The façade of Alice's Western Café is not large, but it is clean and spacious, and there are not many customers. Lin Zifeng took Bai Xuefeng to sit down in the private room, first took the menu from the waiter's hand and looked at it, and then handed the menu to Bai Xuefeng: "Lao Bai, you order yours." ”

Bai Xuefeng always felt that this was a place for male and female students to talk about their love and hang their arms, and the private room was also small and cramped, and it was really uncomfortable for him and Lin Zifeng to sit face to face like this. Smiling at Lin Zifeng, he waved his hand: "I won't look at it, just after eating, I'll have a cup of coffee now." ”

Lin Zifeng withdrew the menu, ordered a big dish by himself, and asked Bai Xuefeng for a cup of coffee. When the waiter took the menu and withdrew, he raised his eyes and looked at Bai Xuefeng: "Old Bai, please forgive me for not contacting you these days." ”

Bai Xuefeng was sitting on pins and needles, and his smile was a little unstable: "That's nothing, I've always lived a peaceful life, always the same, and I don't need my friends to worry about it." Then he thought about it and changed the subject: "Lao Lin, where are you now?"

Lin Zifeng replied: "I originally wanted to enter the Finance Department, but I could only get a deputy position there, which is not interesting. So I'm going to go to the anti-smoking committee. ”

Bai Xuefeng nodded: "These two places are good places, and it's good to go anywhere." If you join the anti-smoking committee, what kind of official will you make?"

At this moment, the curtain of the door moved, and it was the waiter who brought in the dishes and coffee. Lin Zifeng didn't answer, and when the waiter withdrew, he picked up the knife and fork and replied lightly: "If you go in, you will naturally be the chairman." ”

Bai Xuefeng is pinching small

Clip, put sugar cubes in the coffee, and when he heard this, he stopped: "Ho!

He sincerely felt "okay", and because he had never been jealous of Lin Zifeng, so when he heard this, he still stood up: "Haven't you just done this job for a while?"

Lin Zifeng cut a piece of fish meat and put it in his mouth: "I haven't done it." ”

"Didn't you take care of that?"

Lin Zifeng glanced at him: "Confused, managing accounts is managing accounts, and doing things is doing things." Then without waiting for him to answer, Lin Zifeng asked again: "I am a fall, what about you?"

Bai Xuefeng picked up the coffee cup and took a sip of hot air: "I? I'm still the same as before." ”

"When he was on the stage, you still had the position of adjutant general, but now that he has come down, and your adjutant has also come to the head, have you been spending it in the Lei family all the time?

Bai Xuefeng smacked the bitterness of the coffee, and threw another sugar cube into the cup: "Lao Lin, I have no ambitions, I can have a place for me to work hard in peace and stability, and I can get a few hundred yuan a month, I am quite content." Speaking of this, he smiled again: "I also want to be promoted to get rich and marry a broad lady, but I also have to have that ability! I want to open it, I am from a poor family, I grew up eating stick noodles and nests, and now I can live this life, even if God takes care of it, I dare not expect anything else!"

"He's sitting on the empty side, and he can't control you for the rest of your life. ”

"I know that, too. I thought I'd go home and start a small business, but I didn't

Knowing what I can buy and sell, if I really can't, I'll partner with my second brother-in-law—"

Lin Zifeng waved a knife at him: "Commissioner." ”

Bai Xuefeng immediately stopped talking about his second brother-in-law, and looked at Lin Zifeng, he said "Ah?".

Lin Zifeng put down the knife, picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth, then sat upright, took a sip of the juice next to his hand: "Wait for my news, I will become the chairman of the committee, and I will give you a committee member, eight hundred a month." ”

When Bai Xuefeng heard this, he first said "yo", and then smiled hesitantly: "Eight hundred? That's a lot." ”

Lin Zifeng replied: "No matter how much, I know that you are not a man who is short of money, but this is finally a decent errand, and if you do it well in the future, you can also have a future, which is better than being a servant in the house." ”

Then he stood up: "I still have something to do, you wait for my news, my position will be announced in about two days." ”

Bai Xuefeng also got up in a daze, because he really felt inexplicable, so he forgot to thank Lin Zifeng. As Lin Zifeng walked out of the café, he watched Lin Zifeng get into the car and leave, stood under the sun and calmed down, and then continued to walk towards the British Concession to find a house.

Lin Zifeng's words sounded beautiful, but he always felt ethereal. He's a man who doesn't have any illusions about anything, so he just thinks that is a gust of wind.

Bai Xuefeng ran around for a day, and returned to Lishunde in the evening with a doll in a cardboard box. Lei Yiming was sitting on the edge of the bed, playing with Niu'er. Niu'er screamed "oh", and he also followed with "oh", and the father and daughter sang and harmonized, which was very lively. When Niu'er saw the doll, her eyes lit up,

Don't want your father immediately, Lei Yiming also raised his head and asked Bai Xuefeng, "How is it?"

Bai Xuefeng didn't mention Lin Zifeng, only said about the house: "I looked at a few places, and one of them was very good, but the car room was a little smaller, and although the house was very good, the furniture was not good, it turned out that there was an Englishman living in it, and then it was ......."

Lei Yiming waved his hand: "It's almost fine, but if the old furniture doesn't work, just replace it with a new one." This room is very depressing, and I will suffer if I stay for an extra day. ”

Bai Xuefeng smiled: "Okay, then do you want to go over and see it yourself?"

Lei Yiming glared at him: "You have followed me for so many years, can't you still see the good of the house?"

