I want to work hard too!

Chapter 554 Xu Tianheng and Wan Xiaoling
"Boss, this table is mine." Zhao Mingyang said.

"You useless little brother, why are you being so polite?" said the old man.

"Old man, please be polite. I am learning from you, and you are also my senior. I must treat you to this meal. If you want to be polite to me, you are looking down on me." Zhao Mingyang said .

"You boy, you really eat pens, you are so talkative, okay, I won't be polite to you, but don't yell at one old man, this is not another place, you say you want to be in a mountain corner or a small city , your old man yelled, making people feel respected, or he would be said not to understand the rules if he yelled.

But I don’t like it, I belong to the kind that grows old before I grow up. It’s not a man who blows with you. In the early 90s, I collected all kinds of anime. I was still chasing stars, and I especially liked Momoe Yamaguchi back then. .

So don't call me old, you old man, old man, it sounds to me to eat and drink quickly and leave quickly. "

Zhao Mingyang laughed loudly when he heard this, and said, "Brother, you live a transparent life! Your thinking is not outdated at all, and you are more avant-garde than young people. Now we are playing with what is left over from your play."

"Don't talk about those useless things, there's no need to flatter, I've said it all, it's just that I was born earlier than you, and suffered a lot, but suffering is not a good thing, if I can choose, I want to put all my pain Share it for joy."

"Brother is right. They are all human beings. There is no distinction between young and old. Maybe I will go ahead of you. It's hard to say. Everyone has their own destiny. No one can say whether they live or die. Today is the Brothers Bureau, old man. Isn't your accent a local from Pengcheng?" Zhao Mingyang said.

"My ancestral home is Hu Nan, and I came here in the 80s. At that time, I was in my 30s. I graduated from university at the age of 30. I belonged to old students. My classmates were of different ages, so our group of people In fact, it's not that old-fashioned. There are even people in their twenties with a round age difference in a class.

I belong to the real old man. I didn’t get married until I was 40, and I didn’t have children until I was 45. My son and daughter may not be as old as you.

When I first came here, I worked in a newspaper office, mainly writing manuscripts. However, in the early 90s, I resigned from the newspaper office decisively and set up a street stall to start a business. I was selling socks on the street in front of me. I knew this was the arrival of a new era. do not miss it.

At that time, my family didn't understand me, and I didn't even want my job. It was because my family didn't come here, and there was a real gap with the times. This is the most terrifying thing. It is no exaggeration to say that Pengcheng was A myth that changes every day,

And our hometown hasn’t changed much for decades. It’s like the opposite Hong Kong Island. You’ve seen the movies and TV dramas in the 80s. At that time, everyone was holding mobile phones, driving sports cars, and watching color TVs. There is no black and white TV at home, the gap is so big.

But later, when I went to Hong Kong Island again, I found that Pengcheng did not feel like a metropolis there. Pengcheng developed too fast, creating myths one after another, and shattering myths one after another.

There are no locals and outsiders here. They are all strugglers. This place is very tolerant. Have you seen that homeless man picking up bottles on the side of the road? Do you know how good he was back then?

In the early 90s, someone bought a Mercedes-Benz, and there were only three female secretaries. At that time, not to mention how beautiful it was. He bought socks at my street stall for [-] yuan. He took two pairs of socks and left without my change. . "

Zhao Mingyang looked in the direction the old brother pointed, a man with disheveled hair and ragged clothes was picking up bottles, his age was unclear, but it was easy to associate him with the boss who had three female secretaries .

"Don't look at it, like him, Pengcheng has eighty if he doesn't have one hundred. Back then, some people made millions overnight, but that was in the 90s. They got rich overnight and went bankrupt overnight. At that time, there were too many people with big ups and downs, so many People are afraid that they will not be able to save money, so they start buying houses.

I used to sell socks at a street stall and made thousands of dollars a day, can you believe it? It was really easy to make money at that time. I thought, I can’t keep setting up a street stall like this, so I rented a shop to sell clothes and made a lot of money. , Later I went to sell crystals, and I lost a little bit, and then I bought two houses, rented out one and lived in the other, and bought some care products with the rest of the money, and now I basically live on my laurels.

If you describe it here, it is a place where you can see the receipt if you work hard. "

"Where are the children? Are they not here?" Zhao Mingyang asked,

"I went abroad to study, and only my wife and I are here. Brother, do you know what the greatest tragedy in this world is?" the old man looked at Zhao Mingyang and asked.

"I don't know." Zhao Mingyang said.

"The biggest tragedy in this world is that when I get old, there are more and more restrictions. What the hell, I was not allowed to ski when I went to the ski resort a few days ago, and I had to be accompanied by my children. I wanted to take my wife to play on the roller coaster, but it didn't work out. Let's play, we also know that people are afraid of taking responsibility, but this keeps narrowing our scope, and we can only be forced to accept the old-age lifestyle arranged by society.

