Chapter 20 The Twentyth Round

Chen Donghai seemed to understand the meaning of his astonishment, because he said with a smile: "It doesn't count that you wrote the invitation, but you have to send it. Because of the invitation tomorrow, today's invitation must be sent, and there is no delay. If I send The servants should send them to their homes, they probably won't be back until late at night..." Shi Yi hurriedly said, "Anyway, I'm already familiar with the backstage, so I'll just go there." Dong Hai sorted out the invitations, They handed them all over to him, and said with a smile: "I'm very happy to do things as quickly as you do." Ai Ren said: "Happiness is joy, and the fourth master always refuses to mention it in front of the president, and invites us to run around Shengsheng." Donghai said: "You guy, you will take the opportunity to enter. You have been promoted from a secretary to a second-class clerk, what are you dissatisfied with? Old Hong is still a small secretary. Hong, you are a very nice person, diligent and honest in doing things, tonight, I will give you an idea, promote you to a clerk, and let them set a monthly salary of 30 yuan, what do you think?" Shi Yi listened After hearing this, I couldn't help but my heart thumped. Since I joined the social service, I have never received a salary of one yuan a day. Yes, he bowed to him, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Fourth Master." As he spoke, he really didn't dare to delay, took the invitation, and walked towards the backstage.As for the backstage, I was already familiar with it, so I pushed the door open without hesitation, and walked straight inside.He went in from the outside, just as a young man in a beautiful suit came out from the inside, and the two of them had a nail-in-hand encounter.He looked around Shi Yi, stared and said: "This is the backstage, who are you looking for?" Shi Yi has a backing, what are you afraid of him?He said: "I'm here to meet Ms. Chang Qing." The man signed up himself: "My name is Wang Sun, she is me... I am the closest to her, she doesn't know you!" Shi Yi said : "Oh! You are Mr. Wang, the closest to her. What does this have to do with me? I am here to post a treat post. Once the post is posted, it will be over. As for whether she will know me or not, I don't care. No matter.” He said, still walking inside.Because Wang Sun couldn't stop him, he had no choice but to stare behind him and walked all the way to the backstage. Shi Yi had been here once, and when he saw the backstage servant, he said to him: "Fourth Master Chen sent me again. , please come out, Commander Liu, I still have a few words to say." Liu An in the room heard these words, and immediately rushed out, followed by a large group of singing girls.Shi Yi smiled at him and said, "Fourth Master Chen said that Mr. Liu will bring all the young ladies to Dongmei Building for dinner tomorrow." As he spoke, he handed a large stack of invitation cards to Liu An.

Those singers, with quick eyes and quick hands, came out and shouted: "This is mine, that's hers," and everyone grabbed Liu An's hands.The snatching was too messy, and two of them were inevitably torn. Someone pouted and said, "I don't know whose it was torn? Do you know who he invited and who he didn't invite?" Shi Yi He said: "Chen Fourth Master has invited all the female artists of your group. At 7 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, everyone is welcome to go." Chang Qing squeezed out of the crowd and asked: "Mr. Hong, are you going to entertain tomorrow?" Wang Sun didn't wait for her second sentence, pulled her to the side, and kept shouting: "Come here , I have a few words to tell you." Although Xiao Nan was struggling, Wang Sun refused to relax easily, and just dragged him into the dressing room.Shi Yi saw it on the side, and thought in his heart, is this bowl of vinegar too much?I am now so poor that I wear a gray cloth jacket. Will a modern woman like her still fall in love with me?

Is this too neurotic?Thinking so in his heart, his eyes couldn't help staring at Wang Sunqu's back figure.Third Master Liu must be a slippery person in society, he knows the importance of winning Fourth Master Chen over, and offending Fourth Master Chen's confidantes, that's not the way to go, besides, the behavior of Wang and grandson is too obvious when he walks away, how can he let him step down?So he stepped forward, rushed to hold hands with Shi Yi, shook them a few times, and said with a smile: "I feel very sorry for disturbing your old brother once or twice, so let me invite you one day. Please go back to the box and talk to Fourth Master Chen, and I will come over to take a look in a while." He spoke so humbly, but his footsteps slowly moved outwards, causing Shi Yi to follow him, so he didn't know Feeling out of the backstage.When he got back to the box, Dong Hai was watching the play with a smile on his face.He turned his head, nodded slightly to Shi Yi, and said with a smile: "Your affairs are well done, and your achievements are remarkable." Shi Yi smiled and said, "How does fourth master know that there are achievements?" Donghai smiled and said, "Why not?" Results? These little girls have already received the letter, and as soon as it is released, they will stare at my box." Shi Yi didn't make a sound, just smiled.Not long after, Mr. Liu came into the box with his hat in his hand.When he saw Chen Donghai, he just bowed. Donghai shook hands with him and said, "I've known you for a long time, and I've seen you perform Fanheling solo on stage several times." Liu An said with a smile, "It's so funny!" Said: "I am very envious of your life. You live a love life in spring, summer, autumn and winter." Liu An smiled and said, "I can't talk about it, but it's just getting close to a group of children every day." Donghai said: " Tomorrow I invite you to dinner, you have to honor me." Liu An said with a smile: "I will definitely come, I still have to direct them, I can't accompany you too much, let's talk about it tomorrow." So he shook hands with Dong Hai and said goodbye.In this way, Donghai had a direct relationship with the head of the singing and dancing troupe.As soon as I was proud of myself, I couldn't help but smile on my face.Ai Ren also took this opportunity, just joking aside, always saying that Shi Yi can handle things.

