The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen and the others arrived in Nanjing and waited for Li Yang for more than two hours before getting in the car. Unexpectedly, it only took ten minutes to drive from Xu Li's Nanjing store on half an acre of land to the Laohuqiao Prison at No. 32 Laohuqiao. , the prison is located in Nanjing city, very close.

Laohuqiao Prison was built during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and was called "Jiangning Criminal Training Center". It was renamed "Jiangsu No. 1 Prison" during the Beiyang Period. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was renamed "Capital Prison". After 1949, it was renamed "Jiangsu Province No. 1 Prison" ", also called Nanjing Prison, and ordinary Nanjing citizens are accustomed to calling it Laohuqiao Prison, or simply Laohuqiao.

If two people quarrel and one scolds the other, you will have to go to Laohuqiao sooner or later, which means that you will go to jail sooner or later. This is just like the Hangzhou people cursing others and burning them to Longjuwu. That means you will go to Longju quickly. Hangcheng Crematorium in Wu.

Every city seems to have some place names with special meanings.

Most of the houses in Laohuqiao Prison are old ones from the Republic of China period, and there are also a few buildings built in the 1960s and 1970s. There have been talks of demolition in the past few years, but they have not been demolished. Probably because of this, no new buildings have been built.

Xu Li was waiting for them in the car outside the door. Li Yang took them in. When they arrived at the door, Li Yang told the armed police on duty that they were going to the third prison and the warden's office. They were in the armed police duty room at the door. Everyone They all took out their ID cards and registered.

The armed policeman looked at Zhang Xiangbei in Xiao Zhao's hand, probably wondering why he brought the child here. Zhang Xiangbei looked at the armed policeman, laughed, and reached out to grab his red five-pointed star. Xiao Zhao hurriedly He hugged him away and smiled apologetically at the armed policeman, who also smiled.

The warden's office was in an old house made of dark gray bricks. There was a long corridor at the door, and next to it were a conference room and the prison guards' offices. Li Yang took them in and met several prison guards along the way. , they all seemed to know him.

They walked into the warden's office. When the warden saw them, he stood up, looked at Li Yang and asked, "Back?"

Zhang Chen and the others all laughed. It seemed that this guy was not lying. He had indeed been in prison here.

The warden was stunned for a moment when he heard their laughter. Then he understood what they were laughing at and started laughing too. He reached out and patted Li Yang on the shoulder and walked out, saying as he walked:

"You friends, there are still many people coming to see him, and he has a wide range of connections."

After a while, the warden came back, followed by Meng Ping, who was wearing prison uniform and handcuffed, and a prison guard who was escorting him. Meng Ping was surprised when he saw them and shouted, "Zhang Chen" , Xiao Zhao, why are you here?

As soon as Xiao Zhao saw him, tears rolled down his face, and He Hongmei's eyes also turned red.

After the prison guard brought the person in, he untied Meng Ping's handcuffs and went out. Li Yang pointed to the set of wooden sofas in the office and said to Zhang Chen, "You sit down, you can drink water and pour it yourself." If you have something to talk to, our boss.

He walked over and put his arm around the warden's shoulders, and the two of them walked out.

Meng Ping looked at Zhang Xiangbei and said to Xiao Zhao, why did you bring him here? It's not good for you to come here, kid.

Xiao Zhao shook his head and said: "Of course I will bring him. Wherever you go, you will always be his uncle."

Meng Ping saw Wu Zhaohui, but not Liu Ligan. Meng Ping asked, "Where's the pole? The pole didn't come with you? Xiao Wu, how is your company?"

Several people were silent for a moment. Meng Ping frowned. Knowing that something was wrong, he asked, Zhang Chen, what happened to the pole? What happened?

Zhang Chen told Meng Ping about Liu Ligan. After hearing this, Meng Ping couldn't help but shook his head. He said, Beijing would do this. I had thought of it a long time ago. When disaster strikes, we all fly away. It's normal, but it's just not I dared to tell Zhuangzi, but I didn't expect that they would do it so brilliantly. They would throw Zhuangzi naked onto the killing battlefield without leaving a way for him to retreat.

It's not surprising that the company can't survive. Even those bad guys would come to the door. It's also something that can be expected. How could the police take the pole away? I don't understand. It seems impossible. The pole is nothing like the police. Above.

Zhang Chen nodded and said, we think so too.

Meng Ping comforted them in turn. He said it was okay. He was taken away by the police, but he was safe. Look, isn't it good to be like me?

Meng Ping laughed as he spoke.

Xiao Zhao scolded, "You still said yes!"

Meng Ping smiled and said, "It's really good. I can eat well and sleep well. In the past few years, it is still the most relaxed now. There is no pressure every day. Do you think I have gained weight?"

The others laughed, but this smile was bitter.

"By the way, Zhang Chen, you know this place. Who has been imprisoned here before?" Meng Ping asked.

Zhang Chen shook his head.

"C is the only show." Meng Ping said with a smile, "There is also Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun's younger brother. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was imprisoned as a traitor. Oh, sometimes I wonder, what will happen to my room? It can’t be the place where C Duxiu and Zhou Zuoren lived.”

"Meng Ping, are you really adaptable here?" Zhang Chen couldn't help but ask again.

"I'm really getting used to it, Zhang Chen. After living here, my friends really helped me choose a place." Meng Ping said, "Do you know who is in our room?"

