Jin Ni couldn't even look at him directly, and slipped away, Xiao Jinyu was a little overwhelmed, and after a while, when they all went to the front, Zhuang Yuncheng also came over, "Yuncheng? Xiao Jinyu was extremely surprised.

"The rice is coming, my sister-in-law doesn't mind." Zhuang Yuncheng said with a smile.

Jin Ni hugged her daughter and said with a smile: "I don't dare to mind." ”

"Seriously, have you eaten it?" Xiao Jinyu asked.

"Nope." Zhuang Yuncheng said as he walked inside.

"That's just right, brother, I've been very depressed lately, and I didn't go to you because of a lot of things, today you're here, let's have a drink."

"Okay."

Jin Ni ate with the second wife herself, leaving the two of them to drink here, the second wife Yanqin was a year later than Jin Ni, and now she is pregnant, Jin Ni herself can no longer have children, so she hopes that she can give birth to a boy for Jin Yu. But she was also very afraid in her heart, she blamed herself for not being able to give birth to a boy for Xiao Jinyu, so she has always abided by her duty and been a virtuous wife and good mother, she felt happy for Xiao Jinyu's great change in attitude towards herself, especially at that moment just now, she felt that she had never been so happy, but she was afraid that Yanqin would snub herself after giving birth to a boy, she felt powerless for this inner entanglement, but she was sure that she loved Xiao Jinyu deeply, so she wanted him to be happy, so she hoped that he could have a boy," Still being good to herself" is now her greatest wish.

"Drinking foreign wine or—" Xiao Jinyu asked.

"I'm not used to drinking foreign wine, but I'm okay with domestic wine."

Xiao Jinyu instructed a young man to fetch it, sat opposite Zhuang Yuncheng, and said, "You have lost a little weight recently, so you must not be very good." ”

"You're not the same."

Xiao Jinyu smiled: "Yes, it's difficult...... That day, Fluttershy told you that all you had to do was the machines. ”

"Yes."

"In the city of Beiping, there is no factory that produces this kind of equipment that is not a Sino-foreign joint venture, so you must be in trouble here."

"You know?"

"Of course," Xiao Jinyu sighed, "what you are doing is harming their interests, and without a large amount of money, you can't satisfy them." ”

"Who are 'they'?"

"Broadly speaking, foreigners, Japanese, British, Germans, ......"

"What do you mean? I've never seen one of them hurt anywhere. ”

"Yun Cheng." Xiao Jinyu smiled helplessly, and said after a while: "Sure enough, you still don't understand the current world and the general environment in the business field. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng felt a trace of fear for this unknown phenomenon.

Xiao Jinyu said: "It's no wonder that you have followed Zhong Yuqian for a few months, and you have not come into contact with foreign capital, his business is limited to local industries, but it is just the self-operated sales of some long-standing medicinal materials, spices, cloth, gold and stone, etc., and foreigners can't interfere; And like me, and your match factory is different, this can be completely manipulated by foreigners, foreigners through the industrial revolution, mastered technology, made money, and then invaded China, with technology and capital monopoly of the national industry, you do not cooperate with them, you will not get advanced technology and efficient equipment, do any industry is inefficient, under their impact, any industry is difficult to maintain, so can only reach the so-called 'cooperation' with them, in fact, this is to help foreigners make money, and their own share. ”

"Isn't this a comprador who has become a foreigner?"

"That's right, so if you go to any factory, they hire Chinese workers, working day and night, and they are paid very little, this is oppression, oppression, exploitation, ......"

Zhuang Yuncheng was in a trance, but he didn't say a word.

"It's terrible," Xiao Jinyu said lightly, "although there are many match factories in Beiping City, but China is too big, the demand is not satisfied, it is reasonable to make money, but these factories are not purely controlled by Chinese, you want to open up, you need to compromise, equipment purchase is difficult to do, it is the comprador and foreigners to get off the horse, you can only set up this factory by paying more money or choosing to cooperate with them." ”

"I'd rather pay more."

"You have to know that no matter what choice you make, this is not the end, but the first step in the fight against foreign capital. Against the backdrop of the invasion of foreign capital, the invasion of imperialism, you can earn a little less by cooperating with foreigners, but against this rule, you will go bankrupt. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was silent, there was already some fine sweat on his body, and the breeze blew, and he felt cold.

"I persuaded you to come earlier, but you were too stubborn, and you didn't experience it yourself and thought I lied to you, but now it's too late to regret it, the cost of building a factory, if you lose it, it's not much for you, you can continue to follow Zhong Yuqian to do it,"

"No, Liu Zhen and Zhong Yuqian are fellow travelers, they approached me with a purpose at the beginning, they didn't notice it deeply before, and now what they do, what they want me to do, is becoming more and more unacceptable to me, but the money is easy to repay, and the debt is difficult to repay, I can't do it, and I can't do it."

"What does he want you to do?"

"At first, it was just that I was just doing business, and then I asked me to use my father's name to contact some prestigious old men of the former dynasty, and he went to talk about the relationship, for example, when he saw me and Qu Tianlin's daughter Qu Yingjiao getting close, he used my relationship to communicate with his two brothers in the government, and he was good at these, and he often interacted with them recently, even Qu Yingjiao couldn't look at it, and told me that Liu Zhen was too diligent in dealing with his brother, and he was worried. What does this make me say? Zhuang Yuncheng continued: "This is the first one, a month ago, he knew that I had a good relationship with Zhang Yanxi and Yin Hong, so he instigated me to say that he and Zhang Yanxi supported Yuan Shikai's restoration, Zhang Yanxi was originally famous, and he opposed the restoration, so he wanted me to say, how is this possible?" ”

Saying that, Zhuang Yuncheng was even more angry, and said hatefully: "Only these two things have embarrassed me, and most of the month ago, it was revealed in my words that I was going to get close to the son of the former Overseer, and I really have nothing to say!" He was not happy to be very busy with the factory and he was not happy, I really, hey......"

