Chapter 334: First Blind Date: Gorgeous Legs And Ripe Charm
Chen Jun headed straight to the main road and hailed a taxi, soon disappearing from everyone’s field of vision.
A crowd of puzzled onlookers, still timid and frightened, slowly approached the alley entrance, wanting to figure out exactly what had happened.
Curiosity is one of human nature’s traits!
But when they peeked inside, everyone was stunned by the scene before them.
The five local ruffians who had previously viciously besieged Chen Jun and forcibly taken him into the alley were all lying on the ground in disarray.
Each had injuries in almost the same spot, all suffering heavy blows to the head.
Some had large bumps swelling up.
Others had their heads split open and bleeding.
Even if the onlookers weren’t combat experts, just seeing these injuries allowed them to judge that this group of local ruffians had all been taken down with a single strike.
And they had no chance to resist at all, not even time to react before being hit in the head.
Seeing the five thugs instantly knocked out, the onlookers recovered from their shock and couldn’t help but wonder curiously about Chen Jun’s background.
His young age but such strong skills aroused great interest among the onlookers.
When Hat Uncle arrived more than ten minutes later and saw the chaotic scene, then heard the explanations from nearby residents, his eyes widened in shock.
Hat Uncle knew even better how difficult it was to knock out an adult male.
Even if he stood still, it was hard to knock him out with one strike.
Few in the police team could do it.
What’s more, in a one-against-five situation, it took less than five seconds to knock out five street thugs who often fought and were stronger than ordinary people, ones that even made Hat Uncle headache.
Yang Xiaolong, the police officer leading the team, had been in the force for over ten years and had never encountered such a fierce person.
He couldn’t help but wonder who this person was, with such sharp skills; if possible, he really wanted this expert to show off a few moves at the station.
Unfortunately.
There weren’t many surveillance cameras on the streets back then, and Chen Jun had already taken a taxi and left for a long time; finding a person in the vast capital was truly like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Of course, if they spared no cost to handle it, finding Chen Jun wasn’t impossible.
After all, they knew Chen Jun had left by taxi; as long as they investigated through the taxi line, they could find which car he took and locate him.
But in an era when even the army was just starting informatization, taxi drivers had no mobile phones or walkie-talkies.
Finding them would be a massive undertaking.
So Yang Xiaolong didn’t think to look for Chen Jun; plus, the ones beaten were notorious pickpockets, and it was this group of pickpockets who provoked him first.
After collecting the situation at the scene, Yang Xiaolong had no intention of pursuing it further.
Little did he know.
Yang Xiaolong thought he couldn’t find Chen Jun, so he didn’t even think to look for him, but a few hours later, Chen Jun came to him on his own.
…
Chen Jun wasn’t very familiar with the capital, and even less so with Shihua Kai Coffee House where Liao Qiuxue had arranged to meet, but unexpectedly he got some information in the car.
The most well-informed people in the city at this time were absolutely the taxi drivers.
Rushing around every corner of the city all day, drivers saw a lot of novel things, and when they rested and ate together, they chatted freely, exchanging information.
When he learned Chen Jun was going to Shihua Kai Coffee House, the driver proudly started talking animatedly.
It turned out Shihua Kai Coffee House wasn’t ordinary; it wasn’t a pure coffee house, but a novel thing that had recently appeared in the capital.
According to the driver, this coffee house had many things called computers.
That thing that looked like a television connected to a rectangular plate with lots of buttons, where you could play many novel things.
It was said to charge by the hour; playing for two hours or more even came with a free coffee.
“This thing is just an internet cafe, right? Makes sense, this era doesn’t have the concept of internet cafes yet, no unified name, so calling it a coffee house isn’t strange.”
Chen Jun knew right away what it was and then curiously asked how many such places there were in the capital.
The driver’s answer was there were two now, but Shihua Kai Coffee House was the earliest in the entire capital, equivalent to the capital’s first internet cafe.
“No wonder Liao Qiuxue set the meeting here; it’s the capital’s first internet cafe, and she’s from a computer background; maybe she even has a stake in this internet cafe.”
