"Dad, is the family area far from here?" Liu Jun carried his father on his back towards the gate of Jiangnan Machinery Factory. The mute was still walking with two camphor wood boxes and not squinting.

Tian Xiuhua was holding a wicker chair but looking around. She was very angry that the driver of the red taxi was robbing customers. People in the city made money without conscience. She wanted to get angry at the driver, but because Liu Jun was present, she

She didn't dare to "make mistakes", she had to maintain the image of a good woman in front of Liu Jun.

"I don't remember either. It turns out that the factory entrance is not so grand and there are not so many high-rise buildings in the factory. I'd better go to the guard room and ask." Liu Dekui said.

Liu Jun carried his father on his back to the factory guard room and asked the old man guarding the door. The old man didn't know who the Hu Lanping Liu Dekui was talking about, so he gave the name of Hu Lanping's husband Duan Housong, but he didn't recognize him either. The old man suggested that they go to the family area.

Go and have a look.

No wonder the doorman didn't know Hu Lanping, who was married to Jiangnan Machinery Factory. This machine factory makes aircraft parts. It is a branch of a subsidiary of China Airlines in Jiangnan City in the south. There are as many as 50,000 people in the entire factory area. She died.

There are two brands, one is the old brand of Jiangnan Machinery Factory, and the other is the brand of Jiangnan Branch of China Aviation Industry Corporation. The factory is a big one and covers an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of acres. It is the city within the city of Jiangnan City. This is what Liu Jun and Lao Shiba later became friends with.

I only found out about it when my uncle Duan Housong was drinking together.

Aunt Hu Lanping and uncle Duan Housong were both extremely ordinary old workers in the machinery factory. Naturally, the doorman could not know where Liu Jun's aunt lived, so he had to go to the family area first as the doorman told him. If the director of the machinery factory or the

The director of the factory police station or some other well-known person must be well known to the guard.

"There are two family areas, one is the new area and the other is the old area. The two residential areas are separated by a road. Go forward 500 meters to the intersection with the traffic lights, then turn left and go all the way to the end. It is about three or four kilometers.

If you look like this, you can walk to the family area." Seeing that he was visiting relatives from the countryside, the guard explained quite enthusiastically.

Liu Jun said: "Dad, it's better to call and ask."

"Okay." Liu Dekui said to the doorman, "Sir, can you borrow a phone? I haven't been here for many years. May I ask where my aunt lives?"

"No problem, you can call." The guard moved the phone.

Liu Jun carried Liu Dekui on his back and entered the guard room. Liu Dekui pressed a few numbers and the call came through. It was already seven o'clock in the evening. His sister, brother-in-law and his family must be home from get off work.

"Pingping, this is Dekui. I'm calling you from the factory gate. Where do you live? I brought Ajun over." Liu Dekui heard a lot of noise on the phone, and there were sounds of banging and banging things.

.

"Brother, someone is coming to my house. It's not convenient to stay now. You can stay at the Jiangnan Guest House next to the factory gate. Housong and I will pick you up tomorrow morning." Hu Lanping's voice was urgent and a little hoarse.

"Pingping, you...okay." Liu Dekui shook his head helplessly, feeling like he was relying on someone else. He didn't expect that he had traveled thousands of miles to join his sister, but he didn't even enter her sister's house.

Liu Dekui asked Liu Jun to carry him to the Jiangnan Guest House in front of the factory. He said that his aunt's house had guests coming tonight and couldn't accommodate them. His aunt would come to the guest house to pick him up tomorrow morning. Liu Dekui, who was anxious, ignored the background sound of banging things on the phone.

I didn't even realize what happened at my sister Hu Lanping's house.

That was all. Liu Jun had just left the bathroom with his father on his back when he heard a ringing sound in the guard room, and the guard shouted loudly: "Hey, your relatives have called."

"Ajun, please answer." Liu Dekui was too embarrassed to answer his sister's call again. He was also a man who wanted to save face. This call was undoubtedly made by his sister who felt sorry for her elder brother and called back to invite the family to stay.

