In the early hours of the morning, Zhang Yunqi arrived in Jiangchuan.

After he sent Ji Ling home, he went straight to Hongshan Lane.

The night was already dark, and the windows on both sides of the road were dimly lit. The wind was stuffy, the air was hot and dry, there were the cries of little dolls, the doors of low bungalows were open, and the old people were lying on rocking chairs and shaking their fans to cool off. On this sweltering hot night in the middle of summer 1994, I don't know how many people would have stayed up all night.

When he arrived at the first house, Zhang Yunqi parked the car and entered the door, met his father Zhang Laohan, who was sitting at the door of the small courtyard to enjoy the coolness, he saw that it was Zhang Yunqi who entered the door, so he got up: "The third child, I came back from the provincial capital." ”

Zhang Yun nodded: "It's so late, Dad, why are you here?"

Zhang Laohan sighed: "The mourning hall has not been promoted, this family of orphans and widows, there is not even a man who has done anything, Dapeng's mother-in-law has cried and fainted several times, your mother is not at ease, ask me to come over and keep a night together." ”

Zhang Yunqi patted the soil on the edge of the door, sat on it, and saw that his father was holding a cigarette pouch in his hand, so he grabbed a handful of tobacco from Yunxi Village from the inside, and used the cut newspaper cigarette stick, just rolled it a few times, and the total roll was not good. ”

Zhang Yun nodded his head and said, "When will I be buried?"

Zhang Laohan smoked a cigarette stick and said: "The body is in the crematorium freezer, and Ming'er will be cremated, ascended to the spirit hall, and Dingxian will be buried next Saturday." ”

Zhang Yun nodded.

Zhang Laohan said: "Baby, you give analysis and analysis, is this Dapeng lottery ticket real or fake? I'm confused now, the city sports lottery center bites Dapeng that winning lottery ticket is fake, and there is a special press conference on TV in the city, but ...... If it's fake, why would Dapeng be so abnormal? ”

Zhang Yunqi dusted off his cigarette ash and said, "Dad, I'm not hindsight, now that the matter has happened, don't think about it, it's his own life, I just think that you should have called me earlier to tell me about this matter." ”

Zhang Laohan sighed again: "Who said it wasn't, but at that time, everyone didn't believe in Dapeng, and they all thought that his lottery ticket was fake, and even his mother-in-law persuaded him not to make trouble, live a good life, and then you were busy over there at that time, how could you think about it...... It will be so. ”

Zhang Yunqi said: "What's going on with the car accident?"

Zhang Laohan said: "This is also a mistake, these days Dapeng stays in the casino every day, making himself a ghost and not a ghost, he got drunk in the middle of the night last night, fell on the road, and had an accident, when he was sent to the hospital and was out of gas, after those police checked the scene, they determined that the driver did not drive in violation of regulations, Dapeng was fully responsible, but the driver was still kind-hearted, and paid 1,000 yuan for the funeral expenses." ”

Zhang Yunqi thought for a while and said, "The driver let him go?"

Zhang Laohan nodded.

"Yunqi?" a voice came from behind him.

Zhang Yunqi turned his head and saw the first time he appeared in the small courtyard.

He snuffed out the cigarette butt, got up and said to Zhang Laohan: "Dad, there are still many things to deal with tomorrow, or I will send you home to rest first, I will stay here tonight, and you will come back tomorrow morning, and then you will have to discuss the matter of the Shengling Hall with the neighborhood committee here." ”

Zhang Laohan was about to speak, but Zhang Yunqi said again: "You are old, you can't stay up all night, and there is no place to sleep here." ”

Zhang Laohan thought about it, and finally nodded: "Then I'll go back first, your mother is in the house with Dapeng mother-in-law, you are old and sensible, take care of it, don't send it, the road is not far, I will walk over by myself, come back tomorrow, call me if there is anything." ”

Zhang Laohan said a few words and left with his hands behind his back.

Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian sat on the threshold of the small courtyard, did not speak for a long time, in the dim light, he looked at her, the girl's seemingly calm little face was a little pale. For a moment, Zhang Yunqi seemed to feel like he was back on the night of the 88th anniversary of the city No. 1 Middle School, the late night of the girl's 16th birthday, in this dilapidated courtyard, chewing alone on the sorrow of the world.

"Just got back from Rizu?"

"Yes, I just came back, there are a lot of things over there, I didn't have time to buy you gifts, it's about to be summer vacation, let's go to Rijin for a walk then, okay?"

Hatsumi smiled, nodded and said, "You haven't eaten yet, have you?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and nodded.

The noodles were made quickly, and when I first saw that I boiled a small half pot of water, beat two eggs, put down the small half hoop of noodles, and after it softened, I added salt and soy sauce monosodium glutamate, and then fished it out, put chopped green onions, and called Zhang Yunqi, who was talking to his mother in the house, to eat noodles.

The noodles tasted fragrant, Zhang Yunqi was really hungry, just listening to the intermittent crying in the room, looking at the first meeting sitting next to him, there was no taste, he took a chopstick noodle, and smiled at the quiet first meeting sitting opposite: "What are you thinking?"

"When you're not there, you think about it a lot. Hatsumi pursed his lips, as if talking to himself: "When you're there, you don't think about anything." ”

Zhang Yunqi stuffed the noodles into his mouth and smiled: "Then don't think about anything, it will be fine." ”

Chujian only had two rooms at home, Jiang Feng and Zhang's mother slept in one, Chujian and Chuxin two sisters slept in one, fortunately, the weather was very hot and dry, after eating noodles, Zhang Yunqi found a reclining chair, lit mosquito coils, and slept under the eaves of the small courtyard.

I didn't sleep very well, there were a lot of mosquitoes.

It's just that he was too sleepy to run around for days, and it didn't take long to fall asleep, in a daze, he always felt that there were people around him, and it seemed to be in a dream, the person in the dream was like Chu Dapeng, a vague driver was instructed to drive him to death!

As soon as the sky was shining, Zhang Yunqi woke up.

He washed his face shirtless with well water, and when he poured the water, he found that the short sleeves were hanging on the clothesline under the courtyard wall, and the wind blew overnight, and it had dried out.

Zhang Yunqi drove straight to Liansheng.

After coming to the office, he called Li Jilin and asked him to come to the office.

When it comes to working time, there are employees who are looking for Zhang Yunqi to sign one after another, reimbursement, business trips, procurement, etc., of course, they must reach a certain amount to sign with him, such as reimbursement, and only ask him to sign when they reach more than 500, but they have accumulated a lot after going out for such a long time.

After all the signing, Li Jilin came.

The two chatted about advertising and the introduction of production lines on Shonan TV, and reported on the growth of canned food sales last month, and Li Jilin said: "Now that the operation of our canning factory is improving, Mayor Huang [ ] plans to come to the canning factory on the 24th to inspect, and you may need to take time to accompany him at that time." ”

Zhang Yun nodded: "I contacted a reporter from the Shonan Provincial Daily, and invited her to come over and have a look at it when the time comes, it would be good if she could make a report." After a pause, he asked again: "Lao Li, how do we cooperate with the Municipal Sports Lottery Center?"

Li Jilin doesn't know why Zhang Yunqi suddenly cares about this specific business: "It's the lottery ticket seller who cooperates with us, and the Sports Bureau helped us say hello, and the prize cost pressure of the lottery ticket seller is also very great, which is good for both sides, and it's a hit." ”

Zhang Yunqi didn't know what was going on: "The lottery sales of the City Sports Lottery Center are all contracted out?"

Li Jilin nodded: "I don't want to take the risk, the lottery tickets are not all sold, easy to lose money, they contracted out all the color business, lying down to get 35 + 1 income. ”

"Who's the contractor?"

"Lin Yongqiang, Mr. Lin. ”

"Are you very familiar with this Lin Yongqiang?"

"Just knowing. ”

"Ask him out, I'd like to treat him to a meal. By the way, there is also the leadership of the Municipal Sports Lottery Center. ”