Chen Jun figured out the ins and outs, then chatted a bit more with the driver, mainly to understand the current social development in the capital.
Having been in the troops for a long time, Chen Jun didn’t want to completely lose touch with society.
When he arrived at the place and got out, he looked up at the sign, which indeed said coffee house, not internet cafe, giving Chen Jun a weird feeling.
It was mainly about having computers to play on, yet the sign showed nothing of that.
Truly bizarre!
“If Liao Qiuxue really has some connection to this internet cafe, then later I must suggest to her to change it; what coffee house nonsense, call it an internet cafe—maybe it’s the first in the whole country.”
Chen Jun secretly made up his mind and dragged his suitcase into the coffee house.
The sign was mismatched, and so was the inside.
It was clearly meant to be an internet cafe, but the area with computers was less than half; the other large half was filled with high-end coffee tables and chairs.
The service mode here was still like a coffee house; seeing Chen Jun enter, a server came up to greet him.
“Hello, sir. Are you here for coffee or to surf the internet? I recommend surfing the internet; our internet cafe has the best network speed in the entire capital, and the most popular games right now. If you book a machine for two hours or more, you get a free coffee—very cost-effective.”
The server girl saw Chen Jun dressed neatly and tall and handsome, so her smile was especially sweet, and her introduction especially detailed.
“No thanks, I’m here waiting for a friend. Get me a black coffee, no sugar, thanks.”
Chen Jun really wanted to try it out—the best network speed at the capital’s first internet cafe in ’99—but time didn’t allow it, so he had to pass.
“Alright, this way please.”
The server girl didn’t force it and led Chen Jun to a seat by the window on the left.
“Xinru, Sister Liang, let me tell you, a handsome guy came to the shop, so handsome, so handsome…”
The server girl returned to the counter and immediately whispered with two other women, their gazes and fingers pointing repeatedly toward Chen Jun.
Chen Jun couldn’t hear the voices from the counter clearly, but the bursts of giggles were crystal clear.
Unsure what these women were laughing about, Chen Jun had no mind for gossip; he looked at his watch—ten minutes until the meeting time.
“I’ll wait at most five minutes.”
As a soldier, Chen Jun was always punctual, and he liked punctual people; if Liao Qiuxue couldn’t even be punctual, the two of them probably had no chance.
Eight minutes passed quickly.
During that time, guests entered the coffee house one after another; some purely for coffee, others inexplicably for the internet.
Surfing the internet was truly novel back then—not only ridiculously expensive, most people didn’t even know how to use it.
But seven or eight guests came in; excluding four men, the remaining women all had clear goals, heading straight to their spots upon entering.
Since they weren’t there to meet someone.
Until the ninth minute, another woman entered the coffee house.
Wearing a very stylish pair of black sunglasses, hair casually tied back, tight leg-hugging jeans below that made her legs look very round and straight, upper body in a white shirt with the hem tied at the waist.
Her overall style looked fashionable and lively, completely different from the still reserved dressing style in the domestic scene at this time.
From the moment this woman entered and stood there, she was as eye-catching as a swan among a flock of ducks.
And after taking off her sunglasses upon entering, she didn’t walk straight in like the others but stood at the entrance, looking around the entire coffee house.
Her demeanor clearly showed she was there to meet someone; only customers with an appointment would act this way.
Chen Jun had been paying attention to incoming guests and locked onto this woman the moment she entered, but to avoid misunderstanding, he only glanced at her with peripheral vision.
“Could she be Liao Qiuxue?? She looks the part; even without makeup, she’s no worse than those so-called stars—not surprising for someone from a wealthy family, raised on fine rice is different.”
Chen Jun’s memory of Liao Qiuxue was very vague; even if not, it wouldn’t help—after all, it was from childhood; how could he recognize her grown up.
There were over thirty guests in the coffee house, more than twenty sitting drinking coffee.
Over fifteen were men.
But the only one sitting alone at a table, back straight as a pine tree, was Chen Jun.
Liao Qiuxue just scanned once, and her gaze locked onto Chen Jun.
Her woman’s sixth sense and self-judgment told her with ninety percent certainty that the tall guy was Chen Jun.
