In the past, when he was a horse thief, he often sent people to intervene, that is, he lurked in the kiln that was ready to be smashed to investigate, this job was not done by a hideous person, usually handed over to Chen Zikun, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a dignified appearance, and in the face of interrogation, he always answered fluently and without any mistakes, so he did not have the slightest pressure in front of Mrs. Yao.

"My ancestral home is Hunan, born in Guangdong, grew up outside the Guan, my parents died when I was a child, and my uncle who did business brought me up, and now my uncle has also died of illness, and the coffin is still parked in Biyun Temple." Chen Zikun unhurriedly recounted his life experience, Mrs. Yao nodded slowly, and said, "I heard that you were a bandit?" ”

Yao Yilei's heart just let go and brought it up again, and said Mommy, why don't you open which pot to mention.

Chen Zikun was prepared and responded calmly: "I followed my uncle's friend to do business in Harbin, and I was a serious trader, probably because I was a good person, and the caravans outside the customs were often also businessmen and bandits, so it would cause misunderstandings. ”

This answer made Mrs. Yao very satisfied, and she asked again, "You are so good, who did you learn from?" ”

"I have studied under Huo Yuanjia of Jingwumen since I was a child, and Master Huang Feihong of Foshan Baozhilin, and I have practiced some fur kung fu, which is not enough to worry about."

Mrs. Yao sighed and nodded, in fact, she didn't know Huo Yuanjia and Huang Feihong at all, she just wanted to find out the details of Chen Zikun.

"Since you have worshiped a famous teacher since you were a child, then your Chen family must be a famous family." Mrs. Yao's words are a bit level, poor literature and rich martial arts, only rich families have leisure, and have spare money to invite their sons to learn martial arts, and children from poor families just want to study and gain fame to change their fate, and there are usually few martial arts practitioners.

Chen Zikun said unhurriedly: "My uncle used to be a member of the Restoration Society, he traveled extensively, and it is not surprising that he knows some chivalrous warriors, our Chen family was also brilliant in the early years, and now the family is in the middle of the road, and there is no successor, but I never dare to forget the family motto of learning the boundless sea, after coming to Beijing, I have worshiped Gu Hongming and Liu Shipei as teachers, learning Western and Chinese ......"

"Wait, you're a student of Gu Hongming, oh, mygod, incredible." Mrs. Yao exaggeratedly covered her chest, this future son-in-law brought her too many surprises, it turned out that the family was not an uneducated coolie at all, but a southern wang family, there is no doubt about this, those people who will be reunited by the alliance are rich and powerful southerners, and he is also a student of Gu Hongming, this is amazing, such a son-in-law took it out and said, not only is it not ashamed, but it can also win a lot of face in the social field.

Mrs. Yao glanced at her daughter with disgust, blaming her for not reporting truthfully, Yao Yilei was also a little dumbfounded, she hadn't heard Chen Zikun introduce these things, and thought he was fooling Mommy.

Chen Zikun's heart is extremely sour at the moment, and when he mentions Gu Hongming, he thinks of Peking University, and when he thinks of Peking University, he thinks of Lin Wenjing, and his first love who has died.

"Xiao Chen, can you help me have afternoon tea with Professor Gu, I am his loyal fan." Mrs. Yao said.

Chen Zikun said: "Okay, I'll call and ask first." Saying that, she really picked up the phone and reported a number to the operator, and Mrs. Yao opened the phone number book and glanced at it, and it was really the number on Gu Hongming's house.

"Oh, that's it, let's talk about it when Teacher Gu comes back, I bought good Nanyang tobacco leaves for Teacher and bring them over tomorrow." Chen Zikun hung up the phone and said embarrassedly: "Professor Gu went to class, let's make an appointment tomorrow." ”

Mrs. Yao still has the slightest doubt, at this time, the more she looks at Chen Zikun, the more pleasing to the eye, it is in response to the old saying, the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at it, the more interesting it is, for the appearance of people, she has studied it, all the children of poor families will always grow because of poor care or nutrition, so that the face is yellow and thin, crooked melons and cracked dates, and the children of rich families can keep up with nutrition and education, so they are tall, their facial features are upright, and they look at Chen Zikun's appearance, even if they are not from rich and noble families, they are also the sons of wealthy people.

Yao Yilei peeked at her mother's smile, knowing that this was done, her heart blossomed, and she said: "Mommy, in fact, he still has an identity, he and the one in the Forbidden City are friends. ”

Mrs. Yao was startled: "Henry? ”

"It's Emperor Xuantong." Yao Yilei said.

Mrs. Yao smiled, it seemed that her prospective son-in-law was really an interesting person, and even the abolished emperor Puyi could catch up with her, and she admitted that she underestimated the other party.

She coughed dryly and talked about business: "Xiao Chen, you and Lei Lei are dating, we as parents have no objection, but Lei Lei's father and I both think that a man should start a business first and then start a family, besides, Lei Lei is still young, you are not very old, and you have time, so you don't need to be in a hurry to get married, get along first and then talk about it, in terms of your career, we will not let go of the favors that should be helped." ”

As soon as he said this, he basically recognized the relationship between Chen Zikun and Yao Yilei.

