Chapter 107

"Little Ye, you're going back? I'll hurry and let Sanshui... book the ticket himself, I guarantee I'll get a sleeper, a lower berth."

"Brother Li Ye should go back too. The results have been announced for so many days. Maybe when you get back, the university admission letter will already be at home!"

When Li Ye told Hao Jian and Jin Peng his decision to return to Qingshui tomorrow, both of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Ten days ago, a call came from home, telling Li Ye he had taken first place in the province and urging him to go back immediately.

At that time, Jin Peng and Hao Jian both thought Li Ye would go back soon, but they didn't expect Li Ye to ignore the summons from home.

Jin Peng and Hao Jian didn't understand this at all.

Is there anything more refreshing than "placing first in the imperial examination"?

Your classmates must be almost dying of happiness these days, right?

You don't go home now to accept the worship of all your little partners, accept the praise of all your relatives and friends, and stay in Yangcheng with a temperature of 40 degrees—are you trying to get tanned into a black person?

The beautiful reporter is squatting at your house waiting to eat with you. What if you go back with a different face and she doesn't like you anymore?

But in the following ten days, Li Ye's actions made Hao Jian and Jin Peng understand that they should never look at Li Ye with the eyes of a "student" again.

Li Ye could read accounts, criticizing Hao Jian's "self-satisfied" running accounts as dog shit, and the stocking and shipping processes were full of loopholes.

Li Ye could check interpersonal relationships, and without going through Jin Peng or Hao Jian, he dug up the fox friends and dog companions of several people.

Even the good women that Sanshui often took care of couldn't escape Li Ye's sharp eyes.

After finding the problems, Li Ye didn't spray wildly without caring, but calmly put forward suggestions.

High-paying professional accountants, three rules for personal life, clear and explicit improvement plans.

After solving everything, Li Ye still gave Jin Peng and Hao Jian a high degree of "autonomy."

But it was this kind of light and heavy handling that made Hao Jian and Jin Peng sit on pins and needles, sweating profusely.

Where is this a high school student!

This is clearly an old oiler who has been in the business world for who knows how long, okay?

Only then did they understand Li Ye's words—"Must ensure that no matter who is changed, it won't delay the business."

Since Li Ye could train this small team into what it is today within a year, how long would it take to replace them?

Don't think that because the emperor is far away, you forget that you are a "clerk" and forget who the real "proprietor" is.

Especially Li Ye's lesson to Sanshui yesterday made both of them thoughtful.

【Business is business, sentiment is sentiment; they cannot be confused.】

I'll lead you to get rich, and we're good brothers—these are two different things, okay!

In the middle of the night, Li Ye suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

He flipped and landed on the ground without making much sound.

【Hiss, has the extravagant poison of the Empire XX already infiltrated?】

Li Ye had heard these days that because there were many foreign-related enterprises in this area, some things had sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain, specifically to harm pure, innocent young boys like him.

If there were a long-legged girl in cool clothing outside the door, it would really be hard to deal with!

"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye, wake up!"

Li Ye sighed and went to open the door for Jin Peng.

After opening the door, he found Hao Jian also standing outside, and both of their faces didn't look good.

"What's wrong, Brother Peng, something up?"

"Something's up," Jin Peng said with a heavy face, "Sanshui and the others haven't come back yet. Hao Jian just went to ask the front desk, and it seems... something happened tonight."

"Come in and talk."

Li Ye welcomed the two into the room and quickly asked about the situation.

It turned out Jin Peng hadn't slept, intending to wait for Sanshui to come back to have a good talk with him and sound a warning.

But it was almost two o'clock now, and Sanshui and the others, who went out to watch dancing, hadn't come back yet.

Jin Peng felt something was wrong, so he pushed Hao Jian awake.

Hao Jian was clever, using banknotes to open the way to find people at the inn to inquire, and after getting the news, he helplessly came to report to Li Ye.

Li Ye tried to keep himself calm and asked, "Did they say anything to you before they left? How much money did they have on them?"

"Didn't say anything. I don't know how much money they had, but I seemed to see Sanshui carrying several pairs of silk stockings at the time."

"Silk stockings?"

Li Ye looked at Jin Peng suspiciously.

Jin Peng rubbed his forehead and said, "I heard people say before that when you go looking for that stuff, silk stockings are more useful than money."

Li Ye finally understood what Sanshui went to do.

You have to know that this black silk stuff, when it was first invented, was for special workers; good women didn't wear that color.

It was probably forced by "the wild flowers are more fragrant than the home flowers"! In order to win over their husbands' spring hearts, pure girls accepted this magic weapon.

Li Ye started putting on his shoes and clothes, while directing Hao Jian, "You go ask the inn staff where the most likely place nearby is. If something really happened, where do we need to go to find people."

