gentle reunion

Chapter 29

After a while, Brother Liu sent a phone number to Xu Zan, saying that this person had been with him before and was reliable, so Xu Zan could do whatever he wanted.

Xu Zan went to take a shower first, then dialed the phone number Brother Liu gave him, and got through quickly.

"Brother Miao? Brother Liu gave me your number. I'm Xu Zan."

The other party said with a smile: "I know, Brother Da Jin greeted me and said that you are his own younger brother, let me treat you well. Brother, you are in Nanfan now, right? Do you want to come out for a late-night snack?"

"Okay, I haven't had Nan Fan's supper for a long time, I still miss it."

What they eat is either high-end supper, or a barbecue stall on the roadside.

The taste is good, but the most important thing is that the atmosphere is good, you can drink a lot of wine and eat meat, and you can make generous friends all over the world.

"Brother Xu, you also met Brother Dajin in Yazhou?" Brother Miao asked while licking the mutton skewers.

"Well." Xu Zan said with a smile, "We met ten years ago. At that time, he was a foreman, and I was a wage earner who was eager to find a job. He sent me a few jobs, and we got to know each other like that."

At that time, Liu Jin was not an ordinary foreman, he was in the business of selling cheap labor.

——If someone is short of money, he will provide people with small loans, and then let people work for him to repay. The salary of the job is very low. If you borrow 3 yuan, you basically need to pay 6 yuan. work to pay off.

Xu Zan also borrowed money from Liu Jin at the time, but instead of doing the physical work that Liu Jin assigned him, he bargained with the other party and finally made a website for the other party. After the completion, Liu Jin was very satisfied and rewarded him. I paid him 2 yuan.

"That's because you guys knew each other earlier, I only met Brother Dajin four years ago." Brother Miao said, "Brother Dajin wanted to hire a security guard at that time, and I went to interview him, but he just took one look at me and let me stay. "

In fact, his job duty is not to be a security guard, but to collect debts.

At this time, Liu Jin has long since stopped selling cheap labor. He sells money directly, absorbing funds from the public, and borrowing funds out at the same time.

When borrowing money, there will always be cases where the borrowed money is not repaid. At this time, professional debt collectors are needed to play.

"Last year, when I went back to Nanfan to get married, Brother Dajin told me that he was considering investing in several companies in Nanfan, and asked me to look after him, so I stayed in Nanfan." Brother Miao said.

"It's good to stay at home, it's convenient to take care of the family." Xu Zan said.

"Yes, my wife and children are hot on the kang. It's good. Brother Dajin pays me a salary every month. I also saved some money in Juxin Wealth Management. I can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month. Nanwen is not like Yazhou consumption. It's so tall, don't be too happy living here!" Brother Miao patted the table when he was happy.

Xu Zan listened to him in silence, but didn't answer.

Juxin Financial Management is Liu Jin's company, where the money is deposited, and the annualized rate of return is as high as 40%.

This income is ridiculously high, how can there be such a good thing in the world.

Sooner or later, Juxin Financial Management will collapse, and Liu Jin knows this very well.

On the other hand, the people below thought that there would be gold coins flowing out of the faucet all the time, or they knew the truth but were still addicted to it, because they felt that they just had to stop before the last gold coin landed.

"When you came to Yazhou four years ago, I had already left there. Now I can be in Nanjian because Brother Liu knows you. We are destined to have a good relationship." Xu Zan picked up the beer and touched a bottle with Brother Miao.

"Yes, we are destined!" Brother Miao patted Xu Zan's back with his fat palm, "We will be brothers from now on."

After drinking the bottle of wine, Xu Zan said, "Find a reliable decoration company, and I'll transfer the money to their account. I'll issue an invoice, and the cost details will be: Old house renovation and demolition."

He asked Brother Miao to work, of course he had to pay, and he had to pay properly.

"My brothers are still talking about money." Brother Miao repeatedly declined, saying that he would never accept money.

