Chapter 229: The Talented Student in the Vegetable Market
? The matter of the distribution center has temporarily stalled.
Li Dong had nothing else to do for a while, and at the beginning of November, Li Dong returned to Dongping again.
The last time Cao Fang was tempted to persuade her parents to move to Pingchuan, but Li Chengyuan refused.
A few days ago, Li Dong was busy negotiating with the government, and he didn't care about his parents.
Now that the negotiations are temporarily suspended, Li Dong took the time to go back to Dongping.
When they got home, Li Chengyuan and Li Chengyuan were not at home.
Li Dong rested at home for a while, then walked to the vegetable market.
Dongping County is still the same as when Li Dong was in high school. It obviously hasn't changed much, but it is a little more strange to Li Dong.
Now he almost regards Pingchuan as his second hometown, and the number of times he returns to Dongping is less and less. Even when he comes back, he rarely wanders outside. This time is almost the first time he has walked alone in the county town in more than a year.
The vegetable market is not far from Li Dong's house, and the gate of the vegetable market came into view after more than ten minutes.
Li Dong was about to go in and look for Li Chengyuan, when suddenly a person walked up to him, and the two passed by.
But then both of them stopped.
Li Dong hurriedly turned his head and asked in surprise, "Wang Jie?"
Wang Jie obviously didn't expect to meet Li Dong in Dongping at this time, scratched his head and said, "Dongzi, you're back in Dongping."
"Well, come back and see my parents, why are you back?"
After talking about Li Dong, he felt something was wrong. The Wang Jie at this moment was quite different from the one he met years ago.
He is obviously the same age as Li Dong, but his face is much more weathered. Although he is not old, compared to Li Dong, he does look a little prematurely aging.
And even though Wang Jie was not a clean freak, his clothes were always clean.
But now, not to mention his dirty face, he was still wearing a khaki apron with some black spots on his body.
Li Dong frowned slightly, and was about to ask, Wang Jie smiled and said: "You are here to see Uncle Li, you go to see your father first, let's make an appointment to have dinner together at night."
Li Dong heard the words and nodded,
The two agreed on the time and place, and Wang Jie left in a hurry.
Seeing Wang Jie leaving on the small three-wheel not far away, Li Dong frowned more and more, what happened to this guy.
Looking back at the beginning of the year, Wang Jie said he broke up with Chen Yue. Could it be the impact of this incident?
...
Li Dong didn't think much about Wang Jie's matter for the time being, he just asked what he wanted to know at night.
After entering the vegetable market, Li Dong heard Li Chengyuan shouting from a distance: "General!"
There were five or six people around in front of them. One of the two chess players was Li Chengyuan, and the other Li Dong also knew each other. It was a butcher vendor next to him whose surname was Gao. Everyone called him Lao Gao, but few people knew his exact name.
There are few people in the vegetable market in the afternoon, and these vendors like to play chess when they are free.
Although Li Chengyuan's level of chess is very poor, he is very good at it. He usually plays a few games every day when he has nothing to do.
Li Dong went over to have a look, and Li Chengyuan smiled triumphantly and said, "General Shuangpao, you are doomed now, fight with me, Lao Gao, just go back and practice for a few more years!"
The old butcher opposite Li Chengyuan curled his lips and said disdainfully, "Old Li, you stinky chess player hasn't made any progress at all!"
After all, he directly killed Li Chengyuan's "cannon" with the "car" next to him, and took Li Chengyuan's army instead.
Li Chengyuan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Why, why didn't I see your 'car' here?"
Lao Gao sneered and said, "Who made you blind, general, now you have nowhere to go?"
"Old Li, you can't do it, I'll take it instead!" The people watching next to him booed.
"That's right, Lao Gao's 'car' has been waiting for a long time, you send it up to seek death yourself, this level is too bad!"
"Don't look at Lao Li's poor level of chess, but his bragging level is not low, and he said that he wants to make Lao Gao a 'horse'."
"Hahaha, we are also the stinkiest old Li!"
"..."
Everyone was joking and sarcasm, and Li Chengyuan cursed angrily: "Do you understand the real gentleman who watches chess without saying a word? What are you talking about, if you don't agree, let's play a game!"
"Cut! Old Li, if you lose, you will end. Who will come with you. Hurry up, it's my turn, don't try to cheat!"
Li Chengyuan was about to renege on his debt when he heard someone behind him shout: "Dad, you lost again?"
Li Chengyuan turned his head to look, and suddenly his old face flushed and said: "Whoever loses, I deliberately let Lao Gao!"
After finishing speaking, he hurriedly pushed the chessboard, disrupting the chess game.
Everyone laughed, Lao Gao on the opposite side didn't care, and smiled at Li Dong: "Dongzi, I haven't seen you for a few days, when did you come back?"
"Just came back, Uncle Gao, tell my dad, it doesn't matter if you win every day, if you keep winning, my dad won't play with you anymore." Li Dong laughed.
Lao Gao suddenly laughed and said: "That's the reason, next time I ask your dad to play a few rounds, or a college student can talk."
"Who wants you to let me go!"
Li Chengyuan snorted, and said to the other person next to him: "No more, you come!"
