Everything was finally resolved, the company was saved, the office building was rented out, the employees were dismissed, Tan Ruikang collected funds, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of liquidity, the rest all supported Zhao Guogang.
Zhao Guogang's company laid off 15 employees drastically, and Tan Ruikang merged the two companies with the Yuankang brand on the left, leaving a few desks, two employees, and Zhao Guogang's company on the right.
This year, the global economy has ushered in a real cold winter. The economic depression has initially appeared. The RMB has appreciated, labor costs have increased, and inflation has intensified.
Everyone has nothing to do, they go home and eat their own food.
Zhao Guogang went back to recuperate, continued to read the newspaper every day, and even went to the company in the distant beginning. Later, he wanted to say that he had no business, but he was too lazy to go, so he went home and lay down every day. All investment industries were losing money, only real estate profits soared.
Fortunately, I bought the house earlier, otherwise I would have nowhere to cry if I bought it now.
Everyone has a home... Far away, I still live with my mother.
This building is more than 20 years old. Zhao Guo just bought it for them after earning a little money. Now the market value is at least one million.
When I have nothing to do in the far distance, I will flip through the books at home. Day and night, day and night, I want to do something, but I always have no energy. It feels useless to do anything. Go make money, don't want to move, fall in love, don't like people.
Shu Yan called twice and said that Tan Ruikang's family was getting divorced, and Li Jing's godsister moved in and met a coal mine business owner in the community, which made Zhao Guogang disgraced.
"I don't care about their family." Yuan Yuan said, "It's okay to listen to gossip."
Sometimes he didn't even want to read a book, just lay quietly on the sofa thinking about things, what he was thinking about, and he forgot after a while, and at the end his mind went blank.
Qi Huiyu asked him if he would be with him, and Yuan Yuan refused him for the last time.
Qi Huiyu: "Aren't you empty?"
Yuan Yuan: "Is it okay to make do with emptiness? I'd rather be empty than make do with everything. If you make do with it for a long time, you won't know what love is."
In December, the weather was very cold. The two cats were curled up beside the sofa. The phone rang. He saw that the caller ID was from Tan Ruikang and didn't answer.
The phone kept ringing, and finally the doorbell rang.
Yuan Yuan got up impatiently to look at Maoyan, and saw Li Jing standing outside the door crying, shouting, "Zhao Yuanyuan, come out! Come out for me! Explain what's going on!"
"Come in." Yuan Yuan said, "What's the matter?"
Li Jing threw the document in her hand on the table and shouted, "Both of you brothers are beasts! You are really inferior to pigs and dogs, scumbags who have no buttholes when they give birth to children!"
Tan Ruikang rushed up and roared, "You go back to me! Don't be ashamed here!"
"Who's embarrassing!" Li Jing cried hysterically: "Why did I fall in love with you, you bastard—"
"You first quarrel." Yuan Yuan said, "call me after the quarrel, there is a cup over there, go and drink it yourself."
Li Jing cried and made trouble, ran to the far home to divorce Tan Ruikang, like a shrew, Tan Ruikang wanted to beat her but couldn't.
"Warning you." Yuan Yuan said: "Noisy, don't smash my things, here are all things my mother gave me, if you dare to smash, I will chop you with a kitchen knife right away."
Li Jing was so frightened, she was quiet for a few seconds, and then burst into tears again.
"You two gays who cheated on marriage!" Li Jing threw a stack of documents on Tan Ruikang's face, grabbed him, and kicked him: "You just married me and came back as a reproductive tool!"
No wonder, did it come out? Yuan Yuan thought, where did it come from? She really underestimated her IQ. After moving house that day, he remembered the treatment report, but he didn't know where it was, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Most of it was caught in some book, and Tan Ruikang also forgot, so he took it away together.
"You are so miserable." Yuan Yuan said sympathetically: "It is used as a reproductive tool, and you have to see it clearly before you get married. In this world, the fifth diamond king, nine out of ten are gay, you must observe first, don't be swayed by love. dizzy, understand?"
"You—" Li Jing screamed.
"Enough!" Tan Ruikang growled.
Tan Ruikang said: "I explained it very clearly! Xiaoyuan just had this tendency in the past, and it has been corrected!"
