If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 288 The Old Accident Man
Babaoshan, factory ruins.

The taxi slowly stopped on the side of the road, and the taxi driver was reluctant to drive on the road ahead, not because he was afraid that the sparsely populated passengers would plot to rob or something, but because this area has been abandoned for too long, and the roads are all potholes in disrepair Yes, glass shards and nails are everywhere, and if you don't pay attention, you will have to puncture and run aground. Compared with a few dollars more in the fare, it is better to save money on tire repairs.

Lin Nian opened the door of the taxi and walked into the light rain. The rain fell from the hood of the waterproof windbreaker. The taxi driver behind him waved his hand, which probably meant to tell him to take care of himself. He turned around and drove into the rain. Behind the curtain are only two erratic taillights.

This is the second time Lin Nian has come to Babaoshan. The first time he came, he was accompanied by Wan Boqian and Chu Zihang. It was just a small matter of a scam group, and who would know that he would revisit the old place? The purpose suddenly became to find a former residence of a super hybrid who might have lived in the city for sixteen or seventeen years or more.

Lin Nian was walking on the edge of the Babaoshan ruins, carrying a blue folder in his arms. The nearby factory buildings were dark, and there was no movement. Even stray cats and mice didn't bother to visit this place.It is hard to imagine that ten years ago this was the busiest place in the city. The machines in every factory were roaring and running, tens of thousands of tons of coal were burned to heat, and black smoke from coal-fired boilers rose into the sky. The more chimneys, the more representative the output, and countless people squeezed their heads and wanted to drill inside.

However, all the prosperity now collapsed in an instant. Walking in this wasteland, Lin Nian noticed many malicious eyes cast from some dark corners. After the police cars and alarm bells disappeared, these people really came back Back - bums and fringes of business.

"Are you looking for someone?" Not far in front of Lin Nian, a man with a disheveled face and a khaki coat came out. His steps were so loose that it was hard to have a good impression of him.

"What's the matter?" Lin Nian asked.

"If you are looking for someone, I know all the people here. They are all in that factory building." The thin man smiled and pointed to the factory not far away.

Lin Nian turned his head. Before he came to Babaoshan, he did call the relevant people who stayed here, and agreed to meet at the edge of the area. Now he doesn't mind having such an encounter with the other party.

But just when he was about to take a step, a middle-aged man shouted urgently from far behind him: "Don't rob him! Don't rob him! Don't rob him! Don't rob him!"

Both Lin Nian and the skinny man turned their heads together, and saw a middle-aged man in a blue uniform running towards them anxiously in the rain, shouting louder and louder until they reached the station. In front of the two of them, he put his knees on his knees and gasped out of breath: "Don't grab him!"

"Are you friends with Lao Liang?" The skinny man glanced at Lin Nian and the middle-aged man thoughtfully, and then patted Lin Nian on the back.

"Don't rob him, I know him, he is my friend." The middle-aged man put his hand on Lin Nian's shoulder and pulled him to his side, smiling awkwardly and looking at the thin man.

"Since it's Lao Liang's friend." The skinny man shook his head, pointed at Lin Nian, and the middle-aged man had a trance smile on his face. From his raised cuffs, Lin Nian noticed no less than three With four pinholes, it was instantly clear who this was.

"See you next time, see you next time." The middle-aged man greeted the skinny man twice, pulled Lin Nian and walked back. Not far away, in the factory building where the skinny man was going to take Lin Nian to the first place, dozens of people The same skinny man poked his head out to watch them leave.

"Is it such a mess here?" Lin Nian naturally realized that he had actually walked in front of the drug den.

"Hey, there have been a group of scam gangs who seem to be unprovoked to engage in religion here, and most of them are their territory, so it's safe except for illegal assemblies, but after I don't know who reported the gang yesterday, these people All the people have come back again, and this is where the chaos started. I know the man just now, and he is considered a bunch of people whose brains have been broken, so don't have anything to do with them." The middle-aged man smiled and looked at Lin Nian Let go of his hand.

"Old Liang?" Lin Nian checked the name he had contacted on the phone.

"That's right, it's me, my surname is Liang. You are Mr. Lin introduced by Ms. Su, right? I have long admired you." The middle-aged man held Lin Nian's hand and shook it, obviously because he felt that he had put Lin Nian and Su Xiaoqiang together. "Throughly" seeing his identity, "After the Media Asia Group collapsed, our team was here to clean up the mess every day. It was said that the team was almost gone a few years ago, and I was left here to guard. For several years here I've figured out the situation quite clearly."

"Including those people just now?" Lin Nian looked back at the crowd of people in the distance.

"They... well, it's hard to say. I can only say that they are all victims of the Media Asia Group. A company collapsed because of a black-hearted boss. I don't know how many people lost their jobs in an instant. The labor market was quickly saturated in the process of re-applying for jobs. Most of them found New jobs, but a small number of people are still displaced, and they have not turned around since then, and they have become what they are now." The middle-aged man said with a sigh.

"If I remember correctly, the person I asked Ms. Su to help me contact should be an old employee of Media Asia Group, may I ask who you are?"

"The current team leader of the bankruptcy liquidation team is also the former office director of Media Asia Group. I heard from Ms. Su that you came here specially to find someone, right?" The middle-aged man led Lin Nian through the maze-like factory area, wearing After passing through many factories and detours, we walked towards a gray and white three-story building.

"Chu Tianjiao, Miss Su should have mentioned it to you." Lin Nian said.

"I'm really looking for Lao Chu." The middle-aged man muttered in a voice he could hear, looked at Lin Nian and asked, "May I ask, who are you from Lao Chu?"

"Don't ask if you shouldn't." Lin Nian said.

