Yao Yuan and Lin Xiaohu each rode a motorcycle and visited No. 1 Middle School.
The reason why I had such a deep impression on the old man at the scrap yard was because when the land was acquired and demolished later, the old man refused to sign and the matter became quite big. However, Yao Yuan had already gone to school at NPU and was not very clear about what happened next.
I don’t know the old man’s last name, nor where he is from.
He disappeared suddenly, leaving only a key, and he disappeared after agreeing to give the place to Yao Yuan. Yao Yuan felt very guilty and anxious.
In fact, from the day he learned that the old man was missing, Yao Yuan never stopped searching. Even when he later went to the provincial capital to participate in an import and export trade exhibition, he still asked Lin Xiaohu to arrange for people to search everywhere, and the police station also reported the case.
However, after all these days, there is still no trace of the old man.
You can’t see people alive, you can’t see corpses even when they’re dead.
Yao Yuan was really worried that something had happened to the old man.
I ride around on my motorcycle like a headless chicken, asking questions when I see people, and no doubt I get disappointing answers.
Although it is already autumn, the daytime temperature is still relatively high.
After my mouth was dry, I saw a canteen in front of me, so I drove over and parked the car. When I saw Jianlibao, I asked the boss to get two bottles of iced ones, handed one to Lin Xiaohu, and opened one directly to his throat.
Fall inside.
These days, the canteen is not simple. The business is so good. Those who can open a canteen are basically households with ten thousand yuan. There are also public telephones while selling things. It costs 59 cents a minute in the city and 12 cents outside the city. If you want to call a mobile phone,
, the other party also wants money to answer the phone.
Real high-end communication consumption.
To install a landline phone, you have to pay an installation fee of 1,200 yuan, and you have to queue up. You can't expect to use it for a few months, so that the Post and Telecommunications Bureau employee responsible for the installation has become a hot commodity. Anyone who wants to use the phone quickly has to hire it.
Eat and drink to build relationships.
The postal and telecommunications system was not separated until 1998, and it was managed vertically. Some government departments needed to install telephones, and they also needed to find people to trust them.
In a word, those families with telephones in their homes in the early 1990s were the envy of most people.
On the contrary, it is more convenient for family homes of enterprises and institutions. There are many families with the conditions to install telephones. It is easy and fast to pull the wires and install them uniformly.
Lin Xiaohu drank two gulps of Jianlibao, which sold for two yuan and a half a bottle, and said, "The monkey has been looking for it. If there is any news, he will notify me as soon as possible."
"Ask him to come here." Yao Yuan saw a big banyan tree next to the canteen, with several chairs and a table underneath, obviously set up by the canteen owner. He walked over and sat down to rest, and said.
Lin Xiaohu took out his mobile phone and called the monkey. The owner of the canteen's eyes lit up. After Lin Xiaohu hung up the phone, he said, "Boss, do you want something to eat? I have beef offal and soup here, both for today."
, very fresh, and also has Dali beer, Hong Kong beer, very delicious.”
Lin Xiaohu looked at the canteen in a strange way. The owner of the canteen lifted up the partition at the back, and there was a woman skewering cowboy skewers. She was cooking in a clay pot, and smoke was coming out.
Unexpectedly, it not only sells groceries, but also sells cooked food.
"Just eat here." Lin Xiaohu said.
"Okay, okay, no problem, no problem. You can do it under the tree. Boss, please sit down for a while and I will arrange it right away. Soon!" the owner of the canteen said hurriedly.
Lin Xiaohu nodded, walked over and sat down face to face with Yao Yuan.
Not long after, the boss came over with a tray full of beef offal skewers, a plate of cooked lettuce, and two sauce plates.
When the boss was boasting about himself, Lin Xiaohu took a look and knew that he was always picky about the expensive ones. He had at least fifty or sixty pieces, but Lin Xiaohu didn't say anything.
