Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 666 Three-Year Agreement

The sun was setting in the west, the sky seemed to be getting dark, and there was still a fiery breath in the wind.

Li Jiankun carried two bottles of Maotai, two tubes of malted milk, and caramel-flavored biscuits packed in iron boxes. After leaving the courtyard, he first sent Miss Shen to the tavern.

She didn't know what would happen when she went to the Shen family, so it was best for her not to be there, so as not to be caught in the middle.

The activities in the tavern haven't started yet, and it's the time to welcome guests. The guests will take advantage of this time to order drinks and snacks, which is the busiest time. Shen Hongyi refused Li Jiankun's intention to send her to the storage room to rest, and insisted on going into the bar to help.

Li Yunshang looked at Miss Shen and then at his brother's posture. His heart was shuddering. He walked out of the bar, pulled his brother aside, and asked in a low voice: "Going to Shen's house?"

"Well, staying here all the time is not an option. Some things have to be discussed in person."

"I'm afraid it won't be easy."

"It's okay. Since I plan to go there, I'm ready."

Li Yunshang said nothing more, and patted his brother's arm with some distress to comfort him.

After leaving the tavern, Li Jiankun entered the Yanyuan Garden from the south gate without riding a bicycle in the increasingly dark night, planning to go around to the east gate and then go out, so as to be closest to Shen's house.

Yanyuan is relatively quiet during the summer. Most of the windows in the low-rise buildings in the dormitory area are dark, with scattered lights dimming the night.

The quiet atmosphere and familiar territory made Li Jiankun's mind pop up with every detail of his past life here like a slideshow. Sometimes the corners of his mouth were raised, sometimes slightly curled, and sometimes he showed a bitter smile that was "unbearable to look back on".

There was a faint sound of chanting in my ears.

Li Jiankun followed the sound and found that at a bright window on the first floor of the dormitory building in front of him, a shadow with braided hair was "crowded" by the dim light. He walked forward, stopped at the window, and looked sideways:

A girl with a ponytail is sitting at the small table next to the window sill, engrossed in "gnawing" a thick English book. Next to her is a national aluminum lunch box with two yellowed steamed buns on the lid. One was half eaten, and the lunch box was filled with almost bottomless water.

The girl's slightly sallow face was obviously malnourished.

When Li Jiankun walked to the window, she didn't even notice it. "Hey!"

The girl looked up in shock and was shocked to find a tall and handsome man poking outside the window.

Li Jiankun smiled gently, took the caramel-flavored biscuit in the iron box, and passed it through the gap in the rusty iron window. "Here, you work so hard, you deserve a reward. I am your senior."

The girl had no intention of accepting it at first, even though the high-end biscuits in iron boxes made her mouth salivate unspeakably. It wasn't until the word "senior" fell in her ears that she subconsciously raised her skin as thin as a chicken's feet. He held it with both hands, with a friendly and well-behaved smile on his face.

She could see that this senior had graduated a long time ago and was now a prominent figure, and a box of cookies was nothing to him.

This is the love and care from the seniors, which is very heartwarming.

"Thank you, senior. Which class are you in?"

"The seventy-seventh session."

"Wow!"

The girl's eyes were full of respect. In the first year after the college entrance examination was resumed, with only two months of preparation time to be exact, those who could get into Peking University were probably the smartest people in the country.

"Let me ask you a question, why do you study so hard?" Li Jiankun stopped smiling and looked very serious.

Seeing this, the girl also restrained her smile and replied seriously: "First of all, I want to change my destiny. Secondly, of course, I want to study for the rise of China!"

Li Jiankun stared at her, this was indeed her true inner thought.

Unlike later generations, "Reading for the Rise of China" is more of an empty slogan that is only shouted at certain exciting moments.

These days, people are full of this enthusiasm and overflowing with this ideal.

From this perspective, it is not difficult to understand Father Shen’s stubbornness.

"Senior?" Seeing him waving away, the girl leaned towards the window sill. She actually wanted to talk to him more.

