Chapter 1058 — Old Yu Gets Duped
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"Nothing much. Getting ready to pack up and head home..." Yunhai Shuku said as he sorted through his wares.
"You free tonight? I'll take you to see something exciting!" the butcher said.
"Oh? What kind of exciting thing?" Yunhai Shuku was taken aback, unsure what the butcher meant. Then he shook his head. "One of those porn shows, is it? I'm not going. My wife's a terror — if she found out, I'd be done for!"
"Ha, I always said you were a coward, and I was right!" The butcher shook his head in disdain. "Porn show? It's a boxing match! Underground bare-knuckle fighting — know what that is? Plenty exciting!"
"A boxing match?" Hearing that it was not, in fact, a porn show, Yunhai Shuku did not rush to refuse. "Is the ticket very expensive?"
"No charge!" The butcher gave a sly grin. "A brother of mine from the streets — my cousin's boy, that is — he got his hands on a few tickets and passed a couple to me. Come on, you and me, let's go see what all the fuss is about!"
With that, the butcher draped his greasy paw over Yunhai Shuku's shoulder and, all warmth and familiarity, began tugging him along.
In truth the butcher had come to take advantage of Yunhai Shuku; the man's heart was rotten through and through. He had pocketed five hundred yuan from his nephew for one purpose only: to sweet-talk Yunhai Shuku into going to watch the underground boxing match. Otherwise, a treat like this would never have put him in mind of Yunhai Shuku at all.
"No charge? A good thing like that just falls into my lap?" Yunhai Shuku was skeptical. "And even if it were free, you'd think of me?"
Yunhai Shuku was no fool. His dealings with the butcher were nothing more than casual acquaintance, and here the man had passed over everyone else to single him out. That struck Yunhai Shuku as odd.
"Ha! Didn't you mind my stall for me half a day just the other day? Sold a bit of meat for me too. So when a bit of good fortune comes my way, naturally the first person I think of is Brother Yunhai Shuku!" the butcher said with a laugh.
"Is that so!" Hearing him put it that way, Yunhai Shuku half believed him, though he still asked, a little uneasy, "You're sure it's free? I haven't a cent on me — my daughter Yu Yuanyuan took all my money home!"
"No money needed!" the butcher said, grinning. "Come on, you just have to show up!"
Only then did Yunhai Shuku set his mind at ease, and he went off with the butcher to watch the match.
Yunhai Shuku had still been uneasy at first, but once he and the butcher had entered the venue and taken their seats in the stands, he truly understood: not a single cent had been spent, and here he was, inside watching the fight.
With nothing left to worry about, Yunhai Shuku naturally fell to chatting with the butcher. "This boxing match — who's organizing it? Is it any good?"
"Ha! This is underground boxing — of course it's good! It's real man-to-man combat!" The butcher chuckled. "Those are fights to the death! Word is they absolutely won't stop until one of them is dead!"