Taking tea in the tea house, Hu Weiyong drank tea calmly. Gao Junfeng and Li Chuan were not in the mood to drink tea. It had been more than ten days since the last party, and there was no progress. Both of them were a little anxious.
"Old Hu, didn't you say there was a way to get Lu Shanmin to cooperate with us? It's been more than ten days and there's still no movement at all." Gao Junfeng asked dissatisfied.
"Haha, Mr. Gao, haven't there been any rumors about your Moonlight Bar recently?"
Gao Junfeng thought for a while, "I heard the bar manager mention it, saying that Now bar security guards are not allowed to mention Lu Shanmin."
Li Chuan also said, "The same is true at Rose Bar. It is said that Tang Fei and Lu Shanmin are still good friends, but now the bar security rarely mentions Lu Shanmin."
Hu Weiyong smiled slightly, "Isn't this progress?"
Gao Junfeng frowned, "What kind of progress is this?"
Hu Weiyong went on to say, "Wang Dahu tried his best to persuade Lu Shanmin many times, but failed to recruit him. Words cannot persuade people like him."
Li Chuan said unhappily, "Lao Hu, do you know what's most annoying about you? You just like to show off your opinions. You think you've read a few bad books, and you always criticize your words and deeds. The bag makes me angry just looking at it.”
Hu Weiyong nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, let me just say it bluntly, people like Lu Shanmin have to be forced by the situation."
Gao Junfeng said coldly, "What do you mean?"
"Don't you understand what kind of person Wang Dahu is? This kind of person who climbed up from the bottom is afraid of poverty, especially Cherish the things in his hands and be cautious in everything, even to the point of being arrogant. He will never leave any hidden dangers to himself. Do you know why the security guards of the three bars now don’t mention Lu Shanmin? He is afraid. He is afraid that with Lu Shanmin’s current situation The prestige will shake his position. If it were just Lu Shanmin, he would not be so cautious. When he knew that I had contacted Lu Shanmin several times, he was really afraid."
Li Chuan nodded, "What did you say to Lu Shanmin?"
"Haha, I didn't say anything, we just talked about barbecue."
Gao Junfeng asked in surprise, "You didn't tell him about cooperating with us."
"What kind of person is Lu Shanmin? After several contacts, I still have an idea. No matter how much money we give, it will be useless. If we say it clearly, it will have the opposite effect. When I went to see him, it was just a show to Wang Dahu. Although I just talked to him about barbecue, I believe Wang Dahu would never do it. Thinking this way, maybe he is racking his brains now to think about what I talked to Lu Shanmin. Now Wang Dahu has become suspicious of Lu Shanmin. This is a good start. We just need to force the two of them step by step. Opposite, if the time comes to extend an olive branch, the people of Lushan cannot help but disagree."
Li Chuan clapped his hands and said, "What a wonderful move. It doesn't seem to have anything special, but it just hits people's hearts and makes the two of them suspicious of each other. In the end, they are likeFire and water, maybe now Lu Shanmin is also thinking about how he offended Wang Dahu and made Wang Dahu hostile to him."
Gao Junfeng also nodded, "Then what should we do next"< /p>
Hu Weiyong squinted his eyes and smiled, "Of course I will light up the fire again."
Tang Fei was a little restless in the office these days. He couldn't figure out why Wang Dahu was so angry. Isn't it because Lu Shanmin was hostile because he didn't accept the solicitation? There was no need to prohibit the bar security guard from talking about Lu Shanmin. The security guard who had witnessed Lu Shanmin's fighting power that night usually called Lu Shanmin Brother Shanmin, but now he didn't even mention Lu Shanmin's name. Bring it up again. Tang Fei also asked Wang Dahu what was going on, but Wang Dahu just asked him to do his job and not to interfere with other matters.
Tang Fei walked into the Moonlight Bar and pushed Li away. The door of Hao's office.
"Tang Fei, if you're not at the Rose Bar, why are you here?" Li Hao stood up and said with a smile.
Tang Fei smiled. I am where I am today, not all because of your support."
Li Hao handed Tang Fei a cigarette and said earnestly, "Tang Fei, I know the purpose of your coming and the relationship between you and me. I'm not being careless, I won't tell you anything."
Tang Fei frowned, "Brother Hao, I really don't understand."
