Jean Love

"Well, you have been working for so many years. You must have more social experience than me. These years, you have been in the catering industry. People say that you love houses and crows. Don't talk about how much others have taught you. As long as you have the heart, you should be able to see it yourself. I have made some connections. My personal point of view is that when doing business, you must do what you are sure of. Don’t be too high-spirited. Start with a small business. In the past few days, think again and look around to see if there is anything more suitable , is better.” I turned to my brother, this is my suggestion.

"In terms of money...?" Brother didn't seem to understand.

"Within [-], there should be no problem."

"It doesn't need that much, [-] is enough, at most [-], I think [-] is enough." The elder brother was overjoyed, still stuttering, his face glowing brightly.

"I went out for a walk in the past two days and found that there didn't seem to be any sugar shops around here." Two days later, my brother told me.

"Yes, next to the Hetian market, there is a shop near the road. It is run by local people. The business seems to be good. They make a lot of varieties, as well as tea eggs and snacks. They have been making it for many years."

"Oh. I didn't notice."

"What? You want to sell sugar water?"

"Well, look..." My brother poured me a cup of tea, took out a few pieces of red paper from the cabinet on the desk, cut them into long squares, like a stove sign, with calligraphy written on them: mung bean paste, sago dew , sweet potato soup, lotus seed soup....The fonts were written neatly and with great care, spread out one by one, and placed in front of me.

"This is the variety I want to make, it should be okay." My brother looked at me.

"I don't participate in these things. When business is good, we can spare some people. If you ask me or Chen Wu to help, we will just follow your arrangement. I won't meddle in other things." I laughed, and then said : "These can be put away and posted on the wall at that time. Compared with many small restaurants, the handwriting on the wall of the small sugar shop looks better." I looked at the words he wrote, the handwriting is still good, and the writing is very serious , my brother's calligraphy has improved slightly in the past two years.

"So it's settled?" My brother carefully gathered up the red paper one by one, rolled them up, tied a slipknot with a thin rope, and put them in the cabinet.

"Did you find the store?" I asked.

"Not yet, I'll look for it this afternoon."

"Find the store first, look at the location, and the seasonality of making sugar water is very strong. There are many varieties and a lot of labor. It doesn't matter if the business is good. When the business is not good, the waste is huge. The most important thing is that there is very little space for making sugar water. Limited, you can predict what the maximum income will be, especially here, in such a town or village.” I seem to be quite experienced, I have said a lot, analyzed a lot, and I don’t know if it will hit my brother enthusiasm.

"I thought of these too." My brother scratched his scalp.Said: "How about you give me 2 yuan, and I will go to Guangzhou to do it. There are many people there and I am familiar with the place."

"2 yuan, take it to downtown Guangzhou, rent a house, maybe not even enough money to buy tables, chairs, refrigerators, TVs, tableware." My heart was a little cold again, he really didn't have any preparations.

"It seems to me that you are not well prepared. It is not very good to act in such a hurry. It may be better to find a job first and look for business opportunities while working part-time."

"Aren't you willing to help me...?" My brother lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, exhaled a long puff of smoke, frowned, walked a few steps in front of me, took out the cigarette case again, and took out one. Pass it in front of me.

"Look at it first, and then we'll talk when you think about it." I took the cigarette, got up and left my seat.

In those few days, my brother changed obviously, his mood became very bad, he sighed, he didn’t buy vegetables, he didn’t cook, he didn’t sweep the floor, he just stayed at the gas station to sleep, woke up, or played a few games of chess with his brother, Or go to the parking lot next door and chat with Lao Lin.In front of me, the cigarettes are one after another, and the originally thin and thin body now has a sallow and sallow complexion.

"Oh, the life water hasn't grown well!" He sighed in front of his younger brother, who taught me behind his back.

Both my younger brother and my mother have said a lot about my elder brother before, but I have never paid attention to it. Looking at his behavior these days, it is a bit unsatisfactory.I called my mother: "Brother and Souzi haven't had any unhappy things during this time, right?"

