Chapter 15 Midnight Diner
The crewcut singer ran off the stage right after he finished that song and asked: "why didn't you beat those bastards? I was going to help you with my guitar!"
"Rabbit, don't forget that you are a monk. Shouldn't you dissuade us from fighting?" fatso Liu was speechlessly looking at this so-called monk, who is anxious to see a fierce fight.
Although he is wearing a "Damn Couples!" T-shirt and singing rock songs, he is indeed a monk in the daytime, and he will wear a frock chanting in Life Pass Away.
In fact, it's not correct to call Mi Le a fake monk because he grew up in a temple, graduated from a Buddhist College and was issued a monk's certificate by a reputable monk. In his own words, he is a 100% real monk with a certificate to prove.
Mi Le's grandpa is an abbot of Fayuan temple and has a long-term cooperation with Life Pass Away. Therefore, the religious rites for the deceased in Life Pass Away are held by the monks of that temple. That's why Mi Le and Luo Feng knew each other since their childhood.
Different from Luo Feng, Mi Le didn't pursue immortal life, which is unrealistic to him. He just wanted to be a singer. And his grandpa, Guang Xing master, was neither for it nor against it. He just said: "If you have the predestination with Buddha, then you will finally convert to Buddhism."
That's why he would chant sutras in the daytime and sing ballads or rock songs at night. Because his hair was shaved in his childhood, he was given a nickname as "baldhead". Then he started to have a crewcut. His friends changed his nickname into "Rabbit" because he is vegan.
Noticing that Fang Tang was still sitting there in a dark mood, Mi Le walked to him patting on his shoulder and said: "Good news for you, I made a free ad for you today."
Fang Tang forced out a smile and asked: "What kind of ad?"
"The dishes you made today are amazingly delicious. It was the first time for me to see people wolfing down tofu meal. There happened to be two friends of the deceased working at the TV station and they wanted to interview the chef that made this tofu meal. When I heard that, I told them the chef was from Six Flavors Restaurant. No need to say thanks, you know me, I'm warm-hearted all the time." said Mi Le.
"Well, how about I send a pennant to your temple with the words' The best advertiser in Buddhist monastery '? Is that cool enough for you?" After hearing this good news, Fang Tang felt better and started to joke with his friends.
"Do something practical. If you could refurbish the golden Buddha statute in our temple after making a great fortune, that would be really cool. Because of the golden lacquer on the Buddha statue is falling off, each day my grandpa sees it he would sigh." responded Mi Le.
"Not a problem. Then you should burn incense and pray for me, wishing Buddha to bless me become rich early." Fang Tang teased.
Mi Le twitched his lips and said: "Instead of praying for you, it's better to pray for myself and let Buddha bless me a one-hit wonder. Then I might already get famous before you get rich."
"Dream it, how could the Buddha agree to let you, an idle intern monk, become a singer. If so, the temple will be in chaos. You should feel lucky if she didn't deduct your merits after giving this request."
The chatting with friends helped Fang Tang relax a little, then he started to rethink his current situation. It is almost impossible to raise 20 million in two weeks, but this is not the worst situation.
Li Jun's betrayal is a premeditated scheme. However, if this arrear contract was not shown by Bao Wenchao today, but in two weeks while Fang Tang was totally unprepared, by then he will really be desperate.
Thanks to Liu Haoren who irritated Bao Wenchao, so that Bao Wenchao could tell Fang Tang this thing ahead of time while he was raging. At least, Fang Tang still has a glimmer of hope to handle this situation.
The most important thing is that Fang Tang now has a mysterious Alpha system, which offers him some confidence, and makes him believe that there might be a miracle.
Chatting a little more, Fang Tang made an excuse to leave Tai Bai Bar because he already had no mood for drinking beer, and he needed to make a well-prepared plan to win this fight.
Late at night, a luxury business car is steadily running on the road to South Hill City.
There was an old man with gray hair sitting in the car. He was looking at the dark night through the window with a bored expression on his face.
"Grandpa, you need to rest yourself this time when you go back to our hometown, and stop getting in charge of the businesses in our company. The doctor has said that your illness could be controlled as long as you actively cooperate with their treatment." the girl sitting next to the old man said.
"No cigarette, no wine and nothing to do, then what's the point of living. Cough, cough…" the old man had a racking cough right after he finished his words.
The girl immediately rubbed him on his back to help him feel better. Then she opened the thermo mug to pour a cup of warm water and handed it to the old man.
Guan Tianping never expected that he had worked hard all his life, survived bullets in war time and avoided treacherous business schemes, but finally will end his life smoking.
