At 3:15 in the morning, a 24-hour noodle shop on the street welcomed two unique customers.

"Hello, two glasses of cold beer." The handsome, gentle young man with bright blond hair said.

The young man who followed him with a tall figure and a stern face added lightly, "If you don't have a draft beer cup, just use an ordinary wine glass. In addition, there will be two plates of side dishes, and two bottles of beer will be fine. One bottle is cold and one bottle is cold."

Room temperature.”

The boss responded with a smile, and at the same time he couldn't help but take a deep look at these two unique young people.

The two young men who arrived late at night were both wearing identical long black trench coats and carrying a long metal box in their hands. When they walked around, they slightly revealed a black combat uniform under the trench coat.

The hair on their foreheads was wet, obviously from the rain, and the left hand of the blond young man seemed to be injured, wrapped in a thick bandage, and even the pair of military-style shoes on his feet were obviously a bit inconsistent.

The boots were also covered with mud spots.

For some reason, the boss always felt that these two young men did not seem like customers who could enter a small noodle shop like his. Moreover, when he turned to go to the freezer to get beer, he heard the two handsome young men whispering to each other.

“Does ordering in China need to be so meticulous?”

"This is not a bar. Naturally, I need to explain it in detail. I advise you not to bring your habits from bars to this kind of street snack bar."

"I rarely go to bars, but I still feel weird when a bartender like you says something like this."

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It was a little different from what Karl imagined. At three o'clock in the morning, this street snack bar was not deserted. On the contrary, besides them, there were actually six or seven customers.

In the poorly decorated store, there are only six small dining tables, dark wood floors, ceilings that are yellowed by smoke, and dim yellow lights. In this silent world after the heavy rain, it seems...

It has a unique flavor.

The narrow shop exudes a strong smell of tobacco, alcohol and cooked food. In front of the solid wood cabinet, which is similar to the bar counter, two or three middle-aged people are laughing and sitting at the counter, drinking and talking. Two people at the other tables

The middle-aged man was also eating the pork ribs noodles from the bowl with his head down. He was still holding a few garlic cloves in his hand. He took a bite of garlic every time he ate the noodles, and the sound of slurping soup made Karl feel quite uncomfortable.

Choosing a seat by the window, Chu Zifeng skillfully pulled away the stool and sat down. Then he took out a few napkins and carefully wiped the greasy tabletop in front of him.

"Didn't you say we were going to a bar? Why did you lead me around a few times and end up here?" After Karl glanced at the small noodle shop a few times, he followed his lead and pulled out a stool to sit down.

The napkin was wiping the table. But when it came into contact with the greasy plastic tissue box, Karl's long white fingertips couldn't help but tremble.

At this time, the boss had already brought two bottles of beer and two cups.

After opening the beer skillfully, Chu Zifeng poured himself a glass and said.

"Would you choose to relax where you work?"

Karl thought for a while and nodded, "That's right. But there are so many guests here at this time, which is quite unexpected." Taking the bottle opener that Chu Zifeng handed him, Karl poured it for himself.

Have a cold beer while watching the customers chatting loudly around you.

Picking up the wine glass, Chu Zifeng took a sip and said, "Most of these 24-hour noodle restaurants serve taxi drivers who work the night shift."

"No wonder there are many taxis parked at the door." Karl also smiled and took a sip of cold beer, "But you look familiar, don't you? Do you come here often? You don't seem like someone who wants to come to a place like this.

"

"Then where am I going?"

Karl smiled and raised his eyebrows, "What you in China call are empty valleys, lonely forests, or sitting on the corpses of enemies. But I think it is more appropriate to sit cross-legged under the cherry blossom trees with falling cherry blossoms.

In the middle, there was a samurai sword on his lap and a sake glass in his hand. He was drinking while looking at the cherry blossoms, and then committed suicide."

Chu Zifeng gave Karl a cold look, "That's my teacher you're talking about, not me."

Karl looked at Chu Zifeng thoughtfully, then picked up the wine glass and cast his gaze out the window at the dark and deserted street, "Yes, Teacher Sasayama is that kind of person."

Leaning forward slightly, Chu Zifeng silently ate the peanuts brought by his boss, his deep eyes covered by his long wet hair blinking slightly.

"Is this what you call in your kingdom, when everyone is awake and I am drunk alone?" Listening to the laughter and toasts of the guests around him, Karl shrugged his shoulders with a wry smile, "The more noisy the place, the more I like it, but in that kind of place

Amid the hustle and bustle, there is a quietness that is different from the ordinary.”

Chu Zifeng sipped the beer in his glass and shook his head.

"It's not that complicated. It's just that my dad used to like to take me to places like this. He would come here almost once a week when I was a kid. He would drink wine and I would eat noodles. Occasionally, he would pour me a glass of wine and tell me to grow up quickly.

, if I could drink with him in the future, I said I would, and then listened to him complain to me about some business matters. Before going to the academy, he even took me to a noodle shop to eat noodles, and told me to go to school well and so on.

That time, I had a great time drinking with my dad, and he drunkenly patted my shoulder and said that I had finally grown up."

A rare smile appeared on Chu Zifeng's frozen face.

