Seeing that Silly Zhu was about to leave, Yan Fugui rolled his eyes and hurriedly chased after him. He said to Silly Zhu with an apologetic smile: "Don't go, Boss He. Hey, we are married and want to do business with you. See if we can...
…”
"No, I am all fake. Uncle Yan, you must not believe it!" Silly Zhu said seriously, "The person standing in front of you now is all fake. The real person is still standing in the courtyard. If you don't believe it, look back.
look!"
Yan Fugui was a little confused when he was told that. He actually looked back, but he immediately reacted and chased out the door with a smile and a curse: "You idiot, you made me confused!"
As soon as he chased him out, he saw Shazhu looking at the white flag hanging at the door in a daze.
"Door banner!" Yan Fugui's expression suddenly changed, "Who hung this?"
People in the old capital are very particular about hanging a white cloth flag at the door of the courtyard when someone's family members leave, also called a door banner. This flag has two functions. One is to notify the neighbors in the courtyard to come to help with white matters, and the other is to
It is to let people outside know that someone died in this courtyard.
There are usually names written on the flags. Silly Zhu took a closer look and couldn't help but sigh.
"Who?" Yan Fugui asked.
"Uncle Yi died." Silly Zhu looked heavy and sighed, "Aunt Yi didn't survive this year..."
Yan Fugui was stunned for a while, and his expression suddenly became extremely desolate.
"I went to see her with your Aunt Jia the other day. We were chatting and laughing. Why did she leave so soon?" His tone couldn't tell whether he was frustrated or sad. "Well, I also told her that this year she
I won’t accept anything from my family’s couplets…”
Silly Zhu said: "You are the first uncle. Uncle Yi has to take care of the children. You have to take care of Aunt Yi's funeral."
Yan Fugui nodded slowly: "I'm here to help, and you have to help me. Each household should send someone to help..."
At this point, Yan Fugui paused and said, "The couple who aided Korea haven't been back for a while. Have they stopped living in our courtyard?"
Silly Zhu said: "Wenhui is allocated a two-story building next to her parents' house, but it seems that they have just cleaned up and haven't moved out yet. The couple and Xiaodang are now living in her father-in-law's house.
It's okay, I'll make a call later and ask him to come back."
"How about forget it, don't bother me." Yan Fugui said, "I am now the general manager of the company. I heard that Wen Hui has been assigned a security guard. The couple is not what they used to be. I'm afraid they don't have time to come...
…”
Silly Zhu made a sound and waved his hand: "Don't worry, if he doesn't come, he won't be Su Yuanchao! He is not a person who forgets his roots at all! Leave it alone, I will greet him! Let's go and see Yi first.
Master...well, the old man is also pitiful. He has a child at home. His parents haven't called him for a few days, and the eldest mother is gone. This child is so young, what will he do in the future..."
Su Yi has indeed been very busy in the past two years. Since he took over the Red Star Rolling Mill last year, he has successively integrated the first and second rolling mills together in the past two years. Recently, he is discussing the merger with Shijingshan Iron and Steel Works. The superiors value his work very much.
The "Red Star Reform Template" implemented by the Red Star Rolling Mill intends to allow Su Yi to continue to preside over the overall work of the new company after the merger.
The busy and fulfilling life has actually long since deviated from Su Yi's original dream of being a low-level salted fish, but over the years, he has actually enjoyed it.
He is willing to do some things, and he likes to be at the forefront of the storm, seize some opportunities for this country, and avoid some traps and detours.
Now it is steel, in the future it will be the Internet, chips...
He wants to see what the world will look like after he changes. Life is long, and he has plenty of time to draw a masterpiece on this piece of white paper.
Of course, even if you have to do something big, you still need rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea in your daily life.
His life is still the trinity of family, friends and work.
He didn't go home last night. He called Wen Hui and lied that he was going on a business trip. In fact, he went to bury Tao Chunxiao with Lu Shengli, Zhang Dingbang, Zhang Anping and Yu Wenhai.
Although Tao Chunxiao and Wen Hui had never been on friendly terms during his lifetime, and had not been in contact with each other very much in recent years, they had been playing together since childhood. Wen Hui was about to give birth, so Su Yi was afraid that she would be upset and did not dare to tell her the truth.
Tao Chunxiao is dead.
The girl who clamored to learn martial arts from Su Yi died in the dense forest on the border while chasing the "Phoenix".
"Phoenix" is the code name of an enemy agent leader. Tao Chunxiao and the unit behind her have been hunting this enemy agent for more than ten years. The Zhang Bo who was involved in the previous stick incident is Phoenix's subordinate.
