Chapter 85: Once Upon a Time
In the next few days, Zhang Nianzu began to concentrate on competing with money.
First of all, his previous plan has become unfeasible. No matter what happens to Wu Doudou, Old Wu will need a place to make a living in the future, so the repair shop cannot be sold. With Lei Tingting and the uncle and nephew of the Li family, the house cannot be sold for the time being. We can't all live in a hotel together, and houses in third-tier cities are not worth much. Lei Tingting wanted to sell her sports car, but without the procedures, she could only sell it as a black car, which was completely nonsense.
Therefore, Zhang Nianzu became more obsessed with the public funds of the Strongman Clan...
You know, these few days may be peaceful and calm for others, but Lao Wu's savings are decreasing rapidly. In order to completely solve the economic crisis, he must have a considerable amount of money, and the public funds are undoubtedly the biggest hope. And Zhang Nianzu is not just for Lao Wu's family. The living conditions of the clan members he saw are not ideal, including Lao Jiang, Li's uncle and nephew, and Zhang Xiaoliang. Although money is not omnipotent, it can solve many problems most of the time. This is what he should do for the clan members as the clan leader. Zhang Nianzu found that the identity of the clan leader not only did not bring him any benefits, but also caused a lot of troubles...
On that day, Zhang Nianzu was teaching Li Asan and Li Asi the basic skills of car repair. The two young men were actually not stupid and had some basic experience in repairing three-wheeled vehicles. In just a few days, they had mastered some basic principles. Today, with Zhang Nianzu's permission, they dismantled the Ford car into a pile of parts on the street and then reassembled it.
Zhang Nianzu still felt very distressed, but he had to give it up reluctantly in order to let the two brothers practice.
Li Changgui squatted at the door of the store with a cigarette in his mouth without lighting it, and seemed to be about to fall asleep.
At this moment, a man tiptoed slowly and approached Zhang Nianzu, who had his back to him, with a strange look on his face.
Li Changgui suddenly opened his eyes, but he deliberately did not speak.
The man judged the distance and suddenly rushed over when he was more than ten steps away from Zhang Nianzu.
Li Asan and Zhang Nianzu were both studying the engine with their heads down, but Li Asi was facing them. He suddenly saw someone trying to sneak attack Zhang Nianzu , so he rushed out with a loud shout. He passed by Zhang Nianzu like the wind, grabbed the attacker's arm and threw him up. The man was immediately thrown from one street corner to another, rolling and stumbling. The expression on his face changed drastically, and he rubbed his sore arms and legs and cursed, "You're crazy!" This man was not stupid. He foresaw that even if ten of him were to kill him, he could not beat Li Asi, so he stood at the street corner and cursed, with his legs ready to escape at any time.
Li Ah Si's shout startled Zhang Nianzu. He turned around and scolded with a smile, "Are you courting death?"
It turned out that the person who wanted to "sneak attack" him was Zhao Weiming.
Zhao Weiming hadn't seen Zhang Nianzu for so many days, and wanted to play a joke on him today, but he failed to do so and was thrown out of the street. He pointed at Li Asi and said, "Come here!"
"Let's go!" Li Asi rolled up his arms and was about to leave.
Zhang Nianzu stopped him, smiled and shook his head, then said to Zhao Weiming: "Come here."
Zhao Weiming pointed at Li Asi and said, "Tell him to stop and I'll go over!" He quickly determined that Li Asi and Zhang Nianzu were friends.
"One of our own." Zhang Nianzu said to Li Asi.
Li Ah Si then said, "Come here, I won't beat you anymore."
Zhao Weiming came over cautiously and complained, "It's only been a few days since I last saw you adding to the decorations?"
Zhang Nianzu smiled and said, "Be careful with your words."
Li Changgui said leisurely: "Young man, don't make such jokes in the future. If that kid had thrown you against the wall just now, you would still be bleeding on the ground now."
Zhao Weiming asked Zhang Nianzu: "What's the situation with these three?"
"It's hard to explain in a few words." Zhang Nianzu moved two chairs and motioned for him to sit down, then said, "Let's talk about you first. How have you been these days?"
"Very good." Zhao Weiming said, "I wanted to come and see you a long time ago. Someone just came back from a trip abroad and made a small profit." He lowered his voice and asked, "How about you? How did you deal with Lei Xiaohu's pursuit of you?"
At this time, Lei Tingting walked into the store carrying a pile of washed clothes and sheets. She put everything in her hands on the floor and recognized Zhao Weiming. She smiled and greeted him, "You're here?"
"Oh my god!" Zhao Weiming exclaimed as if he had discovered a new world, "Her father actually agreed that you two should be together?" He then stood up and said, "Hello, sister-in-law!"
"You guys chat." Lei Tingting started changing the bed sheets.
Zhao Weiming shook his head vigorously and said, "I am not dreaming - oh, how did her father figure out this good wife and mother image?"
"Her father may not have figured it out yet." Zhang Nianzu said, "I've been through a lot recently, where should I start? Oh, do you still remember the story of Grandpa?"
"Oh, I remember."
"I have good news for you. This time I really found my grandfather."
