did not let the company send a car, and in the evening of the next day, Lin Quan took a river boat against the water. In the two months since he returned to Jinghai, Lin Quan has lived a wind-up life, and he has not had a good dinner with his family.

Kong Limin said that he wanted Xu Jian and Lin Quan to live in a villa developed by Dongdu himself, and the next day, a section chief of the administrative management department of Dongdu Group took a bunch of keys to ask Xu Jian and Lin Quan to pick a house. The villas are all finely decorated, and Lin Quan has no money to add luxury goods now, so let Fang Nan and Zhang Yifei live in it first, and sometimes Sun Feifei also lives in it, anyway, there are enough rooms, so it is inconvenient for Lin Quan to live in.

Lin Quan chose this slowest but most comfortable way to return to school, although there are many things that he still has no clue, whatever, anyway, he will definitely not be able to get out of the first few days, it is better to relax and relax.

Guo Baolin studied at the provincial university in a three-year junior college, which was his last year, and he had a two-month internship at the beginning. Guo Baolin stayed in Jinghai and was in charge of the demolition company.

Lin Quan stood on the back deck, blowing a cool river breeze, without the heat on the shore. Those who could not even afford to buy a fifth-class ticket spread mats all over the deck and a few mosquito nets put up, and those who could go to the Han River or further afield would have to sit on the ship for at least five or six days.

Approaching the hatch, by the leaking light, two shirtless men were playing chess, one with a flat head and twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and the other about thirty years old with a scar on the wing of his nose, which was a burn mark. Both of them have tanned red skin, bulging strong muscles, each with a bottle of Fenjinting liquor in two or two packs, and a plastic bag with braised vegetables open, and the two of them are playing chess and drinking meat at the same time.

The wonderful chess game attracted Lin Quan, Lin Quan rarely saw such a good wild chess.

Lin Quan squatted there and watched two games, Pingtou lost two games in a row, and the scorching scar man asked Pingtou to move to the side, and said to Lin Quan: "You come to the next game?" ”

The scorching scar's chess played really well, the flat head was not an opponent at all, Lin Quan happened to have itchy hands, sat opposite the scorched man, and quickly set up the chess pieces. Pingtou asked, "Do you drink?" "Hand over a two-tael gold pavilion.

Playing chess with them while drinking and eating meat, he lost three games after five games, and his head finally stopped to rest, he couldn't think about anything else, Lin Quan couldn't admit defeat. Pingtou praised him for playing well: "I play chess with Lao Gu, and only when he is in a good mood can he occasionally win two games." ”

The scorching man's surname is Gu, called Gu Liangyu, and the flat-headed man's surname is Fan, called Fan Chunbing, the two graduated from the same high school, came out to work together, nothing happened, and this time they are going to work in the provincial capital together. Fan Chunbing is very talkative, they have a lot of experience, they have done many jobs, restaurant cooks, cleaners, lathe workers, delivered express mail, sold newspapers, the two also collected waste together, opened a copy shop, worked as a real estate agent, and most of them lost money.

"City people look down on us, we go from house to house to collect old newspapers and scrap, people treat us as thieves, and the community does not let us in, thinking that we are here to step on the plate; In a copy shop, the photocopier that was taken over for 20,000 yuan was said to be ninety percent new, and it was scrapped after a month and could no longer be used......"

Listening to other people's hearty narrations, it was like wading into the river of other people's lives, chatting with Gu Liangyu and Fan Chunbing until late at night, and Lin Quan went back to his first-class cabin to sleep. Before leaving, he deliberately left his mobile phone in an inconspicuous corner, and when he woke up a little disappointed, he finished washing up and was about to go to the restaurant to eat, when he saw Fan Chunbing holding his mobile phone against the glass and beckoning him to come over.

It turned out that the flight attendants did not let them into the first-class area, and did not believe that they knew the people inside.

"Lao Gu, you invite me to drink, I invite you to breakfast, and the boat will not dock until half past eight."

"I don't know why, Lao Gu's mood is a little wrong, he was waiting outside with me, and then he went back to sleep alone."

"Let's go, find him."

Gu Liangyu stood on the back deck, leaning against the side of the boat and smoking, when he saw Lin Quan and Fan Chunbing coming over, he turned around.

Gu Liangyu's mind is more tired than Fan Chunbing's, and his behavior like this shows that he guessed that he deliberately threw his phone there. Think about it, how can anyone lose their mobile phone and not go back to find it?

