After staying in the store for a day, having dinner, and resting separately, Cao Xun followed Lu Li to his room, "How is it?" Luli took off his suit and hung it up, poured him a cup of hot tea, and asked, "Is it all right?" ”

"The problem is that you can't say it, it's just like you said, language is a big thing."

"Take your time, there's time."

Cao Xun nodded clearly and said, "I understand." But Xiaoxiao, I think the one named Ah Zhong seems to be a little dissatisfied with me. ”

"Oh?"

"Actually, think about it, if I were him, I might have an idea, if we were still in Tianjin (Tianjin), you suddenly brought someone back from Hong Kong, and then asked me to cooperate with him, maybe I would also be dissatisfied."

"Don't think too much about this, Ah Zhong is still a novice when it comes to doing business, but he is taking advantage of himself as a Hong Kong person, so let him be in charge of the store for the time being. From my point of view, treat all the people below as buddies and friends, just like you did back then—you remember what you said to me after my sister's incident—and treat others with as much heart as possible - that's why we people have been able to come all the way for so many years. As for whether others are in the same mind as us, I can't guarantee that we will see you in the matter. ”

Cao Xun smiled and nodded: "I agree." ”

"As for what you said he was a little unhappy with your sudden arrival, it's up to you. But you can rest assured, since I brought you here and put you in charge, then I will support you in all the decisions you make next. ”

Cao Xun listened to him talking, nodded frequently, and suddenly frowned, "Hey, no, Xiaoxiao, listen to what you mean, you don't want to care about the hot pot restaurant?" ”

"How can you not do it?" Luli laughed, "This is my business, no matter how big or small, after all, it is my hard work, and I will always pay attention to it." But right now, I have more important things to ......."

"Xiaoxiao, I'll stop you." Cao Xun interrupted him, "Xiaoxiao, don't mention it in Hong Kong, let's just say that on the Tian (Tianjin) side, a clothing stall and a mutton stall on Binjiang Road, how much money can you make a month?" Is there more, there are always three or five thousand yuan, right? In such an era, like my father, who has worked all his life, only gets more than 50 yuan a month, you ......"

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

"I mean, how much money are you going to make?" Cao Xun asked: "What you earn now in a year is enough for many people to earn in a lifetime, are you still not enough?" ”

Luley laughed at his question, "What, do you think there's enough money?" ”

"We are all ordinary people, we have food, drink, and a house, isn't this the end? Why do you make so much money? After a lifetime of hard work, I finally got a room of paper ......"

Lu Li bared his teeth, "Cao Xun, do you think this money is enough?" But have you ever thought that people like Ou Zihao, Zhou Bingcheng, and Xiao Yuan, their family assets are hundreds of millions, aren't they still struggling? Don't they have more money than we do? Our money, in the eyes of others, is not worth mentioning at all! So what? ”

"Pull it down, Xiaoxiao, I can't mean you anyway."

"It's not a question of whether I can talk about it, it's a real question. Lao Cao, you, me, Xu Yunjian, we have been buddies for so many years, and there are some things I haven't even told Xu Yunjian, so I might as well tell you here. When I am idle, I often think about my brothers, we were hungry from the beginning of our birth, and then went to school until we went to the countryside and returned to the city. Good guys, good, bad, chaotic, stable, didn't miss at all, all caught up - this stubble of political movements, don't you think we can live in such a big era, is it a blessing? ”

Cao Xun laughed, "With these experiences, do you call them lucky?" ”

"No, you misunderstood me, I don't mean that kind of luck, on the contrary, our peers, including ourselves, have suffered a lot. From this point of view, we are indeed unlucky, but when I say lucky, I mean the background of this great era. Especially now! As Lu Li spoke, his expression began to become excited, and his delicate and fair face turned red, "Cao Xun, I don't hide it from you, when I sold clothes, I really had the idea of honestly looking for a place to work once I failed, and I had no more thoughts and plans at all, I could only say that I would take one step at a time; But the facts tell me that I didn't do anything wrong - what happened later, you can also be regarded as a witness, right, you have seen it all, right? ”

Cao Xun smiled bitterly and nodded, what he was most afraid of was Lu Li's expression, this grandson has a very inspiring ability, just a few words of kung fu, he fried all the blood all over his body! "Tiny, you ......"

