Volume 1 Chapter 0019 Emotional Investment
Lao Mo is the place that Beijing’s tough guys most want to visit.
But this place is too expensive, and since I haven't committed a crime punishable by at least three years in prison, I can't afford to come here.
In fact, the gangs are divided into circles. At this time, the gangs mainly composed of children of civilians call themselves gangs; the gangs mainly composed of children of high-ranking officials call themselves "veterans" and think they are aristocrats. It was not until the next two years that the veterans gradually called themselves gangs.
Therefore, the people who can come here to spend money are actually veterans, not the tough guys in a broad sense.
"Is this silver?"
"Um."
"This is not something that people would be concerned about."
"In fact, the tableware here is often stolen. I guess Lao Mo can't stand it anymore and has to replace the tableware with stainless steel."
“Is this your first time here?”
"no."
"Oh, you have these cutlery too, right?" Lai Biao said, showing the knife and fork in his hand.
"I'm not that boring. I'm a law-abiding citizen."
"Master Nan, I have some. I took two sets."
"a shame."
"If anyone doesn't have a set of tableware from Lao Mo, it will be embarrassing to go out and see people."
"Who are you meeting? Those stubborn people who are always causing troubles and still want to give themselves a sense of justice? Have you read Water Margin? They are the ones who even set up a banner of justice for themselves. What do you think would happen to them if they were allowed to live today?"
"Needless to say, target practice."
"That's it. These hooligans are almost the same. If they don't send themselves to the Northwest, they will be frequent visitors to the police station. In Northeastern dialect, they are called second-rate people. In the vernacular, they are..."
"Warlord." Lai Biao said.
Men Saner muttered, "I haven't seen many people go to the Northwest."
"Nonsense, that's what most people who call themselves rascals are. In fact, they are just like Ye Gong who loves dragons but doesn't care about others. They have never done anything that rascals would do. Tell me, why did you learn to smoke in the first place?"
"Very cool and stylish."
"In the future, don't get involved with the gangsters. Back then, a little bastard used a scraper to stab the whole city. In the end, he said that he was doing it for justice and assisted the police in arresting him. In fact, it was just a little bastard who made the gangsters of the whole city lose face. They were embarrassed.
"The naughty guys are always on the lips, and when they meet a little bastard, their legs start to tremble. If they don't unite and use their numbers to bully the little bastard, the naughty guys will have no chance of survival."
"Nan Yi, why do you seem a bit resentful towards the Naughty Master?"
"Flirting with women, fighting, skating, these are what the hooligans do. Flirting with women is the only thing that pays off. If you have the time to hang around outside every day, it would be better to help your parents at home."
"Okay, I understand. You look down on them for being naughty just for the sake of being naughty. You are too goal-oriented, and you definitely can't get along with them."
"Where is Comrade Lai's hometown? His accent doesn't sound like a local."
"I came from the northeast. My village sent me here to kill a man named Nan Yi."
"Oh, why do you speak in a Central Plains accent when you're speaking Northeastern Chinese?"
"Our ancestors went through Guandong."
"Oh, it's not easy. We are just one step away. We in Beijing have all taken calcium supplements together."
"That has nothing to do with that."
"Comrade Lai, please don't speak so poorly next time."
"Idiot, the word witty, hasn't it always been around the capital? When did it move south?"
"Two years ago, I went there along with the handwritten copy of Girl's Heart."
"Don't mention this. This is a blatant provocation to morality and order, and a blatant provocation to upright citizens like me with noble sentiments."
"Well, you pretend to be a decent person."
"Establish a mind for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the lost knowledge of the ancient sages, and bring peace to the world for all eternity."
"Come on, come on, Zhen'er, Zilin, give a quack to our comrade Lai. That's a very good thing to say. Mensan'er, come and light it up, swish swish swish."
Lai Biao stretched out his hand and pressed it downwards, "Don't be like this. I just did something insignificant. I can't stand such praise from the people."
