23. Business damage (three watches)
Liang Ju didn't have classes in the morning, so he went home to see his parents.
After a day of delicious food at home, I was ready to leave home for North Star in the evening.
She didn't tell her parents about her part-time job, but when she did, Liang's father was definitely the first to disagree.
Before leaving, Liang Ju changed her shoes at the entrance, and Liang's father stood beside her and looked at his somewhat emaciated daughter, but he was distressed.
"Girl, eat on time at school, if your pocket money is gone, tell your father, don't wronged yourself." Dad Liang came over and touched the child's face distressedly, "Tell Dad what he wants to eat, it's really not good, Dad is ready to send you to school." β
"Dad, I'm really fine, isn't it all popular to lose weight now, besides, you see that your daughter is as strong as a cow now."
Liang Ju raised one arm to show his muscles to Liang's father, but compared with Liang's father, Liang's mother was much calmer.
"It's good to lose a few pounds, and I'm yelling to lose weight every day."
When pushing the door, Liang's father still took advantage of Liang's mother's inattention and secretly stuffed a few hundred yuan to Liang Ju, "Be careful yourself, call your father if you have something, by the way, you have time to come back for dinner." β
"Thank you, Dad!"
Liang's father quietly gestured to Liang Ju and asked her to quickly put the money in her pocket, making Liang Ju cover his mouth and snicker.
I took a car to North Star, and when I arrived at the gate of North Star, there was still more than an hour before work time, and Liang Ju was idle, so I went to the square in front of North Star for a walk.
"Hey, the girl in the white sweatshirt in the front, stop me!"
Liang Ju walked a few steps before she heard a rough voice behind her, she stopped and looked at both sides, except for passers-by who did not stop, no one stopped, looked down at her clothes again, sure enough, white sweatshirt.
Liang Ju turned towards the voice, and what caught his eye was a wicked smile on Shapi's face.
"Where are you going, little girl, play with my brother for a while." Shar Pei leaned against a telephone pole and stood there with one leg bent and one leg bent, cigarette in his mouth and ruffian all over his body.
Liang Ju pouted, and also walked over with a ruffian.
Walking in front of Sha Pei, Liang Ju gently hit Sha Pi on the shoulder with a fist and snatched the cigarette from his mouth, "Dude, borrow a fire." β
"Get out, what is it bad for a little girl to learn, dare to learn from others to smoke!" Shar Pei became more and more like a big brother to Liang Ju, he snatched Liang Ju's cigarette and knocked her on the head hard.
"Hmm, tap!" Liang Ju covered his head and coquettishly, "Why are you so ungentle!" β
"Don't be ruthless, how do you have a long memory?" Shapi took back the cigarette and put it in his mouth, and took out a plastic bag full of snacks from behind him and handed it to Liang Ju, "Oh, don't say that my brother is not good." β
"Hey, hey!" Liang Ju's eyes lit up when he saw what he was eating, "Thank you, brother, it's still Brother Shapi who is good to me!" β
"Just call my brother directly, it's so kind."
Shapi sat directly on the steps at both ends of the big round ball in the square, he watched Liang Ju eat while smoking, afraid that she would choke, and specially bought a bottle of drink and handed it to her.
"How's it going, what is North Star doing?"
"Of course, what can't I do with your sister?"
"Blow you." Shar Pei indulged in a handful of Liang Ju's short hair, and ruffled her neat hair.
Liang Ju didn't bother with him, took a sip of his drink, and took out a bag of dried fruits for him, "Brother, when did you come back?" β
Shapi waved his hand and returned the dried fruit to Liang Ju, "I came back this morning, I slept for a day, and I will come to Beixing to see you at night." β
Liang Ju is happy in her heart, her parents and sisters are few, and the whole family is still girls, except for some seniors who know a few years older than her at school, in fact, she really doesn't have a brother in a sense.
"What's going on, how did the task that someone assigned you to complete?"
Shar Pei continued to smoke a cigarette, "It's okay, I don't know yet, I don't know much, I can't do it very well, and the hard work is definitely numb." β
"Come on, don't brag."
"What are you lying to!"
There were a lot of people walking in the square, and there were even kite flyers, Liang Ju bit his lip and pushed the sand skin on the side with his elbow, "Then who came back with you?" β
Shar Pei raised his eyebrows and deliberately asked, "Who?" β
"Tsk, don't pretend, be serious."
"Look at your appearance, you won't ask directly!" Shar Pei put the cigarette at his feet and stepped on it directly, "My brother came back with me." β
"And he's here tonight too?" Liang Ju tilted his head and asked.
"Well, it's coming, but don't mess with him now, don't mess with him lately."
βWhyβ
Shar Pei sighed and rubbed his hands together, "There may be something wrong in business." β
His words coincided with those of Mei Mei and Yang Qian that day.
