Chapter 44: Sending Charcoal in the Snow
"Applejack, you need to be strong. Isn't it just retirement, Senior Brother Liu also won the gold medal, won't he be ...... after he retires At least you can go to the art troupe to do some stage performances? You're injured, but you can't play, and you should be fine with less intense work......"
"Senior sister, thank you, don't comfort me with Senior Brother Liu's example, his father is from the Art Troupe, how can I compare. Aren't Ah Qiang and Zhu also retired due to injury, and now they are not the one who has fallen into delivering gas to self-employed restaurants, and a pedaling tricycle to deliver beer to supply and marketing cooperatives......"
In the backstage of the gymnastics hall and in the athletes' lounge, Li Lianjie, a 17-year-old boy who had just won the gold medal, sat there holding his head in confusion and pain.
He won his fifth gold medal at the National Games, but in the end, the old injury recurred and became more serious, and the team doctor said that he could no longer be an athlete.
The future is bleak.
Just when he was at his lowest ebb, there was a slight commotion at the door of the lounge, and then everyone dispersed and greeted the visitors with courtesy.
Li Lianjie looked up and saw a handsome young man wearing a very high-end suit at a glance, leading a blonde and blue-eyed foreign guest in. He also pretended to babble in a foreign language for a while, and then translated it into Chinese:
"I'm from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and this international friend wants to comfort the injured and learn about the sportsmanship of our athletes, so I wonder if I can stay alone for a while?"
Everyone did not doubt him, and all of them respectfully withdrew, giving up this lounge to Li Lianjie to receive foreign guests alone.
"Hmph, fake foreign devil!" Li Lianjie snorted coldly in his heart, but he was still jealous that the young man opposite was so fluent in foreign languages.
Judging by your age, it should be about the same as yourself, right?
However, as soon as the door was closed, the reversal in the next second surprised him - although as a martial arts master, Li Lianjie is definitely not short-sighted, and he doesn't need glasses.
"Okay, Mr. Schmidt, thank you very much for your help, I'll just talk to him later, don't delay you. Gu Biao said this in English, and handed over a $100 tip.
This foreigner is completely Gu Biao who temporarily swept around the grandstand area of foreign guests just now, and found a guy who came to China to travel in his personal capacity, and he should be the lowest worth and not very well mixed in China.
After all, there is no rule that only foreign adults can hire Chinese to act at tips, and Chinese cannot hire foreign adults to run errands or play shields.
Mr. Schmidt smiled and waved his hand, apparently pleased with the deal: "Hey, I really hope that next time there will be such a good thing, can I know your identity." ”
"No need, I'll look for you if you need it. Gu Biao dismissed the greedy foreigner with one sentence.
"You...... Aren't you serving that foreigner?" Li Lianjie was dumbfounded.
Gu Biao shrugged, dusted off his windbreaker, and then leaned on the long table, with his hands on his chest: "I just respect martial arts masters more, and I want to find a chance to talk to you alone." Of course, I paid for that foreigner to run errands temporarily.
But I'm not completely liared - my name is Gu Biao, and I am indeed diplomatic. Your name is Li Lianjie, right? I've heard that martial arts athletes who have been injured and retired don't seem to have many choices in the future. I don't know what Mr. Li's plans are. ”
"It turned out to be a 10,000-yuan household, really rich, and he actually spent foreign money to hire foreigners, and had a chance to chat with me alone. It's good to win a gold medal, and there are times when you are interested in rich people and foreigners. Li Lianjie laughed at himself.
The last time he competed in the National Games was in 75 years, when he was only 13 years old. Because the country was still closed at that time, even if he won the gold medal, he did not have the opportunity to be questioned by foreigners, and this session felt so novel.
Gu Biao didn't bother to explain, "I'm not a 10,000 yuan household", so he just asked directly: "Don't divert the topic, Mr. Li." Do you have any plans for the future?"
Li Lianjie was depressed in his heart, revealing a hint of a young man's rebelliousness: "Why are you asking so much? Are you here to see my jokes?"
Gu Biao: "Of course I don't mean that, I have a job here for you, but I'm afraid that you have other great futures, so it's not good to bring it up rashly, in case it delays your future." ”
Li Lianjie's resistance eased slightly: "Don't you let me deliver gas?"
Gu Biao laughed completely: It turned out that the other party's situation was already so difficult, but he thought too much.
"Of course not-I have a Hong Kong-funded film and television copyright agency, and I also have some friends from Beiying, and I also have some business dealings with the film and television bigwigs over there in Xiangjiang. Maybe, there will be a chance to recommend you to make a kung fu movie in the future-
Do you know Long Chen? It's the one who played "Drunken Fist". Your play is very good-looking, as long as I give you the opportunity to get a visa and see the outside world clearly, you may not be famous. ”
"Make a movie?" Li Lianjie's first reaction was that this fake foreign devil was a liar.
How tall is a movie? Can someone as young as you say it will be made?
He has been practicing at the Shichahai Martial Arts School for many years, and he has also seen Beiying come to shoot documentaries; I heard that a plate of film is worth half a year's salary of a coach, and making a movie may cost hundreds of reels of film, not counting other expenses.