After saying that, he dragged Li Dong back to his booth, and the others didn't care, and another person continued to fight.
Faintly heard someone say: "Lao Li gave birth to a good son, a top student of Jiang University, and he will be blessed in the future."
"Your son is not bad either. He was admitted to No. 1 Middle School. We should envy you in a few years."
"Hahaha, I don't know what will happen in the future..."
...
After returning to the stall, Li Chengyuan found a stool for Li Dong to sit down on, and said, "Why don't you say something when you come back, it happened that a few wild old turtles came in in the morning, and how about cooking one in soy sauce at night, and making another stew in soup."
Li Dong didn't have high requirements for food, so he nodded and said, "Anything is fine."
Then he asked: "You manage the stall by yourself, can you come here?"
"Fortunately, if you can do it, do more, if you can't do it, do less, don't count on it now." Li Chengyuan said with a smile.
Li Dong didn't say any more, but changed the subject and said, "Dad, why don't you want to part with this?"
Li Chengyuan didn't say a word, took out a cigarette, lit it and smoked it, then passed another one to Li Dong, and said: "I have been working here for more than 20 years, and you can see that the big guys are familiar with the family. It's like a human being. Suddenly asking me to move away makes me feel uncomfortable."
Li Dong took the cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath, exhaled the smoke and said, "But you can't stay here forever. People go to high places, and water flows to low places. This is human nature."
"That's what you said, but what do you think I can do when I go to Pingchuan?"
"I'm not yet 50 this year. Is it possible to start retirement now? Raising dogs and playing with birds is something I can't do." Li Chengyuan said sullenly.
Li Dong had a headache, and persuaded him: "But you stay in Dongping, I can't rest assured. If someone has a wicked heart, and something happens, do you think I can feel at ease?"
A look of hesitation appeared on Li Chengyuan's face.
He naturally understands this matter, his wealth is not exposed, and it is not uncommon for him to do anything for money.
People's hearts are unpredictable. Li Chengyuan has lived for so many years and has never seen anything. This is why he never shows off his son in front of outsiders.
No one in the vegetable market knew that he had a rich son. They only knew that Li Dong was admitted to Jiang University and was a good student.
But there is no impenetrable wall in the world.
Cao Fang now runs a convenience store, which sells the Yuanfang brand.
If you really care about it, you can find out their relationship with Li Dong after a little research.
In addition, Li Dong was arrogant in Dongping last time. Although there has been no news recently, who can tell whether someone has already inquired clearly and is preparing to attack them.
Li Chengyuan struggled for a while, and finally sighed: "Then go to Pingchuan, but this matter will have to wait until the beginning of next year, and I don't plan to leave at the end of the year."
He also didn't want to embarrass his son, so he moved as long as he moved, at worst, he would come back to see more later.
Although Li Dong wished his parents would move to Pingchuan immediately, he also knew that he should not be forced too hard.
It was not easy to get Li Chengyuan to agree, but now he was forced to go back on his word, and the gain outweighed the loss.
Next year, let's say next year. At worst, let Wang Cheng and the others stay in Dongping for a while longer.
Then the father and son chatted some gossip, and Li Chengyuan talked about Wang Jie while talking.
Li Chengyuan also knew Wang Jie.
After all, he was his son's deskmate in high school, and Li Chengyuan had met him several times.
When he heard Li Chengyuan say that Wang Jie returned to Dongping last month, and now he is selling poultry in the vegetable market, Li Dong was a little confused.
"Wang Jie isn't going to school anymore?"
"I don't know, I heard that he was fired. His parents raised some money and sold Lao Fang's stall. Now he is learning how to start a business. If you say a college student is a college student, the young man has a brain, don't look at it. Month, business is better than Lao Fang's time."
"I heard that there is also an online ordering, home delivery, killing chickens and ducks to deliver to restaurants, and I have made a lot of money during this time."
Li Chengyuan was still a little envious as he spoke, obviously admiring Wang Jie's methods.
In their generation, although they know about computer networks, they really don't understand what it is.
A vegetable market is a vegetable market, and I never thought that the things sold in the vegetable market could have a relationship with the Internet, let alone that people actually order from the Internet.
Li Dong was also a little surprised when his father said this.
In 2005, he was playing online ordering in the vegetable market. Not to mention being the first in the country, Wang Jie was at least at the forefront of the times.
However, the vegetable market is too limited after all, and it is not very suitable for online shopping. Li Dong is not very optimistic about Wang Jie's future.
Of course, no one can tell in the future, maybe Wang Jie will become big.
He didn't pay much attention to these, but what Li Dong was more concerned about was that Wang Jie was actually fired.
The trajectory of history has changed again. Perhaps from the moment Wang Jie chose to go to the capital, his future has changed.
In his previous life, Wang Jie went to Shanghai. He not only finished college, but also went to graduate school.
When Li Dong was reborn, although he hadn't contacted Wang Jie for a long time, he knew that this guy was doing well in a state-owned enterprise.
Unexpectedly, things are different, and now Wang Jie has been fired, and he has returned to his hometown to start a business, selling poultry.
The difference is too great, and Li Dong's thinking has not changed for a while.
The father and son chatted for a while, Li Dong helped his father clean up the stall, and then went home together. (To be continued.)