Liang Ju immediately put down the snacks in his hand and sat up straight, "Then what should I do, do I have to accompany a lot of money?" β
"I don't know, they don't sue me, I guess."
Shapi's cell phone interrupted his next words, and Liang Ju watched him pick up the phone and say a few words, then hung up again.
Sha Pei turned his head sideways and looked at Liang Ju, "My brother's phone, let me go, are you with me?" β
Liang Ju thought about it, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, there was less than half an hour before he went to work.
She got up from the steps and patted the dust off her buttocks, "Let's go, I'll go with you." β
***
At night, a waterfall like inky blue pours over the surface of the Nancheng River.
Mao Dong held a cigarette in one hand and put the other in his trouser pocket, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looking down at the crowded street below.
In the haze, he exhaled a long smoke ring, and his handsome face was obscure.
Zhong Ling pushed the door and entered, and what he saw was his lonely appearance.
His back was straight, but he was helpless.
"When did you come back?" Zhong Ling turned on all the lights in the office for him and lit a calming incense.
"This morning." He leaned sideways and snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray on his desk.
The indoor air was slightly stuffy, Zhong Ling asked Mao Dong if he wanted to open the window, Mao Dong nodded and sat back on the sofa.
He didn't choose to sit in the boss's chair behind his desk. He believes that position belongs to Zhong Ling.
"How's it going, busy?" Mao Dong looked at Zhong Ling.
"Business is good, and I'm used to being busy." Zhong Ling poured him a cup of tea and sat on the sofa for one person. "What about you, how's the business over there?"
"It's fine." Mao Dong closed his gaze and lowered his head to drink tea.
Zhong Ling pondered for a long time and gently held her cup, "Actually, you can confess to me." β
Mao Dong's eyelashes moved, his expression remained unchanged, and he continued to drink tea.
Zhong Ling said: "Tell me the truth, how strict the loss is this time." β
"Zhong Ling." Mao Dong put down the teacup and gently put it back on the tea table. He looked up at the group photo still sitting on his desk. "There are not many things about the North Star, I threw it all to you, I am ashamed of you."
Mao Bei's smile in the photo made Mao Dong feel a lot more relaxed.
He said: "You don't have to pay attention to other people's words, those boys like to say things strictly, in fact, it's okay." β
He got up from the couch and patted his trouser leg that had been stained with soot just now, "Help me open a private room tonight, I want to go and sit." β
Zhong Ling looked up at Mao Dong walking towards the door of the office, and suddenly asked, "If Mao Bei is sitting here, will you hide it from him?" β
Mao Dong's footsteps can be stopped.
He turned around, his handsome features concealing the whirlpool stirred up in his heart, and he couldn't see any expression.
"It is my brother and I to be optimistic about the North Star."
***
When Sha Pei went to the private room, Ah Yuan and Mao Dong were sitting on the sofa talking about something. Seeing him coming, Ah Yuan immediately stopped when he wanted to speak, picked up the beer on the table and drank.
Sha Pei is most annoyed by others doing things behind his back and deliberately guarding against him, he is not used to seeing Ah Yuan's face.
"Huh." He sneered, closed the door of the private room angrily, and 'bang'.
Ah Yuan raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, but Mao Dong still had no expression on his face.
"Ah Yuan, tell SΓΉ Shar Pei about the matter." Mao Dong said lightly.
Seeing this, Ah Yuan looked at Shapi's awkwardness and said, "There is a problem with our business, and we are very strict." β
Putting things aside, Shar Pei is fine. "What's going on?"
Ah Yuan simply told him about the matter, Shapi listened, and hammered the table hard, "Since it is because they changed the material to non-waterproof without authorization, then the Guangzhou manufacturer must be responsible!" Why should we carry the black pot! β
"Those people have already run away, where to find them!" Ah Yuan was also in a bad mood, so he didn't let his tone speak.
Although this incident has been reported to the police, Shapi still feels angry, and he said to Mao Dong: "We can't let us out this money, we have to go and get those grandsons back!" β
"Where to look?" Ah Yuan asked.
Shar Pei was stunned, and suddenly said, "It's really not good."
"What can't you do?" Mao Dong's smoking hand paused, he frowned, and his tone was cold.
Ah Yuan interjected: "You can do it, if you can't think of any way at the critical moment, you will know that you will be rude!" If it weren't for you who couldn't control it and fought with those people, Brother Mao Bei's shop, could it be smashed! β
Shar Pei narrowed his eyes and was stunned for a long time.
He kicked over the chair and stood up, pointing at Ah Yuan, "What the are you talking about?"
The door of the private room was pushed open, and Zhong Ling entered through the door.
Seeing Ah Yuan and Sha Pei both standing there and glaring angrily, she was stunned for a moment, "What is this for?" β
Shar Pei snorted, and one last glance at Ah Yuan turned to play darts, while Ah Yuan gave up his seat to Zhong Ling and went to the bar with a wine glass.
