"I haven't worked overtime tonight, I'll get off work on time at half past five." Captain Liu and another team came back from work. Before the car was parked, they shouted at Zhang Meng and others who were sitting in the rest area.

"It's five o'clock, there should be no living anymore. Yang Ji, let's go to practice the stall together tonight." Zhang Meng squatted beside him and held the drink that Yang sent to buy had already drunk half a bottle.

"Okay, I'll treat you." Yang Ji agreed without hesitation.

"We don't need to invite each other. I'll introduce a good buddy to you. Let's ask him to invite him." Zhang Meng said, taking out his cell phone and walked aside to call Feng Yan. After a minute, Zhang Meng sent him to Yang: "It's done, after get off work, we will go home to take a shower and change clothes, and then gather at the west entrance of the night market."

"Okay, my place is quite close to that place."

"That's great. I'm not far away. Then the distance between us shouldn't be far. Where did you live?"

"I passed a city village after the morning market east of the night market, which seemed to be called Shiyan Village."

"Shiyan, that's not far. I live in the north of the night market. We are only three miles away."

"Is that so close?"

"It's half past five, let's go together." Zhang Meng said, turning around and walking towards his car

"How did you come?"

"I ride a bicycle, so that's the one next to you."

Zhang Meng looked in the direction Yang Ji pointed. Sure enough, there was a bicycle parked next to his car. Maybe the car was too worn, so Zhang Meng didn't notice it when he came in the morning. The two of them walked together. Yang Ji turned a corner at the entrance of the night market, while Zhang Meng continued to walk forward...

"Wife, I'm back." Zhang Meng entered the yard and began to yell at the house habitually.

"You're back so early today?" Du Qiao was cooking in the kitchen and heard Zhang Meng's voice coming from the yard and walked out.

"Looking at your sweaty head, hurry up and take a shower."

"Even if I was working overtime today, it would be impossible for me to work overtime at night... Are you cooking? That, I won't eat dinner at home. One of my new colleagues and I made an appointment to go to the night market. You can go together." Zhang Meng actually didn't want Du Qiao to go, because it was the first time I had dinner with Yang Ji. It was a bit inappropriate to take my family over there, but I had to pretend to be polite to you. Du Qiao saw that Zhang Meng was a little embarrassed, and knew in his heart that he didn't want to let him go with him. He thought that Zhang Meng had gotten up early and came back late every day for the past few months, and he rarely went out to drink. He also hoped that he would go out to gather with his friends to relieve the pressure: "Your colleagues have dinner together, why am I going? If you don't go, I'd better chew my ribs at home... Drink less and come back early, have you heard?" Du Qiao followed Zhang Meng who went to the bathroom to take a bath all the way.

"Don't worry, my wife, we mainly talk and don't drink too much."

Twenty minutes later, Zhang Meng and Yang Ji had already arrived at the entrance of the night market, and Feng Yan was still rushing to the county town on the way.

"Hey, brother, where are you? We've already arrived at the night market."

"I haven't entered the county town yet, so it will take more than ten minutes. Please find a place to order food first, and order me a garlic egg..."

"Then we will wait for you at the first food stall at the western street entrance." Zhang Meng hung up the phone and walked towards Yang Ji who was standing on the roadside: "My brother will have to arrive in ten minutes. Let's go in and order good food first, and wait for him while eating."

"Is this appropriate? Or we'll wait a little longer"

"It's okay, there's no outsider, let's go, I'm hungry for a day of work," Zhang Meng said as he entered the first large stall at the intersection of the street.

When Feng Yan arrived, Zhang Meng and his wife had already drunk a bottle of wine.

"Brother, brother, what about here..." Zhang Meng sat on the stool and held his hand holding his cell phone high. Feng Yan saw Zhang Meng sitting inside and walked in with a smile.

"Come on, Yang Ji, let me introduce you to you. This is my elder brother Feng Yan, this is Yang Ji, my colleague, I am a good person, I will bring you to know you." Zhang Meng and Yang Ji stood up to meet the disadvantages.

"Hello, Brother Feng Yan"

"Hello brother... Mengzi's brother is my brother. Don't be polite, let's sit down and chat." Feng Yan said hello and sat down.

"Why are you ordering these dishes... waiter, come on?"

"Aren't we waiting for you? We didn't let go"

"Open a little, I'll make up for such heavy work during the day. Come to Yang Ji, how many hard dishes do you want to order?" Feng Yan said and handed the menu to Yang Ji.

"Come on, let's go together. Today, Brother Feng Yan came out and asked him to come and replenish us." Zhang Meng smiled and sat next to Yang Ji with a smile.

"I can eat anything, you'd better order it." Yang Ji looked at the menu and still didn't feel embarrassed to order it.

"So implicit... I'll do it." Zhang Meng saw that Yang Ji was a little embarrassed and took the menu and ordered it himself.

"How old is Yang Ji this year?"

"Well, I'm from 1990s"

"Is that true? Then we have two years, how many months do you have?"

"I'm on December 24th"

"Then you really have to call me brother. I'm older than you for more than half a year." Feng Yan said, picking up the beer on the ground and opening the bottle cap and handing it to Yang Ji a bottle.

"Mengzi, do you drink it?" Feng Yan shook at Zhang Meng with another bottle of beer that was opened.

"Drink, why don't you drink? I haven't drunk for several months. Drink two bottles today to relieve fatigue." Zhang Meng said, taking the wine from Feng Yan's hand and pouring himself a glass of wine.

"How is your wife doing now? It's okay?"

"Fortunately, my mother-in-law called and praised her for her good fortune, saying that the child she was pregnant was sensible and didn't bother her much."

