Just as the two masters looked at each other, a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a coarse old military uniform, walked over from the corner of the alley and said to Chen Dahe with a wry smile, "Classmate Chen, how did you guess it?"

"Director Jiang," the two masters immediately stood up straight and said hello as soon as they looked at each other.

"Yo, it turns out that he is still a director," Chen Dahe glanced at him up and down, smiled and said, "Do you still need to guess, how can there be a pie in the sky in this world, not to mention that it is still a big meal, the old man has eighteen apprentices, how old are you?"

This Director Jiang didn't seem to notice the thorn in Chen Dahe's words, and his face was a little gloomy, "I'm the biggest, I can be regarded as the boss." ”

I wanted to stab the old man a few more words to vent his anger, but looking at his depressed appearance, I couldn't help but soften my heart, and remembered Old Man Li's softened attitude, so I swung my head in, "There is no tea in the house, if you don't dislike it, come in and sit for a while." ”

"Huh?" Director Jiang was stunned, his right hand shook unconsciously, and then his fists were clenched, and he said in a voice with a slight trembling, "Is it convenient?"

Although he has been here to renovate this house many times before, where can it be compared with this situation of being invited by the owner, for him, it is a great joy to be able to walk through this door in a bright light.

Seeing him like that, Chen Dahe unconsciously lowered his voice, "Now that I am the owner of this house, it is inconvenient for me to have the final say." ”

"Then, I'll bother," Director Jiang calmed down, smiled and was about to follow Chen Dahe in, and then saw the two installation masters, looked at Chen Dahe and said, "Classmate Chen, why don't you let them install the phone first?"

Chen Dahe frowned, "You said that if Old Man Li was here, would he agree to ask for it?"

Director Jiang hurriedly smiled and said, "This is the teacher, oh no, it is what the old gentleman meant, he mentioned to Director Cheng of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he left yesterday, and wanted to install a phone for you here, so that he can also contact you conveniently. ”

Here he used some language skills, Mr. Li mentioned it was true, but he didn't say that it must be installed, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs transferred it was not a task, but a note suggesting installation, if it was to be installed, the installation fee and the money for the telephone still had to be paid by Chen Dahe, but it could be given slowly, but after he knew, he directly made an expedited decision, and even paid the money in advance, fortunately it was the internal cost price, otherwise he couldn't take it alone, and he needed others to make it together.

"That's right," Chen Dahe didn't know that there was still this inside story, thinking that this former chief disciple would not tell such a lie, so he nodded and agreed, "Then come in." ”

Let people in first, Chen Dahe locked the door, led them inside, and said as he walked, "Director Jiang, does the old man know that you work in the telephone bureau?"

"Don't call me the director, my name is Jiang Wanglou, you can call me by my name," Jiang Wanglou said, "He shouldn't know about the old man, and he shouldn't know the situation of other people,"

Speaking of this, Jiang Wanglou had a trace of pathos on his face, "No one dares to tell him about the situation of our people, and they won't tell him." ”

"You're not much younger than my father, isn't it rude to call me by name," Chen Dahe smiled, "It's too much of a loss to call uncle, I'll still call you Brother Jiang, in this way, I won't go to class this afternoon, just talk to you here, if you talk well, you can tell me about your current situation, if you don't talk well, you will come in the future, whether it will be successful!"

The two installation masters who followed behind couldn't help but be speechless, good guy, what is the origin of this kid, dare to talk to the Jiang Bureau like this, even the leaders of the city are polite when they see the Jiang Bureau, they have never seen such a horizontal one.

But their Jiang Bureau not only did not get angry, but smiled, "Okay!"

The two masters were busy pulling the strings, Chen Dahe moved the rocking chair back to the room, pulled two more chairs out, and the two sat in the corridor like this.

"Brother Jiang, what happened back then?" As soon as Chen Dahe sat down, he asked straight to the point, "I know that Old Man Li's vision is clear, and there may be times when he looks away, but if he doesn't even help him, I don't believe it." ”

Jiang Wanglou's face was full of bitterness, he raised his head to look at the painting pillar under the eaves, but his eyes didn't know where to fall, and after a few seconds, he said, "There were eighteen of us back then, and now there are only sixteen of us left, and there are only twelve of those who are still in contact now,"

Jiang Wanglou smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's no wonder that the teacher is disappointed, even we are disappointed." ”

Chen Dahe frowned, "Can you make it clear?"

"Actually, the thing is very simple, at that time I was in Daxing, picking soil and farming every day, even the toilet was watched, most of the other people were similar to me, everyone was too busy to take care of themselves, naturally they couldn't take care of others, and even a little scared in their hearts, afraid that they would be implicated in the teacher because of their own relationship, and they were afraid that they would be implicated because of other people's relationships, so they took the initiative to cut off contact with other people, and finally caused the teacher to die depressed because no one took care of him, and the teacher went away with no one to send him off," Jiang Wanglou sighed and continued. There are indeed a few people who have not been affected, and they all have families and rooms, so they chose to protect themselves, that is, the four people who have never been in contact with each other. ”

"You said there were only sixteen left, what's the matter?"

"After all these years, two of them finally didn't survive and died of illness one after another, both after the teacher left. ”

"Two dead?" Chen Dahe was stunned for a moment, holding the arm of the chair with one hand, looking down and thinking about it, and then asked, "Old man, does he know?"

"Don't dare to say it, no one dares to say it, even the old friends around him hide it together," Jiang Wanglou shook his head with a wry smile, "I'm afraid that he won't forgive, and I'm afraid that he won't be able to stand it, if the teacher knows, I'm afraid he will ......." ”

Chen Dahe didn't know what to say for a while, this matter was troublesome, and it was not to mention it to the old man, nor was it if he didn't mention it, he had a headache.

"Later, after the turmoil, we all returned to work, due to the lack of professional talents, and the number of foreign missions in the capital, we concentrated in the capital, and were divided into various departments, we used all the methods, plus the teacher's old friends made efforts, and arranged for someone to pick up the teacher back as quickly as possible," Jiang Wanglou continued, "But because of those two junior brothers, we never dared to see the teacher, let alone explain anything, we only hope that the teacher can have a good old age, which is our greatest wish." ”

Chen Dahe's face was full of bitterness, "Since you don't dare to explain, why are you still telling me this, aren't you making trouble for me." ”

"I'm telling you this, it's not for you to explain anything to the teacher," Jiang Wanglou smiled reluctantly at the corner of his mouth, "I just want to do more for the teacher, and you are his only relative now, it may trouble you, so don't refuse when the time comes." ”

Chen Dahe held his breath and scolded himself, "It's really aggrieved." ”