Buddy

The two of them lit cigarettes, turned their faces away, and walked slowly on the street, looking at the surroundings. The overall environment must be considered when decorating. It must be eye-catching, but also not out of place with the surroundings.

The street where the shop is located is old Xin Zhuo's acquaintance.He has lived here for nearly ten years.

It used to be an old two-story townhouse, with clumps of wires pulling outside the building, and small advertisements pasted on the wooden poles.The wooden stairs in the building creaked and creaked when stepped on, and the corridor lights were not installed. It was dark, and there was only one external toilet on the first floor. Sheets coat underwear.

In the large suite of more than 30 square meters, a family of four was crowded, and there was no place to turn around.In summer, he, his younger brother and Gu Zhen spread a mat on the floor and used it as a bed.

But now that they live in a spacious place and moved to a small concrete high-rise, they always feel that something is missing.

On the huge screen in the pedestrian street next to it, clips of a celebrity's concert and public service advertisements are being played.The sound effect is not good and there is a beeping noise, and Xin Zhuo sees a group of SBs yelling and waving their hands.

Xinzhuo stood under the electronic screen, looking up with his neck up.People have changed, they have grown up, they have realized their dreams, life must be better, and they no longer need him as a lagging brother.

The little boy who once hid under his wings and followed behind his ass now has a huge fan base, followed by thousands of men and women of all ages.

Chang Tuhao just glanced at it and lost interest, and said, "That's your brother?"

Xin Zhuo turned his neck, and the bones made a cracking sound, he asked stiffly: "Who said that?"

Chang Tuhao rolled his eyelids: "Sorry, it's a rule of our family to check out each other's details before we cooperate. I'm sorry if it makes you unhappy."

Even if Xin Zhuo was depressed, he couldn't get angry in the face of Chang Tuhao's polite demeanor, and even if Chang Tuhao's identity was not clearly stated, he was not an ordinary rich man.That kind of family is very careful in doing things, and they don't know the details of the other party, so how can they easily throw out the contract.

Chang Tuhao glanced at the figure on the screen again, and asked abruptly, "Did you go to Congo, Africa to do a project?"

Old Xinzhuo nodded, he will never forget the place where the birds don't shit.

Chang Tuhao didn't make a sound, looked at his watch and said, "I still have something to do, let's go first. Your design has come out and sent to my mailbox. Thank you."

Old Xin Zhuo grinned: "Mr. Chang, that matter is a matter of little effort. It's enough for you to introduce me to the job, don't say thank you. It's me who should say thank you."

Chang Tuhao smiled lightly, with the corners of his mouth curled up, and said softly, "I wanted to say thank you a long time ago. Don't call me Mr. Chang again. See you next time."

Old Xinzhuo stood there for a long time, not thinking clearly what Chang Tuhao was talking about, touched the top of Cunshou's head, turned and left.The brain structure of this rich man is different from that of ordinary people, and he has no time to think about it.

……

When I got home, my parents, who were in the old business, had already sold out and came back early. They were sitting at home counting money, and the room smelled like fish.

The table is covered with dime notes and steel coins.The old man had a wrinkled face, eyelids that could not be opened by the beatings of wind and frost, and rough fingers with wrinkled and dry skin smoothed out the ten-cent notes.

My mother also changed her usual cute style, counting coins one by one, putting them in a plastic bag to take to the bank.

"Xin Zhuo, you're back, have you eaten yet?" Mom stood up and went to ask for something to eat.

Xin Zhuo hummed muffledly, "I've eaten."

Dad just glanced at Xin Zhuo with his old eyes, opened his mouth for a long time, and said: "What kind of decoration company do you open, do you need money? Your mother has it, you can borrow it from her, and the Gu family also helped us. Little, Xiaozhen is also getting married and is waiting to use the money, so don't always cause trouble for others."

Mom glared at his wife, the rest of the money is the coffin book!She saves it for Xinzhuo to marry a wife, and to carry on the family line in her hometown, is it easy for her?

Xin Zhuo's throat trembled. He once thought that he could bring a stable life to his parents, but who knew it would become like this.

The father winked at the mother, and the mother quickly said: "Xin Zhuo, the one introduced by Aunt Li is not bad. She is about the same age as you, and has never found a partner. The girl's family conditions are poor, her education is not high, and she looks good." It’s not bad, she works as a waiter in a fashion store. She doesn’t have any requirements for the man, she just wants to be honest, she likes tall people, and she wants to be pleasing to the eye..."

Xin Zhuo coughed.Are you about the same age as yourself, and haven't found a partner in your 30s?

