In the faithful studio, it is quiet, only the rustle of paintbrushes outlines various comic book characters.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year has passed, Wang Rui and Li Xiaole finally completed all the episodes of "Slam Dunk" in the first half of the year after three days of overtime.

It had been a few months since they arrived in Jiangcheng, and seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming, they asked Wei Jianfen and Li Yongguo to go home early.

When the two of them received the welfare benefits of Zhongxin Studio from Li Yongguo and received the soft sleeper train ticket, their mouths never closed.

They never dreamed that Li Zhongxin would give them such high benefits, and they were simply scared to pee in the toilet.

Everyone's monthly salary, plus twenty new pieces of unity, and a thousand dollars of colorful foreign exchange coupons, simply blinded their eyes. The salary of 350 yuan, plus 20 pieces of great unity, is already a thick stack, and with that handful of colorful foreign exchange coupons, it is more shocking than sending a box of money during the Chinese New Year now. There is also the era of rounded corners, when the monthly salary of the people of the whole country is more than 30 yuan, and the two of them coldly get the wages and benefits of the New Year of Zhongxin Company, and their bodies can't help but feel trembling.

On the free sleeper train, the two of them rushed back to their respective hometowns on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month.

After returning to Shanghai, he went to the Shanghai Art Studio to see the old factory where he had worked for many years, and made an internal phone call in the factory, greeting a few colleagues with whom he had worked before, and he wanted to invite them to a meal.

Wang Rui didn't want to show off how good his current job is, nor did he think of recruiting people for Zhongxin Comic Studio, because he was different from Li Yongguo, he had worked here for six years, and he had a deep affection for the Shanghai Art Studio, and he simply wanted to invite his colleagues to dinner.

Wang Rui Hotel is not far from the Shanghai Art Studio, which is a small restaurant called Benbang Old Restaurant, and Shanghai people like to eat Benbang cuisine, that is, local cuisine.

This old restaurant has always been Wang Rui's favorite one, economical, the most important thing is that the taste there is much better than other restaurants, and it is relatively close to the Shanghai Art Studio.

The so-called local cuisine of Shanghai is the local cuisine of Shanghai, which is characterized by soy sauce and rock sugar, rich and delicious, sweet and moist, and wins with real materials and slow fire. Each dish looks oily and red, and the portions are solid, and the representative dishes are grass head circles, dregs and bowls, shrimp and black cucumber, braised bald lungs and braised back fish.

Because Wang Rui had a treat, he came to the restaurant of the old restaurant of the gang early, thinking of the relationship between everyone on weekdays, thinking of the care of everyone on weekdays, Wang Rui was also ruthless, and ordered the best dishes of this old restaurant.

It is particularly worth mentioning that Wang Rui ordered two signature old dishes that he has coveted for many years.

The eight treasure duck and Hujiang pork ribs in this old restaurant, Wang Rui has worked in the Shanghai Art Studio for five or six years, and he has only seen others order, but he has never eaten it, even if someone treats him, no one spends a lot of money to order such two dishes, this time he returned to Shanghai, Wang Rui wanted to fulfill this dream.

Just when Wang Rui finished ordering and waiting for his colleagues, he suddenly saw that Shen Zaixi had entered the old restaurant surrounded by Ma Puxing and several others.

Wang Rui's expression was stunned, and he immediately greeted him very warmly.

"Yo, isn't this Leader Shen and a few old colleagues? I haven't seen you for a long time, but the style is still there! ”

He really didn't expect that Shen Zaixi and Ma Puxing and a few other people would also have a New Year's dinner in this place, but what about it!

Wang Rui has forgotten a lot about these people squeezing him out in the past, not to mention, if they hadn't treated him and Li Yongguo like that, how could the two of them get together in Zhongxin Comics Studio, and how could they have made such progress.

Wang Ruike heard Li Zhongxin say that the two years from '82 to '84 can be regarded as two years of accumulation for them, and after this time period, they, the old employees of Zhongxin Comics Studio, he Li Zhongxin will help establish his own comic studio, and will let their own works be sold all over the country and even to the world.

If he is still in the Shanghai Art Studio, he is still the same as before, and he will have no future and development at all, let alone the working environment he likes now.

All this, I really have to thank Shen Zaixi. Therefore, when Wang Rui and Shen Zaixi greeted each other, the happiness on their faces was very sincere.

Shen Zaixi saw Wang Rui greeting him with a smile, he was also slightly stunned, but he quickly greeted and replied: "Yo, isn't this Wang Rui?" I've been out of town for a long time, but it seems to be a little more relaxed. He immediately touched his head and said, "By the way, where have you been?" If you have any difficulties, just tell me, I will definitely help you when the time comes, no matter how you are also an excellent comrade in the studio. ”

The meaning of Shen Zaixi's words is not deep, and people with high emotional intelligence can understand the meaning at once.

In the 80s, when it was said that I lost weight in other places, it was ridiculed that I didn't mix well in other places, and I lost weight.

Shen Zaixi asked where he went again, obviously the place where Wang Rui went was not good, he didn't even remember it, as for the words that he said later to help Wang Rui solve the difficulties, it was casually said, how can it be reasonable to say that the airdrop is sold well.

He said so! There are two reasons, one is to reflect his high demeanor, his subordinates have resigned, if there is a difficulty, he will help, and he has a broad mind that others can't match.

