Chapter 297 - Meet a Racketeer

Chapter 297 Meet a Racketeer

“Well, aunt will come to see you and your grandmother when I am on a holiday.” Xia Yu suddenly decided to go to Xiejia Village with her cousin when they were on vacation, to see Jiangjiang and Uncle Xie who saved her.

“Will Dad come?” Jiangjiang asked. He missed his father very much and had many questions to ask him. Especially after returning with his grandmother, many people say that Shen Yan was not his father. His father was another man.

He once asked Grandma, but Grandma said that he had two fathers. Obviously, others had only one father. Why did he have two? Grandma failed to reply it. She only said that when he grew up, he would know the reason.

He thought that Dad could do anything. So he must know the answer.

Xia Yu glanced at Shen Yan who was driving and said to Jiangjiang. “I can’t answer you about this question, because you know that your father is very busy. It depends. If Dad has time, he will come.”

Xia Yu and Jiangjiang had been talking for a long time. Shen Yan noticed that he was mentioned. So he pointed at Xia Yu’s mobile phone to let her give it to him. He wanted to talk to Jiangjiang.

“Jiangjiang, hold on. Dad will talk to you!” Xia Yu said and then handed over the phone to Shen Yan.

“Jiangjiang, call Dad!” Shen Yan took the phone and said.

“Dad! I miss you so much. Do you miss Jiangjiang?” Hearing Shen Yan’s voice, Jiangjiang was quite excited.

“Of course, Dad certainly misses Jiangjiang.”

“You are lying. If you miss me, why do you send me to my grandmother? Take me home, ok? I want to be with Dad and my aunt.” Jiangjiang said a lot in one breath.

“Dad is busy. Besides, your grandmother is very lonely, and she needs Jiangjiang to accompany her.” Shen Yan said with a smile.

“But I still want to be with you. I don’t want to be with my grandmother.” Jiangjiang said and curled his lips.

Shen Yan said, “Jiangjiang is a man. You can’t say that, you know? Grandmother will be sad to hear it.”

“I know, I won’t say it to my grandmother.” Jiangjiang still didn’t want to be with his grandmother, although Grandmother liked him very much.

After chatting for a while, Xie Gendi came out with the medicine, Jiangjiang had to hang up. “Dad, I have to go back with my grandmother. Remember to come to see me.”

After repeating his wishes again and again, Jiangjiang gave the phone back to the nurse.

After Jiangjiang hung up, Shen Yan gave the phone to Xia Yu. When he was about to drive away, an old lame man in white hair suddenly rushed toward the car.

Shen Yan hurried to brake before the old man could reach the car. Instead, he fell to the ground.

But no one would expect that the old man stood up from the ground and rushed toward the car again.

Shen Yan immediately pulled the reverse gear and quickly backed the car, stepping on the accelerator. But the old man climbed up from the ground and ran towards the car. Shen Yan kept backing the car so fast that he could catch up with it. Then he shouted with his anger while chasing the car.

Shen Yan kept backing the car while the old man kept chasing. After a while, Shen Yan stopped because there was a car behind. He didn’t want to crash it.

The old man seemed to rush to the car finally, and he looked happy. Then he threw his body to the car and feigned falling to the ground with shouting. “Didn’t you see me? How could you hit such a big man! My legs are injured. And my waist gets hurt.”

A racketeer could be seen everywhere in daily life. But it was Xia Yu’s first time to experience it. She was stunned when she saw the old man.

Most of these tricks were operated by the hooligans who made a living on it. They bullied those ordinary people. Some of them who were unaware of these dirty tricks would meet a racketeer easily. If they paid money, those who were called the gangsters would let it go. Many people might say there was a difference between a gangster’s blackmailing and a racketeer’s feigning the injury.

And others might say that most of the racketeers were poor and miserable. They were either old or weak. Otherwise, who would be unwilling to play this dirty trick? But why didn’t people feel sympathy for the gangsters or terrorists? They were miserable, too. No one wanted to risk their lives to make a living.

A racketeer’s feigning the injury was no different from an extortion. They were just the hooligans and gangsters. When the hooligans met with acquaintances, most of them just asked him for protection fee. If someone was unwilling to pay money, they wouldn’t directly come to their houses to beat him when he or she was unfamiliar. Most of them caught the weakness of the person and threatened him. They would break the windows and smash the door of his or her house.

If someone dared to argue with the hooligans or retaliate, they would probably lie on the ground to feign the injury while people could only scold them. When the police came, would the police regard the innocent person as a victim, seeing them lying on the ground? Those people were lying on the ground to provide the evidence while he or she was fine and alive.

If someone wanted to take it to the court, the hooligans would keep harassing him and torturing him to death.

Most of the people who feigned the injury on the street were losers in their circle. Those old and fragile guys were scoundrels whom others didn’t dare to provoke. And others who were skillful at feigning the injury, made a fortune by the extortion and began messing around with women in their car. Nobody wanted to be a racketeer to feign the injury on the street because it was weary.

Don’t look down upon those old people who feigned the injury on the street. They were skilled at the extortion. Even the police had no effective ways to deal with them. People who were perseverant always had everlasting fortune. However, as for those who had properties and money, they were afraid of the police because they were reluctant to lose their cars, houses and women. If the police were hard on them, they would be punished severely.