"Friendship is friendship, and money is money. Brother Liu and I are the same way. If you don't believe me, you can ask him." Xu Zan insisted on paying.

To be honest, if Brother Miao refused to accept money—not to accept money legally, he would not dare to ask the other party to do this favor.

Brother Miao laughed: "Then listen to you, you are Brother Dajin's own younger brother, so you must be right."

The next night, a van drove into the old community where Xu Zan's father lived, and stopped under Building No. 6. The door opened, and seven adult men got out one after another, some of them were tall and strong, with tattoos on their bodies.

Residents of the passing community hurried away when they saw them.

Xu Zan said, "Let's go upstairs."

Brother Miao said, "The fifth floor, right?"

Xu Zan nodded.

There is no elevator in this old community, so you have to climb stairs.

After reaching the 5th floor, Xu Zan rang the doorbell of his father's house and stepped aside.

As soon as the door opened, Brother Miao and others forced their way in.

"You, who are you?" Xu Changming and Gao Peilan were terrified.

Xu Zan was the last to enter the room. He smiled at his father and closed the door.

"Xu Zan?! What do you want to do?!" Xu Changming asked.

Xu Zan stopped looking at him, but looked at Brother Miao: "Smash it."

The two tall men guarded Xu Changming and Gao Peilan, and the others began to smash things. The table was kicked over, the TV was thrown to the ground, and the refrigerator was pushed down. Anyway, no matter what it was, just throw it on the ground.

With a bang, fragments flew across.

Gao Peilan cried, Xu Changming hugged her shoulder to comfort her.

Xu Zan put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked at them indifferently.

With a bang, a porcelain handicraft was smashed, and a piece of porcelain brushed past Xu Zan, Brother Miao pulled him down: "Brother, be careful, I hurt you by mistake, I can't explain to Brother Da Jin."

After smashing the living room and other rooms, Xu Zan walked to the doors of those rooms to watch. He saw that his former room was now a utility room.

"Let's not smash this one," he said.

He walked into the room and checked the contents, and found that all his old things were there, the sundries were boxed, and the books were wrapped with ropes and piled up against the wall.

He went over to look at the spines, among them his high school books.

After searching for a while, he found the thin notebooks that Lan Tianran suspected to have given him.

Open it and take a closer look, the handwriting style inside is rather hard, it is likely to be a boy's handwriting.

——He used to think that these notes were sorted out for him by a girl he had a crush on.

Xu Zan recalled Lan Tianran's handwriting, but unfortunately he couldn't remember it.

He walked out of the room with a few thin notebooks, and said to Brother Miao, "It's ok, stop."

Since what he was looking for is still there, the plot can be slightly adjusted.

Brother Miao yelled at his people: "Okay, it's over, it's over!"

Xu Zan: "It's all hard work, thank you everyone."

"You're welcome."

The people who greeted Brother Miao withdrew first.

The room was eerily quiet.

Xu Zan stepped on the debris all over the floor and walked to the overturned sofa, helped it up, patted it clean, and sat down.

He bent down to pick up a shiny shard of glass from the ground, then leaned into the sofa, crossed his legs, looked at Xu Changming and Gao Peilan casually, played with the sharp shard of glass in his hand, but greeted him gently They: "Dad, Aunt Gao, come and sit down."

"You," Xu Changming roared with little confidence, "what on earth are you trying to do?!"

"Dad, do you remember how much you owe me? I have an IOU."

"...I, I have no money for you!"

"I know." Xu Zan looked around, "So I took it myself, and it can be worth [-] to [-]?"

"You! You!..." Xu Changming was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Although the decoration of this house is a bit old, it cost a lot of money when it was installed, far more than [-] to [-], and the money was cheated from Xu Zan.

In addition to money, more importantly, it took a lot of hard work - this is Xu Changming's gift to Gao Peilan.

Gao Peilan scolded Xu Changming: "You useless man, you just watch people smash our house, are you a man?!"

"Xiao Lan, I, I..." Xu Changming's face flushed red.

