Chapter 138 If you keep thinking about it, there will be a response!
The seemingly grand competition ended with Chen Jue's final victory.
To Chen Jue, participating in the competition was just a formality. He didn't really enjoy it the whole time, and there was a sense of loneliness among him, a master.
After all, Chen Jue's body has broken the limits of human beings. If he uses all his strength, even if more than 200 warriors in the field attack together, no one can withstand his six thousand jin whip.
Therefore, when sparring with others, Chen Jue would deliberately let others win, and either exert one point of strength, or two points of strength. When fighting with Li Xiang, the master of Hua Jin, he only exerted three points of strength.
Of course, Chen Jue did not gain nothing from the three-day competition. He realized a lot of distinctive spiritual imprints from the warriors and soldiers present.
In this era of information warfare, guns and artillery are gradually becoming outdated. Now we are focusing on high-tech warfare. Once a missile is fired, all martial arts skills will be in vain.
However, there are still so many warriors who insist on inheriting the tradition, which also allows Chen Jue to see that the faint flame of martial arts that seems to be about to go out is still bursting out its last light.
However, Chen Jue is not a pure warrior like Li Xiang. He feels that he is at most a practitioner who knows martial arts.
After receiving the 100,000 yuan winning prize provided by the event organizer, Chen Jue rejected the invitation to be hired as the head coach. Although the allowance offered was very high, Chen Jue planned to live a quiet life.
He felt a little annoyed just going to teach in the XX regiment, let alone becoming the head coach.
However, from this day on, the name of Chen Jue, the boat fist of An County, Wen City, will begin to spread wildly among various martial arts sects and circles of folk practitioners.
But these are just empty names to Chen Jue, and he doesn't care too much about them.
"I'd better go back and live an honest life, and follow my own path of cultivation!"
With this thought in mind, Chen Jue picked up his backpack, loaded it with the nine boxes of human nutritional supplements that had just been delivered from the health center, got on the jeep arranged by Political Commissar Yao, and returned to the guesthouse on the sixth ring road of Beidu.
As for the military competition that Zhou Gang and his team were participating in, Chen Jue had no chance to watch due to special reasons. He only hoped that Zhou Gang could get a good ranking after receiving his guidance.
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After returning to the guesthouse in the Sixth Ring Road, Chen Jue turned on his cell phone. Since the competition would be closed during the next three days, no communication devices were allowed to be used.
After turning on the phone, Chen Jue received messages from various sources, including inquiries from his roommates, requests for advice from Yun Xiaomei, and several folk masters who asked for his contact information and then went back to apply to add him as a friend.
Chen Jue flipped through the friend request list and found the Taoist Master Liu Shiqing from the Wudang Sect and Li Xiang's application, and approved them.
By the way, I sent a (fist-bow) emoticon, which was considered to be a preliminary friendship with the other party.
Afterwards, Chen Jue called Cheng Wei and asked him if he was free to have dinner together in the evening.
It was a rare opportunity for Chen Jue to return to Beidu and revisit his old place. He felt that he should spend more time with his heartbroken college roommate and give him some advice.
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After making an appointment on the phone, Chen Jue checked out of the guesthouse and booked an online taxi to go directly to the nearby subway station.
Due to the recent high expenses, Chen Jue didn't want to waste too much money, so he didn't take a taxi to Cheng Wei's place, but chose the convenient subway rail transportation.
After scanning the code and entering the station, Chen Jue found a corner at the end of the carriage and stood there.
Looking at the various people who have moved to Beijing from other places in the carriage, Chen Jue felt as if he was seeing himself when he had just graduated five or six years ago.
He squeezes into the subway, looking down at his phone, and then walks into a small office cubicle when he gets to his stop, punches in for work, and spends the day. In short, people of his age generally live like this.
Arriving at Taoting Station, Chen Jue walked out of the station and went to the early childhood education center opened by Cheng Wei.
Since it was still afternoon, there was a constant stream of adults with children in the early childhood education center. Most of the children were two or three years old, and the younger ones were even only one year old.
Looking at these innocent, simple and cute kids, Chen Jue felt a lot calmer inside.
