A few stray dogs were hiding in the corner and shivering.
But the man sitting on the public seat still hugged Gu Chen and refused to let go. Lu Weiwei could not let go of him at all.
Gu Chen simply nodded and signaled to Lu Weiwei not to mind.
Patting the man on the back, Gu Chen comforted him and said, "Sir, you are in the food business, right? I see that your phone is full of customer conversations. Where is your family? Why are there no notes from your family?"
"Family? I don't have a family, where can I get a family?" The man still smelled of alcohol, shaking his head and rubbing Gu Chen's chest, as if he was a spoiled child.
Gu Chen smiled lightly and said, "Are you drinking with your clients today?"
"Well, it's too difficult. It's so difficult to do business now." The man muttered, seeming to be complaining about the difficulty of life.
Gu Chen nodded and agreed, "You said you sold the car, is there something wrong with your business?"
After the words fell, the man raised his head and glanced at Gu Chen, then he sat up in confusion and said dumbfounded: "If possible, who would be willing to sell the car, wouldn't it be impossible to pay wages?"
"If you don't sell the car, how can you pay the workers? Why do you think I'm so burdened? I can't do anything. I thought I was pretty good before, but why do I become middle-aged..."
Having said this, he seemed to be unable to continue. The man lay back on his seat and looked up at the street lights above his head, as if he could not find the direction in life.
Frustration came over me.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other and probably understood the man's situation.
The co-author was a business failure and was a little depressed, so he drank to drown his sorrows and got himself drunk.
I still don’t know where my home is.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen stopped urging the man, and directly imitated the man's behavior, lying side by side on the seat with him, looking up at the street lights above his head, and said jokingly: "Isn't it hard?"
"Then what can be done?" The man seemed to be gradually relieved from his intoxication after drinking a few sips of boiled water given by Gu Chen.
Gu Chen smiled and said: "Anyone, no matter how glorious you were yesterday, or how frustrated you were yesterday, what should you do? You should mind everything in the world and just chuckle a few times when you are free."
After the words fell, the man turned his head slightly and glanced at Gu Chen.
Gu Chen also looked at the man, turned his head again, and continued:
"At least when you get up tomorrow, you have to be a different person and continue to live, because tomorrow is always better than yesterday. This is life."
"No matter what happens, regardless of his happiness, anger, sorrow, and grievances, treat him as the Bodhi Mirror."
Seeing that the man was looking at him blankly, Gu Chen simply sat up straight and continued to comfort him: "Finally, I will give you two words that I like very much."
"When you look back on the past, you will not regret for doing nothing, nor feel ashamed for wasting your years."
"Then you can proudly say to yourself that you are worthy of this life."
After a pause, Gu Chen said again: "And these are not poisonous chicken soup, this is life."
"Thank you, comrade police." The man seemed to no longer be drunk. After listening to Gu Chen's words, he began to calm down slowly.
It seemed that these two sentences were enlightening and brought the man back from his confusion.
Suddenly the distance between them was shortened.
Seeing that the man was slowly waking up, Lu Weiwei also chose to sit next to Gu Chen and stay quietly with the man for a while.
The man sighed and said with a wry smile: "You know what? Tonight I was shamelessly drinking with a group of business friends. I humbled myself and poured wine for them, but the other party covered the rim of the cup with my hand and said I was not qualified.
Pour it for him."
After a pause, the man suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly: "We were all doing business together in the past, and that guy often toasted to me back then."
"Now he is lucky and his business is booming, but I am gradually declining, to the point where I want to curry favor with him."
"I kindly offered him a toast, but he ridiculed me directly in front of so many colleagues and said that I was not qualified to pour him wine, haha."
At the end of the sentence, the man turned his head to the side and couldn't help but wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, as if he didn't want Gu Chen to see his embarrassment.
After Gu Chen heard this, he glanced at Lu Weiwei beside him.
Lu Weiwei was furious and asked the man directly: "Then how did you resolve this embarrassment in the end?"
"How do I resolve it?" The man chuckled and shook his head: "I just poured the wine on the ground and said hello to you."
"I said that you are even sitting at the same table with me, so you have to be humble."
"Did you really say that?" Lu Weiwei was stunned when she heard what the man said, thinking that this brother was really a cruel person, he would kill people and kill people.
The man said disapprovingly: "What else? Shameless?"
"Although I know that in rural areas, there are tables for good people and bad people, otherwise why would there be a 'children's table'?"
"But I was doing well back then, right? If he humiliated me like this, I had no choice but to pour the wine sideways on the ground, which was considered a tribute to him."
"Then we shouldn't start a fight?" Gu Chen also saw the clues to the problem. If the man was humiliated and retaliated like this, how could the other party just let it go?
The man chuckled and said, "Isn't that right? The guy got anxious on the spot and wanted to argue with me."
"But why am I so scared? I was like Brother Crow. Okay, then don't eat it and just flip the table."
"Did you really flip the table?" Seeing the man's hot temper, Lu Weiwei was also curious.
But the man smiled bitterly, waved his hands and said: "I want to lift the table, but the embarrassing thing is that the tables in this hotel are relatively heavy, so I can't lift it."