Zhong Ling asked people to put all the hot meals prepared in the kitchen on the glass table in front of Mao Dong, and she personally poured him a glass of water, "We have a new chef from the south, you can try it and see how it goes." β
Mao Dong saw that she was a little slender, and asked with concern: "Are you too tired to take care of your own business, do you want to find an assistant for you?" β
Zhong Ling sat in Ayuan's position just now, "No need, I can do it myself." β
When the soup was served, Zhong Ling swept the ashtray in front of him, and there were already a few broken cigarette butts still in it. As soon as she came in, she smelled a smell of smoke, and she handed him the soup as if nothing had happened.
Mao Dong wiped his hands with a napkin, put the discarded paper towel in the trash, and reached out to take it, "Thank you." β
"You two should come over and have some food, too." Zhong Ling said to Shapi Ayuan.
Shar Pei didn't know what was wrong, he was holding a breath on his face, and he threw the darts with great strength and ruthlessness, "Don't eat it!" β
"Tsk." Ah Yuan stretched out his hand and dragged him, "How can you talk to Sister Ling!" β
Mao Dong drank the soup casually, and his eyes didn't look at Shape.
Zhong Ling walked over and poured a drink and put it on the bar next to Shapi, "I haven't seen my sister for a few days, why are you still angry, let's go, go and taste the pork ribs that my sister made for you." β
"I've said it all, don't eat it!" Sha Pei shook his arm, Zhong Ling was defenseless, staggered, and his arm just touched the cup off, and fell to the ground with a 'bang'.
"Shar-Pei, don't be too pushy!" Ah Yuan banged the case and got up.
"I'm just going to be so energetic! Don't say you're trying to teach me a lesson now! β
Shar Pei threw away the dart and got up, and the two of them were almost nose-to-nose, both angry.
Seeing that she was about to make a move, Zhong Ling's heart was about to jump out of her nervousness.
"What are you two doing, do you want to smash this!"
Mao Dong didn't know when he had gotten up, and he walked out of the shadow of the sofa.
For a while, the noisy box suddenly quieted down, Sha Pei and Ah Yuan were still staring at each other, and the anger on their bodies had not subsided.
The door of the box suddenly slammed a few times from outside the door, Zhong Ling didn't know whether to open the door or not, turned her head to look at Mao Dong, and saw Mao Dong bowing slightly, before she went to open the door.
"Sister Ling, Xiaohui at the front desk said that Mr. Zhang came with a few people, not only indicating that he wanted this room, but also "At this point, the waiter paused, stretched out his head to poke into the box, and his eyes were fixed on Shapi.
"What more?" Zhong Ling asked softly.
"I also want our big boss and Sister Ling to take Brother Shapi to greet him in person."
"It's really embarrassing!" Zhong Ling heard Sha Pei scolding angrily behind him, and only then did he guess where Fang Cai Sha Pei's anger came from.
Zhong Ling bit her lip and instructed the waiter, "Just say that the big boss is not there"
"Zhong Ling, sue him, I'll go down in a while."
"Brother!" "Brother!"
Ayuan Shapi shouted in unison.
A-Yuan said, "Brother, why don't I go down with Shapi." β
Mao Dong shook his head, "He must know that I'm here, otherwise he wouldn't let me go down." β
"Brother, he deliberately wants to make things difficult."
Mao Dong raised his eyes and looked at Zhong Ling at the door, "Don't go, help me watch Shapi, and Ah Yuan and I will go down and have a look." β
Shar Pei was angry, and when he raised his hand, he swept all the glasses on the bar table to the ground, and there was a roar in the box.
"I want to fucking slaughter this bastard!"
Sha Pei rolled up his sleeves and said to Mao Dong: "Brother, I was the one who formed the beam in the first place, you don't have to help me clean up this mess, I'll see what this beast wants!" β
Ah Yuan stood in front of Sha Pei, "Okay, now is the critical moment, the old man of his family is responsible for our piece, if you offend, don't think about continuing to open this bar, we are already unlucky enough, don't add to the chaos." β
"I'm making trouble?" Shar Pei pointed at himself, his eyes almost like they were about to pop out, "What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson, you think our brother doesn't know all the you did behind your back!" If it weren't for you, would our big brother have died! β
"You make it clear to me, what does Brother Bei's death matter to me!" Ah Yuan grabbed Sha Pei's collar and was about to beat him, but Sha Pei didn't let him, and raised his hand to pinch Ah Yuan's neck.
"That's enough, shut up!"
Mao Dong's face was gloomy, and he stared at Ah Yuan and Sha Pei tightly.
"I said that no one is allowed to mention the events of the year, if you can't remember it, you will get rid of me immediately!"
Zhong Ling stood behind them in silence, she looked at Ah Yuan, and remembered Sha Pei's words just now, and didn't know whether to tell the truth or not for a while.