Chapter 192: The News Revealed by Brother Sweet Potato
Xiangzi glanced at the scattered armed policemen around him: "Do they have bullets in their guns?"
Jia Hekai shook his head: "I don't know, I never saw the gun being fired."
"Someone is looking at you with a gun, how can you still be free?" Xiangzi curled his lips and said.
"Haha...compared to those serious criminals, those in our third team are quite free." After Jia Hekai finished speaking, he looked at Liu Gen and asked, "Liu Gen, did you find a sweetheart in college?"
Liu Gen smiled and did not answer.
Xiangzi asked: "How did you see this?"
"Are we really in love?" Jia Hekai became interested: "It feels like, haha... As a man who hasn't spoken to my aunt in a long time, of course I can smell the scent of my aunt on you two."
"Oh my god! Don't you always talk to your mother-in-law?" Xiangzi asked curiously.
"Look at this wilderness, except for cattle and sheep, where can you see my mother-in-law?" Jia Hekai said: "In other detachments, which are closer to the town, you can still see your mother-in-law. However, in the third detachment, which is far away from the town, it is difficult to see them all year round.
I got an aunt."
"Are there no movies or TV shows?" Liu Gen asked.
"There are movies, but the ones we watch are all educational films, not TV." Jia Hekai answered.
This may be the scary thing about prison. It is hard for ordinary people to imagine that a large group of men cannot see a woman for a year and a half. The body can be imprisoned, but the mind cannot be monitored. This society is composed of men and women.
, whether it is a man or a woman, if there is no other half, it is conceivable that in those days, let alone being able to talk to a woman, you can't even see it. No wonder you will see it in military camps or prisons in movies and TV shows.
Men, treat women’s photos like treasures.
Xiangzi sympathized with Jia Hekai and his fellow reform-through-labor prisoners, so he vividly told Jia Hekai about the various women he saw while working in the entertainment city, which made Jia Hekai almost drool.
"When you are released from prison and arrive in Nanhai, I will take you to the entertainment city to play." Xiangzi finally said.
"Haha... Hearing what you said makes me think of the South China Sea even more." Jia He nodded in agreement.
Xiangzi looked at the cattle and sheep all over the mountains and plains, and said to Liu Gen: "If we can sell the cattle and sheep here to the South China Sea, we will definitely make a lot of money!" These days, all he thinks about is buying and selling Liu Gen. After thinking about it, he said
: "But the cost is a lot. If you buy a small amount, people may not necessarily sell it to us. Besides, if you buy less, the price will naturally not be reduced. Long-distance transportation will cost a lot of money. When we get to the South China Sea, we don't have to
Any sales channel is difficult!”
"Yes, every year, cattle and sheep dealers place a large deposit on the farm to contract the cattle and sheep for a year. I heard that it takes millions of dollars." Jia Hekai said.
"If you order in large quantities, the price is very cheap?" Xiangzi asked again.
"Compared with the market price, it's quite cheap." Jia Hekai replied.
"Brother Gen, we can do this business in the future." Xiangzi gritted his teeth and said, "Sell the cattle and sheep from the northwest to the South China Sea."
"We'll talk about the future later. Now we have nothing and still owe a lot of money to others." Liu Gen glared at Xiangzi: "Let's take it one step at a time. Don't overdo it, or you will stumble!"
"But now we can let Jia Hekai build a good relationship." Xiangzi looked at Jia Hekai and said, "You still have a few months left in your sentence. If you build a good relationship with the people in charge here, it might come in handy in the future."
Jia Hekai chuckled and whispered: "I have a good relationship with the captain and instructor of the third team. It was their help that reduced the sentence so much. Last month, more than a dozen sheep were lost. I was the one who looked for them all night."
The one who came back gave me a great reward, and this time, I lost half a year of my life."
"The sheep you were guarding got lost. Instead of punishing you, you were given credit for it?" Liu Gen asked.
"The sheep in my care were not lost, but the sheep of another group." Jia Hekai glanced at the second lieutenant of the armed police sitting not far away, and lowered his voice: "I secretly dispersed their sheep into the bushes, haha.
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Liu Gen smiled bitterly and whispered: "Then why don't you hurt me!"
"You deserve it!" Jia Hekai whispered: "The leader of their group bullied me when I first came here. I just wanted to make him look good, but I didn't expect that, haha... I have made a great contribution! My sentence was reduced by half a year.
, the leader of that group was added for half a year, haha..."
"Thank you for being able to laugh!" Liu Gen has been hurt by others and knows what it feels like. What he despises the most is the guy who hurts people behind his back: "Listen to me, Jia Hekai! If you were here, learn from
They are all crooked and evil. After you are released from prison, your life will be worse than before you went to prison!" Liu Gen did not say that he committed a crime worse than robbery, which was considered to save him face, and did not say that he was a robber.
Jia Hekai lowered his head.
Liu Gen told him one by one what he had left in the team for Jia Hekai, and asked him to go back to the prison warden. He never mentioned the monthly living expenses for his sister Jia Hehuan. More than half an hour later, the second lieutenant stepped forward.
Say the meeting time is over.
Jia Hekai shed tears when they were saying goodbye: "Liu Gen, thank you and Xiangzi for coming to see me. I will remember what you said..."
That night, Yanagine and Xiangzi stayed in the guest house of the No. 2 Labor Camp. The conditions here were not bad and the price was not expensive. They had to 'stop' the train the next day, so they slept until noon the next day before taking the train.