After greeting the girl at the front desk, he changed into shoe covers and walked into Cheng Wei's office. Seeing that he was busy with some materials, Chen Jue didn't ask much and just sat on the sofa and browsed his phone for a while.
It was almost 7 o'clock in the evening when Cheng Wei finally finished his work. He stretched out in his boss chair, then stood up, glanced at Chen Jue, and said with a frown, "Let's go! Old Cat! I'll take you to a nice meal tonight!"
"Hehe! Then I won't be polite!" Chen Jue nodded. He happened to be hungry, so he followed Cheng Wei out of the mall, turned into a nearby alley, and finally found a small restaurant in the alley and sat down.
"Old dog! You are worth tens of millions! So you said we want to have a good meal here? I thought you were going to take me to Black Pearl or some Michelin restaurant!" Chen Jue rolled his eyes at the other person in annoyance.
"Haha! I just want to take you back to your original intention!"
"I still remember when we first came to Beidu, we didn't have much money in our pockets, so we liked to go to small restaurants like this one." Cheng Wei said with a smile.
"Of course I remember! I once had acute gastroenteritis in the middle of the night and was sent directly to the hospital." Chen Jue's face twitched as he recalled the bad past.
But that was all in the past. Now these fly-in-the-wall restaurants have started to get rectified, and the environment and hygiene inside are no worse than those of the restaurants on the main street.
Stir-fried tripe, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, braised tofu, Kung Pao chicken, three-no-stick, and a pot of boiled lamb. Chen Jue had just had a midnight snack a few days ago, and Cheng Wei knew that Chen Jue was like a different person now, with a big appetite, so he ordered a few more hard dishes and two bottles of beer.
The two of them ate and talked, reminiscing about the past, recalling the carefree days in college and some of their experiences in Beidu.
When they first arrived in Beidu, they were full of curiosity about everything in Beidu. They climbed the long wall together, went to the old imperial city, and watched the flag-raising ceremony early in the morning , which is something that almost everyone who comes to Beidu must experience.
By the way, that flag was also designed by Chen Jue’s fellow villager from An County, Wen City. Now the designer’s statue stands on Yuhe Square in An County, Wen City. Isn’t that a coincidence?
The two of them expressed their feelings, and after eating and drinking, they went back to Cheng Wei's house, watched a comedy movie, washed up, and went to bed.
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The next day, Chen Jue got up before 7 o'clock and packed his luggage. He originally planned to buy a high-speed rail ticket back to Vancouver in the morning, but he found that Cheng Wei also got up early, and then mysteriously took Chen Jue to the community garage, saying that he was going to send Chen Jue off.
But before that, Cheng Wei planned to take Chen Jue to a place along the way, saying that it was to continue to recall their original intentions, which made Chen Jue a little confused.
Sitting in Cheng Wei's newly purchased Mercedes-Benz G, Cheng Wei drove out of the community and asked Chen Jue where he had been hanging out these days.
He disappeared for three days, didn't reply to WeChat messages or answer phone calls. Among the six people in the dormitory, Cheng Wei felt that Chen Jue had changed the most.
"It's nothing! I just participated in an event and won a prize of 100,000 yuan." Chen Jue didn't elaborate, but just mentioned it simply.
"Oh my god! A 100,000 yuan bonus? What kind of event is so awesome!" Cheng Wei didn't expect that his roommate was so awesome. He earned 100,000 yuan in just three days.
"You are a big boss with an annual income of several million, and you still look down on my 100,000 yuan?" Chen Jue touched the interior of the car and felt that Cheng Wei was really successful now.
He lives in a mansion and drives a luxury car. All he lacks is a confidante to accompany him. He is definitely a loser who has made a comeback and is a winner in life.
When the car arrived at a remote open space near the Fifth Ring Road, Chen Jue glanced at the four big words "Yuanfang Driving School" hanging on the large cubic white building in the distance, and he immediately realized Cheng Wei's intention.
Because this driving school is where the two of them signed up for driving lessons when they first moved to Beijing together.
As he was busy with work at the time and had no time to do the questions, Chen Jue took the test without preparation and failed the first subject. He was ridiculed by Cheng Wei for a long time and was therefore deeply impressed by this "Yuanfang Driving School".
