Return to 2001 to pursue dreams

That night, my uncle booked a hotel nearby for the family and the driver Gao Hongda brought to stay. This time he was determined not to let anyone else pay.

Early the next morning, I couldn't resist my parents, so they insisted on going back. My uncle bought many specialties from Beijing and said he would take them back for the children to try. After seeing off their two elders at the train station, the uncle and nephew rushed to the Agricultural University without stopping.

The car and driver arranged by Lao Li had put in a lot of effort in the past two days. Hongda offered to pay the driver extra labor fees on the road, but the driver refused. He even said very excitedly: "Brother, please don't be polite. Brother Li has said that you can't even ask for a penny. I didn't know who could make Lao Li so willing to help. Later, I heard from brothers in the society. I just realized that some time ago, an 18-year-old boy singled out dozens of local gangsters, went to a meeting to face the national master, and even tied, and finally bowed to him. I didn't expect it to be you. It's such an honor to have the opportunity. If I drive for you, I can brag about it for two years."

The driver's words were indeed very pleasant, but Gao Hongda still coughed several times in succession. Remind him not to talk nonsense, there are elders around here. The uncles were very open-minded and said calmly: "Okay, don't cough. Using force to make friends is not a bad thing, but don't get infected with those bad social habits. Society is not a pool of clear water. If the water is clear, there will be no fish, but you must pay attention to propriety. Don't He is brave and fierce, our Grandpa Zhou is also a martial arts master, but he rarely shows it, this is called cultivation."

Gao Hongda nodded respectfully and said clearly that he would never do anything easily in the future. The driver knew that he had talked too much and did not dare to speak. Gao Hongda patted him on the shoulder to express comfort.

My uncle's classmates were waiting early at the school gate. When old classmates meet, they must hug each other and exchange greetings. They first introduce their nephews, and then introduce their classmates to their nephews. The order of this introduction is completely in line with the norms of social etiquette. My uncle’s classmate’s name is Liu Fuzi, a native of Nanchong, Sichuan. He wears black wide-rimmed glasses with halos on the lenses. You can tell at a glance that the temperature is not lower than 1500 degrees. He is also wearing an old-fashioned gray tunic suit. , buttoned up properly, with a pen in his jacket pocket, his hair a little sparse but still meticulously combed back. With this image and his somewhat peculiar name, Gao Hongda has every reason to believe this He is a very pure scholar. In modern society, calling someone an old master is not a compliment.

Master Liu registered at the guard and took them directly to the laboratory and put on dustproof clothes. In the laboratory, a dozen students were busy in front of a pile of bottles and cans. When they came to the finished products of the experiment, Professor Liu greeted them. The two students mixed several ingredients in proportion using graduated spoons and cups. Soon, a cup of coffee-colored drink was handed to Gao Hongda. He took a sip and tasted it carefully with his tongue. Yes, it tastes like this. See He was satisfied, and Professor Liu continued to ask the students to prepare the next experimental product. The five formulas were five flavors. After trying each one, Gao Hongda couldn't hide his excitement and asked Master Liu: "There are no bad ingredients in the ingredients of this formula, right?"

Master Liu pushed up his glasses and said solemnly: "Don't worry about this." After saying that, he took out various identification certificates with fresh seals, "These materials are made of pure plant ingredients, and all additives have been approved by relevant national agencies. of."

The next topic fell on cooperation intentions. Liu Fuzi said: Although we are very confident in our experimental product and the formula has been approved, unfortunately no company is interested and we think this milk tea does not have much market prospect. It's just roadside snacks. To be honest, the school is also reducing our research funding, saying that we are messing around every day.

Gao Hongda didn't waste any time and directly asked Professor Liu about his cooperation plan.

Master Liu fiddled with his sparse hair. He was embarrassed to say that he had no experience. Then he patted his thigh as if he had made a lot of determination and said sadly: "Since you are Lao Gao's nephew, you are also one of our own." , we don’t play tricks, five formulas are worth 10 yuan, and the patent will be bought out for life.”

A boy next to him immediately stepped forward and said to Professor Liu: "Professor, this has taken us more than three years of hard work. It is our best research result in the past few years!" His expression was even more distressed than the professor's.

Master Liu waved his hands feebly and said: "No matter how good the research results are, they must be brought to the market to be valuable. Don't say more."

The student was still reluctant: "Professor Liu, this is patented, and the price does not match our investment. Even the cost is not enough. It is difficult to explain this loss-making business school. "

"I have my own instructions from the school, so don't say anything! This is not something you can decide." Professor Liu Fuzi's overwhelming momentum is really admirable.

Gao Hongda secretly said in his heart: "You two masters and apprentices are really disrespecting your talents by not selling cloth on the street. You can obviously go to join the team and talk about cross talk, but you have to study food!"

He couldn't help being mean and asked half-jokingly: "Professor Liu's family owns a cloth shop, right?"

Master Liu was obviously stunned and quickly shook his head in denial. He was a little surprised why this young man suddenly asked this unrelated question. Obviously he doesn't usually listen to cross talk.

The uncle slapped Gao Hongda with his eyes, and quickly took over the conversation and said in a joking tone: "My wife's family has been selling fake wine for generations!"

At this time, Master Liu was furious. He pointed at the chest of his old classmate and said, "It's been decades since I was in school in the 80s. You can't get over this bad thing, right? We have all the wine in our house." It is brewed from pure grains, using fresh sorghum rice and fermented in aged mud pools. What kind of fake wine is there? If you say this again, don’t blame me for falling out."

Gao Hongda looked confused, why were these two classmates so quick to joke? Very curious, he asked Master Liu what happened. Professor Liu sighed deeply, stopped talking about business, and talked about the past.

