Chapter 30 The Lady of the Vice-Chancellor of the Ministry of Communications
In fact, Zhao Yuchen has long moved the idea of retreating, now is the era of telegraph and railway speed guns, the dart game has long become an outdated thing, and teaching a few apprentices is just to miss the original glory days.
This time he lost to Yu Zhankui, and the idea of retreating was even stronger, and he finally admitted that he was old.
The Zhao family has a house in the hair alley of Xuanwumen, the yard is not big, three in, empty is also empty, I heard that Chen Zikun is looking for a house, so he simply asked someone to bring a message to him, and rent it to him cheaply, the rent is not much, only five yuan a month, in fact, there is also a sense of gratitude, after all, it was Chen Zikun who defeated Yu Zhankui, so he saved a little face for the old man.
Zhao Lao Dart Master said to leave, did not meet with them, and hired a donkey cart to return to Baoding Mansion on the same day, and a big house was left to Chen Zikun.
When Chen Zikun came to his new house, he looked up and saw that the paint on the Ruyi door was peeling, the copper knocker was dull, a few yellow artemisia grass on the eaves danced in the wind, and the cracks in the walls were black, presumably full of moss in summer.
Take out the key to open the copper lock, go in and walk around, although the house is dilapidated, but the courtyard of the eight classics, the street door, the wall, the inverted room, the hanging flower door, the main room of the three rooms, the wing room, the moon door on both sides, the back cover room where the maid and the old mother live, everything is complete, even the furniture is ready-made, the Huanghuali furniture of a water shows the glory of the heyday of the dart game.
When he first came to Beijing, his entire property was only 50 yuan, a suit of clothes, and a knife, and now it has expanded to four foreign cars and a house, although it is only a rented house, it can be regarded as his own home.
The front yard is used as a car factory, the inverted house is stored, and the coachman can be used as a dormitory, and the back house is lived, and the main house is a total of nine rooms, and the main house is rich, Chen Zikun let Xiaoshunzi and Baoqing move to live together, and the province lives in the outer city back and forth, and it is troublesome to go back and forth when the city gate is closed.
Xiao Shunzi works at the Liuguo Hotel, Baoqing pulls a monthly package at Citi Clinic, and both places are in the inner city, so it is perfect to live in the hair alley, and Xiao Shunzi also moved in happily.
The old woman Chen Zikun picked up on the street also followed in, the old woman's surname is Wang, everyone calls her Aunt Wang, she has no relatives in Beijing, Chen Zikun is her only support, according to Chen Zikun, let her live in the landlord's house, but she didn't agree to die, saying that it was where the elders of the family lived, and she just lived in the back cover room, which was next to the kitchen, and it was convenient to take care of everyone's food and drink.
"Da Kunzi is really powerful, I didn't spend a penny, and I found a diligent old mother." Xiao Shunzi said this in private.
There are still a few days to go before the New Year, every family is busy buying New Year's goods, Chen Zikun is alone, the whole family is not hungry after eating, but the New Year is going to pass, how can he be a bachelor to do New Year's goods, inside and outside are Xing'er to help Zhang Luo.
Since the opening of the Ziguang Depot, the neighbors of the miscellaneous yard have often come to help, buy vegetables and cook, wash clothes and sweep the floor, they are all in charge, among which Xing'er is the most diligent, the scar on her face is shallow, after applying the foreign medicine of Dr. Stanley, it is almost good, and she is busy in the Ziguang Depot all day long, and she thinks she is the boss's daughter-in-law if she doesn't know.
When Baoqing heard about this, his heart was sour, so he took the time to come over and help Xing'er work, and chatted by the way, but Xing'er's favorite thing to talk about was what happened to Da Kunzi, and Baoqing was sad.
Chen Zikun didn't know this, he ran around the city with a car every day, and when he was free, he went to the door of the Lin Mansion to squat, but unfortunately he never met Lin Wenjing.
Within a few days, the streets and alleys of Beijing City were visited by Chen Zikun, and there may be a few remote alleys that I don't know, but the main streets are familiar, and there is no longer a need for guests to show the way when pulling the car.
