The man looked puzzled: "You guys are ......?"

"Hey, I didn't expect it to be you!" Lan Ke'er blurted out when she came back to her senses.

"It's me, what's the matter, are you looking for me?" Graphite asked confusedly.

Momo hurriedly raised her hand to stop Lan Ke'er, who was just about to speak, smiled politely, and said to the man: "Hello, the inn in your village is full, so we want to ...... with you" Her face turned red, and she suddenly couldn't open her mouth.

Lan Ke'er glanced at her generously, "poof", made a grimace at her again, turned her head and said with a smile: "We are looking for you to spend the night, hey, do you have a vacant room here?" We'll pay you. ”

Lan Ke'er spoke like a machine gun, her voice was loud and crisp, and she was stunned for a moment, borrowing the night?

Immediately, he reacted and muttered, "This ......"

Lan Ke'er was impatient, and shouted in a playful voice: "What is this, that, is there or not?" "She has always been out of the way she speaks and acts, and she has no consciousness at all, how can there be such a guest who stays overnight?

"Yes, yes, I'm afraid you won't get used to it."

Graphite just said after a little muttering, and didn't care about her, not to mention that the other party is still a girl, or a girl who looks good, and men's tolerance for beautiful girls often increases unconsciously and greatly, which has nothing to do with whether they are good or not, it is about the genes of life.

"Yay! That's great! ”

Lan Ke'er smiled and cheered happily: "Then it's decided, I'll go and tell them, by the way, the four of us." ”

After she finished speaking, she waved her hand at Graphite, and then pulled Momo to turn around and go out to call the two companions.

Soon, Graphite heard Lan Ke'er's silver bell-like laughter from a distance, "How is it?" I said yes, as long as this girl is out, everything is OK. ”

Graphite felt a little inexplicable in his heart, so he had no choice but to pack his things and get up to receive these uninvited guests.

……

This time, the five of them unexpectedly met again in the old house of graphite.

"I'll only give you two rooms here, and you can arrange it yourself, and besides, will you stay for a day or ......," Graphite asked the four of them.

After some introduction just now, Graphite learned that the fat man's full name was Chen Bin, the handsome guy was called Ye Tianyu, the woman in white was called Yunmo, and the last one was naturally the most cheerful Lan Keer.

Without waiting for the others to speak, Lan Ke'er preemptively stroked his palm and shouted: "Two is enough, Momo and I have a room, just right, haha, perfect!" ”

The fat man added with a kind face: "Two days, let's see when the time comes." ”

Graphite nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take you to see the room." ”

The fat man continued on the side: "Brother, how do you calculate the money?" By the way, if you want to eat, can you do it here? ”

Graphite was stunned for a moment and said, "Hey, what is not money, I don't do this business, in fact, it doesn't matter." ”

Since they decided to live in the old house, several people went their separate ways, the fat man went to drive, Ye Tianyu helped Graphite go up to the attic to get a spare mattress, and the two girls tidied up the room.

There are four bedrooms in the old house, only one is a guest room, and the other three are his and his mother's room and his sister's room, his mother's room has more things, so it is not suitable to let it out, the fat man and Ye Tianyu live in the guest room, and Lan Keer and Yunmo live in his sister's room.

……

After all settled down.

Graphite accompanied the fat man and Ye Tianyu to boil water to make tea, and the two girls ran out to look at the scenery and take pictures.

"I said brother, I see that you also like to drink tea, then you met me, hehe, do you know what I do?" The fat man was deliberately mysterious, holding a teacup and drinking as he spoke.

Ye Tianyu glanced at the fat man on the side and sneered, as if he was very disdainful.

Graphite was slightly surprised, and glanced at Ye Tianyu.

Ye Tianyu snorted and said with a dry smile: "Brother, you can't hear it, this guy is selling tea." ”

The fat man glanced at Ye Tianyu for a moment, but he didn't care, he still had a bright smile, "Dude, wait for me to go back, send a few catties of my own tea for you to taste." ”

Graphite suddenly, smiled slightly, and said: "Actually, I don't know how to drink tea, but occasionally I just bubble to relieve boredom, so there is no good tea at home to entertain a few people, you should drink it." ”

The fat man had already drunk this ordinary tea, he glanced at the graphite, and asked implicitly: "Brother, ...... you What do you do? ”

Graphite was silent for a moment.

He resigned at home at a good age, and now he is equivalent to being unemployed, and it is difficult to explain all the things before, so he was a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment and said: "I used to be an account manager in a securities company, but now I resigned and went home to rest for a while." ”

The fat man and Ye Tianyu suddenly understood when they heard the words on the side, and they naturally knew it in their hearts, and they didn't break it.

The fat man smiled and sighed, and said: "In the past two years, the securities industry has been relatively difficult, and the stock market has not improved, which is no wonder." I have a friend who bought bank stocks two years ago, and is still trapped in it, investing more than 20 million, and it is estimated that less than half of it is now, and he complains bitterly every day. ”

Graphite bowed slightly, and helped the two of them refill the tea.

Life in the world, it is inevitable that people will be divided into three, six, nine and so on, he is now penniless and even has no legitimate occupation, even if he is arrogant in his heart, but in the eyes of the world is always humble, although he has long been accustomed to this, but his heart is still a little sad.

