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Chapter 86 Bizarre Blind Date (Part Two) (Please Subscribe)

Gao Xiaosheng arrived at Beihai Park fifteen minutes early and parked his bicycle at the designated bicycle parking area set up by the neighborhood committee.

Like parking lots in later times, this place is guarded by dedicated personnel to ensure that cars are not stolen.

Of course, attentive service is never free, and the price is neither high nor low; the parking fee for one session is enough to buy half a pound of corn noodles.

Standing in the open doorway, under the blazing sun, Gao Xiaosheng lit a cigarette, stood with his left foot upright and his right foot slightly at ease, assuming the classic Northern Chinese three-seven stance.

His eyes were also busy, twisting his neck to look left and right.

For some reason, Gao Xiaosheng felt uneasy, as if there was some inexplicable danger.

Just as he was wondering if the high temperature was causing his irritability, he suddenly realized something and turned around abruptly 180 degrees.

Then, he understood everything.

Not far away, next to a large tree, stood a man dressed in the same yellow military uniform as him.

He was looking this way with a slight frown.

Their eyes met, and Liu Shengnan was clearly a little flustered, quickly shrinking behind the tree trunk.

Then he slowly emerged from behind the tree and walked step by step toward Gao Xiaosheng.

"Hello, you must be Comrade Gao Xiaosheng, I am Liu Shengnan."

Perhaps knowing that her behavior of hiding in the park to peek was inappropriate, Liu Shengnan took the initiative to reach out her hand.

"It's me, hello, Comrade Liu Shengnan."

Gao Xiaosheng gently shook hands, then quickly released them, carefully examining the unconventional blind date before him.

He said that there are not many normal people in "Shengnan". What kind of young lady goes on a blind date and does not meet properly, but hides behind a tree to peep?

To be fair, Liu Shengnan is indeed quite pretty, at least above average in looks.

"Shall we go inside and take a stroll? We can talk as we walk?" Gao Xiaosheng asked.

"Okay, sure." Liu Shengnan nodded.

Gao Xiaosheng looked at the girl next to him in confusion, and seemed to understand after a few seconds.

This girl seems to be deliberately controlling herself; she not only speaks little, but even her walking posture is a bit awkward.

It's likely that her parents had lectured her before she left, demanding that she curb her tomboyish habits and show a girl's reserve and shyness.

However—Liu Shengnan's acting skills are not very good.

He clearly wanted to take a big step, but he pulled back halfway through, his steps faltering and he almost ended up doing the moonwalk.

"Ahem, Comrade Liu Shengnan, Section Chief Zhou said that your father was his comrade-in-arms?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Could you tell me which unit your father served in? Has he been discharged?"

Gao Xiaosheng took the initiative to start the conversation, but instead of going straight to the point, he began by talking about people on the fringes.

Generally speaking, two strangers tend to be more reserved when chatting, especially if the topic involves themselves.

It's relatively easier if the focus of the conversation is on a third party.

"Oh? Your father works with Section Chief Zhou? He's a company commander?"

"Wow, they were discharged from the military together and ended up in the police station together?"

"That's quite a close relationship."

Gao Xiaosheng's comedic timing was excellent, and Liu Shengnan, standing next to him, visibly relaxed, no longer as stiff as before.

"Uncle Zhou was so good to me. Back then, he and my dad often took turns on duty. Whenever my dad wasn't home, he would ride his bike to take me to a restaurant for dinner."

"He bought me clothes, and oh, he even secretly took me to the countryside to shoot guns."

Ah, that's more like it!

Under Gao Xiaosheng's deliberate guidance, Liu Shengnan gradually let herself go, throwing all her parents' instructions to the wind, talking animatedly, and even striking a pose as if she were holding a gun and shooting.

She really is a tomboy who prefers military uniforms to dresses. She should have been in her first year of high school two years ago, but she had already developed a liking for playing with guns.

"Really? How's your aim? How many of your five shots hit the target? One? Two?"

Gao Xiaosheng deliberately questioned Liu Shengnan's marksmanship.

Everything in excess is as bad as deficiency. A few words of praise are meant to get her talking, but a timely slap on the wrist reveals one's true character.

"Who do you think you are? You're not that bad."

"Let me tell you, I'm a great shot."

"Even if it can't hit exactly where you point it, at least it can kill a sparrow with one shot."

"I wasn't aiming from under the tree; it was a hundred or two meters away."

See, this is how they tested the waters.

Normal guys are most susceptible to being provoked and have to brag a bit to save face.

Liu Shengnan — what a man!

"Don't just talk about me. What about you? Uncle Zhou told me you retired from the reconnaissance company. You must be a pretty good shot."

Liu Shengnan's counterattack has begun.

"Me? I'm not bragging—"

The moment Gao Xiaosheng opened his mouth, the nature of the conversation immediately changed.

"Tch, aiming at flies, swatting fly legs? I just don't believe it."

Anyone who saw the two of them wouldn't think it was a blind date; it looked more like a bragging session between brothers.

"You're a complete liar, you're not honest at all," Liu Shengnan said, hitting the nail on the head.

"We're evenly matched, each to our own." Gao Xiaosheng clasped his hands in a fist salute.

"Ha ha"

"Ha ha"

The two burst into hearty laughter at the same time.

Gao Xiaosheng nodded to himself, remembering how to describe Liu Shengnan.

Her appearance was comparable to that of the later League of Legends streamer, the "mute bride," and she also belonged to...

The type that immediately reveals their true abilities upon opening their mouth.

It's also somewhat similar to "Wang Dana" and "Mengzhu" from the short track speed skating track, who became famous for their saying "My eyes are the ruler".

Of course, Liu Shengnan is not from Northeast China, but a tough Shandong woman who loves scallion pancakes, so she can be considered a fellow Northeasterner.

After all, the ancestral home of most people in Northeast China is in Shandong.

"Wait a minute, I just remembered, we're on a blind date today, how did we end up like this—"

The laughter went too far, and Liu Shengnan belatedly realized what was happening, so she raised her hand and shoved Gao Xiaosheng.

"Uh, ah, hahaha, it seems so. Sorry, I was just discharged from the army not long ago, and I always mistake people in military uniforms for my comrades."

Having achieved his goal, Gao Xiaosheng once again unleashed his family's inherited skill of shifting blame.

It wasn't that he deliberately ruined the blind date; it was just that he couldn't help himself. After all, Liu Shengnan insisted on wearing her military uniform.

"Oh dear, how can you blame this on me?"

"What's wrong with a military uniform? I often wore it to school, and the teachers didn't treat me like a soldier. They still talked to me and scolded me as usual."

"I think you're just deliberately rambling on."

Liu Shengnan seemed to be giving up, not only talking but also punching Gao Xiaosheng in the chest with her fist.

Yeah, it's more like comrades joking around.

Add the line "I have plenty of strength and means" to this, and it's perfect.

The two strolled around Beihai Park for a full hour.

Once shedding all pretense, Liu Shengnan was quite talkative, asking Gao Xiaosheng many questions about his experiences in suppressing bandits in the army.

"Sigh, I wanted to join the army when I was a kid, and after hearing what you said, I want to go to the army even more now."

"Oh? Then why didn't you go? Did your aunt and uncle disagree?" Gao Xiaosheng asked.

Liu Shengnan shook her head. "The year I graduated from junior high school, I asked around and found out that female soldiers in the army all joined medical teams or propaganda teams."

"Later, when my father returned from military service, he told me that the wars we needed to fight were almost over, and that we should focus on economic development from now on."