Li Jing said: "You are too, you are also gay! You two incestuous beasts! I said why your relationship is so strange! It turned out to be incest! Your parents gave birth to you, and doing things like this is inferior to beasts! You have What face! You two want shame!"
"No!" Tan Ruikang roared: "You are crazy! He doesn't like me! It's my fault! It's my fault! Don't wrong him!"
"Yes." Yuan Yuan said, "Yes, I haven't been cured. I still love him."
Li Jing stared, gasping for breath, Yuan Yuan took the remote control to change the channel, laughed to herself, and said with joy, "I love you so much that I have to be insulted by you again. What to say to correct it..."
"I'm looking for your dad!" Li Jing said, "Just wait! I'm going to tell everyone!"
"Hahahaha-" Yuanyuan laughed frantically.
"Go ahead and talk." Yuan Yuan said, "As a man of my dad, I bet that when you told him about this, his first thought was not to break my leg, but to think about how to make you invisible. To get rid of it, so as not to go out and talk about his ugliness."
"Tell me." Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "Go and tell my dad? Say his nephew is gay with his son, see how he reacts? I guess he only needs to think about it for ten minutes and let you in Waiting in the living room, pretending to call to teach me a lesson, but actually calling his friends, bringing a group of doctors and nurses to the door, no matter how loud you are, you will be sent to a mental hospital, and you will be locked up for the rest of your life."
Li Jing was silent for a moment.
Yuan Yuan said: "My dad has long known about our relationship, otherwise how could he treat Tan Ruikang so well? Use your brain to think about it. My dad is also gay, so this is something he has arranged for a long time..."
Li Jing shouted in despair, and Tan Ruikang said, "Xiao Yuan! Don't do this!"
Yuan Yuan said: "Sister-in-law, you go to our company and talk about it. The effect will be even more sensational when you shout there."
Li Jing had been making trouble here for a while, but couldn't get the expected effect. How could Yuan Yuan be afraid of her? When he was still spending his father's money, he dared to smear his stepmother's face, and Li Jing was not enough for him to play.
Li Jing made trouble again for a long time, crying and yelling, Tan Ruikang was so devastated, and carried her out, Li Jing dragged his hand again, squatted on the ground and cried, shouting that Tan Ruikang beat her, said he was domestic violence, and was dragged by Tan Ruikang again As he climbed the corridor, he alarmed all the neighbors around him.
Yuan Yuan also took out a camera and snapped a photo. The flash was on, and all the neighbors were dumbfounded.
"You hit me—you hit me you bastard—"
"The two sons of this family are gay—incest—"
"God—God—"
Yuan Yuan explained kindly: "My sister-in-law has been in a bad mood recently. After my brother and I separated, she has changed."
The neighbors sighed, and Yuyao took the specialties sent by Lin Xi a few days ago and shared them with them, saying, "The pressure is very high, the stock market fell like that, and I quarreled with my brother..."
"I understand." Neighboring aunts said one after another. Several people exchanged ideas in the corridor for a while and watched Tan Ruikang drag Li Jing downstairs.
After chatting in the distance for a while, when I came back and closed the door, the first thing I did was to call Shu Yan.
"Auntie, I want to ask you a favor." Yuan Yuan said.
Shu Yan said, "What's the matter? Tan Ruikang's wife ran to your house to make trouble?"
Yuan Yuan: "Well, you can help him negotiate a divorce. Don't let my dad know, and don't let her run to your door and shout. I'm afraid he won't be able to stand the stimulation."
Shu Yan said, "Okay."
Yuan Yuan added: "Listen to what she has to say, don't tell my dad, just keep it a secret for me."
Shu Yan said, "What else can she say? She thinks that Ruikang has no money and wants to split half of the house to marry Fuxin's boss? You've always been very good? Why can't you even deal with her?"
Yuan Yuandao: "Damn, I've even found my next home. This woman's spirit is not right. She yelled in front of the neighbors that my brother and I are gay, and also said that my father is also gay. You said it. I don't dare to care, so as not to push me all over the head later, saying that I have harmed my brother for the rest of his life or something."
Shu Yan didn't speak, the two were silent for a long time, Shu Yan said: "I'll solve it, she didn't want to live seriously with your brother, it's easy to divorce, it won't cost too much, let Ruikang spend money to buy a lesson. "
Yuan Yuandao: "Okay, my brother doesn't have any money now, he's poor and he's white, he'll use it all to support my dad's company, and we'll get divorced, and I'll pay him here. No matter what, I can't give her the house, so I'll pay 300,000 Canadian dollars. A second-hand Audi thrown in the garage, don’t tell my brother that I paid for it, if you think it’s too little, let her leave, and I will make trouble, fight against her, and see if I won’t kill her.”
