Song Tianyao ordered a dish of rice from a food stall on the side of the street in Wan Chai, but he didn't care that his suit didn't look like someone who eats this kind of coolie. He sat down and gobbled it up. He had something to do after the meal. To do it, it takes up to a few cups of coffee to conceive in your mind, but to actually do it, you need to break your legs.

A portion of rice-roasted pork was delicious and sweet, and a voice beside him said uncertainly: "Secretary Song?"

Song Tianyao raised his head while trying to swallow the food in his mouth. Not far away was standing next to him who was supposed to run errands, like a guy named Xianyushuan. His bald head was covered with sweat, and his sweatshirt was soaked. , Holding a five or six-year-old girl in her hand, seemingly also came to eat.

"Didn't I ask you to meet Gao Daocheng?" Song Tianyao straightened his neck, and after the food was completely eaten, he asked Xianyushuan, "Have you seen it?"

Xian Yushuan wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeves: "I have seen it a long time ago, and told Cheng Brother what you have said to Secretary Song. The person arranged by Cheng Brother has already gone to Chen Ji Candy Store, so I took the time to run home. Take a look at my daughter. I don’t use the fare that Secretary Song gave me. I save time to buy clothes for my wife and daughter and take my daughter down to eat something good."

Song Tianyao looked at the little girl Xianyushuan was holding in her hand. She was five or six years old. She had many patches on her clothes, but she was cleaned up. Her face was pink and her hair was cutely tied. With two croissants tied, his eyes were constantly turning between the fragrant food at the food stall and his father, and he was swallowing saliva at the throat.

"Boss, one portion of tofu fire belly, one portion of spiced rice ball, one portion of pork skin with Chinese cabbage, fried rice, more oil!" Xian Yushuan found her daughter's expression and hurriedly sweated over the busy heat. The owner of the food stall called out.

"Sit at this table and eat together." After Song Tianyao waited for the salted fish bolt to finish ordering, he pointed to his own table: "Your daughter?"

"Yes, I'm six years old this year, Xiu'er, called..."" Xian Yushuan wanted her daughter to say hello to Song Tianyao, but she didn't know what she should call her, so he stuck his head and looked at Song Tianyao.

Song Tianyao smiled: "Just call it Uncle."

"Xiu'er, say hello to Uncle." Xian Yushuan led her daughter to Song Tianyao's table, gently shook her daughter's sleeves, the little girl raised her face and said to Song Tianyao obediently: "Hello, uncle."

"Boss, give this table a soda and two bottles of beer, counted in my account." Song Tianyao first said to the boss, and then looked at the little girl named Xiuer: "Hey, uncle, invite you to drink soda. ."

"Thank you, uncle." After the proprietress of the food stall delivered a bottle of soda and two bottles of beer, this time she didn't need to tell Song Tianyao, the little girl had already said thank you to Song Tianyao: "My mother said, children can't drink soda. Yes, there will be gluttons in the stomach, and you will not grow gluttons until you grow up. Let Dad drink."

Salted Yushuan smiled awkwardly and said to Song Tianyao somewhat cautiously: "My wife rarely lets my daughter drink soda."

"Once in a while, you won't be greedy, you can let your father take a sip, he will drink after you drink, will not be worms?" Song Tianyao pushed the soda in front of the little girl and said with a smile .

"Dad drink." Xianyushuan's daughter held the soda bottle in both hands and handed it to Xianyushuan.

Salted Fish Bolt took it over and slightly stained his lips, then gave it back to his daughter: "Daddy has drunk it, you can drink it."

The child sipped the soda and stopped talking, while Xianyushuan took out a wooden cigarette case from his pocket, took out a three-to-five cigarette from it and handed it to Song Tianyao: "The cigarette case is left to Brother Cheng, and the cigarette is not willing. Pretend to eat slowly."

Song Tianyao took it and smiled: "Why do you have a wife and children, why do you want to go to the gang club, Xianyushuan, can you pick a name for you?"