"Auntie." Liu Jun took the receiver and called out cordially. In his impression, his auntie was an amiable person. Although he had never met her, his father took him to the village committee Tian Xiuhuakai when he was a child.

While making long-distance calls at the canteen, I talked to my aunt several times on the phone. Her aunt always greeted her with short greetings, which moved Liu Jun very much.

"Auntie, you mother, hurry up and bring one hundred thousand yuan to redeem this person, or you can break Duan Qixiao's legs." A rough, no, rough voice on the phone was very arrogant.

Before Liu Jun could react to what was going on, he heard a familiar female voice. His aunt's voice was hoarse on the phone: "Ajun, please don't come over. Xiaoxiao owes them a gambling debt. If you can't pay it back, you will be beaten if you come."

, don’t come over.”

"Fuck you, fuck me." The rough male voice on the phone grabbed the receiver and sneered, "Ah Jun, just one sentence, bring the money to redeem him as soon as possible, I'll wait here."

"Hey, hey, hey..." The phone hung up, and Liu Jun's face suddenly became clouded.

"Ajun, did your aunt ask us to go home?" Liu Dekui, who was lying on Liu Jun's back, couldn't see Liu Jun's gloomy face. The background sound of the phone was so noisy that Liu Dekui, with the anxiety of seeking refuge with relatives and friends, simply couldn't

Didn't think the worst.

"Auntie, put down the chair. The phone signal was not good just now. I didn't hear clearly where my aunt lives. I have to ask." Although Liu Jun's heart was turbulent, he pretended to be extremely calm and carried his father out of the guard room.

Tian Xiuhua and Mute had been waiting outside the guard door. They didn't know what Liu Dekui and his son were answering the phone. Tian Xiuhua put the wicker chair away and scanned around, thinking about what kind of business should be done quickly after arriving in the big city.

Get rich.

Liu Jun hugged his father on the wicker chair, walked to the phone again, explained a little to the guard, closed the door of the guard room, and called back.

After dialing for a while, the call got through, but no one answered. Liu Jun was so anxious that he was sweating. Something happened to his aunt's only son, Duan Qixiao, who was his cousin. Someone came to the house to collect debts and wanted 20,000 yuan.

Redeeming a person is not an easy matter. Whether it was his cousin who really caused the trouble or someone was coercing him. Without seeing the person involved, Liu Jun couldn't analyze the reason.

But Liu Jun analyzed the sound of smashing things he heard on the phone and estimated that his cousin was provoked by a group of ruthless people. The house was smashed and he was forced to pay 100,000 yuan before he could stop, otherwise he would interrupt his cousin.

legs.

As soon as I got off the train, I met a taxi driver who was ripping off passengers. Before I got to my aunt's house, I received a call that my cousin Duan Qixiao was being blackmailed. What on earth is wrong with the people in this city? Are they living without conscience just for money?

?

Liu Jun dialed the phone again and got through. This time he answered the phone. It was a rude male voice again. It was the same person who said harshly that he would break Duan Qixiao's legs if he didn't get 100,000 yuan: "Cousin, I will change now."

Here’s an idea, you rush to Jiangnan Teahouse immediately, at ten o’clock, if you don’t see the money, you won’t be able to see anyone.”

"No problem, let your cousin answer the phone. Hey, hey, hey..."

After the man finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Liu Jun was so angry that his mouth was filled with smoke. He called back and got a busy signal. It was obvious that the phone number at his aunt's house had been disconnected by the thugs. Liu Jun still couldn't confirm whether his aunt's house lived in the new district.

It is still a factory-family area in the old district.

"Uncle, do you know where the Jiangnan Tea House is?" Liu Jun asked the doorman anxiously.

"Jiangnan Teahouse is a bit far away. It's opposite Gate 2 of the company's test flight area." The doorman replied.

