For most young people in Jinling City, summer is a time full of beautiful memories.
In summer, there are ice-cold popsicles, refreshing ice-cold soda, girls in skirts dancing lightly on the street, and cicadas chirping on the trees in the afternoon.
The most important thing is that summer is the time for summer vacation!
Of course, for foodies, there are barbecue, crayfish, pickled fish on roadside stalls in summer...
In particular, crayfish was first popular in Xuyi, and soon spread to Jinling, the provincial capital and the core city of the Yangtze River Delta, and gradually spread across the country.
Maybe many years later, similar to WH, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and even Beijing will be full of crayfish.
But in Jinling City, in fact, crayfish has become a delicacy on the plates of Jinling people in the 1990s.
At the earliest, around two thousand years ago, in a place called Danfeng Street in Jinling City, there was a Yang's Crayfish restaurant, which made the first luxurious crayfish in Jinling City. The shrimps were no longer sold by the pound or by the pound.
For sale.
It’s about just selling!
(The author was born in 1981. When I was in elementary school, that is, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, people in Jinling already had the habit of buying crayfish from the vegetable market and cooking them at home. But by the late 1990s
, around 2000, lobster restaurants began to appear in streets and alleys. I don’t know about other places, but Jinling is one of the earliest cities in the country where eating crayfish is popular. You can even remove the word “一”.)
Chen Nuo is sitting in Yang's Crayfish Shop at the moment.
What was placed in front of him was a plate of crayfish that was said to be the most expensive in Jinling City.
It's really big. A shrimp spread out in front of you is as long as an adult's hand.
In this era, Snowflake Bravely Goes to the End of the World was not as popular as it would be in later generations, and Qingdao had not spread its brand across the country.
What Jinling people prefer to drink is a local beer called "Jinling Dry Beer", which has a slightly bitter taste.
A box of Jinling Dry Beer cost five yuan a bottle on the ground in front of Chen Nuo, and he stepped on the box.
This scene disappeared after more than ten years... Jinling Dry Beer gradually retreated from the market, and those who occupied the beer market in Jinling City became Snowflake, Qingdao, and even the legendary and deadly Big Wusu...
Sitting in front of Chen Nuo were Brother Lei and Zhang Linsheng.
The business of this lobster restaurant exploded, and it was a vivid scene of the business miracle of the catering industry that "the more expensive the business, the better."
But Chen Nuo knew that this business wouldn't be good for long. Chinese people are very good at imitating business, and there is almost no threshold for crayfish. The gimmick of this restaurant is that the crayfish are big!
Soon a large number of restaurants specializing in high-quality crayfish will pop up in Jinling City, and they will crowd out this one.
Zhang Linsheng concentrated on peeling the shrimps, and soon the lobster shells were piled as high as a hill in front of him.
Brother Lei found it troublesome, so after peeling a few of them, he became impatient and asked the store to send him a large plate of barbecue, especially the roasted crispy bones. Thanks to his good teeth, he ate them with a crunching sound.
"Li Qingshan heard about our business on Daming Road and asked me about it. He seemed to want to get involved." Brother Lei held the stick in his hand and gnawed on the roasted crispy bones while saying: "This old man also wants to get involved."
It’s interesting, his own business is so big, our business is just a small fuss to him, and he wants to get involved.”
Chen Nuo glanced at Zhang Linsheng: "What do you think?"
Zhang Linsheng said quickly: "I will listen to you."
Chen Nuo put a chopstick of scrambled eggs with leek into his mouth. After chewing two bites of the leek, it felt a bit old.
Putting down his chopsticks, Chen Nuo shook his head and said: "Look again, Li Qingshan can't be considered one of our own, we have to look again."
"Then I refuse first?" Brother Lei glanced at Chen Nuo.
"Um."
Chen Nuo nodded, thought for a while, and then said: "Li Qingshan helped a lot with the Xi'an matter. I will always repay this favor. However, he didn't count on our small things when he attached to us.
The business is about making money, but I am interested in Brother Haonan and I want to have a big backer."
"I'm just a guise, but actually I want to hug your thigh." Zhang Linsheng said quickly.
