Shi Xiaodong, with a pair of panda eyes, stayed up all night and ran to find Tang Yan. However, after arriving at the hotel and ringing the doorbell for a long time, no one opened the door. Later, he contacted the hotel general manager and helped him open the door, but Tang Yan was not seen.
After taking a look at the hotel's surveillance device, Shi Xiaodong realized that Tang Yan had gone out early in the morning and seemed to be dressed quite formally, which made Shi Xiaodong feel uneasy.
After making more than N calls, Tang Yan¡¯s cell phone kept reminding the user that it was turned off. Shi Xiaodong became more and more uneasy, thinking that Tang Yan had definitely found someone to put pressure on him.
After finally waiting until midnight, Shi Xiaodong had not eaten a grain of rice all day, and had stayed up all night the night before. Sitting on the sofa, he had already fallen into a deep sleep. When he heard the door knocking in a daze, he immediately cheered up. I saw Tang Yan walking in from the door.
"Master Tang, are you back?" When I first met Tang Yan, I thought he was just a casual person, but now, not only Master Tang, but also the honorific "you" are used.
Of course Tang Yan would find it funny, but there was no expression on his face. He just glanced at him indifferently and said, "You look very tired!"
"Master Tang, where have you been? I've been waiting for you all day and called you many times, but you kept turning off your phone."
Tang Yan raised his eyebrows: "Why, do I have to report to the secretary where I am going?"
"That's not what I meant, that's not what I meant. Of course Mr. Tang can go wherever he wants. It doesn't matter if I wait."
Tang Yan smiled slightly, walked to the refrigerator, opened the refrigerator, took out two bottles of water, and threw one to Shi Xiaodong: "Does Secretary Shi plan to pay me back?"
Shi Xiaodong took the water and didn't dare to open it. He just looked at Tang Yan and took a big sip before saying: "Master Tang, don't laugh at me. I'm just a small civil servant at the deputy director level. Where can I raise such money in a day and a half?" That¡¯s a lot of money!¡±
"Then why are you here? Do you still want to default on the bill? Or do you think your clever words can make me exempt you from the money?"
"That's not what I meant. It's just that Mr. Tang, we have to discuss this matter in the long run. You know my situation, don't talk about me. Even if the business is as big as Governor Wei's wife, she wants to spend 80 million at once. It¡¯s also very difficult.¡±
"Then you plan not to pay it back?"
Shi Xiaodong hurriedly shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, how dare I refuse to pay back the debt? I just want to tell Mr. Tang that I really have no money, even if I sell the house I live in now. , I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s only worth three to two million, which is less than a fraction of Mr. Tang. If Mr. Tang wants to invest in our Guangdong Province, I can provide him with a convenient door in the future, and then Mr. Tang will make a lot of money. The money will gradually be deducted from my eighty million"
Tang Yan interrupted him without hesitation: "Do you think that if I have any investment, it would be convenient for me to let Wei Kaihua, who is now the governor of the province and will soon be the secretary of the provincial party committee, not find it convenient? Do you want to find convenience for you, a small deputy department-level cadre? Do you still think that your status as a provincial secretary is particularly important to me? You even think that I can make some investments in Guangdong Province. Will your 80 million in debt be waived?"
¡° Shi Xiaodong¡¯s face originally had a hint of hope, but now it¡¯s completely gone.
Yes, since everyone knows that Tang Yan is a person with great energy, how could he come to work for a provincial governor secretary like Shi Xiaodong?
"But Mr. Tang, you also know me. It's more than 80 million. I, a small civil servant, will never earn so much in my lifetime. Even if you kill me, I won't be able to come up with so much money!"
"Are you trying to play rogue with me?" Tang Yan squinted his eyes, drank the bottle of water, and threw the empty bottle into the wastebasket.
Shi Xiaodong stared at Tang Yan, his eyes bloodshot. It wasn't that he was dissatisfied, he was just unwilling. Let¡¯s not talk about why he lost the 80 million. The key point is that Tang Yan doesn¡¯t seem to care about the 80 million, and he knows very well that Shi Xiaodong has no ability to repay. Now Shi Xiaodong is a bit willing to risk everything. Anyway, I don't have it. At worst, you will ruin my reputation. Otherwise, even if you put me in jail, your 80 million will be in vain.
Tang Yan also looked at Shi Xiaodong and suddenly laughed: "Secretary Shi is considering my patience. He thinks that since you don't have it anyway, I won't be able to get back the 80 million even if I kill you?"
Shi Xiaodong still said nothing, but the meaning in his eyes was clear.
"I heard that Shi Mi's ancestor was also from a wealthy family and had a lot of collections. It's impossible for him to be ruined when it comes to Shi Mi, right?" Tang Yan had never heard anything. He justHowever, he felt that since the system determined that these three things were in the hands of Shi Xiaodong, and these three things would never have been owned by a wealthy family, even in the Qing Dynasty, these three things were high-priced antiques, so he spoke to test them. .
