Chapter 56 Freight Company 5 (Humans always hope that others will understand them)
"No wonder she's Xiao Wei's girlfriend; every word she says is on his side." Zhang Mo laughed in exasperation.
“I think my analysis was very rational and did not involve personal feelings,” Yun Xin said. “I sympathize with your experience and hope that you were not bullied during your childhood. But that is different from your participation in the bullying of Xiao Wei and being retaliated against in the end.”
"You're unfortunate, you're pitiful, then take revenge on those who bullied you. What kind of nonsense is it for you to join them in bullying Xiao Wei?"
Zhang Mo opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted, "In the end, you also chose someone easier to bully."
Zhang Mo was speechless.
After a long silence, he said softly, "That's why I'm so mediocre and shameless that I despise myself."
Deathly silence.
Zhang Mo turned his face away and abruptly changed the subject, "Since childhood, Xiao Wei has only been close to one person. You're the 'cursed witch' everyone's been talking about, right?"
Here it comes again.
Yunxin's blood pressure kept rising.
Instead of explaining, she asked, "You're delivering goods, and a family of customers accidentally eats poisonous plants. Does that mean you brought bad luck to them?"
Are you kidding me!
"I clearly saved them..." Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Mo understood what Yun Xin meant.
"I've been saving people all along, but because I often encounter these kinds of things, I'm always seen as an omen of bad luck by the people around me." Yun Xin earnestly refuted the rumors. "Strictly speaking, I'm a shrine maiden. A shrine maiden who helps people get rid of disasters and misfortunes, and who doesn't do anything harmful."
Zhang Mo was a little embarrassed because he had said the wrong thing. He looked away and said in a low voice, "Humans always seem to want others to understand them, but in reality, they don't understand others 100% either."
"Let's find common ground while respecting differences and make do," Yun Xin said casually. "Even spouses and lovers don't necessarily understand each other 100%, and there can be generation gaps between blood relatives like fathers and sons and mothers and daughters."
No one is born with this knowledge.
It’s the first time for everyone to be a human being.
Even if you stumble and fall, you can always find some tricks to make life easier.
Zhang Mo was actually very regretful, thinking, "If only I hadn't done that."
It's just that he was a child at the time, inexperienced and unable to think of a better way to deal with things.
“There’s no need to keep looking for reasons within yourself.” Yunxin analyzed rather reluctantly, “At first, you were simply a victim. It was your parents and teachers who failed to protect you, so you had to find a way to protect yourself.”
Zhang Mo was somewhat touched, yet he didn't understand why Yun Xin was comforting him. He had hit Yun Xin's boyfriend, so it was normal for him to feel hatred and hostility towards him.
What are you trying to say?
Yun Xin bluntly stated, "You owe Xiao Wei an apology."
Zhang Mo was shocked. He wanted to say, "Are you crazy?!" Xiao Wei hit him so many times afterward, and he still had to apologize to Xiao Wei?
"No," Zhang Mo refused loudly.
Yun Xin glanced at him and decided to blacklist him. She would never warn him or offer assistance in case of danger until he apologized.
After confirming that the homeowner had mistakenly ingested the poisonous plant, the police agreed to release him.
Yunxin and Zhang Mo continued delivering goods.
The two remained silent, but the atmosphere inside the truck did not drop to freezing point as before; instead, it warmed up slightly.
The truck stopped at the entrance of the residential area.
Brother Zhang flipped through the packing slip and confirmed, "Five boxes of dried goods, two boxes of mineral water, ten bags of rice, and five boxes of pickled vegetables."
After saying that, he fell into a suspicious silence, and after a while said, "There's too much stuff; it can't all be packed at once."
“Explain the situation to the customers and deliver in batches,” Yunxin suggested.
"This is the only way."
Brother Zhang took out his phone, called the customer, and explained the situation.
Yunxin rummaged through the cargo in the carriage.
Just then, a terrified scream came from not far away, "Run! There's a lion on the main road over there!"
"What are you talking about? How can there be a lion on the road?" The pedestrian was skeptical and tried to look in the direction the person had come from.
