Chapter 71 (I)
The restaurant seems to be doing a good job, with more than a dozen out-of-town cars parked in the parking lot outside, from large trucks full of goods to long-distance sleeper buses.
In the hall of the faΓ§ade, customers came and went, people came and went, and by the window at the entrance of the store, a long-haired girl in her twenties, wearing a medium-length red velvet jacket, was discussing something with a young man wearing a set of imitation military camouflage uniforms.
The girl seemed to be teaching this lad a lesson, not having a high profile. The young man kept his head down and didn't say much.
"Strange, why did this kid Tang Kui come here?" Zhang Shaoyu looked at the young man and muttered to himself.
Wu Ji was walking over to change seats with Zhang Shaoyu at this time, and seeing his demeanor, he couldn't help but follow his gaze and glanced at the restaurant called "Yingchun Building", and asked, "What, did you meet an acquaintance?"
Zhang Shaoyu nodded and replied, "Well, it's my former little brother, a very honest bitter child." β
Wu Ji looked at Zhang Shaoyu with strange eyes and said, "How old are you kid, call others 'children'?"
"Director Wu, I have to go over and take a look, I can't let him fool around in this kind of place. After Zhang Shaoyu finished speaking, he didn't care whether Wu Ji agreed or not, and walked towards Yingchun Tower.
"Tang Kui!" Zhang Shaoyu shouted in a deep voice as he walked.
The young man was Tang Kui, he looked up at Zhang Shaoyu when he heard the sound, and a look of joy flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by shame.
He lowered his head and whispered, "Big brother, how do you know I'm here?"
Zhang Shaoyu walked up to Tang Kui and asked instead of answering: "Didn't you go home for the Chinese New Year? Who introduced you here?"
Tang Kui lowered his head, said "um", then raised his head slightly, and peeked at the girl in red in front of him.
"Who are you?" asked the girl in red as she looked at Zhang Shaoyu with some surprise.
Zhang Shaoyu glanced at the girl in red with cold eyes, just one glance, and from the other party's heavy makeup, he could conclude that this woman was not a woman from a good family.
"Didn't you hear what Tang Kui called me just now?" he replied coldly, "Who are you, and what does it have to do with Tang Kui?"
"I'm Tang Kui's girlfriend!"
The girl in red's answer almost didn't make Zhang Shaoyu's eyes fall off, he wondered if he had heard it wrong, and asked, "Are you Kuizi's girlfriend?"
"I don't believe you ask him. The girl in red raised her hand and pointed at Tang Kui and said.
Zhang Shaoyu looked at Tang Kui's thin face. Tang Kui still didn't dare to look up at Zhang Shaoyu, lowered his head and whispered: "Her name is Li Yan, I was indeed with her during this time, and she brought me to Yingchun Building, but she is not my girlfriend......"
"Tang Kui, you bastard, you dare to say that I am not your girlfriend!?" Li Yan pointed at Tang Kui like a shrew and scolded.
Tang Kui seemed to have lost a lot of strength before he mustered up his courage, gritted his teeth and said: "I want you to stop messing with those men, you don't listen, although I, Tang Kui, am poor and unproductive, I will never be a cuckold!"
Although there are only two simple sentences, Zhang Shaoyu can basically judge that there is a straight relationship between Tang Kui and this girl named Li Yan.
Seeing that there were many people around to watch the excitement at this time, Zhang Shaoyu grabbed Tang Kui's thin but strong arm, dragged it out, and threw a sentence to Li Yan as he walked: "If you want to make a break, come with me!"
"Just go, I'm afraid of your ball. Li Yan seems to be an old fritter who has been in the society for a long time, no wonder Tang Kui, an honest person, will be eaten by her.
The rain was getting lighter at this time, Wu Ji sat in the passenger seat, smoking a cigar while smiling through the rearview mirror, looking at Zhang Shaoyu who was standing expressionless behind the car.
Of course, Zhang Shaoyu knows quite well about Tang Kui's personality and character, so in dealing with this matter, he completely suppressed Li Yan in a unique way of gangsters.
"Li Yan, what are you doing, I believe you and I know each other. Zhang Shaoyu stared at Li Yan with sharp eyes, and said coldly: "Kuizi is my brother, you think he is a countryman, and he is honest, so you will eat him." I don't care what you had to do with him before, now, I'm going to take him away, what do you want, make it clear, I'll take care of Kuizi!
After speaking, he walked to the back seat of the car, opened the door, and said to Tang Kui: "Kuizi, you go to the car and stay for me first, you have nothing to do with you!"
Zhang Shaoyu's words, of course, Tang Kui obeyed his words, and without thinking much about it, he obediently got into the jeep and sat there honestly with his head down, without saying a word.
