Scarlet Romance

Chapter 17
Zhong Yuemin's change of job was delayed until 1984, when the Chinese government announced the reduction of 100 million troops, which gave him a ray of hope.

In the spring, Zhong Yuemin received a notice to go to the military academy for advanced studies. He found that Zhang Haiyang’s name was also listed on the list of regular training personnel. Haiyang still needs to keep people, otherwise they will not be sent to colleges for further studies.Zhong Yuemin thinks that his fate has reached a turning point. If he goes to the military academy to study, he will have to work in the army for the rest of his life after returning. If he wants to change jobs, he may not have a chance.Zhong Yuemin decided to seize this opportunity and change jobs and return to Beijing.Because there are not many battalion officers who want to leave, and the political department is having a headache for the transferred cadres, it is difficult to do the job. At this moment, Zhong Yuemin's request for transfer seems to be a high-profile attitude, a bit of a sense of taking the initiative to share the country's worries.

In front of the military headquarters building, Zhang Haiyang walked out of the building, and two sentries saluted him. He hurriedly returned the salute, walked along the cement road in the military headquarters compound to the dormitory, and saluted the oncoming officers and soldiers from time to time.Zhong Yuemin chased up from behind in a convertible jeep, he turned the steering wheel sharply, and the jeep lay in front of Zhang Haiyang.

Zhang Haiyang asked in surprise: "Yuemin, you haven't been here for a long time, why did you think of looking for me today?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "I went to the Military Affairs Office to do business, so I stopped by to see Staff Officer Zhang."

"You're scolding me, aren't you? There are a lot of staff in the headquarters. We're just a bunch of slobs. We can't compare to you, Captain Zhong. You have the final say in the Special Reconnaissance Brigade."

Zhong Yuemin said straight to the point: "Have you heard? This time we will reduce the number of troops by 100 million."

"Of course, who doesn't know this, you kid must have another idea."

"It's a matter of bringing up old things again, or changing jobs. This disarmament is an opportunity."

Zhang Haiyang pondered: "Do you know that we are among the trainees at the Military Academy this time?"

"I know, it is precisely because of this that I decided to change my career. For you and me, now is a watershed in our lives. Once you go to study, it means that you will be a professional soldier for the rest of your life. It is impossible to turn back. If If you change jobs now, you can start a lot of things again.”

Zhang Haiyang said: "Yuemin, let me think about this question, okay?"

Zhong Yuemin mocked: "Do you really want to be a general? There will be no more battles in the future, and the army will have nothing to play with."

Zhang Haiyang thought for a while and said: "Well, it makes sense, my heart is moving when you say it. This disarmament is an opportunity, otherwise the army will not let people go, have you decided?"

"I am determined."

"Yuemin, let me think again."

"Then think about it, I've already handed in the job change report..." Zhong Yuemin stepped on the accelerator, and the jeep shot out like an arrow.

Zhang Haiyang froze for a moment, then suddenly shouted: "Yuemin."

Zhong Yuemin braked the car suddenly, and the tires of the car made a harsh friction sound.

Zhang Haiyang said: "I don't care if you leave, why don't you go together, I'll write a job change report right away."

"You can think about it, no one is forcing you, don't regret it then."

"I've already made up my mind to change jobs and return to Beijing."

The transfer reports of Zhong Yuemin and Zhang Haiyang were quickly approved, and the personnel in the cadre department were very busy with so many officers who did not want to transfer jobs, especially some officers from rural areas. Still unwilling to change jobs, the work of these people is difficult to do.Zhong Yuemin and Zhang Haiyang were both military officers who had been determined not to be transferred. At this time, they handed in the transfer report, and the staff in the cadre office breathed a sigh of relief.No matter what, now there are two more places that can be reserved, and their work will be easier to do.Director Wang of the cadre department talked to Zhong Yuemin and Zhang Haiyang respectively, and also symbolically persuaded them to stay. It is to share the country's worries.Director Wang didn't believe his nonsense. It wasn't a year or two since Zhong Yuemin changed jobs. Who in the political department didn't know?However, Director Wang is still very grateful to Zhong Yuemin and Zhang Haiyang. They took the initiative to ask for a change of job after all, which relieved the pressure on the cadre department.

In the resettlement office for demobilized soldiers in Beijing, Zhong Yuemin and Zhang Haiyang stood in the reception hall wearing military uniforms with their collars removed. They were talking with some demobilized soldiers from various military branches.

Zhong Yuemin looked at his watch and said impatiently, "I've been waiting for 40 minutes, why didn't you call us?"

A demobilized officer in a navy uniform said: "You're getting impatient after waiting for 40 minutes? I've been waiting for more than an hour. It's okay. We will be under the care of others when we get here. Don't lose your temper."

Zhang Haiyang said: "Yuemin, there are almost no majors in our unit that can match us, that is, the criminal police team of the Public Security Bureau can get a little edge. If we are assigned to the Public Security Bureau, will you go?"

"No, I want to be a free citizen. I can't just take off my military uniform and put on a police uniform. Then why should I change my job?"

Zhang Haiyang said: "I want to go, and being a policeman is not bad. My buddy, if you commit a crime in the future, I'll come and get you."

"Fuck, do you fucking expect me to get better? I want you to go, anyway, I won't go. Now that the reform and opening up, there are many things I can do. If there is no suitable job for the re-transfer office, I will set up a stall as a Go self-employed."

"Don't talk nonsense, you, a battalion-level cadre, are going to be self-employed?"

The staff in the office were shouting: "Have Zhong Yuemin and Zhang Haiyang come?"

The two agreed to enter the office, and a staff member came over to shake hands with the two: "Congratulations, the Public Security Bureau read your materials and was very interested, and said that you old scouts are welcome to work in the criminal police team. How about it, two Are you satisfied with this job?"

Zhang Haiyang said, "I am willing to go."

Zhong Yuemin asked, "Do you have any other jobs?"

"Not yet. If you are not satisfied with this job, you have to wait. Of course, you can also contact the unit yourself. If there is a unit willing to accept you, I will go through the formalities for you immediately." The staff member said.

Zhong Yuemin said: "Forget it, don't bother. Just now I saw a pancake stand in front of your door. The business is quite prosperous. I can also do this skill. If it doesn't work, I will set up a pancake stand."

A girl who was filling out the form looked up at Zhong Yuemin, then lowered her head again.

The staff said: "Captain Zhong, if you want to set up a pancake stand, don't come to my door. The leader will say that we have not done a good job, and we will not be able to bear the responsibility if we ask a battalion-level officer to set up a stall."

"Okay, not at your door, I'll put it at the door of their Public Security Bureau."

Zhang Haiyang said: "Yuemin, if you don't go, you are a grandson, and I will have breakfast for free in the future."

The staff handed over a form: "Comrade Zhang Haiyang, please fill out the form."

Zhang Haiyang began to fill out the form.

Zhong Yuemin said: "Yangyang, I'm going back first, let's get in touch again."

"Yuemin, you kid, don't think that you come out once. If you have something to discuss with your buddies, I will call you."

Zhong Yuemin was picking up his bicycle outside the gate of the retransfer office, when he suddenly found that the girl who had just filled out the form in the office was also picking up the bike, Zhong Yuemin nodded politely to her, and the girl smiled sweetly.

Zhong Yuemin asked strangely: "What are you laughing at?"

The girl smiled and said, "You are so funny. A battalion-level officer is going to set up a stall to sell pancakes. Are you joking?"

