People will always believe what they want to believe. People who are confused are also more willing to follow pleasant memories to find a way out.

The coal city is no longer what it used to be, and the dilapidated old city has become a microcosm of the history of the Northeast in the past ten years.

Li Muye stood in the family area of the old special steel plant, looking at the mottled and peeling old red brick building, and the past time haunted his heart, and he couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

All things in the world, no matter how great and strong their existence is, can not withstand the erosion of time, and the buildings that once represented abundance and wealth have been reduced to the nest homes of the birds. In the era of state-owned enterprises, the rusty and mottled decadence of majestic trucks on the side of the road has been reduced to a new house sheltered by snakes, insects, rats and ants. No longer remember the arrogant situation of idlers who can't be idle.

When I walked into the house, I saw that the scene inside was just like what the song wrote: the humble room was empty, and the wat was full of beds. suddenly realized that Lang rode a bamboo horse in the past, and the good times of two little without suspicion were long gone. Now only the withered grass and withered poplars remain, which were once a singing and dancing field...... Chests full of gold and silver, and in the blink of an eye, beggars are slandered...... Messing around, you sing and I appear, and I think that another country is my hometown.

"You're Li Muyuan's younger brother, right?" A sturdy middle-aged woman who looked like an aunt stood outside the open door, looked at Li Muye in surprise, and said, "Why? Don't you know me? When you were young, I also saw you, at that time, your sister took you into the women's bath every week, and you earned half a day with her at the door every time." ”

I remember that at that time, a sister flicked her little brother with her fingers and said, when you want to enter the women's bath, you won't let it in.

Li Muye remembered that this eldest sister was a classmate of her sister Li Muyuan, who seemed to be one or two years older than her sister. Compared with the devil's figure back then, the changes of this street aunt-like eldest sister are really exaggerated.

"You are Sister Zhao Xuemei. Li Muye tentatively called out her name.

The middle-aged woman immediately nodded and said with a smile: "By the way, I just said that I haven't changed much over the years, how can you not recognize me?"

Li Muye said: "You are in the same class as my sister, you are two years older than her, I remember you." ”

Zhao Xuemei waved her hand and said, "What is two years old, I have a young birthday, but I am actually one and a half years older than your sister." He asked again: "How is it? As soon as your brothers and sisters leave, they will not come back for more than ten years, will they come back this time to visit relatives or do you plan to stay for a long time?"

"I'm going to have to stay for a while. Li Muye knew how depressed he looked.

"The best to stay back in. Zhao Xuemei said with a smile: "This piece can't live for a few days, the factory has raised funds to build a new building, and everyone will move to the new area in a year and a half. After a pause, he said, "I remember that you still have a set of rebuilt factories in the east of the city, right?"

This matter was too inconspicuous, Li Muye had long forgotten about it, so he had to follow her tone and nodded: "It seems that there is such a place." ”

Zhao Xuemei said enthusiastically: "Sell it as soon as possible, in the future, the city will develop west to the provincial capital, and the houses and land in the east will become less and less valuable." ”

"Thank you. Li Muye said: "I'll dispose of it when I go back." ”

Zhao Xuemei said: "If you don't handle it well, come to me, this is my business card." She was a little excited, and handed over a business card that said Aijia Agency, with her name and phone number, added: "This agency was opened by my daughter and son-in-law, and I am here to help." ”

"Your daughter and son-in-law?" Li Muye said in surprise, "You shouldn't be less than forty years old, right?"

"What's the matter, I'm forty-two. Zhao Xuemei smiled: "I don't have as much ambition as your sister, I entered the factory to work after graduating from junior high school, and I got married and had a daughter before I was twenty-two, my daughters are twenty-three, I just gave birth to a big fat boy a few days ago, and I am already a grandmother." ”

"Oh, then I have to congratulate you. Li Muye thought in his heart, if he caught up with this kind of thing, would he have to follow the rules? It's just that I'm shy right now, so it's better to pretend I don't know.

Zhao Xuemei looked at Brother Xiaoye's poor and sour look and didn't expect anything from him, she was interested in the house in the east, and took the initiative to pull the topic there, and said: "Little brother, I think you seem to need money, if you want to sell the house in the east, you'd better come to your sister Zhao, because I am an old classmate with your sister, and the eldest sister can't let you suffer." ”

Li Muye couldn't remember that place at all, his eyes rolled, and he said: "That Sister Zhao, I really have this plan, but I've been away from home for a long time, and I don't know what the house over there looks like, and I don't know if it's good to sell, if you are free, why don't we go over and have a look?"

Zhao Xuemei said: "Oh, it's so urgent, then okay, I'll ask our aunt to drive us over." As he spoke, he took out a new iPhone.

Li Muye simply cleaned up, wiped the furniture in the house that Wang Hongjun and the others had bought during their stay here, and made room for Zhao Xuemei to sit. This eldest sister Zhao was also not polite, and sat on the coffee table that squeaked at the slightest touch.

