"You go to the grain factory, Bai Chuan should still be there." Practical knocked quickly on the coffee table, looked out the door of the thrift store and said this.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but there was no focus in his pupils at that time, and that look was like a dead person. But only a moment later, Practical looked at me again and urged, "Let's go, don't bother." ”

Seeing that his pupils were back to normal, I was relieved.

It is indeed an illusion.

I hadn't eaten sweets for a while, and after leaving the thrift store, I first ran to Boss Jiang's store and got two bags of dim sum, and ate them as I went.

Huang Yuzhong saw that I was eating, and frowned on the side: "You love sweets so much, I get tired of panicking just by seeing these things." ”

I just shoved snacks into my mouth without much explanation.

Ziliangfang is not too far from the garage, but the location is relatively remote. There is a very old alley diagonally across the garage, the two sides of the alley are all four-storey small buildings, that place was originally the old family home of the light industry machinery factory, and later the factory built a new building for the workers, and the old family home became a gathering place for migrant workers.

I heard the seventh master say that more than ten years ago, that place was very lively, but in the past two years, there has been no new industry nearby, and there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to live in the old alley, and it is gradually deserted.

In addition, this place is an old city, the cost of demolition is too great, when the local expansion of the urban area, it is generally in the relatively new land to develop new industries, the generation of car repair factories is a famine, and no one wants to care, although the public security is okay, but after all, there are many miscellaneous people, from time to time there are one or two cases, 05 years in the spring, there was a human trafficking gang in the old light industry family yard, thanks to Bai Chuan found out, contact the local police station to serve the gang of people.

The food shop of the family is in the alley of the old light industry family home, which is packaged as a shroud shop on the surface, but because it is too far away from the crematorium, and secondly, there are not a few living people living nearby, and the shroud shop has no business at all.

In addition to this shroud shop, which has never been in business, there is also a small shop and a very old barber shop in the alley.

The small shop is also the property of the family, which is managed by Bai Chuan, but Bai Bai Chuan is only responsible for opening the door in the morning and closing the door at night on weekdays, and never guards the store, the goods on the shelves are expired, and you can even find milk powder produced in the 80s in that place.

The barber shop is not opened by the family, the owner of the shop is surnamed Wang, it is said that in the early years was also an inverted craftsman, after the liberation, he relied on giving people haircuts and faces, and he did it for a full 60 years, the old man is almost 90 years old this year, a pair of old eyes are very dazzled, and his hands are not very steady, no one dares to ask him for a haircut. However, the people from the garage often visit him, and buy some shampoo and soap from his shop to help him make ends meet.

The reason why the situation in Lao Hutong is described in such detail is not to drag out the length, but if you have read what Lao Zuo wrote, you will know that he has never done such tasteless things. At present, this old alley is actually a microcosm of the old couple's family across the country.

Bohai Bay is the base camp of the family, but the power of the family is not limited to the area of the Bohai Bay, all over the country, basically can find the industry opened by the family, and once they leave the boundary of the Bohai Bay, the family opens a store to do business, and the selected location is basically the place where this kind of bird does not lay eggs. In this regard, there are indeed similarities between the Yaka and the Soul Village.

Before 2010, I only dealt with the local family members in Bohai Bay, and after a decade, I hardly spent a few days in Bohai Bay, and it was only then that I learned that there were so many unprofitable industries outside Bohai Bay.

And those who guard the family industry outside the boundaries of Bohai Bay are precisely the best people in the old family, although these people may not be able to do the second master together, but in my eyes, they can really be regarded as the mainstay of the entire family.

By the way, these people never participated in the family infighting, except for Yu Heng and the second master, as well as a very small number of clan elders in the family, no other clansmen knew about their existence, and even Qi Ru didn't know about it.

It was only before I went to Miaojiang that I learned about these secrets from Yu Heng.

When he came to the shroud shop, Bai Chuan was standing behind the counter crackling and crackling, and he heard footsteps, so he raised his head and took a look.

When he saw Huang Yuzhong standing beside me, his eyes were stunned, but he quickly put on a smiling face and asked me in a fake way: "What kind of wind blew you here?" You're really, and you won't let me know when you come back. ”

When I first came into contact with Bai Baichuan, to be honest, his first impression on me was quite good, but after so many things happened, my senses for him can be said to have plummeted.

However, on the surface, I didn't want to do too much, so I still gave him a smile: "Some time ago, didn't Ziliangfang open a lot of vouchers for thrift stores, and I came this time just to get the vouchers back." ”

Yu Baichuan nodded, turned around and went to the back room to get the voucher, and when he turned around, he quietly glanced at Huang Yuzhong.

