Free Web NovelChapter 523: Chapter 519: Old Nine’s Bad Luck
"Serves him right."
"Old Nine has done so many disgusting things. Breaking his arms and legs is just karma. It’s what they call ’what goes around, comes around.’"
Lu Yuanbin didn’t feel the slightest bit of sympathy for Old Nine.
The guy had no bottom line and no principles. It was only a matter of time before something happened to him; it had just come sooner than expected.
If it was really that Fierce Ghost, he felt like he would have to burn some incense and thank it.
His underling nodded in agreement.
"It does serve him right. All of Old Nine’s men are terrified now. Plus, they’ve been collecting stall fees really aggressively at the black market lately."
The stall fee at Lu Yuanbin’s section of the black market was twenty cents per person. Sometimes, if someone didn’t have much to sell, he’d just charge them ten cents. Old Nine’s side had always been thirty cents.
Lately, he’d gotten even more ruthless, raising the price to fifty cents per person.
Many people only earned about eighty cents to a yuan from their sales, and the stall fee alone was fifty cents. A lot of them stopped going.
Now, everyone is grumbling with discontent.
Lu Yuanbin had long expected things to get chaotic at that black market, but he never thought Old Nine would suddenly have an accident.
"Brother Leng, what do we do now?"
Leng Yuan looked at the underling who brought the news and asked, "Besides all this, has anything else unusual happened with Old Nine’s crew? For example, did anything happen recently, or did he meet anyone strange?"
The underling scratched his head.
"Well, there was the incident with their facial soap. And I think Old Nine met with the person who makes that facial soap today."
Facial soap!
Gu Jiaojiao was startled. She and Leng Yuan turned their heads at the same time, their eyes meeting. They clearly had a suspect in mind.
Gu Jiaojiao had learned to make facial soap from a future era; it shouldn’t even exist at this time. The only other person who could make it was her book-transmigrator cousin.
And that cousin of hers had a system that absorbed other people’s luck. It was highly likely that Xu Wenwan had drained the luck from Old Nine and his two men.
"Which hospital is Old Nine in right now? I want to go take a look."
Leng Yuan had the same idea.
The underling happened to know. Old Nine had been sent to Ankang Hospital in the county.
The four of them went together to Ankang Hospital. After finding out which room Mr. Jiu was in, Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao went inside.
As for Lu Yuanbin and the underling, Mr. Jiu’s men recognized them, so it wasn’t wise for them to show their faces.
Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao went up to the inpatient department on the second floor, walked in, and found Old Nine’s room. No one else was inside.
Few people were hospitalized at the moment, so Old Nine was alone. His other two men were in the adjacent room.
Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan walked in. Old Nine was still on an IV drip. His face was ashen, and with his eyes shut tight, he looked asleep.
Ignoring his actual injuries, just looking at Old Nine’s appearance, you would think he was suffering from some major illness.
But she had asked the nurse: he had only broken his arm and leg. He had no other wounds, and his test results came back normal.
’The only explanation, then, is that his luck was drained, and his body couldn’t handle the sudden shock. That’s why his complexion is so awful.
Luck most directly affects one’s spirit, and the state of one’s spirit is most easily reflected in the space between the eyebrows.
If the space between a person’s eyebrows is dark, it means their spirit is weak and they are easily dazed. People like this are the most prone to accidents.
If a person’s forehead is full, rosy, and bright, you can tell at a glance that they are full of vigor. Such a person’s mind is focused, their senses are sharp, and their reflexes are quick. Even if they encounter an accident, they can react swiftly.
Generally speaking, the former is more prone to accidents, while the latter is less so. Then there’s another type, where the entire face turns dark, not just the forehead. This usually signifies that the person is plagued by bad luck.’
And right now, Old Nine’s entire face was a dark, bluish-black.
