Because my father left in a hurry, I felt very upset all afternoon. After I got off work in the evening, I did not go back to the living area immediately, but walked alone along Renmin Road.

The cold wind was bleak and full of chill. I walked all the way to the ancient bell tower. Seeing that the cultural center was very lively, I walked in bored. On the lighting court, a group of dancing people had gathered. I saw the modern Xiao Guo flying all over the field. Her dance partner was replaced by a buck teeth man, not the monkey-faced Director Zhu. I watched quietly. After a dance music came down, Xiao Guo's eyes were blurred, twisted his waist, and walked off the stage with his buck teeth, and came to the place where I stood.

"Xiao Guo, do you still know me?" Standing under the mercury lamp on the stadium, I saw Xiao Guo's white face and his originally blood-red lips glowing purple.

"It looks familiar, you are..." Maybe men often chatted with her, and Xiao Guo asked with a reserved look on his face.

"Who are you?" Buck Teeth saw me half a head taller than him, and shouted at me a little jealously, "Don't get close to you here, get away."

"Do you still remember Lu Yu?" I ignored buck teeth and continued to look at Xiao Guo.

"Oh - remember." Xiao Guo's charming eyes suddenly turned into two crescent moons, "You are Lu Yu's apprentice. How is he doing recently? I heard that they didn't come to see me last time when they came to the county. They really forgot their old friends once they are rich and prosperous."

"I haven't seen him for a long time." As I said this, buck teeth showed a flattering look on my face.

"Ah--I'm sorry, I don't know you are Secretary Lu's friend. I offended you, offended you." Buck teeth grinned and said with a smile on the side.

"You call him Secretary Lu?" I glanced at Buck Teeth a little strangely.

"Yes, don't you know? Lu Yu is now the deputy secretary of the Youth League Municipal Committee." Buck teeth said excitedly.

As soon as the words of buck teeth were spoken, my heart sank. After a moment of smile, I asked Xiao Guo: "Where are you Director Zhu? Why didn't I see him?"

"He is now Director Zhu, the deputy director of the Cultural Bureau just mentioned." Modern Xiao Guo said with a little sourness.

"That's right, Lu Yu has become the deputy secretary, Brother Zhu shouldn't be the deputy director?" Buck teeth quickly added flatteringly.

"What Director Zhu? If it weren't for him, he wouldn't be a dance teacher enough to be a dance teacher." Xiao Guo didn't buy a buck teeth account and said to him again.

Buck teeth didn't care about Modern Xiao Guo's attitude, so he smiled generously and stretched out his hand at me, "Hello, I am the new deputy director of this museum. My surname is You. What do you call me brother? Where is it? "

"I am a preservation worker in the yarn mill." I did not shake hands with him.

Under the mercury light on the court, the buck teeth's face changed again. He stared at me suspiciously, as if he was judging whether I was a liar. The next music started to sound again, and Xiao Guo looked angry and asked him impatiently whether he was still dancing. Buck teeth restrained his confused expression and quickly followed the scene.

The next day, when I was at work, an old guard came over panting and said that a big boss was looking for me at the entrance of the factory. I followed her in confusion and arrived at the entrance of the factory. I saw a red Soviet Lada sedan parked outside the blue brick gatehouse.

Seeing me walking out of the door, a fat man struggled to get out of the narrow car door. I didn't recognize who it was. I was shocked until he walked in front of me.

"Are you looking for me?" Looking at her brother Sanhong who was already fat and deformed, I almost burst out laughing.

"Hehe, I'm here to find you." Sanhong's brother had a big face shining with oil, his eyes were embedded in his flesh when he smiled. The black freckle on his face became more obvious, like a huge green-headed fly.

"What's the matter with me?" I looked at him in a little confused.

"This matter is hard to explain for a while. When will you get off work? I will invite you to dinner at noon and go to Hongwei Hotel. We will have a chat while eating." Sanhong's brother proudly patted the genuine leather boss bag in his hand.

"Then let's talk about it when I get off work at noon." I really don't know what I can do for him, but it seems that he is really developed.

After work at noon, I hurried out of the factory gate and walked towards the ancient bell tower in the center of the city. When I muttered all the way to the Hongwei Hotel, Sanhong's brother was already waiting for me in front of the hotel door. His red Lada sedan was parked domineeringly next to the hotel door.

