Chapter 17: Seeking Excitement
It is difficult for most people to refuse an invitation from a beautiful girl. But Zhang Nianzu did not want to cause trouble. Although he had not made any promises to Lei Xiaohu, he knew that if he got involved with Lei Tingting, there would be consequences.
Seeing him hesitate, Lei Tingting smiled and said directly: "Don't worry, I won't get you into trouble. Just consider it as a favor I'm doing you today. I will never bother you again in the future."
After she said that, Zhang Nianzu was at a loss for words.
The two men walked out one after the other, just in time for Old Wu to come back. He grabbed Zhang Nianzu and the honest man's expression made faces that Zhang Nianzu would never forget for the rest of his life.
"You two...what's going on?"
"I met her yesterday and sent her home."
Lei Tingting walked to the front.
Old Wu then asked in rapid succession, "The girl looks good, do you know her background? What does her family do?"
Zhang Nianzu nodded: "I know where they live, who her father is, and what he does. Does that count as knowing everything about her?"
Old Wu was relieved: "Okay! I didn't expect you to make such rapid progress." After saying that, he looked at Lei Tingting from a distance, as if he was looking at his daughter-in-law.
Zhang Nianzu was too lazy to say more. Old Wu was actually an old feudalist who thought that young men and women together were just dating. Zhang Nianzu was worried about Tangdou now. He didn't know how many embarrassing situations she would have to face in the future with such a father.
Lei Tingting stood by the car waiting, consciously leaving the driver's seat to Zhang Nianzu.
Zhang Nianzu drove the car, walked less than five meters and then returned to the repair shop, took out the air pump and added some air to the right front wheel. Then he got in the car and glared at Lei Tingting intentionally or unintentionally. It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to detect such a small problem as insufficient tire pressure, but Zhang Nianzu also felt sorry for this Mercedes-Benz.
Lei Tingting chuckled and said, "I don't usually drive this car."
Zhang Nianzu asked: "Where are we going?"
"Let's eat first."
"What do you want to eat?"
Lei Tingting said, "Let's do this from now on. I say eat, and as long as you agree, you can choose what to eat."
And in the future? Zhang Nianzu was helpless. It was noon time. He chose a large shopping mall. The third floor of this mall was full of mid-range restaurants, so Lei Tingting had the final say on what to eat.
Finally, the two of them entered a Sichuan restaurant. After ordering the dishes, Lei Tingting looked at Zhang Nianzu and said, "It seems that I have no secrets from you. Tell me about yourself."
"I'm a mechanic, that's all."
Lei Tingting asked: "Where are your parents? Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
"I am an only child. My parents died in a car accident when I was 15."
Lei Tingting apologized and changed the subject abruptly: "Do you know why I drank so much yesterday?"
Zhang Nianzu looked in the direction of the kitchen and said hesitantly, "Look, it's almost time for dinner. Won't talking about this affect your appetite?"
Lei Tingting said: "Because I am unhappy, my father wants me to marry the son of a group president, who is much older than me."
Zhang Nianzu asked, "Is your father doing this for your happiness?"
Lei Tingting said flatly: "No, it's just because he has a lot of business dealings with that group."
Zhang Nianzu sighed, "Old trick." Lei Xiaohu was not from a wealthy family, but Zhang Nianzu was not surprised at all that he used his daughter's marriage as a bargaining chip. After all, a grassroots character like him needed a force of equal strength to stand by him.
Lei Tingting said, "Don't worry, I'm not looking for you to get angry with my dad, and I won't drag you into this. I just want to find someone to talk to. I'm almost going crazy."
Zhang Nianzu said, "It's okay, come to me anytime in the future. I'm used to seeing you vomit anyway." He had a changed opinion of Lei Tingting. This girl was not as happy as she looked, but she was very frank. He noticed that she had said "don't worry" twice in a short period of time, which meant that she was aware of her identity and was afraid of causing trouble to others.
Lei Tingting blushed and said, "Don't always dwell on other people's embarrassing things. I don't believe you have never vomited after drinking."
Zhang Nianzu said: "I can't compare with you."
Lei Tingting pretended to be angry and said, "You still say that!?"
At this time, the dishes came up. Lei Tingting ate very elegantly and beautifully, and she didn't act pretentiously. From time to time, she lifted her long hair to one side to pick up dishes. She looked refreshing and pleasant. This broke Zhang Nianzu's stereotype that the eldest daughter of the underworld would eat everything in a whirlwind. It seemed that she was really depressed yesterday, otherwise she wouldn't be so drunk.
Zhang Nianzu said: "Since you don't want to get married, you can discuss it with your father. I think he still loves you very much."
