How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 238

238. A Sister’s Pig Butchering Scheme: How Does a Ride-Hailing Driver Have Money?

238. A Sister’s Pig Butchering Scheme

Yang Chen and the others spent half a day finally giving Aunt a full body checkup.

The reason for Aunt’s chest pain was coronary heart disease, but other aspects were fine.

Her condition wasn’t too serious; just taking some medicine would be enough.

Yang Chen took Aunt home, and Lin Yiren drove herself back to catch up on sleep.

Yang Chen spent several days playing with Lin Yiren, not taking a single ride.

After dinner, he went out to drive.

Around nine o’clock, Yang Chen picked up a female passenger going to the cross-river bridge.

As they approached the bridge, the female passenger asked to get out.

Yang Chen pulled over and said, “Please take your belongings. Welcome to choose BEEP ride-hailing again next time.”

The female passenger was expressionless, took out her wallet and phone, placed them on the seat, and got out of the car without a word.

Yang Chen quickly called out, “Madam, you dropped your things.”

The female passenger remained expressionless and said, “They’re for you. These things are useless to me now.”

With that, she closed the car door and walked onto the bridge.

This was obviously not right.

Yang Chen quickly drove slowly behind her.

If she really had any suicidal thoughts, as a person with flesh and blood, Yang Chen would definitely try to stop her.

Yang Chen opened the car window and shouted, “Madam, take your things. Otherwise, I’ll be penalized by the platform.”

The female passenger looked at the river and slowly walked towards the middle of the bridge.

“Then throw them away. I’m telling you to throw them away, so the platform won’t penalize you, right?” the female passenger replied.

Yang Chen asked directly, “Madam, are you thinking of doing something rash? You don’t look very old, probably just in your early thirties. You’ve only lived half your life at most. Try to think positively about everything.”

It was okay before Yang Chen asked, but this question made her emotional, and she ran towards a place where she could climb over.

Yang Chen quickly parked the car and jumped out. The moment the female passenger climbed onto the railing, he lunged forward, grabbed her by the straps, and pulled her back.

The female passenger still struggled to climb the railing. Yang Chen pinned her to the ground, using his body to hold her down.

“Let go of me! Leave me alone! Let go!” the female passenger shouted.

At this moment, passing cars stopped.

A young couple took out their phones to film while warning Yang Chen to stop.

Yang Chen quickly explained, “She’s trying to jump into the river! Come and help!”

The couple nodded quickly and ran over to help Yang Chen hold down the female passenger.

“Let me go! Don’t interfere! I have to die, or I’ll implicate my family!” the female passenger said, crying.

Yang Chen asked, “Do you have any illness?”

The female passenger shook her head.

Yang Chen: “Then you owe money?”

The female passenger nodded.

Yang Chen: “Then why do you owe money? Did you gamble?”

The female passenger was quiet for a while and told the truth.

In short, she lost all the money for the house and her child’s surgery.

But she didn’t gamble; she gambled on stones [referring to the practice of buying uncut jade, hoping to find valuable gems inside].

She not only lost all of her family’s 4 million yuan savings but also owed Mingcui Workshop 1.5 million.

Originally, they planned to use this money to give their child a corneal transplant and buy a smaller house.

Now everything was in vain.

The key was that she couldn’t repay the 1.5 million she owed. If she didn’t die, it would definitely implicate her husband and child.

In this situation, her husband and child could not be held responsible for the debt because they were unaware of it. It was as if the debt would disappear with her death.

Yang Chen advised, “But have you thought about what will happen to your husband if you die? He has to work and take care of a child with an eye disease. How can he manage? You’ll be free from everything, but what about them? In the end, they will definitely suffer slowly in poverty and pain until they die.”

The female passenger covered her face and cried, saying, “But I have no choice. If I don’t die, Mingcui Workshop will come to collect the debt, and they won’t have a good life either.”

As she spoke, she slapped herself hard.

But what was the use of regretting now?

Why did she gamble on stones in the first place?

