A cordon has been set up outside the abandoned factory, and several young police officers in police uniforms are maintaining order outside the cordon to prevent the melon-eating crowd from entering.

Wu Shaodong stood in the cordon, smoking a cigarette without a puff, and Wang Mazi was beside him babbling and begging to let him go back first.

"Hey! Hold it! What do you do? Don't see the cordon? ”

As soon as I walked to the perimeter of the cordon, a small police officer stopped me, "I am from the criminal police team of the city bureau." ”

"Why haven't I seen you? Take out the documents and take a look. The little officer asked suspiciously.

"I just reported today, I didn't have time to get the documents, Wu Shaodong, is Captain Wu here, you can go and ask, just say that Cheng Cheng is looking for him."

The little police officer insisted relentlessly, "That's not good, I know if what you said is true or false." ”

Wu Shaodong heard the argument outside the cordon, snuffed out his cigarette, turned around and walked over, looked at me who was arguing with the little police officer, and said, "You are Cheng Cheng?" ”

"That's right! It's me, you're Captain Wu Shaodong? ”

"Yes, I'm Wu Shaodong!" As he spoke, he stared at my face for a long time, and suddenly asked suspiciously, "You are very familiar, have we met?" ”

I looked at Wu Shaodong and shook my head, "No, you should have recognized the wrong person." ”

Wu Shaodong obviously didn't believe it, stared at me coldly, and then tentatively said, "Are you really sure we haven't met?" ”

I was inexplicably surprised by him, and replied bluntly, "Probably not, I have been in the army for most of my life and have never been in contact with the police." ”

Wu Shaodong shook his head, obviously still suspicious, and sighed, "Maybe I really admit my mistake." By the way, I heard that you yourself have the rank of captain in the army, and you have a great future, why do you want to come to the police to develop? ”

I smiled and replied, "It's not all about serving the people everywhere, it doesn't make a difference." ”

Wu Shaodong obviously didn't believe my words, but he didn't expose it, and after sending the little police officer, he turned around and shouted to Chen Xinying, who was collecting evidence in the factory compound, "Xiaoying!" A new colleague is here, come out and get to know it. ”

"Here, brother-in-law~" Chen Xinying sealed the sample, handed it to a colleague from the trace examination department on the side, and ran out in a hurry.

Just when Chen Xinying was about to walk out of the factory gate, she suddenly stopped, her eyes widened, and she pointed at me hatefully and shouted, "It's you!" ”

I watched this good-looking girl suddenly point at me and yell, I had an inexplicable feeling, I looked at Wu Shaodong beside me, but saw him walking over quickly, and said with an ugly face, "Okay, what attitude!" ”

"That's you! I was next to my sister that day, and I remember him when he turned to ashes! Chen Xinying replied through gritted teeth.

Wu Shaodong grabbed the angry Chen Xinying and comforted, "Okay, Xiaoying, go to work now, let's go back and say something." ”

Chen Xinying said unrelentingly, "What is he doing here?" ”

"Didn't I say that? New colleague! Wu Shaodong explained helplessly.

I watched from the sidelines even more incomprehensible, I felt too, what is going on!

"But! Brother-in-law, he ......" Chen Xinying argued reluctantly, and her eyes gradually moistened.

"Alright, let's get down to business first." Saying that, she patted Chen Xinying's hand gently, urging her to go into the factory to collect evidence, Chen Xinying glanced at me hatefully, shook off Wu Shaodong and entered the factory.

Wu Shaodong saw Chen Xinying return to the factory, then turned to look at me, and said in a low voice, "I know that I won't recognize the wrong person, do you remember the robbery of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 2 years ago?" ”

As soon as I wanted to answer, Wu Shaodong waved his hand at me, signaling that there was no need to speak, "I'm handling the case now, as for the matter, you can think about it yourself, I'll look for you later, and you go back to the bureau first." ”

After saying this, Wu Shaodong turned around and walked in the direction of Chen Xinying. I watched him enter the factory fixedly, and then was vigilantly urged by the small police officers outside the cordon to leave the factory.

Leaving the factory, I sighed helplessly, looked at my watch, and found that it was only more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was estimated that it was impossible to finish a few hours here, and I didn't know anyone in the bureau. After thinking about it, he hadn't eaten lunch yet, and thought about finding a small restaurant nearby to deal with it before returning to the bureau.

Walking around the factory, I was confused and thought, what is going on, two inexplicable people, they don't say anything, they just throw their faces to show me when they come.

Thinking about it while walking, I inadvertently saw a Northeast dumpling restaurant, I looked around, and it seemed that there was no other choice, so I pushed open the door and walked in.

The dumpling restaurant is not big, the dine-in part is only 20 square meters, and a wall in the middle has opened a food mouth, and a tattered curtain is the door panel of the back kitchen. On the left and right walls are placed three long folding tables, each with a few greasy seasoning jars, probably past lunchtime, and there is not a single customer in the dumpling restaurant, and the owner is nowhere to be seen.

I randomly found a table by the door and shouted, "Is anyone there?" Do you have anything to eat? ”

"Yes, there are dumplings." With the response, a middle-aged woman opened the curtain and walked out of the back kitchen, wiped her hands on the apron around her waist, and asked, "What kind of dumplings does the big brother eat?" ”

"What's stuffed?"

