Chapter 5: The Refined Beauty

  The Xi'an-Yumenkou Expressway in Shaanxi Province is also known as the Xi'anyu Expressway, which runs from Xi'an to Yumenkou on the banks of the Yellow River. This expressway is an important part of the "rice" shaped highway network in Shaanxi Province. The route passes through the Weinan Black Soil Belt region, which is rich in energy and mineral resources and is a major producer of grain, cotton, apples, pears, and other fruits. In Hancheng City, there are famous tourist attractions such as Longmen, Dangjiacun Folk Village, Dayu Temple, Puzhao Temple, and Sima Qian Ancestral Hall. As a national-level expressway, its quality is guaranteed to be high, so Li Sansheng and others suspected that a high-performance Range Rover with a North A military license plate broke down here.

  The girl who blocked Li Sansheng's car was about 1.7 meters tall, wearing black silk stockings, black strap high-heeled sandals, black silk short sleeves, black denim shorts, black fashionable sunglasses, and straight black hair, all in a black suit that could tempt the several old men in the car to be infatuated with her. Most importantly, this girl had an aura of looking down on ordinary people, even Li Sansheng, a man with super strong willpower, couldn't help but say that although he didn't know how old she was, she definitely had the characteristics of a mature woman.

  Li Sansheng shook his head, it's also this era, girls who don't know how to dress up may only be those ordinary and simple girls from small towns and villages who have grown up with more self-abasement than self-respect, naive and unsophisticated rural girls. Girls like them are destined not to be subdued by ordinary men.

  "Thief, really damn beautiful!" Er Long swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the Audi hadn't even stopped yet when Er Long had already fixed his gaze on that woman's absolutely 36C chest, his eyes burning with primitive desire, completely unmasked and bare.

  "Two Dragons, if you like her, we won't stand in your way. It's best to take the initiative and make a bold move. Who knows, that woman might even succumb to your charms and never leave your side." Old Mong said with a sly tone, seeing the lustful glint in Two Dragons' eyes. However, the storm of blows they would have to endure afterwards was something only a few people could withstand. A woman who can drive a North A Military Region's Land Rover is not someone who can be compared to these small-time individuals, no matter how ordinary she may seem. Just like the achievements of ordinary people after a lifetime of struggle are viewed as worthless by these people, like dog shit that's not even worth mentioning.

  "Got it, Third Brother said, living is good, I don't want to die so soon." Er Long shook his watermelon head and continued to swallow his own saliva fiercely, but absolutely not being controlled by lust.

  After Audi stopped, Li Sansheng and a few others got out of the car one after another. Hei Zi, as if it were an instinctive reaction, didn't look at that disgusting girl, but instead looked around at the surroundings and terrain. Always thinking about the worst possible scenario, Hei Zi didn't want to be caught off guard when the worst situation arose, which would be a naked insult to his own incompetence.

  "Do you need help?" Old Meng is a bit more pragmatic, this group of people has long been not the angry youth of newborn calves, and their life has already been advancing at an accelerated pace in a predetermined direction.

  Two dragons still have an attitude of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, with naked eyes measuring the sexy and charming woman in black series temptation. However, for people like Two Dragons who only care about being able to wear clothes without pursuing quality, they would definitely not know that the clothes on this woman's body plus the Patek Philippe watch on her wrist could absolutely buy an Audi A6 behind her back.

  In comparison, Li Sansheng didn't notice the seductive woman, but instead carefully observed the man who was wiping sweat and fiddling with the engine under the hood of the Range Rover. This was because the man had just discreetly sized up Li Sansheng and his group when they got out of the car. Li Sansheng was absolutely certain that if he or any of the four people made even a slightly excessive move, the man would react in the next second.

  The man's physique looked even more impressive than Hei Zi, his dark, explosive muscles were absolutely stunning, wearing military camouflage short sleeves, a common small flat head in the army, his eyes gave more than half of his attention to Li San Sheng and his gang.

  Li Sansheng was puzzled that he had just seen two women, but now only one woman was left. He looked at the Range Rover's rear window with reflective film and could see from the outline that there was someone sitting inside, probably the other woman.

  "Our car has broken down, can you help us take a look?" The woman in the all-black suit, who was probably used to living a high-end life, spoke politely but with an uncomfortable tone. She didn't seem to think much of Li Sansheng and his friends, who were not quite on her level. However, she did glance at Old Meng several times, after all, his appearance that could kill any woman wasn't just for show. Especially his slightly mischievous smile, similar to Justin Bieber's signature smile.

