The Personal Bodyguard of the School Belle

"This is your reward for the mission in North Africa." Old Man Lin carefully took out two crumpled hundred-yuan banknotes from a well-wrapped piece of ragged cloth and handed them to Lin Yi, who was eagerly looking at him by his side.

Lin Yi didn't understand. The mission he had carried out was so dangerous, his enemies were so powerful, and the client had reaped such rich benefits. In the end, what he got was so little.

Where on earth did the old man get these top-notch missions for him? Every time it was a matter of life and death, and the rewards he received were only fifty or a hundred yuan. This was still okay. There were even times when he only got two or three yuan... Every time he thought of these things, Lin Yi felt like crying.

Taking the two hundred yuan he had earned with his life, what Lin Yi most wanted to curse was, "Damn it!" Even though he was an orphan and had no mother since he was a child.

After learning martial arts from Old Man Lin, who had raised him, for fifteen years and studying for fifteen years, he could be considered a talented person both in civil and military affairs, right? In ancient times, he would have been a top scholar who excelled in both civil and military examinations. But now he was being used like a laborer... When would this kind of life come to an end!

He had heard that people who built houses in the city could earn tens of thousands of yuan a year. He risked his life every day, but he could only earn a few hundred to a thousand yuan a year...

"Old man, you're not kidding me, are you? Two hundred yuan? I seriously doubt that you're embezzling my reward?" Lin Yi had suspected this more than once. However, the old man dressed and ate the same as him, and he didn't look like a wealthy person.

It's already good to have some money. Do you think money is so easy to earn nowadays?" Old Man Lin rolled his bulging eyes and said irritably, "What? Don't want it? If you don't want it, give it back to me. I haven't been to the snack bar run by Widow Wang at the village entrance for a long time to have a good meal."

"..." Lin Yi really wanted to give the skinny and shriveled old man in front of him a good beating. But he knew that if he did, the result would be that he would be the one getting beaten.

Lin Yi didn't know exactly how powerful Old Man Lin's martial arts skills were. He only knew that every time the old man practiced with him, he never used his full strength. Just when his own martial arts skills had improved to a new level, he suddenly realized that the old man had also improved to a new level, and he was still no match for the old man.

"Alright, you've been through enough training these years. That important matter is almost due." Old Man Lin didn't even raise his eyes. He sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed in northern China), cracking and eating a plate of fennel beans in front of him. "If you do this mission well, you won't have to worry about food and drink for the rest of your life!"

"Is that true?" Lin Yi knew that since he was picked up by the old man when the old man was scavenging at the age of three, he had been learning martial arts, medical skills, and knowledge from the outside world from the old man, all for the sake of doing an important thing. But Lin Yi really doubted whether the reward for this important thing was really as much as the old man said, that one mission could provide for a lifetime.

"When have I ever lied to you?" Old Man Lin threw another fennel bean into his mouth. "Are you going or not? If you're not going, I'll find someone else."

"Of course I'm going!" Lin Yi thought to himself that only a fool would not go for such a good thing. If one mission could ensure a lifetime of food and drink, he wouldn't have to risk his life like this anymore. Even if it was a dragon's den or a tiger's lair, it would be worth the fight!

"En, then you go. Go to Songshan City, to Pengzhan Group, and find a person named Chu Pengzhan. He will tell you what to do next." A sly smile that was hard to detect crossed the corner of Old Man Lin's mouth. "But you have to think it over. Once you take on this mission, you must see it through. You can't back out halfway."

"Why? If it's dangerous, why can't I run away?" Lin Yi wasn't the kind of person who was stubborn. He would never do something that he knew would lead to death.

"Xiaoyi, I've raised you for fifteen years, provided you with food and drink, bought you a laptop, and a 3G network card..." The old man rolled his eyes and started chattering non-stop. "I ask you to do something, and you have so many questions. Don't push me!"

"Damn it!" Lin Yi was furious when he heard the old man's words. "You raised me for the first three years, but since I was six years old, I've been cooking, chopping firewood, and making straw sandals to earn money to support you. Don't push me either!"

"I know you secretly watched pornographic videos on the computer at night! Don't think I don't know!" The old man glared and said, "You forced me to say this! You even... did that in front of the computer..."

