Chapter Sixteen: Li Xiaoteng's Turbulent Mind

  Xuan's daily schedule is very regular. Every day at 4:00 am, he gets up and starts having breakfast at 4:30 am. At 5:30 am, it's time for political study, during which the prison heads distribute party newspapers, and everyone studies national affairs! Each person has a copy of the National Criminal Law! The book must be purchased by oneself, and it must be sold at the original price without any discount. Whether it is genuine or pirated, new or old, depends on one's integrity. Until 8:00 am, he starts his daily labor. Either making light bulbs or doing some indoor processing work that can be done in prison. Basically, every day except for meal times and study time is spent working, working, working! No wonder they call it "labor reform"!

  Beijing time, 5:30. Du Yu and Yang Yaowei were called over by the head of the gang to start their interrogation. Du Yu thought it was a good idea. He chatted with the big brother of the gang. I guess Mr. Gu is still active outside... It won't take a few days for the two brothers to be released. If this is done well, I estimate they will suffer less!

  Du Yu smiled and took Yang Yaowei to the seat of the head of the big brother. Just two steps away, a person suddenly appeared beside him, slapped Du Yu's face with a loud and crisp sound! The slap was so powerful that Du Yu almost spun 360 degrees on the spot! Yang Yaowei immediately got anxious and shouted loudly: "What do you want to do?" The little rascal who hit Du Yu spoke in a northeastern accent: "What? The big brother called you, and you dare to go over? Don't you know the rules?" Just as Yang Yaowei was about to argue back, another person rushed over from beside him. With a swift move, he punched Yang Yaowei's back with a loud thud. Yang Yaowei fell to the ground instantly.

  Taking advantage of Yang Yaowei not getting up yet, the little rascal who ambushed Yang Yaowei came up with a kick! The rest of the prisoners surrounded Du Yu and Yang Yaowei, hehe, wanting to come over and exercise their muscles.

  Du Yu quickly moved to Yang Yaowei's side, shielding him and shouting loudly: "Big brothers! Big brothers! I'm new here...I don't understand the rules, please spare me!" He glanced at the old man sitting in the head bed. Du Yu knew that the key was in the hands of the old man in the head bed. Every person who entered the prison cell would be beaten up a bit, which was a standard rule set by the old man to solidify his position as the prison boss. Every new prisoner would be beaten up, and when the old man let other prisoners beat the newcomer, it served two purposes: one was for the prisoners who were beaten at that time to vent their anger, and the other was to make the beaten prisoner respect themselves. This was a vicious cycle. No one knew when this unwritten rule started circulating, but it became an unspoken rule in prison. Fortunately, this was just the Xuanwu district, a second-level detention center, and there weren't too many things going on. If it were the Qin City Prison, there would be even more unwritten rules, and prisoners who hadn't seen women for years would naturally have to solve their physiological problems...some of the good-looking young men would be...well, let's just say that the inside story was more complicated, and the unwritten rules were darker.

  The head of the old big didn't shout stop, so naturally no one would give up the rare entertainment in the cell. But this time it seemed shorter than that time. The head of the old big shouted stop quickly. Perhaps it was the different aura on Du Yu and these prisoners, a kind of superior aura that shocked the head of the old big.

  "Alright, alright! Everyone start learning now." He pointed at Du Yu and the other person, shouting: "You two come over here!"

  Du Yu helped Yang Yaowei, who was pretending to be dead on the ground, and walked over. Du Yu saw that although the prisoners had dispersed, they were all staring at them with fierce eyes, making Du Yu and Yang Yaowei not dare to be too aggressive! Du Yu politely said to the head of the brick kiln: "Brother, hello, my name is Du Yu. This is my subordinate colleague, Yang Yaowei." Yang Yaowei, who had just been beaten up, didn't dare to show off anymore and nodded at the head of the brick kiln, calling him "brother".

  "Ha ha, you two. My name is Yao Xuxin, from the Northeast Gang in Beijing's Xuanwu district. I'm under Boss Qiao's command. I haven't committed any major crimes. Just helping Boss Qiao with some small matters, staying here for a few days. It's been about a year or so. The Xuanwu gang has given me a nickname: Yao the Eighth Blade!"

  Actually, Yao Xinxin introduced himself like this to boost his own image and tell the two in front of him: No matter what you do, I, Yao Xinxin, am also a player in this circle. Although I'm not very impressive myself, my boss is awesome. You'd better behave! But for Du Yu, it meant that you're just an anti-thunder mercenary, where can your awesomeness go?

  Yang Yawei remained silent after listening. But Du Yu understood the underlying meaning, in China, there was no real underworld, if the party wanted to eliminate someone, the leaders just had to move their lips and these people would immediately disappear. However, the leaders wouldn't really confront these social underclass people either, as long as they didn't go too far, the top leaders wouldn't look for trouble themselves.

  Although Du Yu secretly despised these people who thought they were gangsters, he knew that offending them would be troublesome in the future.

  Only then did Du Yu speak with a respectful tone, "So it's Elder Brother Yao. I'm Du Yu, the vice president of Xuan Ri Hui Teng." He immediately pointed at Yang Ya Wei and said, "This is our top trader at Xuan Ri Hui Teng!"