"Why am I joking? One day when I'm happy, I'll actually set up a stall and rely on labor for a living. It's not shameful. Who stipulates that battalion-level cadres cannot be self-employed?"

The girl said, "Are you really joking?"

"Yes, it seems that you are also interested. Then I welcome you to join us. How about we set up a pancake trust? When it grows bigger in the future, we will increase the export business and let the pancakes go to the world."

The girl smiled and bent over: "You can really talk..."

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Zhong Yuemin, what's your name?"

"My name is Gao Yue. I'm from the South China Sea Fleet Communication Center. I've just been demobilized."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "How is it, have you been assigned a job?"

Gao Yue replied: "Where? Even you demobilized officers don't have any suitable jobs, let alone us soldiers. By the way, isn't the Public Security Bureau very good? Why don't you go?"

"Do you know why I want to change my career? The reason is very simple. I want to live a free life after being controlled by others. In other words, I don't want to be controlled by others except to abide by the laws and regulations of the country. "

Gao Yue smiled: "You are very free and easy, I have never seen an officer like you."

Zhong Yuemin pretended to be serious and said: "I have been a soldier for more than ten years, and it is time for me to live a life as a commoner. Since the country has difficulties in resettlement work, let's be considerate and find a job by myself."

"The consciousness is really high. He is worthy of being a cadre who has been educated by the party for many years."

"Sorry, it's still far from what the party and the people want."

Gao Yue covered her mouth and smiled: "It still looks real."

Zhong Yuemin said: "Now there is no distinction between demobilized cadres and demobilized soldiers. We are all unemployed youths. You and I feel sorry for each other. I decided to accept you as a team."

Gao Yue asked back: "Did I say I want to join the gang?"

"Anyway, you haven't been assigned a suitable job, so you can join the group first and wait until you get a good job before leaving."

Gao Yue thought for a while and said, "Your idea is quite interesting, and it's a bit shocking. I really want to try it, but I have conditions."

"Look, you haven't joined the gang yet, so you should make the conditions first. When you were a soldier, you bargained with the leaders like this? Okay, let's talk about it first."

"My condition is that no bullying is allowed."

"That's fine, is there any more?"

Gao Yue said: "As a partner, you and I are equal. Don't call yourself a leader in front of me."

"Equality between officers and soldiers is a fine tradition of our army, and that's okay."

Gao Yue immediately grasped the fault of his words: "Aren't they all unemployed youths? Where are the officers and soldiers? Don't always think about your status as an officer. Now you are just an ordinary citizen. Don't put on airs as an officer with me. "

"Okay, let's come to a grave and change it to a vegetable garden—level it out. Regarding the specific issues of the partnership, let's talk about it sometime. I'll leave you a phone number."

The news of Zhong Yuemin changing jobs and returning to Beijing made Yuan Jun and Zheng Tong very excited. We haven't been together for more than ten years, and it is difficult to get together every year when we take family leave. Often, one just left and the other came back.Now everyone can finally live in one city.

Yuan Jun was already married to Zhou Xiaobai. After Zhou Xiaobai graduated from the Military Medical University, he was assigned to a certain hospital in Beijing. Yuan Jun was also transferred to work in the headquarters in Beijing a year ago. Compared with the field army, his job now is much more relaxed.

Zheng Tong and Jiang Biyun have been married for several years, their children are 3 years old, their jobs are stable, and their lives are contented.

In contrast, Zhong Yuemin's life seems a bit desolate. He is in his thirties and is still single. Over the years, part of his salary has been sent to Wu Mantun's parents, and the rest is spent in a daze.I have been an officer for more than ten years but I have no savings. Fortunately, I was paid several thousand yuan in transfer fees when I changed jobs, otherwise I would be really poor.

Yuan Jun and Zheng Tong greeted Zhong Yuemin in a restaurant, and everyone sat around the dining table, very excited.Yuan Jun and Zhou Xiaobai were wearing new-style military uniforms; Zheng Tong was wearing white-rimmed glasses, a suit and leather shoes, and looked like a refined scholar; Jiang Biyun was wearing a suit and skirt, a typical image of professional women; shabby.

Yuan Jun raised his glass and suggested: "Yuemin has just returned from changing jobs, let's toast to his new life soon."

Cheers everyone.

Zhong Yuemin smiled and said: "Okay, my brothers have all come out, Yuan Jun has also been transferred to the headquarters, and served as a soldier at the door of the house. I didn't even dare to think about it before. Zhou Xiaobai is the attending doctor of the general hospital. Tong and his wife have become intellectuals, and they are better than me, and now I don't even have a job."

Zhou Xiaobai comforted him: "Don't say that, didn't you just change your job? Your new life hasn't started yet. If you need help, everyone will try their best. I don't believe that the best among us will not be able to find a job. "

Zheng Tong joked: "Yuan Jun, listen to your wife's praise of Yue Min. Are you feeling sour right now?"

Jiang Biyun stopped and said, "What are you talking nonsense, is there such a joke?"

Yuan Jun said: "It's okay, we brothers are used to making jokes. Besides, if Yuemin hadn't promoted his style back then, how could I have anything to do with me? This Zhou Xiaobai, I think only Yuemin can control her. If Yuemin When she is her husband, she will wash her feet every day, unlike me, she has no status at home, she has the final say on everything, and she is not even allowed to smoke."

Zhou Xiaobai hit Yuan Jun with chopsticks: "Shut up, talk nonsense again, if you talk about it again, I will really relive old dreams with Yuemin, anyway, he is not married yet, hey, Yuemin, what do you think?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "No problem, if he dares to bully you, you can come to me. The door of my house is always open. I welcome all young women."

Jiang Biyun smiled and said, "Zhong Yuemin is still such a hooligan."

Zhou Xiaobai pointed to Zhong Yuemin and said, "Who do you think they are? They were all famous hooligans on the ice rink back then, especially Zhong Yuemin, who chased after girls whenever he saw them, and his mouth was very poor."

Zheng Tong said: "Yuemin, we have a new batch of college students assigned to our unit, and some of them are pretty good-looking, do you want me to introduce one to you?"

Jiang Biyun said: "Zheng Tong, don't send a good-looking girl to the tiger's mouth, whoever is with him will be unlucky."

Zhong Yuemin agreed: "Jiang Biyun still understands me."

Zheng Tong said: "Even if it's a tiger, don't you have to feed it? I can't just sit and watch the tiger starve to death. If it's a tiger, it has to eat meat. You can't fool the tiger with some cornbread mixed with cabbage, right?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "It doesn't matter, my tiger is used to it anyway, and the cabbage gang will get used to it."

Yuan Jun took a sip of the wine and savored it carefully: "Yuemin, don't you think the taste of this wine is a bit wrong?"

Zhong Yuemin also took a sip: "This is not Wuliangye, it's fake wine."

Yuan Jun shouted angrily to the waiter: "Go, get your boss here."

Zheng Tong threw his chopsticks on the table: "This fake wine sells at a higher price than the real one, so I'm so fucking dark."

Zhong Yuemin shouted to the waiter: "If your boss doesn't have time to come, we won't wait, and he will pay for the meal."

A man in a suit and leather shoes came out from behind: "Gentlemen and ladies, I have something to discuss..."

The boss's words stopped suddenly, Zhong Yuemin raised his head and was about to speak when he was also stunned: "Ning Wei..."

Ning Wei called out: "Company Commander, Brother Zhong." He hugged Zhong Yuemin.

