How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 473

473. Doing a Good Deed Today, Eliminating Harm for the People – What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?

It was obvious that Li Xiaofei really liked Yang Chen, and the familial affection between the two was almost overflowing.

Yang Chen flicked her forehead and scolded, “What nonsense are you spouting? Don’t say such things in the future, or I’ll have Auntie [referring to their aunt, Chen Yuyan] break your legs.”

Li Xiaofei covered her forehead and complained, “Ouch, that hurts! Are you really my cousin? You wouldn’t treat an enemy this harshly, would you?”

Yang Chen: “If it were an enemy, I’d have eliminated them directly. Would I be talking to you so nicely? If you want to date, find someone yourself. I can help you vet them, check their past and family background. If I think they’re okay, then you can date. I hope you only date once in your life, and don’t end up with the wrong person.”

Li Xiaofei pouted and muttered, “I don’t want to. I’m fine as I am, I don’t have that idea. There’s this persistent pest who keeps bothering me, claiming to be from the Huo family in Beijing, exaggerating how amazing the Huo family is, as if they’re invincible. To be honest, he’s not bad-looking. But I’m just not interested, I get annoyed just looking at him. I might have developed androphobia [fear of men], and only you can cure it.”

The Huo family in Beijing, wasn’t that a coincidence?

However, Yang Chen didn’t want his cousin to know too much about the underworld, so he didn’t bring up the Huo family.

Yang Chen: “It must be that your fate hasn’t arrived yet. You’re still young, don’t rush, just wait a little longer.”

Li Xiaofei: “I might never fall in love with anyone in this lifetime.”

Yang Chen laughed, thinking she was just being dramatic.

Soon, they arrived at Tang Court [likely a high-end restaurant].

Since they hadn’t seen each other for several months, of course he had to treat his cousin to a good meal.

Li Xiaofei ate heartily, finally stopping only when she was so full that she had to loosen her pants.

She was always arguing with her mom at home, and couldn’t eat properly.

Since the start of the vacation, this was the most satisfying meal she had eaten.

Li Xiaofei patted her stomach and said, “I really can’t eat anymore.”

Yang Chen: “You’re acting like a starving ghost, doesn’t Auntie give you food at home?”

Li Xiaofei: “I get so full of anger from her, how can I have an appetite to eat?”

Just as she finished speaking, Chen Yuyan sent Yang Chen a video call request.

Parents are like that, they find fault with their children when they’re at home, but they worry when they leave.

Chen Yuyan couldn’t help but send Yang Chen a video request, also to ask if Li Xiaofei had arrived.

Yang Chen: “We just finished eating, she ate too much and is stuffed.”

Chen Yuyan: “Li Xiaofei, aren’t you ashamed? Am I not feeding you at home or what? You go to your brother’s place and eat like there’s no tomorrow, huh?”

Li Xiaofei: “Little Swallow [a nickname for Chen Yuyan], how dare you say that? You make me angry eight times a day, how can I have an appetite to eat?”

Chen Yuyan: “Li Xiaofei, just keep acting up, don’t come back next vacation, and I won’t give you food when you do.”

Li Xiaofei: “Trying to scare me! Next winter vacation, I’ll be graduating from my fourth year and going to work. Little Swallow, listen up, when I start working, if you don’t cry and say you miss me, I won’t even bother to come home to see you.”

Chen Yuyan: “Haha… please stop, as if I’d cry and say I miss you, how can you have the nerve to say that with your big face? Don’t worry, if you don’t come back, I’ll be less tired. I’ll just order takeout, so I don’t have to cook.”

Yang Chen could see that Chen Yuyan’s eyes dimmed when she heard Li Xiaofei say she wouldn’t go back after she started working. She must have thought about this day for a long time, that children grow up and have to leave, and can’t stay by their parents’ side forever.

Yang Chen: “Alright, you two stop arguing. I’ll arrange for Xiaofei to join Starlight Investment, and Auntie, you can go to Starlight Investment to be the cafeteria lady.”

Chen Yuyan immediately laughed happily and said, “Okay, okay, you always know how to arrange things, Chenzi [a familiar nickname for Yang Chen]. Li Xiaofei, did you hear that? You can’t escape my grasp in this lifetime.”

Li Xiaofei: “Brother, you can’t arrange it like that.”

Yang Chen: “You don’t want to join Starlight Investment?”