  Upon hearing the woman's words, Hei Zi and Lao Meng slightly raised their eyebrows in dissatisfaction. They looked at Li San Sheng, who remained silent. Lao Meng, not quite pleased with the woman, smiled and said, "Give us a reason to help you."

  Lao Meng made it clear that he wanted to make things difficult for this woman, letting her understand a very ordinary truth, which is that when seeking help from others, one should lower their posture and not put on airs.

  When Zhao Si heard Old Mong's words, he felt a bit uncomfortable. In his own world, most people flattered him, and few men dared to refute him so strongly. He could only mock himself for being unlucky. Looking at the young lady in the car, his cousin, if it weren't for sending her to school, he wouldn't have suffered this way. Last year when he sent her to school, they took a plane, but this year, he didn't know what she wanted to do, insisting on taking the highway. He had no choice but to nod in agreement. To arrive in Xi'an as soon as possible, he let the security guard drive the Range Rover at full speed, not afraid of speeding even with a military license plate. However, just before entering Xi'an, the Range Rover suddenly broke down without warning. After cleaning up for half a day, the security guard still hadn't finished, and since they were too far from the service station, they had to ask passing vehicles for help on the road.

  "Alright, name a price." Zhao Siyi's usual demeanor was forced out by Old Man Meng. She glanced at the few people with Old Man Meng, especially the brazen gaze of Er Long, which made her feel very disgusted.

  "What does it mean?" Hei Zi asked faintly.

  "Help us fix the car, how much will it cost?" Zhao Siheng intentionally batted her eyelashes, although the sunglasses reduced the killing effect, but still full of vigor. She believed that in this world, there were really not many things that money and power couldn't accomplish. For small people, no matter how strong their backbone was, they would only get lost when tempted a little bit more.

  Zhao Siheng's perfect figure presents a double S, black silk high heels with black silk stockings and those long legs are absolutely matched. Er Long has already swallowed his saliva, even Hei Zi and Lao Meng have to admit that this woman's charm is really too powerful.

  Although this woman is so seductive, the arrogant look really doesn't make people feel comfortable. Old Mong's eyes are lightly scornful as he looks at Zhao Siyin.

  "Older female cousin" just as Lao Meng was about to speak, another woman who was sitting in the Land Rover got out.

  Li Sansheng carefully sized up the woman, who was slightly taller than Zhao Sihen. She wore ordinary clothes - jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, with sunglasses and a duck-billed cap, making it possible to see only her outline, but not her specific appearance.

  "Sorry, our car has broken down. Can you help us fix it?" The woman tucked her wind-blown hair behind her ear, and Li San Sheng only vaguely made out the woman's appearance, which somewhat resembled that of Miss World Zhang Ziyin, but with more spirit and elegance, and a height similar to Zhang Ziyin's, enough to make many men envious. The girl's voice was soft and sweet, as comfortable as a spring breeze.

  The girl may be a little closer to Li San Sheng, and she smiled awkwardly at Li San Sheng, apologizing for her cousin's overbearing attitude just now. Li San Sheng understood that although women apologize, the two groups of people belong to different worlds and have an insurmountable distance.

  Li Sansheng furrowed his brow, unable to articulate why he always felt uncomfortable around this type of person. He glanced at the time and saw that it was almost noon, when the heat on the highway would become unbearable, especially for two women. He nodded towards the woman wearing a duck-billed hat and said, "Er Long, you and Heizi take a look and see what's wrong."

  Two Dragons only then shifted that extremely lecherous gaze from Zhao Si Si's body, shamelessly shaking his watermelon head and licking his tongue, following Hei Zi as he walked towards the middle-aged man.

  Li Sansheng understood that it would take not one or two days, but the struggles of several generations to go from their world to the world of the duck-tongued hat girl.

  There's no intention of hitting on a girl wearing a duck tongue hat, although Li Sansheng admits that

  The girl wearing a duck-tongue hat is the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, especially that kind of temperament, very knowledgeable and spiritual, eyes clear as a pool of water, tight jeans showed off her figure that many women envy, hate and covet, compared to the woman in black suit, she has more elegance, although not as rich as that woman's femininity, but wins in terms of temperament.

  Lao Meng took out a cigarette and handed one to Li Sansheng, then pulled out a lighter to help him light up. The two men leaned against the Audi, looking somewhat worn out as they smoked, just as Li Sansheng could understand that even unremarkable small figures would have their own bitterness and hardships, let alone a big old man who had lived for twenty years without parents or relatives to rely on.

