Olives

A myth——Liu Yadong can occasionally hear the sound of the train whistle, green, slow, and intermittent.But Sushui Railway Station is more than ten kilometers away, and the station is only equipped with trains to stay for 3 minutes.He had been kicked and injured his eardrums before, and it was probably his auditory hallucinations.

Lan Zhou was very happy to take a scalding hot bath without fighting, and went to the next door to ask Tu Wen how long it could take, and Tu Wen said: Just don't soak your whole body, it's electric heating, take as long as you like.Liu Yadong glanced at the clock - it's been half an hour since the man got in with his underwear on.He knocked on the door, and the frosted glass was covered with a layer of brown-yellow greasy dirt, vaguely imprinting Lan Zhou's shadow.He asked: "Are you still okay? Hu Sun'er's urine foam is about to explode." Hu Ziqiang saw that Jiang Daya was fascinated, and when he heard himself being called, he raised his head and said, "Hey, fuck you." Like water, "one more time, one more time." Like a child begging for one more candy.Liu Yadong laughed outside the door, and whispered, "Okay, just don't get dizzy."

Near dusk, Shao Jinquan drove back a white mulberry car with Jiao Liru, without taking off the black gauze.Jiao Liru looks elegant and gentle, slightly fat, with a soft face that reconciles the five ethnic groups, which is extremely attractive to the opposite sex.

Liu Dashan had been working in Xuzhou for half a year, working as a bricklayer on the construction site, and paid for the meal. When he arrived at the building, the contractor ran away with the money, leaving behind a dozen dazed faces with nothing to show for it.Dayu couldn't take it anymore, and for three or two days, she went to the ground and scolded: "If it's a man, go for it, take your life! Who is not afraid of risking your life!" She went to the court to do labor arbitration like others, but she didn't know a word, and there was no result. ; Xueren carried bricks to the rich area to block the contractors, but the door was not allowed to enter, and there was no result;The masons of the same period are very grateful, thanks to the old lady who really risked her life, and said contemptuously while counting the tickets: "Women are too hard to control, you know? You can't marry a wife. You are too wild. Trying to show off your abilities. Wants to climb on your head and make your home." In terms of men's so-called experience, women's toughness is usually an unseemly eccentricity, and there is no glory to speak of.

Jiao Liru looks at least forty, she is still beautiful, and unlike Wu Qimeng's disobedience, she has a real mature charm.Shao Jinquan went into the room and sat down to rest, adding hot water to the thermos. Jiao Liru came over and asked the three people what their names were, how old they were, whether they were used to living in this place, and if there was any inconvenience, they had to tell them in time. ——The three of them are not good at dealing with this situation, they feel cramped, and vaguely think that they are in an orphanage, being picked and picked by a pair of decent and kind people, but they have never dressed neatly, and even their socks are torn.

Jiao Liru brought a few hard-shell paper bags and opened them to find brand new ski jackets, line caps, cotton gloves, and sports socks.

"Come on." Jiao Liru beckoned, "I asked Lao Shao what size you three wear. He couldn't tell one, two, three, so he said they were all taller. I said how taller, and he said he was taller than him. They're all seventeen or eighteen and definitely still long." Jiao Liru smiled to herself, and shook off a dark blue ski jacket, "L, it's so risky that all three of you are skinny, it doesn't matter if you wear big, you will grow longer in the future."

She stretched her coat and walked this way, all three of them were nervous.She moved slightly, facing Hu Ziqiang.Compared with Lan Zhou's reticence and Liu Yadong's good use of indifference, Hu Ziqiang would only blush at a loss.Jiao Liru was a head shorter than him, put the clothes on his shoulders, and asked: "Your surname is Hu? Hu Ziqiang, right? You are the tallest, and if you are not too small, he can definitely wear both." Hu Ziqiang stiffened his back, As if about to be rubbed, he hissed for a long time, hissing out a thin "thank you".Liu Yadong couldn't hold back his gloating snort, Lan Zhou lowered his head and held back his displeasure.

"No thanks. Give me your shoe size, and I'll bring you new ones next time." Jiao Liru's eyes curled into a smile, looking cute, "There is air conditioning in the teahouse, so you must dress warmly when you come out, so you don't catch a cold!"

Shao Jinquan stroked the buds of the Changshou Begonia waiting to be released, and screwed on the lid of the cup, "Let's go, put on new clothes."

