The door to the bar across the street opened, and a big man escorted a girl out of it.

"Let go of me!" The girl screamed.

"Get out of here!" The big man pushed hard, and the girl staggered and fell into the garbage heap on the side of the road.

Liu Zheng was in a bad mood, but his character determined that he couldn't turn a blind eye to it no matter what, so he crossed the road and blocked in front of the big man.

"Stop, what are you doing?"

The big man didn't bother to explain more to the person in front of him, and went back to the store with a scolding.

The girl lay in the garbage heap and didn't get up, and said in her mouth: "I was going to leave... You didn't drive me away, I walked on my own... Woo, vomit!! ”

She began to vomit loudly.

Liu Zheng walked over and asked, "Madam, are you okay?" ”

The girl was still throwing up, but she waved her hand at him, and it took a long time for her to take a long breath and recover her strength.

On the other side of the garbage heap came a dirty head, which looked like a homeless man, and he looked at the girl who was still sitting on the garbage, sniffed hard and exclaimed, "Oh my God, you stink." ”

"yes, I'm just, of course stinks." The girl had a broken jar on her face, took Liu Zheng's outstretched hand, and stood up.

The girl is very tall, she is not much shorter than Liu Zheng when she stands up, although she is dressed plainly, and her hair is still messily stuck to her face, but she can still be seen to be very young under the not very bright street lamp, and her appearance is also very beautiful. Such a girl, if she is in China, there must be no shortage of suitors, and she will never be thrown out of the bar like this anyway.

She must have drunk a lot of wine, and there was a strong smell of alcohol all over her body, and her clothes should not have changed for a long time, and the whole person looked sloppy.

Liu Zheng asked again, "Are you okay?" ”

The girl leaned against the lamppost and replied weakly, "Don't worry about it, let me be alone for a while." ”

Since she didn't have any big problems, Liu Zheng shrugged his shoulders and was about to walk away, but before he could take two steps, he heard the girl shouting behind her back: "Wait a minute." ”

He turned around and saw the girl tilting her head to look at him: "You have been standing on the side of the road, you are not a homeless man, you are not a drunkard... So who are you? ”

Liu Zheng can still understand this kind of simple English conversation, and he casually lied: "I, uh, just take a walk." ”

"Walking?" The girl walked over slowly, her face full of disbelief, it was her professional habit to be skeptical of everything. But she soon relented, this is the East Village, next to Tompkins Square Park, and a short distance south is Chinatown, this Asian man with black hair and black eyes is not a very unusual thing to walk here.

It's been so long, and it seems that that incident has had a profound impact on me!

The girl brushed the hair from her face with her hand, patted Liu Zheng's shoulder with a big grin, and said with a smile: "Thank you, it's really rare to have such a warm-hearted person in New York, how about I invite you to drink?" Let's go find a Chinese restaurant..."

Liu Zheng's eyes widened in disbelief, not only sighing at the bold enthusiasm of European and American girls, but also surprised by what this girl who was obviously born in the 90s just said, and couldn't help but say: "Ah, you still drink?" ”

"Do you have a problem?"

"Not really..."

"Let's go! Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, let's go drink! The girl grabbed Liu Zheng and walked in the direction of Chinatown. Don't look at this girl's thin arms and legs, her strength is really not small, Liu Zheng's arm was caught under the armpit by the girl, and she couldn't break free for a while.

Not to mention, when he was in a particularly bad mood, Liu Zheng really wanted to get drunk, but the person who drank with him couldn't be Luo Zhijian or Danny, there were too many things happening today, and it involved a shocking secret, he really didn't know how to open up to them, but he drank with this girl who was unknown to him, which was the most suitable.

Thinking about the fact that he escaped from there half an hour ago, and now he was half-pushed and half-pulled back to Chinatown by a girl he just knew, the fate of this dog day, it's really funny!

Maybe it was because he was accompanied by a beautiful woman, or because he had figured out something, Liu Zheng's mood was inexplicably better, and he took the initiative to find a place to eat.