Xu Zan: "Aunt Gao, did you spend most of the money my dad 'borrowed' from me?"

Gao Peilan denied it: "What does the money he borrowed have anything to do with me?"

Xu Zan smiled but said, "He would 'borrow' money from me, didn't you instigate it?"

In his opinion, Gao Peilan should have some relationship with Wang Ting, for example, Wang Ting hired her to approach Xu Changming.

Gao Peilan was in a hurry, slapped Xu Changming hard, and shouted in a crying voice: "Did I instigate you? I am the blame for what you did? I am the victim! You lied to me!" You have money, how do I know that your money is borrowed?! If I knew, I wouldn't..."

Xu Changming stubbornly resisted Gao Peilan's slapping, and took her into his arms: "It's my fault, I'm sorry for you..."

After Gao Peilan became less excited, he yelled at Xu Zan: "She didn't provoke me, it has nothing to do with her! It's all my own bad idea, and it's all my fault. Just tell me what you want, right? !"

Xu Zan put away the smile on his face and sighed: "Okay, you don't have to do this, I'm not here to ask you for debts, I just want to talk to you."

"What do you want to talk about?" Xu Changming asked.

"Yesterday Aunt Gao called me 'stinky and shameless', I don't understand why she said that." Xu Zan frowned and looked at Gao Peilan.

Gao Peilan shrank back when he saw him, and Xu Changming immediately stood in front of Gao Peilan heroically—he didn't dare to "resist" so fiercely when Brother Miao and the others were there before, for fear that he would really be beaten, but facing Xu Zan he I'm not so afraid, because Xu Zan has never touched him before.

Xu Zan sighed: "It's obvious that you owe me money, but you call me stinky and shameless, it doesn't make sense."

Gao Peilan plucked up her courage and said, "You know what you did yourself!"

"Oh? What did I do?" Xu Zan asked curiously.

Xu Changming said for Gao Peilan: "Some people say you are a rapist..."

Xu Zan was speechless, but he understood that this was the trouble caused by Xie Kaiyan's rumor post.

"It's false, someone else spread the rumor. Does my uncle know about it?"

Xu Changming: "He doesn't know, I don't have the nerve to tell him."

Xu Zan was relieved, it seemed that Xu Changrong was still trustworthy, and he didn't deliberately hide anything from him.

"How did this rumor reach your ears?"

Xu Changming remained silent.

Gao Peilan said: "Everyone says so!"

Xu Zan looked at Gao Peilan: "Aunt Gao, please give me an example."

Gao Peilan was frightened by him, and her heart sank, and she said six or seven names in one breath.

Xu Zan had never heard of it, so he asked one by one, who is this and who is that.

After asking, I found that they were all middle-aged and elderly aunts in the community. They probably don't use the Internet very much, and they don't pay attention to Xu Zan's affairs when they go online.

One of them is special, she is Sun Zhe's mother, she is a very difficult woman, in order to save [-] cents for vegetables, she can fight with vegetable vendors, at the same time, this woman also likes to gossip, the rumors probably started from It came out of her mouth.

But she is just a small citizen with little education, and she definitely wouldn't go online to read Xu Zan's gossip, probably her son Sun Zhe said something to her.

"Has Sun Zhe been back recently?" Xu Zan asked.

"What did you ask him for?"

"Have you been back?" Xu Zan repeated.

"...I came back half a month ago."

"Sure enough." Xu Zan frowned, "Most likely he was making up rumors about me, but why did he do that? What's wrong with him?"

Xu Changming looked at him in disbelief: "You often beat him when you were young, have you forgotten?"

Have it?Xu Zan recalled carefully: "I only fought a few times."

And he fought when he was relatively young. After entering high school, he basically didn't fight anymore.

Xu Changming stared: "How could there be only a few times? You fight every day! Among them, Sun Zhe is the one you fight most often. How can people not bear hatred against you?"

