Lu Yuan called in the guard room and asked Shao Gang and Pan Dahai to go to the old place for lunch to celebrate his job.

The old place in Lu Yuan's mouth is a small restaurant at the entrance of their school, the boss Fat Brother is a Sichuanese, and the dishes are not fried well, but the people are very bold, every time they check out, they either wipe a fraction, or send them two Cokes, after eating for so many years, Lu Yuan and they have eaten out of their feelings.

When I was studying, my monthly living expenses were lost in advance, and on the days when I was out of food, their 305 bedroom was not less on credit with the fat brother, and it was called a signing.

At this time in 02, Hangzhou has not yet been connected to the subway, and travel is either a bus or a taxi. Lu Yuan looked at the deflated wallet, come on, save the money and invite them to dinner.

Their school is in the Cangqian campus, and it takes at least an hour and a half by bus from Hangsan Cotton Factory to Cangqian Community.

Fortunately, there is a bus stop here in Hangsan Cotton Factory, and there are many shuttles back and forth, so Lu Yuan went home and changed into comfortable clothes, just in time to catch a bus.

By the time he sat down at Cangqian Community Station, it was already past twelve o'clock at noon. When I got to the fat brother, there were not many people eating, after all, the school was about to be closed, and the business naturally faded a lot.

The fat brother is a bald fat man in his forties, in addition to being his own boss, he also flips a big spoon by himself, when he saw Lu Yuan coming into the restaurant, he greeted him warmly, pointed upstairs, and said with a smile: "201 box." Today, the fat brother personally cooked a few dishes for you. ”

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, it's as if you have a second cook in your family." If you want a second cook, can your stir-fry still be as unpalatable as ever over the years? Fat pot! ”

"Grass, your boy's mouth is worse than Pan Dahai."

The fat brother kicked Lu Yuan's buttocks, and scolded with a smile: "A few of them have arrived, go up, I'll come up and have a drink with you brothers in a while." ”

Lu Yuan said yes and went up to the second floor.

When he pushed open the door of the private room on the second floor, Pan Dahai and Ma George were chatting about the World Cup in the past two days, and Shao Gang was leaning against the window, reading the newspaper carefully with his hands spread out.

Lu Yuan found that Shao Gang was dressed quite formally today, with big scalp shoes, white shirt and black trousers, plus his hair was mousse, and his hairstyle was shiny.

Lu Yuan walked over, snatched the newspaper that Shao Gang was reading, and teased: "I'll wipe it, classmate Shao Gang, to celebrate my job, you don't have to dress so ceremoniously, right?" ”

"You get out, who's celebrating for you? I'm going to the company this afternoon to make an official report. Rub you a meal by the way. Shao Gang retrieved the newspaper, folded it away, and found a place to sit down.

Lu Yuan knew that Shao Gang had found a private company before, which specialized in the sales of polysilicon solar panel equipment, and had been shouting about environmental protection over the years, so the market for polysilicon solar panels was very good.

Shao Gang was interviewed last week, and then he has been waiting for notice, and today the company's personnel department officially notified him of his entry.

"I didn't expect it, today our 305 is a double happiness." Lu Yuan was happy for Shao Gang, and said to the two guys who were still chatting about football, "Hey, hey, don't talk, you two, can you eat the World Cup as a meal, and can you both pay your salary?" ”

"Yuanzi, you're still a die-hard fan. What about the consciousness of the hardcore? Can football be compared to wages? Are we talking about balls? It's love! You man, vulgar! Pan Dahai is worthy of his name, he is as wide and fat as the sea, he has cut off his head by an inch, and his scalp is about to dry outside. In Lu Yuan's words, in a few years, a few catties of roundness, Pan Dahai put on a gown, and then a pair of cloth shoes from their old Beijing Neiliansheng, and a string of greasy and shiny small leaves of red sandalwood on his hand.

Go to the TV and sit cross-legged there, recommend the ant god to the uncles and aunts in front of the TV, red hair medicine and wine or something, and make sure to fool a quasi-child.

