Chapter Eighty-six Decision
I don't know if this is another prank by Qin Ke Yi or Guo Cheng's personal wish, I've been sitting on the couch hesitating, after all her sudden disappearance for so many days has made me quite resentful, not to mention that we just left a mark of separation between us.
"Dude! Who were you just talking to?" Zhang Wei asked me as he came out of the bathroom, wiping off the water from his body.
"A classmate of mine asked me something..." I replied vaguely to Zhang Wei.
"Let's go clubbing! Let it all out!" Zhang Wei suggested to me while changing her clothes. I admit that this is one of the best ways we can think of to relieve our emotional crisis and melancholy at the moment. After hesitating for a moment, I followed Zhang Wei out the door and got into her car...
As long as it's a place with more than 5 women, no matter how short the distance between the starting point and the destination, even if there is only one wall in between, Zhang Wei will not forget to bring his car. This is also one of the few habits that I have witnessed him consistently maintaining over the years since we got to know each other, which also perfectly verifies the pretentious attitude that a nouveau riche should possess.
Because today's destination is a place where wind and moon are everywhere, with girls flowing endlessly, it has been affectionately and figuratively referred to by many people as the epitome of the corrupt life of contemporary university students - Xuefu 4th Street. The characteristics of this street also predict that Zhang Wei will definitely not forget his car, even if it only takes 5 minutes from his home to here.
Due to its unique geographical location between four universities, the once unknown street of Xuefu Si Dao has become a bustling street filled with students and teachers from these universities. The bars and clubs on this street were not originally large in scale or high-end, but due to being surrounded by several universities, they have been influenced by the scholarly atmosphere for a long time, causing the women working in this industry to also possess some cultural qualities. In recent years, with the rapid economic development, many university females have joined this industry, leading to an unprecedented improvement in the overall cultural quality of this industry, making this street a favorite haunt of many Northeastern tycoons who prefer young female intellectuals and enjoy discussing culture before going to bed.
Zhang Wei parked the car in a more eye-catching location at the entrance of a disco hall on Fourth Street that we often visit. After getting out of the car, he didn't forget to adjust his hair with hair gel, which had earned him the nickname "Brother Wei, King of Hair Care Products". It was hard for me to believe that he was someone who had just experienced an emotional breakdown less than an hour ago.
When we walked into the disco, the dance time had already begun, and the small dance floor was packed with many crazy men and women twisting their bodies. Zhang Wei, in order to match today's occasion, specially wore a tight-fitting light-colored European-style T-shirt, which under the dim purple lamp made the light-colored clothes particularly eye-catching, and under the effect of the tight-fitting clothes, his robust muscles were well set off, making him attract the attention of many women with certain unmentionable purposes as soon as he entered the door.
After finding a relatively eye-catching place to sit down and ordering something, we started to appreciate the crazy men and women in the dance pool. Using Zhang Wei's long-term summarized theory of picking up girls, this step is a process of "multiple selections and focused cultivation" to discover the target.
"Go on! Bounce a couple of times!" Zhang Wei seemed to be unable to hold back his excitement as he said to me, apparently he had already completed the preparatory work for this stage.
"Have you got a goal?" I asked him after taking a sip of wine.
"Today's overall level is not very satisfactory, but still found a few worth cultivating..."
"Wasn't it 1 hour and 27 minutes ago that you had an emotional crisis with a beautiful policewoman named Wang Li?" I looked at my watch, and Gu Xiang seriously reminded Zhang Wei.
"It seems... there is such a thing! What's wrong?" Zhang Wei thought for a moment and replied to me.
"Oh! Thanks! I thought you had completely forgotten about it!"
"I'm forced to review these crazy women under the neon lights with a heart full of sorrow, trying to make up for the emotional hurt and emptiness through spiritual communication... I've always tried not to spread my shortcomings to friends around me, but from Zhang Wei's words today, I fear that what I was worried about has still happened. Zhang Wei has already been subtly influenced by my frequent nonsense. A clear animalistic impulse driven by sex hormones is given a dignified excuse, leaving me with a deep sense of guilt amidst admiration."
"Good luck!" I interrupted Zhang Wei's painful and reluctant departure, urging him to leave my sight as soon as possible.
"Aren't you going with me? We're a perfect match!"
"I believe in your strength! I'm just here to accompany you, you're the main character! That's your stage over there." At this moment, my energy was focused on thinking about whether to go and get Qin Ke Yi, so I gave Zhang Wei an encouraging push. After getting my encouragement, Zhang Wei clearly relaxed his state, stood up and high-fived me, then jumped onto the dance floor...
After showcasing his charming figure and dynamic dance moves, which had already attracted the attention of many women, Zhang Wei created a few seemingly accidental physical collisions, with quite ideal results. As soon as the disco song ended, Zhang Wei led two women who looked very seductive in their attire, but only in terms of their clothes and makeup, towards our table. It's really hard to say whether Zhang Wei's actions this time were hinting that the overall quality of women in this disco was not high due to its own resource constraints, or if his vision had never improved.