"I didn't stare at him to fight. I didn't have that time. At that time, there were so many people I wanted to fight that I had to line up their list. Do you know why?" Xu Zan looked at Xu Changming coldly, clenched his hands, and waved with his mind. Draw out a sharp sword, "Because they say my mother is a prostitute and you are a cuckold."

This sword has no hilt, but a sharp blade all over its body. Xu Zan's hand was held on it, and it was cut bloody.

"...they, they're talking nonsense!" Xu Changming was very embarrassed, he didn't dare to look at Xu Zan, and he didn't dare to look at Gao Peilan either.

Xu Zan: "Anyway, the matter has been clarified."

He threw away the shards of glass that he had been playing with, and rolled up the thin notebooks. When he did this, he felt a little pain in his fingers. When he looked down, he saw a small cut on the pulp of his index finger. There was a little blood on it.

He curled up his fingers and stood up: "I should go."

Both Xu Changming and Gao Peilan ignored him.

Xu Zan looked around: "Actually, it's not too bad. Like that refrigerator, maybe it can still be used when you lift it up?"

Gao Peilan couldn't help glaring at him.

"How about this, I will give you 10 yuan, and you can find someone to clean up." Xu Zan took out his mobile phone, "Dad, give me your account number, and I will transfer it to you."

Xu Changming was stunned: "Why do you..."

"I just wanted to chat with you guys." Xu Zan urged, "Dad, your account number."

Gao Peilan took out his mobile phone from Xu Changming's pocket, opened the payment platform, and watched Xu Zan scan the QR code to transfer money, and then Xu Changming's account had an extra 10 yuan.

"In the future, if we have something to talk about," Xu Zan glanced around, "There's no need to make it like this, right?"

Gao Peilan nodded humbly.

Xu Changming complained in a low voice: "You are the one who smashed things as soon as you entered the door..."

"That's not important. The important thing is that we clarify the misunderstanding." Xu Zan said, "In the future, if you have a misunderstanding, tell me directly. This will keep me in a good mood. When I am in a good mood, I will properly support your living expenses."

Instead of letting someone else buy his father, he should make the first bid himself.

The most critical thing now is to resolve the external crisis first.

Gao Peilan and Xu Changming were stunned for a moment, then Gao Peilan pushed Xu Changming secretly, Xu Changming looked at her puzzled, Gao Peilan hated that iron could not be made into steel, so she had to do it herself.

She twitched her position: "Neither are we, nor are we deliberately trying to misunderstand you, we are a family..."

She put one hand behind her back and pinched Xu Changming hard.

Xu Changming trembled, and said quickly, "Yes, yes, we are a family..."

"That's right." Gao Peilan squeezed her throat, shaking her cheeks, and said stiffly and artificially, "In the future, we won't listen to people talking about things like this in the future."

Xu Zan: "You can listen, just remember to tell me."

"Yes, we must tell you first what we hear!"

Xu Zan nodded: "Then it's a deal, call me if you need something."

After the matter was settled, Xu Zan smiled at Xu Changming and Gao Peilan, "Then I'm leaving, Dad, Aunt Gao, goodbye."

He didn't want to stay here for a second.

"Sit no longer?" Gao Peilan squeezed out a "kind" smile.

"No, I have something else to do." Xu Zan walked out.

Xu Changming and Gao Peilan followed behind him, sent him to the door, and told him in a calm and unembarrassing manner: "Be careful on the road."

As soon as Xu Zan left, the neighbor on the opposite side opened the door, looked at the stairs first, then stretched his neck to look at the door behind Xu Changming and Gao Peilan, trying to see the situation in the house clearly: "Old Xu, your house will be closed tonight. What's the matter? Why is there such a big commotion?"

Xu Changming showed a speechless awkward smile.

"It's okay, we're fine!" Gao Peilan pushed Xu Changming back into the house, and closed the door with a bang.

After leaving the community, Xu Zan did not immediately take a taxi back to the hotel, but walked along the road.

He walked fast, and his spirit went even faster, galloping out, rushing here and there furiously.

