Weed practice method

Chapter 12 Overnight

After saying goodbye to Jiang Mingxu at the entrance of the company, it happened to be the evening rush hour after get off work, the subway was packed like sardines, and you could smell the sour smell of sweat coming from the armpits of the uncle next to you.

Ye Tang struggled for a while and decided to find a restaurant on foot to have some food, and then take the subway home when the rush hour was staggered.

A person is wandering on the street listlessly, thinking about his future work, without the blessing of the aura of Phantom members, he is even more worthless.

All kinds of neon signs on the street began to light up one after another, and Ye Tang didn't have the desire to eat after seeing a few of them.

When passing by a high-end office building, I saw a thin figure in a gray robe coming out of the building from a distance, and a man with flower arms who was as strong as a Shandong man next to him nodded and bowed to help him open the glass door.

"Daozhang Li!" Ye Tang called him subconsciously, but soon realized that he didn't seem to know him very well either.

After Li Xuan said a few words to the big man with flowery arms, he walked over and said, "Are you discharged from the hospital?"

"Well, I just came back yesterday." Ye Tang looked at the office building in front of him, with the signboard of "Jin Huibang Small Loan Company" hanging on it, and asked in confusion, "Master, you... want to borrow money?"

"I'm here to make money."

Li Xuansu's calm face rarely showed helplessness and explained: "The Qingyun Palace in the back mountain has a statue of the Big Dipper plated with pure gold, and our Taoist believers are all attracted to it. The incense in the temple is greatly reduced, and the patriarch's spirit But he ordered me to go out of the mountain to make money, and to coat the statue of the Supreme Lord in the temple with gold."

Even the Taoist temples in the deep mountains and old forests are so fiercely competitive now!

Ye Tang blushed, counted with his fingers and said: "Now the gold is almost [-] grams per gram. If you plate a layer of gold from head to toe... hey, how big is your old gentleman?"

"Two meters high."

"Your patriarch is really embarrassing." Ye Tang smiled awkwardly: "Even if you sell yourself to a small loan company, you still can't get that much money."

"I'm here to make money." Li Xuan emphasized again: "They have something to ask me to come over."

"I understand. I won't disturb your business. Bye." Ye Tang waved his hand and left, but Li Xuan stopped him after a few steps. Ye Tang turned his head and met his calm lake-like pupils.

Li Xuan said, "I see that you are not in a good mood."

"It's very bad." Ye Tang said with a wry smile.

He deliberately raised his eyebrows to tease Li Xuan: "I'm planning to drink away my worries now, Daoist Li, do you want to come?"

"Okay." Li Xuan calmly followed Ye Tang's pace with his hands behind his hands, and the cuffs of his Taoist robe fluttered gently in the evening wind, like a butterfly lingering on flowers in the mountains and fields.

Considering that cultivators always pay attention to health preservation, spicy and fishy dishes are probably difficult to eat, so Ye Tang chose a Huaiyang restaurant with elegant decoration and light dishes. In fact, he still wanted to sit on the side of the road and drink skewers beer.

The two sat face to face in the booth by the window, Ye Tang asked the waiter to open three bottles of beer before the food was served.

"Daoist, do you quit drinking? You are not a monk, you should be able to drink and eat meat." Ye Tang picked up the glass and filled it with beer and pushed it in front of Li Xuan.

"There are no precepts, but drinking alcohol is harmful to your body and practice." Li Xuan picked up the kettle on the table and poured himself a glass of plain water, and said unhurriedly: "Your injury is still not healed, I suggest you don't drink it either. "

"If you don't want to drink, I'll drink it myself." Ye Tang boredly took the glass of beer in front of Li Xuan and drank it down. Li Xuan frowned slightly and looked at him without speaking.

After the dishes were all served, Ye Tang picked up a few chopsticks to taste each dish and felt that the taste was too bland. He was depressed and lost his appetite, so he pushed all the dishes in front of Li Xuan: "Don't be polite, Daoist Li, I'll give you all to eat. "

The dishes prepared by the chef in the restaurant are naturally much better than Guanli's random pot of clear soup with little water. Li Xuan, who usually eats less, unconsciously ate a little more.