"Fuck."
After a long chat with Lao Mo, on the way back, Mensaner walked one way and the remaining four walked another way.
The next day, Xian Zilin walked alone and was admitted to the Northern Normal University; the remaining three people, Nan Yi, walked together and all three were admitted to Peking University.
Originally, Nan Yi wanted Liu Zhen to study at Tsinghua University, but she insisted on studying at the same school as Nan Yi, and Nan Yi couldn't persuade her. In the end, Nan Yi, Lai Biao, and Liu Zhen all applied for the political economy major in the Economics Department of Peking University.
For Nan Yi, life in the ivory tower in 1978 was boring but not uninteresting.
In addition to studying professional courses, he is also consolidating his learning of five foreign languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Nan Yi's ambition is to establish a Nan Group. In the future, his business will spread all over the world, and he will have subordinates of different skin colors and speaking different languages. If he communicates with his subordinates, he needs to put a translator in the middle, which will hinder the communication between the two sides.
At that time, there were no textbooks at all, only ink-printed handouts, which were made by the teachers themselves. There were many and diverse knowledge points. Ten years had been lost, and the teachers wanted to cram all the knowledge into the students' heads.
In this day and age, everyone is very impatient and wishes they could get back the lost ten years in one day.
Studying is urgent, working is urgent, and falling in love is even more urgent.
Those who are open-minded can’t wait to have sex with someone the first time they meet. Even if they can’t do it the first time, they will be attracted to it the second or third time.
In a good learning atmosphere, there is also beautiful love, but dirty things like extramarital affairs can also happen.
A large proportion of this class of college students were educated youth. When many of them were repairing the earth in the countryside, they established deep revolutionary friendships they came together; some married country girls, and some married country boys.
What's worrying is that the children have already reached the age where they are hated by gods and ghosts.
From time to time, there are wives who bring their children to school, or husbands who come to school, and their partners are already in a relationship with someone else.
This also ushered in a peak in divorces, although the absolute number of divorces was not very large.
But in this era, there are many de facto marriages where couples do not get married, and their separation does not appear in the divorce statistics.
"Sister-in-law, what are your plans for the future?"
At a Weimin restaurant not far from the school, Nan Yi treated a country sister-in-law and the little girl she was holding to dinner.
My eldest sister-in-law is called Li Lamei. She was a classmate of Nan Yi and the de facto wife of Comrade Zhou Maode. In other words, everyone in the same team knew that they were husband and wife, but they had not obtained a marriage certificate.
It's a very clichéd story. When Zhou Maode came to university, he was quickly attracted by a romantic female classmate and was completely bewitched by her.
The two of them quickly established a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, and naturally forgot that he had a wife and daughter in the countryside.
"I can't go back home. Before, my parents and the people in our village told me not to let him take the exam, saying that he would not come back if he left.
I don't believe in superstition. The child's father wants to pursue a bright future and doesn't want to be a farmer in the countryside. I can understand that. Life in the countryside is hard. Who would want to stay there if there is no other way?
I know that the child's father doesn't like me. He was with me because he thought I could earn work points. Now, he doesn't want me, but I won't cry to him or make a fuss with him.
I just wanted him to help me find a job in the city so I could support my child. It was all my fault. I told the villagers that my child's father would definitely take me to the city to live a good life.
I am too embarrassed to go back."
"Sister-in-law, Zhou Maode doesn't want to recognize you and the child, nor does he want to help you. Even if he wants to help, he doesn't have the ability. He is just a student. Apart from a little scholarship every month, there is no other way.
If you really want to stay in the capital, I can find a way for you.
But you have to think about it. If your child doesn’t have a hukou here, he or she won’t be able to go to school here in the future.”
"They are all country kids. It's enough for them to be able to work. It doesn't matter whether they have studied or not. My child, a girl, will find a good family to marry in the future, and her life will be complete."
