Caring about yourself

As usual, cars had already started their rampage on the roads by 7 am, and kept going through the day. The curtain blocked the sunlight, but sadly it couldn't block the sounds coming from the outside.

Since it was still summer, he had to have the windows open to sleep as it was too hot. But today, Wang Ming slept till noon, exhausted from the events that happened the day prior. The past week, he would wake up 5 to 7 am every day to prepare for the day and sell food to people on the lookout for breakfast and wouldn't sleep before 1-2 am.

Today was different, both his body and mind refused to wake up early. When he woke up, Wang Ming couldn't believe that the clock was already 12. He had tried multiple times before to sleep longer than to 7 am. But he could never do it, his body just refused to sleep even a minute longer than 7.

Feeling refreshed and even happy, Wang Ming decided it was long overdue to get himself a phone. It's inconvenient not to have one since he had no way to contact people, and especially since he promised Louzheng to use his taxi service, he needed a phone to contact him. It would be an inconvenience to borrow a phone every time, like he had done the last week.

Finally, getting off his bed, Wang Ming lowered himself to his wheelchair and went off to shower and eat. This morning he spoiled himself instead of getting Baozi. He went to a food cart and got wonton in a plastic bowl with noodles. Wonton is one of Wang Ming's favorite foods, the juiciness and sweet taste of shrimp when you bite into it, coupled with a bit of noodle, and then the meaty flavor from the soup makes it perfect.

Feeling refreshed after such a substantial breakfast, Wang Ming decided he would need to treat himself better from now on. What do you earn money for? To take care of yourself and others around you, but also spoil yourself. Especially now, when he doesn't have anyone else to care for except himself. Wang Ming had intentions to just buy a cheap phone, but when thinking about this, he thought it's better to get a more expensive one.

Thinking about taking a taxi again today, Wang Ming sighed. It was always a struggle for him to take a cab since he's in a wheelchair. It's still hard for him to compete against the rushing crowd for taxis. Thinking about the taxi, Wang Ming also remembered Louzheng, and he had promised him to only take his taxi from now on. But sighed when he remembered he had no way to contact him.

Funnily enough, just as Wang Ming thought about Louzheng, he saw Louzheng's taxi arrive right in front of him. It seemed like Louzheng had just given a customer a lift and was looking for customers. So Wang Ming rolled up to his taxi and knock on the window, but as he came close to the car, the door on the other side at the driver's side exploded open. Wang Ming saw Louzheng with wide eyes close the door in a hurry and ran towards Wang Ming.

"Mister Wang, Mister Wang!"

Louzheng practically scrammed at his face while grabbing and almost pulling Wang Ming's arm off. When Louzheng did it, Louzheng's strength surprised him. Louzheng was probably just as strong as Wang Ming's tempered body. But this also made Wang Ming realize maybe he wasn't as strong as he thought he was.

He was 4 to 5 times stronger than before, but if you were a man that trained for strength, you could definitely exceed that. So he couldn't be cocky and also had to improve himself.

"Mister Wang, Mister Wang!" Louzheng was now screaming close to Wang Ming's ear since Louzheng saw he didn't react to his screams. Wang Ming's eyes looked absent, so fearing that he had done something wrong, Louzheng screamed into Wang Ming's ear to get a reaction.

"Stop Louzheng, do you want to make me deaf?"

Wang Ming said while covering Louzheng's mouth with his hand. He felt his ears ring by Louzheng's powerful scream. He could that they had garnered a lot of attention. Some people were laughing from seeing such a bizarre scene, a big overgrown man kneeling down, acting like a kid and looking dumb while a man in a wheelchair covered his mouth.

"Calm down, Louzheng, get in the car first, then we will talk." Wang Ming then pushed Louzheng away and opened the car door at the passenger side and sat inside the car, placing the wheelchair again in front of his legs.

Wang Ming felt curious about what made Louzheng so anxious. Did Wang gang make trouble for him? There couldn't be any other reason, could there? As Wang Ming was thinking about why. Louzheng slammed the door behind him and hurriedly sat in the driver's seat, which made a loud sound and shocked Wang Ming out of his thoughts.

"So, what is the problem, Louzheng? Why are you so anxious? Did something happen? If it's Wang gang, I'm not sure that I can do so much except for asking Peng Tong." After Wang Ming talked, he didn't hear any response, so he looked at Louzheng and couldn't help but laugh. His face went from restless to looking dumb, but in a funny way.

"No, no, no, Mister Wang. Here is your money from yesterday. The taxi fare was only 20 yuan, but you gave me 500 yuan! I took Mister Peng home after you, so there was no hotel to pay for. I couldn't live with the guilt of taking 500 yuan from you, while not doing anything for you worth that price. Please take back the 500 yuan and just give me 20 yuan. I beg you I haven't been able to sleep, and just kept driving around since last night. I hoped and begged that you would need a taxi today, and I finally found you."

Now it was Wang Ming's turn to look dumb, Louzheng's words made him feel dumbfounded. He didn't think this was the reason for him to look so anxious, Wang Ming felt bad hearing he had not slept at all this night. He had never met someone quiet like Louzheng. Even though Louzheng's a big and mean looking guy, he's like a naïve little kid inside.

Louzheng kept pressing the bills at Wang Ming, almost destroying them. "If you keep that up, you're going to tear them." Hearing this, Louzheng instantly dropping them on Wang Ming's lap.

"You can take the money Louzheng drive me for the next seven days, and we're even, is that ok? If so, drive me to the FengShong market." Wang Ming said it as a question but didn't really give Louzheng a chance to say no as he instantly stuffed the 500 yuan into Louzheng's pants pocket.

On the way to the FengShong market, Wang Ming tried to talk with Louzheng but found out he isn't a talker at all. Whenever Louzheng talked about something that wasn't business, he just came across as awkward. Feeling that the conversations were going nowhere, Wang Ming thought about what phone he was going to get instead.

He would probably not buy a Xami or a HuWei since those are the top brands and way too expensive. Though he had money now, he wouldn't waste it to get the best phone, when a phone cheaper could do the same job. He would get a smartphone as there are many useful functions in them.

Finally, arriving at the FengShong market, he bid Louzheng goodbye and looked around for a phone shop. Only a few meters away, Wang Ming saw a phone shop, which had a lot of customers. As he opened the door to enter the shop, Wang Ming furrowed his brows as he heard the words directed at him.

"Sorry, No, beggars here!"