Except for Wang Qiao, the house is full of fellow villagers, and everyone has nothing to do after the holiday, so the atmosphere is warm, the wine is bold, and the four bottles of wine quickly bottomed out. Wang Qiao hurriedly brought four more bottles of wine.

By the time the eight bottles of wine were drunk, the feast was almost over. The well-dressed teachers and leaders usually talked about wine with great interest, and they kept making meat jokes, exactly the same as the behavior of the old townsmen when they were drunk.

Seeing off the drunken teachers, Wang Qiao hurried upstairs, threw himself on the bed like a sack, and fell asleep. It was almost noon when I woke up. After washing, he slowly went downstairs and asked for a bowl of noodles. After the noodles were cooked, Wang Qiao specially added a spoonful of stewed beef tendon.

was eating beef noodles, and Ai Min said outside: "Brother Man, come and answer the phone, Xiao Lu." ”

Wang Qiao came to the counter with a noodle bowl and said, "Have you arrived, it's really a long time to run." ”

"When I have money in the future, I must buy a sleeper." Lu Yifan stood on the side of the street, making a public phone, looking at the city where he lived.

"There will be bread, and life will be better." Wang Qiao encouraged on the other end of the phone.

The city is shrouded in cold, and the few pedestrians wrap themselves in down jackets with thick hats and masks on their heads. This is a very different street scene from Shannan, which is around zero degrees in winter, and although you also wear down jackets, there are not many people who wear hats. Thinking of the happy time of riding a motorcycle and swimming with Wang Qiao, I can't help but strengthen the thought of "I want to stay in Shannan".

After making the call, Lu Yifan carried a travel bag that had been used for several years on his back and walked briskly. Walk towards home. She used to have a lot of psychological baggage, and she always felt that she was the only college student in her family. You should contribute more to your family. Now the burden that was added either actively or passively was unloaded by Wang Qiao, so the pace of going home was brisk.

Walk into the old factory. The street scene is still the same. The concrete floor has not been repaired for a long time and has become potholes. Back in the heyday of the factory, there were groups of bicycles to and from work every day, and the riders on the bikes were full of working-class pride and the dignity of the protagonists. Today, most of these bikes are rattling old bikes, and the riders have long since gotten on them and left the factory. There are many stalls in the factory, but everyone is in a difficult situation, you set up a stall, I set up a stall. And to whom?

Lu Yifan saw his home from a distance, and his steps involuntarily became heavy. She thought about what Wang Qiao said, and once again strengthened her thoughts.

In the old taste of Shannan, today is the agreed reconciliation time, Ai Min took all the bills and account books to the office and soaked a pot of Tieguanyin. When I was working in the factory, I was as tired as a cow every day, and I used poor old tea bricks to make tea, and I did manual work. This kind of tea is enjoyable to drink. Later, she worked in different kitchens, first drinking old tea in large pots, and later making her own green tea. During this time of the old taste, she began to drink Tieguanyin.

Waited a while. Wang Qiao pushed the door in.

The reconciliation lasted a year and was familiar to both of them, starting with reconciling income and expenses. There are two types of income, one is the official invoice. The other type is a joint bill signed by the waiter, the front desk and Ai Min, and the expenses are much more complicated. Most of the expenses were receipts, as well as white slips, which were all acknowledged if Emin signed.

After the reconciliation was completed, Wang Qiao felt a toothache and said bitterly: "There was a lot of money on my account last year, a full nine thousand." Excluding the 5,000 borrowed by Zhao Bo, it cost more than 4,000 to invite guests to dinner, and the largest sum was generated yesterday, and it must be converged next semester. "According to the prior agreement, where Wang Qiao does not need money to eat by himself, he must hang up the account and deduct it together when he pays dividends at the end of the year.

Ai Min said: "It costs money to entertain guests, and what is accumulated is connections, and it will not be a loss in the long run." This year is the first year, the business is still in the cultivation stage, and the income will definitely double next year. You can buy a mobile phone, but you can't get a pager, and sometimes there is no way to contact you if you want to find it. ”

"The phone is too expensive, it's not necessary, the pager is forgotten, I don't like it." In the past, in order to contact Lu Qi, Wang Qiao once bought a pager for Lu Qi. After coming out of the detention center, Lu Qi's pager was deactivated, and from then on, he panicked when he saw the pager.

Emin said: "The turnover of the old taste is getting bigger and bigger, and we have to hire a formal accountant." The last time the tax bureau came to check the accounts, it was clear that our accounts were doing very honestly, but we were still found to have a lot of faults. Those tax officers thought we were making false accounts. ”

"Okay, let the professionals do the professional things." Wang Qiao agreed to this suggestion.

Subsequently, the two studied the year-end dividend plan and decided to keep a part of the cash to decorate the private room, and the rest to distribute dividends according to the proportion of shares. Wang Qiao received 25,000 yuan from the cashier, and he planned to repay Yang Hongbing's money first, Liu Hong and his sister's money will wait until next year, and the remaining 5,000 yuan will be used for miscellaneous expenses and living expenses next year. Compared with ordinary classmates, he finally turned over and lived a good life.

