Abyss Express

"My name is Liu Weiqiang."

The old man panicked and reported his name to Xue Ming.

Xue Ming: "Film director? The one who made "Infernal Affairs"?"

Brother Qiang immediately shook his head, clasped his hands in his abdomen, bowed his head and approached Xue Ming: "No, it's just the same name, same name."

Then he yelled again, trying to ease the embarrassment.

"My hometown talks about the generation of characters. I am a generation of Wei characters, and my brother is named Liu Weihong. It just happened to be a match."

Xue Ming glanced at the carriage, decided to put aside the student matter first, grabbed Brother Wei's arm, and dragged him to the link passage.

"You come with me."

At the relatively ventilated trapdoor, Xue Ming gave Brother Qiang a cigarette, and the two leaned against the shaky rubber partition wall, the atmosphere seemed to be a little more relaxed.

Xueming thought—this eldest brother seems to be a different person from Hongjie, he is a timid and cautious person.

He only asked about a name, but Brother Qiang had to explain it in two or three sentences. Prove something.

Regarding Sister Hong's arrangement, this man was very unconvinced, but felt helpless.

Originally, the BOSS wanted to arrange such a waiter for Sister Hong, so Ao Ruan Mingde's vision could not be wrong——

——If brother Qiang is sister Hong's predestined relationship, then this fate is inseparable and will continue to be cut.

Now the two seem to have just signed the contract between the passenger and the waiter, but they are about to tear up the contract and live in separate families. There are two things that Xue Ming can't figure out.

Sister Hong and Brother Qiang have reached a consensus on this matter, just like the divorce agreement, if they both agree, why should Jiang Xueming come to read the verdict? Can't they decide for themselves?

Another thing is that although Sister Hong kept saying——

—I don't need this waiter, I don't need this savior.

But after seeing Liu Weiqiang, Xue Ming became suspicious. Because Sister Hong never spoke clearly, clearly.

She never rejected the waiter directly, nor did she talk to the boss about it. Even if she went to deal with the hunter, she would dismiss Brother Qiang first, as if she was protecting her own waiter.

"Mr. Gunsmith" Liu Weiqiang whispered: "My employer is Donghong. Has Donghong told you that she wants to change the waiter?"

Xueming: "I've said it, I'm surprised, you know about it, and she knows about it. Why do you want me to say this?"

Brother Qiang smiled dryly: "Oh, that's causing trouble for Mr. Gunsmith."

Xue Ming: "Sister Hong told me about her ex-husband, saying that you are very similar to her first husband - maybe that's why, she doesn't want to face you directly."

Brother Qiang suddenly lowered his head: "Oh"

Xue Ming continued: "You don't want to get entangled with Sister Hong, do you?"

Brother Qiang: "Let me tell the truth."

Xueming lit a cigarette for Brother Qiang——

——Brother Qiang went on to talk.

"I was originally a passenger. I came to the Nine Realms when I was in my twenties to seek medicine for my father. I now have a family and a daughter."

Xueming: "Isn't this good?"

Brother Qiang: "I divorced the waiter."

Xueming: "Has she changed or have you changed?"

Brother Qiang: "It's all changed."

Xue Ming: "Tell me in detail."

Brother Qiang: "I used to be an armed employee, and then I changed my job to the Second Transportation Department to do logistics for the Hussars. Four years later, the leader asked me to be a platform administrator, so I went—there were not many people in the whole year. It's a day off, and the relationship has faded."

Xueming: "The job is unstable? What's the reason?"

Brother Qiang scratched his head with a smile: "I don't know either."

Xue Ming: "There must be a saying that even if you have raised a dog for a few years, the owner will have feelings. You said that you have been an armed employee, and you have a life-and-death friendship with the people in the war group. It is impossible not to find a dog. Good place to stay."

Brother Qiang's expression immediately turned cold: "Maybe it's because I like to meddle in other people's business."

If this is nosy, there will be too much to say.

Xue Ming: "Offended many people?"

Brother Qiang: "There aren't many, but hey. Don't talk about it, I just can't control my mouth."

