Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 131
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Chapter 131 Close to finding out the truth
Li Erfa looked at Wang Er as he spoke to Xiaowu, “Don’t worry about your debt. I will definitely help you settle it.”
The moment Li Erfa finished his sentence, he retrieved a piece of jade from under the blanket beside Xiaowu.
The jade pendant was translucent and flawless. Someone had clearly taken good care of it for years.
How could Li Erfa have something as expensive as this?
Xiaowu felt surprised. He promptly realized he was coming closer to the truth.
Li Erfa swung the jade pendant before Xiaowu’s eyes and whispered into his ear mysteriously, “Look at this. We can even gamble a little after we are done paying your debt.”
Xiaowu opened his eyes wide and acted like he had never seen something as precious as the jade pendant in his life. He gaped with his saliva almost drooling from his mouth.
“Where did you get that from?”
“Hehe. You haven’t seen such good jade before, right? If you work with us, I guarantee you a good life.”
Li Erfa looked so smug that Xiaowu almost wanted to burst out laughing.
Why would they be staying here if they could afford to lead the high life?
Li Erfa knew Xiaowu would never believe him, so he plonked next to Xiaowu and explained, “Even though we are burial workers and live in poor conditions, it is all an act. We are just doing it so that no one knows we are rich, get it?”
Xiaowu knew Li Erfa was finally telling him the truth now, so he acted a little lost as he nodded to Li Erfa.
“Enough. Move aside. Let me tell him what is going on!”
Even though Wang Er seemed unkeen to help Xiaowu, he was not entirely unmoved.
Li Erfa kept talking without getting to the point, so Wang Er pushed Li Erfa aside and sat down beside Xiaowu.
“What are you doing? I thought you said you didn’t want to help him. Why are you being a nosey parker now? Also, isn’t that your spot over there?”
Li Erfa instantly shouted at Wang Er and tried to reason with him.
Wang Er glanced at Li Erfa threateningly making him shut up altogether. “Fine. It is the same to leave the talking to you. Go on and tell him.”
Wang Er looked at Xiaowu sternly and deliberately made Xiaowu feel uncomfortable.
After Xiaowu started to seem uneasy and afraid, Wang Er finally said, “I hope you will bring what I am about to say into the coffin with you.”
Xiaowu looked at Wang Er and instinctively nodded submissively.
“Other than being burial workers, we are a part of a group.”
Xiaowu was at a loss. Wang Er explained further, “Our group conducts activities three times a month. These activities are the real source of our income.”
Xiaowu nodded in a daze. Li Erfa couldn’t bear looking, so he interrupted Wang Er, “Make yourself clear, Wang Er. He doesn’t get it. Give it to him in layman terms.”
Li Erfa picked up the jade and showed it to Xiaowu as he explained bluntly, “To put it simply, Wang Er is saying that we collect valuables from corpses buried in the unmarked burial gravesite and pawn them.”
Xiaowu acted startled and asked in shock, “Huh? Won’t the authorities find out?”
“Find out? No one claims the bodies buried at the unmarked burial site. How would they know?”
Wang Er scoffed and ridiculed Xiaowu for being naive.
Li Erfa patted Xiaowu’s shoulder and consoled him, “Don’t worry. We never go so far as to get discovered.”
Wang Er glanced at Xiaowu and nodded in agreement.
“We just tell people the unmarked burial site is haunted. Since the mountain is tough terrain, people don’t go there to begin with.”
Xiaowu appeared worried, so Li Erfa put the jade pendant away in his chest and squatted in front of Xiaowu and said, “If you tell anyone about it, you might get us in trouble.
Li Erfa suddenly spoke to Xiaowu ambiguously, so Xiaowu promptly swore allegiance to them.
Wang Er and the others belted out laughing when they saw what a coward Xiaowu was.
After they were done laughing at him, Li Erfa looked at Xiaowu happily and sighed, “From now on, we are brothers. Life will only get better for us.”
They looked at each other knowingly and smiled.
Xiaowu laughed as well. It seemed as though he didn’t quite understand what was going on, but he was prepared to do whatever Wang Er and Li Erfa said.
As far as Wang Er and Li Erfa could tell, Xiaowu seemed to be loyal.
After they were done sharing their secret, they treated Xiaowu’s injuries and feasted and drank before going to Uncle Gen’s place reeking of alcohol.
Uncle Gen saw them walking in with their arms around each other and looked at them quizzically without saying more.
Uncle Gen finally said coldly after the smell of alcohol got carried away by the cold wind, “Did you go out drinking?”
Li Erfa was still a little drunk, so he was unable to speak clearly, “Uncle Gen, we were happy about having a new friend, so we had a couple of drinks!”
Uncle Gen scrutinized Xiaowu sharply for some time before veering his eyes. He kept a stiff face and said nothing.
