Chapter 9 Telephone
In the face of his friend's repeated and repeated understanding, Zhang Longchu did not refuse, but kept this concern in his heart, smiled and nodded.
So the three friends walked out of the campus with a smile, turned right along the street, and strolled into the 'Los Angeles Pizza Maker' around the corner.
During the pizza dinner, Zhang Longchu and Obano coerced Howard, half forced, half ostentatiously told the scene of the first 'rain festival' in their lives;
And the reason why he didn't take the school bus today, but showed up at school so early, that is, he met a hot high school girl at the festival last night, and the two fell in love at first sight, so he secretly went to the Motel (motel) and had a collision between spirit and body, and this morning the girl drove him to the school.
If he usually heard such exciting content, Zhang Longchu would have thrown off the wooden expression on his face and asked questions with great interest, satisfying his curiosity and the yearning of a lone boy for the opposite sex.
But today, most of his mind was occupied by strange objects and chess pieces, and after expressing his disgust and envy secretly, he didn't say anything more after expressing his slight excitement.
But Howard was diametrically opposed to Zhang Longchu's bland performance, not only was he inexplicably excited to ask about the details of Oubano and the girl's intimacy last night, and he kept his saliva to show that he wanted to replace him, but also howled that he must let Hoval's girlfriend introduce him to a woman.
The Jews are weak and rarely have such a good appearance in front of their friends, and after a few compliments from Aubano, they promise to let the new girl organize a friendship so that they can try to help the two friends get out of virginity as soon as possible.
Hearing this, Oubano was so excited that his eyes lit up, but Zhang Longchu just smiled noncommittally, although he was young, he had gone through hardships, was precocious as a teenager, and had a clear understanding of the gap between himself and his friends.
Howard was a wealthy Jewish businessman, and although his family was not wealthy, he was financially tall in Los Angeles.
Aubano came from a slightly worse family, but he had an apartment left behind by his grandfather, who worked hard as a painter all his life, in an emerging neighborhood;
It can be said that two generations of the family are on the right track to strive to improve the social class, and when it comes to Obano's generation, they naturally attend the best public high school in Los Angeles, and have the funds to pay for the tuition of prestigious schools, and the future is very bright.
On the other hand, Zhang Longchu himself, whose parents died early, escaped from his adoptive family several times after being taken in by the social welfare institution, and was finally adopted by the Bakers on Orange Street only to feel the warmth of his family again and finally settle down, but since then he has been labeled as a slum gangster.
To this day, he has to make money by selling drugs at school, support his adoptive father who has been unemployed for a long time by paying rent, spend all his savings for his seriously ill wife who is bedridden, and save for the future to go to college.
Fortunately, although the living environment has always been very difficult, Zhang Longchu has never given up the feeling of self-pity in life, but firmly believes that as long as he continues to fight and challenge fate, sooner or later he will break out of a Kuangzhuang road.
Perhaps it was this insistence on different repercussions that allowed him to finally win the favor of fate and get that mysterious gift, a world built of strange things!
It is precisely because of the support of this territory that Zhang Longchu couldn't help but smile conceitedly when he thought about the future again, and subconsciously touched the wooden backpack that was straddled diagonally, but this action inadvertently attracted Howard's attention.
"Okay, Aubano, I will, I will, in the shortest possible time, ask Xianduoer to arrange for you to socialize with the girls of Aiberta Girls' School." While dealing with Aubano, the Jew asked curiously, "Long Chu, how did you change that gray backpack to a wooden box?" ”
I had long expected that someone might ask such a question to himself, Zhang Longchu pretended not to care and said: "That gray backpack is broken, I used the 'wreckage' of that backpack to process this box and use it as a backpack, how about it not bad." ”
"It's quite characterful, but it looks much bulkier than a normal backpack, will it be easy to use," Howard shrugged, "My dad's shoe store has also started making leather bags since last year, do you want me to steal a suitable one for you?" ”
"No need," according to the idea he had thought of before, Zhang Longchu shook his head, wrapped the wood on the dining table and spread it out, turned it into a map and a chessboard, and pretended to be mysterious: "My wooden backpack is a treasure found in the flea market in the park opposite the 'Cornexia Museum'."
The stall owner who sold it to me said it was a 'treasure map' from the British Museum, and that if the mystery could be solved and the treasure could be found, endless riches could be reached.
That's why I transformed it into a backpack and carried it around to study all the time. ”
Hearing these words, Obano's eyes suddenly lit up, and he carefully stroked the wooden chessboard with his hand, looked at the mountains, rivers, forests, and deserts above, and said excitedly: "Really, the treasure map revealed by the British Museum, endless wealth, wow, no wonder this box looks ancient and mysterious..."
Howard obviously didn't believe in Zhang Longchu's nonsense, "You would also believe this kind of thing like buying a treasure map from the British Museum at a flea market, man, do you think you are the hero in a hero movie?" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Longchu couldn't help but think: "I really feel like the protagonist in a hero movie now...", but he said in his mouth: "Howard, you are always so disappointed, Jews are really a dreamless and super-realistic people." ”
"That's it, Jewish boy, you don't know, our dear yellow-skinned monkey in addition to those weird square Chinese characters, what he likes most is this ancient and mysterious thing, don't be disappointed." Aubano also said dissatisfiedly.
Sandwiched between two dead friends, Howard pouted and didn't speak until he finished his pizza.
After lunch, he and Ou Bano accompanied Zhang Longchu to the 'Federal Communications Company' to buy a cheap new mobile phone, and replenished the mobile phone card.
Ten minutes later, when they were about to step on the campus trail, suddenly the mobile phone that Zhang Longchu had just bought emitted a piercing "hehehe..." ringtone.
Howard on the side showed a disgusted expression, shook his shoulders uncomfortably, and said, "Long Chu, do you know how weird the ringtone of your mobile phone is."
Sometimes when we go out at night, when you call, the cold hairs all over my body stand up. ”
Why do you have to insist on using this nasty madman laughter as a ringtone? ”
"Because of the high degree of recognition, it will not 'bump the bell' with others, and the ringtone of the mobile phone is to be hated by others, and it is the most convenient to use, right?" Zhang Longchu shrugged his shoulders and said, took out his mobile phone to see, and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, so he casually connected, "Hello (hello), who are you, who are you looking for?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a gloomy voice came out of his mobile phone and replied: "This is the Los Angeles West District Serious Crime Team, are you Zhang Longchu?" Zhang Longchu's whole body stiffened, and the blood in his whole body surged to the top of his head.