"Your job is very simple. Come here at 1:30 every morning, drive me to Tsukiji Fish Market, wait for me to go there to purchase goods, and then bring me back here with the goods. Wait for me to sort the goods and deliver them to you. Go to the designated place and the day’s work will be considered completed, do you understand?”
"Late at night?! Do I still have time to sleep after doing all this?" Zhang Heng frowned when he heard this.
Takeda Tetsuya grinned, showing yellow teeth, "It all depends on the speed of your delivery. Okay, do you have any other questions?"
"I have one last question."
"Um?"
"You will help me get my driver's license first, right?"
The smile on Takeda Tetsuya's face completely froze at this moment, "What did you just say? Say it again?!"
"I don't have a driver's license yet. If I want to deliver goods to you, I need to get a driver's license first." Zhang Heng said truthfully.
"…………"
"You came to me to learn drag racing without even having a driver's license?!" Takeda Tetsuya was completely defeated. "Brother, are you kidding me? Why would someone who has never even touched a steering wheel be so interested in underground racing? ?”
"I'm not interested in underground racing, but for some reasons that I can't disclose, I do need to compete."
Takeda Tetsuya stared at Zhang Heng for a full minute before squeezing out a sentence through his teeth, "Then you can only pray that you can pass the police car quickly."
…………
There is a big difference between Tokyo at night and during the day.
At 12 o'clock, most people have fallen asleep. Only a few windows in the residential buildings near the street are still lit. Zhang Heng set off from school and took the last subway. The carriage was somewhat empty except for a few drowsy people. The sleepy white-collar worker and the female publicist wearing heavy makeup.
He got off the bus at the terminal, then walked a long way, and finally arrived at the aquatic product store before the appointed time.
It was rare for Takeda Tetsuya to become serious. He did not continue to sleep upstairs, but squatted in the store sorting various orders.
Hearing the footsteps behind him, he didn't look up and just said, "Give me another five minutes."
Five minutes later, he stood up, picked up two recently dead crabs and tied them with straw ropes. He threw a bunch of keys into Zhang Heng's hand and snorted, "Follow me."
The two walked out of the aquatic products store and came to a small open-air parking lot not far away. Takeda Tetsuya shook the iron door. After a while, the lights in the duty room turned cold. A rickety old man walked over while getting dressed. Opened the iron lock on the door.
Takeda Tetsuya smiled at the old man, handed the two dead crabs to him, and then pointed at Zhang Heng and said something.
The old man looked very happy after taking the dead crab, and the wrinkles on his face relaxed. He glanced at Zhang Heng next to him and nodded kindly to him.
"Mr. Crab, to be honest, I don't know what his real name is. It doesn't matter. No one cares about that kind of thing anyway. His wife died a long time ago, and his son and daughter have not contacted him since they went abroad. , I found a job in the parking lot to support myself and have a place to live. We are old friends. I gave him the crabs that had just died and could not be sold. He let me park here for free. In addition, I had already You introduced him to him, and from now on you can just come here and drive and return the car."
"Which car is it?"
Zhang Heng's eyes swept across the parking lot, and finally landed on a khaki bread truck in the corner, and he raised his eyebrows.
"It's very beautiful, isn't it? Mitsubishi's second-generation L300 (Delica), launched in 1982, was Japan's first four-wheel drive van." When talking about cars, Takeda Toru seemed like a different person, no longer looking like a decadent uncle. He lit a cigarette and stroked the car body, "The 4d56 diesel 5 engine and the same chassis system as the Pajero are enough to cope with harsh weather and bad road conditions, giving a mere van the performance of an off-road vehicle..."
"A car from 1982? Are you sure it can still be driven?" Zhang Heng expressed doubts.
"Don't worry, I found it in a scrapyard. It has been modified by me. The four-wheel drive has been changed into two-wheel drive. In terms of stability, the former is definitely better, but the four-wheel drive will increase the weight of the car body and make it unstable. Having too much sex is not a good thing for a driver and it uses too much fuel.”
"...The most important thing is that I repaired the tape player in the car." Takeda Tetsuya opened the passenger door, sat on it, and picked up the tape.
Seeing this, Zhang Heng could only climb into the driver's seat. When he went back in the morning, he made an emergency study of driving knowledge, mainly relying on videos and illustrations found on the Internet. In addition, he also downloaded a small driving simulation game on his mobile phone. He also played all the way on the subway, so now he... still isn't sure at all.
Zhang Heng inserted the car key Tetsuya Takeda gave him into the keyhole and turned it three times before lighting the fire.
The latter ignored him completely, and waited for the car to start. He eagerly inserted the tape of Chuck and Asuka into the tape player. However, the next moment, the car suddenly braked less than five meters away, and Tetsuya Takeda suddenly stopped. His head hit the glove box in front of the seat.
Zhang Heng's expression remained unchanged, "Sorry, I pressed the wrong clutch."
As he spoke, he shifted the gear lever to fifth gear again.
"…………"
"When you go to participate in a car race someday, please be sure to tell me. I will help you buy an insurance and the beneficiary will be my own. I really lost to you." Takeda Tetsuya turned off the tape player, "Start in 1st gear. Depress the clutch with your left foot and tap the accelerator with your right foot..."
Three minutes later, Zhang Heng drove the L300 out of the parking lot and slowly hit a fire hydrant under the watchful eye of Mr. Crab.
Fortunately, it was early in the morning and there were no vehicles outside.
Zhang Heng drove the L300 crookedly onto the road, and looking at Takeda Tetsuya on the side, he had already fastened his seat belt.
Zhang Heng drove for a full 25 minutes during the fifteen-minute drive. He stalled the car five times, ran two red lights, and rode on the curb once. Fortunately, he finally reached his destination successfully.
Tsukiji Fish Market is the largest fish market in Japan and even the world. Not only Tokyo, but also fishermen from all over Japan will bring their caught seafood here for sale. At its peak, 3,200 tons of seafood were sold here a day, worth 3 billion yen. More than 60,000 wholesalers visit every day to select and bid on their favorite products. For them, this is not only a market, but also a battlefield.
Zhang Heng pulled the handbrake. Takeda Tetsuya originally wanted to say something, but after thinking for a few seconds, his mind was still blank. In the end, he just said, "Wait for me here." He opened the car door and jumped out, meeting a travel companion who he probably knew. After saying hello, the other party took out a pack of cigarettes, and the two of them smoked and walked towards the main entrance.
It was already an hour later when Takeda Toru came back. There was a forklift behind him, carrying boxes of seafood he had selected. What surprised him was that Zhang Heng did not use this time to catch up on sleep, but He continued to test drive the L300 in the surrounding area. Compared with his jerky driving skills when he came here, he has improved significantly now.
But Takeda Tetsuya didn't say anything. He just said with a dark face, "Come down and load the goods together."
