Confessions of a Salesman

I almost forgot what is the purpose of my coming here?

After wandering around all day, I didn't see any place that matches the photo, so I had to go back to see how Po is doing.

Ah Bao in the hotel was lying on the bed. He had no fever, but was still a little weak. I brought him a porridge and asked him to drink it before asking, "Why did you suddenly have a fever?"

Abao explained: "I have been weak since I was a child, and I can't use the air conditioner or the fan!"

I groaned and frowned, "Then why didn't you say it earlier?"

A Bao said with some embarrassment: "I know you are too hot, I am not ashamed to tell you!"

I sighed and said, "Are you stupid? You can't turn on the air conditioner, we can live in two rooms!"

A Bao said with a smile: "It's not that I can't learn anything!"

I cut it and said: "Then you are so sick now, you can learn something? Isn't it just a waste of time, what do you want to tell me directly, don't be like a woman, let me guess !"

Ah Bao nodded embarrassedly, and then asked, "Did you gain anything today?"

I replied dejectedly: "No, I found the largest liquor market, but I looked around, and there is no place similar to the photo!"

Ah Bao analyzed again: "Listen to me to analyze it for you first. Since he is a drunkard, and then look at his clothes, you should know that his life is not very satisfactory. What does that mean? He may not have so much money! "

I hesitated and said, "The money in his hand... should be enough for him to drink for a lifetime, right? Besides, if he wants to make money, it's not a trivial matter. I don't think he won't have money to sell wine!"

A Bao shook his head and said: "You may not know much about alcoholics. Once they drink alcohol, most of them will be broken, and they will become impulsive and violent. Think about such a person, will the money on him last long? How much money is there? It might be squandered by him, or stolen or robbed!"

I shook my head and said, "Steal his money? It's unlikely, right? Isn't that courting death?"

But Ah Bao said: "That's not necessarily true. Look at him, he is already skinny. No matter how good his body is, once it is eroded by alcohol, it will become weak!"

I frowned and said, "You seem to look down on my friend!"

Ah Bao hurriedly said: "I didn't look down on your friend, what I said was the truth! Because I have such a mother!"

I groaned and said, "Mother? Isn't it your father?"

Abao said with a frustrated look in his eyes: "They are all the same, but my father had to quit drinking for a while due to illness, but my mother never stopped drinking! As long as I can remember, she has been drinking, from morning to morning. At night, when you wake up one day, it is probably only the moment when you wake up!"

I asked inexplicably, "Why does she like to drink so much?"

A Bao recalled: "She was the runner-up of Miss Chinese in 97. She was born in Toronto. Her father is Canadian and her mother is Chinese. She is half mixed. Her father taught her to drink since she was a child! She became Miss Chinese. Later, she had a lot of entertainment. In order to receive commercials, movie appointments, and enter the entertainment circle, she had to drink with others. Over time, she developed a habit of drinking! It was my father who saved her, but she also caused her to become addicted to alcohol , the two of us drink together, drink every day, often until the sky is dark, and we don't care about us at all. Fortunately, our family is rich, we don't have to worry about food and clothing, and my father can be regarded as a person who can make money. But when my father learned that he had liver disease and wanted to quit drinking, my mother repeatedly persuaded him to continue drinking. After he had no choice, my father drove my mother out of the house under the persecution of my aunt!

I was only 10 years old, and I had to take care of an alcoholic mother and earn money to buy alcohol for her, and at the same time I had to go to school to earn tuition for myself!If it wasn't for Azi who gave me her pocket money every month, my mother and I would have starved to death on the street long ago! "

I said in surprise: "Your father doesn't care about you anymore? Don't you hate him?"

Ah Bao showed a miserable smile and said, "Why don't you hate him? But he is dying, how can I hate him? Besides, I also know that he was forced to do so at the time. He didn't drive my mother away. , he will continue to drink, if the eldest wife leaves him, his family business will be finished, and he will be finished too! It was my mother who killed him, not him who killed me and my mother!"

I sighed and said, "Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite! I thought you were a son of a noble family?"

