In the 1990s, the term "beauty" was not as popular as it is in later generations. If you were meeting someone for the first time, especially if you said it in a teasing tone like Wenliang, to the other person it would be considered at the very least a crime of molesting a woman.
"rogue!"
The short-haired girl glared and stood up angrily. Her reaction was too intense. I don't know if it was because she had suffered some loss before. Wen Liang realized that he had made an empirical mistake again. He forgot that this moment was different from the future. He raised his hand and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean any harm..."
Perhaps it was because of his gentle and harmless appearance that he really didn't seem to be a bad guy. The girl called Hongli pulled the short-haired girl's arm and advised, "Okay, Xiaoqing, sit down quickly. What will it look like if someone sees you?"
"You are just too naive, that's why you let that fat pig..."
"Xiaoqing!"
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore!"
The girl with short hair glared at Wen Liang again, then sat down angrily, and pulled the girl with glasses to sit closer to her, as if she would get pregnant if she got closer to Wen Liang.
Hongli comforted his companions, turned to Wenliang and said, "I'm sorry!"
"sorry!"
Wen Liang apologized almost in unison, their voices overlapping, somehow the scene was very funny, and they all laughed at the same time. With this interruption, the little disturbance just now disappeared, and the girls' orders were delivered first, a bowl of rice noodles for each person, which was very simple, so they had no time to care about Wen Liang, the suspected hooligan.
The girl with glasses was obviously very hungry. She happily picked up the chopsticks and finished half a bowl in one gulp. However, she looked very cute while eating. Wen Liang even had the urge to pinch her cheeks. Then the food ordered by Wen Liang came up one after another, including beef tripe, hot pot vegetables, meat skewers, eggs, etc. His food alone took up half of the table. The aroma it exuded made the rice noodles on the opposite side tasteless. The short-haired girl named Xiao Qing became more and more unhappy. She poked the bottom of the bowl with her chopsticks twice and said nothing with a dark face. The girl with glasses ate the rice noodles while looking at the food on Wen Liang's side with envy. She couldn't help swallowing her saliva. Wen Liang smiled, picked up a meat skewer and handed it to her, saying, "Try it. I ordered a little too much. I can't finish it all by myself. Help me digest it, otherwise it will be a pity to waste it!"
The girl with glasses hesitated, "Not good...right?"
Wen Liang put the skewers on her bowl and said with a smile, "It's really bad to waste food. Don't worry, I will go back to Qingzhou after dinner. You will never see me again and I won't ask you for money."
The girl with glasses bit her lip, her eyes full of desire, but she also knew it was not good to eat food from strangers. Xiao Qing said, "Li Zhen, look at how greedy you are. Will you die if you don't eat meat?"
"I... I haven't eaten yet, have I?"
Li Zhen smacked his lips, reluctantly handed the skewer back and said, "Thank you, I'm not hungry."
Wen Liang smiled again and did not refuse. Just as he was about to eat, Hong Li suddenly asked, "Are you from Qingzhou?"
"Really?" Wen Liang was afraid of the rope after being bitten once. He thought to himself that maybe he had met another girl who hated Qingzhou people like Chen Yurui and Zhuo Mingjing. He didn't want to cause another quarrel just by having a midnight snack, so he quickly added, "But my ancestors are from Hebei..."
This was not entirely false. To be honest, three or four generations before my grandfather had indeed migrated from Hebei. Hongli showed a look of surprise and said, "I am also from Qingzhou..."
When fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears. The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly becomes heated. Wen Liang is the type of person who fears that others will not give him a chance to speak. As long as he is willing to listen to his nonsense, there is nothing that cannot become friends. After more than ten minutes, he basically knows the situation of the three girls. The short-haired girl is Feng Qingqing. Like Li Zhen, she is a local from Guanshan. She comes from a poor family. After graduating from junior high school, she did not go to school again. She went to the south to work for two years. At the end of last year, she was called back by her family. As luck would have it, she actually entered the Bencao Ruolan factory as a worker. The other girl is Yang Ru. She is originally from Qingzhou. She moved to Guanshan with her family two years ago. The house she rented is next to Feng and Li's. She just graduated from high school this year and was admitted to Jiangdong Normal University. Although it is just an ordinary undergraduate and is not ranked among the top normal colleges, it is considered good in the era when the college entrance examination has not yet expanded. Because she raised a red carp at home, she usually likes it and takes care of it meticulously, so the two girls gave her the nickname "Red Carp", but it was not that the word "Red Carp" was in her original name.
