Joseph's house is larger. In front of the house is a green lawn, but behind the house is a covered iron warehouse. When he saw the iron warehouse, Xia Lei's heart was moved, and he secretly said in his heart: "Joseph himself studies intelligent machine tools, and they are large ones. He definitely can't do it in the house where he lives. Most likely in that warehouse." Hit it?"
But just when Xia Lei was about to take a look inside the warehouse, Joseph came over and said, "Anina, can you help me? There are too many customers, and I am a little overwhelmed."
Anina said: "Okay, what do you want me to do?"
Joseph said: "Please help me get some wine. You know where my wine cellar is."
Anina nodded, "Okay." Then she said to Xia Lei, "Wait for me."
After Anina left, Joseph's eyes fell on Xia Lei, "Your name is Lucas, right?"
Such a tone was disrespectful. Xia Lei could also tell that this Joseph did not want to invite him to his birthday party. He was here because of Anina. In fact, if it weren't for Joseph's identity and what Joseph was researching, Xia Lei wouldn't be interested in coming here.
These are all reasons behind the scenes.
Although he was disrespected, Xia Lei still smiled and said politely: "Yes, hello, Mr. Joseph." After saying that, he extended a hand to Joseph and wanted to shake hands with Joseph.
"My hands are oily, so I'd better not shake hands." Joseph said, "So Lucas, can you go to the utility room and get me some charcoal? You need charcoal for the barbecue."
"No problem, where is the utility room?" Xia Lei asked.
Joseph raised his hand to point Xia Lei in the direction of the utility room.
Xia Lei walked towards the utility room. Joseph did not regard him as a guest at all, but as an unwelcome fellow who came to join in the fun. Joseph gave him a cold look and asked him to do dishonorable work. These were nothing, not even a chicken feather compared to the secrets he wanted to steal.
Some customers standing in the front yard chatting looked at Xia Lei's back and muttered.
"That Chinese young man is Anina's new assistant. I heard that Anina gets along well with this assistant and gets along pretty well," a guest said.
"I heard that the Chinese boy repaired Anina's motorcycle in just one hour, and he also fixed the engine problem. It's really amazing." A customer said.
"Do you know why Anina is willing to accept this new assistant?" A young blond woman with blue eyes said with a smile: "Anina talked to me. She said that this Chinese assistant knows kung fu and is very powerful. Last night She got into trouble with a gangster, and she said it was this Chinese assistant who helped her solve the problem."
"So this Chinese boy is actually a very capable person, but it seems that he doesn't like him and actually asked him to get charcoal."
A middle-aged man smiled and said: "Joseph likes Anina. It's an open secret. This Chinese guy looks pretty good and works with Anina. Of course Joseph won't like it. That guy is really stupid." , to actually come here, isn’t this asking for trouble?”
As Joseph walked over, the chatting guests quietly changed the topic.
Xia Lei didn't hear these discussions and came to the utility room.
The utility room is on the side of the house, a separate simple wooden house.
There were some sundries piled up in the utility room, including farm tools, mechanical parts, and the charcoal that Xia Lei wanted to take away. It was a big bag, weighing about fifty kilograms. Entering the utility room, Xia Lei did not rush to take away the big bag containing charcoal. Instead, he stood in front of the window and looked at the iron shed warehouse built behind the house.
Joseph's house is made of pure wood, but the walls of this warehouse are made of brick and concrete, which is very strong. However, this could not block the sight of Xia Lei's left eye. His left eye twitched slightly, and the wall more than ten meters away disappeared from his sight.
He saw a machine covered with a tarpaulin sprayed with fluorescent material. It was very large, about ten meters long and three to four meters wide. He used his eyesight enough to see through the fluorescent tarpaulin, but found that the fluorescent tarpaulin absorbed his energy. When he struggled to penetrate the fluorescent tarpaulin, what he saw was very blurry.
Xia Lei was secretly surprised, "The fluorescent tarpaulin can actually absorb my energy, weakening my perspective ability and making me unable to see clearly. How could this happen?"
Ever since he got his clairvoyance ability, Xia Lei has tried it every time and never failed, but this time he failed.
Everything in nature must be in conflict with itself. This is the law of nature. The Chinese theory of the mutual support and restraint of the five elements also explains this principle. In other words, nothing exists without natural enemies, and the same is true for Xia Lei's clairvoyance ability.
Xia Lei didn't continue trying. He looked away and walked out of the utility room carrying the large bag of charcoal. Although he couldn't see clearly what was inside the fluorescent tarpaulin, he was sure that it was the intelligent machine tool Joseph was researching. Knowing this place, he has plenty of opportunities and is not in a hurry.