The easternmost part of Chinatown, the "New China City", is the area with the most complex composition, basically all over the country have Chinese, so it has also become a gathering place for Chinese food, they can easily find a night stall that looks good, the owner is an old couple from Fujian, living in the United States for many years, English is more standard than Mandarin, of course, Fujian Mandarin is not standard...

Barbecue can be said to be Liu Zheng's favorite street food, but for girls, it is the first time in the life of a big girl to sit in a sedan chair, so everything is very fresh. It's strange to say, just now she looked drunk and couldn't stand still, but now she is almost back to normal.

Liu Zheng ordered some fresher skewers, and returned to his seat with a case of beer and a bottle of Erguotou. The girl's excitement at this time had not yet passed, and she asked in surprise: "It's the first time I've come to this kind of place to eat, and I've eaten curry, ramen, fried rice, tofu, and by the way, hot pot, which one I like the most!" The food here is not quite the same as our barbecue, what is it called? ”

"To be exact, curry belongs to India, not Chinese food." Liu Zheng corrected her misunderstanding, "What I want to taste today is our Chinese 'barbecue'." ”

He taught the girl to say "barbecue" in pinyin, and then pointed to the liquor on the table and said, "Do you want me to try our Chinese liquor again?" ”

"Baijiu, is the wine white?" The girl unscrewed the cap of the bottle, looked into the mouth of the bottle curiously, and put it under her nose to sniff, "Wow, this wine smells special, it's not like whiskey." I don't know if it's good or not. ”

Liu Zheng poured a small cup and handed it to the girl, she didn't know it, she tilted her head and poured it all into her throat, and unexpectedly squirted it out of her nose.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem...!"

The girl choked so much that tears and snot flowed out, Liu Zheng quickly apologized, took a paper to wipe her again, and worked for a while before sitting down again.

The girl didn't dare to despise this liquor anymore, Liu Zheng poured her a little more, she had the first experience and knew that it was time to drink it slowly, so she didn't look foreign again, she took the glass in her hand and looked left and right, her expression was very novel: "I'm feverish all over, this feeling is very comfortable... Looks like I should have a little more of this. ”

She put down the cup and stretched out a hand to Liu Zheng: "My name is Jessica Jones, you can call me Jessie." ”

Liu Zheng shook hands with her: "My name is Liu Zheng, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

Jessica snorted and asked, "Where did you learn English?" We never say hello like that, haha. ”

Liu Zheng was very embarrassed, the peak of his English ability was the college entrance examination, and now he has almost forgotten it.

At this time, the proprietress came over with the first grilled meat skewers, bubbling pork belly and sausages, sprinkled with a layer of fine cumin and chili powder, the fragrance soon spread, Liu Zheng had never eaten since he had lunch in the hotel at the airport, and he was already hungry, Jessica patronized and drank at night, and he didn't eat much. The two of them moved their index fingers, and they couldn't even bother to speak, so they grabbed the skewers on the table and began to chew on them.

It wasn't until the plates on the table were empty that Jessica leaned back in her chair and let out a sigh of satisfaction.

"It's been a long time since I've eaten anything so delicious." Her eyes were a little lonely.

Liu Zheng picked up the wine glass and touched her, and took a small sip of herself, while Jessica picked up the glass again and habitually dried it, but this time she didn't squirt out, but swallowed all the liquor in her mouth with her cheeks. It was like a line of fire burning from her throat to her stomach, a little painful, but more of a pleasure, and she enjoyed the burning sensation and found herself seemingly liking the sensation, perhaps only this intense stimulation would make her feel like she wasn't the walking dead.

“sh*t...” Jessica shook her head lightly and scolded, the corners of her eyes were shining, and she didn't know if she was choking on white wine again.

She blinked vigorously, adjusted her mood, and changed the topic and asked, "Liu, do you live in Chinatown?" ”

"Me? I'm just a tourist. Liu Zheng continued to lie.