Zhang Wei arranged for two people to sit on either side of me and him, and the relatively good-looking one was naturally arranged by his selfish arrangement next to him. After the three of them sat down, Zhang Wei introduced us to each other, and it turned out that these two girls were also college students, consistent with my previous guess.
"What are you drinking? Beer?" Zhang Wei asked them enthusiastically.
"We're not really drinkers..." The girl sitting next to Zhang Wei said with a rare ladylike demeanor for someone of our age group, giving me the feeling that it was as if a health product salesperson was overemphasizing that they had never seen a condom before. It made me think of a phrase by Gu Long, "A courtesan who makes herself look like a virtuous woman is seductive, and a young lady from a good family occasionally revealing a bit of her true nature is also alluring." But under such circumstances, still overemphasizing that she was a virtuous woman only evoked some unfavorable reactions in me, and made me completely lose the last shred of illusion I had about them.
"It's okay to drink a little less...". Zhang Wei, who had been through many battles, also noticed their pretentious psychology and gave them a timely step down. Then he asked the waiter for a few more bottles of beer.
The best way to expose fake ladies is under the influence of alcohol, accompanied by vivid yellow jokes. After a few "hate!" and "disgusting!"-like nonsense and a few light taps, the true nature of two fake ladies began to reveal itself under Zhang Wei's naked and shameless performance. Because I was hesitant about whether to go pick up Qin Ke Yi and couldn't calm down to appreciate Zhang Wei's show, it seemed like I was isolated from the three of them.
"This handsome guy friend of yours is really naive... Is it your first time coming to a place like this?" The girl sitting next to Zhang Wei finally realized that there was a fourth person at the table, and said with a smile.
"Yes! I'm new here, a bit uncomfortable, don't mind me, go ahead!" At this moment, my mood decided that I had no time to chat with these two girls, so I put on a good kid's attitude and said to the girl, although it earned her a look of disdain.
"Hey, what's wrong? Why keep looking at your watch?" During the time Zhang Wei and the two girls continued to chat, I regularly glanced at my watch from time to time. As the time drew near, every time I didn't look at my watch, I would unconsciously struggle a bit in my heart. When I had already lost count of how many times I looked down at my watch and found that there was less than an hour left before Qin Ke's train arrived, Zhang Wei suddenly asked me.
"Oh...! Never mind!"
"Let's go out and get something to eat!" Zhang Wei proposed to me and the two girls. Before I could even comment, the two girls were already cheering and jumping up to head out, so I had no choice but to follow them out of the disco hall.
Originally, the main business on this street was catering. Next to the disco was a pretty good restaurant, but Zhang Wei still had to give his car a chance to show off, so that he could satisfy his foolish vanity through the admiring glances of two country girls. So under Zhang Wei's proposal, we took his car and arrived at a restaurant...
"Come on! What's wrong with you? Order the dishes!" Zhang Wei said, holding the menu and speaking to the person who was staring blankly at the clock on the wall of the restaurant.
"You order, I don't mind... anything is fine!" I said calmly.
"We've all ordered! You're the only one who hasn't! What's wrong with you today? Are you drunk or something?" Zhang Wei said to me, laughing and crying at the same time. I smiled helplessly and took the menu from him, but my attention wasn't caught by the dense words on it, instead, I found myself staring at the wall clock again. There was less than half an hour left before Qin Ke got off work, excluding the time needed for the road, I didn't have much time to hesitate anymore.
"What's wrong with you? Hurry up! I'm starving to death, just waiting for you! Is it that hard to make a decision?" Zhang Wei said impatiently to me. Although his last sentence was just an offhand remark to urge me on, but I suddenly felt like a monk in a state of confusion who had a great awakening due to some words, as if the heavens were conveying their dissatisfaction with me through Zhang Wei's mouth. When I heard Zhang Wei's words and repeated them in my mind several times, I finally decided to go pick up Qin Ke Yi after all.
"Zhang Wei... give me the car key..." I suddenly put down the menu and said to Zhang Wei, from his reaction after hearing my words, he didn't seem to have reacted yet to my overly sudden decision, so I had to patiently repeat it again.
"What... are you going to do?" Zhang Wei finally asked me the question he should have asked a long time ago.
"I'm not convenient to talk to you now, I'm in a hurry! Give me the key first!" Zhang Wei hesitated for a moment, took out the car key and handed it over to me. I took it and turned around to walk quickly out of the door.
"Will you be back soon?" Zhang Wei shouted at my back.
"Don't wait for me!" I said to Zhang Wei without looking back. Just as I was about to start the car, I suddenly felt that leaving Zhang Wei with those two girls seemed a bit inhumane. I didn't know if Zhang Wei could handle it, but after hesitating for a moment, I still started the car and sent a deep prayer for Zhang Wei at the same time...