Xiao Jinyu smiled and said, "This Liu Zhen—"

"My father has passed away a long time ago, I just want him to rest in peace, instead of being hung up by me, saying, 'I am his son, what did my father have to do with you during ......his lifetime', besides, the dynasty has changed, so to use his father's reputation, have you said that you can go?" Zhuang Yuncheng said indignantly, "He is still reasonable, saying that this is also for my good, let me get to know more people, etc., but I don't want to be rich and rich, I just want to make some money to support my family, so I won't bring my father, who has been dead for a few years, out to work for myself." ”

"So you're determined to cut off money with him?"

"yes."

"But it's really not easy to open a factory, you think carefully."

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at Xiao Jinyu's eyes seriously, he believed that this was the most kind reminder, but he looked tired, no longer made any answers, and lowered his head to take a sip of wine.

Unconsciously, by this time, the wine was more than halfway through, and both of them were slightly drunk.

"What about you?" Zhuang Yuncheng suddenly asked, "It's already with foreigners—"

"I can't help it." Xiao Jinyu said bluntly, "I am a businessman, and I am also running for money, I want to try my best to be a humane businessman, but the British and Japanese don't let me, I have no choice, you still have." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng shook his head slowly in disbelief.

"Half a month ago, two workers died in the factory, both were exhausted, I asked to reduce working hours, increase some wages, but I was isolated, neither Chinese nor foreigners were willing, I still have humanity, they are completely gone, but I can only scold them, I have no way to change."

Xiao Jinyu's tone became soft and full of sighs, he continued: "I can only take some other money to compensate their families, this is the only thing I can do, I blame myself, when I personally send the money to their home......" Xiao Jinyu red-eyed, swallowed, took a deep breath, and muttered: "Their wives and children are crying desperately, I gave him these money that her husband earned for me with his worthless life, they accepted it, and they were grateful, because they were tortured by life without dignity, but she can not have dignity, she wants to live, Without a man, I know she will be very bitter and bitter, but she wants to live......"

Xiao Jinyu shed a tear and said: "I want to make money, but it's not blood money, I have humanity, but I can't quit, quitting can only make them earn more blood money, I can only passively accept these people's blood money." ”

Xiao Jinyu took a deep breath and said: "Recently, there has been a lot of resistance among the workers, and I will find a way to coordinate and get them to agree to reduce the time or increase the salary......

Xiao Jinyu grunted and poured wine, his eyes were confused, he shook his head and asked, "Do you know what I'm most afraid of?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng only looked at him.

He said: "I am most afraid that one day I will become numb, become able to accept these blood money without guilt and shame, become inhuman, become selfish...... But I don't want to be like that, I hate the fakeness of officialdom and shopping malls, that makes me not happy at all, I want to be real, every time I go home, every time I go to your house, it is when I am the happiest, because you are all real, you tell the truth, you really laugh, they are all fake, they tell lies, even the smiles are fake, I don't have to guard against you, I can be very relaxed...... Once I become a vampire and become inhuman, you won't like me because I'm rich, you'll definitely leave me, Yunyun will ignore me, Fluttershy won't talk to me anymore, and Jinni will be gone...... I...... I'm done. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was in a trance, he was already drunk, and he didn't hear what he said, at this time, he forgot everything, and there was only boundless haze and chaos in his mind

After a while, the girl noticed that they were so drunk that they were lying indiscriminately, and hurriedly told Jin Ni that Jin Ni and Yanqin hurriedly came over, took off their coats, wiped their bodies and faces clean with hot water, and asked someone to carry them to the bed.

Fluttershy had lunch and waited for most of the day without anyone coming back, knowing that he had been very anxious lately, for fear of an accident, so she went to Xiao Jinyu's house to see him. Fluttershy is silent as they fall asleep, and Kimni says, "I've drunk too much, I'm afraid I'll have to sleep until tomorrow, so go back and come back tomorrow." ”

"It's not good." Fluttershy stubbornly called for the cart, and everyone helped him to set him up in the car, while Fluttershy sat on the side and helped her, and on the way, Zhuang Yuncheng lay on her lap and bumped all the way, but did not wake up, and when she got to the door, Juan helped, and the two helped him into the bed in the room.

"You—drunk again." Fluttershy sits on the edge of the bed, worried, helping him cover the quilt and breathe in the smell of wine emanating from Zhuang Yuncheng's body, she smells a hint of sadness and bitterness, and Fluttershy only stares at him with pity and tenderness.

After a while, Yun Yun called "sister" outside.

"Here."

Yun Yun was suspicious, pushed the door in, smelled a smell of wine, and saw Zhuang Yuncheng sleeping heavily.

"Brother drank too much?"

"No, I'm so drunk that I don't know anything."

"Why are you so stupid?" Yun Yun also ran over to touch his face, it was still hot, and the wine was strong, and asked, "I don't know if everyone is worried about him?" ”

"What's the use of blaming, he can hear it, and Jin Yu is also drunk like that, don't you know that the two of them are uncomfortable."

Yun Yun was speechless, she knew that her brother had been too tired recently, her brows had never stretched, and all her smiles were pretended, "He doesn't need to have much ambition, how much ideals, it's enough to be my relative forever, I don't want a big person, it's enough for me to have such a brother......" Yun Yun meditated in her heart, she regretted her words yesterday, in her own opinion, his "mediocre" ideals are actually the most precious because they contain love for their relatives.