The middle-aged man shrunk his neck, and caught a glimpse of the sharp look in the eyes of the boy who was old enough to be his own son. He had seen this feeling before, when people from the court rushed into the Media Asia Group to seal off the building and all its assets. Well, the leading guy has this kind of momentum, and he is businesslike and sternly rejects any tampering and information leaks.

"You call him Old Chu, do you know Chu Tianjiao?" Lin Nian asked.

"To be honest, I was a little confused when I heard Lao Chu's full name. We used to have a good relationship." The middle-aged man and Lin Nian walked into the gray and white building, and the latter took off his hood covered with rainwater and looked Looking at the old, dilapidated and dusty environment, one can guess that what the middle-aged people are doing is a bottomless unfinished job.

"You used to be colleagues?" Lin Nian took a few steps in the hall, and walked towards the dusty reception sofa, on which were piled up several pieces of broken ceiling and wooden slats.

"Old Chu is a colleague of everyone. After all, his job is to give that bastard a cough, and the former boss drives, so most people know him. He is also very kind and can talk to everyone. The two of us have a very good relationship, after get off work, if we have nothing to do, we can go to drink some wine and eat some supper or something." The middle-aged man coughed twice to explain.

"Eat supper?" Lin Nian was a little surprised. He didn't expect Su Xiaoqiang to help him find someone who knew Chu Tianjiao well enough.

"Eating chicken wings, stewed large intestines, etc." Lin Nian asked casually, and the middle-aged man also said casually, he couldn't figure out what the boy was here for, but he answered everything cooperatively, "After all, he As a driver, work is quite boring, and being with those big bosses is stressful, and it’s evening after get off work, and my only hobby is to drink some wine and have a midnight snack.”

"What do you think of other people?" Lin Nian asked. Chu Zihang didn't have much time to talk about his biological father. What kind of person is Tianjiao, is he cold and easy-going, rational or emotional.

"I love spicy food." But the middle-aged man's answer was a bit out of line. He tilted his head slightly and recalled, "Old Chu is very good at eating spicy stewed intestines and spicy food, and porridge for Laoganma. I remember one time we ate Sifang I ordered a spicy chicken wing, he ate the nine-layer spicy, and the neighbor next to him almost went to the hospital for gastric lavage after eating one, and he can still brag to me while drinking beer."

"." Lin Nian was puzzled by this answer, and after a long pause, he nodded abruptly. At least he knew where Chu Zihang's ability to eat spicy food came from. Maybe it wasn't hereditary but practiced. Yes, maybe Xiao Chu Zihang, who used to live in a rented house with a man, would cry from the heat every time he ate his father’s extra spicy stewed intestines. Chu Zihang also secretly eats every time, and the ability to eat spicy food has been cultivated over time.

".Other than that?" Lin Nian asked again, throwing away any inexplicable associations.

"Other than that. It seems like nothing else. Old Chu doesn't offend anyone, and even a driver can't offend others. Old Chu has always been a good driver." The middle-aged man said, "He used to drive with the leader for a while, and then He was poached by the Black Prince Group, and he worked as a driver for several years. During that time, the city developed rapidly, the living standard was rising, and the prices were also rising, but his salary as a driver was never raised. Later, he got divorced and resigned because of this. Yes, the boss of the Black Prince Group missed his old love, so he half recommended and half gave him to the boss of Media Asia Group, and he has been driving with us since then, and the salary is reasonable, but unfortunately he failed to remarry, his wife found a A man who is better than him got married again."

Hearing the last sentence, Lin Nian's expression fluctuated a little, but he lowered his eyes to hide his emotions: "What did he say about this, did he complain about it?"

"Of course I did." The middle-aged man sighed as if recalling some past years, "Which man doesn't complain after divorce. But Lao Chu has a good temper, even if he drinks too much, he doesn't scold the street or his ex-wife , I just kept drinking, and the amount of alcohol I drank was terrifying. I was drunk by him many times. After I sobered up, I found that I was moved back to the office. He was still drinking outside, blowing cold wind while drinking, watching his The back view is also quite lonely, if you have something on your mind, don't tell other people, which man can not be angry when he encounters such a thing?"

"Other than that?" Lin Nian turned his head to look at the door of the low building. There was another step there, with some scorched shadows on it. Maybe the middle-aged man missed some things. For example, Chu Tianjiao can smoke, In the photos, Lin Nian often found him smoking. The middle-aged man probably said the same thing that night. He couldn’t get himself drunk. He smoked his fingertips one by one, watching the rain outside. The night light said nothing, but wanted to say more than anyone else, only let the smoke suppress all emotions and words and alcohol to the bottom of my heart.

"Besides that. Does it count if he likes to brag when he drinks too much?"

"for example."

"There are still some things that are not there. When I really drink too much, I always talk nonsense. After drinking two bottles of white wine at a time, he told me that he was awesome in a long time. I asked him when he was awesome. He hesitated and couldn't speak. He said that he really had to work hard, and he would definitely be able to do better than that Lu guy, and he could afford the Maybach he drove, but who didn't say that? Everyone I want to work hard, but I can’t find the way to work hard.” The middle-aged man sighed softly, with a hint of sadness in his eyes, “It’s just a pity that the Maybach is gone, Lao Chu is gone, and everything is gone. .”

Once upon a time, no one wants to have a once upon a time, but everyone is trapped in the current predicament and can't help themselves.

"Where has he lived all these years?" Lin Nian nodded silently and asked.

"It's in this factory." The middle-aged man said, "He doesn't have any hobbies. He either lives in the factory or drives outside. He will accompany us to have supper at night."

"Take me to where he lives." Lin Nian nodded, "I'm in trouble."

　ps①: touched
　　ps②: The five chapters have [-] words and [-] words, and the fourth chapter is also [-]. My donkey legs are weak.

　　
　
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