Unknowingly, there were already two bottles of beer empty in front of Ye Tang. He hiccupped and looked at Li Xuan with his chin in his right hand, looking at Li Xuan with some confusion, "Daozhang Li, I have always had a question, how old are you?"

Li Xuan replied without hesitation: "43."

"Hey...it's so well maintained, it looks younger than me, so teach me how to do it." Ye Tang couldn't help but sigh.

Suddenly he stood up and put his face in front of Li Xuan across the table, the tips of their noses were almost touching.

Li Xuan's eyes widened and he leaned back in a panic, but he could still smell the alcohol on his face.

"You can't see any wrinkles from a close look." Ye Tang looked at Li Xuan's face carefully before sitting down contentedly and continuing to drink.

Then Ye Tang began to ramble: "I can't do it anymore. I have worked hard to take care of my skin, but now if I smile too hard, there will be fine lines around my eyes... The idol is old at 30 years old, and he is not likable anymore. There are fewer and fewer fans."

As he spoke, his eyes became sad for a while, and his eye circles became wet. Afraid of being laughed at by Li Xuan, who was opposite him, he quickly picked up the wine bottle and took a sip of beer.

"He who eats qi will live long, and he who does not eat will not die and become a god. I practice alchemy and cultivate my body so that I will not grow old." Li Xuan snatched the wine bottle from Ye Tang's hand and put it on the ground: "Indulging in alcohol and eating will naturally accelerate the aging of the body, you should be more Love your body."

Ye Tang gripped his hair with both hands irritably and complained: "But I'm under a lot of pressure and don't know how to deal with it. I used to smoke when I was young, but I was scolded by sister Aida, saying that smoking hurts my throat and being photographed by paparazzi is bad for my image. You can only feel better if you drink..."

Speaking of this, Ye Tang's tears rolled down his cheeks without disappointment, and he lay down on the table, buried his face in his arms and choked up: "I quit smoking, stopped dating, and learned to sing, dance and act in order to become an idol, but in the end I got nothing. , now even the Phantom is gone, ten years of painstaking efforts are gone..."

Looking at the helpless crying man in front of him, Li Xuan panicked for a moment. He couldn't coax people or say comforting words. After hesitating for a while, he opened a bottle of beer and pushed it to Ye Tang, saying, "Go ahead and drink, I'll let you drink." I won't stop you."

Ye Tang's wine quality is not very good. When he is drunk, he likes to talk non-stop by himself, and he will cry when he is sad, as if he wants to vent all the tears that he has held back on weekdays.

When Li Xuan helped Ye Tang out of the restaurant, he was already so drunk that he couldn't stand still. He leaned on the wall with one hand and tightly grasped Li Xuan's arm with the other before he could walk.

Li Xuan kept complaining in his heart, why did he agree to accompany him to drink, he wanted to come up and slap himself, but it's a pity that the drunkard Ye Tang couldn't get out with both hands.

Li Xuan stopped a taxi by the side of the road and stuffed Ye Tang into the back seat. Seeing that he was so drunk and worried, he hesitated and followed him into the car.

As the car drove slowly, Ye Tang half-closed his blurred eyes, his head drooped weakly and gently leaned on Li Xuan's shoulder.

Ye Tang sniffed his nose and murmured, "Daozhang Li, your body... really smells... the same as in the temple... smells..." As he spoke, he stretched out his hands to wrap around Li Xuan's waist, brought the tip of his nose to his neck and continued to smell , the whole person hugs Li Xuan like a koala.

At this moment, Li Xuan's whole body had indeed become stiff like a tree, and his usual calm eyes began to become a little loose.He subconsciously wanted to push Ye Tang away, but his body seemed to be frozen and he couldn't move.

