Chapter 54 Section IX

With Ajiao's shrewdness and ability, he squatted in the clubhouse for a long time, and found out clearly that the so-called real estate speculators wanted to besiege Hao Dongxi.That evening, a few house speculators did come to the clubhouse, and they were indeed seen by Niaodan. The crux of the problem was that Niaodan made a mistake in his judgment. I don’t know whether he was nervous or his brain was flooded. After entering the clubhouse, it was concluded that he was here to besiege Hao Dongxi, so there was a scene where Hao Dongxi ran away in embarrassment. Just like a criminal policeman investigating a major case, Ajiao followed the clues and sat in Hao Dongxi's office in the clubhouse. He called the doorman, foreman, and waiters to talk one by one. One step action plan.It turned out that those house speculators didn't know that the owner of the Chinese-style dinner was Hao Dongxi, and they came here to set up a dinner to discuss dealing with the developer of Oriental Garden.Although the waiters serving them didn't understand the whole story, they still remembered a lot of what they said. After A Jiao's guidance and thorough questioning, they finally knew that if the developer of Oriental Garden reduced the price to 121 square meters, they would Just spend money to hire a hundred people, hold big slogans and go to the city hall to make trouble, and at the same time bring their relatives and friends to besiege the sales office. If the price is not lowered, they will not take any action for the time being.

"Why is the bird egg so absurd? They came to eat, and he didn't figure it out. Why did such a scene happen? The boss of the Great Southeast Group put on the clothes of a cook and ran away from the clubhouse he opened. It is impossible to spread the word." What a joke." A Jiao said to Hao Dongxi after finding out the facts. Hao Dongxi pondered for a moment, then asked Ajiao: "Do you think Bird's Egg is a bit strange recently? Is there something wrong with him?" A Jiao is applying a mask on her face, her charming face is hidden behind the mask like a kid, Hao Dongxi can't see her expression, but her sudden stop let Hao Dongxi understand that the question he asked touched A Jiao's sensitive nerves .However, Ajiao couldn't give him a definite answer: "Yeah, I also think he's acting weird now, how should I put it, he's just a little absent-minded, but he seems to be much more serious than before."

Hao Dongxi's most important problem now is how to get rid of Oriental Garden and return the funds as soon as possible. Other problems are trivial to him, so he doesn't pay much attention to the weirdness and abnormality of the bird's eggs: "Okay, don't worry about him, wait for someone else Kong asked him what was going on, if there was nothing wrong with him, wait for me to scold him." The bird egg has become weird recently, not only Hao Dongxi and his wife feel it, but Qian Liangliang also feels that this person seems to have been reborn and repacked.The specific manifestation is that he suddenly changed from a penniless miser to a big spender who spends money everywhere, as if he got inside information that the earth would explode within a few days.No one urged him, Niaodan took the initiative to settle the debt for the dinner that apologized to Qian Liangliang, and then started his new journey in life: treats all day long, dinner every day, and he paid for it all by himself.According to the information that Li Shasha, Mimi, Xiong Bao, and Weasel sent to Qian Liangliang from all directions, the identities of the people involved in the banquet of bird eggs ranged from professors at Lumen University to traffickers in the streets. Pawns, and even two street girls on Datong Street.Moreover, his dinners are never classified according to the identity of the banquet personnel, but stewed in one pot and one spoonful.That day, Niaodan put the street girl and the university professor at the same dinner table. As a result, the two university professors couldn't stand the temptation of the street girl. Once the meal was over, they got into a taxi with the street girl and disappeared.The two street girls met when Mimi was shining shoes, so this story is absolutely true.

Analyzing from the perspective of the relationship between the banquet personnel and him, the banquet guests include not only his relatives and friends, but also his rivals in love when he was studying and in business. The idlers who came over, such as the young man who cried loudly at the dinner of the bird's egg, were picked up by the bird's egg on the street.According to Niaodan, when he met this young man, he was lying on the ground, with the words "Only one meal" written in front of him. He thought it was a disabled person begging. He was lying on the ground, but his complexion was normal, his eyes were calm, and his posture could not be seen to be different.So I squatted down and asked him what was going on, and if he wanted money.Young people say that they don't need money, they just want to have a meal, and have a meal with someone they don't know.The egg said that was too simple, do you know me?The young man said he didn't know him.The bird egg said that you go drinking with me, wouldn't that satisfy your desire to have a meal with someone you don't know?The young man got up and patted the floating dirt on his body, and followed the egg without saying a word.The bird egg led him to the dinner he set up.