Li Hao lit a cigarette , said calmly, "You don't need to understand, you just need to know that you are Brother Dahu's, and you can become the security manager of Rose Bar because of Brother Dahu's support."
Tang Fei was a little unwilling. "But"
"I know you are a loyal person. Lu Shanmin has helped you, but you have also helped him, so we don't owe each other anything. Listen to my advice and don't talk to him anymore. "Come and go".
Tang Fei bit his cigarette holder tightly, "Brother Hao, if I am a person who betrays his brother, will you still recognize me as a brother?"
Li Hao is helpless He smiled, knowing that he could not persuade Tang Fei. Among the entire security team, Li Hao had the best relationship with Tang Fei and admired his loyalty, so he could get together with him.
"Tang Fei. "Sympathy is a great joy in life, but this is not the Juyi Hall on Liangshan Mountain. Have you ever thought that if you disobey Brother Dahu's order, everything you have finally achieved today will be in vain."
Tang Fei raised his head and looked at Li Hao expectantly, "Brother Dahu values love and justice. He will not do this for no reason. Tell me, does Brother Dahu have any difficulties?"
Li Hao smiled bitterly. In his opinion, Tang Fei had not completely lost his simplicity and love and righteousness as a mountain man. It was just a way to win people's hearts. He wanted to tell Tang Fei that Brother Big Tiger was not what he wanted. He wanted to tell him that in the Rose Bar incident last time, Brother Dahu chose to give up on him in the face of interests, but he still didn't say it. It was better not to let him know these things. , Brother Dahu has now started to be on guard against him. If he were to know, with Tang Fei’s temperament, he wouldI will really lose everything I have now.
"Tang Fei, be more careful when doing things in the future and think more about yourself. You and I are both from the countryside. You know better than anyone how difficult it is to go from nothing to now."
Tang Fei walked out of the Moonlight Bar gloomily. After the excitement of the first few days when he became the security manager of the Rose Bar, he felt uncomfortable instead. When I was a security guard, I didn't have to think about anything. I just did what my superiors told me. I burped and farted among colleagues and said whatever came to my mind. Although I was often so poor that I couldn't pay the rent, my heart was open and bright. Nowadays, I often have to look at people's faces and guess their thoughts. When the security guards under my command see me, they all nod and bow and greet each other with smiles. Although they feel a sense of accomplishment, they feel a sense of loneliness. When he was a young security guard, he had few opportunities to meet Wang Dahu. Brother Dahu gave him the impression that he was a good big brother who valued love and justice and regarded his brothers as brothers. Nowadays, I have more opportunities to contact you, but I feel more and more unable to see through it.
Zeng Yaqian comes to have barbecue almost every week, sometimes alone, sometimes with Guan Yue. After giving Zeng Yaqian a birthday gift last time, Zeng Yaqian's attitude towards Lu Shanmin unknowingly became a little better.
Unknowingly, I have been working at the barbecue restaurant for three months. I received my salary this month, plus the 2,000 yuan advanced by Chen Dali, I paid the rent, and there is not much left in my pocket. In the past month, except when I first arrived in Donghai, I didn't have more than five hundred yuan in my pocket. There is only half a month left before the March deadline, and Chen Dali's salary there is still unclear when it will be settled, and even if it is settled, it is still far from enough. Seeing that the day to repay the money was getting closer, Lu Shanmin became more and more anxious.
As their relationship got closer, Zeng Yaqian and Lu Shanmin gradually became friends. Although Zeng Yaqian grew up surrounded by stars, she actually didn’t have many real friends. Seeing the sadness on Lu Shanmin's face, Zeng Yaqian walked to the barbecue grill.
"Shanmin, what's bothering you recently?"
Lu Shanmin looked at Zeng Yaqian. On his slender and white right hand, the ring finger was wearing the cheap ring he gave her last time. . She couldn't help but feel warm in her heart. A rich girl like her could bring a ring she bought for fifteen yuan and bring an unexpected surprise to Lu Shanmin.
He nodded, "It's a bit annoying." After that, he continued to flip the barbecue in his hand.
Zeng Yaqian waited for a long time and found that Lu Shanmin had no intention of saying anything, so she couldn't help but frown slightly. He said somewhat unhappily, "Aren't you going to tell me?"
"Ah" "Oh, it's useless even if I tell you."
