The Boy with The Dragon Tattoo

Chapter 232: suffer hunger and cold

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The pharaoh roared loudly in the next room, Zi Yang lay down in silence, staring at the ceiling thinking about his thoughts.

After Lao Wang came back, he didn't report to the school immediately, but ran to Ye Beili's school to find her, preparing to "continue the front line". In the end, he went to the student office and entangled for a long time, but was told that "there is no such person". .

Pharaoh Donkey had a temper, thinking that someone lied to him, made a fuss with the students, and almost started with them. Had it not been for the other party to call the school police, maybe he would continue to mess around on the office floor.

After coming back, Lao Wang thought more and more angry. He always felt that he had been cheated by the admissions office. He was very depressed. He threw the pot and the bowl in the room. He tossed and cursed for a long time. He was so scared that he could not hold the game console. Dare to let go, for fear of being smashed by the crazy Wang brother.

Zi Yang kept quiet and didn't provoke him, let him go.

At this time, Zi Yang was not in the mood to take care of the old Wang who was in the prime of life. He had more troubles in his heart that needed to be solved urgently.

After returning to City H, in order to pay the rent and prepare for living expenses, the two of them pieced together to borrow a sum of money from their classmates. Basically, people who are a little affectionate have been harassed by the two brothers. Lao Wang even got from Teacher Li. After searching hundreds of dollars, I finally paid the rent for the next three months.

After paying the utility bills, the remaining money is not enough to eat rice bowls.

Zi Yang is so sad, his eyes are straight when he walks, and he is seriously considering going to the vegetable market to pick up vegetable leaves.

After returning to China, Jin Guoqiang and A Chong did not contact them again, and even Su Rui lost the news—Zi Yang knew that although his life was "difficult", but compared with their "swords and shadows" world, it was not at all considered. what's up.

It's just that these "deep and hot" days will not last a few days, and if they can't think of a way to make money, they will soon be hungry and cold.

These days, Zi Yang has also carefully considered the relationship with Su Rui.

After calming down, he felt that it was impossible with Su Rui. The simplest and most realistic point is that people face various scientific research topics every day, and the projects they participate in are tens of millions, hundreds of millions. What I face every day is firewood, rice, oil and salt, and bargaining with vendors for a few kilograms of rice for a long time.

They are not people in the same world at all.

Set aside emotional matters first, and life will continue anyway.

Zi Yang contacted the work-study office of the school, and then asked a few seniors for help, lost a lot of smiles, said countless good things, and finally got some opportunities to work outside of school.

After all this tossing, Zi Yang felt more and more humble in his life. No matter how noble sentiment is, it can't resist being bent over five buckets of rice.

As a child from a poor family, Zi Yang matures more prematurely than his peers. Although he also yearns for vigorous romantic love, he has already understood this reality deep down in his heart: love is not an oath of love, but a trivial matter of life.

The rest of the day will be quite miserable.

Zi Yang went to the “famous” second-hand car repair market (where all the stolen bicycles in the city were concentrated) and spent 100 yuan to vacate a 80% new car. He rode his bicycle every day on the streets and alleys to distribute flyers and push products from door to door. Do market research with your grandfather and aunt... Although this kind of work doesn't make much money, every time you work, you get a real gain.

Such days have continued for more than ten days.

At first, Zi Yang was working by himself. Later, Pharaoh and Xiao Hei were forced to go out to work together. Zi Yang consciously took up the responsibility of supervising workers. After Tianmengmeng Liang drove everyone out, Mo Mohei put them back. Three people Every day I live and eat and sleep on the streets. Most of the money I earn pays off debts, and a small part subsidizes my family. Although it is hard work, at any rate it can support it.

Every day when they got home, the three of them lay tired and didn't want to move.

It's been almost a month since they returned to school. From the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Jiangnan city, they are slowly getting used to the fireworks on earth.

Ordinary life is like a year every day, and occasionally in my heart, I still think of the adventure in that wind, frost and snowy night, although it is fierce, it is quite nostalgic.

Sometimes when the time comes down, the two will also talk about those people and those things.

"Lao Li, what do you think the boss will do with Jin Guoqiang and A Chong?" Lao Wang chewed a handful of biscuits and sprayed the froth while talking.

"I don't know." Zi Yang chewed a handful of biscuits and rolled his eyes choked.

Recently, they helped a food company to promote a new type of biscuits. The so-called promotion is to send a small box of samples door to door for others to taste. The things are not valuable, but they have to talk to the residents for a long time every time, often knocking on the door. When you get a big eye roll, you still have to pay people a smile.

No way, college students without work experience can only do this kind of work without technical content.

Lao Wang is a donkey-tempered person, and he almost got involved with the tenants several times. In his own words, if he hadn't done it for a few stinky money, when had he suffered this kind of embarrassment

Later, Lao Wang learned to be good, moved all the boxes of biscuits assigned to him home, and filled in some household information on the form and handed it in. Anyway, the inspector would not go door to door for re-inspection-even if they re-inspect others. It won't give him a good look.

In this way, these boxes of biscuits helped them endure a lot of days and saved a lot of pre-dinner.

But eating biscuits every day is not that kind of thing. If you eat too much, you will make your throat and occasionally nauseous. Sometimes Ziyang feels vomiting after eating.

Compared with the physical tolerance of humiliation, what is more sad is the guilt in the heart. As a principled and sentimental person, it is a negligence of duty to fail to do the work that others have explained, and it is even more dishonesty to hide samples privately.

"How is your brick-moving company? Can you contact me?" Zi Yang asked Lao Wang, although brick-moving is tiring, but the income is high, and there is no need to be blinded every day. Zi Yang prefers to deal with people. Compete with the brick-at least the brick will not call him stupid.