The middle-aged woman pointed to the menu posted on the wall next to the table, and said proudly, "There are all of them, all of them are freshly packed." ”

So I looked up at the menu on the wall, and without thinking, I said, "Half a catty of sauerkraut and pork filling." ”

"Oh, big brother, you really know the goods, the sauerkraut in our store is all brought from my man's Shengjing's hometown, and you can't eat it in ordinary places."

I smiled and continued to order, "Let's have a small portion of sauce and bones, and Harbin beer will have two bottles of ice first." ”

The middle-aged woman frowned and explained: "Big brother, the sauce is big and the bones are there, the beer is not iced yet, and it has just started spring, and the freezer has not been opened yet." ”

"Okay, it's not ice, the beer is on first," I waved indifferently and told him to get ready.

"Okay, big brother, you sit down first, I'll get you a beer." After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she happily walked to the back kitchen.

After a while, the food was served on the table, and I immediately began to unhurriedly drink beer and eat dumplings. Maybe there was no business at this time, and the middle-aged woman was uncomfortable idle, so she moved a chair and sat on the edge of the food mouth, and chatted with me without saying a word.

The middle-aged woman's name is Hu Guihua, and his man's name is Liu Square, three years younger than Hu Guihua. Five years ago, Hu Guihua and her man decided to come to Shanghai to work after discussion, entrusting their two children to their second uncle and subsidizing his uncle's living expenses of 1,000 yuan per month.

When they first came to Shanghai, both of them had no education and skills, and could only work as temporary workers in the packaging factory, and the two of them added up to a total of only more than 5,000 yuan a month, excluding the money sent to the second uncle, the water and electricity bills of the factory dormitory, the food money, and daily expenses.

The days passed like this, and the two also lived and worked in Shanghai for two years. In addition to going to and from work every day, there is basically no personal time, and the two of them feel that it is more and more tasteless after a long time.

The two thought that this was not a solution, and the husband and wife lived separately in the collective dormitory in the factory, and they did not earn any money from their hometown, and their children could not see a few days a year, and they did not even live as husband and wife for a year.

So after the two discussed, they gritted their teeth and quit their jobs, and asked relatives and friends to borrow 30,000 yuan, plus the 20,000 yuan that the two of them had saved in the packaging factory in the past two years, thinking of opening a restaurant by themselves.

In the end, the two of them worked enthusiastically for half a month, only to find that it was unrealistic to open a restaurant in Shanghai for 50,000 yuan, which was not enough for 3 months' store rent.

But both of them had quit their jobs, and they couldn't find a suitable job at once, and just when they were about to despair, a worker in the packing factory came to them and said that a friend had a noodle shop behind Jinxiu Road that wanted to change hands, because there was an urgent matter in their hometown, so they would not charge transfer fees.

And his friend just paid the rent last week, 5,000 a month, pay three mortgages and one, the landlord did not give a refund, his friend asked the worker to help find if there was anyone willing to take over, promised that as long as the 20,000 yuan rent was given to him, not much else, even the kitchen equipment was given. The two of them listened to the light and decided to go to the store.

A few days later, the worker asked his friend to take Hu Guihua and his family to visit the store. When they arrived at the place, the worker's friend first took the two of them to visit the restaurant, and the two looked at the small restaurant, feeling not very satisfied, so they were ready to get up and say goodbye.

But the worker's friend was very enthusiastic, saying that they were all friends, and the business was not in benevolence, and then copied two dishes and insisted on entertaining the three of them. Seeing that they couldn't resign, Hu Guihua and his wife agreed to push the boat.

Pushing the cup and changing the lamp, several people quickly got acquainted, and the worker's friend was also a responsible person, and said openly and honestly to Hu Guihua and his wife, don't look at this shop is small, but the population density here is large, 6 tables, breakfast, lunch and dinner, a bowl of noodles sells for 10 yuan, and there is still a daily income of 500 yuan, and there is no problem to net 5000 a month after removing the cost.

Because it is a restaurant, the problem of eating by yourself is solved at the same time. The most important thing is that the self-built buildings in this shantytown have shops on the first floor and accommodation on the second floor, and the rent is also saved. Now working in the factory, even if the two of them work tirelessly and tirelessly for a month, it is only a few thousand yuan a month, it is very good to be able to save 1,800 a month.

Then the worker's friend said to Hu Guihua and his wife that if they want to open a restaurant, it is not recommended to ask a chef to cook stir-fried vegetables, it is not very interesting, and now they can't get it for five or six thousand a month every time, and they have to be offered like their ancestors.

Instead of this, it is better to open a snack bar, which is not difficult to operate, and the cost is low. Just like him, cook a noodle, as long as you prepare the toppings every day. The guest came to the next few sides, spooned a spoonful of toppings, and it was solved in a few minutes.

Then buy some beer and drinks to sell, don't look at a bottle of beer for five or six yuan, the profit is not small. Take 5 yuan beer as an example, the cost is only about 2 yuan, and now you don't need money to enter the beer, the freezer doesn't need money, and the brewery will send it.