Chapter 51: The Storm
As soon as he finished speaking, he was listening to a sound of footsteps behind him, and Sheriff Zhao, who had seen him before, led a team of people, walked up to a few of them, took off his police hat and said with a smile: "It turns out that several people are here, Zhao is late to save the car, and it is too late to save the car." ”
Wanchun and the others all turned around, Zhang Jingtong and Ji Yuan had been in Vanity Fair for a long time, and they knew the sheriff of the old Beijing Police Station, so they all smiled at him: "You are very fast in hindsight, and we came out to see your face." ”
Sergeant Zhao clenched his fists and said that he didn't dare, and looked sideways at Zhao Chunmei, but said again: "Cousin? Why are you here, your cousin-in-law just said that she was going to your mansion to play cards with you, why didn't you see her? ”
It turns out that this Sheriff Zhao's real name is Zhao Guoqiang, and he is cousins in the same room as Zhao Guodong and Zhao Chunmei. Zhao Guoqiang's father and Zhao Guodong's father are siblings, Guoqiang's father is older, and after he retired from the police station, he asked his son to replace him. Because both of them worked in the old Beijing, they often visited each other on weekdays, and they had no less contact in the officialdom, so the relationship between Zhao Guoqiang and Zhao Guodong and Zhao Chunmei has always been very good, as close as compatriots.
It's just that Zhao Chunmei was still sulking, and she didn't say hello when she saw him coming, and when she saw him asking, she snorted from her nose: "Why can't I be here?" After thinking about it, he shouldn't have poured his anger on Zhao Guoqiang, so he said again, "When did my cousin-in-law go to my house, I didn't see her when I came out." ”
Zhao Guoqiang knew that she liked to play petty, especially in the treatment of Zhang Jingtong, seeing that the Zhang brothers and sisters were all there, he didn't know what happened to make this second lady so angry, so he didn't care about her tone, and smiled: "Probably she went later and missed it with her cousin." As he spoke, he looked at Chao Muyan and Zhou Xiang, who were standing next to Ji Yuan, who were both a little injured, so he asked her with concern, "When the explosion just now, did my cousin hurt anything?" ”
Zhao Chunmei waved her hand, glanced at Zhang Jingtong, and said half-truthfully: "What if it hurts, what if it doesn't hurt?" The lives of our people are not as expensive as some young ladies, and they are not just like ants, anyone can pinch and rub them flat, if they are unlucky enough to encounter an explosion, it is fortunate to survive, where is the luxury of being intact? ”
She was thorny in her sentences, and single-mindedly accused Wanchun and Zhang Jingtong of leaving. is as ignorant as Zhang Manyi, and she also hears some gunpowder, but she is Zhang Jingtong's sister in the end, and no matter how intimate she is with Zhao Chunmei on weekdays, it is not as important as brotherhood. Although she had also seen Zhang Jingtong save Wanchun out first, her intuition thought that it was just Zhang Jingdong's chivalrous act, after all, Wanchun was a person very close to him, and after Zhang Jingtong rescued Wanchun and escaped, he still remembered to come back to them, which showed that he still cared about himself and Zhao Chunmei in his heart.
At this time, she listened to Zhao Chunmei's words of gold and gold, and she didn't have the slightest sense of gratitude, she just cared about eating flying vinegar, and her heart was very unhappy, but she couldn't refute her on the spot, so she retreated, grabbed Zhang Jingtong's arm and said, "Fifth brother, let's go home, I'm a little uncomfortable." ”
Because she is the youngest child in the presidential palace, and the family is very cherished, Zhang Jingtong is also afraid that she will be frightened because of the explosion accident, and the family is worried, so she agreed: "It's not very safe here, and it's not suitable for staying for a long time." My car is parked on the side of the road, and I'll take you home. ”
After that, the brother and sister were about to walk away side by side, Zhang Jingtong looked at Wanchun and Ji Yuan, and said, "Aren't you leaving?" ”
Ji Yuan said: "Who said not to go?" However, I had to sit three people in my car, and Bingjun didn't drive his own car, so I was afraid that I would have to bother the car in your house to take a detour to send someone back. ”
Zhang Jingtong really counted the number of people when he heard this, Ji Yuan, in addition to him, there were four people, Wan Chun, Zhou Xiang, Chao Muyan and Liu Bingjun, plus the car driver was five people, and there were only four people in a car, and there must be two people in the car of the presidential palace. But in addition to himself, he also has Man Yi and Zhao Chunmei here, and there is just one person's place in a car. I have to add two more people, but I'm afraid I can't.
In the past, there could be rickshaws in front of the theater to sit, but now because of this explosion, a cordon has been erected all around, and the chartered drivers of rickshaws are not very knowledgeable, and they are frightened by the kickbacks and commissions from all walks of life.
