"Hongqiao, this is the dish I bought today, I have kept an account, you can take a look at it later." Aunt Dong in the kitchen carried the dishes, walked past the front desk, and said to Mu Hongqiao, who was keeping accounts.

"Okay, you go get busy first." Mu Hongqiao sat at the front desk, bowing his head and settling accounts.

Now Mu Hongqiao is in charge of the branch in the provincial capital, and she is far away from her hometown, with her children, living a peaceful life, she is very satisfied with the current situation, she can support herself and her children by herself, her heart has long been less impetuous and comparative, she cherishes this kind of life.

Mu Hong calculated the accounts for a while, finally closed the book, glanced at the clock, it was already ten o'clock in the morning, and in more than an hour, the restaurant was about to start to get started, she was going to the back kitchen to see what was prepared?

"Oops, do you want to leave when you bump into someone? I can't move my legs. A familiar voice came.

Mu Hongqiao stopped, turned around, and looked in the direction of the door suspiciously.

When she chose to come to the provincial capital, she didn't want to see familiar people again, and during this time, it has been calm, but at this time, her heart was disturbed by the voice outside the door.

Mu Hong thought about it, slowly walked to the door, opened a small slit, and looked over.

It's just that when she looked at it, the blood all over her body suddenly rushed to her head, and then she felt cold all over her body, and she came back to her senses and hurriedly closed the door tightly, but her ears were attached to the crack of the door, listening intently to the movement outside.

"It's obvious that you bumped into me, how can you rely on me." The other man's tone was a little flustered.

"I'm walking well, you're riding a bike so fast, oops, my leg is going to break!" The voice rang out again.

It turned out that the person Mu Hongqiao saw, his black hair was already mixed with gray, his face was full of old appearance, and even the clothes he was wearing were clothes from several years ago, and there were traces of sewing on the cuffs, but she still recognized it at a glance, it was Li Guowen lying on the ground.

Unexpectedly, Li Guowen, who was once high-spirited and full of style, is now down-and-out like this, a person in his early forties looks like he is in his fifties.

It turned out that since Li Guowen divorced Mu Hongqiao, and Mu Hongqiao publicly exposed the abandonment of his children at that time, Li Guowen's future was ruined, and he had no possibility of climbing up in the factory.

Originally, if this was the case, he would be able to live without worrying about food and clothing for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect that the country began to be laid off a few years ago, because he had a style problem, so he was directly divided into the first batch.

Li Guowen is a city hukou, and there is no land in his hometown, even if he has a field, how can he go to farm work again after all these years, so in the past few years, he has also tried to do some small business.

It's just that in the past, it was others who begged him, but now he begged others, he always held the shelf and couldn't let go, plus he had a low eye, and he met a few liars, just that little bit of family background, and he quickly lost everything.

Now, Li Guowen can't get along in the county seat, so he came to the provincial capital to break through and started a business of reselling tapes, but, first, he is old, not as good as young people, and he can run a lot of places a day, and second, he doesn't have much money in his hands, and he has a single tape and is not highly selective, so in that era when he can make money in business, he can only maintain his daily life and earn a few dozen yuan, which is about the same as the salary at work, but it is much harder.

Where Li Guowen lives now, the landlord has a nephew who has just come back from Guangshi to visit relatives, and he can hear him say every day that he can make money by going south to Guangshi, and he can make a lot of money with his eyes closed, so he moved his mind and invited the young man to eat two meals, and the young man let go of his mouth to take him with him this time, but he must prepare more money.

After all, you need money everywhere, Guangshi is not better than the provincial capital, although the provincial capital is far away from home, but he is also the population of the province, if you go south, you are thousands of miles away, as the saying goes, the poor are rich, and you do have to bring enough money when you go out.

According to Li Guowen's income, it will take several months to make money honestly to save enough money to go to Guangzhou, but that young man is about to leave in a week, and in a hurry, Li Guowen has a bad idea and touches porcelain!

A long time ago, he had seen a bicycle knock an old man down, and finally the owner of the bicycle paid thirty yuan to the old man.

For several days, Li Guowen went from the first time to the first time, and then he was handy, he has touched it six times, earned more than 200 yuan, and the ticket to Guangzhou has been bought.

Today is the last day in his provincial capital, thinking that he is about to leave, and then make the last vote, he came to this bustling street, and happened to see a person riding a bicycle faster, Li Guowen's brain did not react, and his body made an honest move, like the previous few times, fell to the ground.

Mu Hongqiao was behind the door, listening to Li Guowen and the bicycle man outside for a while, and two people in the middle were still passing by the restaurant, and said in surprise: "Why hasn't this point been opened yet." ”

Mu Hongqiao was so anxious that she was sweating, if this Li Guowen didn't leave, the restaurant would not be able to open, the façade was small, she would take care of the front alone, as soon as she opened the door, she was determined to show her face, and it would be bad if Li Guowen saw it.

"Be careful when riding in the future." Li Guowen's voice sounded again.

Mu Hongqiao came back to his senses, the matter here was over, the man on the bicycle, who thought he was unlucky, under the persuasion of the people around him, took out the money to settle the matter, Li Guowen took the money, held his waist, and left with a sigh of relief.

"Hongqiao, why is the door closed?" Aunt Dong took a rag to wipe the table, and found that the lobby was quiet, and Mu Hongqiao's whole body was attached to the door, and her face was pale.

"Just now I passed by a manure truck outside, and I didn't like it, so I closed the door, and it was opened." Mu Hongqiao opened the door and took a quick look outside, the crowd had already dispersed, and she breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the front desk and sat down.

"The manure truck is becoming less and less exquisite, and the manure used to be pulled away at four or five o'clock." After Mrs. Dong finished speaking casually, she took a rag and began to wipe the table.

"Strange, how could Li Guowen be in the provincial capital? How did he become like this now? Mu Hongqiao recalled what she had just heard, and a wave of disgust surged in her heart, such a man, she used to be a treasure.

"Boss, let's have a plate of braised pork, hot and sour shredded potatoes and sauerkraut fish." A regular customer walked over and fluently reported the name of the dish.