Nan Yi couldn't help but frown when he heard Li Lamei's words. Looking at the little girl she was holding, her bright eyes and her face were full of wisdom. It would be a pity if she didn't study.
"Sister-in-law, do you think it's dirty?"
"I'm not afraid of that. I've done all kinds of dirty and hard work in the countryside."
"Okay, give me the child. Eat something to fill your stomach first. I'll find you a place to live and a job later. I can't say you can live a good life, but at least you can have food to eat."
"Thank you so much, brother. You are really my second parent."
Li Lamei said she was going to stand up, and it looked like she was going to kowtow to Nan Yi. How could this be possible? Nan Yi quickly stood up and held her down.
"Sister-in-law, don't be like this, eat your meal."
Nan Yi said this while touching the little girl's face. The little girl was not shy at all. Not only was she not afraid, she also smiled at Nan Yi.
"what is your name?"
Zhou Lamei said: "Tail, Zhou Weiba."
"Oh, Tail, come here, let your uncle hold you, and let your mother eat first."
Nan Yi hugged Tail and, ignoring the two clear snots hanging from his nose, kissed Tail on the cheek. A pleasant milky scent came into Nan Yi's nose.
"Sister-in-law, how old is Tail?"
"I'm almost three years old."
"Oh, let me ask you something. Are you still breastfeeding your child ?"
"Yes, I have been breastfeeding her since I gave birth. I have enough milk and there is nothing good to eat at home, so I never weaned her."
"Then don't feed him anymore. After the child is two years old, your milk will have no nutrition. It will be like eating grass. Not only will it taste bad, but it will also give him diarrhea."
"Then I won't feed him anymore. I think he doesn't like to drink anymore. At home, I feed him rice porridge. I've been here for two days and I don't have money or tickets, and I don't have a place to eat. I just feed him milk."
Li Lamei kept talking, putting food into her mouth with chopsticks one by one. She said she hadn't eaten for two days, and from looking at her tail, it seemed that she was not hungry.
She has to feed her baby while being hungry, which must be very detrimental to her body.
Holding the child, Nan Yi came to the counter and said to the waiter, "Comrade, do you have fish today?"
"Yes, braised or sweet and sour?"
"No, if possible, please tell the chef that this is for the child. It would be best if you can chop the fish for me and make a pot of milky fish soup."
"Then I'll go ask."
The waiter said as he walked into the kitchen and came back after a while, "Chef Chang said he can make it for you. You just need to pay for the braised fish."
"Okay, thank you, thank you for bothering you."
After waiting for half an hour, the fish soup came up, and it was milky white.
Nan Yi asked for another cup of warm water, rinsed his mouth, and let out a breath. There was no obvious smell of smoke. Then he took a porcelain spoon to scoop up some fish soup, blew it cool with his mouth, and fed it to Tail's mouth.
Smelling the fragrance, Tail quickly opened her mouth, and with a suck, a spoonful of fish soup went into her stomach.
Li Lamei, who was already 70% full and had become more polite while eating, looked at Nan Yi's attentiveness and felt mixed emotions in her stomach.
Nan Yi fed the baby one spoonful after another. After about twenty spoonfuls, he stopped. He touched the baby's belly and found it was slightly bulging.
“Yes, yes…”
Seeing that the food no longer came to its mouth automatically, Tail became anxious, opened its little hands, and rushed towards the fish soup.
"My stomach is so bloated, I can't eat anymore."
I heard that he was not speaking clearly. He was already three years old, but he couldn't speak complete sentences. How could Zhou Maode be a father to his grandson? He didn't even teach his child to speak.
I can understand that you don't want a country wife, but it's really too much to say that you don't want children.
It’s obvious that Tail is a smart kid. Zhou Maode doesn’t want it, but Nan Yi does.
Someone said something that Nan Yi agreed with very much.
Emotional investment is the one with the lowest cost and the highest return among all investments!
Not only does he want to incubate businesses, he also wants to train his adopted children.
