Chapter 18: I can only wait
"Will! Hey, hey, Mr. Zou, admit it, admit it. β
"Let me see again, maybe there will be salvation."
"Old man, it's wrong for you to do this, there are so many people to play in the back, you are also a cultural person, let me let you."
"No, this isn't over yet, I haven't lost yet, so they'll wait a little longer."
Hearing Zou Chunming say this, the others were not happy.
"I've been here this morning, so it's my turn, right? Mr. Zou, do you think this is the truth? β
"That's right, I've watched him play several games, and he has been defeated and fought repeatedly, so the battle situation is simply not too miserable."
The shopkeeper was the most aggrieved, "Yes, this chessboard is mine, and he came to me to play chess before the store door opened early in the morning." I'm not complaining, what are you complaining about. Hey, Chunming, let's have a discussion, let me have fun, right? β
Zou Chunming didn't seem to hear everyone's verbal crusade at all, and was completely immersed in his own world.
Zou Wenfang looked at the situation on the field, "afterthought", there is no help. He knew that if he didn't take the teacher away now, Zou Chunming would definitely have no food for lunch, and he would starve here. He had no choice but to make a direct decision.
"Zou Chunming, your wife is looking for you." Zou Wen shouted in the RV.
Although Zou Chunming is a gentleman who does not know a thousand words, he lives a chic and uninhibited life, but he is afraid of his daughter-in-law. As soon as he heard someone calling for his daughter-in-law to look for him, he got up and prepared to go back without thinking about it.
Zou Wenfang came out at this time, "Teacher, the master told you to go back." β
Zou Chunming knew that he had been deceived when he saw it, "Oh, I know." Why are you kid here? β
"Me? I'm bringing my fiancΓ©e to visit you, teacher. β
"Huh. There must be something, otherwise I would have killed you, and you wouldn't have come to me. It's not convenient to talk here, so let's go back and talk about it. β
"Teacher, you're really clever, hehehe."
Zou Chunming wore a pair of thick reading glasses, put his hands behind his back, and walked directly home.
Zou Wenfang followed behind, thinking about how to speak later.
The teacher was holding hands with Chen Shilian and chatting about the parents, and when she saw that the two of them were back, she didn't pay much attention to them, but still held Chen Shilian and didn't let go.
The two of them arrived in the back study, and after the two sat down, Zou Chunming didn't speak, just sipping tea by himself.
Zou Wenfang had no choice but to directly explain the whole story.
"That's the way it is. Teacher, can you help me inquire? β
"I haven't heard of you, Brother Liangshi, doesn't he understand this? If your father doesn't know, then no one in the entire Four Castles will know. β
"Uh, is that an exaggeration?"
"Of course, your father was the most outstanding man of our generation. He can be literate and martial, and he followed your grandfather to break through today's foundation. If you want to talk about the most knowledgeable person, it's your father. β
"Well, yes, Daddy knows it's Morse Code, but he doesn't know anything else."
"There's no way around it, and you don't want to waste your time in this bazaar. You kid is ambitious, hurry up and go out, the outside world is very exciting. β
"Teacher, have you ever been outside?"
"Yan'an, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, these places are very good, you have to go and walk around when you have the opportunity. Of course, I haven't had a chance to go, you're still young, and there are still plenty of opportunities. β
"Oh, I will."
Zou Wenfang and the teacher Zou Chunming said almost the same, and came out of the living room outside.
Chen Shilian has been educated by her teacher's mind for a long time, and the two are still whispering at this time.
"Seeing that the old man in my family is not, he is obedient to me at home. You will also take care of that stinky boy in the study room in the future, just like the teacher. β
"Is it really good for my sister to be like this?"
"Okay, what's wrong? Outside, we give them more face, so that his face shines more. But at home, you must firmly grasp the initiative, and you must take care of any property and so on. Men who are talented and rich can easily become bad. β
"Okay."
Seeing that the two men were silent on the side, they were a little bored, and the master didn't continue to nag, and changed the topic to Zou Wenfang and said, "When did you get married?" When the time comes, the master will go to ask for a cup of wine to drink. β
Zou Wenfang replied: "It's set on the twenty-third day of the first lunar month, and you must come when the time comes." β
Seeing that what he said was almost over, Zou Wenfang had no intention of continuing to stay, so he said goodbye to his teacher and his wife, and left with Chen Shilian.
The shouting in the market was still lively, but Zou Wenfang didn't have the heart to go shopping.
He wanted to find a post station or something, but where was there a post station in Sibao, and many of the correspondence with outsiders relied on the transmission of the Yang family's guards.
He still didn't give up, found a few merchants who printed books, and took out the code paper to inquire about the news. But the people who asked had never heard of the Morse code, let alone seen it. In the end, he could only be discouraged and gave up this headless fly-style inquiry.
Chen Shilian also saw that Zou Wenfang's mood was not high, and asked, "What's wrong?" β
"Sure enough, as the teacher said, it's a waste of time for us to come here to inquire. He also said that my father knew the most about the whole Sibao, and if he didn't understand this, then no one would understand. β
"Isn't that what we've been prepared for? It's normal to not hear any news. β
"But the teacher also encouraged me to go out and explore, and he said that the outside world is very exciting." After a pause, Zou Wenfang said again: "I didn't sleep well last night, and I've been thinking about whether I should go out for a long trip, and I'm still very conflicted." Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been in a dilemma, I, I really don't want my father and mother to be sad. β
"Scholar, what are your ambitions?"
"I don't have any ambitions, if I have to say it, I want to be a general, a general who gallops on the battlefield."
"Do you remember those newspapers you keep cutting? Do you remember what you wrote that day? Last night, my uncle expressed his support for you to go out, do you want to disappoint him? Both of your older brothers threw themselves into the revolution for their ideals, but what about you? Will you be a coward who only cares about the small family and does not care about everyone? β
"I, I'm not a coward." Zou Wenfang thought for a while and said, "But the country is too big for me now, it's too big. I can't even take care of my little family now, how can I take care of everyone. β
Chen Shilian is also not persuaded, her ideological education has not yet learned the essence from the organization, and has not been able to infect Zou Wenfang.
Along the way, the two didn't say much and rushed home.
When he got home, his father had already returned from Shangyang Yang's house, and he asked his uncle to let the guards who went out of town to find out the news, and it shouldn't be long before he had an answer.
Zou Liangshi didn't ask anything when he saw that the two of them went to catch up, and he didn't ask much. He told them, "The Yang family's guards will help find someone to unlock the code, and we'll just wait for news at home." In a few days, you will get married, and we will have to prepare well in the next few days. β
Zou Wenfang and Chen Shilian didn't mention much, they didn't know anything about getting married, they just helped by the side. In the next few days, there were more and more people in Taoyuan, and it became more and more lively.