Under the deterrence of Zhang Shaoyu's invisible momentum, Li Yan really couldn't figure out what kind of character he was. She recalled that Tang Kui called him "big brother" just now, and she had seen Tang Kui's skills in beating three with her own eyes before, could Tang Kui really have any background?
Li Yan said to Zhang Shaoyu with a smile on her face: "You are really Tang Kui's eldest brother!"
"Nonsense!" Zhang Shaoyu said coldly: "Sensei is close to me, if you have a fart, I have a lot of things!"
"It's okay if you want to take Tang Kui away, but this breakup fee ......"
"Fuck, you're fucking mentioning the breakup fee to me?!" Zhang Shaoyu interrupted Li Yan's words with a wave of his hand, squinted at her, and said with a playful smile: "Just your color, I don't ask you to ask for Kuizi's broken red envelope, you can fucking burn high incense, my stupid brother, that's a boy chicken who is a good boy, Li Yan, do you want to be cheap and sell well?"
Li Yan's face was full of stupidity, and she was dumbfounded by Zhang Shaoyu's words.
"It's all out to eat, Miss, be kind, and leave a line in everything. Zhang Shaoyu ignored Li Yan anymore, turned around and walked towards the Mitsubishi car, got into the driver's seat, and closed the door.
He twisted the car key inserted in the ignition electric door switch, started the car, and according to the driving method he learned in the game before, he stepped on the clutch with his left foot, stepped on the accelerator with his right foot, and hung up the forward gear.
"Have you ever driven a car?" Wu Ji almost hit his head on the front window by the inertia of parking, his eyes widened, and he shouted at Zhang Shaoyu.
"Hehe, I haven't touched a car for a while, my hands are a little raw, and I can do it if I try again. Zhang Shaoyu replied with a smile: "Director Wu, just drive with a little technical content, how can it be difficult to stop me, are you right?"
Not to mention, after the second start, the car really looked like that. Zhang Shaoyu, who had never touched a car, relied on his boldness to drive the Mitsubishi Pajero onto the national highway, and left Li Yan, who was bluffed by him, far away on the wet parking lot.
"Slow down, stinky boy, don't drive too hard. Wu Ji shouted as he fastened his seat belt.
"Don't worry, Director Wu, I still want to mix in this world for a few more years. Zhang Shaoyu smiled lightly, and the speed of the car soon exceeded 80 kilometers per hour.
"Director Wu, discuss something with you, will it be successful?" Zhang Shaoyu drove the car smoothly, staring ahead without squinting, and after driving for nearly ten kilometers, such a sentence suddenly appeared, breaking the silence in the car.
"Let's hear it first. Wu Ji rested his head on the back of the saddle, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the thick smell of smoke choked Tang Kui in the back seat covered his mouth and coughed several times.
"Is there still a shortage of stuntmen in the crew?" asked Zhang Shaoyu.
Wu Ji turned his head and glanced at Tang Kui, "You mean this young man?"
"Well, don't look at his small stature, he is very skilled, with my body, five beating him may not be able to lower him. β
"Is it such an exaggeration as you kid said?"
"Hehe, I'm still a conservative estimate. This kid is honest and does his duty, and he just wants to eat when he comes out of his hometown, but God seems to bully honest people. I don't want him to be used by the bad guys and go astray. With his skills, if he disrupts social security, he can really cause a lot of trouble to the public security organs. β
"Stinky boy, why do I see that your kid is a little old-fashioned now?"
"Director Wu, I'm telling you the truth, if you feel embarrassed, I'm farting just now. β
"If he is really as capable as you say, he can try, but not everyone can be a stuntman......
"I can take him and me together, where I go, where he goes, just now I saw that this kid Tang Kui was mixed with that kind of woman, and I am really a little scared the more I think about it. β
Wu Ji squinted, looked at Zhang Shaoyu and smiled meaningfully: "After you succeed in your audition and sign the contract, how about we talk about Tang Kui?"
"What do you mean by this, did I pass the test, Tang Kui is a stuntman, there is a play?"
"Hehe, didn't you say you were going to take him with you, if you can't get a foothold in the crew, how can you take him?"
"Well, that's right, Director Wu, if I successfully pass the test, will I get a salary after signing the contract?"
"Of course there is, otherwise who will be the actor, you think they are all volunteers! I know that your kid is a little bit of a problem with his financial situation now, as long as you are attentive, after signing the contract, I will apply to the producer for you to pay a part of the signing fee in advance. I think you're going to need that money right now. β
Zhang Shaoyu didn't ask again, because he now knew that asking was in vain, and signing a contract had to be based on the premise of his successful audition, otherwise, it would be useless to say anything.
