Rebirth 90: I changed my fate by winning the lottery

The man walked in front of Ding Mo, and under the dim street light, Ding Mo could still see the man clearly.

He was wearing a white vest that was all stained and dirty.

He had stubble on his face and long hair tied back with a rubber band.

Even though this man had lost the vigorous and energetic look of the young man he once was, Ding Mo still recognized him at a glance, someone who shouldn't be here at all.

"Zhou Lang." Ding Mo called out.

Qi Zan was also surprised when he heard the name. He naturally knew that this was the brother who let Ding Mo live in his house and helped her a lot.

Zhou Lang stood there without coming forward. He just took two puffs of the cigarette in his hand and said, "You really don't know how to live or die. You dare to catch up with me in this situation."

Ding Mo asked: "Why are you here?"

A chuckle came from the other side: "Of course I'm here to make a living."

Ding Mo couldn't believe it: "Are you with that group of people just now?"

Zhou Lang: "Yeah, that's right."

Ding Mo said: "Zhou Lang, you are a policeman, you should not be here."

"I was just a policeman before. Even if I worked as a policeman for a lifetime, I might not earn as much as I do now from just one job." Zhou Lang spread his hands indifferently.

Ding Mo didn't believe it: "You can't be in the same group with them, you can't be a bad person, otherwise why did you save that child just now?"

"You must be joking. That's my tool for making money. How can I let him die?" Zhou Lang spat out the cigarette butt left in his mouth. "But you haven't changed at all after so many years. You are still so naive."

Ding Mo could hear the sarcasm in his words, but that didn't matter: "So you haven't been home for so many years because you're afraid that your family will know that you're not a police officer anymore, but have gone abroad to join these people?"

Zhou Lang did not deny it: "Well, I met a big brother here by chance. The big brother appreciated me and asked me to follow him. So I came here."

Ding Mo wanted to slap him twice. He actually said the word "big brother".

"By the way, miss, please do me a favor. You saw that child just now. He needs some medical expenses now. You are so rich, do you mind paying for it for me?" He pointed to the room behind him that he had just walked out of, which was a private clinic.

Ding Mo was dumbfounded. Zhou Lang actually asked her for money?

"Isn't that child your tool? Don't you even pay for his medical treatment?"

Zhou Lang said generously: "That's right, so if you don't help and give some money, this child's legs will probably be broken."

Ding Mo was speechless for a moment by his frankness. She angrily took out a small notebook from her pocket and pulled out a few US dollars from the leather case.

Zhou Lang walked over and took the money from her hand.

When he was about to say something else, he saw a few people walking towards this side, so he quickly stood in the brightly lit area at the intersection and used his sturdy body to block Ding Mo and the others.

"If you don't want to get into trouble, take her away quickly." He lowered his voice and said as he walked past Qi Zan.

Then he quickly walked towards the people who were coming towards him, spoke a few words in the local dialect, and then walked away with them.

Hiding in a dark corner at the street corner, Ding Mo wanted to rush out to ask Zhou Lang a few more questions, but Qi Zan quickly grabbed her and gestured to her to keep quiet.

Ding Mo looked in the direction Zhou Lang left, and saw that the people who left with him were the locals who had just taken those white people away.

It turned out that Zhou Lang was in the same group with them. Those people were even following behind him, looking like his followers.

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Ding Mo wanted to cry.

She didn't believe that Zhou Lang would be so self-degrading, but what she saw was the fact.

If she had not come to Country J with the professor, she might never have known that Zhou Lang was no longer a policeman.

Qi Zan was not very good at riding a tricycle, but Ding Mo was obviously out of control and there was no way he could let her ride. Qi Zan did not dare to step on the accelerator too hard and drove Ding Mo slowly towards the hotel.

Ding Mo sat in the car, chatting with Qi Zan in a random manner.

Qi Zan just felt that this was full of weirdness. It made no sense for Zhou Lang to choose not to be a policeman and then run to such a poor place to make money by extorting foreign tourists.

And the way he's dressed doesn't look like he's made any money.

If that’s the case, why haven’t you gone home for all these years?

Ding Mo was calmed down a little by the night breeze, and after Qi Zan's reminder, she began to think about the strangeness of it.

The first thing that came to mind was the letters that Zhou Lang had sent back to the Zhou family over the years. All of them were printed out and sent back.

Then, when Zhou's family called Zhou Lang's workplace, it was his colleagues who answered the phone, and almost every time they said that Zhou Lang was out on a police call and couldn't answer the phone.

Even after mobile phones became popular, he left his mobile phone number to his family, but did not allow them to call him, only text messages, saying that he had to be on duty and on police duty, so it was inconvenient to answer the phone. Ding Mo also sent text messages to greet him several times, but he only responded to one or two messages.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that there is a so-called colleague who is helping Zhou Lang hide the fact that he is in Country J from his family.

If he didn't want to be a policeman, and was afraid that his family would not agree, there would be no need for him to go to so much trouble to find someone to help him hide it from his family for so many years, right?

"No! I'm going to go find him and ask him clearly!" Ding Mo suddenly shouted.

Qi Zan quickly stopped her: "If you go back now, he will have gone far away, and he is in the same group with those people. It will be very dangerous for you to go directly to him like this."

Ding Mo was anxious: "What should we do? Just let him continue like this?"

Qi Zan explained: "We must ensure our own safety first no matter what. Besides, the child is still in the private clinic. If the child is really a tool they use to extort tourists, we will definitely see him again there."

Ding Mo thought about it and it made sense. Even if she could go to Zhou Lang to ask for clarification regardless of her own safety, she couldn't drag Qi Zan into danger with her, and she couldn't bring trouble to the entire project team.

At least she had to find Zhou Lang, and she couldn't find a chance for him to be alone.