The Pentium Era - South to North

This night, Liu Ligan and Huang Meili kept hugging each other and were reluctant to sleep. They cried sometimes and whispered quietly. It was like it was the first day that the two of them had met. They had endless things to say and didn't know each other well enough. Liu Lizhan realized what Meng Ping said, what it was like for him and his fiancée to hug each other all night and cry non-stop.

Isn't it the same for me now?

Liu Ligan wondered why he was so unlucky. He had just experienced the joy of Jinghai International Financial Center and found out that Huang Meili was not someone else's mistress. Why were they about to be separated again?

Why is this world so cruel?

If possible, Liu Ligan would rather Huang Meili was not the daughter of the boss of the Jingfa Group, but just an ordinary girl, so that he could love her properly.

If he could do anything to help Huang Meili and keep her from leaving, Liu Ligan would definitely do it without saying a word. But he was powerless and couldn't do anything. He didn't even know what the world of Huang Meili's father was like. Yes, I don’t know either.

Liu Ligan felt a deep sense of powerlessness. It was only at this time that people truly felt their own insignificance and inferiority. You think you can change the world, but in fact you can't even change the fate of the people closest to you.

Liu Ligan asked: "Did you go to Guangzhou and Ningbo to prepare for going out?"

"No, how could it be possible? I didn't even know I was going out at that time. My father only informed us of his decision yesterday after he had arranged everything.

"He also asked us not to prepare anything, just as usual, pretending to be the same as every time we went to Guangzhou to Hong Kong for shopping and fun. When we arrived in Guangzhou, someone would pick us up at the airport and tell us about our itinerary in Guangzhou. He arranged that we don’t need to buy anything, and the things we need will be prepared for us when we arrive in Hong Kong and Seattle.”

Huang Meili was silent for a while, and then said to Liu Ligan: "I went to Guangzhou and Ningbo to find my mother."

"Looking for your mother?"

"Yes, I have stipulated for myself that before my 23rd birthday, I will find my mother and ask her a question. After that day, I will completely forget her. Even if she is standing in front of me, I will pretend that I don't know her. There has never been a person like her in this world."

When Huang Meili said this, her tone was decisive. Liu Ligan felt that if she said this, she would definitely do the same.

Just like she was sitting in front of the window of that hotel, saying that every time she waited for the girl on the stairs opposite, she would only wait until eight o'clock. Just like she was sitting in the car, with the shadows of the trees swaying, she said to herself, before ten o'clock, you If you hadn't kissed me, nothing would have happened tonight or from now on.

"What do you want to ask your mother?" Liu Ligan asked.

"I want to ask her why she abandoned me and my father. Everyone says that my father is a good man, and everyone says that I am very cute, but why did she abandon us? I just hope to be able to face her face to face and listen to her Tell me a reason yourself."

"Then you forgive her?" Liu Ligan continued to ask.

"No, it's the same. From now on, I still treat her as a person who has never existed in this world, but my own knot has been lifted."

"Why did your mother leave you?"

"I just don't know, so I have to find her and ask her face to face.

"My father used to be an electric welder, an eighth-level welder. He was very good and famous in our place. If anyone had a job, they would come to him to do it. My father was still working in the factory at that time, so he would work during off-duty hours or on Sundays. He had already made a lot of money by doing private work outside. At that time, a household worth ten thousand yuan was a rarity. No one knew that my father actually had a household worth ten thousand yuan.

"Later, my father resigned from the factory, so he knocked down the wall on the first floor of our house facing the street and opened a shop to help people make iron doors, cages for balconies, and iron shelves. The business was very good, and I Dad is very famous and has several apprentices, so he is very busy every day.

"Later on, there were more and more things to do every day. There was no room for them at home. They were piled outside. Neighbors and passers-by had objections. In addition, I worked overtime until very late every day. You know that kind of work, which is rattling. , it was very noisy, and the downstairs of our house was not a long-term solution. My father simply went to contract a hardware tool factory that had closed down in the area at that time.

