Chapter 23: Tricks

Wan Chun hurriedly smiled and invited him in, Li Chengxu was still sitting on the chair, Fred saw it first, took off his top hat and bowed and smiled: "Mr. Secretary of State, we meet again." ”

Li Chengxu smiled, saw that his clothes were neat, and thought that he had specially changed it from home, so he said: "Thank you, we will leave you with your foot injury." ”

Fred hurriedly said a word, because he heard Wanchun outside that he wanted to take himself as an example, and he didn't understand the reason, so he put down the medicine box, and asked with a smile while checking Wanchun's foot injury: "Are you two talking about Western medicine?" ”

Wan Chun smiled, thinking that there was no need to hide from Fred about studying medicine, so he said, "Exactly, I just discussed it with my grandfather, and you will arrive in the blink of an eye." So, I would like to ask you for advice, if I go to study medicine, do you think it is better to study Western medicine in surgery or internal medicine? ”

One of Fred's hands was rubbing her wound, to see how the injury was doing, hearing Wanchun's words, his hand couldn't help but pause, and he was stunned for a moment before he was surprised: "Miss Li, do you really want to study medicine?" Ah, that's amazing, I've been in your old capital for so long, and most of the people I've seen are people who dislike the profession of Western medicine, but I didn't expect Mies Lee's thoughts to open up like this. In fact, in Western medicine, the status of medicine and surgery is equal, and no matter which department I choose, I am very happy for Mies Lee. ”

Wan Chun smiled silently, her own medical skills for Western medicine were also recognized after entering the old Beijing, in her previous life, there was a sitting doctor in the Rejuvenation Hall in the Shanghai Alley all the year round, and the people around him looked for him to treat no matter whether they were serious or small, so everyone had never seen what Western medicine was all about.

Wanchun was dragged down by illness last time, and this time he was implicated in a foot injury, although he was fortunate to be diagnosed and treated by Fred, but he was always not very clear in terms of medicine and surgery, seeing Fred say this, he simply asked directly: "If I want to cure a foot injury, then should I choose internal medicine or surgery?" ”

Fred said, "It's a choice of surgery." ”

Wan Chun smiled and nodded, and then said to Li Chengxu: "Grandpa, did you hear that?" I think I've decided what I'm going to learn, but my parents still need your old man to say something for me. ”

Li Chengxu put the pipe to his mouth and took a few puffs, thought about it before shaking his head and laughing: "Little girl, I fell for you." It's strange that you said so many things to me in front of you, just to pull me out to deal with your parents for you. ”

Wan Chun and Xiu'er laughed together, Wan Chun didn't care that she was still sitting on the bed, stretched out her arm and grabbed Li Chengxu's wrist and shook it, and said: "Grandpa is the most reasonable, you promised before, you can't go back on your word in front of outsiders, right?" ”

Li Chengxu asked her to be coquettish and angry, and she had loosened her mind for three points, but she became more and more loose for seven points, so she pulled out her wrist and said: "Don't pour me this old man's ecstasy soup, I heard everything you said, I'll go back to your parents and ask clearly." Now that Mr. Fred is here, I can't bother him, so you can heal your wounds, and we'll talk about medicine and surgery when you're done. Before he finished speaking, the man stood up, and after taking two steps, he turned his head again and sighed with a smile, "What a trick to go up the house and draw the ladder, I didn't expect it in advance." ”

After saying this, before Wanchun and Fred and the others could react, the others had already gone out.

When Fred checked the injury and asked that there was nothing serious, he asked Xiu'er to take the letterhead he had written, handed it to him and said, "Yesterday, Miss Liu asked Mr. to send a letter, and today I will trouble Mr. to send her a reply letter for me." ”

Fred smiled and took the letter and carefully placed it in the medicine box, leaving some ointment for external application before leaving.

He didn't leave for a moment, and Li Hui, who came to inquire about the news in Ji Yuan's room, arrived, and he didn't dare to enter the house at first, but only pulled Zhou's mother in the corridor to ask a few words. Later, when I saw someone come out, because I didn't know who it was, I even jumped off the railing with a run, nested behind the dwarf holly tree, and waited until Li Chengxu walked away before he dared to touch it back, and quietly called Xiu'er by the door.

Xiu'er told Li Chengxu what he promised verbally, and Li Hui smiled and patted his thigh, saying that things were done beautifully. The bluffed Xiu'er hurriedly rolled his eyes a few times, and bluntly said that if he continued to shout, the whole room should know that the third young master and the fourth young lady had teamed up to coax the old gentleman to be fooled, so that Li Hui could be quiet.

This quiet, but I remembered another thing, and Li Hui attached it to Xiu'er's ear and muttered for a while.

Xiu'er really wondered, and after returning to the room to see Fred, she ran back in a few steps and told Wanchun what Li Hui said again.

