After calling Uncle De, Zhuang Rui put his mind down. Only then did he feel his stomach growl. He checked the time and saw that it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. In his excitement, he even had lunch.
Forgot to eat.
He raised his head and looked out the window. The cold wind was howling outside and the snow was getting heavier. Zhuang Rui had no intention of going out to eat. He simply went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, found a pack of frozen dumplings, put it into the pot, and then peeled off a few pieces.
Mash the garlic with a garlic mortar, pour in sesame oil, vinegar and other seasonings, wait for the dumplings to be cooked, and eat them while they are hot.
"Jingle Bell……".
Zhuang Rui had just finished eating and put away the dishes, and was about to continue sorting out his grandfather's letters to see if he could still find anything good, when the phone at home rang.
"Hey, wood, you are not a real kid. You have been home for two days and you don't know how to tell your brother. Come to my shop later and let's have some drinks in the evening. After that, my brother will take you to the sauna and have a good steaming."
Damn weather, it’s freezing to death...".
Zhuang Rui just picked up the phone and before he put it to his ear, he heard a roar coming from the phone. No need to ask, it must be that guy Liu Chuan. He always yells when he calls. Last year when he went home, he called.
I was picked up by my mother, who later called me to my house and held me by my ears for a long time.
Liu Chuan's mother and Zhuang's mother were colleagues. They were classmates with Zhuang Rui from the third grade of elementary school to high school graduation. One of them was impulsive and strong, while the other was calm and solid. No one expected that the two of them would get along.
The relationship is so good that the elders of the two families don't regard each other as outsiders, and they still get punished when they make mistakes. When Zhuang Rui was a child, he was often repaired by Liu Chuan's father, but when he met, he was still called "godmother and godfather".
Eat at Liu Chuan's house.
Liu Chuan's father transferred from the army to work in the Pengcheng City Public Security Bureau when Liu Chuan was eight years old. Liu Chuan, who grew up in the army compound, has a personality very similar to his father's. Whenever he encounters any disputes, he usually
He uses his fists to explain his principles, and his interest in learning is far less than his interest in the street game room.
Strangely enough, Liu Chuan and Zhuang Rui were almost inseparable from elementary school to high school. Zhuang Rui spent no less time playing than Liu Chuan, but his academic performance was always among the top in the class and he never fell out.
The top 3, and Liu Chuan often gets the third place, but he is just counting backwards. Even high school was forced by his family to finish high school. Judging from the relationship between the two, the person who is close to Mo is
The saying that the dark is close to the red and the red is red is not absolute.
After graduating from high school, Liu Chuan's father found him several jobs, but the boy couldn't work for long. Either he couldn't stand the leader or he would fight with his colleagues. Later, the Pengcheng Flower and Bird Market was rebuilt. Liu Chuan, who had loved raising dogs and feeding cats since he was a child,
In Sichuan, I simply encouraged my family to buy a shop there and become my own boss and start selling pets. Cats, dogs, grasshoppers, crickets, turtles and bastards are willing to do anything. In the past few years, they have made a lot of money, and they behave like dogs every day.
Holding a mobile phone and driving a second-hand Toyota, no one can tell that this girl is a dog owner.
In recent years, cricket fighting has become popular in Zhejiang and other places in Zhonghai. Liu Chuan went to rural areas in Shandong and collected a lot of crickets. When he went to Zhonghai to deliver goods a few months ago, he was still crowded in the rental house of Zhonghai Zhuangrui, which was cool in winter and warm in summer.
After a few days, according to his words, it’s not that my brother couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel, but there was no point in staying outside when he arrived at his house.
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After hanging up the phone, Zhuang Rui left a note for his mother, put on the wool hat knitted by his sister, took a China Overseas cigarette and put it in his arms, locked the door and went out, because he worked as a taxi on a snowy day.
There were so many people that Zhuang Rui stood on the roadside for a long time and couldn't get a taxi, so he simply walked slowly to the flower and bird market with an umbrella. It wasn't very far anyway, and it only took ten minutes to walk.