"Come on." Li Jiankun made a gesture.

That box of biscuits was originally brought to Zhuangzhuang, so it doesn’t matter, I’ll just buy it next time. Without further delay, Ms. Shen did not go back too late, and her family should be worried. Li Jiankun came all the way to the door of the Shen family's small courtyard.

"Clang clang clang!"

He grabbed the ring of an animal head and knocked on the door. Questions came from the courtyard, but he did not respond and continued to knock.

Squeak!

The courtyard door opened from the inside. After seeing the person clearly, Mother Shen who came to open the door was a little frightened, "Hey? Why are you here?"

"Hello aunt, I want to talk to uncle."

"This...you still..."

"Isn't the girl back?" In the lighted north wing of the hall opposite the door, Shen Xueshan turned his wheelchair and appeared at the door with the sound. After seeing the person poking at the courtyard door, his face became unhappy.

Seeing that Mars had hit the earth, Shen's mother got out of the way and Li Jiankun was able to enter the house.

The tiger-headed Shen Zhuang jumped out and hid by the wall where his father couldn't see. He winked at Li Jiankun wildly, making him gasp. No matter how much his family tried to hide it from him, he was still a sixth-grade student, so naturally he had some eavesdropping skills. He knew that his father and his sister were fighting, and the "culprit" was this guy in front of him.

If there is a road to heaven, you don't take it, but if there is no door to hell, you have to break through it. He doesn't know if this is the right way to describe it, but that's what it basically means.

Li Jiankun and Shen Zhuang had many contacts in private, and their relationship was quite close. When they crossed the threshold, they raised their hands to rub his little head.

"Hey!" Shen Zhuang sighed arrogantly.

The Shen family was preparing to have dinner, and the food was already placed on the square table in the main room, including a fried egg with green peppers, a stir-fried meat with carrots, a green vegetable with garlic paste, and a cold cucumber. It was considered a pretty good meal these days.

Mother Shen was nervous for a while. She looked at her sullen husband and then at Li Jiankun, but she said bravely: "Xiao Li, you haven't eaten yet, how about we eat something together?"

"it is good."

Mother Shen: "..."

She just said it. Shen Zhuangxin said that this big brother is so awesome, how dare he eat at the same table as my father?

Li Jiankun told Shen Hongyi that he was in the tavern and would not come back for dinner at night. After putting down the gifts, he walked over and pushed up the wheelchair and pushed Shen's father to the top of the square table regardless of how Shen Xueshan glared at him.

While Shen's mother was carefully serving the meal, Li Jiankun opened a bottle of the Maotai he had brought. Shen Zhuang wanted to see what he was going to do, so he brought two white porcelain wine cups. Li Jiankun poured two cups, one cup was placed on the table in front of Shen Xueshan, and the other was placed in his arms.

After Mother Shen served the meal, she looked around and said, "Then... let's eat?"

Li Jiankun raised his chopsticks, put a piece of cold cucumber into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and said with a smile, "Auntie's craftsmanship is really good."

Mother Shen: "..."

Shen Xueshan: "???"

He actually started to eat it and didn't regard himself as an outsider.

"This glass of wine is to make amends for what happened to my father." Li Jiankun drank the glass in one gulp.

"Humph!" Shen Xueshan felt angry when he mentioned the old gangster.

"For the second glass of wine, uncle, you have to drink it first, and I will accompany you. We are both guilty."

Shen Xueshan's anger surged fiercely, and he was about to start spraying, but he couldn't stop the words that came to his mouth. He wanted to hear what crime he had committed.

"Dang!" After finishing a glass of wine, the wine cup hit the table heavily.

After Li Jiankun had a drink with him, he said quietly: "We all know that Hong Yi really wants to work at the Beijing Youth Newspaper, just because I want to come back to this job, and you are not allowed. And because of this incident on my side, Let there be conflict between you father and daughter."

He paused, looked at Shen Xueshan and continued:

"Uncle, do you know what situation you and I have pushed Hong Yi into? If she doesn't listen to you, she will hurt you. If she ignores my good intentions, she will hurt me. And you should know better than anyone else that she What a kind girl she is, she would rather wrong herself than hurt anyone."

