Chapter 1792 — An Encounter on the Way, Part Two
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But a case like the present one, with Gu Mengyao declaring that her card held a million, was a first!
"Hand over the card, and I'll take a look before we discuss anything else!" the man in black said.
"Fine!" Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Mengyao passed him her bank card, then said, "The passcode is 5201..."
The moment she finished saying the passcode aloud, she felt strangely awkward. Xiao Shu had set it, and when Xiao Shu first told her, Gu Mengyao had seen nothing wrong with it. But now, speaking it out loud, she felt... as though the sound of those numbers resembled a certain phrase?
Gu Mengyao glanced guiltily toward Tang Zhi in the passenger seat.
"'I love Wei Zhao?'" Tang Zhi smiled. "What a coincidence... heh heh..."
Yet anyone could tell that there was a trace of bitterness in Tang Zhi's smile. It was only that, in a crisis like this, she could not afford to brood over such a thing.
"Xiao Shu was the one who set it..." Gu Mengyao did not even know why she felt the need to defend herself, but defend herself she did, and afterward she rather regretted it. It seemed the more she explained, the worse she made it sound.
"I was only joking to ease the tension a little, that's all..." Tang Zhi gave a faint smile, and the expression on her face returned to normal.
Of course, after the man in black took Gu Mengyao's bank card, he called the bank's balance inquiry line, and when he heard the balance of more than a million, the smile on his face twisted into a knot, blooming like a chrysanthemum: "It really is a million, ha ha! Baldy, you and I are rich!"
"Get out, get out! Let's see whether you've got other cards or money stashed away!" Hearing the man in black, Baldy was thrilled, yet still unsatisfied. He pounded on the car window all the harder. Greed knows no bounds, especially the greed of two robbers.
To their minds, no matter how much they took, it was never enough. Having done this once and taken so much money, they must have landed themselves in serious trouble; perhaps in the future they would have to wash their hands of it all and find some place to hide away. So they had to squeeze every last drop out of this job before they left!
Gu Mengyao had assumed they would leave once they had the card, but she never imagined that more than a million would not satisfy them! After all, that card held not only the million Gu Pengzhan had transferred to her before she left, but also tens of thousands in spending money. Was that still not enough? They wanted more?
"We don't have much money on us, only a few thousand. We've given you all our cards—you have to leave us something to live on, don't you?" There was a note of pleading in Gu Mengyao's voice... Ordinarily she was proud and haughty, but in this moment, to avoid any further complications, to reach Snow Valley one step sooner, the eldest young lady could only bow her proud head and humble herself before two robbers...
"A few thousand? Why don't we believe that? Get out of the car. If it really is only a few thousand, we won't take it!" said the bald man. With more than a million in hand, a few thousand was indeed nothing in their eyes.
As he spoke, the man in black was busy transferring the money by phone. He was afraid that once Gu Mengyao and the others left, the account would be frozen and they would be left without a single cent!
Gu Mengyao looked at Tang Zhi helplessly and said, at a loss: "Yunyun, what do we do now? I keep feeling that getting out of the car is a bad idea..."
"I... I don't know either..." Tang Zhi was equally at a loss. She realized that, without Wei Zhao at her side, she was so very weak! Before, with Wei Zhao beside her, whether they met assassins of the Blood-Clad Yellow Springs Sect on the road or faced humiliation and provocation in the Tang family, Wei Zhao had always smoothed it all over with ease. But now, without Wei Zhao, she felt utterly useless...