Zhao Weiming immediately looked around the room and asked, "Did you get another urn from somewhere?"
"Bullshit!" Zhang Nianzu pointed at himself and said, "I am the grandfather."
"Haha." Zhao Weiming laughed stiffly a few times, "It's a bit funny."
Zhang Nianzu went over and took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and said, "Come on, light up the cigarette, sit tight, and I'll tell you my story." He looked at Zhao Weiming's cigarette and laughed, "You don't have to be so formalistic, right?"
Zhao Weiming has become darker and thinner, mainly because he now smokes cigarettes that cost only a few yuan a pack, while he has never smoked cigarettes that cost less than 30 yuan before.
"Hey, this is to get into character. What good cigarettes can I smoke as a taxi driver?"
"Okay, let's start. Where should I start?"
Zhao Weiming said: "It starts from when you live with my sister."
"Uh, okay." Zhang Nianzu started from moving into Zhao Meir's apartment, naturally skipping over the night when she was almost picked up by someone and what happened afterwards. He recounted how he went to the hospital to visit Wu Doudou and was ambushed by the big guy, and how he was rescued by Liu Laoliu and others and learned about his life experience.
Zhao Weiming listened, the cigarette hanging at the corner of his mouth with a lot of ash accumulated and he forgot to flick it out. He frowned. Zhang Nianzu had never seen him so serious since he met him.
"A-Zu, wait a minute...your father doesn't look like the kind of person who would do such a thing!" Zhao Weiming had met Zhang Nianzu's father.
"I think so too, but now that it has happened and the money is gone, do you want me to use this sentence to explain it to my people?"
"You... weren't you being tricked?"
Zhang Nianzu picked up a brick that was used to support the wheels of a car and smashed it into pieces with one punch: "My body won't lie, will it?"
"Well, keep talking."
Zhang Nianzu continued with intensive training for three days and then went to find Lao Jiang. He heard that Lei Tingting was in trouble and went to find her to complete the story.
Zhao Weiming stared in astonishment and asked, "Are you saying that you can fight better than Chiang Kai-shek now?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "Old Chiang may be the least capable of fighting in our clan." He then went on to tell the story of how he met the uncle and nephew of the Li family.
Zhao Weiming shivered and said, "Except for Tingting and me, there are monsters everywhere in this room?" Most people would think this is a fairy tale, but Zhao Weiming was a man who had been influenced by Chiang Kai-shek, so he accepted what happened next as a matter of course.
Zhang Nianzu said: "So Changgui is right. You'd better not joke with me anymore. You just had a close call with hell, do you know that?" He laughed after he said that.
Zhao Weiming was speechless for a while, then suddenly his eyes sparkled and he said, "If I sell you out now, wouldn't it be easy to get the 100 million dollar bounty?"
Zhang Nianzu said to Lei Tingting, "Look at this kid, the first thing he always thinks about is money." He added, "I'm worried about money. The public funds in my clan haven't been settled yet."
Zhao Weiming suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "You are stupid. Others may not know about this, but there is one person who must know it clearly!"
"who?"
Zhao Weiming said: "Whoever offers 100 million US dollars to find you will know the details of this. Think about it, someone who can offer 100 million US dollars to find you must think that he can get more benefits by finding you, otherwise he is crazy."
Zhang Nianzu was silent for a moment and said, "You mean Du Heng, right? I've thought about this, but it doesn't make sense. The big guy who ambushed me is not the right age, so it can't be Du Heng. The fact that Du Heng spent so much money to find me shows that he is not short of money. He probably didn't find me for money..."
Zhao Weiming snorted and said, "You think human nature is too good, don't you? Do you think Du Heng is looking for you just to find his ancestry? I bet you that's impossible. Even if it's not for money, he has a bigger purpose. You've only been the ancestor for a few days? How much do you know about the secrets of the Qiangren tribe? You can't go wrong if you go find him."
Zhang Nianzu thought about it and realized that this was indeed the truth. Since he became the ancestor, he subconsciously felt guilty towards all the clansmen, so the thing he wanted to do most was to find the whereabouts of the money first, and even wanted to explain it clearly to the big guy who had ambushed him and reach a settlement. Du Heng was generous, and he felt like a poor relative who was ashamed to visit him, fearing that he would be thought of as asking for money. Of course, the main reason was that he was too busy to think about the cause and effect of these things during this period. Now it seems that Zhao Weiming's analysis is still correct.
"I didn't expect that your IQ would improve after you stopped messing around."
Zhao Weiming said indignantly: "My IQ was not off when I was fooling around. Have I ever lost in a finger-guessing game with those hostesses?"
"Huh?" Lei Tingting stared at him with a puzzled look.
Zhao Weiming quickly apologized with a smile: "Once you have seen the sea, you will never be impressed by the water. I haven't been to a place like that for a long time."
"real?"
"Of course I do. I only make enough money in two days - no, three days - to pay a princess's stage fee. I'm not crazy!"
Lei Tingting smiled and said, "You are quite knowledgeable about the charges."
Zhao Weiming said sadly: "Sometimes when I send guests there, I also ask about the current consumption standards..."
