After two glasses of beer, Li Rui took out his cigarette.

"Wow! Red China! Fang Qiang's eyes widened, "Brother Rui, you are this, then I will be embarrassed to take it out." As he spoke, he took out a pack of unopened Hongtashan from his trouser pocket, probably bought it when he bought wine.

In 93, China was still relatively rare, and the hospitality cigarettes of the county leaders were basically Hongta Mountain.

"Then let's switch." Li Rui threw the cigarette in his hand to Fang Qiang and took his Hongta Mountain. Think about having two packs of cigarettes in your bag, and give him another pack.

Fang Qiangle's eyebrows opened and smiled. Hurriedly pulled out one, and took a beautiful sip. If everyone was a little polite before, then as soon as the wine was drunk and the smoke was a little, the distance between the two sides suddenly became a lot closer.

"Brother Rui, where do you work now?" Fang Qiang opened another bottle with his tooth wrench and filled it for Li Rui.

"In the Municipal Planning Commission, the Planning Commission." The planning commission and the discipline inspection commission are homophonic, and they generally have to be dragged with the full name.

"This is also the real power department." Fang Qiang pretended to be old-fashioned, and then asked, "Brother Rui, you said that you stayed well in the capital, why did you think of coming back?" ”

Li Rui, who asked this question, was a little embarrassed, he couldn't shake out his bad things. In these years, the values of ordinary people are: the dreams of rural agricultural hukou want to be converted into urban hukou and eat imperial grain; The county finds a way to get to the city; In the city, the eyes are set on provincial capitals or big cities such as Yanjing and Shanghai. Of course, being able to go abroad is the highest ideal. Like Li Rui, who returned to Pengcheng from the capital, it is a little incomprehensible in the eyes of ordinary people.

"Oh! I see, you're a devolved workout, down gilded, right? Without waiting for Li Rui to answer, Fang Qiang patted his head and suddenly realized.

Li Rui could only smile and remain silent.

"Of course it's gilded." Aunt Fang walked out with the hot chicken soup, and said: "Xiao Rui is doing big things, how can you not have a serious business until now, you will be in charge all day long, learn from Xiao Rui in the future, and have a chance to make a career as soon as possible." Otherwise, your dead ghost dad won't be able to close his eyes underground. ”

"Mom, why are you here again!" Fang Qiang put down his chopsticks and said unconvinced: "Although I am not as good as Brother Rui, I am not in the entrepreneurial stage now, when your son is developed, you will wait to eat and drink spicy food." ”

"I don't expect you to be prosperous. As long as you can be down-to-earth and don't make me scared, then I will be Amitabha. "Apparently the two of them had a lot of arguments about it.

"Fang Qiang, what are you doing now?" Li Rui was worried that the two of them would quarrel, so he hurriedly asked.

"I'm working with a few friends on an engineering team right now. I was an engineer when I was a soldier, and I didn't touch a gun a few times in three years, and I was dealing with cement and steel bars. At present, the country has not always advocated economic construction as the center, and I think that this construction project will only increase in the future. Let's start with the engineering team, and in the future, we will set up a construction company, build high-rise buildings, and ......" Speaking of his own entrepreneurial goals, Fang Qiang is eyes are shining.

"Don't blow it! My ears are calloused. You said that it doesn't matter if you want a relationship, if you want money or not, who will do the project for you. With this effort, it is better to go to the construction site to do small work, and it is better than you dreaming all day long. We are ordinary people, I think you should honestly find a job. Aunt Fang, who sat down at the table with a bowl of rice, couldn't help but pour cold water on Fang Qiang's head.

Aunt Fang is right, it doesn't matter if you don't have money to start a business, there is basically no possibility of success. Especially in the country we live in, relationships trump everything. Li Rui thought that his lobby brother's approval changed hands for tens of millions, relying on relationships. Isn't there a saying, next to the village head 10,000 a year, next to the township head 100,000 a year, next to the county head 1 million a year, next to the mayor 10 million, the provincial governor 100 million. It's about relationships. Some people talk about self-made business, hard work, etc., which are of course the basic elements of success, but if there is no noble person to help them, there are no unspoken rules, everything is not to be discussed.

Seeing Fang Qiang staring at Aunt Fang with wide eyes, a thousand were dissatisfied and ten thousand were unconvinced. Li Rui sighed in his heart, how many enthusiastic young people have had dreams, and how many have succeeded? There are countless heads that have broken and bled out!

Things must be opposed, the more Aunt Fang opposes, the more powerful Fang Qiang is. Li Rui still wanted to cheer up Fang Qiang, and said that he happened to be repairing the old house, so he was not a good candidate, and he would have to go out to find it again.

