Chapter 32: A Dream Ends Up
Du Yuesheng nodded, he believed that Chen Yaoyang had this ability again. www.biquge.info Don't look at Chen Yaoyang's coarse cloth and dirt now, and he is so sloppy that he doesn't even have money for food, just looking at his hairstyle, you can know that Chen Yaoyang and Du Yuesheng are not a social level figure. Moreover, when Du Yuesheng and Chen Yaoyang met for the first time, Chen Yaoyang went shopping with a beautiful Japanese girl. Therefore, what he said about taking Du Yuesheng to a bar opened by the Japanese to drink was not made up. Therefore, Du Yuesheng believed in Chen Yaoyang's words.
Chen Yaoyang naturally does not see people so thoroughly as Du Yuesheng, the reason why he is optimistic about Du Yuesheng is thanks to his identity as a future person, but he is not very clear about Du Yuesheng's history. Now, Du Yuesheng is telling himself the scene when he first arrived in Shanghai, so Chen Yaoyang is quite interested, so he reminded Du Yuesheng: "Brother Du, your story is not finished yet, go on!"
"Okay, since Brother Chen wants to hear it so much, I'll continue to finish talking. Du Yuesheng picked up the wine jug again, poured a glass of wine for Chen Yaoyang and himself, and continued: "When I was an apprentice in Evergrande Fruit Shop, I had food and housing, and I also had two yuan a month to shave my head, which is very good for a child from the countryside. And I, too, work hard and do my best to do things well in the store, and sometimes I have to help the boss ......" Du Yuesheng was afraid that Chen Yaoyang would not understand, so he hurriedly explained: "That is, Uncle Heng, and some senior brothers pour night pots, brush toilets, serve washbasins, and so on. Speaking of this, Du Yuesheng first sighed, and then continued: "Back then, Uncle Heng saw that I was the youngest, and I was the most obedient, and I understood the world, and he had no children under his knees, so among these senior brothers, Uncle Heng loved me the most and wanted to cultivate me as the successor of 'Evergrande Fruit Shop'. So, not long after I arrived at Evergrande Fruit Shop, Uncle Heng asked the senior brother to take me to run the goods together, and get familiar with the transactions on the dock and some fruit vendors on the cargo ship. In this way, I went from being an apprentice to a 'merchant'. ”
"Uncle Heng is indeed very good to you, so why did you leave the 'Evergrande Fruit Shop'?" Chen Yaoyang has always been very strange, he clearly remembers the film and television work about "Shanghai Beach Tycoon" that he saw in the 21st century, which is about Du Yuesheng's home in "Evergrande Fruit Shop", but why didn't Du Yuesheng live there in reality?
Du Yuesheng sighed deeply when he heard the words, and Chen Yaoyang could see that Du Yuesheng's sigh was different from the previous times. Most of the previous sighs were because of the helplessness of the waves on the beach when he was penniless, but this sigh is more of remorse and guilt. I only heard Du Yuesheng continue: "I blame my hands for being too cheap, and I always want to go to the casino to gamble." You know, at that time, how much gambling money a primary school apprentice in a fruit shop could have, and he would lose all of them if he played one or two. In order to be able to play a few more, I secretly moved some hands and feet in the payment in every running goods, and deducted one or two copper plates as gambling funds, thinking that if there is a win, I will not be found by Uncle Heng. However, his luck was not good, and over time, Uncle Heng also discovered the deficit in the accounts, knowing that I had done something about the payment, and in a fit of anger, he drove me out of the 'Evergrande Fruit Store'. Speaking of this, Du Yuesheng couldn't help but feel sad secretly.
Chen Yaoyang understood his thoughts, reached out and patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "It's been so long, don't always think about the past, we have to face the future, there is still a long way to go." ”
"Mmmm" Du Yuesheng nodded and said, "I understand this truth." As he spoke, he picked up the glass and drank the shochu from the glass.
"And then?" asked Chen Yaoyang as he picked up the flask and poured wine for Du Yuesheng.
Du Yuesheng smiled helplessly and continued: "Then there is nowhere to stay, just find a place next to the 'Sixteen Pu Wharf' to shelter from the wind and rain and use it as a kennel." I don't know how many days later, my senior brother found me, secretly squeezed a few copper plates for me, and brought me some rotten fruits from Evergrande Fruit Shop, and asked me to set up a stall on the dock and sell these fruits cheaply to the coolies on the dock. When Du Yuesheng said this, seeing that Chen Yaoyang listened attentively to his nagging about the past, and didn't even move his chopsticks, he hurriedly said: "Brother Chen, don't patronize and listen to me, eat and eat vegetables first without drinking, don't these dishes suit your appetite?"
Chen Yaoyang smiled and picked up the chopsticks, took a bite of the green vegetables and said, "No, just listen to it and I'm full!" After speaking, he put the green vegetables into his mouth. Then he picked up the bowl of rice and ate it in a big gulp.
Seeing this, Du Yuesheng continued: "Gradually, my fruit stall on the dock has also improved, and there are more brothers who eat with me. But I can't get rid of my gambling addiction, every time I make some money, I go to the casino to play two hands, sometimes in order to gamble, even my pants are gambling, and as a result, I don't get up to do business all day under the covers, and over time, the fruit business is also aside. In order to make a living, I instructed my subordinates to do some shady things, and I also made a lot of oil and water, and the money came faster than selling fruits, so I stopped doing the fruit business and started to deceive people. ”
When Chen Yaoyang heard this, he remembered the harmful behaviors that occurred in the 21st century, such as "touching porcelain" and "telecommunications fraud", and said: "Although it is slower to make money from selling fruits, it is a legitimate business after all. ”
"I also understand what you said, but after all, it was at the 'Sixteen Shop Pier'. This place, if you don't deceive people, there will be others who deceive, in this case, why can't you be one step ahead. What's more, my situation at that time was indeed very poor, not a need for life, and no one was willing to do such indiscriminate things!" Du Yuesheng said helplessly.
Chen Yaoyang actually understands very well that Du Yuesheng is not an unreasonable and immoral person, but he is forced by life, after all, there is a group of brothers behind him, even if he doesn't eat, he must always find a way to feed them, otherwise how could these people be willing to follow him into death. If he hadn't taken this path, there would have been no existence of the "Shanghai Tang Three Tycoons" in the future!
"Once, when my elder brother was going back to his hometown to marry his daughter-in-law, he came to me to say goodbye to me, and at the same time, told me a thing that I will never forget. It turned out that the rotten fruits and copper plates he brought to me were all brought to me by Uncle Heng, and since he hadn't found me for a long time, he didn't bring them again. When I heard it, I was shocked, it turned out that Uncle Heng had been helping me all along. When Du Yuesheng said this, the layers of shadows in his eyes flashed again. After a while, Du Yuesheng continued: "Later, the 'eldest sister' of Xiaodongmen took a fancy to my ability to do things and was quick-witted, so she asked me to go to his fireworks room to do things and help him get started. So, I had a place to live. Du Yuesheng drank another glass of wine and said, "Now I still live there, and when I finish drinking, I will take Brother Chen over to play." ”
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