Wang Qiao knew that Emin really wanted to invite himself to dinner, and said, "Okay, let's invite the classmates to have a good meal today." ”

Ai Min looked at Wu Chongbin and the others again, and said, "Are they all your classmates?" ”

Wang Qiao did not hide it, and said: "I am repeating my studies in No. 1 Middle School and preparing to take the university entrance examination. ”

Ai Min was stunned for a long time, asked once, and then knew that she had heard correctly, gave a thumbs up, and said, "I didn't expect you to have this kind of ambition, please come in." ”

Aimin's small shop is about 30 square meters, and the store is simple in decoration, clean and tidy.

Walking out of one of the several waitresses in uniform clothes, she said with a smile: "You are Wang Qiao, Sister Du often talks about you, and our ears are calloused." Several of us used to be in the same team with Sister Du, and now we are still in the same team. ”

When Emin walked out of the kitchen, she changed into the white uniform she usually wears in the kitchen, put on a white hat, and said, "I didn't learn the craft well, but I learned the chef's shelf first, isn't it funny?" Although the opening of a small shop in Changdong failed due to subjective and objective reasons, it made her see the prospect of opening a restaurant, and also made her realize the limitations of her ability. Now, she has opened a small shop in Jingzhou, and the waiters are all sisters from the former factory.

Wang Qiao said: "I think it's very good, at least it feels formal and clean, it seems that your ambition is not small." ”

Emin said: "I don't have ambition, I just don't want to fail again." Today I was lucky enough to buy a black fish at the vegetable market. ”

The deeper Yan Lin came into contact with Wang Qiao, the more she discovered his secrets, and she was like a little girl who was exploring treasures, following Wang Qiao into the kitchen, listening to his secrets with joy.

Wang Qiao squatted on the edge of the pool, observed the black fish in the pool, and concluded: "This black fish lives in an average environment, the water quality is not very good, and the color is yellowish." ”

Emin said: "I recently went to my hometown, walked along the river for two or three hours, and only received one fish. ”

Wang Qiao said: "Black fish is a cold-water fish with low yield, so there are very few restaurants specializing in black fish. ”

Emin said, "That's true. I used to want to make a black fish restaurant, but because I often can't buy black fish, I can only give up making a black fish restaurant, open a small restaurant, and concentrate on making home-cooked food. One of the masters I worshipped said that my mother's taste is a good taste, which inspired me a lot. The biggest advantage of opening a small restaurant is that there are no debts, we have a small capital, and if we owe a few more meals, we will collapse. ”

Wang Qiao thought about the increasingly muddy river in his old hometown, and said, "It would be nice if we could artificially breed black fish." The owner of the black fish was my cousin, and he never succeeded in artificial breeding, so he gave up. ”

Emin said: "No wonder it was difficult to have a stable supply market for black fish later. ”

At this time, Emin was in a difficult entrepreneurial period, but her mental outlook and thinking problems were very different from those in Changdong. Wang Qiao, as the former savior, is sincerely happy for Emin's change.

Yan Lin interjected next to him: "Wang Qiao has sold fish? ”

Wang Qiao introduced: "This is my classmate Yan Lin, this is the restaurant owner Ai Min. ”

Emin is a woman who has been married and has children, as a person who has come over, she almost immediately saw Yan Lin's thoughts about Wang Qiao, and enthusiastically introduced: "If it weren't for Wang Qiao's support and help, my restaurant would definitely not be able to open. ”

Wang Qiao didn't let Emin continue to talk about the past, and said: "You should have a lot of harvest when you go to the restaurant to steal art, and you have to test it today." Back to the pot meat, mapo tofu, stir-fried double crispy, meat slice soup, these are the most popular home-cooked dishes in Jingzhou, the most test of basic skills. ”

Emin stretched out his left hand and said, "With the knife in my hand, I am still very confident." You make the black fish, and I want to taste the taste of your food again. ”

Wang Qiao smiled: "You are now a professional standard, I am doing it blindly, and I dare not play a big knife in front of Guan Gong." However, I haven't made a black fish for a long time, and my hands are really itchy. ”

When walking back to the lobby from the kitchen, Yan Lin joked to Wang Qiao: "I didn't see that you are still a generalist, you write well, your calligraphy is beautiful, you can fight savagely, and you can cook." It's a pity that math stinks and I haven't passed the exam. ”

Wang Qiao said: "Strive to pass the end of the term." Speaking of this, he drilled the figure of Liu Jianchang in his mind, stopped, returned to the kitchen, and asked, "Do you have anyone to collect protection money when you open a store?" ”

After more than a year of "Jianghu" career, Ai Min is no longer a rookie who has just opened a store, and she takes this matter lightly, and says: "Someone came over the next day after hanging the signboard and spent money to avoid disasters." ”

