River City Story

"I'm worried that you will be photographed as a duck. Shop style." Cai Xusheng stretched his neck again, trying to turn his head to the back kitchen, "Are you and that gentleman from overseas looking for a face?"

"Gentleman! We don't need a second photographer for team photos!" Lin Yan dragged him to the front hall, "You, go and take pictures of the dishes."

Cai Xusheng firmly grasped the door frame of the back kitchen, unyielding, "Let me take another look, just the guy who puts the plate, the arm muscles are really beautiful." He swallowed, and shouted hoarsely: "Big Li! Close-up! You got it!"

"I don't understand." The handsome girl in the kitchen with a camera shook her head helplessly, "If you're not busy, give me another lamp."

"Then I'm still busy." Cai Xusheng walked away shaking his head.

Cheng Qi didn't know Cai Xusheng, but thought he was too out of touch. He poked Lin Yan's waist and asked worriedly, "You friend, are you okay?"

Lin Yan: "Except for the brain, everything else is fine."

Cheng Qi chuckled for a while, and said, "You've helped a lot during this time, and I really can't take care of it by myself."

Lin Yan shook his head: "Now it's all about feeling, learn as you go, just don't dislike me. Besides, I haven't done anything serious."

Cheng Qi punched him, and laughed loudly: "What intuition, you are a genius! Anything is very serious and useful! To be honest, I have no obsession with making money. I always feel that eating and drinking are easy to take care of." Right now, but my job is to help people make money, which is very contradictory. Before returning to China, I had planned to stop being a professional manager, but unfortunately, I was pulled by my cousin to help her best friend, and I persisted until now." Smoking is not allowed in the store, and he has been throwing lighters for fun. After playing for a while, Cheng Qi said: "Actually, I am quite happy here."

"Then we are almost the same, and I am also very busy."

After Lin Yan finished speaking, he walked towards the direction where Cai Xusheng was, and shouted: "Don't bully our waiter! You are like an old hooligan now!"

"I didn't!" Cai Xusheng held up the camera, "I just hope his hands can be shown in the photo! His hands are beautiful!"

"Then what a fucking fart! You are not allowed to change the shooting plan at will!"

"I didn't touch the fart, isn't this a pose, I have to teach you..."

Lin Yan took out his mobile phone: "Forget it, I'll call Li Si."

"No!" Cai Xusheng clasped his hands together and bowed again and again, "I guarantee the rules."

Lin Yan found out Li Si's number, showed it to Cai Xusheng, and said, "I need a picture the day after tomorrow, and I'll fix it immediately after taking the picture."

Cai Xusheng bit his lower lip with tears in his eyes: "The old society."

"You don't know the old society." Lin Yan's finger slowly fell near the button.

"...I will publish the picture tomorrow night!"

"That's great." Lin Yan clapped his hands, "Miss Li is not in a hurry, leave her plenty of time for the later stage."

"The butcher's knife of time has taken away my buddy's pure, kind, and beautiful heart! Now he is only left with a deceptive appearance!"

"This is also a kind of affirmation." Lin Yan walked to the table and skillfully helped adjust the fill light.

The opening time of the restaurant is scheduled for Golden Week. The team has limited funds in the early stage, and the traditional hard advertising burns money. Cheng Qi invited several online media to do publicity. They used the sets of pictures taken by Cai Xusheng and Da Li. With discounts, the response was positive. not bad.After the holiday, although the arrival rate dropped, it was within a controllable range. The two managers and the proprietress finally breathed a sigh of relief.

They originally expected to lose money for 10 months. According to the current thinking, the time should be shortened.

Lin Yan said all kinds of assurances, but in fact he didn't know it in his heart. As for Cheng Qi, it was the first time for him to do this kind of project in China, so he was also apprehensive.Now that the restaurant has taken the first step, both of them are very happy.

Three months after the official opening, the restaurant completed personnel adjustment and recruitment, and set up a small team of 20 people.Lin Yan, as the deputy director and financial manager, has the first business card with a title in his life.The next day, he brought He Zhengxi back to Xicheng excitedly.For Lin Yan, the happiness value brought by this incident is much higher than going to college, so he must report it to Xu Jialin himself.

"My dear eldest son is going to become rich and prosperous!" Xu Jialin praised without hesitation, "Don't forget to leave a cleaning job, I plan to get a job again!"

