"Your job is very simple. Come here at 1:30 every morning, drive me to Tsukiji Fish Market, wait for me to go there to buy goods, and then pull me back here with the goods, and wait for me to sort the goods and send them to you." Go to the designated place, and the day's work will be considered complete, understand the boy?"
"Late at night?! After all this, do I still have time to sleep?" Zhang Heng frowned.
Takeda Toru also grinned, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth, "It depends on the speed of your delivery, okay, do you have any other questions?"
"I have one last question."
"Um?"
"You will help me get a driver's license first, right?"
The smile on Takeda Tetsuya's face froze completely at this moment, "What did you just say, say it again?!"
"I don't have a driver's license yet. If I want to deliver goods for you, I have to get a driver's license first." Zhang Heng said truthfully.
"..."
"You came to me to learn drag racing without even a driver's license?!" Takeda Toru was also completely defeated, "Brother, are you playing with me? Why are people who have never even touched a steering wheel so interested in underground car racing?" ?”
"I'm not interested in underground car racing, but for some reasons that I can't disclose, I do need to participate."
Takeda Toru also stared at Zhang Heng, and it took a full minute to squeeze out a sentence, "Then you can only pray that you can pass the police car quickly."
...
There is still a big difference between late night Tokyo and daytime.
At 12 o'clock, most of the people had already fallen asleep, and only a few windows of the residential buildings near the street were still lit. Zhang Heng set off from the school and took the last subway. A sleepy social animal white-collar worker and a female publicist with heavy makeup.
He got off at the terminal station, walked for a long time, and finally arrived at the aquatic product store before the appointed time.
It was rare for Takeda Toru to become serious. Instead of continuing to sleep upstairs, he squatted in the shop sorting various orders
He didn't look up when he heard the footsteps behind him, but just said, "Give me another five minutes."
Five minutes later, he got up, picked up two crabs that had just died and threaded them with straw ropes, threw a bunch of keys into Zhang Heng's hands, and snorted, "Follow me."
The two walked out of the aquatic product store and came to a small open-air parking lot not far away. Takeda Toru also shook the iron gate. After a while, the lights in the duty room turned cold, and a stooped old man walked over while putting on clothes. Opened the iron lock on the door.
Takeda Toru also smiled at the old man, handed the two dead crabs to the old man, and then pointed to Zhang Heng and said something.
The old man seemed very happy to receive the dead crab, and the wrinkles on his face stretched out. He glanced at Zhang Heng next to him, and nodded kindly to him.
"Mr. Crab, to be honest, I don't know what his real name is. It doesn't matter. Anyway, no one cares about that kind of thing. His wife died very early, and his son and daughter haven't contacted him since they went abroad. , I found a job in the parking lot to support myself, and I have a place to live. We are old friends. I gave him the crabs that just died and couldn’t be sold. He let me park here for free. You introduced it to him, and you can just come here to drive and return the car in the future."
"Which car is it?"
Zhang Heng scanned the parking lot, finally landed on a khaki bread in the corner, and raised his eyebrows.
"It's beautiful, isn't it? Mitsubishi's second-generation L300 (Delica), launched in 1982, is the first four-wheel-drive van in Japan." When talking about cars, Takeda Toru is like a different person, and he no longer has that decadent uncle Lighting a cigarette, stroking the body, "4D56 diesel 2.5 engine, the same chassis system as Pajiro, enough to cope with bad weather and bad road conditions, so that the mere van has the performance of an off-road vehicle..."
"The car from 1982? Are you sure it can still be driven?" Zhang Heng expressed doubts.
"Don't worry, I found it in a vehicle scrapping shop. I have refitted it inside. The four-wheel drive has been changed to two-wheel drive. In terms of stability, the former is definitely better, but the four-wheel drive will increase the weight of the car body. Too much sex is not good for the driver, and it's too fuel-intensive."
"... Most importantly, I fixed the tape drive in the car." Takeda Toruya opened the co-pilot's door, sat on it, and picked up the tape.
When Zhang Heng saw this, he could only climb into the driver's seat. When he returned in the morning, he made an emergency raid on his driving knowledge, mainly relying on the videos and diagrams he found on the Internet. He also played all the way on the subway, so now he...is still not sure at all.
Zhang Heng inserted the car key that Toruya Takeda had given him into the keyhole, and turned it three times before turning the car on.
The latter ignored him at all, and waited for the car to start, and eagerly inserted the tape of Chuck and Asuka in his hand into the tape drive. As a result, the car slammed on the brakes the next moment when it was less than five meters away, and Toru Takeda His head hit the glove box in front of the seat.
Zhang Heng's expression remained unchanged, "Sorry, I stepped on the wrong clutch."
As he spoke, he shifted the gear lever to 5th gear.
"..."
"When you go to participate in the car race someday, please tell me, I will help you buy an insurance, and the beneficiary will fill in my own. I really lost to you." Takeda Toru also turned off the tape machine, "Start in 1st gear, Depress the clutch with the left foot to the bottom, lightly tap the accelerator with the right foot... "
Three minutes later, Zhang Heng drove the L300 wobbly out of the parking lot, and slowly bumped into a fire hydrant under Mr. Crab's gaze.
Fortunately, it is early morning and there are no vehicles outside.
Zhang Heng drove the L300 crookedly onto the road, and Toru Takeda, who was beside him, had already put on his seat belt obediently.
Zhang Heng drove for a full 25 minutes during the 15-minute drive. He turned off the engine five times, ran through red lights twice, and rode on the curb once. Fortunately, he finally reached his destination successfully.
Tsukiji Fish Market is the largest fish market in Japan and even in the world. Not only in Tokyo, fishermen from all over Japan will send their caught seafood here for sale. In its heyday, 3,200 tons of seafood were sold here a day, worth 3 billion yen. Every day, more than 60,000 wholesalers visit and bid for their favorite products. For them, this is not only a market, but also a battlefield.
Zhang Heng pulled the handbrake, Takeda Toru also wanted to say something, but after thinking for a few seconds, his mind was still blank, and finally he just said "Wait here for me." He opened the car door and jumped down, meeting a colleague who probably knew him After saying hello, the other party took out a pack of cigarettes, and the two walked towards the main entrance while smoking.
It has been an hour since Takeda Toru also came back, and behind him was a forklift carrying boxes of seafood he had selected. What surprised him was that Zhang Heng didn't use this time to catch up on sleep, and instead He continued to test drive the L300 in the surrounding area. Compared with his jerky driving skills when he came here, he has improved significantly now.
But Takeda Toru didn't say anything, just said with a dark face, "Come down and load together."