Master Liu was born in Nanchong, Sichuan in the early 70s. His family has been making wine for generations. Their hometown is located in a mountainous area and is hot and humid all year round. The mountainous humidity is very miasmatic. The villagers are used to soaking wine with herbs such as scorpions to combat it. Humidity, wine is not expensive to sell, and even poor folks can get some sorghum rice in exchange for a pot of wine in proportion. In that time when poverty was advocated as glorious, the family was busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, just trying to make ends meet. The family was very lucky to have preserved their ancestral property during several campaigns to cut off the tail of capitalism. Before Mr. Liu entered high school and faced the college entrance examination, his father used his connections to find Zhang Fulin, the captain of the educated youth camp at the Educated Youth Point, and asked him to help tutor his children in their homework. Zhang Fulin was from Yinchuan, Gansu Province. He had a big face and was nicknamed "Big Pie" because of his The face does look like a flatbread, sprinkled with sesame seeds. Although this Zhang Fulin was the captain of the educated youth, his high school knowledge reserve was not as good as Master Liu's. The tutoring was seriously off track. Later, a female educated youth named Ma Tiantian couldn't stand it anymore and volunteered to tutor Master Liu on his behalf, because She was also studying to prepare for the college entrance examination. They were both of the same age, one was hot-blooded and the other was gentle and considerate, so the two quickly went into the woods during their study break. This made Zhang Fulin, who had a crush on Ma Tiantian, feel like a knife was twisting his heart, and he also held a grudge.

Zhang Fulin sneaked to the commune several times to report the Liu family's speculation, but was kicked out by the commune. This was in the 80s. After the reform and opening up, private business operations were allowed. Zhang Fulin was really unwilling to give in, so he put his bad thoughts on Mr. Liu's sorghum wine workshop. He tried to set a fire in the middle of the night when no one was paying attention. However, he was almost discovered by the Liu family who had been dealing with the lees all night, so he set a fire for the second time. At that time, as soon as I threw the lit fire on the roof, in this land where Sichuan dogs barked, a heavy rain extinguished the few sparks without any warning. Unwilling to give up, Zhang Fulin secretly poured a bottle of ammonia into the wine vat while the Liu family was not paying attention. He thought that if he drank it to death, the Liu family would definitely be doomed. As a result, the sorghum wine with ammonia added tasted better. It harmed the Liu family and made the Liu family's business even more popular.

Full of doubts, Zhang Fulin decided to find out the reason. He also secretly tried to drink a sip of ammonia, but his throat burned and he almost became mute. So he secretly climbed into the courtyard wall of Liu's Winery, took a bottle of freshly steamed wine, took it back and poured ammonia in. After taking a sip, he found that the taste was a bit different, so he drank it with peanuts. The bottle of wine was finished.

When he woke up the next day, Zhang Fulin was blind. His heart-rending howls attracted the educated youths and villagers. They rushed him to the commune hospital, where he was diagnosed with methanol poisoning. Now the Liu family was in bad luck. The police from the police station arrested Mr. Liu’s father. No matter the honest old man explained that the first batch of wine that had just been steamed was not drinkable, he had to throw it away. Our ancestors said that if you drink it, you will go blind and possibly die. This kind of wine is definitely not allowed to be drunk by others, and it is impossible for the family to let this kind of wine be sold! The old man's explanation confirmed his crime of selling counterfeit wine, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Master Liu suffered a sudden change and suffered a breakdown. He failed the college entrance examination in his first year, and Ma Tiantian passed away after passing the exam. From then on, she never even wrote a letter to him. Those six months in the grove were considered a waste of time. .

After another year of hanging my head and stabbing my buttocks, I was finally admitted to Beijing University of Electronics, majoring in electronics and minoring in food technology. By coincidence, he happened to catch up with the 1989 event during his graduation year, and he was somehow involved in it. Later, he was liquidated by his superiors and was not given any work arrangements. He was about to go home and continue to inherit the family business and sell sorghum wine. The school felt sorry for him, so they arranged for him to stay in school and become a lecturer. He stayed in the school for 20 years. Although he became a professor, he was honorary and still received the treatment of a lecturer. His little income couldn't sustain the life of a family of three in the capital, so his wife returned to her hometown in Sichuan alone to continue running the winery and earn some money to supplement the family's income.

So this joke about selling fake wine has been bothering him for more than [-] years. From now on, he will get angry with anyone who mentions this matter.

There was also the blind man, Mr. Liu, who later learned that Mr. Liu was studying and working in Beijing. Later, he walked from Sichuan to the capital carrying a small bamboo pole. He asked around everyone he met, and he actually found the school. From then on, he sat on the He didn't go anywhere in front of the school. When he met everyone, he told everyone that Mr. Liu had broken shoes with educated youths in his hometown, and also made fake wine. Although he was talking without evidence and could be smeared, he couldn't stand people's talk. After three rounds of rumors, The personal processing turned sour, and finally turned into another story, saying that Master Liu seduced a hotel proprietress, blinded the proprietor with drugs, and ran away to the capital with the proprietress.

Master Liu's wife left the capital and returned to her hometown in Sichuan, which may have something to do with this rumor. Anyway, this big pie Zhang Fulin caused him a lot of trouble, but Master Liu couldn't bear to watch him starve to death in front of the school. After all, this poor man had something to do with him to get to this point. He would leave from the cafeteria whenever it was time to eat Bring him some food. When the weather got cold, I had to get him some old clothes to wear. After persisting like this for many years, Zhang Fulin also felt bored, so he walked along the railway from the capital to his hometown in Yinchuan, begging all the way. This is definitely a ruthless person! Later, I heard that after learning fortune-telling from someone, I was able to find a job that could support me.