"I'm going to a friend in Ogura. I won't be back tonight. If anyone asks, please tell me." After Zuo Yunshan returned to the hotel, he said to his assistant Yanagita.
"Okay. When do you get back here tomorrow? I can tell them if they ask."
"Solo concerts are held day and night, and the matinee starts at 12:30. You must go backstage one hour in advance to comb Cao Li's hair."
"Be back before 11:30."
"All right."
Zuo Yunshan put on his going out clothes and looked in the mirror. He put on a new gray top and a pair of sweatpants underneath.
Those people in the theater haven't come back yet, maybe another 30 minutes. Cao Li rented three rooms on the fifth floor of this hotel. In one room lived her sister, manager and attendant Cao Ye; a chubby single woman; in the other room lived the few girls who came from Nanguang. entourage. Zuo Yunshan and Liutian each live in a room on the third floor.
"It's already past 9 o'clock." Zuo Yunshan looked at his watch and said, "Call Chang Chuan of Nanguang store around 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to ask about the situation in the store."
"knew."
Yanagida looked down and nodded in greeting. He is 22 years old and looks only 19 years old because of his short stature. When Zuo Yunshan recruits disciples, appearance is the most important thing. Changchuan is not an apprentice, but an employee. Because he is older, he is equivalent to a manager in the store. His strengths are that he is loyal and a little clever.
"Tell Changchuan that I will call him again when I come back." Zuo Yunshan said to Yanagita while wearing sunglasses.
The work is done, and all that's left is other things. But. The consciousness of work has not been completely eliminated, it still remains in my heart, and my mind is still thinking about the future. We have now reached the crossroads of ambition and contentment. The road went so fast, even I didn't expect it.
However, it will be difficult from now on. The antipathy in the industry has expanded from local to general, and potential enemies in the past have gradually become public.
Zuo Yunshan took a taxi waiting for customers in front of the hotel. "Go to Pingdingshan Hotel." He said to the driver.
"Pingdingshan Hotel? It's nice there!"
"not so good."
"That hotel is very profitable!"
The driver spoke freely and was similar in age to Zuo Yunshan.
After crossing the railway crossing, the shopping street ends. The front was deserted and the road was dark.
The car came to a screeching halt, and the railings were lowered at the railroad crossing.
"Sir," the driver said, "aren't you Mr. Guan Chang?"
Zuo Yunshan was surprised. It would be normal to call him Zuo Yunshan, but if he were called Guan Chang, he couldn't help but shudder.
Calling him Zuo Yunshan, he could still pretend to be confused, but when his real name was called Guan Chang, he felt as if someone had found out. He couldn't find an excuse for a while.
"Who are you?"
He looked at the back of the driver's head.
"Oh, who is Guan Chang? I am Jiang Hui, Jiang Hui from Dachuan, do you remember?"
A long, brightly lit train rumbled past.
Dachuan County is located in the southwest of Fuchang City and is a famous producer of cabinets and other furniture. Zuo Yunshan's hometown is there, where he spent his unbearable youth.
Zuo Yunshan had no classmates with this name in either elementary school or middle school. Then, later——
"Well, I am Jiang Hui, a carpenter in the cabinet carpentry department of Dachuan Furniture Factory. Aren't you in the finished product department? I talked to you three or four times at that time, but I don't remember."
"Yeah?"
Zuo Yunshan was vague. The car crossed the crossing.
The tension in my heart could not calm down for a long time. After crossing the intersection, the driver slowly stopped the car, turned on the roof lights, and turned back to let Zuo Yunshan see.
He has a smiling rectangular face, dark eyebrows, thick eyelids, and a fat nose and mouth. Zuo Yunshan looked at that face and finally remembered. There is indeed such a person among the apprentices who operate electric saws in the carpentry department, but he rarely comes and goes.
Zuo Yunshan had no choice but to smile ambiguously and nod.
The driver Jiang Hui asked nostalgically: "Are you in Nanguang now?"
"Yes."
"How many years have passed since then? It's been seven years since I left Dachuan Furniture Factory. It's not interesting to be a carpenter making cabinets all the time, so I drove a taxi and came to Fuchang. You were three years older than me. Did you leave there in 2010?"
"Probably..."
He is gradually getting involved in the topic of drivers, and may even talk about the past that he doesn't want to touch.
"Really? Look, it's been 10 years in a flash. We haven't seen each other for a long time!"
A row of old-style houses by the river appeared in front of Zuo Yunshan. He was born in a house in that alley. He remembered that half of the house was used by his father, who was a carpenter, for carpentry work. There were only two small rooms for people to live in. One was ten square meters in size and the other was only eight square meters in size. My father worked so often that his waist was bent, and he had to work late at night in a dark room with a lamp on.
"Everyone at Okawa Furniture Factory said that you went to Arita after you were dismissed from there. They said that you made glazes in Arita. Is that true?"
The fellow countryman really asked about something annoying. But it is surprising that the rumors are so accurate. In fact, I have not told anyone about going to Arita. So, how much do people in your hometown know about your future career and address? Zuo Yunshan wanted to know, but he didn't dare to ask Jiang Hui rashly, so he replied calmly:
"I didn't stay in Arita for long, and then I went to Nanguang."
"Really? So you have been in Nanguang for a long time?" Jiang Hui said without any doubt. It seems that he doesn't know the details. Zuo Yunshan felt slightly relieved.
"More than 8 years." He replied quickly.
"More than 8 years? That's not a short time! - Living in Fortune Hotel?"
"yes."
"You have an unusual status when you live in that hotel! The young man at the door of the hotel just now called you teacher. What kind of teacher are you?"
"I open a beauty salon."
"Hey, yes! I didn't expect you to be a hair perm. They call you teacher, so you must be doing a good job. Is this what you came to Fuchang to do?"
"Singer Cao Li is performing in the theater here, did you know?"
"Yes, there are quite a few spectators at the Fuchang Grand Theater! Cao Li also stays at the Fuchang Hotel?"
"I was asked by Miss Cao Li to do her hair for the performance."
"Oh, you did Cao Li's hair?!" Jiang Hui exclaimed while driving the car, "I can't believe it, you are so amazing! When did you become like this? I can't believe it, it's really..."
The taxi sped through the dark suburbs.
It was no surprise to hear that he opened a beauty salon in Nanguang, but Jiang Hui was amazed when he heard Cao Li's name.
"When did you learn this skill?"
Jiang Hui was very puzzled that a carpentry apprentice in the county had such a promising future.
Zuo Yunshan couldn't help but feel worried. The place we went to earlier was the Pingdingshan Hotel. He has asked Wei Chun to move in first.
