Chapter 24 To Get More People
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"You... why are you so stubborn? To put up a fight is not good at all to us, can you stop making trouble for us here any longer?"
Aaron still wanted to kick Joe out quickly but was stopped by Barret.
Barret didn't expect there were nice people here. But he found one today, it was Aaron!
He could protect others first but himself!
He had decided to invite Aaron to work for the Andrew Family later. He wouldn't let such a good man go away.
"Brother, just relax. We will be responsible for this to the end for you guys."
"Forget it, you can't beat Daniel anyway."
"Oh, no worry, actually, to deal with Daniel is just a piece of cake as for our Andrew Family."
Aaron paused for a moment.
"Andrew Family?"
"Yes, I'm from the Andrew Family of the Andrew Group, Joseph is my Lord."
Barret mentioned this was to make Aaron feel secure, but Aaron paused for a second and shook his head.
"I never heard of that."
Barret heard him and smiled helplessly.
He understood that a person who lived by picking up trashes every day would never have time to care about those high-classes, such as the Andrew Family.
"Well, what I meant was Andrew Family would be responsible for that."
Seeing Barret was so determined, besides, he looked quite special, Aaron felt a bit secured somehow...
"Really? Are you sure you can handle him? Are you not kidding?"
"You will see later when he comes to collect the money. How's that sound?"
"Then you should hurry up and call more people here. I heard Daniel just hired more people to work with him recently. So there will be a lot of gangsters on his hands..."
"No need to worry at all! Two of us here are enough to deal all of them!"
Aaron thought for a while. He doubted cause this man in front of him had too much confidence. He wanted to question him but he didn't. Otherwise, when things went well, he would regret what he did.
"Then... I'll call everyone back now."
"Sure, our Master also brought you guys gifts."
"Oh, really, thank you for your Master to bring gifts for everyone. He is so kind to us."
Barret gave him a smile and pointed to Joe aside.
"Here is our Master."
Aaron went lost.
"Is Joey your Master? What... Joey, what's happening here?"
"I just married the daughter of Andrew Family."
Aaron's eyes widened as the bells.
"What? Are you married?"
"Yes."
"When? Recently?"
"Yes, I'm just too lucky!"
"Oh, is there anything wrong with the young lady in that Andrew Family?"
Aaron was really a straight person... he didn't care about saying anything in front of people.
Joe knew his doubts well anyway.
It made sense about his marriage. How could a healthy young lady of Andrew Family marry Joe, a beggar on the street?
"No, she is normal."
"Then is she ugly?"
"No, she is very beautiful."
"Oh, that's weird... So are you the one who begged her to marry you?"
"I guess so."
"Oh my god, Joey, that's so embarrassing. How shame of you to beg to be the son-in-law in other families? Anyway, you are lucky enough that the lady likes you... so just be grateful and have fun."
Joe smiled helplessly.
This friend was really not good at praising people.
"OK, can you call everyone back? I have gifts for them!" Joe stopped him.
"Okay! Wow, you are so damn lucky as a beggar on the street!"
Joe really wanted to kick him out.
Did he mean I should pick up the rubbish all my life, right?
"Oh shut up, just call others back now."
"OK."
Soon, everyone was home one after another.
Most of them came back for beating Joe up to death!
On the contrary, they didn't punish Joe when they were back, but curious about the gifts he got for them were fake or not?
Joe ignored them. He was tired of explaining everything to these dumb people here.
Aaron spoke when everyone got their gift.
"Everyone! Pay attention here please! Joey said he would take care of Daniel later! He asked us to stay in the house and didn't come out unless he holds us to... is that clear?"
They heard and got suspicious. They didn't know they should trust Joey one more time or not...
"Is that so?"
"Yeah, why he doesn't give us some money back? That would be great!"
Aaron went angry.
"Gush, do you still have your heart? You would never buy so many things with your one-month salary outside! But Joey made this happen... and he came back and promised to help us today! We should thank him!"
"But we also got beaten all because of him, right?"
"Yes! All because of his fault, we have to pay 80 dollars a month, which is 960 dollars for a year. If he really wanna do something for us, then he should pay for us!"
"Anyway, Joey must get out of here!"
Everyone yelled for kicking Joe out, no matter what Aaron said. No one listened to him.
Joe didn't know how to respond either.
All of a sudden, Barret had an idea.
He opened the box in front of everyone.
The moment he opened, everyone was quiet.
The box was full of money...
"Sorry, guys, I apologize for my master. I understand your madness here. That's why we have prepared this little money for all of you! One person will get ten thousand. That's all we have, please understand us. Aaron, can you please kindly give it to everyone for us?"
