Chapter 11: Killing, Robbing Wealth
In the afternoon, Chen Wujun smelled the aroma of fish balls and curry from not far away, heard the fish ball stall boss shouting “Spicy fish balls, extra spicy!”, and suddenly felt hungry.
“One string of fish balls.” Chen Wujun lowered his hat brim, tossed a dollar over, took a string of fish balls from the boss’s hand, bit into it and chewed slowly, walking unhurriedly toward not far away.
Moments later, he turned back.
His gaze never left the alley entrance.
Until nightfall, when he saw four people carrying clubs and gasoline coming out of the alley, he immediately followed quietly.
After passing through several small alleys to a building entrance, Chen Wujun watched as the men disappeared at the stairs but did not follow.
He recognized this place.
Last time those collectors splashed gasoline on someone’s door, scaring the woman and child inside to cry nonstop.
“That guy is just an ordinary person who got into gambling, he was scared once before, probably this time he can pay back part of the money.” Chen Wujun thought to himself.
“Just don’t know how much they can collect.”
Chen Wujun felt a bit restless in his heart.
Last time he overheard in the stairs, that person owed over twenty thousand.
Even if only half could be paid back, it would still be over ten thousand.
If the money was paid back in full…
Whether ten thousand or twenty thousand, it was a huge sum for Chen Wujun, enough to solve his current problems.
Moreover, the alley was dark and narrow, with many nearby side roads, very suitable for an ambush.
His gaze swept around, then he entered the corridor to listen if there was any noise of quarreling or smashing upstairs.
After confirming no sounds of smashing or threats, he was almost certain of his previous judgment.
These guys had at least collected repayment that satisfied them for now.
Then Chen Wujun went directly to an alley entrance to ambush, while taking out a cloth to cover his face.
“That guy’s wife is really pretty, if he doesn’t pay this time, let his wife repay with her body!” Voices gradually came from the distance.
“Damn, you have a crush on that guy’s wife?”
“Forget it, as long as the money is collected. Want women? Where can’t you find them? Go to Building 14 Wave, there are two new ones there, still student girls. So tender you could squeeze water out!”
“Hao Ge, there’s one that’s your type!”
Hearing the voices getting closer, Chen Wujun’s heart began to beat violently, and he quietly peeked out.
Hao Ge was the leader, he had figured that out these past few days.
He saw four people coming from afar, the sturdiest one, the leader Hao Ge, walking at the front with a cigarette in his mouth and a bag under his arm.
One person walked beside him, the other two a few steps behind.
Chen Wujun took a deep breath to calm himself.
He slowly opened the bag containing lime powder, and when the men approached, Chen Wujun stumbled out carelessly, almost bumping into the leader Hao Ge.
“Fuck, are you blind…” Hao Ge was startled by the person suddenly emerging from the darkness, opened his mouth to curse, but only halfway through, the other raised his hand, and lime hit his face.
Hao Ge didn’t expect to be ambushed, only felt his vision go white, then his eyes burned intensely.
The person beside him was also affected, getting lime all over his face.
“Fuck!” The two following behind were stunned by the sudden change.
Before they could react, Chen Wujun had already grabbed a knife and swiftly stabbed into Hao Ge’s lower abdomen and pulled out, then stabbed into his waist.
“Ah!” Hao Ge couldn’t see, his lower abdomen and waist in intense pain, went berserk and raised his hand to smash, trying to force the opponent back.
Chen Wujun took a hard hit on the shoulder, then swiftly stabbed three more times, followed by a fierce stab into Hao Ge’s neck.
From throwing the lime to stabbing and killing, these movements were quick and fluid, without the slightest hesitation, then he grabbed the bag under Hao Ge’s arm and turned to run.
At this point, the two behind finally cried out: “Hao Ge!”
“I’ll go catch him, don’t let him get away!”
One went to check on Hao Ge, the other chased quickly after Chen Wujun.
However, just after chasing around a corner, another handful of lime came splashing head-on.
The man hurriedly closed his eyes, but some lime still got in the corner, then his head hurt, he clutched it and retreated two steps.
Chen Wujun went all in, swung a brick round and smashed it on his head several times, then threw the brick away and fled.
Not far after running, he took off his hat and the cloth on his face, went up a staircase to the third floor, then zigzagged through the corridor, moments later arriving near his home.
He took out the clothes he had hidden beforehand and changed, stuffed the leather bag into the bag with the clothes, then leaned against the wall gasping heavily, his whole body drenched in sweat.
After all, he was just a sixteen-year-old boy, doing this for the first time, his mind tense to the extreme.
Then he recalled the bag he had grabbed, it was not light, probably had quite a bit of money inside.
Excitement surged again, making him involuntarily pump his fist.
At that moment, a ringing sound suddenly came from the leather bag.
