The shop in Lu Chenlong's mouth is called "Wanghai Restaurant", which is a time-honored brand in Jincheng that has been passed down from his grandfather for more than 100 years.

On Saturday afternoon, when Chen Wengang came over, his friend was already busy in the kitchen.

Lu Chenlong wore a chef's top hat and processed and marinated all kinds of ingredients, preparing to take advantage of the lack of guests to cause trouble in the kitchen.

He is a burly physique, with a muscular chest that fills his apron, and as a chef he has an advantage, and he has the strength to shake the spoon.

"I said, why are you still so thin? Can't eat in a rich man's house? Chef Lu grinned and gave orders, "Hurry up and wash your hands, come and help when you're done - hand me that old soy sauce." ”

In front of him, Chen Wengang was also relaxed: "Why is this so, didn't you say that I should only bring my mouth?" ”

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and consciously gave him a hand.

Lu Chenlong stirred the meat in the basin: "Hey, I don't know the blessing in the blessing, the secret recipe of our old Lu family's "Wanghai Recipe", I will teach it to you now, and I don't bow and thank you three times, how many people outside are waiting to steal the teacher." ”

"It's terrible, when I become the boss, I talk sideways. Where's your brother Xiaobao? ”

"Grandma Zhou next door watched and called them over when they were eating."

Wanghai Restaurant is located in Jiangchao Street in the old city, surrounded by dense old buildings, and the residents are all old neighborhoods. Chen Wengang came by tram, an old-fashioned tram with antennas, and only the old city has a trip, with a bit of sightseeing.

When I first got off the bus, I still felt familiar and unfamiliar, and along the way, all the memories came alive.

The alley is still paved with bluestone pavement, with staggered stairs, high and low people, full of fireworks in the market.

His former home lived in this area, and when he was a child, he and Lu Chenlong ran around the streets and alleys.

Time stops flowing in the old town, as if nothing changes no matter how much time passes.

The door of Wanghai Restaurant is not small, but it is not wide, located at the end of the alley, with a small courtyard, and it is a two-story building.

Chen Wengang wore a white long-sleeved pullover and light blue jeans, dressed very simply, but clean and fresh.

Lu Chenlong squinted his eyes and looked at him, sour: "Come a few more times, and all the waiters in the store will let you be abducted." ”

Chen Wengang held celery and confronted him with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, dirty people are innocent." ”

"How is this nonsense? Just those little girls, one by one, asked me for your mobile phone number. I said that you didn't give it when you have a famous flower. Lu Chenlong curled his arms and admired his strong biceps, "I wonder if I don't look bad, why can't they look down on them?" ”

Chen Wengang slapped the celery in front of him: "You are the flower, you are the owner of the flower." ”

Lu Chenlong's family lives in the back alley, and he lives with a younger brother.

The surrounding neighbors all know about his family, and it is not easy to get to where he is now.

When Lu Chenlong was young, this store was still in the hands of his grandfather, and he was a little famous. His father was not angry, gambling, drinking, and a rotten person, and his grandfather was discouraged and buried himself in teaching his grandson to practice cutting dun from an early age, just thinking about passing on this bit of family background to him in the future.

But when Lu Chenlong reached his teens, his family changed dramatically, his father lost gambling and secretly bet the restaurant to others, which angered his grandfather. The house leak happened to rain overnight, and my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and the family was so poor that they couldn't even get money for treatment.

He was the only one left in the family, and he couldn't read books, so he went out to work as an apprentice, and had to borrow money everywhere.

At that time, every time Chen Wengang came, he quietly hid a stack of cash and then quietly left.

At first, Lu Chenlong was very angry and threw the money back into his arms, but he couldn't watch his mother wait for death, and then called him with red eyes. In addition to Chen Wengang, the relatives who could borrow it naturally also borrowed it, and the half-grown young man wrote and painted under the lamp every night to calculate the loan.

Unfortunately, after two years of cancer spreading, my aunt is still gone.

As for being an apprentice, Lu Chenlong's basic skills are solid, and he did a good job at first, but when the master heard about his family, he was not happy to take it, for fear that the apprentice would starve him to death, and he was afraid that he would seduce his wife with a straight face, so he would find a reason to fire him.

"Seriously, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be this boss right now." Lu Chenlong cut open a lobster, the flesh was white and crystalline, he went to the market early in the morning to pick it personally, "I couldn't be an apprentice in the first two years, I was kicked out, wandering around the street, just in time for this shop to be put up for sale, this is the ancestral property of the family, but I can't take out a single ......"

