Chapter 12: "Let's Call This Chapter a Narrow Encounter"
After coming out of the house, Zhang Duzhi went straight to a ramen shop that he used to go to, where the things were affordable and cheap, although after becoming a cultivator, money was already considered something outside the body, but Zhang Duzhi was still just an ordinary person now, and money still had a great effect on him.
The ramen shop is not very far from his home, and it took less than five minutes to see the familiar signboard, but when Zhang Duzhi took a closer look, the furnishings in front of the store were messy and abnormal, as if someone had smashed them, and even the electric tricycle that Lao Liu Tou often drove to buy vegetables was pushed to the ground.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Duzhi still walked into the store, the store was the same as the outside, the tables and chairs were scattered, and there were even many smashed beer bottles on the ground.
"Lao Liu, Lao Liu!" As soon as he entered the store, Zhang Duzhi hurriedly opened his throat and shouted twice.
I saw a man in his forties and fifties slowly walking out of the back kitchen, greeting as he walked: "Come on, yo, it's Xiao Zhang, I haven't come to eat here for some days, haha", there was some reluctance in the laughter, and the corners of his mouth seemed to pull the wound at the corner of his mouth, which made him gasp. Lao Liu's hair was a little messy, and the years had left a lot of marks on his face, and of course, the traces of the beating had also been left.
"What's going on?" Zhang Duzhi looked at the embarrassed old Liu Tou in front of him, he knew his temper, he was an honest and responsible person, and he usually wouldn't provoke some innocent right and wrong, and he must have been wronged when he was beaten this time.
"Hey, it's okay, it's okay, if you want to eat something, I'll make it for you! I don't want your money this time, let's leave quickly after eating, my store is probably not open..."
Zhang Duzhi turned his face and pretended to be angry and said: "Lao Liu, you know who I am, if you provoke something yourself, I won't ask, let alone care, but the matter is already obvious, your shop is obviously being troubled, they all sat on your head and, you are still here to endure, as a master, I really look down on you." ”
"I also know that this matter is quite a wretch, but there are too many of them, I am weak here, I have no connections, if I want to sue the criminal department, I am afraid that there are people in the criminal department!" Hearing Zhang Duzhi speak with the backbone of the masters, Lao Liu suddenly became anxious, and yelled at Zhang Duzhi with a red face.
"Then you can tell me what's going on, and I'll help you get an idea, right?" Seeing Lao Liu's anxious look, Zhang Dui's heart had a bottom, he picked up a table from the ground, and moved two stools casually: "Sit down and talk slowly?"
"Hey!" Lao Liu patted his thigh angrily, took the chair from Zhang Duzhi's hand, sat down at the table, thought about it, and took out a bottle of Lao Baigan and two cups from behind the cash register—this was ready to spit out.
"It has to be told from yesterday. He poured a full glass of wine for Zhang Duzhi, and the two of them didn't make snacks, so they drank dryly.
"A group of people came to my store that day, and after eating and drinking, they were about to leave, so I hurriedly stopped them and asked them to settle the bill, but one of them seemed to be the leader who came up and gave me a slap in the face, and said to me: 'If you want money, you don't want to give your life, Lao Tzu eats here with you, is it to give you face, you old thing still dare to ask for money?' I saw that they were many powerful, and they didn't look like good people, and they didn't dare to reason with them much, so I let them go. ”
"Isn't this what happened to your shop, how did you become this virtue?" Zhang Duzhi took a sip of the liquor in his hand, and a hot stream flowed down his throat, instantly making his stomach warm.
"Listen to me. Lao Liu Tou drank all the liquor in the cup, his face was a little rosy, and he coughed and continued: "I thought this matter was over, but at about eight o'clock this morning, the group of them turned back again, smashed the things in my store, and asked me for 50,000 star coins for medical expenses, and said that I injured one of their brothers yesterday. ”
Old Liu Tou wanted to cry without tears, and his words carried infinite grievances.
"Damn, it's really too deceitful!" After hearing this, Zhang Duzhi threw his wine glass on the table, stood up and shouted: "Their bastards just see that you are so bullying, and they are blackmailing! What about them now? I'll settle accounts with them!" After drinking some wine, Zhang Duzhi's brain was a little impulsive.
Old Liu Tou hurriedly stood up and said to Zhang Duzhi: "Xiao Zhang, you go quickly, they asked me to prepare the money, and I will come to get it at noon!"
Zhang Duzhi glanced at the clock on the wall, and it was about five minutes before twelve o'clock.
"Lao Liu, you don't have to be afraid, I want to see what their group of people are about, if they beat you today, I will take you to sue them to the Criminal Division, if the Criminal Division doesn't care, I will pay for a bounty hunter to do them all!"
"Oh, aren't you talking angry!" A trace of warmth flowed in Lao Liu's heart, he came here from other places to open a shop, and the young man in front of him was always accompanying him, and the two of them sat together and talked about the world whenever they were free, without the slightest barrier, if he was involved now, he was really a little uninteresting.
"Yo... I thought you old guy had run away..."
The old Liu Tou, who was thinking in his heart, heard this strange sound of yin and yang, his legs were weak and he almost fell to the ground, this group of plague gods did not come sooner or later, but this time came. Glancing at Zhang Duzhi beside him, Lao Liu Tou hurriedly greeted him.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have this money ready yet... Do you think you can give me some time?" stepped forward, and Old Liu Tou bowed and begged the group of people in front of him.
"It's them..."Zhang Duzhi looked at the group of people at the door, there were about five or six of them, all of them holding weapons in their hands, steel pipes, throwing sticks, and machetes: "It really didn't take any effort to get here..."
The group of people at the door was the group of bullies who threatened Zhang Duzhi a few days ago, and now they actually appeared here, which made Zhang Duzhi sigh that the world was so small.
"Heh... A group of scum seeds who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard..."Zhang Duzhi snorted softly.
"What the are you talking about?!" The little brother at the door had pointed ears, and when he heard Zhang Duzhi say this, he immediately exploded like a dog having its tail stepped on.
"You're talking about you, a bunch of fools, bullying honest people with a lot of people?" Zhang Duzhi responded, not to be outdone.