The reason why I came to Beijing to learn how to drive, instead of signing up for a driver's license test while I was at university in Vancouver, is because the cost of learning how to drive in Vancouver is relatively expensive. It would cost at least tens of thousands of dollars to get a license after going through the entire process.
But the prices in Beidu are very reasonable and can be purchased for only 3,000 yuan. If you pay 5,000 yuan more, you don’t even need to practice driving with an old Jetta. You can directly use a Mercedes-Benz as a training car, which is economical and affordable.
"Good you old dog!"
"Is this what you mean by recalling your original intention?" Chen Jue said unhappily.
"Haha! Old Cat, have you forgotten that the pancakes in front of the driving school are delicious?"
"After we finish eating, I'll take you to the high-speed rail station. We'll be in time." Cheng Wei smiled happily. After parking the car, they ran to the pancake stand in front of the driving school and ordered two pancakes with pork tenderloin.
Then, just like when we first came to learn driving, I squatted at the entrance of the driving school, eating pancakes and drinking soy milk.
"Old Dog, I remember that you met your ex-girlfriend at this pancake stall! You said you brought me here to reminisce about your original intentions. You were not reminiscing about your own love history, right?" Chen Jue felt that Cheng Wei was a little too deeply in love and wanted to help him enlighten him.
When Chen Jue asked this, Cheng Wei took a sip of soy milk, gulped it down, and then sighed: "Don't expose people when they are in trouble! Can't you see that I am sad?"
Just as the two of them were squatting and lamenting the passage of time, a light pink Porsche stopped next to the pancake stall and a pretty young girl got out of the car.
This woman probably also likes this authentic pancake breakfast, so she drove here like Chen Jue and the others to be a foodie.
But after seeing the woman's face, Cheng Wei beside Chen Jue jumped up as if he had gone crazy, not even paying attention to his roommate who was seeing him off, and ran forward like a possessed man: "Qianqian! Is that you?"
When the young girl turned around and saw Cheng Wei, she was also incredulous. She was silent for a long time, then looked at the half-eaten pancake in Cheng Wei's hand and burst into tears: "So... you haven't forgotten the taste of this place..."
After each of them finished speaking, the man and the woman looked at each other in silence. Finally, they hugged each other in front of the pancake stall lady and Chen Jue.
At this moment, Chen Jue, with his divine sense, sensed that there was a strong love surging between the two of them.
“Fuck!”
"I've eaten enough dog food so early in the morning!" Chen Jue kept complaining in his heart, like a bystander watching an extremely melodramatic love story.
But if you think about it carefully, this scene where Cheng Wei and his ex-girlfriend reconciled may be a reflection of the saying "If you keep thinking about it, it will come true."
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After finishing the remaining pancakes, Chen Jue did not go forward to disturb the two people who were flirting with each other as if no one was around. Instead, he walked to Cheng Wei's car, opened the door and put on his backpack.
He planned to take a taxi to the high-speed rail station to avoid ruining the atmosphere of rising love between the two.
Just as he reached the driving school's internal road training ground, Chen Jue suddenly heard the opening tune of a song and exciting and stirring drum beats coming from an elevated loudspeaker in the distance.
This is the song that the driving school specially plays in the morning to refresh the students and instructors. I didn’t expect that the tune has not been changed after so many years.
“It’s that same old song again!”
"I could hear it every time I came here to practice driving. I was almost brainwashed to the point of vomiting..." Chen Jue looked back at the radio speaker, and then at the driving school students who were shivering and waiting to get in the car to practice in the early morning. He felt that everything he had discovered in the past was so close to him.
Just as I turned around and was about to leave, the dense drum beats and melodious erhu music from the loudspeaker gradually faded away, and a hurried, magnetic, and inexplicably deep female voice began to sing:
"The world is vast, travelers are in a hurry, the tide rises and falls"
"Love and hate, life and death, how many people can see through it"
"The world is rolling..."
At this moment, Chen Jue's steps suddenly stopped, as if the song had touched some special chord in his heart. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and his life experiences began to flash before his eyes like a slide show.
"So... it's here..." Chen Jue muttered softly, and his stagnant steps started again. He gradually walked away in the sound of this retro classic song until he disappeared in the hustle and bustle of traffic and the endless crowds of people.
