Chapter 208: Afternoon in the Bookstore

(Xi Ma Qimo enthusiastically cheered, and the few zeros asked me to count them again, thank you)

The next day, Shen Huai went to the History Museum in the morning to spend half a day, and in the afternoon he went to the Xisi Xiangkou Bookstore to buy books. The shopkeeper Tan Shiwei was still calm about Shen Huai's arrival, handed over a chair, and returned to the small table near the door to drink tea and read.

Shen Huai had been reading books in the bookstore for a long time, perhaps in the afternoon of the day before the weekend, and there were more people in and out of the bookstore than yesterday. Most of the people who come in and out know Tan Shiwei, some say a word or two, pick a book or two and leave, and there are also young people who sit down and have a hippie smile. Looking at Tan Shiwei's attitude towards them, he also knows that they are all powerful children who live on the left and right, and their family backgrounds are extraordinary, but they are not so arrogant and arrogant, and some people ask why "Little Five" is not here to help watch the store?

Shen Huai thought to himself that this little five might be Tan Shiwei's daughter, that is, Ji Lianyun's granddaughter.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhongyāng, the State Council, the State Council, and the Ministry of Defense all chose to work in Zhonghai, and several generations of national leaders also lived in Zhonghai.

Although after several twists and turns, with the development of the economy, the outside conditions are getting better and better, and many people have moved out to live one after another, but the political legacy precipitated by Xisi Lane is still strong, after all, the older generation of characters are still nostalgic for the old, accustomed to the traditional way of life, and are reluctant to change.

Those powerful children, no matter how arrogant they are outside, no matter how arrogant they are, when they arrive at Xisi Lane, they have to hide their claws in their webs, and they have to pinch their fangs in their mouths, otherwise an inconspicuous old lady is likely to rush up and give them a cane, so that you don't even dare to stare back.

Shen Huai also knew that these powerful children were only in front of Tan Shiwei, and they were not qualified to show their arrogance and arrogance.

Of course, in the afternoon, there are occasional old men and old ladies in ordinary clothes who come over to talk to Tan Shiwei, saying that whose son has bought a luxury car, saying that he has seen someone's grandson and a female star who looks like a goblin haunting him, embarrassing someone's family, saying that his daughter has opened a real estate company and how many tens of thousands of dollars, saying that whose son is going to run to a place to make a fat difference, saying that whoever has a son is driving a taxi......

Compared with those non-party analysts who are five or six individuals, most of the information in the mouths of these old men and old ladies can stand the test. If these news come out, all of them will set off waves, but in this bookstore, it sounds no different from the daily routines in the streets and alleys, which makes Shen Huai laugh dumbly: Maybe this is back to basics, no matter how much power you have, no matter how much wealth you have, what a person can really enjoy is just a place to stand on your feet.

Some people also expressed interest in Shen Huai, who was sitting in the corner reading a book, and heard that he was the son of the fourth child of the Song family, and they all smiled at Shen Huai with doubts on their faces, and they would also say a sentence or two to him: "Come back to celebrate the old man's birthday?"

Shen Huai didn't know if there would be gossip about "why did the fourth child of the Song family suddenly emerge with such a big son" in two days, and he didn't know what the relationship between these old men and old ladies who had emerged in the turbulent era of the Republic in the past was related to the Song family, so he was just polite and smiled.

Most of the conversations were superficial, and there were also curious people who inquired about Shen Huai's details, but when they heard that Shen Huai was working in Donghua, most of them said "oh", and the expressions of incomprehension and regret were shown on their faces.

When the red afterglow of the setting sun spilled in through the narrow door, Shen Huai went to the door with a stack of books and prepared to go back to his sister-in-law's house. Tan Shiwei first put the stack of books sideways on the table, read the spine of the book, and rarely took the initiative to ask Shen Huai: "Do you work in Donghua?"

"Well, in a township below Donghua," Shen Huai said, "Teacher Tan has also been to Donghua?"

"Oh, I spent six or seven years in Jinghai Township, Donghua researching urban and rural work, and lived for two months," Tan Shiwei said calmly about the past, "After that, I was directly sent from Jinghai Township to Pingjiang Farm, and I lived in Pingjiang for eight years before returning to Beijing, which is considered to have been to Donghua ......."

A figure like Tan Shiwei should have traveled a lot of places all over the country, I heard that he only lived in Donghua City for two months, which is not much of a relationship, Shen Huai is quite a pity, otherwise the development of Donghua can borrow a little bit of momentum from him.

"Oh, I work in Meixi Township, just across the town from Jinghai Township. Shen Huai said.

"I know, it's Hetang Town. Tan Shiwei is a person who is willing to be plain, and he didn't express any special surprise that Shen Huai, as the son of the fourth son of the Song family, only worked in the township below Donghua, and didn't stop in his hand while talking, and smoothly calculated the price of the book, and took out a plastic rope and scissors to tie up a stack of books.

Shen Huai also knew that Tan Shiwei had seen too many powerful children who were kind and kind on the surface, and he didn't have a chance to perform at all.

Ji Gengxin, who is also a professor at Yan University, is an adviser to the State Council, and is almost 70 years old, and is still very active in the domestic academic community, still teaching and teaching doctoral students at Yan University.

Tan Shiwei is also a professor at Yan University, and his research is on urban and rural issues, Shen Huai has no impression of him, but he is in his early sixties, which should be the heyday of his academic life, but he chose to retire, thinking that he may be Ji Lianyun's son-in-law, but he is restricted in academic research and has no opportunity for development.

This is also normal, after all, Ji Lianyun completely retired from 92 years, and promoted two people into the leadership of this generation, if Tan Shiwei is also unusually active in the academic world that can influence the direction of national policy, it is obviously not what other factions want to see.