The female passenger explained, “I believed my best friend’s words. She said several people had found jade. As long as I was lucky enough to find jade, I could not only get surgery for my child but also buy a bigger house. I don’t know what I was thinking at the time, but I believed her and went there foolishly. This thing is really addictive. Once you start playing, you can’t stop. And every time, I could find a small piece of jade, but it wasn’t worth much money. They gradually won all my money, and then they even tempted me to take out loans to continue playing. If my husband hadn’t called to say the hospital would perform the surgery for our son tomorrow and asked me to prepare the money, I might have continued playing. It’s all my fault, all my fault…”

As she spoke, she slapped herself again, swelling both sides of her face.

At this moment, the phone in Yang Chen’s car rang, but Yang Chen was sure it wasn’t his phone.

The female passenger wiped her tears and said, “It must be my husband calling me.”

With that, she got up, walked over, picked up the phone, calmed herself down, and answered.

Female passenger: “Hello, husband…”

Man: “Zhou Wenqi, what the hell have you been doing outside? Chen Hui just called and said you owe people 1.5 million. Now they’re holding her hostage and telling me to find a way to raise money to redeem her. Why do you owe so much money? Where’s our family’s money? Did you squander it all? I’m telling you, the son will have surgery tomorrow morning. If it can’t be done because there’s no money, I’ll fucking kill you!”

Female passenger: “I’m sorry, husband, it’s all my fault. I just wanted to try my luck. If I was lucky, we could not only get surgery for our son but also buy a bigger house. I just wanted us to have a better life. I didn’t want to ruin the family.”

Man: “You’re talking nonsense! Is money so easy to earn that it would be your turn? You have the life of a poor person. Why dream of being rich? Go get the money back now, or go die. You’re a disaster if you live!”

With that, the man hung up the phone.

The female passenger looked blank, tears streaming down her face.

After a while, she wiped her tears and said to Yang Chen, “Master, please take me to the First People’s Hospital.”

Yang Chen nodded and drove her to the hospital.

Soon, they arrived at the hospital.

The female passenger asked, “Master, how much is it?”

Yang Chen saw that the family was quite pitiful.

At this time, even a penny was precious to them.

So, Yang Chen replied, “No need. Go see your child. Communicate with them properly. What’s done is done. You can’t change anything even if you beat yourself to death. If you need it, I can introduce you to several charitable foundations. Talk to them; maybe they can help you.”

The female passenger’s eyes lit up and said, “Thank you, Master, thank you. Can you come up with me? My husband will definitely beat me up. You can tell him that our son can still be saved. Please, please.”

Might as well go all the way, Yang Chen followed the female passenger up.

Sure enough, her husband pulled out his belt to whip her as soon as he saw her.

Yang Chen didn’t stop him, even blocking the nurse who wanted to step forward to mediate.

Hitting someone was definitely not good, but this beating would definitely make her remember it for the rest of her life. Hopefully, she would think of this beating and wake up when she encountered such a thing again in the future.

The child’s eyes were bandaged, and he was crying on the bed, begging his father not to hit his mother.

He looked only about 10 years old.

Seeing the man whip her more than a dozen times, Yang Chen quickly stepped forward to stop him.

“Brother, that’s enough, that’s enough. Just give her a lesson. You don’t really want to beat her to death in front of the child, do you?” Yang Chen advised.

The man was still very emotional, threw the belt away, sat on the ground, and cried loudly.

“I trusted her so much and gave her all the money in the family to keep. Now that our son is about to have surgery, she actually lost all the money. If it were me who needed surgery today and the money was squandered by her, I wouldn’t hate her so much. But this is our son’s surgery. She’s his biological mother. How could she do such a thing? Even a tiger doesn’t eat its cubs. She’s worse than a beast!” the man cried.

The woman ignored the injuries on her face and crawled over to kowtow [a traditional Chinese act of deep respect] to her husband to admit her mistake.

“Husband, I’m sorry, it’s all my fault, my fault, my fault…”

The nurses quickly brought disinfectant to disinfect and bandage the woman’s wounds, also blaming the man for being too harsh. They said that anything could be discussed properly, so why did he have to be so cruel?

They were just talking without knowing the situation. If their partners squandered their family property, they didn’t know how extreme their behavior would be.

The man cursed, “What’s the use of saying it’s your fault now? Money, money, money! How can we get surgery for our son without money? We finally got our son in line. If we miss this opportunity, who knows how long we’ll have to wait. Don’t say sorry to me. Go say it to our son.”

