The gold can't just be sold in large quantities to pawn shops, and Lin Li didn't want to take the risk of drawing attention—actually, so far, Lin Li had never sold gold to the sa pawn shop twice.
Spending fifty thousand on what wasn't even a guaranteed one-eighth progress on the task, Lin Li thought it wasn't worth it.
To step back a bit, sure, the security on Old Friend Road was better, but the task area was Nansang. If things got too tough, Lin Li could just go fishing in another town in Nansang over a weekend where the security was worse.
"Na your price then," Li Sheng gritted his teeth and said.
Lin Li held up four fingers.
"Four hundred?!" Li Sheng was sowhat agitated, widening his eyes: "Little brother, you're sowhat insulting here."
Lin Li: "?"
Is cutting fifty thousand to four hundred only sowhat insulting?
This base price seems a bit low, huh.
But Lin Li was in no mood to push this man further, shaking his head: "Four thousand."
Upon hearing this number, Li Sheng's expression improved significantly, but then he furrowed his brows, shook his head, and after clicking his tongue twice, he asked Lin Li earnestly:
"Buddy, do you know what's most important when you're out here in the mix?"
Lin Li: "To be out here."
This question had been asked by Bai Bufan once before, so Lin Li naturally could answer instantly.
Li Sheng: "..."
"It's about loyalty and faithfulness! Don't you know that those guys are actually my dearly beloved ones, my blood brothers..." Li Sheng had "add money" written all over his face.
But Lin Li just shook his head calmly: "That's the amount, my budget."
"Co on, add a bit, four fingers sound too little and unpleasant, round it off, add one more finger, I'll give you a ten percent discount, okay?" Li Sheng extended his palm, bargaining.
"Absolutely no way." But Lin Li was unusually firm.
"Why?"
"Because five fingers won't do."
Stool, Li Sheng: "..."
"Four thousand five, that's my limit. If you don't accept, we'll pretend we never t, and I'll leave." Seeing the other party's silence, Lin Li made a suitable concession.
"... Alright, alright." After a mont of silence, Li Sheng reluctantly waved his hand and sighed:
"I have a buddy who used to work in the underworld, super poor back then, later got caught and spent several years inside, now he's out, washed his hands clean and ended up getting rich."
Lin Li didn't know why he suddenly ntioned this, nor was he interested, so he didn't respond.
But it was the stool sitting behind Li Sheng's car who beca curious upon hearing: "How did he make money?"
Li Sheng: "He glanced at the wanted list occasionally and realized he knew them all."
Stool: "(;☉_☉)?"
F*ck, is this how you make money?
"When I found out, I got jealous, so I ca to you guys to do this business, to be a traitor, an undercover," Li Sheng's eyebrows drooped slightly in dissatisfaction: "Who would've known, all I could earn was four thousand five, can't make a fortune at all..."
"Bro, why don't you have your buddies deal drugs and kill, fatten them up and then slaughter them?" The stool remained silent for a mont before jokingly suggesting.
"I advised them, but they're all scared, not one dared." Li Sheng shook his head regretfully.
"Screw you?! Bro, you actually tried to talk them into it?" The stool jumped out of the car, taking several steps back.
That truly was making friends with the wrong people!
"So, are you doing this deal or not?" Lin Li calmly asked Li Sheng, ignoring his discontent.
"Deal, deal, deal," Li Sheng nodded, four thousand five it is, "How do you want the money, Alipay, WeChat, or bank account?"
"Any way works."
"Then WeChat, WeChat, here, scan ." Li Sheng pulled out his phone, showed the paynt code, not forgetting to be cautious: "This money should be clean, not dirty money."
Lin Li didn't move, but shook his head: "First, the money is definitely clean, but I won't give it now. I don't know if the information you've provided is useful, I'm not familiar with you nor do I want to be.
I'll give you the money first thing once I confirm that your information is useful and the bastards have been caught."
Lin Li indeed didn't trust this Brother Sheng.
"But I'm not familiar with you, kid," Li Sheng responded with so dissatisfaction, the night's transaction hadn't had a single satisfying mont, his voice rising slightly:
"Who knows if you'll still give the money after taking the information?
What if you guys take the info, catch the people, and don't pay ? I get nothing?
No way, it's got to be money for information."
The two looked at each other, neither showing any sign of concession.
"How about this, buddy." But Lin Li had a solution, for they weren't the only ones there.
Lin Li looked at the stool.
"Don't we have the stool as our bridge, our interdiary?
I'll transfer the four thousand five directly to the stool now, then you give the information. Once my goal is achieved, the stool will transfer all the money to you, this way it should be acceptable for both of us?"
"You know the stool, so you should know so information about him, which school he's from."
"Anyway, if in the end the money isn't paid to you, you can't find but you can go to his school and ambush him, then beat him half to death."
"Similarly, if the information is wrong and I find out you two colluded to scam , I can also go to his school and ambush him, then beat him half to death."
"If the information is useful but you didn't get the money, and he scams both of us, we can go to his school and ambush him together, then beat him half to death."
"How's that?"
Stool: "(;☉_☉)?"
Although the words are rough, the reasoning isn't off, this was actually my idea as the interdiary, but Brother Bufan, are your words possibly too violent?
Why is it that no matter what, I'm always half dead?
"Alright." Li Sheng thought for a few seconds, then nodded, accepting the proposal.
Lin Li imdiately took out his phone and, right before Li Sheng's eyes, transferred four thousand five to the stool.
"You can tell now, right?" Lin Li nodded slightly.
"Alright," Li Sheng nodded, "The place they're planning to rob is FS District, building 4, a hoowner nad Zhang Wenbing, they've already gotten the house key, planning the action for Wednesday early morning since they've scoped out that no one is ho during that ti..."
Li Sheng calmly shared the intel he knew, finally saying:
"Little brother, if you want to catch them in the act, go past midnight, around one, and stay low, also, if you want to provide more information in the future, just act like you're passing by, don't be too deliberate, lest you get found out and bla being betrayed."
"If you don't catch them live, you can co back for more details on them and catch them, ensuring your money's worth."
"Got it, I'll rember everything." Lin Li nodded with a smile.
This task had been hanging in the task bar for a long ti, finally, there's progress.
"Then, happy cooperation?" Li Sheng extended his hand.
"Happy cooperation." Lin Li shook hands with Li Sheng.
"Hope you two aren't playing , or I'll surely beat the stool half to death." Li Sheng exerted slight pressure.
"Hope you two aren't conspiring to scam either, or I'll also beat the stool half to death." Lin Li smiled, nodding.
Stool: "..."
Co on, here we go again.
I don't get a part in the handshake, but I'm the one getting hit?
The stool covered both hands with his: "Cooperation will be pleasant, will be pleasant, people, violence can't solve all problems, no need, let's profit harmoniously, profit harmoniously—"
The three withdrew their hands.
"Violence can solve all problems, fists are truth, solving them just ans the fists aren't big enough." Li Sheng, mixed in the society, was sowhat dismissive of the stool's earlier words.
And Lin Li, who was preparing to leave, upon hearing, looked at Li Sheng with a slightly contemptuous expression:
"Buddy, what if a mosquito lands on your balls."
Li Sheng, Stool: "(;☉_☉)?"
The stool looked at Li Sheng at this point.
"..."
"..."
Li Sheng's gaze suddenly turned clear:
"Hmm, violence can't solve all problems, Brother Bufan, you make a good point!"
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