Chapter 62: The Man on the Embankment
The charcoal stove placed in the center of the round table is blazing, and on top of it is a black and gray iron mesh that has been burned for an unknown number of times, and several palm-sized boxes wrapped in tin foil are placed on it, and various ingredients are placed inside, and the sauce of minced garlic mixed with sharp peppers is spread all over the place.
Flutter~
The lid of the beer drink was opened, the cold bottle was full of water droplets, Zhu Jue stuffed a large piece of meat into his mouth, just chewed it twice and swallowed, tilted his neck and poured two sips of wine, and let out a pleasant low breath.
His eyes circled around the diners, most of them were baggy shirts and baggy shorts, and three or five people gathered together to talk and laugh loudly.
Turning back to the person in front of him, Zhu Jue frowned and asked, "Lao Fu, how do you follow ...... Xiangfeng restaurants are getting together?"
Zhu Jue didn't know if the title "Yimeng" was still a banned word by local governments five years later, so he still changed his words when it came to his lips.
That's right, this time in the Shengang District with Zhu Jue is the old man of the repair shop he met in the old town in the east of Yecheng a long time ago, although he has not seen him for many years, but for Zhu Jue's memory, it is actually just more than half a year, and his appearance has not changed much.
And in the face of the sudden appearance of the old man, it would be false to say that he was not surprised, Zhu Jue had thought about whether Fu Yingying would have died in the Yecheng disaster five years ago, who knew that looking at his current appearance, it seemed that he was living quite nourishing.
"Yecheng is gone, my identity and family background have been ruined by those mongrel monsters, the federal government doesn't care about the life and death of an old man like me, and I'm a person who doesn't want to treat myself badly, I happened to bump into Xiangfeng Restaurant recruiting people, so go and try it, you should know my craft, I didn't have any pursuit before, so I opened a repair shop to pass the time, and then I ...... It's not bad to mix. ”
Stretching out his fingers to wipe the green onions on his cheeks, Fu Yingying briefly talked about his experience.
"Oh,, when I'm a fool, a guy who can modify the watch of the government order, working as a repairman in the old city in the east, do you think you are a master of retreating to the mountains and forests, not to mention that you want me to help you get the torso of the monster of the source of mental pollution, could it be that the motorcycle engines you repair are all biochemically driven, and you have to install a monster heart?"
Zhu Jue scoffed at Fu Yingying's explanation, in fact, when he was still in Yecheng, he knew that this old man was probably not simple, but he didn't have any entanglements of interests, and occasionally he had to rely on him to help him make some equipment, so he didn't deliberately explore.
"Haha, I haven't seen you in five years, I didn't expect you to remember. ”
Somewhat embarrassed, he drank half a glass of beer, and continued,
"I'll admit that I had a relationship with Xiang Feng Restaurant at that time...... It's just cooperation, and then something happened in Yecheng, and I chose to join them when I had nowhere to go, after all, in this era, we technicians with almost zero combat effectiveness still have to have a backer, otherwise even if we are full of strange ideas, we can't even buy a few glass beakers, it's meaningless. ”
"Well, there's some truth to that. ”
With the continuous emergence of spiritual pollution source monsters and the collapse of social order to a certain extent, the people who have no backers or organizations are undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt, which even Zhu Jue cannot deny.
"Since you think what I said makes sense, do you want to come to my side to do things, I guarantee that the welfare treatment of Xiangfeng Restaurant and the harmonious atmosphere of the restaurant will definitely not disappoint you. ”
Glancing at Zhu Jue's expression, Rao knew in his heart that it was unlikely, but Fu Yingying reluctantly asked.
There is no way, the shopkeeper of Xiangfeng Restaurant is very optimistic about this young man, after the Rong Xiacheng incident five years ago, his mind is full of thoughts about wanting him to become a member of the restaurant.
"I'm now a consultant to the Archaeological Society of Dawning City, and my mentor is a respected professor of archaeology, and I'm also a member of the upper class, sitting in my office every day drinking drinks and singing, and you asked me to give up this identity to work in a restaurant, is it possible?"
Rolling his eyes, Zhu Jue asked angrily.
"Advisors to the Archaeological Society?"
For Zhu Jue, Fu Yingying still knows a little, he didn't hear that Zhu Jue taught himself this knowledge when he was in the old city in the east.
"That professor owes me a favor, just like you just said, if you want to gain a foothold in this society, you always have to find a backer for yourself...... Actually, I don't care what kind of force you are, all I care about is the evolution potion that I asked you to help make before, has it been completed?"
Asking about the connection between Fu Yingying and Yimeng was just Zhu Jue's subconscious behavior, too lazy to continue dwelling on these topics, Zhu Jue tried to pull the center of the conversation back to the evolution injection.
