Chapter 20: The Trap
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In the morning, Cong Ye developed the habit of opening his eyes at half past five on time, and within five minutes, including dressing and grooming, everything was done. Standing in the courtyard, for fear of affecting Yan Chengcheng's sleep, Cong Ye just stood there quietly, according to the old man who still didn't know his name when he was in the orphanage, facing the place where the sun rose in the east, and began to repeat in breath and breath.
Since drinking high liquor that night, Cong Ye has become accustomed to meditating at night before lying down to sleep. After a few days, I felt that the inexplicable heat flow in the meridians seemed to have grown a little stronger. The growth of the heat flow made the clump leaf clearly feel the increase in strength. With daily practice, the leaf has become more and more familiar with how to channel the heat flow. Just like standing still now, maintaining the rhythm of inhaling and exhaling, as long as the mind of the bush leaf arrives, the heat will come immediately.
In the eastern sky, after the sun had already risen a golden edge, Cong Ye found that his sister-in-law's house had not moved, so he went to the kitchen and began to make breakfast for two. After a while, after breakfast was ready, Yan Tingcheng also got up and came to the courtyard, and said with some apologies:
"I'm sorry, I'm up late today."
"Sister-in-law, it's okay, you've always been cooking, and I'm a little embarrassed."
Seeing that Yan Tingcheng seemed to be a little tired on his face, Cong Ye asked with concern:
"Didn't my sister-in-law sleep well at night?"
"No?"
"Then how can you see that my sister-in-law's face is a little pale?"
Yan Chengchengqiao's face was slightly red, she turned her head to look away, and whispered:
"It's really fine."
Cong Ye saw that her sister-in-law suddenly blushed, so she didn't ask any more, and came to the house with the prepared breakfast.
"Sister-in-law, let's wash first."
The two had breakfast together, and Cong Ye said to Yan Tingcheng:
"Sister-in-law, I'm going, if I can't come back at noon, I'll call you."
Every morning, Cong Ye said goodbye with this sentence.
As before, Yan Chengcheng would stand up and send Cong Ye to the door, and only after watching his back disappear outside the door did he close the door.
"It's really a child who hasn't grown up, and I don't even know that girls have their monthly periods."
Yan Chengcheng thought in his heart, for no reason, and felt that his cheeks were a little hot.
Cong Ye came to the crowd waiting to be hired on the side of the street, habitually pinned his discharge card to his chest, and quietly waited for the arrival of his employer.
"Yo, you're a veteran?"
"Yes, just discharged from the army."
"Coincidentally, I'm also a veteran, but I'm a veteran."
The one who took the initiative to greet Cong Ye was a middle-aged man in his forties, almost close to fifty years old. The man took a closer look at Cong Ye's discharge card, and spoke again:
"Cong Ye, good name, my name is Jia Cheng."
"Brother Jia is good. Is Brother Jia also here to find odd jobs? ”
"No, I'm here for a worker. I was going to change the sofa and coffee table in a few rooms of the company, so I came to find someone to help me move out. Do you want to do it? ”
"Well, I'm here to find a job."
At this time, someone next to him also came up and wanted to talk to him, but he didn't want Jia Cheng to say:
"Okay, okay, there's not much work, one person is enough."
After speaking, he pulled the arm of the bush leaves,
"Come with me, Brother Congye."
"Okay."
Following Jia Cheng out of the intersection he was standing at just now, and turning a corner, Jia Cheng got into a relatively luxurious off-road vehicle parked on the side of the road, looking for a hand on the bush leaves.
"Get in the car."
"Brother Jia is a good mix, and he can afford to drive such a good car."
"Big brother, when I was just demobilized, I was the same as you, although I didn't do odd jobs, but I have been struggling on the poverty line, and I have only gotten better in the past two years. Brother do a good job, sooner or later you will surpass me. ”
"Ha, I don't dare to think that I didn't learn anything in the army, and I only have this strength to exchange for some money."
"Brother, don't be discouraged, no one is born with it, take your time."
The car circled around the city, came to a relatively secluded street, and stopped in front of a nightclub.
"Brother, here's the big brother's company."
After getting out of the car, Cong Ye saw that it was a nightclub, and couldn't help asking:
"Brother Jia opened it?"
"Yes, big brother, like you, doesn't have any skills. Besides, relying only on one skill can only make a living, and it is absolutely impossible to get rich. ”
While speaking, he led Cong Ye to the inside of the nightclub, the first floor is a very spacious front desk, along the stairs to the second floor, there are many rooms on both sides of the long corridor, Cong Ye briefly estimated, there are almost more than 20 rooms.
"Brother, come in and have a look."
Jia Cheng opened the door of a room, pointed to the sofa and coffee table inside, and said to Cong Ye:
"These sofas and coffee tables have been used for several years, and it is time to replace them, and many customers have responded. So ask my brother to come and move all the sofas and coffee tables out of these rooms, and if my brother can contact them, he can sell them for a few bucks, and give them to my brother. The salary is like this, how about a room for a brother at thirty? ”
"Brother Jia is whatever he says, and my brother just eats with strength, more or less."