At six o'clock in the evening of the 29th of the year, Chen Zikun pulled the car back to the depot to hand over the shift, and Xing'er told him: "There is an old man waiting for you for a long time, just left." Leave this. ”
As he spoke, he took out a business card, and there were three words on it: Du Xinwu.
Chen Zikun looked at the business card over and over again, and muttered: "I seem to have heard this name somewhere, why don't you keep him." ”
"We left him for dinner, and he left, saying that he would come back another day." Apricot said.
The food on the table has been set, fried shredded pork with cabbage, pasted cakes, porridge with sticks and noodles, the hungry Chen Zikun sat at the table and ate it, Xing'er sewed and mended her clothes, and said softly: "Don't choke, no one will rob you." ”
"Apricots, you can eat it too." Chen Zikun bit the cake and said.
"I've eaten it." Xing'er bit the thread with her teeth, blushed, and asked, "Da Kunzi, when will you get married?" ”
"What kind of home, don't I have a home?"
"Stupid, it's not that family, it's asking when you will marry your daughter-in-law."
"Daughter-in-law~~" Chen Zikun put down the bowl, and Lin Wenjing's round face appeared in his mind.
Seeing him in a daze, Xing'er's face turned even redder, and the candlelight flickered, but Chen Zikun, a stupid guy, didn't even notice it.
"I want to marry a ......," Chen Zikun looked at the sky with chopsticks.
Xing'er's eyes looked at him eagerly, and her breathing became rapid.
"Marry a schoolgirl." Chen Zikun smacked his lips and picked up the bowl again and began to eat.
"I'm leaving." Xing'er threw away the clothes that had not been mended, got up and left.
"What's going on?" Chan stared at two innocent eyes.
Xing'er hurriedly walked out of the second door, and was when Baoqing came in, and the two passed by.
"Xing'er, what's wrong with you?" Baoqing asked.
"It's fine." Apricot walked away with her head down.
Baoqing wanted to ask the past, but there were still important things to tell Chen Zikun, so he could only reluctantly glance at Xing'er's slender back, walked into the main room quickly, and saw that Chen Zikun was still eating, and said hurriedly: "You still have the heart to eat, our car is smashed." ”
"Who is so bold as to smash my car." Chen Zikun pushed the dining table, picked up his coat and went out.
The place where the conflict occurred was not far from the depot, there was a bunch of people around the roadside, the purple car overturned to the ground, the copper horn was deflated, the calcium carbide lamp was rotten, the car curtain was torn into strips, and his own buddy Wang Dongliang squatted on the side of the road with his head in his hands, not saying a word, and blood was dripping from his nose.
There was a black four-wheeled car on the road, the hood of the headlights was shattered, white smoke was billowing from the hood, and a man dressed as a driver in a black uniform and a hat was swearing and inspecting the car, and there was a faint person sitting in the car.
Chen Zikun walked quickly, and knew what was going on at a glance, he stepped forward and grabbed the driver's collar and asked, "You smashed the car?" ”
The coachman glared, without fear: "Let go!" ”
"Smack!" A big mouth went up first, knocking him around three times.
Chen Zikun walked to the side of the road and asked Wang Dongliang: "Man, how are you?" ”
"Boss, I'm fine, it's just that the car broke down, I can't live with you." Wang Dongliang snorted.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know what's going on, just as I was about to turn the corner, the car crashed over, and half of the wheels of our car were broken, and the man came down and hit me......"
"He hit you, why didn't you hit him?"
"I don't dare."
Of course, Wang Dongliang didn't dare to argue with the people who drove the car, cars are a rare thing these days, except for the foreigners in Dongjiaomin Lane, that is, the chief and deputy ministers of the government and their families sitting, they are all high-ranking officials and nobles who can't be provoked, and the ordinary people can't hide, how dare they fight.
"Did you gesture when you turned, did the car whistle behind you?" Chan asked.