There are also differences in folk customs between the two counties.Luoluogang people are conservative, and they rarely go out to socialize after dinner; Xiannan is relatively open, and has the habit of staying overnight.The road is not far away, I walked to Jinding Tea House, when it was dark, people were more or less sluggish.Apart from martial arts, the three of Liu Yadong rarely see people other than their peers, and they almost lose their perception of the true face of life. Even a little bit of scene words and deeds are so special that I am surprised: the bus is tied with snow chains, and the speed is fast. Rush and bustling; food stalls, men gather together to drink beer in cold weather; the old woman asks for a Coke bottle with a hoarse voice all the way to collect a yellow-haired hair; fight.

Shao Jinquan was smoking a cigarette, his black jacket was open, and he walked a little forward with a smile on his face.He has a thick baritone voice, and he has a habit of making a non-exaggerated gesture before speaking, so as to be immersive.He drew a virtual arc towards the intersection of Zhengqi Road, saying that before the reform and opening up, there was a shallow lake full of floating lotus, with a road running from south to north on the outside, elm trees planted on both sides, and the road went straight to Fengyuan Hotel.After a pause, he said that the hotel had been demolished, and the land was now allocated to the county forestry bureau.

After the cigarette was finished, he walked with Liu Yadong and introduced that Sushui is unknown now, but has a long history.It is said that the county was set up here in the Qin Dynasty. After the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Nanliang was changed to Zhongzhou, and it was called Sushui in the Northern Song Dynasty.It also shows that in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the territory was extremely chaotic, similar to the Green Gang in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there were also various folk hooligan bosses. Under the pretense of fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, they actually colluded with the government to oppress the people, and even had their own armed forces.In the Republic of China, they set up guild halls again. In short, they couldn't get rid of the gangster spirit of forming cliques.To put it bluntly, running a teahouse, bathhouse and nightclub in the new century is a matter of power and money.

Shao Jinquan is different from Tan Shouping. He speaks like pouring water from a long-necked bottle, calmly without overflowing, and leaking every trace, giving people a long-lasting feeling of revealing uncleanness and returning sweetness.

Jiao Liru turned right and opened a glass door first to enter.Shao Jinquan said, "Here we are." The three of Liu Yadong stopped and looked up. It was a golden gate with four golden characters written vertically: Jinding Tea House.

Jinding Tea House is well-known locally, not only because it is one of the cash cows of Wen Qi's business, but also because it is a large underground casino run by Wen Qi.Although gambling is not popular in Sushui, the three cities south of Sushui are collectively called "Little Macau".The so-called gambling does not require money, just like taking morphine, it only needs to have hormones and addiction.From the most traditional games such as rubbing hemp and fried golden flowers to the imported Hong Kong and Macau games such as stud, 09:30, baccarat, etc., a lot of people turned over the flowers to dream of wealth and wealth overnight, and the dreams were nourished, and the big and small gambling caves bloomed everywhere.It is said that Jinding Tea House was won by Wen Qi in a gamble. People in Sushui only heard that his favorite car is a Hummer H2 with four zeros on the license plate. He is a cunning rabbit with three caves. His hometown is in Guangzhou. There are RVs all over the country, and there are few people. Show up, there is no way to ask him whether it is true or not.

The outermost part of Jinding is the grand lobby with bright crystal chandeliers and the fragrance of red sandalwood.Two female receptionists were holding walkie-talkies, wearing uniforms, and their hair was slicked up.Seeing Shao Jinquan coming, he bowed and called out "Sister Shao Boss Liru".

"Little Lu, how many private rooms are open tonight?" The air conditioner was turned on in the hall, and Shao Jinquan took off his jacket and put it on his arm.

The case book with the false eyelashes stuck on had a clear voice: "Boss Hu opened two boring chicken rooms and two mahjong rooms. He is here to discuss the hardware business. The table fee will be charged next month. Director He's team will build two rooms. A mahjong room is included for the night, Boss Fu booked three mahjong rooms and said they would be late, and the rest are Puke."

Shao Jinquan held his hand in his hand, tapped his fingers on the marble case, and asked, "Did Boss Hu pay the bill last month?"

Xiao Lu shook his head: "Talk about next week."

Jiao Liru smoked a woman's cigarette, a slender Nanjing. She took a sip from the fire before laughing: "He's engaged in hardware reversing? The money won't be until next week."

"The hardware factory is bright, but he is dark? There is no more oil and water than anyone else." Shao Jinquan also laughed: "If you catch us too much, he will get used to it."

Xiao Lu asked, "Shall I go with Jiu Qiang to get them to withdraw?"

