Chapter 429: Is This Fate?
Zhang Xu picked up the power bank and the appropriate charging cable, and said to Li Xiaojun: "Thank you." And you can let your wife go and take a break, I'm not so impersonal. β
"It's all right, sir." Li Xiaojun replied a little embarrassed, it seemed that their conversation just now was overheard by the guests, "It will soon be dawn, and then we can change shifts with our colleagues." β
Zhang Xu nodded, and then said, "Why don't you have a drink with me?" I'm tired of you. β
Originally, Li Xiaojun was going to refuse, but under Zhang Xu's repeated requests, he went to the bar and got a cup back, and then sat opposite Zhang Xu.
In fact, Zhang Xu and him have nothing to talk about, they just need a place to divert their attention.
"Listen to the accent, Mr. Li is from the north, right?" Zhang Xu asked while pouring wine for Li Xiaojun.
"I'm from Tianjin, and I've been in Hong Kong for more than ten years." Li Xiaojun said after taking the wine glass.
"It's been so long, and Hong Kong was not peaceful more than ten years ago." Zhang Xu said after taking a sip of wine.
"Zhang Sheng, you have been to Hong Kong before?" Li Xiaojun asked a little curiously.
"yes." Zhang Xu took a sip of wine and said, "At that time, my dad and I were eating Che Tsai noodles on the side of the road, and then we were chased by a gang of thugs for more than a dozen streets, and finally ran to the wilderness to finish the business. β
"yes, it was a mess." Li Xiaojun also remembered the sherry wine in his wine glass and fell into his memory, "When I first came to Hong Kong, I also set up a roadside stall to sell Che Tsai noodles and fish balls, and I still remember that on the first day I set up a stall, there were two mainland customers eating noodles at my place, and then they saw a group of foreigners chasing a foreign girl running by, and the two guests caught up, and I haven't asked them for money yet." β
"After a long time, it was probably the foreign girl who came to my stall and asked if she had seen one of the guests that day."
"We all said we hadn't met, and then the foreign girl used to come to my place to eat. We could all tell she was waiting for someone. β
"In Hong Kong, I have seen a lot of people like this. I met someone and waited for a lifetime. My aunt just waited for a lifetime, but it was empty. β
"Later, thanks to her, everyone saw that even foreigners often came to eat at my place, so they began to patronize my stall."
"My wife and I got along at that time. She lost her job that day, and then saw that I was too busy while I was eating, so she asked me to ask her to help for a few days. It turned out to be a few days, a few weeks, then a few months, and finally we were husband and wife. β
"The leopard brother on that street also came later, and he brought his younger brother to try the Chezi noodles and fish balls that even foreigners like every night."
"Brother Leopard took good care of me at that time, so the thugs on the street didn't come to me."
"A few years later, when the mall was demolished on that street, I stopped setting up a stall on the side of the road, and I used the money I saved to take classes to learn how to cook, and I have been a chef ever since."
"I just don't know what happened to that girl, wait until that person doesn't. Brother Leopard later came to the restaurant where I worked, and he said that he had too many criminal records, so he had to immigrate before 97. Later, he went to the United States, but a while ago he heard from his former younger brother that he was shot and killed by thugs in the United States two years ago. β
After Li Xiaojun finished speaking, the wine in the wine glass was also drunk.
Zhang Xu refilled another cup for him, and then asked, "Have you ever thought about going back to your hometown?" β
"That's the plan." Li Xiaojun said, "My wife and I plan to go back to Tianjin to open a Hong Kong-style bar, but now we can't make up our minds. β
"When you're in trouble, I'll teach you a way." Zhang Xu said, "Let's flip a coin." β
Li Xiaojun thought that Zhang Xu was joking, but just raised his glass and toasted him.
"Mr. Li, do you believe in fate?" Zhang Xu asked after putting down the wine glass.
Li Xiaojun said: "My family used to tell me that my life's life is to finish reading and farm at home. β
"At that time, I was young and didn't believe in fate, so I came to Hong Kong."
"When I first came, a fortune teller said that I had nobles in my life to help me, and then that foreign girl became a nobleman."
"So I believe it and I don't believe it."
"Do you believe that Zhang Sheng?"
Zhang Xu replied with a wry smile: "I don't even understand what fate is, where do you say I should go to the letter?" β
"It's just that I met a white-bearded old man, he insisted on believing this, he could live well, but he was going to die by himself."
"Maybe the old people think differently than the young people." Li Xiaojun said.
Just when Zhang Xu just wanted to speak, his mobile phone rang with a text message ringtone.
Zhang Xu hurriedly picked up the mobile phone, but the power bank connected to the mobile phone was pulled to the ground by him.
Li Xiaojun picked up the power bank and left, he knew that this kind of time needed to be avoided.
Zhang Xu looked at the text message on his phone for a full two minutes, then sighed and leaned heavily on the back of the sofa.
After a long while, he took a sip of the wine in the bottle, got up and checked out.
When the sun rose, in an interrogation room of the Wuzhou Public Security Bureau, two criminal police officers were interrogating a prisoner who had just been arrested.
βhat's your nameοΌβ A detective asked.
"My name is Lucius Malfoy. Comrade, I understand Chinese, you can speak Chinese with me. The old horse replied.
"Age?" The criminal police asked in Chinese instead.
"43 years old." The old horse replied.
"Gender?"
"Let's see."
"Origin?"
"Wiltshire, England."
"Work?"
"No work."
"Why do you do it early in the morning?" The detective asked sharply.
Lao Ma shouted wrongfully: "Comrade policeman, I just came out early in the morning to drink Bingquan soybean milk at the gate of Baiyun Mountain, but that person stopped me halfway, and it was clearly that person who did it first!" β
The policeman asked, "Do you know that person?" β
"I don't know." Malfoy shook his head and said, "It seems that the man followed me from England all the way to France, Germany, Russia, and Hong Kong, and finally followed me here. β
"Don't you know to call the police?" The policeman said sternly to Lao Ma, "You and that Englishman named Johnny Ingrid don't fight in the UK, they don't fight in Europe, how can you come to us to fight." β
"And you also damaged a lot of buildings in the arcade city, our arcade city is a cultural relics protection unit in Guangxi, or a national 4A-level tourist attraction, the loss caused is immeasurable, you are going to reform through labor!"
Lao Ma and the two of them made too much noise this morning, and it involved foreigners, so it was inevitable that this criminal policeman was holding back his anger.
After the interrogation, the criminal policeman said to Lao Ma again: "You'd better contact your family to prepare money and actively compensate, otherwise you can only go to the farm to grow sugarcane." β
Now the old horse's face turned into a bitter melon, his family's current money is barely enough to maintain daily operations, if he wants to accompany a large amount of money, next semester his son will have to buy second-hand textbooks like the Weasley children in the past.
"Comrade, can I make a phone call now to contact someone in your country? He is my son's classmate, and their family is very rich, so he should be able to lend me money. Malfoy said to the police.
After more than ten minutes, after making a round of calls, Lao Ma finally called Zhang Xu's mobile phone.
Zhang Xu, who was about to catch up on sleep, said after listening to Lao Ma's request: "Is there anything wrong with planting sugar cane, don't worry, I'll take Draco to see you after a while." β
Old Ma: "......"