Kong Zhenghui squinted his eyes and looked at Su Tianyu: "What do you want to say?"
"Nothing, I just feel it's a bit strange." Su Tianyu also looked at the other party: "What do you think?"
"Haha, I know what you are thinking." Kong Zhenghui smiled and whispered back, "But I think it's just a coincidence. We don't need to think too much about it."
Su Tianyu was silent.
Kong Zhenghui introduced softly: "You don't understand the situation in Longcheng. On the road, on the water, running outside, and drilling into no-man's land, each industry has its own rules and circles. The code gangs rely on water all year round, and they have many eyes and ears, and thugs everywhere. If you rely on water, they will target you, which is not abnormal."
Su Tianyu nodded slowly: "Maybe I'm overthinking it."
"Let's take a step back and say that if we are out to make a living, we will do it if the benefits are right, and we will leave if the benefits are not right." Kong Zhenghui saw it clearly: "We are just foot soldiers, we take the money we deserve, that's all."
"That makes sense." Su Tianyu agreed.
"Okay, that's it. I'll take my people back first." Kong Zhenghui said hello, took his family members who had divided the money, got in the car and left the garbage dump.
Not far away, Su Tianbei distributed 81,000 yuan in cash to three families according to the corresponding amount, and the workers who participated in moving and transporting goods today, as well as the core members of the family, also received an extra income of 500 yuan each.
In fact, according to the living standards of Longcheng, this money is definitely not small. The income of one night is equivalent to the monthly salary of many ordinary people. And although this business is smuggling, the risks borne by the people working below are completely different from those of the three companies of Su, Bai and Kong.
If there is a problem, the superiors have to take the responsibility; paving the way and building relationships also rely on the superiors, and the workers only need to work hard. So everyone has no objection to the profit sharing, and some people even want to do this job for a long time to earn some extra money to supplement their family expenses.
Su Tianyu made a net profit of four thousand today, because Yu Mingyuan gave him eighty-five thousand. This shows that this boss is quite generous and values the Su family very much.
Su Tianyu was happy to make money. He quickly dealt with the follow-up matters and prepared to go back to sleep.
"Little... Little Brother Yu." Just then, the big bear bared his teeth, walked over happily and called out.
Su Tianyu turned back: "What's wrong?"
"Earn… earn money, I… I'll treat you to breakfast." Daxiong invited with a smile: "Eat something good, go… go to the Cantonese restaurant for morning tea."
"Forget it, I'm going back to sleep."
"No... don't you give me face? I want to treat you." Daxiong spoke very directly.
"Haha." Su Tianyu grinned: "Okay, let's go."
"Okay." Daxiong pulled open the door of Su Tianyu's Ford "bus" and bent down to sit on it.
"Where are you going?" Su Tianbei, Bai Hongbo, and a relative of the Su family also came over.
"Big Bear wants to treat me to a meal."
"Hey, Brother Daxiong, why don't you treat us to a meal too?" Bai Hongbo asked towards the car.
Daxiong thought carefully for three or four seconds before nodding and saying, "Okay... I'll... I'll treat you all, let's go together."
"Spacious!" Bai Hongbo opened the car door and sat in.
In this way, a group of five people drove an off-road vehicle for about five or six kilometers before they arrived at the Cantonese restaurant, because Daxiong insisted on coming here.
When everyone entered the house, it was just dawn, the sun was rising in the east, and the sky was bright with rays of light.
It was rare for Daxiong to take the initiative to order food, so he ordered a lot of not-cheap dishes such as shrimp dumplings, steamed fish balls, and sea cucumber porridge.
After ordering, Bai Hongbo was about to pay the bill as usual, but Daxiong stopped him: "As agreed, it's my treat, you don't have to pay, Brother Bai."
"That's quite considerate, brother!" Bai Hongbo certainly didn't care about the money for breakfast, so he didn't argue and just drank the porridge in big gulps.
While everyone was eating breakfast, Da Xiong asked Su Tianyu tentatively: "Little... Little Yu brother, can I live in the new third floor in the future?"
