Chapter 299: Heaven is in his Favor
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Tianze Pharmacy was designed to be vintage style, its wooden medicine cabinets painted dark red standing against the wall.
It was almost time to close the pharmacy for the night, and there were few customers in the store. The staff members in their old-fashioned robes finally felt relieved and showed relaxing smiles, looking at the wall clock from time to time.
Suddenly, a classy sedan that was glowing resplendently under the street lights parked in front of the pharmacy. When the car door was opened, Jin Er was the first to jump out of the car. He stretched himself and howled at the night sky, “Woooo!”
Jin Er just felt really good, for he hadn’t got the chance to race in a city for a long time. But today, he felt like he was speeding across the sky! Though lots of speeding tickets were waiting for him, he didn’t care!
The staff members of the pharmacy were shocked by him, wondering if this man was a lunatic or was transfiguring into a werewolf? Why did he howl suddenly? Since there was no moon in the sky, he couldn’t be a werewolf shapeshifting. Lunatic seemed like the more plausible explanation!
Long Xian climbed out from the passenger’s seat, dizzy. On her way to the pharmacy, her heart rate was not lower than 180 beats per minute, and she felt like she might die suddenly at any time.
She held the prescription given by Sun Xiaomeng and pushed open the glass door of the pharmacy. She made her way and leaned on the counter and said, “Give me… prepare these medicines for me. Please hurry. A bird’s precious life is at stake.”
The pharmacy staff members were perplexed. What bird’s life could be so precious? It was not hard for them to find out the medicines on the prescription, though. They quickly packed up the medicines, and after paying, Long Xian immediately left the store.
Jin Er was smoking a cigarette and narrowing his eyes to reminisce upon the fascinating feelings he had when he was racing. He was not a regular smoker, but right now, only smoking could make his body’s adrenaline temporarily subside.
Seeing that Long Xian was coming out of the pharmacy, he immediately threw the half-smoked cigarette on the ground and stamped it out with his foot. He opened his car door, intending to sit back in the driver position.
“Wait.”
A dark shadow flew towards him when Long Xian began to speak.
Jin Er instinctively stretched out his hand to catch it, and it turned out to be the medicine package carried by Long Xian.
“Please bring these medicines to the Amazing Fate Pet Shop, and I’ll take a taxi there.” With expressions of lingering fear and shock, Long Xian said, “Taking a taxi only costs money, but taking your car will cost my life!”
“Oh… Okay…” Jin Er felt a little sad. Even the racing legend of Akina Mountain would have a more exciting experience if there was a group of teammates shouting “Wow! He rocks!” behind him.
Seeing that the crazy driver had left, Long Xian stroked her chest and felt relieved. She waved to stop a taxi, which would take her back to the Spirit Curing Pet Clinic. On the way, she sent a WeChat message to Wang Qian and told him that the plans had changed, so he didn’t need to wait for her at the clinic anymore.
Jin Er didn’t take the same route as before, because that would be boring. Instead, he chose another route—the original route was closer to the Spirit Curing Pet Clinic at the north end of Zhonghua Road, while the new route he was taking now would take him closer to the Amazing Fate Pet Shop at the south end of Zhonghua Road.
Besides, he also wanted to know whether his good luck would disappear if he left the same course.
It was getting later, and the pedestrians and vehicles on the road became fewer. His electric car was accelerating steadily, and in the fully enclosed cab, no roaring of the engine nor the screaming of Long Xian in the passenger’s seat could be heard, only the low-pitched sounds of tires and winds were heard.
“The ninth…” He stared at the traffic light that was getting nearer.
The traffic light was red.
Instead of slowing down, Jin Er continued to step on the accelerator like he did on his way to the pharmacy. The scenes, vehicles and pedestrians on the sides of his car were quickly left behind. He only stared at the traffic light in front of him, like a bull staring at the red cloth.
It was the same with the original course. The traffic light turned green in time as soon as he approached, and the traffic lights in charge of making left and right turns became red from green in advance after flashing for three times.
“Whoosh!” The Tesla sedan had crossed the intersection. The spoiler caused rapid airflow, making the fallen leaves on the road dance up in the air, and they had not yet subsided when the taillights of the sedan disappeared in the dark night.