Lei Tingting said, "It depends on what the matter is. There is no room for negotiation on this kind of thing!" At this point, she changed the subject and said, "I'm curious about what you said to my dad yesterday. I heard that you had a big argument?"
Zhang Nianzu said casually: "What can I say to him? It's all because of what you said. If I can't explain it clearly, I can only leave."
Lei Tingting said: "It's easy for you to say that. He is the Lei Xiaohu who is feared by everyone in the martial arts world! You don't seem to be afraid of him at all."
Zhang Nianzu said: "I don't feel anything. Besides, your father's name is actually quite cute. If you say it quickly, it sounds like Lei Xiaohuo."
"Pfft..." Lei Tingting spit out a mouthful of drink and laughed exaggeratedly, "This is the first time I've heard someone say that about my dad. You're really brave."
When it was time to pay the bill, Zhang Nianzu was glared back by Lei Tingting as soon as he made a move to pay. Zhang Nianzu did not insist. The dishes ordered on the table were just enough for two people, and there was no waste. Although Lei Tingting was born in a family where she could be willful, she was not willful at all. Most of the time, she looked more like a well-educated lady, which showed that Lei Xiaohu still had the right values in educating his offspring.
After dinner, Zhang Nianzu said, "Aren't you going to take me to an exciting place?"
Lei Tingting said: "That place hasn't opened yet, let's go watch a movie first."
"Can you tell me where it is?"
"No." Lei Tingting said with a smile, "I have the final say today, go buy the tickets."
There is a cinema in the mall, and there are two movies available during this time period, one is a foreign suspense detective film, and the other is a domestic ghost film. Zhang Nianzu wants to watch the former, but Lei Tingting insists on watching a ghost film, saying that ghost movies can relieve stress...
The poster of the movie they were going to watch was posted in a prominent place - a girl with heavy makeup opened her eyes wide in horror, screaming and blood foam flowing from the corners of her eyes.
Lei Tingting said expectantly: "It looks scary at first glance!"
Two people entered, the dragon logo flashed on the screen, and the movie began.
Zhang Nianzu smiled evilly and leaned close to Lei Tingting's ear and said, "Let me give you a spoiler - the heroine is a psychopath, and everything is just her imagination. There are no ghosts in this movie at all."
"Have you seen it?"
"If you don't believe me, just watch."
After a brief character introduction, the girl on the poster begins to suffer from repeated horror scenes. Blood oozes out of the faucet, a woman in white quickly flashes in the mirror, and she screams hysterically in a gloomy dream... Although the routine is old-fashioned, it still looks like a decent horror movie.
Lei Tingting stared at it very seriously, occasionally throwing a few popcorns into her mouth. She whispered, "Isn't this good?"
As a result, the movie took a sharp turn for the worse in the last three minutes. The director probably realized at the end that he didn't have much time left, so he simply used a quick narration to tell the audience: the heroine had neurasthenia and overdosed on drugs, and that all of this was just her imagination, so don't take medicine blindly if you're fine.
The theater lights came on, leaving only a collectively confused audience.
Lei Tingting had just stuffed a grain of popcorn into her mouth and before she had time to chew it, she was told that the movie was over. She was dumbfounded: "It's over? I just watched a psychopath sleepwalking for an hour and a half?"
Zhang Nianzu couldn't help laughing and said, "This is your own choice."
Lei Tingting was so angry that her teeth itched. She grabbed Zhang Nianzu and insisted, "Tell me, you have seen this before, otherwise how do you know there are no ghosts here?"
Zhang Nianzu lazily said: "How can there be ghosts in domestic movies? The dragon logo is the biggest spoiler, this is common sense."
Lei Tingting gritted her teeth and said, "I will never watch domestic ghost movies again."
Zhang Nianzu said: "It's quite funny if you watch it as a comedy. There is also a kind of horror movie for otakus. Although there are no ghosts, there are many benefits of big-breasted heroines taking baths, which will definitely make you feel that the ticket price is worth it..."
Lei Tingting glanced at him: "You've seen it a lot, haven't you?"
"Uh..." Zhang Nianzu realized that talking too much would lead to mistakes, so he quickly shut up.
…
After leaving the mall, Lei Tingting looked at the time and said, "Take a walk with me. That place will open after dark."
Zhang Nianzu asked, "Are you going to take me to play that kind of escape room?"
Lei Tingting laughed wickedly and said, "Don't guess, you will never be able to guess it."
The two were walking and chatting when they saw a large group of people gathered in front of them. When they looked over, they realized that there was a naughty little boy who put his head through the railings to play while his mother was buying vegetables on the roadside and couldn't get out.
