Pan Lei and others gathered around with concern, asking what happened and whether they wanted to rest today and accept challenges from various anchors in the afternoon or tomorrow.
The more they cared about him, the more Long Xiaochuan felt sorry for them.
He waved his hand: "I'm fine, I can hold on!"
In fact, what he was thinking was: "Yu Yan is right. If I really can't go all the way with you, I will try my best to help make the two video accounts bigger and stronger. This can be regarded as leaving a way out for everyone.
Brother, let me explain..."
Luo Gaozhan took out yesterday's registration list and continued to go down in order until the person whose name was called came on stage.
In fact, after the success of Jiangye's attack yesterday, many people no longer have such a strong desire to challenge. Even if they want to challenge, they hope that their opponent will be the more powerful Long Zaiyuan, not Long Xiaochuan who has been pulled down from the altar.
These people stay here more to gain popularity, or to see if Yu Yan will do another live broadcast, because the female cadre is so powerful, and every account gained a large number of fans yesterday afternoon.
Yu Yan also knows what everyone is thinking. In fact, she does not plan to broadcast live today. The villagers in Leizhai have poor financial resources. Yesterday afternoon's live broadcast has already emptied many families of their daily necessities. There will be nothing to sell if it is broadcast again.
But she chose not to say anything, and continued to exploit each other to the end, trying to attract as many fans as possible to the main account of "Leizhai Five Little Strong", so as to prevent Lei Zhai from being beaten back to its original form after many anchors left.
Long Xiaochuan cooperated tacitly, accepted the one-on-one challenge, met all the fans' requests, dunked on dunks and three-pointers on three-pointers, and tried his best to promote the account "Leizhai Five Little Strong".
It was about ten o'clock in the morning, they had just played the third game, when two groups of strangers came to Lei Village, causing a commotion next to the stadium.
There were six people in the first wave, all green-skinned gangsters with big gold chains and small watches. The leader had a sinister face. He acted like a big brother as soon as he arrived, pushing and cursing people and asking them to come out to meet Yu Zhengyi.
When Pan Lei, Sun Changxing and others heard that the other party was looking for Lao Yu, they all looked at Luo Gaozhan at a loss: "Why are they looking for Lao Yu?"
"Damn it, how could I know!"
"Aren't you in the same group?"
In the eyes of most people, all those in mixed society are the same group of people, and tattoos on their arms are their unifying feature.
Luo Gaozhan was pushed to the front, so he had no choice but to go up and chat with him to understand the other person's intention.
Long Xiaochuan also walked to the sidelines, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and watching indifferently.
Luo Gaozhan had also been around in the county town in the past. Even if he was serving as Ma Zai, he had seen the world. When he saw the other party's bluffing appearance, he knew he was not one of the group.
He rolled up his sleeves to reveal the tattoo on his arm, and brought out his boss in Leiming County as his backer. The other party was much more polite and explained the purpose of coming here.
After a while, Luo Gaozhan came back with a worried message: "Old Yu was cheated out of a large sum of money..."
It is said that Yu Zhengyi guaranteed a loan in the county town. Later, the lender ran away. As a guarantor, he had to pay back the money first.
"This group of people watched the video of our 'village ba' game and happened to recognize Lao Yu. They followed the clue and came to our door."
Long Xiaochuan and others were all stunned in disbelief. Yu Zhengyi was usually obedient and didn't seem to interact with these people in society. How could he owe them money?
Long Xiaochuan recalled the scene when he first met Yu Zhengyi at Pan's Restaurant. At that time, Yu Zhengyi mentioned that he couldn't survive in the county and wanted to go home, maybe because he wanted to avoid debts.
Sun Changxing gritted his teeth: "You idiot, you didn't tell me something earlier!"
Long Xiaochuan was still not sure: "Let's go and ask for details first. We can't let Laoyu be bullied."
They walked up together to ask for evidence of the debt, and the other party showed many photos on their mobile phones, usury contracts and copies of ID cards.
When Long Xiaochuan saw that it was a loan shark, his head was pounding: "How much is this debt in total?"
The other party took out the IOU: "Not much, the principal is 80,000, the interest is 198,000, a total of 278,000."
"How much?" Pan Lei was very dissatisfied: "Brother, isn't your interest rate too high?"
"We are a legal company that collects debts for others. We have no control over how the contract was signed at the time. Call Yu Zhengyi out. Let us brothers meet him. Today's trip cannot be in vain."
"Lao Yu, he's not here," Pan Lei was still too honest and said, "He is..."
Sun Changxing quickly stopped the conversation: "He was invited by someone to go to Qandong to deliver food and earn money. I have his rental address here. How about you go there to find him?"
He was talking about the address where he previously rented a house near Qiandong Normal University, and he also showed a photo of Yu Zhengyi wearing takeout clothes and riding an electric scooter, which made it difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake.
The other party then asked him for Yu Zhengyi's mobile phone number, WeChat and other contact information. Sun Changxing took the phone back and refused to give it to him: "It's good if I can tell you this. Don't push yourself too far, otherwise I will let you go out sideways!"
He exaggeratedly pointed at the more than 20 people behind him on the basketball court, as if they would listen to his orders.
These six debt collectors were not that easy to fool, and they insisted on taking a look at the house of Yu Zhongyi's family in the village. In the end, Yu Yan, Long Zaitian and others came forward to persuade the six of them to leave in their official capacity.
When those people walked away, Sun Changxing angrily gave Pan Lei a hard blow: "You idiot, you almost killed Lao Yu!"
The hospital is a public place, and anyone in the ward can enter. As long as these people go to nearby hospitals and ask around, they can easily find Yu Zhengyi, and they may do something heinous by then.
Pan Lei knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't dare to retaliate and fight back. He covered his face and stepped aside.
Long Xiaochuan patted Pan Lei's shoulder comfortingly, then looked at Sun Changxing and Luo Gaozhan: "Okay, okay, everything is over. The biggest problem now is to protect Lao Yu from being bullied. Luo Ge has a lot of connections. With more experience, can you tell us what we should do?"
Luo Gaozhan immediately called his acquaintances and friends in the county town, and got a more reliable statement that the eldest brother here could come out and say hello so that the debt collectors would stop harassing and threatening Yu Zhangyi. The premise was that Lao Yu had to deal with it The principal and legal interest of more than 10,000 yuan must be repaid first.
"My eldest brother asked the legal affairs department. He has a serious professional qualification certificate as a lawyer. He said that as long as he pays back the 90,000 yuan, he can call the police and arrest him if they harass Lao Yu again."
Listening to Luo Gaozhan's constant insistence on the law and the police, and the good brother even hired a legal consultant, it's hard to imagine that these guys used to show off their power in society.
Sun Changxing sighed: "In the final analysis, it's still money."
The others remained silent, looking helpless.
Long Zaitian chewed on his pipe and pot: "Yu Zhengyi, this young man is quite good. He did a lot in this competition. He is a hero of our Lei Village. We can't just die without saving him if something happens to him."
Long Xiaochuan immediately understood what his father meant. Thinking that he might disappoint his four brothers in the following games, he immediately stepped forward: "I regard Lao Yu as a brother, and I will find a way to repay my brother's debt!"