Chapter 2 The Boatman
Students who can get into the National University of China will not ruin their future for some small profits.
Xiao Zhao had already changed into work clothes and stood next to Tang Lei to prepare for succession.
Tang Lei turned on the cash register and said, "Call me if you have something to do in the evening. If you don't have it, call the police. Don't have conflicts with the guests. Pay attention to protecting yourself."
"I'm hungry at night, so I'll take it if I should eat something, don't be like a girl."
While talking, he took away most of the revenue during the day and left some change to hand over to Xiao Zhao in the cash register.
"I understand, thank you senior!" Xiao Zhao replied with a smile.
"Let's go!" Tang Lei replied with a smile.
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Tang Lei was watching short videos in a hotel, and soon, the "404 bad people" in City W had gathered together.
The 404 restaurant restaurant is not far from the "404 Grocery Store". It is an old store and is all in the same restaurant street. The boss is quite familiar with Tang Lei and the others.
After all, after four years of traps and investigation in Door 404, I finally chose this hotel as the base, which is still very reliable. Whether it is the boss's personality or the quality of the dishes, I have passed the full certification of Door 404.
"Oh, have you ordered all the dishes? Are you afraid of being slaughtered?"
The boss Li Qi pulled out the chair and sat down, looked at the ordering signs left by the waiter on the dining table, and then looked at Tang Lei and mocked.
Tang Lei, the third brother Zhu Heng, and the sixth brother Nie Xingxing looked at each other and greeted him.
Then he rolled his eyes at Li Qi, took out a box of Huang Crane Tower 1916 from the empty chair next to him and threw it to Li Qi. The third brother Zhu Heng and the sixth brother Nie Xingxing said angrily: "Can this block your mouth!"
Li Qi played with 1916, which was not Kaifeng, and said with a smile: "One is almost the same~"
Tang Lei ignored it directly!
A Yellow Crane Tower costs 1,000 yuan! It would be okay if you were alone, but the key is that the boss can’t give one, so the third and sixth ones will give one box, right?
They are all old smoke guns! If you give them one, you will kill Tang Lei!
Giving is affordable, there is no need to be fat in front of your own brothers.
Li Qi is 30 years old and the boss of the dormitory. Speaking of which, he is a legend in the 404 dormitory.
Li Qi was admitted to the National University of China, but I don’t know what was wrong. After working as a tank soldier for two years, he came back and continued to go to school. During the first year of the military training, he was still the military training instructor of Tang Lei’s class!
In my junior year, I successfully got my girlfriend's belly bigger and got married and had children before I graduated from college. I am a "successful person"!
But now I am so miserable. I currently work in an advertising company and my monthly salary is 78,000 yuan. In addition, Li Qi's wife's salary has just maintained a small family.
Usually when a few brothers are together, Li Qi is extremely stingy and frugal. He understands that he will never pay for dinner.
A few days ago, Li Qi said that his wife is pregnant again, and life is under great pressure! I guess it will be even more tragic in the future!
Tang Lei said it was sad, but in fact he was envious. His wife and children were warm on the bed, what was the point of being harder and tired?
"I have to work overtime tomorrow! I have to drink less when looking for a designated driver today, otherwise my work tasks will not be completed tomorrow."
During this period, the sixth and Nie Xingxing consciously lit a cigarette for the birthday boy Tang Lei, the eldest and third brother Zhu Heng, and smiled and held the round glasses with his hands and said.
It’s just that Lao Liusan’s cigarette box belongs to the eldest.
Li Qi looked at Nie Xingxing with a beard and stared at him and scolded: "Fuck, Nie Xingxing, you are a fool! I finally got a box of 1916! The dog said!!!"
Lao Liu Nie Xingxing is 27 years old this year. He is a northern man. He is now a programmer in a software company. He is the youngest in the dormitory, but his figure is the most burly in the dormitory 404!
However, because I like to keep the pot cover and the round eye frames with it, I don’t feel lethality or domineering at all.
Tang Lei watched them fight and couldn't help but smile.
"The fourth brother, I gave it to you, happy birthday!" The third brother Zhu Heng said, hooking Tang Lei's shoulder.
The third brother Zhu Heng, a native of W City, is fair and fair, has a good figure and looks. He is now studying for a graduate student under his father.
He is serious, poor and handsome! He is not poor either, he just doesn’t have much money. His parents are teachers from another university in the city, his mother is a professor, and his father is a master’s supervisor. The country and the province have subsidies, and family education is very strict.
"Pig, your heart is bleeding!" The boss teased with a humble expression as he looked at Tang Lei's birthday gift.
"A little bit! But the fourth brother is happy!" Zhu Heng said with a smile.
"Thank you, my third brother! I like it very much!"
Tang Lei replied with a smile while playing with the Iron Man model.
This Iron Man model was purchased by Zhu Heng, who asked his father to go to the United States for academic exchanges two years ago, and spent more than half of his private money.
When he first arrived at Zhu Heng's hand, he took it out from time to time to show off in the group. At that time, Tang Lei was not far from where Zhu Heng lived, and he ran over to get started in person. Unexpectedly, Zhu Heng gave it to him on Tang Lei's 28th birthday!