With 20,000 yuan in his hand, he rode all the way to Jingzhou. The sky in Jingzhou was gloomy and gloomy, like dusk, revealing gloom. At the door of the public security family home, you can clearly see the words "Jingzhou Tobacco", after three years, Wang Qiao originally thought that he could calmly face everything he was familiar with, but who knew that just a few big words of "Jingzhou Tobacco" made his heart ache unbearable like burning red chrome iron. Walking into the gate of the public security family courtyard, Lu Qi's figure was extremely clear in his mind, and it seemed to be floating in front of him, within reach. This made Wang Qiao understand that the memories of Lu Qi did not disappear and fade, but turned into cards inserted in his body, and when he pulled out the cards, Lu Qi in his memory was so vivid, so vivid that he was extremely depressed.

As soon as the door of Yang Hongbing's house opened, there was a strong smell of mutton soup. Yang Hongbing said with a smile: "The barbarian is really blessed, a friend got a leg of mutton from the countryside this morning, and you came over." ”

Wang Qiao looked inside the house and said, "Madame is not at home?" ”

Yang Hongbing said: "The little guy is at his grandmother's house, and his wife will not come back until the evening." ”

Wang Qiao was about to take out the 20,000 yuan, Xiao Zhong came over and said, "Brother Man is here, I'm thinking about you, it's time for the holiday, you should come over to report." ”

Wang Qiao knew that the 20,000 yuan was Yang Hongbing's private money, and he must not let Xiao Zhong find out, otherwise he would cause trouble to the family, so he quietly put the 20,000 yuan back.

Guests entered the house one after another, and the scene became lively.

Wang Qiao waited left and right, gave Yang Hongbing a few looks, and then went to the bathroom together. In the bathroom, Yang Hongbing got 20,000 yuan and said: "You pay back the money at this time, it's just a problem for me, Xiao Zhong practices white terror at home, and he can't save any money." ”

Walking out of the bathroom, Yang Hongbing took advantage of Xiao Zhong's presence in the kitchen to come to the second bedroom, thinking left and right and not knowing where to put it, and finally hid the money on the top floor of the bookcase. Xiao Zhong is busy with business every day, and he hardly settles in front of the bookcase, and the money should be safe hidden in the bookcase, and he will take time to deposit it in the bank another day.

After hiding the money, Yang Hongbing said to Wang Qiao, who was guarding the door: "Since the business is on the road, find a way to expand the scale, which is much more comfortable than taking a dead salary." The young criminal policemen who were separated from the Public Security University shed blood and sweat, worked hard, and only paid a few hundred yuan a month, and it was not worth it for the criminal policemen when they thought about it. ”

Influenced by the university, Wang Qiao now wants to enter the provincial party committee and the provincial government, and opened a restaurant just to solve the source of life when he was in college, so he didn't pay attention to Yang Hongbing's suggestion, and said: "The old taste restaurant is completely a regular business, and it didn't go out of the way at all." Since its opening, the taxation, industry and commerce, health and epidemic prevention departments have taken turns to inspect, and there have been ruffians and hooligans harassing them, and it has been done several times with the help of Li Cheng of the Dongcheng Branch. My sister will do business in the future, and I choose to enter the agency, which is the most reasonable division of labor in our family. ”

Yang Hongbing said: "Do you know Li Cheng? This person is considered a celebrity in the criminal police system, and when he was transferred to the detention center in Quang Nam, many people felt that it was a pity, and they did not expect to be able to return to the criminal police system. ”

Wang Qiao said: "When I was in Guangnan Sanguan, Li Cheng was the director of the detention center. At that time, Uncle Li approached him, and we became friends. ”

"Entering the government is also a way, after all, our society has thousands of years of official-oriented tradition." Yang Hongbing is also conflicted in his heart, on the one hand, he knows the importance of money, and on the other hand, there are still many problems that cannot be solved with money in today's society. In her own situation, Xiao Zhong's income from opening restaurants and song halls is much higher than herself, but when she chooses a life partner, she does not consider businessmen at all, and prefers to choose a police officer, the main reason is to improve the social status of the family.

In Northern Province, not long after Lu Yifan walked into the house, he faced the dilemma of a family with a very weak status.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back." Lu Yifan stood at the door, quite happy.

"Well, I'm back."

The father and mother were at home, but there was no joy that a daughter should have when she returned home, only the mother said yes and came over to help with the luggage. The father sat in the living room and smoked, coughing as he smoked.

Lu Yifan saw his mother Gao Mingli's dry gray hair and a barely squeezed smile, and said, "Mom, what's going on at home, what about my brother?" ”

Gao Mingli's tears burst out of her eyes and said, "Something happened to your brother?" ”

Lu Yifan saw that his mother only cared about wiping her tears, and said, "What happened to me, I was in a hurry." ”

Lu Yifan went to Shannan to study at university, and his eldest brother was the pillar of the family. If something happens to the eldest brother, the family will fall like the sky.

Gao Mingli said: "Your brother, Da Liu, and Sanzhu, a few of them fought with Li Quezui, Li Quezui was seriously injured, and now your brother has been arrested by the Public Security Bureau, and Li Quezui's people also said that they would hack our whole family to death." Don't come back, hurry back to Shannan. ”

Li Quezui is a social person in his hometown, and he has a group of brothers under his hands. And the eldest brother and a group of laid-off brothers in the same workshop are doing a small business nearby.

In the Northern Province, the two groups of them fought normally.

Lu Yifan's heart tightened suddenly, and his silver teeth clenched.

(Chapter 143) (To be continued......)

PS: Life is full of variables and choices!