Politics has always been about trade-offs, enterprising, and compromises, and Shen Huai thought that Tan Qiwei's choice to open a bookstore at the entrance of Xisi Lane to settle his life after retirement may be a compromise.

Shen Huai was thinking about something, stepped down the threshold from the steps, and didn't pay attention to the sides, when he heard a sudden scream in his ear: "Ah!"

Shen Huai was startled, and saw that the girl who was under the bookstore light last night was riding a bicycle and rushing towards him quickly, seeing that she was panicked, obviously forgetting to brake.

Behind Shen Huai was the stone steps in front of the threshold of the bookstore, he didn't dare to jump out of the way, for fear that the girl would hit the stone steps, so he rushed over with the bicycle and grabbed the handlebar. However, the girl rode very fast, and he only buffered this grab, and the knee that he didn't have time to close hit the front wheel of the car hard, and almost fell on the corner of the steps, but fortunately he barely stabilized the bicycle and didn't let the girl fall down.

The girl held on to the handlebar, stood on both sides of the crotch of the car, her face flushed, and asked Shen Huai worriedly, "Are you okay?"

"Crazy girl," Tan Shiwei walked out, saw his little daughter riding a bicycle and almost knocked Shen Huai to the ground, and blamed him angrily and laughing, "I just learned to ride, so I ran around like crazy," and asked Shen Huai again, "Is it okay?" looked down at Shen Huai's pants and tore a piece of skin, and his exposed knee was torn a piece of skin, and he turned back to blame his daughter, "Look at you!"

"It's okay," Shen Huai intuitively felt a severe pain in his left knee, barely maintaining the smile on his face, and said, "It's also that I didn't pay attention to seeing the car coming." ”

Shen Huai saw that the girl was also seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was beautiful, and wondered how she could learn to ride a bicycle?

In Shen Huai's memory before, even if those noble sons and young ladies have lived a much superior life than ordinary people since they were children, but in the seventies and eighties, the economic conditions in the country were generally poor, and even if they were the children of the powerful, there were very few people who said that they could travel in a car since they were young.

"Do you want to go to the hospital to have a look," Seeing Shen Huai frowning and looking a little painful, the girl asked worriedly, and then asked Tan Shiwei, "Do you want to ask Xiao Wang to drive over?"

"Don't bother, I'll just go to my little uncle's house and apply some medicine. Shen Huai said.

Abrasions are trivial, but the knee was hit straight and pinned back, Shen Huai suspected that the bones were a little misplaced, and after taking two steps, the left leg socket hurt badly.

Tan Shiwei didn't think it would be so serious to call a bicycle to hit it, knowing that Tang Jianmin was a doctor, and the family might have medicine, so he didn't support sending Shen Huai to the hospital, but seeing that he was walking with a scab, and holding more than a dozen books in his hand, he said, "You wait a minute," he quickly closed the door of the bookstore, took the bicycle from his daughter's hand, and asked Shen Huai to sit up, "I'll send you over." ”

The knee was really painful, so Shen Huai didn't insist, sat in the back seat of the small car, and asked Tan Shiwei to push the car to send him back, and the girl could only walk behind pitifully and look like a troublemaker, helping Shen Huai carry the stack of books.

Shen Huai didn't feel the stack of books, the girl walked a hundred and ten meters, and her entire shoulders had to collapse.

"Give me the book," Shen Huai asked the girl to bring the book, so that he could only touch the saddle with one hand, the car was very small, he sat very unsteadily, and the girl blushed and held his arm for fear that he would fall down.

When Song Wenhui lived in the East Lane of the West Temple, it happened that Tang Jianmin was at home, watching Tan Shiwei push the car to send Shen Huai back, and asked Shen Huai in surprise: "What's the matter? Why did you ask Professor Tan and Xiao Wu to send them back?"

"Doctor Tang, I hit him ......," the girl named "Little Five" said with a red face.

"It's Xiao Wu who didn't pay attention when he rode the bike, maybe he hurt his bones. Tan Shiwei noticed that Shen Huai was in pain all the way, and the beads of sweat on his forehead should not be hot, and said worriedly.

Tang Jianmin and Tan Shiwei first carried Shen Huai to the room and sat on the sofa, half-squatted down and touched his kneecaps, and said, "Fortunately, Mr. Tan sent you back, the misplacement is not very bad, otherwise you will have to go to the hospital to deal with it......"

Tang Jianmin didn't say that he would be pampered as the son-in-law of the Song family over the years, and he had been working on the front line of medical treatment for a long time, and his foundation was still there, so he touched Shen Huai's dislocated kneecap and said: "You endure a little ......" and reset Shen Huai with force in his hand.

Shen Huai heard a "click", after a huge pain in his knee, the pain was like the tide of the ebbing tide, and it quickly and clearly receded, tried to step on the ground twice, and said with a smile: "Little uncle, you are really not a Jianghu Langzhong, it's really okay......

Tang Jianmin laughed and said, "Do you think I really sell dog skin plasters?" asked Shen Huai to rest for a while to slow down, there was no nanny at home, so he could only make tea for Tan Qiwei and his daughter in person.

Tan Shiwei also heard the "click" sound when Tang Jianmin reset Shen Huai, and realized that Shen Huai's collision with Xiao Wu just now was actually not light, looking at Shen Huai's torn pants, and said with a smile: "I won't compensate you for these pants, you will come to buy books next time, even if you are free, you should be compensated for these pants." ”

"Teacher Tan, if you want to say that, I will really run to your store, pick one by one and leave. Shen Huai said with a smile.

Tan Shiwei and Tang Jianmin both laughed.