The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

Zhouquan sat on the kang with his legs and drank the beef soup in the bowl. In order to cope with the cold weather, the beef soup stewed by Chef Bao has also been upgraded. It is no longer the clear stew in summer and autumn, but a lot of peppercorns have been added to it. , aniseed, cinnamon, tangerine peel, etc., have aromatic and greasy seasonings and Chinese medicinal materials that warm and appetize.

Even so, because the work of removing the oil slick during stewing is done well, when this pot of beef soup comes out of the pot, it still has a strong aroma but not greasy, and it tastes very smooth when drinking.

After eating a bowl of thick soup, Zhou Quan only felt warm all over his body. The biting cold that was blown on his body when he was waiting outside was completely removed by this bowl of beef soup that warms the stomach and warms the body.

After finishing a bowl, Zhouquan handed out his empty bowl to Chef Bao, not satisfied, and motioned for another bowl for him.

Chef Bao, who was guarding the soup bowl and rice bowl, was about to take Zhouquan's soup bowl when the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Seeing this, Zhou Quan took back the soup bowl, got up to serve the soup by himself, Chef Bao took out the phone from the pocket of the down jacket, glanced at the caller ID, and found that he did not recognize the number on it.

Chef Bao didn't think too much about it. He has two phone numbers, one for external contact, and the other is only known to relatives and friends. The number being called now is exactly what he uses for external contact.

Ever since Chef Bao started running the homestay, this number has received calls from various strangers from time to time.

There are those who sell ingredients and seasonings and come to recommend themselves, those who take out loans to advertise, and those who know that his income is high and sell insurance and stocks, and there are those who hear that they are scammers calling to cheat money.

Chef Bao was also quite helpless about this, he couldn't turn off his phone and stop doing business, but fortunately his other phone number was well kept secret, otherwise it would be even more incessant.

Now this phone number is unknown, but fortunately the number shows the local owner, and the number doesn't look like that kind of mess, so Chef Bao still pressed the phone to connect.

Before he could say a few words, Zhou Quan, who was scooping up the soup, saw Chef Bao frowned, and said impatiently, "Yes, he is my biological father."

Father?Could it be that this call came from Zhao Ergun?Or was it because of Zhao Ergun?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Zhou Quan didn't drink the soup at all, put the empty bowl on the kang table, stuck his head to the other side of Chef Bao's phone, and began to 'eavesdrop' openly.

Upon seeing this, Chef Bao simply pressed the speakerphone so that he could hear more clearly.

Zhou Quan heard the person on the phone say in a rough voice: "Since you admit that Zhao Ergun is your father, then things will be easy to handle. Your father and your brother owe us money, including more than 100 million yuan with interest. Boss Bao, how do you want to pay back the money?"

Chef Bao replied after hearing the words: "Why should I pay it back? You can go to whoever owes you the money."

"Hehe, Boss Bao, I've heard a lot of your words. I really thought I wouldn't dare to do anything to your father and your brother? Let me tell you, if I'm in a hurry, I don't want the money, and the lives of the two of them may not be alive." .”

"Oh, then if you are willing to pay for their lives, then do it."

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"Boss Bao, do you think I'm scaring you? Believe it or not, I've discounted your father's legs right now?"

"Xin, you can do whatever you want, let alone your legs, you can hit anywhere you want."

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After lending money for so many years, this is the first time Brother Bao has encountered such a "generous". If the person on the other side of the phone hadn't admitted that he and Zhao Ergun have a father-son relationship, Brother Bao would have thought that this is not a son but a father and son of the Zhao family. another creditor.

Seeing that the usual tactic of making harsh words didn't work, brother Bao, who really didn't want to put himself and his brother in for such two people, finally loosened his tone.

He scratched his forehead and said softly, "Brother, can we have a good chat?"

"I've been talking nicely, and it's you who are shouting and shouting."