In the time of waiting for others, Zhao Xuemei gave full play to the gossip spirit of the street aunt, and kept interrogating Brother Xiao Ye and Li Muyuan's living conditions outside. It's a pity that he met Li Muye, who had a confused memory, and he was destined to not be able to ask why. So the topic changed and went back to Coal City.

"Makino, I think you were less than ten years younger than Makino. Zhao Xuemei gave birth to a mouth that could be very, and jumped to another place from Brother Xiaoye's age as soon as the words changed: "There are a lot of people in your group who are promising, just the iron buddy Wang Hongjun who used to live with you here, but now it is developed, I heard that the brother and sister have become big bosses in Shanghai, and there are two cotton pants, which are often hung with two buckets of big snot that winter, and the mother at home ran away with someone......"

She paused for a moment, realizing that something had been lost. It was not only Li Baoku whose mother ran away with someone at home, but the person in front of him had not experienced this kind of misfortune. But this girl is very good at resolving embarrassment, she laughed, raised her voice to divert attention, and said: "Now your brother is also terrible, a few years ago he made a fortune by loan sharks, and in recent years he has engaged in real estate development, and now he is a famous big real estate developer in the city, I heard that he is still a member of the CPPCC, if he still recognizes you as a brother, you will be rich." ”

Li Muye couldn't remember Jiang Xueru at all, so he didn't realize Zhao Xuemei's slip of the tongue, but he still had some impressions of Wang Hongjun and Ermian Pants. I vaguely remember that Li Baoku used to be mixed with himself, although he was a student of the same class, this guy was a repeater king, several years older than himself.

"I've been on the road for years, and I haven't had much contact with my former friends, so maybe they've forgotten about me. Li Muye said humbly: "My hometown has changed a lot over the years, I came back this time, and I couldn't find many places." ”

Zhao Xuemei said: "It's not what, the renovation of dilapidated houses, the development of the city to the west, this policy is ordered one by one, these people in our streets are busy to death, not to mention the streets and alleys compared with a few years ago, that is, if you don't come back for a few months, people have to be confused, just your house in the east, now all around are the villa areas developed by the Red Leaf Group, and you are left with a nail household, I heard that Mrs. Ji was going to be demolished a few years ago, I don't know why it was not demolished in the end, it seems that it is because her daughter does not agree." ”

Li Muye asked, "Who is this Mrs. Ji, and my property dares to demolish my house without my consent?"

Zhao Xuemei said: "Why don't you even know Mrs. Ji, that's your iron buddy Wang Hongjun's little aunt, the first boss of the coal city, the villa in the east, the golf course in the west, and the dilapidated house renovation project of the old steel mill are all projects she is engaged in, and most of the municipal projects have her shares, and people have the same name and different surnames as me, but this fate is 108,000 miles away, I heard that she is still a shareholder of Longda Group." ”

Li Muye knew that Longda Group was not thought of from his old memories, but that he had returned all the way, and he could see the group's advertisements everywhere, which was really a bit thunderous. The big boss Lin Guoxue has become a hero and a man of the year in this era. Zhao Xuemei said that this old Mrs. Ji can have a relationship with him, and she is obviously not an ordinary person.

Then I thought of Li Zhonghua, the father of the rich Siberian landlord seemed to be quite rich, and his children were like hungry wolves fighting for food. If you had known that it was not easy to make money, you would have opened your mouth to ask him for a sum of money before leaving that day. It's not so embarrassing now.

"Sister Zhao, can you help me estimate how much my house is worth?"

"I can't say this right now, I'll have to go and see it first. Zhao Xuemei asked, "Do you have the real estate certificate or something?"

Li Muye didn't remember such a property at all, how could he remember what the real estate certificate was, at that time, this kind of thing was kept by Ulanzhu, and now Brother Xiaoye's mind can't remember the person Ulanzhu at all, how can he still remember where the real estate certificate was placed. But at this moment, he couldn't show his timidity, so he replied calmly: "Well, there are all of them, I saved them before leaving, and I can take them out at any time." ”

The car came, Zhao Xuemei's son-in-law was in his early twenties, very tall, and good-looking, but he looked a little different, with earrings, and he rolled up his sleeves in the winter to reveal his flower arms depicting dragons and phoenixes. He doesn't look like a businessman, but like a hooligan. When they met, they said: "Mom, what are you doing so anxious, I am playing golf with Mr. Li on the west course, Mr. Li is very happy, and he plans to give me the exterior wall insulation project on the side of Yongxing Bridge." ”

Zhao Xuemei introduced: "Let's go back to your affairs, this is your Uncle Li, his sister and I are classmates, we are from the same generation." ”

Li Muye just has amnesia, not dementia, this kid brags and doesn't make drafts, his mouth is neat, his heartbeat and endocrine can't lie, and his eyes flicker to show that he is far from qualified to be a qualified liar.