"Your sister-in-law said, give him one last chance. If he can't get things done, and he can't settle down to do things, then forget about the divorce."

"No wonder he asked me to give him 2 yuan to go to Guangzhou to do business."

"I can't give it, I must not give it. At most, I can find a store near you, and I can't give him the cash all at once, in case he gambles away." The mother was very nervous.

"Is he that good at gambling?"

"Oh, your sister-in-law said he didn't listen, and I can't tell him. He said he wouldn't gamble if he gambled to death." My mother told me some recent things about them. The receiver, I simply comforted her and asked her about her health. It was out of reach and out of reach, and it really didn't help. My heart suddenly felt a little troubled, and I was worried about some seemingly trivial things in this family. .

My brother is still complaining about himself, so I can only wait and see.

The night of spring comes neither early nor late, and the night wind is neither wet nor dry.After dinner, a pair of long trousers and a pair of short sleeves, it is a bit chilly, but it can still bear it.Standing on the side of the bridge pier, there are also fresh frog sounds in the dirty river, croaking, croaking, croaking for a while, stopping for a while, and then croaking for a while, so tireless.There is also the sound of insects, buzzing, buzzing, the sound is not loud, but it can beat the eardrum even more.A gust of wind blew it over, carrying the smell of some sludge and a faint floral fragrance that could not be named.I stood for a while, walked around, exercised my arms, legs and feet, looked up at the stars in the sky, the sky washed by the spring rain, there were no stars, only a few stars, scattered, high inlaid there, shining by themselves.

I took out my phone, fiddled with it for a long time, put it in my pocket, took it out again, and dialed Lian Yu's phone: "What are you doing?"

"In Hetian, come here." Listening to the tone, Lian Yu was very happy.

"where?"

"Just across from your original gas station, demolish a tile-roofed house."

"Are there many people? Who are there?"

"It's just me, Jinmin, come here, I'll teach you the excavator, it's easy. Come here quickly." He hung up the phone.

I walked over and bought three sticks of black tea at the canteen opposite the original gas station. After walking a few steps, I heard the sound of humming machinery. Not far away, Jin Min was standing on the side of the road wearing a straw hat. In the operation room of the excavator, push and pull shakes, the giant arm rises and falls, or shakes from side to side, the rubble falls down, and the thick earth bricks on the wall also fall down, although it has rained during the day, it still rises A burst of dust.

I approached Jin Min, took out a cigarette, and lit one for each other. When Lian Yu saw me, he honked the horn and stopped. Jin Min patted my shoulder: "A Yu called you."

"Then I'll go there?"

"Go." Jin Min took the black tea, turned to leave, and said when he left: "It's too dusty here, I'll come back after a while." Walking to the white Isuzu, he took off the straw hat and patted it, blew it a few times, got into the car, away.

"Come on, this way, the excavator bucket is raised, this way, the excavator bucket is lowered, this way is left, this is right, it is very simple, very easy, and a ghost like you will definitely learn it. "When I came to the operating room, Lian Yu asked me to sit on the seat, and he stood up and taught me how to do it.It seems that I am his favorite student, but I don't know that I have no talent in mechanical and electrical appliances, and I am afraid of touching them.

I was very nervous, afraid of breaking the machine, and even more afraid that the giant arm would destroy something that shouldn't be destroyed.Lian Yu gave me courage: "What are you afraid of? Demolition of houses is meant to be destroyed."

I was still very nervous. I clumsily held the operating lever with my right hand. I didn’t know how to push and pull it. Rod, I was so scared that I broke out in cold sweat, Lian Yu laughed out loud.

"It's up to you." I stood up and asked Lian Yu to sit down.

"So timid, then watch me operate." Lian Yu patted my head and laughed again.I watched him push and pull and shake. A relatively intact house is like a piece of weathered cloth that has been exposed to the sun and rain. Let the giant arms and buckets tear it at will, raising a cloud of dust, until the dust settles, and it appears. A vacant lot, the house is gone, and the underground is a mess.