"No, you should learn more from Lei Feng here, save some blessings, and come out a year earlier as much as possible, I will be thankful."

"That's asking too much."

"It's because you have too low requirements on yourself." Lin Yan said, he dragged He Zhengxi to the front, "Stop talking about me, let this kid report to you and study."

"Him?" Xu Jialin curled his lips, "It's nothing new, anyway, just say 'I'm the first one', and tell me about things other than studies." He leaned forward, winked and said, "Are you looking for a little girlfriend? Look at you, your brother is going to be angry! He wanted to grow taller since he was a child, especially since he was a head shorter than others!"

"My brother is more than 1.8 meters now, so don't overdo it!" He Zhengxi smiled and gestured with his fingers, "I'm only a little bit taller than him, just a little bit."

"Okay, okay, whatever you say is what you say, I can't say it, haha!"

Xu Jialin's spirit has always been surprisingly good, he doesn't look like someone serving a sentence at all, and he even warms up with the prison guards like friends.In terms of communication, he is the old fritters among the old fritters, and he is almost squatting in his name.

Every time Lin Yan came back to visit Xu Jialin, he would chat with Xu Jialin for enough time before leaving, and he had to turn around every step of the way.Now he is quite busy with work in the restaurant, and the next time he comes back, I am afraid it will be the winter vacation, so he naturally feels a little bit more reluctant.

In the three years of high school, he rarely felt "missing" towards Xu Jialin, but since he went to Yancheng, he gradually became someone who would miss the old man in the dead of night.He was worried that Xu Jialin would not go well in prison, that Xu Jialin would be bullied, and that his old man Xu would grow old.Once he thought of this, he would become restless, and the more restless he was, the more Lin Yan would think about it.This closed loop is as difficult to eradicate as a malignant tumor.

After the visit, the two took the bus back to the old ancestral hall.Compared with the relaxed and at ease in front of Xu Jialin, Lin Yan at this moment is silent and tired.

"...Don't worry about Uncle Xu, he can live well anywhere." He Zhengxi hesitated.

He is not good at comforting people, and his words often appear blunt.He Zhengxi knew that he was not convincing enough, so he stretched out his hand and opened the car window to ease the embarrassment.When he withdrew his hand, Lin Yan suddenly rested his chin on his arm.

"He Zhengxi."

"Huh?" He Zhengxi didn't dare to move, they had known each other for almost 10 years, this was the first time Lin Yan took the initiative to approach him.

"It's nothing." Lin Yan raised his head and leaned back on the chair, "Beware of thieves, I'll sleep for a while."

"Oh." He Zhengxi moved his buttocks and sat upright.

Lin Yan has to balance study and work, so he has hardly had a full night's sleep in the past six months.He said he wanted to sleep in the car for a while, but he slept all the way from getting in the car to getting out of the car. When he returned to the old ancestral hall, he managed to open his eyes a few times. He didn't even take a shower, so he buried his head in the pillow and continued to sleep, like To make up for the rest of my life.He Zhengxi knew he was tired, so he didn't wake Lin Yan up for dinner.

It wasn't until ten o'clock in the middle of the night, when He Zhengxi had finished cleaning and was sitting at the desk reading a novel, that Lin Yan regained consciousness dazedly.He waved his arms and touched the pillow for a while, but failed to find the phone, so he sat up and looked at the wall clock on the wall.

"Eat?" He Zhengxi closed the book, walked to the bed, and turned on the lamp.The warm yellow light flickered a few times, and finally lit up slowly.

"This is a broken lamp." Lin Yan brushed away his sweaty bangs, "Have you had dinner yet?"

He Zhengxi nodded his head.

"It's okay, I'm not stupid." Yawning, Lin Yan got out of bed and pulled on his shoes. He gestured with his toes for a long time, but he couldn't reach it. When he was about to bend down, he stretched out his hands in front of him, holding his shoes.

"This double?"

"Ah, yes." Just as Lin Yan was about to take it, He Zhengxi walked around his arm and helped put the shoes on very gently.

Late at night, in the bedroom, the younger brother squatting on the ground to put on his shoes.

Being in such a delicate atmosphere, Lin Yan shuddered violently.

