Chapter 9: The People's Bath
"What are you frowning about, thinking that your father's money is not as comfortable as the money your mother gave? What a bastard. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Liang Gesheng smiled and patted Liang Baoguang's head lightly, "Don't be so brainless, this world seems to have changed a lot, but the most essential thing is always the same: cannibalism." Not only can we eat people, but we can also eat as we should and with a clear conscience. ”
Mr. Shuren's madman opened the history and checked, this history has no age, and the words "benevolence, righteousness and morality" are written on each crooked page. He couldn't fall asleep horizontally and vertically, and after reading it carefully for half the night, he could see the words in the cracks, and there were two words written all over the book that were "cannibalism"! Eating people and eating people, history is people eating people, Liang Gesheng's name alone exudes a breath of killing, and it is natural to implement these two words into practice.
South Korea is a paradise for money lenders, where private lending is protected by law, usury is not only reasonable but also legal, and all so-called credit companies are actually loan shark lending organizations. Because of the historical reasons of opening up the "international market" after the retreat of Hungnam, borrowing money has become a normal part of the life of Koreans, and the average Korean is burdened with a debt of 11 million won (about 60,000 yuan), and this figure is still before the interest, which shows the extent to which usury is rampant in South Korea, and the society of cannibalism is talking about Korea.
The credit companies under the New Life Group have a variety of private lending businesses, which first evaluate the loan amount based on the value of the collateral, and then set the interest rate based on the personal credit situation, which is very formal. However, no matter how regular it is, it is also a usury, as the name says, the interest is calculated very harshly, the lowest is 36% annual interest, and the highest interest rate is as high as 200%, because according to the monthly interest rollover, the income is terrifying.
It is easy to lend out, and it is not difficult for Liang Gesheng to collect money, as long as the professional debt collectors in the red tie of the Xinsheng Group come to the door, few people dare not buy it, and those few who want to repay the debts have paid the corresponding price. Since he has made such a transaction, he must abide by the rules of this industry, after all, he runs a credit company instead of a good hall, and he can find a loan from the door, how can he not have a concept in his heart.
"I have not seen him for more than thirty years; I saw you today, and my spirits were very refreshing. I knew that more than 30 years ago, I was all faint; However, great caution is required. Otherwise, why did the Zhao family's dog look at me twice? I'm rightly afraid. Lao Tzu Liang Gesheng used "Diary of a Madman" to talk about things, and Liang Baoguang also quoted a paragraph, although I don't know why Mr. Shuren has an opinion on the Zhao family's dog, but it is particularly appropriate here.
"The Zhao family's dog, why can't they bite the peninsula." Liang Gesheng knew what his son meant.
Liang Gesheng's reputation is actually very good, and everyone is afraid of him and respects him, because although he is a bit domineering, he is a rule-talker in the final analysis. And he still has three non-touches: he is not involved in the skin and meat business, the gambling stall business, and the narcotics business, and he does all legal transactions, but occasionally he brings some "local specialties" to make extra money, and the Seoul District Inspection can't get his handle.
"That's what I'm saying, and I'll still ask you for the money, counting all those self-made tycoons, which one didn't just have a personal computer at the beginning of the school and the eight million dollars he took from his father?" This stalk has been used up in the United States, but it is still on their lips, because every year there will always be a few "entrepreneurial myths" that jump out of the rhythm, a large number of young people are bewitched by them and mistakenly think that they are newborn predators, and when they go to the sea, they can turn into dragons in minutes like golden scales meet the wind and clouds, but when they really go into the water, they will find that they are just a small shrimp, and their only fate is to wait to be swallowed by others.
"Don't be poor, clean up and take a shower with me." Liang Gesheng wiped his mouth and stood up, and threw a box of soft China to Liang Baoguang. A cigarette after a meal, he beat the living immortals, he knew that his son's addiction to smoking was greater than him, and the quality of those paper cigarettes in the United States was not very good, so he lost a pack of Chinese past.
Because of the pressure of the environment, Liang Baoguang began to smoke since he first entered high school, and Liang Gesheng, as his father, not only did not stop it, but also connived, so that the teacher in Liang Baoguang's class (equivalent to the head teacher) was quite helpless, and called him to school without teaching the child, and always protected the child.
Mr. Yang Jiang's "Bath" has little to do with bathing, it should be called "Take Off Your Pants" or "Cut Your Tail" is more appropriate, and Zhang Yang's "Bath" is really a bath. Even the heroes and great men who were posthumously crowned later did not have so many epic plots, and most of them only cared about their own mediocrity, bit by bit. Liang Gesheng is such a person, he can do big things, but he also likes to enjoy ordinary life.
