The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 36 Backhand Bolt

Wu Xianyu, who had no cards to play, came to the spectator seats to see how Werewolf was played. He had played the mobile version in his previous life, but he had only played the offline version a few times.

After watching for a while, Wu Xianyu quickly lost interest. Jiang Tianhao and Qian Sanyi, the two bootlickers, insisted on protecting Deng Xiaoqi regardless of her identity, which made others a little dissatisfied.

Amid the public outrage, Jiang Tianhao had to change the game. Wu Xianyu almost couldn't hold back when he saw "Three Kingdoms" on the box. What has become of the online version of this game? It has always been at the top of the list of games with the most negative reviews. I heard that it was later surpassed by another game. Regardless of these two villains, at least the current board games are still fun. Wu Xianyu played them a lot when he was in school, and this time he took the initiative to join in.

It was just a coincidence that Wu Xianyu got the traitor card in the first round, and Lin Miaomiao turned out to be the lord. So with Wu Xianyu's superb acting skills, Lin Miaomiao, the tyrant, killed the rebels first and then the loyal ministers, and was finally captured by Wu Xianyu.

After the game ended, Lin Miaomiao was so angry that she grabbed Wu Xianyu and had a real-life PK with him. However, after the game ended, everyone assumed that Wu Xianyu was a traitor. Even Jiang Tianhao, who got the lord card, no longer trusted him and was the first to be eliminated.

Wu Xianyu looked helpless
"I've already said that I'm a loyal subject. This game identity card is not immutable. Why don't you trust me?"

Seeing that Wu Xianyu still had this expression after being eliminated, Lord Jiang Tianhao was a little hesitant. Did he really wrongly accuse him?

But as the identity card was turned over, everyone looked at Wu Xianyu with contempt.

"And you said you're not a traitor"

Lin Miaomiao's voice was filled with resentment. She had trusted Wu Xianyu so much in the last time and thought that with his assistance, she, as the lord, would surely win a great victory. Who knew that he would be hurt so deeply.

Looking at his ID card, Wu Xianyu pretended to be enlightened.
"Oh? This is a traitor. I thought he was a loyal minister. This character is a little hard to read."

"I don't believe you, you are such a bad bastard"

Lin Miaomiao would not miss an opportunity to mock Wu Xianyu.

This game did not involve the traitor Wu Xianyu, so Jiang Tianhao won very easily. After Wu Xianyu was eliminated, the second person to be eliminated was the traitor Lin Miaomiao, who was naturally ridiculed by Wu Xianyu.

After it was over, it was almost time, so Jiang Tianhao asked in the class group one last time to make sure no one else had arrived, and then asked the waiter to serve the food.

We were all classmates, so we didn't have any scruples. We just picked up whatever we wanted to eat. Halfway through the meal, Jiang Tianhao seemed to have thought of something and touched Wu Xianyu beside him.

"Xianyu, would you like something to drink?"

"Can you drink it? Don't stay out for the afternoon after drinking it. I'm still waiting for you to pay."

"Who are you looking down on? It's okay to drink two bottles of beer."

Jiang Tianhao looked at Wu Xianyu's suspicious eyes, wiped his mouth, pushed the door and went out. When he came back, he brought a box of beer. Jiang Tianhao opened a bottle for himself and Wu Xianyu without saying a word.

Wu Xianyu took the wine and poured himself a glass, with a regretful tone.
"Drinking too much beer will make you bloated, it's better to drink white wine"

Jiang Tianhao's hand that was pouring the wine suddenly stopped, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"How old were you when you started drinking liquor?"

"What? You don't believe me? Think about what my family does. Is there anything wrong with me drinking liquor?"

Jiang Tianhao thought of Wu Xianyu's uncle and immediately put on a smiling face.

"Brother Xianyu, I believe you. Let's drink beer today. I've never drunk white wine."

After saying this, he lowered his voice and leaned close to Wu Xianyu's ear.
"Brother, give me some face, Xiaoqi is here"

Pursing his lips, Wu Xianyu felt speechless about this inexplicable face, but he still gave Jiang Tianhao this face.

The two clinked glasses and Wu Xianyu drank the beer in the glass in one gulp without changing his expression. During the New Year holidays, he and Uncle Liu had drunk several glasses of white wine. Perhaps because of the experience last time, Wu Xianyu would not get drunk after just one glass of beer, so beer was naturally no problem.

Lin Miaomiao, who had been paying attention to Jiang Tianhao since he brought a box of beer, saw Wu Xianyu finish drinking it and asked him curiously:

"Xianyu, is the beer good?"

"Would you like some?"

Wu Xianyu did not answer directly. What is the taste of wine? Isn't it all for the feeling of relaxation after being drunk?

Lin Miaomiao hesitated for a long time, and another girl next to her advised

"Miao Miao, don't drink anymore. If you drink too much, you will have to sleep for a whole day. You have activities in the afternoon."