Su Tianyu was stunned for a moment: "Why do you want to live there? Aren't you going home?"
"It's freer there." Daxiong lowered his head and drank his porridge: "I see there's no one there, no... Otherwise, I can pay some rent every month."
Yu Mingyuan had asked Linda to rent a three-story building near the sea. The main purpose of this building was to store speedboats, ropes, motors, chains and other tools for work, because it was impossible to pull them every time. And there had to be a base for workers to gather before each work, and they couldn't always gather at the garbage dump, which was too conspicuous.
Su Tianyu glanced at Daxiong. Although he had many doubts in his heart, he habitually did not ask about family affairs: "Okay, if you want to live here, you can. You don't have to pay rent. There are a lot of things there, so someone needs to look after them."
Daxiong was very happy to hear this: "Thank... Thank you, Brother Xiaoyu. When you are free... I will treat you to a good meal."
"Haha, Daxiong, when are you going to get married?" Bai Hongbo asked casually.
"As long as I work hard and save enough money, I can buy a house and get married, soon...soon." Big Bear replied.
"You can marry her, but not the third sister." Bai Hongbo squinted and said, "She is my white moonlight, your future sister-in-law."
"That's fucking it." Su Tianbei cursed indignantly.
When Daxiong heard this, his face turned red, he lowered his head and stopped talking.
"Damn, everyone says that he's not very smart, but you see, he understands life planning better than I do!" Although Bai Hongbo is a talkative person, he has never made fun of Dabai in a vulgar way. Although his words seem to be inappropriate, they are his true thoughts.
"You don't have a plan?" Su Tianyu asked.
"To be honest, I don't have any plans. I'm quite confused." Bai Hongbo pouted and replied, "I don't really like what I'm doing now, but... but I can't stop doing it. My dad is old, and there are a lot of people at home waiting to cook... Alas, men, when they become adults, they can't live their own lives anymore."
Su Tianyu smiled, turned his head to look at Su Tianbei and the Su family's relative and asked, "Second brother, Haozi, what are your plans?"
"Grow bigger and stronger, and create greater glory!" Su Tianbei replied concisely and clearly.
"Sure." Su Tianyu nodded: "What about you, Haozi?"
The young man opposite was called Zhang Hao, he was the son of Tianbei's uncle. His father died in the Chinese Navy in his early years, and he and his mother were left alone, so they went to the Su family, which had some property in Longcheng.
Zhang Hao is a man of few words but works very hard. He can be found working in almost any corner of the Su family compound. Su Tianyu knew him when he was a child and always had a good impression of him.
Zhang Hao listened to Su Tianyu's question, thought about it carefully, and replied: "I don't have any plans, I just want to make some money so that my mother can live a good life."
"Yes, to put it bluntly, people live for a good life." Bai Hongbo raised the bowl of porridge and shouted, "Come on, for a better life tomorrow, let's do it."
"How can there be dry porridge?" Su Tianbei was speechless.
"Oh, that's what I mean. Drinking alcohol so early in the morning is damn unhealthy." Bai Hongbo grinned and said, "Today is quite memorable. We have made it to the first day. I hope it will get better and better in the future."
The five young men smiled at each other, picked up their bowls of porridge and drank them.
In the early morning, everyone left the porridge shop together, facing the dazzling sun, and dispersed.
…
Daxiong took the key to the third floor from Su Tianyu and walked towards home happily.
It’s a little after eight in the morning.
In a dilapidated building on Tufang Street in Zhanan District, Daxiong climbed up the three-sided steps to the seventh floor and opened the door of his house with the key.
Tufang Street is a famous slum in Zhanan District. The buildings here are all semi-welfare housing built by the Longcheng Relief Agency for those who have no security, no jobs, and no ability to work. Except for water and electricity bills, no other fees are required.