Zhong Yuemin held Ning Wei's shoulders and looked carefully: "Well, it's still the same as the scouting company back then. It hasn't changed much. How come you are the boss now?"

Ning Wei yelled to the waiter: "Remove this table of food and put it on another table. Brother, I didn't have any good jobs when I was demobilized. There are too many demobilized soldiers over the years, so I can't arrange it at all. I borrowed from my relatives I paid some money to open such a restaurant, but the business has not been very good, so let’s just make do with it. Big Brother, why did you change your job?”

Zhong Yuemin said: "Didn't I tell you that the army is not a place to support people. Everyone has to leave sooner or later. You left a few years earlier than me and became the boss. I came back late."

Zhong Yuemin remembered that when Ning Wei was in the army, he was a very ascetic person. He didn't like to chat with his comrades, and he had never seen him play poker or chess with others. It can't be said that he had any hobbies.Reunited with Ning Wei unexpectedly this time, Zhong Yuemin discovered that Ning Wei has also changed a bit, he can actually play, sometimes go to bubble bars, and sometimes go to some foreign-related restaurants to play bowling.Zhong Yuemin also asked Ning Wei if he had a girlfriend, and Ning Wei answered honestly that he had several girlfriends, and each relationship did not exceed one month.Zhong Yuemin estimated that this was due to his personality, and girls might not like men with this personality.

In the bowling alley of a foreign-related hotel, Ning Wei was teaching Zhong Yuemin to throw the ball with a bowling ball in his hand. Zhong Yuemin threw 3 balls in a row and got full marks.He doesn't think bowling is any fun at all. Foreigners always complicate a very simple thing. Isn't it just throwing a ball and smashing a few wooden pins? Why do they have to change their shoes?
Ning Wei praised: "As expected of an old scout, the technique is really accurate."

Zhong Yuemin said disdainfully: "You bosses just play with this, what's the point?"

"Brother, you don't understand this. This is an upper-class sport. You may not like it, but you must know how to play, or you will be laughed at by others."

"Nonsense, I'm a soldier, not a high-class person, why did you bring me here?"

Ning Wei said: "You haven't been back to Beijing for several years. I don't know the situation in Beijing. There are a lot of people who have made a fortune. If you have money, you have to have a place to spend it. So you can play whatever is fashionable. I heard that a golf course is being built now. Wait for it to be built." Well, rich people should go there."

Zhong Yuemin looked around: "The people who come here are all rich people? I really can't tell."

Ning Wei pointed to a person who was picking bowling balls on a nearby alley and said in a low voice: "Did you see that person? There are famous brands all over his body, and the watch in his hand is worth at least tens of thousands. This is a real rich man."

Zhong Yuemin looked at that person: "Just him? How fucking evil, what does a rich person look like today? Hey, why does this person look familiar to me?"

The man raised his head and met Zhong Yuemin's eyes. He put down the ball and hurried over with a look of surprise on his face: "Are you... Zhong Yuemin?"

Zhong Yuemin also recognized him: "Are you Li Yuanchao?"

Li Yuanchao said excitedly: "It's really you, Zhong Yuemin."

Zhong Yuemin smiled: "My God, are you still alive?" The two shook hands warmly.

Li Yuanchao put his arm around Zhong Yuemin's shoulder and said, "Let's have a good chat, how many years have we not seen each other?"

"It's been 1968 years since we broke up in 17."

Li Yuanchao brought Zhong Yuemin and Ning Wei into the coffee shop of the hotel, and he snapped his fingers to the waiter with ease: "3 cups of coffee."

Zhong Yuemin has never been in such a luxurious place. Before he changed his career, he thought he was a man who had seen the world. He grew up in Beijing. Been there a few times.Who knows that Beijing has changed so much these years after leaving Beijing.Among other things, the luxury of this foreign-related hotel in front of him made Zhong Yuemin feel ashamed.

The waiter brought coffee and fresh milk for the coffee, Zhong Yuemin put the coffee cup aside, picked up the container of fresh milk and took a sip.

Li Yuanchao smiled tolerantly: "Yuemin, look at your clothes, are you just transferred from the army?"

Zhong Yuemin laughed at himself and said, "I'm a country bumpkin. I've been a soldier all these years. I've been fooled. Don't talk about this, Yuan Dynasty. Back then, I heard that you and your group were all in trouble?"

Li Yuanchao said: "Can we not go in? After all, human life is at stake. Fortunately, the little bastard is full of evil, otherwise none of us would have thought of it. However, in all fairness, although I dared to make a fuss back then, I did not have the courage to kill after all. , I can't control the situation once I start my hands."

"Why did you let you go again later?"

"There are several reasons: first, we had contacted the Public Security Bureau in advance, and the Public Security Bureau agreed that we would assist the police in catching little bastards; second, the public security system was in a semi-paralyzed state; third, the law does not blame the public, and dozens of Everyone moved their hands, not to mention that the participants at that time were all the children of cadres, and they all had intricate social relationships, which would inevitably form a force to interfere in the judiciary. Even so, the main criminals of us still entered a year of study This incident was rehabilitated by the Public Security Bureau in the late 70s, and after I graduated from the study class, I went to join the army, and I have been in the army for more than ten years."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "Are you doing well now, where do you get high?"

Li Yuanchao handed over a business card: "I changed jobs in 1980. I first worked in an agency. Last year, Zhenrong Group was established. I have a relationship, so I joined Zhenro Group. This is my business card."

Zhong Yuemin looked at the business card: "Hey, I said, why are you so ostentatious? Are you the general manager?"

"We are a state-owned asset company, and the general manager is also a national employee. Don't treat me as a foreign boss."

Ning Wei said to Zhong Yuemin: "Brother, I have heard of Zhenro Group, which is a very powerful company."

Li Yuanchao looked at his watch and stood up: "Yuemin, my time is very tight, and I have a social meeting in a while, so I won't accompany you. Please keep my business card. If you don't find a better job, you can come to our company. Let's talk again sometime, okay, goodbye!"

Li Yuanchao bid farewell and left.

Ning Wei looked at Li Yuanchao's back and said, "As expected of a big boss, his style is just extraordinary. Brother, ordinary people in this kind of company can't get in through trusting relationships, so don't let this opportunity pass you by."

Zhong Yuemin said lightly: "I don't have this interest yet, let's talk about it."

Zhong Yuemin went through the formalities of changing jobs without discussing with his father, which made Zhong Shanyue very annoyed. Zhong Shanyue hoped that his son would be a professional soldier for the rest of his life, and this was also to fulfill his own dream.After the founding of New China, the local government needed a large number of cadres to fill departments at all levels. Because Zhong Shanyue was a rare cultural person among military cadres, he was forced to take off his military uniform and transfer to a local job. At that time, he was already a deputy military-level cadre. When the army was awarded the title in 1955, Zhong Shanyue cursed at the street behind closed doors at home. If he hadn't been forced to change jobs by the organization, he should have been awarded the rank of major general.Originally, Zhong Shanyue pinned his hopes on his son. He believed in his son. This kid has been bold since he was a child, and he has many tricks. He is a good material to be an officer. He has participated in and directed many special operations and made second-class meritorious service. With these capitals, Zhong Yuemin will have a bright future in the army.Zhong Shanyue never expected that this little bastard would dare to even say hello to him, and went through the formalities of changing jobs by himself. When he told Zhong Shanyue, the rice had already been cooked for cooking.

