Dingzhou was not far from Beijing. It was a three-hour drive. Looking up at the capital seemed to have become a habit at this distance. The enthusiasm of people rushing to the capital was no less than that of people flocking to other cities.
A medium-sized bus with a seating capacity of 30 people was packed with more than 50 people. It was as crowded as a bus, making it difficult for people to breathe. Qiao Liansheng got on the bus half an hour earlier. With a seat written on the ticket in his hand, he sat by the window with a clear conscience. Even though the people around him stared at his face for a long time, he was content and turned his head to look out the window.
The half-blind woman had said that if it was yours, then take it. Hold it tightly. Hold it tighter than others. Ever since they left Lu Gou Village, Qiao Liansheng had implemented this rule very well.
Five minutes later, the bus started. It had only moved two meters before it braked again. A young man with a crew cut and a thin monkey face rushed up with a black leather bag in his arms. He waved his bus ticket in his other hand and squeezed into the crowd, shouting,"Excuse me! Excuse me! I have a seat!"
The young man squeezed through the crowd with difficulty for a long time before finally arriving beside Qiao Liansheng. He pointed at the auntie sitting beside Qiao Liansheng and chuckled."Aunty, give up your seat. This seat is mine.”
The auntie slowly stood up with a sour face. Her movements were as slow as those on television. After she stood up, she covered her neck with both hands and looked bitter. She opened her mouth and let out a cry of pain. She glanced at the young man's face intentionally or unintentionally and shouted weakly,"This old problem is acting up again. You'll have to suffer if you stand!"
The young man was unmoved. His narrow eyes stared at the seat without moving. Seeing the auntie move away, the young man sat down.
"Hey, young man, do you have any sense of civility? Don't you know how to respect the old and love the young? Your parents are really unlucky to have a son like you. Your conscience has been eaten by dogs!”Seeing that the young man was ignoring her, the auntie became more and more enthusiastic. She even had a family.
"Auntie, why don't we get out of the car and go to the hospital to get a certificate? I'll reimburse all the expenses and help you buy a plane ticket to Beijing.”The young man was not afraid at all. He raised his head and looked like he was not afraid of causing trouble.
The auntie felt weak. She muttered," Crazy." Then, she turned around and entered the crowd. The young man spat at the auntie's back and scolded,"I saw you stretching your neck out to watch my show the moment I came up.! Why didn't she say that she was on her period? You're almost fifty years old, and you're still playing this game with me. How embarrassing!”
"Aren't you afraid of retribution?" Qiao Liansheng recognized the young man as soon as he got into the car. He could not forget that thin monkey face that had the most wretched smile. Qiao Liansheng was puzzled. How could he escape from the trap?
"Aiya! Brother, it's you! What a coincidence!" The young man shouted and gave Qiao Lian a big hug.
Qiao Liansheng blocked him and pointed at the black leather bag in his arms that had shriveled up again. She pursed her lips and smiled."Be careful of the diamonds. Don't expose your money!”
The young man laughed and put his hand into his bag. He took it out and opened his palm. There were five shiny transparent steel balls. Of course, they also had smooth corners. When he touched them in his hand, it was not fake at all.
Seeing Qiao Liansheng staring at the shriveled bag, the young man smiled and shook his head." It doesn't matter. I'm just spending money to avert the disaster! Besides, this money was their own. Five or six steel balls to avoid jail was too f * cking worth it!”
Qiao Liansheng smiled faintly and remained silent. The thin monkey-faced man said it in a relaxed manner, but Qiao Liansheng could imagine how much trouble he had to go through to escape this calamity. In a group of plainclothes who were caught like turtles in a jar, he was actually able to shove the money out in these ten minutes to avoid being caught. This thin monkey-faced man was not an ordinary crafty person.
The skinny monkey face was called Ma Houwen. It was indeed the monkey for monkey. It matched his face very well. Anyone would think that this name was given based on his appearance. Ma Houwen explained that my dad felt that monkeys were smart and had a future, but he was afraid that if he was uneducated, he would not have a future, so he added the word "Wen".
When he mentioned the word " culture," Ma Houwen grinned and laughed heartlessly. He said," You can't have both fish and bear's paw. If my face has the essence of a monkey, then my culture will inevitably take the dregs. No matter how hard I shake the water in half a jar, I can't make money. Isn't this throwing away the fifty thousand yuan I just got without even warming it up?"
At the exit of the Liuliqiao bus station in Fengtai District Beijing City, Qiao Liansheng tightened her backpack and reached into her pocket. She took out a folded scarf and carefully opened it. She put on the green ring with the word " Jun Lin " engraved on it on her left thumb. It was just right, neither too big nor too small, as if it was tailor-made.
Ma Houwen, who was carrying a black leather bag and stretching beside Qiao Liansheng, saw the green ring from the corner of his eyes. His narrow eyes widened and he was stunned for a moment. His eyes rolled and a wretched smile appeared on his face as he patted Qiao Liansheng's shoulder.
"Brother, what are your plans after you arrive in Beijing?”
Qiao Liansheng smiled slightly, his eyes showing confusion under his black glasses. He shook his head." I don't know."”
The half-blind woman did not say anything, and Qiao Xianjing did not say anything either. He had thought of making money so that Qiao Lianxiang, who was not his flesh and blood but treated him more closely than his own sister, could see Tianamen and tour the Forbidden City. Qiao Liansheng was at a loss as she looked at the crowd of people walking out of the car with big and small bags.
Qiao Liansheng didn't have the lofty ambition to conquer a large area of Beijing, nor did she have the desire to stand on the top of a building and look at the small mountains. She only thought that people with less than 200 yuan had to find a livelihood as soon as possible.
"Hehe, brother, don't tell me you don't even have a place to stay?”Ma Houwen glanced at the green ring on Qiao Liansheng's thumb and asked, unwilling to give up.
Qiao Liansheng shook his head.
Ma Houwen frowned and rolled his eyes again. He smiled and put his arm around Qiao Liansheng's shoulder." Brother, you look so refined. You must be a cultured person." What I lack is a cultured person to guide me. Are you interested in spending time with me?”
"What are you doing?" Qiao Liansheng was very cautious outside.
Ma Houwen smiled and pointed at a tall building outside his field of vision." Brother, do you see it? A place where rich people lived! Do you know how they got rich? I was poor!"
Seeing that Qiao Liansheng was skeptical, Ma Houwen spread out his fingers and started to talk." A stall selling fried rice. When business is good, open a restaurant, open a chain restaurant! He pushed a two-wheeled cart to sell fruits. When his business was good, he opened a fruit shop and a fruit supermarket! There were also stalls selling clothes. When business was good, they opened clothing stores and factories! Didn't they all become poor?”
"Let's set up a stall?" Qiao Liansheng asked, not fully understanding.
"What a joke! How can we start from setting up a stall? I'm smart, and you're cultured. We have to start high!”Ma Houwen raised his head and patted his chest, saying proudly,""Let's collect interest from the stall owner!"
"Brother, don't think so much! Follow me, Monkey Wengan, you won't be wrong!”Ma Houwen didn't say anything and pulled Qiao Liansheng out of the bus station.
" But, brother, blood brothers still settle accounts, right? The place you live in is mine, so you should at least pay some rent, right? I helped you find a way out, so you should at least give me a recommendation fee, right? And…"
Qiao Liansheng touched the green thumb ring on his left thumb and turned a deaf ear to the words of the abacus in the monkey script. He wondered if the clean stone tablet on Dog Bone Mountain should be engraved with something, at least not half blind…
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