Bird’s Egg’s dinner party does not distinguish between status, distance, or closeness. No one is clear about the criteria and standards for inviting guests. It seems that the only criterion is that he can invite whoever he wants, and the only criterion is whoever he thinks of. .Therefore, no one is surprised that he brought a half-grown child to the dinner. The diners gather together to have delicious food and drinks for free, and are served by well-trained waiters with smiles on their faces. Cheering, swallowing, and toasting are accompanied by cheerful, cheerful compliments on the eggs and half-truths of the guests.The child brought by the bird egg was really hungry, and he ate hard without saying anything. The child didn't drink alcohol, but kept drinking Coke, and sat there in a daze when he was full.No one knew him, no one knew what to say to him, and Bird's Egg didn't introduce him to others, and he couldn't introduce him, because he didn't know what was going on with this kid.

After sitting there for a while, the half-grown child suddenly burst into tears, and the tears flowed silently on his face as he sat there.When the people at the same table found him crying, they tried to persuade him with good words. Some asked him why he was crying, and told him what sad things he had, and asked everyone to help him.Some talk grandiosely to show the big truth, and enlighten others with such half-hearted truths as men don’t shed tears lightly, and there are no hurdles that cannot be overcome in the world.The people at the table finally had something serious to do, and someone else's distress to show their kindness and enthusiasm, so the table was full of care and comfort, like a typhoon pouring rain on the half-grown child.It's okay not to persuade, the stormy comfort at the dinner party turned the child from crying silently to crying loudly.Everyone in the dinner scene was shocked by the pain of the half-grown child. The mingling of sympathy and curiosity made people in a state of excitement. The people in the game stood up one by one, some asked the bird's egg about the child's origin, and some Asking the child what was so sad, the dinner suddenly turned into chaos, as if everyone was not here to eat, but to persuade the child to fight, and the object of the fight was Niaodan and the half-baby he brought. child.

Bird's egg stared blankly at the child, didn't make a sound for a while, then picked up the wine glass in front of him, and poured a full glass of beer on the child's face.Everyone was stunned, including the crying child.Niaodan asked coldly: "I asked you to come here for dinner, not for mourning. Is your father or your mother dead? As long as your father and mother are not dead, there is nothing worth calling. Cry and get out." The half-grown child stopped crying, although he was still sobbing, it was just the inertia after crying, just like a car would slide forward when the engine was turned off.Someone took the Kleenex and handed it to the child, who took it and wiped the beer and tears off his face.Niaodan asked coldly: "What happened? Is your father or your mother dead?"

The half-grown child was angry: "Your father and mother are dead. Don't think that you have the right to insult me ​​by treating me to a meal." Bird egg said: "Let me say it again, apart from the death of my own parents, what else is there to cry about? Find out if it's worth your tears." The half-grown child hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but said: "I'm broken in love, she's been with me for half a year, and today she suddenly said she won't be with me." When everyone heard this kind of thing, their tense moods were like a balloon with a needle, and they immediately relaxed.

The bird egg scolded him: "Idiot, don't say lying on the street and pretending to be pitiful, you really jumped into the sea, and you are still a person? Come here, little brat, and I will tell you something. If you still want to Practice yourself, as you like." Bird's Egg pulled the child out of the box and whispered for a while.The child asked him in surprise, "Uncle, is what you said true?" Niaodan took out a hundred dollars and handed it to the half-grown child, "What's the use of me coaxing you? Hurry up and go home with your parents. It's a fart if you lose love or not."

