Chapter 2 Good intentions are not necessarily rewarded
Wu Mian was stunned for a moment, swallowing saliva and not feeling abnormal, he had no time to think about it for a while, so he pulled the car door and pushed the young woman into the car, gesturing to her to lock the car door, and then turned around to face the two angry opponents and opened the stance: "Do you still fight?"
In fact, he really wanted to beat these two guys to the nose and eyes, but as a smart person, he thought that he should try to solve the problem with "brains" rather than "fists".
"You're fucking nosy!Do you know who Lao Tzu is?" the crooked tie roared, "Lao Tzu is Zhang Chunlei, the political and legal (and your) secretary of Jiangyou County, and a phone call can make you unable to eat and walk around!"
The big guy also helped on the side: "My cousin is very familiar with your Mayor Xu, you kid is dead!"
Jiangyou County is the smallest county in Dongjiang Province, Wu Mian said quietly: "It turned out to be Secretary Zhang, hello, hello." It's hard for you to come to Zhuzhou, do you want me to help you publicize and let you have a good time?"
Zhang Chunlei was a little surprised when he saw that this young man was not afraid, looked him up and down and said, "Listen to your tone, you are ...... Someone from the Propaganda Department?"
Wu Mian shook his head: "I'm not a civil servant, I'm just a little reporter." As he spoke, he took out his press card and shook it.
Zhang Chunlei lost his voice when he saw it and said: "Zhuzhou Daily......! You're a reporter for the state media!"
"Yes, I was passing by here, I saw a dispute, and I wanted to make a report. Wu Mian said with a smile, "But I didn't expect you to beat people as soon as you came up, without asking about it." Hehe, "Jiangyou County Political and Legal (and Your Harmony) Secretary Drunk Driving and Violence, Forcing Beautiful Women to Chase and Beat Reporters", what do you think of this title?
"What kind of drunk driving, violence! I don't understand what you're talking about!" Zhang Chunlei began to play stupid.
Wu Mian flipped his right hand and showed a voice recorder, and the voices of several people just now came out clearly.
Zhang Chunlei was suddenly quite embarrassed, and said forcefully: "You don't scare people! The official media is not a reporter who can write whatever he wants, and everything must be arranged by the organization! I just need to say hello, believe it or not, you can't publish it after you write it?"
Wu Mian laughed: "Who said that it was going to be published in the official media? I know hundreds of media colleagues, half of whom are media from other provinces, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and foreign media, and I am very willing to give them tonight's materials for free." As he spoke, he turned his left hand open, showed out the small camera, and signaled that he had already taken pictures and recordings.
"Of course, your Secretary Zhang has a lot of energy, maybe you can handle all the media. But I can assure you that the process is very, very cumbersome. ”
Wu Mian's words were soft and firm, and Zhang Chunlei's mind also cleared up, knowing that the other party was telling the truth. After all, this is not in your own territory, and it is too much to get into such a big trouble for a small dispute, and to overdraw the accumulated contacts and relationships, not to mention that it may not be able to achieve the goal.
"This reporter, I think you have misunderstood. Actually, I didn't want to be violent at all, those words were to scare her. Zhang Chunlei changed his face, "The main reason is that the mother's driving skills are too stinky, and my car is a new car I just bought, so everyone has a little misunderstanding......
"It turned out to be a misunderstanding, so that's easy to do. Wu Mian interrupted him and said with a smile, "She scratched your car and should compensate you for a thousand yuan." But if you try to beat her, you will scare her a lot, and you should pay her two thousand. In other words, you just give her a thousand. ”
"Do I want to give her a thousand?" Zhang Chunlei was stunned.
"Well, your Secretary Zhang is magnanimous, takes the initiative to take responsibility, and turns bad things into good things. I changed the headline of the news to you as "The political and legal (and your harmony) secretary's car was hit, and he was praised for not caring about it", do you think about it?"
"Oh, thank you. Zhang Chunlei smiled dryly, first took out the young woman's mobile phone and handed it to Wu Mian, and then counted out ten hundred-yuan bills from his wallet, "A thousand is a thousand, I hope this matter ends here, and no title appears, okay?"
"Obey!" Wu Mian saluted with a strange salute.
The two men got into their cars dejectedly and drove away.
Wu Mian turned around and knocked on the window glass of the young woman's car. The windows rolled down slowly.
"Oh, this is what they compensate you for!" Wu Mian handed over his mobile phone and banknotes, as if he was a hero who presided over justice.
