Chapter 88 Chapter 22 (3)

Li Dongping's death caused a great shock among the police officers of the Public Security Bureau. Such open shootings of police officers rarely happened before. Although some police officers died in gun battles with criminals in the past, that was another matter after all. One kind of nature, this is equivalent to sacrificing on the battlefield where the two armies exchanged fire, but this time Ning Wei did it too badly. He didn't pay attention to the rules of the game at all. He dared to kill the police without thinking about the consequences.In the eyes of the police, Ning Wei is blatantly challenging the police. He seems to be telling the police with his actions that whoever blocks his way will die, even the police are no exception. This is too rampant. He thinks he is who?Ning Wei's actions angered all the police. This is no longer just a matter of maintaining the dignity of the law, but has developed into a personal hatred between the law enforcement officers and the perpetrators.

The Public Security Bureau held a grand memorial service for Li Dongping. Almost all the policemen attended the memorial ceremony. A portrait of Li Dongping was hung in the center of the venue. Li Dongping's body in police uniform was lying among the flowers. A long line walked around Li Dongping's body, shaking hands with the relatives of the martyrs one by one, and the sound of mourning echoed in the mourning hall... Zhang Haiyang walked back and forth like a trapped animal outside the farewell room, his eyes were bloodshot, he kept smoking, and the ground was covered with cigarette butts.

Zhong Yuemin rushed over when he got the news, and Zhang Haiyang threw away his cigarette butt to meet him and roared in a low voice: "Yuemin, he killed Li Dongping, this bastard, I want to kill him with my own hands, I want to avenge Li Dongping..." Zhong Yuemin patted Zhang Haiyang's back and comforted him: "Yangyang, calm down, don't get too excited, look, didn't I come here as soon as I heard about it?" Zhang Haiyang still couldn't restrain his emotions: "Yuemin, I...I really fucking regret it, why did I teach Ning Wei back then? Let him learn this killing skill, but in the end, my brothers fell down Under Ning Wei's gunpoint, Yue Min, it was my fault... I'm sorry for Li Dongping, he is an only son, what will his parents do in the future..."

Zhong Yuemin raised his face and looked up at the sky: "Haiyang, to be honest, I knew he deserved to die, but in my heart... I was really conflicted. As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw those comrades who went to the minefield together all those years ago. Brothers who were born and died, it is not easy for people who can live to this day..." "But Yuemin, this is not our personal grievance. Ning Wei has now become a murderous devil. If you let him live another day, you don't know who will die under his gun. Yuemin, you have to help help me." Zhong Yuemin gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "I've made up my mind, Haiyang, I stand with you, let's find a way to catch this bastard."

Zhang Haiyang held Zhong Yuemin's hand: "Thank you, thank you, I thank you for Li Dongping's parents..." After careful consideration, Zhong Yuemin decided to postpone his plan to go to Lop Nur for the simple reason that he suddenly found that there were too many people around him who needed help. After connecting with Cao Gang, everyone got together at Taiyue Restaurant, including Zheng Tong and Jiang Biyun, and all the ten educated youths who joined the queue in Shichuan Village in northern Shaanxi back then gathered together.After the old educated youths returned to the city, they seldom interacted with each other, because the burden of life was very heavy, and they were busy with their own business for many years. When we met this time, we all found that these partners from back then were no longer the same as the ones we remembered. The appearance is very different, because everyone's memory of the educated youth partners is the appearance of their youth, and more than 20 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and they are already middle-aged when they meet again.

Gao's age was ten years or so older than these old educated youths. She didn't belong to a generation at all, and she had never come into contact with such people. She observed these old educated youths with great interest.It seems that these people are older than their actual age. The laid-off Qian Zhimin and Zhang Guangzhi, the three-wheeled Zhao Dayong, the milkman Guo Jie, and the retired textile worker Li Ping are all ordinary laborers at the bottom of society. , From the appearance alone, you can find the traces left by the poor life.Zhao Dayong, who has been riding three wheels all the year round, has become hunchbacked, with his spine bent like a shrimp. Guo Jie, the milkman, has bronzed skin and gray hair, which is the result of years of exposure to the sun and wind in the open air.After Qian Zhimin was laid off, he opened a shoe repair stall at the entrance of the alley. His hands were full of veins.