"No wonder you have a good drinking capacity. It turns out that you were trained by your father himself." Karl smiled and nodded.

"My father has few friends, and the few friends he has are unwilling to come with him to such a cheap place, so he can only drag me to come. When I didn't want to go at first, he said that my son should accompany my father.

Talking about drinking."

Karl blinked in confusion, "I've always been surprised, you should be the kind of rebellious person, right? But why does it seem that as long as you are with your father, you become very...I

Can you describe it as gentle?"

"Yes. Because he is my father and the best person to me. You may want to say that even if you are good to your parents, there is no need to be so obedient, because most people are actually very casual or even harsh towards their parents.

Even if you agree to do something with them, you will be irritable and say some unpleasant things. This is the correct way to get along with parents. But that is for ordinary people." Chu Zifeng lowered his head and drank from the cup.

Beer, "My father is different from other people's fathers. I will be very nice to him and will not make him feel any discomfort, because he is my father."

Karl didn't speak, not knowing what he was thinking, but soon he smiled and toasted to Chu Zifeng.

"I like people who respect their elders very much, but Zifeng, why would your father be willing to bring you to a place like this? Is it because of some kind of nostalgia?"

Chu Zifeng slowly turned the wine glass on the table, "I should be. As for dad... it's probably because it's cheap."

"Cheap?"

"A bottle of beer costs five yuan at most, and even ordering some cooked food together may cost less than a hundred yuan. In dad's eyes, this is the most cost-effective place in the world."

"You should suggest he go to the buffet..."

Chu Zifeng looked at Karl deeply, "Do you think he eats three meals a day in the office?"

Karl's eyes widened, "Don't tell me that your father really goes to the buffet every day to save money?"

"He also pretended to be a homeless man and went to get free breakfast on the street every day. When I was a child, there was no breakfast at home in the morning. It was my father who went out of his way to get free breakfast. If Qianqian hadn't cried and made a fuss one time,

If I want to eat bacon bread and egg rolls, we probably won’t have breakfast in our house until now.”

Listening to Chu Zifeng's words about his father, Carl didn't know what to say. Even though he already had some understanding, Carl still felt unimaginable.

Although he is very young, as the heir of the Bollen family, he has seen countless businessmen who come to their family's manor since he was a child, hoping to cooperate with his family. Some of them have so much property that they can count it themselves.

I don't know. Of course, the rich people also have many strange habits in private, which are more perverted and the like. Compared with being stingy, it is not a strange character among the wealthy businessmen.

Rich people are very stingy, of course they are very stingy. After all, every money they have is earned through hard work. Having lived through poverty, they all understand that money is hard-earned, so they naturally cherish it.

But that kind of cherishing is mostly relative to people of their level.

But for rich people like Chu Zifeng's father, who has billions of assets and ends up living worse than an old man collecting rags, Carl has really only seen him in novels.

"You are really not much like your father." In the end, Carl only left this sigh. After all, although Chu Zifeng is relatively cold, he has never cared about money. In contrast, his little

Senior Bei is more like Chairman Chu's biological son who was left behind.

Hearing Karl's comments, Chu Zifeng couldn't help but frowned, but he didn't explain much.

"Dad is just stingy with himself. You should have seen the appearance of the group branch. It cannot be built by a stingy person. Moreover, the government also conducted a transfer two years ago. The results showed that dad

The group's food standard ranks fifth among companies in the province. He doesn't care about spending money on his subordinates, Qianqian and I, and although he still says something, he doesn't spend any less than he should."

Chu Zifeng lowered his head and drank his beer silently, "He just doesn't want to spend it on himself."

Karl looked at the light rain falling outside the window, "That's right, a stingy person can't have such a big estate."

"By the way, I have a question I've always wanted to ask you, but it's quite personal and I don't know if you would like to tell me?" Karl raised his wine glass to Chu Zifeng.

Chu Zifeng looked at Karl, also picked up the wine glass and touched it lightly.

After drinking all the beer in the glass, Karl poured himself a drink and shook his head and said, "To be honest, even now I still can't figure out why you chose to refuse to enter the Japanese branch? As a result, Xiao

Mr. Sanribei publicly stated that you are no longer his student. Although the Japanese branch is indeed relatively average compared to the college headquarters, are you not interested at all in the position of head of the Japanese branch?"

Chu Zifeng looked at Karl quietly.

"Whether it is the academy headquarters, the Japanese branch, or the Senate, I will not join."

Karl looked at the indifferent guy opposite him in astonishment, "Why?"

"Too far from home."

"Is that the reason?"

"Um."

"Wait a minute, you don't want to tell me that you plan to join the Tianchao branch after graduation, right?"

"My application has been written, do you want to see it?"

In Karl's shocked eyes, Chu Zifeng picked up his wine glass and looked out the window at the dark street silently, "Dad is very old. Although he doesn't say it, I know that he really wants me to go back and help him after graduation."

He manages the company. Although he is a person similar to Grandet, even if I join the company, he will diligently hold the company's account books and make calculations every day, but I know that he really wants me to be able to work after graduation.

Go back and help him."
To be continued...