The young woman only took back her mobile phone, and after thanking him, she looked at him with clear eyes without blinking: "Who are you? Why did they run away after you said a few words?" She had been locking the car door just now, so she didn't hear the conversation between Wu Mian and the two men.
Wu Mian smiled but didn't answer, took out a business card and handed it to her. The young woman took it, looked at it and was a little surprised: "Are you a reporter?"
"Yes. ”
"You look...... It's not like it at all. ”
"It's not like that. I have cultivated to the point where my divine light is restrained and I have returned to the basics!" Wu Mian bragged to himself, "A reporter who is not like a reporter is a reporter of the highest level. You think, if everyone knows I'm a reporter at a glance, then how can I investigate and covertly investigate? ”
"Are your voice recorders and camera for reporters, can you show me?" the young woman seemed to be interested in Wu Mian's equipment.
"No problem. Wu Mian agreed.
The young woman took the camera first, and while she was looking at the headlights, Wu Mian took the opportunity to put his arm on the window of the car and condescendingly admired her up close.
Due to the hot weather, her white shirt clearly showed the silhouette of the close-fitting bra. From the slightly open neckline, a small piece of plump towering snow white can be glimpsed inside. The torn necklace was only half cut off, lying quietly in the deep cleavage, probably in shock, and she had not yet noticed that the beaded ornament that had been hanging was gone.
"Is it D?or E?" Wu Mian was pondering the letter question, another thought flashed through his mind, and he hurriedly shouted, "Wait, the camera will give me back first......" said as he reached into the car and snatched the camera back.
But it was too late, and the young woman's face sank: "You secretly photographed me!"
"I ......" Wu Mian, who could speak well, was dumb, and then he realized that the young woman asked for her equipment, and the real purpose was to check the photos taken by the camera. I carelessly forgot about the secret shooting, and she was caught by her.
"How long have you been following me?, those two are also in the same league as you, are you acting together?" the young woman's voice was still soft, but the questions were sharper than the other.
"No, no, no, I really don't know them!" Wu Mian hurriedly shouted.
Unfortunately, before he could plead, the young woman had already rolled up the window and started the fire, and stepped on the accelerator with her right foot.
The sedan drove out with a "boom" and quickly disappeared into the night.
Wu Mian laughed and laughed, this is the first time he has "heroes save beauty" in the past three years, and he didn't expect it to be such an ending.
Although in his opinion, the young woman's doubts are too ridiculous, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand that women are naturally suspicious, and they are frightened, and they are often very paranoid in this situation.
Wu Mian smiled wryly and walked back to the bus stop to catch the last train of the night home. On the way, he found that the Nokia mobile phone he had in his trouser pocket had died honorably because he had blocked a heavy kick for himself in the fight just now. It's been a big loss tonight, and I wish I had let those two guys lose a little more money.
As an official media reporter, outsiders seem to be very awesome, thinking that they will be entertained with good food and drink wherever they go, and they can also put a lot of money in their pockets for organizing manuscript fees, transportation fees, and "hush money", but in fact, this is completely a misunderstanding by outsiders. Only department heads, senior editors, and well-known reporters who have the right to publish can enjoy these treatments, otherwise they are just a cheap errand worker, earning a pitiful salary and full attendance bonus every month, like a little daughter-in-law, often being reprimanded by their bosses and seniors, and waiting for the day when they "become a wife".
Wu Mian has worked in the "Zhuzhou Daily" for more than three years, and the current situation can only be said to be barely passable; although he has long been familiar with the news industry, he is far from the level of a "big reporter"; with the identity of an official media reporter, it is of course no problem to scare a small county official like Zhang Chunlei, and it is still helpless to meet heavyweights.
Twenty minutes later, Wu Mian got out of the car in the LA area, and suddenly felt a dull pain in his abdomen, as if something was churning in his stomach. It was only then that he remembered that he had accidentally swallowed the beaded ornament that the young woman was wearing.
Oops! Shouldn't it cause stomach perforation or intestinal blockage? Wu Mian was a little panicked, and hurriedly leaned over, pressed the base of his tongue with his fingers and grabbed his throat, desperately retching to spit out the ornament.
The embarrassment in the middle, there is no need to mention it, in short, it took a lot of effort to finally spit out half a round orb.
Not a whole, it's half!
Wu Mian panted exhaustedly, picked it up and wiped off the dirty vomit, and took a closer look under the street lamp, it was half a crystal bead, but I couldn't tell whether it was artificial or natural, the crack was very smooth, and there was a very thin small slit in the middle.