"Hey, Lu Shanmin, it's not funny for you to be like this. I've even told you about my family affairs, so you can't tell me about your affairs. That's not how friends are treated."
"Friend" Lu Shanmin was stunned for a moment and giggled. Apart from Tang Fei, this was the first person to say that he was her friend after coming to Donghai. After all, Tang Fei was born the same as himself. Lu Shanmin never thought about it.Later, he became friends with rich girls like Zeng Yaqian.
Zeng Yaqian snorted, "You deserve to be abandoned by your girlfriend. No girl would like someone like you."
Lu Shanmin smiled bitterly, "I owe someone a sum of money, and the repayment deadline is coming soon, so I am a little anxious."
Zeng Yaqian asked with a smile, "Lack of money"
Lu Shanmin nodded sheepishly, "Yeah."
"How much do you owe me?"
"Fifty thousand yuan, but I will find a way myself." Lu Shanmin knew that the 50,000 yuan was not a big deal to Zeng Yaqian, but deep down he didn't want her to help. As a man in the mountains, making money was a man's business, and he had never heard of finding a woman. It’s about asking for money.
Zeng Yaqian tilted her head and looked at Lu Shanmin, giggling, "You want to save face and suffer, why are you still frowning when you can do anything?"
Lu Shanmin became more and more embarrassed when Zeng Yaqian said what she was thinking.
Zeng Yaqian knew Lu Shanmin’s nature and did not offer to help. She just smiled and said, “There are always more solutions than difficulties. I believe you can solve it, but I remember you said that people in the mountains don’t lie. If a primary school student who reads books from sages fails to pass the exam by then, he will be breaking his trust and telling a big lie."
Looking at the playful smile on Zeng Yaqian’s face, Lu Shanmin had mixed feelings in his heart. After thinking for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "If you can't pay by then, can you lend me some first?"
Zeng Yaqian turned the ring on her hand and looked at the barbecue on the grill with a smile, "It's not impossible, but you have to calculate the interest."
Lu Shanmin looked at Zeng Yaqian with some emotion, nodded, and said, "Thank you."
Zeng Yaqian giggled and said, "Thank you for agreeing to lend you money."
"Thank you for respecting me, a mountain villager."
In the tea house, Hu Weiyong drank tea indifferently. Gao Junfeng and Li Chuan were not in the mood to drink tea. It had been more than ten days since the last party, and things had not progressed. Both of them felt a little worried. in a hurry.
"Old Hu, didn't you say there was a way to get Lu Shanmin to cooperate with us? It's been more than ten days and there's still no movement at all." Gao Junfeng asked dissatisfied.
"Haha, Mr. Gao, haven't there been any rumors about your Moonlight Bar recently?"
Gao Junfeng thought for a while, "I heard the bar manager mention it, saying that Now bar security guards are not allowed to mention Lu Shanmin."
Li Chuan also said, "The same is true at Rose Bar. It is said that Tang Fei and Lu Shanmin are still good friends, but now the bar security rarely mentions Lu Shanmin."
Hu Weiyong smiled slightly, "Isn't this progress?"
Gao Junfeng frowned, "What kind of progress is this?"
Hu Weiyong went on to say, "Wang Dahu tried his best to persuade Lu Shanmin many times, but failed to recruit him. Words cannot persuade people like him."
Li Chuan said unhappily, "Old Hu, do you know what's most annoying about you? You just like to show off your opinions. You think you've read a few bad books. You talk and do things with your book bag in front of you, which makes you angry when you look at it." .
Hu Weiyong nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, let me just say it bluntly, people like Lu Shanmin have to be forced by the situation."
Gao Junfeng said coldly, "What do you mean?"
"Don't you understand what kind of person Wang Dahu is? This kind of person who climbed up from the bottom is afraid of poverty, especially Cherish the things in his hands and be cautious in everything, even to the point of being arrogant. He will never leave any hidden dangers to himself. Do you know why the security guards of the three bars now don’t mention Lu Shanmin? He is afraid. He is afraid that with Lu Shanmin’s current situation The prestige will shake his position. If it were just Lu Shanmin, he would not be so cautious. When he knew that I had contacted Lu Shanmin several times, he was really afraid."
Li Chuan nodded, "What did you say to Lu Shanmin?"
"Haha, I didn't say anything, we just talked about barbecue."
Gao Junfeng asked in surprise, "You didn't tell him about cooperating with us."
