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Yan Keji permed his head full of curly hair, dyeing it blue-purple.Sitting in the hair salon, he asked Guan Zang, "Does it look good?" Guan Zang said, "It looks good."Instead, he scolded "Are you blind?" After scolding, he had a big fight with the hairdressing director, thinking that the color was dyed wrong.After that, I dressed like a shining lady, brought toiletries and snacks, and drove on the road with Guan Zang.

"The only thing missing is a dog." He said, "The noble ladies in the movies all hug dogs." After that, he closed his head and said, "I'll take you with me."

Guan Zang took a little bit of Alice's ashes, put them in a small bottle, and went to the seaside, to the place where Alice was born.It can't be considered far, the train is seven or eight hours, afraid of being stopped by his grandfather, I will drive instead, stop and go, and I should arrive in two days with an overnight stay.

"I used to live with my mother in a coastal city for a year, and Alice was born there. Oh, I also met Uncle Ma there," Guan Zang told him, "He used to be my mother's doctor, and my mother listened to him very much. Then, when my condition became serious, my grandfather recruited Uncle Ma from the nursing home to be our doctor—also for my mental health."

"Then your Uncle Ma...won't you treat your mother...I guess, or treat you like your own son?" He opened the snack bag, opened a bag of puffed food, and threw it into his mouth to chew.

Guan Zang smiled: "I really want Uncle Ma to be with my mother. He treats both of us very well. The year over there was the happiest time for me and my mother. It's a pity that he hinders the doctors and patients." It’s her identity, and then my mother met someone else there and gave birth to Alice.”

"Uncle Ma regretted it to death."

"But he is still my mother's most trusted person. She said that after she got sick, only Uncle Ma listened to her most patiently and gently, and only Uncle Ma believed her—others, including my grandfather, thought that what she said when she was sick was crazy. "

"And what about Alice's father?"

At the toll booth, Guanzang parked his car and waited in line for a while. He said: "He is a very romantic person. He said he was a wandering artist. No matter what my mother said, he listened carefully. My mother said that I hope there is an angel to protect me, so he just You're right, angels do exist, and you are."

He eats puffed food with a click and doesn't speak.Guan Zang glanced at him, and laughed: "Is it nasty? But my mother is very happy, and no one has ever said such romantic words to her. But he knew that my mother disappeared after she was pregnant. Grandpa was furious and scolded Uncle Ma, Scolding my mother, saying that I can't keep this child. My mother forced her to die, so Alice was born."

After waiting less than 10 minutes to leave the toll booth, they drove onto the expressway.Departure in the afternoon, it is expected to arrive in a nearby city in three hours and stay for one night.If you dare not use your ID card to stay in a hotel, you can find a B&B.Yan Keji went for a stroll in the shopping mall, and as Christmas approached, his ears were full of "jingle bells".He asked Guan Zang to buy him a dark red velvet off-the-shoulder tight skirt with three-quarter sleeves, and he took a fancy to a pair of snakeskin short boots with slender heels that could be used as a murder weapon.Another bottle of "fairy water" was slapped on the face that night.Lie on the bed and apply the mask, and don't forget to ask Guan Zang to cut the mask carefully with scissors, avoiding the injured part of the face.

The new sister called him and said that a senior started a business in another place and opened a studio, but there was a shortage of people, and asked him if he could go.He said that I am now a desperate mandarin duck, and I can't go.The new sister scolded him, and finally said, can you still dance for a lifetime?Don't you think about your future?

He thought for a long time, and asked Guan Zang: "What will you do in the future, Guan Xiaohei?"

Guan Zang said, "No, I want to stay by your side."

He kicked Guan Zang: "Don't let me be imprisoned with you. Why don't you write a book 'one more step and one more corpse' and think of yourself as a swordsman? Why don't you write 'Ten steps kill a man a thousand miles away How about Liu Xing'! Can your grandfather believe it? If you don't hear it, you will kill me first?!"

Guan Zang said firmly: "Grandpa doesn't believe it, but Uncle Ma will. He knows I'm not lying—I haven't forgotten the agreement with Keji, but I need to prepare some necessary means when necessary." Sunscreen".

He kept silent, and held the small urn in his hand. It was a small sky blue porcelain bottle, and said it was the same color as the small dress Alice wore when she left."Do you have anything else from Alice?" he asked.

Guan Zang took out a small sachet from his pocket: "My mother made it on my last birthday." It was still sky blue, embroidered with English Alice, a combination of local and foreign.The interlayer was quite thick, and the spices in the filling had no taste. He pinched it, but he didn't realize that there was something inside.Although the mouth was tight, it could be opened, but Yan Ke didn't open it, so he returned it to Guan Zang.

"I can tell. Your grandfather just doesn't let you fall in love freely. He likes to beat mandarin ducks with sticks. Then you can't let your own daughter be beaten like this. Doesn't it feel bad at all?" He turned over and almost jumped up, "If Wang Qiu dares Hit Yan Renjing that bastard, let alone why, I can move his head tomorrow!"