Xueming probably understood——

——Sister Hong's husband died because he offended the underworld, probably because he couldn't control his mouth.

It is not easy for Brother Qiang to live to this day. He has long been smoothed by life. It is inconvenient to say many things, and he is unwilling to mention them again.

He has no stable job and starts from scratch every time he changes jobs.

"So" Brother Qiang said submissively: "You know, I can't stay in one place for a long time, and then split up and down, and I quarreled many times. The bowls and cups at home , You can buy a new one if it breaks, and you can move the house to another place to rent. But if the relationship is gone, it really is gone.”

Xueming: "Daughter wants to live with you?"

"Xiao Min is thirteen years old, and she wants to study in Galahad." When talking about his daughter, Brother Qiang's eyes lit up: "When I was six years old, I divorced my ex-wife, and she said she wanted to live with my father. I don’t know what it means, it might be, it might be that children like new things, Mr. Gunsmith, do you think that’s the case—I’m not at home all year, how could she kiss me?”

Xueming: "How long have you been a waiter?"

Brother Qiang: "Only two months ago, I wanted to find a stable job with BOSS, for Xiaomin. When she grows up, she will go to Barathon to study, and I will come to the Nine Realms as a permanent resident - it is convenient to pick up and drop off, as long as one She can find me if she stops by."

Xue Ming: "So, you are only serving as a waiter for your daughter?"

Brother Qiang didn't answer, he didn't want to admit it, and he didn't want to deny it.

Xueming finally understood Sister Hong's little thought——

——This simple and honest waiter seemed to be still hesitating, and he didn't mention anything about his employer from the beginning to the end.

"What do you think of this employer?"

Brother Qiang: "Very good, very good. But"

Xueming: "And but?"

Brother Qiang: "I'm not worthy."

Before Xue Ming could say anything more——

——Brother Qiang continued to explain repeatedly, with an excited tone.

"She is very powerful. I know she is not an ordinary person. She looks down on me, right? I am so old, with a daughter, no fixed job, no fixed residence, and little money. She just came to Nine Realms, don't listen Whatever I said, I drove me away, as if she knew everything, knew everything, and killed the hunter who followed her."

"I'm not in good health. I can't go to work in the Corps like I used to. If I want to fight with hunters, I definitely don't have the guts. My eyes can't see me clearly. It's impossible for a woman to protect me. "

Having said that, Brother Qiang suddenly raised his head, and saw Mr. Gunsmith's expression becoming more and more serious.

"Sorry, I won't talk about it."

"I feel very strange." Xue Ming frowned, only feeling unbelievable: "Listen to you, you used to be so sad, you only wanted your lover and daughter to be by your side all the time, because if you want to go out, you are not afraid of anything. It doesn't matter if you offend the leader and be kicked around like a football—now that the boss has arranged for you such an employer, why are you backing down?"

Brother Qiang only focused on smoking, lowered his head and did not speak, as if his self-esteem had been hurt.

Xue Ming continued: "Your daughter Xiao Min wants to follow you. Do you think she is looking for novelty? Just because she doesn't see her father a few times, does she want to be by your side all the time?"

Brother Qiang: "No."

Xue Ming: "I'm afraid it's not the reason. Maybe when you divorced, you looked more like a child. She thought that her mother could take care of herself, but you couldn't. You two have to depend on each other."

Brother Qiang felt very embarrassed, Xue Ming immediately said with a smile.

"It's all my guesses, it's all guesses. Don't take it to heart, I offended you a bit, I'm sorry."

Immediately afterwards, Xue Ming brought cigarettes to Brother Qiang, and the two squatted under the rubber wall.

Xueming said, "How old are you?"

Brother Qiang replied, "Forty-three years old."

Xue Ming immediately asked: "You are only three years older than Sister Hong, how can you say you are older?"

Brother Qiang replied immediately: "The mentality is different."

"Then I have something else to do." Xue Ming straightened up, ready to go to the carriage, "You need to adjust your mentality first."

Brother Qiang stood up, hesitant to speak.

"Adjusted?" Xue Ming walked around in a circle and returned to Brother Qiang with a smile on his face, which made Brother Qiang feel very uncomfortable.