"Thank you, Mommy, we went out to play, and we invite you to eat Western food at the Liuguo Hotel in the evening." Yao Yilei jumped up excitedly, pulled Chen Zikun and was about to leave, Mrs. Yao said, "I'll go to your Uncle Cao's house to play cards later, and you can play by yourself." ”

Five minutes later, Vice-Chancellor Yao returned, with a tired look on his face, and it seemed that the negotiations had failed again.

"Oh, if you come a little earlier, you can see Xiao Chen." Mrs. said.

"Which Xiao Chen?" Vice Chief Yao absentmindedly took off his suit jacket, the gold watch chain on the vest swayed, it was already the beginning of May, the spring in Beijing was very bright, but unfortunately Vice Minister Yao's mood was as bad as winter, the Japanese were insatiable, and they had to make inches at the negotiation table, which made him very angry.

"You forgot, it's Lei Lei's boyfriend, Chen Zikun, he just came, I took a closer look, this young man is really not simple, I think we should reconsider this matter."

Vice Chief Yao's hand that was untying his tie stopped, and he frowned, "Did you change your mind and really plan to let Lei Lei marry him?" ”

"I have this idea, you listen to me, he is not only from the Guangdong family, but also a student of Gu Hongming, a friend of Pu Yi, with great French, and an uncle of the Alliance or the Restoration Society at home." Mrs. Yao was very logical and said it in a mess, which caused Vice Chief Yao to wake up.

He originally thought that his daughter was just a simple martial artist, but he didn't expect this person's background to be so complicated, which was definitely a dangerous signal.

Seeing her husband contemplating and pondering, Mrs. Yao joked: "Why, I'm jealous, they all say that my daughter was my father's lover in my father's previous life, are you reluctant to marry Lei Lei?" ”

Vice Chief Yao laughed dryly: "If there is nothing, you can do what you want." ”

"That's it, the young man is good, and if you cultivate it, you can be considered worthy of our family Leilei." Mrs. Yao seemed very happy, picked up her bag and went out, turned her head and said, "I went to Zhaojialou to play mahjong with Mrs. Cao, and I won't come to dinner at night." ”

"Go, go." Vice Chief Yao sent his wife, pondered for a while, and then picked up the phone and asked for the number of Police Superintendent Wu Bingxiang.

The phone rang for a long time and no one answered, and Vice Minister Yao remembered that today was Sunday, and except for their hard-working foreign affairs negotiation team of the Ministry of Communications, other government departments were on vacation.

……

Chen Zikun and Yao Yilei drove to Dongjiaomin Lane, but the car could not drive in, the road was blocked by the crowd, and they saw a large group of people gathered at the entrance of the US Legation from a distance, shouting something hoarsely, too far away to hear clearly.

Yao Yilei got out of the car, held Chen Zikun's arm, and looked in the direction of the legation on tiptoe, only to see a white banner flying up and down, with huge black letters written on it: Swear to fight to the death, return me to Qingdao.

"It's our students at Peking University." Chen Zikun was a little excited, pulled Yao Yilei and squeezed over, and when he came closer, several college students stood at the door of the US Legation with petitions in their hands, and one of them raised his arms and shouted: "Long live President Wilson!" ”

Then a large number of students shouted together: "Long live President Wilson!" "The sound came and went.

The leading student shouted again: "Long live the fourteen o'clock statement!" ”

The students shouted again.

The Marines at the entrance of the U.S. Legation looked coldly at this group of excited students, unmoved, the May sun shone on these soldiers in yellow tweed uniforms, a little hot, a little irritable.

"What are they doing?" Yao Yilei leaned on Chen Zikun's ear and asked.

"They were petitioning U.S. Minister Reinsch to ask the U.S. president to do justice at the Paris Peace Conference and not to cede Tsingtao to the Japanese." Chen Zikun replied calmly, he often followed Xiong Xiling and other people, and he was exposed to a lot of national affairs, and he could actually say that he was the truth.

Yao Yilei asked again: "Then why do they only petition the Americans, and not go to the British and French?" ”

"Because they believe that President Wilson is a righteous man." Chen Zikun sneered.

"Actually?"

"In the jungle world, the fanged beasts only respect the same kind with fangs, Shandong is the fat meat that the Japanese have eaten in their mouths, will the Americans go to war with the Japanese for China?"

Yao Yilei looked at him with adoring eyes: "You know so much." ”

As he spoke, the door of the U.S. Legation opened, and a young man dressed as a junior clerk came out, negotiated a few words with the leading student, accepted the petition, and went back to close the door.

Several leading students got together to discuss for a long time, and one of them stood up and said: "The government offices are on vacation, they can't petition, and the ministers of various countries are not in the embassies, so they can't accept our appeal, and I suggest that the march end there." ”

There was a commotion among the students.

Suddenly, someone shouted: "Go to Zhao's house to find the traitor Cao Rulin to settle accounts!" ”

Yao Yilei was taken aback: "It's not good, my mommy went to play mahjong with Mrs. Cao today." ”