No. 134 Bitter Life

  The sedan didn't suffer much damage, but the airbag suddenly popped out after hitting the wall of someone else's store, tightly pinning Dawei inside.

  The owner of the small jewelry store was staring blankly at the scattered fragments, and the originally elegant shop had been turned into a garbage dump by this crash.

  "Are you crazy?!" Dawei raised his head and scolded Wang Jian: "Suicide?"

  Wang Jian didn't say a word, opened the car door and ran out, staring blankly at the end of the street, the flames in his eyes flickering on and off.

  "Hey! Are you sick again?"

  Dawei chased out and followed Wang Jian's line of sight to the empty street, but found nothing. Then he looked at Wang Jian with a puzzled expression, unclear about what was going on.

  A concrete mixer truck.

  "This stuff is all over the floor! Must you?"

  Dawei turned his head to look at Wang Jian, stared for a while, and suddenly found himself unable to understand this strange Wang Jian. He stood with Wang Jian for a while, then turned his head and looked at Wang Jian with a strange gaze.

  More and more people gathered around to watch the commotion, and Wang Jian also came back to his senses at this time: "The one who crushed your car last time is the same person, the same car."

  Dawei immediately understood and his expression suddenly turned solemn, his face also turning pale like it was smeared with wax.

  "Some people want your life." Wang Jian clenched his fists: "And still pretend it's an accident."

  Dawei retreated back to his own car, slumping down on the hood, his hands shaking as he lit a cigarette: "Damn it!"

  "It shouldn't be the same group as the ones who hired Yun. The style is different." Wang Jian seemed to have been infected by Tian Ran's naturalness, and he continued to reason: "These two groups, one wants you, and the other wants your life."

  "It really is..."

  Dawei thought for a moment, and indeed, as Wang Jian said, although it was just an unfounded guess, the probability of encountering the same engineering vehicle that had crushed Dawei once on two roads tens of thousands of miles apart was almost too small to be believed. Moreover, after Wang Jian mentioned this, Dawei only then realized that the car had already turned from the outer lane to the inner lane from a distance, and from the angle of steering, if the driver of that car wanted to capsize the mixer truck, he just needed to steer sharply and slam on the brakes.

  If it weren't for Wang Jian's good eyesight, the two of them would probably have been crushed into two sticky meat patties by now, stuck in the car and unable to be pulled out.

  "Let's go find him!" Dawei's eyes were bloodshot, his heart full of anger: "Damn it to death!"

  Wang Jian shook his head: "It's no use looking for him, we can't get anything out of him. He must be a professional at this, he has his own set of excuses, and last time the traffic police also ruled it as an accident. He also compensated you for your car."

  Dawei finished a cigarette and calmed down. He sighed and looked at Wang Jian: "How did you suddenly become so rational?"

  "I saw a movie starring Louis Koo, called 'Accident', and it had a similar plot." Wang Jian squatted on the ground, helping the shop owner pick up the jewelry while calling out to Dawei: "You'd better compensate for the losses quickly."

  After picking it up for a while, Wang Jian's eyes lit up and picked up a purple crystal cat-shaped pendant from the ground: "How much is this?"

  The boss was also quite surprised. He had never thought that the perpetrator would still buy things, so he didn't react immediately: "Three hundred and eighty."

  Wang Jian was taken aback, looked at the price tag of 1080 yuan above, and then gave the boss a strange look: "Your discount is too ruthless."

  "Whatever, whatever..." The boss reacted and also felt helpless: "Since you can crash in, we are also destined to meet. Seeing that you drive such a good car, I estimate you won't be dishonest. Alright, I'll give you a discount, this is a pair, you pay 500 yuan, and take both away."

  While Wang Jian and the boss were completing a small transaction of 500 yuan, the traffic police arrived, and the car was towed away quickly. Meanwhile, Dawei compensated the boss for an estimated loss of 50,000 yuan and bought a jade amulet before carefully walking back with Wang Jian.

  "I've lived so long, and this is the first time I've encountered something like this." Dawei and Wang Jian deliberately took small roads and carefully observed the expressions of every passerby. Whenever they met someone fierce, Dawei would always go around to the other side of Wang Jian to seek shelter: "How embarrassing."

