A residential area near the Third Ring Road in Beijing is a very ordinary two-bedroom and one-bedroom apartment. Liu Changming got up and dressed, yawned, rubbed his sleepy eyes, went into the bathroom, brushed his teeth and washed his face. Go out of the bathroom and enter the balcony, where there are many birdcages hanging.
There are all kinds of birds. While brushing his teeth, he fed and watered the birds. Chang Ming's mother asked in the room, "What are you doing up so early today?"
Zhang Ming: Today is Saturday. I must leave early.
Chang Ming's mother: Then you should have breakfast quickly. It's on the table.
Chang Ming walked into the hall, picked up a fried dough stick and stuffed it into his mouth, then just visible returned to the balcony.
When I entered the hall again, there were three birdcages strung with a bamboo pole in my left hand and a birdcage in my right hand. Enter the hall and put down the birdcage. Pick up a glass of milk on the table and drink it off.
Chang Ming: Mom, I'm leaving.
Changming's mother: Come back early at noon. Today is mom's birthday. Your brother and sister are coming.
Chang Ming: I see.
Chang Ming went downstairs.
kerb market
Pedestrians come and go, bustling. There are birds, cats, goldfish and noise. Under the tree by the roadside, Chang Ming and Jin Dezi are sitting on a wooden cart.
Jin Dezi: Brother Ming, I sold your four parrots for ***200 yuan.
Chang Ming: Why is it so cheap?
Jin Dezi: Oh, my brother, how hard I work! I talked to the buyer for half an hour, and all the bird lessons you taught me were used. I'm talking and spitting. I'm thinking it's probably because I'm dizzy, otherwise people won't want it. Besides, this thing is becoming less and less valuable. You still keep it and bring food into it every day. ...
Two well-dressed girls walked across the street. Chang Ming gently touched Jin Dezi with his shoulder. Jin Dezi turned his face to see Chang Ming, and Chang Ming was looking intently at the front. Jin Dezi looked down Chang Ming's line of sight. Not far away, two girls walked to the birdcage that Changming hung on the tree.
Bird: Miss is really beautiful.
The two girls looked back in surprise, looking for the direction of the voice.
Bird: Miss is really beautiful.
Girl A: Hey, look! This bird said it.
Girl B: This bird is really funny.
Chang Ming and Jin Dezi came, and Chang Ming scratched his hair unnaturally.
Zhang Ming: I have this bird.
Girl A: What kind of bird is this?
Chang Ming: Starling.
Girl B: How did it learn to speak?
Chang Ming: I taught it.
Girl B: What else will it say?
Jin Dezi suddenly plugged in and took the hold.
Jin Dezi: He can talk a lot, but be happy. He just got emotional when he saw how beautiful you two were.
Girl A: Is this bird a male or a female?
Chang Ming scratched his hair unnaturally.
Chang Ming: It's a man. Like me, he is not married.
The girl's eyes widened in surprise and her pale face flushed. The two men turned around and bowed their heads shyly.
Girl A (mumbling): Let's go. Why is this person like this?
The two girls left disgruntled.
Jin Dezi: Don't go! This bird can talk a lot.
Uncle Xu flashed at them from the side with a birdcage, learning the appearance and tone of Wangsheng.
Uncle Xu:' It's not like I got married.' Who asked you? Are you crazy about your daughter-in-law?
Jin Dezi: Uncle Xu, don't be so busy at your age.
Chang Ming looked at the girl's back with regret.
Chang Ming: Still short and beautiful. Looks a bit like an actor.
Kinder: How nice the tall man's figure and legs are.
Uncle Xu: Hey, stop dreaming and wake up!
Uncle Xu put the birdcage in front of Chang Ming.
Uncle Xu: Changming, this is the bird you sold me. It's only been two weeks. Why is its head bald?
Chang Ming: Never mind. I'll prescribe some medicine for you and deliver it to your home at night.
Uncle Xu: Nothing? Then you can keep it. I want yours. (Uncle Xu points to the birdcage hanging on the tree).
Jin Dezi: Grandpa, if you ask me, you infected the bald bird, or it's fashionable. Look, it's the same as your hairstyle, haha. ...
Uncle Xu's forehead is completely bald, but the thick gray hairs on both sides make him look funny.
Uncle Xu: Don't talk nonsense. I will change this one.