The child took the money from the bird's egg, bent down and bowed deeply, and then ran away in a hurry. When Niaodan gave the child money to send him off, Qian Liangliang happened to pass by and saw him, so he and the guests invited by Niaodan asked what happened to Niaodan.Bird's Egg laughed: "The big fart kid is still playing with a fucking lovelorn. I scared him a few words and hurried home." This matter is like most things in the world. Afterwards, it becomes a cloud of smoke and disappears without a trace with the wind of time. No one will call the bird's egg back from the street. The dinner party is serious.But when Qian Liangliang heard Li Shasha quietly tell him that Niaodan had spent more than 200,000 yuan in the club recently, he couldn't help being surprised.Calm down and settle the accounts for Bird's Egg. He almost sets up dinner in the clubhouse every day, and pays for everything personally. I really don't know what he is going to do.Qian Liangliang felt that the situation was strange, so he told Hao Dongxi about the situation of the bird's egg.Hao Dongxi also found it incredible, and ordered Qian Liangliang to give the bird's eggs a proper discount.Qian Liangliang felt that this was not just a matter of discounts, but of course Qian Liangliang was not sure what the problem was. He had been planning to find time to ask what was going on with the bird eggs, and whether he didn't want to spend time with his wife. .Before he specially arranged for him to look for the bird's egg, the bird's egg had already found him. It wasn't until the bird's egg invited him to the dinner that Qian Liangliang suddenly realized that the bird's egg's dinner was full of vigor and excitement, including Mimi, Xiong Bao, Li Shasha and even Weasel, almost everyone in the club has been invited, but he has not been invited to join the game.