Liao Qiuxue originally didn’t want to come.
As a highly educated woman returned from studying abroad, she hated this kind of betrothal before birth childhood engagement the most.
Moreover, with her strong-woman personality, Liao Qiuxue believed her twenties were prime time for hustling; how could she waste it on romance.
Getting her career off the ground was what Liao Qiuxue cared about most now.
But she really couldn’t withstand her grandfather’s daily nagging, especially lately with two or three calls a day urging her, driving her to the brink of collapse.
She couldn’t retort her own grandfather, much less fall out with him.
Helplessly.
Liao Qiuxue could only helplessly accept the arrangement, planning to come and go through the motions to shut her grandfather up and avoid further annoyance.
But seeing Chen Jun sitting there alone upon entering, his upright figure exuding a calm aura.
Liao Qiuxue couldn’t help but pause.
Until a voice from beside her snapped her out of it.
“Qiuxue, the sun must have risen in the west? How does our big-shot busy person have time to come here today? If you didn’t come soon, I was planning to kick you, our shareholder, out, haha.”
The speaking woman was under 6 meters tall; even in heels, she was only level with sneaker-wearing Liao Qiuxue, but this woman was very curvaceous, with a voluptuous figure and very mature, sexy dressing.
Completely different style from the fashionable yet crisp and capable Liao Qiuxue; standing together, they were like a peach and a red apple.
Chen Jun had specially trained observation skills in the troops and could capture everything around him with peripheral vision and ears.
The two women’s dialogue and expressions were all in his view.
“This woman speaks very intimately; looks like they have a deep relationship. Two people with such different personalities being so close—probably so-called best friends; must pay attention.”
As someone from later generations, Chen Jun knew well what a woman’s best friend meant.
It was the biggest variable.
At the same time, through the woman’s words, Chen Jun confirmed his earlier guess: Liao Qiuxue really had some involvement in this internet cafe.
“Actually partnering to open an internet cafe—looks like she’s really into entrepreneurship, and she’s in software development; entrepreneurship is entrepreneurship anywhere—should I get her to…”
Chen Jun thought of his own need to develop a command system and couldn’t help linking it to Liao Qiuxue, his eyes lighting up.
Since Chen Jun had been using peripheral vision, Liao Qiuxue didn’t know she’d been seen through by him.
After being woken by the sexy woman, she immediately smiled and playfully hit her, saying: “Yasan, if you dare kick out your No. 2 shareholder, don’t come crying to me later if the computers get attacked, hehe.”
“Alright, alright, I’m scared of you, my great talented Liao.”
The sexy mature woman called Yasan’s, smiled indulgently and pinched Liao Qiuxue’s nose, then gossiped: “You looked around right after coming in—did you have a date with a handsome guy?
I heard the little girl say a handsome guy came to the shop, tall and with great presence—don’t tell me he’s here specifically to meet you?”
Women are born with a gossip heart, especially when it’s about a best friend’s scoop—it’s even more tantalizing.
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
Liao Qiuxue feared Liang Yasan would say too much and quickly pulled her behind the counter, explaining seriously: “He’s arranged by my family Old Master, nagging every day, really annoying; I’m just here to go through the motions.
Don’t you know me? I’m worried right now about finding people to start a company; technical talent is so scarce—where do I have time for romance…”
“Alright, my good sister, explaining is just covering up.”
Liang Yasan interrupted Liao Qiuxue, tone teasing as she pushed her: “Go on already; he’s been here ten or so minutes.
This handsome guy seems unusual; I think he matches your vibe well. Hurry or he might leave, and you’ll regret it then.”
“You say one more nonsense thing, and I’m mad.”
Liao Qiuxue pretended to glare threateningly, but her actions betrayed her heart.
Because as Liao Qiuxue prepared to walk toward Chen Jun, without even realizing, she subconsciously checked the mirror, straightened herself, then went over.
“Stubborn as a duck, our little fairy finally has her heart moved.”
Seeing Liao Qiuxue’s actions, Liang Yasan couldn’t help smirking dirtily; they’d known each other over twenty years—she understood Liao Qiuxue better than anyone.