"What kind of person is Lu Shanmin? After several contacts, I still have an idea. No matter how much money we give, it will be useless. If we say it clearly, it will have the opposite effect. When I went to see him, it was just a show to Wang Dahu. Although I just talked to him about barbecue, I believe Wang Dahu would never do it. Thinking this way, maybe he is racking his brains now to think about what I talked to Lu Shanmin. Now Wang Dahu has become suspicious of Lu Shanmin. This is a good start. We just need to force the two of them step by step. Opposite, if the time comes to extend an olive branch, the people of Lushan cannot help but disagree."
Li Chuan clapped his hands and said, "What a wonderful move. There seems to be nothing strange about this move. It just hit people's hearts and made the two of them suspicious of each other. In the end, it was like fire and water. Maybe Lu Shanmin is also thinking now, How did he offend Wang Dahu and make Wang Dahu hostile to him?"
Gao Junfeng also nodded, "Then what should we do next?"
Hu Weiyong squinted his eyes and smiled, "Of course we will light another fire."
In the past few days, Tang Fei couldn't sit still in the office. He couldn't figure out why Wang Dahu was hostile to Lu Shanmin. Isn't it because Lu Shanmin didn't accept the solicitation? There was no need to prohibit the bar security guard from talking about Lu Shanmin. The young security guard who witnessed Lu Shanmin's fighting power that night habitually calls Lu Shanmin Brother Shanmin, but now he no longer even mentions Lu Shanmin's name. Tang Fei also asked Wang Dahu what was going on, but Wang Dahu just asked him to do his job and not to interfere with other things.
Tang Fei walked into the Moonlight Bar and opened the door of Li Hao's office.
"Tang Fei, if you don't sit in the Rose Bar, why are you here?" Li Hao stood up and said with a smile.
Tang Fei smiled and said, "Brother Hao, I am not where I am today only because of your support."
Li Hao handed Tang Fei a cigarette and said seriously, "Tang Fei, I know the purpose of your coming. I won't be careless about our relationship. I won't tell you anything."
Tang Fei frowned, "Brother Hao, I really don't understand."
Li Hao lit a cigarette and said calmly, "You don't need to understand. You just need to know that you are Brother Dahu's person. Your ability to become the security manager of the Rose Bar is also supported by Brother Dahu."
Tang Fei was a little reluctant, "But"
"I know that you are a loyal person. Lu Shanmin has helped you, but you have also helped him, so it can be regarded as two different things. If you owe me, please listen to my brother’s advice and avoid having any contact with him in the future.”
Tang Fei bit his cigarette holder tightly, "Brother Hao, if I were a person who abandoned my brother, would you still recognize me as a brother?"
Li Hao smiled helplessly. Laughing, he knew he couldn't persuade Tang Fei. Among the entire security team, Li Hao had the best relationship with Tang Fei and admired his loyalty, so he could get together with him.
"Tang Fei, having the same loyalty is one of the great joys in life, but this is not the Juyi Hall on Liangshan Mountain. Have you ever thought about it, if you disobey Brother Dahu's order, what you finally got today Everything will come to nothing.”
Tang Fei raised his head and looked at Li Hao expectantly, "Brother Dahu values love and justice. He will not do this for no reason. Tell me, does Brother Dahu have any difficulties?"
Li Hao smiled bitterly. In his opinion, Tang Fei had not completely lost his simplicity and love and righteousness as a mountain man, but it was just a way to win people's hearts. He wanted to tell Tang Fei that Big Tiger It's not that he can hurt his brother as much as he thought. He wants to tell him that in fact, in the last Rose Bar incident, Big Tiger chose to give up on him in the face of interests. But the words still didn't come out. It was better not to let him know about these things. Brother Dahu was now on guard against him. If he was told, with Tang Fei's temperament, he would really lose everything he has now.
"Tang Fei, be more careful when doing things in the future and think more about yourself. You and I are both from the countryside. You know better than anyone how difficult it is to go from nothing to now."
