The last emperor

Chapter 12 The Difficult Moment

The 22nd is destined to be a difficult day. Zhang Jin is not worried about whether the disaster will come tomorrow. Today is the day that decides tomorrow and even the future.

In the morning, he was awakened by the icy cold air in the mountains, and he heard the noise of people outside. When he walked out of the Loyalty Hall, he found that the villagers below came in with more tables, chairs and other banquet supplies than yesterday. Obviously, there was no change overnight. Lei Wuye's determination to hold a birthday banquet in Heilongtou Mountain.

Yunfei went home to move the quilt and waited to prepare a bed for his mother. He pulled Zhang Jin aside and said angrily, "Uncle, that Lei Zhengtang is really not a thing. It's not good to be scolded by the village early in the morning. Mr. Lei is celebrating his birthday in the mountains." Banquet, obviously jealous of uncle bringing in investors and making him lose face."

Zhang Jin smiled bitterly and said: "Let him go, he still can't turn the sky."

Yun Fei tidied up the bed and hummed: "Look at him, he's very upset, because he has two moneys, he doesn't look down on anyone, he's so crazy, Uncle Lei and the others planned what dishes to buy and what table to eat, but he scolded them all back If you don’t let me go, say you’re just moving in from the restaurant, and you’ll get angry when you see that madness.”

Zhang Jin patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "After all, it's Mr. Lei's birthday banquet. It's good if he can hold it in style. There are many children and old people in the village. You can clean up a few more holes and connect the electricity. Then it will be good." Use an electric heater, it's cold at night."

Yunfei nodded, helped his mother make the bed, and went to connect the socket with tools.

Zhang Jin watched tables and chairs being transported in but couldn't breathe a sigh of relief. He wanted to go to the town to get some things, but the police station was still guarding the village entrance so he had to give up and silently watched how many people would come back today.

After ten o'clock, when the sun was gone and it was relatively warm in the mountains, Mr. Lei Wu rushed over, followed by some people who had rushed home for the birthday banquet.

Lei Wuye sat outside the Loyalty Hall, staring at the people entering and exiting the Jiandao Gate with frowns.

Seeing Zhang Jin come over and greet Zhang Jin to sit down, he said, "I don't know if what I say, an old man, will work or not. Let me ask you the truth. If someone doesn't come back, is there any hope of surviving outside?"

Zhang Jin also shook his head sadly and said: "There are some things I can't say, and it's useless to say it. If they don't go home to escape the infection, it will be difficult for them to survive. The densely populated cities cause epidemics like the plague. Only our rural areas the safest."

Mr. Lei Wu nodded, knocked on the stone slab with his crutches, and shouted at Lei Yun who was busy below: "Yun'er, go back to the village and ask them to call me to remind me, and say that I will not be able to hold the birthday banquet if one of them is missing. !"

Lei Yun was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly responded and ran out.

Near noon, people from outside rushed back one after another. They were all skeptical that Mr. Lei Wu put the birthday banquet on Heilongtou Mountain, but they heard that Lei Zhengtang was going to move the restaurant, and Heilongtou Mountain was going to be developed, so no one pursued it. this matter.

After two o'clock, a few trucks pulling fresh-keeping cabinets stopped outside Jiandaomen, with the name of the largest restaurant in the city printed on it. Lei Zhengtang walked in arrogantly, and behind him was a man in high heels walking in shock. Glamorous secretary.

Lei Zhengtang looked up and saw Zhang Jin from the second-floor aisle station stepping up, and he said bluntly as soon as he went up: "Boy, don't think that you have become a character of Black Dragon Fort because of your investment, my grandfather believes that you have to live in this mountain." I admit it, but don't think too much of yourself, it's not your turn to show off at my Lei family's banquet!"

Zhang Jin smiled and didn't respond.

Lei Zhengtang rushed down and said in a loud voice: "Listen up, everyone. There are three cars outside to eat and drink, all of which are the most high-end dishes in Sihai Building. Grandpa's birthday banquet will be held for three days without stopping. The dishes are the best. , the cook is a five-star cook, I guarantee that you will never drink or smoke during Chinese New Year."

The people below cheered, and they were busy preparing tables, setting up chairs and bringing things in.

"What are you yelling for?" Lei Wuye, who was resting inside, came out, and said with a displeased face: "Putting a banquet for everyone to cheer is for my face, not for me to give alms to others, and to understand some rules."

Lei Zhengtang's face was darkened, according to the old logic, what he said was indeed too crazy, but he just snorted and didn't reply.