He refused to receive medical treatment abroad and chose to return to his hometown for the conservative treatment. Although he is not at the advanced stage of lung cancer, he knew it wouldn't be promising either because people who have this illness can hardly live beyond three to five years. As for those who live more than five years, it's because they were diagnosed with this cancer at the early stage and started to receive treatment immediately. Even so, less than 10 percent of them can finally conquer the cancer.
Guan Tianping is a tough man, but he would also be upset after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Fortunately, his granddaughter, Guan Lingshan, has been accompanying him since then, which makes him feel much better and ignites his strong will to fight with this cancer.
"I want something to eat." said the old man. He had no appetite for anything the whole day and now felt a little hungry.
Hearing this, Guan Lingshan was very surprised and happy. She told the driver to pay attention to the restaurant along the road.
"It's 23:00 now, most restaurants are closed. If you agreed to take an airplane, we would be home already. Then, I can ask Ms. Zhang to make some soup for you." along the way, there were no running restaurants, and everything outside was dark.
Going a little further, they finally saw a shop sign in the lane with a light on, and there were three characters on that sign; Six Flavors Restaurant.
"Ok, this one." said the old man. He couldn't wait to get off the car and walked into the restaurant, because they had been looking for restaurants for quite a while and finally found one that was still running.
Guan Lingshan frowned right after she stepped in. The restaurant was clean, but what's strange is that there was only a table in the lobby, and that table had one corner missing. Besides, there were three chairs being placed against the wall. It doesn't look like a normal restaurant.
In fact, Fang Tang did not intend to receive customers at night. What's more, Six Flavors Restaurants never provides midnight snacks. Because he was still thinking about how to solve his current problem since he returned from Tai Bai Bar, he forgot to close the door. Anyway, there were not many people living nearby, so almost no one would come here to eat at night.
Moreover, since last time the cats helped him, those gangsters won't come here to cause trouble for Fang Tang. So, what Fang Tang could do is to wait till he was driven out of his restaurant in two weeks.
While Fang Tang was thinking about the next step in the kitchen, he heard the bell ringing, which indicates there was a customer. He habitually asked: "Welcome, what would you want to eat?"
Walking out of the kitchen, Fang Tang was amazed by the girl standing in the lobby. She has very pure and delicate skin, but what attracts him more is her nice figure. Even though she is in a conservative suit, the two peaks on her chest are still obviously shown, which stretch her shirt to its limit. In his mind, Fang Tang was thinking that it must be impossible for her to do up her top button.
But the clothing she is wearing fits her perfectly, with a scarf as an embellishment, her sensual figure looks raceful. The light make-up highlights her fine skin, and her small oval face makes her look like a delicate doll. Running this restaurant, Fang Tang had seen various beautiful ladies, but it was the first time for him to see such a girl who had an angel face and a hot figure.
What's embarrassing is that the beautiful girl and the old man are standing in front of the table with hesitation showing on their faces. It seems like they are thinking about leaving.
Fang Tang now really needs money, which made him try to keep each customer. Therefore, he said: "I just finished re-decorating my restaurant, so it still looks a little shabby now. The new tables and chairs haven't yet arrived. I'm sorry for this."
While he was explaining, he grabbed two chairs for them. In the afternoon, fatso Liu already brought people here to put on new glass for the window, but the desks and chairs will be delivered tomorrow. The broken desks and chairs were all moved out. If it was not Fang Tang that thought the lobby shouldn't be completely empty, this severely damaged table would be moved out, too.
"What do you want to eat?" Fang Tang asked again.
"What do you have?" because they didn't know how long it would take to find another restaurant, the old man and his granddaughter decided to stay, even though they didn't think this was a good idea.
"This is menu, please have a look." Fang Tang held out two menus for them.
"Fried pork chop." said the old man. He was attracted by this dish, which was labeled with the red character 'specialty', at his first sight.
"No, don't you remember what the doctor said? No greasy food is allowed." Guan Lingshan denied his order right away.
"If I can't even eat fried and roasted food, which I like most, I can't even see the point of living." the old man said unhappily after hearing that.
Guan Lingshan neglected his complaint, raised her head and asked Fang Tang: "Can I order the food this menu doesn't include?"
"If I have the material to cook it, then yes, you can." Fang Tang said.
"So, you're the chef of this restaurant, but how old are you? Are you 18?" Guan Lingshan didn't expect Fang Tang to be the chef of this restaurant, she gradually started to feel that it was a bad decision to eat here.
"I'm 21 years old. Ms., don't you know that it's not right to judge a book by its cover? A good chef does not necessarily mean that he has to be old. If you're not satisfied with the food, I won't let you pay." Fang Tang answered with a sulky expression.
"Ok, a bowl of porridge. Hopefully, you won't go wrong with this simple food." said Guan Lingshan. Fang Tang never expected this beautiful lady would be so mean with her words.