Wang Qiao said: "Do you remember the policeman in Changdong? He made meritorious contributions in Changdong, was sent to the Provincial Police Academy to study part-time for one year, and was assigned to the Jingzhou Criminal Police Team after graduation, does he need to come forward? If you don't pay protection money, you can save a little bit. ”

Emin shook his head and said: "No need, pay some protection money, and if there are other miscellaneous skins to make trouble, you can also call them to help, and the effect of finding the police for small things is not necessarily good." If you really want to encounter ** trouble in the future, find your classmate again. ”

Wang Qiao said with emotion: "The very important purpose of the government's tax collection is to ensure the safety of one party, and now it is necessary to pay protection money to the underworld in exchange for peace, which is completely chaotic." If this continues, there will be a big mess in society. ”

Ai Min said: "We ordinary people can't manage so much, only pay attention to practical interests, which way can open the small shop, I will use which." ”

When Wang Qiao walked to the kitchen, Yan Lin followed again. She stood at the door and listened to the conversation between the two, Wang Qiao's remarks were beyond her life experience, she felt that Wang Qiao was so mature, and her eyes were full of tenderness and admiration when she looked at him.

When Wang Qiao returned to the lobby, Emin stood in front of the stove and began to cook, whether it was shaking the pot or putting her hand in her mouth to taste the taste, all with the posture of a professional chef.

"Hello." Yan Lin took advantage of people's inattention and went into the kitchen.

Emin glanced back at Yan Lin's beautiful clothes and hair, and said, "Don't get too close, the smoke is heavy." ”

Yan Lin took a step back, took a small step towards the court, and asked curiously, "You and Wang Qiao knew each other before?" ”

Emin said, "Old friend." ”

Yan Lin wanted to know Wang Qiao's past, but she couldn't show it too obviously, so she gossiped around the bend, trying her best to lead the topic towards Wang Qiao.

Ai Min has been in society for a long time and understands human accidents very well, so he took the initiative to say: "I met Wang Qiao two years ago, when he came back from Quang Nam for a vacation. With that, she remembered that she had almost stepped into a situation from which she had one foot, and she couldn't help but feel a chill in her back.

Yan Lin said: "Is he coming back from Guangnan?" ”

Emin nodded, "I didn't know at the time that he came back from Quang Nam, but I found out later. ”

Two women stood in front of the stove, and you talked about Wang Qiao word by word.

In the lobby, Wang Qiao drank tea and listened to Wu Chongbin and Tian Feng chatting. He enjoyed the courteous and attentive service, but his mind flew back to two years ago.

Two years ago, in the winter, Wang Qiao returned home from Quang Nam. After only resting for about ten days, I felt very uncomfortable being idle in the factory, so I often went to play in the fish pond contracted by my cousin.

My cousin is a weirdo who left the Red Star Factory to start a business, but with the culture of engineering automation, he went to contract a fish pond to raise precious and rare black fish.

Blackfish is a cold-water fish that grows slowly, but it is delicious and not cheap. My cousin saw the potential of the black fish, so he used the flowing water river in his old hometown to raise the black fish. My cousin is a person who is willing to study, but the people who are engaged in engineering raise the small black fish they collect very strongly, and the business is quite good.

Wang Qiao occasionally helped his cousin deliver fish to Jingzhou and Changdong. On the eve of the Spring Festival, my cousin fell ill, and Wang Qiao, who made a cameo appearance to deliver fish, became the main force.

In the process of delivering fish, he ran into Emin.

That time was very tight, and it was already seven o'clock when I arrived at the outskirts of Changdong. Wang Qiao's stomach was so hungry that he found a random roadside shop outside the city, fried hot dishes, asked for hot soup, and devoured and drank.

Since the 90s, the eight-character principle of "categorical guidance, grasping the big and letting go of the small" for industrial enterprises has become a popular buzzword throughout the country, and county-affiliated state-owned enterprises, especially small state-owned enterprises with poor economic returns, have carried out reforms one after another, sold them to collectives or individuals, or implemented the joint-stock cooperative system, with the result that a large number of workers have been laid off one after another.

The silk factories in Changdong County have been the hardest hit, with thousands of laid-off female workers. A small number of female workers and some women who had no jobs in the first place were forced into the quagmire of roadside shops by life in order to make a living.

Wang Qiao rode a motorcycle into the city, his face was full of dust, he looked much older than his actual age, and he rode a motorcycle, much like a businessman who had been running outside for a long time. When he parked, he saw a flat-headed young man squatting not far away, but he didn't care and entered the store.

A woman in the store sat in the corner to observe Wang Qiao, and when Wang Qiao took out the pager, she made up her mind, walked over, sat opposite Wang Qiao, and said, "Handsome guy, eat alone?" ”

Wang Qiao didn't understand what this woman meant for a while, glanced at the woman, said "um", and continued to eat.