"I used to sell salted fish in a stall in Kowloon. Everyone called me salted fish sticks. If you don't find a word to put the head on top of your head in that place, people are always asking for trouble. I want to live a stable life, so I entered. Fu Yixing calls the fees on time every month. I can read a few words, and I sell salted fish a lot, so I can calculate the accounts. Last year, the name was opened in an opium shop in Wan Chai, and the person in charge of collecting the money died. Seeing that I know how to settle accounts, I entered the prefix for many years and followed the rules, so I was brought to Hong Kong Island from Kowloon, and I was responsible for collecting money in the opium house and settled the accounts. Salted fish can also earn a little bit more. I thought it was a long-term errand, so I brought my wife and daughter to Hong Kong Island and rented a penthouse, but the good times didn’t last long. This year, the shareholders of the Opium House put in their hands and sent their relatives in. I just didn’t make it, and the salted fish was not sold, and it wasn’t enough to hit, so I was doing coolies at the dock. Just the previous day, Brother Richeng asked someone to help make sweets, so I was sent over."

Xianyushuan helped Song Tianyao strike a match and light a cigarette, but he didn't want to smoke a three or five, but picked the cheapest Xiaoxi cigarette, lit it in his mouth and took a sip, then said to Song Tianyao.

At this time, the boss had brought up the three-piece dish of Xianyushuan, Song Tianyao poured a glass of beer by himself, and signaled that the Xianyushuan and his daughter should eat first, and the salted fishshuan helped his daughter set half of the bowl with a bowl. Fried rice with oil, then put the braised pork belly in tofu (roasted pork, meat chunks) and the pork skin in the fried pork skin with Chinese cabbage into my daughter's bowl, and I slurped with Chinese cabbage and tofu. , The small eel ball in the middle didn't touch it.

Seeing the sweetness of the father and daughter, Song Tianyao got up and settled his meal with the salted fish, and asked the boss to make a whole piece of spiced rice eel and a piece of rice. Then he brought it back to the table. : "Your wife likes to eat rice eel?"

Xianyushuan lowered his head and was holding rice in his mouth. He saw that a plastic bag containing vegetable rice suddenly appeared in front of him, and he looked at Song Tianyao with his mouth half open.

Song Tianyao also happened to ask this sentence.

Salted Yushuan swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and smiled awkwardly: "My wife is a countryman from mainland China. She relies on water for draught, and has loved eel since she was a child. She came to Hong Kong and followed me. Life is difficult, so I rarely eat it again. When I was selling salted fish in Kowloon, I was always able to go to the rural ponds in the New Territories to fetch some eel for her. After I came to Hong Kong Island, there was not a single river, and the food sold outside was so expensive. My wife is also reluctant. She hasn't eaten it for more than a year. Today, Secretary Song rewarded him with a car ride of fifty yuan, and wanted to take her daughter out to eat a dish of rice, and then bring the eel back to my wife."

"Take this back to her to eat." Song Tianyao sat back in his seat and moved his neck.

Xianyushuan opened his mouth and wanted to refuse, but he was afraid of being praised by Song Tianyao. If he thanked him, he didn't know what to say. He scratched his head and ate all the rice in the bowl. Then he poured a gulp of beer into his mouth. Breathing out, he curiously asked Song Tianyao: "Secretary Song, would you also come to eat some dishes?"

"I’m hungry. It takes a long time to go to the restaurant to wait for food. It’s better to fill my stomach first." Song Tianyao, holding a cigarette, watched the little girl Xiuer still eating the food in the bowl with Xianyushuan and said: "I I originally wanted to go back to Taihe Street and ask someone to run errands for me. It's a fate to meet you. You have nothing to do this afternoon, right?"

"Nothing, I was going back to Boss Chen's shop to help, but Secretary Song told me that I'm not as powerful as Brother Cheng, but I can do errands." Hearing that Song Tianyao had something to prepare for himself. Yes, Xianyushuan immediately patted his chest and promised.

