In the brightly lit restaurant box, Wang Ke and Su Renjie were smoking cigarettes, while Zhao Baogang and Zhou Qing had already left. Regarding the question of worship raised by Zhao Baogang, Wang Ke agreed without the slightest hesitation, after all, this small city in northern Jiangsu, as long as you agree with the other party's good character and identify as a person worthy of friendship, it is a local custom to worship as a brother.

Su Renjie didn't join, he himself had a few pounds and a few taels, he was like a mirror in his heart, even if Zhao Baogang and Zhou Qing proposed to let Su Renjie join together, but they were still politely rejected by Su Renjie.

Of course, Su Renjie is simply insignificant to Zhao Baogang and Zhou Qing, after all, what they value is Wang Ke, and for them, Su Renjie is at most a soy sauce player.

"Wang Ke, what you said before, I don't think it's a lie! Do you really plan to contribute to the economic development of our county? Su Renjie looked at Wang Ke curiously, since the last time his cousin came back, he found that he couldn't see through this cousin, not only did he have a career, but not only his skills.

Today's cousin, in his eyes, is like a flower in the mirror, so unreal, so elusive, and difficult to see.

The smile on Wang Ke's face disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by thinking and seriousness: "Cousin, you have lived in the county seat since you were a child, and you don't know how those poor people in the countryside of Ludao can't even afford to eat, how they feel in their hearts. They want to give their children good food and drink, but they have no ability, so they can only face the loess every day with their backs to the sky, get up early and work greedily in the dark. They want their children to receive a good education, they want them to go to school, and some people are even sick and are reluctant to buy those few dollars of medicine. Just carry it like this, and use the few dollars left over to make your child better. ”

After saying this, he was silent for several minutes before he continued slowly:

"Cousin, let's not talk about the children in the countryside, don't talk about the simple and kind people in the countryside, let's talk about you, my aunt and my uncle. Do you think your life is good? My aunt and uncle have worked hard for so many years, looking at other people's faces and begging for a living, the boss is unhappy, and even the words are dirty, but the aunt and uncle don't dare to conflict with the boss, otherwise the job will not be guaranteed. If you can't keep your job, they won't be able to provide you and your cousin with a happy life, they won't be able to feed you and drink well, and they won't be able to provide you with college. ”

"The standard of living in our county has improved, but it is a serious phenomenon, not only in our Fengcheng, but also in Changji City. People's lives are developing in a polarized rhythm, and rich people are getting richer and richer, because they have money, even if they have capital, because they have money, they have connections, money, connections, just like we do today, it is equivalent to having rights. This kind of person can only become richer and richer. ”

"And those who have a poor family life, they have no capital, no connections, no power, they can only rely on a little craft, or a little ability, struggle in this world, live, and live that insecure life."

After smoking a cigarette, Wang Ke reached out and lit another one.

"Cousin, what do you say people live for this life? I don't understand it, and I don't understand it, but I know that my parents worked hard to make money for me and my brother, because they didn't have any great skills, so they could only run and take care of this family, this family in distress. ”

"And I am more capable than my parents, yes, in terms of making money, I am more capable than their two elders, I can provide my children with a life of material conditions, a happy and carefree life. I can afford to take care of my parents, and I can give them a large sum of money to spend and live out their old age in peace. ”

"However, they can't spend all the money I earn, why am I making so much money? What am I doing with all that money? I don't know how to go, my career is just beginning, but I can see the future, I will have my dynasty, my career, my world, I can have the money I can't spend. ”

"People live, life does not bring death, what do I keep so much money for? In a bank, it's a bunch of numbers, and at home, it's a pile of dyed paper. ”

Reaching out and grabbing a bottle of beer that had been opened, and pouring it into his stomach in one gulp, Wang Ke's face was full of firmness and persistence: "Cousin, I am not a saint, and I don't want to be a saint." I don't have that idea of benefiting the whole of humanity, and I can't do it. But you say, what am I doing with all that money? I have more money in the future, what's the use of keeping them? ”

"I once read such a sentence in a book: how much ability a person has, how much he can do things."

"I'm not for any vanity, I don't want others to praise me, I have some ability now, so I just want those poor people like my parents to live a little better, even if it's a little better, even if it can only help a small number of people, but at the very least, I did, I can make that very small number of people no longer worry about money, no longer worry about not being able to let their children eat and not make money, and even let them no longer worry about not being able to afford their children's education."