As for those who feigned the injury on the street, they were unable to manage their money. No matter how much money they blackmailed for, it would be squandered quickly. And they would not have everlasting fortune. A poor and desperate person feared no one.

Did the police want to catch them and put them in jail? Well, it was not different from wasting the food of a nation. And these people would not be in jail for a long time because their crime was not severe. They might be probably more rampant after they came out of the jail. They had dealt with the jail and the police so many times. So they had nothing to be afraid of.

If some old people who were poor and homeless were too desperate to make a living by this. Well! Once they were finally caught by the police, people might criticize the police for showing no mercy to the grassroots.

In a word, they were a headache for the police.

Looking at the person crying and screaming desperately outside the window, Xia Yu was a little worried and nervous. She grasped Shen Yan’s hand. “Shen Yan, how unlucky we are! What should we do?”

“If the misfortune is coming, just let it come!” Shen Yan patted the back of Xia Yu’s hand and smiled. How weird! Recently, he was so unlucky with some unfortunate things coming to him incessantly as if he was cursed.

They sat in the car for quite a while, but the man was still crying and shouting. They had no way, but to open the door and go out.

In a short time, many people had come around. After all, most people liked to crowd to watch the traffic accidents like this.

“Damn it. I forgot to record the scene. How shameless it is! I have backed my car for such a long distance. He just catches up with it and throws himself into the car again. He simply is the best actor in feigning the injury and a miracle in his circle.”

Shen Yan looked to the side of the road. The man was skillful to find the blind spot to play his dirty trick.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you? You hit an old man so severely!” Seeing Shen Yan not find the security cameras after looking around, the old man’s eyes flashed with confidence and slyness. And he began crying again quickly.

“You don’t follow the traffic rules and deliberately hit my car. What can I do?” Shen Yan pointed to his forehead with his fingers. In such a circumstance, they would be delayed for a while.

“Do you have any sympathy? Seeing I am so painful like this, how should you blame me? It does no harm to drive slowly. If you were me, could you afford the hit of this big iron machine!” Seeing Shen Yan blame it on him, the old man was anxious and aggressive.

“You are determined to throw yourself to my car even though you know it is a big iron machine. You are so lucky because you can still talk now!” Shen Yan scornfully glanced at the old man sitting on the ground and said angrily.

“You, you…” The old man often played these dirty tricks. Usually, those drivers would be scared severely, and their heart would be pounding madly when they hit the old man. But as for Shen Yan, it took a long time for Shen Yan to get out of his car. After that, he accused him of not looking at the road carefully instead of asking where he got hurt.

People like them had become professional. They had their rhetoric and jargon. Once the driver opened their mouths, he just had his way to deal with him. But he didn’t expect Shen Yan would say that. He was stunned. There was no example like this in their jargon.

After a long time, he remembered to take advantage of the sympathy of the surrounding onlookers. Then he cried again. “Everyone listens to him. How can he say that? Does an old man deserve to be hit?”

“You are hit to be hurt. It is you who deserve it, not me.” Shen Yan also rolled up his eyes at the old man.

His words annoyed the onlookers.

“Young man, it is not a big deal that you drive a car!”

“That’s it. You are supposed to apologize to him and send him to the hospital at least if you hit him.”

“Looking at the famous brands on him, he must be a senior white-collar worker. Is this his moral?”

Although they didn’t know the truth, most of them thought the driver was too careless to hit the old man.

Since he annoyed all the people, Shen Yan had to take out three hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to the old man.

But he didn’t expect that the old man grabbed the money and put it into his pocket immediately, keeping sitting there and crying.

Shen Yan frowned and lost his temper. He had backed his car for such a long distance, but the old man kept running over to the car. He failed to feign the injury indeed. Anyway, he had a driving recorder in his car. So, he didn’t fear the old man if he made a fuss.

With some other things to do, Shen Yan didn’t want to waste time on this. Although he did nothing wrong, he was generous to give the man several hundred yuan to comfort him. However, the old man kept harassing him. “Listen, why don’t you take the money and leave now? Don’t go too far!”

The old man kept making trouble out of nothing and scolded. “Bastard! You hit an old man so severely like this. And you just accuse me of going too far!”

Then the old man grabbed a brick and smashed it toward the car directly. Immediately, a dent was made on the new car. Then the brick bounced off on the car hood and nearly smash the shielding window, which scared Xia Yu to get out of the car.

Shen Yan got angry, too. The man had gone too far! How shameless he was!

Especially when he saw Xia Yu getting out from the car in a panic, he was provoked. So, he grabbed the old man’s clothes and lifted him up as if he lifted a chicken. “Enough is enough!”

Seeing that Shen Yan wanted to beat him, the old man rolled up his sleeves and prepared to fight with him.

He tried to slap Shen Yan’s face, but Shen Yan just hid himself from it. Then the old man shouted with discontent. “You are rich, so what? And you have a car, so what?”

This old man was so strong and arrogant. Besides, what he did showed that he was not injured at all. The onlookers who came first felt surprised at it and began whispering.