"Come on, don't lie to me. Tourists don't wander around the road in the middle of the night, and the security here is not very good. Jessica scoffed at Liu Zheng's words, "I'm a P.I. with a lot of professional experience, you know PI, right?" ”

Liu Zheng shook his head.

"Personal Investigator is a private investigator." Jessica took out a camera from her bag and shook it at Liu Zheng, with a mocking smile on her face, "New York is a city that never sleeps, and people here like to show mercy everywhere. Ah, I'm not complaining, the more people who steal, the better my business will be. ”

Liu Zheng didn't understand the second half of the sentence, but probably she was a character similar to Maori Kogoro, Liu Zheng shrugged.

Jessica just asked casually, not planning to get to the bottom of Liu Zheng's origins, so she continued to talk about her work: "A large part of this business is to dig out the darkest side of people's hearts, but I'm very good at this." My client hired me to search for filth, and I gave it to him. Although he is not happy to do this, and I am not happy, but I can't help it, work. ”

"So that's why you're not happy today?" Liu Zheng asked, and he found that Jessica's eyes became dull as soon as she talked about her work, which was not like what she said she was very good at.

"There are so many unhappy things, this is not the beginning, and it cannot be the end." Jessica picked up her cup and took another big sip.

The two of them chatted at this small square table, because Liu Zheng's English was not very good, so most of the time he was only a listener.

He didn't understand most of what Jessica said, but he still got some general idea of what he was saying.

She originally had a happy family, parents who were employees of Stark Industries, and a mischievous but cute younger brother, and when she was very young, the family had a car accident on the way to Disneyland, and only she survived. She grew up with a host family and her adoptive mother, a grumpy control freak, which had a strong impact on her, resulting in her now being an alcoholic, irritable personality, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). After graduating from high school, she did not go to college, but opened a private detective agency in Hell's Kitchen, specializing in helping others investigate extramarital affairs.

Later, another villain called "Kill the Grave (Kilgrave)" and secreted a psycho virus took control of her, did a lot of bad things, and even killed people. She struggled to get rid of the man, and later even killed Kilgrave with her own hands, but the eight months of imprisonment and abuse still caused irreversible mental damage to her, making her even more misanthropic and refuge.

Just when Jessica decided to break the jar and break it, a man walked into her field of vision. He is majestic and gentle, giving Jessica a lot of comfort, just when she decides to get out of the haze and try to live like a normal woman, but in an investigation of the incident, it is discovered that the man's beloved deceased wife was killed by herself...

The more Liu Zheng listened, the more shocked she became, this girl's life is simply a tragic history, no wonder the whole person exudes a dark temperament of depression, how tenacious her spirit has to be to not be driven crazy.

"We have an ancient saying in China, called 'life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten', people live in the world, they have to endure suffering." Liu Zheng and Jessica clinked glasses.

Jessica drank it dry and said with a wry smile: "I don't seem to have encountered anything wishful in my life." ”

"Don't think about it so much, it's going to pass. We also have a saying in Huaxia, called 'There is nothing that can't be solved by one barbecue, if there is, then two!' 'Come, drink. ”

Jessica was amused, and I have to say, she looks so good when she laughs.

The two of them were eating and chatting, and before they knew it, several hours had passed, and three bottles of liquor were thrown under the table, and a whole case of beer had been drunk. Liu Zheng has internal strength to protect his body, and alcohol has little effect on him, although Jessica is a girl, but her way of drinking to the bottom of a glass is no less than Liu Zheng, and finally she can't support it and falls asleep on the table.

Liu Zheng apologized to the old couple when he went to check out, feeling very embarrassed for delaying them all night.

"It's okay, it's okay, we don't sleep much, just squint for a while. Guy, your girlfriend is so beautiful! "The old man is in good spirits. Laugh haha.

Liu Zheng smiled awkwardly, but he didn't refute it. At this time, there is no point in pretending to be a student, and when you help Jessica go for a while, you will be looked down upon by others.

He looked back at Jessica, who was sleeping soundly, and scratched his head helplessly.