The tenth…
The eleventh…
He had been through 16 green lights consecutively while approaching Zhonghua Road!
The chances of encountering red and green traffic lights were equal, but the probability of running into a succession of 16 green lights was… Jin Er felt that he might have run out of all the good luck of his whole life.
He glanced at the medicine package in the passenger’s seat, and then looked at the traffic sign marked “1km to Zhonghua Road” before him.
He didn’t want to stop, he wanted to continue driving to see until what moment his good luck would last.
As for these medicines, it wouldn’t matter if they were delivered a little bit later, right? It was only a bird that had gotten sick.
He could see the crossroads of the south end of Zhonghua Road now.
Red light.
Jin Er smiled contemptuously, in his eyes, the red lights were no different than the green lights.
Because tonight, he was racing as if heaven was in his favor!
Suddenly, he saw something was wrong.
“What the hell?”
Jin Er’s eyes were wide open, “Why the traffic lights to every direction are red?”
At the crossroads of the south end of Zhonghua Road, the traffic lights in the eastwards, westwards, southwards and northwards directions were all red, scary as if they were dripping blood.
It seemed like that the traffic lights had been in red for a long time, for there were a few cars stopped behind the crosswalks of all four directions, blocking the crossroads. The drivers stretched their heads out from the windows and inquired to each other about the situation. They were as confused as Jin Er—can they run red lights if the traffic lights were not working? If not, would they be stuck there forever? Or should they detour?
Jin Er could only apply the brake, or he would have knocked into the car behind the crosswalk.
The adrenaline in his body was gradually subsiding, and he understood that his good luck of tonight had come to an end.
Just as the speed of his car had slowed down to a normal range, the traffic lights in front of him turned green. The long-awaited drivers seemed to have been given permission, and they started their cars excitedly. The traffic jam, which had been blocking the crossroads for so long, was finally cleared.
While the Tesla sedan was smoothly parking in front of the pet shop, Zhang Zian happened to be walking back to the shop from the other direction, carrying a UV disinfection lamp and an earthenware pot in his hands. He ran into Jin Er who had just opened the car door.
“Why are you here?” said Zhang Zian puzzlingly. He thought that Jin Er was here to see him train cats.
Jin Er didn’t want to explain. Since the passion had subsided, right now he just wanted to go home and get a good sleep, hoping to relive every moment of tonight in his dreams. He put the medicine package on the top of his car, patted to the top to signal Zhang Zian to take them, and then he climbed into the cab of his car.
Seeing that those were the Chinese medicines in small packages as prescribed by Sun Xiaomeng, Zhang Zian grew more confused.
There was no time for him to think more. He greeted Guo Dongyue, and then walked fast towards to the living room on the second floor.
“Did you get them?” asked Sun Xiaomeng bluntly the moment she saw him.
“Pot, lamp, medicines!” Zhang Zian showed her the items, and suddenly he felt a little bit funny, because the pronunciations of those three words in Chinese were similar to “Guo, Dong, Yue”, and sure enough, he knew he had been deeply influenced by Richard, who liked playing around with words!
Please get better soon, Richard!
When you get better, I promise together we can tell as many as dirty jokes as you like!
Sun Xiaomeng did not understand why he was smiling, but making sure that everything he brought back was correct, she released a sigh of relief and said, “Thank God you made it. Now it’s time for me to prepare all these. Go get some rest, I will ask you to keep an eye on the fire while decocting the Chinese herbal medicines later.”
Zhang Zian thought he was the last person that should take a rest right now, but there was really nothing he could do to help.
He left the living room and went back to his bedroom, only to surprisingly find that Galaxy was playing hide-and-seek with the American Shorthair.
“Hey, Galaxy, where have you been?” he asked. “Why couldn’t I find you before?”
Galaxy stopped chasing, it tilted its head and said, “Meow, Galaxy was playing hide-and-seek! I hid myself just now!”
“Oh,” said Zhang Zian with a smile, “Galaxy is getting increasingly better at playing hide and seek!”