Hao Jian immediately said, "I just probed their tone; he said he has a relative who is a local and is willing to help us go out and find people."

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and go!"

Li Ye was truly annoyed.

He didn't care about Sanshui's life or death, but that Zou Zhiguo must not have any mistakes.

Zou Zhiguo's grandfather was a soldier Li Zhongfa took out from his hometown in Qingshui. In the end, Li Zhongfa returned with all his limbs intact, but Zou Zhiguo's grandfather was buried thousands of miles away.

Zou Zhiguo's grandmother cried and asked Li Zhongfa for the person: "You came back after being promoted and getting rich, but where is your brother? Why did you throw him outside?"

Then the two families didn't interact for many years, but Li Zhongfa had always had this thorn buried in his heart!

During that time, it wasn't that Li Zhongfa hadn't thought about compensation, but the old grandmother of the Zou family no longer believed Li Zhongfa.

Later, during the period when Li Zhongfa was down and out, it made Zou Zhiguo's grandmother even more convinced that Li Zhongfa was a "disaster star."

Zou Zhiguo hadn't hated the Li family since he was a child, but his silent and taciturn temperament wasn't likable either.

This time, he finally spoke up wanting to follow them out, and Li Zhongfa gave a thousand instructions and ten thousand exhortations to make sure he was well looked after.

As a result, what kind of thing is this?

【I let you take him to see the world, and you take him to a brothel to listen to music? I'll stab you to death with a gun, you disaster.】

Half an hour later, a person named "Old Xing" came to the inn, taking Li Ye and the others out to find people.

Old Xing was indeed familiar with the terrain and soon arrived at the most likely place.

As a result, Li Ye looked from far away and just called out "Good fellow."

A long line of men and women were all squatting on the road outside the door, and the yard was already full.

Among them were plenty of floral skirts and high heels that Jin Peng liked, making him suck his teeth, lifting his feet to go over and take a look.

"What are you going over to look at! Let Old Xing go ask."

Old Xing went over and asked for a long time, but there was no news of Sanshui and the others.

Then the group walked to several more places, but in the end, they didn't find Sanshui.

Jin Peng was a bit anxious, but Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

With the few coins Sanshui and Zou Zhiguo had on them, it hadn't reached the point where people would kill for money.

As for other unseen "immortal jumps" and the like, those weren't big deals.

The group searched a large circle and were tired, so they decided to return to the inn to discuss.

As a result, just as they were about to reach the inn, they saw Sanshui and those three greenhorns in a hurry.

"It's good that you're okay. If there's anything in the future, come find me."

Old Xing was still a bit embarrassed, as if taking money without doing things damaged his reputation.

But Jin Peng felt it was a stroke of luck, because he felt that Li Ye beside him, seemingly calm, looked like he was about to explode at any moment.

Li Ye didn't take Sanshui and the others back to the inn, but chose a quiet place.

Then Li Ye smiled and asked, "What about the silk stockings? How many pairs did you spend?"

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"Not many pairs, hehe, one pair of long ones is enough, and two or three pairs of short ones..."

Sanshui laughed, and Ma Qianshan and Mu Weimin also lowered their heads in embarrassment. Only Zou Zhiguo flushed red, wanting to say something, but held it back.

Li Ye smiled and asked Zou Zhiguo, "Zhiguo, you tell me, was tonight refreshing?"

Zou Zhiguo held it for a long time and said, "I don't know. I was watching outside. When someone came, I shouted for them to run..."

Sanshui hurriedly said, "We're fine. We just lay in the straw for a few hours. We're really fine..."

"Heh~~"

Li Ye laughed out loud and said, "Fine? Do you know what the consequences would be if something happened?"

"We came here to do business with great difficulty, walking on thin ice. You think a little thing is nothing, but it might have destroyed everyone's hard work."

"We've walked very smoothly this year. Do you think going out to venture is as simple as drinking and eating at home? Or should I let you get drunk..."

Li Ye pointed at Sanshui and then looked at Jin Peng, saying, "What do you think?"

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Jin Peng's lips trembled, and the cigarette he was holding fell to the ground.

He looked at Li Ye, his eyes slowly changing from disbelief to shame and unbearable.

Jin Peng gritted his teeth, found a very thick branch from the side, and broke off a section.

He walked to Sanshui, who was vaguely uneasy, and poked the branch toward Sanshui's mouth.

"Bite it, don't scream!"

"What?"

Sanshui didn't understand what his big brother Jin Peng meant, and felt something stuffed into his mouth, then a violent pain in his lower abdomen, and his whole body curled up and fell to the ground uncontrollably.