"My brother really deserves to be a veteran, and he still has a military style in his bones, and my eldest brother likes it. In this way, the employees don't come to work until 1 p.m., and now there are only two security guards in the company, and the brothers are slowly moving, and new furniture will be shipped over as they move. I still have some business, so I'm not here with you. When the eldest brother comes back in the evening, let's have a good chat. ”
"Big brother just go and get busy if you have something, just leave it to me here."
Sent Jia Cheng downstairs, in front of Cong Ye, Jia Cheng instructed the two security guards a few words, and then got into the off-road vehicle and drove away.
Cong Ye returned to the second floor and began to move down one by one, although the sofa and coffee table were not heavy, but the volume was a little large, and the corridor was a little narrow, when moving to four rooms, Cong Ye had to sit down and rest for a while. Just as Cong Ye was sitting outside the nightclub and resting on the sofa he had moved down, a countryman on a tricycle asked in a foreign accent:
"This brother, do you want to sell these old furniture?"
"Sell. How much can you give? ”
Jia Cheng once instructed, and Cong Ye also knew that these old furniture, if no one wanted it, would eventually be thrown into the garbage dump.
"How much does my brother want to sell?"
"Hehe, if you give money, you will sell it."
The man looked back and forth a few times, and said to Cong Ye:
"A coffee table of five yuan, a sofa of eight yuan."
"It's a little less, so let's do it, a coffee table, a set of sofas, you give a total of twenty yuan."
"Twenty bucks? Then you might as well sell it to someone else. ”
"Eighteen?"
"Fifteen bucks for you at most."
"Okay, fifteen is fifteen, pay the money and load the car. There are twenty sets in total, enough for you to pull a few times. ”
Cong Ye is still very happy, Jia Cheng gives thirty yuan for each room, and a set of furniture is sold for fifteen yuan, which is forty-five yuan, twenty rooms, but nine hundred yuan, catching up with himself to do odd jobs for several days. While settling accounts, Cong Ye was secretly grateful to Jia Cheng in his heart.
When Cong Ye moved to the twelfth house, it was already half past eleven at noon, and the person who collected the second-hand furniture was diligent, and after a total of four trips, he pulled away the coffee table and sofa that Cong Ye had already moved. Twelve houses, a total of twelve sets, one hundred and eighty yuan, a lot of money to Cong Ye.
"Brother, don't you rest at noon?"
Cong Ye did not answer the question of receiving second-hand goods, but looked back at the two security guards inside the door. The two came out and said:
"The two of us are going to have lunch now, lock the door for half an hour, you can eat too, and come back at half past twelve."
"Okay."
Cong Ye also felt a little tired, and also a little hungry, thinking that there were still eight rooms in the afternoon, not to mention, and to move the newly shipped furniture, just about to find a phone to call Yan Tingcheng and say that he would not go back to eat, he suddenly remembered in his heart, when Brother Jia Cheng left, he said that he would bring new furniture at any time, why hasn't it been shipped until now? In less than two hours, the nightclub will be open, and the furniture will not be delivered, so won't it delay business?
"It's a pity that I didn't leave a phone number for Brother Jia."
Cong Ye muttered, looked up at the two security guards, and found that they had long since gone away.
"Brother, I'll come back in the afternoon, don't sell the rest to others."
"Don't worry, you can come over a little."
"Okay."
The second-hand collector happily pedaled away on the tricycle. Cong Ye also went to the street next to him, first found a public phone, called Yan Tingcheng, and then casually ate a bowl of wontons and three pies at a snack stall on the side of the road. At half past twelve, Cong Ye returned to the door of the nightclub again, and when he saw that the door was open, he walked in, wanting to continue upstairs to finish moving the coffee table and sofa in the remaining eight rooms.
"Who are you looking for?"
Cong Ye was stunned, the person in front of him was no longer the two security guards in the morning, but a person he didn't know, who was in his twenties, and his hair was dyed with bells and whistles. Could it be that the security guards have changed shifts?
"I'm not looking for anyone, I'm here to work."
"What do you do?"
"In the morning, your boss Jia asked me to move the coffee table and sofa in the room, twelve rooms have been moved, and there are still eight left, you hurry up to Boss Jia and ask him when the new furniture will come, don't delay the afternoon business."
"What are you talking about Boss Jia? Still moving furniture? ”
Looking at the confusion on the young man's face, Cong Ye had a bad premonition in his heart at this time.
"I'm the owner of this nightclub, where did I come from? You come up with me, and I'll see what you've moved? ”
Cong Ye now understands a little that he should have fallen into a trap designed by others.
Just as the two were talking, four more young people came in from outside the door, all dressed like the self-proclaimed boss just now.
"Brothers, look at him, don't let him run."
After saying that, the young man who claimed to be the boss quickly went up to the second floor, and in an instant he heard shouts from upstairs.
"What a big guts, robbed in broad daylight, the sofa and coffee table in my twenty KTV rooms actually moved twelve rooms for me, if I come an hour late, will there be nothing left?"
The young boss came down from the second floor with a shout, and when he came to the first floor, he had just finished speaking.