Chapter 40: The Creditor Became the Debtor

  "Rustle rustle rustle!"

  Li Yang was shaking the dice cup quickly, while Zhang Datou's ears perked up slightly as he listened carefully to the number of dots on the dice inside. After a long time, Li Yang suddenly put the dice cup and small bowl on the table, and it was about to open the treasure!

  Zhang's face couldn't help but show joy because he heard clearly that the numbers shaken out by Li Yang were: one, three, four, four, too small!

  He rushed towards Li Yang and shook his head slightly, thinking that this kid was still too tender after all!

  Watching him take his hands off the table, he can't do anything else, Zhang Dadao, who is afraid of having too many dreams at night, holds his breath and flashes his big hand to open the dice bucket on the table!

  Four six! Leopard!

  Blood suddenly gushed onto Zhang's large head, and his body fell backwards like a deflated balloon. He shouted loudly: "Impossible! Impossible, it was clearly 1344! Impossible, I heard it clearly!"

  Next to him, Da Zui saw it clearly and quickly hugged Zhang Da Tou, preventing him from falling to the ground!

  "Wow! Won won! Li Yang, you're so awesome!"

  Su Ya lost her composure and let go of Li Yao, jumping up and screaming in a shrill voice.

  Li Yao was so excited that she couldn't speak, pulled Li Yang's hand, and tears welled up in her eyes. After a long time, she said softly: "Li Yang, you are really the benefactor of our Su family! Handing Ya'er to you, I...I am at ease too! Wuuu, great kindness doesn't need thanks, Ya'er, from now on you must treat Li Yang well, otherwise Mommy won't agree..."

  Su Ya's face turned red, and she tossed her shiny black long hair, saying: "Mom, what are you talking about......"

  "It's all over! Waaah, I've been shaking dice since I was three years old, and after more than 40 years of dedication to this craft, I actually lost! Waaah, brothers, let's disperse, let me die alone! The boss will definitely tear me apart if I don't pay back the 400 million yuan principal!" Poor Zhang Datou cried like a child in Big Mouth's arms.

  "Big brother, don't panic, this gambling den is only known to the people inside. We can take down Li Ya and her mother along with that evil Lei Yang, and we can still ask Su Manshan to continue asking for debt!" Da Mazi said hatefully, hugging Zhang Dahu who was crying like a child.

  As soon as he said this, Li Yang was shocked and lost his color. These underworld figures were indeed ruthless and venomous enough to do such a thing!

  "Get out! I don't have a brother like you!"

  Zhang Datou jumped up like a madman, kicked the big mouth several times, and cried loudly: "Woo, I Zhang Datou have been gambling since childhood, and my family has been broken and my wife and children have scattered, but I have never denied my debt after losing a bet!

  We are gangsters, we are all three feet tall men, holding up the sky and pressing down on the earth. What we say is like spilled water, there's no way to take it back!

  Today I, Zhang Da Tou, lost and admitted defeat! Now I'll take you all to find the leader to confess our crimes. He's the one who stabbed me three times and six holes, killing me on the spot. I won't say another word!"

  "Zhang Datou, what you said sounds like a man. Since that's the case, hurry up and take out Su's IOU, then think of a way to cash in 260 million for me!" Lei Yang said with a gloomy face.

  Although Zhang Datou performed well, with a heroic spirit, Li Yang did not intend to let him off easily. After all, he had deliberately delayed the payment of the Su family's debt by 200 million yuan and forced him to sit down and play mahjong and gamble on dice, which made him very unhappy.

  "Brother Lei! No, Uncle Lei! Where would I have the money? Don't mention 260 million, even if it's just 2,600 yuan, I don't have it! Those IOUs are all here, I'll give them to you right now!" Zhang Dashou wiped away tears while digging into the pocket sewn inside his clothes.

  He took out a notebook with trembling hands, opened it and pulled out a stack of IOUs. Li Yang took a look, the largest was 1 billion yuan, the smallest was 20 million yuan, there were eight IOUs in total, totaling 4 billion yuan, all of which had Su Manshan's signature and fingerprint on them.

  Li Yang handed these IOUs to Li Yao, Su Ya and Li Yao held these IOUs that weighed over a thousand catties, and couldn't help but burst into tears of joy again!

  Zhang Datou looked at the IOUs that were gone, and his heart suddenly felt empty. From the time Liuyang and others were brought here by him to now, it was not yet dark, only more than an hour had passed, and he had changed from a creditor to a debtor in an instant, his status plummeting!

  Now not only are the 10 billion yuan gone, but also owe 2.6 billion yuan in debt, and this is still the result of Zhang's soft and hard pressure on Laiyang to gamble with him, it's simply self-inflicted!

  He originally planned to let Lai Yang gamble with him for a whole night. If they really gambled all night, I'm afraid the assets of Longteng Company wouldn't be enough for him to lose.

  Zhang Datou became more and more distressed, tears streaming down his face as he started slapping himself in the mouth, saying: "Let you little brat love to gamble! Let you little brat love to bully people! Let you little brat not have eyes!......"

  Li Yang glanced at Zhang Da Tou and kicked him, saying in a low voice: "Don't you hurry up and leave? Do you want to bet again?"

