Chapter 1855

"Pa!"

Sun Ming's head got slapped again, not painful nor itchy, but he just looked utterly bewildered.

「Mom, why did you hit me again? 」

「Little calf! 」 Yang Yingjie gritted his teeth and scolded: 「Is it that easy for your older sister to find a partner? Don't say driver, even if he's a night soil carrier, does your sister have the right to look down on him? 」

Sun Xiaohui took a deep breath, jumped off the sofa, put on her shoes, and walked away.

「Where are you going? 」 Yang Yingjie grabbed his daughter with one hand.

Sun Xiaohui looked at her mother with utter despair: 「I want to run away from home, never to come back. 」

Yang Yingjie couldn't help but laugh: 「Eldest daughter, don't be angry, I was just joking, hurry up and eat. 」

「Right right right! 」 Sun Jin found the beer: 「Today let's have a few drinks, celebrate celebrate. 」

「Sigh! 」 Sun Xiaohui sighed: 「What kind of family did I end up being born into? 」

「You were born into a loving family. 」 Sun Jin laughed heartily: 「Alright, hurry up and eat, I'm starving. 」

The family chatted and joked around the table while eating, Yang Yingjie couldn't help but ask: 「Actually I'm quite curious, how much does the other party pay Zhou Andong per month for driving? 」

Sun Xiaohui put down her chopsticks: 「Basic salary is 1,200, plus monthly bonus and year-end bonus, averaging over two thousand per month. 」

「That much? 」 Sun Ming's eyes widened instantly.

Sun Jin and Yang Yingjie also looked utterly astonished, stethoscope, steering wheel, labor-management cadre, salesperson.

In the 1960s and 70s, drivers were skilled workers, the most awesome profession.

By the 1980s, with reform and opening up, the bold ones had their own trucks.

Then came the saying: 'A honk brings ten thousand taels of gold, a turn of the wheel gets even a county magistrate to do nothing.'

By now, mid-1990s, drivers are no longer as lucrative as before, but still remain a desirable profession.

Whether it's Sun Jin or Yang Yingjie, knowing the other party is Zhou Andong's driver, the salary definitely won't be low.

But they never imagined it would be this high—over two thousand a month, nearly half their six-month salary.

「Sister sister! 」 Sun Ming's eyes lit up like a light bulb: 「I can also drive, just no license, let me go get one, then you introduce me to drive for Zhou Andong, how about that? 」

「Not happening. 」 Sun Xiaohui picked up a piece of spare rib and put it in her mouth, muttering: 「Zhou Andong often goes abroad, people don't just see him as a driver, but also as a bodyguard.

If you go to be Zhou Andong's driver, never mind your skill level, if something really happens, Zhou Andong still has to protect you. 」

Sun Ming said indignantly: 「Am I really that useless? 」

Before Sun Xiaohui could speak, Yang Yingjie snorted first: 「You're not useless, just incompetent. 」

Yang Yingjie first criticized his daughter, now his son, this mother really can balance a bowl of water evenly.;

「……」

Sun Ming instantly felt gloomy.

Sun Xiaohui, however, felt relieved, feeling today's braised spare ribs were more fragrant than ever.

Sun Jin silently drank his wine, trying to speak as little as possible to avoid being indiscriminately attacked by his wife.

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The next day, Zhou Andong woke up just before ten, originally planning to go to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Thinking, it's already almost ten, if I wait a bit longer it'll be lunchtime, where's there breakfast left?

He sauntered out the gate, thinking to grab a bite at Fat Sister's bun shop, but didn't expect the breakfast stall where he ate yesterday was still not packed up.

Zhou Andong walked over: 「Boss lady, it's this late, why haven't you packed up yet? 」

「Oh no, Zhou Dong! 」 The boss lady enthusiastically invited Zhou Andong to sit: 「Someone ordered twenty bowls of tofu pudding, five catties of youtiao yesterday, saying they'd come pick it up this morning.

I held it for them, but they didn't come, so I can only wait a bit longer, hoping to sell it. 」

Zhou Andong said with a smile: 「Let me help you digest one bowl of tofu pudding and two youtiao. 」

「Alright! 」 The boss lady quickly brought over a bowl of tofu pudding and two youtiao: 「Eat slowly, if the tofu pudding isn't enough, I'll bring you another bowl. 」

「That's really thanks to you, boss lady. 」

Zhou Andong thanked her, picked up the spoon, and took a sip of tofu pudding.

As he was eating, a Mercedes-Benz pulled over to the roadside.

Then the car door opened, and Gu Bing got out of the car.

「One look and I can tell you just woke up. 」

Zhou Andong glanced at him: 「So early, running over here, got something to do? 」

「Yes! 」 Gu Bing sat down, took out a cigarette from his pocket: 「Yao Jun's wife gave birth, I wanted to come find you, let's go together to check it out. 」

Zhou Andong was stunned: 「Gave birth, when? 」

「Yesterday afternoon. 」 Gu Bing held the lighter, lit the cigarette dangling from his mouth: 「I don't know either, this morning I woke up and heard the factory guards chatting about it. 」

「Damn! 」 Zhou Andong cursed: 「Such a big thing, even the guards know, but we brothers don't, he's just itching for a fight. 」

Gu Bing hummed: 「He really does deserve a beating, that's why I came to find you. 」

「Boss lady! 」 Zhou Andong shouted: 「Check out. 」

The boss lady hurried over: 「Tofu pudding one yuan, two youtiao six mao. 」

「Huh? 」 Zhou Andong raised his head: 「Yesterday tofu pudding was still five mao per bowl, why is it one yuan today? 」

The boss lady gave a wry smile: 「After the New Year, soybeans surged in price, five mao per bowl of tofu pudding doesn't make money anymore, but we small vendors don't dare to raise prices.

Last month soybeans rose again, luckily we had some stored at home, but the past two days we've used it up, now the newly bought soybeans, if we still sell at five mao per bowl, we'd lose money, so we have no choice but to raise. 」

Zhou Andong was just asking, took out two one-yuan coins from his pocket: 「No need for change. 」

He likes drinking tofu pudding, remembers the first time he drank it, it seemed like one mao.

I don't remember when, but it rose to two mao, and after that it became five mao.

Now it's up to one yuan; by the time of a few years later, it will rise to one yuan five.

When it rises to two yuan, that will be many, many years later.

Zhou Andong walked toward the winery's main gate with his hands behind his back.

Gu Bing asked: "What are you going back for? Just get in my car and go."

Zhou Andong waved his hand: "Just let Wentian and the others know, otherwise I'll have people searching all over the world for me again."

"I'll wait for you in the car." Gu Bing got into the car.

Zhou Andong merely made a phone call at the gatehouse to the motor pool, informing Wang Wentian.

After all, this is Jiangzhou, my own turf, so there won't be any safety issues, which is why I didn't have them follow me.

In the hallway of the obstetrics ward on the third floor of the Municipal Affiliated Hospital, there were twenty or thirty people standing, all shareholders and leaders of Jin Dun Security.

In the ward, Tang Wenjuan was holding the baby and breastfeeding, with several other women nearby, chattering away.

"This child looks so much like Wenjuan, especially the eyes and nose."

"And the skin, fair and clean, just as good as Wenjuan's skin."

"Fortunately, the child doesn't take after his father; otherwise, this child would be ruined."

This remark immediately drew loud laughter from the other women.

"If Yao Daming hears what you're saying, he'll surely get angry with you."

"What's there to be angry about? His eyes are small, his skin is dark, and for a girl, if she takes after him, she'd be ruined, wouldn't she?"