Such as going out for a walk, such as sitting there chatting with a group of old men and women waiting to die, my wife can still dance in the square, I feel more and more that I have too many restrictions, little brother, what do you think I should do? "

Zhao Mingyang was stunned by the question. As people get older, there are indeed more and more restrictions. The bathhouses dare not let the elderly enter, and the taxis dare not pull the elderly. They are all afraid. There is an old saying that people who are over sixty Do not stay overnight, that is, people who are over 60 years old are generally afraid to stay at home overnight.

"In fact, there are still many places to go, such as billiard rooms, Internet cafes, and even disco, these places generally do not have so many restrictions, or go to the basketball court, you can go wherever young people go.

I don't know what's wrong, and I can't solve this problem. I'm old, maybe I feel as uncomfortable as you. I'm old before I grow up. The saddest thing about getting old is layer upon layer of restrictions. In the end, I can only accept society. The arranged old life is to sit and eat and wait to die, or you can take your aunt to travel by car and travel directly around the world. " Zhao Mingyang said.

"That's good. I'll prepare for it tomorrow, and then go straight away."

"Brother, are you going too fast?" Zhao Mingyang said.

"I can't wait, I might leave one day, and don't say I'm fast, it sounds uncomfortable." The old man laughed.

Zhao Mingyang laughed out loud when he heard this, picked up a beer and clinked a glass with the old man and started drinking.

The two chatted while drinking, and felt that the chat was very speculative.

"Pengcheng is really a place where big bosses gather. I recently bought the house of a business big boss here. You know Wanheng Xu's house. I bought Wanheng's house." Xun, the two drank three bottles of beer, Zhao Mingyang didn't dare to continue drinking, if the old man died from drinking, he really couldn't bear the responsibility, but Zhao Mingyang felt relieved, he hadn't been in the media industry for a long time.

And the old man looked like the kind of drinker with a maximum capacity of one bottle of beer, and his face would turn red after drinking more than one bottle.

"I know. Back then, I interviewed Xu Tianheng, the previous head of the Xu family. This Wanheng is the name formed by Xu Tianheng and his wife Wan Xiaoling." The old man said.

"Brother, you are not bragging." Zhao Mingyang smiled, using a provocative method, knowing that the old man might not be bragging, after all, the newspaper columnists at that time had a high status, but such a provocative method can stimulate the old man, in case Say something useful.

"Why am I lying to you? What's the point of bragging? Let me tell you, I know that the Xu family has a lot going on." The old man said triumphantly, it seemed that he was waiting for Zhao Mingyang to answer and was about to brag. up.

"Is it true or not? You can still be more detailed than those urgent reporters on the Internet to collect reports? Don't talk, let's eat skewers," Zhao Mingyang said, handing the old man a few grilled meat skewers.

The old man patted the table and said, "You look down on me, you think I'm bragging, don't you? Just a little, I'll tell you, you definitely don't know, do you know what Xu Tianheng got his start?"

"I know, several of the elder brothers of the Xu family went abroad. After making some money abroad, they reunited and gave Xu Tianheng a sum of money to start a business." Zhao Mingyang said.

The old man sneered and said, "Do you believe it? It's not a secret. It's okay to say it. Many people in Pengcheng know it. Of course, many people don't believe it. Does Xu Tianheng's wife Wan Xiaoling know who it is?"

"Who?" Zhao Mingyang asked curiously.

"Wan Xiaoling is the younger sister of Wan Jinrong, the famous thieves leader in North China. Wan Jinrong was caught and killed and left a sum of money. Guess why Xu Tianheng and Wan Xiaoling became a couple?"

Zhao Mingyang checked on the Internet, Grandpa Xu Qingqing was born in 1927, of course, this is not allowed, the age can be faked, after all he is so old, maybe he may be even older.

"Do they still have a story?" Zhao Mingyang asked.

"The Xu family is not from Pengcheng. Xu Tianheng came from another place. This matter was circulated in our newspaper. I don't know who spread it, but everyone thinks it is very reliable. Xu Tianheng was probably Wan Jin Rong gang.

His wealth may be all ill-gotten gains. "

Zhao Mingyang was a little surprised. This is completely different from the investigation and the information on the Internet. How reliable is it?

"Brother, what do I listen to? Is this a rumor? It's better not to believe in rumors, not to spread rumors." Zhao Mingyang said.

"Boy, I had the same idea with you at the time, but later, guess why I believed this version?"

"Why?" Zhao Mingyang asked.

"It starts with an incident back then, an auction. This is also the reason why Xu Tianheng was said to be a thieves. There are proofs!" said the old man.

"Witness? Brother, you smoke, tell me about it carefully, and I'll take it as a story." Zhao Mingyang Cong took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and opened one to light the old man.

(End of this chapter)