Time has made great strides forward to 1994.

With the arrival of a massive cold snap in Siberia, the first snow fell in the small town of Egawa.

It snowed all night, and on the morning of New Year's Day, there was no wind, and the land and houses were covered with thick snow, and the streets and alleys, which had been noisy all year long, suddenly fell silent.

At such a time, if there is no emergency, people are closed to eat fried peanuts and chew dried sweet potatoes around the stove, freely playing a few cents a game of Jiangchuan cards, and there are children on the street who play with firecrackers, and their immature laughter adds a bit of childlike fun to this pure white world.

Zhang Yunqi was woken up by the laughter of children outside the window.

On this day, he lay down until ten o'clock in the morning before getting up, and last night he made a big box in the Yanglao hot pot restaurant, and the family was in a lively New Year's Eve, in a good mood, and drank more.

Zhang Yunfeng also came with Zhang Xiaonan last night.

On the day Zhang Guorui and Zhang Yunqi talked, they turned back to Yunxi Village, didn't say anything, and didn't talk to Zhang Yunfeng again, as for whether they talked to his daughter Zhang Xiaonan. Zhang Yunqi didn't know, and he didn't want to know, he just needed to know that he had shown great sincerity to Zhang Guorui and did what he had to do.

got up and ate something casually, Ma Shi drove over to pick him up and went to Liansheng.

On vacation, there is no one in the company, the window is full of snowfall, between the white heaven and earth, across a flowing spring river, Zhang Yunqi stayed in the warm office, holding a cup of red robe and looking at the quiet scenery outside the window, before returning to the desk to look at the report materials submitted by Li Jilin, as well as the work reports of the section chiefs.

Regarding the situation of Longjingyuan, he has already set the general direction and strategy, and now and for a long time to come, he will only focus on the summary table of the sales performance of Longjingyuan's canned food in each line, the number of canned food sold, the situation of promotion, how much money is returned, and the rest, it is up to Li Jilin to think about it.

After working in the office until noon, Zhang Yunqi drove to Shuixie Yundu to pick up Ji Ling.

Ji Ling knew that he had bought a car, and called for him to take her out to hang out.

Today's New Year's Day happened to be fine, Zhang Yunqi took her to walk around the suburbs of Jiangchuan City, there was no one all the way, surrounded by low bungalows and bare fields, the sky was high, clear blue, there was no wind, the snow had stopped, Ji Ling, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was very happy, and asked: "Comrade Xiao Zhang, you are so proud now, will you deny me as a poor man one day?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "No matter how Hao, the co-pilot seat is Ji Ling's. ”

Ji Ling squinted her eyes and smiled, she suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhang Yunqi's hair in a mess, and said, "I heard my old comrade Ji chatter at home, you bought a canning factory?"

"yes, I didn't pay a penny. ”

"Comrade Xiao Zhang is really amazing!"

"You don't understand, it has nothing to do with whether I'm strong or not, no one in this world is a fool, for the city, the canning factory is a hot potato, no one dares to ask me to take over for free, and I also have tens of millions of debts, so I'm not a local tyrant, and Jiangchuan City will definitely not find a few people who are poorer than me." "Every time Zhang Yunqi chats with Ji Ling, he will be very eager to talk and say anything, because this girl always gives him a relaxed feeling.

Ji Ling said: "Don't they all say that only those who can owe money are people with great abilities, Comrade Xiao Zhang, you are such a person, this difficulty is nothing to you." ”

Zhang Yun laughed, Ji Ling's words reminded him of a joke.

In an economics class, a professor was lecturing on "Finance and Credit" and asked the students in the audience, "Students, let's talk about it, what is finance and what is credit?"

Xiao Wang said: "My grandmother taught me since I was a child, 'There is a loan and there is a return, and it is not difficult to borrow again.'" That's finance and credit. ”

Xiaohong said: "Finance is the exchange of cash flows of different people in different periods, and if you want to swap, you have to trust each other." ”

The professor concluded: "It's not comprehensive, the great economist Keynes taught us that if I owe you 1 dollar, then I'm in trouble, and if I owe you 1 million, the trouble is yours." That's finance and credit!"

"I don't think Keys's statement is comprehensive. At this time, Xiao Ming raised his hand.

"Oh, where else do you want to add?" The professor wondered.

Xiao Ming said word by word: "Professor, if I owe you 30 billion, the trouble is the state." ”

Ten years later, Xiao Wang became an editor of Vanke Weekly, Xiao Hong became an account manager at Bank of China, and Xiao Ming became a well-known "Delong Department" gold medal trader!

Thinking of this paragraph, Zhang Yunqi drove around, a little hungry, and asked Ji Ling what he wanted to eat?

Ji Ling said fishmeal: "Zhang Ji's!"

Zhang Yunqi was very happy and drove back to the store to eat noodles.