Huang Yuzhong walked around the store twice before he came over to me and said, "This is also your old family's property?" Do you have a business? ”

I told him the truth: "This place is the old man's food factory, and the shroud shop is just a front." ”

Huang Yuzhong let out an "oh" and nodded: "Our Huang family also has a similar storefront, and we usually don't do business, just to cover up." ”

Bai Chuan came out with a stack of vouchers, and when he saw me and Huang Yu chatting calmly, a touch of shock quickly appeared on his face, he wanted to hide the expression on his face, but he couldn't completely hide it, and he was still caught by me.

I didn't plan to show anything, so I put the voucher on the counter, and I unfolded it one by one, and when it was clear, I took it back to the thrift store.

At this time, Huang Yuzhong suddenly shouted: "Oh, it's broken!" ”

I was frightened by him and couldn't help frowning: "What the hell are you called!" ”

Huang Yuzhong said: "I suddenly remembered that the last time you went to Hainan, you forgot about business!" ”

"Serious business? What's the matter? ”

"Before you went to Hainan Island, didn't you shout to buy huanghuali, and after a few days of tossing back and forth, did you forget this stubble?"

When I thought about it, I really wanted to buy a few pieces of good huanghuali to repair the shelves, but I was delayed by Lu Qing's matter, and I forgot about it.

"Forget it, forget it." Anyway, they have already returned to Bohai Bay, and I can only sigh helplessly.

Huang Yuzhong grinned at me: "Don't worry, I just stored a few pieces of good wood in the northeast, and I will have someone transport it for you when I go back, you can see if it is suitable, and if it is suitable, you can use it as you like." ”

"Okay," I put down a voucher and picked up another one: "You quote a price, and I'll directly transfer the money to your card." ”

Huang Yuzhong was a little unhappy: "What do you say, just our friendship, can I still ask you for money?" ”

"Then I can't take your stuff for nothing, can I?"

"When I went to Hainan Island, I followed you every day to eat and drink, didn't you also spend a lot of money on me, even if I repaid your favor, it was not for nothing."

I smiled at him and didn't say much.

That is, the kung fu of reaching out to get the third voucher, my eyes quickly swept over Bai Chuan's face, this guy stared at Huang Yuzhong with a look of astonishment, until he found out that I was looking at him, he quickly changed his breath twice, so that the expression on his face relaxed.

After that, Bai Baichuan's eyes began to roll slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

Probably because it was too boring, after a while, Huang Yuzhong asked me again: "Hey, if you don't, what does the woman who opened a small noodle restaurant in the old alley have to do with you?" Today, when you called you to a meeting, I saw that she had gone too. ”

I glanced at Huang Yuzhong and said, "You said Lao Jiang, I also have a lifelong friendship with her, she is older than us, and when you see her in the future, you have to call Sister Sheng." ”

"Yo, you see this is a trouble," Huang Yuzhong rubbed his hands and said with some embarrassment: "I have to treat her to a meal and apologize to her when I go back." ”

"What did you think when you ran to the old alley to make trouble?"

Huang Yuzhong smiled sullenly: "I'm not ...... Was he poured ecstasy soup, now that I think about it, that kid is really not a thing. ”

As for how Huang Yuzhong got into trouble with him, to be honest, I don't know very well, but I don't have the heart to inquire, anyway, the process is not important, as long as it is broken.

Yu Baichuan has been rolling his eyelids since just now, and he doesn't know how lively he is, but when he heard Huang Yuzhong say this, he became gloomy again.

Now Bai Chuan should have figured it out, when he bet on me and Yu Ru is, he threw the wrong chips, although he did not support Yu Ru is on the surface, but he still maintained a more ambiguous relationship with Yu Ru is, and for my side, he sat on the ground and started to test my bottom line.

Now that the gambling game has come to an end, the little chips of Bai Chuan can be regarded as feeding the dogs. It is estimated that he didn't expect that in just two months, Huang Yuzhong would become a person from my side.

I grabbed the vouchers on the counter, rolled them up and clamped them in my armpits, and said to Bai Chuan: "There should be no problem with the vouchers, I'll take them back first." ”

Before he could recover from his frustration, he didn't hear me.

I didn't pay any more attention to him, and pulled Huang Yuzhong and walked out the door.

As soon as he walked into the alley, Bai Baichuan leaned out of the door of the store and shouted: "Take a sip of tea and then leave, I just got a box of new tea here." ”

As he shouted, he pressed most of his body against the doorframe, and raised one hand in the air, straight towards me. It looks like I'm hoping I can stay.

I hesitated for a moment before nodding with a smile: "Okay, then ...... Taste your new tea. ”

(End of chapter)