Chapter 35: Relics in the Body
"How does it feel to ride in a car I drive for the first time?" Zhao Weiming asked Zhang Nianzu in the half-new taxi.
"You still need to get used to manual transmission." Holding Liu Yuejin's ashes in his hands, Zhang Nianzu simply selected a day from the almanac and prepared to "send" Liu Yuejin away today.
"A manual transmission isn't hard to drive, it's just a matter of shifting a few more times." Zhao Weiming pretended to be skilled in changing gears, as if he hadn't worn off the novelty. He was driving, and this was the first time Zhang Nianzu had been sitting in the passenger seat in all these years. Zhao Weiming had cars before, but he would often sell them off to fix various problems after driving them for a short time. Sometimes Zhang Nianzu knew he had changed cars, and he would sell them for money before he even saw them.
Seeing Zhao Weiming's beaming look, Zhang Nianzu felt a little bit impressed by this boy's mentality - he was a rich second-generation a few days ago, but now he has fallen to driving a taxi, but he can still be so heartless and happy. It seems that Zhao Weiming really thinks that life only needs excitement, and it is not necessary to be rich.
Zhao Weiming looked at the jar in Zhang Nianzu's hand, and his expression suddenly became depressed. "It seems that I am really not destined to be rich. I was still hoping to find this gentleman and make a fortune, but in the end I met him in a different form." He asked again, "He and you are not related in any way, why did he let you handle his ashes? Didn't you ask the people in the Civil Affairs Bureau?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "They don't know either. It's just a routine matter."
"Is his inheritance really only 10 dollars?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "Why don't I give it to you as my successor?"
Zhao Weiming waved his hands and said, "Forget it. It's not even enough to pay for the gas. I'll give him a ride and he'll still remember me well in the underworld."
The two of them arrived at the entrance of a wetland park in the suburbs, and Zhao Weiming said, "Really, you don't need me to go with you?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "No need, it's not something to join in the fun."
"Then I'll wait for you at the door?"
"No need, I'll take the bus back later, you should pick up more passengers."
Zhao Weiming saluted Zhang Nianzu who had already got out of the car and said, "Dear customer! Don't even mention soliciting customers. I used to be the one being solicited. I don't do that kind of thing myself." With that, he ran away.
Zhang Nianzu entered the park. Today was not a holiday, and there were not many old men and women in this suburban park, so it seemed a little lonely. He rented a pedal boat and soon arrived at the center of the lake. Zhang Nianzu placed the urn in the middle of the boat, lit three cigarettes, bowed, and said, "Although you are not very old, I still call you old man - old man, have a good journey, I will leave you here as you ordered, and we may be able to continue our relationship in the next life."
After saying these words, Zhang Nianzu opened the cloth wrapped around the jar, tilted the jar mouth towards the lake, and slowly poured out Liu Yuejin's ashes into the lake. When the entire jar was almost upside down, the ashes were scattered. Zhang Nianzu shook the jar a few times, thinking whether to throw it into the lake, when he suddenly heard a clinking sound from the jar, as if there was metal rolling inside. Then a round object fell from the mouth of the jar and fell straight into the water.
Zhang Nianzu was surprised. He caught it quickly and began to look at it.
This is a piece of metal in the shape of an olive pit, with round ends and a protruding belly in the middle, which is about the same size as an olive pit. It is smooth in the hand, with no seams or openings. Its exterior is colorfully burned by the flames. Zhang Nianzu thought about it and felt that this thing was strange. It was obviously carried by Liu Yuejin before his death, and he even managed to eat it, so it was burned with Liu Yuejin's body and then poured into the urn with his ashes. But why Liu Yuejin did this is now a mystery.
Zhang Nianzu looked at the olive pit made of special material. He tried to bend it, but it didn't move. Zhang Nianzu knocked on the side of the boat again, but he couldn't tell whether it was hollow in the middle. In short, it was a whole piece and very solid. It seemed not easy to open it.
Just as Zhang Nianzu was studying this little thing, he suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that there were a dozen more people on the shore. All of them were holding baseball bats and slowly following the direction of his boat. Zhang Nianzu put away the olive pit, looked up, and came face to face with one of those people. He knew this man, it was Triangle Eyes, one of Gu Changfeng's men!
