Food Master Of The Underworld - 17 Caring About Yourself
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17 Caring About Yourself

Today though was a different day. Both his body and mind refused to wake up early. Waking up at noon, shocked w.a.n.g Ming, he had tried multiple times before to sleep longer than 7 am. But for some reason, he could never do it probably from all the stress after what happened with his father. Feeling refreshed and even a bit happy, w.a.n.g Ming decided that it was long overdue to get himself a phone. It's inconvenient not to have one since he had been using and will keep using taxis, and especially since he promised Louzheng to use his taxi service. It would be an inconvenience to borrow a phone every time like he had done the last week. Last week Uncle Weng or Weng Ping had lent him his phone every time he needed to call a taxi.

Finally, getting off his bed w.a.n.g Ming lowered himself to his wheelchair and went off to do his morning ritual to shower and eat. This morning he decided to spoil himself instead of getting baozi, he went to a food cart and got wonton in a plastic bowl with noodles. Wonton is one of w.a.n.g Ming's favorite foods, the juiciness and sweet taste of shrimp when you bite into it, coupled with a bit of noodle, and then the meaty flavor from the soup makes it perfect.

Feeling refreshed after such a great breakfast, w.a.n.g Ming decided to treat himself better from now on. What do you earn money for? To make yourself money and spoil yourself. Especially now when he doesn't have anyone else to care for except himself. w.a.n.g Ming had initially decided to buy a cheap phone, but when thinking about this, he decided to buy a more expensive one.

Thinking about taking a taxi again today, w.a.n.g Ming sighed. It was always a struggle for him to take a cab since he's in a wheelchair. It's still hard for him to compete against the rus.h.i.+ng crowd for taxis. Though w.a.n.g Ming felt excited thinking about it was only 20 days left till his legs would recover, taking his showers daily, he had started seeing that his legs gradually started healing, but it was still a long way to go. Thinking about taxi w.a.n.g Ming also remembered Louzheng, and he had promised him to only take his taxi from now on.

Funnily enough, just as w.a.n.g Ming thought about Louzheng, he saw Louzheng's taxi arrive right in front of him, seemed like Louzheng had just given a customer a lift. So w.a.n.g Ming decided to roll up and knock on the window, but as he came close to the car the door on the other side at the driver's side exploded open, and w.a.n.g Ming could see Louzheng with wide-open eyes close the door in a hurry and ran towards w.a.n.g Ming.

"Mister w.a.n.g, Mister w.a.n.g!" He heard Louzheng practically screaming at his face while grabbing almost pulling w.a.n.g Ming's arm. When Louzheng did it, w.a.n.g Ming was deeply impressed by Louzheng's strength. He was probably just as strong as him. But this fact also made, so w.a.n.g Ming also had to face reality. He was stronger 4 to 5 times stronger than an average man, but if you were a man that trained for strength, you could definitely exceed that.

So he couldn't be c.o.c.ky and also had to improve himself later, but at least he felt that he could fight even if someone were stronger then him. Especially after fighting yesterday, he felt that every time, preparing for a fight. He enters a battle mode, where he feels like he's born to fight. This "power" is also something he had to explore more.

"Mister w.a.n.g, Mister w.a.n.g!" Louzheng was now screaming close to w.a.n.g Ming's ear since Louzheng saw that he didn't react to his screams. His eyes looked absent, fearing that he had done something wrong Louzheng decided to scream into w.a.n.g Ming's ear to wake him up.

"Stop Louzheng, do you want to make me deaf?" w.a.n.g Ming said while covering Louzheng's mouth. He was still feeling his ears ringing by Louzheng's powerful scream. He could see people looking at them, and some were even laughing probably from seeing such a bizarre scene, a big overgrown man, looking clueless and almost a bit dumb while getting his mouth covered by a man in a wheelchair.

"Ok, ok, calm down, Louzheng, get in the car first, then we will talk in the car." w.a.n.g Ming then lightly pushed Louzheng away and opened the car door at the pa.s.senger side and sat inside the car, and folded the wheelchair putting it in front of his legs.

w.a.n.g Ming was also curious about what made Louzheng so anxious, did w.a.n.g gang make trouble for him? There couldn't be any other reason, could there? As w.a.n.g Ming was thinking about why. Louzheng slammed the sat in the driver seat and slammed the door, which made a loud sound and shocked w.a.n.g Ming out of his thoughts. "So, what is the problem, Louzheng? Why are you so anxious? Did something happen? If it's w.a.n.g gang, I'm not sure that I can do so much except for asking Peng Tong." After w.a.n.g Ming talked, he didn't hear any response, so he looked at Louzheng and couldn't help but laugh. His face went from anxious to looking dumb. Not dumb in a bad way but a funny one.

"No, no, no, Mister w.a.n.g. Here is your money from yesterday. The taxi fare was only 20 yuan, but you gave me 500 yuan! I took Mister Peng home after you, so there was no hotel to pay for. I couldn't live with my guilty conscience of taking 500 yuan from you, while not doing anything for you worth that price. Please take back the 500 yuan and just give me 20 yuan. I beg you I haven't been able to sleep, and just kept driving around since last night. I hoped and begged that you would need a taxi today, and I finally found you."

Not it was w.a.n.g Ming's turn to look dumb, he was dumbfounded. He didn't think that this was the reason for him to look so anxious and felt even worse when he heard that Louzheng had not slept since yesterday. But most of all, he felt good and that Louzheng would be a great friend to have. Then Louzheng kept pressing the 500 yuan to w.a.n.g Ming, almost destroying them in the process. "If you keep that up, you're going to tear them." Hearing this, Louzheng instantly dropping them on w.a.n.g Ming's lap.

"You can take the money Louzheng drive me for free for the next week, and we're even, is that ok? So drive to the FengShong market" w.a.n.g Ming said it as a question but didn't really give Louzheng a chance to say no as he instantly stuffed the 500 yuan into Louzheng's pants pocket.

On the way to the FengShong market, w.a.n.g Ming tried to talk with Louzheng but found out that he isn't a talker at all. And would try to speak back to w.a.n.g Ming but couldn't help but come across as awkward. Weird when he, seemed to talk normal earlier when he was anxious, but stiff when calm. So w.a.n.g Ming decided to stop and think about what phone to get.

He would probably not buy a Xami or a HuWei since those are the top brands and way too expensive. Though he had money now, totally wasting it though didn't sit right with him. At first, he decided not even to buy a smartphone. But since he was going to start to take care of himself more, he decided to at least get a cheap smartphone.

Finally, arriving at the FengShong market, he bid Louzheng goodbye and looked around for a phone shop. Then seeing a shop called everyday phone, which seemed reasonably crowded, he decided to check it out. As he was opening the door, w.a.n.g Ming furrowed his brows as he heard the words directed at him. "Sorry, No, beggars here!"