Chapter 64: Life Choices
Zhang Nianzu was speeding on the road, and he was going to find someone. If you want to start the next step of the plan, you have to find out your identity as much as possible, but there is a sentence that he has now deeply understood about identity.
"I don't have a strong sense of my racial identity. ”
He wanted to find Lao Jiang, after all, this was the only one of his kindred that he could contact.
When he arrived at the door of Dick's Bar, Zhang Nianzu also deliberately looked at the front and back alleys, but he didn't see any special movement, it seems that after such a period of time, the people blocking him have also relaxed a lot. But even if he had, he didn't care at all.
At this time, night fell, there were already many people in the bar, Zhang Nianzu strode in, and saw Lao Jiang in the bar at a glance.
Jiang Zhicheng saw Zhang Nianzu appear so openly, and said with some dumbfounded: "You ......"
Zhang Nianzu smiled and said, "I'm here again." ”
Lao Jiang subconsciously looked around and whispered, "I haven't heard from you for so long, I thought you had gone out into hiding." ”
Zhang Nianzu shook his head and said, "I came today to tell you a piece of news. ”
"What's the news?"
"I've found my grandfather. ”
Lao Jiang was taken aback and said, "Where is he?"
Zhang Nianzu pointed at himself: "It's me." ”
"Are you crazy?"
"Uh...... There is no ......" Zhang Nianzu suddenly found an embarrassing problem, he couldn't prove that he was his grandfather at all.
With a snort, Lao Jiang Lengding pulled out his fist and hit Zhang Nianzu's face.
Zhang Nianzu was different from the past at this time, and almost instantly stretched out his slap, firmly enveloping Lao Jiang's fist and stopping in mid-air, the two briefly competed with each other, and the result was that no one could move forward.
Zhang Nianzu smiled: "Cloth wrapped in stones, I won." ”
Seeing this, several of Lao Jiang's supporters approached this side, Lao Jiang withdrew his hand, motioned for them to disperse, and said unexpectedly: "Good boy, I haven't seen a lot of growth in a few days." But he immediately added, "But that doesn't prove that you're grandpa." ”
Zhang Nianzu grabbed an iron spoon from the bar, held it in a row in his left hand, and then used his right index finger to break them one by one.
"This trick is called a little golden finger, do you remember the last time I fought with someone in front of the bar, and that person suddenly broke his arm?"
Lao Jiang thought for a while, his expression gradually changed, and he said, "You...... Are you really grandpa?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "I just knew. ”
Lao Jiang subconsciously took a big step back, and slammed the wine rack behind him into a loud bang, this was the first time Zhang Nianzu saw him show a frightened expression, Lao Jiang said vigilantly: "What do you want to do?"
Zhang Nianzu said helplessly: "I have to understand some information before I can decide what I should do-" He felt that after confessing his identity, Lao Jiang's previous secretive information might be decrypted to him.
Lao Jiang said: "What else do you want to know?"
Zhang Nianzu sighed and said, "That's it, let me tell you what I know first." He saw that Lao Jiang suddenly had a deep wariness and hostility towards him, the previous Lao Jiang was free to talk and laugh when facing dozens of thugs, and he still owed Lao Jiang a favor, he didn't want the relationship between the two to deteriorate.
Zhang Nianzu briefly said how he was hit hard by a big man at the gate of the hospital, and then told Lao Jiang what Liu Lao Liu and the other ant-men said to him as they were.
"So it seems this way—" Zhang Nianzu concluded, "a huge amount of public money for our clan has disappeared from my father's hands, and as the heir, I have to trace its whereabouts and give an explanation to my clansmen." ”
"So your dad was greedy for my dad's money?" said Lao Jiang, his eyes widened.
Zhang Nianzu smiled bitterly: "At present, it seems like this, but I think there must be something strange in this." ”
Old Jiang froze there and muttered, "That's it...... No wonder ......"
Zhang Nianzu said: "What's the wonder?"