  "Didn't your Uncle Yao tell you about the gun source? Once we find one end, we can follow the trail to find the other." Wang Jian also observed the passersby: "You'd better stay in a safe place now and not wander around."

  "I don't believe in this evil stuff." Dawei flicked his hair: "I have a lucky charm to protect me, all evil spirits will not invade..."

  At this moment, the auspicious thing in his mouth was standing on tiptoes in front of a large pot in the kitchen, at a loss for what to do. A black and shiny lump of strange stuff inside the pot emitted a pungent smell that was heart-wrenching. Even pigs wouldn't eat it if they were thrown into the pigsty.

  "This..." She looked at Liang Huanhuan beside her with a bitter face: "Can you eat it?"

  "You eat and I'll watch." Liang Huanhuan said irritably: "Eat, isn't Chao Cang eating? Tang Ta also ate, you should eat too, why don't you eat?"

  Tianran was almost in tears, covering her nose and staring pitifully at the stuff in the pot, trembling as she stretched out her chopsticks to pick up a piece and prepare to put it in her mouth. But just then, Liang Huanhuan knocked it back into the pot with one swipe of her chopstick.

  "If you eat to death, your classmate Xiao Jian can peel my skin off." Liang Huanhuan said, scooping up the pot and pouring it into a trash bag with soup and water. Then, with a sad face, she started washing the pot and dishes: "You'd better give up on cooking, you really will die."

  She naturally pouted her mouth and quietly retreated to one side, saying with a wronged tone: "I did everything according to the recipe."

  "But you're too overbearing with that small amount." Liang Huanhuan said irritably: "My hand slipped, and half a bottle of soy sauce went in, not to mention vinegar... Look at how much vinegar you added, chili powder you put in a whole half kilogram. I told you to add less, you said Ah Jian loves spicy food. Now it's good, even the Dragon King would get stomach perforation from eating this."

  Just as they were saying that, Wang Jian and Da Wei had already returned to the martial arts hall. As soon as they entered the house, they smelled a strong pungent irritating smell, similar to the smell of concentrated sulfuric acid when the lid is opened, forming a layer of volatile white fog at the mouth of the bottle, which was sour and smelly. Even smelling a little bit made them feel uncomfortable all over their body.

  "Ugh..." Dawei almost rolled his eyes as soon as he entered the house: "Who's dissolving a corpse with acid?"

  Wang Jian also pinched his nose: "It's sour and spicy potato shreds..."

  As expected, after going upstairs, Tianran Er and Liang Huanhuan were standing in the kitchen, all windows open, exhaust fans blowing loudly, while the two people in the kitchen had to cover their noses with their sleeves... "What are you doing?" Wang Jian rushed into the kitchen, looking at Tianran Er and Liang Huanhuan: "The whole street smells like this..."

  "Some people have even called 119 to report it."

  "Not your darling yet, I'm making dinner for you." Liang Huanhuan's tone was full of resentment: "In a sense, this girl is quite a failure."

  He stood there with his head down, fidgeting with the hem of his clothes, looking nervous and embarrassed.

  "It's nothing." Wang Jian smiled at her: "I'll do it instead."

  "Get out of the way, I'll do it!" Liang Huanhuan shook her head: "Who knows what kind of weird thing you guys will come up with? It's safer for me to just do it myself."

  Wang Jian oh-ed and pointed at the quick-frozen chicken in the water pool: "Remember curry chicken."

  After finishing speaking, he raised the medicinal herbs in his hand and said to Tianran Er: "I'll still give you medicine first."

  Then he started preparing, simmering, cooling, and solidifying. The whole process took an hour, and then a bowl of black paste emitting a cool scent was placed in his hands. Throughout the entire process, Tianran Er stood beside him, staring blankly without saying a word... "Will it hurt..." Tianran Er's painful expression made Wang Jian laugh: "It will hurt a bit, or else it wouldn't be effective."

  "Alright then..."

  As they spoke, the two of them walked into the room one after another. Dawei followed behind and tried to enter as well, but at the door, he was given a disdainful glance by Tianran Er before being pushed out. The door was then closed and locked from the inside.

  Dawei was taken aback and said to Liang Huanhuan, who was sitting on the floor playing with her phone: "What does this mean?"