Ye Tang's warm breath fell gently on his neck, like a cat's paw piercing the calm of a lake, and ripples appeared in his heart.

Not long after, Ye Tang suddenly frowned and snorted softly, he withdrew his hands back to Li Xuan and shrank to the car door.

"What's wrong?" Li Xuan asked puzzled.

"Stomach pain, it's nothing serious, I have stomach medicine at home." Ye Tang insisted, frowning.

The sudden stomach pain made his head clearer, thinking that he had just foolishly hugged Li Xuan just now, Ye Tang wished he could find a crack in the ground and slip in there.

Since he grew up in the mountains, he was surrounded by fellow students who cultivated his body and mind. It was the first time in many years that Li Xuanhuo saw such a person who didn't care about his body. He couldn't help but sighed a long way.

The car drove into the old city and stopped slowly at the Tongzilou where Ye Tang lived. Li Xuan sent Ye Tang home and asked him to sit and rest on the sofa first.

"Where is the medicine?" Li Xuan asked.

"In the drawer of the nightstand on the left."

Drunk, dizzy and stomach upset, Ye Tang leaned on the sofa and took a pillow and put it on his stomach to press it. After taking the medicine that Li Xuan handed him, he felt better.

I was also ashamed to delay Li Xuan for too long, Ye Tang insisted and said: "Daoist Li, go back, I'm sorry to trouble you to take me home, I don't have much energy to entertain you now, next time I come to my house, I will treat you warmly."

After that, he frowned in pain and fell asleep in a daze.

I don’t know how long I’ve been sleeping in this drowsy state. In the middle of the haze, Ye Tang vaguely felt that the pillow on his stomach was removed, and a hand was pressed against his upper left abdomen through his clothes, rubbing it moderately, and there seemed to be a warm current flowing through the skin. Drilling into my stomach, it made my already bloated stomach feel much more comfortable.

Ye Tang's frown gradually relaxed. He didn't open his eyes and continued to pretend to sleep until his stomach pain was gone. Then he closed his eyes and asked tentatively, "Daozhang Li?"

"I'm here."

Ye Tang opened his clear eyes. The lights in the room were bright and dazzling. He covered his eyes with his hand and asked, "Why haven't you left yet? What time is it?"

Picking up the phone and seeing that it was already [-]:[-] in the night, she sat up straight from the sofa in shock: "It's so late, you..."

"Seeing your stomach ache, I can't just walk away." Li Xuan said.

"Daozhang Li, you are really a good person." After the stomachache stopped, Ye Tang regained his energy immediately, and said with a smile, "Where is your Taoist temple? I will donate incense money to you when I have time."

"Jiangxi Longhu Mountain."

"Is it that far away?" Ye Tang said in amazement, he couldn't help imagining how the deep mountains and old forests could cultivate a person like Li Xuan.

Ye Tang suddenly thought that Li Xuan would still be doing business tomorrow, but it would not be good to drive people away so late, so he said to him: "Why don't you sleep here tonight, I'll give you the bed, and I'll sleep on the sofa .”

Ye Tang went to the bedroom, opened the wardrobe, took out the spare quilt and pillow, poked his head and said to Li Xuan in the living room, "I'll replace you with a new pillow and quilt, both of which are clean."

Li Xuan immediately got up and walked to the entrance and said, "No need, I'll go back to sleep."

Hearing this, Ye Tang put down the quilt in his hand and rushed out to push him into the bedroom: "Don't be polite to me, it will be dawn after a while, how can you have time to rest when you go back at this time."

Seeing his distressed face, Ye Tang asked cautiously, "Daozhang Li, do you have a cleanliness habit or bed obsession?"

"No, just..."

"That's it." Ye Tang kept tidying the mattress with his hands, and quickly spread out the new pillows and quilt, then walked to the living room with his original quilt in his arms, closing the door and saying: " Good night, Daoist."

Li Xuan lowered his eyes and showed a helpless smile. He claimed that he had never been entangled in anything in his life, but he couldn't do anything about this kind of jumping-off person.

