Street Hustler and His Policewoman Wife

Chapter 190 190: The Daoist Recruited by the Police

"Officer, please let me go, it's my first day selling out here!"

"Really, cross my heart and hope to die if I'm lying!"

"Boo hoo... I spent three hundred buying stock today, and I haven't sold a single DVD, now I've only got eight bucks left!"

"I really didn't sell anything!"

The DVD seller cried out as Chen Xiao held onto his shoulder.

Chen Xiao squinted, while Lin Xi looked equally amazed.

"How did you know I'm a cop?" Chen Xiao asked with a smile.

"I told my fortune today and it said I'd have a run-in with the law. I'm just a DVD seller, not making any trouble, so it must be I'd get caught selling DVDs by the police and get detained!"

"You knew, yet you still came to sell?"

"I had no choice, got to eat! Who would've thought I'd be this unlucky by nightfall? Please have mercy on a lonely guy with no parents or friends!"

"I really didn't sell anything, just got eight bucks left!"

Chen Xiao grinned at Lin Xi and said, "Honey, turn around, I know where this guy hid the illegal profits."

Lin Xi turned around, and Chen Xiao opened his other hand, sneeringly, "You really want me to do it myself?"

The man's face fell, looking at that hand, "What are you doing? You're a cop, we're both men, you believe I won't report you for assault?"

"Try it."

Watching Chen Xiao's hand move downward, the man cursed angrily, "Damn it, how can there be such shameless cops like you who take advantage of your own kind!"

While saying that, the man reached into his pants and pulled out a handkerchief stuffed with various denominations of money and threw it on the ground.

"Talk about rotten luck!"

The man looked at his "hard-earned money," with a face so wronged he looked ready to cry.

Chen Xiao laughed heartily, "I'm not a cop."

"What? You're not a cop? Then why were you pretending to be one with me!"

The man said as he bent down to pick up the money from the ground, but before his hand could touch it, Chen Xiao joked, "My wife is."

The man's body shuddered, crying once more, "Officer, please let me go, I'll burn these DVDs right away, how about that?"

Lin Xi looked at Chen Xiao in surprise.

As Chen Xiao's spouse, Lin Xi could tell something was off in his reaction to the DVD seller.

But sensing Chen Xiao's emotions, she thought for a moment and said, "Hurry along, don't sell these things anymore."

The DVD seller was immediately grateful, "Thank you, kind officer, I'll leave, I'll leave... If I ever sell this stuff again, I'll... I'll be single forever!"

With that, the DVD seller clutched his money and bolted away. He didn't even pick up a single indecent disc from the ground.

Chen Xiao kept watching his back, and Lin Xi asked, "Do you know him?"

Chen Xiao had already known that Lin Xi could sense his change, so he said, "I know him, but he doesn't know me."

"Why did you get so excited when you saw him then?"

"He's an incredible guy, truly remarkable. I heard about him back in the days when I was just idly drifting. His fortune-telling skills are top-notch!"

Lin Xi suddenly understood, "Such people really exist? I was curious earlier, how did he know one of us is a cop! So, he really just divined it?"

Chen Xiao nodded, "Yeah, but his fortune-telling is sometimes accurate, sometimes wildly off the mark."

Lin Xi didn't quite get it, shaking her head, "I don't understand, only accuracy can be called skillful, how can wildly off be skillful too?"

"It depends on how the person discerning it takes it. If he's right, go with it; if he's wildly off, go against it."

Lin Xi said "Ah" softly, seemingly not very interested in this topic.

Instinctively lowering her head, she blushed deeply when she saw the DVDs on the ground.

"I can't even look at it!" Lin Xi muttered, and Chen Xiao earnestly added, "Society is in decline, full of shameless acts, criticism... must be criticized!"

After saying this, Chen Xiao embraced Lin Xi and headed home.

Soon the two returned home together, bathed and lay in bed. Seeing Chen Xiao fiddling with a DVD, Lin Xi asked:

"Honey, what are you doing?"

"Just watching a movie to help me sleep."

"Oh, with your sleep quality, why even bother with...?"

Before she finished her sentence, Lin Xi threw a pillow at Chen Xiao, screaming:

"Chen Xiao, you shameless bastard!"

.........

The next day.

Lin Xi nearly arrived late for work.

But after grumbling along the way, Lin Xi was dropped off at the station, and Chen Xiao drove off without returning home, heading to a local police station instead.

After some inquiries, he drove to a residential building.

As he arrived, he spotted last night's DVD seller, cigarette in mouth, descending the stairs with an attitude as if he had no ties in the world, ready for breakfast.

But when they locked eyes, the man froze and was about to run.

Chen Xiao shouted at him, "Liu Dayou, if you run, I'll chase you, let's see if you can fly away!"

Liu Dayou walked over with a woeful expression, "Sir, no... brother, we've got no grudge, right? Is there a need to chase me so relentlessly?"

"You misunderstood, c'mon... let me treat you to breakfast."

Chen Xiao said as he sat down in a breakfast shop, "Go ahead, order anything, it's on me."

"Really?"

Chen Xiao nodded, and only then did Liu Dayou rush to order two bowls of congee and four youtiao.

Seeing this, Chen Xiao remarked, "I said it's my treat, why such a simple meal?"

"Hehe, it's hard to talk with your mouth full, and it's not polite to accept lavishly either."

Chen Xiao chuckled, paying no mind, sipping congee and munching on youtiao.

When they were almost done, Chen Xiao asked the distracted Liu Dayou, "How long have you been selling DVDs?"

Liu Dayou's expression tightened, "What DVDs? I've never sold any, don't talk nonsense!"

Chen Xiao laughed, "Okay, okay, then tell me about yourself."

Liu Dayou looked puzzled, but Chen Xiao's mind wandered.

He knew Liu Dayou well.

He just didn't expect to run into Liu Dayou at this time.

In a previous life, they didn't meet in Dongzhou but when working away from home.

At a time when Chen Xiao couldn't make it in Dongzhou, he went elsewhere and encountered fellow townsman Liu Dayou in the factory dormitory.

Because of his quirky behavior, coworkers nicknamed him Daoist Liu.

Every morning, Daoist Liu was different from other workers.

Others would either light a cigarette or take a leak.

But Daoist Liu had to, no matter what, consult his old turtle shell for a divination before doing anything.

If the fortunes looked good, Daoist Liu would be happy all day, even buying a lottery ticket.

If bad fortune, especially if it foretold misfortune going out, he'd genuinely stay in the dorm all day.

No matter how the team leader urged him, he wouldn't budge.

If that's all Chen Xiao remembered about Liu Dayou, then meeting him in this life might just bring happiness alone.

What brought Chen Xiao to tears at seeing Liu Dayou was because the latter once took a knife for him!

Really blocked a knife!

Actually getting stabbed!

Though the place he got stabbed was just the butt!

After that, the bond between Chen Xiao and Liu Dayou rose several levels.

But it was also after that fight with other non-locals that Liu Dayou inexplicably was recruited by the local police!