  Li Sansheng's smoking posture was very special, to say the least, it was very awkward. Unlike those cool and handsome smokers, he would pinch the cigarette head with his thumb, index finger, and middle finger, taking a hard drag each time, then exhaling the smoke comfortably through his throat.

  The girl wearing a duck tongue hat might be a bit sensitive to the smell of smoke, and she frowned. Li Sansheng saw the girl frowning, and while extinguishing his cigarette, he said "Sorry".

  "It's okay," the girl said lightly.

  Lao Meng saw Li San Sheng extinguish the cigarette and also pinched off his own, throwing the butt into the storm drain. He then got into the car, leaving the door open due to the sweltering heat, and casually picked up a book on economics - David Ricardo's "Principles of Taxation". Lao Meng and Li San Sheng had developed a habit of always carrying a book with them.

  The girl wearing a duck tongue hat was visibly surprised to see the "Principles of Taxation" in Old Mong's hand, because Ricardo's "Principles of Taxation" is not widely acclaimed domestically. As for this book and Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", which are both timeless masterpieces, there aren't many people who have read them domestically. So it was a bit surprising to see Old Mong take out this book, but if the girl had known that Old Mong was one of the most favored disciples of several old professors from China's best finance college, Renmin University, she wouldn't be so surprised.

  The girl in the duck tongue hat had a very pleasing hand, slender fingers, and palms that were neither fat nor thin. Her fingernails were only slightly long, but she didn't wear any nail polish that would make Li Sansheng feel nauseous. Li Sansheng always thought that to see a woman's upbringing, one should look at her eyes and hands, so the girl in the duck tongue hat had performed relatively satisfactorily up until now.

  Hei Zi and Er Long were helping the man repair the Range Rover's engine, possibly encountering a not-so-small problem. Hei Zi's eyebrows were furrowed, but Li San Sheng believed that since he was young, he had been familiar with these things like playing with women, and Hei Zi was still handy in dealing with such small problems.

  Li Sansheng closed his eyes and took off a string of prayer beads from his wrist, which at first glance seemed ordinary but was actually a precious blood jade rosary. Li Sansheng had learned from his grandfather since childhood the characteristic of "believing in hundreds of families but not believing in one family", meaning to learn from the strengths of hundreds of families and cultivate one's own spirit.

  Grandfather told him that Confucianism governs the country, Taoism cultivates the body, and Buddhism nurtures nature. Therefore, Li Sanyou also has some research on Buddhist studies, and his favorite is a sentence from "The Sutra of the Earth Store Bodhisattva", which says: Enduring patiently without stirring is like the earth; contemplating deeply and mysteriously is like the Earth Store (Bodhisattva).

  For his own life, Li Sansheng was very clear. In a small village with only a few dozen households, he stared blankly at the vast sky like a toad at the bottom of a well for over ten years, and his understanding of the outside world was limited to what his grandfather said about that colorful world like a flood beast. Until he entered that aristocratic school in China with absolute fame, he had never left the small town. This is Li Sansheng's sorrow. Li Sansheng himself admitted that he didn't have too much ambition, and at most, as his grandfather said, it was good enough to be alive.

  So Li Sanyou never understood was that his grandfather often told him that as long as he was alive, it was enough, but the paradox is that he taught him too many things, so Li Sanyou didn't understand why he needed to have so many skills just to be alive.

  Li Sansheng said that what would probably make many people laugh is that at his current age, he is still a virgin and has never been in love. At most, when encountering a girl being robbed on the street, he would pull her along to run away together. So Li Sansheng has a habit that most people don't know about: whenever he sees a pretty girl, he would unconsciously use the finger-counting trick like those fortune-telling scammers under the Xi'an city wall. It wasn't until high school that this habit gradually weakened, and now it only happens when he sees an extremely beautiful girl.

  So when he saw the girl with a duck tongue hat, Li Sansheng was very embarrassed and dared not look at the girl with a duck tongue hat, using smoking and turning prayer beads to shift his attention.

  After about half an hour of fiddling by Er Long and Hei Zi, the Range Rover's engine was finally fixed. It was actually just a small problem, but because that security guard was overly tense, he found the wrong place where the problem occurred.

  The car is fixed, which also means that this brief encounter has come to an end. After all, we are not people from the same world and will not intersect again. That's just how life is, with many fleeting passersby who do not intersect.

  As he watched the Land Rover slowly start and leave, Li Sansheng turned around to face the distant Wei Bei Plain with a slightly melancholic and somewhat pale smile.