Wang Er woke up from his drunkenness after standing in the cold wind for a while and detected something amiss.
He pulled Li Erfa and slapped him before lowering his head and bowing to apologize to Uncle Gen, “My bad. We had a few drinks today. I am terribly sorry.”
Li Erfa went giddy from Wang Er’s slap, but the pain quickly made him snap out of his drunkenness. He did not take it to heart when he realized Wang Er had slapped him. Instead, he quickly apologized to Uncle Gen just like Wang Er.
Ming Zi also apologized.
Although he did not drink, he was with them.
Wang Er had already pressed Xiaowu’s head down forcing him to look at the ground.
Uncle Gen’s hand trembled as he retrieved his pipe and deftly placed it by his mouth and started to smoke.
He stood in front of Wang Er and the others and walked around them to scrutinize them carefully.
He walked up to Wang Er, stood still, and exhaled smoke on Wang Er’s face.
Even though Wang Er was dying to cough from the fumes, he suppressed himself until his face turned red.
“It’s okay. I don’t mind if you have some drinks as long as you don’t get into trouble.”
After Uncle Gen walked away from Wang Er, Xiaowu patted Wang Er’s back before Wang Er finally dared to cough softly.
However, they could not wrap their minds around why Uncle Gen was suddenly in such a good mood.
Sure enough, Uncle Gen quickly said, “I’m glad we have someone new. Now that we have another person on the team, let’s go back to split it 6:4. If we don’t have enough men, we won’t get a decent cut.”
Li Erfa’s eyes turned red. He wanted to talk to Uncle Gen, but Wang Er and Ming Zi pulled him back.
Uncle Gen glanced at Li Erfa and made Li Erfa feel as though a dangerous animal was looking at him. He promptly lost his temper as a cold sweat broke out on his back.
No one dared to argue with this split anymore. Also, the other burial workers had arrived at the compound one after another and it was a bad time to discuss it.
All of them finished their work quickly tonight as usual. Wang Er pulled Xiaowu after Xiaowu was done packing up and glanced at Li Erfa when it was almost time to leave.
Li Erfa slowly put down his shovel and said to Xiaowu sternly, “You, over there. Stay behind. The rest of you can go! We need to settle the score with him.”
The new burial workers were so startled that they ran off right away. Even though they looked at Xiaowu worriedly, no one stayed to help.
After the other burial workers had left, Li Erfa scoffed in disdain, “Humph. Those wusses.”
Wang Er cut to the chase and told Xiaowu about Uncle Gen, “You heard what Uncle Gen said. Every time we managed to find any valuables, we have to split it with him 6:4 and he gets the lion share.”
“Doesn’t Uncle Gen need to work?”
Li Erfa felt tickled by Xiaowu’s innocence. “You are so hilarious. Hahaha!”
Wang Er glared at Li Erfa, but Li Erfa was unable to stop laughing.
“Since Uncle Gen takes the lion’s share without lifting a finger, we need to think for ourselves more.”
Li Erfa nodded in agreement with Wang Er.
“Then what can we do?”
Wang Er pointed at the unmarked burial site and explained as simply as he could, “The unmarked burial gravesite is split into sections. We work in different zones every month, so this means we conduct our business on each section depending on the zone we are assigned.”
Xiaowu watched as Wang Er told him about the sections and quickly made mental notes as he acted a little lost.
Wang Er pulled Xiaowu over to the bodies they had just buried tonight and started to dig them out.
“E-Er, didn’t you say we only do it three times a month?
Xiaowu seemed a little lost about what Wang Er was trying to do. Wang Er looked at him disappointedly. Li Erfa immediately stepped forward to explain, “Didn’t you just ask what we can do to earn more money? We have to come some other day to secretly retrieve the valuables when no one is looking.”
“Won’t Uncle Gen find out?”
“Uncle Gen can’t remember everything in such detail. Hurry up and dig!”
Li Erfa didn’t have the time to explain to Xiaowu. He picked another plot of area and started to dig and gestured for Xiaowu to get cracking.
Xiaowu mimicked them and picked a plot of land to dig behind them
“Oh yes. Don’t take too much stuff. Otherwise, Uncle Gen will find out.”
“Okay.”
Xiaowu answered Li Erfa in a stifled tone as he started the dig quietly.
After he was done with his plot of land, he went over to help Li Erfa and Wang Er. However, Ming Zi refused to let him help, so he gave up.
Although Xiaowu helped everyone to dig, he didn’t take anything from the corpses.
“What’s wrong? Why aren’t you taking anything? Don’t you have a gambling debt to settle?”
Li Erfa was puzzled by Xiaowu’s gesture. He stopped placing the valuables into his chest and turned to ask Xiaowu.
Xiaowu scratched his head awkwardly and seemed like an honest guy as he said, “I’ll pass. Why don’t you take it all and just give me enough to settle my debt?”
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