Zhang Nianzu sneered slightly. Ever since he offended Gu Changfeng, he knew that this matter would not end like this. He was a little surprised that the other party showed up after so many days.
The lake in the park has no distant sails, nor can it drift to poetry and the distant. Zhang Nianzu's boat can only circle in this dead water, so Triangle Eyes and his companions are not in a hurry. They just look at each other across the lake, not too far away. Triangle Eyes' eyes are full of pride and fierceness, and he leads a group of people to follow slowly by the lake, like a group of hungry wolves waiting for lambs with no way to escape to come ashore.
Zhang Nianzu looked at Triangle Eyes and recalled the last fierce fight outside Dick's Bar. He smiled slightly - of course, it was not because of Triangle Eyes, but because of that beautiful and lovely girl. Then, he waved at Triangle Eyes and made a provocative gesture.
Triangle Eyes waved the stick in his hand silently and ordered his subordinates: "We will beat them to death in a while, don't be afraid of losing lives." The subordinates responded with thunderous cheers, and each of them was eager to try.
The boat slowly approached the shore, and Triangle Eyes and the others swarmed over. When they were still three or five meters from the ground, Zhang Nianzu suddenly started to run from the boat, jumped into the air, and threw the empty jar in his hand to the crowd. The jar broke on the head of one of the younger brothers, and the remaining white powder inside got all over his head and face.
Zhang Nianzu apologized and ran away as soon as his body hit the ground!
Triangle Eyes was stunned for a moment. He had seen Zhang Nianzu's skills and ruthlessness, and seeing his unbridled appearance on the boat, he thought he would fight to the death with his gang, but he didn't expect that the other party chose to escape without hesitation! He shouted for pursuit, and a large group of people followed him with sticks.
What Triangle Eyes didn't expect again was that Zhang Nianzu ran out at the speed of a 100-meter sprint for just 10 meters, and suddenly stopped in place. Then he twisted his body and knocked down a younger brother in front of him with a punch. In the midst of his busy schedule, he did not forget to snatch the stick from his hand. When Triangle Eyes and the others just surrounded him, Zhang Nianzu ran away again!
"Beat him to death!" Triangle Eyes shouted in exasperation and unknowingly rushed to the second position. Before he finished speaking, Zhang Nianzu turned around suddenly, swung the stick and knocked down the younger brother who was in the first position.
Triangle Eyes was so frightened that he raised his stick and prepared to fight to the death. Zhang Nianzu had already left no credit or fame... and ran away again.
No matter how dumb Triangle Eyes was, he could see clearly that Zhang Nianzu was going to fight a war of attrition with them. No matter how many people he had on his side, they couldn't all meet the enemy while running fast, and in a one-on-one situation, the advantage of having more people couldn't be brought into play. He pointed at a little brother and shouted, "You lead five people to encircle them from the front!"
The younger brother agreed, took five people and ran forward regardless of anything.
It has to be said that Triangle Eyes' command was wise - the park was full of circular roads, and he led his men to hold back Zhang Nianzu, while the other group would definitely be able to encircle him from the front.
Seeing that the encirclement of the two gangs was about to succeed, Zhang Nianzu suddenly turned around and rushed towards Triangle Eyes. The two sides immediately engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and there was a burst of crackling noises. Zhang Nianzu fought with the gang here with a stick. Although he was hit countless times, he successfully knocked down two of them, and then broke through the encirclement and ran out. As a result, the gang responsible for the encirclement in the front was left behind again.
Then the scene kept repeating itself. Zhang Nianzu was running around with a stick, looking south and north. The people surrounding him were decreasing one by one. Triangle Eyes became more and more frightened as he chased him. He deeply regretted that he brought too few people this time. Although Zhang Nianzu was fighting one against three last time, he was already exhausted in the end. If Gu Changfeng had not been afraid of losing face, any other person could have knocked him down. This time he brought fifteen people with weapons. His only concern before coming was that he was afraid that he would run away, so he followed him all the way and watched him enter the park before showing up. He didn't expect that he would be the one who was embarrassed in the end.
What Zhang Nianzu and Triangle Eyes didn't expect was that the entire fight between them was seen by Lei Yuanzheng not far away. This shark-like man cast a playful gaze on Zhang Nianzu and kept sighing: "This kid fights so beautifully, but also so ugly!"