"That's good...she doesn't know you're a loader yet?"

"I dare to tell her about this. I don't dare to pay all the salary every month, for fear that she would think too much if she paid too much."

"Is that right? You have learned to be rigorous in your work now. Save it well and don't spend it randomly. There are more places to spend money after the child is born."

"So, I want to have a meal today, so I called you." Zhang Meng raised the wine glass with a smile: "Come on, let's meet one of our three brothers."

Feng Yan saw that Yang Ji had always been shy, so he deliberately found a topic to make the atmosphere liven up.

"How is Brother Yang Ji's alcohol consumption?"

"I, average"

"Is that so? Then you are much better than Mengzi. Don't look at others who are tall and big, you can't pretend to be wine at all."

"My alcohol tolerance is OK, I can't compare with you, I can't compare with others."

"Come on, you... Come on, our second wine is called welcome wine, welcome brother Yang Ji... This is the first time I introduced my brother to me, which shows that he recognizes you very much. From now on, we will be good brothers. We will have a long time to come... I'll do it." Feng Yan said, and he touched Yang Ji and Zhang Meng respectively and drank it all.

The three brothers talked back and forth, and the more they talked, Yang Jie, who was a little restrained before, started talking after drinking a few glasses of wine.

"Brother, this is called fate. Look, you went to Mengzi's factory and Mengzi to the same class. Later, you went to the logistics park to apply for a job and joined a work team with Mengzi. And you two can chat so much, this is fate. Our brothers can sit here to drink and chat together today, and they are so speculative. This is also fate... I tell you, brother, you should know us in your destiny. You can't even hide, so you accept your fate.

Haha, come and do it. Feng Yan has learned a lot in the past few months with the Li family and his son to enter and go to the big and small bars for social activities. At least he is much more polite than before. Li Fu's words: 'As you speak well and you don't necessarily mean you can speak. This is a big premise.' It always echoes in Feng Yan's mind. Although Feng Yan has not yet fully used this sentence, it can at least be considered as a four or five-level performance.

"I am very happy to be able to make friends with Mengzi brothers and Feng Yan today... Really, I'm so old and stop talking about friends, I don't even have a relative..." Yang Jie said as he poured a glass of wine and drank it all over the sky. Zhang Meng and Feng Yan were so hard that they didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Brother, we have no outsiders today. If you have any worries, just say it, don't keep it in your heart." Feng Yan broke the silence first.

"Mengzi, today you asked me why I suddenly left the factory without saying a word... because of my arm..." Yang Jie said, taking off the wrist guard on his left arm and revealing the entire flower arm. Zhang Meng had been chaotic before, and he was not surprised by tattoos. Feng Yan, who was sitting beside him, was a little stunned when he saw Yang Ji's entire arm with dense patterns, but soon pretended to be calm and moved his gaze to Zhang Meng.

"I understand, your flower arm is really not surprising to us young people, especially those who have been in the society. But for those who are honest in their work, they subconsciously think that people with tattoos are all brave and fierce social people. Besides, you are the whole flower arm, so obvious."

"Yes, so even if I use my wrist guards to protect me, I have never worked in the same place for more than two months in the past year."

"Brother, I really have little knowledge in this regard. Brother Rong asked you presumptuously. I see that your personality and behavior are not that different... You must have a story with your flower arm."

"This is what I said. I am an orphan. I grew up in an orphanage. When I entered the orphanage, the character Yang embroidered on my bellyband. Then the dean named me Yang Ji, saying that I was temporarily sent to the orphanage. My parents would definitely come to pick me up in the future. However, I waited for more than ten years and had not waited for my parents to pick me up... I don't understand why other people's children have parents' love, but I was thrown into the orphanage since I was born... Later, I became more and more rebellious. When I was sixteen years old, I fled from the orphanage and started to hang out in society. In order not to be bullied, I used the money I earned in a nightclub to tattoo this flower arm. I had tattooed it for less than two months.

I was sentenced to labor camp for a year to fight with someone. After I came out, I also reflected on it for several months. As the instructors said, violence cannot solve the problem. To get respect from others, first we must learn to respect others. So I want to change my mind and become a good person and live a good life... But what I didn't expect is that people now judge people by their appearance. No matter how good you do, you have such obvious tattoos on your arm. If others lack things, the first one will doubt you, and they will be destroyed. The first one is also you, just because you have a tattoo... I have not found a stable job until now." Yang Ji told all his life experiences in one breath

"Brother, your life experience is similar to Mengzi, but she didn't grow up in an orphanage. Before I met him, he was also a mess in society, a thug and a cannon fodder. Later, his grandmother, who depended on him, passed away last year and left him alone. Mengzi was helpless and lonely at that time, but he never gave up on life. You see, he now has a wife, and he is immediately a father. Although life is more difficult now and he works two jobs a day, he is very happy.

Heart, because he has relatives, he is no longer alone and helpless, and the same is true for you, brother, we will be your relatives in the future, and you will be my brother. If you listen to your brother, don’t wash your tattoos when you have money in the future, keep them, because it can remind you all the time, what kind of person you should be. You must also firmly believe that there are still many good people in this world, as long as you are full of kindness to others, even if you have an arm full of tattoos, even if you have some stains before, the prodigal son will turn back and will not change the gold."

"I agree with this. Yang Ji, you tattooed scary tattoos on your skin. Some people tattooed terrible tattoos in their own bones. Compared to them, how open and upright we are."

"Well said, come on, let's respect ourselves for being open and honest," Feng Yan took Zhang Meng's words and raised the wine glass high.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!