Less than half a minute later, a lion actually appeared in people's sight.
It strolled along, curiously walking on the main road, looking around as it went.
“Run!!”
Pedestrians scattered in disarray, like birds and beasts.
Upon hearing this, Yunxin immediately stayed inside the carriage and did not leave, while simultaneously dialing the police.
Zhang Mo was communicating with a customer when a commotion broke out nearby, so loud that he couldn't hear what was being said on the other end of his phone.
Zhang Mo couldn't help but frown.
Just as he was about to quiet down, a large lion stared at him.
Zhang Mo broke out in a cold sweat and ran away as fast as he could.
The lion saw this and became excited, and began to give chase.
The man and the lion chased each other and "played" on the main road.
"...Please send someone over quickly." Yun Xin leaned half her body out of the carriage, watching the figure of the man and the lion disappear into the distance, and added, "The lion is chasing passersby and may intend to harm them."
"Okay, I'll notify my colleagues as soon as possible," the operator replied.
On the other side.
Zhang Mo took off running with all her might, yelling, "Don't come any closer!!"
The lion ran on all fours, keeping close behind.
Suddenly, the chicken leg in the child's hand fell to the ground in the distance.
As if lured, the lion stopped running and followed the scent toward the chicken leg.
The child's mother was terrified. She picked up the child and hurriedly left.
The lion strolled closer to the chicken leg and began to eat it with relish.
Zhang Mo ran for a distance, then, feeling safe, stopped and leaned against a wall, panting heavily. His words were broken and fragmented: "Where did this lion come from? Why...why did it chase people?"
"I don't know." A passerby who was also taking refuge here was still shaken. "I've already called the police, and they said that staff are on their way, but I don't know when they'll arrive."
"I usually tremble with fear when I see big dogs, let alone a grown lion like that..."
As he spoke, the passerby looked pale and sickly. If he weren't exhausted, he would have loved to run even further away.
Strangely enough, Zhang Mo felt that running was easier than usual. After resting for a while, he felt much better, as if he could continue running.
He looked around and saw the lion still gnawing on a chicken leg, so he waited a moment. Then he looked left and right, searching for a suitable escape route.
At that moment, a young man walked against the crowd toward the lion.
"careful!"
Don't go!
"Lions eat people."
A collective gasp rippled through the crowd.
Unexpectedly, the young man walked up to the lion and knocked it unconscious with a single punch.
The onlookers: ? ? !
The young man then took out a rope from his pocket, tied the lion tightly, and then tied the rope to the tree.
After doing all that, he walked on as if nothing had happened.
Everyone was shocked. They looked at each other, completely baffled. "How did he knock out a lion with one punch?"
"Could this be the superhuman they're talking about online?"
"Goodness, how strong is this guy? Even a lion couldn't withstand a punch from him."
Discussions arose.
Zhang Mo, however, remained silent, staring at the young man's retreating figure with a complex expression.
“Xiao Wei…”
Zhang Mo murmured to himself, his heart filled with mixed emotions.
He always believed that Xiao Wei left a deep impression on him because Xiao Wei beat him up so badly.
But at this moment, a thought suddenly popped into his mind—perhaps the reason he remembered Xiao Wei was because of guilt. Back then, he had no choice but to bully an innocent person, a good person.
"Xinxin!" Upon seeing Yunxin from afar, Xiao Wei quickly ran over.
Yun Xin asked in surprise, "What are you doing here?"
Xiao Wei said seriously, "I felt you might be in danger, so I came to rescue you."
"What danger could I possibly be in?" Yun Xin chuckled. "As soon as I sensed something was wrong, I ran away. By the way, where's the lion?"
Xiao Wei: "I knocked him unconscious."
Yunxin: ?
She suspected there was something wrong with her ears.
"It was wandering around on the main road. What if it hurt Xinxin? So I struck first and knocked it unconscious." Xiao Wei had a "I'm awesome" look on her face and said, "Praise me!"
"well done."
Only after Xiao Wei mentioned it did Yun Xin belatedly realize that there was also a method of stopping someone by "knocking them out with a punch".