Qian Liangliang had already agreed to attend Hao Dongxi's banquet for Director Zhang of the Real Estate Bureau and Director Li of the Municipal Garden Bureau at night, so when Bird's Egg asked him to "sit" together at night, he naturally declined: " No, the chairman has plans tonight, can we do it another day?" Niaodan refused: "No, there is only food between us, there is no day, if you want to go to Mimi, if you don't eat, you will look down on me. If you don't eat tonight, you will never eat together." Bird's Egg specially went to the clubhouse to invite Qian Liangliang in person, and he didn't make a phone call, which showed that he attached great importance to this dinner.Qian Liangliang looked at the bird's egg, and suddenly found that the bird's egg's complexion was very ugly, and the cheekbones on his thin face were raised high, making his oval face like an egg into an inverted triangle, and the color on his face was like a In the yellow land in the north of winter, only pale yellow is left.The expression on his face was the kind of decisiveness and determination that people could not refuse.Qian Liangliang had no choice but to ask Hao Dongxi for leave, saying that Niaodan had something important to discuss with him, so he couldn't attend the banquet for Director Zhang and Director Li. Hao Dongxi has always felt that Niaodan has been very abnormal recently. Hearing that Niaodan has something important to do with Qian Liangliang, she agreed without saying a word. Bird’s Egg’s dinner is still held in the clubhouse.Qian Liangliang came to the box that Niaodan had reserved as scheduled, and to his surprise, the time for the start of the game had come, but there was only Niaodan in the box.There are already several small dishes on the table, although they are said to be small dishes, they are very famous: Dengying Beef is the main dish of Xiong Bao, the beef stewed in old soup makes Xiong Bao turn into translucent thin paper, the meat The texture of the meat is like the ink landscape sandwiched between the glass slices. If you look at the light bulb from the air, you can see the filament behind the meat slices; , the weasel used some secret trick to turn the chicken gizzards into white and yellowed pearls, which were lined with emerald green cabbage, reminiscent of white sails floating on the blue sea; the other two The first dish is a Lumen snack: wheat snails in marinade, white pomfret with green onion and ginger, these dishes are good ingredients for drinking. Bird egg sits alone and drinks, but the dishes are not touched.After Qian Liangliang sat down, he asked him, "Why haven't everyone arrived yet, do you want to rush?" Bird's egg said: "Come here, are you and I not enough?" Qian Liangliang was greatly astonished. He never expected that Niaodan would invite him to the game alone: ​​"Just the two of us? Do you have something to say to me?" Bird's egg picked up the beer and filled it up for Qian Liangliang: "Whether there is something to say depends on whether the wine is drunk properly. At that moment, Qian Liangliang felt chills all over his body, and his heart felt guilty. This box, as well as the bird eggs on the opposite side, somehow created a weird and ghostly atmosphere.Qian Liangliang took the wine glass handed over by Niaodan.Bird Egg made a condition: "Dry it." Qian Liangliang seemed to be under a spell, obediently obeyed, and drank the beer in his glass in one gulp.Bird's Egg didn't hide traitors, and Gu Dudu also drank the beer in the glass.Qian Liangliang picks up some food to eat: "Don't drink dry, eat some food." Bird eggs pour wine: "If you don't eat, you can't eat, you can only drink." The bird's egg was filled with wine, and Qian Liangliang was not allowed to drink it up.After drinking the wine, Qian Liangliang concluded that this guy was similar to the lovelorn boy he picked up for dinner, and probably also had a lovelorn, or more precisely, divorced, so he asked cautiously : "What's the matter with you? Just drink and not eat?" Bird egg drank a big gulp of beer, this time he didn't drink toast, finally reassuring Qian Liangliang, he really didn't know what the nature of Bird egg's meal was, and what he was going to do by singling himself out, so inside My heart has been uneasy.The two of them ate and drank for a while, and the hot dishes also came up, not many, four kinds: drunk lobster with wolfberry, eel with salad, steamed grouper, and dried fried crab, all of which are suitable for drinking but not for food.Obviously, Bird's Egg did not intend to eat. Seeing his gloomy face glowing blue in the bright light of the box, Qian Liangliang had no appetite for the delicious food on the table, and Bird's Egg didn't take the initiative to talk. It's really not a good feeling to eat and drink alone.Qian Liangliang had no choice but to find something to say: "Mr. Bird, the child you brought back for dinner that day was the little kid who was playing with a lovelorn. Didn't you contact me after that?" Niaodan said disdainfully: "Contact him to be a niao, that kind of child is worthless at first glance, and his parents' work is in vain for giving birth to such a son." Qian Liangliang asked curiously: "How did you scare him that day? I think he is quite obedient." The bird egg said: "I didn't scare him, I told him, I have cancer, half of my life is left, and now I am drinking with these buddies and sisters, what the hell are you doing?" ? He went home honestly." Qian Liangliang chuckled: "You are really good at it. In order to persuade him, you put the cancer on yourself." Bird's egg stared: "Cancer is not something you can put on yourself. I really have it. Stomach cancer. I'm waiting to die now." Qian Liangliang was stunned, he really didn't expect this bird egg to say such words to him in such an atmosphere, his instinctive