On the road east of Samcheong-dong to Bukchon Hanok Village, walk up the steps at the fork to a scenic promenade overlooking Gyeongbokgung Palace, and the steam bath that Liang Baoguang and his father used to go to is at the end of the trail, and the red brick building with a large chimney on top is it.
Soaking in the water is bound to be a wave of memory killing.
"What I look forward to the most back then is that every Saturday, your grandfather will drag me to carry your aunt to the bathhouse to take a bath, as long as I rub his back seriously, he will buy me a bowl of wontons to eat when he comes out. The firewood wonton stall at the door of the people's bathroom, the wontons are a dime a bowl, and they are more expensive, but they are all sold with full sparrow heads, and the pink ones are transparent, and there are so many pieces of meat that they seem to burst out. If you ask what you want to eat again, Liang Gesheng, an old gourmet, has never thought of any delicacies from the mountains and seas, but the firewood wontons at the door of the people's bathroom.
"The soup is fresh enough and delicious enough, and the soup is as white as new snow with pig lungs, but I will also drink a little soup, eight out of ten in a bowl of wontons are eaten by your aunt......" The voice of his sister Liang Gesheng was lowered, and there were memories and reluctance in his expression.
Liang Baoguang's aunt died in childbirth, and his grandfather Liang Yanzu did not stay with his daughter on the day of childbirth because of his work, and it was precisely because he was not present that Liang Baoguang's grandmother forcibly asked to keep the baby when the doctor informed the family that the situation had changed.
In modern medicine, there is no such thing as Bao Da and Bao Xiao, the death of a baby is a normal birth rate problem, and the death of a pregnant woman is a major medical accident. The doctor only said that the situation of the mother and the baby was not very optimistic, and asked the family to be psychologically prepared, but the old lady directly said that she should try to keep the small ones as much as possible, and the big ones should not be bothered. The majesty of the old lady of the Liang family is not something that a few doctors can compete with, saying that if they want to be small, they can only keep the small, but unfortunately the mother and son died, and none of them survived.
After the tragedy, Liang Gesheng beat the chief surgeon during his leave, and was punished by the army, but no matter how sad he was, he could only accept the fact that his sister died. He hated his mother's careless life, hated his father's indifference, hated the doctor's mediocrity and incompetence, and hated himself for not being able to take leave to take care of his sister, so it was a foregone conclusion that he would leave home, and then Yun Jingyi's matter was just another inducement.
"Don't mention that, come and rub my back." Liang Gesheng climbed out of the bathing pool and lay on the massage table by the pool, the Korean bathroom is not much different from the domestic one, and the guys who rub the bath are also the same style, "No one helped me scrub the bath for a while." ”
Liang Baoguang rolled his eyes, he absolutely didn't believe this kind of thing, because there were still leaves by his father's side, if the two of them hadn't played mandarin ducks playing in the water or anything like that, it would really be a fool, "Don't you feel sorry for what you say?" ”
"Women's hands are always weaker." Liang Gesheng understood his son's eyes and replied with a little embarrassment.
"Rubbing a bath is not a massage, and it's strange that the skin is broken when the hands are strong." Saying this, Liang Baoguang still worked hard to help his father rub his back, this man is used to carrying everything on his shoulders, so there is really not much that his son can do. A man can't say a word of love, but every word and deed that seems to be as plain as water is proof.
The father and son were broken and chatted about some unnutritious topics without a match, but the father and son should be like this, as for those arguments about the system and beliefs, there has been no more after Liang Baoguang's adolescence.
After washing up, the grandfather and son sat in the sauna, lazily slumped on the wooden bench, Liang Gesheng covered his head with a wet towel, and spoke a little urn-like, "Didn't your mother tell you anything before you came back, such as letting you stay with her?" ”
"Yes, but I don't really like life in New York, I'm too tired." This is to tell the truth, too many people yearn for the life of the world's capital, and New Yorkers will talk about the word New Yorker wherever they go, but in Liang Baoguang's view, living in a cramped small room, having to do those heavy and boring tasks that have to be completed every day, and occasionally getting a little vacation is like life in prison.
"Don't you want to be a big director, whether you like life in Los Angeles or not is what you need to consider, Hollywood...... If I hadn't entered the wrong industry back then, I would have dominated Hollywood by now, right? Liang Gesheng half-jokingly, but he inherited Liang Yanzu's handsome appearance, and it will not be too bad to really follow the path of an actor.
After Liang Baoguang heard the words "Dominate Hollywood", somehow an ironclad man with an energy shield in his left hand and a rocket hammer in his right hand suddenly appeared in his mind.