"I'm going to a friend of Ogura's, and I'm not coming back tonight, so if anyone asks, I'll speak for me." After Zuo Yunshan returned to the hotel, he said to Yanagida, the assistant of his entourage.

"Okay. When will you be back here tomorrow? Someone asked me so I could tell them. ”

"Solo concerts are held day and night, and the matinee starts at 12:30. You have to go backstage an hour in advance to comb Cao Li's hairstyle. ”

"I'll be back by half past eleven."

"Okay."

Zuo Yunshan changed into his clothes and looked in the mirror. He changed into a new gray top and wore a pair of sweatpants underneath.

The people in the theater haven't come back yet, and it's probably going to be 30 minutes. Cao Li has three rooms on the fifth floor of this hotel, one of which houses her sister, manager and attaché, Cao Ye; a chubby single woman; In the other room lived the female retinue who had come with him from Nanguang. Zuo Yunshan and Yanagida each lived in a room on the third floor.

"It's past 9 o'clock." Zuo Yunshan looked at his watch and said, "Call Chang Chuan in the Nanguang store around 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and ask about the situation in the store." ”

"Got it."

Yanagida nodded in greeting. He is 22 years old and looks only 19 years old because of his short stature. Zuo Yunshan accepts apprentices and pays the most attention to appearance. Tsunekawa is not an apprentice, but an employee, because he is older, he is the equivalent of a manager in the store, and his strength is loyalty and a little cleverness.

"Tell Chang Chuan that I'll call him again when I get back." Zuo Yunshan said to Liu Tian wearing sunglasses on one side.

The work is done, and the rest is for other things. But. The consciousness of work has not been completely eliminated, and it is still in my heart, and I am still imagining the way forward. Now we have come to the crossroads of ambition and contentment. The road went so fast that I didn't even expect it.

However, it will be difficult in the future. The antipathy of the industry has spread from the local to the surface, and the potential enemies of the past have gradually become public.

Zuo Yunshan took the taxi waiting for customers in front of the hotel. "Go to the Pingdingshan Inn." He said to the driver.

"Flat-topped mountain lodge? That's a good place! ”

"Not good."

"That hotel is very profitable!"

The driver spoke freely, and his age was similar to that of Zuo Yunshan.

Cross the railroad crossing and you'll find the end of the shopping street. The front was deserted, and the road was dark.

The car came to an abrupt halt, and the railing of the crossing was lowered on the railroad.

"Sir," said the driver, "aren't you Mr. Guan Chang?" ”

Zuo Yunshan was taken aback. If you call him Zuo Yunshan, it's normal, but call him Guan Chang, he can't help but shudder.

Calling him Zuo Yunshan, he could still pretend to be confused, but he actually called out his real name Guan Chang, he felt as if he had been recognized by someone and was really similar, and he didn't find a way to escape for a while.

"Who are you?"

He looked at the back of the driver's head.

"Oh, what a Guan Chang? I'm Jiang Hui, Jiang Hui of Dachuan, remember? ”

A long, brightly lit train rumbled past in front of you.

Dachuan Prefecture is located in the southwest of Fuchang City and is a famous production area for cabinets and other furniture. Zuo Yunshan's hometown is there, and his unbearable youth was spent there.

Zuo Yunshan did not have a classmate with this name in elementary school and middle school. Well, later—

"Oh, I'm a carpenter in the cabinet carpentry department of Dachuan Furniture Factory, aren't you in the finished product department? I talked to you three or four times at that time, but I don't remember.'

"Really?"

Zuo Yunshan was vague. The car crosses the crossing.

The tension in my heart could not be calmed down for a long time. After crossing the crossing, the driver slowly stopped the car, turned on the roof lights, and turned his face backwards to let Zuo Yunshan look.

He has a grinning rectangular face, dark eyebrows, thick eyes, and a fat and large nose and mouth. Zuo Yunshan looked at that face and finally remembered. There was indeed such a person among the apprentices who operated the chainsaws in the carpentry department, but they rarely came and went.

Zuo Yunshan was helpless, so he had to smile ambiguously and nodded.

The driver, Jiang Hui, asked nostalgically: "Now in Nanguang?" ”

"Yes."

"It's been a long time since then, hasn't it? It's been seven years since I left Dachuan Furniture Factory. It's not interesting to be a carpenter who always makes cabinets, so I drove a taxi and came to Fuchang. You left there three years before me, didn't you? ”

"Probably......

He gradually gets drawn into the topic of drivers, and maybe even about the past that he doesn't want to touch.

"Right? You see, it's been 10 years, and I haven't seen each other for a long time! ”

Zuo Yunshan saw a row of old-style houses by the river. He was born in a house in that alley. He remembered that half of the house was used by his father, who was a carpenter, for carpentry work, and that there were only two small rooms, one ten square meters in size and the other in eight square meters. My father worked a lot, his waist was bent, and he had to work overtime at night with the lights lit in the dimly lit room.

"The people of Dachuan Furniture Factory said that you went to Arita after you were dismissed from there, and said that you burned color glaze in Arita, is it true?"

The townsfolk really asked about the annoying place. However, it is surprising that the rumors are so accurate, and in fact, I have never told anyone about going to Arida. So, how much do you know about your future occupation and address? Zuo Yunshan wanted to know, but he didn't dare to ask Jiang Hui rashly, so he replied casually:

"I didn't stay long in Arita and then I went to Nanko."

"Really? So, for a long time in Namko? Jiang Hui said without doubt. It seems that I don't know much about the details. Zuo Yunshan relaxed slightly.

"More than 8 years." He quickly replied.

"More than 8 years? That's not short! ——Staying at Fuchang Hotel? ”

"yes."

"Living in that hotel, the identity is not ordinary! The young man at the door of the hotel just now called you teacher, what kind of teacher are you? ”

"I run a beauty salon."

"Ah, yes! I didn't expect you to come as a perm. They call you a teacher, and you must be doing a good job. I'm here to do this in Fuchang? ”

"Singer Cao Li performs in the theater here, do you know?"

"Yes, in the Fuchang Grand Theater, there are a lot of audiences! Cao Li also stays at Fuchang Hotel? ”

"I was invited by Miss Cao Li to do her hairstyle for her performance."

"Oh, you do the hairstyle for Cao Li?!" Jiang Hui, who was driving the car, exclaimed, "I can't believe it, you're amazing!" When did you get mixed up like this? I can't believe it, it's ......."

Taxis are speeding through the dark countryside.

It was not surprising to hear that he opened a beauty salon in Nanguang, but when he heard Cao Li's name, Jiang Hui was amazed.

"When did you learn this skill?"

Jiang Hui was puzzled that a carpentry apprentice in a county had become like this.

Zuo Yunshan couldn't help but feel worried. The place to go ahead is the Flattop Mountain Lodge. He had let Wei Chun move in first.