Uncle Xu greedily approached the birdcage hanging in the tree.
Bird: Miss is really beautiful.
Uncle Xu looked around solemnly.
Uncle Xu: Miss? What eyes? Why not distinguish between men and women?
Jin Dezi: Uncle Xu, if you really want to take this bird home, my aunt will say you are an old fool.
Uncle Xu: Chang Ming, it's not good for you to teach him something.
Chang Ming: Otherwise, I will refund your money and give you the bird.
Uncle Xu: OK, I am Doby. Send the medicine to my house at night. Let me show you the tropical fish I just bought.
Chang Ming: OK, Grandpa, I will definitely go tonight.
Uncle Xu left humming Peking Opera.
uptown
Changming rides a bicycle with a birdcage on the handlebar. Just entering the community, he saw the fourth brother dressed in white, holding a small white dog and a red bow on his head. Changming gets off.
Chang Ming: What? Fourth brother, your dog?
Fourth Brother: Oh, Changming, long time no see (pointing to Changming) Come! Call uncle.
The puppy held its head high and barked at Changming twice.
Chang Ming's face showed a look of approval.
Chang Ming: Hey! It's beautiful. What's its name?
Fourth brother: Meimei.
Chang Ming: The name is very nice, which shows that you are knowledgeable.
Fourth Brother: Changming, why do you keep so many birds?
Chang Ming: I don't want to keep it for a long time, but I can't sell it.
Fourth brother's wife is chatting with some women who just came back from shopping, and another white puppy runs from their direction. Have fun around fourth brother.
Chang Ming: Fourth Brother, is this dog yours, too?
Fourth Brother: Well, (Fourth Brother points to Changming) Come on! Call your brother quickly.
The puppy barked at Changming with its head held high.
Zhang Ming: Hey, why does it ... why does it call me brother?
Fourth brother: Oh, I forgot to introduce her to you. She is the mother of a beautiful girl!
Chang Ming (subconsciously): Oh-
Chang Ming still felt a little embarrassed and stood there thoughtfully. Someone over there called fourth brother, and fourth brother took it and left.
Chang Ming (muttering): It still seems wrong, alas. ...
Look for fourth brother again, there is no shadow.
Unit building entrance
Changming got on the bus and took off the birdcage. A chubby middle-aged woman walked beside her, her sportswear tight on her body, doing gymnastics while walking. Her breasts are plump and covered with fat, and she trembles with her movements. I turned my head and saw Changming's portable birdcage.
Fat woman: So you have a crow upstairs? I said why I scream every morning, which makes people unable to sleep.
Chang Ming: Who said it was a crow? It can't croak.
Changming walked into the stair-door with a birdcage.
Fat woman: I'm really free. It's unlucky to raise this thing!
Liu Changming Jia
Xiaoling opened the door and Chang Ming came into the room.
Xiaoling (loudly): Uncle San is back!
Chang Ming: Xiaoling, you're here!
Xiaoling: Uncle and his family are here.
Changming went into the balcony and put down the birdcage. Walking into the living room, I saw Liang Xiao sitting on the sofa, listening to music with headphones.
Zhang Ming: Xiao Liang, what's the score of the college entrance examination?
Liang Xiao: Don't bother me, I'm bored (twisting my body and covering my headphones with both hands).
Chang Ming: What's the matter?
Xiaoling: Don't ask. Uncle is waiting for you in your room.
Chang Ming came into the room and Chang Sheng was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper. Chang Ming took off his T-shirt and turned on the electric fan with bare arms.
Chang Ming: Brother, I'm back. It's really hot today.
Changsheng put down the newspaper. Take off your glasses.
Changsheng: I'm back. Did you read the newspaper yesterday?
Chang Ming: Why?
Changsheng: It's all in the newspaper. Our factory finally built a commercial building on the original site in the city. It will open next month. I was hired as an assistant manager. I have been running the construction site and decorating for three years, so I have no time to go home. Now get your bird away and go to our unit for training. .
Chang Ming: Let's talk about it later. The loss of raising birds is too great and I want to earn it back.