"Why didn't I fight, I turned right and stretched out my hand, and I rang the bell, I didn't hear the car horn behind me."
Chen Zikun sneered, he has learned a lot of traffic rules in the past few days, and the car accident is clearly responsible for the car, which damaged his foreign car and beat people, and this account has to be settled with them.
When he turned around, he found a young girl standing in front of him, with her hands on her hips and her waist in anger.
"Who are you! Dare to hit my family's car driver, I think you have eaten the guts of an ambitious leopard! ”
Although he was in a frenzy, his voice was milky, no matter how he looked at it, he felt cute, Chen Zikun couldn't help laughing, holding his arms in his hands, looking at the girl condescendingly, and sneering: "Call your adult to talk to me." ”
The girl was even more annoyed, puffing out her cheeks and blowing, the bangs on her forehead were blown up, she was short, and she had no power at all in front of Chen Zikun, and she went back to sitting in the car with a glare.
The siren sounded, and the patrol officer on duty on the street finally came to deal with the dispute, and when she saw the police coming, the girl got up again, jumped out of the car and shouted: "Patrol officer, arrest this person!" He delayed my delay for the dance and beat my coachman! ”
The patrol officer looked at the license plate of the car, and suddenly piled up a smile: "Miss Yao, you are auspicious." ”
The girl raised her head and ignored him proudly.
Here Xue Pingshun also arrived out of breath, and couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this scene, he had been a patrol officer on the ground in Beijing for more than ten years, and he didn't understand anything, and he knew that it was used by senior cabinet officials when he looked at the car license plate.
Seeing that his old colleague had also arrived, the patrol officer was even more embarrassed, and leaned over and whispered: "Lao Xue, this matter is not easy to do, the car of Deputy Chief Yao of the Ministry of Communications can't afford to be provoked, make a gift and quickly settle the matter, save trouble." ”
Xue Pingshun's heart sank, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications, who was a high-ranking official with great power, he hurriedly persuaded: "Da Kunzi, you are reckless, we can't afford to provoke her, hurry up and apologize." ”
Chen Zikun said: "It should be that they apologize to us, how important it is to catch the dance, they actually went on a rampage on the street, crashed into other people's cars, not only did not apologize, but also beat people, this kind of dog fighting people's situation, I Chen Zikun saw a beating." ”
Hearing him announce his name, the patrol officer's eyes straightened: "You...... Are you the Kun Ye who defeated Yu Zhankui? ”
"That's right, I'm Chen Zikun."
"Oh, long looking." The patrol officer was overwhelmed with excitement.
The girl didn't expect this to happen, obviously she was still a child, and she didn't have much experience in society, so she didn't know what to do for a while, so she had to go ahead with thirty-six plans, and greeted her own driver: "Ah Fu, let's go." ”
"Don't go." Chen Zikun shouted, scaring the girl into a tremble.
"What are you going to do?"
"You violated the traffic rules first, crashed my car, and hit my person, it's unreasonable, I have just taught him a lesson, even if the beating is settled, just pay for my car."
"How much does it cost?"
Seeing that the girl was so frightened by herself that she stammered a little, Chen Zikun couldn't continue to be mad, looked at the damaged foreign car, estimated it, and said, "Pay five yuan." ”
The girl seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, took out a ten-yuan Bank of Communications ticket from her wallet and handed it to the patrolman: "You give it to him, you don't have to look for it." ”
The patrol officer accompanied the smiling face and transferred the banknote to Chen Zikun.
"I don't take advantage of others, I can do as much as I want." Chen Zikun took out a five-yuan ticket and handed it directly to the girl.
The girl didn't answer, Chen Zikun directly grabbed her hand and stuffed the ticket into her soft wattle.
"Let's go." Chen Zikun took Xue Pingshun, father and son and Wang Dongliang, pulled the broken car and went slowly, and his back was particularly tall in the sunset.
"It's just bandits." The girl gritted her teeth, and waited for Chen Zikun to leave before she dared to throw the banknote on the ground, thought about it and picked it up again, and stuffed it into her wallet viciously.