Chen Zikun is back, still living in the back house of the Ziguang Depot in Hair Hutong, the main house is his bedroom, so many years, even the furnishings have not changed, every few days Aunt Wang will clean up, waiting for Chen Zikun to come back to live.

Now that Da Kunzi is finally back, Xing'er and Aunt Wang are busy going around, drying quilts, playing cotton, cleaning the courtyard, Baoqing is like a gourd, and he yelled for a long time: "Add vegetables today and eat stewed elbows." Everyone laughed, knowing that this was a unique expression of Shopkeeper Xue's joy when he was happy.

Chen Zikun was also drunk, and was helped to the backyard wall to vomit, and suddenly saw a dusty bicycle parked under the carport, the floodgate of memory was opened, the pigeon whistle sounded in the sky, the rock sugar gourd in Shichahai, the encounter on the campus of Peking University, the romance in the Liuguo Hotel, and all the scenes came to mind.

It's been four years, I don't know where Lin Wenjing is, maybe I've married another woman, Chen Zikun rubbed the handlebar of the bicycle, sighing.

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The next day, Chen Zikun changed into a new clothes and went to visit Xiong Xiling, Xiong Lao saw that he had returned to China after completing his studies, so he naturally encouraged him, and when he heard that he was still living in the car factory, the former prime minister immediately said that it was inappropriate.

"Now that you have been assigned to serve in the War Department, it is even more important to find a decent house to live in, what kind of system does it become to live in the depot, if you have no place to live for the time being, come to live with me." Xiong Xiling said.

Chen Zikun is naturally submissive, the old gentleman has good intentions, but he doesn't understand his own intentions, although he went abroad to gild and put on military uniforms and riding boots, but his heart has not changed.

At noon, I had dinner in Xiongfu, Chen Zikun visited his teacher Gu Hongming with gifts, and the former students visited, Professor Gu was naturally very happy, and then listened to Chen Zikun say a few words of French and English, and even more commented: "The tone is already very sufficient, in terms of language talent, I know three geniuses, Zhao Yuanren is one, and you are one." ”

Chen Zikun asked knowingly, "What about the other one?" ”

"Of course it's the old man." Gu Hongming twisted his beard and said, looking crazy.

The two of them burst out laughing.

Coming out of Chunshu Hutong, Chen Zikun naturally went to the Houzhai Hutong of Shijuma Street, the house where Lin Wenjing once lived was still empty, the paint peeling on the door was even more serious, a gust of wind blew, and the withered grass on the wall danced, even more withered.

Chen Zikun thought that he had been taken care of by him at Peking University, so he came to visit, knocked on the door for a while, and a little girl came to open the door and asked vigilantly, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"I'm looking for Mr. Li Dazhao." Chen Zikun said, seeing that the girl had no intention of letting herself in, he added: "I am his student." ”

"My dad isn't at home, you can come back another day." The little girl couldn't help but close the door.

Chen Zikun shrugged his shoulders and had to leave, and as soon as he walked out of the alley, he felt someone following him, he took out a cigarette case and a gold-plated lighter to light a cigarette, and the mirror lighter showed the appearance of a stalker, a man in a blue cloth robe and top hat.

Continue to walk forward, when passing the corner of the street, Chen Zikun suddenly flew up to the wall, the stalker turned the corner, found that the target was lost, looked around, and was about to leave in a huff, suddenly Chen Zikun fell from the sky, grabbed his collar: "! Dare to stare at Lao Tzu! ”

With a slap in the face, the man's nose bleeded, his teeth flew, and after staggering back a few steps, he pulled out a small black pistol from his waist.

Chen Zikun kicked the gun off with a single kick, stepped forward and grabbed the man's arm and forced, with a snap, his arm was dislocated, and he knelt on the ground with a sigh of pain.

"Damn, dare to play with guns in front of Lao Tzu, live impatiently." Chen Zikun also carried a pistol with him, which was a small and delicate silver flower-mouthed picker, which was a gift from Zhang Xueliang back then.

Seeing him pull out his gun, the man immediately relented: "Sir, your own people." ”

"Phew, who's with your own people." Chen Zikun scolded.

"Sir, I'm a detective from the National Police Agency's detective team."

"Oh, Detective brother." Chen Zikun put away the gun and said in a big way: "I'm from the War Department, what are you staring at me for?" ”

The detective said with a bitter face: "Sir, I was ordered to monitor Li Dazhao's house, and everyone who has dealings with him must be watched, how do I know that you are the commander of the War Department, look at your appearance, you are a college student." ”

Chen Zikun turned his head to look at himself in the glass window on the street, wearing a woolen suit, with handsome eyebrows, indeed like a college student, so he lifted the detective's arm up, and the joint recovered.

"Why are you spying on Li Dazhao?"

"He's a red."

"Oh...... Don't follow me next time. Chen Zikun didn't want to continue to entangle with him, so he took the gun and left, but the detective didn't dare to provoke him, so he ran away.