"How long does it take to take a taxi?" Liu Jun looked up at the blue quartz clock hanging on the white wall in the guard room. The hands pointed to 7:45 pm.

"The test flight area must be in the outer suburbs. It takes an hour to take a taxi from here." The guard's eyes flickered and he asked curiously, "Hey, aren't you going to the family area? Why are you going to Jiangnan Teahouse again?"

Liu Jun realized something and asked politely: "Uncle, I have a friend waiting for me at the Jiangnan Teahouse. It's my first time in the city and I don't know where the teahouse is? Do you want to drink tea?"

The guard nodded, shook his head, and said seriously: "This is a place where we are drinking tea and talking about things. Did someone in your family get into trouble?"

"Well, there is something wrong. Uncle, how do you know?" Liu Jun faced the guard sincerely.

"I'm guessing. I've never been to Jiangnan Tea House. I just heard that it is run by Jiang Haofeng, the son of the boss of our aircraft company. Whenever someone can't solve something, you can go there and talk about it. It can always be solved.

There is a happy ending." Seeing Liu Jun's gentle manner, the guard told him in detail what he had heard.

"What kind of things will be settled? Is it a debt that cannot be repaid, or a dispute that cannot be resolved? Why go to the teahouse? Aren't there courts to judge disputes?" Liu Junyi

There are several questions at once. I need to find out the reason why I went to the Jiangnan Teahouse first, so that I can have the money to ransom the person with confidence.

"I'm not very clear about this. Anyway, it's something that can't be settled. Like the debt you said you can't repay, the hospital misdiagnosed someone who died, you can't appeal to anyone, etc. You can go to Jiangnan Tea House and say, someone will receive you, Jiangnan

There is a saying in teahouses called civil courts. Nothing can be settled in the teahouse. It is said that the owner of the teahouse, Jiang Haofeng, is very wild." The guard looked mysterious.

"Uncle, thank you." Liu Jun finally understood. The so-called Jiangnan teahouse is just a place where black and white people resolve their disputes. There were many places like this in the old society. I didn't expect that there are such places in big cities now.

It seems that the People's Court is worse than a private teahouse in the eyes of the public.

From the explanation of the guard, Liu Jun could roughly guess that his cousin Duan Qixiao, as an employee of an aircraft company, owed gambling debts and could not repay them. He wanted to get rid of the coercion of the man who owed gambling debts, so he proposed to go to Jiangnan Teahouse to talk about the matter.

, let the teahouse owner administer justice or provide a guarantee, and the teahouse will collect part of the guarantee money to make profits.

Liu Jun looked at the quartz clock in the guard room again. It was almost eight o'clock. After settling his father in Jiangnan Guest House, he took a taxi to Jiangnan Teahouse. There was still enough time.

"Dad, there are many guests coming to my aunt's house. We really can't accommodate them. Let's check in at the Jiangnan Guest House first. It was my aunt who called me just now and asked me to explain to you. Don't be angry, dad. My aunt will come to pick you up tomorrow morning." Liu

Jun left the guard room and comforted his father.

Liu Dekui and his party followed the direction pointed by the guard and walked two to three hundred meters to the Jiangnan Guest House. This guest house is an employee guest house open to the public at Jiangnan Machinery Factory. The accommodation conditions are good, clean and hygienic, and the price is cheap. It has a three-person room.

Just 1 yuan a night.

One night's stay cost 1 yuan, and Liu Dekui felt distressed again, thinking that he must rent a house nearby tomorrow, so that he could save a lot of unnecessary money.

After settling down with his father in the guest house, Liu Jun lied to his father, saying that it was his first time in the city and he couldn't sleep for a while. He wanted to go shopping nearby with the mute Xiao Li and come back later to let Xiuhua

My aunt will serve my father to eat something first.

Liu Jun and the mute left the guest house, briefly explained the situation to the mute, and asked with concern: "Ali, I'm afraid it will be bad if you go to the teahouse, are you afraid?"

The mute smiled honestly, shook his head, and waved his fist again.
Chapter completed!