Li Zaiyun said coldly: "You can leave if you want, but pay the bill first!"
Chen Zhipeng was about to take out his mobile phone to scan the QR code.
I blocked it with my hand and asked the bartender: "How much did we pay just now?"
The bartender quickly quoted the price: "Two whiskeys, one special blend, two ladies' cocktails, plus the bottle of Black Label...a total of eight thousand three thousand."
Chen Zhipeng He took a breath: "So expensive?"
Li Zaiyun snorted coldly: "Don't come to a place like this if it's expensive. We always sell at this price."
I know that the price is ridiculously high. The market price of the bottle of Black Label is only six hundred, and even if it is doubled here, it will not reach one thousand two.
Not to mention the so-called special blend, which is clearly just ordinary whiskey with ice.
But I still took out my phone to scan the QR code to pay.
Chen Zhipeng muttered in a low voice: "This is enough for me to run for half a month."
Li Zaiyun glanced at us: "Remember to bring enough money next time."
I didn't argue with him. Now was not the time to fall out with him. When I walked out of the bar, Chen Zhipeng was still feeling distressed about the eight thousand three.
But I think if he can see clearly the true nature of Jiuer’s people as wine trustees, the money will be well spent.
While waiting for the driver, I continued to enlighten him: "You should seriously consider the matter of the deputy station leader. Once the position is secured, recruit a few more female riders. Are you still worried about not being able to find a partner?"
Chen Zhipeng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I am not the material to be a leader."
"Who is born to be a leader?" I opened the car door.
On the way back, Chen Zhipeng suddenly said: "Thank you for today."
After sending Chen Zhipeng back to the dormitory, I asked the driver to turn around and go back to my own community.
Halfway, a request for a QQ voice call suddenly popped up on the phone.
I glanced at the screen. It was the call from the person whose name was "Medicine".
I didn’t cheat this morning, so I dared to call you.
I hesitated for a moment and pressed the answer button.
"Hello?"
A drake's voice came from the other side: "Brother, do you want the cat bones?"
"It's true, of course." I responded.
A dry laugh came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, this thing is definitely real. It's the price, so you have to add a little more."
I know this is a low-priced package. Lu: "I haven't seen anything, so it's not appropriate to talk about money."
"You have to sincerely want it. Now go to the train station, pay with one hand, and deliver the goods with the other."
I guess this is probably fake, but the tiger bone is really needed.
"Okay, I'll be there right away."
After hanging up the call, I said to the driver: "Master, make a U-turn and go to the train station."
"You have to pay extra to go that far." The driver responded.
"I won't miss you." I readily agreed to pay up to a few hundred yuan for a round trip.
Ten minutes later, I arrived near the train station and contacted the seller again: "I'm here, where are you?"
"Yao" reported a specific location that was remote and had no cameras.
I searched by address and found them in a dark alley next to the main road.
There were two people standing there, one was the reserved old man I had seen in the morning, and the other was a middle-aged man wearing a dark coat and a mask.
Checked the password with him.
"Let me see something first." I requested.
The middle-aged man winked at the old man. The old man hesitantly took out an object wrapped in red cloth from his arms.
It was a bone-shaped carving with a dark oily sheen. It was simple in shape and indeed had the charm of an old thing.
"How much do you plan to sell it for?"
The middle-aged man held out three fingers: "Thirty thousand. You are in a hurry to spend money, otherwise you will definitely not get this price."
I always feel a little uneasy. "Twenty thousand. In cash, you can trade it now."
The middle-aged man looked at the old man with pretense of hesitation and sighed: "Seeing that you are so cheerful, okay, let's just treat it as a friend."
"Wait a moment, let me find someone to authenticate it." I don't know much about these things. I raised my phone and dialed Huang Li's video call.
The screen lit up, revealing Huang Li's face with an inquiring look. "Teacher Huang, please help me palm the eyes." I pointed the camera at the bone sculpture in my hand.
"Turn over...yes, come closer and let me see the texture." Huang Li's voice came from the receiver.
A few seconds later, Huang Li said firmly: "It's true. Do you want to buy it?"
"Thank you, Teacher Huang." I hung up the phone and looked at the middle-aged man, "Deal."
I handed the middle-aged man the two wads of cash I had prepared in advance. He took the money, quickly twirled the edge in the dim light, and took out another one and looked at the watermark against the light.
"The money I just withdrawn is in consecutive numbers." I added.
The middle-aged man then stuffed the money into his arms and zipped up his coat: "Brother, be cool, we have something else to do, so we'll leave first."
He and the old man turned around and left, walking in a hurry, and quickly disappeared into the shadows at the other end of the alley.
I stood there, listening to their footsteps going away, in the direction of the brightly lit train station.
It seems that they are planning to leave the city overnight.
I returned to the car and asked the driver to drive back.
The car merged into the night traffic, and the neon lights outside the window blurred into a blurry band of light.
As we walked to an intersection, there was a checkpoint for drunk driving in front of us.
The flashing police lights are particularly dazzling in the night, and the traffic police are methodically guiding the vehicles to be inspected one by one.
Our car stopped slowly and rolled down the window.
A traffic policeman came in with a rapid alcohol screener: "Hello, please cooperate and blow some air."
The driver completed the test neatly. The traffic policeman looked at the "zero" displayed on the screen of the instrument, nodded, and waved to let him go.
The window was closed again and the car drove away from the checkpoint smoothly.
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, I called a driver. If Li Zaiyun was so angry at the bar that he drove himself, tonight might not end well.
Back at the gate of the community, I paid some extra money to the driver.
Watching him ride on a small electric bike and disappear at the corner of the street, I turned around and walked into the community.
The night breeze was cool, and the street lamps stretched the shadows very long.
I subconsciously touched the tiger bone in my pocket, and the cold and hard touch was extremely clear.
Unexpectedly, on the night that was disrupted by Li Zaiyun, I could unexpectedly buy something that I had been looking for for a long time.
Although the process was a bit strange, and the figures of the two sellers leaving in a hurry always made people feel uneasy, but the things were finally obtained.
Huang Li’s identification also provided reassurance.
It’s just a bit expensive. Twenty thousand yuan is not a small amount for me now.
When I walked downstairs, the sensor light came on. I took out the key, and the sound of metal clashing was particularly clear in the silent corridor.
I am not yet sure how useful this tiger bone can be, and whether it will cause other troubles in the future.