Chapter 91

Calling a traffic warden "officer" was a huge compliment. The warden's face had been as gloomy as if his wife had given him a dozen green hats, but upon hearing Lu Xin's respectful address, his expression improved slightly. However, he still remembered the money he would get later, so he sized up Lu Xin. From Lu Xin's simple attire, he deduced that this was a recent university graduate who had just started working at Sanjiang Group, with no background and easy to bully. He sneered, "You hit someone and broke their ancestral Jingdezhen furnace, of course you have to pay compensation!"

Lu Xin narrowed his eyes and gave him a cold glance. The warden had not yet talked to Wugui Cang and Wang Yigen to understand the situation, yet he claimed that Lu Xin had broken the ancestral Jingdezhen furnace. Clearly, they had colluded.

Lu Xin, realizing the situation, came up with a plan to deal with these scoundrels. He chuckled, "Since the officer said so, I'll admit it. You want 50,000 yuan, right? But the lottery ticket I won has to be taxed, so it won't be 50,000 yuan. Wouldn't you be at a loss then?"

The three of them said in unison, "It's fine, we don't mind!"

Lu Xin narrowed his eyes and gave the warden a faint look, "What's it to you? You say you don't mind!"

Wugui Cang glared fiercely at the warden, signaling him not to reveal the plan.

The warden quickly clarified, "I mean they don't mind."

Of course, they didn't mind. Spending a few dozen yuan to buy a censer and extorting over 40,000 yuan, each of them could get over 10,000 yuan.

Lu Xin still had an innocent smile, "It's a bit embarrassing to let you lose money. How about this, my sister is rich. I'll have her bring the money. She can still come up with 50,000 yuan."

The three of them exchanged glances. They didn't think this young man could cause any trouble, so they nodded, "Alright, call your sister and have her bring the money!"

Lu Xin picked up his phone and called Shen Yifei, the deputy captain of the Sanjiang District Criminal Investigation Team, "Sis, I have some good news. I won 50,000 yuan playing the scratch-off lottery."

Shen Yifei was on duty at the police station today. Her superiors, considering her as the niece of Vice Mayor Shen Yazhou, treated her like a precious daughter and never let her take any risks. They never assigned her to any criminal cases, always keeping her in the office. Shen Yifei, who had graduated from the police academy with the ambition to solve major cases, was stuck in the office, feeling extremely frustrated.

More than a year after graduation, she had only solved three cases, two of which were given to her by Lu Xin. One involved three thugs under Zhou Yi attempting to rape Li Lu, and the other was Chen Zhenpeng's motorcycle robbery of Zhou Ya's platinum diamond necklace. These two cases had made Shen Yifei feel quite proud, as the overall public security was good, and it was hard to encounter significant cases. Solving two cases was still a decent achievement for a police officer.

While idly sitting in the office, Shen Yifei suddenly received a call from Lu Xin, feeling extremely excited. She thought this guy was bringing her another opportunity for credit. However, when she heard Lu Xin say he had won the lottery, her excitement waned, and she lazily replied, "What does your winning have to do with me? Are you going to share some with me?"

In front of Wugui Cang and the others, Lu Xin couldn't be too explicit to avoid alerting them, so he laughed, "Sis, I just won 50,000 yuan from the lottery. I hadn't walked far when I hit someone and broke their Xuande furnace. That Xuande furnace is an antique, worth at least 100,000 yuan at auction. They saw I was a recent graduate and felt sorry for me, so they only asked for 50,000 yuan. Could you bring 50,000 yuan over?"

Shen Yifei, though tough-looking, was quite perceptive. She immediately understood the situation from Lu Xin's words—those people were trying to extort him.

She became excited. Lu Xin was really good, bringing her another opportunity for credit.

She quickly called a few on-duty detectives and rushed to the Sanjiang Group's single-employee apartment.

While waiting for Shen Yifei to arrive, Lu Xin chatted with the three men, subtly probing their situation and trying to keep them calm.

From the conversation, Lu Xin learned that the warden was named Ni Ma Ke, a descendant of an old employee of Sanjiang Group. After graduating from a technical school, he benefited from the preferential policy for old employees' children and entered the hard alloy materials factory as a maintenance worker. Once, he encountered an imported component with all English instructions. After struggling for a long time, he couldn't understand the name and reported the first four letters—f-u-c-k—as the name, causing a huge embarrassment. He earned the nickname "F*ck Ni." Later, someone thought "F*ck Ni Ma" was more suitable, and whenever Ni Ma Ke appeared, people would call him "F*ck Ni Ma."

Strangely, after Ni Ma Ke got this nickname, his mother, who had been virtuous for the past twenty years, started giving his father a lot of green hats. His mother, Ma Chunlan, was well-preserved and looked over a decade younger than his father. Once a beautiful woman in her thirties started having affairs, she was unstoppable. Ni Ma Ke noticed more and more strange uncles coming to their house, and a few times, he saw young men, younger than him, leaving his mother's bedroom satisfied.

After the big embarrassment, Ni Ma Ke couldn't stay at the factory anymore. His father used connections to get him a job as a traffic warden at the Hetang Police Station near Sanjiang Group. If Ni Ma Ke had put in a bit more effort, he could have passed the civil service exam and become a regular police officer. However, he was not the type for that. He would fall asleep reading civil service exam materials and ended up being a traffic warden at thirty. Because he often colluded with Wugui Cang and Wang Yigen to extort money from clients visiting Sanjiang Group, public anger was high, and the police station almost fired him. In the end, they kept him due to his father's connections, but he still didn't reform and continued to mix with Wugui Cang and Wang Yigen.

Ni Ma Ke, Wugui Cang, and Wang Yigen surrounded Lu Xin to prevent him from escaping. They watched him warily while chatting aimlessly.

Lu Xin's phone buzzed with a text message. He opened it to see a message from Shen Yifei: "I'm almost there. Give them your lottery ticket first to establish the fact of extortion."

Shen Yifei's actions were against regulations, but she deleted the message after sending it. Lu Xin also deleted it after reading it, so Wugui Cang and the others had no way of knowing.