Chen Wengang listened to him quietly.

Lu Chenlong sighed indignantly: "Money is really a good thing, money can make ghosts grind, and no money can stump heroes." Even if you're not a hero, who doesn't want to eat and drink? Who doesn't get old, sick and die? ”

This is indeed a big truth.

Dinner was eaten at Lu Chenlong's house, and the waiter helped transport the prepared dishes from the store.

Drunken goose pot, stuffed tofu, baked lobster in soup, steamed east star grouper, eight-treasure winter melon cup, all the color, flavor and flavor are placed on a table.

Lu Chenlong didn't rush to ask his younger brother to have dinner, he first dragged Chen Wengang to his room, took out a notebook with pages, turned too much and almost doubled the thickness, the money his family owed before in front had all been crossed, and he used it to keep accounts.

He showed the account book to Chen Wengang: "This shop was paid by you, and now you are half the boss." Two days ago, I checked the revenue of the first quarter, and it was quite ideal, and I will give you the dividend later. You can go ahead and see if there is any problem. ”

Chen Wengang was not reassured: "I'm not in a hurry, you have a lot of money in your family, and I usually don't have much to spend." ”

"Give what you should give. Brothers, settle accounts, don't make friends have to do it. ”

Chen Wengang went out, not to check the accounts, he went to Grandma Zhou's house next door to ask someone for dinner.

The neighbor Grandma Zhou is an old lady who owns a sugar water shop, and the shop has also been open in this area for 20 years. Chen Wengang and the others all ate sugar water at her house when they were young, and the money was not enough, so they shared one for two people, and he often shared it with Lu Chenlong.

She closed the door of the store in advance, carried a few copies of the cool supplements sold in the store in her left hand, and held Lu Chenlong's younger brother Xiaobao in her right hand.

Xiaobao is five years old this year, and when he saw Chen Wengang, he still recognized him, and happily threw himself into his arms: "Brother, brother." ”

The old lady and her children were not around, and they were warmly invited to the table, and the three adults and one child were also lively around them.

Lu Chenlong's skills have nothing to say, and he got a few points of his grandfather's true inheritance, and he passed the junior chef exam last year.

Grandma Zhou praised him and was happy for him: "Ah Long is a good boy, he usually helps me a lot, he has a good character and ability, and now he has finally come out, just wait to find a good girl, start a family, and get better in the future." ”

Lu Chenlong complained to Chen Wengang during the day that he didn't like the girl, and now he began to shake his head again: "How dare you think so much?" It's not that you don't know what is going on in my family, and you are not afraid of people laughing at it. Don't drag the girl down. ”

Xiaobao was wearing a bib, his saliva was dripping, Lu Chenlong fed him a mouthful of food, he didn't eat it, and smiled at Chen Wengang: "Brother, Wengang, Chen Wengang." ”

Lu Chenlong stopped him: "Don't call the adult's name directly!" ”

Xiaobao paused for half a minute, and then smirked: "Old woman, hehe, dead old woman!" ”

Lu Chenlong was annoyed and slapped his hand: "Who did you learn this from?" You can't shout nonsense! Who taught you to curse! ”

Xiaobao couldn't listen to it, and when there were too many people, he was easy to get excited, poured the soup on himself, was beaten, and grinned and cried.

Mild intellectual disability.

A good dinner table suddenly chickens fly and dogs jump. Chen Wengang persuaded, and Grandma Zhou sighed: "He doesn't understand, why are you beating him?" How many times have I told you not to hit the child, I'm almost ready, I'll take him to wash, you talk about yours. ”

Chen Wengang watched an old man and a young man walk out of the door.

Lu Chenlong was worried: "It's still like that, sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, sometimes it looks a little sensible, and then it goes back after a few days." ”

Chen Wengang remembers a little: "Didn't you intervene in the rehabilitation center before? Doesn't work well? ”

"The rehab center where I used to attend classes has closed." Lu Chenlong explained, "I also asked a few new institutions, and the fees are not generally high, and a treatment cycle is less than 100,000 yuan, which feels not too suitable." ”

"If it's expensive, it's still going to be treated. If you need money......"

"Stop, I'm not asking you for money, I'm not. It's just a matter of money, and you can still extort your belt and earn it. What about others? On the one hand, it is expensive, on the other hand, it is far away, and they need to have parents to follow around the clock. I have to work again, and I have to take care of him alone, how can I take care of him? It's just that I haven't had classes for a while, so I'll look for something else. ”

Chen Wengang didn't speak anymore and clinked glasses with him.