"Do you want to play a game?" When the woman asked this, her face turned red instantly, and her expression was quite unnatural.

Wang Qiao understands what it means to "play a game". Every time he went to Changdong County, he had to meet with his classmate Yang Hongbing, who was a policeman, and when he was chatting, Yang Hongbing talked about many new things he encountered at the police station, and the endless roadside pheasants were one of the important contents.

The woman is in her twenties, with a good figure, plumper than a young girl, and does not have the loose strength of a middle-aged woman, but her face is coated with a thick fat powder, and she opens her mouth when she speaks, which is strange and scary.

Wang Qiao noticed that the woman's palms were relatively large, and there were slight calluses on the tiger's mouth, and she thought that she had also done manual work.

In terms of temperament, this woman looks like a city person, not a rural person. People in the city have done foul language, and they come to this kind of roadside shop again, and there is a good chance that ** is from a silk factory. Wang Qiao couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, in the past, when the female workers of the silk factory got off work, a large group of young women always dazzled him, a young man.

The woman looked at Wang Qiao silently, her expression became embarrassed, she was forced to walk into this kind of roadside shop, she didn't expect to meet an uncooperative man in the first attack.

"We're cheap here, and the upstairs is clean." The woman squeezed out a smile, trying to pretend to be the fiery expression of a dusty woman.

Wang Qiao shook his head and said, "I still have something to do after eating, forget it." The woman stood up disappointed and prepared to leave. Wang Qiao said: "Don't wear heavy makeup, look crazy." As if pricked by a needle, the woman stood up angrily, blushing to her ears, she sat down again, got up again, took a piece of paper, went to the toilet, and when she came out, the heavy makeup on her face was washed off. After removing the heavy makeup, the woman looked much more pleasing to the eyes.

A Chang'an passenger car came outside the door, and after the door opened, several men came down from inside, and the first person to come down was Yang Hongbing, who was thin and tall. Xiao Pingtou, who was squatting outside the store, greeted him and said to the middle-aged man behind Yang Hongbing: "There are four young ladies inside, three are upstairs, they must still be trading, and they should be able to catch the current." ”

When the woman saw these people, her face changed suddenly, she hurriedly sat down beside Wang Qiao, and said, "My name is Aimin, you can help me, say that you are with me." Wang Qiao glanced at Yang Hongbing and said, "My name is Wang Qiao." ”

After several policemen entered the door, one person stood at the door, and the others, led by Xiao Pingtou, went straight to the second floor. The boss followed the police upstairs with a disgraced face, he kept handing out cigarettes, several policemen ignored him, and no one took his cigarettes.

Wang Qiao finished the last bite of fried shredded pork and shouted: "Boss checkout." A middle-aged woman with a meaty face came out of the kitchen and said, "Twenty-five." ”

Wang Qiao said: "It's so expensive, I just ordered a fried meat, a vegetarian soup, fried meat for a maximum of six yuan, two yuan for vegetarian soup, and ten yuan a day." When the woman saw the police guarding the door, she was upset, and took out a wooden board from the counter, on which the price was written, including twenty pieces of fried meat and five pieces of vegetarian soup, and said angrily: "We are the real price, and now the price of vegetables has risen so high, it is not much to charge you twenty-five." ”

Wang Qiao often helps his cousin deliver fish, and he is very familiar with the price of the Changdong restaurant, and he is unhappy when he is knocked off the bamboo pole by the roadside shop. He pulled out two ten-dollar tickets, slapped them on the table, and said, "Give you twenty." ”

The proprietress took two ten-yuan bills and muttered, "If you don't have money, don't come out to eat, it's a good thing." ”

Wang Qiao stared at the proprietress and saw the public security at the door, endured his anger and did not have a seizure, and raised his legs and walked out. Emin, the woman who removed her makeup, hurriedly followed.

The public security officer guarding the door stretched out his hand, blocked the door, and said, "Don't go." ”

Wang Qiao said: "Why? ”

"We are from the police station, routine inspection, please cooperate."

"How long it will take, I still have something to do."

The police officer was impatient: "If you want to stay, you will stay, there is a lot of nonsense." ”

Wang Qiao said: "I have dinner here, I haven't done anything illegal, I know what you are investigating, where is someone doing that kind of thing on the first floor." ”

Judging from the expression of the public security guard, he agreed with this statement, but did not let him go, and said, "You still have to wait for a while." His eyes glanced over Emin's face.

The police upstairs soon returned, bringing down the three men and three women who were disheveled. When Yang Hongbing went upstairs just now, he just rushed up, and didn't notice Wang Qiao who was eating, and when he went downstairs, he saw Wang Qiao at a glance, he was a little surprised, and walked over and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Wang Qiao said: "I went into the city to deliver fish, and by the way, I ate here." ”

Yang Hongbing said in a low voice: "How can you come to this kind of roadside shop to eat, and you are working like that upstairs." ”

Ai Min heard the conversation between the two, and looked at Wang Qiao anxiously, it was the first time she came out to do this, she didn't expect to encounter anti-pornography, if she was really imprisoned in the police station, and her family or neighbors knew about it, then she really didn't have the face to live in this world.

