Chapter Twenty-Six: The Arrogant Family
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During the day, I don't go out of the house, my door is closed, and Huzi and I basically don't look at the bookstore.
In the evening, I talked to Huzi, and then went up to the roof, bending over the roof all the time, and after reaching the mouth of the alley, I squatted on the roof and observed for a while, making sure that no one was following me before jumping off.
I went to the shop and called the Corpse Shadow here.
This is an easy phone number to remember, it is 86-6767.
The call went through for a long time and no one answered, so I had to put it down first, and after a minute or two, I continued to call.
This time the call went through, and it was a man who answered. Now I was a little surprised, and when I was asked who I was looking for, I said I was looking for the corpse boss, and I said, "Did I make a mistake?" β
"No, no, you're not mistaken, Xiaoying is taking a bath, let her call you back later. Tell me your phone number. β
I said, "I'm Chen Yuan, and she knows it as soon as you say it." β
"Which Chen, which Yuan."
I said, "She knows as soon as you say it." β
"Okay, okay, I'll make a note of that." He said, "Do you have anything to do with Xiaoying?" β
When I heard it, I thought it was a little strange, what is the relationship between this person and the corpse? When has this been, and is still in the corpse's house. I didn't go on and hung up. I gave the store five cents and waited for the corpse to call back.
Unexpectedly, the call never returned.
I thought to myself that this was strange, and after waiting for another ten minutes, I called the corpse shadow again, and the corpse shadow quickly answered, and I said, "It's me, Chen Yuan." β
"Is there something wrong?"
I said, "It was a man who picked you up and said you were taking a shower." β
"Hmm."
It seemed that she could not speak easily, but then she said, "You say, I'll listen." β
"I'm afraid I'll have to meet in person, I have something to ask you."
She said, "Another day, I'm afraid it won't work today." β
I said, "There's no way to change it." If you can't get out, I'll go to your house and look for you. β
After thinking for a while, the corpse figure said, "Okay, you can come to my house." β
After I put down the phone, I gave the phone bill again, and thought to myself, why don't I buy something and bring it with me, so that it looks more formal.
Listening to the way the corpse and I talked on the phone, the man should have a close relationship with her, maybe it's a boyfriend or something. If I had gone so late empty-handed, this man would have thought I had an affair with the corpse. If I had brought something over, the man wouldn't have thought so, he would have thought that I was looking for a corpse to do something.
I asked the old man at the shop, "Do you still have fruit boxes?" β
"There is only a fruit box for the New Year, now where do I go to find that thing."
I said, "Then wrap me a trough cake, an ice flower, a burnt flower, a river rice strip, and a walnut cake." The fruit ticket should be auspicious and beautiful. β
"Don't worry, I've been doing this bag of fruit for half my life."
The fruit was wrapped in straw paper, and the straw rope hung overhead, and it came down with a pull of his hand. Bags of them were wrapped, pressed with fruit tickets, and placed neatly in front of me.
I said, "Two bottles of orange juice, two bottles of copycat cans." β
"Is this your medical number?"
I said, "Look at a friend." β
"Your friend is very important, and this is a lot of gifts." The old man handed over all the things, then pulled the abacus, and said to me, "Twenty-six or three cents in total." β
I snorted and paid. The old man found me a cardboard box, and I carried a box of things to the street corner to find a Dafa to sit on.
It's a buddy in the alley who drives Dafa, and I usually see it back and forth, but I haven't spoken. He asked me where I was going, and I said to Nanyuan.
When the car got up, I said, "Do you know me?" β
"Master Chen, who opened a bookstore, knows you in this piece."
I said, "If anyone asks you about me, don't tell them the truth." If you ask me where I'm in your car, tell him I'm going somewhere else, far away. β
"Master Chen, have you met a bad person? If you have something to say, the old and young masters can help you. Everyone knows that your family is a good person. β
I said, "I can handle it, and you can do what I say." β
"Then I said where have you been?"
"Say whatever you want, just don't tell the truth."
"Then I'll say you went to Xinfadi."
"Okay."
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The car was delivered to me at the door of the corpse's house, and I asked for ten dollars, and I gave twenty. People say they don't want anything, they say they don't have this price. I shoved twenty dollars into him, and I said, "I'm going to run back." β
I'm mainly asking people to help me lie, and the ten dollars are the lying fee.
Otherwise, people are so alone, why lie for me!