"Cough...the other one, I'll do it myself." Lin Yan pushed He Zhengxi away, stepped on the ground with one foot, hooked up the slippers quickly and steadily, jumped into the yard, fetched water to wash.

He Zhengxi leaned against the desk, took Lin Yan's cell phone out of his pants pocket, turned it on, and put it back near the pillow.

Lin Yan only planned to stay in Xicheng for a week, and he had three things to do: visit Xu Jialin in prison, have dinner at Lu Chi's house, and attend high school reunions.

"Why should I go to your classmate reunion?" He Zhengxi asked in surprise, "Will it be embarrassing? I don't even know each other well."

"It's okay, otherwise you are at home alone? The head teacher and the elders all know each other. You are responsible for eating." Lin Yan said.

"Oh." He Zhengxi agreed, and asked again: "Is there any suitor for you in the class?"

Lin Yan laughed twice, "It's hard to say, there used to be, but now people probably don't want me anymore."

The small flame in He Zhengxi's heart was immediately ignited, he geared up and said, "Then I have to go for an appraisal."

The classmate will choose a hot pot city near the school. The emotion appraisal expert—Ms. He Zhengxi, before leaving, changed three clothes in succession and still feels dissatisfied.

"Are you going to debut?" Lin Yan threw a short T-shirt on his head indiscriminately, "Young Master, you look handsome no matter what you wear."

"I just combed my hair..." He Zhengxi muffled in his clothes and tried to stick his head out, "Little boys our age are all very concerned about their appearance."

"I don't know who doesn't wear shoes at home, and hugs a watermelon and spits seeds all over the ground." Lin Yan slapped He Zhengxi on the back, "It's just a hot pot, you think it's a dinner party, don't be silly, Hurry up."

In the end, He Zhengxi still carefully spent 10 minutes in front of the mirror, smoothing out each strand of hair carefully, and carefully selected a pair of the latest sweatpants of a certain brand with a white background and red stripes. The bright green T-shirt on the shirt, she was properly dressed, and when she went out, she wanted to spray toilet water and wear a pair of red sneakers, but was forcibly stopped by Lin Yan.

The two hurriedly took a taxi to Hot Pot City. When getting off the taxi, Shen Wei happened to come out and saw Lin Yan. She came over to say hello warmly.

"I haven't seen you for a whole year. I didn't expect you to apply for the University of Science and Technology. It would be better if you could go."

"Our school is not bad." Lin Yan smiled, "If my classmates over there hear your words, they may protest."

Shen Wei clasped his hands together apologetically: "I didn't mean that, don't get me wrong."

Lin Yan said indifferently: "It's okay." He pointed to He Zhengxi, "My brother, come to eat today, do you have any objection?"

"How could it be?" Shen Wei became gentle, with a beautiful smile, "There is a handsome guy here, so we can benefit all the female students!"

"Who wants to benefit you..." He Zhengxi followed behind Lin Yan, muttering softly.

The party was held during the summer vacation, Zhao Sheng was not too busy, so he came early.He raised his eyes and saw Lin Yan and He Zhengxi walking into the door with arms crossed, he excitedly held up a piece of pineapple and shook his arm at them, "Come, come, sit here, sit here!"

"Can't you be as steady as a 'mentor'?" Lin Yan walked over helplessly, "How about this year's kids."

"It's okay, anyway, I have a lot of ways to deal with them." Zhao Sheng swallowed a mouthful of pineapple, stretched out his hand and wanted to take it, but was held down by Lin Yan, "Take it easy, it seems like you have been hungry for a few lifetimes, this is about to happen before it even starts." I am full."

Zhao Sheng nodded in agreement: "What's the matter with you, your words are quite mature, just like my father." He looked at He Zhengxi, "Your brother is tall and mature, too."

"You are still naive." Lin Yan poked a piece of pineapple with a toothpick and handed it to He Zhengxi, then turned his head and asked teasingly, "You haven't found a partner yet?"

"Before you ask me, ask yourself."

"How old am I?" Lin Yan leaned back and happened to lean on He Zhengxi's arm. He turned his head and raised his head and said, "You have no place to put your hands, do you?"

"Yes." He Zhengxi replied standing up.

"Then you should sit down. You can choose whatever you want in this circle. You can jump around normally, but now you are introverted."

I just want to stand behind you, can't I?He Zhengxi pursed his lips and cursed.

