Hearing that Chen Yihao had broken the other person's head and required seven stitches, Chen Yinuo's legs went weak again.
She choked back tears and said, "It's my fault as his older sister for not raising him properly. I'll take him to apologize to your family later and beg you to be lenient and let him off, okay?"
"Apologize? He beat my brother until his head was bleeding, and a few apologies will fix it? How about I smash your head with a brick until it's bleeding, and then I'll apologize to you?" the dyed-hair youth sneered, being incredibly difficult.
Little did he know, Chen Yinuo was taking it to the extreme, saying, "If I do that, will you let my brother go?"
Uh...
The dyed-hair youth was immediately choked.
After a moment of silence, he said, "We are law-abiding citizens, we don't do such things!"
"Alright, stop talking nonsense. The so-called settlement is just about wanting money. Speak, how much!"
Ye Chen, who could no longer hold back, spoke.
He had seen this kind of drama too many times.
However, since Chen Yihao was the one who injured someone first, even though he knew the other party was trying to extort them, he had to bear it.
"Ye Chen, this is none of your business, get lost, hurry up and get lost!"
Hearing Ye Chen speak up and interfere, Chen Yinuo immediately became anxious.
Was she stupid? Could she not know that the other party just wanted money?
But in her current impoverished situation, where could she find money!
Mom and Dad might still have two or three hundred thousand saved, but that was for Yi Hao's wedding house, and she wouldn't let Mom and Dad know about this unless it was absolutely necessary!
Because of this, she kept pleading with the other party to be lenient.
But Ye Chen suddenly blurted out such a sentence without warning, how could she not be anxious?
"Who are you, kid? Do you have a right to speak?"
The dyed-hair youth was a bit unsure about the relationship between the two people opposite him and asked.
"I am Chen Yihao's Ye Chen, do you think I have a right to speak?" Ye Chen said.
Then he turned to look at Chen Yinuo, "Yinuo, do you really think that a few humble pleas will make them let Yi Hao go?"
Being asked by Ye Chen like this, Chen Yinuo was immediately speechless.
Could it?
Impossible!
She was just hoping and fantasizing!
How could she not know that the so-called settlement was always resolved with money?
But after she took Ye Youyou out to rent a house, she couldn't even scrape together two hundred yuan!
"You're that kid's Ye Chen? Okay, that works, it seems you are indeed a sensible person. An unconditional peaceful resolution is impossible. I won't beat around the bush. If you want us to drop the charges, fine, give us one hundred thousand yuan! Not a single cent less, or that kid will get a criminal record! Compared to a criminal record, one hundred thousand yuan is not expensive at all. You just happened to run into our family; if it were someone else, they'd extort you to death!"
The dyed-hair man put on an attitude of absolutely not backing down an inch.
Little did he know that upon hearing the word 'hundred thousand,' Chen Yinuo almost collapsed onto the ground!
One hundred thousand.
This was an astronomical figure to her now!
If it were thirty or fifty thousand, she could still call friends to borrow, borrowing two or three thousand from each, and might barely manage to borrow twenty or thirty thousand.
But one hundred thousand, where could she borrow that, and who would be willing to lend it!
"One hundred thousand, right? Okay, I'll give it to you!"
Before Chen Yinuo could beg the other party to back down, Ye Chen decisively agreed.
Then he poured the contents of the brown paper bag onto the table.
Each stack was ten thousand yuan, and he picked up ten stacks and put them together.
"This is one hundred thousand. I hope you can withdraw the case immediately! Drop the charges against Chen Yihao!"
Ye Chen looked at the other party and said.
At this moment, seeing the money, the eyes of the middle-aged couple turned green.
The dyed-hair man's expression became complicated and strange.
He regretted quoting such a low price!
"I, I suddenly thought, one hundred thousand is not enough, my brother's nutrition fees, emotional..."
However, before he could finish, Ye Chen interrupted, "There are surveillance cameras and recordings here. If you say anything more, it will be considered extortion. Then it won't be about whether you pursue Chen Yihao, but whether we pursue you! Listen to me, one hundred thousand is not a small amount. Know when to stop! Otherwise, you won't get a single cent, and the details of Chen Yihao's case are not serious; otherwise, the police wouldn't let us settle!"
"In this situation, even if you continue to pursue it, he'll at most have a criminal record for a while and then be released. But in that case, you won't get a single hair. So, is one hundred thousand enough now? Do you still want to include nutrition fees, emotional distress fees, lost wages, and all that?"
Ye Chen's words instantly panicked the middle-aged couple.
How could they let the duck that was already in hand fly away!
"One hundred thousand is fine, just one hundred thousand!"
The middle-aged man, whose skin was very dark from the sun and was wearing a worker's outfit, quickly and anxiously said.
Saying this, he hurriedly reached out and pulled the one hundred thousand yuan towards himself.
"What about you, as his brother? What do you say?"
Ye Chen looked at the dyed-hair youth and said leisurely.
The other party was clearly intimidated by Ye Chen.
His previous arrogance was completely gone, "Since my Dad says it's okay, then it's okay!"
Beside them, Chen Yinuo's mind was already blank.
So much so that even after the family left, she couldn't recover.
That beast, where did he get so much money?
No, when he went to Yunshan Internet Company, he was empty-handed. The brown paper bag only appeared after they came out!
Could this money have been given to him by President Zhang Jingshan?
But how could that be? How could Zhang Jingshan give him money? And such a large amount, hundreds of thousands?
Could it be that he borrowed it from Zhang Jingshan? Still not right, a scumbag gambler like Ye Chen couldn't even borrow a hundred yuan outside, let alone borrow hundreds of thousands from Zhang Jingshan!
The next moment, Chen Yinuo thought of plots from movies and TV shows. Did Ye Chen do something unsavory for Zhang Jingshan, and this money was Zhang Jingshan's payment?
Or did Ye Chen, that beast, swindle or deceive it from Zhang Jingshan?
As if he knew what Chen Yinuo was thinking, Ye Chen smiled and said, "Don't overthink it. The origin of this money is not dirty, nor did I swindle or deceive it from Zhang Jingshan. This morning, I found a good deal at Guwan City and happened to run into President Zhang. He bought it from me for three hundred thousand. After that, he forgot to bring his phone and bank card, so he asked me to go to his company to get the money. I didn't expect to run into you at his company. I really wasn't following you!"
"Found a good deal? You, finding something worth three hundred thousand at Guwan City?"
Slightly recovering, Chen Yinuo scoffed and didn't believe him.
"After so many setbacks before, it's bound to turn around eventually!" Ye Chen said.
"As expected, still thinking about getting rich overnight!"
Chen Yinuo sneered, "I hope what you're saying is true, and I hope you didn't try to play tricks on someone like Zhang Jingshan. Otherwise, you won't even know how you died!"
After saying that, without giving Ye Chen a chance to respond, her tone suddenly changed, "Since you got such a sum of money from Zhang Jingshan, you should use it to pay back the usury loan, lest you get killed!"
"Didn't Yi Hao get into trouble? The urgent matter is to help Yi Hao out. As for the usury loan, don't worry, I can definitely handle it!" Ye Chen said.
At this moment, the police officer walked in, "Chen Yihao has been released, you two can pick him up!"
"Oh, okay, thank you, officer, thank you, officer!"
Ignoring Ye Chen's words, Chen Yinuo hurried off.