Bai Xuefeng nodded with a smile: "Since the uncle can trust me with this vision, then I will go to the landlord early tomorrow." ”

Bai Xuefeng was busy for four or five days under the sun, and then ran all over the furniture stores of Tianjin Wei - it was too late to order, he had to buy ready-made tables, chairs and beds at once, and fill the small two-story western-style building in the British Concession.

He now has no followers, and he has to do everything himself, and he is naturally a little powerless to arrange a decent new home with his own strength. However, Lei Yiming did not understand his hard work, and blindly urged him as if he was urging his life, he ran around for ten days in a row, and he was tired and thin.

When Lei Yiming moved as he wished, he found a new problem: he couldn't get it even if he wanted to be a servant now, and he had to take on the responsibility of a housekeeper!

His wisdom and energy only allow him to serve Lei Yiming alone, and let him manage a family, which is difficult for some strong people. big

Early in the morning, he was about to put bath water for Lei Yiming, and Chen's mother came and asked him for milk substitute powder - Niu'er now has to drink milk substitute powder in addition to her milk.

Bai Xuefeng almost didn't know what milk replacer powder was, and he couldn't conjure a jar for her out of thin air, and Niu'er howled, as soon as Niu'er howled, Lei Yiming was anxious - Chen's mother has milk, and her identity is important, Lei Yiming didn't dare to scold Chen's mother, so he could only fire at Bai Xuefeng.

It was easy to survive this scolding, and when it was time for breakfast, the new cook did not hesitate to fry a poached egg dry and hard, Lei Yiming took a bite, and then slapped the fork on the table, which startled Bai Xuefeng again.

At the end of breakfast, there were countless chores waiting for him to do, and the effort was secondary, mainly because of the hard work. So when he met Lin Zifeng on the street that day, his two eyes involuntarily lit up: "Lao Lin, how is your matter?"

Lin Zifeng looked him up and down: "How did you become like this?"

"Alas, tired. ”

Lin Zifeng then answered his question: "My business has been completed, what about you, what are you going to do?"

Bai Xuefeng looked at Lin Zifeng and sighed again.

Then he got into Lin Zifeng's car and talked with Lin Zifeng for more than twenty minutes.

After talking, two days later, Bai Xuefeng walked up to Lei Yiming this night, and opened his mouth in a hurry: "Uncle, there is something I want to say to you......"

Lei Yiming was sitting on the sofa in the living room in a daze, and when he heard this, he looked up at Bai Xuefeng: "What's the matter?"

Bai Xuefeng replied: "I received a letter from home yesterday,

My mother is old, and she has been in poor health since the beginning of spring this year, so she wants me to go home. ”

Lei Yiming asked, "How many days will it take?"

Bai Xuefeng lowered his head and replied, "This ...... I joined the army at the age of 18 and have never lived at home for a long time, and I have never been filial to my parents. My mother is now looking forward to me going home, marrying a wife, having children, and adding another generation to her. So I'm going, maybe a few months, maybe a few years, maybe just—"

He stumbled over his words, and every sentence seemed to be unspeakable, so Lei Yiming made up for him: "Maybe he won't come back, right?"

Bai Xuefeng's face was red: "You need manpower now, but I have to leave, I can't stand you, you have cultivated me for all these years." ”

After saying this, he knelt down with a "grunt" and kowtowed to Lei Yiming - he really wanted to go, and he was ashamed and ashamed, so he was willing to kowtow to this head. And Lei Yiming looked at him blankly, didn't speak for a long time, and then opened his mouth softly: "Don't say anything about cultivation or not, you have contributed to me before and after the saddle over the years, I should be kind to you." ”

Then he sighed: "You have to go home and do your filial piety, I won't stop you, it's useless to stop you." ”

Bai Xuefeng slowly stood up.

Lei Yiming twisted his face away, didn't look at him, and only asked, "When are you leaving?"

Bai Xuefeng replied in a snort: "My mother is very anxious...... If I could, I would like to leave tomorrow. ”

When Lei Yiming heard this, he felt like he had a toothache, frowned and sighed again, and then stretched out a hand to Bai Xuefeng: "Pull me,

I'll go upstairs!"

Lei Yiming went upstairs into the bedroom, wrote a check for 5,000 yuan, and gave it to Bai Xuefeng: "It's not a good time for me, if you don't have more, I'll give you these!"

When Bai Xuefeng saw the check, he was rarely disheartened, and lowered his hands and refused to accept it: "Uncle, if I do this, it is simply an escape, if you don't blame me, I am very content, how can I still have the face to ask for your money?"

Lei Yiming tucked the check into the small pocket on his chest: "You can follow me to this day, you can already be regarded as having a conscience." Look at Zhang Jiatian, look at Lin Zifeng, which one didn't I pull up with one hand? What are they doing to me now?"

When Bai Xuefeng heard the words "Lin Zifeng", he was a little weak-hearted, and he was afraid that his face would show his tracks, so he simply bowed deeply to Lei Yiming and only said, "Thank you, uncle." ”

Lei Yiming had long known that Bai Xuefeng couldn't follow him forever, and now that he heard that he was leaving, he didn't feel so sad. It wasn't until the next morning, when Bai Xuefeng brought a few changes of clothes and really walked up to him to say goodbye, that he was dumbfounded.

He said to himself, "Are you really leaving?"

Bai Xuefeng didn't have the ability to read minds, so he nagged and told Lei Yiming a few words of gossip, then he carried his luggage sadly and relaxedly, and went out to the car to the train station.