Lin Quan looked at the cigarette ash that Gu Liangyu had bounced into the river, and he didn't know what to say for a while. He took out the pack of cigarettes from his hand, popped one out for Fan Chunbing, took out one and lit it for himself, crumpled the empty cigarette case into a ball, and threw it into the muddy river.

"Old Gu, what are you going to do when you arrive in the provincial capital?"

"We can do whatever job we can find, and this year, which is our turn to pick a job?" Fan Chunbing complained.

"You have worked as a real estate agent, I pay for it, how about you open a real estate agency?"

Gu Liangyu let out a long sigh, and that sigh fell on the leisurely river, as if he had made a difficult decision. Gu Liangyu turned around, looked down at the half of the cigarette butt in his hand, and said, "Okay, we don't have any level, and we can still do errands." ”

It was still early, Lin Quan called breakfast to the cabin, and Fan Chunbing looked at the neat but not luxurious facilities in the first-class cabin in surprise: "With this money, it is better to take a plane." ”

"I can't get to know you when I'm on a plane." Lin Quan smiled, from Jinghai to the provincial capital, the time to take the high speed is more reasonable, to do a plane, unless it is a private jet, otherwise on the way to and from the airport, waiting for the plane will be delayed for a lot of time.

When getting off the boat, Gu Liangyu insisted on rolling up the broken mats of the two, carrying them on his back, getting off the boat, and giving them to the homeless man by the dock. Lin Quan took a taxi to take Gu Liangyu and Fan Chunbing to the Bell and Drum Tower. In '99, the high-end residences developed in the provincial capital were concentrated near the Bell and Drum Tower, and at the end of '99, the average price there had reached 4,000.

Lin Quan pointed out 5,000 yuan and stuffed it to Gu Liangyu: "Old Gu, you go to find a house around here, two bedrooms and one living room, the hall should be large, the conditions should be better, I will go back to school first, and after you find the house, call me." ”

Lin Quan has no other luggage except for a small backpack, the backpack has an Ericsson mobile phone eliminated by Guo Baolin, a two-volume "Reminiscences of the Past", the upper volume is sandwiched with a fixed letter of credit issued by the CCB with a limit of 4 million yuan, and the next volume is sandwiched with a CCB VIP gold card with a credit limit of 1 million, in addition, there is also an asset certificate of joint investment, and there is a wedding gift for Sister Jingyi and Yang Ming.

In order to issue a fixed-term letter of credit with a limit of 4 million, the more than 4 million yuan of the joint investment was transferred to the special letter of credit account set up by CCB.

Lin Quan took a taxi to the General Hospital of the Military Region where Sister Jingyi worked. Lin Jingyi answered the phone and came out, wearing a white coat and affectionately dragging him into the hospital's complex: "You have lost a lot of weight, I didn't see you last time I went back to Jinghai, I heard that you caught Zhao Zeng to run errands." ”

"Oh, Lu Hong built a university town there, and that time he made a letter of intent for investment with the bank, what about Yang Ming, you said that you would get the certificate, and you didn't squeak, when will you go back to Jinghai to hold a banquet?"

"Colleagues, friends, classmates here, I didn't invite it, the house we rented expired, thinking that we would settle in the provincial capital in the future, renting a house is better than buying a house, Yang Ming has been looking for a house these days, and the whole person has become an African refugee. Houses in provincial capitals are really expensive, and the price has risen particularly sharply in the past two years, and according to the people in the column of Real Estate Weekly, it is expected to increase by 10% this year. I remember that the best houses in Jinghai are only 3,000, the houses in the Bell and Drum Tower are all 3,000, and the houses of 2,000 can only be found outside Jing'anmen. The down payment will be fifty or sixty thousand, and it will be renovated, and the last time I went home, I cried with my father that I was poor, and we were ready to postpone the matter of inviting wine...... Look, I'm telling you what you're doing here. I reported to school today, why didn't you come a few days early? ”

"There is no surplus food in the landlord's family these years, Dad, you don't know, what savings can the family have? How much do you lack, I'll mention it to Uncle Guo. ”

"A little big mouth! We can figure it out ourselves, you report to school first, and then eat together in the evening. ”

If Jingyi and Yang Ming can think of a way, they will not go back to Jinghai for help. Jingyi is just an intern, Yang Ming's salary in the newspaper is not high, Lin Quan didn't say anything, talked with Jingyi in the hall of the complex, took out the carefully selected wedding gifts, took the car to the school, rushed to the department at the point, signed and paid the tuition.

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