Chapter 2: The Barbecue Stand Turmoil
001 Barbecue stall turmoil
Near the river, the midsummer wind carries a damp and hot restlessness, and it is not much cooler in the evening.
At this time, the riverside bridge in Z city has long been neon flashing, Ambilight, the bridge or sitting or standing crowded out of the cool and eating citizens, bustling, so lively.
Below the bridge is a cramped old street, which is a prestigious snack street in Z City, and a place that is quite popular at night.
In the middle of summer, the night market is in full bloom, and the old street is already full of people. Incandescent lamps are lit up one after another at various food stalls, rows of swarthy tables, chairs and benches are lined with cobweb-like wires, and the smell of meat wafts from the barbecue grills on the roadside, which makes a group of diners salivate.
Gao Chengyang is a small worker in the electronics factory, the monotonous assembly line is hard, and overtime is commonplace.
The old street is not far from the electronics factory, Gao Chengyang shouted to send Xiao Liang Xi, and when the two of them crossed the zebra crossing, they happened to meet Liang Xi's younger brother Liang Xiaobei, and the three of them went straight to a string restaurant they used to go to.
"Damn! The accessories department is really not a place for people to stay, standing down every day, and the tired Lao Tzu can't lift his two arms. As soon as he sat down, Liang Xi complained, "Xiaobei, how is your logistics department? Otherwise, tell Liao Tou to get me there!"
When Liang Xiaobei heard this, he waved his hand again and again: "Easy fart, girl, tossing every day, today I walked more than a dozen wagons, don't come over, I still see you and Brother Yang staying in the accessories department, I want to go over to find you!"
Liang Xi sighed and sighed with emotion: "It's really not a thing to mess around like this every day," he said and glanced at Gao Chengyang, who was bowing his head and buttoning his mobile phone, and continued: "Chengyang, I heard that your father found you a job as a supervisor in the construction team, and the salary is light and high, when are you going to go?"
"How many times do you want to tell you that I don't have a father, you just can't remember, right?" Gao Chengyang raised his head and glanced at Liang Xi.
Liang Xi sighed again, and didn't say anything when he wanted to say something.
He knew that Gao Chengyang was not only short of money but also aggrieved recently, and his girlfriend urged his mother-in-law to urge the house, with today's housing prices, Gao Chengyang may not be able to struggle for a house even if he works all his life. His father is rich, but now this father and son, son is not father or father, and he is not an outsider.
"By the way, Brother Yang, I haven't seen Sister Qiang for a long time, the last time I saw her, she was still mentioning your marriage, how are the preparations?" Liang Xiaobei interjected and asked.
"What's the matter? Blow!" Gao Chengyang was just as angry with him.
Liang Xiaobei didn't care about his stinky fart, and continued to ask: "Blow? Why? Sister Qiang is so good, didn't you do anything to be sorry for her?"
"Damn, what can Lao Tzu do to be sorry for her?" He has been having frequent troubles with his girlfriend Zhang Qiang recently for marriage, and he naturally can't manage his emotions with the anger in his heart. "What are you staring at? Lao Tzu hates the most hated man, don't you know?" Seeing Liang Xiaobei looking at him, Gao Chengyang simply rolled up his sleeves and looked like he was going to fight.
Liang Xi saw that something was wrong and hurriedly pressed him, shouting, "Eat a good meal, why don't you look like a bear every day, don't you bother!"
Gao Chengyang didn't answer him angrily, and raised his neck to pour.
"Yo, who is this? It's so hot, it's dry, but take it easy, don't burn it again. Suddenly, a strange voice sounded behind him.
Gao Chengyang turned around and saw that it was his sworn enemy, Liu Xinyuan, who also worked in the electronics factory.
Liu Xinyuan is not only Gao Chengyang's sworn enemy, but also his top boss, who has just been promoted to the department manager of the accessories department two months ago, and his full-time job is to supervise Gao Chengyang and Liang Xi's front-line pickers. Gao Chengyang saw Liu Xinyuan's underbeaten face, and his teeth itched with hatred, but he had to endure it and not have a seizure, otherwise he would be handed over by this sinister and cunning Liu Xinyuan with a report, and he would not even be able to protect his job.
"Manager Liu, are you coming to dinner? Come on, sit together." Liang Xi saw Liu Xinyuan and knew the grievances and hatreds between the two, so he hurriedly beckoned Liu Xinyuan to sit.
"Yes, Manager Liu, let's sit together! Although reluctantly, Gao Chengyang still echoed Liang Xi and said.
Liu Xinyuan is one year older than Gao Chengyang, elementary school, junior high school, and high school are all in the same school, and he has not dealt with them since he was a child, and he often fights when he goes to school, and he is deeply entangled. And Gao Chengyang's girlfriend Zhang Qiang is the school flower of their high school years, and the goddess of all the boys in the four high schools in their Z city, Liu Xinyuan was also very interested in pursuing it at that time, but Zhang Qiang only took Gao Chengyang's scoop in addition to Ruoshui 3,000, which really made Gao Chengyang the target of the boys in the school, and Liu Xinyuan regarded him as a thorn in the flesh.
Now one is twenty-four years old, the other is twenty-five years old, neither of them has studied in college, they have been working for four or five years, and they are both in the largest factory in the city. Both of them have a strong leadership temperament, and a group of younger brothers have gathered around them, and they are lined up in the factory on weekdays, and they often pinch Mai Mang when they don't agree with each other.
Now that Liu Xinyuan is high, Gao Chengyang took the initiative to show goodwill, but Liu Xinyuan didn't buy it. Liu Xinyuan walked to the low table where the three of them were sitting in a few steps, raised his foot and stepped on the table where Gao Chengyang was lying on his stomach, and the wide upper of his shoes instantly stepped on a plate of skewers that the waiter had just served.