Everyone was quiet.
They expected to be rich day after day like a dream, then this dream came true today!
Aaron was still in a daze, and some smart people began to push, "Aaron, what are you doing? Give the money to everyone, go!"
"That's right, give the money to us."
Aaron thought for a while, "Well, I don't think it's good. Guys, we have taken so many gifts from Joey today and how could we ask for money after?"
As soon as his words came out, people around almost scolded him to death!
"Are you crazy, Aaron? Joey is kind to us, that's why he wanted us to take his money! We must respect him."
"Yes, we must appreciate it!"
"Yeah! To be honest, I think Aaron wants it more than anyone else!"
"Oh, I have an idea. Since Aaron doesn't want it, how about we share Aaron's evenly after we take ours?"
"This is a good idea!"
For a moment, the greed and ugliness of human nature had revealed in no time.
Barret looked around the crowd and smiled.
He had chosen who would be the perfect choice for the Andrew Family.
There were so many ways to test humanity, but the most direct and effective way was money.
"Aaron, please accept the money. It's his good heart to help the people here. You are a friend, so no need to be polite. This amount of money is nothing to our Master. If you refuse his kindness, you just despise him."
"Well... well, thank you, Joey. I take it."
Soon, the money was divided to everyone like one person for 10,000, but there were still tens of thousands of dollars left in the box.
At this moment, everyone stared at the box, except Barret, who was staring at them.
This was the second round of selection for him.
After a few seconds, he spoke, "Master, how do you deal with the rest of the money? Should we move it back to the car?"
As he said, he winked at Joe for a second.
Joe really wanted to put the money in his pocket though, he couldn't do it in front of so many people.
"Just give it to everyone."
"Okay. Aaron, sorry to bother you again. Could you send the rest of the money to everyone?"
Aaron counted the money several times and people, then sent several thousand to each of them fairly.
Everyone who got the money smiled, forgetting their fear of Daniel and their resentment towards Joe.
"Oh, Joey is so generous to us."
"I knew he was good at the very beginning when I saw him!"
"Good guy, Joey is such a good guy."
"He's our savior."
At this moment, the hypocrisy of human nature was exposed.
But Joe seemed very happy.
He got so many likes from the people with the money though it was fake.
"It's fine, we are all family. No need to thank me with such small money."
As soon as he finished, there was a sound of applause at the door, it's Daniel who followed by a bunch of gangsters.
"Wow, wow, look who is here? That's so generous of you to give your friends money! You seem to become really rich these days!"
Everyone looked back and got frightened, "Hey, Daniel, you came back for kicking your ass again?"
"You bastard, I have been looking for you for a few days, and you actually came here yourself."
Having seen Barret's Kungfu, Joe didn't worry at all.
He comforted the people in the warren.
"Don't be afraid, guys, leave this to me."
"Wow, so brave! Stop pretending to be a big boss now! I tell you, you will crawl out today, go! Beat him to death!"
After his shouting, his people nodded and rushed up to Joe immediately.
Barret was not showing his politeness at all. He knocked them down one after one fast!
Daniel remembered how good Barret's martial arts before.
"Go lock the door and don't let them run, call Ronnie and his people here!"
In an instant, a group of them rushed and blocked the entrance.
The people in the warren had become scared again.
"What we do now? Joey?"
Joe was lost. He didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, either.
Barret spoke all of a sudden, he understood Joe's confusion deeply.
"Don't panic, everyone, I can handle this thing well without our master. Just leave it to me."
Everyone kept nodding their heads.
"Then what will you do?"
"Let's wait patiently."
"Wait? Are you kidding me? They have called more people to kill us and how could we just wait here?"
"Don't worry, it will be okay, trust me."
The people looked at each other, still couldn't believe Barret.
Aaron stepped on a latex-painted bucket and yelled loudly.
"Guys, can you stop arguing? Barret and Joey didn't leave us and brought us money, so let's believe them one time and wait here patiently!"
Everyone was still unwilling to wait though, there had no choice.
"Damn, it's over, Daniel will definitely take our money!"
One person felt sad and complained somehow.
"Oh wait! Let's hide our money quickly right now before Daniel and his people come back! Then he won't take it from us anymore."
In a few seconds, everyone ran back to the house to hide the money, only Aaron stayed still with Joe and Barret.
"Aaron, why don't you hide your money?"
"I believe in you."
"Great."
Later on, they heard the roar of cars and the sound of steel pipes hitting coming from outside.
"Master, they are here."
"Are you sure?"
Barret smiled slightly. "What do you think?"
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