Chapter 37: Tokyo Drift (7)
"Your job is very simple, come here at half past one in the morning every day, drive me to the Tsukiji fish market, wait for me to go there to buy the goods, and then pull me back here with the goods, and wait for me to sort the goods and you send them to the designated place, the day's work is completed, understand, boy?"
"Late at night?! Do I still have time to sleep after all this? Zhang Heng frowned when he heard this.
Toru Takeda also grinned, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth, "It depends on the speed of your delivery, okay, do you have any other questions?" ”
"I have one last question."
"Huh?"
"You're going to help me get my driver's license first, right?"
The smile on Tetsuya Takeda's face completely froze at this moment, "What did you just say, say it again?!" ”
"I don't have a driver's license yet, so if I want to deliver for you, I have to get a driver's license first." Zhang Heng said truthfully.
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"You didn't even have a driver's license and came to me to learn drag racing?!" Toru Takeda was also completely defeated, "Big brother, are you playing with me?" Why would people who have never even touched a steering wheel be so interested in underground car racing? ”
"I'm not interested in underground racing, but I do need to go for some inconvenient reasons."
Toru Takeda also stared at Zhang Heng, and it took a full minute to squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth, "Then you can only pray that you can pass the police car quickly." ”
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There is a big difference between Tokyo in the middle of the night and during the day.
At 12 o'clock, most people had already fallen asleep, only a few windows were still on in the residential buildings near the street, Zhang Heng set off from the school and took the last subway, the carriage was a little empty, only a few sleepy white-collar workers and a female publicist with heavy makeup.
He got off the train at the terminal and walked a long way to get to the fish shop before the agreed time.
Toru Takeda was also rarely serious, and instead of continuing to sleep upstairs, he squatted in the store sorting various orders
He didn't look up when he heard footsteps behind him, but just said, "Give me five more minutes." ”
Five minutes later, he got up, lifted the two crabs that had just died not long ago, threaded them with straw ropes, threw a bunch of keys into Zhang Heng's hands, and snorted, "Follow me." ”
The two walked out of the fish shop and came to a small open-air parking lot not far away, Toru Takeda shook the iron door, and after a while, the lights in the duty room cooled down, and an old man with a hunched body came over while getting dressed, and opened the iron lock on the door.
Toru Takeda smiled at the old man, handed the two dead crabs to the other party, and then pointed at Zhang Heng and said something.
The old man looked very happy to take the dead crab, the wrinkles on his face were stretched, he glanced at Zhang Heng next to him, and nodded kindly at him.
"Mr. Crab, to be honest, I don't know what his real name is, it doesn't matter, no one cares about that kind of thing anyway, his wife died very early, his son and daughter didn't contact him again after they went abroad, they found a job in the parking lot to support themselves, and they have a place to live, we are old friends, I gave him the crab that just died and couldn't be sold, he asked me to park here for free, and I have already introduced you to him, and you can come here directly to drive and return the car in the future."
"Which one is the car?"
Zhang Heng's gaze swept across the parking lot, and finally landed on an earthy yellow bread in the corner, and raised his eyebrows.
"Beautiful, isn't it? Mitsubishi's second-generation L300 (Delica), launched in 1982, was the first four-wheel drive van in Japan. "When talking about cars, Toru Takeda is like a different person, no longer has the appearance of a decadent uncle, lights a cigarette, and strokes the body, "The 4D56 diesel 2.5 engine, and the same chassis system as the Pagiro, are enough to cope with the harsh climate and bad road conditions, so that the van has the performance of an off-road vehicle......"
"The car from 1982? Are you sure it still works? Zhang Heng was skeptical.
"Don't worry, I found it in a vehicle scrap shop, which has been modified by me, four-wheel drive to two-wheel drive, in terms of stability, the former is definitely better, but four-wheel drive will increase the weight of the body, too good stability is not a good thing for the driver, and it is too fuel-intensive."
“…… On top of that, I fixed the tape drive in the car. Toru Takeda opened the co-pilot's door, sat on it, and picked up the tape.
Seeing this, Zhang Heng could only climb into the driving, and when he went back in the morning, he urgently raided the driving knowledge, mainly relying on the videos and illustrations found on the Internet, and he also downloaded a small game of simulated driving on his mobile phone, and also played all the way on the subway, so now he ...... Still not sure at all.
Zhang Heng inserted the car key that Toru Takeda gave him into the keyhole, and turned it three times before lighting the fire.
The latter ignored him completely, just waiting for the car to start and put the cassette tapes of Chuck and Asuka in his hand into the cassette machine impatiently, but the next moment the car just drove less than five meters and braked suddenly, and Takeda Tetsuya's head hit the glove box in front of the seat directly.
Zhang Heng's expression remained unchanged, "I'm sorry, the clutch is wrong." ”
As he spoke, he hooked the gear lever to 5th gear again.
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"When you go to the car race one day, please be sure to tell me, I will help you buy an insurance, and the beneficiary fills in my own, it is really a defeat for you." Toru Takeda also turned off the tape player, "Start in 1st gear, press the clutch with your left foot to the end, and tap the accelerator with your right foot ......"
Three minutes later, Zhang Heng drove the L300 out of the parking lot and slowly crashed into the fire hydrant on the side under the watchful eye of Mr. Crab.
Fortunately, it's early in the morning and there are no vehicles outside.
Zhang Heng drove the L300 crookedly onto the road, and then looked at Toru Takeda on the side, who had already honestly fastened his seat belt.
The fifteen-minute drive Zhang Heng drove for twenty-five minutes, turned off the engine five times halfway, ran the red light twice, and rode the curb once, but fortunately, he successfully arrived at the destination in the end.
At its peak, 3,200 tons of seafood worth 3 billion yen were sold here every day, and more than 60,000 wholesalers visited every day to bid on their favorite products.
Zhang Heng pulled up the handbrake, and Toru Takeda originally wanted to say something, but after thinking about it for a few seconds, his mind was still blank, and finally he just threw down a sentence, "Wait for me here." He opened the car door and jumped in, and said hello to a colleague who was probably acquainted, who took out a pack of cigarettes, and the two of them smoked cigarettes as they walked towards the front door.
It had been an hour since Toru Takeda came back, and he was followed by a forklift, with boxes of seafood that he had selected, but to his surprise, Zhang Heng did not use this time to make up for sleep, but continued to test drive the L300 in the surrounding area, compared with his jerky driving skills when he came, there is now a significant improvement.
But Toru Takeda didn't say anything, just said with a dark face, "Come down and load the goods together." ”