Chapter 177: Attempted Murder
After hanging up Du Xiaoyu's phone, Lu Tao immediately rushed to Dalong Town and took a minibus to the county seat.
At a stop near the O'Neill Hotel, Lu Tao asked the driver to stop, then got out of the car with a bag and walked to a zebra crossing to cross the road.
Before crossing the zebra crossing, he habitually looked at the left and right sides, and the vehicles on the road were far away from him, so he walked along the zebra crossing to the opposite side with confidence.
When he walked to the middle of the zebra crossing, Lu Tao inadvertently glanced at the opposite side, only to see that about five meters away from the zebra crossing, a car without a license plate had just started and was slowly driving this way.
Lu Tao thought that the car was going to wait for him to cross the zebra crossing before accelerating, so he quickened his pace and walked to the opposite side. However, just as he quickened his pace, the slow-moving car suddenly accelerated and crashed into him at a rapid pace.
At the moment when the people and vehicles were about to collide, Lu Tao, who was quick to react, suddenly kicked his toes on the ground hard, and his body rose from the ground, high over the front of the car, avoiding the fatal impact;
The moment he landed, the car whizzed past him, then turned a corner and disappeared.
Several passers-by walking on the sidewalk witnessed this thrilling scene, and looked at Lu Tao unscathed, unable to believe their eyes......
Although Lu Tao escaped with his strong martial arts and quick reaction ability, he was also shocked into a cold sweat, stood on the side of the road and was stunned for a moment, pulling out his legs to chase the car, but after thinking about it, he gave up: when the car passed by him, the speed was at least 100 kilometers per hour, and he didn't slow down much when he turned just now, obviously running away at full speed, and his two legs would definitely not be able to catch up.
Moreover, just now he noticed: the car was without a license plate, and it suddenly accelerated and crashed into himself on the zebra crossing, apparently on purpose. Judging from this, this was a premeditated murder case, and someone wanted to cause a "traffic accident" and kill himself! Fortunately, he reacted quickly and was agile, and if he were someone else, he would have been hit by that car and flew into the sky and died......
After thinking for a while, Lu Tao took out his mobile phone and prepared to call the police, but before he could dial, Du Xiaoyu called over, told him the box number, and urged him to go over quickly.
Lu Tao replied that he had arrived near the hotel and could be there in five minutes, and after hanging up the phone, he decided not to call the police: like this situation just now, he was not injured, and he did not write down the other party's license plate number, and it was useless to call the police. Although he suspected that someone had designed the accident, there was no evidence to prove it, and if the police from the police station wanted to record a confession by himself, he would not be able to eat with Du Xiaoyu......
A few minutes later, Lu Tao walked into the No. 311 box of the seafood building of the O'Neill Hotel, and saw Du Xiaoyu sitting in it alone, so he asked with a smile: "Xiaoyu, are you alone? Why don't you call your girlfriends or high school and junior high school classmates to eat together? It's not good for two people to order food when they eat!"
Du Xiaoyu smiled and said: "You may not know, I transferred to the provincial capital to study after finishing elementary school, and I rarely come back, so there are basically no classmates and friends who play well here. ”
"What about your family, you can invite your parents, parents or brothers and sisters to eat together, remember that last time you borrowed one million yuan from Lin Susu, it was done by your eldest sister, and now you can also invite her over, just so I will thank her in person!"
Du Xiaoyu was displeased and said: "Are you inviting me to dinner or inviting my relatives and friends to dinner?" If you feel embarrassed to eat alone with me, then call all your friends over, I have no opinion." ”
Lu Tao hurriedly explained with a smile: "Xiaoyu, you misunderstood! I have a good intention, I think you have only returned to Taolin once in such a long time, there must be many relatives and friends who want to meet, and you can take the opportunity to get together and chat with them, not that I feel embarrassed to eat alone with you." In fact, I feel honored and happy to be able to eat alone with a beautiful woman like you!"
Du Xiaoyu smiled and glanced at him charmingly: "You are handsome and have a sweet mouth, no wonder Sister Su Su and the daughter of the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee are in love with you." By the way, how is your relationship with that Chen Pei going? When will you drink your wedding wine?"
Lu Tao didn't want to tell her that he had broken off contact with Chen Pei, so he replied vaguely: "We are still the same, if you drink the wedding wine, it is estimated that it will be difficult for you to wait, haha!"
Du Xiaoyu looked at him a few times and asked, "What does it look like before?"
Lu Tao was forced into a corner by her, and it was not good to be vague anymore, so he had to answer truthfully: "No." I explained to you last time that I was in an ordinary classmate relationship with her, and I had never officially been in a relationship, and I was still like that. ”
Du Xiaoyu showed a hint of imperceptible joy on her face, nodded and said, "Actually, I also think that you and her are not very suitable." First of all, you are too far away to meet once, unless she immediately uses her father's power to transfer you to the provincial capital, it will be difficult for such a long-distance relationship to succeed; secondly, your identities are too different, although I do not agree with the view that two people must be right when they are combined, but if the family conditions, social status, and economic strength of two people are too different, there will still be many contradictions and problems when combined. ”
Speaking of this, she hesitated for a moment, then raised her head to look at Lu Tao, and asked, "I want to ask you: Have Chen Pei's parents seen you, and what is their attitude towards you?"
Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically, "Why did you suddenly ask this question?"
Chen Pei smiled and said: "I have a feeling that Chen Pei's parents probably won't like you to be their son-in-law, especially her mother, who should oppose their daughter asking you to be their boyfriend." Why? Because I have a few friends in the provincial capital, and they are also the daughters of high-ranking officials. Their mothers have high expectations for their daughters to find a boyfriend, and have very strict requirements for the man in terms of appearance, character, family background, education, occupation, economic income, etc.
Chen Pei's mother is also an official wife, and she is the wife of the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, so she will definitely have stricter requirements for her baby daughter to find a boyfriend. And judging from your conditions, in addition to the advantage of being handsome, the rest of the family background, education, occupation, economic ability, etc., will definitely not meet the standards in her mind, so I guess she will not be satisfied with you - am I right in my analysis?"