Even if the other party has this energy, why should they come to themselves? Just because they have won the gold medal in the National Games?
Is a gold medal so valuable?
However, Gu Biao saw all these reactions, and he decided to take a look at the scale to enhance the trust of the other party:
"I just said that there was a chance, but I didn't say that I would hold you right away. Xiangjiang people are a market economy, people only look at whether they play beautifully, whether the audience buys it or not, and they don't look at whether you have won a gold medal or not.
So, if you're not busy for a while, I can give you a basic salary first, and you will be my bodyguard temporarily, and I may have to take you to Xiangjiang and go abroad in a few months. Opportunities are always found slowly. ”
The conditions became harsh, but Li Lianjie trusted Gu Biao, feeling that this condition was very real, and the other party was not quite like a liar.
He asked warily, "How much? I mean, how much are you going to ask me for?"
Gu Biao tapped the table with his knuckles and made a gesture of thought: "If you don't usually go out on duty, fifty, a month, that is, you can move freely." When I want to use your bodyguard and take you on a business trip, according to different regions, food and accommodation will be included, and the allowance will be calculated separately. Dangerous missions are also possible for a few hundred dollars a month. ”
He is afraid that talking too much money will scare the other party and make people feel that they have ulterior motives.
"When I don't have any work to do, I also give 50 a month?" Li Lianjie emphatically confirmed.
"It's just 50, don't think too much about it - no matter how much the gold medal is worthless, it's still worth it. Just when I buy you a call. Besides, we Hong Kong businessmen don't have an establishment, and I know that you mainlanders care about this, and it's normal for that little money to be exchanged. ”
"Okay, then it's decided!" Li Lianjie couldn't think of any other conspiracy, so he readily agreed.
It's a big deal to take two months' salary from the other party's temporary workers and see how it goes.
The outside world seems to be very dangerous, and it should be normal for rich people to want to hire a good bodyguard.
……
Gu Biao left the lounge with Li Lianjie in a big way.
Because all the brothers and sisters knew that Li Lianjie was going to retire, but he hadn't gone yet, so no one stopped him at all.
Gu Biao walked to the parking lot, greeted Zhang Ma and Gu who were waiting there, and then helped everyone introduce each other.
"This is Li Lianjie, the gold medalist who was injured and retired just now. This is Ma Feng, who does business with me. These two are the top students of Beiying, Director Zhang and Gu Dao, maybe you will have to cooperate in the future, if the policy allows me to invest money......"
Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei naturally wanted to explain with a smile, and asked Li Lianjie not to listen to Gu Fu's nonsense.
Seeing that the battle was so big, Li Lianjie's trust in his heart increased a little: this kind of combination of personnel, how does it look like a liar.
And after Gu Biao started his second generation of Volga, this trust rose to the peak.
This is in China, how can a scammer be qualified to get a car.
Ma Feng was the shortest, so he took the initiative to sit in the middle of the back row and naturally chatted with Li Lianjie.
The two learned that they were still the same age, and they were more compatible, and they soon talked and laughed.
"Brother Gu is so young, only 17 years old like us, and he has such a great achievement?" Li Lianjie was shocked in his heart, and he was even more glad about his decision to hug his thighs just now.
Ma Feng observed the words and saw the other party's shock, and immediately took the briefcase placed on his lap, took out a newspaper that he had collected all year round, and showed it to Li Lianjie.
Naturally, it was the Canton Fair report in the first half of the year, and Gu Biao showed his face in a photo.
"I can't lie to you, Brother Gu is very open in the foreign affairs system, this is his report on negotiations with officials of the US Department of Energy in the first half of the year. ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the photo.
Li Lianjie was completely in awe.
The photo that can be printed on the "Renren Daily" is endorsed by the national credit. Since this is the case, no matter what work he is asked to do, he dares to rush forward without hesitation.
"It turns out that it is really possible to contribute to the secret front of the country. I didn't expect that I, an injured and retired wasteman, would have such an opportunity......" Li Lianjie was completely moved to tears.
Ma Feng saw it in his eyes and encouraged: "Since it is so fateful, it is better to meet by chance, let's have a drink near the school together." ”
Gu Biao, who was driving, felt that something was wrong: "Applejack was in a bad mood just after the recurrence of an old injury, and you teased him again." ”
Li Lianjie hurriedly explained: "It's okay, it's okay, isn't it just retirement, it's my luck to be able to mix with a righteous person like Brother Gu, and I'm not sad to retire or something." ”
Just by looking at the resume of the new boss, a sad teenager walked out of the shadow of life, and this is no one.
Since this is the case, Gu Biao naturally has no objection: "Okay, then find a place next to the school, I'm familiar with it." After all, I couldn't drive after drinking, so I parked my car in the school and went back to my dorm to call my friend in Iraq. Pony, you take them to order food in a moment, you know the old place. ”
"Okay, don't worry, I'll say hello, Brother Gu, you are busy with your business first. Ma Feng agreed neatly.
"Brother Gu still has friends from Iraq?" The other three were all in awe and inexplicably curious.
"I don't know too well, and you don't spread the word - it seems that a naval department sells missiles there, and it was introduced to President Hussein by Brother Gu, so I can't say much about it. Ma Feng looked mysterious.