The next morning, Ye Tang, who was in a drowsy sleep, accidentally rolled over and fell off the sofa and woke up.

He rubbed his eyes and found that he was lying on the ground with the quilt between his hands, and the door of the bedroom was already opened. He couldn't help being surprised: "Daozhang Li won't sneak away."

Ye Tang hurriedly got up and ran to the door of the bedroom, and saw that Li Xuan had folded the quilt and was sitting cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed and meditating.

Afraid of disturbing his practice, Ye Tang secretly packed up the bedding and put them on the sofa first, and then began to wash up and make breakfast. Li Xuan probably was disturbed by the sound of pots and pans, and quickly walked out of the room.

"Morning Li Daochang!" Ye Tang grabbed a handful of noodles and put them in the pan and said, "I put the toiletries on the sink for you. They are disposable and you can throw them away after you use them up." Forgot to draw a smiley face on the plated pasta with the tomato sauce.

"No, I should draw a Tai Chi, Li Daochang will definitely like it." Ye Tang grabbed the ketchup and changed the original smiling face into a Tai Chi logo abruptly.

Originally, Li Xuan ate less in the temple, because of the bigu relationship, he never ate breakfast, and occasionally he would eat a little in the evening every other day.He repeatedly evaded and said, "I don't need to eat bigu."

"Fart, ass?" Ye Tang looked at him suspiciously: "Li Daochang, what are you talking about, of course you eat with your mouth."

Li Xuan's face was dark and he didn't want to explain to him again, but Ye Tangru said in a long-winded manner like his mother: "People are iron and steel, so how can you do without food? Not eating is also harmful to the body."

Li Xuan had no choice but to barely sit at the dining table, and saw that the golden pasta was covered with red circles.

"What is this..." Li Xuan frowned and asked.

"Spaghetti, I also drew a Tai Chi pattern for you, but the tomato sauce was pasted together without drawing it properly."

Although the price was a bit off, but the taste was not bad, Li Xuan bit the bullet and ate half of it.

At this time, Ye Tang received a call from Zhao Peng, saying that the company was going to hold a press conference to announce the disbandment of Phantom in a few days, and asked him to rest at home for the next two days.

Ye Tang's good mood early in the morning became heavy after hearing the word "disbanded". Waiting for the press conference at home was as difficult as waiting for death. If he had no job before, he could still ask Jiang Mingxu and Lin Runzhi to play together. I can't even speak now.

"Li Daochang, I'll drive you to Jin Huibang later." Ye Tang asked tentatively.

"No, I'll go by myself."

"The subway is very crowded in the morning, you might as well take my car instead of taking a taxi." Ye Tang said still unwillingly.

"If you want to follow along, just say it." Li Xuan glanced at him and shook his head helplessly.

After his thoughts were seen through, Ye Tang smiled awkwardly and said, "I haven't worked these days, and it's boring to stay at home by myself. I'll just follow along and watch the excitement so I don't disturb your business."

At Li Xuan's request, Ye Tang drove him to the hotel opposite Jin Huibang's office building to pick up the magic weapon. That was the place where Jin Huibang's boss arranged accommodation for Li Xuan.

Ye Tang watched Li Xuan drag out the snakeskin bag of "agricultural organic fertilizer" from the hotel room. How awkward it is to hold it and look at it."

The two of them only need to walk across a road from the hotel to the office building of Jin Huibang Small Loan Company.

Standing at the door was a burly man with bronzed muscles in a black racerback vest. Seeing Li Xuanlai, he quickly opened the glass door and said, "Follow me, please."

Jin Huibang's offices are only on the sixth and seventh floors. After the elevator doors opened and a few people walked in, Ye Tang somehow felt that the elevator was very oppressive. The interior of the elevator was nailed up with thick wooden boards, which made people feel very dull.

Ye Tang couldn't help asking, "Is there any company decoration here? The elevator protection board is quite thick."