A Bao smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, I even borrowed the money to bury my mother! That morning, when I was going to school, she made breakfast for me by accident, and said to me, I'm sorry for me in this life , and went out! In the afternoon, I received a call at school, saying that she had been hit by a car! I didn’t shed a single tear. I had expected this result, but I didn’t know when! The driver who hit her Driving normally according to the traffic rules, there is nothing wrong with it, she suddenly ran out of the road, I think she didn't want to live! She wanted to leave some money for me, but I didn't know that no one would pay her for such a traffic accident! "

I didn't want to listen anymore, and shook my head: "How old are you, how can you bear all this? I'm so happy for you that you can survive this!"

A Bao said fiercely: "At that time, I was able to survive for one purpose, which was to kill my own father! But when that day came, I found out that he was already in the terminal stage of cancer, and I lost all my heart. Think back, It's not easy for him in the past few years! I don't blame him for my mother's affairs!"

I snorted and said, "But it's wrong for him to treat an immature child like this! Didn't he expect to cause you much harm??"

Ah Bao shook his head and said, "That's not true. On the contrary, I'm very glad that I didn't grow up in that family! They may not be much happier than me! Now I can at least support myself with my ability, and I won't be easily knocked down! I left that home, and I can still live a happy life! The reason why I went back was for A Zi, and for my father's wish, and I didn't want him to leave this world with regrets!"

Looking at his sensible Abao, I felt that I underestimated him. Such a mind is not something ordinary people can do!
I didn't want to mention his sad past again, so I changed the subject and said, "Then what do you mean, the person I'm looking for is already poor and can't afford wine from this serious wine shop? Then what kind of wine should he drink?" Wine, where can I buy wine?"

A Bao was stunned for a moment, then regained his previous rationality and said: "In my opinion, he hasn't left here yet, unless he's sober. As for where to buy wine and what kind of wine to buy, it must be the cheapest bulk wine. It’s a small market, on an unremarkable street, the cheaper the better!”

I grunted and said, "That makes sense! Then I'll look for it again. You can cultivate yourself in the hotel, and when you're completely recovered, I'll ask you to help!"

But Ah Bao shook his head and said: "I'm fine now, this kind of fever is common, I'm used to it! I'll go with you, the sooner you can find it, the easier it will be. When he wakes up and is ready to leave, then we will really What is more is to find a needle in a haystack, it is too difficult to find him, as long as he does not want you to find him!"

I looked at his firm eyes and said: "That's okay, what's uncomfortable, you can tell me anytime!"

Early the next morning, after leaving the hotel, we had two markets left. One was near the coach station, and the other was in a residential building in the old city. First went to the long-distance bus station.

I haven't asked where is the market?Abao was leading the way ahead. After walking along the exit of the bus station for a while, he saw a messy market. There were countless small vendors at the entrance of the market. Fruits and vegetables were placed everywhere, even blocking the aisle. People control.

Abao walked directly into the market, and without waiting for me to ask questions, he went straight to an unremarkable wine shop in the market. There were several large vats in the wine shop, and a sleepy old man walked from Walking out of the wine shop, he almost bumped into Ah Bao, but he walked over crookedly without apologizing.

I saw prices hanging in front of several large vats in the liquor store, with price tags of 3 yuan for one tael, 4 yuan for a car and 5 yuan for a car.

Ah Bao said confidently: "If I were your friend, I would come here to buy wine!"

Then, with the mobile phone in hand, he went over to ask the boss who was sitting on the recliner and listening to the radio. The boss didn't even look at him, but turned his head and continued to listen to his Wu Nongmian opera.

I smiled and walked over, knocked on the vat, and said loudly to the boss: "Here's a catty, 5 yuan!"

When the boss heard this, he immediately regained his energy and stood up. Seeing that I didn't have anything in my hands, he immediately said, "A bottle of one catty costs 2 yuan each!"

I hummed and said, "Take one!"

The boss smiled and took out an unknown mineral water bottle from a basket, looked inside, and said, "It was used to hold wine before, it was clean, is it okay?"