Changsheng: Still want to do it? How can we make money? What should I say about you? People don't know you. Don't I know you? You are so poor that you have only one pair of underwear left. Why are you pretending to be an uncle with me? (Chang Ming quickly puts on the T-shirt he just took off) I am doing it for your own good! Last night, I made a long-distance call to Xi 'an, and I told my second child about you. He also said that if we can be together, let me take good care of you and let mom worry less. ..... Since we are three brothers, I feel that your face is still single-minded. There are no serious people in that place. Do you still want to make money there?
Chang Ming said nothing at this time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Changsheng: Are you talking?
Chang Ming: What did I say? You are my brother, not my father! It's true to scold me when we meet, mom.
Changsheng: You are such an adult, why don't you know how to be lazy? Besides, you are young, and now you have become a caged bird at sky-high prices. If you make money, put it aside. Watching the sky wandering in the street and listening to those bad old men, you will learn a lot in the future, and you will be even more unpopular. That's what I'm talking about. Think for yourself. By the way, I just saw your bird. Some of them belong to wild birds. If they are confiscated and fined, you will lose more.
Changsheng pushed the door and went out.
put through
Xiaoling entered Changming's room with melon seeds.
Xiaoling: Uncle, when will you pay me back the 800 yuan that Yuan You lent me?
Chang Ming: I'm really sorry. My uncle just changed the species of birds last month. I'll sell them tomorrow and I'll pay you back next month.
Xiaoling: OK, that's good. Next month.
Xiaoling: (timidly) Uncle, can I ask you something?
Chang Ming: What is it? Go ahead.
Xiaoling wanted to ask, so she changed her mind and said "Forget it".
Zhang Ming: You're welcome, my uncle. What happened? Ask!
Xiaoling: Why ... why don't you get married?
Chang Ming was suddenly a little confused when he heard this, and didn't know what to say at the moment. Give me a quick laugh.
Chang Ming: (pretending to be calm) Now girls' horizons are too high, and I live alone.
A door that is often pushed open.
Changming's mother: What are you two talking about? Come out for dinner.
In the living room
The table is full of rich dishes, white wine and drinks. After everyone was seated, Changsheng stood up and raised his glass.
Changsheng: Come on! Lift all the cups.
Everyone stood up and raised their glasses.
Changsheng: First of all, I wish my mother a happy birthday. Let's drink to mom. I wish you health and happiness.
They gulped it down and sat down.
Changsheng: Mom, you should pay more attention to your health. Go to the hospital if you don't feel well, and don't worry about money. Don't worry about our size.
Chang Ming's mother: I don't care about you, Changling and the second child at all. That is, if the third child can really work in your company and find a daughter-in-law, I can have grandchildren, so I won't have any higher ideas.
Chang Sheng: Chang Ming, did you hear that? Don't worry mom any more.
Changling: Brother, where is your manager?
Immortality: Outside, the surname is Yu.
Liang Xiao took a bite of the chicken leg with his left hand, and the chopsticks in his right hand kept sending food to his mouth, and his mouth was full of oil.
Changsheng: Xiao Liang, you haven't eaten for half a year, have you?
Zhang Ming's mother: Xiao Liang, why do you say that? Don't worry, eat slowly.
Changsheng: Children get heavier and heavier after entering high school, but their brains are getting more and more stupid. By the way, I forgot.
Changsheng took a letter from her pocket and handed it to Xiaoling.
Changsheng: Read it to everyone.
Xiaoling took a look, "huh?" Laughing in a low voice, I coughed twice hard to attract everyone's attention.
Xiaoling: Letter of Admission from Beijing Fan Chi University.
Chang Ming: What? Eating at the university?
Xiaoling: Be quiet. Listen (shaking his head solemnly) Liu, we are honored to inform you that you have been admitted to our school as a freshman this year. Our school has a long history and is the earliest university in China. It was founded in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty by Empress Dowager Cixi herself. Our school has been recruiting students in secret since its establishment. In order to improve the quality of students and cultivate top-notch professionals in the new century, this year, with the approval of the central government, it is the first time to try to recruit 40 freshmen nationwide.
Please come to our school for an interview at 9: 00 am on September 1 Sunday with 10 pie and 8 kg of pig's head meat.
The top three candidates with excellent interview results will receive a scholarship of RMB 30,000 each provided by the Pig Bajie Foundation. Specific interview information can be found online.
The website of our school is www.WC.RESTAURANT.COM.
Fan Chi University Admissions Office, Beijing, 200X x x x x x
Everyone choked back a smile, and Changling sniffed a lot of rice grains on the table and wiped them off shyly with a rag.
