Outside the walls of the provincial prison, snow spreads to the edge of the concrete pavement, and there are no people within a radius of several kilometers, and minibuses pass through only at certain times of the day.

Ma Jianping carried his bags on his back, and for the first time in his nearly 20 years of prison career, he trampled on the land outside the prison with a free body, and the dazzling sunlight made him squint his eyes, and he was extremely excited, and finally came out, and waited hard to finally serve his sentence, and finally could see his wife and daughter.

A pair of cotton shoes, canvas pants, two cotton jackets, 20 years, the world has changed, Ma Jianping feels that he is not lagging behind, has not been left behind by the pace of the times, he has always insisted on reading books in prison, looking for the wealth code of the new era in the professional field, he is confident that as long as he gives himself a little start-up capital and stage, he will be able to recreate brilliance. In the past, speculation and all kinds of dark side methods were crimes, digging into the corners of socialism, but now everything is rationalized and legitimized, and even if you don't know how to use the means, people will be criticized for not knowing the economy.

The wealth code is just an upgraded version of the digital game, Ma Jianping has a bamboo in his chest, and the current economic era is the era of people like himself.

Looking left and right, I didn't see the shadow of my wife, nor did I see the shadow of my daughter, nearly ten years, my daughter went to school in other places, and just came back to work for fear that people would know that there was a father who was in prison, so I came once; What about his wife, he didn't come a few times, Ma Jianping had some suspicions in his heart, but he was always willing to believe that everything was good, this time his sentence was reduced for more than a year, he didn't tell his wife and daughter, he wanted to surprise his family, called his wife, hoping that he could take his daughter to see him on this day, from inside the iron bar to outside the iron bars, in addition to the progress of the financial economy, the thinking was still stuck in 20 years ago, and he felt that this was a surprise This is romance.

The Ford Yihu stopped in front of Ma Jianping, the window rolled down, and the familiar figure had just left a cell.

"What's the old horse, I don't know it." Cheng Xiaoyu waved his hand and motioned to Ma Jianping's old horse head to hurry up and get into the car.

"I really didn't expect you to pick me up, Brother Yu." Contrary to Ma Jianping's expectations, the person he did not have deep contact with became the first person he saw after leaving the prison.

"I'm waiting for you to come out of the mountain to help me, can you be more attentive?" Cheng Xiaoyu threw the Chinese cigarettes on the dashboard to the old horse's head, not that he felt that he was worth enough to smoke China every day, but Pei Pei was in charge of his life, and there was no need to worry about tobacco and alcohol, Sheng Xiaolei had an inexhaustible supply of tobacco, alcohol and tea and other things over the years, as a leader, he could not accept gifts but could not avoid all the favors, although some tobacco, alcohol and tea were expensive, but they were still within the acceptable range, and it was also the only area that some leaders who did not want to have problems in the economy could touch. Sheng Huaiyuan, as the leader of a place, has naturally sent a lot of ushers in this area, he drinks by himself, most of them are eliminated in Sheng Xiaolei's stomach, and now there is another Pei Pei to help him eliminate.

"I'm a bad old man......" This time, Ma Jianping's words were not dead, no matter what business he did, partners and allies were indispensable to help him, Cheng Xiaoyu gave him a very good impression, and he didn't mind lifting the other party without affecting himself.

Uncle Ge's sentence has become the most popular buzzword in recent years: "What is the most expensive in the 21st century?" Talent. ”

Talents are rare, and Cheng Xiaoyu has gathered a small group of people around him, which is enough to deal with it freely in the current scope, but what about the future? With the ability to repair and the connections, Daewoo Electronics can become bigger and stronger, technology is the stepping stone, development is the last word, how many world-class or national-level billionaires are learning economic capital and financial management.

Whether Ma Jianping is a talent or not, whether Cheng Xiaoyu is the most needed talent now, still needs to try the waters, and now, maintain a good enough relationship and possible opportunities.

Look at the traffic on the wide road, look at the tall buildings, look at the fashionable crowd, look at the ...... Everything is new to Ma Jianping, some changes that can be seen on books and TV are far less shocking than what he has seen with his own eyes, this is no longer the Spring City he is familiar with, as a native of Spring City, Ma Jianping found that he seems to be unable to find a familiar grass and a tree, said that the rapid development of urban construction has made the city construction a step a year, and Ma Jianping, who has been imprisoned in a cage for nearly 20 years, has been out of touch with this society.

Fortunately, Ma Jianping also has an address and phone number, Cheng Xiaoyu drove the car to a residential community located in the south of the city, not new or old, it looks like there are ten years, with the Spring Festival gone, the spring flowers bloom and the light snow that falls from time to time forms a special climate state, dry and cold in the morning and evening, warm and wet at noon.

On Sunday, taking advantage of the warm sun at noon, many people are walking in the community.

Fourteen buildings, three hundred and two.

"Are you sure you're going up?" When Ma Jianping got out of the car, Cheng Xiaoyu stopped him, he had already found out the current status of Ma Jianping's wife and daughter through Xiong Wei's relationship, and he hoped that the old horse head would be mentally prepared.