The woman looked at her helpless son on the hospital bed and didn’t dare to go over.

Yang Chen wrote a phone number and handed it to the man, saying, “Since we met, it must be fate. Call this number tomorrow and say it was introduced by Yang Chen. Explain your situation to him clearly, and he will help you.”

This was the number of Li Haishan, the president of the Haishan Foundation. The Minghai Art Museum recently joined hands with several charitable foundations to hold a charity auction. The Haishan Foundation got a lot of money, so Yang Chen asked them to take out tens of thousands of yuan to pay for the child’s surgery. They didn’t dare to refuse.

The man quickly got up and asked, “Whose number is this?”

Yang Chen: “It’s the number of Li Haishan, the president of the Haishan Foundation. I know him. I’ll send him a message later to explain in advance. Call him during work hours tomorrow and say it was introduced by Yang Chen, and he will arrange everything for you.”

The man quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank him. Yang Chen quickly helped him up.

The female passenger kowtowed non-stop to thank him, and Yang Chen quickly pulled her up as well.

“Alright! Take good care of your child. I can only help you this much. Pay back the money you owe slowly. Be down-to-earth in the future and don’t dream of getting rich overnight,” Yang Chen said.

The female passenger nodded quickly and replied, “Understood. I will always remember your kindness.”

Yang Chen smiled and waved his hand, then turned and left.

The nurses looked at Yang Chen’s departing figure with admiration, all with infatuated expressions.

So handsome, so kind, and with such good social connections, he was simply perfect.

The nurses quickly asked the female passenger about Yang Chen’s identity.

The female passenger replied, “He’s a ride-hailing driver. I came here in his car.”

“Ah? A ride-hailing driver?” Everyone exclaimed, all with incredulous expressions.

Yang Chen returned to the car and received the female passenger’s review.

“Thank you, Master, for saving my life. I will never forget it. When my son gets better, I will definitely bring him to thank you in person. Thank you.”

Yang Chen showed a satisfied smile.

Then the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

Mingcui Workshop was so unscrupulous, inducing people to lose their fortunes. What was the difference between this and real gambling?

Previously, the system rewarded Yang Chen with “Bian He’s Jade Selection Record,” but he hadn’t had a chance to use it yet.

He might as well try it out now and uphold justice.

Without further ado, Yang Chen immediately followed the navigation to Mingcui Workshop.

As soon as he entered, a beautiful waitress greeted him with red wine and juice.

“VIP, hello, welcome to Mingcui Workshop. Do you have a familiar companion to play with?” the waitress asked.

Yang Chen shook his head and said, “This is my first time here.”

The waitress’s eyes lit up. It was easy to fool someone who came for the first time.

She quickly said, “It doesn’t matter. I’ll take you to play. Wine or juice?”

Yang Chen: “No need, thank you.”

The waitress quickly handed the tray in her hand to a colleague next to her and then led Yang Chen to visit the jadeite rough stones.

“Boss, what’s your name? My name is Lin Jing. What do you do?” the waitress said.

Yang Chen: “Yang Chen. I’m a ride-hailing driver.”

Hearing the words “ride-hailing driver,” Lin Jing was very disappointed.

She saw that Yang Chen was dressed neatly and had a Patek Philippe watch on his wrist. She thought he should be a rich second generation, but she didn’t expect him to be just a ride-hailing driver. No need to look, his watch must be fake.

However, “even a mosquito has meat” [meaning even a small amount of money is worth taking]. A ride-hailing driver was still a ride-hailing driver. As long as she could induce him to spend 100,000 or 80,000 yuan, it would be better than being idle.

Lin Jing: “We are the most standardized and largest stone gambling venue in Haicheng. Other venues use machines to scan the rough stones and pick out the ones with green [referring to jadeite], so the stones they give customers to choose from are all without green. We are different from them. We ship them directly from Southern Myanmar and send them here without scanning them with instruments, so the possibility of seeing green is very high. We also have rules here.

All players can only choose based on their own eyesight and experience and are not allowed to use any props. So, you see, we have a lot of customers here, and it’s crowded every day.”

If what Lin Jing said was true, this place was indeed good.

However, who knew if she was just saying nice things?

Lin Jing accompanied Yang Chen to look at the stone materials, and her mouth was dry, but Yang Chen didn’t pick one.