  "Others want to get intimate with you, are you going in there to die?" Liang Huanhuan didn't even lift her head: "Can't you be a bit more aware? A 27-year-old old woman, no matter how stupid, should know better."

  Wang Jian and Tianran Er entered, Tianran Er jumped onto the bed, rolling up her sleeping gown above her thighs, revealing her dazzlingly white beautiful legs.

  Wang Jian didn't have any evil intentions, he walked to the bedside, picked up Tianran Er's 34-code small foot and began to observe it carefully.

  "It's almost healed, if it itches later, don't scratch it at all costs, or it will leave a scar."

  Tianran Er's eyes were about to tear up, her face red as she nodded and said in a low voice: "A Jian, let's begin."

  As the Wang Jian ointment was applied to her feet, Tian Er felt a stinging and itchy sensation that made her skin crawl. However, with her ankle firmly grasped in Wang Jian's hand, she couldn't move no matter how hard she tried. All she could do was squirm and struggle, causing her sleeping gown to roll up to her waist. Her pleas for mercy were tinged with tears, and her moans of "ah" and "oh" made Wang Jian feel extremely uncomfortable.

  "Hold on a bit..." Wang Jian reached out and helped her pull down her skirt, covering her little underwear: "Take deep breaths."

  "Ah... Ah Jian... I can't take it anymore, I don't want to... don't want to..."

  This sound coming from the nasal cavity is simply a call to any man, fortunately Wang Jian had been practicing hard and his will was very firm, otherwise all the blood in his body might have been sprayed clean.

  "Ah Jian, please...please...I don't want it anymore, I don't want it..."

  "No way." Wang Jian pinched his temples with his hand: "Hold it in for me!"

  After hearing Wang Jian's words, Tianran Er suddenly burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably. However, Wang Jian continued to apply the medicine with a steady hand, not stopping at all due to Tianran Er's pleas for mercy.

  As for Dawei and Liang Huanhuan, both of them shrank at the door, their ears stuck to the big door, listening carefully to the sound inside, and occasionally exchanging whispers.

  Dawei said: "These two people are so romantic." "Too lustful." Liang Huanhuan nodded heavily: "It's simply a match made in heaven."

  Just then, Jin Huiming suddenly walked up with his backpack and saw the two of them: "What are you doing?"

  But as soon as she finished speaking, she herself reacted and her face turned pale, her eyes wide with fear.

  Just as she was about to explode, the door suddenly opened and Wang Jian came out with a pale face, while Tian Er was still rolling around on the bed in agony, scratching the wall, bed and sheets.

  "She's being too uncooperative." Wang Jian sighed: "What are you eavesdropping on, it's all visible through the door crack, just applying medicine."

  "I know, but this guy's voice is too loud." Dawei murmured with a clicking sound in his mouth: "This shouting, it's too soul-stirring."

  "What a load of nonsense."

  After finishing speaking, Wang Jian patted Jin Huiming's head and then took out the crystal bracelet worth 500 yuan from his pocket: "Tomorrow is your birthday, it's a gift for you."

  Jin Huiming took over the pair of handcuffs in a daze, looked up at Wang Jian: "Do you remember my birthday?"

  "Remember what? What's wrong?" Wang Jian had a puzzled expression: "Is this very difficult? Are you mocking my IQ?"

  Jin Huiming's throat was hoarse at that time, and she couldn't say a word. Tears were welling up in her eyes, but she turned around silently and returned to her room, slamming the door shut with a bang. Wang Jian was left bewildered, turning to ask Dawei, "What did I do to offend her again?"

  "Maybe it's just that the stuff is too low-end." Dawei nodded, digging into his pocket and pulling out a chain: "You should've said so earlier, I have one here for 700 yuan, way higher end than yours."

  Liang Huanhuan gave a cold glance at Da Wei and Wang Jian: "You two are destined to be lonely for the rest of your lives."

  "Nonsense, I was the former's romantic hero."

  Liang Huanhuan snorted coldly: "If you're out of money, you're just a piece of trash, a pretty face."

  "Hey! You'd better make yourself clear, what's wrong with me?!" Dawei chased after him: "I'm not showing off, I just have a lot of money, okay?!"

  At this time, Tianran Er suddenly sobbed in the room and called out: "A Jian... A Jian..."

  "In." Wang Jian drilled in: "Something?"