Zhong Shanyue thought helplessly, he really couldn't control his son when he was old, this bastard didn't take his father seriously at all, he could do whatever he wanted with his own affairs, and never asked his father's opinion at all. Intend.But now that his son has returned, Zhong Shanyue has no choice but to admit this fait accompli. What he is most worried about now is the strange thoughts in his son's mind.According to Zhong Shanyue's thinking, for a cadre who has been transferred from a job to a job, going to a state agency is his only way out, but he feels that his son doesn't seem to have much interest in this kind of work.

As soon as Zhong Yuemin got home and sat in the living room, his father stared at him. Anyway, the old man had plenty of time. As long as his son was at home, he wanted to chat with his son. He was too lonely.

Zhong Shanyue asked: "Has your work problem been solved?"

"There are currently no suitable jobs."

"Don't worry, wait and see. There must be a suitable job. My retirement salary is enough for us to eat. I think you should join a state agency."

Zhong Yuemin said: "Dad, I don't want to join any institution. I just want to live a free life. What do you think of me being self-employed?"

Zhong Shanyue became angry when he heard it: "Fart, you are a battalion-level cadre, how can you become a self-employed person?"

"Well, don't get angry, or I'll just eat your wages without doing anything, and don't think I'm idle when the days get longer."

"I'd rather let you have a free time than embarrass me."

The phone rang, and Zhong Shanyue picked up the receiver: "Hello, who is it?"

A girl's voice came from the microphone: "Please find Zhong Yuemin."

"He's at home, wait a moment..." Zhong Shanyue covered the phone, "You kid lied to me, didn't you say you don't have a girlfriend? Why is a girl coming to your door, please explain to me..."

Zhong Yuemin took the microphone: "I am Zhong Yuemin, who are you?"

"I'm Gao Yue."

"Wait..." He covered the microphone, Dad, do you want to avoid it, or go for a walk?
Zhong Shanyue said dissatisfiedly: "When my girlfriend calls, I will be thrown out? You bastard..."

"Dad, please do me a favor, your son has a thin skin."

Zhong Shanyue went out muttering.

Zhong Yuemin said in a low voice: "Gao Yue, I'm sorry, my dad was beside me just now, if he knew that I was going to set up a pancake stall, the old man would have to peel off my skin, just tell me."

"I went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to ask, and they refused to apply for a license for us, saying that we must have business premises."

Zhong Yuemin said: "Isn't this nonsense? Why do we set up a stall if we have a business building? We already opened a restaurant. No matter how many there are, we can do it without a license."

"is this okay?"

"The proletarians only lose their chains. What are we afraid of? There are stalls all over the street, and they may not all have licenses. Let's do it first."

Gao Yue said, "Then listen to you."

The partnership agreement between Zhong Yuemin and Gao Yue was made while drinking beer in a small restaurant.

Zhong Yuemin believes that with his own abilities, it is not a problem to open a pancake stand, even a multinational company.Partnering with this kind of little girl movie can basically be regarded as poverty alleviation. Since it is poverty alleviation, she can't be equal to herself.He said carelessly: "The pancake stand doesn't require much investment. You only need a tricycle, a stove, cooking utensils, and so on. The key is craftsmanship. Let's each contribute half of the funds. Your demobilization fee is not enough." Finish spending? I'll be in charge of spreading the pancakes, and you'll be in charge of collecting the money. For the profits, you'll get [-] or [-] percent.

Gao Yue didn't rub the sand in his eyes: "Hey, why do you take [-]%?"

Zhong Yuemin explained patiently: "I am a skilled worker, and you are a skilled worker. It's like I am a chef cooking on the stove, and you are a small worker in charge of peeling onions and garlic. Can you compare with me? There is also a question of technical content here, remuneration according to work is the distribution principle of our socialism, and you have been educated by the party for many years, how come you don't even understand this truth?"

"Zhong Yuemin, you really don't have the demeanor of a battalion commander at all. You are just counting us as soldiers. Fortunately, we didn't fight a war, otherwise I wouldn't even know how I died. You'd better not do this, isn't it just spreading pancakes? If you can do it, I can do it too, and the profits will be shared fifty-fifty, and if you don’t do it, you will be pulled down.”

Zhong Yuemin thought for a while and said: "Okay, okay, let's make it this way, it doesn't matter if I suffer a little. Sigh, it's hard to raise a villain and a woman."

Gao Yue said angrily: "The premise of cooperation is fairness. Don't think that you are smart enough to play tricks on others, and try to formulate some unequal treaties."

Zhong Yuemin smiled: "Xiao Gao, you are really not simple. I like a partner like you who don't rub the sand in your eyes when you settle accounts. Well, you have passed the test. From today, you and I are partners."

Gao Yue said with a smile: "You are thinking too fast, I want to guard against you, so as not to be tricked by you if you don't pay attention."

"It's outrageous, it's really outrageous, it's not done yet, they are plotting against each other."

On the first day when the pancake stand opened, Zhong Yuemin specially wore a white overalls and a small white hat for Muslims.He parked the pancake truck at the intersection of a street, and installed a glass pavilion on the car. On the glass, he wrote a few Arabic words in red paint as if it were real, to show that it was authentic halal food. In fact, even himself I don't know what those Arabic words mean.

It was morning working hours, and the number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased.Zhong Yuemin tapped the pan with an iron spoon in his hand, and seemed to feel good about himself. Gao Yue was counting the eggs, and Zhong Yuemin shouted: "Anyone eat pancakes?"

Pedestrians on the street were taken aback and stopped to watch.

Gao Yue complained in a low voice: "Slow down, why are you acting like a robber? It scared everyone away."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "Xiao Gao, have you had breakfast?"

"have eaten."

"Then I haven't eaten yet. Now I have to practice my skills." Zhong Yuemin spread out a pancake carefully, and then swallowed it in a few mouthfuls. He spread out a second pancake and devoured it hungrily.He patted his stomach, as if he still had more to say, and picked up the spoon to spread the third cake.

Gao Yue said dissatisfiedly: "Are you finished? You haven't opened yet, but you've eaten two."

"Don't feel bad about it, it will be deducted from my account when you check out."

More and more people came to buy pancakes, Zhong Yuemin was in a hurry, and the pancakes spread out were always broken.He found that he had made a mistake in estimation. This kind of work seemed simple, but in fact it still required a little skill.

The people in line got impatient: "Dude, can you do it?"

Zhong Yuemin argued: "I inherited it from my ancestors. Our family is an authentic Muslim who came from the Western Regions. It's just that I haven't worked for many years and my hands are a little raw."

Gao Yue couldn't stand it anymore, she pushed Zhong Yuemin aside, and started to do it herself.Her technique is very skilled, and she spreads quickly and well, and all the customers who lined up were sent away in a short while.

Zhong Yuemin accepted the money in an embarrassing manner, but remained silent.

Gao Yue smiled and flicked his forehead with his fingers: "You should be an apprentice with me, and you will be able to talk like a god."

Zhang Haiyang was riding by here wearing a police uniform. He suddenly noticed Zhong Yuemin's outfit and couldn't help being shocked. He immediately jumped out of the car and grabbed Zhong Yuemin: "What the hell are you making a fool of yourself? I thought it's fine if you talk about it, no Thinking of you really started doing it, what the hell is wrong with your sickness?"

Zhong Yuemin stuffed a pancake into Zhang Haiyang's hand, urging: "Hurry up and pay..."

Zhang Haiyang said, "I've already had breakfast."