The three women were similar in appearance, age and family background, so they became good sisters who could talk about anything. They were so close that they could wear the same skirt without being distinguished from each other. Feng Qingqing and Li Zhen worked at Bencao Ruolan. Yang Ru had to work part-time to supplement the family income after class. She had to work part-time to earn tuition during the summer vacation. She was beautiful and had a good figure. She successfully applied for a summer salesperson in a brand clothing store.
That was the general situation. Wen Liang did not ask any other questions. After all, they were just casual acquaintances and would never meet again. There was no need to ask any more questions. Wen Liang called the proprietress and ordered a lot of barbecue and seafood for the girls to have a big meal. When they were about to pay the bill, a fat man in his thirties came over with a strong smell of alcohol. He smiled and said, "What a coincidence, Yang Ru, you are also eating here?"
Yang Ru stood up quickly and said, "Hello, Manager Wang."
"Sit down, why are you so polite!" Manager Wang reached out and patted Yang Ru's shoulder. Yang Ru leaned to the left, but did not dodge. She had no choice but to let his fat hand touch her shoulders, which were only wearing a thin layer of short-sleeved shirts, and sat down. Manager Wang's eyes swept from Feng Qingqing and Li Zhen, and finally turned to Wen Liang's face, and said, "Are they all your friends?"
Yang Ru nodded and said, "Well, Manager Wang, why are you here too?"
"It's close to our store, just one street away. Anyway, I have nothing to do after get off work, so I might as well go out with my friends to drink some beer..." Manager Wang pointed to another table where three or four young men were sitting. Judging from their hairstyle and clothes, they were gangsters. There were three wooden barrels of draft beer next to them, and it seemed that they had drunk a lot. He said, "They are all my buddies, and they are in charge of this area. Why don't you go over and get to know them? No one will dare to mess with you in the future?"
Yang Ru looked in the direction of his finger. Several young people immediately whistled, and some even licked their lips obscenely. They turned their heads and said timidly, "Manager Wang, no need. We have already finished eating and are leaving."
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Manager Wang looked at the leftovers on the table with disdain and said, "How can you just eat these? You are still young and your body is still developing. You need to eat more nutritious food. Come on, I'll treat you today. Order whatever you want!"
As he said this, he pulled Yang Ru's arm. Yang Ru tried to block it with her hand, but failed. She screamed in pain when he grabbed her. Feng Qingqing stood up and asked angrily, "What are you doing?"
Manager Wang's eyes were red, and he was obviously drunk. As the saying goes, alcohol makes cowards brave, so he didn't take a little girl seriously at all. He said, "What are you doing? Invite my employees to dinner. If you want to come, I welcome you too... Ha, your little face is pretty good, it doesn't matter if it's a little dark..."
"You! Let go!"
Feng Qingqing was so angry that her face turned red. She tried to pry Manager Wang's hands apart, but he pushed her away. She staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"careful!"
Wen Liang stood up, reached out to support Feng Qingqing from behind, then lightly placed his five fingers on Manager Wang's pulse and said with a smile: "Sir, you have to be sincere when you invite a girl to dinner. You can't be so rude... Let go first, let's talk properly!"
Manager Wang felt a sudden pain in his wrist, as if it was clamped by two hot pliers. He cried out "ouch ouch" and didn't care about Yang Ru at all. His fat body bent like a shrimp and said, "Okay, loosen... loosen up, it hurts, it hurts!"
"These girls have finished their meal and are leaving to go home. Is that okay with Manager Wang?"
"No, no... Hey, misunderstanding, it's all misunderstanding!"
Wen Liang loosened his grip, and Manager Wang quickly stepped back, covering his pinched wrist, and turned his head and shouted, "Brothers, someone is causing trouble!"
The ruffians sitting over there were watching the fun, but when they saw Manager Wang being bullied, they all surrounded him and said arrogantly, "Who is so ignorant as to dare to mess with the emperor?"
