Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 811 Test

Xiao Fu, who was standing to the side, forgot all about the car and listened in stunned silence. He couldn't help but ask, "Brother, you're building so many buildings, are you going to sell them later?"

Xiao Wei said, "Some of the buildings in Fengtian are for sale, while the ones outside are for our own use and not for sale. They are all office buildings."

Xiao Fu pointed to the headquarters building: "It's so big!"

Xiao Wei said, "The ones outside are all bigger than this. This is the smallest one. It's only two mu. Xidu has a hundred mu, and the ones in Xingcheng have more than twenty mu."

Xiao Fu asked, "Then how are you going to get the money back? We've already spent over 100 million, almost 200 million. How much money do you have left to keep building this?"

Xiao Wei said, "Didn't you see that row of buildings next to the police station before you came? You can travel all over Fengtian, all those buildings belong to me. Those are for sale, that's how I make money."

Xiao Fu was surprised again, but his face showed a proud expression. He was feeling quite proud in front of his buddy, so he asked, "Brother, how many did you build? Are you selling them?"

Xiao Wei thought for a moment and said, "More than 30 buildings were built last year, and they're still building this year. In total, there must be at least 70 or 80 buildings."

Xiao Fu asked, "How much can I get for it?"

Xiao Wei chuckled and said, "It should sell for a lot, a few hundred million, right? What's up?"

Xiao Fu said, "That's awesome, bro. I'll come work for you. I'll do whatever you tell me to do. I promise I'll be obedient."

The old lady's face lit up with joy, and she was about to speak when the old man pulled her back.

Xiao Wei shook his head and said, "Not now. I don't really trust you. You need to be reliable and able to endure hardship, and you don't have either of those qualities. Didn't you want to go and make big money with others?"

Xiao Fu twitched his face and said shyly, "What big money? Compared to you, it's not even worth a car wheel. Brother, I'm not kidding you, I can definitely do it. Let me work with you. If I go back on my word, you can slap me across the face, and I promise I won't fight back."

Xiao Fu's face contorted in disgust: "Brother, dear brother, really, I can do anything but farming, I'm just not cut out for it."

Xiao Wei looked Zhang Fu up and down a few times: "Anything is fine?"

Zhang Fu nodded: "Anything is fine, as long as it's accurate."

Xiao Wei said, "Okay, I'll trust you this once. The old folks are here to witness this. Consider it a test for you. Let me make this clear from the start: if you don't pass, you can leave. You'll be served food and drink whenever you come back. Don't bother me with anything else."

Zhang Fu rubbed his hands excitedly: "Okay, bro, tell me what you want me to do?"

Xiao Wei thought for a moment and said, "You can go with the delivery truck first. It'll be moving goods, like cakes and bread, nothing too heavy. You'll deliver according to the orders, check the quantities, and reconcile accounts. Any discrepancies will be deducted from your wages. Can you handle it?"

Zhang Fu was a little disappointed, but he gritted his teeth and nodded, saying, "Yes, I can definitely do it well."

Xiao Wei said, "Let me tell you, when you go to work, you can't argue or fight with anyone, and you can't tell anyone I'm your brother, understand? You're just an ordinary person working here to earn a living, get a salary, understand?"

Zhang Fu licked his lips, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded and said, "Okay."

The two boys who came with Zhang Fu were practically reaching out with their eyes, staring expectantly at Xiao Wei. Xiao Wei smiled and said, "If you want to work, come on over. Tell your families when you get home, bring some daily necessities, and you'll stay in the dormitory and eat in the canteen. But if you're going to work, you have to work hard. Once you're in the factory, you're a worker, and you have to obey orders. I don't care who your friends are then."

The two guys nodded vigorously.

A smile crept onto the old man's lips. He'd spent so much time working with Xiaowei, putting in a lot of effort for his son. After all, the boy was still a young boy with limited perspective, but he'd managed to keep him in check. Now it was time to see how he could gradually reform him. It was a great relief to him.

The two boys asked Zhang Fu, "Xiao Fu, are we going over there too?"

Xiao Fu said, "We have to go back to get our things anyway, so let's go and make one last profit."

The old man asked, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Fu said, "Pagers, I promised the boss I'd bring back ten pagers. I'll make thirty yuan per pager, that's three hundred yuan."

The old man frowned, and Xiao Wei said, "Weren't you planning to come and work for me? Why are you using a pager? Didn't I tell you that's illegal?"

Xiao Fu chuckled and said, "This is the last time. I already promised them, and it would be awkward to face them if I didn't do it."

The old man said, "What's so hard about you being unapproachable? Who do you think you are? Didn't you hear your second brother say that's illegal?"

A fleeting look of impatience crossed Xiao Fu's face. He licked his lips and said, "Dad, you don't understand. This kind of thing is everywhere now. If it's illegal, why would so many people do it? It's just a quick buck, three hundred yuan a month. If the three of us split it, we each get a hundred. Don't you want to waste it? I'm telling you, I promised you I'd come and work with my second brother. I definitely will, so don't worry, okay?"

The old man looked at Xiao Wei, who said, "I don't care. Go ahead and do it if you want. But let me make this clear: don't come looking for me if anything goes wrong. I definitely won't help. If you're fined, you pay the fine; if you're detained, you go to detention; if you're sentenced, you go to a labor camp. I definitely won't lift a finger. Don't blame me then, old man."

The old man said, "Fine, then I won't bother with you anymore. Why should I pick on you? You got the blisters on your own feet; who can you blame later?"

Then the old lady said, "Fu, why don't you not go? Our family doesn't need your hundred yuan."

Xiao Fu said, "Oh my god, don't get involved! It's okay. I'll go back and pack up and come right over. Just you wait and see. Oh, and give me a hundred yuan, I'm out of money."

The old man said, "Do you think money falls from the sky or comes from a strong wind? A factory worker only earns three or five hundred a month and has to support a family, while you just stretch out your hand and open your mouth and say a hundred. How many hundred this month? Aren't you out there earning money? Where's the money? You spend it so freely, are you some kind of tycoon?"

Xiao Wei glanced at Xiao Fu, sighed, and turned to go back into the house. This child is so disappointing, hopeless.

Although the old man moved his family here, he didn't transfer his household registration. Xiao Wei understood that this was to leave a way out for Xiao Fu. If things really didn't work out in the future, at least he would still have a house and land in the countryside and be able to survive. If he really became a Fengtian resident, the child would starve to death.

Xiao Fu didn't stay here either. He took fifty yuan from Aunt Ji and ran away. It's fifteen miles from here to the train station, and he knows how to take the bus.

Fengtian Railway Station is still called Fengtian Railway Station at this time, but it will soon be renamed Fengtian South Station to distinguish it from Fengtian North Station. Then, a few years later, Sujiatun Station will be renamed Fengtian South Station, and Fengtian Station will be called Fengtian Station again. Then, a few years later, Hunnan Station will be renamed Fengtian South Station.

Anyway, the same name has been going back and forth for over a decade, to the point that even taxi drivers are confused, not knowing which station the South Station should actually be, or whether Fengtian Station is actually called Fengtian Station. People miss their trains every day because of this one South Station.

Putting Xiao Fu's matter aside, Xiao Wei drove Xia Maosheng's older sister to the mall to look at store counters. Since she wanted to sell clothes, it was the simplest thing to do at the moment; she could just reserve a counter and source the goods from Wu'ai.

(End of this chapter)