"No, the Huairou policy will be done first." Shao Jinquan said to Jiao Liru, "You call Jing Jing to come and chat with you."

Jiao Liru asked him hesitantly: "Jing Jing's little firecracker? It doesn't suit her eldest lady. She dared to lift someone's mahjong table. Chunshui Tang, I'm bothered to mediate for her the most times. Old Shao, don't let her take care of it." Stir it into a pot of porridge."

"You know Mengqin Xiaoya, but you don't know Jingjing. She is angry with you. She thinks you are tight with Mengqin and the others. She is too small. If you sincerely recognize you as a god-sister, you don't want her. Now she is giving you cold ass." " Shao Jinquan raised his eyebrows, "When you come, ask her to bring a bottle of red square and a pot of sparrow tongue, and I will pay for the rent." Then he said to Xiao Lu, "Let Lao Tang prepare the table." Turning his head, he asked Liu Yadong gently: "The three of you are still used to eating Zhejiang cuisine?"

As long as it doesn't matter what happens, it will never be harder to swallow than Longhu Canteen.Just as he was about to say yes, two Accords came up one after the other at the door. After honking their horns, they stopped and turned off their engines. Surrounded by men, they came down to call the men, chattering and laughing.When Shao Jinquan glanced at him, he instantly became energetic. "Pay the boss!" He put on his jacket back, greeted loudly, and stretched out his hand to shake it.Shao Jinquan turned his head and waved his hands, saying, "You guys go up first."

The second floor is still a hall, with a high platform in the middle, surrounded by water canals, planted with lotus flowers and raised red carps, and two girls in the center of the platform, playing the zither and pipa, playing the autumn moon of the Han Palace.There are card seats and tea rooms all around.The card seats are more elegant, with rattan tables and rattan chairs, burning incense sticks, small carved screens or bamboo curtains and curtains between the seats, and tea boys and tea girls wearing Tang suits, who are always there when you call.The tea room is more private and more fashionable, with long and short sofas inside, a mahogany square table in the center, a full range of tea products, and even karaoke, and you can sing songs if you don’t like drinking tea.In addition, the square table is a mahjong table without the tea set.The business of the teahouse is not bad, the guests are dense, most of them are not noisy, only their mouths are moving, and they cannot hear the conversation clearly.

In the private room, Wu Qimeng turned on the TV to order songs, with an open can of blue ribbons in his hand.Tu Wen only wore a printed shirt, dressed like a bum, and he was peeling an apple with a shiny knife, with a long strip hanging from the peel, trying to gossip with Wu Qimeng, but no one paid any attention to him.Tu Wen looked up to see people coming in, with a smile on his face, "Sister Liru!"

Go and sit down and wait for Shao Jinquan.Jiao Liru sat next to Hu Ziqiang, thinking he was the dullest, out of a woman's special psychology, she lowered her head to ask him a question, and then licked her finger.Jiao Liru took off her coat and her bust was impressive. Hu Ziqiang didn't know what to look for in her, so he just buried his head.Tu Wen rubbed Wu Qimeng's nose, and knowing what to do, he leaned over to chat with Lan Zhou, chopped up half of an apple and forced it for him to eat.Like a neighborhood committee, he asked Lanzhou about his family's situation, and when he heard that he was from the Yi nationality, he immediately became amused and asked, "Can he sing folk songs? Are the Yi girls pretty? What do the Yi people look like?" , getting closer, Lan Zhou moved back, shook his head and said: "That's the Zhuang nationality, they all have one nose and one mouth." Tu Wen laughed and patted his thigh: "Nonsense!"

Liu Yadong turned his head away after looking at Lan Zhou.I don't think so with Luo Hai and Hu Ziqiang—he can't see Lan Zhou talking too much in front of others.Even those words are not many.His eyes escaped to Wu Qimeng, and the fluorescence of the TV was neither blue nor purple, reflecting his ordinary facial features, making him appear bizarre.He squirmed with his mouth close to the microphone, humming Faye Wong's "Undercurrent".

Liu Yadong saw him cry with his own eyes, one drop, two drops, three drops in total, but he quickly wiped it away with the back of his hand.Nobody noticed.Wu Qimeng raised his head and booed at Liu Yadong.He wished he had kept it a secret.

"Then the sky was cloudy again."