"That's right, why don't you take a piss and look in the mirror? Do you know whose territory this is?"
"Why waste your words on him!" A fierce-looking man took out an empty beer bottle from somewhere and smashed it on the table. The front half of the bottle shattered to the ground. The half bone spur in his hand was jagged and flashing a frightening cold light. "White knife in, red knife out, grandpa will also make a skewer to skewer meat!"
Who is Wen Liang? How could he be fooled by their bluffing tricks? He took out his cell phone from his pocket, dialed a number, held it up for them to see, and said with a smile: "This is the cell phone number of Wu Shanhe, the director of the Public Security Bureau of the Nanhua Branch of Guanshan City. How about I call him and ask him to come over now and ask for favors from you guys?"
After all, mobile phones are still rare these days, and Wen Liang's calm demeanor doesn't seem like an ordinary person. The ruffians were stunned, not knowing whether what he said was true or not. They looked at each other, a little at a loss. Manager Wang had just suffered a loss, hiding behind a few people, standing on tiptoe and anxiously saying, "Listen to his bragging, if he knew the Public Security Bureau chief, why would he come here to eat?"
The little scoundrel thought so too, and felt his intelligence was insulted, so he cursed: "Well, you still dare to play the empty city trick, you are looking for death!"
Wen Liang laughed and said, "Manager Wang is easy to talk about. If things really get out of hand, he will be fine hiding somewhere, but we brothers will be in trouble! Don't you think about it? If you don't have any confidence, how dare you make fun of the famous Director Wu in the territory of Nanhua District?"
Wu Shanhe is not a simple person. He has been a police officer for decades and has arrested more criminals than mosquitoes in Guanshan in summer. His methods are especially vicious and he is well-known in both the black and white worlds. These little ruffians are certainly not stupid. They are frightened by what others say. But when they heard Wu Shanhe's name, their simple anus tightened. They would rather believe it than not believe it, so they hesitated.
"this… "
The ruffians were in a dilemma. Manager Wang was afraid that they would just leave without a care in the world. Just as he was thinking about how to add fuel to the fire, a man walked over through the crowd and said, "What's going on? I was going to the toilet and you guys came here to have fun?"
Manager Wang was like he had found a savior, and said, "Big Eyes, come quickly, this bastard is bullying me!"
"Oh, you dare to bully our people? What do you mean?"
The man had a buzz cut and a golden dog chain around his neck. There was a slanting scar from the corner of his eyebrow to the bridge of his nose, which made one of his eyes appear larger than the other. He was given the nickname "Big Eyes", and I don't know if it was given to him by his enemies or if he really did it for his own amusement.
Wen Liang took a step forward, protecting the three girls behind him. Seeing that this big-eyed man didn't seem to be so easy to fool, he began to consider whether to really call Wu Shanhe. He didn't have much friendship with Wu Shanhe, but Liu Tianlai had been scheming up and down in the past two years, and he got along well with Director Wu. Knowing that he often went to Guanshan, he gave Wu's private mobile phone number in case of emergency. But in the past, Chang Cheng followed him, so any trouble was solved immediately, and he couldn't use this relationship.
While Manager Wang was complaining with exaggeration, he looked at Wen Liang with an unconcealed smugness, as if he was imagining that the next moment he would make this kid kneel on the ground and beg for mercy. Suddenly, he turned around and slapped Manager Wang in the face with such force that blood flowed from the corner of his mouth almost instantly.
“Ah… Big… Big-eyed brother…” Manager Wang covered his mouth in surprise. The taste of blood in his mouth almost made him faint, and his pronunciation became less clear.
Da Yan ignored him and smiled at Wen Liang, "Brothers are ignorant, please don't be offended, Master Wen."
Wen Liang didn't expect that this guy actually recognized him, and he didn't bother to ask him why. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's just a misunderstanding, nothing, let's go!"
"Yes, yes, Master Wen, please take care!"
Wen Liang led the girls away, and the man holding the beer bottle asked in confusion, "Brother Yan, who is he? Why are you so polite to him?"
Big Eyes said with lingering fear: "Don't ask who it is. Anyway, it's someone we can't afford to offend... Do you know Brother Niu Dao Niu? I offended this guy some time ago and he's still in jail now!"
