Chapter 1093 — Debt Collectors at the Door
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
In the past, though the family was poor and every day wore them out, however bitter and exhausting life was, the evenings when they all sat down together for dinner, with Father sipping a little wine and watching television, were the happiest hours of the day. But now, when he drank, he only sighed and drowned his sorrows, with none of the old pleasure left in it.
"Alas!" Yunhai Shuku sighed again. He did not know how to tell his daughter.
"Dad, what is the matter with you? If something is on your mind, just say it. I am your daughter. Whatever trouble there is, we will bear it together!" Yu Yuanyuan sat down sensibly beside her father.
"Yuanyuan, I have wronged you, and I have wronged your mother!" Yunhai Shuku could hold back no longer and was ready to tell the truth. Today was the final deadline, and tonight Little Mule would likely bring his men to collect the debt. By then, even if he wanted to hide it, he could hide it no longer.
"Dad, why are you suddenly saying this? How have you wronged me and Mom?" Yu Yuanyuan froze for a moment and looked at her father in confusion.
Yunhai Shuku's wife worked by the hour, and tonight she had gone to a rich family's house to work as a nanny, so she was not at home. Only father and daughter, Yunhai Shuku and Yu Yuanyuan, were in the house.
"Yuanyuan, I was tricked into betting on fights and lost five hundred thousand..." Yunhai Shuku lowered his head and said gloomily.
"What? Dad, what did you say? You lost five hundred thousand?" Yu Yuanyuan stared with wide eyes and looked at her father in disbelief. "Dad, you must be joking? Where would our family ever get five hundred thousand?"
"Our family does not have five hundred thousand. If we did, I would not be so worried! That five hundred thousand was a high-interest loan I borrowed from the fight club..." Yunhai Shuku said with a bitter face, utterly dejected.
"Dad, what exactly happened? How could you go and borrow from loan sharks?" Yu Yuanyuan was astonished. In her eyes, her father had always been an honest, good man with no gambling habit. How could he have lost five hundred thousand all at once? There had to be something hidden behind it.
"Alas... it is a long story..." Since Yunhai Shuku had opened his mouth, he did not mean to conceal anything, so he told his daughter Yu Yuanyuan the whole story from beginning to end, how he had gone to the underground boxing ring, how he had been tempted into borrowing money to place bets, and how he had lost everything down to his last coin.
"Dad, these people running underground black boxing are breaking the law! And betting on fights is illegal too. We can call the police. Once we report them, I am sure the police will round them all up in one sweep, and then you will not have to pay the money back!" Although Yu Yuanyuan was only a working girl, she understood the law and knew that both underground black boxing and organizing gambling were illegal.
"Yuanyuan, that idea of yours is far too naive!" Yunhai Shuku waved his hand and shook his head. "If I dared to call the police, would I still be sighing like this? They are an organization, not one man. They are ruthless, they kill without blinking! When someone dies, the body is dragged straight out to feed the crocodiles. There is nothing they will not do. If we report them, yes, the police could smash their underground ring, but what about us? Their organization would never let our whole family go!"
"But..." Young as Yu Yuanyuan was, hearing her father's words she understood the sense of it. This underground ring did not exist on its own. Behind it stood an even larger organization. Even if the ring were wiped out, as long as that organization remained, her family would never know peace again.
Moreover, from her father's words she could tell that these men were all cold-blooded demons who would surely come for revenge.