At night, although there is no moonlight and few stars are visible, the military training places are lit with lights, illuminating the surrounding area of the playground clearly.
"Rest in place for five minutes!"
As soon as the instructor's words fell, the group of people who were still standing there just now sat on the ground like ooze.
"Snapped!"
The sound of slapping mosquitoes sounded.
"Oh, my god and Lord Buddha!" a student in the same dormitory with Jiao Wei looked at the blood on his palms and the mosquito corpse, and cried, "Is it easy for me to raise so much blood? I won't let it go if I just order it. !"
"Don't be disrespectful to Buddha and his elders," said another roommate of Jiao Wei.
"Buddha is merciful, just think I farted just now."
"... You let it go just now, don't think I didn't know it was so loud."
"Do you want to be a Buddha?" Jiao Wei asked another roommate with a smile.
"I don't want to, Buddha is so tired, and I have to save all sentient beings. I just need to graduate successfully, find a job, find a wife, have a child, and finish this ordinary and long life."
The previous roommate was silent for a while, and said, "I still don't participate in such a high-end topic. Hey, didn't you say that taking vitamin B1 can prevent mosquito bites? Is it for Mao Laozi or is it a trick?"
"It varies from person to person."
"It's better to go back and sprinkle shower water."
In the military training place in the evening, various anti-mosquito scents such as toilet water, balsam oil, and mosquito bites are intertwined, but the mosquitoes growing in Chuhua University are always afraid of death.
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At 9:30 in the evening, after a day of military training, Jiao Wei did not go back to the dormitory with his roommates, but walked towards the school gate. He would go to his small restaurant every night to have a look, then help organize some things, and then come back when the shop closes. When I went back to the dormitory, I also brought some supper to the people in the dormitory.
Today, when Jiao Wei came to his small restaurant, although he was still a little away, he saw some people sitting inside.
Usually there is no one at this time, but what's going on today
When Jiao Wei walked quickly to the door of the small restaurant, the people inside also left.
Among these people, the one who took the lead was smoking a cigarette, dyed yellow hair, and looked a little sloppy.
Jiao Wei's heart skipped a beat, and he stopped paying attention to those people. He hurriedly ran into the shop, and when he saw that his parents were all right, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?" Jiao Wei asked, "Are those people here to find fault?"
Jiao Wei once heard people say that some shop owners will hire people to find faults when they see that other shops are doing well, so they are more anxious.
"It's okay, don't worry." Jiao Wei's father waved his hand.
No matter how Jiao Wei asked, his parents didn't say anything. The next day, he went to the fellow who was hired to help him alone to find out the matter.
Yesterday evening, when the peak period passed, the number of people who came to the restaurant gradually decreased, and then a few people who didn't seem to be easy to mess with came in, saying that they wanted to pay "sanitation fees".
But Jiao Wei's family had already paid the health fee, and there was still a payment slip. Obviously, in that case, "health fee" had another meaning.
Whether it is "sanitation fee" or "management fee", such words as "protection fee" in some cases.
When he was in a small county before, Jiao Wei's shop was a little more formal, but he paid this kind of fee, but Jiao Wei didn't know it.
Therefore, Jiao Wei was very angry after figuring out the reason. When he went to his parents, he told the police that he couldn't do it.
Jiao Wei's father was relatively calm, he laughed and made a few jokes, and then told Jiao Wei what was at stake.
In fact, those who do business around here, whether they are small shops, or those students who set up street stalls and night markets, have encountered this kind of thing. He asked the surrounding shops to see how much they paid. He knew that his shop paid a little more, and he was not too angry. After all, his family was a newcomer or a foreigner. It didn't matter. , and paid for a month.
When he was about to open a shop here, Jiao Wei's parents were actually mentally prepared, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly. The couple used to be honest people, and they stumbled and pondered some experience in the first two years of doing business. Now, since Jiao Wei has already pierced this layer of paper, the couple also shared some of their experiences with Jiao Wei.
Originally, the couple felt that their children's future jobs would be like those of senior white-collar workers on TV, and they didn't have to face those who found fault and charged protection fees, but no matter what position they were in, there were potential rules. Ordinary people, still follow the rules.
After listening to his parents talk about those experiences, Jiao Wei felt quite uncomfortable. He was not stupid, he knew it was a fact, but he was a young man after all. After all, he still had a passion for studying. , also had fights, and quarreled with the teacher and overturned the table, Jiao Wei was not sure if he would go up to fight with them if he saw those people again.
After lunch in the afternoon, Jiao Wei sat at the door of the small restaurant and helped peel potatoes. The store is full of people, so it's not inside, and it's more airy outside. Although his parents were holding him back, Jiao Wei was stubborn and was not afraid of being laughed at. What happened to helping the family peel potatoes? Who stipulated that college students can't peel potatoes? Didn't do anything outrageous.
While cutting, the owner of the store next door came over.
