Chapter 34 Chapter 34 Oolong
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"Explain yourself to me! What did I do?"
"You know what you did, why do you need to ask me?!"
"MMP, are you itchy? Come here, I'll scratch it for you."
"Look, you've revealed your true colors after just a few words! You're just pretending to be a hammer."
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The argument went from Mandarin to the mountain city dialect, and the two of them argued until their faces turned red.
The men and women working on the street heard the noise as if they were listening to gossip. They stretched their necks to take a look from time to time, muttering and joking, but no one came forward to help, including the two strong men who had left earlier.
No matter how slow Gu Mengran was, he realized that there was a misunderstanding in this matter. They were sweating profusely after standing at the entrance of the parking lot for a while, not to mention the people working on the street.
But those people showed no reluctance from beginning to end. They actively participated in the post-disaster reconstruction without fear of the heat, even if they were sweating profusely. They were willing to work hard and look for a glimmer of hope in the suffering. There was no trace of coercion at all.
And Zheng Yijie was not lying, his attitude towards Brother Gang spoke for itself.
So...what went wrong? Gu Mengran was puzzled.
No one was talking about the main point, and Gu Mengran, who was standing aside and watching, was almost dying of heat. Sweat dripped down his forehead, Gu Mengran rubbed his slightly stinging eyes, and took out a small pack of napkins from his backpack.
Liang Zhao looked at him one by one, and they both wiped the sweat from their faces.
Looking at Gang Ge and Zheng Yijie who were still arguing pointlessly, Gu Mengran took out two clean pieces of paper and handed them to them, interrupting them: "I think the information asymmetry between you two caused the misunderstanding. If you want to solve the problem, you should talk calmly."
As soon as the words fell, the two of them fell silent and took the tissues to wipe their sweat.
It’s not because what Gu Mengran said made so much sense, I just didn’t want to argue anymore and wanted to find a way out.
Wiping his face with a tissue, Gang Ge exhaled a breath of hot air and looked at Zheng Yijie again, "What do you mean I did something unscrupulous? Let's stop arguing. Tell me what I did."
Gang Ge stood there with a cold face, frowning and glaring, full of oppression. But at this moment, there was no anger or dissatisfaction in his eyes, only unsolved doubts.
After wiping the sweat off his face, Zheng Yijie held the tissue in his palm, thinking about how to respond.
Of course, he didn't dare to really annoy Gang Ge, but he didn't want to lose face in front of Gu Mengran and the others, so he turned his face and raised his chin, "Tell me first, how do you know I'm a local?"
"You kid!" Gang Ge sneered and replied in a good-tempered manner: "You have followed us for several times, right? You can follow us, but we can't follow you? Not only do I know that you are a local, I also know that you live in Emerald City!"
Zheng Yijie's pupils suddenly contracted, as if he had been struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.
Before he could speak, Brother Gang smiled and added, "Do you think you live in a secluded place? There is only one house in the entire community that has not collapsed. Do you really think we are blind? It was me who warned people not to wander around Emerald City in advance."
"W-why?" Zheng Yijie was stunned. His momentum just now was gone. He became visibly weaker and his voice became extremely hoarse.
"Why?" Gang Ge frowned, "Why?"
"The world is in chaos. We gather in the Ninth Street to survive better. After all, there is strength in numbers. This disaster is a devastating blow to everyone. Only by working together can we overcome the difficulties.
Of course, this is just our idea. There are people like you who have the ability to survive on their own and don’t need to follow the majority. We understand and respect you and will leave you a certain living space. For example, around your neighborhood, we never go there to collect supplies because the supplies there belong to you.”
"Buzz", Zheng Yijie's mind went blank in an instant.
"Respect and understanding? No, that's impossible!" Zheng Yijie stared at Brother Gang with his eyes wide open, his voice suddenly rising several degrees, "Not long ago, one night, your people forced a woman to go back with you, but she didn't want to go! She kept crying and struggling, and three or four men carried her away!"
Forced, carried away...
Gu Mengran caught the key words in the words and frowned unconsciously.
I thought Gang Ge would immediately defend himself, but he was stunned at first, and then burst out laughing. He laughed so exaggeratedly that he held his stomach and laughed so hard that he fell forward and backward, and he couldn't stop at all.
“Hahahaha… Oh my god, this is forced! Hahahaha…”
Zheng Yijie was really angry, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
The hearty laughter lasted for nearly two minutes. Gang Ge tried hard to hold back his laughter, held his stomach and stood up again, waving his hands repeatedly to indicate: "Sorry, it's true, hahahaha... I really can't help it. Wait, wait for me a moment."
After saying that, he turned his head and looked towards the street, shouting at the top of his voice: "Gao Yue, Gao Yue, come here!"
Shouts spread across the street. Among the busy crowd, a young woman in a blue T-shirt and a bun put down her tools and walked quickly towards Brother Gang.
Dust and sweat mixed together, Gao Yue's arms and neck were black, as if she had rolled in the mud. But she didn't care, she wiped the sweat off her face with her arms, and walked to Gang Ge breathlessly, "What's wrong, Gang Ge?"
