Zhang Bo joked with me, saying he had a wife and kid.
If his wife found out about this, he would be in deep trouble.
"But that's all minor stuff. Honestly, this is pretty risky."
Zhang Bo looked at me. "If something goes wrong and the police get onto us, they could charge us with organized crime. We'd be looking at at least a few years inside."
I nodded and put an arm around his shoulders. "It's okay, Brother Bo. You can say no. I'd understand. Or I can give you some more money to make up for it. Just name your price."
"There is a risk, but it won't be too big. We've already planned everything out."
I figured it would be perfectly reasonable even if he asked for another ten or twenty thousand.
After all, this was illegal. I couldn't use our friendship to pressure him.
But did it hurt to spend that money? It really did.
Helping someone get revenge had already cost me twenty thousand in total.
Still... I'd already paid...
As long as he didn't ask for more than another twenty thousand, I could accept it.
"Talking money just puts distance between us."
He smiled at me. "I have a favor to ask you too. I know an elderly gentleman from the Lushan Sect, and we're on pretty good terms. He's getting on in years now, and his apprentice hasn't seen much of the world, so he asked me to take his apprentice under my wing and help him earn some money in the big city."
"But you know I'm different from you guys. I just take odd jobs, and I have a family to support. I don't make much."
"Once you teach an apprentice everything, the old master goes hungry. Besides, he's someone else's