Lu Yuan rolled his eyes at Pan Dahai and said, "Can we working-class children compare with you?" You've graduated, and you'll go back to Beijing in a few days to gnaw at the old age, what about us? I have to fight for a well-off life in Hangzhou as soon as possible! ”

"Damn, you're getting poorer and poorer now, Lu Yuan. Who's going back to gnaw on the old? I'm going back to inherit the ancestral property, and next time I can't bear you to come to Beijing, and I can still see me soliciting customers at Beijing West Railway Station. ”

Pan Dahai is a native of Beijing, his father was young and had a working brain, catching up with the spring breeze of reform and opening up to the north, first driving a minibus, and then driving a taxi, struggling for more than ten or twenty years, and buying more than a dozen taxis in Beijing. Therefore, Pan Dahai is the richest one of their 305, and he is also the object of the other three of them who often fight local tyrants.

"Shao Gang will move out tomorrow, Brother Hai, you will leave in two days, the entire 305 dormitory is empty, and I am left alone." Ma George said with some wistfulness.

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "George, you don't have a few days left, it is estimated that as soon as this World Cup is over, the dormitory manager will be driven away." Have you figured it out? Should you go back to Shanghai to stay with your mother for a while, or stay in Hangzhou and find a job? ”

"My mother asked me to go back to Shanghai, but I want to stay in Hangzhou, Brother Yuan, can you help me come up with an idea?" Ma George was a little tangled.

Ma George is the youngest in the 305 dormitory, according to his age, Shao Gang is 80 years old, the eldest in the ranking, Pan Dahai and Lu Yuan are both 81 years old, the second and third, and Ma George is 82 years old, the fourth.

Ma George and Lu Yuan's situation is different, Lu Yuan is local, Pan Dahai is from Beijing, and Shao Gang is from the southwest mountainous area.

Ma George is different, his father is the first group of Taiwanese who have perceived business opportunities since the implementation of our country's reform and opening up policy and set up factories in the mainland from Taiwan. You must know that our domestic policy toward Taiwan compatriots has always been very good, especially the first group of Taiwan compatriots like his father to respond to the call.

His mother is the factory flower in his father's factory, and the next is the Qiong Yao-style plot, his mother and his father are getting along, but his father has his own family in Taiwan and is a married man. So from the day Ma George was born, he was destined to be a tragedy.

He has never enjoyed the joy of his parents together since he was a child, and since he was a child, in the school file, his father is deceased. Even the name George Ma is his mother's surname, plus his father's English name, as a symbolic meaning.

When he was ten years old, his father returned to Taiwan and died in a car accident, leaving no will. However, it seems that the Taiwanese side has been aware of the existence of Ma George and his mother, and they brought a group of family members to the mainland, sold the factories in the mainland, and ended the only contact between Ma George and his father.

Ma George didn't know what his mother talked about with his father's relatives, what kind of compensation the other party gave his mother, and in the end he only remembered that his mother told him that from now on his surname would be Ma, and his father was dead, and only his mother was there.

However, although Ma George grew up in a single-parent family, fortunately, his mother is a great woman and has given him a loving growth since he was a child. So Ma George didn't feel that he was an illegitimate child, just a dwarf, especially in recent years, the social atmosphere and people's minds have been greatly liberated, and our society is full of tolerance and understanding.

However, it is precisely because it is a single-parent family, Ma's mother raised Ma George by herself, so in addition to her strong maternal love, she also has a majestic patriarchy, so Ma George has always had a natural fear of his mother.

But this time after graduation, he wanted to challenge his mother's authority.

……

At this time, the waiter almost finished the dish, Lu Yuan beckoned the big guy to sit down, and he chose the right position for himself. Because it is customary, this position is responsible for paying the bill.

The waiter brought a bottle of beer and said it was from their boss.

When Pan Dahai heard this, he bared his teeth and smiled: "I just said that the fat man is wilted, every time the four of us come, we either send a bottle of beer or two cokes." What are the four of them? This grandson is thinking that we should buy wine and drinks. ”

"Hahaha...... The fat brother's business experience is so cute. ”

Lu Yuan beckoned to the waiter with a smile and said, "Bring us a snowflake." ”

"The snowflakes are good and the green sticks are good, and they are fun, and they can't get drunk no matter how they drink." Pan Dahai said with a smile.