Speaking of this, a trace of crystal tears appeared in Wang Ke's eyes:

"Cousin, do you know what to do? My academic performance is actually not bad, really, I have never told anyone, in fact, my academic performance, if I really give full play to my strength, I can at least be admitted to a national key university, at least a very good undergraduate. ”

"When I sat in the examination room of the college entrance examination, I looked at the test papers that I could clearly do, but I didn't dare to write all the questions, mathematics, chemistry, physics, these three test papers, the last page of the question, I didn't do it at all, and I didn't read it."

"I know that my parents are too bitter and tired, Wang Rui is still studying, if they want to let me study in college again, I am afraid that they will be tired, I am willing to retain my strength to get an average result, I would rather go out to work, I don't want to look at them more and more gray hair, I don't want to watch them more and more rickety bodies."

Two tears finally slipped from Wang Ke's eyes, and even one of them flowed into the corner of his mouth, making him taste the bitter taste:

"Cousin, September of that year was the time for me to go out to work, and that September was the time for fresh graduates from all over the country to step into the university. When I help others carry goods and do their labor, how I wish I could also sit in the spacious and bright classrooms of higher education; When I help people wash their cars, how I wish I could lie on my desk and read and study; I am looking for a job everywhere, walking on the bustling streets, looking at the carefree smiling faces of those college students, watching them be able to study while enjoying the nourishment of love, enjoying the taste of the young and heart-pounding first love, how I want to have a carefree, happy and satisfying life like them? ”

"Cousin, do you know what to do? Before I came to Changji City, when I found a stable job and worked in an antique shop every day, I was a silent person, and every day except in the antique shop, I went back to my residence and looked at the books I didn't know what Lu Dao wrote in a daze. ”

Su Renjie was shocked by Wang Ke's words, the throbbing in his heart, and even the bitterness in his heart, were violently turbulent, squirming his mouth, and he only shouted out two words: "Cousin......"

Wang Ke took a deep breath and quickly wiped away the two tear stains on his face, and a satisfied smile appeared on his handsome face: "Cousin, you don't have to say anything to comfort me!" Although I used to dream of going to university, it was like learning more knowledge and making myself more capable, but dreams are dreams after all, and since I still want to live, I must face reality. ”

"You see, I'm not very good now, even if there are so many high-achieving students, they are not as good as me. Therefore, if I can let some children like me, who want to go to school but dare not play in the examination room, can play freely, I will feel more comfortable and gratified. I use the money I can't spend enough to buy that comfort, buy that comfort, I think it's worth it. What do you think? ”

Su Renjie said without thinking: "It's worth it, it's not worth it." ”

Wang Ke slowly stood up, stretched lazily, and then said with a smile: "Cousin, I have a lot of words today, but every word I say is the true thought from the bottom of my heart, I am not so noble, I just want to do something that I think is meaningful and what I can do." Therefore, I will invest, and I will make Fengcheng develop better, even if it can't make money. ”

Su Renjie straightened his chest, slapped his chest with a "bang", and said firmly: "Cousin, if I can, I am willing to contribute to the kindness on your life path." ”

Wang Ke smiled loudly, stretched out his hand to put his arm around Su Renjie's shoulder, and said with that heroic smile: "No problem, I accept my cousin's help at any time, and I am willing to accept my cousin's help at any time on behalf of those poor people who live poorly." We two brothers, let go in the future, let go to create our business, for more people, for more people to have a better tomorrow. ”

Leaving the restaurant and slowly walking under the starry night sky, Wang Ke and Su Renjie put their shoulders on their shoulders, leaving that young back.

Wang Ke didn't know what happened, everything that happened this night, from the time Zhao Baogang, the number one person in the county party committee, asked Wang Ke if he really wanted to come back to invest, Su Renjie quietly turned on the recording device of the mobile phone, that is, from that moment on, every word and word that Wang Ke said was completely recorded by the collection and recording function.

That is, what Wang Ke said on this night, in the future Su Renjie's life path, when he was confused, when he was tired, when he encountered difficulties, deeply affected him, let him step by step, go further, and let him do a lot of things for those poor and kind people in the future.