Brother, now I'm going to talk to you about the two Qi brothers.

The one I told you more earlier was Qi Zhengzhe. He was two years older than me and a year older than my brother. He was tall and had good facial features, and when he was waiting for me at the gate of Qijiatun Middle School on a motorcycle, he attracted the attention of many girls.

His two ears are particularly long.

There is a popular saying in Qijiatun that people with long ears live longer. I remember several times when I pulled his long ears and said, "You old immortal, you old immortal." "He wasn't angry at all, I pulled his ear, in fact, I knew that it hurt a little bit that I pulled his ear with that force.

He's got a good temperament. Maybe it's because I don't read a lot of books, and I'm not good at words. However, the convenience consignment store he opened has a very good business, and the big, small, old, and young people all like to buy things in his store.

That's because he is very honest and diligent in business. He is not short of catties and twos, and pays attention to small profits but quick turnover. No matter who entrusts him with the things he buys, he remembers them firmly and never breaks his word. Even if an old lady needed a needle to hold the sole of her shoe, he would send it to the door when he had time.

His sense of service seems to be innate.

At that time, Ming's "short catties and less than two" were rare, but doing some tricks and feet in secret was not strange to businessmen.

To take the simplest example, the people of Qijiatun are very superstitious, believe in Bodhisattvas very much, and like incense and burning paper in major and small sections. This incense and burning paper are the objects that small businessmen like to do with their hands and feet.

It is not uncommon for them to dismantle the two handfuls of thicker burning paper into three handfuls, and to dismantle the two hoops of incense with a larger number of sticks into three hoops.

However, Qi Zhengzhe never did such a thing. He's in business for a long time. This person is good at comparison, five cents a hoop of incense can be incense twice, and he will never buy the incense that can only be incensed once for three cents and a hoop next time. The same is true for burning paper.

Qi Zhengzhe is honest, but not stupid. He's a businessman.

I remember when I was in the fifth grade, I came home from school and went to the store to play, I was idle and looked through his purchase list, and I flipped through a page and saw the purchase price of matches, and someone happened to come to buy matches, and I was surprised to find that his price was lower than the purchase price.

"Qi Zhengzhe, you are a fool, do you know that you lost money just now?" I said after the customer left.

"Where did I lose money?"

"You still say you don't lose money? How do you sell it? You sell matches for three cents a box, and you come in and ask for four cents a box, you know? "I showed him the purchase order.

"I know." Qi Zhengzhe smiled mysteriously. He has a Chinese face.

"Do you know you're still selling like this, you're doing charity?"

"You don't understand what you read."

"What? I don't understand? I was enraged by his disdainful look, "I'll settle this account in my second grade." ”

"Oh, you're still angry when you say you don't understand, little girl," Qi Zhengzhe touched my face in a friendly manner, "Business is not calculated by settling accounts." Didn't you see that this uncle just bought a pack of cigarettes in addition to matches? ”

"What do you mean?"

"This uncle is a regular customer of my shop, his house is four or five hundred meters away from us, and there are three small shops like mine on this road, why does he still come to me to buy cigarettes? Kiki, tell me why? Qi Zhengzhe sold a pass.

"He likes to pick up bargains." I don't bother to answer Qi Zhengzhe's question.

"It's not a bad psychology to pick up cheap. Every customer has this mentality. I sell matches at a loss just to give my customers a cheap idea of what I have in my store. People often have such a mentality, love the house and Wu, this word seems to be wrong, and the brother reads less. Qi Zhengzhe's face seemed to be a little red again. The first time I met him, I knew he was blushing.

"Go." I say.

"You don't recognize me as a brother in your mouth, don't you still think I'm a brother in your heart? It's not that they love the house and the black, it should be from this to the other, they will feel that the matches are so cheap, and other goods will not be expensive. It's definitely cheap too. ”

"So people who come to buy matches will also buy cigarettes, salt, and soy sauce, but in fact, the price of cigarettes, salt, and soy sauce is the same as everyone else."