The shop next door mainly sells pasta and is run by a young couple. During this time, both of them knew a lot, and the owner of the store next door also knew Jiao Wei.
"I heard that someone came to your store last night?" the boss said.
Yesterday, there was something going on at the noodle shop next door. It only opened for a long time in the morning. The owner of Jiao Wei's shop still listened to the people around him.
"Yeah." Jiao Wei replied, not really wanting to bring up this topic, and the force of peeling potatoes was much stronger.
The boss smiled and said, "Don't be unconvinced, in fact, everyone is the same, so was our family. We had just graduated at that time and didn't really understand the rules here, so I wanted to call the police, but was stopped by my daughter-in-law. With a calm attitude, I handed over some first. Later, I found someone, and I didn't meet them again. "
Seeing that Jiao Wei didn't say anything, but the action of peeling potatoes was much slower, knowing he was listening, the boss pointed to a hot pot restaurant opposite: "When his family first opened, the business was very hot, and then there was a period of time every day. A dozen or so gangsters went to the restaurant to eat, and they paid the bill at first, but then they gradually began to find fault, and finally they asked how much it would cost. The owner of the restaurant was not soft, although he let those people go the next day. , but he found someone at night, and the next day, none of those gangsters came, nor did they show up in his store again.
There was also the guy who sold rice bowls, who directly called a group of people when something like this happened, and was ready to fight, but was later dispersed by the police. But those bastards never looked for him again. The thugs are also afraid of the tough. If they knew that you were a tough guy, they wouldn't come. If you couldn't behave politely to them, they would just be ruthless. This is the way society is now. At that time, there were also many people who deliberately wore shirtless tattoos, and put various steel pipe knives in the car. In the end, it didn't end like that.
There was a period of severe crackdowns in the past, those people disappeared for a long time, and now they are gradually reappearing. However, they used to be mostly small gangsters, but now these people are emerging so quickly, it is estimated that it is not easy to rectify. If you know the police or the joint defense team in charge of this area, you can go and walk around. It is necessary to spend some money in this area. After all, everyone wants to do business well.
There are also some shops around that have not been targeted. Even if the owners of those shops are not locals, they have stayed here for many years, and some contacts, I don't know if they have taken other paths. As for people like yours, you can go to explore the wind first, ask more about the nearby shops, find out who is in charge of this, and then go to the mountain top, if someone takes care of you, of course it will be fine, if this does not work, Just try to find another way. Everything is difficult at the beginning, just get through it. If there is really no way, just hand it in and be on time, otherwise you will suffer. We came out to seek money, not anger, but the situation is stronger than people, and you don’t know when the next crackdown will be, so…”
The boss didn't finish the next words, his wife called him, and hurriedly went back.
Jiao Wei was still sitting there, peeling potatoes absentmindedly.
"It sounds so hot."
Jiao Wei was startled by the sound that suddenly appeared next to him. He walked behind him and saw Su Qu was standing there eating with a bowl of rice.
"Senior Su, why don't you sit and eat in the shop?" Jiao Wei said.
Because of Jiao's father, Su Qu and Yi Xin both knew Jiao Wei. Sometimes, after lunch, they would visit his shop when they were out of school.
"It's okay, there are a lot of people over there, and I came out to shout, I didn't expect to hear those words just now. If the boss didn't say it, I really didn't know there was such a thing. There were classmates who set up stalls before and I didn't hear them say it. I don't know if they didn't meet or they didn't want to talk about it." Su Qu said inarticulately as he took the food into his mouth, "But I don't think a well-off society needs to rely on this method to survive, those people are probably just some Little people, you really don't need to give them face, if you find someone to fight, count me in."
Su Qu's big man is really oppressive, but Jiao Wei won't really use that extreme method. He can't afford to gamble. His parents are here, and he is still old. Jiao Wei doesn't want them to do anything. Accidentally, even if you win, what kind of guarantee is there
"Then Senior Su, do you know... people in this area?" Jiao Wei didn't know how to describe it.
Su Qu understands what he means, but he hasn't been here for a long time. Most of the time he lives in the laboratory, dormitory, and canteen. This is the first time I've heard of this kind of thing.
"I know my boss." Su Qu said helplessly.
Jiao Wei shook his head, "Don't bother Uncle Mingsheng, he has helped us a lot, and he has two children at home."
"Well..." Su Qu wiped his mouth, then his eyes lit up, "Do you know the guy named Wei Ling?"
"I know, but I don't know each other well. I came here before the store opened, and then I hurriedly ordered a takeaway and left, can he?"
"Listen to what my senior brother said, you can try it."
"However, if you want to find Wei Ling, you must find Uncle Mingsheng, this..."
"I'm just going to tell you what I know. It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
"Um."
Su Qu threw the empty disposable lunch box into the trash and said, "If you really want to ask Wei Ling for help, you don't have to go through my boss's line."
"what do you mean?"
"That cat from my boss's house!"
Jiao Wei: "…"