Lu, rough, black like two old tree roots, probably the result of the combination of leather shoe polish and chemical glue, even his body exudes a leather smell.Li Ping is not yet fifty years old, but she is as old as someone in her sixties, and her pension is less than four hundred yuan. Zhang Guangzhi, who is also a laid-off worker, repairs bicycles on the street. It is said that all the bicycles he has repaired have not been reworked. Some people report that he often throws thumbtacks on the nearby slow lanes to increase his business volume. Due to his poor reputation , There are very few people who ask him to repair cars.People who are too poor or too rich are prone to bad habits. Zhang Guangzhi's bad habit is alcoholism. In fact, it is a bit unfair to say that he is drunk. He doesn't drink much. The problem is that he doesn't care Drink a few ounces, every time you drink, you will get drunk, and when you get drunk, you will beat your wife to vent your anger. Old Beijingers call this kind of person "wine putty".

Gao has read a lot of novels for educated youths, and if she read too much of this kind of books, she will be easily misled. She used to admire those so-called "old threes". Profound, they have seen the world, endured hardships, they have insight into life, they have a very open-minded outlook on the world, they have strong operational capabilities in real life, and they are successful leaders in various industries.This is Gao's previous understanding of the "old threes", but now she doesn't see it that way. The "old threes" who are sitting in her restaurant now are the real living conditions of most of the "old threes".That Zhang Guangzhi spoke vulgarly and behaved unrefinedly. He took off his vest after just a few sips of wine, and was about to punch Zhong Yuemin with his shirt off.He was puzzled by the fact that Zhong Yuemin had no children yet, and insisted that Zhong Yuemin had a problem with Xiasanlu, and it could not be that he did not want children on purpose, otherwise he would have produced one or two children after all these years of misfires.Zhong Yuemin was too lazy to explain, so he frankly admitted that there was something wrong with his reproductive system.Zheng Tong and Jiang Biyun burst into laughter as soon as they heard it, and Gao also covered his mouth in the kitchen secretly laughing.

Qian Zhimin said: "If this matter happened to me, I would be so fucking anxious. Back then, my wife's first child was a girl, which made me sleepless all night. My brother's family has two girls. If I don’t have another son, our old Qian’s family will lose their incense. Is that okay? If I’m killed, I’ll have to have a second child. The cadres of our factory’s family planning office chase me every day to do work. I said , whoever I love, whoever stands in the way of me wanting a son, I will fight with my life, God finally opened his eyes, my wife is also up to date, the second child is indeed a son."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "Have you considered it? Can you afford to support two children?" "What am I thinking about it for? Let's talk about it, sir." Zhong Yuemin said: "That's the problem. This is the main reason why you are poor. Your brain is like a pot of pulp. You don't plan anything and don't care about the consequences. You do it first and then talk about it. This is the way of thinking of the poor. You just want to be poor. I want to continue the incense to the old Qian’s family, but I don’t want to think about whether I can afford to raise more children. If you can’t even support yourself, how can you provide your children with a better living environment and enable them to receive a good education? What? Have you found out that the poorer you are, the more children you have. This is almost a rule, and this is obviously a problem with the way of thinking."