  "I hate you..." This coquettish "hate" directly made Wang Jian's whole body numb, he didn't know what words to use in response, and could only make a weird expression.

  Seeing his expression, she burst out laughing and sat up, twisting Wang Jian's nose: "Just kidding, silly!"

  Outside the door, Dawei let out a sigh: "The development of these two people has exceeded my expectations... They are now a couple."

  "Not quite." Liang Huanhuan shook her head: "More than friends, less than lovers. Take one more step closer and I'll let you hold my hand, be a little braver and I'll go with you."

  "You sing really out of tune." Dawei glanced at Liang Huanhuan: "Scram, you little demon!"

  "You're asking for trouble!" Liang Huanhuan pinned Da Wei to the ground with a big grab: "Say it again, if you dare!"

  Dawei refused to back down: "It's just unpleasant to hear!"

  "Stop it." Wang Jian supported Tianran II as they walked out of the room: "Today Dawei was assassinated again."

  As soon as this was said, everyone's ears perked up, and then Wang Jian told the whole story from start to finish, including how he ran into that car, how he dodged it, and how he crashed into someone else's store. He also told them what Yao Tiejun had said about the origin of Xing Yun's guns, without hiding a single detail.

  "You're really a jinx, and you deserve to die." Liang Huanhuan sat on the sofa after listening, still mocking Dawei: "You should be crushed to death, to avenge the girls who were persecuted by you."

  "We were young and didn't understand things back then." Dawei sighed: "I wanted to repay the debt, but couldn't even find anyone."

  But Tianran furrowed his brow, thinking for a long time: "Things should be very clear. Just like Ah Jian said, this is two groups of people. But why are there so many people who want to make things difficult for Dawei at the same time?"

  After finishing, Tianran Er took out a piece of paper and drew a diagram similar to the Great Pyramid. He then circled the bottom layer: "Now Dawei is encountering people at this level. If everything is normal, this pyramid has four layers, with only one person at the top!"

  Dawei's eyes lit up: "You're saying that there is actually only one mastermind?"

  "Yes, but now it's really unclear who is who." Tian Ran Er furrowed his brow: "He doesn't want you to know who he is."

  "I'll list out people who don't get along with me, can you analyze it for me..."

  Then, Dawei listed out the names of about seventy people with whom he had a bad relationship, categorizing them into four levels: extremely bad, very bad, bad and hostile. This was impressive as most people wouldn't even remember their names.

  "So many..." Wang Jian turned his head and looked at Dawei: "What have you been doing all these years?"

  "I've eaten at restaurants without paying, scolded lepers for their sores, laughed at bald men's shiny heads, torn down someone's house and taken a beam for myself, kicked in a widow's door at night, dug up an orphan's grave during the day. Whatever despicable thing you can think of, I've done it." Dawei looked like he was regretting his past misdeeds: "But I've made amends for everything that could be fixed. That was just my rebellious phase..."

  "Alright, next time I get the chance, I'll blow your head off." Liang Huanhuan looked at Dawei's face with disgust: "It seems my mistress really has a discerning eye, Wang Jian is definitely a good person in this regard."

  "I can see the color of other people's souls." Tianran said with a natural smile: "That's right."

  "It's less now." Liang Huanhuan waved her hand: "Let's put this aside for the time being, and tomorrow we'll dig out that guy who drives the concrete mixer. And this gun supplier... I know this son of a bitch!"

  "Do you know her?" Dawei looked at Liang Huanhuan in surprise.

  "Whatever." Liang Huan spat: "This son of a bitch has been chasing me. But he's too disgusting, selfish, petty, and pretentious. He's just a piece of trash who's only good at handling guns, otherwise he's useless. The kind of trash that nobody would miss even if he died."

  "Your evaluation is high enough." Wang Jian chuckled: "How did you find him?"

  "Tomorrow, tomorrow we'll split into two groups. I and my miss will go find Wang Bada, you and People's Brother will catch the driver." Liang Huanhuan drew a circle on the paper: "Then we'll meet at the McDonald's in Zhongshu Station, contact each other by phone halfway through."

  "Isn't it dangerous?" Wang Jian glanced at Tianran Er: "Don't get her involved."

  "That guy, I can knock him out with one slap, what's there to be afraid of?"

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