Mr. Lei Wu looked at boxes of ingredients and drinks moving in, followed by a few chefs with high hats, and said with a frown: "I am my own banquet and don't need outsiders. You buy things to keep people, and the cooks and people are all sent away." , I don't need it."

When Lei Zhengtang heard this, his stomach was filled with rage: "Grandpa, do you really want to fight against me? Who will cook the dishes in five-star hotels if they don't want them? Make them as pig food?"

Fifth Lord Lei shouted at Lei Bencai below: "Come here, Bencai."

Lei Bencai was depressed because Lei Zhengtang had hired the restaurant and he was no longer appointed to be the chef. After hearing this, he threw down the chair in his hand and said, "What's the matter, Uncle Wu?"

Lei Wuye said: "Can you cook the dishes bought in Zhengtang?"

Lei Bencai glanced at the dark-faced Lei Zhengtang and said with a smile: "What's the problem? I worked for a big hotel in Xinyang back then, so I can't do anything."

"Okay, you're still in charge." Fifth Master Lei turned back inside and said, "Send away all the cooks and people you found, and I don't want outsiders for my birthday banquet."

Lei Zhengtang was so angry that he wanted to scold something, but he held back, and glared viciously down to the second floor. He blamed Zhang Jin for all the unsatisfactory things. In his eyes, Zhang Jin attracted investors, so grandpa valued it. That's why Zhang Jin held a banquet here to give Zhang Jin the limelight, which is an insult to him.

Zhang Jin took care of him lazily, and went down to find the idlers to return to the village to move the bed and help them. The birthday banquet usually takes three days and three banquets. Just overnight in the mountains, just to get some beds and quilts.

Lei Zhengtang was even more angry when he saw this matter in his eyes. In his eyes, he had the final say on Lei Wuye's birthday banquet, and besides, it was not up to the members of the Zhang family to come out and point fingers, and he was full of anger He was about to suffer internal injuries, the little secretary comforted her in a coquettish voice.

The banquet was very grand. Uncle San led people to build a fire tower with wood in the open space outside. More than 20 tables were placed around it, and tables were also set up for left and right longan and some stone rooms with large stone windows near the outside. More than 50 tables were surrounded up and down. In the central fire tower, Yunfei connected up the colored lights specially bought by others, and the grand feeling of the birthday banquet came out all at once.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, drinks and fruits began to be served on the table, and the last bus passing by Heilongbao also stopped, Zhang Jin's heart ached at this moment.

Seeing Lei Yun come in with relatives who came back, he hurriedly pulled aside and asked, "How many have come back, and how many haven't come back?"

Lei Yun tilted his head and murmured for a while and said: "Most of them are back, some have cars and may come back later, don't worry, no one dares not to come back for Grandpa Fifth's birthday banquet."

Zhang Jin's heart skipped a beat. He could imagine that even though it was a birthday banquet, he would not be able to come back all at once. He found his father who was helping him and asked how much Zhang's family would come back. At this moment, he was even more nervous, because this It was the Lei family's birthday banquet, there was no need for all the members of the Zhang family to come back, but he had no better way to call them back.

Dad stopped his work and said, "I think quite a few of them have come back, at least one or two from the whole family."

Zhang Jin hurriedly pulled his father to a secluded place and said, "Dad, no matter what you say, you must let everyone come back, don't miss anyone, and you must come back before noon tomorrow."

Seeing his son's worried face, the father smiled and said, "Why don't we just invest in a stock, our Zhang family's is no less than Lei's, so we can't suffer."

Zhang Jin knew that it was useless for him to tell the truth, and he couldn’t let others know about his rebirth. If he said more now, it might be more troublesome. He said seriously: "Dad, you have to believe me, this matter is very important to our Zhang family, sir. It’s best for everyone, big or small, old or young, to come back.”

"Okay, I see that you are nervous. I know you are doing it for the good of our Zhang family. I will go back to the village and ask your uncle to call them." Dad smiled and put down his hands to live out of Heilongtou Mountain.

Everyone was jubilant, but Zhang Jin felt more and more heavy. Every extra person who came back was a hope of living. If anyone in the Zhang family didn’t come back, he didn’t know how to face his parents, but he There is no better way for everyone to come back and leave it to fate.

　The end of this volume may be a bit procrastinating, but the fact is that if you choose to save more people, you will have countless troubles. Zhang Jin is not a god or even a person who responds to everyone, he is just a mortal.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)