The little boy lowered his head with his neck stuck in the railing, crying in pain. His mother was anxiously making a phone call and the onlookers gave suggestions. Some said to call the police, some said to call the fire department, but all the calls had already been made and it was a congested time at this time, so no one knew when rescue would come.
An uncle who was selling pancakes on the roadside tried to pry open the railings with the iron bars of a cart, but the railings were solid and it was difficult. The uncle didn't dare to use too much force for fear of hurting the children.
Zhang Nianzu squatted down and observed the situation. The two railings were stuck around the boy's neck. He had to rely on his strength to get out, so it would be difficult to get out. At this time, he needed a tool like a jack to prop the railings open. However, it was meaningless to say this at this time. He could only tease the boy to attract his attention: "Brother, how does the street look like from this angle?"
The little boy looked about eight or nine years old. He was tired of crying and began to feel scared. When someone asked him a question, he said with a sad face, "It's not fun!"
Lei Tingting bought a bottle of drink, put a straw in the child's mouth, and temporarily calmed him down.
Zhang Nianzu reached out and touched the two railings, trying to think of another solution.
The child's mother endured and said, "Be careful." The railing is resilient. If it is deformed by brute force, it will bounce back and easily injure the child's neck. This is why so many people are helpless. After all, it is none of their business and no one is willing to take this unnecessary risk.
When Zhang Nianzu's right index finger touched the railing behind the child's left ear, he suddenly felt something strange - his index finger seemed to touch an invisible gap on the railing. For a moment, Zhang Nianzu even thought it was an illusion, and then he touched somewhere else, and the feeling disappeared. When he touched it again, the gap appeared on his finger again, and it was very obvious. Zhang Nianzu took Lei Tingting's hand and placed it on that place and said, "Touch here, is there any difference?"
Lei Tingting felt it carefully and said blankly: "No."
Zhang Nianzu touched it again, and it was still there! He calmed himself down and said to the uncle making pancakes, "Give me the iron bar." At the same time, he said to Lei Tingting, "Put your hands over the child's ears." Lei Tingting did as he was told.
The child's mother said nervously: "What do you want to do? I... let's wait for the fire department to come!"
Zhang Nianzu said: "I will only try once. If it doesn't work, I will wait for someone."
The child's mother hesitated for a long time, then gritted her teeth and said, "Just don't hurt the child."
"No." Zhang Nianzu took the iron bar, aimed it at the gap, and knocked it lightly.
"Crack" sounded very lightly. When Zhang Nianzu looked again, he found that the railing had broken into a gray line from where he had hit it, but the onlookers didn't know what had happened. Zhang Nianzu stretched out his hand to grab the broken part and twisted it hard. At this time, the railing had been broken into two pieces, so it became soft and he bent it with force.
"Come out." Zhang Nianzu bent the railing, allowing the child to retract his head easily.
People looked at this scene in surprise. No one even knew what he had done. The child had already thrown himself into his mother's arms, and the child's mother stood there with her mouth wide open.
Zhang Nianzu returned the iron bar to the uncle, smiled at the child, and left with Lei Tingting.
After walking a long way out, Lei Tingting seemed to have just recovered and shouted excitedly: "How did you do it? You broke such a thick railing in one blow?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "That place was almost broken because of internal injuries. I asked you to touch it but you couldn't feel it."
"Really?" Lei Tingting asked in surprise, "But I touched it for a long time and didn't find anything different."
Zhang Nianzu said: "That's because you didn't touch it carefully."
Lei Tingting suddenly laughed and said: "Is that so?" "I thought you just wanted to take the opportunity to touch my hand."
Zhang Nianzu: “…” He discovered another characteristic of this girl. She was not very shy about such embarrassing jokes. Perhaps it was because she came from a fierce family and had never been on guard against others from the bottom of her heart. She thought that no one dared to take advantage of her.
Lei Tingting looked at her watch again and said, "It's about time this time, come with me."
Zhang Nianzu said: "Can you tell me now?"
Lei Tingting said more mysteriously: "I have already done eight bows, so this little shiver doesn't matter. You will know when you go there!"
The two returned to the car, Lei Tingting gave directions, and Zhang Nianzu felt more and more familiar with the road as he drove. When they arrived at the place and sat down, Zhang Nianzu was even more amused - Lei Tingting took him to Lao Jiang's Dick Bar.
Seeing Zhang Nianzu's calm look, Lei Tingting couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you ask me where the stimulation is?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "You say."
Lei Tingting asked, "You know where my dad works, right?"