"Then have another one. Let me tell you, you are not allowed to have breakfast at home in the future. I just opened here, so you have to come and support me."

Zhang Haiyang took out the money helplessly and said, "Our sub-bureau is right in front, why did you come to set up a stall at the door of our unit?"

Zhong Yuemin went ahead and said: "You talk to your colleagues, just say that there is an old comrade-in-arms who has just opened a business, and they all come to cheer."

"You kid, just add trouble to me. This is an unlicensed business. How dare you come to the gate of the Public Security Bureau?"

"Your Public Security Bureau can't control unlicensed business operations, who are you scaring?"

"Then the head of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau can get you? Maybe someday he will copy your shabby stall."

"Ocean, it's the first day I open, so don't fuck me up."

Zhong Shanyue is practicing Taijiquan in the yard. This is a compulsory course for him every morning, and he has persisted for many years.Zhong Yuemin came in with two pancakes in his hand and shook them to his father. Zhong Shanyue hurriedly finished the routine and finally accepted.

Zhong Yuemin said, "Dad, I'll buy you some breakfast, you can eat it while it's hot."

The father took the pancake: "It's better for the son to come back, I know I'll buy it early."

"Dad, you should find a wife. Someone has to take care of you. You can't just rely on a babysitter. How about I introduce one to you? I have a comrade-in-arms whose father passed away. I think you married his mother Come on."

"Yuemin, you're looking for a beating again, right? I've introduced someone to Lao Tzu. You should take care of your own affairs first. You're in your 30s, and you can't even get a wife. How dare you talk about Lao Tzu?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "I don't need you to worry about it. It's not easy to find a wife. The key is you. You are a real poor family. You can't be high or low. It's a bit too much to pick people's looks at your age. Can you Just live with you down-to-earth."

Zhong Shanyue said while eating: "Just make fun of me, you bastard."

The little nanny heard someone knocking on the courtyard door, so she walked over to open the door. It was Aunt Li from the next door who came, and Aunt Li was also a veteran cadre with seniority older than Zhong Shanyue.As soon as the old lady entered the door, she raised her voice loudly: "Mr. Zhong, let me inform you that I will go to the veteran cadre activity station at two o'clock in the afternoon and say that I want to deliver documents to us. Don't go late, or I will leave before I leave. call you?"

Zhong Shanyue hurriedly said: "No, no, I'm not too confused, I can't be late."

Zhong Yuemin hurriedly greeted her: "Aunt Li is here."

When Aunt Li saw Zhong Yuemin, she seemed to think of something: "Yuemin, I was just looking for you."

"Say, what's the matter?"

"Just now I heard from my Ji Hong that you sell pancakes on the street, don't you?"

Zhong Yuemin glanced at his father, and said nonchalantly, "Where is the matter, she misjudged the person."

Zhong Shanyue couldn't hear it: "What pancake?"

Zhong Yuemin hurriedly interrupted: "Didn't I go to buy pancakes for you just now?"

But Aunt Li insisted: "Yuemin, don't be fooled by Aunt Li, we, Ji Hong, can see clearly that you are still wearing a little white hat, yelling while spreading cakes, and claiming to be an authentic western region Huimin. I didn’t mean you, aren’t you making a fool of yourself? Is it plausible for a dignified battalion officer to work as a self-employed person?”

Zhong Shanyue finally understood: "Okay, you really did it. I said why you are so diligent today, and you went out early, saying that you were buying pancakes for me, and you went to set up a stall after making a fuss for a long time .Are you still a Muslim from the Western Regions? Even your fucking ancestors have been changed, and I’ll beat you up for nothing..." The old man picked up his broom and rushed towards Zhong Yuemin.

Seeing the ferocious approach of the old man, Zhong Yuemin fled out of the yard quickly.

Zhong Yuemin's pancake stall has been open for two months, and he is already proficient at pancake making. Gao Yue is busy collecting money, and people line up to buy pancakes, which makes Zhong Yuemin very encouraged.He also placed a wooden shelf on the tricycle, which was filled with various brands of cigarettes. His business expanded and he also sold cigarettes.

Zhou Xiaobai hurriedly rode over and stopped: "Yuemin, give me two."

Zhong Yuemin applauded: "Xiaobai, you're still kind enough to cheer me on."

Zhou Xiaobai smiled and said: "Of course, there is a pancake stand in front of my house. If it wasn't for your support, why should I go two stops to buy it from you? A few days ago, I joined a medical team and went to remote areas for medical tours. Just got back from a business trip."

"It's still interesting to say that we are old friends. Why didn't Yuan Jun come?"

"It takes two people to buy a pancake? He's waiting at home to eat."

Zhong Yuemin said dissatisfiedly: "He just left Zheng Tong, and his house is three stops away from me. He is called Zhengyi. Look at your Yuan Jun. I have opened here for more than two months, and this kid has never been here. You Tell him, if he doesn't come again, I will call the door."

Zhou Xiaobai said: "It doesn't matter if I come or not, I will come every day from now on. Hey, who is this lady?"

Zhong Yuemin acted like he was intoxicated: "I know what to ask, my girlfriend."

Gao Yue smiled and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense, my name is Gao Yue, and I'm his partner."

Zhou Xiaobai looked at Gao Yue carefully, and said, "You have to be careful, this guy is bad, he only cheats little girls, he doesn't behave badly to you, does he?"

"not yet."

"It doesn't hurt to be careful, just treat him as an old wolf baring his teeth, who may pounce on him at any time."

Gao Yue smiled: "It's okay, my grandfather is a hunter."

Zhou Xiaobai said, "That's good, I'm leaving."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "Don't you want two more copies?"

"You want to kill me, just say so if you want to rob. Be careful, you don't have a license, and be careful that people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau will search you."

Zhong Yuemin didn't care: "It's okay, you can go to work quickly."

Zhou Xiaobai rode away.

Gao Yue looked at Zhou Xiaobai's back and said, "Is this female officer related to you?"

"We were friends in middle school, and she was married long ago."

"It can be seen that she has feelings for you."

"Don't talk nonsense, her husband and I are buddies."

"That's useless, love is not rational."

Zhong Yuemin asked strangely: "Why did you have such an idea when you saw her for the first time?"

"Intuition."

Zhou Xiaobai hurried back again: "Yuemin, run quickly, the people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau are here and are checking the vendors, and they will abduct them soon."

Zhong Yuemin quickly packed up his things: "Thank you, I'll be leaving right away."

He and Gao Yue got on the tricycle and ran. As soon as the two of them turned the intersection, the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau rushed over from another intersection.

Zhou Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief as he watched them run away...

Zhong Shanyue was practicing Taijiquan in the yard. Zhong Yuemin and Gao Yue pushed the tricycle into the yard. Gao Yue spread out a pancake for Zhong Shanyue. Eat up.

Zhong Yuemin began to make fun of the old man again: "Xiao Gao, look at my dad, how quickly his thoughts changed. The day he knew that I was selling pancakes, he almost beat me up. After I worked patiently and meticulously on his thoughts, he finally had a gratifying change. .”

Gao Yue said with a smile, "Yuemin, don't just talk to your father."

The old man glared at Zhong Yuemin while eating.

"Dad, are the pancakes delicious? You still beat me that day. How does this look like a veteran cadre who has been educated by the party for many years? Your son understands the difficulties of the country and seeks his own job. Instead of praising me, you still beat me. This is wrong."

