Chapter 111: The world is full of wine, and life is full of wine
Chen Jue didn't say a word. He supported Wang Biao and dragged him to the car outside the house. He patted his back with one hand, trying to calm him down quickly.
"Huff...Huff...I..." Wang Biao was breathing heavily. After getting into the car, he held the steering wheel with both hands. He was trying his best to calm his fluctuating emotions.
After catching his breath, Wang Biao tried to press the car's ignition button with one trembling hand, intending to drive away immediately, but Chen Jue stopped him.
If a normal person is not in a zoo and sees such a big wild tiger through glass or standing outside the cage, he or she will basically have the same reaction as Wang Biao.
That is the result of being frightened directly!
Unless you are used to seeing such beasts in the wild, perhaps you will be a little better and not appear too scared.
"You...what are you doing? There's a tiger in the house!" Wang Biao became a little anxious.
"Why are you running? Didn't you just keep yelling about looking for the little female cat?"
"Look! You saw it just now. He was lying on the bed in the room!" Chen Jue said jokingly.
"That's a tiger, damn it! How can it be the same thing?"
"It's already this late and you're still in the mood to joke! Let's drive to call the forest police!" Wang Biao's voice rose a few notches. He wanted to start the car but one hand couldn't break free from Chen Jue's obstruction.
At this moment, Wang Biao suddenly discovered that his roommate seemed to have become a different person from before. Not only could he remain so calm when encountering a tiger, but his strength was also terrifying!
In the past, the six of us in the dormitory often played the arm wrestling game. Since Chen Jue was thin and didn't like sports at that time, he was usually the last one in the ranking. If he lost, he would have to get up early on weekends to bring lunch for the other five who were lazy in bed.
"Didn't I just tell you? No matter what you see when you go in, don't panic."
"Just think of the tiger in the house as mine! It won't bite anyone and is very well behaved. I've been holding it and sleeping with it all night. Otherwise, why would I buy so much meat?" Chen Jue explained.
"You raised it?"
"Old cat, who are you kidding?"
"Can humans keep tigers?" Seeing that he couldn't pry Chen Jue's hands open and didn't dare to get out of the car, Wang Biao picked up his cell phone tremblingly and wanted to call the police, but the phone had already fallen into Chen Jue's hands without him knowing.
"Give me the phone quickly!" Wang Biao stretched out his hand to snatch it, but with his strength, he was no match for Chen Jue.
After trying several times to get it, I didn't get it and ended up sweating all over.
I don’t know if it was because I was scared by the tiger just now and my body felt weak, or because I had exerted myself and my body was hot.
In short, after struggling in the car for a while, Wang Biao found that the car would not start and he could not get his cell phone back. He did not dare to get out of the car for fear of being eaten by the tiger. He had to light a cigarette tremblingly, intending to smoke a few cigarettes to calm himself down.
He thought that since he was hiding in the car and was protected by it, the tiger would not be able to get in.
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“Hiss… huh…”
In the closed compartment, Wang Biao was puffing out smoke, smoking to calm himself .
Chen Jue felt the smell of smoke was unpleasant, so he reached out to open the sunroof and rolled down the glass window on his passenger side.
This scared Wang Biao really much!
"What are you doing? There's a tiger outside! Close the window!"
"Get some fresh air! Secondhand smoke is scarier than a tiger!"
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The two chatted intermittently for a long time. Seeing that Wang Biao's hands were no longer shaking, it was obvious that he had recovered from the shock just now. Chen Jue then asked, "Are you feeling better?"
"Much better!" Wang Biao nodded. After smoking almost half a pack of cigarettes, the shock was indeed almost suppressed.
"Come in and take a look at the tiger with me?" Chen Jue suggested.
"Did you really raise it?" Wang Biao swallowed.
"How could I lie to you! If I hadn't raised it, I would have been the first to eat it, and it wouldn't have been your turn to deliver food." Chen Jue patted the other person's shoulder, motioning him to calm down, then opened the car door, got out and walked into the yard.
Seeing that Chen Jue didn't seem to be joking, Wang Biao plucked up the courage to take out a crowbar from the trunk.
This was a leftover tire from a construction site that his company was responsible for. It was originally used to pry up a pothole when driving off-road. Occasionally, when he drove his family to the countryside, Wang Biao would bring it with him in the car in case of emergency.
I didn’t expect it would come in handy today!
Wang Biao entered the yard with a crowbar, tiptoeing and not daring to breathe.
But after entering the yard, he was dumbfounded!
The big tiger with orange, black and white fur was seen making purring sounds as Chen Jue stroked it, and it kept rubbing its head into Chen Jue's arms.
Such an incredible scene made Wang Biao stunned!
"Old cat, it really... really doesn't bite people?" Wang Biao swallowed, not daring to put down the crowbar in his hand.
"Come and touch it! It feels great!" Chen Jue stroked the tiger's head and waved to Wang Biao.
