"Brother Yan, why don't you ask me if I did Wang Yang's death?"

Li Futu quickly returned a toast, and then looked at Yan Donglai, who had not said a word about the case from beginning to end, and asked.

Yan Donglai put down the wine glass and said with a free smile: "If Brother Li is willing to speak, he will naturally speak, why should I ask more." ”

Li Futu was silent, and then refilled the wine glasses of the two of them, but he didn't rush to raise his glass.

Looking at the dazzling array of exquisite dishes in front of him, he said calmly: "Brother Yan, why do you spare no effort to help me?"

"To be good to others is to be good to yourself. ”

Yan Donglai pinched the wine glass and said slowly: "Why don't you help me?" I have always wanted to deal with the Wang family, but I was afraid of some things, so I didn't do it for a long time, and Brother Li also helped me indirectly. ”

Li Futu didn't ask any more, smiled faintly and clinked glasses with Yan Donglai. Some things are enough, and it is not beneficial for both parties to ask too clearly, he believes that the reason why Yan Donglai came to help him cannot be as simple as he said, but the interaction between people is always indispensable, no matter what, at least so far, Yan Donglai has no ill will towards him.

After taking a bite of Qingjiang fish, Yan Donglai put down his chopsticks and said with emotion: "The fate of people is really wonderful, in exchange for decades ago, how did I, Yan Donglai, think that one day I can sit in the top club in the East China Sea and change cups with people......

Li Futu smiled with empathy, and when it came to the unfathomable fate, it is estimated that no one can feel it more deeply than him.

Pour himself a glass of wine and touch Li Futu, Yan Donglai, who has now dominated the party, still drank it all heroically, wiped the corners of his mouth, and smiled at Li Futu: "Brother Li, are you interested in hearing my story?"

Li Futu lowered his head and took a sip of wine, nodded silently, and looked like a deferential posture.

"I was born in a down-and-out mountain village in the northwest, and it's not worth bragging about when I describe my hometown, but that's the way it is. When I was in school, from elementary school to junior high school, I had to walk no less than 20 kilometers of mountain roads every day to and from school. ”

Yan Donglai smiled at the vicissitudes of life: "From elementary school to high school, gritted my teeth all the way through, most of the children of my age dropped out of school in elementary school or junior high school, no way, parents in the world, which one is a fool? Who doesn't know that letting children study more will have a way out?" But the family is poor, smashing pots and selling iron is not enough to make up for tuition, and then let the children continue to study, can really starve the whole family, I am a relatively lucky category, the family conditions are not good, but my father is notoriously stubborn, raising my mother who is crippled in the lower half of the body, and would rather go to the city to sell blood to make up for my tuition, how many years ago? That will be a penny and a dime, really mixed with blood and sweat. In this kind of environment, who dares to be lazy? Holding a book, he can't wait to eat it. ”

Yan Donglai's tone was not hurried, and when he talked about the past that seemed heavy to anyone, he always had a slight smile on his face.

A man of this age, who came through the wind and rain, did not die or have a disability, and now he is in glory, and his mentality after ups and downs is probably not much softer than steel, right?

He took out his bag and the world, lit one, and threw it to Li Futu, and then continued: "When I graduated from high school, I was anxious to wait for the notice from Northwest University, and the whole village was envious and jealous. In '85, the moment I got the admission letter, faced with more than 300 yuan in tuition, I vowed to go to the city to work during the holidays, and I had to make up these tuition fees anyway, for this, my father begged almost the whole village to borrow money, and at that time more than 300 yuan, not a small amount, how could I make it up? In the end, I didn't even get half of it, but it doesn't matter, anyway, I'm going to work in the city during the summer vacation, do more, I can always make up the tuition, right?"

Yan Donglai suddenly asked Li Futu, pinched his cigarette, and grinned.

Li Futu, who was quietly listening to Yan Donglai to tell about the old things, nodded slightly and said nothing.

Yan Donglai tugged at the corners of his mouth, pressed out the half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray, and said indifferently: "But just a few days after I got the admission letter, my mother died." Suicide. Because of a reason that makes people in the city sound ridiculous: she is afraid that because of her body, she will drag down her son who is admitted to college. Ha, what am I? What qualifications do I have to say that she did the right thing or wrong? But this feeling, I remember, but I'm afraid there is no way to pay it back in this life, at that time, I was twenty years old, after the funeral, on the day of the funeral, my father, who has always been silent about this matter, stuffed more than 100 yuan of tuition fees he borrowed into my bag, while crying, while kicking me out of the house who refused to walk alive or dead, more than 20 kilometers of mountain roads, then I really didn't feel pain, just thinking that his old man kicked me all the way, will I be tired? When I was sent to the car, my father, who had not spoken all the way, held my shoulder in a hoarse voice and told me, "Don't be sorry for my mother." Then he turned and left, and then I swore that when I had a good future, I would throw a lot of money and build a glamorous and decent grave for her old man. ”

"In those two months, I scraped together enough tuition fees to report on my own, and for the next three years, I used all the savings I saved to start a business in my senior year, and the small business became bigger and bigger, and I got the first pot of gold in eight or eight years, and when I got married in nineties, Brother Li, how much money do you think I have?"