“Damn it! Is this guy just looking and not playing? Then wouldn’t I have wasted so much saliva?” Lin Jing thought to herself.

Yang Chen looked up at the second floor and asked, “Is there anything on the second floor?”

Lin Jing nodded and said, “Yes! But the second floor is not suitable for you to play. The stones there are bigger, and any one of them is calculated in the millions. If you don’t find green, people with bad hearts will fall down directly.”

Yang Chen: “I’ll go up and take a look.”

Lin Jing quickly stopped Yang Chen and said, “Mr. Yang, I’m sorry. Our venue has regulations that ordinary customers can only play downstairs. The upstairs is for old customers or VIPs. Ordinary customers can’t go up.”

Damn, this was just like a casino. The upstairs was for big customers, and small customers could only play in the hall.

“If I must go up to play tonight, what do I need to do?” Yang Chen asked.

Lin Jing pointed to the rough stones and said, “You can choose any three stones, or buy rough stones with a total value of more than 300,000, and you can go to the second floor.”

Yang Chen nodded and searched according to his memory for the stones he had found that seemed to have green when he was browsing.

The “Bian He’s Jade Selection Record” recorded that the veins of stones containing jadeite were different from those of ordinary stones.

This required careful observation and sharp eyes to see the texture of the veins.

Yang Chen picked up the stone he had chosen, observed it carefully for a while, then nodded and put the stone in the basket.

Lin Jing quickly said, “Boss, I think you’d better take a closer look and don’t make a choice so hastily. From my experience, it’s impossible to find jade in the stone you chose. But this one, you see, doesn’t it look different from other stones? I think there’s a higher possibility of finding jade in this one.”

Yang Chen was sure that there was no jade in the stone Lin Jing recommended.

Now Yang Chen knew why that female passenger had lost her family property. She must have listened to the suggestions of these companions and followed the companions’ traps step by step, so she had to lose her family property.

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, putting the stone Lin Jing recommended into the basket as well.

Knowing that there was no jade in this stone, why did he still want it?

Because according to his judgment, only the two stones he had chosen out of the hundreds of rough stones in the entire first-floor hall had green, and the others were just stones.

Now he just needed to choose the second stone he had chosen.

Previously, he could identify whether a stone had green by observing the texture of the veins, but not all rough stones containing green would have clear textures.

If the stone was too big and the jade inside was too small, the texture of the veins could not be seen from the outside.

At this time, just looking at it would not solve the problem. He also needed to “knock” on it.

People who have bought watermelons know that the sound of raw and ripe watermelons is different.

The sound of a raw watermelon is like knocking on a piece of iron, which can be understood as the watermelon pulp and skin being almost one at this time.

A ripe watermelon will have a hollow feeling, which can be understood as the watermelon pulp and skin being independent at this time.

The same was true for rough stones. If there was no jade inside, it was a whole stone, and the sound of knocking on the stone was like a raw watermelon.

If there was jade inside, the jade and the stone were independent, and the sound of knocking on the stone had a hollow feeling.

However, because the jade contained in this kind of stone was very small, the difference between the sound it made and the sound of the stone was also very subtle, and only people with excellent hearing could hear it.

From the content recorded in “Bian He’s Jade Selection Record,” only people like Yang Chen with extraordinary qualities in all aspects could learn this skill. Ordinary people simply couldn’t learn it.

The second stone Yang Chen chose had to be knocked on to determine whether there was green inside.

“Dong dong dong…”

Yang Chen gently tapped different positions along the surface of the stone, carefully distinguishing the difference in sound.

After tapping around, Yang Chen put the stone in the basket.

Lin Jing quickly asked, “Brother Yang, you’re an expert. You look very professional.”

Yang Chen smiled and said, “I’m just guessing. Can I go upstairs now?”

Lin Jing: “Yes! Do you want to cut these three stones open now and take a look?”

Yang Chen: “No. Let’s cut them together later.”

Lin Jing: “Then you have to pay first!”

Yang Chen: “No problem!”

Lin Jing pushed the cart and took Yang Chen to pay.

The rough stones in the first-floor area were relatively ordinary, and the prices were relatively cheap.

The three stones Yang Chen chose added up to only 350,000.