“After the factory was contracted, I made a lot of money with my father’s skills and the connections he had accumulated. At that time, some wealthy people and units started making stainless steel cages and clothes drying racks. There are also stainless steel stairs, which are very expensive to make and require a lot of welders. Of course, the profits are also very high, but the problem is that the stainless steel pipes cannot go in.

"At that time, all steel mills supplied stainless steel pipes according to plans. Only state-owned factories could get the quota allocated by the above. My father's was a collective enterprise, so how could it be qualified?

"There was a person introduced by a friend. He came to tell my dad that one of his relatives was the director of the sales department of Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant. From him, there was a way to get unplanned steel. Of course my dad was very happy. I brought a big bag with 100,000 yuan. At that time, I only had 10 yuan. I also brought two hams, which I planned to give to the director.

"My father, that man, and a strong apprentice, the three of them arrived in Taiyuan and found a hotel to stay on Yingze Street in front of the train station.

"That day was Sunday. The man said that his relatives had a day off today, so the three of them took two hams on their backs and took a car to a dormitory compound in Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. When they walked downstairs, the man said that his relatives were here. There are too many, they are annoyed, and they are afraid of the bad impact on their neighbors.

"He asked my father and his apprentice to wait downstairs. He went upstairs carrying two hams. My father and the two of them waited downstairs for more than half an hour. The man came down empty-handed and said to my father, We have agreed that we will go directly to his office tomorrow and take the bill of lading issued by him. We can find a car ourselves and go to the warehouse to pick up the goods.

"Of course my dad was very happy after hearing this. The man also said that the director must keep him here to eat. My dad said, is there anything delicious in the food here? Let's go and find a place to drink. Two drinks to celebrate. The man ran upstairs again and told the director not to eat here. After going up and down, the three of them took the car back to Yingze Street.

"In the middle of the night, my father's apprentice got up to go to the toilet. The three of them lived in a room. There was no toilet in the room. To use the toilet, he had to go to the public toilet at the end of the corridor outside. When he came back, he shook my father awake and said that the man was missing. Well, my dad drank a lot and was dizzy. He said that he was making a fuss and should go to the toilet.

"The apprentice said, no, I just came back from the toilet and didn't see him. My father suddenly woke up. He looked under the bed and saw that the travel bag containing 100,000 yuan was gone. The two of them ran upstairs. Come downstairs. The waiter at the door downstairs said that more than an hour ago, the man who came with you said he had to catch an early morning train and left with a big bag.

"My father asked what kind of bag it was, and she couldn't see it clearly, but from her general description, my father knew that it was the bag containing the money. One of my father and his apprentice went to the train station, and the other went to the police station to call the police. , my dad went to the police station. The officer on duty at the police station asked my dad to come back during the day when he was at work. Now he was alone here and he couldn't leave.

"My father was anxious and ran to the train station. He didn't find the man, but he met his apprentice. The apprentice also said he didn't see the man. The two of them went to the dawn but couldn't find him, so they had to go to the police station again. One hundred thousand yuan Money was a lot of money at that time, and the police station also took it seriously. The police took my father to Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in a tricycle and found the director of the sales department.

"The director's surname is Liang. He said he didn't have such a relative at all. He also asked my dad where he went yesterday, and my dad told him. Director Liang said, first, Taigang has several family areas, and he lives in It's not at all the area my dad and the others went to yesterday. Secondly, he was in a meeting at work all day yesterday and was not at home.

"The police took my father to the building where he had been yesterday. People in that building also said that Director Liang did not live here. They asked if there was anything suspicious. Some people said that there was. Last night , someone went to the roof to collect clothes, and found two hams on the roof.

"The police confirmed that my father was deceived. The person who stole his money is definitely not in Taiyuan now and cannot be traced. He told my father that you should go back to your hometown police station to report the crime. You can avoid it on the first day of the new year. At fifteen, he couldn't stay out any longer and had to go home.

"Lao Ma, my mouth is so dry, give me some water."