Yuan Yuan hung up the phone and picked up "Go Left, Go Right" which was knocked off by Li Jing under the table.
"The winter that year was particularly cold."
"The whole city is shrouded in dank rain."
"Grey sky, no sunshine for a long time."
"It's incredibly frustrating."
He looked at it for a while, opened the stock, and sold all the stocks he had left. When he came back from Guangzhou, there were more than 500,000, and now the remaining 300,000.
On Christmas Day 2008, Yuan Yuan still stayed at home and did not go out to play.
He stayed at home all December, lying on the sofa in a daze every day, and he couldn't sleep. With my eyes open twenty-four hours, I was in a daze all night long, and the TV was always on, illuminating the whole living room.
He always wondered how good it would be if people didn't have to grow up, and let the time stay in the year when he was fifteen years old. That year, Zhao Guogang would come back from get off work every day and apply medicated oil to his sprained feet. He had no gray hair and no gout. , that year Tan Ruikang ran out of the bedroom, bowed to look at the place where he was sprained, and had a few words with Zhao Guogang.
They all accompanied him that year, each in a room, and they knew they were at home without talking.
That year, he and Qi Huiyu had endless phone calls every day after school, unlike now that they have been separated for eight years, when they meet again, they are full of strangers.
The sky was overcast, and it was raining lightly. There are couples on the street. Yuan Yuan bought a lot of food at McDonald's. When he came back with a paper bag, he saw Tan Ruikang sitting downstairs and looked up at him.
"How are you doing recently?" Yuan Yuan asked.
"Go for a divorce tomorrow." Tan Ruikang said.
Yuan Yuan: "How much did it cost?"
Tan Ruikang said, "How can I have money, my aunt said it was helped by my uncle."
Yuan Yuan said: "It's okay, let's find another one, there are so many good girls in the world, don't hang yourself on a tree."
Tan Ruikang did not speak.
Yuan Yuan said: "rich and handsome, what kind of wife can't you find? My mother helped my father get such a large family fortune. You can see how easy it is for him to remarry."
Tan Ruikang said, "Xiaoyuan."
Yuan Yuan said: "A divorced man is a treasure. It's easy to find a good woman. You have a car and a house, you have no pony, you don't have a fuel bottle to follow, you don't need to be a stepmother, it's easy to find."
Yuan Yuan went home by himself, Tan Ruikang followed, Yuan Yuan didn't stop him, didn't lock him out, and put out a lot of food, for four people, he ate and drank at the dining table, and ate and ate. Occasionally eat another serving on the opposite side, say "Well, it tastes good", like playing home, and watch TV after eating.
Tan Ruikang said, "Are you entertaining today?"
Yuan Yuan didn't answer, Tan Ruikang looked at the book at the dining table, walked left to right, ate something, and looked at Yuan Yuan from time to time.
"Have you eaten at noon?" Tan Ruikang said.
"Eat." Yuan Yuan said.
Tan Ruikang said, "What to eat."
Yuan Yuan: "My dad came back and made it."
Tan Ruikang: "Have you eaten as usual these days?"
Yuan Yuan: "Well, he comes here every day to buy food."
Tan Ruikang went to make a late-night snack for Yuanyuan, and when he entered the kitchen, he saw several instant noodle buckets thrown in the trash can.
The next morning, Tan Ruikang went to go through the divorce formalities, and he locked the door as soon as he went out. When Tan Ruikang came home, he couldn't get in.
"Xiaoyuan." Tan Ruikang knocked on the door in a low voice and said, "Open the door."
Yuan Yuan ignored him, and Tan Ruikang said, "Xiao Yuan, brother loves you, open the door."
Far away to open the door.
Tan Ruikang looked at Yuan Yuan, lying on the sofa in a daze.
"What are you thinking." Tan Ruikang said.
Yuan Yuan ignored him, Tan Ruikang went to tidy up the house, found the new key on the cupboard, tried it, it was a new lock, he took a lock and fastened it himself, and went to buy food for Yuan Yuan to cook.