In addition, Fenghuang was also the murderer of Tao Chunxiao's brother.
When Tao Chunxiao's brother was chasing Phoenix, he went deep into the enemy's nest alone when he ran out of ammunition and food. As a result, Phoenix attacked him from behind and cut his throat, and he died tragically on the spot.
Tao Chunxiao had a very good relationship with her brother, but this incident deeply affected her and she has always been brooding about it. This was also the reason why she wanted to pester Su Yi to learn martial arts before - she wanted to avenge her brother with her own hands.
Not long after the BangGeng incident, Wen Hui and his friends were basically all in bad luck at home, but only Tao Chunxiao was not affected because of her father's relationship, and instead rose to a higher level in their workplace.
In that era, what Tao Chunxiao could actually do was extremely limited. She could only watch her friends suffer but could do nothing. She could not even stop her father from persecuting her friends' families.
Later, because Tao Chunxiao's father played an extremely disgraceful and important role in the death of Zhang Dingbang's father, the relationship between the group of friends became even more awkward, and they gradually stopped interacting with each other.
The year before last, when Su Yi returned to Beijing and the earth was rejuvenated, Tao Chunxiao's father quickly lost power and was dealt with along with four other people. Because of his special status and the fact that he had handled too many things, the investigation has not been completed yet.
Tao Chunxiao was also affected and was transferred from key departments. After a period of silence, she voluntarily applied for transfer to the southwest border and became a grassroots officer of the border inspection team.
Everyone knows why she went here, because the Phoenix is hiding here.
When Tao Chunxiao left, only Lu Shengli went to see her off, and none of her other friends met her.
The harm that Father Tao has caused to everyone cannot be easily erased, and meeting him will only make it more embarrassing.
No one thought that Tao Chunxiao could find Phoenix. After all, the entire investigation department had been searching for more than ten years but still could not find the whereabouts of this person. Many people even doubted whether Phoenix existed.
Therefore, everyone feels that Tao Chunxiao's departure is more like a kind of self-exile, and everyone looks at it with the attitude of forgetting each other.
No one thought that this separation would be forever.
Tao Chunxiao really found Phoenix. She believed in Su Yi's principle of "the better your martial arts skills are, the more you can knock him down with one shot." She always kept the last bullet in her body just in case.
Seriously injured, she shot Phoenix dead with the last bullet hidden in her body, avenged her brother, and finally died in a pool of blood with a smile on her face.
It is said that when the police officers who arrived later saw the tragedy of the scene, no one did not cry.
No one could have imagined that a girl like her could do such a brave thing.
It was inconvenient to transport the body thousands of miles away, so Tao Chunxiao's body had to be cremated on the spot. Su Yi and others received only a small urn.
At the train station, Lu Shengli grabbed the man who brought the urn by the collar, stared at him and tried to hit him.
"When I left, you gave me a small box for such a grown-up person? You gave me this for a living, grown-up girl? Damn it!"
He was pulled away by Zhang Dingbang and others.
Lu Shengli said that Tao Chunxiao was not in the box, so he knelt on the platform and burst into tears.
He has not been married in these years, and his friends know very well what he is thinking.
He has always had a sweet dream, but now, the dream is shattered.
Tao Chunxiao's family members are either under quarantine or in other places, so her funeral affairs can only be handled by these friends.
There was no farewell ceremony, no memorial service.
Even if it was done, no one except Su Yi and the others would be willing to attend the Tao family's funeral. Maybe they would rather set off firecrackers.
Of course Tao Chunxiao is innocent, but she is not innocent either. When everyone was in misery, she got promoted step by step and drove a big jeep all over the capital.
But she must be pitiful. She didn't do anything bad. She sacrificed her life for the country, but she can't be recognized as a martyr because of her identity.
What does her death mean?
The moment the urn was placed in the tomb, everyone cried, and even Su Yi felt sad.
Death is like a lamp going out, all grievances and grudges disappear. Looking back on the past, what everyone remembers is her goodness.
Lu Shengli had become very calm when they parted, but he wanted to go alone, and everyone was worried about him, so they followed him secretly.
Sure enough, he carried a box of liquor and returned to Tao Chunxiao's grave. While drinking, he talked, sometimes cried, sometimes laughed, until late in the night, he was drunk into a puddle of mud and fell asleep holding Tao Chunxiao's tombstone.
It’s on.
After sending Lu Shengli home and settling him in, Su Yi and the other four went to Niulan Mountain in Shunyi, the hillside pavilion where they once got drunk.
The four of them drank some wine and sang the song they sang that day together again.