"I thought I'd lift the tablecloth, but the key is the glass turntable, which needs to be installed."
Lu Weiwei: "..."
This feels very embarrassing, and I think you could just slam the plate with the food on his head.
When Gu Chen heard this, he also shook his head and sighed: "You said why do you need it? When you drink and eat with others, you should be asking for help from others, right? Otherwise, why are you toasting to the person who toasted you in the first place?"
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The man snorted and smiled: "Yes, my friend originally arranged this drinking party for me. I thought I would ask them to help me bring some goods out."
"But I have such a bad temper that I can't tolerate others insulting me." With a faint sigh, the man shook his head helplessly: "In the end, I messed up again, and my popularity disappeared. I can only drink with the few remaining friends.
Drunk."
"In the end, I watched everyone leave, and I even found out at the end that they paid for the drinks for me."
Covering his face with his hands, the man seemed extremely embarrassed.
Gu Chen also smiled lightly and said: "That person has no good character. Even if he agrees to help you, he probably doesn't mean it. He might even stab you in the back."
"Instead of doing this, it is better not to have too much interaction with him. If you fail, just start over. You are still young."
"Am I still young?" The man stared blankly, and said with a sneer: "Yes, I am still young."
"Actually, I didn't want to be like this today. I originally expected that this would be the result, and that person wouldn't give me face. I guessed this before eating."
After a pause, the man tried to calm himself down and said with choked sobs:
"But...but just today, my best friend and my most loyal employee, his mother passed away. Before I drank, he called me and told me to rush home immediately."
Choking up a sob, the man also said in frustration: "Comrade police, you... what do you think the life of this ordinary person should... be like?"
"Well..." Gu Chen was silent for a few seconds and did not answer immediately.
But seeing the man keep staring at her, she still answered selectively: "It should be... my parents are enlightened, there is no domestic violence, I have completed... nine years of compulsory education, I have never been bullied, I have never been seriously ill, and I am not... poor.
To the point where I can’t afford to eat.”
"That's it? Is there anything else?" The man looked at Gu Chen expectantly.
Gu Chen crossed his arms and lay back on the seat to continue thinking: "With a smartphone, it is best to live in the city. I have never done anything bad in my life. If possible, I will meet someone I like just enough."
Lu Weiwei touched Gu Chen's shoulder and reminded her, "It seems like we are like this, we are ordinary enough."
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently, but he knew very well in his heart that this was obviously the life of a lucky person, but he still called it "an ordinary person".
After all, a life like this should be a good one, right?
Just like the life you are complaining about, maybe it is what others cannot ask for.
At least that's what Gu Chen thought.
The man sniffed and nodded with a slight smile: "But when I grow up, I realize how difficult it is to be an ordinary person."
"We are ordinary, ordinary, eager and lucky. We are all ordinary people with stories and luck."
"Some people just want to live an ordinary life throughout their lives. I am also ordinary, but I am not willing to be ordinary."
Looking at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, the man regarded them as tree holes and confided in him, "Comrade police, do you know?"
"When I was a child, I didn't like the kind of life where I could see the whole world at a glance. But when I grew up, I realized how luxurious it was to live a life where I could see the whole world at a glance."
"While others are still discussing where to go and what clothes to wear, some people are still thinking about how to survive, and the person who is thinking about how to survive is me."
"Sir, please be more open-minded." Seeing that the man was indeed a little pitiful, Gu Chen patted him on the shoulder to express comfort:
"After all, it doesn't matter if you are a late bloomer or you will never reach the top of the mountain, but you must be happy and sincere. It's no big deal."
"Maybe in this world, some ordinary people should always be allowed to exist. I hope we are all happy and real people. If we like it, we will like it, and if we hate it, we will hate it."
Seeing that the night wind was getting stronger and stronger, Gu Chen continued to remind: "Where is your home? I'll drive you back. It might rain."
"Yes." The man finally made a compromise and nodded in response: "No. 125, Chuangye Road, Liujia Lane."
"Get in the car." Gu Chen took the man's arm and led him to the police car.
Although he knew the place was a bit far away, Gu Chen was not at ease letting the man stay here alone.
With the help of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, the man also stumbled into the back seat of the vehicle.
Afterwards, Gu Chen started the vehicle and drove to No. 125, Chuangye Road, Liujia Lane.
When we arrived at the scene, it was already 40 minutes later.
Gu Chen drove along Liujia Lane and finally got off the car in front of Gate No. 125 at Lu Weiwei's reminder.
There are tall factory buildings on both sides of Chuangye Road, many of which are subleased to different owners.
This place is different from ordinary development zone industrial parks. It mainly undertakes the incubation of some small and medium-sized enterprises.
Perhaps a small factory building has several owners subletting it.
Everyone shares the rent together to save costs.
The local government will also provide some preferential policies to enterprises in industrial parks, allowing these enterprises to gradually grow and expand during incubation.
Once the enterprise develops and grows, it can move to other development zones and industrial zones in Jiangnan City.
Therefore, Jiangnan City’s industrialization path has always been developing steadily.