Take the shuttle bus back to the provincial capital.
"Brother Gen, do you want to call Xia Yang?" Xiangzi asked in the waiting room of the train station.
"No need! She knew she would definitely come to see us off, so she left quietly. Xia Yang has grandparents at home to take care of!" Liu Gen said.
There were many migrant workers returning to Nanhai. The train was very crowded, and the aisles of the hard-seat carriages were almost full of people sitting or lying down.
As soon as Liu Gen and Xiangzi got on the bus, they occupied a seat connecting the two carriages. They sat like that for two days and two nights. Along the way, the two brothers ate Niang's white flour cakes and drank from the cup Ouyang Xue gave Liu Gen.
The hot water on the train was terrible.
School hasn't started yet, and the campus is deserted.
Liu Jun was very excited when he saw Liu Gen and Xiangzi coming back, and kept "reporting" to Liu Gen about his work during the holiday.
"Brother Gen, my fellow villagers and I carried eight dead people. On the night of New Year's Eve, we carried two. They all died of heart failure due to excessive drinking... Teacher Wang went to the anatomy room once and found two more people.
The corpses were all bought dead, and my fellow villagers and I carried them to the anatomy room... Oh, by the way, Teacher Mei also asked when you would come back. She came to the dormitory on the afternoon of New Year's Eve.
Yes, she even brought me food. Teacher Mei is so kind. Let me tell you, when you come back, give her a call..."
Liu Jun returned the pager to Liu Gen. Xiangzi asked Liu Gen to take a hot bath at the rented house. Liu Gen said that he was used to taking cold baths and did not go with Xiangzi. He was thinking about Mei Yingchun. After Xiangzi left, he took the
The jujube and walnuts brought from his hometown went to Mei Yingchun's house. He really missed her a little.
When I walked out of the school gate on Daxue Road, I saw the "Sweet Potato Brother" selling roasted sweet potatoes. I thought that buying two roasted sweet potatoes for Mei Yingchun would be a favor to "Sweet Potato Brother". There were not many students in school during the holidays and the business was very busy.
It’s light and it’s winter, so it’s not easy.
"Hello, Brother Sweet Potato, aren't you going back to your hometown for the Chinese New Year?" Liu Gen walked to Zhou Yongheng's oven and greeted him with a smile. He already knew his nickname, "Brother Sweet Potato".
"Hello, I'm not like you college students. I have holidays and do small business. I can only make ends meet and go back and forth to my hometown. It costs a lot of money. Besides, the Spring Festival travel rush is like going to the battlefield.
It's better to die." Zhou Yongheng didn't know Liu Gen. He met so many students that he couldn't remember a boy like Liu Gen who rarely bought roasted sweet potatoes.
"I want two." Liu Gen pointed to the two larger roasted sweet potatoes, and then asked: "Do you live near here?"
"Yes, I help the owner of Shanxi Ramen Restaurant look after the shop at night and sleep in his Ramen Restaurant." Zhou Yongheng answered while weighing his weight.
Yanagi knew that ramen restaurant, and he invited Xiangzi to eat ramen there once.
"Have you heard that any shop is about to be transferred?" Liu Gen wanted to ask this. He saw that many shops were closed and not as lively as during class, and there were not many passing vehicles on the road.
Zhou Yongheng wrapped the weighed roasted sweet potatoes in newspapers and handed them to Liu Gen. He replied, "I haven't heard about it. The business here is good, so how could the shop be transferred?" He looked at Liu Gen and asked, "Aren't you a student of Nanhai Medical University?
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"Haha... I'm a student." Liu Gen handed the money to Zhou Yongheng and replied with a smile.
"Then why do you want to transfer the shop? Do you want to open a restaurant?"
"Just ask." Liu Gen took the change from Zhou Yongheng and prepared to leave.
"The owner of Shanxi Ramen Shop mentioned that he wanted to transfer the shop, but that was before the Chinese New Year." Zhou Yongheng said out loud.
When Liu Gen heard this, he stopped, turned around and asked, "Did he say he wanted to change hands?"
"I also overheard it. I wonder if he will change his mind when he comes back after the New Year." Zhou Yongheng replied.
"Did he go back to his hometown for the New Year? When will he come back?" Liu Gen walked back to Zhou Yongheng and asked.
"I'll probably come back before school starts. I don't know the specific day."
There were less than ten days before school started, and Yanagi was a little excited when he learned the news that the ramen restaurant was going to be transferred.
"Okay, why do you want to transfer it?" Liu Gen wanted to know more about the situation so that he could negotiate the price in the future.
"His location is a bit far from the school gate, and the business is actually not that good. Besides, he only sells ramen, and the varieties are relatively single. Those who like to eat pasta, that is, those students from the north or northwest, can't make enough money in a month.
I probably spent a few dollars to open a store somewhere else, but I don’t know the details.”
Liu Gen heard that 'Sweet Potato Brother' had some business acumen, and he accurately stated the key to opening a restaurant. Yes, location is always the first, followed by the variety of business and the taste of the consumer. These three factors determine the quality of a small restaurant.
Life and death.
"How long have you been doing this business?" Liu Gen asked about roasted sweet potatoes.
"Not long, more than half a year." Zhou Yongheng replied.
"What kind of business did you do before?" Liu Gen asked again.
"I've never done it before, haha... Selling roasted sweet potatoes, I just learned it after arriving in Nanhai." Zhou Yongheng said with a smile.