Jinding Tea House is in the tea business, and the snacks are only available in four flavors: marinated edamame, salt-baked beef tongue, flavored duck feet, and plum tomatoes.Either canned or dry goods, cut to make a dish, almost no manpower is required.Old Tang was from Ningbo, he was in charge of Jinding's kitchen for Shao Jinquan, and it took a lot of effort to serve a table.Jiao Liru was afraid that Liu Yadong would be hungry, so she ordered the food ahead of time, and the waiter brought in a plate after a while, and the Eight Immortals table was filled with joy.Just as the last cup of soup was being served, Shao Jinquan came, his face flushed red.He took off his clothes and hung them on the hanger, Wen Wen said: "Boss Fu forcefully poured me a glass of white, there was nothing in my stomach, I really fainted immediately." He rubbed his hands and said, "Come on, let's all sit down. "

You can't say that this is a meaningless meal. The meaning is too big. Liu Yadong understands that he has to use his brain and chew every word.So Shao Jinquan asked if he would drink, but he made up his mind and said no, just water.Tu Wen got up and went out, and brought back a large bottle of coconut milk.On the top is an elegant ceiling lamp, which reflects Shao Jinquan's facial features in a patchwork pattern, bright and dark.

"Old Tang said that the recipe for burning fire and salty dishes can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, Wuyue." He knocked on the edge of the white plate, "Longjing Shrimp is the best tea used by Old Tang, try it, here, and this fish soup , I will serve you."

He stood up and took the bowl, "Principal Tan took me to eat Longhude Xiaozao, the meat and vegetables are salty, and the rice is not clean. I asked him, Old Tan, that your small stoves are of this level, what level can a big pot of rice be? How do the children swallow it?" Passing bowls of fish soup, Shao Jinquan filled half of it himself, drank a spoonful and said, "What did he say? He said that parents send their children to martial arts schools to endure hardship, not to come Happy."

"I'm pissed!" Tu Wen was embarrassed by the candied tangerines on the plate, and when he touched the chopsticks, they kept cutting and messing up.He followed Tangsi'er with his eyes, and said, "Huang Shiren has learned to find reasons for himself these days."

Jiao Liru glared at him and smiled, "Don't keep talking nonsense with your mouth open."

"I know! I will die because of this mouth in the future!" He smiled, and put the tangerine into Wu Qimeng's bowl.

When the word "death" was mentioned, the atmosphere was weird.Shao Jinquan wiped his mouth and called Wu Qimeng: "Adi."

Wu Qimeng poked a piece of chicken in the bowl with his chopsticks, raised his head slowly, and said with his real voice, "Huh?"

"I want to work with my brain in the code room, and the big account is under your hand." Shao Jinquan folded his arms: "You give me the exact answer, how many days will it take you to recover? To Zhouquan, don't come, I will lose my soul , I’ll settle the score with you for the wrong one.”

Wu Qimeng took a deep breath and answered the wrong question: "Li Simin just died."

"So? I'm not righteous."

He looked back and forth at the three of them, with hatred in his eyes.He gritted his teeth and said, "You changed your chess pieces too early?"

Jiao Liru picked a red date and chewed it, and said lightly: "Adi, you should understand that love is love, life is life."

"Just the three of them?" Wu Qimeng pointed.

"Didn't you also come here a little bit?" Shao Jinquan picked a piece of fish maw for him, "The three of them practice Sanda, why are you not convinced?"

Wu Qimeng put down his chopsticks, put his hands between his eyebrows and tilted his face, and stopped talking.

"Brother Quan, let me tell you." Tu Wen wiped his mouth, and turned to Liu Yadong, Lanzhou and Hu Ziqiang, "You can open the gambling table if you want, right? You have to be a big brother, otherwise you dare not open it, and you won't be able to open it." , No one dared to come when it was open, why? Afraid of investigation. Money and life are not safe.”

"Hong Kong and Macau call us red sticks and white fans. We mainlanders don't call them that. We call them mediators. It's just to see the situation. One is that no one is allowed to make trouble deliberately, and no one is allowed to cheat. The second is to open the market to prevent some water. Baccarat is a large market. One defense is not enough for us to prevent two. If there is any movement, we will seal the market. If the blocker comes, it will be impossible to check. The third is what? Collect water money, I won’t go into details about what it is. Anyway, what do we call it bluntly? Thugs, you need to be able to throw and hit hard.” Tu Wen slapped his hands on the table and grinned: “Understood?”

They didn't speak, only Hu Ziqiang asked: "...This, isn't this breaking the law...isn't it a gangster?"

Except for Lan Zhou and Liu Yadong, everyone laughed, laughing at this question is so stupid, laughing at him so stupidly cute.