Lin Wenjing was chattering about her mother's little photo in the chicken heart necklace in the boudoir, when she suddenly heard Aunt Mi's scolding: "What is Nong doing?" ”

Then I heard a familiar voice: "Madam, you are auspicious, I am digging dung." ”

Isn't this the uncle who hasn't seen the cart for a long time talking, Lin Wenjing went out to take a look, and sure enough, she saw Chen Zikun standing in the yard with a broom in his hand, nodding at Aunt Mi.

Mrs. looked him up and down a few times, and suddenly said, "Isn't Nong pulling a cart, why did he become a dung digger again, what did Nong do at my house?" What's in your heart? ”

Chen Zikun smiled and said: "Mrs., what you said is really interesting, I am a coolie, I don't pull a cart and dig out dung, I eat mixed bowls of rice, is there a difference?" ”

Mother Lin heard the movement and came out to explain: "Madam, he is really digging dung, and he has come back once." ”

Mrs. was relieved, but she still looked at Chen Zikun suspiciously, and said to Lin's mother: "Don't let all the messy people in the future." ”

After saying that, he stepped on his high heels and went out.

Mother Lin urged: "Let's leave quickly after cleaning, you are really, you don't work hard and run around with a broom." ”

Chen Zikun turned his head and grimaced at Lin Wenjing, and accosted: "When will school start?" ”

"School starts in a week." Lin Wenjing replied obediently, her face a little red for no reason.

Chen Zikun smiled, put down the broom, picked up the dung basket and went out.

Lin Wenjing tilted his head and watched his back leave, and his heart was also full of doubts, how could Uncle be elusive, a coachman for a while, a dung man, always appear near his house.

……

Wang Dongliang pulled the foreign car to the Yao Mansion, the residence of the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications is different from the mansion of ordinary dignitaries, this is a small Western-style building that is rare in Beijing, the courtyard is very large, the black iron gate, and the gray wall is also full of sharp bowl stubble.

knocked on the door, said that it was a new coachman, someone came to receive him, took it to the small garden in the backyard, and reported to the young lady, Yao Yilei was sleeping upstairs, and quickly got up, washed his face and changed his clothes and ran down, but when he saw that it was Wang Dongliang, he was immediately disappointed.

"How are you?" Miss Yao asked.

"The shopkeeper arranged for me to come." Wang Dongliang replied honestly.

"Why did you send you, and not others!" Miss Yao got angry and asked sharply.

Wang Dongliang was a little confused: "The shopkeeper asked me to come." ”

"Forget it, let me ask you, what about the big man in your depot, there is such an old and tall one, the one who laughs badly, why didn't you send him?" Miss Yao continued to ask.

Wang Dongliang understood: "Oh, that person is our boss, his name is Chen Zikun, and we all call him Da Kunzi." ”

"Go back and ask him to come in person." Miss Yao snorted angrily and turned around and went upstairs.

Wang Dongliang was stunned, he didn't know what to do, Ah Fu was wiping the car on the side, and then scolded: "If you go back, go back, what do you sell!" ”

Wang Dongliang saw the car, and suddenly realized, it turned out to be them, and this young lady sincerely came to find fault, no, I have to block it for Boss Chen, his mind moved, he straightened up and said: "Miss, our shopkeeper asked me to come, if I go back without a proper statement, then it will not work, I am the best driver of our Ziguang Depot, you will send me with a word, I am not convinced." ”

Miss Yao stopped and said, "Okay, then I'll give you a job to prove yourself, you go to my villa in Xishan now, pick up Ah Bian, Ah Fu, you tell him the address." ”

So Wang Dongliang started his first mission, pulled the empty car and set off, heading straight to the distant West Mountain.

……

Chen Zikun strolls around Dongjiaomin Lane, here is not only the embassy area, but also some shops specializing in imported goods, bicycles are also indispensable, but the price is very expensive, the best brand is the British three guns, the price is 300 yuan without discount.

The brand-new bicycle is placed in the glass window, the spokes of the stainless steel are shining silver, the thin rubber tires, the brown cowhide saddle, the black painted body, the silver bell, the buttered chain, and the three-gun logo on the front of the car, the whole body reveals a beautiful sense of industrial design, Chen Zikun squatted on the ground and watched for a long time, his heart was itching, and he made up a picture by himself, riding a bicycle by himself, with Lin Wenjing in the back seat, wandering on the street full of yellow leaves......

"Look at what, go away!" The salesman in the suit came out and scolded that the customers of the store are basically Europeans, Americans and Japanese, and the Chinese do not buy it.

"What the are you fartting, fake foreigner." Chen Zikun straightened up, a head taller than the salesman, and the crackling sound of two iron fists frightened him to quickly hide in, and muttered: "I don't know as much as you." ”

"! If you have money, you won't buy your home. Chen Zikun pinched the few copper dollars in his pocket and walked away.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly bumped into a person, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Assistant Mao from the Peking University Library.

"It's such a coincidence, come shopping, this is ......" Chen Zikun noticed that Assistant Mao was also followed by a slender girl, pure and lovely, compared with Lin Wenjing, the two were holding hands, and after seeing Chen Zikun, they quietly let go.