"Wu Ping, are you here?" Sanhong's brother smiled and a fat hand like a bear's claw reached over.

"Get in." I said casually, without shaking his hands.

When I came to the private room in the backyard, I pushed the door and saw Sanhong. Her face was covered with thick white frost and her lips were painted blood red, like a big-headed doll in a New Year picture. On the big round table in front of her, a circle of cold dishes had been arranged, with red and green colors, complete with meat and vegetables, and it looked particularly grand.

"What are you... what are you doing? Isn't it a bit too much?" I turned my face and said to Sanhong's brother.

"What's this? Now - we don't need these two money." Sanhong's brother slapped, patted his round belly, and said with a passionate look.

"Come and sit down." Sanhong reached out and invited me to take the seat.

"I'll sit here and let your brother sit on his head." We gave in for a long time to each other before finally getting off the seat.

"Your straw and willow weaving business looks good, you must have made a lot of money, right?" I asked casually at the table full of dishes.

"What big money can we make for straw and willow weaving?" Sanhong's brother opened a bottle of hardcover canal Daqu with a pair of chopsticks, "I'll stop doing this now."

"You don't have the weaving willow weave anymore, so what are you doing now?" I asked in confusion.

"Our family has mined, we have opened a gypsum mine." Sanhong grinned with a blood-red mouth, smiled and slapped a cold pork belly into the plate in front of me.

"Have your family opened a gypsum mine?" Sanhong's words surprised me.

"It's in front of Xiaozhuang, our commune, where there is gypsum underground and the quality is particularly good." Sanhong's brother said, while filling the wine cup in front of me.

"The mine you opened in Xiaozhuang in the past?" I suddenly remembered Xiao Meihua's crying, and my heart suddenly became stung.

"Yes, I'm here to find you this time, just to ask you to help me get the procedures done." Sanhong's brother picked up the wine cup on his own, ran into me for a while, and drank it in one sip.

"I'll go through the procedures for you? You have already opened the mine, but there are no procedures yet?" I was even more surprised for a moment and asked quickly.

"Don't mention it? We occupied the contracted land of that family. They followed each other every day. We used both red and white. We spent a lot of effort to settle the family. However, the city's Minerals Bureau still refused to approve it, saying that we were not qualified to mine. In fact, they just used me as a money tree and came to check it out at any time. They had to give money and serve them with good wine and cigarettes to send them away. But this was not a solution after all. I heard that you have a relationship with the city's leaders, and there are still people in the family who are high-ranking officials in the provincial capital, so I found you here." Erhong's brother complained, and the fat meat on his face trembled with anger, and the black fur became even more purple.

"That's all nonsense. How could I, a little worker, help such a thing? You're really looking for the wrong person." I was full of resentment and was difficult to vent, so I could only say perfunctorily.

"Wu Ping, as long as you agree, just say how much you need." Sanhong's brother pulled open the boss's bag, took out a thick stack of "Great Unity" from it, and shot me in front of me, "Our Sanhong has liked you since we were in school. In the future, we will become a family, so you quit the errand mill. If we join forces, we will definitely be able to do great things."

"I'm so sorry, I really can't help this. In addition, I want to advise you not to do such illegal things." I stood up and said to Sanhong again, "We are not suitable. I have to work in the afternoon. Now the factory has poor efficiency and I can't afford to eat if I don't go to work."

Seeing me turning around and walking out the door, Sanhong and his brother looked at each other for a moment. Perhaps they had never seen anyone who had turned a blind eye to such a large sum of money and was so calm.

When I stepped out of the threshold, Sanhong's brother recovered and shouted in anger: "Wu Ping, are you mentally ill?"

"Brother--" Sanhong shouted in a crying voice, "He...he is such a person."

The sunshine in early winter afternoon was still warm. I walked out of the gate of Hongwei Hotel and the fat girl who was greeting the guests at the door of the store was a little surprised: "Why did you leave without eating?"

"It's too expensive here, I can't afford it." I grinned and joked.

"If you have any comments, will you give us?" Fat Ya asked with a sincere look.

"No objection, it's all very good." I turned my face and said.

"No...why are you going--" Fat Ya's voice chased me from behind.

I didn't answer any more, and bypassed the ancient bell tower and walked west along Renmin Road.
Chapter completed!