Lu Li held his shoulder, as if to see his heart, "Believe me, Cao Xun, this is an opportunity given to us by God, as long as we can catch him, the world is so big, let me roam!" ”

Cao Xun sighed and said in a somewhat sarcastic tone: "Old classmate for many years, I didn't know you had such broad ambitions. ”

"Only I can't do it...... Lu Li also gradually calmed down and sat side by side with him, "I have to have the help of you, Xu Yunjian, Gu Zhong, and Ah Mao, and furthermore, more and more people will have to join in the future, but fundamentally speaking, there must be you and Xu Yunjian, as long as you stand by my side, no matter how many difficulties there are, I can also fight it back!" How about it, Cao Xun, will you do it with me? ”

"Nonsense, if I don't do it with you, why did I come to Hong Kong with you all the way?"

Luley laughed and held out his hand to him; Cao Xun shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand as well, and the two of them shook it tightly. "What a pleasure tonight!" Lu Li stood up, "You don't know, these words have been stored in my heart for a long time, and I have wanted to talk to my buddies several times, but I have no chance - Xu Yunjian's grandson, he is out of tune all day long, or you are ......, it is great that you are here!" ”

Seeing that his eyes were red, and there was nothing false in his feelings, Cao Xun was also moved in his heart, and he got up with him with a forced smile, "Then, let's have a drink?" ”

"Good offer! Let's go downstairs and have a drink! ”

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Although with Lu Li's support, Cao Xun did not dare to be pampered, at least, in the very beginning, he did not dare to do so.

But even so, he was still squeezed out by almost all Hong Kong people below Gu Zhong, not to mention, Cao Xun Cantonese is not good, the best way is to learn more and communicate more with Hong Kong locals such as Guo Chunhan and Guo Jiaju, but to his surprise, the other party is not willing to deal with him at all, and he always has no time to prevaricate, but counts him behind his back, "Waste!" If you can't learn it yourself, we have to accommodate him? Is it so easy to speak Chinese? ”

"You pull it down, people have a boss cover, what can you do?" Gu Zhong said in a weird manner: "Bear with the sea and the sky for a while!" ”

A week has passed, Cao Xun's Cantonese conversation skills have not improved at all, and he is still in a state where he can't understand a word, watching others smiling at him, still smiling - he thinks people are talking to him with good words.

Lu Li watched coldly, but he never made a statement, until the 24th, the month was about to end, he decided to take a decisive measure, "This is this month's salary ......" Lu Li took out envelopes from the iron box as usual, and sent them to twenty-nine people, looking at the cheerful smiling faces of the men and women under him, he sneered in his heart, "I have something to say today." ”

“…… Cao Xun has been here for half a month, and he hasn't learned Cantonese at all, partly because he is stupid ......"

Everyone laughed! Lu Li didn't smile at all, and said with a cold face: "The other more important reason is the indifference of Guo Chunhan and Gu Zhong!" Gu Zhong, you may think that I am using your old martial arts hall in Xingyimen, you are also a Hong Kong person who has followed me the longest, and you are also the person in charge of this hot pot restaurant, so I won't do anything to you, so I will target Cao Xun everywhere, right? ”

Gu Zhong was startled, he could hear from Lu Li's words that he was ill-intentioned! "No...... No, no, no, no......" He stammered, "Brother Li, I didn't mean that. ”

"Maybe you didn't, but you did! You think I'm blind? Cao Xun followed you for three days in a row, learning Cantonese with you, and at the same time asking you about business, did you reply to him? Selfish bastard! Lu Li said in a hard tone: "This month's salary is the last month you get from me, and from tomorrow, you don't have to come." ”

Ah Mao was also frightened, and hurriedly pleaded, "Brother Li, don't?" ”