Tang Fei walked out of the Moonlight Bar gloomily. After the excitement of the first few days when he became the security manager of the Rose Bar, he felt uncomfortable instead. When I was a security guard, I didn't have to think about anything. I just did what my superiors told me. I burped and farted among colleagues and said whatever came to my mind. Although I was often so poor that I couldn't pay the rent, my heart was open and bright. Nowadays, I often have to look at people's faces and guess their thoughts. When the security guards under my command see me, they all nod and bow and greet each other with smiles. Although they feel a sense of accomplishment, they feel a sense of loneliness. When he was a young security guard, he had few opportunities to meet Wang Dahu. Brother Dahu gave him the impression that he was a good big brother who valued love and justice and regarded his brothers as brothers. Nowadays, I have more opportunities to contact you, but I feel more and more unable to see through it.
Zeng Yaqian comes to have barbecue almost every week, sometimes alone, sometimes with Guan Yue. After giving Zeng Yaqian a birthday gift last time, Zeng Yaqian's attitude towards Lu Shanmin unknowingly became a little better.
Unknowingly, I have been working at the barbecue restaurant for three months. I received my salary this month, plus the 2,000 yuan advanced by Chen Dali, I paid the rent, and there is not much left in my pocket. In the past month, except when I first arrived in Donghai, I didn't have more than five hundred yuan in my pocket. There is only half a month left before the March deadline, and Chen Dali's salary there is still unclear when it will be settled, and even if it is settled, it is still far from enough. Seeing that the day to repay the money was getting closer, Lu Shanmin became more and more anxious.
As their relationship got closer, Zeng Yaqian and Lu Shanmin gradually became friends. Although Zeng Yaqian grew up surrounded by stars, she actually didn’t have many real friends. Seeing the sadness on Lu Shanmin's face, Zeng Yaqian walked to the barbecue grill.
"Shanmin, what's bothering you recently?"
Lu Shanmin looked at Zeng Yaqian. On his slender and white right hand, the ring finger was wearing the cheap ring he gave her last time. . She couldn't help but feel warm in her heart. A rich girl like her could bring a ring she bought for fifteen yuan and bring an unexpected surprise to Lu Shanmin.
He nodded, "It's a bit annoying." After that, he continued to flip the barbecue in his hand.
Zeng Yaqian waited for a long time and found that Lu Shanmin had no intention of saying anything, so she couldn't help but frown slightly. He said somewhat unhappily, "Aren't you going to tell me?"
"Ah" "Oh, it's useless even if I tell you."
"Hey, Lu Shanmin, it's not funny for you to be like this. I've even told you about my family affairs, so you can't tell me about your affairs. That's not how friends are treated."
"Friend" Lu Shanmin was stunned for a moment and giggled. Apart from Tang Fei, this was the first person to say that he was her friend after coming to Donghai. After all, Tang Fei was born the same as him. Lu Shanmin never expected to become friends with a wealthy daughter like Zeng Yaqian.
Zeng Yaqian snorted, "You deserve to be abandoned by your girlfriend. No girl would like someone like you."
Lu Shanmin smiled bitterly, "I owe someone a sum of money, and the repayment deadline is coming soon, so I am a little anxious."
Zeng Yaqian asked with a smile, "Lack of money"
Lu Shanmin nodded sheepishly, "Yeah."
"How much do you owe me?"
"Fifty thousand yuan, but I will find a way myself." Lu Shanmin knew that the 50,000 yuan was not a big deal to Zeng Yaqian, but deep down he didn't want her to help. As a man in the mountains, making money was a man's business, and he had never heard of finding a woman. It’s about asking for money.
Zeng Yaqian tilted her head and looked at Lu Shanmin, giggling, "You want to save face and suffer, why are you still frowning when you can do anything?"
Lu Shanmin became more and more embarrassed when Zeng Yaqian said what she was thinking.
Zeng Yaqian knew Lu Shanmin’s nature and did not offer to help. She just smiled and said, “There are always more solutions than difficulties.I believe you can solve it, but I remember you said that people in the mountains don't lie. If you, a primary school student who has read the books of sages since childhood, don't pass by then, you will have broken your trust and told a big lie."
Lu Shanmin looked at the playful smile on Zeng Yaqian's face and had mixed feelings in his heart. After thinking for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "If you can't pay by then, can you lend me some first?"
Zeng Yaqian. Turning the ring on his hand, he looked at the barbecue on the grill with a smile, "It's not impossible, but you have to calculate the interest."
Lu Shanmin looked at Zeng Yaqian with some emotion, nodded, and said, "Thank you."
Zeng Yaqian chuckled, "Thank you for agreeing to lend you money."
"Thank you for respecting me, a mountain villager."