Wang Biao held the crowbar and watched for a while. Seeing that the tiger was as obedient as a pet cat under Chen Jue's hands, he first complained: "When I was in college, I saw you petting cats every day in school. Now you are petting tigers! Old cat, you have really grown up! You are the most awesome person in the dormitory!"
As he spoke, Wang Biao approached cautiously, reached out and quickly touched the fur on the tiger's head, then retracted his hand.
After trying this several times and seeing that the tiger really didn't get angry at all, Wang Biao gradually gained courage and stroked the tiger from head to tail.
Chen Jue simply fed the follower all the fresh meat he had bought in the bag.
Seeing it lying on the ground eating meat and gnawing bones, basking in the afternoon sun and chewing the food with relish, Chen Jue pulled Wang Biao to sit on a stool in the yard.
"I have to send it back to the mountains tonight! If it keeps eating like this, my wallet won't be able to bear it. The pork and beef worth more than 400 yuan I just bought at noon were finished in just a few bites." Chen Jue looked at the tiger eating happily and couldn't help but complain.
"Did you really raise it?" Wang Biao asked curiously. He had calmed down now, but he felt that he could no longer understand his roommate.
Not only has he grown taller, stronger, and more handsome, but now he can even tame a tiger!
Such a strange transformation is just like the supernatural protagonists in the urban novels he usually reads!
"It's not one I raise, it's a wild tiger. I met it in the mountains yesterday. I don't know what's wrong with it, but it insisted on following me back."
"I have no choice but to take it back to your house and hide it there, so that it won't scare others when it goes out." Chen Jue explained helplessly.
"Wild? How about we call the forest police, they will handle this kind of thing..." Wang Biao suggested.
"No need to trouble the police officers, I can handle it myself. Don't think too much about it, just think of it as a cat with a slightly bigger head!" Chen Jue continued.
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The two chatted with each other like this, and during the time they saw the tiger holding a pork leg bone and chewing it after finishing its meal, Chen Jue took Wang Biao over and stroked its fur a few times, which made Wang Biao completely let down his guard.
You should know that many animals have the habit of guarding their food. For example, if domestic pet dogs and cats are not well disciplined from a young age, they will basically roar and get angry if you touch them while they are eating.
But this big tiger had no such primitive wildness at all, it was as docile as it could be.
So after teasing the tiger for a few times, Wang Biao calmed down and felt relieved.
Just looking at the tiger napping in the sun in the yard, he still felt a little uncomfortable, so he ran to the car outside the house and sat in it to smoke.
After Chen Jue finished feeding the tiger and came out to chat with him, Wang Biao put down the cigarette in his hand and asked, "Old Cat, you seem to have really changed! I feel that you are more... more powerful than before..."
Wang Biao thought for a long time but still couldn't think of how to describe his roommate with outstanding temperament.
"Stop talking nonsense! No matter how things change, we are still good brothers! Do you still want to open a store?" Chen Jue cursed with a smile, and transferred 50,000 yuan to the other party .
"Good brother! The store must be opened. I will prepare it later. I'll write you an IOU first!" Wang Biao was not polite. He took the money with a smile, found a notebook and a pen in the car, wrote an IOU by hand, signed his name, and made a fingerprint with the prepared red ink.
Chen Jue originally didn't intend to accept it, but seeing that the other party was so sincere, he couldn't refuse and accepted the IOU.
Fifty thousand yuan was just half a wild yellow croaker for him. He believed that with the friendship among them in dormitory 348, they would never fall out over such a small amount of money.
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The whole afternoon passed by slowly, as the two of them chatted and petted the big cat to satisfy their craving.
When it started to get dark, and when there was no one around, Chen Jue first took the tiger to the back mountain, and then ran all the way into the forest.
This big follower beast probably thought that Chen Jue was playing a game with it, so it also ran into the forest.
After the man and the tiger ran through the forest and over the mountains for more than ten kilometers and arrived at the branch of the Dulong River, Chen Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in the weeds beside the river. He touched the tiger that had come up and said, "Brother, go back soon! The human world is not suitable for you!"
"I will go into the mountains again in a few days. How about we play together then?"
"Ao!" The tiger seemed to be very human-like. Seeing Chen Jue pushing it, it probably understood what Chen Jue meant. It went into the dense forest, looking back every few steps, and gradually went away and disappeared into the long night.
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After sending this burden away, Chen Jue felt relieved and ran back to Wa Village with a light heart.
It was almost 9 o'clock in the evening when they met up with Wang Biao. They were both starving, so they drove to a local restaurant in town, cooked a table of delicious dishes, opened two bottles of beer, and started chatting while drinking.
Most of the stories and friendships between older men are in this wine glass.
When we were in college, the six of us in the same dormitory didn't have too many worries and didn't like to drink much. But after graduation, after a few gatherings, everyone started to clink glasses.
Even though Chen Jue has practiced Taoism, he is still an ordinary person at heart and cannot avoid the sorrow and bitterness of this worldly life.
"Life! I hope that after practicing, you can bring me different tastes and scenery!" Staring at the yellowish liquid in the wine glass, and then looking at his roommate who had several gray hairs from working hard for life, Chen Jue couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.
