The time of the day flies by quickly.

Zhang Yunqi and Chujian finished lunch in the store, and after returning to the classroom, Wang Xiaokai came to tell him excitedly that at noon they and Li Yufei sold out all the canned food at the door of the cafeteria, and the winning rate was very high.

Wang Xiaokai's little stupid hat has always been babbling, and about half of what he said can be taken seriously, but Zhang Yunqi, as the initiator of Longjingyuan's hundreds of thousands of boxes of canned bloodletting campaign, naturally knows clearly that the current winning rate of Longjingyuan's canned food is more than 50% It is easier to sell, and the employees of Longjingyuan have formed a vast sales team under the stimulation of various incentive policies and commission programs, almost pouring out of the nest, and now, it is time to ask Li Jilin to lower the winning rate of canned food, and strive to recover more costs, and be richer when the construction starts on the eighth day of the first month of next year.

After school in the afternoon, Zhang Yunqi planned to go to Liansheng.

When he put away his textbooks, put on a scarf and headphones, and got up with his schoolbag, Wang Xiaokai looked at him, and suddenly said with wide eyes: "I actually wore a red scarf, don't you want to be so angry, Boss Zhang, spring hasn't arrived yet." ”

"Labor, Labor, Happiness!"

Zhang Yunqi didn't bird Wang Xiaokai, and went out with his schoolbag in a dashing manner, but before he walked a few steps, he unexpectedly saw Zhang Xiaonan standing in the corridor.

Zhang Xiaonan is a class teacher in a junior high school class in the city's No. 1 Middle School, although he is in the same school, sometimes he will meet on campus and chat casually, but Zhang Xiaonan has never made a special trip to find him.

Zhang Xiaonan had obviously been waiting at the door for a while, and there should be something to discuss with him, Zhang Yunqi walked over and asked, "Sister Xiaonan, are you looking for me?"

Zhang Xiaonan hesitated for a moment and said, "Yunqi, let's go and talk." ”

Zhang Yunqi said yes.

The two went downstairs.

School has ended, the campus in the cold winter is particularly bleak, there are few people, the eyes are scattered withered yellow leaves, the moss-covered boys' dormitories, and the iron-blue wires across the sky, which makes people feel an indescribable loneliness in their hearts.

The two of them walked on the cold campus path, Zhang Xiaonan asked Zhang Yunqi about some things in his studies, but Zhang Yunqi always felt that she seemed to be a little absent-minded, and asked, "Sister Xiaonan, did something happen to you and my eldest brother?"

Zhang Xiaonan sat down on the stone bench on the side of the road, hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Yunqi, the matter between my sister and your eldest brother should have been decided by adults, but Uncle Zhang hasn't come out yet, what about you, you are a good boy with a big future, sensible, smart, and thoughtful, many times, many things are more long-term than your sister and your eldest brother, so there are some things that your eldest brother can't open, but now my sister has to pull down her face to tell you anyway, because if it drags on, it will be difficult." ”

Zhang Yunqi smiled: "Sister Xiaonan, I understand, you say." ”

Zhang Xiaonan twisted his hands together: "Some time ago, my father came to the city to talk to your eldest brother once, and put forward some ideas, your eldest brother shouldn't have mentioned this to you and Aunt Zhang, right?"

Zhang Yun nodded: "No." ”

Zhang Xiaonan looked at Zhang Yunqi, who looked calm, and sighed lowly: "Actually, the last time my father came, he asked Yunfeng to buy a house in the city. ”

This kind of talk Zhang Yunqi sounds weird, the marriage in the early nineties did not require the man's family to have a house and a car, but for the current Zhang family, this is no problem, and it is not a problem.

However, Zhang Yunqi soon realized the crux of the problem, Zhang Guorui's subtext of asking his eldest brother to buy a house must be that he wants his eldest brother to split up.

As far as he knows, Zhang Guorui's eldest son and eldest daughter are all working in other places and starting a family, and they can't take care of the second elder who is far away in Yunxi Village on weekdays, and the youngest daughter Zhang Xiaonan, who works in the city, is relatively close. Under such circumstances, Zhang Yunqi didn't know if Zhang Guorui made this request because he had the idea of waiting for Zhang Xiaonan to move from Yunxi Village to the city after he got married.