When the boss came over for the second time, he brought six bottles of ice-cold Dali beer and two cups. As he started pouring the beer, he said, "There are not many people in the county who sell Dali beer. I am the first to sell Dali beer here.
It’s imported from Hong Kong and tastes much better than the local one. Please give it a try, two bosses.”
Yao Yuandao said, "Add a pair of bowls, chopsticks and a cup. See if there is anything else to eat and then pick up a plate."
"Yes, yes, there are fried chicken wings, fried spring rolls and fried shrimp cakes, they will be ready soon!" The boss was overjoyed.
It's not easy to meet two bosses who drive motorcycles and use mobile phones. A single business with them can earn half a day's income. Suddenly, he is full of energy. His wife is skewering beef offal, and he immediately starts frying spring rolls and shrimp cakes in a frying pan.
What.
There turned out to be a small kitchen behind the canteen.
To eat beef offal, fried snacks, etc., you definitely need drinks, wine, etc. If you sit here, you can basically do it all in one go. You don’t have to run around here. It’s a small crossroads, there’s a big banyan tree, and no matter how bright the sun is,
It won't be very hot.
A small shop in front and a food stall in the back.
This boss, who looks like a young man with a big head and a thick neck, is quite business-savvy.
It's almost dinner time now, and after a while, the guests will probably start being served.
After finishing a bottle of Dali beer, the man whom Lin Xiaohu called a monkey came over on a bicycle. As he was setting up the bicycle, he hurriedly said hello, "Brother Yuan, when did you come back? I didn't even say a word when I came back."
As thin as the name suggests, he really looks like a monkey.
Wearing bell-bottom pants and a tight elastic long-sleeved shirt, a bright blue color that is very rare in this era, the sleeves were rolled up high, and the outline of the ribs could be seen when he got off the car. He was too thin.
Xiao Yun, also a child of a sugar factory, was two grades below Yao Yuan. He was a typical negative example. He dropped out of school after one semester in the first grade of junior high school and has been living in society.
Even though he is only 16 years old, he is already an old man.
When the sugar factory was demolished in his previous life, Yao Yuan found out that he had already become a boss, opened a furniture factory, specialized in exporting, and had a net worth of tens of millions. After learning more about it later, he realized that Xiao Yun was not the same as those gangsters who were just hanging out for the sake of hanging out.
Likewise, he has a flexible mind and a sense of right and wrong, so he keeps making small mistakes but big ones.
It turns out he is not the "bad guy" in the factory legend.
"Have you eaten? Let's have some together." Yao Yuan greeted.
Xiao Yun sat down, habitually held the pager hanging on his waist, and unceremoniously picked up the soft Chinese dots Yao Yuan placed on the table and smoked one.
"Brother Yuan, you told me earlier. I'll invite you to the Mingzhu Restaurant for tea. What's delicious at this street stall?" Xiao Yun looked like a big brother from Hong Kong, waving his hands and saying, but his image was really vulgar and nondescript.
of.
Yao Yuan didn't answer him and asked, "There's still no news about the person you asked to find?"
Xiao Yunsheng was afraid that Yao Yuan would doubt his "strength", so he quickly said, "Brother Yuan, you know, I have been hanging out in the county for three or four years, and I don't know anyone. During this time, I sent all my younger brothers out to look for them all over the city.
But there is no news yet. Is he no longer in the county?"
Yao Yuan shook his head helplessly and motioned for Xiao Yun to drink.
Lin Xiaohu found it even more funny after hearing this. The elder brother spoke up and the younger brother shut up. In fact, young people like them haven't even figured out where the door of society is, and they are not even considered peripheral personnel.
But what Xiao Yun said is true. He does know a lot of people. They are all teenage gangsters, some from society and some at school. It is reliable to ask him to help find someone.
Xiao Yun not only admired Yao Yuan, but also was a little in awe.
When sugar factory employees educate their children, they will definitely use Yao Yuan as an example. Look at Yao Yuan and then look at you, why did I give birth to such a careless thing like you...