  "No... no! I won't gamble anymore! I owe you so much money, can you let me go?" Zhang Da Tou said in terror.

  "Hmph, you think I'm like you, huh? Are you satisfied only if I move into your house with my bedding? I'm busy and don't have time to bother you for the money. You little brat, scram! From now on, keep your eyes open and do more good deeds, fewer bad ones. If I'm in a good mood, maybe I'll even waive your debt." Lei Yang said with a sarcastic tone.

  "I'm out of here! Brothers, quickly gather your things and scram!" Zhang Dashou swiftly got up from the ground, first grabbing his treasured dice cup and small porcelain bowl from the table, tucking them under his arm before heading towards the door.

  After he went out the door, he suddenly remembered that it was this thing under his arm that had ruined him. In an instant, he smashed these two treasures that he had treasured for many years to the ground and trampled them into a mess!

  Zhang Datou's men moved swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, they had cleaned out everything inside the house. They hastily rushed downstairs and fled.

  Li Yang stuck his head out of the window and saw that Zhang Da Tou was wailing again, crying to the heavens. He was probably thinking about how he would be severely punished by their boss when they got back, feeling sad and helpless. The brothers next to him were also disheartened, supporting Zhang Da Tou as they got into a Jinbei van. Then two Jinbei vans drove off into the distance with a humming noise.

  "Hmph! If only I had known earlier, why bother with all this now? This plague of a group has finally left." Li Yang cursed softly towards the downstairs.

  Turning back, Li Yao and Su Ya were leaning on another window, seeing off Zhang Da Tou and his group with a gentle smile.

  Li Yang Chong smiled and said: "This is not my fault, they dragged me into gambling!"

  Li Yao and Su Ya exchanged a glance, and couldn't help but burst out laughing!

  Zhang Datou's gang came to collect debts and caused a disturbance, the police were powerless, no one expected that Li Yang would end like this, now his mother and daughter are still in shock as if they are dreaming.

  Those IOUs were taken to the gas stove and burned one by one, those pieces of paper that had just pressed Su's family to the verge of collapse turned into ashes in a minute. With no debts, Li Yaoke cried again after burning the IOUs.

  It's already six o'clock in the evening, and this house is now a mess. The floor is littered with cigarette butts and empty bottles left behind by Zhang Lao Da and his brothers, as well as some household trash. The valuable items inside have also been taken away by these people to exchange for money, leaving only two broken beds that are uninhabitable if not cleaned up. So Li Yang took the mother-daughter duo downstairs.

  Li Yang knew that Li Yao had only eaten a few steamed buns every day for the past few days, so she must be very hungry. So, on the street, she hailed a taxi and took them to a nearby restaurant with a thriving business. They entered an exquisite private room to prepare for dinner.

  "Waiter, bring us walnut shrimp, braised pork belly with chestnuts, red-braised lamb chops, steamed mandarin fish, scallion-stirred sea cucumber, high-soup chicken, and add a bamboo fungus soup. Remember to serve quickly!" Li Yao loudly instructed the waiter as soon as they sat down.

  "Mom, why did you order all meat dishes? The three of us can't finish that much, can we?" Su Ya asked in surprise.

  Li Yao said with embarrassment: "If you can't finish eating, you can pack it up and take it away. Anyway, your boyfriend is rich, are you afraid he can't afford to pay?"

  Su Ya lowered her head in embarrassment. Under Li Yao's instructions, she sat very close to Li Yang, which was already a bit awkward, and now hearing her mother say so, she felt even more ashamed.

  Li Yang said to the waiter, "Just serve the dishes according to Aunt's order, quickly. By the way, Aunt, where is Uncle now? Don't you know any news at all?"

  His words were a relief to Su Ya, and after the waiter left, Li Yao went forward and closed the door of the private room. She sat down with an angry face and said: "I really don't know, Su Manshan seems to have vanished into thin air! The underworld's methods can't find him, he must be hiding very secretly. I feel that with his clever mind, he should have escaped abroad."

  "Hmm! It's very likely. Auntie, what kind of products did your Phoenix Superconducting Materials Co., Ltd produce and why did it go bankrupt?"

  Li Yao shook her head, saying with great sorrow: "Our company used to be in the electromechanical industry, producing motors and electrical cables and wires. Business was good, and we made a lot of money. But then your uncle somehow got his hands on a patent for room-temperature superconducting technology, and suddenly he lost his mind, pouring all our family's wealth into developing this new superconducting material."

  As a result, a lot of money was spent, but it turned out that the patent was fake. Your uncle encountered a swindling gang and the current technology is not capable of producing room temperature superconducting materials!

  Currently, the mature superconducting technology is low-temperature superconducting technology. The alloys made from it can only achieve superconductivity at very low temperatures of minus 150 degrees Celsius. The cost of use is extremely high and the technology is monopolized by many state-owned enterprises, making it fundamentally worthless for research and development.

  The company spent a lot of money buying patents, building factories, purchasing land, and paying workers' wages, etc., which led our Su family to fall into this quagmire and be unable to extricate ourselves. In just two years, we became deeply in debt and ended up like this.

  "Your Su family isn't worth hundreds of billions, known as the richest in Southeast City? Even if you're poor, it's impossible to be this poor!" Li Yang exclaimed.

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