"Yo! Why are the shoes you just changed dirty like this?" Liu Xinyuan pinched his throat and said strangely, arching his body as he spoke, and casually picked up the box of cigarettes that Gao Chengyang had just opened next to the table and pulled the upper of his shoes.
"You..." Liang Xiaobei just wanted to rush up, but was stopped by Liang Xi, who shook his head at him.
Liang Xiaobei clenched his fists.
Obviously, there was a napkin next to him, and the upper of his shoes was already polished, and there was no dirt at all.
Gao Chengyang's eyes were spewing fire, but his face was strong and endured, he couldn't have a seizure.
This Liu Xinyuan has provoked him many times openly and secretly since he became the manager of their department two months ago, the purpose is to provoke him, and then fight with him, and then give him a big hat of 'beating a superior leader for no reason', and fire him for an excuse.
He knew in his heart that he was not angry when he did this repeatedly, but he couldn't lose this job now, and now it also involved the two brothers Liang Xi and Liang Xiaobei, so he really couldn't be rash.
Liu Xinyuan pretended to finish polishing his shoes, and then crushed his feet in the tray of skewers, then straightened up and put his feet down.
"Oops! I'm just thinking about shining my shoes, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Liu Xinyuan said with a smile, picked up a piece of barbecue meat from the baking tray, handed it to Gao Chengyang's mouth, and said, "It's all cold, hurry! Eat it while it's hot!" It was the skewer of barbecue that his feet had just stepped on.
This time, Liang Xi couldn't help but clench his fists, the green tendons on his head burst out, and like Liang Xiaobei, his body was about to move forward.
There were four or five men who came with Liu Xinyuan, and when they saw the situation here, they also stood up from the other table, and the two sides formed a confrontation situation.
The scene became tense for a moment.
The originally noisy and lively environment seemed to have been suddenly pressed the pause button, and the air became stagnant.
The proprietress of the barbecue restaurant is a middle-aged woman who is still a and still charming, and when she saw that the situation was not right, she also hurriedly ran over and dissuaded the two with a smile: "On this hot day, the fire is big, and the fire will be extinguished, and the two of you will give an extra barrel of cold beer to our store." Saying that, she wanted to pull Gao Chengyang to sit down first, "Come, Xiao Gao, you sit here." She smiled, but pulled Gao Chengyang to a small table two steps away.
Gao Chengyang often comes here to eat, is a frequent customer of this barbecue restaurant, and the proprietress is even more familiar with him.
Seeing that the proprietress has been trying her best to maintain the peace of the scene, Gao Chengyang suddenly felt sad, although he couldn't bear it, but it was not good to fight here, it was not easy for anyone to do business, and he didn't have to earn his own breath, but he tired others for no reason. In a blink of mind, Gao Chengyang already had a smiling face, he smiled and gently pushed the proprietress away, gave her a stable look, took two steps forward, and came to Liu Xinyuan's side again.
"Manager Liu, who works in the same factory, he is not a person who is far away, come and sit down and drink two cups, he was ignorant before he was a brother, and he will make amends to you. Gao Chengyang took the initiative to pick up a glass of cold beer on the table and handed it to Liu Xinyuan.
Liu Xinyuan looked at the sky with his eyes above the top, didn't look at him, and didn't pay attention to him.
Gao Chengyang was not embarrassed, he laughed, and drank a cup of cold beer in one gulp with a tilt of his neck.
"That's good! The lung capacity is quite large!" Liu Xinyuan opened his mouth and laughed, "You were chosen because of this Zhang Qiang, right?
Gao Chengyang was already trying his best to tolerate it, and he deliberately sold it well, he never felt that he had been so aggrieved, but when he suddenly heard Liu Xinyuan insult Zhang Qiang, his angry lungs were about to explode, and his face turned red instantly.
"Liu Xinyuan, I advise you not to go too far. He said.
Liu Xinyuan plucked his ears and said, "I just persuade you to eat a skewer, what is too much." As he spoke, he took out some unknown objects from his ears and threw them into the baking tray on Gao Chengyang's table, handed the barbecue meat to Gao Chengyang, and asked with a smile: "To eat or not to eat?"
Although it is a question sentence, it is used in an affirmative tone.
"Brother Yang!" Liang Xi and Liang Xiaobei said at the same time, with a desperate posture ready to step forward at any time.
Gao Chengyang looked at them, and the corners of his mouth provoked a ruffian smile, "What are you doing? Sit down and drink!" he said to the two with a smile, then took the meat skewer in Liu Xinyuan's hand, slowly handed it to his mouth, and bit it one bite at a time, eating extremely seriously and satisfied.
The proprietress looked a little unbearable, and a pair of bright big eyes unconsciously glared at Liu Xinyuan with malice.
Liu Xinyuan didn't know it at all, laughed heartily, and said a few times: "Okay! Good teeth, just like it, eat more, die poor and sour, I heard that you are having a hard time now, you have eaten the last meal without the next meal, don't be the last meal." After speaking, he clapped his hands with disgust, and snorted twice on the ground before returning to his table.
As soon as he went back, there was a lively conversation about women, and the meat jokes were endless, and the diners around him were a little disgusted and tried to go to the side.
Alas, it is another story of a vulgar ruffian who bullies an honest man.
Such a story, Z City, and even the whole country is staged every day, there is nothing new to do, and the spectators only shake their heads as a talking point for spices, and there are two sentences of angry scolding that are irritable, and then they are indifferent to drown in the rolling torrent.
The eyes of a sloppy old beggar who was only squatting not far from the barbecue restaurant suddenly flashed, and then disappeared again.