My mother continued: "Why don't you meet? The girl also heard that you have committed crimes. She is not a civil servant and doesn't care about it. If you want to meet, just make an appointment. It's not like a formal blind date. Your Aunt Li When they come up with an idea, the two of them don't say hello in the supermarket, they recognize each other's faces, and contact each other if they like it, and it doesn't hurt face if they don't like it."

Xinzhuo was a little impatient, he didn't want to think about this kind of thing, "Mom, let's talk about it later."

He doesn't have a career, he doesn't even have a proper job, and if he finds a girlfriend, isn't that a burden to others.

The old man sighed, and said: "As the old saying goes, to start a family and start a business, get married first and then start a business. Don't dislike the poor conditions of other people's families. Just be a clean person."

Xin Zhuo laughed dryly, if his parents knelt down and begged him for something he didn't agree to, it would be impossible.

Pushing open the door of her bedroom, Xin Zhuo threw herself on the bed, and her mother's nagging sound came in through the crack of the door, "Let me just say, I was killed by that Lin, and I still miss it. What should I do, I am thirty years old... That little fairy named Lin will destroy our family!"

"Keep your voice down, what are you talking about. It's been so many years, what do you ask her to do. Go, go shopping, wait for someone to come to play cards, clean up the house, open two tables today, I said you don't want to play , just help to look at it, my cards are smelly, and the fire is back, what are you playing at the table?"

My parents in my hometown opened an activity center at home, and they didn't gamble too much. They were all old men and women in the neighborhood. The participants of the two tables of mahjong only had one or two hundred yuan in their pockets, and the police station didn't care about them.The old couple finished their work in the morning, rested in the afternoon, and had nothing to do. They charged 200 yuan for a table, and the food money for the day came out.

Xin Zhuo was annoyed by the voices outside, but he also understood that being able to hear his parents nagging was a kind of happiness, right? When he was locked up, he could only see each other once in a few months, and he couldn't hear the other party even if he wanted to.

The landline at home also came to add to the chaos and kept ringing.Xin Zhuo wanted to pick up the extension, but his mother picked up the phone one step faster.

Xin Zhuo was lying on the bed and heard his mother shouting to someone outside: "Ah, you are still a teacher, do you want to lose face? Isn't my family Xin Zhuo not hurt enough by you..."

Xin Zhuo picked up the extension and shouted out: "Mom, I'll answer it."

My mother was so angry that she wanted to smash the phone, but it was her own money, and she had to spend money to buy a new one, so she had to buckle the phone heavily, which made Xin Zhuo's eardrums go numb.

Lin Xiaoxiao's long-lost voice sounded on the other end of the phone: "Xin Zhuo, I have something to ask you, can you come out?"

Whether the ex-girlfriend is dead or alive has nothing to do with Xinzhuo, and he doesn't want to continue to entangle with Lin Xiaoxiao, so he said in a cold voice: "Let's stop contacting. Don't call my house anymore, my parents The heart is not good, if you make some kind of disease, everyone will have a hard time."

Lin Xiaoxiao's voice fluttered, and she was so patient that Xin Zhuo could even hear the other party's breath.

"Xin Zhuo, I really have something urgent... about your brother!"

Old Xinzhuo was stunned for a while while holding the phone, his younger brother is now in Sun Tianxiang's hand, Lin Xiaoxiao is Sun Tianxiang's current girlfriend, although old Xinyue unilaterally severed the brotherhood and parental upbringing, but in the end He is the younger brother in his household registration book.

He doesn't have the ability to protect old Xinyue now, let alone old Xinyue doesn't need his protection at all.

"If you want to talk about anything, just talk on the phone."

"It's not convenient to talk on the phone, Xinzhuo, can you come out once?"

Xinzhuo sneered: "Lin Xiaoxiao, you call so many times, you know what's going on, and I can guess a little bit, but it's wrong for you to involve old Xinyue. Let me tell you, old Xinyue He's not my brother now. If you want to talk, talk, if you don't, hang up, and don't call me in the future. In the past, it was not easy for everyone to tear faces, but now there is no face to talk about."

Lin Xiaoxiao hesitated for a while, sobbing softly over there: "Xin Zhuo, I..."

Old Xinzhuo hung up the phone before finishing listening, the ex-fiancée really had nothing else to say except causing trouble.

……

Old Xinzhuo was asked out again by Chang Tuhao today. This time, Chang Tuhao invited Lao Xinzhuo to a high-end coffee shop in the city. You can only enter the store by swiping your face card.

Xin Zhuo thought that Chang Tuhao had taken a fancy to the style of this store, so he carefully looked at the decoration design and the details.It is as big as the overall style, as small as the table decoration, the color of the tablecloth and the type of music played in the store.

Sitting on the sofa, Chang Tuhao raised his eyelids lazily: "I just invite you to drink coffee."