Qian Zhimin said: "I haven't thought about what you said. People are like this. The more you don't use your brain, the more stupid your brain will be." Gao brought out the dishes from the kitchen and brought them to the table one after another, thinking about Zhong Yuemin, this guy is really a different kind, how can he deal with everyone?Anyone with a discerning eye can see that these people from the bottom of society are living very hard. They need the help of friends, but they have no ability to return.Gao Xiang, with Zhong Yuemin's IQ and social experience, how could he not understand this?These people are of no help to him, and almost everyone needs his help. If there are more friends like this, Zhong Yuemin will never be able to live in peace. What is this guy thinking? Gao remembered that Zhong Yuemin met Cao Gang on the street that day, and took Cao Gang back to the restaurant that day, saying that he wanted Cao Gang to learn the craft from Master Wang, who was in charge of the stove. Master Wang was from Sichuan, a small county town in Sichuan. His culinary skills are at an average level, but he thinks highly of himself, and he never takes apprentices. He hopes that there will be as few Sichuan cuisine chefs as possible, so that he can show his value.At the beginning, he refused Zhong Yuemin's request, but Zhong Yuemin had a way. He knew the leverage of money, so he put on a businessman's face and started bargaining with Master Wang on the issue of salary increase. Master Wang from a small county had shallow eyes. , I haven't seen how much money, Zhong Yuemin added another 500 yuan to his monthly salary, and he was settled. After the restaurant closed that night, Zhong Yuemin said to Gao: "I'm afraid my expedition plan will be postponed. I want to discuss it with you. Let's borrow some money and add the money in hand to expand the scale of operations. For example, how about setting up a chain store?" Sample?" Gao laughed: "I said earlier, you are the boss, you have the final say, you don't need to discuss it with me, I can see that you want to do some charity work, am I right?" "How did you see it?" "I have long discovered that you are not a money worshiper, but sometimes you pretend to be very greedy. For example, when you drive a taxi, you like to pull wild mandarin ducks. If you earn an extra one or two hundred yuan, you will be so beautiful that you can't find it. Others think you I especially like money. I don’t think so. In fact, what you like is a lifestyle of doing whatever you want. As long as there is excitement and novelty, you have passion and creativity. I find that you are very "into the show" no matter what you do , only be true to your own feelings, and don't consider other people's ideas at all. Whether you are selling pancakes or driving a taxi, whether you are the manager of a large company or the owner of a small restaurant, you have a lot of fun. You will not use If you spend your whole life pursuing money, you will feel that such a life is meaningless. You would rather lower your consumption level and use less money to satisfy your lifestyle. Your attitude towards money is nothing more than that. Am I right? Zhong Yuemin gentlemen." Zhong Yuemin said dissatisfiedly: "Most of them are similar, but I don't like to listen to you saying that I am engaged in charity. Are you qualified to engage in charity? Speaking out makes people laugh." Gao asked puzzledly, "Then what are you going to do? Open a chain store? We can't handle this one restaurant. I think you may want to help those old educated youths, so you came up with the idea of ​​opening a chain store." Zhong Yuemin fell into deep thought, and murmured: "Actually, a person doesn't need much, and not everyone wants to be a rich man. For most people, as long as they have a stable job and an income sufficient to maintain their dignity , it’s good to be able to do this, the key is... Life should provide hope to everyone who is willing to work hard, have you ever thought about it? A life without hope is very miserable. The reason why I want to help those who are not satisfied Son, I don't want to use money to help, but to give them hope, which is what they need most." Gao laughed and said, "This is also doing charity. I think it's the same thing." "It's not the same thing, how can hope and money be the same..." In Gao's eyes, Zhong Yuemin may have many shortcomings, but he has no vulgarity in him. This is a bold and generous man. His unique temperament can always arouse Gao's passion. If you love this man, you will love him. I have to find a way to understand him and find an effective way to get along with him. Gao has been with him for a long time, and the two have never blushed. This is mainly due to Gao's open-minded attitude towards life. She I like Zhong Yuemin, as long as I can be with him, it doesn't matter if I go begging for food.In other words, Zhong Yuemin wanted to expand his business this time, even if he wanted to sell the restaurant they had worked so hard for, she would let him go. Gao returned to the front hall and saw that the old educated youths were already half drunk. It seemed that these people seldom ate in restaurants. A case of beer still hasn't shown signs of defeat.Gao reminded Zhong Yuemin: "Tell everyone