The persuasion was very effective. Lin Miaomiao gave up the idea of ​​drinking, poured herself a glass of Orange Juice, and drank it in one gulp, imagining it was beer.

In the end, Wu Xianyu drank three bottles of beer by himself, and he was fine. He stood there without even shaking. But Jiang Tianhao drank a bottle and a half, and his face was already flushed.

"I've already told you, if you can't drink, then don't drink. Look at your blushing face. If you go out and get some fresh air, you'll definitely fall over."

Wu Xianyu looked at Jiang Tianhao and couldn't help but say a few more words. Jiang Tianhao looked impatient and waved his hand.
"It's okay, it's okay. I just got drunk. I'm not drunk. Let's go. There's a park nearby. There are a lot of things to do there."

As he spoke, Jiang Tianhao put his arm around Wu Xianyu's shoulder and led the way out of his own hotel.

Lin Miaomiao, Deng Xiaoqi and another girl followed behind. Seeing Jiang Tianhao shaking his head, the girl couldn't help but complain.

"Why is Haozi like those drunkards? He insists on drinking even though he can't, and now he needs someone to support him."

“Maybe he’s worried about something.”

Lin Miaomiao responded casually while playing with her phone. The girl seemed to be inspired and bumped into Lin Miaomiao's shoulder, looking at Deng Xiaoqi who had been looking at Qian Sanyi.
"Miao Miao, look"

Deng Xiaoqi did not walk close to Lin Miaomiao, but kept a certain distance from her and did not hear their conversation.

Lin Miaomiao looked at Deng Xiaoqi's profile and shook her head
"Ah, it's all bad fate"

"You think so, too. I feel like this isn't a clean deal. Although Deng Xiaoqi explicitly rejected Jiang Tianhao, she accepted Jiang Tianhao's approach in the name of a friend. We're not children anymore. Can't we understand this roundabout way?"

Lin Miaomiao patted the girl's hand that was hugging her arm.
"Okay, let's stop talking and don't affect us."

"That's true. Hey, Miaomiao, are you also choosing to distance yourself from Xiaoqi because you can't accept her behavior?"

Lin Miaomiao remembered the chat records she had seen and nodded.
"more or less"

"I guess so."

Not long after, they arrived near the park. There weren't many people there, but it was lively. Wu Xianyu became excited when he saw the things inside. He didn't expect that in this international metropolis there would be such stall games, with air gun shooting, ring tossing and so on.

Let go of Jiang Tianhao and patted his face
"Haozi, are you okay?"

Jiang Tianhao was almost awake when the cold wind blew, but he was startled when Wu Xianyu patted his hand.

"Hey, why are you trying so hard? I'm sober now, go play whatever you want."

"Okay, I'm leaving now." Wu Xianyu let go of Jiang Tianhao and walked towards the ring. The boss came over.

"Handsome guy, do you want to play? Five circles for ten dollars."

"Tsk, it's not cheap, give me twenty first."

After taking the hoop, Wu Xianyu tried the feel of it. The hoop was a little heavy, so it might be a bit difficult to deal with the big dolls in the back row. However, Wu Xianyu's target was not the dolls. He preferred the big plastic knives in the front row.

She tried it with two circles first, but failed. Lin Miaomiao, who was watching from the side, snorted without concealing her voice. When she saw Wu Xianyu turned his head to look at her, she raised her eyebrows, turned around and walked to the air gun project on the side, apparently wanting to give it a try.

Wu Xianyu narrowed his eyes and said nothing. He put the rings on two by two, and it was put on in a few tries. The boss handed the big knife to Wu Xianyu with a smile. It was a typical Qinglong Yanyuedao style knife, about half a meter long.

There were only a few circles left, and Wu Xianyu didn't plan to catch them carefully. He just threw them out like flowers from heaven, and was lucky enough to catch a bottle of drink.

The boss took out a bottle of Coke from the incubator nearby. Wu Xianyu took a look and saw that it was fresh. He waved to the boss.

"Thanks, Boss"

After saying that, he carried the big knife to the air gun project on the other side. Seeing Lin Miaomiao taking a long time to shoot, but still not hitting the target, Wu Xianyu did not hesitate to laugh.

"Hahaha, your gun went to America"

Listening to the laughter beside her, Lin Miaomiao gritted her teeth, fired the remaining bullets, put down the gun, looked at Wu Xianyu, and was stunned to find that he was carrying a plastic knife on his shoulder.
"You really got it. If you're brave enough, come and try this gun."

“Just give it a try”

Wu Xianyu put the knife and soda in Lin Miaomiao's hands, picked up the gun and tried it, and asked the boss
"How does this work?"

"50 per shot, you can do it times in total. The reward is on the sign on the side. If you hit all times, you can choose any doll here."

After scanning fifty yuan, Wu Xianyu casually asked

"Adjust your crosshairs."

"No, you have to be honest to do this."