reaction was to say: "Boss bird, don't be kidding me!" , this kind of joke is not funny." In fact, he already understood in his heart that Bird's Egg was not joking.Sure enough, Bird's Egg said: "I'm not joking with you. I call you alone tonight because I want to share this secret with a suitable person. This secret is very heavy. It's a bit unbearable for me to be alone. Think about it." If you want to go, you are the most suitable person to share this secret with me." Qian Liangliang really wanted to know why he was the most suitable person to share the secret of his cancer with Niaodan, but he didn't dare. When facing a "person with only half life left", anyone would be cautious when speaking on thin ice.However, when the two of them drank another glass of beer, Qian Liangliang also figured out why Niaodan chose himself as the person suitable to share this secret: he is a foreigner, and he doesn't have much relationship with his family and his circle When going back and forth, he will not reveal the secret to the bird's egg family and his circle of friends; he is more or less a cultural person, and will not make a fuss about it; The last terminal illness shows the emotional care that disturbs the bird's egg. Bird egg took a sip of beer, his lips were covered with white foam, like a stranded crab, he didn't wipe his lips, he didn't know if it was because he lost his feeling due to the illness or he was too sick to even wipe his mouth: "Old Qian, do you know what it's like to face death?" Qian Liangliang had no choice but to comfort him as usual: "How can you die so easily? Don't you have a gastric ulcer? How did you become gastric cancer? Could it be a misdiagnosis? Even gastric cancer is fine, as long as it doesn't spread, cut it quickly." Stomach, the stomach thing has a strong regeneration ability. After cutting off more than half of it, it will grow back in a few years. An old colleague of mine had three-quarters of his stomach cut. Now he can eat more than me, fatter and stronger than before. Stronger." Bird egg said: "I just want to talk to you because you don't study my disease like those ordinary people. Don't talk to me about my disease. The doctor knows best about my disease. I thought it was a gastric ulcer, so I took a gastroscope to see it. I knew there was a tumor, and it was found to be malignant after a section. We don’t need to discuss these issues. If I want to discuss them, I won’t seek you. It’s outside our circle, so I’m only discussing it with you, the bystanders know. Faced with life and death, people seem to understand a lot right away.” Almost everyone will comfort the patient like Qian Liangliang when they hear the patient mentioning such things to themselves. Such a big set of words.The last few words of Bird’s Egg were a little desolate, which reminded Qian Liangliang of the idiom: When a bird is about to die, its song is sad; when a person is about to die, his words are kind.Qian Liangliang quickly said: "Mr. Bird, I really seldom think about the big proposition of life. What I often think about is the big proposition of survival. To put it bluntly, it is how to earn more money and live a better life... ..." The bird egg interrupted him: "I guess I won't live long even if I cut off my stomach completely, so, I will use the rest of my life to think and think, what is going on in life, why people live, and people live What the hell is going on." Qian Liangliang hurriedly followed his words and asked him, "Have you figured it out?" Bird's egg picked up the wine glass and touched Qian Liangliang: "I figured it out, I'll tell you when I finish this glass of wine." Qian Liangliang drank the wine in the glass without saying a word. Firstly, no one was ashamed to drink a toast to a person who was about to die with half his life left; What kind of understanding will a person who is about to die in the second half of his life have on the big proposition of life? Maybe he will really have a profound understanding of life before he dies, and a memory worth living forever. Niaodan said: "When I found out that I was terminally ill, I didn't brag. I was really not afraid or flustered. I was a little bit sad. It's true. I'm only forty-five years old this year, so I just left this colorful world. , I’m really reluctant. It’s not okay to be reluctant. There is no never-ending meal in the world. I accept my fate. But, what is the value of living this life, and what is life to me? But the big proposition that involves the meaning of life, I can't just die in such a daze, I have to think clearly, and I won't regret it when I die. So I thought desperately, and I finally figured it out, life, you What the hell is going on?" Without waiting for him to persuade him, Qian Liangliang took the initiative to finish the drink in the glass: "Tell me quickly, I haven't thought about this matter, and I can't figure it out. What's going on in life?" Bird's egg said slowly: "Life is just one meal, or life is one after another. Meals, everyone wants to eat more for free, and it is best to spend as little money as possible or even no money. As for who will be at the dinner party, who will set up the game, who will accompany the guests, who will be the trustee of the game, who will be the swindler, who can become a best friend with me, who can become an opponent with me, it is not up to me to decide. Touch, touch what? Try your luck. In the end, if you die, the dinner will end, and there is no unending dinner in the world, which means that there are no immortals in the world.” Hearing that Niaodan boiled down the big proposition of life into a meal, Qian Liangliang didn’t take it seriously at first, but after Niaodan gave a detailed explanation, Qian Liangliang felt that it was more or less reasonable, and then waited until Niaodan said the following