At noon the next day, after lunch, Zhang Jin finally sent off the complacent 'uninvited guests'. Of course, with the departing crowd, the inventory in the cellar went down a bit.

After watching the car completely disappear at the corner of the mountain road, Zhang Jin shook his head and smiled bitterly as he weighed the thick stack of money in his hand. Because of the limited space in the car, the two cars took away a total of more than a dozen jars of wine. Originally, Zhang Jin wanted to use this wine as a return gift for the car full of gifts when these people came, but these old men refused one by one. They don't want to give it away, but insist on 'buying' it at the price of 3,000 yuan a jar! In their words, this jar of wine is a full fifteen catties, and when converted, it is only two hundred yuan per catty, and they have already taken a great advantage for such haode wine!

The stalemate of zuihou ended with the victory of the old man who relied on the old man and sold the old. Zhang Jin is not a novice who has just entered the society, at this moment his heart is like a mirror, these old men are cunning and cunning, who can go out to the countryside and bring tens of thousands of yuan with him? These old men are obviously premeditated!

They know that if it is 'sent', then they can only occasionally get three altars and two altars. The pause is certain; But if it's 'buying', it will be much more reasonable to come back to beg for wine in the future!

In the official position for decades, even if you don't use the shoddy means of getting rich such as corruption and bribery, just relying on the information you have and the connections you have accumulated to help your family run a business is enough to count the money until you are soft. What's more, what about these old guys who 'held great power' when they were in power, and after retirement, they also protégéd the old officials everywhere? So these old men are really not short of money, and for them, it is really cheap to buy such haode wine at this price.

Unless it is to turn his face, even if he has insight into the old man's schemes, Zhang Jin has no choice. Argue with these old men who have been fighting in the mountains and seas for decades, and in the struggle of intrigue for decades, Zhang Jin can only defeat completely. Compared with officialdom, the language art of shopping malls is really unacceptable!

Zhang Jin, who had no choice but to accept a lot of banknotes, had no choice but to comfort himself: "It's okay, it's okay, so that at least even if I don't go out in the village, I won't sit on the mountain." How much is also an input, isn't it? Zhang Jin also knows that he is extravagant, and those 'meager' savings can't last long. After all, although Zhang Jin's hands were quite black when he was working in the pharmacy department, it was only six years, after buying a house and a car, and tossing around in this Haiwozi Village, how much else would be left?

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It wasn't until the two cars both disappeared at the corner of the far foot of the mountain that Zhang Jin and Qi Bing, who were sending off the guests, turned back to the room, threw themselves on the sofa in the hall on the first floor, and lay there without any image. Although it is not a laborious thing for Zhang Jin to receive these guests, a bunch of strange old guys hanging around in his own home, after all, is still not as comfortable and relaxed as when only he is at home.

"Whew, it's like sending it away. Looking at their heart-warming look when you kept them, I'm really afraid that they will stay for a long time! Sending a few away, the big fat classmate Qi Bing also breathed a sigh of relief. For him, a green-headed boy who is only a high school student, although these old men have made an amiable appearance, but after all, they have been in a high position for a long time, and they still have some official authority 'side leakage' inadvertently, plus they are not familiar with each other, but they have choked him uncomfortably enough in the past two days, and most of the time he can't come out of his house.

"Long stay? Not really. Those who don't recognize or know come to our house to eat, they are already considered to have a good face honed in the officialdom, and we are not opening a restaurant. Besides, I'm not their grandson-in-law, even if they are thick-skinned, they are embarrassed to come to me, let me provide for them, right? Zhang Jin pouted and said. It can be seen from his expression that in fact, Zhang Jin is obviously not as hospitable as he has shown in the past two days, in the final analysis, it is just to take care of the face of the old fourth guard. Who made Zhang Daxia unlucky to have such a brother?

