Lao Tzu is a toad

Chapter 138

When Zhao Jiadi left Guanyin Village, he was accompanied by a child with the same dark skin. He was already 11 years old, but he was only the size of a seven or eight-year-old child in the city. He only had a pair of eyes and was very spiritual.His name is Zhang Xuchu, nicknamed 8, a very weird nickname, it is said that it was given by a wandering Taoist priest when he was a child.

This child has been dependent on his grandfather since he was a child, and it was better a few years ago. His grandfather was able to work in the fields and grow crops. He could carry trees and burn charcoal to earn some extra money, but it was limited to supporting the two of them. With a penny of spare money, the child only studied for one year, and the grandfather once went up the mountain and became lame, and fell to the root of the disease. In the past three years, his thin shoulders have borne everything. The rural children are so stubborn. He is the best in Guanyin Village He didn't want the neighbors in the village to benefit at all. After dropping out of school, he raised his grandfather alone. When the village primary school was in class, he went to stand outside the window. Hu Li tried to persuade him, but he couldn't let him into the classroom. Zhao Jiadi also followed him. Speaking of standing in the classroom, he just refused. The child's grandfather died in the first month, and it was Zhao Jiadi who carried the coffin, and he was the one arranging all the funeral arrangements.

Zhao Jiadi occasionally passed by their house during the year of teaching support, and would see the child carrying the old man on his back to bask in the sun. Zhao Jiadi would give the old man a cigarette and squat aside to chat for a while. With a stubborn smile on the side, the old man always said that Mr. Hu and Mr. Zhao are good people.

Before he died, a child ran to Zhao Jiadi and told him about it, and Zhao Jiadi immediately ran to the dilapidated house, the dark and damp room, where the skinny old man was lying on the bed, his eyes were cloudy, and he refused to die until he saw him. When he arrived at Zhao Jiadi, he stretched out his finger and pointed at his grandson, and moved his lips with difficulty, ambiguous, but Zhao Jiadi understood the old man's thoughts, and said softly, Grandpa Zhang, you can go at ease, I will take care of you eight hundred years later.

After hearing this sentence, the old man closed his eyes slowly, and Zhang Babai squatted on the ground and buried his head in his knees, sobbing.

Before leaving Guanyin Village, Zhao Jiadi took Zhang Babai to Hu Li's grave with a bottle of wine, spilled the wine on the ground in front of the grave, and said, little fox, you always say that you can get drunk for a hundred years at most Qianchang, I will drink your wine for you from now on.The lilac tree on the edge of the playground will bloom in three years. In addition to visiting you every Qingming Festival, I will also come when the lilacs are in bloom. I have promised the children to write to me, lilac When the flowers bloomed, it happened to be your birthday. This time, I will definitely not forget it.

They went to the grave of Grandpa Zhang Babai again. Zhao Jiadi gave the child three cigarettes and asked him to light them and put them in front of the grave. His couple knew that Zhang Babai didn't need them to support him, and he could be a hundred times more productive than them.

In the town, two BMW 7s owned by Jinhai waited patiently. Zhao Jiadi took Zhang Babai's hand and got into the car.The child whispered to Uncle Ba Er, is this your car?Zhao Jiadi nodded with a smile and said yes.Just like this, Zhang Babai sat in a car whose price was completely beyond the limit of his imagination for him, from the township to the county seat, then to the city, and finally arrived at Rongcheng Airport, lying at the window and staring at the scenery of the city all the way.At the dinner at the airport, several persons in charge of Jinhai Industrial served attentively and carefully. Fortunately, the prince did not put on airs. He just talked about Jinhai's business situation in Sichuan. Jinhai has real estate investments in Sichuan, Guangxi and other places. , several bigwigs who are quite majestic in Sichuan but only barely middle-level leaders in the entire Jinhai are frightened, because the prince's sensitivity to specific data is simply on pins and needles. What he said is not profound, but every sentence falls into place. On the sore spot of ideas in Sichuan, Zhao Taizu has been a hands-off shopkeeper in recent years, only in charge of finalizing strategic plans, so sitting at the table with Zhao Jiadi is like a teacher carefully checking homework face to face, no matter how kind his face is, no matter how soft his tone Light, it gives people a sense of suffocation.

Zhang Babai ate something he had never seen before, watching Teacher Zhao and Ba Ershu chatting relaxedly, while the two uncles on the opposite side were sweating, seeing it in his eyes and remembering it in his heart.Before boarding the plane, Zhao Jiadi gave them a contact information, and said with a smile that they would keep in touch in the future.The uncles bowed and nodded.

On the plane, Zhao Jiadi taught Zhang Xuchu how to wear a seat belt, and asked if he was afraid of flying?The child grinned, showing a mouth full of white teeth, saying that he was not afraid.Zhao Jiadi thought for a while and decided to tell the children some things first. He said that our house is different from the village, with more people and a bigger house. When you arrive, you can eat your meals and sleep in peace. When you are a dumb person, you don’t talk much, and you don’t talk about what anyone does. They hate you or accept you. Keep it in your heart and don’t show your face. Although Ba Ershu promised your grandpa to take care of you, Ba Ershu can’t Protecting you all the time, when you want to make a living, you have to use your own brains, fight by yourself, and please adults by yourself. I will take you out of Guanyin Village, which is equal to what your parents should have given you back then but did not give you. , Uncle Ba Er gave it to you.