My friend has done his best, and he can't be harsh on his brother for not paying enough attention to him.

How difficult it is to take care of a special child, if others don't know, he knows very well.

Among the projects funded by the Niansheng Foundation is the promotion of special education, and he has also reached out to a large number of similar families. Every child with problems, their needs are like a black hole, only to give in, but there may not be hope in it, and many biological parents may not be able to persevere.

Then there are husbands and wives turning against each other, broken marriages, attacking each other, abandoning wives and children......

Too much to see.

Last time, he and Zheng Maoxun casually mentioned what he was going to do when he left the Zheng family in the future, and Zheng Maoxun joked with him at that time.

But in fact, Chen Wengang is definitely leaving, and he has already thought about where to go in the future.

Chen Wengang poured the last bit of rice wine to the other party: "I'll help you pay attention to the right organization." ”

"Don't talk about the unhappy." Lu Chenlong looked outside and asked, "Do you want to go back to your original home?" ”

"Let's go again tomorrow." Chen Wengang lowered his head and didn't care, "It's been rented out for a long time, and it doesn't feel like my own home." ”

Lu Chenlong let out an "oh" sound: "Your uncle rented it, his person-" After all, it is not good to talk about other people's elders, and his tongue turned, "It's just a house." Like my mother used to be verbose, saying what she said every day, where people are, where home is. In the future, you and your Young Master Zheng will come out and buy a new suite, and you won't buy it here anyway, our area is old-fashioned. ”

Chen Wengang said: "Starting a family can be considered, but not with him. He's in the past tense. ”

Lu Chenlong looked at him in surprise, and couldn't find any frustration on his friend's face that seemed to be caused by a broken love.

Chen Wengang held his chin, but instead hung a smile that was almost hazy, faintly unpredictable.

"Really divided?"

"Really. He did something sorry for me. ”

"What did he do—oh." Lu Chenlong scolded the street, "Are you really good with other women?" ”

"Not yet." Chen Wengang said, "But he is sorry for me and I am not the only one." ”

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, Lu Chenlong stopped asking, but happily changed his words: "It's okay to divide it." Hello before, I didn't dare to talk too much, and I'm not a reliable person, so don't you have a few stinky money? What kind of character does the eldest young master think he is? ”

Chen Wengang smiled and clinked glasses with him.

Between Lu Chenlong and Zheng Yucheng, there has always been an inexplicable aura. Chen Wengang knows this.

Lu Chenlong accepted Zheng Yucheng only because of his face, and Zheng Yucheng couldn't even look at the existence of Lu Chenlong.

Once when Chen Wengang helped the Lu family, Zheng Yucheng persuaded him, saying Wengang, I know that you value friendship, but it is not wise to mix money and feelings, the relationship between you is just a childhood friendship, and people will change when they grow up. You've grown up in different places over the years, are you sure you really know him? Are you sure he didn't mean to please you?

Chen Wengang didn't want to quarrel with him, and he hadn't mentioned his friend in front of Zheng Yucheng since.

But in his previous life, when Lu Chenlong was in urgent need of money because his younger brother entered the ICU, Zheng Yucheng gave him 1 million behind Chen Wengang's back, on the condition that he would not come to Chen Wengang again.

Chen Wengang did not know about this until he was imprisoned. Later, he lived in Huo Niansheng's place, and one day suddenly received a check for one million.

Only then did I hear that Lu Chenlong's younger brother had long since disappeared and was not saved. Lu Chenlong sold his old house, scraped together the money, and sent it back, and the skilled immigrants went abroad to work as chefs. After that, he never returned to his homeland for the rest of his life, and the two never saw each other again.

Xiaobao was cleaned of her hands and face by Grandma Zhou, pushed open the door, and ran in to play again.

He settled down a little, and the two adults in the room didn't care about him anymore, leaving him to fight on the sofa and toys.

Chen Wengang carried the copper teapot to the table, and suddenly heard Lu Chenlong shouting: "Stinky boy, what are you doing?" ”

Before he could react, Lu Chenlong had already rushed forward with an arrow and rescued Chen Wengang's mobile phone from his hand.

Chen Wengang's mobile phone was set up with a pattern lock screen, and it was probably seen by the child when he unlocked it, and he tried it out randomly.

Lu Chenlong stuffed the phone into him: "Take a look, he hasn't moved important things." ”

Chen Wengang looked at the screen, but the important things should not have moved.

But what was displayed was the chat interface with Huo Niansheng, and Xiaobao had just sent dozens of messages to Huo Niansheng with perseverance.