Li Cheng and his friends had already discussed it before they came. After arriving here, they would not discuss the deposit issue first, but instead directly invite Mr. Li to the city.
Then, they'd have a drinking contest with Mr. Li. Then, they'd chat about friendship. And then, they'd ask him to stop withdrawing money and, ideally, deposit some of it back.
This was the plan that Meng Jianghong and Li Cheng had discussed before coming here.
But Li Cheng's words "Let's eat here today" completely disrupted the entire plan.
Meng Jianghong looked at Li Cheng, her eyes asking, "What on earth are you thinking?"
Li Cheng stood up and stood in front of the window, looking outside.
After watching for a while, Li Cheng turned around and said, "Sister Meng, please sit here for a while. Dahe and I will go for a walk."
Meng Jianghong didn't want to go out and freeze. Besides, all three of them had left, and it would be a bit inappropriate for Mr. Li to not see anyone when he came back.
So Meng Jianghong said, "Well, go ahead. What's there to see in this remote place? Be careful of dogs."
Li Cheng said "I understand" and then went out with Zhang Dahe.
After getting outside, Li Cheng looked towards the village, then at the road leading to the construction site, and then walked towards that road.
Zhang Dahe didn't know what Li Cheng was going to do, but he didn't ask much and just walked side by side with him.
After walking on the bumpy road for a while, they saw a tractor coming towards them.
"Thump thump thump..." The tractor struggled to approach Li Cheng and his group, emitting black smoke.
Li Cheng waved to the man driving the tractor, and the tractor stopped. Li Cheng saw that the man driving the tractor was dressed like a local villager, so he asked him if he was working on the highway.
Seeing that Li Cheng and Zhang Dahe were both dressed very formally, the fellow villager thought they were leaders who came from somewhere to inspect the work, so he quickly told Li Cheng that he was indeed working on the highway construction site.
Li Cheng asked him again who the tractor belonged to. The man showed a hint of doubt in his eyes. Seeing this, Li Cheng asked Zhang Dahe to give him a cigarette and light it for him.
Seeing that the two men were quite polite, the fellow villager told Li Cheng that the tractor was his and that the engineering company had contracted his tractor to transport soil to the roadbed every day.
Li Cheng asked him how much the engineering company paid him per day, but the man hesitated and refused to say.
Li Chengjiu then asked him if the engineering company had paid for the tractor. The fellow shook his head and said, "The money will be paid after the end of the month."
Li Cheng nodded, said "thank you", and let him go.
The tractor rumbled away, emitting black smoke, but Li Cheng looked at the people working in the distance.
Zhang Dahe guessed that he still wanted to go there, so he said, "I'll go back and call a car."
Li Cheng shook his head and said, "The road is too bad for cars to drive on. Let's just walk. It's a rare opportunity to visit the countryside."
So, the two of them walked towards the construction site...
When Li Cheng and Zhang Dahe returned to Mr. Li's office, they saw several washbasins full of food on the table.
Seeing Li Cheng coming back, Mr. Li said, "This is how we usually eat. The conditions here are limited, so we hired a sister-in-law from the village to cook. But don't underestimate this sister-in-law, she cooks very well."
Li Cheng looked at the steaming food in the basin, smelled the aroma, and thought to himself, this is a huge amount!
Mr. Li added, "You're lucky today. Someone in the village happened to be slaughtering pigs, so I asked someone to get some."
It was cold outside, but the house was steaming hot. Li Cheng and the others couldn't help but drooling at the aroma of cooking meat.
Mr. Li was in no hurry to start eating. He looked at his watch and said, "A few more people will be here soon. Let's wait a little."
Li Cheng looked at the meat in the basin and said, "Don't worry, don't worry..."
About ten minutes later, footsteps were heard in the yard.
Mr. Li said "coming", and then someone walked into the room.
Mr. Li stood up and introduced them to each other. Li Chengcai knew that these three were Mr. Li's subordinates and were the heads of various departments. One of them was the section chief in charge of finance.
When everyone arrived, we started eating. A group of people sat down and soon filled the table.
One of Mr. Li's men had already pulled out a box of liquor from under the table. Li Cheng took a look and found that it was a famous liquor.
Although the conditions were limited, there was no shortage of drinking materials. Soon, everyone's goblet was filled with white wine.
Mr. Li's men were still opening bottles. Li Chengxin thought that these people seemed to be quite good drinkers, but even if they were good drinkers, they wouldn't drink an entire box of liquor, right?
A bottle of wine can just fill four glasses, but Mr. Li's subordinate opened four bottles of wine. Li Cheng kicked under the table and found that there seemed to be more wine under the table.
This is a strong liquor! Even if the people here can drink a lot, one bottle per person is the maximum, right?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the man who opened the bottle cap bent down and pulled out a box of wine from under the table------
Li Cheng glanced at Meng Jianghong and found that she was also looking at him. Li Cheng smiled at her and then looked at Mr. Li.
Seeing that everything was almost ready, Mr. Li pointed at the wash basins and said, "Eat, eat, eat quickly..."
After saying that, Mr. Li picked up a fist-sized bone and started chewing it...
Looking at his three subordinates, they were also eating with voracious mouthfuls, as if they were extremely hungry.
Li Cheng and the others were a little dumbfounded. They had never seen anything like this before. How could they just start gnawing on bones? Didn't they usually say a few polite words first, then clink glasses, and then drink?
Don’t follow the routine!
Seeing that Li Cheng and others were still hesitating, Mr. Li said again: "Eat it, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
Li Cheng nodded towards Meng Jianghong and Zhang Dahe, then took out a bone from the wash basin and started chewing on it.
Meng Jianghong is a woman after all, and she can't bear to do something like this.
Mr. Li saw that she was still hesitating, so he said again, "Eat it while it's hot."
Meng Jianghong picked up the chopsticks shyly, picked up a piece of food, put it in her mouth and chewed it slowly.
Looking at Meng Jianghong's reserved look, Mr. Li just smiled and continued to chew the bone.
Although Li Cheng and Zhang Dahe often ate meat and drank wine, that was only when they were drinking with acquaintances. In such occasions, they usually followed the routine.
But today, Mr. Li came up and started gnawing on the bones, and his three subordinates did the same. Li Cheng and Zhang Dahe, in line with the idea of when in Rome, do as the Romans do, simply started gnawing on the bones as well.
You know what, these bones are delicious!
Apart from the sound of these people gnawing on bones, there was no sound of dishes and chopsticks colliding in the room.
Meng Jianghong looked at the six grown men gnawing on bones and thought to herself, this is not eating at all, they are going up the mountain to become bandits!
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