Zhang Chen shook his head.

"There is an old leader of mine, a president of a bank, a professor from Nanjing University, and two CEOs of large companies, and some of them are also from the government. Haha, there are really no idle people in their dealings, and they are all great scholars when talking and laughing." Meng Ping said with a smile, "No matter what status we had before, we are all equal here, and we can really talk to each other from the bottom of our hearts.

"Really, Zhang Chen, I only know now that this prison is really a good school. You can learn a lot of things from others that you didn't understand before. People are sincerely willing to teach you. Even if they don't teach you, they will." Nothing else, haha.”

Zhang Chen felt that at least Meng Ping's smile was real. Of course he was exaggerating when he said it was good here. But seeing Meng Ping's condition, it seemed that it was better than they originally expected. It made people feel a little better. Feel relieved.

"By the way, how are you doing now?" Meng Ping asked Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao.

Zhang Chen roughly told Meng Ping about his current situation. Meng Ping kept nodding his head and said, it's better for you to stay down to earth like this.

"By the way, Qian Fang and the others were here the day before yesterday." Meng Ping remembered it and told them.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao were surprised, and Xiao Zhao asked, "Are they in Nanjing too?"

"Yes, four of them are here, no, it's five of them, and Yuanyuan. You may not know that I didn't surrender. I was escorted from Haicheng to Wuxi by them." Meng Ping laughed, "Then they I followed them here from Wuxi again. You don’t know these people. They came just the day before yesterday when I could be visited in prison. I don’t know where they got their skills from.”

"Their skills were not all taught by you, Lao Meng." Zhang Chen said.

"Haha, Qian Fang also told me yesterday that our company is still there, and no one from the company has left. Wherever we go, the company will be there." Meng Ping said with a smile, but later, he felt a little sad. .

"Lao Meng, do you know how to find them?" Xiao Zhao asked urgently, "Qian Fang and Xu Jiaqing have returned to the mainland and they haven't called us. We still can't find them."

"You don't know them yet. When they want to call you, they must have done what they want to do. I don't have their contact information. I'm here. It's useless if they give it to me, haha. However, they told me that they would open a shop selling duck blood vermicelli, wontons, and steamed buns, and they also talked about you and said that they would also open a chain store."

Meng Ping looked at them and continued to smile: "If you come to Nanjing again and see any duck blood vermicelli chain stores, go in and take a look. Maybe they are the ones opened."

"If they come again, Meng Ping, tell them to contact us, okay?" Zhang Chen said.

"Yes, I miss them." Xiao Zhao said.

Meng Ping said yes, I will tell them if I see them again.

They then talked about Chen Qihang and Li Yong, as well as Mr. Tan, and Meng Ping couldn't help but sigh.

Meng Ping told them, you don’t know. In fact, just a few days before June 23, Ganzi and I went to see Mr. Han. Mr. Han reminded us and described to us the terrible scene after the bubble burst. , but when this day actually came, I still didn’t expect that it would be more terrifying than imagined, and almost no one would be spared.

What we see is Hainan, but what we cannot see is the whole country. We don’t know how big the impact has been on the whole country because of Hainan. We don’t know how many cases like mine there are in the whole country. Mr. Han is right, it’s a bubble When destroyed, its power is really no less than an atomic bomb.

They chatted like this for more than an hour before they knew it.

Li Yang walked in and stood aside for a while. He patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder and said to him, Mr. Zhang, you continue, I will go out to smoke another cigarette.

Zhang Chen said yes.

Meng Ping looked at his back as he went out and asked Zhang Chen, who is this friend?

Zhang Chen told him that he was a friend of the owner of their Nanjing specialty store. Zhang Chen laughed and told Meng Ping that your room might not have been the one where C Duxiu lived, but that of him. He was sure it was here. Stayed.

Meng Ping also laughed and said, this guy has such a high emotional intelligence.

Wu Zhaohui didn't understand. He asked, Lao Meng, he just came in for a moment, how could you tell that he has high emotional intelligence?

Meng Ping said that if you are in prison, you can make the warden a friend. How can you do it if you don't have high emotional intelligence? Do you think that in an environment like ours, anyone can do it, not just friends? My old boss came to see me, and he was also in the reception room.

Everyone else nodded, Meng Ping said, but from the moment he came in and left, it was obvious that he could do it, and it was not without reason. Xiao Wu, you should learn from it.

"What to study?" Wu Zhaohui asked puzzledly.

"It's obviously almost time. Look what he said when he came in. He said, 'I'll go out for a cigarette.' He just told you that I'll give you ten more minutes. If you have anything important to say, just say it quickly. This makes a lot of people Comfortable."

Wu Chaohui scratched his head and said: "This is going around and around, and only you, Lao Meng, can understand it. If he told me, I would definitely think, just go and smoke. Are you out of cigarettes? You tell me if there is no cigarette." "

Everyone laughed.

The door opened, and Li Yang walked in. This time, the warden and the prison guard who brought Meng Ping came with him. It seemed that Meng Ping was right, and the last meeting time was over.

Meng Ping took Zhang Xiangbei from Xiao Zhao's hand and hugged him. He lifted him up and gave it back to Xiao Zhao. Then he walked to the prison guard and stretched out his hands. The prison guard cuffed the handcuffs back and took him with him. He followed Meng Ping out.