"There is no decoration." The big man with flower arms said with a complicated look on his face: "Our company paid for the door guard to install the protective plate. You will know the specific reason later."

Ye Tang dragged his pockets and followed behind Li Xuan, sneaking peeks at the coiled dragon tattoo on the big man's arm all the way. When he got out of the elevator, he accidentally tripped over the broom handle protruding from the ground, staggered a few steps and almost fell down.

"Hey, Mrs. Sun, why did you put the broom at the door of the elevator? It almost knocked all the guests down." The big man with the flowery arm blamed the old lady standing in the corner with a rough voice.

Mrs. Sun was very hunchbacked, and Ye Tang and the others couldn't see her head from behind. They could only see her back protruding high as if a frying pan was on it.

She was bending over to water the fortune tree in the corner, and she was still muttering something, when she heard the big man with colorful arms accusing her, she hurried over to apologize to Ye Tang: "I'm sorry, young man, my memory is not very good , forgot to put away the broom."

"It's okay, it's my own carelessness, grandma, you are busy with your work." Ye Tang picked up the broom and handed it to Old Madam Sun.

"I have to apply for a cleaning job at such an old age. I can't do this well." The big man with flower arms muttered dissatisfiedly, and took Li Xuan and Ye Tang directly to the general manager's office.

The owner of Jin Huibang Microfinance Company is surnamed Gao. He looks like he is in his 40s and is not tall. With a pair of glasses on his thin face, he looks like a shrewd businessman.

When Boss Gao saw Li Xuan walking into the office, he quickly got up to greet him and said, "Li Daochang, I have already called out the surveillance, so I will take you to watch it." As he spoke, he did not forget to look at Ye who was standing silently behind Li Xuan, dragging a snakeskin bag. Tang asked: "This is..."

"I'm Daoist Li's assistant." Ye Tang said first.

Boss Gao thought about it and said, "Young man, you look familiar, you look like a celebrity."

Ye Tang smiled embarrassedly, thinking that this person probably watched his own variety show, in order not to affect Li Xuan's work, Ye Tang put on a mask to prevent being recognized by other young employees.

When passing by the doors of various offices, Boss Gao did not forget to open the doors one by one to introduce. "This is the office of the business department, responsible for attracting customers to make loans, and it is also the main force of our company."

The business department is quite noisy, most of the employees are on the phone to do business, seeing Boss Gao standing at the door, he just takes a look and nods and continues to busy with his work.

Boss Gao took them to the collection department again, and the moment they opened the office door, there was a sense of bitterness and hatred.Several employees were even on the phone in an intimidating and threatening tone.

Boss Gao explained: "This department is quite special, because many people fail to repay their loans, so the collection department is responsible for making phone calls or sending lawyers' letters to urge the debtors and their families to repay the loans."

Ye Tang frowned and asked, "Is the collection attitude so bad?"

Boss Gao said: "It's not bad, there's nothing we can do about it. Some old Lai won't pay back the money even if their credit reports are blackmailed. We can only try our best to ask for money." He pointed to the big man with colorful arms not far away and said: " Yongzi is also in the collection department, and is responsible for door-to-door debt collection. There were originally two other people, and they happened to go out to collect debts today."

"Could this be a usury company?" Ye Tang blurted out, covered his mouth immediately, and looked at Boss Gao in fear.

"We are a formal microfinance company that has been listed, not a low-grade private usury."

Boss Gao was not angry either, and patiently explained to Ye Tang: "Don't look at them. We are all civilized to ask for debts and guarantee that we didn't hit anyone. We just scare the debtors, so there is still a lot of money to be released to collect. not coming back."

Several people walked to the door of a small office. Boss Gao opened the door and asked Li Xuan and Ye Tang to go in. He led them to the computer and said, "This is the Human Resources Department, but the monitoring is also managed here. Someone has called out the records from the office two weeks ago."

Boss Gao motioned to a female employee to play the surveillance video, then turned the computer screen to Li Xuan to show him: "Mr. Li, that's why I invited you here."

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