"Aunt Fang, I think it's okay to let Fang Qiang try it. What if it succeeds! Then you won't be blessed. Li Rui persuaded with a smile, "By the way, since you want to set up an engineering team, do you want to do a small job here?" ”

"Of course I did." Fang Qiang slapped his thigh, in fact, he and a few friends have not established the engineering team for a long time, and the lack of capital is one thing, but the most important thing is that there is no work.

"Brother Rui, don't worry! I will definitely do the work beautifully, and I will definitely not disgrace you. Fang Qiang slapped his chest with a thump.

Aunt Fang had heard that Li Rui was going to repair the old mansion before, so she glanced at the opposite side of the wall.

Li Rui smiled and waved his hand: "Don't be too happy, just repair the house next door." ”

When Fang Qiang heard this, his face suddenly stiffened, the so-called small job is to repair the house. He didn't know the situation next door, and if he simply repaired it, it would be a few thousand yuan to knock him down. It's really a small job, and it can't be smaller.

But anyway, it's alive too! Even if you don't make money, you can train your team. Fang Qiang's eyes turned, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" Since Brother Rui has ordered it, then I will take it. ”

"That's good! Let me tell you how to repair this house. Immediately, Li Rui drew on the table and introduced what the original repaired house was like.

What kind of anticorrosive wood walkway, what kind of collapsed back cover room should be changed, what kind of doors and windows should be made of the main house and side room, how to change the ear room into a bathroom, including what kind of greening should be planted in the yard, etc. Fang Qiang really couldn't remember, so Suo went back to the house and took a pen and paper, carefully wrote it down according to what Li Rui said, and also drew a sketch.

Don't look at Fang Qiang's babbling, the sketches he drew casually really have some skills, and they are quite decent.

"Brother Rui, this is not an ordinary small job, it is simply a big project. If you do that, I estimate that it will be at least 100,000 yuan. Fang Qiang roughly calculated, and couldn't help but smack his tongue.

Aunt Fang on the side was also startled when she heard this, and patted Fang Qiang: "You dead child, don't fool around, what 100,000 is enough to build a building." ”

Aunt Fang originally thought that repairing a house was just a matter of tens of thousands, Li Rui was working in Pengcheng again, and she had been a neighbor for so many years, so she just asked Fang Qiang to do a favor. But when Fang Qiang quoted a price of more than 100,000 yuan, he thought that this kid was deliberately cheating Li Rui, if this was the case, he would not be embarrassed.

"What! I'm not wrong, according to Brother Rui's words, I have to get this price. I haven't counted some accessories and furniture or something, if you add these, it is estimated that it will be one or two thousand higher. Fang Qiang said confidently.

Li Rui originally repaired the old house ten years later, when he spent a full 1.5 million, but it was demolished and rebuilt at that time. Now that the main house and the wing rooms are basically intact, and if they are renovated again, according to the original standards, even if the price rise factor is deducted, Li Rui estimates that it will cost three or four hundred thousand. Even if the hundreds of thousands quoted by Fang Qiang are not the cost price, the profit is very limited.

"Two hundred thousand!" Li Rui stretched out two fingers, looked at Fang Qiang and said, "I'll calculate the furniture for you, and I'll give you the list when the time comes." Can you take this job? ”

"Of course you can." Fang Qiang jumped up excitedly, "But Brother Rui, 200,000 is too much." Ten...... 180,000 I think should be enough. He was embarrassed to ask for too much, and if he could receive such a project, the engineering team of his dream could be successfully formed.

"Xiao Rui, is this appropriate?" Aunt Fang said tremblingly on the side. It costs 200,000 yuan to repair the old house, and she has never seen so much money in her life.

"Yes." Li Rui smiled and comforted: "Anyway, I have to repair the house, instead of looking for others, it is better to find my own people." ”

As he spoke, Li Rui took out the 20,000 yuan that Li Wenjun had given him last night from his bag, slapped it on the table, and the other party forced: "It's 200,000 yuan." Pay a 10% deposit in cash, and when you officially enter the market, we will calculate the money according to the progress. When the time comes, you come to Pengcheng to find me, or open an account in the bank, and I will directly transfer the account. But let's talk about the ugly things first, if you don't do a good job, I won't pay. ”

Li Rui knew that his brother-in-law gave him 20,000 yuan, and the purpose was to let him simply repair the house. The reason why he wants to do it in one step is that it is not bad money, in addition to the money that Zhang Zhuoyang has sent him in the past few years, in addition to having already spent, the balance is more than 500,000; Second, it is also considered that since I have decided not to go to Pengcheng to develop well, there will be more opportunities to come back and live.

Besides, on a whim, he handed over the task of repairing the house to Fang Qiang. One is that he doesn't ask for a high price, and he saves himself from finding other construction teams. There is also an idea that since Fang Qiang has the ideal and enthusiasm to start a business, he can help if he can, maybe he can start from this, no longer be a gangster, and he will not be in prison for a lifetime for fighting and killing people in a few years.

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