"It's okay that this person is in the flesh business. It's just that before, this person likes to take evil ways in doing things, and his mind is very slippery. I don't like him too much." Chen Nuo shook his head: "Let's take a look."
Saying that, Chen Nuo looked at Zhang Linsheng again: "I heard from Brother Lei that there is always a beautiful girl who will come to the store to look for you these days?"
Brother Lei was having fun, and Zhang Linsheng's face became embarrassed.
"I didn't always come." Zhang Linsheng looked a little uncomfortable: "When I came last time, I happened to be caught by Brother Lei."
"Twice!" Brother Lei added, adding jealously: "The first time we met, we came to see Lin Sheng for dinner. Lin Sheng rejected him with a straight face. The second time we met him, he brought a big bag of food and came to see him.
Lin Sheng, along with the decoration team in the store, all drank the roast duck from Shuiximen Old Store, four pieces of duck, and beer. I took a few sips of it."
Chen Nuo nodded, thought for a while, and said slowly: "I heard that girl works in a nightclub?"
"Yeah, red card." Brother Lei smiled.
"You decide what to do." Chen Nuo said with a smile: "You are not young anymore. No boy at this age would miss a girl. You have to do things, but there is no need to force yourself to be a bachelor."
"That girl... doesn't really like me." Zhang Linsheng held it in for a while and then said this: "I know in my heart that she must have misunderstood something."
"Then do you like her?"
"..." Zhang Linsheng put down the crayfish in his hand, picked up the beer bottle, and didn't bother to pour it into the cup. He took two sips directly from the mouth of the bottle, then wiped his mouth and said: "She is quite beautiful, and she is also very good at troubles. But
…”
"Just make yourself happy." Chen Nuo said calmly: "How old are you? She is only nineteen years old. Finding a girl at this age is not about marriage. A girl is beautiful and will make you happy.
.You don’t care how sincere she is, just be happy yourself.
But I will remind you in one sentence: Control yourself, don’t dive in headfirst, and don’t get too carried away.”
As he spoke, he sighed softly: "It's difficult to have a pure relationship and find a long-term lover... this kind of thing.
In the future, times will change."
Just like the generation of our parents, who found a girlfriend when they were young, simply fell in love, and then worked hard to get together and live a lifetime... This era is about to end.
The future era will be about nightclubs, about being individual and alternative, and being new and different on the Internet.
Men and women will become more and more casual.
Everyone is busy raising fish and spare tires, and everyone has ten or eight contact information of the opposite sex on their mobile phones. Everyone is pretending, everyone is performing, and everyone is playing tricks.
A person who is obviously full of nonsense may have a quiet time performing in front of you.
A person who is impatient to even say a few words to his parents at home may politely say thank you when the waiter brings him a pair of chopsticks in order to show off his grace in front of the opposite sex.
A person who has obviously not even read a few books and is full of lipstick colors and sneaker styles may just read a few nonsense articles concocted by others and then dare to show his full knowledge in front of you.
Everyone disguises themselves on the Internet, some to be beautiful, some to be ugly, some to be weird, and some to be vulgar.
As long as people have desires, they will have weaknesses!
In the future, people's desires will become stronger and stronger, and their weaknesses will also increase.
When everyone in this society is full of weaknesses, some smart people will summarize these and then evolve countless routines to deal with people's weaknesses.
When more and more people suffer losses, people will rush to learn these routines in droves, and it will become a game of confrontation between routines and routines between men and women.
The city is full of routines, and I want to go back to the countryside.
Rural roads are also slippery and the routines are more complicated.
Chen Nuo patted Zhang Linsheng's shoulder and sighed: "No matter what, just keep your true heart and don't get carried away by too many messy things."
Zhang Linsheng looked at Chen Nuo's greasy hands with complicated eyes, and then looked at the white T-shirt he had just put on today.
"Li Qingshan, please help me make arrangements. I will meet with him. I have something to ask him about."
"Okay." Brother Lei replied.
·
Li Qingshan's family has a great business. In Tangshan near Jinling City, there is a hot spring resort with several rows of small villas built, introducing hot springs.
Here, of course, there is a one-stop shop for eating, drinking, and having fun, and it is all formal.
This is also one of the few formal industries under Li Qingshan.