He thought about it for a while, looked sideways at Zhao Guoqiang was still here, and then thought about it, and discussed: "It's not easy to call a car now, it's better to do this, Miss Zhao Er and Sheriff Zhao are a family, and the places where they live are not far apart, you can take Sheriff Zhao's car back." I can sit with two more people here, so I don't have to take several trips back and forth. What do you think? ”
"You ......" Zhao Chunmei frowned, but she didn't say anything on the spot. Because she learned from her brother Zhao Guodong when she came, that today's four princes were invited to the Peace Theater to watch a play together, in order to be able to meet Zhang Jingtong naturally, she coquettishly asked Zhao Guodong for the ticket. In order to go to the presidential palace after the show, in order to further enhance the relationship, when she and Zhang Jingtong returned to their past intimacy, she also made a special phone call to the presidential palace to invite Zhang Manyi, deliberately did not take her own car, lied that the driver was busy, and asked Zhang Manyi to take a detour from the Zhao Mansion to take her a ride. Man Yi was going to take the family's public car, but her mother invited relatives and friends to listen to the commentary, and the car went out to pick up the guests, only the car of the third sister Zhang Manzhi, who had just come back, was still there, so she took Manzhi's car and took Zhao Chunmei from the Zhao Mansion to the Peace Theater.
Manzhi and his classmates have a tea party to start in the afternoon, and the coachman will send her two to go home to pick up Manzhi. Zhao Chunmei saw Zhang Jingtong and Ji Yuan upstairs, and she was already planning to find a reason to take Zhang Jingdong's car back later, so as to prove to others that the second lady of her Zhao Mansion was not so bad, and she was kicked out of the fifth young master of the presidential palace early.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, she didn't expect that Zhang Jingtong would push her out in front of so many people at this moment, and the reason used was very appropriate, and the room for her argument was completely dissipated.
Angrily got into Zhao Guoqiang's police car, Zhao Chunmei didn't even say hello, and urged Zhao Guoqiang to start the car in the car.
Zhao Guoqiang has a lot of contact with the four princes, and they are polite when they meet on weekdays, so it is not good to let Zhao Chunmei lose his temper, he still asked a few words in a regular manner, and slightly understood the situation of the explosion at the scene, and asked the people who came with him to make a record, and then got in the car and ordered the coachman to start and leave.
At this moment, Wanchun's scared strength has passed, calmed down, thought of the allocation of parking spaces, and the imminent exposure of his identity, so he said first: "If you don't mind, I will go back in the car of Dong Wuye with Young Master Liu and Miss Liu, and the car of Jing'an Mansion can send Zhou and Chao back first." ”
Ji Yuanzheng had the intention of sending Chao Muyan back, but he was not easy to speak, and when he saw Wanchun's proposal, although he was reluctant to send Zhou Xiang back together, after all, he could be in the same car with the person he liked, so he agreed and smiled: "This is very good, I can also rest assured that there is a car from the presidential palace to send you back." Then he turned around and invited Zhou and Chao.
Zhou Xiang and Chao Muyan were frightened by the sudden explosion, and they both desperately wanted to return home as soon as possible, and they had no objections to Wanchun and Ji Yuan's arrangement, so they got into Ji Yuan's car together.
Since the Epiphany Hutong where Chao Muyan lives is located in the eastern suburbs, which is completely opposite to the Jing'an Mansion and the Presidential Palace, the two cars turned out of Chang'an Avenue one after the other, and then went their separate ways. Wan Chun and Man Yi sat at the back of the presidential palace car, thinking only that Ji Yuan should not talk nonsense on the road, so he has been silent since getting in the car.
Zhang Jingtong turned his head from the co-pilot in the front seat, saw that she was very confused, only thought that she was overly frightened, and secretly laughed that this greenhouse flower was really fragile, and opened his mouth and said: "Miss Lee, are you better now?" ”
Wan Chun raised his head in a daze, looked at Zhang Jingtong looking at him with blazing eyes, unconsciously avoided his face, and brushed a few strands of sideburns in front of his forehead with his bare hands, before lowering his head and laughing: "I'm fine, nothing is wrong." ”
Zhang Jingtong bowed slightly, still locking his eyes on her, looking at her Although she lowered her head, her voice was already much calmer, and it really didn't look like something was wrong. Wan Chun was sitting there, only to feel that someone was visiting her, she asked herself that she had passed the girlhood of spring, and her only wish after rebirth was revenge, and there was no hope in the affairs of her children, even if she could feel the appreciation of the fifth young master, she could only pretend not to understand.
Wan Chun thought that Zhang Jingtong had said something strange about the theater bombing, and there were no outsiders sitting around at the moment, so he asked: "Fang Cai Dong Wuye said that the bombing case was a warning to the old Beijing government, I don't know who has the courage to break the law at the feet of the Son of Heaven?" ”
Zhang Jingtong thought that this matter would definitely be reported tomorrow, and it was the same in the morning and evening, so he replied to her: "It's Japan!" ”
"Japan?" Wan Chun was surprised, frowned lightly, and said, "How can Japan be arrogant on our territory? Haven't the political exchanges between China and Japan always been friendly? ”
"Friendly? Phew! Zhang Jingtong smiled coldly, as if he deeply disdained the childishness in her words, "If you don't hear it, how can you allow others to snore next to the couch!" If Japan wants to get involved in the three northeastern provinces and cede land as a seat on the pillow of China, our government in the old Beijing will certainly not agree. At the last Nanjing meeting, the Japanese envoy had already mentioned this issue, but on the spot our representative from the old Beijing mercilessly refuted it. This time, they must see that the soft ones are not good, and they are probably going to be hard. ”
Come hard? Wan Chun was apprehensive, and there were some vague thoughts in his mind, but he couldn't be sure, so he asked Zhang Jingtong: "Could it be that they planned this explosion, is it for you?" ”