Li Xiaofei: “How is that possible? I dream of it! But don’t arrange for my mom to go too.”

Yang Chen: “What, you want to tell the boss how to do things?”

Li Xiaofei pouted angrily and said, “I wouldn’t dare.”

Chen Yuyan: “Haha… Chenzi is the only one who can handle you. Chenzi, please keep an eye on her for me, I’ll trouble you these next few days.”

Yang Chen: “Auntie, why are you being so polite with me? Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of her.”

Chen Yuyan nodded with a smile, and then hung up the video call with peace of mind.

Li Xiaofei looked at Yang Chen with a resentful expression, her lips pouting so much that you could hang two pounds of pork on them.

Yang Chen said with a smile, “What do you want to do next? Go out and play, or go back and rest?”

Li Xiaofei: “I’m a little sleepy, let’s go to your house to sleep.”

Yang Chen nodded and took Li Xiaofei to his home in Yida Huafu [a residential complex].

Li Xiaofei made her bed in the guest room and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Yang Chen had stayed up late with Li Xiuyan last night, so he was also very sleepy. He went back to the master bedroom and fell asleep as well.

In the evening, Li Xiaofei went shopping with her roommates.

Yang Chen had nothing to do, so he prepared to go out and drive.

He had just changed his clothes when someone knocked on the door.

Through the camera on the door lock, he could see that there were several police officers outside.

Yang Chen’s bodyguards had also followed and were standing behind the police officers.

Yang Chen opened the door and said, “Is there something I can help you with?”

The police officer: “Hello, Mr. Yang, we apologize for disturbing you. Someone reported you for murder, and we’re here to understand the situation. Don’t be angry, we certainly don’t believe it, but we’re just going through the motions as a formality, otherwise it’s difficult to explain procedurally. We hope Mr. Yang won’t take offense.”

Yang Chen nodded with a smile and invited them in to talk.

The police officer took out some photos for Yang Chen to look at and asked, “Mr. Yang, do you recognize them?”

How could he not recognize them?

Xu Hu and Xu Qiang, the father and son who killed Yang Chen’s parents, Chen Junpeng, who caused the car accident, and the accomplices Tang Qing, Tang Jianguo, and Tang Jianjun.

Yang Chen nodded and said, “I recognize them, I’ve seen them before. I usually drive for ride-hailing to pass the time. I once picked up Tang Jianguo’s daughter, Tang Xuexu, and she asked me to be her driver for a while. I saw these people at her grandfather Tang Qing’s birthday banquet.”

The police officer: “On July 3rd, Xu Hu’s father-in-law had a birthday, and Xu Hu’s family went to attend the birthday banquet. Unexpectedly, the restaurant collapsed that day, and almost the entire two families were crushed to death. On July 16th, Tang Jianguo took Tang Qing to the hospital for a check-up, and a traffic accident occurred on the way.

The Stella [car brand] they were driving had brake failure, and they crashed into a stone pier at a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour, and the two died on the spot. The next day, Tang Jianjun, who had rushed back from out of town to attend his father and brother’s funeral, was in a Porsche 911 driven by his son when they collided with a truck due to excessive speed, and the two also died on the spot. On August 6th, Xu Hu’s wife, Zhao Jing, who is also Xu Qiang’s mother, had an accident while exercising at the gym. The exercise equipment fell and hit her head, and she died on the spot. On August 16th, Tang Jianguo and Tang Jianjun’s widows went to pay respects to their father-in-law and husband, and accidentally fell into a pond and drowned while washing their hands because of the heat. At noon today, Tang Jianguo’s daughter, Tang Xuexu, who hired you as a driver before, came to the bureau to report that you were the mastermind behind these series of accidents. We talked to her for seven and a half hours, and she insisted that you were the mastermind. Of course, we don’t believe that these accidents have anything to do with Mr. Yang. We’re just coming to Mr. Yang’s place as a matter of procedure, and we hope Mr. Yang won’t take offense and cooperate with us.”

Yang Chen nodded with a smile and said, “I will definitely cooperate actively.”

The police officer: “Then Mr. Yang, please tell us your views on these cases.”