The fat man complained again: "Hey, it's hard to do anything now, and the competition is fierce." ”

Ye Tianyu smiled and quipped: "What, is your tea also affected by the trade war?" ”

The fat man said: "We have no direct impact on tea, but if you look at the current GDP, the entire economy is in a recession, then all industries will definitely be affected, don't you say?" It's very simple, I estimate that the situation will be even less optimistic next year. ”

Graphite said lightly: "Mi Guo is actually not comfortable, now it depends on who lasts a long time." ”

Ye Tianyu said: "The rice guys are starving to death and the camel is stronger than the horse, they are now bent on us, I watched the news some time ago, it seems that there is a brick family who said that this is the structural contradiction between China and China, either you die or I die, there is no way out, and there are even members of the United States who say that the war of civilization, the elite of the entire United States is actually very wary and prejudiced against us." ”

The fat man was unconvinced: "We are not afraid of them, do they dare to come hard?" It's not ten years ago, when they were able to win with millet and rifles in the Korean War, let alone now? ”

Ye Tianyu glanced at the fat man and argued: "You papaya head, what age are you now?" Now it's all high-tech, do you know what high-tech is? Why do people want to do Warwick? Engage in the star? This is called precision strike, which is specifically aimed at all your high-tech enterprises, and you are all beaten down, and people don't need to use force at all, okay? ”

The fat man picked up the cigarette on the table, handed one to graphite, took one in his own mouth, lit the fire, took a puff and spit out a puff of green smoke, "Sample, you know?" Are you awesome? ”

Graphite took the cigarette, the cigarette in the fat man's hand was a Chinese brand, showing the fat man's daily solidity, he smiled slightly, and continued to chat: "This is the inevitable reality of historical development, everyone has no way out, but the angle of standing is different." With that, he lit his cigarette as well.

Ye Tianyu and the fat man seemed to have long been accustomed to each other, he turned to graphite, smiled slightly, and asked, "Then who do you think is the final winner?" ”

Graphite smiled faintly and said casually: "It's really hard to say, each has its own advantages and disadvantages and has its own opportunities, it depends on the development of the future, besides, I am a flat-headed little person, I usually pay little attention to these, you ask me, where do I know." ”

The fat man said: "That's it, why do you care so much, isn't there a tall man when the sky falls?" ”

Ye Tianyu said solemnly: "You guys are wrong, family affairs, national affairs, and everything in the world are concerned, do you still have a little patriotism?" ”

"Who doesn't have a patriotic heart?"

Lan Ke'er and Yun Mo happened to walk in from outside, and just when they heard Ye Tianyu's words, Lan Ke'er asked with a ghostly grin.

Yun Mo followed her in, with a faint smile on her face, but her demeanor was not like Lan Keer's, and she had a dignified and demure temperament.

"What were you guys talking about? Who, who is not patriotic? ”

Lan Keer pulled out the bench and sat down, and asked again and again.

Yun Mo also sat down beside her, her hands on the table and her cheeks, her eyes were cool, she looked forward to it, and she also posed as if she wanted to listen to the excitement.

Ye Tianyu smacked his lips and said, "Your brother, I said that your brother is not patriotic." ”

Lan Ke'er's apricot eyes crooked, and she grinned, "Oh? You're just finding out now, huh? Why is he not patriotic? ”

The fat man spat out a puff of cigarette, waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, we're joking, everyone, now let's discuss tomorrow's itinerary." ”

Graphite made a cup of tea for Lan Ke'er and Yun Mo each, then stood up and said, "You talk, I'll take out the meat and thaw it, and simmer the rice by the way." ”

The fat man smiled at him and said, "Good work, brother." ”

The others also nodded at him with a smile.

Graphite nodded, turned around and went to the kitchen, took a local chicken out of the quick-freezer box to thaw, and took a piece of beef out to thaw, after a little calculation, and took out a small bag of pork ribs, planning to stew a pork rib soup, about to make four or five dishes.

……

The sun is setting.

Graphite lit a wood stove in the kitchen, and the raging light of the fire reflected his face.

I resolutely returned to my hometown because I was terminally ill, and I planned to spend a few days quietly in my hometown, but now this idea is out of place, and I should plan for what my future path should be.

As long as a person is still alive in this world for a day, he can't do without three meals a day, can't do without firewood, rice, oil and salt, not to mention that he now looks like he is going to live a long life, so it is imperative to do things to make money, so whether to return to the city to continue looking for a job, or to think about whether there is any other better choice, graphite really has to think about it.

The flickering flames in the hearth were like the thoughts in his heart at this time, swaying.

Lan Keer probed her head and looked inside, showed a smile, walked into the kitchen, and said with a smile: "Interesting, you can also burn a wood stove, come, I'll help you." ”

Lan Ke'er woke up graphite, he looked up at her, and simply clapped his hands and stood up.

"Okay, I'm about to start stir-frying."

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Lan Keer smiled confidently.

Graphite returned to the stove and scooped the water in the pot clean, and the big iron pot sizzled.

He waited for a while, and waited for the big iron pot to be hot, and then poured some vegetable oil into it, and waited for a while for the hot pot and cold oil, first put ginger and garlic and some dried chili peppers, and stirred the oil pot to see that the timing was about the same, and poured a large plate of chicken nuggets cut into it, and the iron pot quickly made a pleasant "squeak" sound, he waved the big spatula in his hand and quickly stir-fried it, and added cooking wine and fresh soy sauce at the right time, and the whole kitchen was filled with aroma in the sound of "呑", the steam rose, and a pair of hot fire.

Lan Ke'er actually forgot to light the fire, and stood up a long time ago, watching graphite cooking with great interest, and forgot to speak out for a while.

The aroma of the kitchen wafted outside, the fat man, Ye Tianyu and Yun Mo were all attracted in, and several people stood by the stove pot, looking at the big iron pot with color, fragrance, and flavor, and the local chicken, and they were all salivating unconsciously.

"Look at the fire in the stove, don't just stand." Graphite looked up and reminded.

He stir-fried the chicken pieces in the pot until fragrant, then poured boiling water on them, covered the pot and began to simmer.

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