The reason for awe is that people like Xiao Yun know that Yao Yuan is also very fierce in fights, if you piss him off.
Now we know that Yao Yuan has set up a repair shop, and the boss Lin Xiaohu uses Big Brother. Isn't this the boss in Hong Kong movies?
Yao Yuan didn't know what Xiao Yun was thinking, so he said, "Look around the surrounding villages, and then ask a few more people near No. 1 Middle School. The old man collects rags, so it's impossible that no one knows him."
"I know, I'll dig deep and find him!" Xiao Yuan said, patting his withered chest.
Yao Yuan suddenly asked, "Who are you hanging out with now?"
"I'm not talking to anyone. It's just a boss from Tiange Village. He owns a big nightclub and usually just visits the place." When talking about work, Xiao Yun raised his chin slightly, his face full of pride.
It’s Tiange Village again. Matters in the county cannot bypass Tiange Village.
Yao Yuan said, "You really don't plan to study anymore?"
"I don't want to study anymore. I'm not even good at studying. Besides, what's the use of studying? Brother Yuan, I'm not talking about you. You are different. If you get into university and become a cadre, I will definitely not get into university. Instead of wasting time and Money is worse than going out into the society. Brother Sen hasn't even graduated from elementary school, but he is still a big boss, and just a nightclub costs hundreds of thousands..." Xiao Yun talked eloquently, with envy and yearning in his eyes.
Sighing inwardly, Yao Yuan said, "I have a job here, are you willing to do it?"
He will not waste his words educating Xiao Yun. This age is the most rebellious time, and verbal education is not as good as real things.
It all comes down to one word - money.
"What kind of job? I still can't do it. It's quite fun to work with Brother Sen." Xiao Yun said.
In fact, Yao Yuan knew that Xiao Yun kept talking about Brother Sen, but Brother Sen probably didn't know that there was a person like him. People who can open nightclubs are not ordinary people, and someone like Xiao Yun is not even a junior.
Yao Yuan said, "How much does he pay you per month?"
"It's not much, sometimes more and sometimes less, so I don't have to worry about food and drink," Xiao Yun said.
Smiling, Yao Yuan said, "I'll give you three hundred yuan a month, and you can get a salary increase if you work well."
"Three hundred?" Xiao Yungang picked up the cup and was stunned for a moment, with surprise in his eyes.
In fact, there is no need to ask. They will not pay wages to these little gangsters at all. When they have work to do, they will give them a ten or eight yuan pocket money.
You can win over a bunch of underlings without spending any money.
"Work in a logistics company to deliver goods, or work as an apprentice in a maintenance team, you choose one." Yao Yuan said.
Xiao Yun couldn't believe that his father's salary was only 300 yuan a month.
"Brother Yuan, do you really want three hundred?" Xiao Yun asked.
Lin Xiaohu took out a wad of money, counted three hundred-dollar bills and placed them in front of Xiao Yun.
Xiao Yun's eyes widened.
After realizing that it was true, Xiao Yun calmed down. Looking at the three brand-new hundred-dollar bills, he swallowed, picked up the money, and placed it in front of Lin Xiaohu.
He said, "Brother Yuan, if it's true, I'm willing to do anything."
"Take the money." Yao Yuan said, "Let's try our best to find someone in the past few days."
Xiao Yun shook his head and said, "You don't have to spend money to find someone. I'll find someone first, and then go to work after I find someone."
This kid is still a fastidious person, and Yao Yuan admires him a little.
I'm only 16 years old, and this is three hundred yuan. It's no exaggeration to say that it's a sum of money that can make many people take risks. There are many examples of people being shot for robbing more than thirty yuan!
"If you are looking for help, you need to treat me to a meal. Just take it. It is not considered salary." Yao Yuan said.
Xiao Yun hesitated for a while, then took a hundred yuan and said, "One hundred yuan is enough. Brother Yuan, don't worry, I will dig three feet into the ground to find the old man."