Section 1 Rebellious Young Man

It’s midsummer, at 9 o’clock in the evening, when the night market is bustling, people come and go on the pedestrian streets.

Hu Pingtao sat on the small wooden stool given by the barbecue stall owner, looking at the stinky tofu on the grill that was gradually expanding by charcoal fire. He smiled bitterly on his young face, but he was more expectant.

No matter who has been hungry all day, there will be no other thoughts in your mind except food.

Luo Yu, who was sitting next to him, raised his hand and held his glasses, picked up a piece of tofu with chopsticks and put it in his bowl, and smiled and said, "Ping Tao, this piece is cooked, let's eat it first."

The night market barbecue in Yunnan Province is quite unique, especially the tofu. The tofu that is one inch square is naturally fermented and roasted on charcoal fire until both sides are browned. The dipping sauce is also very particular. Use the wet ingredients to use the crumbs, add a little salt, pepper powder, crumbled cilantro... It is fragrant and refreshing to eat it in your mouth when you are hot.

Hu Pingtao and Luo Yu are college classmates, classmates and roommates. There is no need to be polite between them. Moreover, Hu Pingtao was really hungry, so he used chopsticks to pick up tofu and dip it in seasonings, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it in big mouth.

"Eat slowly, I also ordered fried rice and beer, enough."

Looking at his greedy eating habits, Luo Yu couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "Realistically speaking, you should be the most promising among our classmates. I didn't expect...ah!"

Twenty-two-year-old Hu Pingtao has a tall figure and a thin face with a clear edge. Thanks to the physical training he has been persisting in since middle school, he looks stronger than his peers. The black T-shirt is very fit, and the blocky muscles are highlighted from the bottom of the extremely elastic fabric. There is no fat on the abdomen, and the golden ratio between the thighs and the upper body is in line with the golden ratio. The short hair makes the whole person look very energetic, perfectly interpreting all the meanings of the word "handsome".

Luo Yu's sigh made no sense. He had a good relationship with Hu Pingtao and knew very well that the other party's family background——Pingtao's father was the deputy commander of the Yunbei Military Region, and his mother was a district senior official in Zhaoshi. This guy was a perfect second-generation official.

He also has a sister, the vice president of Beitong Group, and is also one of the company's major shareholders.

"I don't understand, what are you having trouble with your family? Isn't it good to listen to your dad's arrangement to join the army? Although we are studying art, we are a serious undergraduate degree graduate with a degree certificate. We can get promoted in a few years after we get to the army. How great is it!"

Hu Pingtao swallowed the food in his mouth, felt the remaining hotness in his mouth, shook his head, and said seriously: "You don't understand."

He grew up in a military camp, and his father arranged for himself the life path of "joining the army" early. During the college entrance examination, he had a fight with his family to fill out his application. Hu Pingtao did not choose any military-related colleges, but chose the oil painting major in the Department of Fine Arts of the Yunnan Academy of Arts.

Speaking of which, this is largely because of the "quality education" that my mother chose when she was a child. English, art, music, Go... At that time, my father was not the deputy commander, nor was my district official. They were busy with work every day, and my sister got married very early. Hu Pingtao usually followed his class teacher home to do homework after school, until after dark, his mother came to pick her up after get off work.

Studying art is not a bad thing. My mother finally persuaded her to calm her father's anger and made him reluctantly accept the fact that he was admitted to the art school. But my father said first: I will join the army immediately after graduation, and I must have a son who is a soldier.

After obtaining his graduation certificate and degree certificate, Hu Pingtao brought a set of clothes to change his clothes and left his parents. He left Zhaoshi alone and came to the provincial capital.

Young people are impulsive and have a strong rebellious mentality. Hu Pingtao didn't think too much, but just wanted to make a future through his own efforts. In order to prove himself, he left his mobile phone and almost all the pocket money he had saved in his daily life, bought a train ticket and went directly to the provincial capital.

After leaving the train station, looking at the crowd of strangers in front of him, Hu Pingtao felt that he seemed to be inadequate. He only had more than 30 yuan of change when he looked through his pockets, and he urgently needed to solve the problem of eating and accommodation.

Open the phone book and find the phone number of old classmate Luo Yu.

He is a native.

"What are you going to do next?" Luo Yu handed over a skewer of grilled beef tendon and tentatively advised: "It's not a solution to spend money with your father like this. Otherwise, I'll call your home and say I'm your classmate, and tell your mother? Or call your sister."

Hu Pingtao took the bull tendon and squeezed out a reluctant smile.

He knew Luo Yu had good intentions.

But if you call this phone and your family comes here, what is the difference between this and the past? If you are sarcastic and mocked by your father after you go back, it will only make the situation worse.

The cruelty of life is that not everyone can live according to their own wishes. The first thing to solve is the problem of eating.

Must find a job as soon as possible.

Chewing the hot and hot beef tendon, Hu Pingtao fell into deep thought, and his eyes drifted with his thoughts. He was embarrassed to avoid Luo Yu, pretending to be looking at the scenery, and looked towards the side of the barbecue stall.

Sitting next to him is a girl in Hanfu, with a round face, a little baby-fat, nineteen or twenty years old. She has a light blue double-breasted skirt, and a beautiful goose-yellow border on her big red waist. There are a few skewers of barbecue on the plate in front of her, and there is a can of "Wanglaoji" with the unscrewed lid next to it.

Many people like this way of eating barbecue with herbal tea.

Next to her was a middle-aged man, tall and thin, with a tall nose bridge but not a big eyes. He wore a blue-gray jacket, and the white shirt collar was revealed in the empty space directly above the zipper. The two of them sat very close, and they looked too close from any angle.

The age difference between the two is too big. It is better to say that they are father and daughter than lovers.

Hu Pingtao raised his eyebrows, and his curiosity towards the men and women sitting next to him quickly overwhelmed his melancholy thinking. He couldn't help but prick up his ears and listened carefully to the two of them talking in a low voice.

The mobile barbecue stall at the night market is simple to set up, with several square wooden benches and plywood to form a table. The seat of Hu Pingtao is sitting just a curved corner between the man and woman, and you can see the movements of the two people and the shape of the lips.

The idiom "I hope my son will become a dragon" is most suitable for Hu Pingtao's mother. Thanks to being taken by his mother to "crash" in various study classes when he was a child, Hu Pingtao was very familiar with lip language and also mastered sign language and Morse codes.

[The book-chasing app recommended by an old book friend who has known me for ten years, wild fruit reading! It's so easy to use. I drive and pass the time by reading aloud before going to bed. You can download it here www. ]

"Beauty, this is the latest iPhone. Look at this display screen and the shell of this color, the absolute latest version of the product." The middle-aged man was holding a mobile phone in his hand, showing off to the girl.

The girl in Hanfu kept staring at the iPhone in the man's hand. Her voice was also low and full of alert: "Show me."

The man handed over the phone, and the girl skillfully pressed the boot button, and a brilliant color soon appeared on the screen.
Chapter completed!