When he arrived at the door of the No. 1 Middle School store in the city, Zhang Yunqi stopped the car and entered the door with Ji Ling, he saw a boy, there were many customers in the fishmeal shop, there was no place, the boy was squatting at the door with a big bowl and gobbling up steaming rice.

Zhang Yunqi was a little strange, this boy didn't look like a guest, and his family didn't sell food, so he walked into the store and asked his mother: "Who is this person?"

Zhang's mother, who was busy, replied casually: "From other places, I said that I came to Jiangchuan from Qingchuan to play, and I lost my wallet." ”

Qingchuan is 108,000 miles away from Jiangchuan, Zhang Yunqi doesn't quite understand how such a boy who is slightly older than him can come here to play, but at that time there was no mobile payment, the telephone was not popular, and the society was not very stable.

After Zhang Yunqi entered the store, he helped to serve the powder to the guests.

Zhang Xiaoxiao and Chuxin were both in the fishmeal shop, and they were lying on the bench in the middle of the room painting, Ji Ling was bored, so he took them to build a big snowman on the street in front of the store, which made the two little dolls very happy.

After the boy finished eating, there were still many customers in the store, he stood at the door at a loss with an empty bowl, and he didn't dare to disturb Zhang's mother, who was busy, until Zhang's mother saw it and asked him, "Have you eaten enough?"

The boy nodded busily and said in Mandarin: "I'm full, thank you, Auntie." Then he wiped the oil off his mouth and ran to the sink to wash the dishes.

When Zhang's mother saw this scene, she sighed and said to Zhang Yunqi: "It just so happened that you came by car, send him to the train station." After a pause, she added, "Buy a train ticket." ”

When the boy heard this, he asked Zhang's mother for his home phone number with red eyes.

Zhang's mother, who couldn't be busy, waved her hand and said no, and said to Zhang Yunqi: "You can send him now." ”

Zhang Yunqi thought that it didn't matter if he was running errands at the moment, so he took the car keys and led the boy out. Ji Ling saw it and wanted to go, she took Xiaoxiao and Chuxin into the car.

The train station is not far away, or Jiangchuan is so big, about ten minutes to arrive, Zhang Yunqi parked the car, led the boy to the ticket hall, bought him a train ticket back to his hometown Qingchuan, and finally thought of his mother's advice, and stuffed Zhang 50 yuan to the boy: "Be careful on the train, don't lose the money again." ”

When the boy took the money, he cried.

On the way back, Zhang Xiaoxiao hugged Ji Ling's arm and asked curiously, "Sister Ji Ling, why did that big brother cry just now?"

Ji Ling pinched the little chubby little face: "You'll understand when you grow up." ”

Zhang Yunqi, who was driving in front, heard this, and wanted to laugh a little, but suddenly thought of his situation many years ago, and inexplicably couldn't laugh.

It should be the turn of the century, when he lost his job, had no money, lived a very depressed life, others were busy going home for the New Year, he was alone in the streets of a foreign land, and the impression was that on Chinese New Year's Eve, it was snowing heavily, he hid in front of the roller shutter door of the store that others closed for the New Year, and received a call from his mother from a distant mountain nest, lying to her that it was difficult to buy a ticket, spending the New Year in the company, and colleagues were eating hot pot dumplings.

After hanging up the phone, looking at the empty streets, firecrackers in the distance, cold snow, and singing, it was "Always Go Home to See", and I really wanted to shed tears.

Life is like a reverse journey, you and I are both pedestrians.

When I was young, I had many extravagant expectations, but I also dared to break through, to love, to dream, to be free, and to realize my self-worth. When you get older, you will know that life is a slow process of being hammered, people are getting old day by day, and their extravagant hopes are disappearing day by day, and finally, they become like an old cow that has been hammered.

Zhang Yunqi likes what Kafka said, "I am free, and that is why I am lost." "Some young people are lost in freedom, and some young people perceive freedom in the midst of loss. Zhang Yunqi looked at the drifting snow at dusk, behind him was the familiar clean laughter of Ji Ling, on the evening of New Year's Day in 1994, he suddenly felt that his extravagant hopes were getting more and more, he also felt that he would definitely live in the freedom he wanted, and he also felt that he would never be lost and be vigorous again.

Life, can't hammer him.

2020, love you guys!

Sorry, New Year's greetings came a little late.

I'm slow to update, I'm really sorry, especially thank you to every book friend who has rewarded and subscribed, this year, I have had a very difficult time at work, it is your tips and subscriptions that have supported me to persist until now, and supported me to treat each chapter with my best ability to carve it repeatedly.

Although I am as tired as a dead dog when I get home after working every day, I can pat my chest and assure you that I am thinking about how to write this book every day, and I often stay up until two or three o'clock in the morning and still code words, because I can't live up to your love.

In the new year, I will definitely work hard, I will definitely write better, and the volume of "Blue Sky" is about to end, and I will repay you for your support along the way with a complete barrister!