildly excited Sun Jingyan, Wei Zhao's heart sank, and he grew even more certain that something was wrong here, something he himself had overlooked... Still, since he could not think of what it was, he stopped trying. At worst he would just work for nothing. Stealing a set of documents was no hard task anyway.

The great place Sun Jingyan spoke of turned out to be an open-air food stall on the snack street, which left Wei Zhao speechless! He had thought Sun Jingyan would treat him to some high-end hotel.

Sun Jingyan parked the car in a free space off to the side, which was really just roadside with no no-parking sign. She got out with Wei Zhao. "This is the place, authentic spicy skewers. They are really delicious!"

Wei Zhao was left speechless, though... truth be told, he actually quite liked this kind of food.

"Boss, give us a small basin!" Sun Jingyan expertly asked the skewer vendor for a small basin, then started picking skewers out of the cart, saying to Wei Zhao as she picked, "Take whatever you like! When we are done, they just count the sticks."

Wei Zhao smiled and began filling the small basin together with Sun Jingyan, and before long the basin was piled full of spicy skewers.

The two found an empty table and sat down, and Sun Jingyan began adding seasonings to the skewers.

"Pay up, pay up!" Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan had just settled down when several burly men walked over and barked at the skewer vendor.

"Brother Scarface, did you not just collect a few days ago..." Seeing these men, the vendor's face changed at once, and he hurried over with a fawning smile.

"A few days ago? A few days ago that was gift money for Brother Niu's mother's birthday. Today is the real protection fee!" said one scar-faced man in a vest, impatiently.

"This..." The vendor froze. Although he knew the man was probably lying, a man under another's roof had to bow his head. This Scarface was the local thug of this area, specially collecting protection money around the snack street.

"Hurry up and stop dawdling. Do you not want to stay in business? Shall we brothers eat and drink here for free every day?" Scarface threatened, and as he spoke he casually grabbed a skewer from Wei Zhao's table and popped it into his mouth, then tossed the stick onto Wei Zhao's table.

"Hey, do not leave what you ate here. They will charge us for it," Wei Zhao said to Scarface with a frown.

"Huh?" Scarface froze, never expecting a customer to dare speak to him like that. He turned to curse, but the moment he saw Sun Jingyan beside Wei Zhao, his eyes widened and a lecherous grin spread across his face. "In that case, big brother here will treat you. Let us eat together. Brothers, bring your chairs over!"

With that, Scarface boldly dropped into a chair beside Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan and stared at Sun Jingyan. "Little sister, it is my treat, eat all you want. Let us have some drinks, shall we?"

Sun Jingyan frowned slightly. She had not expected Wei Zhao to be such a magnet for trouble. These men had only come to collect protection money and would have left once it was paid. Even if they ate one skewer, the vendor knew the score and would never charge it to them. Yet one remark from Wei Zhao had drawn down this jinx.

"Did I tell you to sit here? Do I even know you?" Seeing the creep harass Sun Jingyan, Wei Zhao was instantly displeased. After all, Sun Jingyan was the employer about to pay him money. How dare this man harass her right in front of him?

Besides, although Wei Zhao disliked meddling in other people's business, this was no idle matter. Scarface had sat down because of his own remark, so of course Wei Zhao would not indulge him.

"Who the hell are you?" Scarface turned to shove Wei Zhao. He had long found the kid an eyesore and had been looking for an excuse to make him give up his seat, and here the excuse had delivered itself.

"Smack!" What answered Scarface was a ringing slap. Wei Zhao had slapped Zou Ruoming that morning but had not quite enjoyed it, since with Wang Zhifeng present and everyone watching, he could not beat Zou Ruoming too badly. Now there were no such scruples, so this one slap swelled half of Scarface's face like a steamed bun, puffing up in an instant.

"I hate it most when people insult my mother!" Wei Zhao had grown up without a mother, so he was deeply taboo about anyone mentioning her.

"You... you dare hit me?" Scarface stared at Wei Zhao in disbelief. Around this snack street he was a man who walked sideways. Never mind being hit, no one even dared raise their voice at him. So Wei Zhao's slap left Scarface completely stunned...

"Get lost." Wei Zhao glanced at Scarface with contempt. He looked down on men like Scarface. Collecting protection money was bad enough, but coming out to harass women too.

"You looking for death? Barely grown and already trying to act tough like a big shot?" Scarface laughed in fury, grabbed a beer bottle from the next table and hurled it at Wei Zhao. "Acting tough takes real strength, not fantasy!"

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