After speaking, Qian Liangliang fully approved of Niaodan's scientific summary of the big proposition of life. Bird's Egg said: "There is no never-ending meal in the world, but the meal in the world will never end. In life, this is the meal that will end at any time, but it will never end. Your meal is over, and other people's just ended." Come on, other people's dinner party is over, and your dinner party is in full swing, isn't this life and the world?" On the surface, Bird's Egg's discussion is a bit cynical, which is in line with his personality. On the surface, it is also a bit rough and imprecise, but when you think about it deeply, it really is like that.The bird egg finally stuffed a mouthful of grouper into his mouth and chewed it tastelessly, but he said a few words: "I figured out that life is just a meal, so I thought again, all living beings, why don't others like this?" Disease, but I have it? I also figured it out, and there is only one reason: retribution. Why retribution? I took too much advantage of the meal and suffered too little loss. I ate for nothing without giving back. This is retribution." Qian Liangliang quickly comforted him: "You can't say that. People eat five grains and get all kinds of diseases. You can't say that being sick is a retribution. If you are sick, treat the disease. Don't think about it. You have to think about it. If you are not sick, you have to think about it." Bird egg retorted him: "You don't believe in retribution? I do. Let's just talk about those corrupt officials. Some of them are the rewards of the world. If they are exposed, they are sentenced. Those who go to prison go to jail, and those who eat guns eat guns. This is the reward of the world. Some are It seems to be safe and sound, but there will be retribution for his descendants. In the past, it was said that the rich will not be more than three generations, and the nine clans will be destroyed. Why? For the rich and unkind, of course there will be this retribution. Figured this out In one point, I understood. In the past, I thought about how to eat and drink for free all day long, and I thought I had taken advantage of it. In fact, people live in this world, and you don’t let you take advantage of it. Every now and then, I will make up for it.” Qian Liangliang asked him: "It's no wonder that you host dinners every day these days, so you took the initiative to pay back the debt?" Bird Dan took a sip of the wine, and for some reason it was a bit difficult to swallow. He stretched his neck hard, and it seemed that it wasn't cancer in his stomach, but cancer in his throat: "Oh, it's not exactly, who knows There are so many dinners in this life, which one should not be eaten, and which one should be eaten? It’s almost over, please invite everyone you can before the rush is over, not only pay the bill, but also say goodbye, no matter what , it is fate to know each other in this lifetime, to have coming and going." The bird's egg said these words a little heavy, which made Qian Liangliang feel emotional, and really didn't know what to say to this bird's egg that was about to say goodbye forever. A dying person who thinks he understands everything, most people may have nothing to say.Qian Liangliang filled up the beer, and the two of them started to drink again. After a while, maybe even Bird Egg himself felt bored, so he got up and said goodbye: "I won't drink or eat. I will be hospitalized next Monday and then undergo an operation. It's a dying struggle." , don’t tell others, I don’t want others to know that I’m dying, it’s too troublesome.” Qian Liangliang stood up and saw him off: "I understand, I promise not to tell anyone. By the way, does your family know?" Bird egg said: "I don't know. I told them it was a gastric ulcer and they needed an operation. They all thought it was a gastric ulcer operation. Now, apart from the doctor and myself, only you know about me. Be sure to keep it a secret and spread it to us." I can find you." Qian Liangliang sent out the eggs.The bird egg refused to let him give it away: "Don't give it away, I will go by myself, today you are the last group of guests I invite, and it is also the smallest dinner, but the money is not short, and there may be no such opportunity in the future , there is someone who can listen to me say what I want to say to him before I die, it's much easier, much easier." The egg staggered away.Qian Liangliang looked at his slightly hunched back, feeling very anxious.Li Shasha came over and woke him up: "Mr. Qian, Mr. Bird is gone?" Qian Liangliang was not in the mood to say anything to Li Shasha, he turned around and left with a sigh, he was afraid that he could not help revealing the secret of the bird eggs to Li Shasha.Only then did he realize: Knowing other people's secrets and taking on the obligation to keep them secret is definitely not an easy thing to be happy about.As soon as Bird's Egg left, the secret he entrusted to Qian Liangliang for safekeeping had already made Qian Liangliang breathless. Li Shasha chased after him and called him: "Mr. Qian, Chairman Hao invites you to come over." Only then did Qian Liangliang remember that Hao Dongxi and his wife had a dinner tonight, and Director Zhang and Director Li were invited.He had already asked Hao Dongxi for leave, so he didn't know why he was looking for him again this time.The last thing Qian Liangliang wanted to see at this time was Hao Dongxi. He knew that Hao Dongxi would definitely ask him about the bird's eggs, but he couldn't tell him the truth, and he couldn't help telling him the truth, which made Qian Liangliang Very difficult.However, Hao Dongxi was the head and the boss, and he couldn't go there if he was summoned. Qian Liangliang had to follow Li Shasha towards the VIP room occupied by Hao Dongxi and the others.