"Well," Gang Ge stopped smiling, touched his nose in embarrassment, turned to Gao Yue and said, "This guy saw us picking you up that night, and he thought you didn't want to go back with us, so we forced you."
Following Gang Ge's gaze towards Zheng Yijie, Gao Yue's eyes widened and she quickly waved her hands, "No, I didn't force me. You misunderstood."
Zheng Yijie didn't believe it at all. His eyes wandered between Brother Gang and Gao Yue. His vigilant eyes seemed to be asking: Did Brother Gang threaten you?
"Thank you for your concern, but things are not what you see." Gao Yue and Zheng Yijie nodded, and a helpless smile appeared on their lips. "Our house collapsed in the earthquake, and my father was buried under the rubble. We have been looking for him for many days but have not found him. I don't believe he is dead, so I don't want to leave.
Some time ago, I didn’t eat or drink and searched in the ruins. I was emotionally broken. My sister found Gang and his friends and asked them to take me back by force. These days, they have been persuading me and comforting me, helping me to get over the grief of losing my loved ones. ”
Gao Yue's eyes gradually turned red as she spoke about the pain that she had finally forgotten. She knew she had lost her composure, so she reached out and wiped her face twice, then turned her back and said, "Don't get me wrong, Brother Gang and the others are really good people."
Calling someone over and making them cry again was something the burly Gang brother had not expected. He was stunned for a few seconds and apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry, Gao Yue, I--"
"It's okay, it's okay, Brother Gang, I've figured it out." Without waiting for Brother Gang to comfort him, Gao Yue shrugged his shoulders and sighed softly, "Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, I'll continue to work."
"Drink some water and take a break!"
Gao Yue strode away without looking back.
"Hey!" After the people walked away, Brother Gang sighed and glared at Zheng Yijie with a frown, "Look at what you did. You made the little girl cry!"
If it were before, Zheng Yijie would have immediately retorted, "Didn't you call them over?", but at this moment, he had fallen into deep self-doubt and let Gangge pass the blame without saying a word.
Brother Gang stopped mocking him and continued, "So because of this incident, you think we are hooligans? Although I, Wang Gang, am an uneducated and rough man, I will never do such a thing, and I will never tolerate others doing it."
"One more time."
Zheng Yijie's voice suddenly became much quieter, and he said without much confidence, "Earlier I saw a few people trying to leave Ninth Street, but you caught them and brought them back. You beat them up and beat them half to death. How do you explain this?"
Brother Gang looked at him in surprise, "How come you get into all these things? How long have you been following us secretly? Yes, we did catch the guy and beat him up, I admit that, but those guys are not good people!"
"Damn it, it makes me angry just talking about it. I rescued one of them from the ruins myself, and what happened? After he recovered from his injuries, he hung out with a bunch of uneducated scum, stole supplies, and even molested girls in the middle of the night!"
"If we hadn't discovered it in time..." Brother Gang clenched his fists, veins popping out of his neck, and he was obviously very angry. "Even if the world is in chaos, there must be rules. We still have to clean up what needs to be cleaned up. If we don't teach them a lesson, this kind of thing will happen again in the future."
Having talked about this, the misunderstanding was completely resolved.
Zheng Yijie didn't ask any more questions, his gradually reddening cheeks and ears revealed his embarrassment.
But Gu Mengran was a little curious. Why didn’t he mention the issue of material distribution? Was it another misunderstanding?
After talking about the car, the three said goodbye to Brother Gang and walked back with the fans hanging from their necks.
Gu Mengran looked at Zheng Yijie, who was hurrying along with his head almost parallel to the ground, and finally couldn't help laughing and teasing, "You said it so convincingly yesterday, and we all took it seriously. It turned out to be a mistake after all this time."
"Can you blame me for this?" Zheng Yijie raised his head suddenly. "You just heard what he said. I didn't make it up. This misunderstanding happened anyway."
The misunderstanding was resolved and there was no need to leave in a hurry, Gu Mengran was in a good mood.
The landlord surprised them, and he wanted to make the landlord suffer a setback, so he deliberately asked: "Didn't you say that they were acting like emperors in the air-raid shelter, enjoying themselves and deducting other people's supplies? Why didn't you mention this just now?"
As if he had been caught lying, Zheng Yijie's already flushed face suddenly turned red all the way to the back of his ears, and he even started to walk with his hands and feet trembling.
But he did not choose to lie. After a brief silence, he hesitated and said very frankly: "I over-imagined this matter. The fog was still very thick at that time. I only vaguely heard about the mission and supplies, and combined with the things that happened later, I polished it a little bit..."
Polishing? I still need to polish my novel.
Gu Mengran suddenly smiled and said, "I'm very curious, what did you do before the disaster?"
Zheng Yijie pushed his black-framed glasses and said seriously, "You know about online novels, right? That's right, I'm the online writer who bought a house with full payment by writing novels."
Gu Mengran nodded, "No wonder!"
"No wonder what's going on?" Zheng Yijie asked.
"No wonder the imagination is so strong."
"Gu Mengran! Believe it or not, I will kick you out tonight!"
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