"I just thought, Xiao Min wants to go to school, and I want to be by her side." Brother Qiang explained: "It's so simple, it's really so simple, I didn't expect BOSS to arrange an employer for me."

A waiter of Liu Weiqiang's age is actually a rare species at Nine Realms Station.

Sister Yangchun in the guest room department is Xiaoqi's boss. She is thirty-seven years old and unmarried, but the boss has never been able to arrange her. Because elder sister Yangchun didn't think about the marriage object at all, and she didn't need a partner.

According to the good cat's management method of observing the composition of homo sapiens with a polarizing sextant, and assigning waiters and passengers——

——Brother Qiang seemed to want to balance his work and life, so he submitted his resume to a dating website, but he didn't expect to be targeted by the boss, so he had to arrange it for him.

Jiang Xueming: "You held back for a long time, and you want to say this?"

Liu Weiqiang: "Oh, Mr. Gunsmith, there is one more thing. Xiao Min is also a freshman. If it is possible, can you help me take care of it?"

Having said that, Brother Qiang ran to the luggage rack and found a small box. He took off his gloves, wiped the oil off the box, opened the lid, and there were blood butterfly shopping coupons and pyroxene coins inside.

"The money was saved from my previous work." Brother Qiang said with a smile, "Don't be disgusted with the sloppy ones."

Jiang Xueming first took the small tin box and counted the amount of money. The total price was around 112,000 yuan.

Then he observed the oil stains on the iron box, like the maintenance oil of the railway locomotive depot, it was old and dirty, and the banknotes also turned yellow and became limp.

Xue Ming put the tin box back into Brother Qiang's hand, "I'm not short of money, and I can't help you with this."

Brother Qiang became nervous: "Why? Aren't you a teacher? I think when Xiao Min enters the school, she will be divided into classes and dormitories, and if she gets into trouble, you should take care of her."

Xueming: "You can do this by yourself, and I can't be her mother."

Saying so, Xue Ming patted Brother Qiang on the shoulder.

"Think about it, if every parent tells me that and wants me to help, wouldn't your money be wasted? And my mind is very simple, how much money you give me, I will really spend the money Use it on your daughter. She went to Gaharad to study for five years, and the school also provides board and lodging. How can she spend the 110,000 yuan? What do you want her to do with the money? To buy cigarettes? To have sex with other classmates Comparing family conditions? Can you compare?"

When the iron box fell back into Liu Weiqiang's hands, the middle-aged man was in a trance, his face full of resignation.

He was speechless, and could only watch the gunsmith go to the carriage, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness, he knew——

——This may be a very important opportunity for my daughter Xiao Min, almost a turning point in her life.

For him, almost all of his daughter's future rests with the school. The friendship between teachers, students and classmates can determine his daughter's future work and life.

The gunsmith is a big man favored by the BOSS. If this teacher can help his daughter, even if he just says a few words, he may be able to change her daughter's fate.

He felt his face was on fire, because Ah Qiang was not like this before. If he could wake up earlier, or be smarter, maybe he would not have been wandering for most of his life, and he would have found a safe haven and lived a stable life with his ex-wife.

[Can you compare? ]

Xueming's words were like a loud slap——

——All of Ah Qiang's self-esteem disappeared in this sentence.

To put it mildly, he has been wandering the underground world for so many years, and at the age of forty-three, he is still begging for nothing to find a job with the BOSS. Returning to the Nine Realms is a reciprocal return.

To put it bluntly, it's a bit of a mess, and you can't get high enough to get low, and you've pinned your hopes on the next generation.

Brother Qiang held the iron box, squatted at the junction of the carriage, and made a phone call with his daughter.

"Xiao Min."

"Dad! I'm at the school gate! How are you and Aunt Wu?"

"It's fine, everything went well."

"Then you have to be upbeat! I saw that when you first met, you were all smiling - I haven't seen you so happy for a long time."

"Your mother hasn't contacted you recently?"

"What the hell is she doing? She can take care of herself, old society person."

"You're going to study, she doesn't care about such important things?"

"He has his own family, Dad, sober up, don't act like a child."