about your plan. While you are still sober, you may all be drunk after a while." Only then did Zhong Yuemin remember what he should say: "Oh, I almost forgot, there is something I want to ask for your help, that's it, I'm planning to open another restaurant recently, I wonder if brothers can come to my place to help? " The old educated youths were stunned. Ever since Cao Gang came, they have been very tempted, but they also understand that the restaurant can't use so many people now, so no one is ashamed to speak up today. I didn't expect Zhong Yuemin to take the initiative to raise this matter, and He also said it so politely, as if he had something to ask everyone, this Zhong Yuemin really knows how to be a man, he wants to help others, but also avoid others' embarrassment, they didn't know what to say for a while, instead fell silent. Li Ping asked cautiously: "Yuemin, I really want to come, but I don't know what I can do." "It's great if you can come. You can learn how to make cold meat. It's not suitable for a lady to use a frying spoon. Anyway, you don't have to worry. Anyone who comes can find a job that suits them. I heard that Zhang Guangzhi repairs bicycles. He is cheating and cheating, and he can play rogue. I think this is also a specialty. Let him be a buyer. You must learn how to calculate small accounts, and you have to calculate the price difference of a few cents. I can’t do it, old man. Let the peddler blackmail me, and they got me in with two clicks. I thought it was a big deal. I think Zhang Guangzhi can buy it. If you have the ability, you can get all the hawkers in, and treat a dime as a dollar. Flowers, it’s better to take the vegetables for nothing and return the money, this is a competent buyer.” The old educated youths laughed loudly, and the atmosphere immediately became active. Zhang Guangzhi's eye circles were red: "Yuemin, I'll just wash the dishes. Purchasing is a matter of money. Don't let me do it. Don't let the brothers suspect that I hacked your money." Zhong Yuemin said with a smile: "We will establish a joint-stock system in this restaurant, but we have to wait for me to recover the cost. If you blackmail your money, it means blackmailing your own money, and blackmailing everyone's money. Then everyone will beat you." Zhang Guangzhi's tears finally flowed down: "Yuemin, don't talk about it, why don't you help, in fact, who doesn't understand, you see how miserable your brothers are, and you want to help us, it's rare that you still think about it." The poor buddies who lived together in the cave back then, I, Zhang Guangzhi, loved to take advantage of small things, and I also cheated on others, but I can’t cheat on my friends, I can’t blackmail people who are kind to me, Yuemin, don’t worry, if everyone finds out that I’ve been cheated For a penny, my brothers will dig out the eighteen generations of my ancestors and fuck them one by one..." "Hey, there are still ladies here, can you fucking clean your mouth, why don't you just fuck your mother every day?" Zhong Yuemin reminded. "Okay, aren't we vulgar? We don't know how to be civilized. Please forgive me, and we will change it slowly in the future." Qian Zhimin said: "Yuemin, to tell you the truth, I didn't want to come today because I was afraid of being shabby. I'm also a member of Wu Zhanger, and now I'm mixed up like this. If I come here, I will lose my position to my buddies, but I I really want to see you, I can't forget the scene when we talked about the mountains on the kang of the broken cave, it's like yesterday, Yuemin, when you were here, the educated youth was so lively, no matter how annoying or tired , when I heard you talking about the mountains, I forgot all my worries. After you left, everyone didn't want to talk for a long time. Everyone said that Zhong Yuemin took away the aura of our educated youth. Alas, those hard days It’s really hard, when I think about what happened back then, I tell my wife, no, I have to see Zhong Yuemin, I’ve broken up with him for so many years, and I’ve never met anyone who can make me happy again, to be honest, Yuemin, I miss you." Zhong Yuemin held his hand and said: "Zhimin, brothers, let's work together. After we finish, we will all have food. If we don't do well, I will take my brothers to beg for food. Don't forget." , I was the head of the beggar gang selected by my brothers back then." Qian Zhimin couldn't help crying, he stood up and rushed into the bathroom. Jiang Biyun stared at Zhong Yuemin in a daze, staring at Zhong Yuemin so hairy, he said to Zheng Tong: "Your wife is not sick, is there someone who looks at people like that, maybe she has some kind of adolescent schizophrenia?" Jiang Biyun smiled: "You are sick, Yue Min, I found out when you started to change, and I haven't figured out where you changed, but you must have changed. If I praise you, don't be too serious." Proud, I think you have become very cute, and you know how to care for others, you have joined some religious organization like Christianity, right?" "No, at least so far, I am still an atheist, but I have recently started to study for myself. I just finished reading a book, which helped me a lot. This book is called "The Story of Comrade Lei Feng." "Here you are again, to be honest, you used