Shen Xueshan frowned.

Mother Shen wiped her tears secretly, isn't that what happened?

"I know you don't accept me from the bottom of your heart, but there are some things I have to explain."

Li Jiankun picked up the wine cup, held it in his hand without drinking, and said slowly:

"Let me talk about my family and my father first. My eldest brother is a cadre and is the leader in the county; my sister is now in the capital. She is a rural girl. She didn't study much when she was a child. She can only work as a self-employed person. The business is very good and she is very popular; I The younger sister is a bit naughty and is still studying; my mother is a rural woman who is very good at quarreling, but no one from far and wide will say anything bad about her, and the reason why she quarrels with others is because she wants to protect my father..."

Shen Xueshan was shocked, that second-rate guy still needs protection?

"My father is indeed a bad person, but he is bad and can never be bad. He has always been bullied in our brigade. Don't say you don't like him, even I don't like him, but there is no way, he is my father after all, and He is also good at something and can always please my mother."

Shen Xueshan snorted coldly: "I think you have learned from him!"

Li Jiankun did not deny it either. "Back to me. You have always thought that I am not doing my job properly, but have you ever thought that maybe your ideas are not very open? There is something I didn't want to say. Since the matter is so tense, I can only say it to Please listen..."

This happened just a while ago, when he went to that mysterious place and met the old man.

As soon as these words came out, not to mention the Shen family were stunned, even Shen Zhuang took a breath.

"You think I will believe it?!" After regaining his composure, Shen Xueshan yelled angrily, almost bluffing him as if telling a story.

If the old man has seen this kid and expressed support for what he did, it will undoubtedly prove that there is indeed something wrong with him.

However, there is no such possibility!

Just kidding, why should he?

"I'm just stating a fact."

"But no one can prove your so-called fact."

Shen Xueshan said angrily: "You can say that I am not open-minded and have problems, okay! Who wouldn't brag? If you can come up with something I can see, such as... newspapers, People's Daily! If people I commended you Li Jiankun by name, saying that you are a good comrade, and that it was right for you to ignore your work assignments and go do business on your own. I will apologize to you immediately, and..."

There was something strange in Li Jiankun's eyes. He turned his head to the side, raised his ears, and waited for the next words.

Shen Xueshan gave him a sharp look, with an attitude of "So what if I just leave my words here today", and said loudly: "And I will no longer stop you from having sex with my daughter."

"Okay!" Li Jiankun tapped the table, thinking that this was what he was waiting for.

People praise?

It was hard for him to tell Shen Xueshan. He had already gone to the People's Daily twice. One time was to organize an investment meeting for the then Zhongguancun Plasma Service Department, and the second time was about Huadian's preferential treatment of employees. They all praised him, but they didn't praise him deliberately.

"Then we have made an agreement. Now put all conflicts aside. Don't make things difficult for Hongyi anymore. Give me some time and I will send the newspaper praising me, Li Jiankun, to you."

"I'll give you three years at most!"

Shen Xueshan has a plan in mind. He feels that his daughter has just graduated and entered the society. She is not very mature yet. She is twenty-two years old and will be twenty-five in three years. As a college student cadre, judging from the situation here in the capital, getting married is just right. .

Why three years?

Li Jiankun was so happy that he picked up the wine cup and stretched it over. Shen Xueshan interrupted his movements and said, "Wait a minute, I haven't finished speaking yet."

Li Jiankun put down his wine cup and pretended to listen carefully.

"If you can't do it within three years, you must take the initiative to stay away from my daughter and never pester her again. Do you agree?"

Li Jiankun frowned. He didn't like this condition very much, but Shen Xueshan's tough attitude told him that if he didn't agree to this, all the above would be in vain.

"I agree."

Boom!

The two wine glasses touched each other.

Shen Zhuang added the lines and said: "A gentleman's words are hard to follow!"

(End of this chapter)