Chang: Is there really such a university? What does this university teach?
Everyone laughed.
Xiaoling: Grandma, listen to this website-toilet hotel.
Changming's mother: Huh? Bah! This must have been written by their classmates.
Changling: The students nowadays are so outrageous. How can you step on people like this?
Chang Ming: Stop laughing, Xiao Liang. I'm sorry.
Chang Ming's mother: Don't listen to their nonsense.
Changming's mother stood up and walked beside Liang Xiao, gently holding Liang Xiao's chubby chin with her hand.
Chang Ming's mother: I just like the fat strength of my eldest grandson. It's a blessing that generations of our family have produced such a fat man. Xiao Liang, I think when I married your grandfather, he was a skeleton, so he wrapped himself in a layer of skin. Later, with these children, he was reluctant to eat twenty cents of meat.
Changsheng: Mom, I can't help it.
Chang Ming's mother was a little excited, and tears hung in her eyes.
Chang Ming's mother: Since we have a good life, I will cry foul for your father. The old man has worked hard for our family all his life and raised you, but he has never lived a good life himself.
Zhang Ming's mother became more and more sad, and finally she began to cry.
Chang Ming: Hey, Mom, please stop. Today is your birthday. Don't do that.
Night show and bright room
Chang Ming sat on the sofa and made a phone call.
Chang Ming: Hey, Jin Dezi, I'm going to work. I'm going to be a manager or supervisor in my brother's unit or something.
Jin Dezi: Yo yo yo, is that true?
Chang Ming: Why is it so real? It's true! My brother is an assistant manager, and now he is worried that my bird has not been sold.
Jin Dezi: You have something to say. My buddy has nothing to say.
Chang Ming: Tell you what, let's have a big sale together tomorrow, as long as we don't lose too much.
In front of Hongmei Commercial Building in the morning.
Hongmei Commercial Building opened, colorful flags fluttered, drums and music rang, and people were crowded. Chang Ming stood on tiptoe in the crowd and looked forward. In front of the commercial building, the police and security guards form a big circle, and the etiquette ladies are arranged in a fan-shaped manner on a platform in the circle. There are leaders from all walks of life ahead.
The guests lined up. Changsheng also stood among them, and a hostess's voice came from the high voice: "Please ask the manager to cut the ribbon for the opening of Hongmei Commercial Building." Manager Yu cut the ribbon with a smile, hundreds of balloons rose, the crowd cheered, and Changming flooded into the mall with the rolling crowd.
In the commercial building, the crowds are surging and the elevators go up and down in an orderly way. Changming travels and browses between buildings by elevator.
Shopping center service desk
Chang Ming: I'd like to speak to Liu Changsheng, the assistant manager.
Attendant: Please go to the office on the fourth floor.
Changsheng office
Changsheng: You are so cautious. You just opened today. Why don't you come to the training?
Zhang Ming: I just sold the birds yesterday.
Changsheng: I didn't know whether you would come or not, and you didn't call me. Now all the seats are full. To tell you the truth, I'm too busy now. You go to the public relations department on the second floor to find Li, just say what I said, and find you something to do first.
In the public relations office
Several people are surrounding Li.
Guest A: There are three downlights flashing all the time in our department. Want to change, can't find an electrician.
Li: Go to the first floor and ask Lao Zhang to call on the intercom.
Guest B: The floor tile in front of the computer department on the fourth floor is broken, which tripped several people. The heels of women's high heels have been cut off, and now they need to be repaired immediately.
Li: It's too late now. You should let the security guards on the fourth floor fence around and watch.
Guest D: We want five female models and two male models. Now we need a male model and an empty seat. It's really ugly.
Changming stood behind them, unable to get in a word. Li suddenly turned around and saw Chang Ming.
Li: What is it, you? Say it.
Zhang Ming: Are you Li? Liu Jingli asked you to find me something to do.
Li: What is it? What did he say? Today is still free. You should go to the personnel department.
Chang Ming: He said looking for something ... anything.
Li: Well, how tall are you?
Changming: 1 m 83
Li: Hey, Lao Wang, don't you want a model? Take him away.
Lao Wang: This is ... Will this work?
Li: Yes! Don't just stand (pointing). You go with him!
Lao Wang led Chang Ming out of the public relations department.
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