"Xiao Min, I'm sorry."

Having said that, Brother Qiang raised the phone above his head, bent down again, wiped away any tears from the corners of his eyes, and blew his nose hard.

When he brought the phone to his ear again, his tone became normal.

"I went to see Galahad's teacher today. I want them to take care of you and give them money and gifts. They don't like it. Dad suddenly felt that I was so useless."

"Oh, it's not necessary. I asked the seniors on the same train, and they said that Galahad's school spirit and discipline are pretty good."

"It's not that simple, daughter. You don't understand—society is like a jungle, where the children of tigers and antelopes have to learn to survive, and schools are one of the few places where people can transform."

"Okay, okay. I understand."

"The place in Barrazon is wet and cold, you must remember to add some more clothes. Me."

"I know, I know!"

"Know everything, don't want to listen to me?"

"Father, take care of yourself first, Auntie Donghong definitely doesn't like you just because of your image—take the opportunity, I think Auntie Hong is very mean, if you come back from summer vacation, you will really let people run away .”

Before finishing speaking, Xue Ming circled around and returned to Brother Qiang.

Liu Weiqiang raised his head and covered his phone, but accidentally hung up his daughter's call.

"Mr. Gunsmith, is there anything else?"

Xue Ming knelt down and knocked on the iron box in Brother Qiang's arms.

Brother Qiang burst into laughter immediately, thinking that the gunsmith was willing to accept this gift.

Unexpectedly, Xueming stuffed the cigarette into Brother Qiang's palm——

——He pointed at the cigarette package, chanting word by word.

"I forgot one thing, smoking is bad for your health."

Immediately afterwards, he took out a fifty-yuan note from the tin box,

"This box is yours to buy."

After doing this, Xue Ming didn't say anything more, and returned to the carriage.

Brother Qiang was confused and couldn't understand what the gunsmith was thinking at all. He held the cigarette case thoughtfully, followed the door of the carriage to look in, and saw the gunsmith talking with the two freshmen, still smiling A business smile that doesn't smile.

He recognized the two gentlemen—

——They are all children of wealthy families.

One is the daughter of a section cadre of the Transportation Department.

One is the nephew of the governor of the sixth district.

When the two little devils met the gunsmith teacher, they discussed what the eldest sister of Wumingshi had done recently, and Che Jilu said the same thing. There is a kind of old-fashioned [weird] who is young but understands the world.

There were two things on the table, both gifts for the gunsmith.

"It's too precious." Xue Ming pushed one of the gift boxes out, trying to push it back in front of the boy.

There is a Patek Philippe watch in the gift box, which is also a luxury that watch lovers cannot avoid in the underground world.

"Teacher, you're welcome." The boy wrote down his name and pushed the note to the side of the watch, asking the teacher to remember: "This is what my uncle specially ordered to bring it to you. If you refuse to accept it, I can't justify it with my uncle." .”

Jiang Xueming took the note and returned the gift box to the boy.

"Then it can't be justified."

The smile on the boy's face became stiff. The originally rich, vivid, sunny and cheerful expression had changed a little bit now. The three-dimensional facial features of the Europeans could not hide any small emotions. It could be seen that he was a little angry-putting the consul on the table, this The gunsmith refused to give any face.

"It's really not about money." The boy insisted persistently.

Jiang Xueming looked at the name on the note and asked nonchalantly, "What is that? Daniel?"

Daniel: "It's friendship—Mr. Gunsmith, I think if you accept this watch, I will have friendship with you."

Jiang Xueming: "Is that so?"

Daniel: "Yes, this watch should be nothing to you, you are not short of money."

Jiang Xueming: "Oh"

Daniel went on to say: "Our family is not short of money, but my uncle thinks that Patek Philippe is rare in the underground world. Its craftsmanship is extremely high. You should like this kind of mechanical watch. This is my uncle's heart. "

Jiang Xueming kept silent and put the watch away.

Another girl followed suit, pushing the jewelry gift box in front of Xue Ming, and writing a note with her name on it.

"Mr. Gunsmith, this is for my wife."