The second is to ridicule Wang Rui for going to work in other places, there should be unsatisfactory places in all aspects, and it has to be the old leader who offers to help him.

It's just that these words are polite words and empty words, if Wang Rui really asks him Shen Zaixi for help, he will already be considered to have given Wang Rui a big face if he doesn't fall into the ground.

When a leader plays politics, he has to taste what he says many times before he can taste and understand.

However, Wang Rui belongs to the kind of person with high IQ and low EQ, otherwise, he would not have been in the Shanghai Art Studio for five or six years, and he would still be a flat-headed ordinary man, and he would not be so disliked by the leaders.

Wang Rui was very practical, and when he heard Shen Zaixi say that if he was in trouble, Shen Zaixi would help him, his heart suddenly felt warm.

He smiled shyly and said: "Thank you Leader Shen for your concern, I'm okay on the Jiangcheng side, it's very good, if the leader has time to go to Jiangcheng, I will definitely arrange the whole process and take you to have a good time for a few days." I'll invite a few colleagues from our factory to eat, so I won't disturb you, and when you eat, I'll go to toast you or send you a dish. ”

As soon as Ma Puxing, who was beside Shen Zaixi, heard that it was Wang Rui who invited him to dinner, he walked over and asked slightly mockingly: "Wang Rui, I just heard that you went to a small place like Jiangcheng where birds don't, how are you treated?" Isn't it too much to mess with, come to find an old colleague to help introduce work! If you don't have a job, there is a shortage of people in our department to serve tea and pour water, or you can go to work with us! ”

Ma Puxing is Shen Zaixi's most important employee, and he can't look down on people like Li Yongguo and Wang Rui.

Ma Puxing has always felt that the two of them are nothing more than better at painting, they are regular art academy graduates, they always fucking look like intellectuals, and their emotional intelligence is so low that such people can't understand anywhere.

Wang Rui just said that he is now on the Jiangcheng side, that is to say, the two of them can't get along anymore, and they are all mixed in the northeast of China, where birds are not rare to, such a guy, stepping on a few feet, not only the leader is happy, but also his colleagues.

After Wang Rui heard Ma Puxing's words, he came up in a hurry.

A guy like Ma Puxing who is not a bullshit and can only slap the horse is such a rat poop that spoils a good pot of soup.

If it weren't for the fact that the Shanghai Art Studio had such a guy who didn't understand any bullshit, the Shanghai Art Studio would not have experienced a decline in performance and fewer and fewer good works.

Thinking that it was about to be the New Year, there was no need to be angry with this kind of person, Wang Rui said quickly and vaguely with a cold face: "Don't worry about your sycophants, my life is very good." ”

Ma Puxing saw Wang Rui's angry and bulging appearance, and he was happy in his heart! Hearing Wang Rui say that he was a sycophant, he immediately glared at Wang Rui with fire-breathing eyes, and said viciously: "How can you kid talk? There's a kind of you try again. Who do you say is a sycophant? I am kind enough to help you, how can you talk like that? ”

Wang Rui instantly showed a blank expression, and asked Shen Zaixi without knowing it: "Leader Shen, look at it, why is this Ma Puxing's ears not good!" When did I say he was a sycophant? Look at his cannibalistic posture, why is he still angry? His name is Ma Pujing, I just said he didn't care. ”

Wang Rui is a native of Shanghai, but after staying in Jiangcheng for a long time, he always has the idea of wanting to beat people.

But what! Wang Rui knew that he was a cultural person, he shouldn't do such rude things, and it was far better to use words to anger the enemy than to fight, and if it really started, he couldn't beat that tall Ma Puxing.

Shen Zaixi glared at Ma Puxing, stretched out his hand and patted Wang Rui's shoulder, and said with a pleasant face: "Don't be the same as Ma Puxing, this kid just likes to make a joke, let's go eat first." ”

Shen Zaixi understood in his heart that this was the incident provoked by Ma Puxing first, and it was the end of the New Year, and Wang Rui still gave him face like that, this Ma Puxing made such a move, which was a bit unkind.

After Wang Rui saw Ma Puxing and several people surrounding Shen Zaixi into the back box, he walked directly to the door and waited for his colleagues.

Seeing Yang Lingling, Meng Hongwei, and Zhong Aiguo coming together, he immediately welcomed a few people into the No. 6 box.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, he immediately ordered the waiter to serve wine and food.

Meng Hongwei saw that the service staff of the hotel actually brought four cold spells and a bottle of Moutai, and he immediately said excitedly: "Yang Lingling, look at it, Wang Rui has made a fortune, and the wine is all Moutai, you have to drink some today, this kind of good wine is not common." ”

Wang Rui said with a smile while opening the wine: "Brother Meng said that he laughed, what a fortune, it's the New Year, invite the big guy to have a meal, before leaving, the big guy set up a practice banquet for me, I'm back, I want to invite the big guy to eat something delicious." ”

Just when everyone was laughing and pouring the wine, Ma Puxing walked in from outside with a bottle of liquor from the Shanghai Grottoes, and said with a smile: "Our leader Shen Zaixi saw that they were all colleagues in the unit, and specially came over to let me bring you a bottle of good wine. ”

Ma Puxing looked at the four cold dishes on the table, the corners of his mouth immediately curved into an arc, and he said with a smile: "The place where birds don't really can't make money, just look at these dishes, Wang Rui, do you need my brother to get you two good dishes?" ”