"Your father is the boss of the Black Panther Gang."
"Right! Do you know what the biggest topic of the Black Panther Gang is recently?"
Zhang Nianzu understood a little and said, "Nineteen members of the Black Panther Gang were beaten down by one man. Is this what you are talking about?"
Lei Tingting said excitedly, "That's right again!" She moved closer to Zhang Nianzu and said mysteriously, "This bar was opened by that person. Isn't it exciting?"
Zhang Nianzu said helplessly: "Stimulation..."
Lei Tingting said dissatisfiedly: "Does your expression mean excitement?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "I just don't understand. This person is supposed to be your family's enemy. Why are you here?"
"They are my father's enemies, not mine." Lei Tingting corrected him and said with a smile, "I'm just curious about who can defeat 19 members of the Black Panther Gang, and five of them are the most capable 'Leopard Head Stick Flower' of the Black Panther Gang."
Zhang Nianzu asked: "Then how much do you know about 'this person'?"
Lei Tingting said: "I only know that his name is Jiang Zhicheng. In the past, people in the underworld called him Lao Jiang. Now he is a big shot and a famous figure! He was nicknamed the Thirteen Spices Tiger. I have wanted to come and see him for a long time. His bar is now full of gang bosses and well-known figures in the underworld. Look at how ferocious the guy with the big gold chain looks, and the guy over there with incomplete fingers, you can tell at a glance that he is not a good person..."
Zhang Nianzu laughed and said, "Keep your voice down." He remembered that he was with Zhao Weiming last time. Both times, the people who came with him were the type who would rather die than surrender.
Lei Tingting stopped a waiter and asked, "Where is your boss?"
The waiter asked, "Our boss hasn't come yet. What would you like to drink, beautiful lady?"
Lei Tingting asked Zhang Nianzu: "What do you want to drink?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "Get two bottles of beer."
Lei Tingting said: "Don't spoil the fun, let's have something exciting, I'll treat you."
Zhang Nianzu whispered, "You didn't come here to drink, let's just take a look and leave."
Lei Tingting also whispered, "You have to act well. If you sit there with a bottle of beer for a long time, people will know that you are not interested in drinking."
Zhang Nianzu said to the waiter, "Then take half a dozen."
After the waiter left, Lei Tingting said unhappily, "You really know how to embarrass others."
Zhang Nianzu said: "Do you feel like a female spy undercover in the enemy's lair?"
Lei Tingting pouted and said, "My dad has told me not to bother Jiang Zhicheng anymore. I'm just curious."
"Did Chiang Kai-shek defeat your father?"
Lei Tingting shook her head and said, "My father didn't take Shisanxiang seriously at all. He was afraid of causing public outrage if he continued to argue."
Zhang Nianzu said meaningfully: "Your father finally made the right move."
At this time, the door opened and Lao Jiang appeared with Xu Xiaofeng. Almost everyone in the bar stood up and waved to them.
Zhang Nianzu said: "Look, that is the Thirteen Spices Tiger."
The old general is still chubby and harmoniousness brings wealth.
Lei Tingting said disappointedly: "Is Jiang Zhicheng really like this? The sister next to him is very elegant, what a pity."
Zhang Nianzu said boredly: "Well, my friend thought so at first." They sat there without moving, and Chiang Kai-shek did not notice Zhang Nianzu.
After greeting everyone, Lao Jiang accompanied Teresa Teng to change clothes.
Lei Tingting suddenly said, "No, Jiang Zhicheng and that sister shouldn't be a couple."
Zhang Nianzu wondered, "How did you figure that out?"
Lei Tingting pointed at Lao Jiang's hand on Xu Xiaofeng's waist and said, "Don't you think he is too polite?"
"Can't we treat each other with respect?"
Lei Tingting shook her head and said, "A woman's feeling is not wrong. They are probably not husband and wife, or even in that kind of relationship."
After she said that, Zhang Nianzu also felt that it seemed a bit strange. Chiang's attitude towards Teresa Teng was not the kind of doting that a man has towards a woman, but more like an infatuated love. On the other hand, Teresa Teng's tenderness towards Chiang was even more confusing. The two of them had feelings for each other, so what was the reason for this sense of distance?
Before he could figure it out, Lei Tingting sighed and said, "They say hearing about someone is worse than meeting him in person. Jiang Zhicheng is a negative example. Let's just have a drink."
Zhang Nianzu was shocked and said, "You really drank it, and you want to spray it back?"
Lei Tingting smiled and said, "No, at most I can call a designated driver to go back, and we'll go our separate ways after this drink, and just pretend we've never met."
