Chapter 14 Honorarium

I don't know where the old-fashioned radio was pulled out of the pile of old papers, and the volume slowly decayed. The tactful ancient song became quiet, and Li Laozheng's slightly squinted eyes also opened.

He stared at Chen Feng with a complicated look.

After Chen Feng finished speaking, he looked at Li Laozheng calmly.

"I didn't expect this to be done by you." Li Lao sighed and got up from his chair.

"Let's go, talk to the old man."

Li Lao was pacing behind him, walking towards the small house behind the office.

Chen Feng glanced back at Uncle Wen.

"Uh...... Go by yourself, maybe Daddy really has something to say to you. Uncle Wen didn't understand what the situation was, so he smiled helplessly and spread his hands.

Chen Feng followed Li Lao into the door and found that this small house alone was like an ancient collection room. But the collection is not a collection of expensive items, but a mess of miscellaneous items.

"I don't know when these things have been forgotten, buried, and disappeared from everyone's memory......"

Li Lao was slowly sitting on a rattan chair, patting the stool next to him and letting Chen Feng sit down.

He looked at the old things around him with emotion, rubbed the handle of the rattan chair with his palm, and whispered:

"The times are advancing, and I know these truths, old man. But too fast, too fast...... The world is at a loss and is being pushed away, but where do we come from and where are we going......"

Chen Feng couldn't figure out why Li Lao was going to take him to this old house to see so many old things and listen to these feelings.

"Maybe it's an old man who wants to complain a little, and I hope that the younger generations will listen and accompany him...... Chen Feng thought so, but he also listened carefully, and at the same time recognized the old things around him.

Seeing this, Chen Feng himself also secretly sighed.

The 'old things' of this era, the 'ancient groceries' that have been eliminated and forgotten, are the 'new things' of the era in his previous life in Chen Feng's eyes at this moment......

For example, a computer that has been taken apart with a case, an LCD monitor, a mouse and keyboard. For example, a black mobile phone with a 5.5-inch screen is stuffed alone in the corner.

There are also some slightly dusty household appliances, as well as old books, framed paintings, clocks and watches. Inside and out, there are traces of the corrosion of time.

But all this in front of him made Chen Feng have friendly memories.

For this day and age, what is in front of us no longer exists. Abandoned by the progress of the times, buried in an unknown rotten soil, never known. I don't know where Li Laozheng came from.

"Chips represent everything, and chips are the future of mankind, but the old man feels that there are many, many things that chips can't represent......"

Li Laozheng's eyes were blank and regretful, and finally sighed, turned back to Chen Feng and said:

"Richard is my grandson, but he is an illegitimate child. His own father didn't dare to recognize him because of the entanglement of interests. It was the old man I took over and raised......"

Chen Feng nodded slowly, he had already guessed that Richard was this identity, but he didn't expect it to be an illegitimate child.

"The old man hasn't been alive for a few years......" Li Lao smiled, smiling with a wrinkled face, caressing the rattan chair.

"But all these years of accumulation, all these years of old things, there must be a personal inheritance. Richard's father, I can't count on it, I can only hope that Richard's grandson can be sensible. ”

"But you can see that, too." Li Lao was laughing at himself, "He is an evolutionary youth of the times, and the old man is old and stubborn, and he is out of place...... I tried my best to ease relations with him, but unfortunately ......"

Li Lao was looking at Chen Feng, "That card is some small rights that I got by pressuring his father." and the old man's savings, all in it.

I repeatedly tried to give it to him, but he didn't accept it. Little grandson, very stubborn!

To tell you the truth, let you send him a card, which also has an element of using you. You should know that the Crocodiles are following you, and I happen to know that Richard is also tracking the Crocodiles. If you go to Foil Blue Street, there is a great chance to meet him. ”

Chen Feng didn't say anything, just listened quietly.

"It's not right to use you as bait, it's an old man!" Li Lao said apologetically, "But you completed the task and proved that Richard and you are on the right track." In the future, it will be good for you two young people to become friends, both with you and with him. ”

Chen Feng didn't understand what this benefit meant, but he didn't want to ask. Anyway, when it is a retribution, it is not damaged and beneficial, so there is no wave in the mood.

"You deserve it."