Wanchun was skeptical, took Xiu'er's hand and asked her over and over again, "Did you really hear clearly?" How could the school flower contest be put on hold? ”

Xiu'er shook her head, thinking about it, and quickly nodded and said: "What Li Hui said is not very clear, I only heard him say that after the headline of "Beijing Daily" yesterday published Miss Liu's championship, the newspaper sold out inexplicably, and it was sold out in less than an hour. Just that one, I still want to come from Liufu. After that, I don't know what happened, the newspapers in the Presidential Palace and the Liufu Mansion issued their own statements this morning, one explaining the unfairness of yesterday's school flower contest election, and the other being Miss Jingyu's humble resignation from the school flower. Now, the third young master is considering whether our house should also issue a statement. ”

"We must not send it." Wan Chun hurriedly spoke, patted the edge of the bed and said, "What is the point of them making trouble?" I was already very reluctant to participate in this school flower competition, and of course I didn't care if I won the championship. Regardless of what happened to the Presidential Palace and the Liu Mansion, only I and Jingyu had the same number of votes that day, and if we don't make a statement now, others will not be suspicious of our Li Mansion, if we make a statement, won't everyone say that I want to compete with Jingyu for the championship of the school flower competition? ”

The more she spoke, the more she felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly said to Xiu'er: "Has Li Hui gone away?" You go and call him, and I'll ask him carefully. ”

Xiu'er even said that she didn't go far, chased out a few steps, called Li Hui in the yard, asked him to come back, and led him all the way to Wanchun.

Wan Chun said: "Where did you learn about the stranding of the school flower competition?" Say what you heard again, I'll listen. ”

Li Hui bowed his body, not daring to disobey Wanchun's meaning, so he said: "I heard it from the third master." Before that, for the fourth lady failed to win the championship, the third master was anxious for a few nights and never slept peacefully, and after performing a play for Steward Li with me in the courtyard early this morning, the third master was bored and took people out for a walk on the street. After I came back, I bought a few newspapers, I didn't know how to read, I only heard the third master call a few times, and told me that the fourth lady was expected to win the championship, I was curious and asked a few words, only to know that it was the presidential palace and the Liu Mansion issued a statement. Originally, the third master should have told the fourth lady about this, but now the others are too happy and have gone to the Liu Mansion to find the young master Liu. ”

"Looking for Young Master Liu?"

Wan Chun's heart was pounding, she knew Ji Yuan's temperament too well, as long as there was a glimmer of hope in anything, he would not give up to achieve his goal, if he was called to succeed in the school flower contest, wouldn't his previous thoughts be in vain?

No, this has to be stopped.

The mind was as chaotic as numbness, Wan Chun was sweating in a hurry, and kept pulling out the silk handkerchief hanging under the wedge, and then went back and pulled it out. When she repeated this several times and slowly subsided, it really reminded her of something.

Since the Presidential Palace and the Liu Mansion have issued statements, who was the one who published the news of the school flower contest winning the championship in silence?

After a few words of Xiu'er, Wan Chun hurriedly said: "What about the few newspapers that the third young master brought over that day, I remember that they were handed over to you to deal with, you go and find them out quickly, I am very urgent." ”

Xiu'er remembered that those newspapers had been asked to be used by Zhou's mother to make shoes, so she hurriedly ran out to find Zhou's mother, and the two of them turned out the mess-cut newspapers from the corner and hurriedly handed them to Wanchun.

Wan Chun pieced together the newspaper a few times, and saw that the reporter in the headline was a person surnamed Song, so he said to Li Hui: "You go, find this reporter and ask him who gave him the news to publish the school flower contest." Ask carefully, and then give me a reply. ”

Li Hui saw that she was very anxious about this matter, and now that Ji Yuan was not at home, there was no one to make an idea, so she had to listen to Wanchun's words, took the newspaper and ran out.

It wasn't until about three o'clock in the afternoon that Li Hui came back sweaty, and he didn't even go to his own yard, so he went straight to Wanchun and replied: "Fourth Miss, I asked, and the person who Song reporter said that he didn't disclose the source of the news, but only handed him the written press release and asked it to be published in his name." However, before leaving, he also said that the man had hailed a rickshaw and went to the fourth archway. ”

"Went to the fourth archway?"

Wan Chun frowned, looking at the press release in the newspaper with neat layout and clear organization, it was the handwriting of a professional news media person. It is not strange to write it yourself but not publish it, and then hand it over to others to publish.

Could it be that just like the Presidential Palace and the Liu Mansion, which big family took someone from their own newspaper to write this report by hand, and was afraid of being involved, so they let the outside newspaper office distribute it?

So he asked Li Hui: "Who live there in the fourth archway?" ”

Li Hui smiled: "Fourth Miss is embarrassed for me, the land is very big, and there are many people living there, how can I say it clearly?" ”

Wan Chun also felt that the question was abrupt, so he also smiled and said, "Okay, did you just say that there are any big families living there?" ”

"What ...... big family" Li Hui thought about it sideways, clapped his hands and said, "Yes, Lu Dansheng, a famous actor in Beijing, and Shang Haiquan, a new star, both live in Chunshu Hutong in the fourth archway, and Minister Zhao of the Finance Department and Vice Minister Feng of the War Department also live in the No. 1 Mansion and No. 18 Mansion in the fourth archway. These four are famous big families in the four archways. ”

Lu Dansheng and Shang Haiquan, Wanchun have never met, and there is no intersection, so this report naturally has nothing to do with the two of them. As for Minister Zhao and Vice Minister Feng, although she hasn't seen them, she knows the children of the two families, Zhao Chunmei and Feng Yuzhang, are the two of you playing tricks?