But actually, it doesn’t make much money.
In the year 2001, consumption has not yet fully increased. Hot spring bathing is still a relatively distant thing for ordinary people. With this spare money, buy a few more kilograms of meat to eat. Isn’t it delicious? Give it to yourself or your wife and children.
Two new clothes, aren't they beautiful?
But Li Qingshan is a visionary. He has consulted with experts and found out that this place will be very valuable in the future.
Even if this hot spring resort is making very little profit now, the land will be able to earn back its investment if its value rises in the future!
The place where Chen Nuo met Li Qingshan was at this hot spring resort.
Li Qingshan actually saw Chen Nuo coming alone, and was a little glad that the old man was actually a little afraid that Chen Nuo and Zhang Linsheng would come to see him together.
He also didn't know how to face his brothers at the same time.
Damn, I have a huge secret hidden in my heart!
He entertained Chen Nuo with delicious food and drinks, and then watched Chen Nuo take out a small wooden box and push it over on the table.
"Thank you for your help, Hall Master Li, about the lottery last time." Chen Nuo grinned broadly and said, "I have something to ask you this time..."
"Haha! It's a small thing, not worth mentioning! If you have any instructions this time, just tell me."
"This time it's not my business, it's my senior brother Haonan's business. Well, to be precise, it's our sect's business!"
"oh?"
Li Qingshan immediately became energetic.
Chen Nuo opened the box and found a jade tablet inside.
To be precise, half a piece.
It's a jade plaque the size of a matchbox, but only half of it is left. It can be seen that the fracture is not neat, and I don't know whether it was broken or dropped.
Li Qingshan glanced at it, and then looked at Chen Nuo with doubtful eyes.
"Please get started."
"Okay!" Li Qingshan thought for a while, picked up the jade plaque and looked at it carefully for a while, nodded, and first praised: "Good stuff!"
He picked it up and looked at the light again: "It's an ancient jade! The quality of the jade is very good, top grade! The water quality is also good. The carving is very delicate and unsophisticated. It's just that this thing is incomplete, what a pity!"
After carefully putting the things back into the box, Li Qingshan looked at Chen Nuo: "I don't know what you want me to do..."
"It has something to do with this jade tablet." Chen Nuo said slowly: "Hall Master Li, you also know that Senior Brother Lin Sheng and I are from the same sect. Our sect is an ancient sect."
"Um……"
"It's too much for me to say. All I can say is that this jade tablet has something to do with our sect. And what I want you to do is to find the other half of this jade tablet!"
"Ah?" Li Qingshan was a little embarrassed: "This...where can I find it?"
"I got the news that the other half of this jade tablet should be in Jinling City, being collected by someone, but... you know, our sect has been hiding from the world, and it is difficult for us to go out and inquire about it in a big way, so,
I can only ask you."
Li Qingshan pondered for a while, frowned and said: "If you want to talk about this matter, there is no way to do it. I can send people to some jade shops in Jinling City to inquire about them one by one, but if they can find out, I don't dare to pack them up.
Voted."
Chen Nuo smiled and said: "Of course! This matter has been going on for many years, so there is no rush. You can ask slowly. No matter whether it succeeds or not, we will accept your favor."
Li Qingshan was relieved and nodded: "Okay, in this case, I will ask people to inquire slowly. I also know a few leading figures in the jade business in Jinling City. Once there is news, I will immediately
Reply to you."
"No rush, no rush!" Chen Nuo smiled, and then said slowly: "There is no rush for things. But there is a rule for this!"
"What?"
"This matter is related to the secrets of my sect! Therefore, no matter whether it is successful or not, you cannot tell anyone about this matter! I have kept this half of the jade tablet with you, but you must not throw it away.
Got it!"
Li Qingshan nodded: "Of course!"
·
After Chen Nuo left, Li Qingshan immediately asked Lao Qi to invite a master from a jade shop to appraise the half of the jade plaque in his hand. It turned out to be an old object, and then he carefully put it away.
Next, Li Qingshan began to meet with some of the leading figures in the jade industry that he knew in Jinling City.
And just three days later...
Jinling Lukou International Airport.
International flight arrival exit.