Ma Jianping's body paused, he laughed, opened the car door and walked down, different from standing in front of the prison door and preparing to do a big job with a straight back, at this time his waist was slightly bent, as if he was under tremendous pressure.

The doorbell was pressed, and a man's deep voice rang out from the door: "Who?" ”

Ma Jianping's heart was cold, but he still replied very calmly: "Is this Ma Lan's home?" ”

"Oh!" There was an answer from inside, and I heard footsteps approaching, the door lock clicked, and an old face appeared in front of Ma Jianping's eyes: "Xiaolan is still sleeping, you look for ...... Huh, are you? ”

It seemed that seeing Ma Jianping's age should have anything to do with his stepdaughter, Zhang Guo was stunned for a moment, and then his wife Wang Xiuping, who was sitting on the sofa and looking at the door, stood up violently, strode over very excitedly, and looked at Ma Jianping standing outside the door in disbelief.

"Can I see Xiaolan?" Ma Jianping tried to keep himself calm.

Zhang Guo noticed it, looked at his wife, Wang Xiuping let Ma Jianping in, and explained to her current husband: "This is my ex-husband who I mentioned to you before and has been serving a prison sentence. ”

The ex-husband, Ma Jianping understands, the emotions are not there, the marriage is not there, the family is not there, maybe only the daughter is left.

"Hello, please take a seat." Zhang Guo looked very enthusiastic and personally took a pair of slippers for Ma Jianping on the shoe rack.

"Dad, I'm hungry, do you have any food?" As soon as Ma Jianping sat down, the door of a closed room opened, and a woman in pajamas walked out of it yawning, wavy hair, fashionable color, father and daughter, Ma Jianping recognized at a glance that this woman about thirty years old was his daughter, but Zhang Guo's subconscious actions and words made him re-press his standing body.

"Here, leave your favorite braised saury and winter melon soup."

At this time, a man came out of the door, in his early thirties, quite tall, very sunny, wearing the same style of couple pajamas, and yawning: "Dad, give me a cigarette, the house is gone." ”

"Huh." Zhang Guo took out the cigarette from the pocket of his shirt and handed it to his son-in-law, while walking to the kitchen to give his daughter a hot dish, the stepdaughter is also a daughter, sixty-year-old Zhang Guo has raised Ma Lan for more than ten years, and has watched her grow up since she was a child, and has regarded her as his daughter, and the other party has also regarded himself as a father.

As if thinking of Ma Jianping's arrival, Zhang Guo stopped: "Xiaolan, look who's coming." ”

Wary!

This is Ma Jianping's demeanor when he saw his biological daughter and son-in-law facing him, sitting side by side at the other end of the sofa, looking at himself with a sense of distance.

At this moment, Ma Jianping understands everything, and understands everything, this is a warm family, and he is already an outsider who should not appear.

"Don't be nervous, don't worry, I won't interfere with your life, for Xiuping, I am an ex-husband who has no responsibility, for Xiaolan, I, as a father, have never given her anything but life, Brother Zhang, you are a good person, a qualified husband and father, I thank you for your love for their mother and daughter over the years, in your opinion, you should deserve it, after all, you are combined, but here I want to thank you." Ma Jianping stood up and bowed solemnly to Zhang Guo.

"This, this, big brother, what are you talking about, sit down, smoke a cigarette." Zhang Guo was a little incoherent, he knew that the other party had a husband who was in prison when he walked with Wang Xiuping more than ten years ago, at that time Ma Jianping's sentence was indefinite, Zhang Guo was not worried, in recent years, as Ma Jianping's sentence was approaching, he was also very nervous, he thought that the other party would make a big fuss or something, who knew that Ma Jianping was such a cultivated man, which made him a little overwhelmed.

Ma Lan and her husband had an expression of indifference, as if all this had nothing to do with them, but Wang Xiuping had tears in her eyes, walked into the house, and took out a passbook after a short time.

"This is the money you left back then, to feed Xiaolan, the money for her to go to school came from here, and then I discussed with Lao Zhang and saved up the money again, twenty years, the current money is no longer the money of the year, don't be too little."

"What?" Ma Jianping didn't say anything, Ma Lan stood up and snatched the passbook in his mother's hand, 150,000 was an astronomical amount twenty years ago, but now it is just ordinary, and buying a house in Spring City is at most enough to pay a down payment.

"Mom, I want to buy a house, you said you don't have money, isn't this money? He gave birth to me, so he should fulfill his responsibility, and the 150,000 yuan should be regarded as his responsibility, no problem, right? Speaking of which, he looked at Ma Jianping again, full of strangeness, without any family affection.

"No problem, you wait for me a moment." Ma Jianping took three steps and two steps downstairs, came to Cheng Xiaoyu's car, and only said one sentence: "Lend me 500,000 yuan, my old life belongs to you!" ”

This is a stubborn or very special old man.

(To be continued)