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The car drove smoothly on the road. The experienced driver, Su Xiaoqiang, held the steering wheel with one hand, keeping an eye on the road ahead, while also thinking about how to punish that jerk.
Actually, she wasn't that angry. It was just that she had finally gotten hold of her future husband's weakness, and it would be too boring not to use it for some fun.
The car quickly turned onto a one-way street, a shortcut that Su Xiaoqiang had driven many times, but the road conditions were rather complicated, so he deliberately kept his speed down.
This road is a well-known late-night food street in the area, with many mobile stalls, many illegally parked cars on both sides, and bicycles riding against traffic. Every now and then, people peek out from between the parked cars.
That means Su Xiaoqiang is a seasoned veteran; if it were a newbie like Liu Miaomiao, she would have taken a detour long ago.
Su Xiaoqiang composed herself, placed her other hand on the steering wheel, and focused her attention on the road conditions.
Suddenly, an old man in his fifties peeked out from between the illegally parked cars on the right.
Su Xiaoqiang reacted very quickly and immediately stepped on the brakes.
She was driving at a little over 20 kilometers per hour, and because the car was in good condition, she was able to stop it with a single stomp of the brakes.
But just as she came to a stop, the elderly man in front of her also fell down in front of her car, shouting, "Ouch, I hit someone! It hurts so much!"
Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to unbuckle her seatbelt and get out of the car to check the situation.
Because the distance between them was rather ambiguous, she wasn't sure if they had bumped into each other.
But Gu Ran pressed down on the back of her hand, preventing her from unfastening her seatbelt, and whispered, "It's a staged accident."
Liu Miaomiao was in the passenger seat because she could see more clearly from the right: "It's a staged accident; it's obvious there was no collision."
Hearing this, Su Xiaoqiang didn't rush to get out of the car. Instead, she shook off Gu Ran's hand that had tried to touch her, glaring at him with her alluring eyes, as if to say:
Have we made up? Why are you touching my hand like that!
Gu Ran smiled slightly; her glaring expression was quite cute.
Su Xiaoqiang looked up at the dashcam in the car. It was a high-definition dashcam that was installed when she bought the car. It was a high-end product from Japan, and it cost more than five thousand yuan these days. In this era, most drivers would not be willing to install it.
Because of the incident of "Why did you help if you didn't hit him?", the first thing Liu Miaomiao's family did after buying a car was to install a dashcam, so that their daughter wouldn't suffer any losses in Shanghai and they wouldn't bother arguing with people.
A dashcam has a higher shooting angle, so it will definitely capture everything clearly, whether there was a collision or not.
Just as Su Xiaoqiang was wondering whether to call the police, a man and two women suddenly darted out from the roadside and surrounded Su Xiaoqiang's car.
A man knocked on the car window where Su Xiaoqiang was sitting. Su Xiaoqiang frowned and was about to roll down the window when Gu Ran pressed down on her shoulder.
Gu Ran said, "I'm worried about you. Don't talk to him. Let me handle this."
Su Xiaoqiang looked up at him through the rearview mirror, then smiled and sat still, a warm feeling welling up in her heart.
That's true, with him around, she doesn't need to worry about these things.
"Hurry up and finish this, I need to go back to shower and look at the PPT." Su Xiaoqiang felt warm inside, but said it with a proud tone.
Liu Miaomiao, who was standing to the side, turned her head to look at her and saw the smile on her face. She knew perfectly well that the woman was secretly pleased.
"Understood, my dear wife!"
Gu Ran rolled down the car window and leaned out, saying, "Uncle, I have a dashcam in my car. It clearly shows whether there was a collision or not. You can all go home now..."
The middle-aged man seemed not to have heard Gu Ran's words clearly and shouted, "What dashcam? I don't know anything about it. I only know you hit someone! Pay up, 100,000!"
Gu Ran was stunned for a moment before realizing that dashcams were not common these days, and many people did not go online or have access to information, so they did not know what a dashcam was.
Later, dashcams became a must-have for drivers. As soon as someone in the car said they had a dashcam, scammers would immediately start faking accidents.
The man in front of me is asking for 100,000 yuan right off the bat; he seems to be a habitual con artist who tries to scam people.