Yang Chen: “Restaurant collapse, is that something I can control? Obviously not. Stella brake failure is not something new, if it’s all blamed on me, I don’t have a hundred lives to atone for it. Besides, how can I control Stella brake failure? Can Max [referring to the car’s computer system] listen to my commands and turn off the program in the background? As for the Porsche crashing into a truck because it was driving too fast, that’s not something I can control either. Isn’t that the driver’s fault for driving too fast? Drowning after falling into the water is even more outrageous, can I control them to fall into the water with my mind? Not only can’t I do it, but no one can. These are all things that cannot be controlled by humans, it’s purely an accident, you can’t just find someone to take the blame.”

The restaurant collapse wasn’t impossible to do artificially. The restaurant was originally a converted civilian house. The load-bearing columns were damaged in advance, and there were too many guests that day, so the load-bearing columns broke, and the restaurant collapsed.

The Stella’s program can be hacked. Not to mention brake failure, even making it unable to start on the spot is no problem.

As for the Porsche crashing into a truck, it’s easy to find out the Porsche’s route, prepare in advance on the side road, and when the Porsche drives over, the truck drives out.

As for the gym equipment, in the non-monitored area, it’s hard to say whether the gym equipment fell on its own or was pushed over.

As for falling into the water, if someone is hiding in the water in advance, not to mention they go to wash their hands, even if they dare to pass by, they will have to fall in.

The police officer: “Mr. Yang is right, we think so too. But Tang Xuexu also said that your parents had a car accident that year, which was done by Xu Hu’s brother-in-law, Chen Junpeng, and her grandfather Tang Qing, father Tang Jianguo, and uncle Tang Jianjun were all accomplices. You also threatened to make them pay the price. So, she believes that you did it. What is Mr. Yang’s response?”

Yang Chen: “This question is a long story. Xu Hu said that Tang Qing did it, and Tang Qing said that Xu Hu did it, but the conclusion given by the Haicheng police that year was an accident. Later, I found out that these two families had conflicts, and they both wanted to use me to kill each other, to help them deal with the other party. How can I fall for that? I certainly don’t believe it. But even if I don’t believe it, I’m angry. They have no bottom line, and they even use my deceased parents as a topic. So I broke off contact with Tang Xuexu and haven’t contacted her for several months. You can check this, I will never lie.”

The police officer: “We have checked this, you haven’t contacted him in the last two or three months. So that’s the reason. So what do you think is the truth of this matter?”

Yang Chen: “Didn’t I just say that it must be an accident? Even if it’s a man-made accident, you should focus on investigating the Tang family and the Xu family, because there are conflicts between the two families. Perhaps the Xu family hired someone to kill the Tang family, and the Tang family also hired someone to kill the Xu family. Check whether their business operations and company accounts are legal. At the very least, you have to figure out what the conflict between them is, and maybe you can figure out the truth.”

The police officer: “Then how do you know there is a conflict between them?”

Yang Chen: “Tang Xuexu told me. When I was her driver before, Xu Qiang kept harassing her, and she said that there were conflicts between the two families, but there were also some cooperations, so they couldn’t fall out, and they couldn’t be too close. At that time, I just thought she looked good, and I was just playing around as a driver for a few days, so I didn’t ask too carefully about the specific situation. Of course, even if I asked, she wouldn’t necessarily say. So, you should investigate the Tang family and the Xu family carefully.”

The police officer nodded, thinking that what Yang Chen said made sense.

“Okay! Thank you, Mr. Yang, for assisting us in the investigation. It’s getting late, so we won’t disturb your rest. Goodbye.” The police officer said with a smile.

Yang Chen nodded and got up to see them off.

“Phew…” Yang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Back then, the Tang family and the Xu family became rich because of that valuable night-luminescent pearl, and it was also because of that night-luminescent pearl that Yang Chen’s parents and uncle-in-law died.

The accidental deaths of Xu Hu and Tang Qing and others were only the first step. These two families made their fortune because of that night-luminescent pearl, and they must also fall because of that night-luminescent pearl.

Yang Chen composed himself and drove out.

Not far from the door, he picked up a female passenger at Yida Plaza. Seeing her dress and appearance, she was quite hip-hop, with her hair dyed yellow, and she looked like a “spiritual girl” [slang for a trendy, unconventional girl].

The driver’s most hated passengers are those who might throw up in the car, or even if they don’t throw up, the car will be full of the smell of alcohol. If you encounter some who have no class, there may even be conflicts.

However, that’s how the service industry is, there is no right to pick customers.