Chen Zikun called a foreign car, ready to go back to the hair alley, the driver just ran two steps, rushed out of a car in the oblique stab, and knocked the foreign car to the ground. 、

Four big men came out of the car, and pounced on them with their teeth and claws, Chen Zikun was not in a hurry, and after a punch and kick, the four guys lay on the ground and hummed, but Chen Zikun's suit was also ripped off.

Another car roared in, the door opened, and the first to jump out was the stalking spy just now, pointing at Chen Zikun and shouting: "Captain, it's him!" ”

The back door of the car opened, and a middle-aged man with a gloomy face came down, wearing a double-breasted tweed suit, a tweed coat covered with a fox fur collar, and a tweed hat by Sheng Xifu.

As soon as this person saw Chen Zikun, he immediately turned cloudy and sunny, and grinned: "Brother Chen, when will you go back to Beijing, you won't notify your brother, so I can pick you up at the station." ”

It turned out that he was Chen Zikun's old acquaintance, Xu Guodong, the captain of the detective team of the Beijing Police Department.

"Brother Xu, don't come to harm, didn't I just return to Beijing from Luoyang, I haven't found time to sit there with you, how about brother, it's okay for the past two years." Chen Zikun took out a gold cigarette case and handed one to Xu Guodong, "Have an American cigarette." ”

"You're welcome." Xu Guodong took the cigarette, took out his own lighter to help Chen Zikun light it, and then lit it himself, and said, "My brother is now working in the War Department?" ”

"Yes, the marshal asked me to go to the War Department for training, isn't this still in the middle of the holiday, and I won't report until the New Year."

The two of them chatted hotly here, completely ignoring the four detectives lying on the ground, the guy who was watching saw Chen Zikun and Xu Guodong talking and laughing, and he understood that he had misreported the military situation, this kid was really an official of the War Department, and his status was not low, even Captain Xu called him a brother.

After chatting for a while, Xu Guodong mentioned that there was a misunderstanding, and apologized to Chen Zikun repeatedly, Chen Zikun is also a cheerful person, and said with a smile: "Isn't this okay, but other people's foreign cars can be damaged by you." ”

The unlucky foreign coachman has been standing by and looking at them pitifully, not that he is not afraid, but that the foreign car is broken and he can't make a difference.

Xu Guodong immediately took out a few banknotes and asked his subordinates to give them to the coachman, sent him away and said, "Brother, I will be the east at night and pick up the wind and wash the dust for you." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Another day, I made an appointment tonight." ”

Xu Guodong quipped: "Who did you make an appointment, or I'll go and have a good time." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Oh, it's an old friend from the past, named Li Junqing." ”

Xu Guodong gasped, of course he knew very well what Li Junqing was, this person was originally a bath worker in Huaqing Pool in the Tianqiao Bathhouse, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, more handsome than a woman, and later caught up with Li Yanqing, a big celebrity next to Cao Laoshuai, and since then he has been out of control, Chen Zikun is good friends with him, which is equivalent to being among the top in the political arena.

"Hehe, then I'm not going to make trouble for the sixth master." Xu Guodong knows that he is a small detective captain, even if the director of the police department arrives in person, no one may give face.

"Yo, your clothes are torn, this is really sorry for you, let's make an appointment, Ruifuxiang will make you a new set of clothes, what do you think?" Xu Guodong suddenly found a big hole in Chen Zikun's clothes and hurriedly made amends.

"Don't bother, the brothers are just doing their duty, go back and tell them that I'm sorry, I may have a bit of a heavy fist and kick." Chen Zikun didn't intend to pursue anything, took out his pocket watch, looked at it and said, "It's not early, I'll leave first." ”

"Please, go slowly." Xu Guodong smiled and watched Chen Zikun leave.

When Chen Zikun walked away, the detective cautiously asked, "Boss, who is he?" ”

"He, that started four years ago......" Xu Guodong looked fascinated.

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When I got home, I found that the suit was not only torn open with a big hole, but the back placket was also broken, Chen Zikun brought a suit from Shanghai, this one was broken, only the military uniform could be worn, and I had no choice but to wear the military uniform to the banquet.

The dinner party was invited by Li Junqing, and now he is really good, even with Zhao Jiayong, Xiao Zhao was just a guard at the Zhengyangmen Railway Station, but now the tide is rising, and he has been promoted to the platoon commander of the Ministry of Communications' road guard.

The brothers got together again, but the atmosphere was not quite the same, Li Junqing and Zhao Jiayong were quite able to talk about going together, talking about the new things in Beijing officialdom, what was the aunt of a certain chief's family and the coachman's fornication, a certain lady's wife of the chief's family stealing a man, etc., Xue Baoqing obviously had no common language with them, so he could only drink stupidly.

It was snowing outside again, and the towering city tower of Zhengyangmen could be seen standing in the wind and snow from a distance, and the Donglaishun Hotel was as warm as spring, but Chen Zikun's heart was not warm at all, because he could no longer find the feeling of the year.