Seeing that Gu Ran remained silent, the middle-aged man assumed he was still hesitating. To put pressure on him, he immediately shouted, "Oh no! Someone's been hit! A rich man in a luxury car has hit someone and isn't even getting out to check. Is he trying to run away? Everyone come quick! A rich girl has hit someone and is trying to run away without taking responsibility. Come and judge this for us!"
Two months ago, a young man surnamed Yao hit someone with his car. Instead of helping the person immediately after getting out of the car, he took out a knife and stabbed the person to death before fleeing the scene.
This case was extremely heinous and known throughout the country, instantly stirring up resentment towards the wealthy among the Chinese people.
So the middle-aged man's shouting quickly attracted a lot of people who pointed and stared at the Audi A4.
The old man who was originally lying in front of the car kept groaning in pain, trying to gain the sympathy of those around him.
There were also two women from the staged accident gang who kept crying to those around them, saying how fast the car had been going and how it had broken the old man's leg...
Seeing that the crowd's emotions had been stirred up, the middle-aged man immediately gave Gu Ran a smug look, preparing to continue asking him for money.
But when he stared into Gu Ran's eyes, he suddenly became completely absorbed and couldn't pull himself out.
After completing the hypnosis, Gu Ran withdrew his Sharingan and calmly ordered the middle-aged man: "Go, first slap your accomplices who are still gossiping twice, then slap yourself twice and confess your crime of staging an accident."
The man nodded, immediately went over, grabbed a middle-aged woman who had come with him, and slapped her twice hard, once with the front hand and once with the back hand.
Then he grabbed another middle-aged woman and slapped her twice as well.
The old man lying on the ground was stunned, not knowing what he was up to, when he was grabbed by the collar and slapped twice.
“Are you crazy!” one of the women yelled at him incredulously.
"Hello everyone, please listen to me. Actually, I'm a professional staged accident scammer. Originally, we only set up accidents on Chongming Island, but the people there don't have much money, so we came to the city center..."
Chapter 343 Love each other as a family
The middle-aged man, addressing the onlookers, loudly confessed: "Those two women, one is my wife, and the other is my sister. They are my perfect partners for staged accidents!"
"You, you're crazy! What nonsense are you spouting!" The middle-aged man's wife went over and covered his mouth.
Little did he know, Gu Ran's hypnosis had given him a death order, so he bit her hand hard, and she cried out in pain before immediately letting go.
The middle-aged man began to honestly confess his crimes, leaving not only his accomplices stunned, but also the onlookers around him.
Good heavens, who would stage an accident and then confess their crime instead of trying to extort money from the victim?
The onlookers were completely baffled by this family. What were they after?
"Why did they suddenly stop faking accidents?" Liu Miaomiao wondered, watching from inside the car.
"Maybe he suddenly had a change of heart," Su Xiaoqiang said casually.
She had witnessed Gu Ran's hypnosis techniques, so of course she knew what was going on.
However, he never used hypnosis on her.
As for what happened this morning, he could have gotten away with it simply by hypnotizing her; there was no need to explain so much to her.
She understood that it was because he loved her and therefore didn't want to hide it from her.
The two had talked about this a long time ago. They said that people in love should be sincere. This sincerity has two meanings: loyalty and honesty.
"Silly girl," Su Xiaoqiang sweetly scolded in her heart.
The farce outside the car continued, with the middle-aged man continuing his confession to the onlookers: "It's great to stage accidents in the city! There are so many people driving luxury cars. Actually, I noticed this car as soon as it entered the intersection. It was an Audi A4, a luxury car, and the driver was a young guy. He must be scared, so I immediately arranged for my dad to stage an accident..."
"Enough! Haven't you gone crazy enough?!" The old man who had been lying on the ground got up; he couldn't lie still anymore.
The old man was so angry that he was blowing his beard and glaring, completely losing face!
The middle-aged man said, "The one lying under the ground is my dad. He's the best actor, so we often have him hit the car. He's perfectly fine, no problem at all. My dad had an affair with an old widow in the village when he was eighteen, and that's how I got me. So I also have an older brother who's the same age as my dad!"
The onlookers burst into laughter upon hearing this, and the air was filled with a joyful atmosphere.
