Chapter 78: Let You Open a Food Shop, You Open for Business at 3 AM

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

"Moving house? Where are you moving to? If I have nothing to do on Saturday, I'll bring a few people to help you." Li Jiang was stunned after hearing this, then said enthusiastically.

"No need, there isn't much stuff, I can move it alone."

Lu Feng declined Li Jiang's kindness. After organizing the things in the rental house, there wasn't much worth taking, and what should be thrown away had been thrown away; he could just buy new things later.

"Fine then. Sunday morning, don't forget!" Li Jiang didn't persist any longer and reminded Lu Feng one last time.

"Won't forget, hanging up!"

Lu Feng hung up the phone, checked the time, set an alarm for one hour, then slept a wonderful nap.

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At ten in the evening, Lu Feng locked the door and went downstairs. After reaching the road, he happened to see a taxi with its empty sign lit up parked not far from the residential area.

Lu Feng walked over and looked toward the driver's seat. The driver inside was covering his face with his cap, and the sound of his snoring could be heard clearly through the car window.

Lu Feng knocked on the car window. The driver woke up with a start, looked around blankly, then reached out and unlocked the car.

Lu Feng pulled open the car door and got in. After telling the driver his destination, he lowered his head and played with his mobile phone.

The driver yawned, fastening his seatbelt while saying somewhat embarrassedly to Lu Feng: "You saw that, young man. I've been driving for over five hours straight today and I'm a bit tired. I just fell asleep without noticing. Oh right, young man, where are you going?"

When Lu Feng mentioned his destination earlier, the driver's brain was still in a muddled state after just waking up, and he hadn't heard clearly for a moment.

"Food Street." Lu Feng didn't mind and replied without raising his head.

"Alright." The driver agreed, then started the car, and the taxi began to accelerate slowly on the road.

While driving, the driver switched to "chatting mode," striking up a conversation with Lu Feng in the back seat: "Young man, what are you going to Food Street for?"

Lu Feng originally wanted to tell the truth that he was going to Food Street to do business, but he remembered the looks those taxi drivers who had taken him to Food Street these past few days gave him when leaving, so he changed his words: "To eat."

"Isn't it a bit late to go eat at Food Street now?" The driver glanced at Lu Feng, who was playing with his phone with his head down through the rearview mirror, then kindly reminded him: "Young man, many shops on Food Street close around ten."

"Uncle, you're quite familiar with Food Street?" Lu Feng smiled after hearing this but didn't explain.

The driver nodded, his eyes focused on the road ahead, but this didn't stop him from continuing to chat with Lu Feng: "I have a friend who runs a shop there. When I used to drive at night, I picked him up for a while. When I went there, it was usually after ten, and by then there were only a few shops still open on Food Street."

"Is that so." Lu Feng casually brushed it off. He wasn't good at chatting with strangers, so he simply continued playing with his mobile phone.

The driver, however, couldn't keep his mouth shut and went on by himself: "Speaking of Food Street, a few days ago I encountered something strange. Someone asked me to take him to Food Street at two in the morning."

Hearing the taxi driver's words, Lu Feng couldn't help but raise his head.

The driver didn't notice any of this and continued: "At first I thought he was going there to eat, and I kindly reminded him that the shops on Food Street are closed at two in the morning. But he said he wasn't going to eat. Young man, guess what he was going to Food Street for?"

Lu Feng rubbed his nose, feeling both amused and helpless. Seeing the driver speak so enthusiastically, he didn't feel right interrupting, so he went along with him: "I can't guess."

"Young man, you definitely can't guess. He said he was going to Food Street to do business, and it was two in the morning! And even funnier, he said his shop doesn't open during the day, only at night. I thought at the time, does this person have a screw loose? Young man, don't you think so?" The driver uncle got more and more enthusiastic, completely failing to notice the embarrassment on Lu Feng's face in the back seat.

"Yes, yes, yes." Lu Feng could only nod.

He never expected that one day he would actually get to eat his own melon.

He didn't know if this uncle had told this story to other passengers.

"After dropping that person off that day, I told my fellow drivers about it, and they all said that person was a lunatic. Hauling a lunatic down the road in the middle of the night—now that I think back, it's still kind of scary. Fortunately, nothing happened." The driver uncle said with some lingering fear.

Hearing this, Lu Feng suddenly understood.

No wonder that when he took a taxi a few days ago, right after he said he was going to Food Street, those drivers looked at him in a strange way.

"Heh heh..."

Lu Feng couldn't think of how to respond to this driver uncle, so he just gave two dry laughs.

"You don't believe what I'm saying, do you? I'm not lying to you. That young man back then looked about your age, and judging by his clothes, he seemed decent and looked quite normal. Who would have thought..."

The driver uncle said, glancing at the rearview mirror. After looking, he felt a strange sensation in his heart.

The passenger in the back seat looked somewhat familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

The driver uncle couldn't help but glance at the rearview mirror again.

Lu Feng in the back seat gave the uncle an awkward yet polite smile.

Their eyes met.

Screech!

The taxi suddenly stopped by the roadside. Fortunately, Lu Feng had fastened his seatbelt after getting in, otherwise this sudden brake could have thrown him into the front seat.

"Young man, have we... met before?" The driver uncle swallowed his saliva and asked cautiously.

Lu Feng knew the uncle had recognized him. He nodded helplessly: "Uncle, sorry for the misunderstanding."

The atmosphere in the taxi became somewhat awkward.

The uncle now just wanted to find a crack to crawl into.

So embarrassing!

The very person was sitting right in the back seat, listening to him badmouth them all the way.

After a while, the uncle suddenly laughed heartily, though his expression was somewhat unnatural: "Brother, I was just joking with you. Actually, I recognized you as soon as you got in the car, really!"

"It's fine, Uncle, keep driving." Lu Feng smiled and didn't take it to heart.

He could understand. After all, his shop's business hours this week were indeed quite special.

If he were a taxi driver and someone said they were going to Food Street to do business in the middle of the night, he would also think the other person wasn't right in the head.

The driver smiled awkwardly. He didn't know if it was nervousness or what, but he tried to start the car several times before getting it going.

"Uncle, actually, I do business at midnight out of necessity."

Being able to meet this driver uncle twice, Lu Feng felt they were quite fated. After the car drove off, he took the initiative to chat with the uncle.

"Brother, I was just joking with you just now, don't take it to heart." The uncle laughed cheerfully, but the beads of sweat steaming from his forehead showed that this driver uncle was still embarrassed about what had just happened.

"Brother, are you hot? If you are, I'll open the window for you." The driver suddenly said to Lu Feng, but without waiting for Lu Feng to answer, he was about to open the window.

However, the taxi's window did not open; instead, the windshield wipers on the front windshield began to sway left and right.