  Yao Xinxin looked at the two of them and said: "What business are you two in?" Du Yu secretly rolled his eyes and thought to himself: "As expected, uncultured people are really scary!" He then said: "Big brother, we're from an institution, just a company that trades stocks!" Yao Xinxin slapped his forehead and exclaimed: "Damn it! You're stock traders? Shit!" Du Yu hadn't even reacted yet when Yang Yawei's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself: "Oh no! This guy must have lost big on the stocks, is he going to hit us again?" His mind was already prepared for another beating.

  But then Yao Xun suddenly said: "So the two of you are into stocks, huh! Damn it, I bought Hua Xia Communications at 0.9 yuan and now it's dropped to 0.5 yuan, I'm losing my shirt! Can you guys help me analyze this? Can I get out of this mess? I've invested a lot of money!" He then saw the two still standing and hastily said: "Come on, come sit on my bed and talk, don't stand there talking, come on..."

  A one hundred and eighty degree turn in attitude, making Du Yu and Yang Ya Wei both a bit unacceptable!

  The two of them humbled themselves for a moment, and then sat down on the bed in the headmaster's room. Du Yu immediately said: "Big brother, you don't have to worry, Hua Xia Communications is an enterprise supported by the party and the country. Although it is a shareholding system, the major shareholder is still the government of Hua Xia! Recently, the state has issued nine articles of supervision and guidance. There are internal messages saying that the reform of equity division will be implemented soon. You can just wait patiently, and when you see the light again, I estimate that Hua Xia Communications will have split into two! In the future, if there is an opportunity, Brother Yao, you can follow us to do business. If the market is good, we will try to help Big Brother earn more, if the market is bad, we can also help Big Brother preserve his capital!"

  Yao Xuxin's heart immediately felt better upon hearing this. He promptly shouted: "Second shop, move Du Yu brothers' bedding forward and give them three beds! Xiao Liang, you guys move backward!"

  Yang Ya Wei looked at Du Yu and was surprised that he had just bragged his way through, even upgrading the treatment of his two brothers. In his heart, he secretly admired Du Yu's ability to talk nonsense. He could still see more than 200 million? It's really amazing. However, he still greatly admired Du Yu's quick thinking and adaptability! He thought to himself that he had been doing business all day and had become foolish, and he really needed to learn from President Du!

  The treatment has improved, but the indoor labor reform activities arranged by the prison heads still need to continue. The two of them directly changed from financial industry workers to manual laborers. At this time, what they thought about most was hoping that General Gu would hurry up and bail them out!

  These two days, Li Xiaoteng has been feeling quite depressed and anxious. He had thought that he could use the bank's credit card to cash out and make a big profit! At that time, he would apply for two more credit cards, and the money for betting would also be available. The funds for expanding his hot pot business would also be available. However, he did not expect that the trouble of applying for a credit card would exceed his expectations. He couldn't help but think that he had thought things were too simple.

  For this matter, Li Xiaoteng specially ran a circle around the four major banks of China Agricultural Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank, Construction Bank, and Bank of China. The financial managers of these four major banks heard that Li Xiaoteng had no fixed job, and they didn't even give him a credit card application form, directly telling Li Xiaoteng... he couldn't get a credit card.

  Li Xiaoteng was quite anxious, but Manager Dong, the professional manager of Dongxing Restaurant, was even more anxious. Recently, business has been getting worse and worse. The boss was detained in Macau with an uncertain fate, while the boss's wife had returned, but recently she seemed to be constantly scheming something...

  The boss's wife has another small story. Worth mentioning: the boss's surname is Jiang. She was a girl from a rural area in the Central Plains. In order to get a household registration in Beijing, she used all her strength at that time and married the boss who was 20 years older than her. The boss of this Dongxing Restaurant was a native of Beijing, and every day he thought about eating, drinking, and having fun. Even the Eight Banners sons from ancient times who carried bird cages were not as comfortable as the boss of Dongxing Restaurant. He rarely returned home normally. In the past two years, he was also hooked on gambling by his friends. Business was naturally neglected. It all relied on the boss's wife to take care of it alone, but she was a rural woman who hadn't attended school much, and she didn't know how to manage a restaurant well. However, this rural girl knew that she wasn't capable, so she could find someone to manage it. After attending recruitment meetings, they finally found the current Manager Dong. It can be said that she has the ability to govern people.

  But as for the things in Old Jiang's family, basically all employees of Dongxing Restaurant know about it. Everyone also thinks that working here is just a temporary job and won't do it well. A good location like Dongxing Restaurant, with a very good geographical location, can't even make money. Fortunately, there is such a good location, which has a slight surplus, and it's not closed down yet.

  The boss was taken away, but the boss's wife wasn't thinking about how to rescue him, she was thinking about how to transfer assets and cash out! How can things get any better than this?

  Manager Dong was thinking anxiously about the boss's family affairs and the poor business of the store. Indeed, he himself had no power to change the current situation. Fortunately, there were Li Xiaoteng and Zhao Baozi's spicy hot pot stall, which could slightly boost the popularity of his own store.

  Although the popularity is driven, but the quality of the dishes in the store really can't satisfy the customers' taste. Looking at the many diners in the night market, they occupied a seat and ordered some spicy hot pot, but then ran to another stall to buy cold dishes and snacks. Manager Dong's heart was naturally very uncomfortable!

  Manager Dong was secretly sulking and worrying about his future when he saw Li Xiaoteng rush into the store, shouting at him: "Dong Ge, let's go! Take advantage of the fact that there are not many customers now. Come and keep me company for a couple of drinks!"

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