The starlight in the sky, the lights on the ground, the chirping of insects in summer, and the loud voices of people, everything makes people irritated and numb, like anger in sleep, like sobriety in drunkenness.

Since the body is trapped in this world, the soul will suffer forever.

Walking to a bridge, the river wind was very strong and cold at night, Xu Zan shook hands and felt something in his hand, and looked down, it was the thin notebook he had brought out from his father's house.

The soul that had run away froze for a moment, and was pulled back into his body, Xu Zan calmed down,

He opened the thin notebook under the street light, read the text inside for a while, then took out his mobile phone, and checked the time. It was past 9 o'clock, not too late.

He opened the chat software, clicked on Lan Tianran's profile picture, thought for a while, and chose to call.

Lan Tianran answered: "Xu Zan?"

"Well, it's me." Probably because of his mood, Xu Zan felt that his voice was a bit muffled. He took a deep breath silently and said in a brisk tone, "What are you doing? Don't bother me?"

"Don't bother, I'm at home."

"one person?"

"correct."

Lan Tianran spoke concisely and seemed a little lacking in enthusiasm, but Xu Zan didn't feel embarrassed, and naturally found a way to say something by himself: "I have finished my work in Nanfan."

"Have you returned to Ming City?"

"No, I'll be back tomorrow..." Xu Zan paused for a moment, and said, "It's okay to be back today? I'll be back today."

"Don't be in such a hurry, right?"

"I want to go back to Ming City, I'm bored here." Xu Zan sighed.

Lan Tianran said, "Then come back, do you want me to pick you up?"

"...You, come to Nanfang to pick me up?" The remaining haze on Xu Zan's face was shocked.

"No, pick you up at the high-speed rail station. Are you coming back by high-speed rail? To that station?"

Xu Zan's heart fell back from being startled, but he was inexplicably disappointed. He waved away the disappointment and said, "It's the high-speed rail, so you don't need to pick it up. You can rest. Are you free tomorrow night? Let's have dinner together?"

"Okay, I'm free."

Xu Zan paced with downcast eyes: "Go to your house to eat?"

"it is good."

Xu Zan raised his eyes to look at the vast river, and the wind from the river rushed towards his face, blowing away the last layer of sullenness in his heart, he smiled, and also laughed out loud: "See you tomorrow then."

Lan Tianran also smiled: "See you tomorrow."

After the phone call with Lan Tianran, Xu Zan didn't book tickets immediately, but called Miao Ge first: "Thank you for your help tonight, do you have time to have a supper together?"

Brother Miao agreed: "No problem! We'll come over right away."

Everyone gulps and drank like last night.

After two bottles of beer, everyone became brothers again.

Xu Zan asked Brother Miao: "Can you help find someone?"

"Who are you looking for?"

Xu Zan took out a few printed photos from his bag: "Look for this boy in school uniform."

Brother Miao wiped his hands with a paper towel, took the photo and flipped through it: "This photo is a bit blurry, is there anything clearer?"

"No, only this."

This is a screenshot from the video, the pixels are not particularly high.

"And I only have photos and no other information." Xu Zan said, "This is a photo from seven years ago. Now he should have grown up and changed his appearance."

Brother Miao looked embarrassed: "How do I find this?"

Xu Zan: "He's wearing a high school uniform. You can check which high school uniform it is, and then maybe you can find a teacher or classmate who knows him."

Brother Miao nodded repeatedly.

Xu Zan: "If you can find someone, you must not scare him, it is best not to alarm him. I have no grudges with him in the past, and I have no grudges in the present. I just want to ask him something."

"Understood, I will notify you as soon as I find someone, and I will never do unnecessary things."

Xu Zan: "I'll transfer a deposit to you first, and if you can find someone, I'll double the balance."

"Okay, do as you say."

Xu Zan was very generous with the renovation fee before, and Brother Miao believes that Xu Zan will not be stingy this time.