Qi Bing didn't go deeper into this conversation, but glanced at the stack of thick red tickets that Zhang Jin casually threw on the coffee table, and changed the topic. "Actually, this is not bad, at this price, brother, even if you sit at home and make wine, you can make a lot of money, and you don't have to worry too much. No wonder you don't even want to do such a lucrative job as a weight loss home! ”,

Seeing Qi Bing's jiashi as a philistine businessman, Zhang Jin stretched out his foot and kicked Qi Bing on the other side of the sofa, and said with a smile: "Study hard when you go to school, don't always think about making money." It's never too late to think about this kind of thing when you graduate from college and work. ”

The two brothers just nestled on the couch, chatting with each other until their voices became quieter and quieter, and they both fell asleep.

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"You're so poisonous, you're poisonous, you're poisonous...... Poison...... Poison...... Poison ......" The familiar ringtone of the mobile phone woke up Zhang Jin, who was sleeping Zhengxiang.

Zhang Jin didn't open his eyes, took out the mobile phone in his pocket and put it to his ear, and said lazily: "Hey! Why does Director Ye have time to call me? ”

Without looking at the caller ID, he knew from the ringtone Zhang Jin that it was his ex-wife, Comrade Ye Hong's phone.

Before Zhang Jin's words landed, a somewhat unfamiliar female voice interrupted him with a burning fire, "Hey? Hello, are you a relative of Director Ye Hongye? I'm her colleague and I have a very bad news to tell you! He spoke quickly and quickly, with a palpable panic in his voice.

Zhang Jin was excited, sat up suddenly, and the sleepiness that had not dissipated before disappeared in an instant, and asked in a tight voice, "What's the matter?" ”

"Director Ye just went to the bank opposite the company to deal with the company's financial work, and happened to encounter robbers robbing the bank. Now the police have surrounded the bank opposite, but Manager Ye still hasn't come out. I'm afraid I was held hostage by robbers! The woman on the other end of the line was clearly crying.

Zhang Jin only felt a buzz in his head, and his eyes turned black from the shock. He didn't react for a while, and it wasn't until the woman on the other end of the phone shouted 'hey' and 'hey' for a long time that he replied in a dry voice with some expectation: "You...... Not kidding, right? Isn't this kind of joke fun? ”

The woman on the phone was obviously also distracted by this sudden incident, and after listening to Zhang Jin's questioning, she said in frustration: "I also hope this is a joke!" When Director Ye went to the bank, her mobile phone was left on her desk without it. Until I was sure that something had happened to her, I wanted to at least inform her relatives and friends. It just so happened that the first phone number in her directory was yours, so I called you first. I'll call the others on her bib later. ”

"Don't, don't! You also know that the people in your Director Ye's phone book are all in China, even if you tell them, they can't do anything but be in a hurry. So, you better not tell them yet, and even if you do, it's best to wait until the outcome of the matter is resolved. Listening to the woman's words, Zhang Jin hurriedly stopped it, if Ye Hong's parents or his own parents knew about this, several old people would have to go crazy. My father's blood pressure is high, and Ye Hong's father has heart disease, if it is because of such a phone call, it will be a big trouble. That's a big deal!

"But......" The woman's voice hesitated.

"No, I'm her husband, and I'm up to me. I'll bear the consequences. Almost after yelling, Zhang Jin pressed the hang-up button.

Zhang Jin, who put down the phone, paced back and forth in the spacious living room with small steps and brisk, only to feel that his chest seemed to be pressed by a big stone, and he was about to suffocate; His ears were filled with auditory humming, gunshots, and screams, even if Qi Bing, who was woken up by his previous roar, asked several times, he turned a deaf ear; Tragic images kept flashing in my mind, scattered and broken corpses, dark red and half-congealed blood, bruised and bruised skin after being abused, and scarred skin everywhere......

After a few minutes, Zhang Jin, who was about to be tormented by all kinds of emotions, finally realized that he couldn't wait in vain like this anymore, and he needed to do something. So, he suddenly stopped his irritable footsteps, walked quickly to the table, grabbed the mobile phone, car keys and bag hanging on the coat rack by the door, ignored the shouts of Qi Bing behind him, and rushed out.