Zhao Xuemei introduced to Li Muye again: "This is my uncle's name is Yan Baofeng, and he is now working in the security department of Baoku Real Estate. ”

"Security Manager. Yan Baofeng added: "Not after a while, Mr. Li has always valued me and is ready to transfer me to the engineering department." ”

Zhao Xuemei said: "Don't talk about these useless first, your Uncle Li has a factory in the east that is going to be sold, he just came back from outside, and he doesn't know much about the situation at home, so I think about our old neighbors over the years, my sister and I used to be such good classmates and sisters, and then our family is doing this, so I will get you back, see if I can help your Uncle Li sell it at a better price." He added: "Your Uncle Li and your President Li are still classmates, so you have to help with Mr. Li's face." ”

Yan Baofeng blinked, then changed his smiling face, took the initiative to stretch out his hand to shake hands with Li Muye, and his tone was much more relaxed: "Look at this trouble, it turned out to be Uncle Li, I heard my mother talk about your brother and sister before, I didn't think about it all of a sudden, but now I remember, you have a renovated factory building in the east, the yard is very large, the house has been transformed into three floors, and there is a swimming pool in it, which is very beautiful, I remember when we were children, we secretly jumped in the yard to pick peaches to eat." ”

This little bastard is really not polite, and he told the scene in that house clearly, and it actually awakened some memories of Brother Xiaoye. Suddenly remembered Wang Hongye's borrowing of the house, and then remembered the past with Wang Hongye, the grassland night, the mare's milk wine and the fragrance of virgins were like yesterday, and suddenly remembered, it seemed to be quite sweet, and then I remembered the girl in white, and I couldn't help but ask myself: He, Li Muye, what kind of person did you use to be? Who is Lao Tzu's girlfriend?

Li Muye was in a trance, Zhao Xuemei saw it, shook her hand in front of Brother Xiaoye's eyes, and said, "What do you think brother, aren't we going to go over to see the house?"

The servants got into Yan Baofeng's car, a strange thing that said that the jeep was not a jeep and that the hatchback was not like a sedan, and that it was called a cool bear. Judging from Zhao Xuemei's tone when she mentioned her son-in-law and his car, this inconspicuous strange thing can be regarded as a luxury item with a relatively face.

All the way to the east, I walked around for about twenty minutes, and came to Li Muye's house in the east of the city. When I saw this house, I remembered Wulanzhu and Qiqigelai, and the tide of memory was surging all of a sudden, remembering that I rejected Wang Hongye for Nana, and later when I came back with my brother Lao Cui, Wang Hongye's mother also tried to demolish this place with the engineering team.

Now that things are people, Wang Hongye's mother still planned this area to be what it is now, but Brother Ono has already lost himself. Looking at this house now, it is really a little incongruous with the surrounding Western-style garden villa landscape.

Yan Baofeng asked, "That Uncle Li, did you bring the key?"

Li Muye shook his head and said, "I didn't bring it, and I forgot where to put it, but it doesn't matter, just smash the lock." ”

Yan Baofeng frowned and said, "This lock was sealed by the Red Leaf Group, I'm afraid it's not suitable if I smash it." ”

"The house is mine, what's inappropriate?" Li Muye spoke, walked to the door, the lock seemed to be new, and he didn't think much about it, he raised his hand and was just about to screw the lock, when he suddenly heard someone shouting in the left-hand direction: "Stop!" A person in a security uniform hurriedly ran over and asked, "Where are you guys? What are you doing?"

Li Muye glanced at him, tilted his hat and glared, and at first glance, he was the master who had been with Yan Baofeng all the way, and said, "Go home." ”

"Return, when you go home, you will go back to your own house, what is the matter if you come to our chairman Wang's house?" The security guard said angrily: "Are you not blind? Can't you see that there is a lock on this door? This is the home of our chairman Miss Wang Hongye, hurry up!"

Yan Baofeng and Zhao Xuemei were both a little dumbfounded, the security guard looked at him, actually recognized him, and said: "Aren't you the eldest son of the old Yan family? Aren't you kid working at Li Baoku? What do you mean? Suddenly run to our head and step on it, do you mean it or does Li Baoku mean?"

"The house is mine, and they were brought by me to see the house. Li Muye ignored this snob, and was planning to continue to destroy the lock.

The security guard was on fire, rushed up and flew up and kicked towards Li Muye's front door, and at first glance he was the master who had practiced taekwondo and other fancy things.

Li Muye didn't even look at him, and with a flick of his backhand, he pushed the person back backwards and fell on his stomach.

This guy has a very flexible body, stood up with a bone, immediately took out the walkie-talkie to shout and shake people, and put on a reluctant posture in front of the servants and said: "Manager, hurry up and send a few people to Chairman Wang's house, Li Baoku sent a couple of people to make trouble here, and beat me, you can report to the above quickly......"