I pinched the phone, and after waiting for a while, Sha Lao's voice came from there.

"I have another meeting below, and I don't have much time left for you, let's talk." Sha Lao spoke, his voice sounding impatient.

"You once said that you want me to inherit your position, I have always refused in the past, but now I ......" Before I finished speaking, Sha Lao directly interrupted my words, and then said, "You are not in my consideration now, there is nothing else to do, I have to prepare for the process of the next meeting." ”

He was about to hang up the phone while he was talking, I pinched the receiver and suddenly said forcefully: "Sha Lao, I want to participate!" ”

The voice on the other side of the phone suddenly stopped, and then I heard Sha Lao whisper, "What do you mean?" Are you ordering me? ”

"I didn't mean that. Just hoping to be one of the candidates......"

"Opportunities don't fall from the sky, I gave you opportunities in the past, but you didn't cherish them, it's not that I pushed you out, but that you want to escape from the 507 Institute again and again. Now, you're an outsider, and I have other candidates to consider, and your value in my heart has long been less high, understand? ”

"I know you've given me a chance again and again, and I know I didn't cherish the past, but I hope you ......"

However, this time Sha Lao hung up the phone before I could finish speaking, and he didn't even want to waste too much time on me. I slowly lowered the receiver and slammed the table.

"If you break the table, you're going to lose money." Old man Tao walked up behind me, looked at me and said.

"I'm sorry, but ......," I said, holding up my hand and shaking my head.

"Sha Lao has always been such a person, but you don't know him well. It's hard to sit in his seat and sit for that long. Ambition, ambition, determination, these three points are indispensable. You may have been the successor he was considering, but he wouldn't stay with someone who had no hope for long. In fact, not only him, but also me and Jiayi, although we are Sha Lao's right-hand man, we also have to consider who the next successor will be if Sha Lao retires or even dies, whether it is worthy of our assistance. But in my opinion, you are not the most ideal choice. To tell you the truth, I was the first person to suggest to Sha Lao not to put too much expectation on you, and I said this proposal as early as when you came to the 507 base for special training. "I didn't expect Old Man Tao to oppose me, although I didn't expect it, but I wasn't surprised, because it seemed to be a reasonable thing again.

"And now? I was rejected by Sha Lao, so you and Uncle Jia are not ready to continue to raise on me? I asked, spreading my hands.

"It's not time to decide whether to add or not, but at least I've seen some different changes in you through this incident, at least in the past you just wanted to be an idle cloud and a wild crane, but now you have ambitions. A man without ambition is passive, and without aggression he will never grow. In the past, you didn't have this ambition, but now you have, and it may be able to change you a lot. ”

"So you still want to help me?" Old man Tao turned around so much, but his words were not explained.

"Hehe, I just said that it's not time to decide whether to raise or not. However, if you can return to this circle on your own and regain Sha Lao's recognition, it will make me feel that your Zhuang is worth following. Last year, Deputy Director Xia discovered a strange monster in the coastal area of Guangdong, which is said to have a big secret, and Sha Lao has been sending people to snatch this monster but has always failed. I think that if anyone can bring this monster to Sha Lao, it should add a lot of impression points. After the old man Tao finished speaking, he knocked lightly on the table, then smiled at me and turned to leave. I knew what he said was a hint to me, telling me that if I wanted to get back in, I had to do something.

"Thank you, senior." I shouted at Old Man Tao's back.

"Don't thank me, next month the Sha Lao will hold a meeting of candidates in Beijing, if you can't get in before then, you'll be out forever."

Standing next to the telephone, I knew that this was another difficult task, but it was also a difficult task that had to be overcome!

In the hospital, outside the ward, the tired fat man woke up from the nightmare after squinting for a while, slowly walked out with red eyes, raised his eyes and saw me sitting in the corridor, stunned for a moment and said, "Why are you here?" ”

"How long has it been since you eaten?" I asked.

The fat man scratched his head and said, "I don't remember, it's probably more than a day." I'm not very hungry......"

"If you're not hungry, you'll eat, I'll pull you to eat, let......'s go," I dragged him out, "and it's better to go home and take a shower, you smell like you, and then sleep well." ”

"I ...... How can I go, I still have to take care of Yuan Feng. "The fat man didn't want to leave.

"There are full-time nurses here, and there are people from the 507 Institute watching, it's useless for you to stay here, let's go, listen to me, otherwise you will fall ill again when Yuan Feng is better." As I spoke, I hooked his arm and walked out, forcibly pulling him out of the hospital. took him home and took a shower, and then ran to Jufu Restaurant! A few years ago, Jufu Restaurant was renovated once, and the whole thing was very good, and the façade has also expanded in recent years, which looks like a high-end restaurant. Business is also very good in the evening, basically full, now there are people eating on the first and second floors, when we arrived, there were people holding a birthday banquet in the hall on the first floor, it was very noisy, the waiter at the door greeted us and asked how many of us.

"Two." The fat man was in a bad mood, and his tone sounded a little impatient.

"There seems to be no seat on the second floor, and today the first floor was chartered, and individual guests went to the second floor to eat, and the seats were more tight. Why don't you two wait? "The waiter obviously didn't know us, and after I left Shanghai, especially after Luo Qiong took drugs, the fat man rarely went to Jufu Restaurant, although sometimes he said hello to the boss after smoking a cigarette, but many of the new waiters didn't know him at all. The two of us have never waited for a seat at Jufu Restaurant, and we are both anxious and will not line up for dinner or anything like that. As soon as he heard that we were going to wait for a seat, the fat man was not happy, and shouted: "Damn, the family is not going well, my wife is in the hospital, and I have to wait for a seat for a meal, so I will say I won't eat!" Walk, go back. ”

He was dragging me to leave, but I didn't expect to see the boss walking down from the second floor, and when he saw us, he was stunned at first, and then hurriedly smiled: "Oh, isn't this Brother Ba?" ”

I smiled and nodded. He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I haven't seen you for many years, come to dinner." Don't stand at the door, Xiao Wang, you go and open the Cuizhu Pavilion on the second floor. ”

The waiter was stunned for a moment and said, "Boss, that's a big box for ten people......"

"Let you open it, what do you say, Cui Zhen, don't be angry, the new guy doesn't know you, come, come up with me, I haven't seen you for many years, today I'm the east, and I happen to have a drink with you." With that, we followed the boss upstairs and sat in a large private room that looked quite luxurious.

sat down and ordered a few dishes, and the fat man kept his face calm because he was in a bad mood. I exchanged a few words with the boss, and after a few glasses of wine, the atmosphere became warm.

"Oh, I didn't expect it, Xiao Luo's kid looks very honest, how can he touch that thing, hey...... You can't touch this thing. No amount of money is enough. The boss sighed and said.

"Don't talk about this, your Jufu restaurant is also very well decorated. I think the façade is two or three times bigger than before, and the business is very good, and there are still a lot of people waiting to come in and eat at the door. I said with a smile.

"Wasn't it demolition a few years ago? A lot of new buildings have been built, and many people have bought new houses, and business is getting better and better. The people of today are no more than in the past. More than ten years ago, in the 80s, the people who went to the restaurant were either Xiaokai, bosses, or gangsters. The ordinary people are reluctant to pay that money, but now the living conditions are better, especially the young people come to eat in groups of three or five. Hehe, thanks to everyone, the business is okay. ”

While we were talking, the waiter suddenly knocked on the door, and then walked in with a nervous expression, and said to the boss: "Boss, the guests in the Peony Hall are making trouble again, grabbing one of our waitresses, why don't you go over and have a look." ”