Lao Jiang wanted to speak and stopped, Zhang Nianzu looked into his eyes and said, "Can you trust my character?"
Lao Jiang gritted his teeth and finally said, "Trustworthy!"
"Then tell me, what did your father tell you before he died?"
Lao Jiang said: "Actually, I have already told you, there is only one point of his last words, that is, not to let me go to my grandfather, but I will never forget the indignation and fear in his eyes when he was dying, now I think about it, it is because your father, that is, the grandfather of the previous generation of strongman clans, embezzled the public funds of the clan, my father is unwilling and does not dare to go to your father to settle accounts, and there may be some guilt towards me, but he still did not disclose more information about his grandfather for my safety." ”
Zhang Nianzu said movingly: "If this is the case, I will definitely give you father and son an explanation for my father." ”
Lao Jiang said gloomily: "I didn't expect that your family might be my indirect father killer." ”
Zhang Nianzu patted him and said, "Don't say that before the conclusion is conclusive, and no matter what, I recognize you as a big brother." ”
Lao Jiang sighed and said, "In short, there are grievances and grievances between you and me." ”
Zhang Nianzu said: "Fortunately, you are not a woman, otherwise we would not have to stage a bloody romance drama?"
Lao Jiang also smiled, and the atmosphere suddenly relaxed.
Zhang Nianzu said: "Didn't your father leave you an inheritance or something before he died?"
Lao Jiang spread his hands and said: "Do you think I look like a rich second generation? In your words, how can I jump into the dung pit whenever I have a rut? A few years ago, I had an idea to save a sum of money to buy this bar completely, but later I found that there was no fun, although this place is not a golden section, and such a big bar is not something that ordinary people say to buy it. ”
Zhang Nianzu said unexpectedly: "Isn't this bar yours?"
Lao Jiang said: "You can tell the difference between the shopkeeper and the boss, right? I am a manager, and this bar is the property of the association." ”
Zhang Nianzu said: "I wrote it down, if our affairs are clarified, I will help you fulfill this wish." ”
Lao Jiang said: "Then you have to hurry up, I don't have a few years to live." ”
Zhang Nianzu was a little stunned, but immediately understood that he was saying that the soldier only had a lifespan of forty-five years, and he interrupted: "You have to help me." ”
Lao Jiang said: "How else can I help you? You are no worse than me in terms of fighting." ”
Zhang Nianzu said: "By the way, didn't you say that you still know a member of our clan, can you let me meet him?"
Lao Jiang said: "I can only try to make an appointment for you, and I have only met that brother once, and he doesn't seem to care much about it." ”
Zhang Nianzu said: "Thank you." He suddenly felt a little lonely in his heart, listening to the meaning of Liu Laoliu's words, the strongman clan used to be a formidable race, but now the clansmen have become so alienated and indifferent to each other, this may be because of the lack of grandfather, or even dereliction of duty. He asked Lao Jiang, "The people of the Black Panther Gang didn't trouble you later, did they?"
Lao Jiang said: "I said a long time ago, they have no evidence. As he spoke, he took off the clothes on his shoulders and showed Zhang Nianzu where he was injured last time, where a piece was swollen, and it seemed that the bone was still repairing itself, but the skin and flesh were already intact. Lao Jiang suddenly said, "Speaking of looking for someone, there is a woman looking for you here every day." ”
"It's Ting......" Zhang Nianzu stopped abruptly after saying two words, he quickly reacted that it would not be Lei Tingting, one is that Lao Jiang knows her, and the other is that she is definitely not free now.
Old Jiang said with a smile: "Where did you owe a romantic debt?"
Zhang Nianzu was completely at a loss, if it wasn't for Lei Tingting, who would look for him?
Lao Jiang suddenly squeezed his eyebrows behind Zhang Nianzu and said, "It's here!"