Zhang Xuchu lowered his head and said softly that I have no parents, only grandpa, and uncle eight.

Zhao Jiadi hesitated to speak, and patted his head.The two uncles and nephews are dressed in very rural villages, and they are like a shabby atmosphere. The other gold-collared men on the plane can't wait to look like a domineering man, but Zhao Jiadi is better, he is tanned, and he is carrying an even darker thin child. , just like refugees fleeing famine.Zhao Jiadi closed his eyes and meditated.On his head was a travel bag that was also bought in the county. In more than a year, apart from the financial reports of the subsidiaries of Jinhai Group, and some major trend documents in the financial field, the total number of mathematics monographs and economic books he read was 31. There are 6 books on philosophy, 14 books on pure literature, and 36 books with excerpts and notes, reaching a million words.

This is the hard task that Zhao Jia set for himself from the very beginning. There is never a day of sloppy, and then he runs 20 miles every morning and evening, and each trip is 10 miles back and forth. The morning air in Guanyin Village is absolutely comparable to that of Cao Feidian. I can feel that my physique has improved significantly, and he insists on swimming in the river every day. The river can only be called a stream, and it is usually only knee deep. If you are thirsty, you can stand in the stream and plunge into it to drink. A mouthful of good water, sweet and clear, along the creek, there is a waterfall at the foot of the mountain, and there is a deep green pool about two people deep, where Zhao Jiadi usually practices swimming, and now he finally got rid of the landlubber hat, When I first went there, the children were very happy in the deep pool, like fish in water. Poor Zhao Jiadi could only do the rough dog digging at the edge of the pool. That scene was also the funniest scene in Guanyin Village.

In the first month when he went to the county seat, apart from the books and materials mailed to him by his sister-in-law Tong Yang, there were also 6 darts in the dart case that Wei Feng gave him.Zhao Jiadi used to have a lot of resentment in his heart, and now the resentment has not diminished, but after recently witnessing the joys and sorrows of the impoverished rural areas, he feels that life always wants to wear away a person's edges and corners, and put on a mediocre hat, but he can't find it. Reasons and excuses to complain about others, his parents not divorcing is worse than divorce, but after all, Zhao's house has been lying on the top of the mountain like a sleeping lion and hungry tiger for 20 years. No one can deny that he is Zhao Sanjin's son, and he also There is a grandma who knows the basics of progress and retreat, Wang Banjin, Qi Dongcao, and Shangque Shangbao, who are brothers of the same age. Zhao Jiadi told himself that he should be content.

The one who picked up the plane in Tianjin was not a stranger. Phoenix man Wang Shufeng, who had been to Zhao's house once, was the second in command of Hanhai Investment Company. Talking about the child's background, Wang Shufeng obviously showed a friendly look, and his words were a little bit more. There may be elements of sophisticated acting in it, but there must be some real emotions. After all, he is also a man who came to the fore from the remote rural areas of Hunan. Knowing the poverty and difficulty at the bottom, his family was almost bankrupt and sent Wang Shufeng to university.While eating in a restaurant at the airport, Wang Shufeng secretly went to the airport bookstore to buy three books for Zhang Xuchu. The child dared not accept them, but Zhao Jiadi smiled and asked him to accept them boldly.Wang Shufeng asked if Xu Chu's admission procedures had been arranged?Zhao Jiadi shook his head and said that he should go back and discuss it with his family.Wang Shufeng hesitated for a moment, and asked if Xu Chu should follow me to study in Tianjin. Anyway, I am single, and the company is not busy, so I can take care of it.Zhao Jiadi smiled, Xiao Babai shook his head vigorously, Wang Shufeng immediately smiled bitterly and said that I was rude, Zhao Jiadi wiped his mouth with a napkin and calmly said that it would be best for the child to study in a big city, but first let Babai take care of me After finishing elementary school, junior high school and high school there, he must be thrown to Tianjin or Yanjing, and let him rely on himself. Mr. Wang, I am not afraid that you will not take care of Babai, to be honest, I am afraid that you will take care of him too much.Wang Shufeng laughed out loud, he was in a good mood, good luck, you should let me know as soon as possible, and I will definitely help Xu Chu arrange the best junior high school in Tianjin.

Zhao Jiadi nodded, and curiously asked Mr. Wang, Zhao Sanjin said that you are a master of Go?
Zhao Sanjin?
Wang Shufeng didn't come back to his senses for a while, and when he thought about it, he dared to be the big boss Zhao Taizu. Competition, those days are more tiring than now, I don't want to go back.Zhao Jiadi said that he would have the opportunity to discuss and learn from each other in the future.Wang Shufeng was stunned for a moment, concealed it very well, and said with a smile, I won't give in when the time comes.Zhao Jiadi smiled and said this is the best.Zhang Xuchu bowed his head to eat, the books were spread out on the table, and he ate while reading, but he didn't waste a single grain of rice. , They are all used to doing every detail well in a down-to-earth manner.In this snobbish society that laughs at the poor but not at the prostitutes, a large number of phoenix men emerge every year, beheading the second-generation ancestors under their horses and stepping under their feet. This is the root cause.

Wang Shufeng didn't personally send Zhao Jiadi and Zhang Xuchu to Caofeidian, there was no need for that, if he really did it, it would be deliberate and inferior.After sending the two into the car, he leaned against the door of his own A8, tossed a coin, and said to himself: "Zhao family, Huang family, Wang family."

(End of this chapter)