"You can do whatever you want." Zhao Sheng said to Lin Yan, "There is no need to be so strict, be careful to fight with you."

How many times have they fought, the two of them looked at the ceiling tacitly.

A few minutes later, there was a noise at the entrance of the lobby. They turned their heads and looked over, and a white-haired man ran towards them in a hurry.The three of them carefully identified for a long time, and they all exclaimed, isn't this Cai Xusheng? !

"Brother is here, brother is here!" He was still sprayed with strong perfume, and the atmosphere of the whole person could be described as gorgeous.

"You turned white overnight." Lin Yan said.

"I dyed it just to meet Li Si!" Cai Xusheng scratched at his hair, "I just came back."

"Your brother is really generous." Lin Yan said.

"Of course, he also asked me to help him peel potatoes. I'll leave early tomorrow morning." Cai Xusheng said happily.

"Great progress, cut it well." Lin Yan tried his best to hold back his laughter.

Zhao Sheng was most annoyed by Cai Xusheng's sloppy and unprofessional appearance. Seeing Lin Yan finished speaking, he immediately grabbed Cai Xusheng's ear and walked away, probably to find a place where no one was around to preach for a while.

"Hey..." He Zhengxi sighed regretfully.

"Sigh, you will lose three seconds of life." Lin Yan pulled out the chair and motioned him to sit on it.

"Brother, tell me, if I dye it white, will it look good?" He Zhengxi asked eagerly.

"Don't think about it!"

"Hey..." He Zhengxi sighed again.

"Go ahead and do it, I'll shave you off when I come back, believe it or not?"

"letter!"

The two brothers chatted for a long time as if no one was there, and they hurried to the box until the waiter came over to call for help.Pushing open the door, before half a foot could be lifted in time, a burst of whistle came into their ears from the corner of the room. Lin Yan followed the sound and saw that it was Cai Xusheng who whistled.

"Brothers, you are so sticky!"

"Hahaha——!" After hearing this, the big box burst into laughter.

Lin Yan shook his head helplessly, found two empty seats and pulled He Zhengxi to sit down, lowered his head and whispered: "Don't pay attention to that mental retardation, focus on eating meat."

"I know, don't worry about me." He Zhengxi said happily.He was very happy because of the word 'sticky', not to mention eating meat, it would be no problem to eat a bite of pot.

"Be silly." Lin Yan stared at the pot intently.Seeing someone cooking meat, he immediately raised his chopsticks and waited. When the color of the meat began to roll and turn white with the boiling soup, he quickly fished it out.He Zhengxi was only responsible for eating, his heart was full of spring, and his face remained calm.

Not long after, Shen Wei came over with a glass of wine, smiling, "It's so kind to your brother." She looked at the full bowl in front of He Zhengxi, and said to Lin Yan.

"He's not in our class." Lin Yan put down his chopsticks, "Excuse me."

Shen Wei smiled softly, picked up Lin Yan's glass, filled it with beer seriously, and handed it back, "Have a drink."

"Okay, just one cup." Lin Yan stood up, "You should also drink less, and be careful of headache tomorrow."

Shen Wei touched the rim of Lin Yan's cup and swallowed.She squinted her eyes intoxicated, stretched out her index finger, poked Lin Yan's face, and said, "You don't want me, but you still care about me, forget it."

Lin Yan was a little embarrassed by what she said, so he had to say softly: "Sorry".

"What do you have to apologize for? How many times have you said it? It's all my wishful thinking." Shen Wei walked back, came over with a white porcelain plate, and put it in front of Lin Yan.

"doing what?"

"Give me some food." Shen Wei said.Before this, she had probably had a few rounds of drinking, and she looked not sober, with watery eyes.

The room is full of weird atmosphere of "mind understanding" and "we understand".

"And then?" Lin Yan picked up the chopsticks.

"Then...there is no after! I won't like you..." Shen Wei said with red eye circles.

"Don't be like this, are you still the squad leader of our class who always fixes people?" Lin Yan took the plate in his hand, "Which one do you want me to pick up for you?"

Shen Wei rubbed his eyes, pointed to He Zhengxi's small bowl next door, and said forcefully, "I want meat, and I want meat as high as a mountain!"