I carried my things to the door, and saw that there was a doorbell, and as soon as I rang the doorbell, the doorlight turned on, and soon the corpse came out in pajamas, and when I opened the door and saw me, I was stunned, and said, "Why did you move a box?" β
I showed her and said, "I'll bring you something to eat and drink." β
The corpse said, "Tell me something here." β
I was just about to say when I heard a man behind me shout: "Xiaoying, who, let someone into the house to talk." β
The corpse looked a little helpless, she looked at me and said, "Do you want to go in?" β
I nodded and said, "There are some things that are hard to say on the street." β
Before the corpse could speak, the man came out, stood beside the corpse, put his arm around the corpse's shoulder, and said, "Here comes the guest!" β
This man has a long square face, is 1.9 meters tall, wears a pair of myopic glasses, and looks like a very learned person.
His smile was kind, but it was adulterated, and it was clear that he was faking it. He's too much, and if I can be more bland I'll really believe him.
I said, "I'm not a guest, I have some business to discuss with the corpse boss." β
He stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, my name is John, and I flew from New York to see Xiaoying." I'm Shadow's fiancΓ©. β
This John was anxious to prove his identity to me, and it was obvious that he was asserting sovereignty and telling me that the figure was his.
The corpse shadow said: "Let me introduce, this is my fiancΓ©, and his hometown is from Shaoxing." His Chinese name is Zhu Changshun. β
Zhu Changshun said: "Just call me John." β
I said, "My name is Chen Yuan, and I don't have an English name, which makes you laugh." β
After some politeness, I was invited into the house, and I took out all the snacks, orange juice and canned hawthorn, and then I took the cardboard box out, unpacked it, and laid it flat and set aside.
As soon as he entered the house when he returned, the corpse said, "Go and wash your hands." β
I groaned and she took me to the bathroom. I went in to wash my hands, and she leaned against the door frame and said, "Is it a big deal?" β
I snorted and said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you at this time, can I say it in front of your fiancΓ©?" β
The corpse shadow said, "Is there anything about Ma Wu?" If you are concise, just say it now. β
The corpse said so, and I can only make a long story short.
I said, "Help me find out the two of them, what is the name of the girl who was defiled by Ma Wu's eldest son, where she lives, and who is in the family." There is also who the lover/person who gave birth to Ma Wu and where he lives. β
"Give me three days, maybe two days." She said. "Go back, I'll let you know if there's news."
I hummed, and after washing my hands, I said, "I'll say hello to Mr. John and leave." β
"It's hard for me to find a car here, how can you go back?"
I said, "I thought you were going to send me back, but now it seems a little unrealistic." I walked back. β
The corpse said, "It's far away, can it work?" β
I said, "I came to Beijing from my hometown to the train station, don't worry about me, maybe I can catch the train while walking." β
"Okay, be careful on your way."
When I came out, I saw that Zhu Changshun had opened all the fruits I brought, and there was a table full of trough cakes, ice flowers, burnt flowers, Jiang rice noodles, and walnut crisps.
He said: "Xiaoying, didn't I tell you not to eat sweets, look at it, it's all sugar." Do you know what the top three killers of health are? Oil, salt and sugar! And that orange juice, I tasted it, it's so sweet, how can your body bear it? β
I said, "Mr. John, orange juice is only drunk with water, and no one asks you to drink it like that." β
Zhu Changshun said: "We don't eat these things, Mr. Chen, you better take them back and give them to your family to eat, if you have to put them here, we can only throw them away." These are not healthy foods. In our United States, health is very important, low salt, low oil and low sugar are the secret to maintaining health. β
This man was so hostile that I knew I couldn't stay any longer. I said, "It's for the corpse boss, and the corpse boss can do whatever he wants." It wasn't too early, so I took my leave. β
"Didn't you say something? I haven't said anything yet. Zhu Changshun said.
I said, "I said it when I washed my hands." What is the specific matter, you can ask the corpse boss later. β
"It's said so quickly, why don't you say it on the phone?"
I said, "Speak fast because you're here, and if you're not there, I can talk for a long time." β
Zhu Changshun said: "Since this is the case, you can talk about it slowly, anyway, I'm also bored, I want to hear it." β
The corpse looked at me at this time and said lightly, "You go back first." β
I hummed, turned and walked out of the house.
The figure was not sent out at all, and I heard the man inside in the courtyard asking, "Who is this person?" β
I exhaled and said in my heart what is the situation, how can this person not understand the world at all, is he stupid in the United States/China! It's really a big forest, and there are all kinds of birds.
That night, I walked back to Panjiayuan from Nanyuan, walked for a while, ran for a while, and it took more than two hours to walk thirty miles. However, when I passed by the shop, I saw that the door of the store was still open, and the old man moved a chair to sit at the door, and when he saw me, the old man immediately stood up and said, "Master Chen, you are finally back." The corpse boss called, saying that when you come back, you must let me stop you and ask you to call her back. β
As soon as I heard it, I knew something was wrong.
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