The customers that Bibi [ride-hailing app] pushes to Yang Chen are all high-quality customers as shown by big data. Maybe this girl encountered something sad that made her drink like this.

At first, she was fine, and the girl was lying on her side in the seat, asleep.

Not long after, she suddenly opened her eyes, sat up and asked, “Big brother, can I smoke in the car?”

Yang Chen: “It’s best not to. The air conditioner is on, and if you smoke, the car will be full of smoke, and everyone will be uncomfortable. If you open the window, then the air conditioner will be wasted. If you really want to smoke, I’ll pull over, you can go down and smoke, and then we’ll continue.”

The female passenger: “I don’t smoke, smoking is harmful to health, no decent person smokes.”

Yang Chen: “Then what is the purpose of you asking this question?”

The female passenger: “There is no snow in the Philippines, and there is no love in Manila, dong dong dong, a hundred bitter curries…”

???

Yang Chen adjusted the navigation to the mental hospital, and the voice assistant immediately broadcasted: “Destination adjusted to DC District Mental Hospital, please drive west along the current road…”

The drunken young lady suddenly panicked and quickly said, “Hey! Big brother, I’m not mentally ill! I’m not sick, really!”

Yang Chen: “All crazy people say they’re not sick. It’s just your state, saying things that normal people don’t understand, doing things that normal people can’t understand, and then saying that you’re not sick. It’s okay, don’t worry too much, I’ll send you in for three courses of electroshock therapy, and you’ll be normal.”

The drunken young lady laughed and said, “Big brother, I’m really not sick. I just broke up and feel very uncomfortable and empty. I want to find someone to talk to and seek comfort. What I just said were DJ lyrics, meaning that the relationship has faded and the love is gone. Don’t you listen to DJ songs?”

Yang Chen: “I don’t listen.”

Young lady: “What about rap?”

Yang Chen: “I don’t listen to that even more. Anyone with a normal brain wouldn’t listen to rap. I don’t have any prejudice against this musical form and most singers, but I have too much prejudice against those few popular rap singers. What kind of songs are they writing? The lyrics won’t be able to be written without a bit of vulgar, obscene, gambling, or drugs. Then a bunch of idiots just think the music has a strong sense of rhythm, and it’s okay to sway their bodies, no matter how vulgar the lyrics are. If you make me angry one day, I will ban all those idiot rap singers. If you can’t write songs, learn from Jay Chou [famous singer], isn’t ‘Compendium of Materia Medica’ [song title] the standard of Dragon Country [China] rap songs? A good rap song doesn’t have to be vulgar. If you don’t have the ability to write this kind of song, don’t eat this bowl of rice, come and drive a ride-hailing car like me.”

Young lady: “May I ask your name, big brother?”

Yang Chen: “Yang Chen.”

The young lady immediately sat up straight and said in shock, “Who?”

Yang Chen: “Yang Chen. Is there a problem?”

Young lady: “There’s too much of a problem! The boss of Starlight Investment and Starlight Technology Group is called Yang Chen, what level are you at to dare to use the same name as him?”

Damn it, Yang Chen didn’t know whether to be happy or sad about this.

Yang Chen: “I am Yang Chen, the boss of Starlight Investment and Starlight Technology Group.”

Young lady: “Big brother, can you stop bragging? How could such an awesome person come to drive a ride-hailing car?”

Yang Chen: “Then there’s nothing I can do if you don’t believe me, I can’t possibly prove it to you.”

Young lady: “I’m the kind of person who likes to get to the bottom of things! You said you were that Yang Chen, and you also said that you could ban those rap singers. Then can you help me ban Li John?”

Li John is one of the few popular rap singers that Yang Chen mentioned. When the hip-hop rap talent show was popular before, Yang Chen also watched a few episodes, and he knew Li John and other rap singers.

Yang Chen had heard 5 songs by Li John, and 4 of them had vulgar, mediocre, and obscene lyrics.

Like “You step on the horse”, “I am your father”, “White powder”, “Slut”, “Your name is Kiki, then give me a ride”, “You lie on the wall, I top you from behind, the sound waves echo in the room, we go crazy together”, these are all lyrics in his songs.

This is why Yang Chen said that those who like these songs are not decent people, how can they like such songs if they are lacking in their brains.

Yang Chen thought of the young lady’s breakup just now and asked, “Did you break up with him?”