As soon as Zhang Nianzu turned around, the woman Lao Jiang said happened to be behind him, and the two suddenly came face to face-
To say that this woman has fair skin, tired crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, and gray hair -- this is actually an aunt in her fifties who is in her sixties! Zhang Nianzu turned his head and glared at Lao Jiang, but found that Lao Jiang was smiling narrowly.
The aunt was holding a glass of lemonade in her hand, and sure enough, she asked, "Young man, do you know Zhang Nianzu?"
Zhang Nianzu had no choice but to turn around and say, "Auntie, I am Zhang Nianzu." ”
The aunt was stunned when she heard this, and then she compared Zhang Nianzu's height with her hand, and judged the other party's age, and muttered in her mouth: "It's almost the same as what she said-" She said coldly, "You laugh." ”
"I'......m smiling," Zhang Nianzu said embarrassedly, "Auntie, what are you going to do?"
"Laugh!" said Auntie insistently.
Zhang Nianzu was helpless, and reluctantly raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a very perfunctory smile, but this smile still affected the muscles on his face, and the scar like a dimple also bloomed.
When the aunt saw it, she immediately said excitedly: "That's right, you are Zhang Nianzu!"
"Auntie, you are ......"
Aunt said: "I am Lei Tingting's nanny, you can call me Aunt Wang." ”
"Tingting, how is she?" Zhang Nianzu asked anxiously.
Aunt Wang said word by word: "She is very bad, she talks about you every day, people are about to be depressed, I watched this child grow up, I never thought that she would care about a person like this." ”
Zhang Nianzu felt a pain in his heart and said, "Where is she now?"
"I was imprisoned at home by the tiger master, and there were people watching me every day when I was out of the wind. Aunt Wang slapped Zhang Nianzu and said, "Didn't you say you were going to find her?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "I have something to delay...... And ......"
Aunt Wang said, "Then go now!"
Zhang Nianzu said in a depressed manner: "I can't go to her." ”
Aunt Wang squinted at Zhang Nianzu and said disdainfully: "Tingting is the wrong person after all, since you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't brag, she thinks about you every second, people are about to become insane, but you are drinking here." ”
"I ......" Zhang Nianzu had no explanation and didn't know what to say, and he didn't know whether he was fanned or emotional, and he was so red that he was about to drip blood.
At this time, Lao Jiang poked his head and said, "This eldest sister, you don't know the background of the Lei family, just rely on this kid to find your eldest lady alone, and you still have to die there?"
Aunt Wang said domineeringly: "Then die with Tingting, what's the point of living like this?"
Lao Jiang said amused and helpless: "You really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, and you can get out of it when these two children are not your own." ”
Aunt Wang said angrily: "Although I am a servant, I have always regarded Tingting as my own daughter, watching her be so haggard day by day, I will make a nest for her!" She pointed at Zhang Nianzu and said, "Boy, give me a happy word, do you go to find Tingting or not, if you instigate me, go back and let her die!"
Lao Jiang poked Zhang Nianzu and whispered: "A nanny in the Lei family is like this, do you dare to go?"
Zhang Nianzu clenched his fists, and he said to Lao Jiang: "Tingting followed me to the death, and she is at least safe in the Lei family - you must know that among the people who are chasing and killing me are our clansmen!"
Lao Jiang stopped laughing, just now he was holding the mentality of watching jokes, and then he understood Zhang Nianzu's thoughts.
Aunt Wang stared at Zhang Nianzu and said, "Hey, if I ask you, you said." ”
Lao Jiang lay on the bar and said, "Either die with your beloved girl, or let her hate you for the rest of your life, you choose." ”
Zhang Nianzu said depressedly: "Do you have any suggestions?"
Lao Jiang said: "No, anyway, no matter how you choose today, you may regret it later." ”
Zhang Nianzu said angrily: "Aren't you talking nonsense?"
Lao Jiang shrugged: "Life is like this, sometimes the choice that you don't have is not necessarily happier than the choice you have." ”