Chapter 41 Why is there another demonstration?
Xiao Peng sighed and said, "Fabian and I got drunk yesterday, but I thought you could come too!"
Pascal said, "I was planning to come. An Icelandic cold weapon collector contacted me online to talk about collecting. Now it seems I'm lucky I didn't come. Otherwise, I would have drunk myself to death here with you. Do you need my help?"
Xiao Peng shook his head. "I can clean up after myself. It's called 'clean up your own shit.' What's the matter with coming here so early?"
Pascal laughed after hearing what Xiao Peng said, then pointed at Felix and said, "Felix said he wanted to practice piano. It's a habit he's had since he was a child. I don't have a piano at home, so I brought it here."
Felix looked at Xiao Peng a little timidly: "Mr. Xiao, can I use the piano here?"
Xiao Peng nodded and said, "Of course, but don't look like that. It looks like you're afraid of me! You weren't this weak when you were arguing with your sister yesterday!"
Felix said, "I'm afraid you'll beat me..."
Xiao Peng's face was filled with gloom. He pointed at Pascal and said, "Little Pa, do you think I look like someone who would hit a child?"
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Well, we can’t continue chatting today!
"Go play the piano, little brat!" Xiao Peng said to Felix, then he turned to Pascal, "Little Pa, drive me to Marseille later. I'll bring the sailboat back."
Pascal took out his car keys and handed them to Xiao Peng: "Someone wants to trade me for an ancient coin from the Buweishi Dynasty today, and I can't leave. I'll give you the keys and you can drive there yourself, right?"
"But I don't have a driver's license yet!" Xiao Peng said.
"You don't have a driver's license?" Pascal exclaimed, "You didn't go to learn how to drive?"
Xiao Peng shook his head. "I usually ride a bicycle or drive a boat, so it's not surprising that I didn't learn to drive. It's okay, I'll just take the bus to Marseille."
All satellite cities of Marseille have buses directly to Marseille. Xiao Peng also took the bus to Aix. Although it was a bit slower, it was very comfortable!
Fabian just finished taking a shower and came out of the room. "I'll take you to Marseille. I have to fly back to Paris to continue dealing with the lawsuit with PAZ."
After hearing this, Xiao Peng asked curiously, "Is it serious?"
Fabian shook his head and said, "Based on the current trend, there's a high probability that the two parties will settle the matter privately: the TV station will pay PAZ a sum of money to stop the lawsuit."
Xiao Peng exclaimed in shock upon hearing this: "Give them money? Give money to such scoundrels? You should sue them! How can they win? Your actions are too unreasonable, aren't they? Aren't you just encouraging unhealthy practices?"
Fabian sighed and said, "You're right, this is indeed irrational. If PAZ continues with the lawsuit, it will definitely lose! But this will be a protracted battle, and the program won't be able to continue airing during this period. PAZ is aware of this and filed a lawsuit against TV5. If TV5 chooses to compromise, it's buying peace with its money. Now it's just a matter of how much."
Xiao Peng's face darkened after hearing this: "This is like a toad lying on the back of your foot - it doesn't bite, but it's disgusting!"
Fabian laughed and said, "But if the TV station and PAZ reconcile, PAZ will definitely not come after you. You will be much more at peace."
"That's great news!" Xiao Peng said, "By the way, do you really have to leave today? I've just moved into a new house, and I'm planning to cook a nice Chinese meal tonight and invite some friends over. Wouldn't it be fine if you just went back a day later?"
Fabian shook his head. "I appreciate your kindness, but I'm more anxious to resolve the PAZ issue right now."
"In that case, I won't force you. Xiao Pa, come over tonight and let you taste authentic Chinese food!"
"I would have come even if you hadn't told me."
“…”
After Fabian sent Xiao Peng to Marseille, he went directly to the airport. Xiao Peng was not in a hurry to go to the Old Port, but started a new round of shopping.
There are Chinese stores in Marseille now. I bought all kinds of seasonings, clothes and shoes there. When I lived on the boat, I had no place to put them and couldn't afford to buy these things. The clothes and shoes I bought when I was spending money a while ago were all for picking up girls and couldn't be worn to work. Now I just wear whatever is comfortable.
There were quite a lot of things to buy, so Xiao Peng had to go to the old port several times before he could load all the items onto the ship.
But he didn't see Derrida and his wife. The two old people's boat was no longer at the berth and no one knew where it had gone.
After all, he was moving into a new house, so he should have invited his friends to the kang, but in the past few years in Marseille, the only ones who truly considered him friends were this old couple, and yet he didn't see them. This made Xiao Peng quite disappointed.
Xiao Peng sailed out of the harbor, but soon after he saw a bunch of boats docked there, including Derrida and his wife's yacht! Xiao Peng couldn't figure out what was going on from a distance, but it sounded like someone was shouting through a loud speaker.
He didn't look closely, and while sailing over there, he called out on the intercom: "'Bavarian Wild Boar', 'Bavarian Wild Boar', this is 'Loire', please answer if you hear me!"
He called out but received no response. Just as he was about to call again, Mr. Derrida's gruff voice came over the intercom: "God, Xiao, you're still alive! You've been missing all this time and I can't get through to you on the phone. My wife almost called the police!"
Xiao Peng felt warm in his heart and said hurriedly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Derrida. I was so annoyed by the media during the last protest that I turned off my phone. But I've been staying in the library of Aix-Marseille University recently, so I don't have anything to do. Thank you for your concern. But what are you doing here?"
“You can tell what we are doing by looking at our toes! We are protesting!” Mr. Derrida replied.
Xiao Peng's face was filled with black lines. What else do you do every day besides protesting?
"What happened again? Mr. Derrida, stop protesting. I came here to invite you. I found a house in La Ciotat and live there. According to the custom in our hometown, we have to invite friends to visit when we move into a new house. This is called 'burning the kang'. I want to invite good friends to dinner. I invite you to my house to eat authentic Chinese food!" Xiao Peng said.
Mr. Derrida laughed and said, "This custom exists in both France and my wife's home country, Germany. It's not unique to China!"
Xiao Peng said, "But you don't have authentic Chinese food, right?"
"Yes! The scrambled eggs with tomatoes made by my wife is just not as delicious as yours!" Mr. Derrida said, "But don't let my wife know that I said this. Wait a minute, I'll go tell my wife, and we'll leave now... Scrap!" The communication was disconnected before Mr. Derrida finished speaking.
Xiao Peng held the radio, his face darkening: "Aren't we leaving now? Why are you scolding me?"
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