Li Lao was picking up a gray paper bag from under the chair and handing it to Chen Feng.

As soon as Chen Feng pinched his hand, he could sense that it was a bundle of banknotes.

"This money should be enough for you and the two of you to upgrade the citizen chip. In addition, I also have a suggestion, I am looking for someone to take care of this antique shop, let the fine grains come. If she wants to, she will come to work, and I have already explained to Brother Wen. ”

Chen Feng's mood did not change until this moment, and he raised his eyes to look at Li Laozheng, "Thank you, Dad, I will ask about the fine grains when I go back." ”

"yes, okay. Go, lest you be troubled by staying with the old man. Li Lao was squinting slightly, leaning on the rattan chair and waving his hand.

Chen Feng saluted respectfully and left this old room.

Bidding farewell to Uncle Wen, Chen Feng hurriedly walked towards the street.

The steps have even become brisk.

With this money, my sister's citizen chip is foolproof. Chen Feng took a few deep breaths, feeling that the air was much fresher than before.

"It's always her to help me add food, and I, as an elder brother, have to be courteous......" Chen Feng smiled and whispered, quickened his pace, and walked towards the old vegetable market on Wei Street.

In this day and age, all food and beverage are delivered by smart machines. A chip gives an instruction, and a year's worth of food can be delivered to your door. The term "vegetable farm" no longer exists.

But in the slums, in the streets, it still exists. And the vast majority of handmade meals can only be found in this kind of old market.

The appetite has remained unchanged through the ages, perhaps because the rich and noble classes deliberately kept these, and then the old vegetable farms in the slums have not been abandoned by the times and have grown tenaciously.

Walking around the familiar streets and alleys, hearing noisy bargaining and selling, and seeing people in plain clothes and full of market atmosphere, Chen Feng once again had the feeling of integrating into the world.

The neon signs remain the same, high and low, and colorful.

A variety of strange names, languages, characters, characteristics, etc., are dazzling in this crowded alley. The strong smell of marinated incense, oil smoke, curry, barbecue and so on permeates every corner.

Chen Feng thought about a few dishes that Chen Xiaoli liked to eat, and passed by every shop, and went in to take a look. The price is expensive, and the variety is actually inseparable from the fish, but it is better than the variety.

Chen Feng was in a good mood, and even observed with great interest what others bought.

Everyone lives in the slums, in the streets, and although there is no distinction between races and languages, they can still see tastes.

Tall white Europeans and Americans like big pieces of meat. The black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese are a combination of meat and vegetables. Brown-skinned Latina who loves all kinds of spices. For those with short curly hair, black-skinned African-Americans choose foods that are caloric and filling.

Banknotes are also still hard currency, pay-as-you-go. Most people in the slums don't like chip payments. Maybe it's because you can't feel the convenience of the chip, or maybe you still feel that it's the most real thing to hold a banknote.

Chen Feng took the mood of touring, and returned satisfied.

In the food box, there are Li Kee sauce elbow, Yun Kee barbecued pork, thick soup and pork soup, freshwater fish, as well as a few butter roast beef, and red barbecue meat, all of which should be Chen Xiaoli's mouthwatering delicacies.

The pace quickened out of the old vegetable market and turned into the slum area of Wei Street, and Chen Feng was about to enter the alley of the nineteenth building. Suddenly, there was a slight pause in his footsteps.

A cold and strange peeping sensation swept past Chen Feng's back.

The improvement of the five senses obtained by the 'Secret Eye' gave Chen Feng a keen sense of touch that surpassed that of ordinary people. Although the peeping behind him was very hidden, Chen Feng felt it clearly.

He didn't stop, he continued to move forward steadily, but only slowed down.

The sense of peeping became more and more definite, like a few steel needles, moving with his back.

'Is it a gang? Or some other unknown enemy? Chen Feng pondered secretly, but did not make a move to look back. This will tear apart the crisis and cause disaster.

As Chen Feng stepped onto the first staircase, the sense of peeping became faint.

Da, da, Chen Feng continued to go up in the dilapidated corridor. Sure enough, the sense of peeping disappeared, and the strange feeling like a thorn in the back disappeared without a trace.

'Could it be that I'm thinking too much?' ’

Chen Feng secretly relaxed, quickly walked to the door, opened the door and entered the house.