I hurriedly nodded and said, "It's okay, it's all drinking!"

The boss was satisfied and started to fill the wine. As soon as the big tank was opened, a strong smell of wine hit the face, and I felt a little drunk before I drank it!
While filling the wine, the boss asked me: "Is it from a foreign country? It must be because of the reputation, because I want to taste the authentic Shaoxing Huadiao wine. I told you foreigners that it is all a lie. Now How can there be any authentic Huadiao wine? It’s all ordinary rice wine. It’s called Shaoxing Huadiao when you put it on a brand, but no one cares about it anyway! My family has been making wine for more than 150 years. Since my grandfather’s generation, the craftsmanship has been It has been lost, and now what is brewed is ordinary rice wine. The real Huadiao needs to use high-quality glutinous rice and wheat koji, plus clear and clear lake water, fermentation, steaming and other ancient techniques to make it, and it must be aged for at least three years. to drink!

The rice wine they sell is used as Huadiao, you can drink it as soon as you drink it, the taste is different, too spicy, Huadiao wine is not spicy, it is very mild, and the real Huadiao wine cannot be so cheap, at least 30 yuan a piece Two, their one-kilo package can be sold for less than 100 yuan, do you think it can be true? "

I nodded and said, "That's impossible, then your wine must not be Huadiao!"

The boss smiled and said: "Of course not, and it's not rice wine either. Rice wine is only 10 degrees, but mine is 35 degrees! I don't sell low-alcohol alcohol, it's all harmful!"

I was chatting with the boss here, and Ah Bao on the other side couldn't bear it anymore, and interrupted: "Then the boss is usually an alcoholic, so he likes to drink your wine?"

The boss frowned and said, "What are you talking about? What do you mean an alcoholic likes to drink my wine?"

I hurriedly added: "That's called a person who loves wine! He's an ignorant child and talks nonsense! Then, boss, let me ask you about a person. Recently, there is no one who is about 1.76 meters tall, thin, and has a beard. Do men often come to your place to buy wine?"

The boss first gave A Bao a dissatisfied look, and then said to me: "Most of the people who come to buy wine from me are from other places, and there are the most migrant workers. Drinking beer is not enough, so I like to drink my wine. There are a few like what you described, the ones on the construction site over there, they come to buy a few taels every day, they all look the same, and I can’t recognize the specifics!”

I hurriedly took out my mobile phone and showed it to him. He glanced at it, thought for a while and said, "It seems that there is such a person who doesn't say a word, and pays me ten yuan a time. That big barrel, fill the wine and leave!"

I asked excitedly, "Then when does he usually come?"

The boss shook his head and said: "The time is not fixed. I guess he comes right after drinking. Sometimes he comes twice a day, sometimes once every two days. However, I don't seem to see him coming much recently!"

I groaned and asked again: "Did he come alone? Does anyone here know him?"

The boss seemed suspicious, and asked back: "What are you asking him for? He committed a crime, and he still owes you money? I don't want to be troublesome!"

I hurriedly smiled and said, "No! My friend, I can't get in touch. His family members are in a hurry to find him, and he got lost. There is something wrong with his head!"

The boss said loudly: "I said, why don't you say anything when you ask, just buy wine! It turns out that my brain is not working!"

I hummed and said, "It's not for drinking!"

The boss hastily disregarded the relationship and said: "My wine can be brewed in accordance with national regulations, don't talk nonsense!"

I groaned and said, "I didn't mention you, his brain is not working because he drank before throwing it away!"

The boss said with an oh: "Then you should take it back to see if you are sick. I have been selling wine for so many years, and I have never seen a few drinking like him. One catty a day is not much, most of them are two catties a day. Sometimes I drank 4 catties a day! I can’t even drink so much water! I think about it, there seems to be a person on the construction site who knows him, and once he drank too much, it was the migrant workers on the construction site who carried him Let’s go, that migrant worker’s name is Xiao Dongbei, everyone here knows him, you can ask him!”

I hasten to thank you!