Xinzhuo sat up straight: "Mr. Chang, you always invite me, how can you be so embarrassed, besides, the coffee money will not be counted as the design fee."

Chang Tuhao snorted coldly, snapped his fingers, called a waiter, and said, "The black tea here is also good, why don't you try it, it's not so greasy with cheese."

Xin Zhuo glanced at Chang Tuhao speechlessly.

During this time, Chang Tuhao always asked him out, sometimes to discuss business, and sometimes to take him to sit in various styles of stores. At first, he thought that he wanted him to learn some experience in other store decoration, but seeing It doesn't look like it.

Chang Tuhao ordered cake and black tea, leaned back on the sofa, pulled off his tie, and closed his eyes.

Chang Tuhao, whom Xin Zhuo saw, always looked like an elite in a suit and leather shoes, but today Chang Tuhao looked extraordinarily tired, and even his handsome face didn't look handsome anymore.

"What's the matter, busy with work?"

How could it be possible for the CEO to just wander around all day long with nothing to do.Xin Zhuo reckoned that this guy was just a rich second generation, who used a false name in the company to eat and drink, and sat and waited to die.

Chang Tuhao opened his eyes and said, "Old worker..."

Xin Zhuo's fingers were trembling, and he quickly waved his hands: "Mr. Chang, don't call me that, my engineer's license has been revoked long ago."

Chang Tuhao nodded: "Don't call me Mr. Chang, you are older than me, Brother Zhuo?"

Xinzhuo: "President, don't play with us."

Chang Tuhao shook his head, and stuffed a cushion behind his waist, "Brother Zhuo, don't you think it's awkward to talk like that? I know it's awkward because of Sun Tianxiang, but he's him, and I'm me. Save me More than me, we shouldn't be born to such a degree just because of this."

Xin Zhuo shook his head, and said heartlessly: "It has nothing to do with that grandson. Mr. Chang... Actually, you really don't need to be so fussy. I didn't mean to save you at that time. I'll tell you the truth, I thought you If you ran into Qiangzi and the others, you were going to run away, and we as a small family really can't afford the medical expenses."

Hearing this, Chang Tuhao's eyelids almost fell flat, the corners of his tense mouth were drawn into a straight line, his cheeks twitched, and the coffee in his hand would have spilled out if it wasn't for the public.

Xin Zhuo grinned: "This is the truth."

"Are you not afraid that I will take back the list and not give it to you?"

Xin Zhuo shrugged: "It doesn't matter, anyway, I have spent a lot of time, and in the field of engineering decoration, how could I not meet a few running orders. Let's put the ugly words first, so as not to make mistakes in the future, and start work , if you pick me up again, our little engineering team can't afford it."

Chang Tuhao nodded: "It is said that Brother Zhuo is a straightforward person, and he never sloppily speaks and does things. It is true. Since you have told the truth, then I will say the same. I thank you not because you saved me that night. At that time, I I have already contacted the car dealership and technicians, and they gave me the fastest response, if you hadn't jumped on the roof of my car and entered the cab, my car would not have been scrapped!"

Xin Zhuo: "..."

Chang Tuhao leaned on the back of the sofa, rubbed his knuckles, his eyelids were twitching, and said slowly, "Forget about the debt. I didn't ask you for the decoration of the store just to repay the favor. You know that the street Mixing fish and eyes is not peaceful, I hate troublesome things the most, and I can save a lot of trouble if I leave it to you, you know?"

Xin Zhuo's face was twitching, his old heart was hurt, can he not understand?That street used to be his territory, and now there are not many famous people in that street who dare not give him face.He just doesn't make troubles and doesn't mix in which way, otherwise the old bears on the street will recognize him as their big brother.

But this sounds strange, Chang Tuhao's family will just sit back and watch?Xin Zhuo felt that with the background of Chang Tuhao's family, not to mention bastards, even real gangsters, social and social people can be settled, so why should he go?

Chang Tuhao: "I opened this store myself, and it has nothing to do with my family."

Now Xin Zhuo understood everything, Chang Tuhao opened the store without telling his family, so naturally he didn't want his family to know and intervene.

Chang Tuhao then asked, "Does your engineering team have decoration qualifications?"

Xinzhuo shook his head: "There are people who are alive in the team that builds signs on the street, and no one needs any qualifications if they are not alive."

Chang Tuhao didn't speak, but just picked up the cold coffee and drank it.

Soothing music comes, the room is filled with the rich aroma of coffee, with the sweetness of pastries, the sun is shining brightly outside the window, and the room is warm.

Chang Tuhao said after a long while, "I'm going back to City B tomorrow. I'll call your account for the preliminary decoration payment, and you are fully responsible. Call me if you need anything."