"Brother Niu was put into the trading room because of him?" The fellow looked at the bottle spike in his hand, quickly let go and threw it to the ground, and said, "Boss, how did you know about this?"
"How did you know? I was there when Brother Niu got into trouble that day. Luckily I ran away quickly..."
At that time, Niu Dao gathered people to block Wen Liang, and Dayan, who was on the periphery, also followed. Later, when he saw that the situation was not good, he slipped away. However, because he was a small target, he was not affected when Zhao Xiujie was arresting people.
"Damn it, it seems that he really has Wu's cell phone." He shuddered when he thought of the scene when Wu Shanhe personally questioned him. He kicked Manager Wang in the stomach and said, "Your uncle almost killed us brothers..."
Wen Liang led the girls out of the food stall. Thinking about having to explain his identity later, he felt a headache. When he saw his car parked on the side of the road, he suddenly thought of an idea. He pretended to pull the car door casually and said in surprise: "Hey, this car is not locked and the car keys are also here. It happens that I can drive. Let me borrow it first and take you home."
The girls had just gotten out of the tense situation and hadn't recovered yet. Only Li Zhen, who was fat and heartless, hesitated and asked, "Is this okay?"
"We acted in an emergency. They must have recognized the wrong person. If they react later, it will be too late to catch up."
When the girls heard that the group of ferocious guys would catch up with them, they didn't care about anything else and quickly got into the car. Wen Liang asked for the address and drove away into the night.
After more than ten minutes, perhaps because they were getting closer to home and farther away from the danger just now, the girls gradually regained their spirits. Feng Qingqing asked, "Who are you? How could they mistake you for someone else?"
Li Zhen was also puzzled: "Yes, why do they call you Master Wen? Isn't your last name Wen?"
"Who knows?" Wen Liang shrugged and said, "Maybe he is a bit like the person they mentioned. Maybe he was from the same family a hundred years ago..."
"Is it such a coincidence?"
"There's no coincidence in the world. Besides, if I was really as good as they say, would I go to a food stall to eat alone? I don't know which big hotel would serve me!"
"That's true!" Feng Qingqing nodded and said, "I can tell from the looks of it that you're just like us, paupers. There's no way you're rich..."
"Yes, we are all glorious proletarian revolutionaries. We should have called each other comrades decades ago!"
Wen Liang intentionally told some jokes to ease the atmosphere, and soon Feng Qingqing and Li Zhen started chattering about their experiences. There was more excitement than fear in their words. After all, they were all little girls, and it was quite exciting to experience such a thing personally.
However, Yang Ru remained silent. Wen Liang glanced at her in the rearview mirror and thought that she was worried about offending Manager Wang and losing her job, so she was in a bad mood. He didn't think about anything else.
Another five minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance of an alley, where the girls lived. Before getting off the car, Feng Qingqing said, "Our parents are all at home, so we won't invite you to our house. Anyway, thank you very much for tonight. Although I can handle it without you... But thank you anyway!"
Wen Liang could see that Feng Qingqing was a typical person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart. He actually had a good impression of her and said with a smile, "You're welcome!"
Li Zhen jumped out of the car, ran to the driver's window, and said seriously: "Thank you for treating me to grilled fish, eggs, skewers, and..."
Wen Liang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This girl didn't thank him for saving them from Da Yan, but thanked him for the food. She really got the point right. She said, "It's a small thing, but you should eat less meat and fish in the future. It's good for your health, okay?"
Yang Ru still didn't say a word, and walked towards the alley with the two girls. After walking four or five meters away, she suddenly ran back alone, lowered her head and said to Wen Liang: "Can I have your cell phone number?"
"Um?"
Wen Liang was stunned for a moment. He and the three girls just met by chance. They would not have any intersection after tonight. He did not expect that she would come to him to ask for his phone number. After hesitating for a while, Yang Ru's face turned red in an instant. She was so anxious that she was about to cry. She said, "Don't get me wrong... I don't mean anything else. I just want to thank you when I have the chance in the future..."
Wen Liang had no choice but to smile and say, "Okay, I'll only say it once, you remember it..." (To be continued)