to be quite annoying, the taste of something sacred changed when it came into your mouth, a game of life, cynical and disgusting, I have known you for so many years, no Seeing you passing by, you, you were a rascal back then, but, thank God, the rascal back then finally turned around." Zheng Tong interjected: "Zhong Yuemin has never been a hooligan, and the mental state he showed at that time just reflected a Chinese version of the mental characteristics of the Beat Generation. According to the law, this type of people grows older and experiences more Sooner or later, they will return to the mainstream culture of the society. If you think Zhong Yuemin has changed, you are right, it means that your feeling is not dull, he is returning." Jiang Biyun asked, "Where is he going to return?" Zheng Tong thought for a while, he sat up straight, and said seriously: "I think...it's a kind of humanistic care..." Zhong Yuemin smiled and waved his hands: "Brothers, let's talk about business. From now on, we have to work together. Since we want to cooperate, the most urgent thing is to unify our ideas. This is very important. Brothers, don't dislike it. Everyone is now For the poor class, I think, we have to think about it, why are we poor?" Guo Jie said: "If you have no power, no power, no culture, no skills, don't you have to be poor?" "No, it's a concept. It is because of this concept that the poor are created. Guo Jie's reason also reflects a concept of the poor. Everyone has not jumped out of the circle of the concept of the poor. If we don't solve this problem, we can't do well. " Zheng Tong listened very carefully, and he asked back: "What is the concept of the poor? Can you give an example?" "Well, let me give you an example. There was a piece of news in the newspaper recently. In order to promote a promotion, a foreign restaurant announced in the newspaper that it would provide 80 free breakfasts to citizens every day. The clerks were dumbfounded when they opened the door the next day. There were hundreds of people standing there. These people knew that the store only provided 80 breakfasts, but the number of them had already exceeded 80 people. Some people even waited here at two or three o'clock in the morning, and organized themselves to issue numbers. But later people didn’t care about that, they thought these numbers were not authoritative, and whoever could count them, so hundreds of people swarmed up, smashed the glass, overturned the counter, pushed the manager under the table, and It hurt a lot of people. Guess how much this free breakfast is worth? It's only worth four yuan, Zhang Guangzhi, if you were there at that time, would you have grabbed it?" "I'm sure I will, isn't that free? Don't don't want it for nothing." "That's right, this is the typical mentality of the poor. Are these people's families unable to get rid of the blame? It seems unlikely, because I haven't heard of anyone starving to death. After talking for a long time, I still have Guo Jie's mentality. Don't let it go. As long as I can take advantage of it, I don’t have to have dignity. I’m like this, because I’m poor, and you like to look down on me. Anyway, I took advantage of it. If you think so, it’s bad, you took advantage of it , but suffered a great loss, because you lost human dignity, who is willing to deal with a dude who has no dignity? It is hard for me to imagine that a person without dignity can make a business. With dignity, you can have integrity , Otherwise, no one will do business with you, and you will continue to be poor if you cannot earn money, and the poorer you are, the less dignity you will have, and you will enter a vicious circle, and you will not even consider yourself a human being in the end." Zhang Guangzhi sighed: "That's right, I have entered this vicious circle. The poorer I am, the more unbalanced my heart is, and the more I want to take advantage. How many opportunities do you have for a poor person to take advantage? So the more you want to take advantage, the more useless it is. Damn it, I couldn’t even earn this 80 cents later, but no one told me about it at that time, and we didn’t understand it ourselves.” Zhong Yuemin waved his hand: "The issue of running a restaurant has been settled in this way. I want to declare that I am not doing relief. I think that if an upright person is rescued by others, it should be a shame for him. I want to provide you with A little hope, I think the worst life in the world is a life without hope, without hope, which can easily lead to despair, this feeling of hopelessness is really bad, I think, let's change this situation, together To create a hopeful life, it should be a very real hope, visible and tangible, as long as you work hard and be a good person, you can get it, because our requirements are not high, we only need to live a hopeful life. A decent life with dignity is enough." Zheng Tong was the first to applaud: "What a speech full of humanistic care, I want to do it with you." Gao laughed and said, "It seems that Yuemin's plan to collect mummies has to be postponed, don't you know? His plan is very exciting..." Zhong Yuemin said: "I have already bought the car, and I must go to Lop Nur. When our chain store opens, it will not be too late for me to go again."