After Zhong Shanyue finished eating the pancakes, he went to Zhong Yuemin's cigarette rack to get a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.He lit one, lay on the rattan chair and puffed away, ignoring Zhong Yuemin.

Zhong Yuemin protested: "Dad, since I became self-employed, you haven't bought cigarettes. Have you caught cigarettes that don't cost you? You still only choose imported ones to smoke. Dad, it's not that I don't want to, I'm just afraid that you will smoke cigarettes." I’m used to Marlboro, and I’ll change my career, what will you do? It’s like when you eat delicious food from mountains and seas and suddenly let you eat corn bread, you will definitely feel very uncomfortable, and maybe you won’t allow me to change careers.”

Zhong Shanyue snorted: "I've thought about it a long time ago, and I don't bother to care about it. I don't believe that you can make pancakes for a lifetime. If you don't believe that you put my words here, you will be annoyed if you can't do it for half a year."

Gao Yue comforted: "Uncle Zhong, we won't sell pancakes forever, aren't we waiting for reassignment work now?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "Father, what if I sell pancakes for the rest of my life, isn't this also serving the people?"

Zhong Shanyue's eyes widened: "Stop being silly with me, don't watch me eat your pancakes, smoke your cigarettes, and still beat you up."

"That is, how can you say that you are a father, as long as you don't interfere with my freedom, I am willing to bribe you every day."

Zhong Yuemin was spreading pancakes. Gao Yue wrapped a pancake and handed it to an old man.

A street vendor dressed as a farmer came pushing a trolley. On the cart was a sweet potato roasting stove converted from a gasoline drum. After looking around, he put down the cart and walked up to Zhong Yuemin. He said in a Tangshan accent: "Old man!" Brother, move your car aside, this is where I sell baked sweet potatoes."

Zhong Yuemin also replied with a Tangshan accent: "My fellow, this is the place where I sell pancakes. I am here every day."

"I was still here the day before yesterday. Yesterday my wife came, and I didn't leave the stall. Why is it your place?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "Do you have a license to sell baked sweet potatoes? Show me."

"Do you have a license to sell pancakes? Show me."

"Why not? I am state-owned."

"You are a ghost of a state-owned company. They all go to the city to do small business, pretending to be a state-run company? Get out of the way for me."

"I won't let you, how dare you do something to me?"

Gao Yue covered her mouth and bent over laughing.

The baked sweet potatoes finally became popular: "How dare you? I called a few fellow villagers to come and smash your pancake stand, don't you believe it?"

"My brother is the director of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce. I told him to copy your stove for roasting sweet potatoes. Do you believe it?"

The man who roasted sweet potatoes was in a hurry: "Why are you so unreasonable? You took my place, and you messed with me. Who are you going to scare with the director of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce? If your brother is the director of the bureau, you still need to sell pancakes? Can you go away?" ?”

"Don't go, let's see what you dare to do?"

The man who baked sweet potatoes pushed the pancake trolley with his hands: "Don't go? If you don't go, I ask you to go. I don't believe that I can't cure you."

Zhong Yuemin grabbed the hand of the cart of baked sweet potatoes and poked his four fingers down.

The roasted sweet potato cried out in pain: "Oh, let go..."

Zhong Yuemin laughed and said, "If I don't let go, who told you to bully me? I don't know how to fight, but I just poke my fingers. Let's see what you can do?"

Gao Yue said with a smile: "Yuemin, let go of him, don't hurt his fingers."

"No, he has to apologize to me. If he doesn't pay me two pieces of baked sweet potatoes, I won't let go."

The baked sweet potato started begging for mercy: "Oh, brother, take it easy, my finger is about to break, let me go..."

"Then you roast sweet potatoes for me..."

A taxi stopped across the street, and the driver got out and walked over to the pancake van: "Dude, get some pancakes."

Zhong Yuemin let go of the vendor's hand, turned around, and was taken aback: "You are... Li Kuiyong?"

Li Kuiyong shouted in surprise: "Zhong Yuemin?"

The two shook hands excitedly.

"Yuemin, haven't we seen each other for more than ten years?"

"Isn't it? The last time we met was in Shichuan Village in northern Shaanxi."

Li Kuiyong looked at the baked sweet potato and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhong Yuemin smiled and said: "I was playing around with him. He said that I took his place and brought a few fellow villagers to smash my stall. Is this plausible? Good peasant brothers, why do you want to learn as soon as you enter the city?" Broken? Just learn from the underworld to bully the market."

Li Kuiyong looked at the baked sweet potato up and down, and said, "Just you, are you still in the underworld? You find Bei first and then talk about it, go and go, why should you go, and it's your turn to bully the market and pretend to be a grandson? Get out..."

The baked sweet potato rubbed his fingers and pushed the cart up and muttered in a low voice, "I thought he was also from my Hebei border..."

Zhong Yuemin, Li Kuiyong, and Gao Yue all laughed.

Li Kuiyong dragged Zhong Yuemin to a small restaurant, and ordered a bottle of Erguotou wine, a plate of peanuts, and a plate of pork skin jelly. While pouring the wine, he asked suspiciously, "Yuemin, did you commit a crime in the army?"

Zhong Yuemin drank the wine in one gulp: "No, why do you think so?"

"Isn't that obvious? I remember that you were a soldier at the end of 1969. You have been in the army for more than ten years. You have to be a company commander or a battalion commander anyway, right? Why did you come back from the army and set up a stall to sell pancakes? It’s not a crime, how could it be mixed up like this?”

"I didn't do anything wrong, because the work assigned by the re-transfer office was not ideal, and I didn't want to eat at home, so I set up a pancake stand to earn some money. I don't understand why people think that we are setting up a stall. Did we get out of prison?"

Li Kuiyong said: "I remember that your father is a deputy minister, and you are a demobilized military officer. I have never seen someone with your status as a street vendor."

"It's not surprising, it's not shameful to rely on labor for food."

"You are really unique. I still admire you. You have been different from others since you were a child. Do you remember? At that time, you always went to our courtyard to practice wrestling with me, and you also had fun with the children in our alley. Good."

"Remember, I have eaten pancakes made by your mother. How is your mother?"

Li Kuiyong looked dejected: "The health is getting worse and worse, and she has to go to the hospital every now and then, and she doesn't have public medical care, so we all rely on our brothers and sisters to chip in."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "Are you married yet?"

"The children are all 4 years old. I came back to the city from Shaanxi in 1979. I ran for a year looking for a job and asked many people. Finally, I found a job as a taxi driver. Now there are seniors, seniors and subordinates. Little, life is pretty tight."

Zhong Yuemin comforted: "Don't worry, it's all temporary, I'm not as good as you now, we can't always be like this."

Li Kuiyong sighed: "Dude, I'm useless in this life. Look at the children who grew up with me in our alleys. What do they do when they are fathers? What do they do when they are sons? No matter how hard they jump around, they can't escape this Go around."

"Kui Yong, there are quite a few promising people in our 'old third class'. Do you still remember Zheng Tong? Like us, he also caught up with the 'Cultural Revolution' when he was in the first grade of junior high school. He passed the exam on his own. University, those of us can only blame ourselves for wasting time, and now it’s useless to blame anyone, we can only honestly start from scratch.”

Li Kuiyong asked: "Are you planning to start selling pancakes?"

"I don't plan to sell pancakes forever, but I have to look for opportunities slowly."

Li Kuiyong said sincerely: "My buddy, what I can help you now is to bring a few more buddies to buy your pancakes every day. I really can't help you with other things."