"My rental house is too small, why don't you let it go first!" Tang Lei refused a little reluctantly and refused embarrassedly.
"There are no things I gave away from my own house! I made up a lot of determination to take them out! Are you sure you want me to take them back?" Zhu Heng teased.
Tang Lei laughed and accepted the model.
404 A few bad people teased each other and the dishes were served. During this period, the hotel owner came here in person to give Tang Lei a blessing, and sent a bowl of longevity noodles with 30% off today's dishes.
It was already late at night when I had enough food and drink. Originally, Tang Lei had to invite a KTV, but Li Qi wanted to go home to report to his wife and take care of her.
The sixth brother Nie Xingxing will work overtime tomorrow, and in the end, only Tang Lei and the third brother Zhu Heng are left. It doesn’t matter if they go to KTV, so they all go back to their own houses and find their own mothers.
When he returned to the rental house, Tang Lei took a brief wash and went to bed. He had to go to the convenience store to hand over the shift with Xiao Zhao at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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The next day, at 8:10 am.
After the sleepy eyes were too strong, Tang Lei and Xiao Zhao had to cheer up and serve the customers who came in after handing over the shift.
After all, you should not be careless when collecting money and looking for money. Although online payments are common now, you have to calculate the bills for customers.
I was not very busy for a while in the morning, and Xiao Zhao had finished the busy period.
Now there are just a few passers-by every now and then. They come in and buy cigarettes and some water. The amount is usually only 100 yuan. However, Tang Lei must be on the counter, which is also a pain of opening a convenience store. His personal freedom is still a little worse.
Fortunately, Tang Lei is the boss. When he wants to go out and wander, he can close the store door, and no one will teach him.
Tang Lei sat in the 404 grocery store until about 1:00 pm. While there was no one, he quickly locked the store door and prepared to go to the nearby market to buy some vegetables.
After buying the vegetables, Tang Lei was about to leave for the wharf where his father was. There was a boat parked at the wharf, and Tang Lei's home was on the boat.
Tang Lei’s home is on the water, to be precise, on a bulk ship that is 70 meters long, 16.5 meters wide and 4 meters deep.
Tang Lei’s hometown is on the riverside. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and water to eat the water. Tang Lei’s grandfather became the first generation of boat runners in the family!
What are boat runners?
To put it bluntly, it is just water transportation, just earning transportation fees, and it is all hard money!
Tang Lei's father Tang Guoqiang inherited his father's business with his son and married Tang Lei's mother Sun Rong, who is also a daughter of a boatman. He relied on a boat to raise Tang Juanjuan and Tang Lei's siblings together!
With the development of technology, the tonnage of inland transport ships needed by enterprises has also increased, and the small boats in the Tang family have gradually failed to keep up with the times.
So, Tang Lei's father Tang Guoqiang used the funds sold by his 500-ton old ship and bank loans to buy the new 2,500-ton bulk ship seven years ago.
As the 2,500-ton bulk ship can transport more and more items, the transportation business of the Tang family has also been more popular.
After that, the Tang family's family's family conditions gradually improved, although Tang Lei's father and mother still had to pay a bank loan of about 17,000 yuan a month.
Tang Lei bought vegetables that can be stored in the market, such as Chinese cabbage, winter melon, pumpkin, and potatoes.
Tang Lei originally thought about buying more, but thinking that he had these water supermarkets, he turned around and returned to the market to buy some dishes he liked. After all, he celebrated his birthday today.
After leaving the market, I took an online car and drove to the dock.
When we arrived at the wharf, the majestic Yangtze River! The magnificent river water! Let Tang Lei’s childhood memories emerge in his heart one by one...
Find the docking location of his own ship at the pier, and you can see his mother Sun Rong waiting for her at a glance.
"Mom~"
Tang Lei smiled and waved to his mother Sun Rong, but he was holding the vegetables in his hand, which was a bit inconvenient.
"It's only been two months now, why have you gained weight again? Didn't you tell me to exercise more in the store when you're fine!"
While taking the vegetables from Tang Lei's hand, Sun Rong pulled Tang Lei to the boat, frowned and complained.
"Where is it!" Tang Lei replied with a smile.
"Sit there every day and don't move. I see how you will look like a fat pig in the future. How can you get married!"
Sun Rong said while gently patting Tang Lei.
"The conscience of heaven and earth!"
"Mom, I'm only 140 kilograms now, okay? I'm 1.78 meters tall, how can I be fat!" Tang Lei put his hands on his mother's shoulders and retorted.
"You don't know! Men get fat very quickly and can't stop them! They are ugly and fatter! Which girl likes you! She will die alone in the future!" Sun Rong turned around and smiled and scolded.
"Didn't that give birth to you~"
Tang Lei held his mother Sun Rong's shoulder with both hands behind his back, leaned his head against his shoulder, and whispered with his face against his face.
Tang Lei is actually a little ordinary. Only Sun Rong can say that he is ugly, but Tang Lei, a stranger from others, had already called him up.
"They all their sons look like they follow their mothers, but you are your fathers!" Sun Rong said sarcastically without looking back.
Tang Lei knew that he was not talking about this topic, so he opened the kitchen door of the living area, let Sun Rong go in, and asked casually: "Where is my dad?"
Chapter completed!