Comparing the Anshan area of Shengjing with the bustling Central District, it looks like a rural village. The main buildings are dusty bungalows, and there are a large number of shantytowns scattered among them.
At the "Shunxiang Donkey Meat Restaurant" on Santai Street, the main street, Lu Ming, Sun Jingjun, and Yuan Keli were all there. Gao Dali was treating guests, but his younger brother Gao Xiaoli didn't come.
It's a very small restaurant with only four or five tables and not even a private room.
Gao Dali must have been in a restaurant for the first time in his life. Even in the eyes of others, this is a small and low-class restaurant.
His lawsuit did not end without any problem with Horton being imprisoned and Guanglifa being confiscated.
A few days ago, the Montenegro Concession Court ruled that Gao Dali won the case. Guanglifa's boss Horton should publish an apology for discriminating against Anshan people in the newspaper, and Guanglifa must pay Gao Dali 796 yuan as compensation for the psychological trauma caused to Mr. Gao Dali.
Although he couldn't get the money, Gao Dali was still very happy. He gritted his teeth and decided to invite the mysterious Mr. Zhang Aming, his younger brother's classmate, to a restaurant. At the same time, he invited classmates from his younger brother's small circle to accompany him.
I just didn't expect that my brother lost his temper for some reason. He said something happened early in the morning and disappeared.
Today, the table is full of hard dishes from this small restaurant, such as donkey meat in sauce, three pieces of donkey, stir-fried donkey tripe, dry roasted donkey liver, etc.
Today, it costs almost 1 yuan with wine and food. Gao Dali's monthly salary was only 10 yuan before, and he had to pay half of the "labor introduction fee" to the Anshan District Management Office. This is the same for Anshan workers, half of their salary is paid. Hands on, despite this, being able to work in Shengjing as a laborer is tantamount to heaven for Anshan people. The people in Gaodali Village are all illegal immigrants. If they are shot to death while crossing the barbed wire fence, their death will be in vain. After they can come in, Anshan will basically ignore them, but if they can't find a job, there will be no labor introduction. Even if you pay the fee, you will still be deported, and you will be deported as a stowaway. If you go back, you will have the tragic fate of going to prison and doing hard work for a lifetime.
Gao Dali's current new job is to work as a watchman in a building in the Heishan concession area, with a monthly salary of 20 yuan. Compared with before, the salary is sky-high.
Talking about this, Lu Ming said with a smile: "Brother Dali, your first month's salary is about to be paid, right? Move to the concession area. You don't have to pay half of your salary to Anshan District. Although the rent in the concession area is a bit higher, , but for 5 yuan you can rent a small single room, the environment is much better than what you have now, and you will have more money than you have now, don’t you think so?”
Gao Dali smiled naively, "That's what I said, but I really can't bear to leave my neighbor, and besides, I reported my salary..." He looked around and said nothing more.
Lu Ming just smiled and said, "Brother Dali, I didn't expect you to be quite cunning." It seems that the salary Gao Dali reported to the Anshan Labor Management Bureau was only about 10 yuan. The building was managed by Donghai business talents who were naturalized in Montenegro. I feel incredible about the cruelty of labor exploitation in Anshan District, so I am happy to help him get a lower salary certificate. The position is not a factory with hundreds or thousands of workers to use as a reference, so it is really difficult for outsiders to find out how much the salary is. .
Gao Dali scratched his head, smiled sheepishly, and raised his glass: "A Ming, thank you very much." He glanced at Lu Ming's side, his face turned red, but as the host, he still wanted to say: "You Is it okay to drink tea? Why don’t you want a drink?”
Next to Lu Ming sat Margaret, who came to Anshan District for Gao Dali's banquet and brought her along to deal with the tobacco matters here.
Margaret was wearing a shiny silver professional skirt, revealing a pair of slender white legs, black-edged milky white high-heeled shoes, an extremely attractive figure, and British-style bright red hair, making the girl with a cold temperament uniquely attractive. The wild beauty of the soul.
But in front of Lu Ming, she had lowered her arrogant head a long time ago. She also once wore the kind of black gauze pajamas with a hole in her belly and was punished by Grandma Long and accepted the possible humiliating work in the future. Inevitably, In front of this man, my personality has been dwarfed, because when I recognized that job, I realized that in the eyes of this man, you are not even a woman at all, you are just a warm baby, nothing more than a warm baby. Just easy to use and comfortable.
She ignored Gao Dali's words at first, but when she saw Lu Ming looking over, she reluctantly said, "I'll just drink tea."
In fact, I didn't touch it at all. The tea cup was covered with yellow tea stains, which made me feel sick just looking at it, let alone drinking it when it touched my lips.
The dishes, even more so, were so dark that I didn’t even know what the ingredients were, especially the one called Donkey Three Pieces, which didn’t feel right no matter how I looked at it.