As the New Year is approaching, although it is snowing heavily outside, there are quite a few pedestrians on the road. We take a walk and take a look, and soon we come to the street where the flower and bird market is located.
The flower and bird market in Pengcheng is connected with the antique market. It is divided into several areas such as pets, birds, flowers, antiques, jade, calligraphy and painting, books, stamps, etc. Powerful merchants either rent or buy, and have shops.
Some enthusiasts just set up stalls in the aisles on both sides of the shops, and they only need to pay a small management fee to the market management office every day.
Zhuang Rui has been here several times before. Every time he comes, there are crowds of people and it is very lively. Sometimes they are so crowded that they can't move. However, it has snowed heavily for several days in a row during this period, so retail investors are basically
There were no stalls, only a few people set up stalls under well-connected shops, and everyone hid inside the shops to keep warm, so it was much quieter than before.
Walking to Liu Chuan's pet shop, Zhuang Rui found an old lady standing in front of his shop. She was about fifty years old. She was dressed very plainly but very clean. She was carrying a floral cloth package in her hand and seemed to have a smile on her face.
Zhuang Rui didn't notice a hint of sadness, just opened the glass store door and walked in.
Liu Chuan's pet shop is about 20 square meters. When he bought it, it only cost 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. If he sells it now, there will be people rushing to get 300,000 yuan. This will only take four or five years.
This shows how much house prices have risen.
The few cages that were sparsely displayed in the pet shop were all empty. It was almost Chinese New Year, and it had been snowing heavily for days. He probably had no intention of doing business. There was a stove in the house, and the temperature was 278.
When Zhuang Rui entered the store, he immediately felt his face, which was stiff from the cold, warm up.
Liu Chuan, a kid with his butt sticking out in front of the computer, didn't know what he was tinkering with. Hearing the sound of the glass door, without raising his head, he shouted: "The store is out of stock. Tell me what you want first. I'll come back after the New Year."
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"Do you have a general? I want one...".
Zhuang Rui said jokingly that when Liu Chuan went to Shanghai last time, he kept whispering in his ears for several days, saying that when he was collecting crickets in Shandong, he was a few days late and a general was picked up by others first.
At that time, I looked even more depressed than when my wife was robbed.
"General? I still want..., damn, it's you, sit down and smoke while I finish the game...".
When Liu Chuan saw it was Zhuang Rui, he threw a pack of cigarettes over him. Zhuang Rui came over and took a look, and couldn't help but dumbfounded. This guy was actually playing Super Mario, an old antique game. It was rare for this guy to play it with gusto.
"MD, you haven't passed the test again. I told you, you kid, you didn't come back to report to me. If I hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have known about it until now. I heard that you were shot some time ago. Are you okay? Let me see.
Look, let me take a look..." Liu Chuan dropped the game controller in his hand and walked towards Zhuang Rui. After grabbing the cigarette from Zhuang Rui's hand, he insisted on looking at the wound on the back of his head.
"I'm not so squeamish. My injuries are almost healed. I'm still comfortable with you. If I had known I wouldn't go to college anymore, it would be great to work with you. I've already used the computer. I didn't notice it. You are keeping up with the trend."
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Zhuang Rui lit a cigarette, pushed Liu Chuan's hand away, and lay down on the sofa in the store. He was not a big smoker. He only smoked a cigarette when he was in a good mood or depressed, sometimes four or five times.
I can't finish a pack of cigarettes every day.
"If you don't go to college, I'm afraid even I won't be able to forgive you. By the way, my mother also said that you have no conscience. You didn't go to see her at home when you came. Why are you so nagging after you retired? I
I just came to the store because I couldn’t stand it anymore.”
Liu Chuan first poured out the bitter water, then his eyes lit up and he said: "Just quit your job. If you keep doing it, you might lose your life one day. Seriously, brother, come and join me."
Let's do it, we haven't been together in the past few years, and I feel uncomfortable no matter what I do. You have a better brain than me. If you want to do this, we will make sure that our store becomes the only one in Pengcheng."