Of course, not all companies in the incubation park can break out of their shells and grow stronger.
Most companies are still struggling to survive, which is normal.
Only those companies with core technologies or abundant capital flows can ultimately stand out.
But now it seems that this man obviously does not meet these conditions.
Liujia Lane is just a small village lane in the city on Entrepreneurship Road. Most of the companies rented here are small family workshops.
The buildings on both sides are also a bit old, but the fire protection measures are very good. Basically every household has passed the renovation of fire protection facilities.
Gu Chen stopped the car, pulled the handbrake, then walked to the door of No. 125 Liujia Lane and knocked on the rolling shutter several times.
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After the words fell, there was no response from inside, only a few barks of stray dogs came from other alleys.
"No need to knock." With Lu Weiwei's support, the man stumbled out of the car, and then took out a bunch of keys from his pocket.
However, because he drank too much, the key in the man's hand could not be held firmly and fell to the ground with a "clack".
Lu Weiwei bent down to pick it up and asked, "Which key is it?"
"This one." The man pointed at one of them and said.
Lu Weiwei found the key and handed it to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen directly inserted the keyhole, opened the rolling shutter door, and then pulled it upward.
As a burst of noise sounded, Gu Chen realized that he was in front of a messy food processing factory.
Various cardboard boxes were piled up on the ground, like a warehouse, with several small machines placed next to it.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei helped the man into the warehouse and continued to ask him.
"Where do you live? Are you the only one who lives in this place?"
The man nodded silently and said with a sneer: "This is a production area. I used to live in an urban village not far from here."
"But then the rent expired, so I simply moved into the factory and just... lived up there."
When Gu Chen heard this, he immediately pulled down the rolling shutter, and then led the man upstairs.
No. 125 Liujia Lane is a three-story old building. The first floor looks like a warehouse and is a bit messy.
But when he came to the second floor, Gu Chen found that all the equipment and items were clean and tidy. This should be the product production area. Gu Chen could even smell the strong spicy smell.
Continuing to help the man walk to the third floor, he discovered that there were several rooms on the third floor, which basically looked like offices. One of the small rooms was a living room, which should be where the factory guards lived. It should also be where the man now lives.
's residence.
Pushing open the door, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei put the man on the bed.
Later, Gu Chen found a washbasin from the bathroom and filled it with cold water, while Lu Weiwei poured the hot water from the thermos bottle into it to keep the water at a moderate temperature.
After everything was ready, Gu Chen looked at the towels in front of him with some confusion, and reminded him: "I've packed the face wash for you. Come over and wash your face yourself so that you can wake up."
Hearing this, the man walked over directly, soaked his head in the water to calm down for a moment, then pulled off a towel and wiped it casually a few times.
Lu Weiwei smelled the fragrant smell and asked curiously: "What does this food factory of yours produce?"
"Latiao, all kinds of spicy tiao products." The man said.
"Then why can't we continue to operate?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
"The vicious competition among peers uses small profits but quick turnover and e-commerce channels to keep prices to the lowest. They can still distribute goods through e-commerce channels. Even if they only earn 10 cents or 9 cents from a pack of spicy strips,
I can do it, but I can’t compete with them.”
"Playing a price war like this, killing all channels, there is no profit margin anymore. If I play this way, I will produce a pack and lose every pack. The workers are clamoring for a wage increase. I can no longer compete with my peers.
."
With a faint sigh, the man pointed to the spicy strips downstairs and said: "Those spicy strips were originally intended to be distributed to customers, but their peers used low prices to pry away the customers, and the customers directly canceled the orders. These spicy strips are just
It has become a stockpile here."
Dusting the towel aside, the man sat on the bed with a look of helplessness on his face.
He casually took out two packs of spicy strips from the bedside table drawer and threw them to Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei: "This kind of spicy strips is the latest product developed this year. It is different from traditional spicy strips. You can try it."
Lu Weiwei was not polite, as long as it was food, she would be happy to have a taste.
Under the light, Lu Weiwei briefly looked at the production date.
Seeing this, the man smiled lightly and reminded: "The quality is guaranteed. Although my factory is small, it has complete certificates and is made in accordance with hygienic standards. Don't worry about eating."
"Haha, let me take a look." Lu Weiwei was a little embarrassed, and tore the spicy strips along the tear, put them in her mouth and chewed them slowly.
But as soon as the spicy strips entered her mouth, Lu Weiwei felt an unprecedented spiciness, her eyes lit up, and she quickly ate the remaining spicy strips.
Seeing that Lu Weiwei also had a special liking for spicy strips, Gu Chen simply handed over the spicy strips in his hand: "Senior Sister Lu, I'll give you this bag too."
"Isn't this spicy strip too delicious? How can such delicious spicy strips be sold out? It doesn't make sense." Lu Weiwei sipped the chili pepper at the corner of her mouth and said involuntarily.
The man shook his head helplessly: "The cost is too high, the selling price is too low, there is no profit, and customers are taken away by other peers. You must know that in a small workshop like ours, customers are basically very few and they are very fixed. They take away my customers."
Customers, it’s like cutting off my livelihood.”
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