Chapter 13: Old Knowledge
Following.
Thorn woke up in the morning, only to feel refreshed and refreshed, got out of bed with a grunt, went into the bathroom to take a shower, got dressed, stood in front of the mirror of the sink and tidied up the meter.
I saw that the young man who was still pale and depressed and a little malnourished yesterday is now full of energy, fair and energetic, far-reaching, and has a calm and calm bearing, which is very different from the thorns before awakening the memory.
The technique of "Kan Li, Water, Fire and Sword Qi" absorbs the aura and warms the two major organs of the heart and kidneys, and these two organs will slowly nourish the rest of the internal organs, blood and even the whole body.
Due to his previous proficiency, the results of his practice last night were remarkable, and according to his estimates, he would be able to reach the level of 50 proficiency points displayed by the system by completing the practice at midnight in the next few days.
Thorn nodded with satisfaction, took out the money bag from his luggage, took out twenty-five silver horns and put them in different pockets, closed the zipper, and then went out to the restaurant on the second floor, enjoyed breakfast amid the greeting of the waiter, and asked for a newspaper to read.
"There are no other reports, what involves the gang is the revelation of the dirty things that the Red Turban Gang has done. The government has not yet begun to clean up the non-governmental forces that have fornicated overseas, so it should be a few days of peace. Let's continue to live in this inn for now, and first cultivate the spell to the proficiency level displayed by the system. ”
Thorn looked at the newspaper, his heart was slightly relieved, he took a sip of the breakfast milk on the table in front of him, and cut the bacon on the plate with a knife and fork, and tasted it slowly.
While tasting the food, he glanced at the mechanical suit on his body out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly thought of two things: one was the mechanical seminar; The second is the former boss Wang Gui.
He slowly put down his knife and fork and thought about it:
"In the government's liquidation order of non-governmental organizations with overseas backgrounds, the Wuwu Mechanics Society will definitely be behind, but there are always exceptions to everything, in case something happens when I am in retreat and practicing magic, causing the order of disposition of the mechanical seminar to be advanced, it will inevitably affect me."
"And that Wang Gui, what he did at that time was like knowing the inside story of the black glove, normally speaking, ordinary small businessmen who knew about this kind of thing would be secretly dealt with by the government, how did he know?"
"No, you can't take it lightly, you still need to collect more information, Wang Gui doesn't matter, let's go to the meeting first. In short, be prepared. ”
He immediately made up his mind, took a napkin and wiped the residue of food, then went out of the restaurant amid the waiter's greeting, went downstairs to the front desk, asked the girl at the front desk for some change, and walked out of the door of the hotel.
Not far from the hotel, several rickshaws were parked, and the drivers were crouching to watch for business. The coachman who was closest to Thorn saw Thorn walking out of the inn at a glance, and his spirit was lifted, and he ran to Thorn Thorn faster than his peers, and asked respectfully:
"This young master, where are you going?"
Thorn was not surprised by this, and asked, "Go to the watch department store, do you know the way?" ”
The coachman was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with some wrinkles on his face, and he looked at the rich boy in front of him dressed as a mechanic with extraordinary skin and tender flesh, and his eyes rolled:
"Young master, I don't know the way, you get in the car, look at it."
Jing Zithorn frowned when he heard this, looking at this person's treacherous eyes, he was speechless in his heart, is this treating me as a fat sheep?
Then he shook his head, ignored the man, and walked straight towards the other coachmen, who had also seen the thorns, but were a few steps slower.
"I'm going to the watch department store, the man didn't know the way just now, which of you knows, quote a price."
"Don't, young master, I remember, I know Lu ......" The coachman behind him shouted and tried to keep it, but Thorn just ignored it.
Several other coachmen also looked at the thorns, there were lessons from the past, and they were still thinking about how to make the most suitable offer, and one of the young coachmen reacted the fastest, and immediately shouted:
"Young master, I know, 10 coppers, this is a fair price!"
"Okay, it's you."
Thorn immediately made a decision, got into the coachman's tricycle, and sat down on the seat.
"Okay!"
The young coachman got into the car with a smoke, and behind him, several coachmen looked at each other a few times, very unhappy, and the first coachman was still shouting with a hammer:
"Young master, wait, I'm also 10 coppers!"
Thorn didn't respond, and the young coachman pretended not to hear, and pedaled away on three wheels with Thorn.
Nothing to say all the way.
The watch department store is actually in the business district, not too far from the hotels in the overseas business district where Thorn is staying, and it is early in the morning, most of the shops in the commercial area are open, pedestrians are hurrying to work, tricycles carrying people on the streets, and the occasional steam car with roaring engines passing by.
Not long after, the tricycle stopped at an intersection, and the street was flanked by seven or eight-story high-rise buildings, and the snow-white exterior walls of the painted sky, the black-tiled roofs, and the colorful shop windows were quite eye-catching.
"Young master, it's here." The young coachman looked back.
"Hmm." Thorn nodded, got out of the car, took out a ten-cent copper bill from his pocket and handed it to him, and walked into a building next door, the finished clothing department store, in the driver's thanks.
Next to the finished clothing department store is the watch department store.
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On the third floor of the watch department store, there is a watch shop in the corner, and all the clock and watch products that should be on the front of the store have been emptied, and through the glass doors and windows, you can see that there are two rows of tables in the middle of the storefront, each with five tables, each with two seats.
In front of the two rows of tables stood a middle-aged man of the Xia clan dressed as a mechanic, looking at the sparse people on the seat in front of him, frowning and saying nothing.