The mask almost fell off, Guan Zang put it back on him carefully.

"He was deceived by my dad for a long time. At that time, my dad had already taken over the class of my grandfather, and my grandfather retired. We are not together in work and life, and we only go back to my grandfather's house three or four times a year—" Guan Zang recalled, " My grandfather never thought that he would treat him like his own son, and the family who had lived for several years would hold such a big complaint in their hearts and still remain silent."

The son-in-law has worked under Guan Jingyuan for more than ten years, and Guan Jingyuan, who has no son after marrying, trained him as his successor.Qian Zhunwan told him that Le Hua would be handed over to him only for this one daughter. Anyway, she is not short of money, so she can feel at ease to let her look after the children at home, and not to go out if she can, so as not to be gossiped.The son-in-law is honest and taciturn, and never says "no" to the father-in-law.Sometimes when I go to work with a wound on my face, when I ask him what's wrong, he just smiles, the smile is quite bitter, and says "as long as the child is fine".Gradually, rumors spread in the factory, saying that Guan Lehua had mental sequelae, beat the children and beat the old men, and her old men were really good people, and they would not fight back.

Guan Lehua stabbed her son-in-law, and the stabbed son-in-law got a few stitches and was discharged from the hospital. Guan Jingyuan was scolded for several days, saying that he used his power to marry off his crazy daughter and bully honest people.Guan Lehua was sent to other places for recuperation, and Guan Zang was picked up by her son-in-law within a few days. It was not until she was sent to the factory hospital because of severe vomiting that Guan Jingyuan knew that her daughter, who had been sick for only two years after leaving her, said Not necessarily all crazy talk.

The son-in-law was beaten up by someone from Guan Jingyuan, but there was nothing he could do about it. It was he who made the son-in-law the new leader with his own hands, and his back was much tougher than before.Everyone else spoke to the son-in-law: It is not illegal to beat your wife and son, so who doesn't?The police don't care.Besides, your daughter still has some "problems", so it must not have been beaten for no reason. After the end, your daughter stabbed someone, so it's all evened out.Can a child be trusted when he says he takes medicine?Maybe I ate something indiscriminately and lied.

"So you don't eat hot food, and you still vomit reflexively until now. Does your grandpa know?"

Guan Zang nodded, "Grandpa thinks I'm hypocritical. He came from the war-torn era, and he thinks that such a little psychological problem can't be corrected when he grows up. My mother has always given me warm food or It's just cold, maybe a little overkill, but I'm used to it."

"Your grandpa is really—" He stopped when he reached the edge of his mouth, restraining himself from cursing.Guan Zang found it interesting, and laughed hahaha, "The things and goals he is looking for must be achieved, both for himself and others."

"Then we can't send you back to your father, isn't this sick?"

Guan Zang thought for a while and said, "So that I have the opportunity to become the third generation rich."

Later, the state-owned enterprise was restructured and laid off, and the factory was close to closing down.The son-in-law has been a leader for several years, only learned to eat and drink, and his popularity is still good. Everyone praised him as a "good man", but he didn't earn anything.The factory can't continue, and I'm going to be completely unemployed. I have no children in my 40s, and I know nothing but technology. I've been a state-owned enterprise employee for half my life.In my heart, I planned to find someone to sell the factory cheaply, so that I could make some money from it.

He wanted to sell, but Guan Jingyuan wanted to buy.A former capitalist and a businessman at heart, with sharp vision and courage, in his 60s, he did not hesitate to face the market economy, but instead recognized this as an opportunity.It's just that I don't have much money left in my hand, and it's a little bit of a relationship if I want to buy it.

The son-in-law has no other conditions, and wants to be a family with the father-in-law, eat a pot of food, and make the rest of his life solid.Remarried with Guan Lehua, changed his son's surname, and gave him a pension.Then at the end of [-], Guanda Iron & Steel was listed and established.Today, Guan Jingyuan's Guanda Group has expanded to become one of the top [-] companies in China.

"I understand," Yan Keji took off the mask and threw it into the trash can, "Your grandfather sold you and your mother to buy a factory."

"Of course my grandpa was afraid that he would beat me again, so he asked him to live together as before, but divided into two rooms on the fourth floor. My mother couldn't live without Alice, so I lived with my father. For a while he treated me Mom is fine and doesn't hit me much anymore."

Yan Ke smacked himself, "'I don't fight much', but it's okay."

Guan Zang smiled: "At least it's not as ruthless as before. He still wants to have another child with my mother. If it's a son, he will leave me to my grandfather, and I will be surnamed Guan. As for Alice's life and death, it's not important, it's even better if she dies." —— On this point, my grandfather reached a consensus with him. Of course my mother didn’t want to, so he insisted—and in front of Alice, several times. My mother couldn’t take it anymore, so she hid the knife again. But she can't beat my dad," Guan Zang said in a flat tone, and said a sentence that didn't match the preamble, but the content was very fierce: "I got out of school early that day, so I stabbed in."