Apparently, the young woman had pierced the crystal bead through a slit along the diameter and hung it on her chest with a necklace. When Wu Mian accidentally tore off the necklace, it was likely that the orb would crack a lot along the gap, and then it shook wildly in his stomach, somehow splitting in half.
Now only half of it has been spit out, that is, half of it is still in the stomach!
Poor Wu Mian worked hard for another half a day, and even vomited all the bile, but he still couldn't spit out the other half of the crystal beads, and in the end he had to give up.
He straightened up and rubbed his stomach, feeling that the pain in his abdomen had completely disappeared, thinking that the half of it had probably slipped from his stomach to his small intestine, and could only be excreted when he was relieved. Although I am still a little apprehensive, since there are no symptoms of discomfort for the time being, it seems that I don't need to be too nervous, so I really can't go to the hospital again.
So Wu Mian comforted himself and relaxed, put half a crystal bead into his trouser pocket, found a massage parlor that operated all night and massaged for more than an hour, and after making sure that he was fine, he returned to the "Southeast Building" unit he rented, took the key and opened the door.
This is a two-bedroom unit with a monthly rent of $4,000. In order to save money, Wu Mian became a "second landlord" and sublet one of the bedrooms, and now he is "cohabiting" with a professor surnamed Feng.
"Xiao Wu, ha! you're finally back!" The living room was still brightly lit, and Professor Feng, who was full of messy hair and extremely sloppy, was sitting in front of the TV fiddling with something, and when he heard Wu Mian open the door and come in, he happily stood up to say hello.
"If you haven't slept so late, could it be that your great research has made progress?" Wu Mian joked casually as he changed his slippers.
Professor Feng and he have been "living together" for almost two years. He is in his fifties, not a bad person, but a little crazy, often claiming to be "the most outstanding physicist of our time", studying "space-time physics", and his mouth is full of terms such as "relativity, wormholes, and multidimensional universes". He has also repeatedly claimed that he has laid the theoretical foundation for the "crossing" technique, which will become a reality sooner or later.
Of course, Wu Mian scoffed at this, and once sarcastically said to his face that you should be called a "crazy professor". Professor Feng didn't care when he heard this, and said with a grin that he had long been used to being called, and there was only a half-step difference between a madman and a genius.
Later, Wu Mian found out about the mad professor's life story through side knocks. He has a doctorate degree from several famous universities in China, and was originally a professor at Zhuzhou University, with a very good salary, but because he was obsessed with researching the so-called "crossing", he caused many absurd things, and once caused a serious fire in the laboratory, which caused public outrage and was dismissed by the university.
But the mad professor was still obsessed, so he simply stopped looking for a new job and devoted himself to the cause of "crossing". He is currently living on his savings, barely leaving home every day, and is engaged in his own research except for eating and sleeping. Originally, he had a lot of savings and could have rented a better house, but he preferred to save money and spend it on expensive test equipment.
Hahaha, I've finally made a big breakthrough. The mad professor rushed over with joy, eager to share his feelings with his roommates.
It's a pity that this situation has happened too many times, and Wu Mian was still a little interested in the first few times, and listened to his statements and show the results with the mentality of giving it a try, but every time it was "deception". Wu Mian laughed and swore that he would never listen to his nonsense again, otherwise he would be no different from a madman.
"Oh, there's another major breakthrough? Congratulations!" Wu Mian walked into his room casually.
"This is a real breakthrough! I swear by my personality, it's really true!" The mad professor was incoherent with excitement, and jumped up and down like a child, and said loudly, "I finally succeeded in opening the 'wormhole'!"
"Really, when are you going to leave for the Qing Dynasty? Wu Mian said with a yawn.
"You're here again! Listen to your tone, you still don't believe me!" the mad professor patted Wu Mian's head angrily.
"I'd love to believe you, but you'll have to show some evidence to convince me. Wu Mian Yangtian lay on his bed, and expressed his desire to end the conversation.
But the mad professor was as uninteresting as ever, and pulled him up vigorously and shouted, "Of course I have the evidence. I can tell you right now what the future holds!"
"Isn't the future?
"Don't interrupt! I'm talking to you very seriously. The mad professor said with a straight face, "Your newspaper will ...... tomorrow Oh no, it should be this morning! I already know the contents of the newspaper that will be out this morning. There are a total of four news items on the front page, two of which are your masterpieces, and one is a report on the speech of Xu Jiancheng, director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission. ”
Wu Mian was taken aback and said in a lost voice, "How do you know?"