"yes, do you still think I'm losing?"

"Matches lose one point, cigarettes earn nine points, and together you earn eight points."

This is Qi Zhengzhe's business experience.

Many years later, when all kinds of large supermarkets were built like mushrooms after a rain, when the supermarkets also sold vegetables, you would find that those vegetables were always a few cents or a few cents cheaper than the vegetables in the vegetable market, using Qi Zhengzhe's business experience.

Occasionally, I think like this, Qi Zhengzhe has always cared about me and helped me for so many years, whether he regarded me as one of his customers.

Of course, this is a joke. Qi Zhengzhe treats me well and doesn't expect anything in return.

Perhaps it was the first "game" of "police catching thieves" that touched his already kind heart, and made him feel responsible and obligated to take care of me, a "visitor".

I remember when I first arrived in Qijiatun, I was still wary of this unfamiliar place, and I didn't dare to go anywhere, the only thing I dared to walk around was the alley where Qi Zhengzhe's steamed bun shop was located.

At that time, there was a mentality that I was afraid that I would never come back if I left the bun shop. I don't want to spend the night in that passage again. The old man who coughed to death in the passage gave me several nightmares.

In my mind, the bun shop is such a warm and warm place.

It was Qi Zhengzhe who took me through the nearby streets and lanes, what Sanbu Street and Qibu Street, what Qijiatun Middle Road, Qijiatun South Road, what Qijia Lane, Yangjia Lane, so that I slowly had the feeling that I was from Qijiatun County.

Qijiatun County is really a very small county, much smaller than our Yangjiang County, but there is a railway and a national highway passing through its territory.

Qi Zhengzhe specially took me to see the train. I had already felt the shock of the earth when the train passed by in the passage, but I was so frightened and hungry that I naturally had no time to appreciate it.

Qi Zhengzhe's mood when he took me to see the train was completely different, although I still missed the thatched house in my hometown, although I still had lingering palpitations about the death of my grandfather and mother, but after all, life was settled, there was a sense of stability, coupled with the curiosity and forgetfulness of the teenager, everything was clear in front of my eyes again.

Qi Zhengzhe and I sat under an old camphor tree a hundred meters away from the railway, waiting for the train to arrive. Qi Zhengzhe said it accurately, saying that when it arrived at 2:45, the train came from the sky like a giant dragon at 2:45.

It's a long, long train. We counted the number of sections of its carriages, listened to the "clang" sound that shook your heart and the chirp that lasted for more than ten seconds, and felt the tremor of the earth.

I counted and counted: where did this train come from and where was it going?

Will the train pass through Hua'an, the city where my brother lives? Or will it come from Huaan? Or is its destination Hua'an?

I think that whether it is passing through Hua'an, coming from Hua'an, or heading to Hua'an, as long as it is one of these three, then I can get to Hua'an by taking this train, and as long as I arrive in Hua'an, it is possible to meet my brother.

My brother must be in an elementary school in Hua'an.

But this wandering mind was quickly pulled back to reality by Qi Zhengzhe, and at this time, I found that Qi Zhengzhe's eyes were full of doubts, and I found that it was raining.

"What are you thinking? What the hell are you thinking? Qi Zhengzhe shook my arm, very aggrieved.

"Ahh

"Ahhhh It looks like his soul is gone. ”

"I'm thinking that this train is coming from the edge of the sky and going to the edge of the sky, it's really amazing." Raindrops still fall from the dense camphor leaves and fall on our faces.

"Cut, what's there to think about here. What we have to think about is how to go back. ”

"How do you go back? Rush back while the rain is still light, and it will be troublesome when it gets bigger. "I rushed into the rain.

"Hey—you're a stupid girl, you're going to catch a cold if you get drenched like this," Qi Zhengzhe shouted behind me.

The final result was that Qi Zhengzhe had a lot of snot and phlegm for three days, and he was scolded by my aunt because he put his coat on my head.