King Zheng took out the jug from his waist, took a big sip, waved his hands and said with a smile: "There is no rush in good things. Little brother, do you know what an important day today is?"
I thought about it and asked, "Is it possible that today is your birthday, Brother Zheng?"
King Zheng laughed and said the same thing.
Smelling like wine, he swaggered up to a blackened calendar hanging on the wall, pointed at the date and said that today was Children's Day, a holiday he had been celebrating since he was a child.
Only during Children's Day does he feel innocent and childlike.
"Even if the sky falls, we have to celebrate Children's Day before we talk about it." King Zheng chuckled, took out the hundred-dollar bill I gave him, and said that it was a rare occasion for friends to come from afar today. It was lunch time, and he had to do his best to be a landlord.
friendship.
After saying that, Prince Zheng grabbed my arm and walked out of the store, regardless of whether I wanted it or not.
I was dragged a few dozen meters by him, and the two of us came to a stewed vegetable stall. The stall owner was very familiar with King Zheng. He enthusiastically called King Shave his head and asked King Zheng if he had eaten peanuts again today?
I saw fried and bagged peanuts on the stall. King Zheng responded to the stall owner’s inquiry and said:
"What do you mean, what do you mean eating again? It makes me, the shaved king, seem to be unable to eat meat. I love eating peanuts, not because I don't have money to buy anything else, but because I like them personally. Like, you don't understand the word "like"
, laugh at me, let me get you some meat dishes for my brother this lunch!"
The stall owner laughed and said yes. According to King Zheng's arrangement, he cut some braised scalp and some pork liver.
In the end, the stall owner had to give away a bag of peanuts for free.
Prince Zheng, who had spent more than forty years feeling sorry for me, was so happy that he patted me on the shoulder and said, "Look, the people in the village here are all his Prince Zheng's buddies."
The stall owner just laughed and told me that the shaver king was good at everything, but he was dirty and pretentious. I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
On the other hand, King Zheng didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed, and instead laughed even louder.
On the way back from the braised pork stall, they met three children. When they saw King Zheng, they rushed over to them. They grabbed the bag of braised vegetables in King Zheng's hand with a smile on their face and clamored for some meat.
King Zheng smiled and gave a few pieces of meat to the three of them. The three children didn't even say thank you. One of the older children even extended an inverted middle finger towards King Zheng and said contemptuously: King Shave.
You are too stingy and you deserve not to have a wife in this life.
King Zheng was not angry about this, and told me not to pay attention to the three children, saying that it was normal for him to spoil the children and make them rude.
I smiled and saw that King Zheng was very popular in the village in the city. Even the children got along well with him. Otherwise, the three children would not have dared to play with King Zheng.
Returning to the shop, King Zheng set up a small table and stools at the entrance of the shop, put braised vegetables and peanuts in a big bowl, handed me a pair of aged chopsticks, and asked me if I would dislike them?
Before I could say anything, King Zheng said to himself that he would not dislike it, because those who could be brothers with Zhou Wu were not much richer!
No one can say this!
I smiled stupidly and sat on the small stool. I didn't mention helping Zhou Wu again. Since King Zheng had already said that we would discuss it after Children's Day, I couldn't rush to disturb his enjoyment.
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"Here, take a sip!"
Prince Zheng was sitting opposite me. He was tall and looked awkward sitting on a small stool. However, Prince Zheng didn't care and handed me the wine bottle from which he had drank.
Looking at the greasy spout of the wine bottle, to be honest, I felt a little resistant. People say diseases come from the mouth. Who knows if the sloppy King Zheng has any infectious diseases!
But I understand that if I don’t drink it because of my disgust, it will definitely make King Zheng feel uncomfortable.
After thinking for less than a second, I took the flask, opened my mouth and drank it. The strong smell of white wine entered my mouth and made me cough.
Hahaha……
Seeing me drinking, King Zheng smiled cheerfully. He said that ordinary people could not drink from his jug. Many people in the village in the city begged him, but he would not let others use the jug.
I laughed out loud, knowing that King Zheng was bragging again. It is not illegal to brag anyway, so I drank with him and listened to his talk.
After having been in contact with Prince Zheng for a long time, I discovered that he was quite talented. He knew a lot about astronomy and geography, and he even knew the secrets of Feng Shui. When talking about tomb robbing, Prince Zheng was as excited as a chicken.
"I'm not bragging. If I hadn't guarded the ancestral business of the barber shop, I, Prince Zheng, would definitely be a genius, a tomb robbing wizard who can shave my head!"
King Zheng was so speechless when he spoke, but I secretly took a look at his so-called 'ancestral business'. This store has been run by King Zheng like this. I don't know what his ancestors would think if they knew about it.
As for the tomb-robber wizard, I think King Zheng’s words are accurate, as if he has actually robbed tombs.
I chatted with King Zheng for more than an hour. After the liquor got to my head, I really couldn’t hold it any longer. King Zheng didn’t force me to continue drinking. He let me sleep on his bed, which was messier than a doghouse.
When I woke up, I found that the store was closed and the sky visible in the house had darkened. I looked at the time on my phone and saw that it was already approaching eight o'clock in the evening.
There was a missed call on my mobile phone. It was around three o'clock in the afternoon and it came from a landline number in a neighboring province.
I wondered if it was Zhou Wu calling, so I called back immediately.
The caller on the other side of the phone was the owner of a small supermarket. He said the phone was a public phone and he couldn't remember who made the call around three o'clock.
I asked again in a very polite manner, which city they were in and whether there were coal mines?
The supermarket owner told me that the city he was in was called L County, and there were many coal mines there, some openly and some secretly.
I said thank you and didn't dare to ask any more questions, fearing that the supermarket owner would mistake me for a reporter secretly visiting a black coal mine.
l County, a famous coal industry county in the neighboring province, that's right!
Explain that the missed call in the afternoon was from Zhou Wu. He said he was going to a black coal mine in another province, and he probably went to County L in the neighboring province.
It's just that I drank too much and couldn't receive Brother Wu's call, which I have to say is a pity. But thinking that Zhou Wu can call me means that he has arrived safely, which also makes me feel at ease a lot. I believe Zhou Wu can call me.
Wu will contact me again.
I took my thoughts away from Zhou Wu, got up from the bed, and called Brother Zheng several times, but no one in the shop responded.
I thought that King Zheng must have gone out, and I was about to open the door and leave. At this time, King Zheng opened the door from outside and walked in.
"Little brother, have you sobered up?" King Zheng asked me after entering the room.
I patted my head lightly and felt my mind was clear, so I said I had sobered up.
King Zheng said that's fine, he didn't turn on the light, and stuffed a plastic bag into my hand: "Inside are the related items I prepared. Now that it's dark, we should act according to your plan!"
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I suddenly laughed: "Brother Zheng, I thought today was Children's Day and everything was postponed. I didn't expect that you were busy preparing while I drank too much and slept."
Zheng Wangdao: "Can you compare with me? You have said it yourself, you want to celebrate Children's Day, but brother, I have been an adult for a long time, why do you still celebrate Children's Day? Do you think you are childish or not?"
"this……"
What King Zheng said made my face darken. It was obvious that this guy had to celebrate Children's Day, but now he was calling me childish.
"Follow up quickly. Do you still want to save your brother Zhou Wu? If you want, just keep up!"
King Zheng raised his hand and slapped me lightly on the forehead, then led me out of the shop.
He quickly closed the shop door and stepped out, like a nimble mouse, and dived into the night.