"You don't talk nonsense!" Lu Li glared, and he was frightened to take a few steps back, "Ah Mao, I know that you and Gu Zhong are good friends, if you choose to go with him, I will never stop you!" In addition to Gu Zhong, there is also Guo Chunhan, who is young and can't learn to be an honest man, so he knows how to hug other people's thighs and watch the wind to be a man! Tell you, it doesn't matter who you hold on to your thighs! It doesn't work to look at that gust of wind. It's the same for you, this is your last day at work, starting tomorrow, get out of here! ”

"............" There was silence in the small hot pot restaurant, only Lu Li's voice was echoing, "This restaurant was founded by me Lu Li with one hand and one foot, and I use who doesn't use who can't take the turn of others to speak." Gu Zhong, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and pack your things, get the things that need to be done, and get out of here! ”

Gu Zhong didn't want him to be so decisive, he looked left and right in a daze, his expression was in a trance, and he suddenly found Xu Yunjian beside him, his finger touched him, and gave him a look, Xu Yunjian understood at a glance that he wanted to intercede for him, looking at his pitiful appearance, it was really not good, he swallowed dryly, "That ......"

"Shut up!" Without waiting for him to speak, Lu Li threw his anger at him again, and scolded with his halberd finger, "Xu Yunjian, you are in your twenties, let me tell you what to order?" Don't do serious things all day long, let me ask you, how much have you managed in the store? ”

Of course, Xu Yunjian was not as unbearable as he said, but seeing that his face was pale, he knew that he was angry, so he simply chose to shut up.

"Gu Zhong, Guo Chunhan, what are you two waiting for?"

Gu Zhong looked at each other, with a bitter face, neither to leave, nor to stay, and in the midst of a stalemate, Cao Xun walked out, "That, Xiaoxiao, have a word with you?" ”

Lu Li gave him a blank look, and his tone slowed down a little, "What do you want to do?" ”

"That, you're the boss, whoever you want to fire and stay will listen to you, but I've just arrived, and I still don't understand a lot of things, so you let them stay for a few more days, so when I learn, you let them go, okay? You see, I've just come here now, and you've fired two people, as if it's what happened to me, okay? ”

"No way!"

Cao Xun's eyes rolled, he knew very well what Lu Li's purpose was in doing this, "Then let's do it, if you have to drive them away, I will leave too!" I'm taking the car back to Tianjin, I don't care about things here, how about it? ”

"Fart! Cao Xun, what are you trying to threaten me? To tell you, I don't eat this set. ”

Cao Xun laughed, "I know, I know you don't eat this set." Isn't that a rush to this point? How about you give me another month, and after a month, you drive them away, and then I don't say anything? ”

Lu Li pondered for a long time, knowing that he was in the current situation, this scene was almost over, his main purpose was to let Cao Xun establish his prestige in the store, and punishing Gu Zhong was just a matter of using the topic, "Gu Zhong, Guo Chunhan, did you hear that?" ”

"I heard, I heard!" The two nodded urgently. "We all heard it."

"Today, I will give Cao Xun a face, and keep the two of you for a while. I remember that the hot pot restaurant is not surnamed Gu, nor is it surnamed Guo, but surnamed Lu! Give me honest work, and your monthly salary is a lot of yours. If anyone dares to be disobedient and make any small moves behind his back, he will get out immediately! ”

"Yes, yes, yes, we all remember!" Seeing that Gu Zhong and the two were silent, Guo Jiaju said on behalf of everyone.

"That's it, what to do, what to do."

Xu Yunjian and Li Tiehan beckoned, and led the twenty or so people who were so frightened that their faces turned pale that they scattered like birds and beasts.

The so-called people are bitter insects, if you don't scold, you can't do it, this time you stand up in public, the means are not clever, but the effect is very obvious, Gu Zhong, Guo Chunhan and other Hong Kong people are a lot more honest after he was angry with him; Guo Chunhan's performance was the most obvious, following behind Cao Xun all day, accompanied by a smiling face, many times, without waiting for Cao Xun to speak, he took the initiative to use Chinese and Cantonese with an accent to explain to him several times in a row. (To be continued.) )