As soon as he said this, Shi Xiaodong took up the topic himself: "Master Tang is indeed a man with great hands and eyes. If you didn't tell me, I would have almost forgotten about this kind of thing, and no one outside would know about it. My ancestors are really There was a high-ranking official who was in the Taoist platform of Guangdong and Guangxi. Emperor Qianlong was able to directly face the saints at that time. But that is not what I have been defeated in this life. It was already defeated in the late Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, our family would have been judged as a poor peasant class after liberation. This is all a matter of ancestors. When I come here, I just listen to the old people in the village talking about it, and I have never seen it before. Mr. Tang. Where did you hear that?¡±
"Hey, I said you started talking to me about storytelling, right? I'm talking about how many officials your ancestors did? Now I'm telling you about the eighty million things!"
Less than half a minute after Shi Xiaodong was proud, Tang Yan suddenly poured a basin of cold water on him, which brought him back to reality.
And Tang Yan also had a black thread, wondering what the fuck is this, I just talk nonsense, this kid really has a Taoist platform in his ancestors, it seems that these three things are really here with him, but even if there is, I don¡¯t know where it fell. Could it be that it was buried somewhere?
Suddenly I remembered that Shi Xiaodong said just now that he listened to the old people in the village, not his father. So, is it really possible that these three things are buried in his old house?
"Your whole village is the descendant of that Taoist?"
Shi Xiaodong was slightly stunned, wondering why Tang Yan was so concerned about this matter, but he still replied truthfully: "That's right, we were all relatives before, but the direct descendants should be our family. Our family has been passed down for several generations. , my father and grandfather all have many sisters but no brothers."
When Tang Yan heard this, he thought, yes, there is a way!
"Are the old houses in the village still there?"
"There are no old houses left. They were all demolished during the Ten Years of Catastrophe, and they were already in tatters even then. Besides, my father came to the city in his generation, that is, my grandfather still stayed in the countryside. , there is an old house at home. But the old house was rebuilt on the original site, just a few shabby tile-roofed houses."
¡°Well, after all, it¡¯s a wealthy family with a house and a bed on the ground, and you still say you have no money?¡±
Shi Xiaodong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "My grandfather is an ordinary farmer. My father left the countryside only after passing the college entrance examination to Yangcheng University of Technology. There are no houses with standing room and lying on the ground. Those are all owned by the state, but later on, when the policy was implemented, the old man was removed from the countryside. The land in the house has been granted to our family as a homestead."
"It's just right. I'm tired of staying in the city. You can take me to the countryside tomorrow!"
Shi Xiaodong seemed to feel that Tang Yan must have a purpose, so he hesitated and said, "Why is Mr. Tang so interested in our old house?"
"Nonsense! You **** owe me more than 80 million yuan. How can I get it back? You are so broke. I won't tolerate it if I tear down your house and let you sleep on the street. Since Your ancestor was a high-ranking official, and the land of the old house is still there. Let's go and take a look. We can't leave behind one or two old things. Even if it's not worth 80 million, I have to reduce the loss, right? No matter how much it is There's something buried on the ground, I have to look for it, right?"
Shi Xiaodong thought that this matter must not be that simple, but he had no other choice. Who made him owe Tang Yan such a huge sum of money? Even if Tang Yan only wants him to pay half of the money according to their verbal agreement, it will still cost 40 million. Now Tang Yan is the uncle. Since he wants to go to the countryside, take him to see it, so that he can know that he really has nothing. Regarding repayment ability, as for the future, let¡¯s take it one step at a time.
"Well, I'll pick up Mr. Tang early tomorrow morning and go back first."
"Don't go back, just sleep here. In such a big room, you can hold the quilt and sit on the sofa all night. This sofa is quite spacious." Tang Yan stood up lazily and staggered to the bedroom. .
Shi Xiaodong was really tired. He was originally wondering why Tang Yan was so interested in the house in their hometown, but within a few minutes, he was too tired and fell asleep.
When he woke up, Tang Yan had even finished his morning exercises.
Seeing that Shi Xiaodong woke up, Tang Yan said: "Go and wash up. Let's go downstairs to have breakfast, and then go to your hometown in the countryside. Oops, I haven't been to the countryside in a long time. Let's see your new countryside in Guangdong Province." !¡±
The two went downstairs to have breakfast, and then drove straight to a rural area about fifty or sixty kilometers away from the city.
In fact, the rural areas near Yangcheng are not very different from the cities now.??There are not many people farming in the village anymore. They basically rely on some side jobs to support themselves, and most young people go to the city to work.
Seeing Shi Xiaodong driving back to the village, the remaining elderly people in the village said one after another: "The big cadres from the old village chief's family are back. Tell the old village chief to go!"
Several children ran towards Shi Xiaodong¡¯s old house, waving to Shi Xiaodong¡¯s car as they ran, as if leading him the way.
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