"I laugh at you for being like a fool... Heeheehee..."
Tang Wan really couldn't hold it back anymore and crouched on the ground, letting out a silvery and pleasant laugh. The gloomy mood she had just had disappeared immediately.
Zhou Chen also smiled and continued to drink mineral water to quench his thirst.
Lu Qing strode up with a dark face and said, "Hurry up, they're catching up!"
Zhou Chen and Tang Wan quickly turned their heads to look.
Those several middle-aged women were running over menacingly. Especially, the two security guards were even holding expandable batons in their hands.
Tang Wan put away the smile on her face and said worriedly, "I can't run anymore. How about... we just apologize to them?"
"I'll carry you and run..."
Zhou Chen stuffed the snack bag into Tang Wan's hands and then stepped forward and crouched down halfway.
Tang Wan bit her lip, blushing furiously and hesitating.
"He's your boyfriend. What are you afraid of? I'm just a photographer. Just pretend I don't exist..."
Lu Qing gave a push with a smile.
Only then did Tang Wan step forward and lie on Zhou Chen's back.
Zhou Chen felt the dough-like softness on his back and immediately felt full of energy. He carried Tang Wan on his back and started running.
After Lu Qing found a good angle and took two focused photos, suddenly there came the angry shouts of the middle-aged woman from behind: "You bastards! You deserve to be hacked to pieces! Stop right there..."
Lu Qing glanced back and saw that the woman was holding a brick in her hand.
He shuddered and quickly trotted away.
Zhou Chen and Tang Wan came to the dock and found a wooden boat with a diesel engine to go to Acacia Island.
When Lu Qing got on the boat, Zhou Chen quickly said, "Master, set sail quickly!"
The boatman said, "I can't set sail with just three people. Usually, we only set sail when there are seven or eight people. Wait a little longer!"
The corner of Zhou Chen's mouth twitched slightly. He took out another two hundred yuan and said, "I'll charter this boat. Set sail quickly!"
The boatman took the money and began to check the authenticity of each bill one by one.
Zhou Chen got a bit impatient: "Don't check anymore. They're all genuine!"
The boatman grinned: "Alright, I'll set sail right away!"
With that, he picked up the crank at his waist and started the engine.
As the boatman exerted force with his waist, swaying left and right, the whole boat shook along with him.
Tang Wan grasped Zhou Chen's arm tightly, worried that she might fall into the water.
"Boatman, don't set sail..."
The middle-aged woman in the white shirt had already caught up.
She was running down the steps.
Zhou Chen hurriedly urged, "Quick, quick, set sail quickly..."
The boatman frowned and said, "How did you guys get on the wrong side of this person?"
"Set sail quickly! Don't you want to make money?"
Zhou Chen didn't have the time to explain to him.
This middle-aged woman was too persistent. If they were caught, they would surely be in for a bad time.
He didn't care about himself, but he definitely couldn't let Tang Wan get hurt.
The boatman grabbed the rope at the stern and gave it a shake. The end of the rope detached from the wooden stake, and then he started the wooden boat and steered it away from the shore.
It wasn't until the wooden boat had sailed more than ten meters away that Zhou Chen let out a sigh of relief. Then he stood up and taunted the middle-aged woman, "Old lady, at your age, you should watch your tongue!"
Tang Wan was sitting on the stool, raising her little head to look at Zhou Chen and laughing uncontrollably.
Although the middle-aged woman had been bullied quite badly by Zhou Chen, Tang Wan did feel rather pleased.
Lu Qing was sitting opposite. For a sense of distance, he hooked his foot around the leg of the stool embedded in the hull of the boat, leaned back slightly, and snapped another photo.
"You little bastards! I'll wait right here on the shore. If you've got the guts, don't you dare come back!"
The middle-aged woman was so angry that her blood pressure almost spiked. She put one hand on her hip and pointed at the river with the other, shouting at the top of her lungs until her voice was hoarse.
Lu Qing turned the lens and also snapped a photo of the furious middle-aged woman on the shore.
Seeing the furious middle-aged woman, the boatman grinned and said to Zhou Chen, "You're in trouble, kid. This old woman is quite well-known around here. Her son is even involved with the underworld. You guys won't be able to get ashore!"
"Really?"
Zhou Chen was dumbfounded.
He had already noticed that this old woman was very stubborn, but he didn't expect her to be this extreme.
Was she planning to fight him to the bitter end?
At this moment, Tang Wan asked softly, "Is there any other place where we can get ashore?"
The boatman shook his head. "There's only this one entrance and exit!"
Tang Wan's face tensed up again. She was thinking about asking her father to arrange a helicopter.
But as soon as this idea came up, it was dismissed.
If her father found out that she had run out on a date with Zhou Chen, it would definitely be bad for Zhou Chen.
Ask her second uncle and aunt?
Tang Wan took out her phone, ready to contact her second uncle.
Seeing this, Zhou Chen held down Tang Wan's hand and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Ask my second uncle for help!"
"There's no need to ask your second uncle. I can handle this!"
"How can you handle it?"
"I also know some people from the underworld..."
Zhou Chen smiled.
"You're not allowed to hang out with those people!"
Tang Wan had seen those fierce-looking hooligans at the skating rink the other day and was worried that Zhou Chen would go astray if he got too close to them.
Zhou Chen hugged Tang Wan gently and said with a smile, "Don't worry. I won't mix with them!"
He had never thought of getting involved in Wu Hui's field. The reason he let Wu Hui develop an underground force was just for self-protection.
The sun was setting.
The afterglow of the setting sun cast a layer of rosy light on the river.
Tang Wan snuggled in Zhou Chen's arms, looking out to the west with her beautiful eyes, enjoying the beauty of the dusk.
Acacia Island was about the size of an international football field. A dam had been built downstream, so even during heavy rain, the island would not be flooded.
After the three of them got ashore, Zhou Chen took Tang Wan's hand and walked up the steps to the island, while Lu Qing followed slowly behind, taking pictures.
There was a wide asphalt road on the island, and many vendors were setting up stalls on both sides.
There were those selling cotton candy, candied haws, popping corn, squeezing fruit juice, and also those renting out bicycles.
Lanterns and colorful lights were hung on the trees on both sides of the road.
Although it was not yet dark, the lanterns and colorful lights hanging on the trees had already been lit up.
"Zhou Chen, I'd like to eat cotton candy..."
Tang Wan stared at the colorful cotton candies and swallowed.
In her memory, her mother had only taken her out to play once.
At that time, she wanted to eat cotton candy, but her mother refused on the grounds that it was unhygienic.
"Sure, let's go and have a look!"
Zhou Chen took Tang Wan to the cotton candy stall.
The machinery and equipment looked a bit dirty, but the spun sugar threads were very clean.
The vendor was an old man in his fifties. He twirled a bamboo stick in his hand and quickly made a cotton candy and stuck it on the haystack beside him.
Zhou Chen didn't see any price tags and was too lazy to ask, so he directly said, "Uncle, two cotton candies, please!"
The old man asked, "Which price do you want?"
Zhou Chen asked, "What prices do you have?"
The old man said, "There are ones for one yuan, two yuan, five yuan, and the most expensive ones are ten yuan!"
At this time, Tang Wan asked, "Does the more expensive the price, the bigger the cotton candy?"
The old man nodded.
Tang Wan said with a smile, "Then give me a three-yuan one, please!"
Zhou Chen stroked his chin and suggested, "How can a three-yuan one be enough? Let's have two ten-yuan ones!"