"Hey, don't mention it, something happened on the construction site, and the boss owed a huge debt and ran away with the sister-in-law!"

Zi Yang tilted his head, thinking carefully about the logic in this sentence.

At this time, Xiao Hei gently stabbed Zi Yang and pointed his finger at the entrance hall.

Under the seam of the door, a white envelope appeared at some point. ●31 novel app download address●

Zi Yang walked over and picked it up. No name was written on the envelope.

Zi Yang looked at Lao Wang suspiciously: "Have you ever left our address for anyone?"

Lao Wang stretched his neck and shook his head: "Is it the bill for utilities?"

"The bills are stuffed in the mailbox, how come they are stuffed in through the crack of the door!"

Zi Yang opened the envelope, and there was only a piece of white paper inside, with a time and a place neatly written on it in regular script. Except for the simple two lines, there are no other annotations.

Zi Yang looked at it several times and wondered: "Whose prank is this? Apart from A Chong, Su Rui, and Jin Guoqiang, who knows where we live?"

Lao Wang swallowed, "Professor Zhang, he must also know..."

In the hot weather, the two shuddered together.

The three words of Professor Zhang are no less than the existence of monsters in their hearts at this moment.

"I've come here? I'm going to settle the account after Autumn!" Old Wang looked up around in amazement, as if Professor Zhang was hiding in a corner and watching them.

Zi Yang was flustered by what he said, "Don't scare yourself! Do you remember when this envelope appeared?"

"I'm so tired every day like a dog. I can't open my eyes when I enter the door. How can I care about what is on the ground?" Old Wang said dissatisfied. These days, Zi Yang frantically forced them to work in order to pay off their debts. , The level of violence is no less than Zhou Papi.

Zi Yang is actually similar to him. He took a lot of work-study orders, and almost always refused to come. The people who sent the work saw him speak well, and he also threw some orders that others didn’t want to make to him—this kind of order is basically the same. It's all about hard work with less money.

Lao Wang lay on Zi Yang's shoulders and looked at those two lines, and suddenly exclaimed: "Fuck, I know this place well, isn't it the place where A Chong invited us to dinner last time? It's in our school. nearby!"

Zi Yang also remembered that when he was spending time with Lao Wang in their medical school last summer vacation, he happened to meet A Chong "catching ghosts". Later, A Chong recognized himself and invited them to a quaint restaurant for dinner. .

"Is it A Chong?"

"But if he wants to invite us to dinner, can't he just be in H city? Why did he go to S city? Did he go to our school to catch ghosts again?" Lao Wang was stunned again.

"What's the date today?" Zi Yang asked, looking at the date on the letter paper.

Both of them were a little confused, and after looking at the calendar on the computer, they found that the date written on the letter paper was today, which was less than half an hour from the time agreed on above.

Even if they took the fastest car to get from H city to S city, it would take at least one hour, it would definitely be too late.

"Go!" Zi Yang grabbed his backpack and rushed outside without saying a word.

Lao Wang took a look, and hurriedly picked up Xiao Hei who was still playing games and chased him up, "Wait for me! Damn! If someone invites you to dinner, don't you want to leave me!"

The two got on the fastest bus. When they rushed to City S, the sky was already dark. Zi Yang looked at his watch, and the agreed time had already passed. But there was still a glimmer of hope in my heart.

Three people stopped a taxi and urged the driver to rush along the way. The driver looked at the three young men in a hurry with wonder: "Are you on a mission?"

"Yes, it's a matter of national security. You must cooperate with us unconditionally! Hurry, run the red light!" Lao Wang commanded the driver with a serious face.

"Sneez!" An air-conditioner came from the driver's nose, and he parked the car at a red light disdainfully. The people who drive taxis in big cities are all knowledgeable. How can you be fooled

Although he didn't believe the old Wang's nonsense, the driver hurriedly drove them to their destination.

"Young people, no matter how eager to hurry, they must abide by the traffic rules. I am very anxious!" The driver slowly shook off a good word, and drove off in a hurry.

Lao Wang glanced at Zi Yang and stepped up the stairs.

The inconspicuous facade, when I walked into the inner hall, I found that there was a cave in it. There are thirty or fifty tables and chairs in the lobby, which is well-decorated and antique. In the middle of the hall, an artificial fountain of living water gurgled, and next to it was a huge coffee table made of roots of an old tree. A young woman in a cheongsam was playing with a Kung Fu tea set.

Everything seems familiar.

It was the peak of welcoming guests in the evening, and the hall was already full.

"How many sirs?" the lady of etiquette in cheongsam asked enthusiastically.

"Oh, we're looking for someone..." Zi Yang held the letter paper tightly in his hand. He had been holding this piece of paper in his hand, and he had already squeezed it into a ball.

It's still too late, will A Chong have already left

"Excuse me, do you have a reservation?" The etiquette service attitude is very attentive.

"I, I don't know..." Zi Yang knew that A Chong would definitely not use his real name when booking a seat.

"We are looking for a friend, he should have booked a box here, well, he is not tall or short, he is thin, looks very handsome, wears long-sleeved clothes, doesn't like to laugh, and walks like he doesn't stick... By the way, one of his eyebrows seemed to be broken in the middle..." Pharaoh was there, saying and making gestures, and the waiter was at a loss.

"I know who they are talking about, come with me." A beautiful woman in a suit and skirt, dressed like a foreman, walked over and said.

"Okay, thank you elder sister!" Lao Wang's mouth was sweet.

The scale of this restaurant is really not small, there are at least a dozen private rooms.

The beauty foreman took them to a corner and knocked on the door of a suite: "Hello, sir, there are some guests here, I don't know if it is your friend."

The foreman opened the door and saw a melancholy handsome boy sitting in the box.

Seeing Zi Yang and the others, the boy immediately stood up.