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"Okay, I'm wrong, but your father and your brother owe me money?"

"Go to whomever owes you."

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"Your second uncle, are you playing me? You are a big boss who runs a homestay, and your father and brother don't pay back the money outside. It sounds nice to say it? The most important thing in business is reputation. Do you want me to help you promote it? , to let everyone know that your family is in debt and not paying back, and you are not only not helping, but also making sarcastic remarks?"

"Leopard...well, Brother Leopard, right? Do you have any misunderstanding? Zhao Ergun is my biological father, and the guy whose name I forgot is also my father's son, but they are not mine. Dear ones. I can live until now because of my destiny. I have nothing to do with that man. I have no relationship with that family. If you want to say something, then go ahead and do business. Reputation is very important. But my homestay is based on technology, service and unique resources. It is fate for guests to come to me, and it is no fate if they don’t come. I will never force this. I won't spend a penny for that family, that's my attitude."

"You really don't care about the life or death of the two of them? After all, it's your father and your brother."

Chef Bao sneered when he heard this sentence and said, "Brother? Huh? Father? That's right, no matter what, he gave me life together with my mother. Well, he cares about life and death, as long as he dares to I will dare to bury him when he dies, and I will find a place to bury him after it is burned to ashes, so you should be at ease now."

Brother Leopard heard that the veins were bulging, and he said to himself, what should I worry about, what I want is the debt, who cares whether the two grandsons are dead or alive, and will anyone bury them after they die?

Just when he was about to say something more, Bao Yan on the other side of the phone said ahead of time: "That's the way it is, don't come to me for them anymore, your phone number will be blocked by me, I'm sorry for that, But I really don't want to hear anything about that family."

After saying that, he hung up here and there. When Brother Bao called, he only heard a series of busy tones. It seems that the other party really did what he said and blocked his phone number.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck."

Brother Bao, who had never been so aggrieved, swears again and again, and raised his foot to Zhao Erstick as if to vent his anger, which was a series of shadowless kicks.

Zhao Ergun desperately hid, and tried to hide behind his son on the way, and even took Zhao Shun to get a heart-warming kick.

After several kicks, Brother Bao felt that the depression in his heart because of the phone call was vented, he pointed at Zhao Ergun and said: "Your grandson really can't behave, even his own son Hope you die soon."

Seeing this, the little brother next to him came over and asked, "Brother Leopard? What should I do? Should I call from another number?"

"What are you calling? The other party made it clear that they don't want to care about it, let alone care about it. No matter how many phone numbers you change, it's useless."

"What should I do? How do I get back the money I borrowed? More than 100 million, Leopard Brother, we have been to their house, and all the things that can be moved in the breakfast shop have been moved away. The home in the backcountry is just two small rooms. There is nothing in the earthen house, and the rats have to cry when they go in. There is really nothing to fry, why don't they really send it to the organ?"

Brother Leopard looked at Zhao and his son contemptuously when he heard the words, and said, "Only these two goods, if they are picked clean, are not enough to pay back the money. Send them to the old nest. The newly found coal mine needs workers to work. Let them They work hard to pay off their debts. Hey, why did you pee your pants? Don’t be afraid, Brother Leopard, I am also reasonable. We will calculate your wages for your work, and take care of your food and housing. Even if you pay off your principal with interest in ten years, you will work for ten years, 20 I will work for 20 years after one year is over, and 50 years after 50 years, I don’t think it’s too long.”

Zhao Ergun, who had already peed his pants, trembled even more when he heard these words. He is not a young man like his son who just entered the society. His years of life at the bottom let him know what a black coal mine is.

Those black coal mines without any registration and protection don't care about the life and death of the workers at all, and people are no different from animals when they get there.