"Brother Dali, don't pay attention to her, she brought snacks." Over there, Lu Ming smiled at Gao Dali, raised his wine glass and clinked it with Gao Dali.
He thought about it and said, "Brother Dali, you still have to ask for the nearly 800 yuan in compensation awarded by the court. Didn't the lawyer from Jiji's firm talk to you?"
Gao Dali said nothing, so why do you want the money? Especially Guanglifa, now owned by Mr. An, Mr. An Lao Xi'an, famous for eating meat without spitting out the bones, greedy by nature, trying to dig out some meat residue from the meat he chews in his mouth, how is it possible?
Although the lawyer from Jiji Firm said that he could apply to the court, today Guanglifa also has to bear the penalty caused by the failure of the lawsuit.
But when you think about something that is unlikely to win, and you have to pay for legal fees, your life is pretty good now, so let’s forget it.
Seeing Gao Dali's expression, Lu Ming smiled and said, "Okay, Brother Dali, you can figure it out yourself." He had helped him enough, although fundamentally, it was to find a fulcrum for the Montenegrin court to intervene in this matter. But no matter what, it helped Gao Dali. What he had done was enough, and it was his own choice in the future.
"A Ming, will you come to school these days?" Sun Jingjun asked from the side.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Look again."
Sun Jingjun and Yuan Keli didn't talk much. Seeing that the beautiful Western girl beside Lu Ming had changed again, and she was also extremely arrogant, but she seemed to be more afraid of A Ming than the servant girl. Sun Jingjun and Yuan Keli no longer What does it feel like? I just know in my heart that the two of me and this "good friend" are actually far, far away from each other, and they are not in the same world at all.
"Brother Dali, there are quite a lot of opium dens here in Anshan District, right?" Lu Ming pondered, "There should be two to three hundred thousand workers in Anshan, including illegal workers. I don't know what the proportion of smokers is."
Gao Dali said: "I am a fellow countryman who is addicted. I send him to opium dens to earn some money. I can't persuade him at all." He shook his head and sighed.
"Camel brand, three forts, cigarettes and matches!" A little girl walked in from outside with a cigarette holder hanging around her neck. If the cigarette holder was fully unfolded, it would be taller than her, and it would look funny.
The lady boss at the counter tried to drive her away: "Go, go, no one is buying here."
The girl shook her head at the proprietress, "Sixth Aunt, I, let me go to the backyard to see if anyone has bought it?"
The landlady frowned and said, "You girl, today..."
"Mr. Wang is chasing me away from behind..." The girl clasped her hands and begged to the landlady, pitifully.
After hearing this, the proprietress waved her hand: "Then go to the backyard."
The girl had just gotten into the back door, and the curtain was still shaking. Outside, a buck-toothed man walked in with swaying arms, wearing a black silk shirt, carrying a box of cannons, and cursed: "The more you scream, the more you run away! I can still do it." I owe you money for cigarettes?" When the cigarette boy came in, he didn't see the cigarette boy and cursed: "Where is this little bastard Sanhong?" His eyes suddenly focused on Margaret, and his eyes lit up immediately.
Gao Dali whispered: "This is Mr. Wang, from the detective team. He often hangs around this street..."
Wang San has already staggered over. In the past, when he saw a Western beauty, he would naturally take a detour, but it is different now. What's more, what can he not afford to offend a Western woman who comes to eat in this small shabby restaurant?
"Who are you? Get your residence permit!" As Wang San spoke, his eyes were fixed on Margaret's milky, snow-white face.
Margaret turned away in disgust.
Lu Ming casually took out his work permit and waved it to Wang San, "Your surname is Wang? I am from the Montenegro Concession Security Bureau. I want to ask you something. Wang Zhengtong, do you know the man who is called Wang Ershanren?"
Wang San was stunned and looked at Lu Ming. He was dressed in student clothes. It could be seen that the other men looked strong, stupid, and students, and they all looked a little afraid of him. This was different. He saw that although he had a work permit in his hand, It had not been unfolded and was being stuffed back into the pocket, but the black mountain graphics on the blue leather seemed to be the work ID of the Black Mountain Concession.
After hesitating for a moment, he said: "I know him. That's the second uncle of my clan..."
Lu Ming nodded, "Thank you later for showing me the way. I have something to talk to him about. Let's eat now. In this way, I will open a table for you and you can wait for me while you eat." He said to the other side of the counter, "Give it to Wang. Third Brother, bring him what he likes to eat and a pound of good wine."
Wang San was a little dizzy, but as soon as he heard that he could eat and drink at will, he immediately grinned: "Okay, okay." He shouted to the lady boss at the counter: "Lao Liu's, give me some hard food! Five more sets of donkey meat on fire , I’ll pack it if you can’t eat it, and ah! That Liulianghe, give me the best one!”