"Of course, after five years of phone calls, if it weren't for what you did in Rongxia City that made us accept your favor, maybe Chen Qing would have hung up directly. ”
The buttocks moved back, and the plastic chair under it rubbed against the ground, just when Zhu Jue thought that Fu Yingying was going to take things out, he saw Fu Ying slowly take out a crumpled black plastic bag from his shorts pocket.
"You put the potion in this plastic bag?"
Watching Fu Yingying open the plastic bag and throw it on the table like throwing two pieces of pig's head meat, Zhu Jue looked at the three potions inside and asked with a ridiculous face.
"If I'm carrying a delicate suitcase, you think you can sit here and eat barbecue with you?"
Pouting and nunu a few tattooed men with bare arms nearby, he continued,
"When I came, people told me that there was a potential gang problem in Shenzhen-Hong Kong, and the law and order was not very good. ”
"Okay, if it's okay, I'll go back. ”
Stuffing the plastic bag into his pocket, Zhu Jue got up and prepared to leave.
"Hey~ Don't be in a hurry to go, it's hard to see each other between old friends, stay and play more, let's catch up on the old days." ”
Fu Yingying pulled Zhu Jue's wrist, he came to see the latter not only to deliver something, but also to find a reliable delivery man.
"Reminiscence...... What are you telling me?"
At this time, Zhu Jue naturally guessed that the paid hero was probably looking for something to do with him, and with his temperament, he naturally hated trouble, so he got up and was about to leave.
"There are many things that can be described, such as the later changes in the old city in the east, such as the Yecheng catastrophe five years ago...... I remember that the people of 'Zero' mocked your studio in front of the whole city, and the public opinion during that time, tsk...... In the past five years, the video of the Grotesque Studio has not appeared again, and to be honest, with your personality, you probably wouldn't have been hiding at that time, right?"
After drinking the remaining half of the beer, Fu Yingying grinned and said in a slightly mocking tone.
Although he has not known Zhu Jue for a long time, he also pays attention to the situation of the grotesque studio through the Yimeng, which is Zhu Jue's hard work, and this hard work was destroyed after the Yecheng catastrophe five years ago, he doesn't believe that Zhu Jue doesn't hate "Zero"!
He was right.
Zhu Jue, who was about to leave, sat down again, but his posture was no longer as lazy as before, but squinted his eyes slightly, looked directly at Fu Yingying, and said in a deep voice: "You'd better tell me something that interests me, otherwise...... At this time, the water of the river behind me is very fast!"
The Grotesque Studio, this is the pimple that Zhu Jue has left in his heart since he learned everything when he returned from Greenland.
Perhaps for Li Qinglian and Wu Tong, the grotesque studio is their workplace and their hard work, but for Zhu Jue, it is not just the word "hard work" that can be described.
The Grotesque Studio allowed Zhu Jue, a soul from the past wandering in Yecheng, to find a sense of belonging for the first time, and it was undoubtedly one of the few things he cared about in this world.
When I woke up sleeping, the studio was gone, my friends were gone, the barely familiar city was in ruins, and even my existence was erased, and I had to re-register for a citizenship card......
There's nothing to say, the people in the "Zero" organization, especially those guys who appeared in Yecheng back then, have long been on Zhu Jue's must-kill list!
"Are you sure you want to say it here?"
Fu Yingying was quite satisfied with Zhu Jue's reaction, raised his hand and pointed to the riverbank embankment in the distance, and then said,
"Otherwise, let's go there and say, if I can't tell a reason, I don't have to do it, I'll jump down by myself, whether it's two and a half weeks in the air or three or five backflips, the posture is yours. ”
"Just your old bones, if you can come up after you go down, you win. ”
Zhu Jue turned his head, leaned on the table, and looked at the river embankment in the Shengang District, the wind chimes had long been uncontrollable and rushed out, and he didn't forget to hold a piece of meat steak in his mouth.
The riverbank embankment is not a vertical stone wall, but a rocky beach with an inclined angle, Zhu Jue and Fu Yingying packed more than a dozen meals, and the former carried a small half box of drinks and swayed over each other.
At this time, it is almost night, the oncoming river breeze is much refreshing, the orange-red afterglow at dusk is sprinkled on the river bank, the ferries on the river in the distance come and go, occasionally there are a few rumbling sounds, and there are a few children with bamboo poles on their shoulders and plastic buckets in their hands, running through each other, they should have just come back from fishing nearby.
In the Shenzhen-Hong Kong area, most of the people's lives are still stuck in the state of a hundred years ago, which should be a sad thing, but in Zhu Jue's view, he inexplicably has some nostalgic thoughts, and his mood is a little irritable because of the mention of the grotesque studio.
When he got closer, Zhu Jue suddenly found that another figure appeared in the rocky beach in the direction where Fu Yingying led him.
She sat on the embankment with her back to this side, her posture straight, not at all like a resting passerby.
Stereotypical and uninteresting.