Yan Donglai narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked softly, but without waiting for Li Futu on the other side to give an answer, he waved his hand, calm and powerful, and said with undisguised pride: "More than eight million, isn't it very powerful?"

Li Futu lifted the corners of his mouth slightly, not knowing if it was alcohol residue or what the reason was, he only felt bitter in his mouth.

Yan Donglai's story is indeed not a good story, he nodded silently, sighing in his heart, in the era of 90 years, when he still paid attention to 10,000 households, his net worth of more than 8 million yuan was indeed very powerful.

"The big rise is followed by the big fall, the eternal law. Just when I had just allocated 600,000 yuan to send someone to build a glamorous grave for my mother, I was betrayed for the first time in my life, and in the second year of marriage, my wife, who had been secretly in love with her college days for several years, was in harmony with someone else, and made a very careful set, firmly enveloped me, and swept away almost everything from me overnight. Really, success is very accidental, failure is also abrupt, ninety-three years, I was about the same age as you are now, I thought about suicide countless times, but finally endured it, because I was afraid that I would go down there and have no face to face my mother who committed suicide for me. ”

Yan Donglai said slowly, his tone was not sad, but there was a kind of heavy sadness that made people breathless.

The bottle of Louis XIII had been killed by himself unconsciously, and the face of this powerful man who was now prominent in the East China Sea was flushed, but he couldn't stop his story, glanced at Li Futu, who wanted to speak and stopped, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, I think you are also very strange, with my current status, why haven't you found another daughter-in-law until now?"

This time there was no need for Li Futu to answer, Yan Donglai's laughter suddenly amplified, and he gave the answer.

"Because I'm disabled, I only have one kidney, and my kidney is deficient. ”

"At that time, selling a kidney was the only way I could think of a comeback, how funny? But I want to take revenge! This is ridiculous human nature, a kidney, for 200,000 yuan, is worth it. I started from scratch with these 200,000 yuan, and I was very lucky, in 98 years, when I really made a comeback and found the woman who betrayed me in Kyoto, I immediately started to take revenge without hesitation, and the result after that you can't imagine it, or is it a fiasco, is it tragic enough? So it's a good thing to miss the old love, but it's not all a good thing. It was at that time that I met my nobleman, the dog man and woman who were so powerful that I almost despaired, and under his command, all the property was wiped out almost instantly, do you know how I felt at that time? But of course my cheap life is not so valuable, the noble man spent so much to avenge me, how can my life be enough to repay this kindness. So for so many years, I have been climbing up at all costs, in order to repay the kindness of the year. ”

Yan Donglai suddenly poured himself a sip of wine, perhaps because he drank too much and was choked and coughed, he wiped the corners of his mouth, and said with scarlet eyes: "Brother Li, don't look at how glamorous my Yan Donglai is on the surface now, I know, in fact, many people secretly say that I am a slave and a lackey, but I don't care, really." In this world, I have to admit that sometimes being a dog is really better than being a human. ”

Li Futu took a sip of wine, his expression was calm, and his eyes were full of embarrassment, he didn't expect that Yan Donglai, the king of the East China Sea, who seemed to be invincible, had such a heavy past.

These 8,000 miles have come all the way, and there are not only magnificent clouds and moons on the road, but also countless bitterness and blood and tears.

Yan Donglai wiped his face, pinched the wine glass, and his face was slightly drunk, "I'm sorry, I drank too much nonsense, which made Brother Li laugh." ”

Li Futu, who listened to the whole story in silence, shook his head slightly, picked up his wine glass, and stared at this man who had a past far more magnificent than the rivers and lakes, with a look of sincerity that had never been before.

"Brother Yan, I salute you for this glass of wine. ”

Yan Donglai, whose eyes and face were red, laughed, and touched the cup with Li Futu in a bold manner.

"Respect for the years. ”

The sound was crisp, and the scarlet liquid in the cup rippled slightly, just like those past that were far away but could not be forgotten.