Xia Lei placed the charcoal next to the barbecue grill. At this time, Anina also walked out with a box of red wine. There is also Joseph, who is more exaggeratedly holding an oak barrel, which is also a container for wine.
Anina frowned slightly when she saw Xia Lei putting charcoal into the grill. She put down the red wine box and walked to Xia Lei. She whispered: "Lucas, if you don't like it, we can leave here and I can make dinner for you."
Xia Lei smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm quite happy."
"Well, as long as you are happy." Anina turned her eyes to look at Joseph while speaking, her brows were still frowning.
Joseph uncorked the wine and oak barrels. The oak barrel is filled with dark beer, and you can smell the unique aroma of burnt malt of German dark beer from afar. The guests started drinking and having a barbecue, and the birthday party began.
Xia Lei was only familiar with Anina among the people present, and he was not familiar with anyone else including Joseph, so he became the loneliest person in the lively occasion. However, he was not idle either. When no one was chatting with him, he would watch others chatting. He became familiar with the lip shape and pronunciation of German and perfected his lip reading skills.
Not long after, several young men riding motorcycles arrived. They were about the same age as Joseph, and they all wore cool motorcycle outfits. Joseph hugged and exchanged pleasantries with them, and seemed to have a good relationship with them.
At this time, Anina finally got rid of the entanglement of a girlfriend. She walked to Xia Lei and said, "Lucas, let's have a drink, for the sake of our friendship."
Xia Lei clinked glasses with her and said, "For our friendship." Then he drank the beer in the glass.
"The few who just arrived are Joseph's best friends. They were classmates in college. One is a policeman, one is a professional boxer, and two of them work at BMW." Anina drank a lot, and her words were a little bit... Duo said, "I know them, and they are not good-tempered guys."
Xia Lei just smiled faintly. He was not interested in getting to know Joseph's friends. Once he has the items, he will leave Germany immediately. The people and things here didn't mean much to him.
But at this moment, Joseph put down the wine glass in his hand, walked to the middle of the barbecue venue, and said loudly: "Today is my twenty-seventh birthday, and I would like to thank everyone for coming. You are my colleagues, classmates, and Neighbors, but at the same time you are all my friends. You are the most precious people in my life.”
The guests all applauded, and Xia Lei also applauded politely.
After the opening remarks, Joseph moved his gaze to the corner where Xia Lei and Anina were. He smiled and said: "Now I would like to invite a new friend to come up and say a few words. This new friend is Lucas from China." He waved to Xia Lei, "Lucas, please come here."
Xia Lei was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what Joseph wanted to do, but he had a bad feeling.
"It seems that our new friend is a shy person. He is shy. How about we give him a little applause to welcome him?" Joseph followed and took the lead in applauding.
The guests also applauded, and even Anina joined in the cheers and clapped her hands.
Xia Lei walked up to Joseph and said awkwardly: "Mr. Joseph, I wish you a happy birthday."
"Thank you." Joseph said with a smile on his face, "Lucas, I heard that you know Kung Fu. Chinese Kung Fu is world-famous and very powerful, right?"
Xia Lei glanced at Anina subconsciously. He knew Kung Fu. If anyone knew about it, it would be Anina. It seems that Anina has actually guessed that he helped her last night. Then, she probably told one of her best friends about it, and then that best friend happened to be a big mouth, so more people knew about it.
Although Anina meant no harm, she caused him trouble.
"Actually..." Xia Lei said, "I don't know much about Kung Fu, but Hua's Kung Fu is indeed very powerful."
"Are you bragging?" A young man wearing a motorcycle suit also walked to the middle of the field and said in a disdainful tone: "The China I know only produces some low-quality and cheap goods, such as socks and shirts. As for kung fu and all that, it’s just a false story, and you can probably only see it in movies, right?”
Several young men in motorcycle suits laughed.
Xia Lei's face suddenly turned ugly. He had a bad premonition just now. Sure enough, this Joseph was deliberately embarrassing him.
"Hans, you can't say that, Lucas is my colleague and my friend." Joseph said hypocritically.
The young man known as Hans smiled contemptuously, "I hate those who tell lies the most. China has no kung fu and only inferior products. If you are not convinced, let him fight me and I will let him." Let him see our German boxing."
Joseph looked at Xia Lei, "Lucas, do you dare to fight Hans?"
Xia Lei said: "There is no need."
"Hmph!" Hans sneered: "In addition to producing inferior products, China also produces cowards."
Xia Lei suddenly became angry, "Do you really want to fight?"