72 Picking Up Trouble Part 1 (2/2)

”Sorry for disturbing. Sir, may I ask if you know the way to 13 Bradford Garden Street?” the girl surrendered first and asked. Her crisp voice contained a sliver of shyness, and she spoke extremely fluent English with a London accent. The words which were spoken from the pink, tender lips were simply a form of enjoyment to the ears.

However, Tang En shook his head and muttered softly to himself, ”Too bad it's a washboard...”

Upon hearing Tang En, the young girl was startled and frantically raised her hands and blocked her chest.

”Mister!” The girl pouted and stared at Tang En as she scolded, ”I'm going to call the police!”

”Ah? Police...” Tang En turned his head around and saw a patrolling yellow-vested policeman walking toward him. I can't be that unlucky, can I? If he got arrested for sexually harassing a young girl, then he could forget about getting through the summer in peace.

Tang En very much wanted to hide, but the policeman seemed to have already seen them and was making his way straight for them.

The girl was extremely happy that the policeman had noticed what was happening, and she walked up to him with the intention of lodging a complaint. ”Mr. Policeman, this guy...” She pointed toward Tang En, but realized that the policeman appeared to have not seen her and walked directly past her. After that, he opened up his arms and walked toward the man she was pointing at.

”Ah ha! I really didn't expect to see you here, Mr. Twain!” the policeman elatedly greeted Tang En. However, both the girl and Tang En were momentarily dumbfounded.

”I saw the last match. Truth to be told, we were extremely unlucky!” As his back was to her, the young girl did not know what kind of expression the policeman had. However, from his voice, it was very easy to tell the mood of the patrolling policeman. ”As for that child's death, I am also terribly sorry... I wasn't on duty at that time.”

Tang En finally understood—the policeman he met was a Forest fan! He immediately retracted his shocked expression. ”I'm terribly sorry, for not being able to let the team successfully promote...”

”No, no, that's a small matter, Sir. I believe that as long as the club gives you one more year, you can definitely do it. I really like to watch you direct the Nottingham Forest matches, you know why? Because we will always be able to win, haha! Don't be disheartened! The next season, we'll definitely do it the next season! Forest! Forest!” The amusing policeman shouted the fan slogan twice before patting Tang En's shoulder and leaving. He completely did not see that there was still a pitiful girl who was waiting for him to save her.

Upon seeing that the policeman was quite some distance away, Tang En lowered his head and looked at the shocked girl with a triumphant look. Then, he gave her a smile that he thought was most charming and said, ”Young lady, what were you going to ask me?”

The girl did not reply to Tang En, but instead softly cursed, ”Darn it!”

”It's not good for girls to utter vulgarities.”

”It's none of your business!” The girl shot an angry stare at Tang En.

Tang En sized up the girl from head to toe. She was wearing a pair of comfortable white sneakers and a short dress. She had a black and white Adidas sports bag slung across her back. In addition, she spoke fluent English without any Nottingham accent and appeared completely different from the usual English girls. From that information, Tang En knew that the girl was a tourist. He shrugged his shoulders. ”I'm only trying to help a foreigner like you out of goodwill... Very well, since it's none of my business, I'll leave. Goodbye, little girl.”

He waved his hand and was about to walk away.

This time, it was the girl's turn to admit defeat. She shouted, ”Do you know how to get to 13 Bradford Garden Street?”

Tang En, who had his back to the girl, got a triumphant smile on his face that only victors wear. After that, he smiled kindly and turned around. ”You're really lucky, I happen to live on Bradford Garden Street.” The place where they stood was less than 50 meters away from the newspaper stand where Tang En had bought his newspaper, and the newspaper stand was only 500 meters away from Tang En's house.

The girl looked at Tang En with suspicion. Perhaps she felt that this perverted weird man, who stared at her chest not long after they met, did not seem like a good person.

”What? You don't believe me? You think that I'm lying to you?” Tang En opened his hands and shrugged his shoulders innocently. ”I happen to stay at 13 Bradford Garden Str...” Upon saying this, Tang En suddenly stopped and looked in shock at the girl opposite him.

”.... Street…”

Both of them were momentarily stunned.