Chen Wujun was startled, hurriedly opened the bag, opened the leather bag inside, and saw a mobile phone vibrating nonstop.
He had seen this kind of mobile phone before, only palm-sized, much smaller than the home fixed telephone, and usable anywhere.
Very expensive, one costs seven or eight thousand, even his dad hadn’t been willing to buy one.
Chen Wujun glanced around, then picked up the mobile phone and smashed it hard against the wall.
It immediately went quiet.
Chen Wujun then threw the mobile phone into the bag, looked carefully again, the leather bag had three stacks of money, mostly hundred federal currency bills, only a few tens, his heart immediately heated up.
“Sure enough, as long as you have a bit of courage, making money is still fast.”
Then carrying the bag he went home, just entering the door he felt steaming heat and the aroma of meal.
Father was sitting on the sofa watching television, voices coming from the television:
“Today, Councilman Wilson proposed in parliament to demolish the Walled City…”
“None of these people are any good, demolish the Walled City, where do the hundreds of thousands live?” Father Chen Hanliang looked at the television and cursed angrily.
“Back? Why so much sweat? Chased by someone? Wash your hands, time to eat.” Mother poked her head out from the kitchen.
“Got it!” Chen Wujun nodded, went straight back to his room and closed the door, took the money out from the bag, two stacks thicker, one slightly thinner.
Quickly counted, total 28561.
Holding this money, Chen Wujun’s heart pounded wildly.
It was the first time he had seen so much money.
He hid the money in the cabinet, then opened the leather bag again to check, this time found six hundred twenty in the interlayer, and also several IOUs.
Unfortunately no IOU for his own family.
After clearing the items, Chen Wujun stuffed the leather bag back into the bag, took several deep breaths to calm his mood, then felt burning pain in his shoulder, pulled open his clothes to look, ah, the shoulder was red and swollen.
He applied medicine to the shoulder, after eating, he carried that bag out again, first went into the Walled City, found a stinking ditch and threw the leather bag and mobile phone in.
After throwing away this biggest evidence, he finally relaxed completely.
Then went back to the rooftop again, but today did not do standing meditation on the guard wall, instead looked into the distance for a long time.
From childhood to now, first time touching so much money, a bunch of things he wanted to buy suddenly popped into his mind.
CD player, mobile phone, clothes… all things he wanted before but had no opportunity.
But soon he suppressed that thought.
“I’ve seen on police news, bandits after robbery spend money lavishly, then get caught by police.”
“If I spend lavishly, maybe someone will notice and associate it.”
“Especially recently, the other side will definitely search everywhere for the killer.”
“So this money, except giving dad 1000 each month, the rest for martial arts school tuition, and for food.”
“Senior Brother Li said, martial arts practitioners consume a lot, eat more than ordinary people, need to eat more high-protein things, like beef, chicken. Meat is expensive, mom usually reluctant to buy much, only a little at a time, not enough to eat freely…”
Chen Wujun made up his mind, this money can’t be spent randomly, all used on practicing martial arts.
Then give 1000 to the family each month, to help pay off the family debt sooner.
Then thought about tonight’s ambush and killing process.
“That Hao Ge has practiced martial arts, and definitely longer and better than me. After the attack, just one hit made my shoulder red and swollen, even after medicine, lifting the arm is a bit hard.”
“But even so, it was premeditated against unprepared. I threw lime, catching them off guard with eyes blinded, then stabbed several times to drain his strength, followed by one into the neck, that guy is deader than dead.”
“Even if practiced martial arts, caught off guard can still be ambushed and killed by an ordinary person.”
“So no matter when, must be careful and vigilant, otherwise will capsize in the gutter like that Hao Ge.”
“The charge stance’s on the verge of a great enemy is for dealing with this situation, this state hard to maintain, but when doing standing meditation on the rooftop mind fully focused, even without entering on the verge of a great enemy state, the effect is similar, I need to try to extend this state.”
After reviewing, Chen Wujun dazed there a moment more, then climbed to the rooftop to do standing meditation.
Daily kung fu practice can’t be missed.
But today getting a large sum of money, his mind was full of various thoughts, couldn’t settle, didn’t dare to do golden rooster stance.
Fortunately, after doing charge stance a moment, he completely cast aside external things.
Before his eyes only the abyss and the three inches of standing ground underfoot.
……
Back to his room at night, he took the money from the cabinet, divided into three parts, one hidden in the cabinet corner, one in the pillow, one wrapped in a pocket hidden on top of the living room cabinet.
“I don’t have a bank card, too few places at home to hide money…”
After doing this, he lay on the bed.
Until falling asleep, his mind was full of plans ahead, practicing martial arts, and lessons from Hao Ge.
Never thought about the fact that he had killed someone.
In his heart, killing others to solve his own trouble was fair.
No need at all to think about anything.