"I can't thank you enough for that, thank you."

Gao Yue sat alone in a coffee shop, holding a glass of red wine in his hand and looking at it carefully.Zhong Yuemin hurried into the coffee shop, and when he saw Gao Yue, he said dissatisfiedly: "I said Miss Gao, I'm busy, you just called me and didn't say what it was, did you treat me as an idler?" ?”

Gao Yue smiled and said, "Aren't you just a pancake seller? You're not a leading cadre, what are you busy with?"

Zhong Yuemin sat down: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Gao Yue threw a kraft envelope on the table: "This is your dividend, and the ledger is also in it, you order a little."

Zhong Yuemin smiled brightly: "Oh, the money is divided? I forgot about it. You can't play tricks on the account, right?"

Gao Yue raised her brows upside down: "What did you say?"

"Ouch, don't be angry, I'm just kidding."

Gao Yue glared at him: "I can't even imagine that you were a battalion commander. I have never seen such a dishonest officer like you."

Zhong Yuemin asked: "Is there any news about the re-transfer office?"

"The last time I was assigned to a factory in the suburbs, I didn't go, and I never contacted me after that."

Zhong Yuemin seemed very experienced and said: "Finding a suitable job has something to do with it. I'm afraid it won't be easy if you don't trust someone."

"Isn't it okay for me? It's only natural that I can't find a job. But what's the matter with you? It doesn't matter if you have a relationship. It seems that you really love the business of selling pancakes."

"That's because I don't think the same way as you do. First of all, you have to understand why people work? You don't need to make a high-profile question. If you insist on serving the people, then I can only think that you are not sincere enough. I just Knowing that people have to eat, but food doesn’t fall from the sky, you have to earn it, and the most basic purpose of work is to support the family, so it’s easy to think about it this way.”

"It's too straightforward. I'm not used to being so straightforward."

"You will get used to it. Since being a high-ranking official and selling pancakes are both ways of making a living, I simply choose to sell pancakes, because selling pancakes saves my brain. If someone thinks that I am ashamed of selling pancakes, it can only show that he is a layman. "

Gao Yue said: "It sounds reasonable, but I can't imitate you. If I really want to sell pancakes for the rest of my life, I'm afraid I'll even have problems getting married."

"This is more of a layman's idea. In fact, what you really think about is who to marry. If you only solve the problem of getting married, it will be easy. There are many people who are willing to marry you. I think it’s too high, so you have to correct a sentence: If you sell pancakes for a lifetime, it will be difficult to marry someone with status and status.”

Gao Yue said shyly, "Am I that vulgar?"

"Don't be shy, it's not bad to be a layman."

"Hate it! Yuemin, can I ask you a personal question?"

"It's best not to ask questions other than work."

Gao Yue said stubbornly, "I'm going to ask, do you have a girlfriend?"

"No, the first half of my life was spent in military affairs, so I had no chance."

"Don't be so modest. I don't think you are annoying to women. Some romances are normal. That beautiful female officer looks at you with deep affection. There must be a story between you, tell me. ?"

Zhong Yuemin frowned and said: "Xiao Gao, today we are talking about dividends, not about Zhong's romance, you are digressing."

Gao Yue said relentlessly, "I just want to hear it."

Zhong Yuemin sullenly said, "I want to ask you a question, are you...are you in love with me?"

Gao Yue lowered her head in embarrassment: "What nonsense, how long have we known each other? However, I really like you."

"Oh, that's one thing."

"It's not the same thing, love and liking are different."

Zhong Yuemin stared at her coldly: "Okay, even if it's not the same thing, I'm a man, you're a woman, we like each other, there's something in it, and many stories are born like this, so let's go to the next step." What should I do? I can't always like to come and go, and not do something serious?"

The smile on Gao Yue's face gradually receded, and he became serious: "Oh, go on, what should you do?"

"It's very simple, don't you want to hear my romance? It's between me and someone else. It's boring for you to listen to. Why don't we create a romance and make up a love story now? If you agree, I will go now Get a room."

Gao Yue stood up slowly with a calm face: "This idea is not bad, but... can you do it?"

Zhong Yuemin said frivolously, "Just try it and you'll know."

Gao Yue suddenly poured the wine in the glass onto Zhong Yuemin's face: "Bastard!" She left without looking back.

Zhong Yuemin silently wiped his face with a tissue, and then shouted: "Pay the bill."

Zhong Yuemin likes to lie on the bed before going to bed and listen to music while reading. These days, he is reading Montesquieu's "On the Spirit of Law", which Zheng Tong lent him.The sound of soft classical music came from the speakers in the corner of the room. Zhong Yuemin felt that this kind of life was quite satisfactory. He sold pancakes for 3 hours every morning, and then the whole day was at his disposal. In the first half of his life, he never I've never been so relaxed.

The phone on the bedside table rang, Zhong Yuemin looked at his watch, it was already 12:[-] in the night, who is so ignorant, calling in the middle of the night?He grabbed the phone: "Who? Please speak."

Gao Yue's voice came from the microphone: "It's me."

Zhong Yuemin knowingly asked: "Who are you?"

"Nonsense, can't you hear it?"

"Sorry, I really can't remember. I know too many women, and I often get mixed up. Please report the name."

Gao Yue shouted: "Zhong Yuemin, you bully people."

Zhong Yuemin smiled: "I can tell, it's Xiao Gao, what's the matter? It's so late, I thought it was a harassing call."

"Zhong Yuemin, you must apologize to me."

"Oh, still angry about that?"

"I'm so angry that I can't sleep. The more I think about it, the more angry I get, especially with your frivolous face at that time. Who do you take me for?"

Zhong Yuemin said: "Yes, I apologize, but then again, who asked you to inquire about my privacy, how old are you, and you are at Tiantianxiang's age, why are you interested in the privacy of adults, and it is okay not to criticize you." Is it? Pay attention in the future."

Gao Yue cried in a crying voice: "Are you calling this an apology? You taught me a lesson and pretended to be an elder. Aren't you 10 years older than me? What's the big deal?"

"Okay, yellow-haired girl, it's no good arguing with me, just talk about it in a hurry. Go to sleep and have a good dream. You have to get up early tomorrow."

"Don't hang up the phone, I'm still angry. Yuemin, you're a nice person, but your mouth is too bad. Of course, I shouldn't ask about your personal affairs. I won't make this kind of mistake again in the future."

"Hey, that's right. What a nice little girl, but she is too curious. If this problem can be changed, it will be no problem to marry a good family."

Gao Yue smiled: "I hate..."

"Aren't you angry?"

"I'm out of breath."

"Then sleep."

"Ah."

Zhong Yuemin chatted with Gao Yue while spreading pancakes, and two middle-aged men who bought pancakes waited patiently.

Gao Yue said worriedly: "Yuemin, please close the stall early today. I heard that the Industrial and Commercial Bureau has been very strict in rectifying the city's appearance in the past two days."

Zhong Yuemin said nonchalantly: "The people in the Industry and Commerce Bureau are like wild wolves who don't eat dead children—living people are used to it. I want money here, but I have a life."

Gao Yue pursed her lips: "Stop bragging, didn't you jump like a rabbit during the inspection? I can't even catch up with you."

"It seems that I need to tell you about military common sense. Let's put it this way, the cannons in the past had no power devices and had to be pulled by mules, horses or cars. Later, people thought of a way, why didn't they install the cannons on vehicles? ?So self-propelled artillery appeared, this kind of artillery has strong maneuverability, and it runs away after shooting, and when the enemy returns fire, it has already run away."