"Bang bang bang~"

Jin Peng punched Sanshui one after another, making Sanshui constantly emit painful "um um um" sounds.

"I told you how many times, how many times, to go to a safe place, to go to a large venue... why don't you listen, why don't you listen..."

"It's one thing that you can't control your pants, but why did you have to teach others to be bad..."

Jin Peng hit very hard, and Sanshui crawled and scrambled on the ground, but couldn't escape his fists and feet.

But in Li Ye's eyes, it was full of sour helplessness and begging for forgiveness with his head lowered.

When Li Ye rectified the discipline last night, he clearly required that among the five poisons of "eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and smoking," the last two were absolutely not allowed, and once discovered, they would leave immediately.

And as for the other three, he couldn't demand it.

He wanted business talent, not monastic followers.

Even monks like nuns! Who doesn't have a hobby?

But Sanshui's little schemes touched Li Ye's bottom line.

The three great iron bonds of life: going to school together, carrying guns together, and whoring together. Does Sanshui look down on Ma Qianshan and the others?

No, he was using this way of pulling people into the water to hold Ma Qianshan and the others' handles and build his own small mountain top.

【Daring to play little tricks with Li Ye, you are truly muddled.】

Jin Peng hit for two minutes before wiping the sweat and snot off his face and walking to Li Ye's side.

Li Ye said to Zou Zhiguo, "You take them back first. Don't make a big scene."

After everyone left, Li Ye, Hao Jian, and Jin Peng squatted down.

Jin Peng took out a cigarette case, distributed one to each, and smoked gloomily.

After smoking a cigarette, Li Ye said softly, "This is the last time."

"Mm."

Jin Peng hurriedly agreed and smiled awkwardly.

This junior brother of his still remembered old feelings. If the master were here today, it would be bad!

"Brother Li Ye, actually this isn't all Sanshui's fault. Although I'm old, seeing those girls... I also feel they are quite pitiful..."

Hao Jian also hurriedly tried to smooth things over. After all, Li Ye's appearance just now was quite scary, and he might need Jin Peng's help in the future.

"Pfft~"

Li Ye threw away half a cigarette and said with disgust, "Goods worth only a pack of socks, what level is that? Embarrassing!"

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Jin Peng and Hao Jian were stunned for a long time before smiling embarrassedly.

Jin Peng rubbed his crew cut, and besides embarrassment, he didn't feel so awkward in his heart anymore.

A brother who is somewhat "flowery" is much easier to get along with than a "saint" brother.

When Li Ye got off the train in the provincial capital, it was in the early hours of the morning.

He was just pondering where to deal with a few hours! When he saw his cheap father stretching his neck and looking around on the platform.

"Here, here!"

Li Ye dragged the large bag and waved at Li Kaijian.

Li Kaijian hurriedly came over and reached out to carry the large bag on his back.

"What kind of things did you bring in such a large bag? It's so inconvenient to take the car."

"Things for the family! Be gentle! There's a tape recorder inside."

"Tape recorder? Are there tapes?"

"Yes, Teresa Teng's."

"Good, I'll listen to it when I get back."

Li Kaijian immediately became interested, feeling that the large bag weighing several dozen pounds wasn't so heavy on his body anymore.

After leaving the train station, Li Ye finally managed to squeeze the large bag of luggage and himself into the back seat of the Happiness 250, and Li Kaijian was almost squeezed onto the fuel tank.

"You should have said earlier you were bringing so many things! I would have asked your grandfather to get a car to pick you up."

"That can't be, right! Can Grandfather do that?"

Li Zhongfa usually wouldn't "take advantage of the public" openly. For that small courtyard of the Second Grain Store, he even paid the unit a few yuan in "rent" every month!

But Li Kaijian curled his lips and said, "COFCO has some kind of plan in our Qingshui County. Your grandfather's unit has all benefited from you, and they are all eager for you to open your mouth and get involved!"

Li Ye understood. This was Wen Qingsheng returning the favor, leaking a little sand from his fingers and scattering it to Qingshui County.

However, Li Ye wasn't a high-minded person, so he immediately put forward a small idea.

"Then let Grandfather get me a driver's license!"

"Driver's license? What do you want that for?"

In 1982, it was impossible for Li Kaijian to have the concept of a private car, but "Shaolin Temple" was released this year, and next year the Kung Fu Emperor would be driving a sports car around the capital. As a dignified transmigrator, we must keep pace with the times, right?

Li Ye was too lazy to explain: "Just say if it works or not?"

Li Kaijian threw his face aside: "That's a small matter. If your grandfather doesn't handle it for you, I'll handle it for you."

"Boom~"

The motorcycle rushed onto the main road, and the bright headlights, like sharp arrows, split the deep night.

(End of chapter)