Daxiong's father had been a soldier and was seriously injured in the battlefield in the Chinese region, with his left hand blown off. He was awarded the third-class individual merit. After he was discharged from the army, he followed the relocation troops to Longcheng, where he was allocated a relatively spacious house and received a sum of compensation from the army.
However, Wu's father had three sons. If he lived on the compensation money from the army, he would run out of money sooner or later. So after he retired from the army, he started trading in scarce materials with a few comrades in Longcheng. But due to bad luck and the tightening of policies, he eventually lost a lot of money.
From then on, the Wu family moved to this slum, and Wu's father also worked in the dirty gang with the Su family for a while. To put it bluntly, Su Zhengcai arranged a sinecure for him in the company because of their friendship in the army. Later, Wu's father's health became worse and worse, so Daxiong took his place and joined the dirty gang as a worker.
Daxiong opened the door and walked into the living room. At first glance, he saw Father Wu sitting at a dirty table, eating breakfast and drinking white wine.
Father Wu has this habit. He drinks at all three meals, morning, noon and night. After drinking, he either lies on the bed to read or goes to sleep.
The Wu family’s house is about 60 square meters in total. The environment is very dilapidated. The furniture in the house is more than ten years old, and there is an inexplicable stench of decay.
Daxiong's eldest brother and second brother have already started working and no longer live at home, so Wu's father rented the east room to a middle-aged couple who ran a breakfast stall. He and his wife lived in the west room, and Daxiong's room was converted from a balcony, and the space was basically enough to fit a bed.
When Daxiong came back, he called out a little nervously, "Dad... you... you're up?"
"What the hell have you been doing since you're not home every day?" Father Wu asked in a loud voice.
"I... I and a few friends from the company are helping the Su family transport some goods at sea." Daxiong responded hesitantly.
"Shipping goods at sea??? Smuggling?! You are so stupid, you just do whatever others tell you to do?" Father Wu cursed: "You should have been caught that night, do you know how many years you would have been sentenced to?"
"They all follow suit, and the Su family's people can do it themselves, it's okay." Daxiong replied, turned around and walked towards the balcony.
"How much money did they give you? Huh?!" Father Wu shouted again.
Big Bear returned to the balcony, lowered his head and began to pack his luggage.
"Damn it, why did I give birth to such a fool like you! You just step on other people's drawings and your head is full of shit." Father Wu was drinking and cursing outside.
Daxiong packed his things as quickly as possible, then walked out of the balcony carrying a broken suitcase and locked the door.
"What are you doing?"
"I found a job as a night watchman, and I'm going to live there... there..." Da Xiong stammered, "I won't be back for a while."
"Let me ask you, how much money can you make by sailing with them?" Father Wu asked with his eyes wide open.
Daxiong thought for a moment, lowered his head and took out four hundred and fifty-four yuan from his pocket, put it on the table and said, "I gave you five hundred yesterday, here it is."
Father Wu took the money and said in a much more relaxed tone: "Don't be stupid, be careful when doing things. If something is wrong, run away."
"knew."
"Well, I'll save this money for you, and you're not allowed to cause trouble outside!" replied Father Wu.
"I'm leaving." Big Bear picked up his bag and walked out of the house.
…
Outside, the sun was shining brightly, and as soon as Big Bear stepped out of the house, he unconsciously revealed his signature smile.
After a long journey, Da Xiong arrived at the three-story building on the beach. He placed his luggage neatly on the ground and began to clean up the bedroom on the top floor.
The weather was hot, and Big Bear took a rag and a mop and cleaned the house carefully. Although he looked rough and stupid, he was very delicate and methodical in his work.
After cleaning up, Daxiong carried a few broken cabinets from downstairs upstairs and placed them inside the house.
Bending down to take out his luggage, Daxiong sorted it out one by one and put it away. Finally, on the bedside table, he placed a small handmade wooden sculpture that looked very much like his third sister, and a very worn Superman model toy that was glued together with transparent tape.
After everything was done, Big Bear lay on the ground, wiping the sweat with his arm, looking at the bright sunshine outside, grinning for no apparent reason.