The girl was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said um.

Yang Chen: “Are you Kiki?”

The girl was stunned again, then nodded again and said um.

“No wonder that idiot has the lyrics ‘If your name is Kiki, then give me a ride’. It’s really vulgar. What’s your taste? He’s so ugly, he doesn’t speak properly, his behavior is pretentious, he doesn’t even speak fluently, and the lyrics are so vulgar, I really can’t pick out even one advantage he has. You don’t look ugly, and even if you don’t have any pursuit, you shouldn’t find such a boyfriend. Are you greedy for his fame?” Yang Chen said very directly.

Girl: “Big brother, do you need to be so direct? I’ve been with him for two and a half years.”

Yang Chen: “How long?”

Girl: “Oh, big brother, can you stop teasing me? It’s really two and a half years, I’m not making fun of anyone. He wasn’t like this at the beginning. At that time, he had just returned from abroad, and he had seen more of the world than me, and he said a lot of things that I had never seen before, so I especially admired him. At that time, I was 19 years old, and maybe I was too young to distinguish the difference between admiration and love, so I got along with him in a daze. After being together, he slowly revealed his nature. Every now and then, he would commit domestic violence against me, and he would force me to make money by live streaming to help him participate in talent shows. His grandmother washes vegetables in a restaurant, and his mother works as a stocker in a supermarket. The money we three earn is all taken by him. At that time, I thought that if he could succeed in the talent show, I might be able to get ahead, and every time after he beat me, he would kneel down and admit his mistake, so I endured it again and again. Later, he did become popular and became a hot star in the rap circle. I thought my patience was finally going to be rewarded, but yesterday two girls came to my door. One of them said that she had an abortion for Li John, and then he ignored her. Another said that he cheated her of her first time and then ignored her. At that moment, I was completely awake, and today I came to break up with him officially.”

Damn, if what this girl said is true, Li John really deserves to die.

He has no character, no works, he is purely a scumbag. It is a shame of the times that such a person can become a star.

Originally, Yang Chen didn’t like those rap singers, but today he will eliminate harm for the people.

Yang Chen: “You sort out the evidence, and the same goes for the two girls you mentioned. After sorting it out, give it to me, and I will help you deal with him. By the way, I want to carry out a major cleaning of the rap circle. Any cat or dog dares to call himself a singer, and any garbage song dares to be released to pollute people’s ears. No one dares to move them, I will!”

The girl excitedly took off her sunscreen and T-shirt, and then took off her pants.

“Hey! Hey! What are you doing? There is surveillance in my car, don’t mess around!” Yang Chen shouted in a panic, and quickly pulled over to prepare to get out of the car, so as not to be unable to explain later.

The girl hurriedly explained: “Big brother, don’t get excited, I’m just showing you the evidence of my domestic violence. We are all adults, don’t act like a pure little boy, okay? I don’t care, are you embarrassed?”

Spiritual girls are more cheerful.

Yang Chen still pulled over and looked back carefully. There were indeed multiple bruises and swelling on her body.

Especially the neck, the root of the thighs, the buttocks and other positions are heavily affected areas, it is simply unbearable to look at.

If the girl was Yang Chen’s daughter, he would definitely go and kill Li John.

Yang Chen: “Beast! Put on your clothes quickly, take pictures of these and sort them out. Oh, by the way, are you sure it’s domestic violence, not foreplay?”

Girl: “I’m really going crazy, big brother, are you saying human words?”

Yang Chen: “Put it on, put it on. Go back and take pictures, contact those two girls, sort out the evidence and give it to me, I guarantee that Li John will never be able to appear in public again.”

The girl nodded, and while putting on her clothes, she said, “My name is Huang Qiqi, are you really Yang Chen, the boss of Starlight Technology and Starlight Investment, Yang Chen?”

Yang Chen: “Hello, Miss Huang. I am really Yang Chen, Starlight Technology, Starlight Investment, Starlight Defense, Starlight Seven Star Hotel Chain, Starlight Catering Group, are all my industries. The Yida Plaza where I picked you up just now also has my shares. I also have shares in Ali Gaga [Alibaba], Penguin Technology [Tencent], and Alphabet Dancing [ByteDance, parent company of TikTok]. In a word, as long as your evidence is solid, I guarantee that Li John will never be able to turn over in this life, and no one will want him to work in a factory.”