"Okay... I'll go... I won't run away, all right?" Lin Yi blushed. He never expected that the old guy would notice such a secret thing he had done. It was really embarrassing. If the old man continued, he might say some scenes that were not suitable for children.

So, under the old man's coercion and inducement, Lin Yi shouldered his backpack, boarded the northbound train, and traveled a long distance to Songshan City, this modern international metropolis.

Sitting on the train, Lin Yi was thinking that in the future, he had to encrypt the pornographic videos and hide them in the computer system folder. When doing that kind of thing, he also had to be vigilant and observant.

However, Lin Yi was still looking forward to this mission. This kind of good thing where one mission could allow him to retire was something he had dreamed of. Although he could tell from Old Man Lin's words that this mission didn't seem to be simple. En, the more difficult it was, the more challenging it would be!

"Pop", a man with a pockmarked face sitting opposite Lin Yi opened a can of cola and then casually threw the pull ring on the table.

A man with a crew cut beside the pockmarked man pretended not to care and picked up the pull ring, playing with it in his hand. After playing with it for a few times, he suddenly shouted, "Wow! Wow! Awesome! First prize!"

Although the crew cut man's voice wasn't very loud in the noisy train carriage, the passengers sitting nearby all heard it and looked at him one after another.

The pockmarked man was no exception. When he saw that the pull ring in the crew cut man's hand was the one he had just thrown away, his face suddenly became a bit unnatural. "Give it to me. This is mine..."

"Whose is it? Where is your name written on it?" The crew cut man withdrew his right hand and tightly clenched the pull ring in his hand. He glared and said, "Is your name First Prize?"

"No... I'm not called First Prize... That pull ring with the first prize was thrown away by me..." The pockmarked man was a bit timid when he saw that the crew cut man looked fierce. However, he didn't want to lose what he deserved, so he said tremblingly.

"You also said that you threw it away. Since you threw it away, whoever picked it up should own it." The crew cut man snorted and said disdainfully.

"Hey, how can you be like this?" The pockmarked man immediately became anxious. He shouted at a passenger opposite him, that is, a man wearing glasses sitting on Lin Yi's left, "Sir, you look like a scholar. Please judge for us. How can he be like this? Isn't this being unreasonable?"

"Who's being unreasonable?" The crew cut man was also unhappy. He also turned his head and said to the man with glasses, "Master, you tell us, who should this pull ring belong to?"

"Um..." The man with glasses pushed his glasses and hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'm a university teacher. Since both of you trust me, I'll judge for you."

"Please, please!" Both the pockmarked man and the crew cut man nodded one after another and looked at the man with glasses, who claimed to be a university teacher, anxiously.

"Logically speaking, this pull ring was pulled off the beverage can by this big brother, so the thing should belong to him..." The man with glasses said half of it, and the pockmarked man showed a proud expression. But the crew cut man immediately became anxious. Just as he was about to say something, the man with glasses waved his hand to stop him and continued, "However, since this big brother has already thrown the pull ring away and it was picked up by this other brother, then it should belong to the latter brother..."

"But you also said that the pull ring is mine..." The pockmarked man immediately looked dejected when he heard what the man with glasses said.

"In my opinion, how about this? You two can split the prize equally. In this way, neither of you will suffer a loss!" The man with glasses suggested.

"Split it..." After hearing this, the crew cut man hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "All right, then we'll split it."

Probably the crew cut man also felt that his reasoning wasn't very convincing, so he agreed to the man with glasses' suggestion. And the pockmarked man over there also saw that the pull ring was in the crew cut man's hand. If he didn't agree, he might not get anything at all. It was better to split it in half, so he also nodded in agreement.

"Okay, since you both agree, then split it." The man with glasses took the beverage can in the pockmarked man's hand and looked at it. He said, "It says here that the first prize is 100,000 yuan. After deducting 20% personal income tax, there will be 80,000 yuan left. But considering that it's troublesome to claim the prize, whoever goes to claim the prize will give the other person 30,000 yuan and then go to claim the prize themselves. What do you think of this idea?"

"Okay!" The pockmarked man just wanted to get some money, so he immediately agreed. "Give me 30,000 yuan, and then you go to claim the prize!"