"Brother Miao, you are a refreshing person, I respect you!" Xu Zan lifted the wine bottle, and with a bang, touched the bottle with Brother Miao forcefully.

Just like sparks splashing into natural gas, with a bang, the atmosphere ignited.

The two raised their heads and drank all the wine in the bottle together, looked at each other and laughed, proudly.

When a group of people were half drunk, Xu Zan said apologetically that he had to take a step—to catch the high-speed rail.

Everyone reluctantly bid farewell, and had another round of drinking, Xu Zan hurriedly pretended to be drunk and staggered out of the crowd.

Before leaving, Xu Zan went to settle the bill, the boss gave him the bill, he quickly read it, and said that the calculation was wrong.

The boss didn't believe it: "How is it possible!"

With such a messy list, this person knows that he has made a mistake after scanning it?

Unless he's a genius.

Heh, he must have drunk too much and wanted to find fault.

He looked at Xu Zan, his eyes were clear, he didn't seem to be drunk, he looked at Brother Miao and the others, most of them were smoky.

This person must still be drunk, right?It's just that some people can't tell when they're drunk.

"What's the matter?" The two guys heard the boss's increased volume and came over to support him.

Xu Zan glanced at them with a half-smile: "Just pay according to your price."

He scanned the QR code to transfer money, then walked to the side of the road and boarded the car he called.

The boss watched the car drive away, and unconvincedly took the calculator to recalculate the account.

Damn, it was really wrong, these people ordered too many things, when he did the calculations, he undercounted by a hundred for some reason!

In the dead of night, when most people fell asleep, Xu Zan returned to Mingcheng.

The next day, he got up on time and went to work in the company.

As soon as he entered the company door, Luo Xiaorui opened his arms exaggeratedly to greet him: "Brother Zan, welcome back, you're handsome again!"

He hugged Xu Zanbang and patted him on the back.

Xu Zan wobbled like a pillow doll and let him pat him: "I said Luo Xiaorui, are you hitting me to vent your anger?"

"No! I'm so excited to see you come back!" Luo Xiaorui let go of Xu Zan, and stared at him, "Look at my eyes, tears filled my eyes!"

"I only saw eye shit." Xu Zan bypassed Luo Xiaorui and walked into the office, "Are you too stressed and want to take a vacation? Go if you want, anyway, I'm back, I don't need you here anymore."

Luo Xiaorui cocked his orchid fingers and pretended to cry, scolding Xu Zan for despising other people's old things, he must have a goblin outside, he likes the new and dislikes the old...

Xiao Yuan at the front desk watched him perform, covered his mouth and laughed hard.

Xu Zan turned around: "By the way, how many goblins have you recruited—newcomers?"

With Hengsheng's investment, their company is going to expand, recruit a group of new people, and plan to change to a new office.

When it came to business, Luo Xiaorui stopped joking. He put away his grimace and said, "I have had some interviews, but I haven't finalized them yet. I picked some out. You can meet them later to see if they suit you."

"Row."

"Also, do you think we should change the office first before recruiting people? Our current place is still a bit shabby, and the transportation is not convenient enough." Luo Xiaorui said, "Think about it, the goblins see that our transportation is convenient, I am more willing to come to the new office with elegant decoration.”

"Have you found the right place?"

"Not yet."

"Then what's the use of saying this? Haven't you been recruiting people since you haven't found a suitable office?"

"No, I want to say, can Hengsheng recommend a cheap place for us? Go ask your old classmate?"

Luo Xiaorui wanted to take advantage of Hengsheng, it was a little cool to lean against the big tree.

Xu Zan said bluntly, "Okay, I'll ask."

It's good to have one more chance to communicate with Lan Tianran.

Turn on the computer and board various software.

Xu Zan sent Lan Tianran a message: (smiling) Do you remember the invitation to dinner tonight?

Lan Tianran: Remember, I'll pick you up?

Xu Zan: No, I will go there by myself, I know the way.

Lan Tianran: Okay, see you tonight.