If these three stones could produce even a little bit of good jadeite, Yang Chen could earn more than ten times that amount.

At this moment, there was a noise at the door.

Yang Chen looked over and saw that it was the female passenger Zhou Wenqi arguing with the doorman.

“I’m the one who owes you money. Why are you holding my friend hostage? I’ll take responsibility for my own actions. I’ll pay you back, but you have to let her leave immediately!” Zhou Wenqi said loudly.

At this time, Lin Jing next to Yang Chen excused herself to go to the bathroom and quickly left.

Although this Zhou Wenqi was a bit brainless, she was quite loyal.

Yang Chen waved his hand and called over a waiter, saying, “The lady outside the door is my friend. Let her in.”

The waiter nodded and quickly went out to bring Zhou Wenqi in.

Zhou Wenqi was also very surprised to see Yang Chen and asked, “Benefactor, why are you playing this too? You can’t play this. It’s all a trick. It’s not easy for you to earn some money. Don’t be fooled by them like me.”

The staff immediately warned Zhou Wenqi not to talk nonsense. Mingcui Workshop never forced any guests to play with stones. If she continued to slander the reputation of Mingcui Workshop, they would take the necessary measures to defend the reputation of Mingcui Workshop.

Yang Chen quickly said, “She’s my friend. She’s with me.”

At this time, a girl in black silk walked over and asked Zhou Wenqi to go with her.

After all, Zhou Wenqi was a woman, so how dare she go with her?

“Say whatever you have to say here. Do you think you can’t be seen?” Zhou Wenqi said.

The girl in black silk sneered and said, “If you think you can cause trouble here, then you’re wrong. Aren’t you going to redeem your friend? Come with me. I’ll take you to see her.”

Zhou Wenqi looked at Yang Chen. She was obviously scared.

“Benefactor, can you come with me? I’m afraid they’ll hit me. Please, please,” Zhou Wenqi said very sincerely.

Yang Chen couldn’t help but laugh and said, “Okay, I’ll go in with you and take a look.”

At this time, there was another argument at the door. Zhou Wenqi’s husband, Wang Zheng, also came.

Zhou Wenqi ran out and asked, “Husband, why are you here too? Didn’t I tell you to take care of the child in the hospital?”

Wang Zheng: “Bullshit! Can I trust you, a woman, to come here alone? Although I’m very angry now, you’re my wife after all. How can I let you face this alone?”

Zhou Wenqi was moved to tears and said, “Husband, I’m sorry. I will definitely be honest and listen to you in the future and will never do such a stupid thing again.”

Wang Zheng: “Oh, alright. Let’s go, go in and talk to them.”

Seeing that Yang Chen was also there, Wang Zheng quickly stepped forward to greet him.

“Benefactor, why are you here too? You can’t play here. It’s all a scam,” Wang Zheng said.

It was worthy of being a couple; they said the same thing.

Yang Chen smiled and replied, “I’m just bored and came to broaden my horizons to see how powerful Mingcui Workshop is that can make your wife lose millions. Let’s go, I’ll go in with you and take a look.”

Wang Zheng: “Thank you, benefactor. When the child gets better, we will definitely bring him to thank you in person.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… Okay, then you take good care of the child. I’m waiting for him to thank me in person.”

The girl in black silk: “The three of you, if you want to chat, go home and chat. If you want to solve the problem, come with me now.”

With that, she turned and left, and Yang Chen and the other three quickly followed.

After going around several corridors, the girl in black silk led Yang Chen and the other three into a large room.

There were more than a dozen people inside, and Lin Jing was also inside.

However, unlike the sexy black silk she was wearing just now, she had changed into a down jacket, with blood stains on the corner of her mouth and her hair very disheveled.

Zhou Wenqi quickly rushed up to hug Lin Jing and cried, “Xiao Jing, I’m sorry. I’ve implicated you. You bastards, why are you hitting people?”

Lin Jing looked at the smiling Yang Chen and was stunned.

Obviously, what Zhou Wenqi encountered was a pig butchering scheme [a type of fraud where victims are lured into a false sense of security before being scammed].

Lin Jing became her best friend in order to induce her to lose all the millions in her family one day.

Pity Zhou Wenqi was still worried about the safety of this best friend. She was really being sold and still counting the money for others.