Yuan Yuan set up four pairs of chopsticks, Tan Ruikang frowned slightly, and said, "Who do you set this for?"
"My parents." Yuan Yuan said.
Yuan Yuan lied down every day without speaking, Tan Ruikang was like a long time ago, when Zhao Guogang left home, he didn't speak much and just stayed with him.
One day, when Tan Ruikang woke up, he found Yuan Yuan standing in the kitchen. He finally felt that something was wrong. He touched his head and said, "Xiao Yuan?"
That day Yuan Yuan was still lying on the sofa and doing nothing. Tan Ruikang brought someone back and said, "Xiao Yuan, a friend came to see you."
Yuan Yuan didn't know the person and said, "Hello."
The three chatted for a while, and Tan Ruikang sent him downstairs.
"Your brother is a little depressed and has mild hysteria." The doctor said, "It's not very obvious. It belongs to the psychological category. It's not time to see a doctor yet."
Tan Ruikang gasped slightly when he heard it, and the doctor comforted him: "It was caused by too much pressure, the accumulation of pressure was too great, and all the circumstances were changed in a short period of time. The external performance was misaligned with his own personality for a long time. If you express it in reality, you can't let it out in your heart. Over time, this will happen. Some people will shout and shout unconsciously. You need someone to accompany them, and they will get better gradually. Don't be nervous. , without treatment."
Tan Ruikang said, "How long will it take?"
The doctor said: "Effective counseling will heal in about a month or two. Don't quarrel and don't get angry with him. Be sure to have someone to accompany him all the time, don't leave him, don't be troublesome, take the initiative to talk to him, if you can Get better."
"Humans are social animals. If you live in a lonely environment for a long time and your psychological pressure is too high, you will easily get this kind of domestic disease. At present, he just feels that he has no interest in doing anything and does not want to move, but he does not talk to himself or face it. The air is yelling and it's not too serious."
Tan Ruikang sent the man away, and Yuan Yuan was still lying quietly on the sofa.
Tan Ruikang knelt in front of the sofa, looked at him blankly, and said far away, "What's wrong?"
"Xiaoyuan." Tan Ruikang said: "The day you went to Qingdao, brother thought about it later, or we can live like this... I can't live without you, but you came back and said that you were cured... Brother believed in you, and then you can get married at ease. of… "
"It's my fault." Yuan Yuan said, "I shouldn't lie to you."
Tan Ruikang shook his head and said, "It's my fault, my fault..."
Yuan Yuan touched his face and said, "Have you reviewed it?"
"Rechecked." Tan Ruikang said, "It's normal."
Yuan Yuan nodded, holding the cat and continuing to be in a daze.
Tan Ruikang got up and went to clean the room. The far room was messy. After cleaning, he came out and saw Yuan Yuan holding the remote control, sitting like a child on the carpet between the coffee table and the TV, watching TV with two cats in his arms.
"What are you looking at?" Tan Ruikang sat down and hugged Yuan Yuan.
"My birthday when I was a kid." Yuan Yuan said, "I found the V8 memory card when I moved last time. It fell into the crevice behind the bed. I found it and carved a disk."
On TV was the distant birthday party of the third year of junior high school.
Everyone was eating sushi in Yuanlu, laughing and laughing. Zhang Zhen tricked Tan Ruikang into eating mustard, and Tan Ruikang was in tears when he ate it.
Tan Ruikang laughed, and the two had a great time watching that video, as if they were back in their childhood.
Yuan Yuan rested on Tan Ruikang's lap, pressed his head with the pillow, and exposed one eye from the crack of the pillow, watching TV in a trance.
"Ma Liu, you are cured and you can get married. When are you going to get married?" Yuan Yuan said, touching Tan Ruikang's chin with his fist.
Tan Ruikang hugged Yuanyao and said, "If you don't get married, you won't get married in the future. I won't get married again, and I will live with you. Don't dislike my brother."
Yuan Yuan said: "Then what about your future pony Liu?"
Tan Ruikang said: "Even if you can't take care of you well, how can you love your own child? I don't have the qualifications."
The junior high school students on the TV were giggling and laughing, and there was no sound, but I could imagine that Qi Huiyu said something excitedly, and then everyone laughed together again.
At that time, they were still very young, and Yuan Yuan could hardly believe that they still had such years and such youth.