Zhao Ergun didn't want to end up in that kind of situation at all. When he was picked up by Brother Bao's younger brother to walk away, he cried and howled: "Brother Bao, don't send me to the black coal mine. I can earn some money by digging coal. I will The food I cook is very delicious. My monthly salary of five or six thousand is the minimum when I go to a restaurant to work. It’s okay to earn tens of thousands a month in a good place. If you let me go out to work, I will definitely pay you back, I promise .”

Brother Leopard, who was walking in front, heard this and turned around to take a look. After all, he is a lender, and the most important thing is to ask for money back instead of killing others. If what Zhao Ergun said is true, he has Craftsmanship can make money, so that's naturally the best. They like this kind of person the most. After they stick to it, they will suck their bones and suck their marrow. It's extremely comfortable.

"What I said is true, I dare not lie to you, you go and find out, I am the serious successor of Baojia Mutton Restaurant, the person who opened a big restaurant in the provincial capital back then, when the business was booming, there was a man in the restaurant Hard to find."

Among Brother Bao's younger brothers is a broken-mouthed man who inherits gossip from his family. After hearing Zhao Ergun's words, he thought about it carefully and said, "Brother Bao, I vaguely heard from my hometown that it was [-] years old. A few years ago, there was such a mutton restaurant in the city, and the owner's craftsmanship is very good, and he is well-known in the province."

"Oh, then why didn't you continue driving?"

"I heard that there was some housework. The boss's son-in-law came to the house to engage in mistresses and asked the boss to expel him from the house. However, after the trouble, the health of the boss's daughter and wife became ill. In order to take care of the family, the boss closed the shop and went back to his hometown. .”

Phoenix City is not a very big city, everyone's life is a circle within a circle, basically everyone knows what's going on in the streets and alleys within three or two days.

"Hey, Zhao Ergun, you can't be the son-in-law who was kicked out, right? Then Boss Bao is the descendant of Bao's Mutton Restaurant? No wonder they don't care about your life or death, right?"

But what he said just now proves that what Zhao Ergun just said is true. In this case, it happens that he opened a restaurant under his hands and asked them to work for him to pay back the money. The profits he can bring are definitely more than sending people to black coal mines Do coolies over there.

Although I thought so in my heart, Brother Bao didn't show it on the face, but pretended to hesitate and said: "It's good that you have skills to make money and pay off debts, but you have a criminal record of running away, how can I trust you?" And what if you don’t work hard after you arrive in the back kitchen, cause some trouble in the store, or sue me for illegal detention? The risk is too high and troublesome, or forget it, or send you to the old nest Go, you work hard to make money and pay off your debts."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ergun knelt down and hugged Brother Bao's thigh and said, "Brother Bao, you can rest assured that we will never have other ideas. I have a wife, and she can come together to pay off our debts. Our whole family is under your care. Holding it in your hands, you absolutely dare not have any other thoughts, and you must work hard."

"Well, let's try it first. Don't worry, I will take care of food, drink and housing. Half of the money your family of three earns in a month will be repaid and half of the arrears will be calculated as interest. I won't care about the interest rate with you. After a period of hard work, the money will be paid off." , and you will be free."

"What did you say, you still need to calculate interest?"

Brother Leopard, who had a smile on his face, immediately pulled his face down again after hearing Zhao Ergun's question, and asked unhappily: "Why? Can't I ask for interest? We agreed at the beginning Yes, I borrowed you 20 yuan with a monthly profit of [-]%, and the overdue interest will be included in the principal and the interest will be calculated. The IOU written by you yourself in black and white, and the fingerprint you pressed yourself, why don’t you want to admit it?”

Seeing Brother Bao's sudden change of face, the younger brothers he brought over were naturally aware of the sound, and the one with a broken mouth came over and kicked Zhao Ergun a few times and said, "Don't be shameless, Brother Bao will let you pay the debt in installments. It’s already very face-saving, if you don’t want to go to Laos to dig coal.”

"No, no, you can do whatever you want, we just listen."

"Oh, that's right, don't kneel on the ground in such a cold day, let's continue discussing in the car."