"Oh, it's Xiao Chen, I'll buy some gifts and bring them to my classmates in Hunan, this is Yang Kaihui, the daughter of Professor Yang Changji."

"Hello." Chen Zikun politely greeted Yang Kaihui, and asked Assistant Mao: "What, you want to go back to your hometown?" ”

"Yes, I will return to Hunan in half a month, although Beijing is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time." Assistant Mao said.

"Say it when you go, I'll see you off. Don't bother, you can continue shopping, goodbye. Chen Zikun gave up his hand, left first, walked a few steps and looked back, and couldn't help but be envious, when would he be able to go shopping arm in arm with Lin Wenjing like them.

Back at the Ziguang Depot, Chen Zikun asked Xue Pingshun: "Uncle Xue, how much money can be used in the account?" ”

Xue Pingshun took out the account book, pulled the abacus a few times and said: "I just bought a new car, and there is no money left in the account, so I can make up thirty or forty yuan by scraping it together." ”

Chen Zikun was dumbfounded, there was no way.

……

Today is Sunday, Assistant Mao is busy, took Kaihui sister to the street for a walk, and used the saved salary to buy some small gifts for relatives and classmates in Hunan, his resignation letter has been handed over, but he can't leave until the newcomer comes.

After shopping on the street, Kaihui was sent home, and Assistant Mao came to the library of Peking University again, although Li Dazhao was in charge, but the work of sorting out newspapers and periodicals was very cumbersome, and he had to do it himself.

When I entered the library, I heard Chen Duxiu's resentful voice: "Shameless, next work, this must be done by those old-fashioned literati!" ”

Then came Li Dazhao's voice: "In my opinion, the old school may not have such great energy, almost all the newspapers in Beijing published the same news overnight, and they did everything they could to slander, I think the black hand behind it must be a higher-level figure." ”

"What Brother Shouchang said?"

"Naturally, it is Xiao Xu, Xu Shuzheng is comparable to Zhou Yu, although he is talented, but his strength is narrow, he lacks overall consideration in doing things, and he often insists on going his own way, reckless of the consequences, he formed the Anfu Club and squeezed out the original ally research department from the Congress, causing the resentment of Liang Qichao, Lin Changmin and others; He also killed Army General Lu Jianzhang and broke the rules of Beiyang; On the surface, it seems to be vigorous and resolute, iron-fisted methods, but in fact, there are a lot of root causes, this time the Beijing newspaper arranged to publish your scandal, the same reason, in order to crack down on the progressive trend of thought, Xiao Xu is doing everything. ”

Chen Duxiu said hatefully: "Warlord! Takeo! ”

Li Dazhao said: "Zhongfu doesn't have to be angry, and don't worry, Peking University is free, since it can accommodate Gu Hongming, who is the royalist, and Liu Shipei, who is restored, how can he not tolerate Chen Zhongfu, who sleeps in the willows, haha." ”

Assistant Mao smiled heartily outside, sorted out the newspaper he had just arrived today, and saw the above report about Peking University's "Professor C" fighting with the National People's Congress in Bada Hutong, and after browsing it, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

……

At night, Chen Zikun was hanging upside down on a big tree in the yard exercising, when he suddenly saw Xue Pingshun come in and beckoned to him: "Da Kunzi, something happened." ”

Hurriedly jumped down and came to the front yard, only to see Wang Dongliang sitting at the table, panting heavily, and muttering: "It's too bullying, it's too bullying!" There was a group of changing drivers sitting around, and they were all angry.

"What's going on, speak slowly." Chan poured a bowl of water for him.

Wang Dongliang drank the water and wiped his mouth: "They don't treat people as people, I went over this morning, Miss asked me to go to Xishan to pull a man named Ah Bian, I ran for two hours to get to the place, what happened, Ah Bian is not a human at all, he is a dog!" A leper dog! ”

"It's not a thing!" The drivers felt the same and felt deeply insulted.

Wang Dongliang continued: "I thought, since I came, pull it, no rope, no cage, sitting in the car is not honest, keep yelling at me, in the end I can't help it, I found a straw rope to tie up the dog things before pulling it back, along the way I feel that the back is like a needle prick, and the shame is thrown to my grandmother's house!" ”

"It's just that it's too bullying, and you obviously don't treat us as human beings!" The coachmen were gossiping.

Chen Zikun smiled: "Later." ”

"Later, I pulled the dog back to the mansion, they all had eaten, and the lady asked the maid to get me some nest pickles, and the dog was roast chicken and elbows, so that I and the dog could sit at the same table to eat, this is not deliberately shabby, I am not even as good as a dog." Wang Dongliang's chest rose and fell, and the coachmen were also indignant and scolded.

"So you're back?" Chan asked.

"Boss, their housekeeper said, let me continue to pull that dog out on the street tomorrow, I really can't stand it, please push this job." Wang Dongliang said.

"It's just that we can't take this kind of work if we starve to death." The coachmen also chimed in.

Xue Pingshun shook his head secretly, and said in his heart that these new coachmen from the countryside still haven't gone through the wind and rain, to put it mildly, the poor one pulling the car is really not as good as a dog in a dignitary's family, Da Kunzi must not be as arrogant as them.

"Okay, tomorrow you go to run the street, and I'll go to the Yao Mansion in person." Chen Zikun agreed, and an evil smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.