There were three people sitting in the front, all of whom were of the Xia clan. They are dressed in different shapes, but they are all decently dressed, and they can be described as dignified. There were only two people in the back seats, both dressed in uniform black mechanical suits, and their faces looked a little dish-colored, obviously a little malnourished.
These people were talking to each other at this time.
The three people in front of them looked at each other a few times, and a well-proportioned young man with glasses among the three couldn't help but turn around again and ask:
"Wang Jiajun, Li Rui, are you saying that the thorns and the others all owe money somehow, and then they are being collected?"
"Yes." Wang Jiajun, a square-faced young man with a thin body and a mechanic's uniform, nodded, he frowned, and said hesitantly:
"I don't feel right either...... I heard that they all worked in a few small watch shops in the docklands, and then somehow they owed money or offended the gangsters, and then they couldn't find anyone. ”
Li Rui, who was tall and thin and also wearing a mechanic's uniform, nodded his head, and the horse-faced young man said:
"Yes, I went to the Wang's watch shop yesterday to look for thorns, and I learned from his boss Wang Gui that he repaired someone else's clock, and he fired him......"
"Something is wrong...... One or two are okay, how come they are all for the same reason? Another decently dressed round-faced young man in the front row also frowned and spoke.
A few were still talking, and at this moment, a girl from the Xia tribe walked into the shop, this woman was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a melon seed face and a very beautiful appearance.
She looked at the sparse members in front of her, her curved willow eyebrows furrowed slightly, and asked:
"Why are there only so many people today? How many of them are thorns? ”
The mechanical apprentices of the mechanical seminar, who were seated in two columns, all looked back, and when they saw Ye Qingyan, the president of the seminar, they couldn't help but sit up a little straighter.
A slightly chubby middle-aged man in his forties in a mechanical suit standing in front of two rows of tables saw the visitor, hurriedly walked to the girl's side, and whispered:
"Miss, the students below all know each other, I asked, those few people with poor backgrounds are the thorn Chen Yunfeng and a few of them......"
Speaking of this, the middle-aged man paused for a moment, hesitated and said:
"It seems that they all got into trouble with gangsters or owe money or something, and I heard the rest of the members say that they can't find any of them."
After hearing this, the beautiful girl asked, "All?" Is this true for each one? ”
Wang Jiajun, an apprentice mechanic from poverty, didn't dare to look directly at the stunning color in front of him, and looked at the floor and stammered back: "Yes...... Right...... It's all a similar situation. ”
Ye Qingyan was silent, her white palm clenched all of a sudden, and after a long time, she let go of her hand and calmed down, she nodded, walked to the two rows of tables, looked at the only five students left in front of her, and said calmly:
"Today's study is as usual, you continue to learn horological techniques with Master Fan, and I will send someone to the dock area to inquire about the whereabouts of the Thorns and their few later."
The members below said in unison, "Yes, President!" ”
Ye Qingyan nodded, and then said to the slightly chubby middle-aged man:
"Master Fan, you can start teaching. I'm going to arrange for someone to go to the docks to inquire now. ”
The middle-aged mechanic immediately responded: "Yes, Miss! ”
The preoccupied girl had just walked out of the door of the store, and suddenly her heart jumped violently, and she felt that someone was watching, so she immediately looked around, but found nothing.
"Strange ......"
The girl's eyebrows were slightly furrowed, the haze in her heart was heavier, she thought of something, and immediately hurried downstairs.
Seeing that the girl went downstairs, not far from the shop where the members of the mechanical seminar were studying, another clock shop that was open, a young man wearing a black trench coat and black trousers, brown leather shoulder pads, a brown leather belt, and black boots withdrew his gaze from the clock in front of him and let out a sigh of relief.
He put down the mechanical watch in his hand and said to the sales girl beside him:
"Sorry, I don't think these tables fit, I'm going to think about it again."
After speaking, he had just purchased a suit in the finished clothing department store, and the transformed Thorn walked out of this watch store with a handbag containing a mechanic's costume, walked in the opposite direction to Ye Qingyan, and found the stairs and went downstairs.
"I'm sorry...... President. ”
Thorn sighed abruptly, he didn't mean to watch, just for his own safety, he didn't come forward to talk to his old acquaintance, just hid aside, and secretly observed with the secret method of the fish intestine stabbing sword technique and the five senses strengthened after practicing the technique.
At this time, Thorn was in a cold sweat and secretly rejoiced.
Ye Qingyan, the president of the mechanical seminar, is the daughter of a wealthy businessman, whose family is said to have trade dealings with Xinhan, and she has taken good care of the students from poor backgrounds, and she also made the decision to give new members mechanic clothes.
Thorn had just secretly observed whether there had been any changes in the mechanical seminar, and when he saw the beauty, his heart was also quite fluctuating.
After he awakened his memory, he actually knew that this young Mu Ai was actually like that, nothing more than a poor boy longing for a rich girl, and maybe what people thought of them poor mechanic apprentices.
It's just that...... Although we now know what the essence of this relationship is, we know that we know it, and the feelings themselves are not false.
"Fortunately, I came here, and it is estimated that in the processing sequence of this government, the ranking of the mechanical seminar will be at the top of seven or eight out of ten."
Thorn's eyes closed, recalling the performance that Ye Qingyan had just noticed and his skin as white as jade.
"How can an ordinary woman have such amazing five senses and cream-like skin? I didn't expect the president to also practice magic...... Now I just don't know, whether the government knows about it...... If you don't know, how long can you hide it from the government. ”