Several vendors with pushcarts seemed to have spotted a business opportunity and started promoting sunflower seeds, peanuts, beer, and bottled water.
"Anyone need sunflower seeds, peanuts, preserved plums, or drinks? Special prices! Essential for watching the show!"
When the old man heard his son talk about his past with the widow, his face immediately turned red. He jumped up in anger and gave the middle-aged man a flying kick: "Are you possessed?" It is said that the past should not be mentioned again, especially since this was not a glorious thing in his life.
Everyone saw that the old man was agile and unharmed, which contradicted the fact that the two women had said his leg was broken.
Thus, the previously unaware crowd was now certain that the group had indeed staged an accident, and Su Xiaoqiang and the others were exonerated.
However, they didn't understand what was wrong with this middle-aged man.
Why would someone who staged a legitimate accident admit to it?
Could it be that I've really been possessed by an evil spirit?
Those around them felt that something was strange, and it was hard not to speculate that it was supernatural or superstitious.
The middle-aged man continued, "Do you guys know how many deals we've made? We've made six this month, and each time we manage to scam ten or eight thousand yuan. We earn way more than you lowly laborers!"
"Enough!" the old man snapped, glaring at his daughter and daughter-in-law. "Take him away right now!"
The middle-aged man's sister, who was about thirty years old, grabbed his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go!"
For some reason, the middle-aged man started gossiping about his family again: "Oh, right, my sister isn't married yet, but she has someone she likes. I once saw her sleep with a widow's son, who's about the same age as my dad... My sister and I don't share the same mother, so she and my brother aren't related by blood. Legally, they can get married, but ethically, their relationship would look bad if word got out, especially since my dad is a very proud man... I once threatened to tell my dad about their relationship, and if he didn't want it exposed, he'd give me a thousand yuan as hush money..."
Those around were stunned by what they heard. The amount of information in the statement was overwhelming, and it took many people a while to figure out their relationship. There was indeed no problem with their blood ties.
The younger sister, holding her brother's hand, was stunned after hearing these words. She first glanced at her father and found him staring at her with wide eyes, but he too was stunned.
"You...you! You scoundrel!" The old father was so angry that he went over and slapped his daughter.
This relationship was truly a mess.
The young woman broke down and released her middle-aged brother's hand, crying out, "You, you said you'd never say another word after taking the money! You, you, you're crazy, you liar!"
The woman in her thirties was incoherent, covered her face and quickly ran away, squeezing out of the crowd of onlookers, too ashamed to face anyone again.
Seeing this, the onlookers kept jeering, "Oh, Wuhu!"
That's how people who enjoy watching a spectacle are; they always seem to thrive on chaos.
Gu Ran in the car was stunned. He didn't think he had asked him to say so much. How come he seemed to have opened up and confessed to other crimes as well?
Outside, it took the old man a while to come to his senses, and he almost lost his balance.
He glanced at his son and knew he must have been possessed by an evil spirit today. Could there be a deity nearby?
The old man suddenly turned around and glanced at the three young people in the car. Throughout the entire incident, none of the people in the car got off. Looking through the car window, the two girls sitting in the front were calm and composed, not taking these people who were trying to stage an accident seriously at all.
The old man immediately realized that he had probably bitten off more than he could chew and had offended someone he shouldn't have.
"Have you gone crazy enough?!" At this moment, the middle-aged man's wife went over and pulled him away.
"Oh, by the way, my wife is actually having an affair. I know all about it, and I also know that my son isn't my son, but I pretended not to know. I went to her lover and threatened him to give me five thousand yuan every month, or I would expose this. He's a good person on the surface and is often on TV, so... he had no choice but to obediently give me the money!" The middle-aged man revealed a smug expression.
The middle-aged man's wife was stunned. Her mouth gaped open, and she stammered, "You, how can you slander me like this? I, I, I didn't cheat on you, I..."
She didn't know what she was saying. Suddenly, she looked up at the people around her and noticed that their gazes contained contempt, disgust, disdain, loathing, discrimination... all kinds of looks.
It seemed like everyone was saying, 'That woman is shameless!'
Having gone through so much all night, with her husband constantly exploding like a self-destructing truck, she was extremely nervous.
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