Shao Gang stopped the waiter and asked him to listen to the Coke and come up, he was going to report to the new company in the afternoon, and he didn't dare to drink.

Waiting for the wine and food to come up, Lu Yuan proposed: "After four years of college, we are like brothers, and we are about to graduate now, how many brothers, go one?" ”

"Let's go!"

"!"

"Here, drink one!"

From the freshman year to the present, the four of them have really skipped class together, played football, passed the night together, fought together, and even pickled girls have made suggestions together.

It's not a brother, it's better than a brother.

This kind of feeling, Lu Yuan felt that there would be no more in this life. There are few lives, only once.

Now that I'm going to separate, it's light to say that I can't bear it. It's reluctant, it's not heavy at all!

After clinking glasses and changing lamps, the fat brother also came up with a bottle of beer, and wanted to pay tribute to their brothers, saying that they were grateful for taking care of their business in the past few years.

Lu Yuan said with a smile, it was not so much that they took care of the fat brother's business, but that the fat brother was righteous and helped them survive countless days of food shortage. said that the fried food of the fat brother's house is unpalatable, who is not unpalatable in the restaurants around the university? Sometimes I can't help but come to the fat brother's house for dinner, and the food is no longer a meal, it is feelings, and it is human affection.

Speaking of excitement, Fat Dahai and Fat Brother directly blew a bottle of each other, setting off the atmosphere to **.

When it was over, they also agreed together that they would come to the fat brother's restaurant for a meal once a year, so that the fat brother could be a witness.

The fat brother touched his bald head and said very boldly that the annual dinner was all free of charge.

Pan Dahai made it bad, let the fat brother be free of orders today, the fat brother even said no, no, today is a business, if the order is free, the daughter-in-law must scratch him to death.

Dumping his daughter-in-law is the fat brother's housekeeping skill, and they have long been surprised.

After a while, the waiter came to urge, saying that he was a guest, and waited for the fat brother to go down to the kitchen to stir-fry.

Watching the fat brother leave, Lu Yuan's heart floated with a faint sadness, the dinner party at the fat brother restaurant once a year is probably just a vision after all, because in the past two years, the university has been engaged in the construction of a new city, and small shops and small facades like the fat brother restaurant are basically cleaning up and rebuilding the sequence, and in a few years, I am afraid that this area will either be annexed by the university town, or swallowed up into one shopping plaza after another, as for the fat brother restaurant, it can only disappear in the long history of the restaurants around Hangzhou Normal University.

……

Drip~Drip!

A few crisp horns downstairs woke Lu Yuan from his memory, Shao Gang wiped the greasy edge of his mouth with a tissue, stood up and said to Lu Yuan: "Wen Yan came to pick me up to report to the new company, brothers, withdraw first!" ”

Wen Yan is Shao Gang's girlfriend Su Wenyan, and she is also a senior sister who is one year older than Lu Yuan, and is currently a kindergarten teacher.

When he was studying at Hangzhou Normal University, Shao Gang used a few sour old-fashioned love poems, and he didn't even invite a meal of KFC, so he chased Su Wenyan. This made Pan Dahai and Ma George envious.

Lu Yuan and Pan Dahai poked their heads out of the window, and sure enough, Su Wenyan, who had long hair in a shawl, was wearing a plaid dress, riding on a battery car, and honked the horn twice.

Seeing a few heads on the window of the private room, Su Wenyan raised her head and covered her eyes with her hands, and shouted in a coquettish voice: "Lu Yuan, let Shao Gang come down quickly, I'm going to be late for a while." ”

"Wen Yan, your twenty-four filial girlfriend is too in place. Why can't I give up the whole forest for the sake of your little tree? Pan Dahai teased.

Su Wenyan said with a smile: "Pan Dahai, do you know why you chased more than a dozen girls in our department, but you didn't catch up?" ”

"Why?" Pan Dahai also wanted to know, in terms of conditions, he felt that he was better than Shao Gang, not worse.

"Because it's not old yet!" Su Wenyan giggled and trembled.