The boss flatly denied it, and Wu Xianyu pretended not to hear it. If it was true, how could the boss make any money?

Wu Xianyu raised his gun and tilted his head to look at the crosshairs. Lin Miaomiao, who was standing beside him, laughed at Wu Xianyu with both eyes wide open.
"Ha, you're not even closing your eyes and you're still trying to hit me."

"Snapped"

The balloon burst and Lin Miaomiao shut up immediately. Wu Xianyu put down the gun. The crosshairs were indeed crooked. The first one was just a coincidence and Wu Xianyu got it wrong.

Now that he knew how the crosshairs were crooked, Wu Xianyu had an idea. He no longer hesitated and fired three shots, and the balloons burst one by one.

Seeing this scene, the boss's smiling face froze immediately. He originally thought it was a fat sheep, but now it seemed that this sheep came from the green grassland.

This air gun requires pulling the bolt to charge the gun every ten rounds, which is quite a feeling. Seeing Wu Xianyu pulling the bolt with his backhand, the boys watching also felt itchy and came to other stalls.

The boss's face looked better then. After all fifty shots hit the target, Wu Xianyu stretched out his arms with satisfaction. It felt really good.

He looked at the other people around him and saw that none of them got all the answers right like he did. He laughed twice and turned around to look for someone. After looking for a long time, he didn't see Lin Miaomiao.

Turning around again, Lin Miaomiao came over holding a doll as tall as a person, with a smile on her face. Wu Xianyu had a bad feeling.
"Where did you get this doll?"

"Hehe, thanks to you, Brother Xianyu. I have been staring at this doll for a long time."

After saying that, Lin Miaomiao returned the plastic knife in her hand to Wu Xianyu. Wu Xianyu felt that something was missing and squinted his eyes.

"Where's my Coke?"

Lin Miaomiao tilted her head to look at the sky, pretending not to hear anything. Seeing this, Wu Xianyu rolled his eyes.
"Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask. I'm naive enough. How can you keep a whole body after getting food and drink from you?"

The two walked towards the park. Looking at the various toys and snacks on the roadside, Lin Miaomiao regretted choosing the big doll. It really hindered her movements. She turned back to the stall and discussed with the boss, who agreed to take it away when she left.

Back in the park again, Lin Miaomiao saw Wu Xianyu's back from a distance, walked over, and without even looking at what he was doing, slapped him on the shoulder.

"What are you playing, salted fish?"

Wu Xianyu's hand trembled, and there was a dripping sound in front of him. His hand trembled even more and let go of the ring. He turned around and looked at Lin Miaomiao. After seeing the ring, Lin Miaomiao knew what she had done and smiled awkwardly.

"I knew you were playing with this live wire, haha, my bad, I'll pay for it."

"Hmph, that's pretty much it."

Wu Xianyu reluctantly forgave Lin Miaomiao and did not continue playing. Lin Miaomiao followed him.
"Why don't you play anymore? I think you're almost done."

"Ha, you know it too, it doesn't matter, I've already cleared the level, the prizes aren't worth much, the process is fun and that's all."

The rewards for the projects in the park are not valuable, so Wu Xianyu naturally has no interest in them.

The two of them didn't play any games afterwards. They just followed their classmates and watched how they played until it got dark. Jiang Tianhao called everyone.
"It's almost time, let's go to the hotpot restaurant"

Everyone cheered and followed Jiang Tianhao's footsteps into the car and came to a chain hot pot restaurant in the center of Jiangzhou city. When Wu Xianyu saw the name of the restaurant, he was happy. I am familiar with this. In my previous life, whoever placed an order would usually treat others to a meal here. After all, it is worry-free.

After entering Haidilao, everyone was taken directly to a large private room as per the reservation, and then began to argue about what soup base to order. Wu Xianyu thought that it would be a waste of food if one did not eat spicy hotpot.

Lin Miaomiao said that most people can't eat spicy food, so a shuangyang hotpot would be enough. Someone else said they wanted to eat a sour tomato hotpot. In the end, after a long time of preparation, they made a grid-shaped hotpot base so that everyone could eat it.

During the meal, Lin Miaomiao saw that Wu Xianyu ate the spicy soup without any discomfort, and wondered if the base of the pot was not too spicy. So she grabbed a piece of beef from the bottom of the pot and stuffed it into her mouth triumphantly, but she did not notice the hidden gloating behind Wu Xianyu's unhappy look.

Sure enough, Lin Miaomiao just took a few bites and shouted for a drink.
"Hurry, hurry, drink, drink, I want a drink, do you have milk? It's so spicy that it's killing me."

"Hahahahaha"

Wu Xianyu pointed at Lin Miaomiao and laughed mercilessly. The box was very lively and filled with a happy atmosphere.

Looking at Lin Miaomiao's swollen red lips, Wu Xianyu teased

"Are you still going to rob me?"

Lin Miaomiao glanced at Wu Xianyu and gulped down the milk.

(End of this chapter)