Jiang Xueming took the note and looked at it carefully: "Okay, are you still thinking about the teacher's wife? Have you met?"

Daniel: "Hahahahahaha"

The girl blushed, and explained humbly: "I haven't seen it before."

Jiang Xueming chanted the names on the note: "Kathy, Kathy Gerald, it's hard to remember your English names."

"My father said it would be a great thing if the teacher could remember the name," Kathy said.

"The investigation work was done well." Xue Ming was surprised when he saw the jewelry in the gift box. It was a veil earring necklace set for the bride's wedding. quit.

Daniel immediately said: "Sister Hong gave special orders. She mentioned this matter, and uncle immediately remembered it."

Kathy continued, "Yes, when Sister Hong found her father, he was very happy and wanted to ask about your wedding schedule."

Xue Ming knocked on the jewelry box, then asked: "Is this also friendship?"

Kathy is still wondering——

——Why does this teacher ask so many questions? It's an appearance of repeated confirmation and carefulness, with an inexplicable sense of ritual.

"Yes, it's friendship."

Xue Ming: "It has nothing to do with money, right?"

Kathy: "Our family is not short of money"

Xueming: "You don't want me to help you with something?"

Kathy smiled awkwardly, and looked at Daniel beside him.

"Won't."

"Will not."

Xue Ming took the jewelry box away and got up immediately——

——Brother Qiang watched and listened to it from a distance, and felt very uncomfortable.

Until the gunsmith handed over the watch and jewelry to Brother Qiang.

Brother Qiang has question marks all over his face, like a baby who has just been born into this world.

"What do you mean? Teacher Gunsmith?"

Xueming patted Brother Qiang's face.

"It was your employer who sent these two children to me. You keep them. They are worth a lot of money."

Brother Qiang kept pushing it out, halfway through, and heard the sound of Xue Ming hitting the iron box again.

"You want me to accept something you don't accept yourself? Is it difficult for others to do so?"

Brother Qiang: "That's not for me, Mr. Gunsmith"

Xueming smiled and said, "Sister Hong asked me to steal from the rich and help the poor—don't you want your daughter to be bullied at school? Just accept these two gifts. What I can't do, they can do." .”

Brother Qiang's head has not yet turned the corner——

——He is like a poor TOM, played by Sister Hong in the palm of his hand, with a kind of beauty without a brain.

Xue Ming gave a few more instructions when he left.

"I think, Sister Hong doesn't look down on you. The original words she told me were [help me fix my waiter], but what does this [fix] mean? At first I couldn't understand, you adults are speechless. I like to go around."

Xueming pointed to the wedding veil jewelry.

"Later, I heard what your daughter meant, and what Miss Hong meant, that you should hand this thing over to her yourself."

—and then pointed to the watch.

"As for the watch, you can decide for yourself."

When the gunsmith returned to the carriage, he faced Daniel and Kathy again. These two little ghosts were whispering, as if they were caught talking in class, they were in a hurry and childish, it seems that the gunsmith's behavior of giving gifts is a kind of disrespect in the eyes of the two, and they have said a lot behind their backs Right and wrong.

Xueming: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Daniel immediately asked: "That waiter, do you have a good relationship with you?"

Xue Ming said frankly, "He is Sister Hong's waiter."

Kathy suddenly realized: "Oh, there's nothing wrong."

Daniel immediately said: "My uncle originally thought that it would be a wonderful thing for you to wear that watch when you got married. It can also serve as a witness."

"Is it your uncle who went to study in Galahad?" Xue Ming said with a smile, "You brought your uncle with you before you went to report. It seems that he is very good at studying."

"It's not about learning well." Daniel hadn't realized it yet, "I went to study, not my uncle."

Kathy also said: "The jewelry used for the wedding is also for Mrs.

Xue Ming interrupted: "Look at my memory! Ouch! Kaixi, I almost didn't remember your name, I'm sorry. The item has already been sent, why don't I go get it back?"

After saying this, the two children lost their temper.

They looked at the gunsmith teacher and felt very, very strange, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.

How could Aohen Mingde appoint such a VIP to be the white glove of Anonymous?

—He has a beauty without a brain.