"Okay, okay." Lin Yan put down the bamboo chopsticks, replaced it with a colander, and tried his best to help Shen Wei find the meat in the pot.Half of the last wave of meat was thrown into He Zhengxi's bowl by him, and it was a bit difficult to find it now, so he had to start a new plate.While waiting for it to be cooked, Shen Wei poured two more cups on his own, leaning against the table and feeling dizzy.

"Young master, take out the mobile phone from my schoolbag." Lin Yan touched He Zhengxi.

"Why?" He Zhengxi raised his head with a duck intestine in his mouth.

Lin Yan took out a tissue, motioned him to wipe the corners of his mouth, and said in a low voice, "Call Shen Han for me, and say that Shen Wei drank too much here, and ask them to pick him up at home."

"Okay." He Zhengxi went out with his mobile phone.

A few minutes later, he returned to the box, the scene in front of him was a bit chaotic, which made his face look ugly.He Zhengxi's original position was occupied by Shen Wei, and Shen Wei was crying for Lin Yan to feed him, while the surrounding students clapped and booed.

He Zhengxi frowned, turned a corner, walked to Cai Xusheng's side, and kicked the seat violently.

Cai Xusheng gloated and shook his whole body: "What are you doing, brother."

"Why? What are you talking about. Get that girl away for me." He Zhengxi said.

"I really admire you. Shen Wei probably clings to your brother this time. I heard that there is a man in the university who is chasing her madly. I won't miss Lin Yan soon..."

"You don't care?" He Zhengxi interrupted Cai Xusheng, "Then I'll go and drag her away. Her sister's house is not far from here, and she will probably be at the door soon."

"Wait." Cai Xusheng stopped him, "I'll go. Just you?" He looked He Zhengxi up and down, "He's not the kind of person who cares about fragrances and jades at all!"

"There is no Xiangyu worthy of my pity." He Zhengxi sneered.

"This mouth can breathe life out of the dead." After peeling a shrimp, Cai Xusheng stuffed it into his mouth and chewed, then stood up, "Listen to you, I'll try it."

"Thank you so much." He Zhengxi smiled earnestly.

He Zhengxi is different from Lin Yan, the respect and tolerance he gives to others is extremely limited, let alone a drunken woman pestering his brother.However, he can also see that Lin Yan has no feelings for Shen Wei, let alone Shen Wei, all of Lin Yan's thoughts are not on things like love at all.He was able to deal with her only because there was no need to refute a girl's face, not to mention that this girl was the squad leader of everyone present and Shen Han's younger sister.So He Zhengxi wasn't too anxious, but no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't let Shen Wei embarrass his elder brother unscrupulously on such an occasion.

After Shen Wei was coaxed and coaxed by Cai Xusheng to the outside lounge, He Zhengxi called the waiter in again, cleared away the wine bottles and glasses, and set up a new set of tableware.

"I don't know how big you think you are." Lin Yan said, "The beef is really good and tender. Let's eat enough before leaving."

"Isn't it AA? How do you think it's enough?"

He Zhengxi was a little helpless, Lin Yan was always like this, obviously he couldn't eat anymore, and he still refused to give up.

"Everyone is chatting, just the two of us eating?"

"Of course."

Lin Yan sat paralyzed on the chair, lamenting that he didn't have space to pack the meat before he came here, and he taught He Zhengxi by the way: "You don't understand, I have really learned a lot in the past few months. , you have to hurry up and eat more. When you enter the workplace, no matter how delicious food is, as long as you stay with a bunch of glib people, it will taste the same—it tastes like chewing wax!"

He Zhengxi felt that his elder brother might be a little drunk and his eyes were dazed, but he was still in good spirits and quite sober.

"I have to go to the bathroom." Lin Yan shook his head.

"Let's go together." He Zhengxi said.

The bathroom in Hot Pot City is very narrow, and there is no private room. Lin Yan untied his belt and stood in front of the urinal, trying to hold it in for a long time but failed to urinate.

Ten seconds later, he sighed silently, turned his head to look at He Zhengxi, and said, "Can you stop staring, your third brother is a little nervous."

"I didn't look at you." He Zhengxi said slyly.

"Beer is diuretic! Can you give my brother a little bit of bladder relief?"

"You pee, I really don't look at you."

"Forget it!" Lin Yan put on his trousers again, "I'll go out to blow some air and brew it up."

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