Song Tianyao actually wanted to go back to Taihe Street to call Shi Yehui out to help him run errands. Now that he saw Xianyushuan, he felt that it was obviously more reliable to let Xianyushuan help him. Even though Shiyehui was wearing glasses and pretending to be Master, except Apart from being honest and obedient, I haven’t found any other good points for the time being. It’s especially hateful to keep your eyes open. The salted fish bolt in front of you, although not very good with a bare head, is articulate and organized. The head, but still able to recognize his identity, will not be involved in those quagmire fights, and only do harmless work to make money for the elderly.

For this kind of smart people who really know what they should do and live peacefully and down-to-earth, as long as they are not the kind of idiots like Chen Tai who can live in peace but who are paranoid to break into the rivers and lakes to fight the world with two fists, Song Tianyao never hesitated to give He had the opportunity to improve his family environment, because although Song Tianyao did not fish out of the rivers and lakes, but the so-called secretarial road that he took was much more dangerous than the rivers and lakes road of Chen Tai. Still walking on thin ice, taking one step counts as one step, lest you get crushed if you are not careful.

"In a few days, I will say hello to Gao Laocheng to ask you not to go to the dock to start work. Likang may open a pharmaceutical factory. You can go to the pharmaceutical factory to help Boss Chen. If there are elderly people helping to take care of your daughter, your wife can also go to the factory to work. , The two of them work hard, Zhong can make more money." Song Tianyao looked at the well-behaved daughter of Xianyushuan next to him, and said to Xianyushuan.

The little girl was very sensible. Xian Yushuan picked all the meat and vegetables into her bowl, but seeing that the rice had already fallen for more than half, the meat hadn't been touched a few pieces, and it almost fell into the bottom of the bowl.

"Thank you Secretary Song, thank you Secretary Song." The cigarette ashes in Xian Yushuan's excited mouth fell off and landed on his pants. He hurriedly got up and slapped the ashes, still not forgetting to thank Song Tianyao.

"No thanks, when you send your daughter home, help me to check the information, recently there are some packaging factories in North Point doing penicillin or pas lung tablets packaging, do not go to the door and ask directly, you should ask from those workers, Just say you have a friend named Song who has tuberculosis, waiting for penicillin and pas lung tablets to help, but now these two drugs are sold out of Hong Kong pharmacies, or the price is too high, you can find out which drug store or factory recently made With this kind of packaging, see if you can buy cheap medicines." Song Tianyao looked at Xianyushuan and said, "This time it's not a message, it's going to check a news. Can you hear me clearly?"

Xian Yushuan looked back at Song Tianyao, muttered a few words, and then said, "Ming, Secretary Song wanted me to check which factory near North Point was making the packaging boxes of penicillin and lung tablets recently. An excuse to have friendship with the workers and see if you can find out."

"You are more reliable than Shiyehui's rushing on the street." Hearing that Xianyushuan could clearly state his purpose, Song Tianyao couldn't help but sighed: "After checking it out, no matter how late, go to Durex in Central. The hotel speaks Cantonese to the Indian Asan security guard on the night shift at the door. If you can understand it, I will leave some tips for him to let him pay attention to you. If you want to see Song Tianyao, he will contact me for you."

"Du Lishi Hotel, India Asan, remember." Xian Yushuan nodded heavily and said to Song Tianyao.

Song Tianyao got up from the table, ready to leave, just then.

"Secretary Song, are you here too?" A stunned voice sounded.

Shi Yehui brought those round-frame black-rimmed glasses with some daily necessities in his hand, and walked over with a smile: "Secretary Song, sister Yun is upstairs today! Are you going to see her..."

Song Tianyao lowered his head and cursed in a very soft voice: "I see your mother! This rushing to the street is born to be eye-catching. When using him, she is as invisible as his boss wife. When I have arranged it, it is like and People passed by, swishing out from the side."