Thinking like this, Zhang Yunqi felt that with the consistent behavior of an old and refined strongman in Yunxi Village, Zhang Guorui, there must be other requirements that were difficult for the eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng to resist, so he asked Zhang Xiaonan: "Is there anything else?" ”

Zhang Xiaonan's face was already very embarrassed: "Those two Zhang Jiqi Fengdu fishmeal shops, who are they?" Yunqi, don't misunderstand and complain about sister, sister has no greed, sister doesn't want anything, just wants to be good with your eldest brother, it's just that your eldest brother is upright, what my dad said that night made him angry, he directly told my dad that it wasn't his, saying that the fishmeal shop is all your funds, and the big ideas and directions are also set by you. But, you know, in this way, my father can't get past that. ”

Zhang Yunqi sat on the stone bench, thought for a while and said, "I know, Sister Xiaonan, don't worry about this, I have a plan, what I want to know now is, what is the situation between Ma Lin and you?"

Zhang Xiaonan was speechless for a long time, and finally sighed.

That night, Zhang Yunqi didn't sleep very well.

In fact, as he gets older, he rarely loses sleep from his feelings. Because experience has given him such a lesson, or a lesson to the vast majority of middle-aged men like him: except for relatives, there is nothing in this world that cannot be looked down upon.

The words that Zhang Xiaonan told him today were probably also entangled tightly on Marin's side, her father Zhang Guorui was forced to be tight, and it was impossible for Zhang Yunfeng, the eldest brother who had always been sullen, to confide in him such an embarrassing matter.

Zhang Xiaonan was really helpless.

In fact, whether Zhang Guorui deliberately made things difficult for his eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng, and put forward these requirements to make him retreat, but if it is really serious, these requirements cannot be said to be excessive, as parents, I always hope that the man's family will clarify these family matters before marriage, create a good living condition for his daughter, and avoid entanglement with his in-laws in the future. Especially their old Zhang family has a lot of mouthfuls. But Zhang Yunqi also knows that whether intellectually or emotionally, his eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng will not be able to open this mouth to his family when it comes to buying a house and separating the family.

Zhang Yunqi always remembered one thing that his mother always mentioned when he used to teach him to study hard, when his eldest brother graduated from elementary school, he was a little short of 14 years old, he ran home from Zhaoping Township Center Elementary School with his report card and the admission letter of Longwan Township Middle School, and the first thing he said to his parents when he entered the house was: "I won't go to school anymore! In the future, I will work in the family farm, and let Qiulan, Yunqi, and Chunlan go to school." ”

At that time, my parents looked sad and didn't know what to do.

Since then, the eldest brother has followed his father to take on the responsibility of feeding the whole family, this young man who was supposed to study in the classroom of Longwan Town with Zhang Xiaonan, relied on the little hard money he earned by digging in the soil without knowing or dark, and supporting the old and sick of the family.

After his father was imprisoned, it was logical that the eldest brother became a veritable head of the old Zhang family. Zhang Yunqi deeply knows and is grateful that if there was no such silent pillar, the bleak days when his father was in prison, their family would have been difficult to survive, and it was with the leadership of this silent pillar that their family could survive together from the most difficult years.

Now, it's hard to get him to relinquish that responsibility.

Although the conditions of the family are very good now, this is not only a matter of life philosophy, but more importantly, he and the family are inseparable from each other.

As for how to divide Zhang Jiqi Fengdu fishmeal shop, after Zhang Yunqi listened to Zhang Xiaonan's words, he really felt an indescribable sourness in his heart. This is his eldest brother, an ordinary man who is not good at words, who has carried his family out of suffering before the age of fourteen, and has formed in his mind the hardest neural reflex arc for the sake of his family.

Zhang Yunqi finally got up from the bed.

It was already deep in the night, it was dark and he couldn't see his fingers clearly, and there was a howling north wind beating on the window, so he lit a cigarette, went to the living room, picked up the microphone on the landline, and pressed a few numbers.

The phone rang for a long, long, long time.

Zhang Yunqi said: "Help me find someone to check a traffic police officer from the city's traffic police team, named Ma Lin, to see which part of the city traffic police force he has been on duty in the past few days." ”