"Damn! Bury Brother again! ”

Pan Dahai took his own humiliation, and sat back in his place to drink alcohol.

Su Wenyan shouted to Lu Yuan: "Lu Yuan, you come down with Shao Gang, someone asked me to give you something." ”

"Okay."

Lu Yuan asked Ma George and the others to sit first, and accompanied Shao Gang downstairs.

Stairs, Lu Yuan took Shao Gang's shoulders and asked, "Looking at Wen Yan's posture towards you, I guess I'm about to meet my parents, right?" People say that once you graduate from college love, you will see the light and die, and you two are going to achieve positive results. ”

Shao Gang sighed a little depressedly and said, "Actually, her parents don't know that we are here. ”

Lu Yuan frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong?" Wen Yan is unwilling? ”

Shao Gang shook his head and said: "She is willing, the key is that her parents want her to find someone who is a native of Hangzhou, and her parents are worried that their daughter will marry in another place." You said that I was out of town and went to see her parents, didn't I find myself unhappy? ”

"That's right," Lu Yuanshen nodded approvingly, and said, "She is the only daughter in their family, and if she marries thousands of miles away, her parents will definitely not want to." But what's wrong with you out of town? Didn't you say you wanted to settle in Hangzhou? bought a house in Hangzhou, in the eyes of her parents, it doesn't matter whether it is out of town or not. ”

"I know what you say," Shao Gang sighed again and said, "You know the situation of our family, a few years ago, in order to provide for me to go to college, my second brother and third sister went out to work after finishing high school. Now that I'm graduating, I'm thinking about earning some money to subsidize my family, and now I'm thinking about buying a house in Hangzhou in the future, eh, sometimes I always feel that fate is particularly unfair to me, you see Ma George, although he is an illegitimate child, but his family has been wealthy since he was a child. Look at Pan Dahai again, people don't worry about work at all after graduation, and they go home to gnaw on the old and comfortable, and you ...... Look at me again, I'm working so hard, I'm reading when you're playing games all night, I'm reading when you're skipping class to watch a ball game......"

"Stop, stop, Shao Gang!"

Lu Yuan suddenly said: "If you are so depressed, it is not said by Shao Gang, a classmate I know. You are the most inspirational person in our 305! Don't look at the sea and George, their family is better than yours, but they have always admired you and respected you! Because you have been changing your destiny, coming out of the barren countryside, changing your destiny step by step. Although we can't decide what kind of baby we vote for, but Shao Gang, we can change our fate, even if it is a lifetime! Isn't it? ”

"Change your name to your fate?"

Shao Gang muttered, then swept away the gloom between his eyebrows, regained his initial cheerfulness, patted Lu Yuan's shoulder, and said loudly: "Lu Yuan, you are right, I, Shao Gang, just want to change my fate step by step!" I also want to change the fate of my younger siblings, and I want to future the fate of my children, so that they can have a good baby! ”

Drip ~ ~ Drip!

Su Wenyan's little electric donkey rang twice.

The two brothers chatted and chatted, and when they arrived at the door of the restaurant, Su Wenyan hurriedly said, "What are you two talking about?" What's the matter, haven't you talked enough in four years of college? ”

Lu Yuan laughed and said, "Wen Yan, you women don't understand men's brotherhood. How can four years be enough for this brother? It's going to take a lifetime! ”

"Don't take our family Shao Gang crookedly."

Su Wenyan took out an envelope from the cloth bag, pink, and handed it to Lu Yuan, and said, "Well, this is what Gao Siyue gave me before going abroad for graduate school, let me wait for her to go abroad for a week, and then hand it over to you." I haven't opened it, but it's not money, it's supposed to be some kind of information, and it's still in a pink envelope, like a love letter. What's going on with you two? ”

"Gao Siyue?"

Lu Yuan's thoughts went back to his college days, the tall girl who played games with him and called him brothers, and the ponytail girl who always wore suspender jeans and little white shoes and drank a lot of wine together. I drank too much on the night of graduation, and after crying and making trouble, I haven't contacted him for a month.

Suddenly, his face changed slightly, and he exclaimed: "Wait, you said that Gao Siyue went abroad to study for graduate school?" ”