"The road is difficult to navigate in the Hengduan Mountains. The enemy has heavy troops and is pressing down on the border of Guizhou. Soldiers are marching all over the world with both feet. Surprise soldiers appear when crossing the Chishui River four times. The Wujiang River is dangerous and difficult to cross. The troops approach Guiyang and approach Kunming. The enemy abandons his armor and throws away his pipes. Our army takes advantage of it."
Victory over a long journey, commanding a tiger to leave the mountain and attack the golden sands, a great man's military use is truly like a god..."
As she sang, Zhang Anping started crying again.
"Don't cry, Chunxiao is a hero, I will definitely handle this matter for her! I have been stuck at the wine table for the past few years, and I must get this matter settled. I will never let her die in an unknown way.
Bai!" Yu Wenhai gritted his teeth and said.
After resuming work, Yu Wenhai quickly entered the police system and is now considered a big leader in the city bureau. He is good at making connections and has a bright future. But he has never talked about Zheng Zhi, and now he just wants to
Get promoted and make a fortune.
On the other hand, the same can't be said for the Zhang brothers and sisters and Lu Shengli. In six years, these three people have basically become half useless. The passion and ideals they once had have long since been swept into the garbage heap. The three of them are now unemployed and too lazy to go to work.
Lu Shengli had previously been clamoring to become a magistrate on the southwest border, but there was a stalemate with his family and nothing happened.
As for the Zhang brothers and sisters, Zhang Dingbang began to resell the approval documents after the policy was relaxed. Su Yi and other friends persuaded him several times but he refused to listen, so everyone left him alone.
Zhang Anping does have a formal job, but she plays around and doesn't go to work every day.
Looking back eight years ago when everyone was discussing Zheng Zhihe's ideals and enjoying the future, the current situation is simply a black humor.
On the contrary, Wenhui has never changed her original intention. After entering the ministry, she has been working hard for the farmers, hoping to change their situation.
Her sincerity even affected Su Yi. It is difficult to say how much Su Yi's current thoughts and current situation were changed by Wen Hui.
"Yuan Chao, you have the right idea. I have an idea that I have been undecided on. I want to hear your opinion." After Zhang Anping stopped crying, she looked at Su Yi with red eyes.
"Say." Su Yi nodded.
"I know Shengli very well. He just said that he still wants to go to the southwest border and the place where Chunxiao fought. I know that he is definitely not joking. He will definitely find a way to go." Zhang Anping said, "Do you think he can go?
To aid Korea?"
Su Yi was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "My uncle can't bear it anymore. He has been helping Shengli find a way to transfer him there for a long time. If Shengli still insists on going now, my uncle probably won't refuse him anymore."
"That means he is definitely leaving." Zhang Anping's expression became determined, "Yuan Korea, I want to go with him!"
"No, I don't agree!" Zhang Dingbang frowned and objected immediately.
"I'm not asking you, I'm asking about Yuan Chao!" Zhang Anping looked at Su Yi with expectation and nervousness in his eyes, "Yuan Chao, you are the most accurate judge of people and things. If I want to have a result with Shengli, you
Do you think I will follow him... is there any hope?"
"How many years are you willing to wait?" Su Yi asked.
"Keep waiting! Wait until you die!" Zhang Anping's face was determined.
Su Yi smiled, nodded and said: "If you really don't want to marry him, then go ahead. Shengli is an honest man, and he doesn't want to see girls suffering for him. If you go, he can come out quickly."
"Huh...thank you for aiding Korea. I feel more confident." Zhang Anping let out a long breath.
Su Yi looked at Zhang Dingbang and couldn't help but said: "Dingbang, if you really want to do business, go south. Staying in the capital and fishing for side projects is not a long-term solution."
"I love my family and won't go anywhere." Zhang Dingbang laughed at himself, "I've had enough of staying abroad! I swore when I almost died in the mountains of Shanxi Province without food or water, that I, Zhang Dingbang, would only return to the capital.
, I’m not going anywhere in my life!”
Yu Wenhai couldn't help but said: "Dingbang, even if you don't want to leave, can you do some serious business?"
"Am I not more serious than you?" Zhang Dingbang sarcastically said, "At least I don't lie to others or harm others. Unlike you, who has no conscience just to be an official! Yu Wen Hai'er, anyone is qualified to advise me, just
You didn’t! You’re much more disgusting than me!”
"Fuck you!" Yu Wenhai's expression changed drastically, he pinched Zhang Dingbang's neck and punched him in the face.
Not to be outdone, Zhang Dingbang immediately clamped Yu Wenhai's head and both of them fell to the ground.
Zhang Anping exclaimed and stepped forward to start a fight. Su Yi sighed, looked into the distance, raised the wine bottle in his hand, and saluted the night sky.