Wang Qiao saw Ai Min's anxious eyes, and poured out a chivalrous feeling of saving the weak woman from fire and water, and said, "No one has stipulated that we are not allowed to eat here, Ai Min, let's go." ”

Yang Hongbing looked at Emin with suspicion, he and Wang Qiao knew the roots, almost all the women who had dealings with Wang Qiao, he knew or heard of them, this "Ai Min" really came out for the first time. Suspicion to suspicion, he still walked up to the middle-aged man and whispered a few words.

Wang Qiao took Emin out of the roadside shop smoothly. Out of the shop, Emin let out a long sigh of relief. Wang Qiao saw that several police officers were still staring at this side, so he simply did good things to the end, and said to Ai Min: "Where are you going?" I'll send you back. ”

"Please send me to Eleven Middle School." Emin sat in the back seat of the motorcycle, and she subconsciously leaned back to keep her body at an appropriate distance from Wang Qiao.

"If my family knows that I did this, what should I do if I am arrested by the police station?" The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and the more grateful she was to the man in front of her.

When he arrived at his destination, Emin got off the motorcycle and said to Wang Qiao, "Thank you." Out of the environment of the roadside store, she became a good family woman again.

Wang Qiao consciously did a chivalrous thing, very arrogant, and said: "I don't think you do this either, don't go in the future." ”

This sentence hit Emin's most sensitive nerve at once, and she bit her mouth and said stiffly: "You think I want to do this? It's not impossible! If there is money, who wants to do such a thing? ”

Wang Qiao still didn't understand what kind of pressure could make this clean and simple woman do skin and meat trading, and said, "You can do a small business, and you can also support your family." ”

"I don't have the capital." Emin looked at the barrel behind Wangqiao's motorcycle and asked, "What business do you do?" ”

"Fish sellers."

"What fish?"

"Blackfish."

Emin smiled bitterly: "Black fish is a good thing, but it is expensive, and ordinary restaurants can't afford it." You persuaded me not to do that, I want to open a small black fish restaurant, I don't have the capital, okay? ”

Wang Qiao was moved by compassion and said, "How is your skill in cooking fish?" ”

"Who can't make fish in Changdong, to be honest, my level of making fish is not bad."

"You can open a small restaurant, and you can use the black fish as a signboard."

Emin shook her head: "My parents are sick and need money every day, to be honest, I don't even have ten yuan at home." ”

Wang Qiao ran business in Quang Nam, and he was not very old, but he was well-informed, and suggested: "You can just make a small family-style restaurant, and maybe you can do business." You go and get a basin with two black fish and give it a try. ”

Emin didn't expect this to happen to her first visit to the roadside store, so she got off the bus a little far from her home, bypassed a few buildings, and went up a stone ladder before returning home. Entering the door, the father sat in a chair, covered with a thick quilt, with his mouth open, exhaling with difficulty. "Whoosh, whirring" like the sound of an exhaust fan has been ringing in the house for several years.

"Are you feeling better today?" Emin knew that this was nonsense, and every winter, his father's emphysema was extremely sad, and he breathed like a shabby old bellows, which was uncomfortable to hear.

"Okay, point, that's it."

"Where's Mom?"

"Go to the factory, go and report the account."

Emin knew that it was a luxury to find a factory to report the bills, sighed, turned over a basin at home, and hurried out. After going out, he turned around and copied the phone number of a nearby store.

Coming to the side gate of No. 11 Middle School, a tall man was still waiting on a motorcycle. When the two black fish were jumping around in the basin, Emin's nose was sore, and he almost couldn't control his tears, and said, "I have no money, so I can only pay on credit." ”

Wang Qiao said bluntly: "I'm going to come over next Saturday, if you really want to open a fish restaurant, come and pick it up, take credit first, and wait until you make money." Immediately, he started his motorcycle, like an ancient knight on horseback, and in the blink of an eye, he left Emin's sight.

This was the first acquaintance of Emin and Wang Qiao.

Emin also remembered this past when she talked to Yan Lin, but she wouldn't tell Yan Lin that she was so embarrassed that she wanted to be a roadside shop girl, but only said some small things related to Wang Qiao. When she was chatting, her hands were not idle, and the hot, fragrant stir-fry appeared on the stove like magic.

Yan Lin swallowed her saliva and said, "I'll serve the food." ”

Ai Min nodded and said solemnly: "Wang Qiao is a trustworthy person, you have to seize the opportunity." ”

This sentence made Yan Lin's face blush into a ripe apple.

(Chapter 48)