She had just seen the lion, but had absolutely no intention of approaching it. Her only thought was to hide and then call the police.
Thinking of this, Yunxin asked, "Aren't you scared?"
This fear isn't real fear.
It's a long-standing habit, a subconscious avoidance.
Xiao Wei seized the opportunity to confess, "I'm not afraid! I want to protect Xin Xin!"
Yunxin smiled and thought, her little dog is the best.
Police arrived at the scene with tranquilizer guns and successfully captured a lion that had fallen unconscious.
The police officer was a little surprised. "Who did this?"
Immediately, onlookers raised their phones, exclaiming, "It's a young man! I recorded a video!"
As he spoke, he played the video for the police.
In the video, the young man slowly walked up to the lion and knocked it out with a single punch. The police officers looked quite serious and were discussing something in hushed tones.
Just then, a middle-aged man rushed over. "This lion belongs to our park! It escaped when I wasn't looking. Officer... Anyway, it didn't hurt anyone, so why don't you give it back to me?"
The policeman's expression turned amused. "You knew it didn't hurt anyone as soon as you got here?"
The middle-aged man choked, then quickly tried to justify himself, saying, "I'm its caretaker. I know this child is always well-behaved and won't hurt anyone."
"You don't think you can control it, so you deliberately let it escape? Then the situation will be chaotic, and you can take the opportunity to rescue people and get an A grade?" The policeman looked at the middle-aged man without blinking as he asked the question.
"How could that be... I don't understand what you're saying." The middle-aged man gave an awkward laugh, but his palms were sweaty.
The policeman glanced at it and understood everything.
With a hand on the middle-aged man's shoulder, the policeman said bluntly, "My colleagues at the station have recently developed a 'lie detector' superpower. They can tell whether someone is lying or not just by taking a test. Since this has nothing to do with you, you probably wouldn't mind coming with us?"
Now, not only were the middle-aged man's palms sweating, but his forehead was also covered in a fine layer of sweat. "I... this..."
Before he could explain, the police took him and the bound lion back to the police station.
The farce is over.
Zhang Mo made a painful decision, returned to the truck, and interrupted Xiao Wei and Yun Xin's conversation, "I have something I want to tell you."
Xiao Wei looked unhappy, but seeing Yun Xin watching from the side, she reluctantly said, "Go ahead."
Zhang Mo bowed and apologized, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have joined them in beating you back then. I wish I had taken the beating with you."
That way, your body will hurt, but your conscience won't.
He just didn't know that junior high school students could live on campus and completely get rid of those people.
Xiao Weiyi was anxious when Zhang Mo mentioned the past.
Unaware that Yun Xin already knew about his beating up Zhang Mo, he was focused on how to change the subject. "I've already forgotten about the past. From now on, everything is wiped clean and there's no need to mention it again."
The moment Xiao Wei forgave him, Zhang Mo felt a sense of relief. He could finally let go of the past and forgive himself.
Zhang Mo even thought that he might have wanted to apologize a long time ago... if Xiao Wei hadn't taken the initiative to come to him and beat him up many years ago.
However, it's not too late now.
He reconciled with Xiao Wei, and he also reconciled with himself.
With the burden lifted from his heart, Zhang Mo felt much more relaxed. He smiled and said to Xiao Wei, "Actually, you two are quite a good match."
Then he gestured to Yunxin, "You two chat, I'll go deliver the goods."
After saying that, he left the space to the young couple.
Yun Xin watched Zhang Mo walk away and asked softly, "Are you alright?"
Xiao Weiyi said seriously, "Although he himself isn't much, he has good taste."
Zhang Mo praised them, saying they were a perfect match!
Xiao Wei decided to be magnanimous and forgive the other party for their youthful ignorance.
Anyway, he had already taken his revenge long ago!
“I just want to tell you,” Yun Xin said slowly, “that as a victim, even if the perpetrator sincerely apologizes, you can choose not to forgive.”
Not just Xiao Wei, but all victims in the world have this right.
(End of this chapter)
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