When he drove back to the underground parking lot of Ruijing Business Hotel, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.
Originally, Wu Ji asked Zhang Shaoyu to go to the restaurant with him to eat, but Zhang Shaoyu didn't go considering that there was still a Tang Kui, but mixed a box lunch with Zhang Xiaoli and other staff members of the crew.
On the fire staircase passage on the eighth floor of the hotel, Zhang Shaoyu held a five-yuan boxed lunch, found a newspaper, and sat on the stairs under his buttocks, seemingly eating quite happily.
Tang Kui sat next to him, eating in a muffled voice, eating the integrated meal cleanly, and there was not a single grain of food left.
After Zhang Shaoyu finished eating, he inserted the chopsticks on the fast food box, and before he got up, Tang Kui had already taken the empty box in his hand with both hands, walked to the trash can behind the door of the building, and threw the two empty boxes in.
"Kuizi, have you eaten enough?" asked Zhang Shaoyu as he picked his teeth with a toothpick.
"It's full, big brother. Tang Kui sat down beside Zhang Shaoyu with a little restraint.
"I don't bother to ask about the that happened between you and that Li Yan, you kid, your heart is too straight and too dead, I really don't worry about you going out alone again, and you will follow me in the future, we brothers will eat meat and eat meat, and drink porridge if we have porridge, do you have no opinion?"
"Big brother, as long as you don't think I'm a burden, you can do whatever you want me to do, even if it's a knife mountain oil pot, if I Tang Kui frowns, I won't be raised by my father!"
"Kuizi, I hope this is the first and last time I hear you say this!" Zhang Shaoyu stared at Tang Kui and said coldly: "If I hear your kid say something like this again, you will fucking leave me immediately! I treat you as a brother, your eldest brother, not some bullshit benefactor, we are equal, we are brothers who eat together, understand?"
Although Tang Kui hadn't read any books, he could still understand what he said, and the respect for Zhang Shaoyu in his heart became more and more serious, he didn't say anything, just nodded vigorously again and again.
"We are all at the lowest level of this society, one of the disadvantaged groups that are not valued by people, others do not value us, but we must not even look down on ourselves!" Zhang Shaoyu said with a firm gaze: "I am born to be useful, this sentence is not a self-comforting Ah Q spirit, but a kind of self-motivation, a psychological suggestion, we have to make ourselves feel that our life is hopeful, hopeful, to be all the things that we have experienced now are not going well, Unpleasant setbacks are regarded as a kind of mental and spiritual training, and when opportunities and dignity are placed in front of us for us to choose, we must not hesitate to choose dignity, because we are men and gentlemen!"
Just when Tang Kui was still half-understanding Zhang Shaoyu's impromptu emotion, Zhao Jing's beautiful face suddenly appeared in the crack of the stairwell door, she looked at Zhang Shaoyu with a smile, clapped her hands, and said: "Little rascal, why didn't I find out that you still have that philosopher's trait before?"
"Crazy girl?!!How did you know I was here?" Zhang Shaoyu asked by staring at Zhao Jing in surprise.
Zhao Jing, who was dressed in a denim suit, pushed the door open, raised her head and smiled proudly: "Of course, Miss Ben is powerful and omnipotent. Therefore, little rascal, you had better not speak ill of me behind my back, or else, under Miss Ben's clairvoyance, you will definitely have nothing to hide. β
"Damn! You might as well say you're ghostly. Zhang Shaoyu made a BS gesture at her and said, "Say, what is the conspiracy to come to me today?"
"Cut! Don't be sentimental, okay, why do I have to come to you?" Zhao Jing replied to Zhang Shaoyu's BS attitude, pouted and said, "Who do you think you are!"
"It's not looking for me, then why did you suddenly appear here silently like a ghost just now?" Zhang Shaoyu suddenly smiled strangely: "You won't tell me that you are here to find Tang Kui, right?"
"Hehe, you're right, I'm here for him. Zhao Jing didn't look at Zhang Shaoyu again, but smiled at Tang Kui: "Tang Kui, the last time I saw you, you were like a sick cat, and now I see you alive, it seems that you have mixed well during this time." β
"Sister Zhao Jing, hello. Tang Kui lowered his head and said with a thin face.
"You talk first, I'm flashing. Zhang Shaoyu said and planned to leave.
"You stop!" Zhao Jing saw that Zhang Shaoyu was really about to leave, so she was in a hurry, and shouted loudly: "Don't go, I have something to do with you." β
Tang Kui is honest, but not stupid, seeing this, he made a move to "pee" and hurried downstairs.