Alonso Rodriguez walked out of the exit slowly. He did not bring a suitcase, but carried a backpack.
The huge sunglasses and full beard made it impossible to see his true appearance. His tall and burly figure was very eye-catching in the crowd.
The name Alonso Rodriguez is naturally a pseudonym. It is just the name on one of the passports he uses on a daily basis.
This guy's real name is Harvey.
Nicknamed "Bigfoot".
·
After leaving the airport, he took a taxi to a hotel in the city. Harvey checked in with his passport and returned to the room.
Opening the notebook he carried with him, Harvey received an email from a temporary mailbox.
The content of the email is written in Spanish.
Attached are two photos.
The first photo is a portrait: an old Chinese man in his fifties, with combed hair and a Chinese-style short coat with an open front.
The second photo shows half a jade plaque.
Harvey looked at the two photos carefully, and then deleted the email. For a telepathic master with strong mental power, he had already firmly remembered it in his heart.
He picked up his cell phone and dialed a familiar intermediary.
"I've arrived."
"Okay Harvey, how is the weather in China?" On the other end of the phone, the middleman smiled easily.
"Damn the weather! I don't know if the food here is good or not." Harvey sniffed his nose and said, "I don't like the weather here. Finish the work quickly and go back with the money."
"You have read the entrusted email. Find that person and get that thing and you can go home, my brother." The middleman smiled and said: "Three million yuan, easy to get money, isn't it?"
"certainly."
"I have to remind you one thing, Harvey!" The intermediary's tone was a little more serious: "China is a place with strict control. Don't mess around with the little fun you are used to in other places and cause trouble in China.
Big trouble! I can't help you clean it up!"
"What the fuck do you mean?"
"My point is very simple. Don't do the kind of thing you did last time in Chicago! If you want a woman, spend some money, brother! Don't do those fucking disgusting things. Do you know that?
, the sweeper I sent out last time to clean up the scene you created, I almost vomited it!"
·
Two hours after Harvey arrived, Chen Nuo got the news.
Very simple but very stupid method.
He knew this bastard in his previous life and knew several of his commonly used false names, one of which was Alonso Rodriguez.
The commission was released through other channels, and he found an intermediary in Harvey to avoid the Octopus website.
Then, Chen Nuo asked Brother Lei to hold Harvey's portrait and wait at the airport and several hotel lobbies in Jinling City.
With this seemingly stupid way of casting the net, Harvey arrived.
In this era, there were not as many foreigners in the country as in later generations. Harvey's appearance was very eye-catching.
It's easy to find someone by just waiting and waiting.
·
Chen Nuo was eating with a phone in one hand and chopsticks in the other.
This is a small restaurant in Tangshan. The restaurant is located at the intersection of a not-so-wide street.
Sitting in the restaurant, diagonally across from Li Qingshan's hot spring resort.
"Tell your people to withdraw and don't contact that guy." Chen Nuo told Brother Lei on the other end of the phone: "That guy is very dangerous and a pervert."
·
Sun Keke handed the question booklet to the teacher who was making up the class, and then sat in front of the teacher with an anxious expression and waited.
The teacher looked through it carefully, with a bit of joy on his face.
"Keke, you have made great progress recently." The math teacher said with a smile: "In a few days, I will find someone to prepare a few sets of simulation papers. You can try again later. Your foundation is not good, but you have made progress in recent days.
Soon, if this continues, I think Lao Sun will be very surprised."
Sun Keke breathed a sigh of relief.
The math teacher looked at Sun Keke intently, shook his head and said, "Have you not had a good rest recently? I see that your dark circles are a bit heavy, and you have lost weight. You can't go on like this. You still have to go to your senior year of high school."
It’s hard to endure it, it’s not okay to break your body early.”
Sun Ke laughed and said: "Teacher, I actually feel pretty good and am in good spirits every day. It's just that I haven't slept well recently and I can't sleep."
"It's okay to be nervous, but don't be too nervous." The math teacher waved his hand: "Go home early, I'll call Lao Sun later and talk about your situation.
You have improved very quickly in mathematics. I will communicate with Lao Sun about other homework, and then we will see where your focus will be in the next stage of tutoring."