"You mean, your pancake cart is the equivalent of a self-propelled artillery?"

Zhong Yuemin praised: "It's really smart. In the past, it was enough for the wonton sellers to have a pick, because there was no industry and commerce bureau at that time. Now the situation is different. We have to make adjustments accordingly for small businesses. We must have a certain degree of mobility. How is the situation? He comes and I go, my buddies haven't had time to deal with them yet."

While the two were talking, the street suddenly became chaotic, and the vendors packed up their things in panic and fled. Someone shouted: "The Bureau of Industry and Commerce is here to raid!"

Zhong Yuemin rode on the tricycle calmly and said, "Don't worry, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau is not a tiger, so it can still eat us?"

Gao Yue urged: "Don't be poor, run away."

Two middle-aged men posing as customers suddenly pressed Zhong Yuemin's handlebars: "Where are you going? We are from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau."

Zhong Yuemin sighed: "Okay, you've been ambushed. Let me tell you, comrade, is it worthwhile for your dignified state cadre to work so hard for a street vendor?"

A tall middle-aged man said: "We have received a report earlier. It has been a day or two since we arrested you. You have been let go every time. Today we should settle the score."

Another cadre said: "Every day when we go to get off work, you play hide-and-seek with us. It is very difficult to see you once. Today we have to go to work early to invite you. Come with us and push your 'self-propelled artillery'. "

Zhong Yuemin and Gao Yue were taken to the office of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. They sat on a bench against the wall, and two cadres in industrial and commercial uniforms asked questions and took notes.A middle-aged man pushed the door open, and two industrial and commercial cadres stood up: "Section Chief Li, are you here?"

Section Chief Li looked at Zhong Yuemin and Gao Yue, and said, "That's them?"

An industrial and commercial cadre said: "Yes, it has been operating without a license for half a year, and every inspection made them run away."

Gao Yue stood up and begged, "Section Chief Li, we know we made a mistake, and we will never do it again."

Section Chief Li said coldly: "Now I am announcing your punishment decision. Since you have been operating without a license for half a year, it has caused extremely bad effects. After our research, we have decided to confiscate your tricycles, cigarettes and all cooking utensils." , and imposed a fine of 500 yuan. If you are not satisfied with our punishment decision, you can file a complaint with our superior competent authority within 10 days, or you can go to the court to sue.”

Zhong Yuemin looked at the ceiling and said, "If you don't have any money, you can figure it out."

There was a sound of glass breaking outside the window. Zhong Yuemin looked out the window and saw several officials from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau smashing the glass pavilion on the pancake cart with a hammer.Zhong Yuemin became anxious when he saw it, he turned his head and rushed out the door, two industry and commerce officials grabbed him, Zhong Yuemin subconsciously shook his shoulders, the two officials were thrown down, the coffee table in the room was knocked over, Gao Yue rushed up and hugged him violently. Hold Zhong Yuemin's waist.

Zhong Yuemin roared angrily: "Get out of here..."

Gao Yue begged tearfully: "Yuemin, forget it, I accept the punishment, I beg you."

The two cadres who fell got up and grabbed Zhong Yuemin: "Don't even think about leaving. This is obstructing law enforcement officers from performing their official duties and beating law enforcement officers."

Section Chief Li pointed at Zhong Yuemin, trembling with anger: "Call me the police right away, it's the first time I've seen such an arrogant unlicensed vendor, I advise you to be more honest, when the police come, they won't be as polite as us gone."

Gao Yue begged: "Section Chief Li, we accept the punishment, can I go back and get the money right away?"

Section Chief Li said coldly: "It's too late to accept the punishment. Now it's not a matter of fines. If you have something to say, go to the Public Security Bureau."

Zhong Yuemin calmed down, and he sat down silently.

The Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Public Security Bureau are not far away, and the people in these two agencies are relatively familiar. If there is anything to do with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, they usually call the criminal police directly.It stands to reason that it is enough to ask the people from the police station to deal with such trivial matters, but because the relationship between the two agencies is very good, the police officers of the criminal police team are embarrassed to refuse, so when encountering people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau to call the police, they usually give some help. To save face, send two people over to deal with it.As soon as Zhang Haiyang went to work, he heard a colleague say that a pancake vendor was making trouble at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and the team was about to send two people to deal with it.Zhang Haiyang immediately thought of Zhong Yuemin, besides Zhong Yuemin, which unlicensed street vendor is so bold and arrogant without a license.Zhang Haiyang immediately found the captain to take over the matter.On the way to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Zhang Haiyang wondered whether to laugh or cry, where did Zhong Yuemin have such arrogance?Even doing business without a license is so confident.

Relying on his identity as a criminal police officer, Zhang Haiyang finally settled Zhong Yuemin's matter. Although Section Chief Li of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau was angry, he had to give the criminal police some face.Zhong Yuemin was still ignorant, so he justly asked the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to return the tricycle to him.Zhang Haiyang said in his heart, it is lucky that you were not detained, what car do you need?

After the matter was settled, it was time for lunch. Zhang Haiyang took Zhong Yuemin and Gao Yue back to the sub-bureau and invited them to have lunch in the cafeteria of the sub-bureau.During the meal, Gao Yue kept thanking Zhang Haiyang, but Zhong Yuemin remained silent with a gloomy face.When Zhang Haiyang's colleagues in the criminal police team heard about this incident, they flocked to the cafeteria curiously, wanting to see what this unlicensed street vendor who had been a battalion commander looked like.Under the gaze of everyone, Zhong Yuemin ate three steamed buns and a bowl of braised pork like no one else was there.After lunch, Zhang Haiyang sent Zhong Yuemin and Gao Yue out of the gate of the police station.

Zhang Haiyang explained as he walked: "I just came here and I don't know many people. I can't help you. Just confiscate the things. I told the people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau about your situation. They expressed their understanding and don't need to pursue it. gone."

Gao Yue thanked him a lot: "Brother Zhang, thank you, if it wasn't for your help today, he would have been detained."

"Thank you, old comrade. Yuemin, you have to be careful in the future, don't be so angry, you still think you are the commander of the reconnaissance battalion? From the army to the place, the environment has changed. I know you can't adapt to it for a while, but You have to adapt if you don’t adapt, and the society must force you to adapt, otherwise you will be punished. Let me tell you, I don’t want to deal with you in the interrogation room in the future.”

Zhong Yuemin said impatiently: "Okay, if someone pees in my mouth from now on, I'll stick out my mouth to make sure I don't get angry, and I have to boast in my mouth, it's like fucking five-star beer, it tastes great. "

Zhang Haiyang persuaded: "Don't complain, you should find a re-transfer office and wait for distribution. Don't sell pancakes anymore. If you are short of money, tell me that I don't have the burden anyway, just don't cause trouble. Okay, I'm on duty today, so I won't see you off."

Gao Yue held Zhang Haiyang's hand: "Goodbye, Brother Zhang."

Zhong Yuemin looked at Zhang Haiyang's back thoughtfully, Gao Yue gently took Zhong Yuemin's arm: "Go back, we don't have to get up early tomorrow."

Zhong Yuemin sighed: "It seems that I still have to find a suitable job."

Gao Yue looked at him quietly: "I know you have a way, but you don't want to ask for help, do you?"

"Then ask for help, I don't care about face..."

(End of this chapter)