After watching the song and dance, Donghai smiled and said to Shi Yi: "Old Hong, tell the truth, what is your relationship with Chang Qing?" We are just friends with her father." Donghai said: "What's the situation in her family?" Shi Yi said: "Blind! Then there is no need to mention it, it is so poor that there are no words to describe it. Her father eats vegetarian food and recites Buddhism. Layman, her mother's mind is as stubborn as a rock, if they are not forced by poverty, would they let his daughter do such a modern career?" Donghai said: "Then, her family loves money very much. It's easy to ask for money." Speaking of this, he couldn't help laughing.Yin said to Shi Yi: "Today, I paid attention to all the girls in the class. As a result of the investigation, only two of them were in line with my intentions. One was Chu Ge dancing the hula dance, the other was Chang Qing, and the rest People, either they don’t have enough face, or they don’t have enough muscles, if these two people can do it, I’m not afraid to spend money.” When he said that, he stretched out his hand and patted his waist.What else can Shi Yi and Ai Ren say?It was nothing more than a smile behind him.After he finished speaking, he said with a smile: "Oops! Look, aren't we three pieces of material, aren't we so stupid? The whole theater is gone, just the three of us sitting and chatting in the box, don't you see that?" Are you kidding me?" As he spoke, he walked outside, and after a few steps, he looked back to see that Shi Yi was still by his side, and said, "I was supposed to take you back by car, but I still have something to do, I'll give you the money, you guys Let's hire a car." He said, took a hand on his body, and then stuffed it into Shi Yi's and Ai Ren's hands respectively.He didn't wait for others to say anything, he had already gone far.Shi Yi felt that there was something stuck in his hand.When I looked down, it was a five-yuan bill, because Ai Ren hadn't expressed anything, so I had no choice but to say nothing, after leaving the theater door, I walked from Yu Sai's place to an open place where the air was ventilated. I felt refreshed.The people who listened to the opera naturally left at this time, and most of the bright and colorful electric lights in front of the restaurant were extinguished. In the shadow of the lights, only three groups of singers and musicians in pairs could be seen, smiling and leaving .

Shi Yi watched in the dark for a while, but Ai Ren didn't know where he went.That day, when the moon was just waning, it was also at this time that the pure moonlight was sent to the street to be paved.In order to step on the moon, Shi Yi lost the street and just walked in the small alleys. He just thought in his heart that human affairs are too unpredictable. Two days ago, I was riding the moonlight, and I wanted to raise a knife to kill Xiaonan. Today, the moonlight Come to see what is different from that day, but what about me?I was going to kill that person, but I got someone to support her. Although I don't have to hold grudges anymore, I am too ambitious!According to Chen Donghai's behavior, of course it is insulting women, asking me to seduce people in the singing and dancing troupe for him, this is what three aunts and six wives do, I am a dignified man, why am I so obscene?Besides, the attitude of layman Chang treating me without comparison is really a bodhisattva's heart, even if Lao Tzu treats his son, he may not be able to do this kind of thing, but I want to help the tyrant and help Chen Donghai. Seduce his daughter, I am so sorry for him!Let’s talk about Chen Donghai again, he invited me to dinner, told me to listen to an opera, and gave me money. He didn’t cherish talents, and he didn’t pity me for my downfall. He just wanted to encourage me to pimp for him.Pimping is something that no one with a little bit of bone would want to do. That’s why I was so poor that I wanted to pick up wallets all over the street, but I refused to steal money from others. Why?Isn't it just to fight for a little ambition?But now, I have to pimp others to maintain my job. How much better is this pimping than being a robber or a thief?Those who are poor should endure and struggle.However, patience is not depravity, and struggle is not unscrupulous.Now, for the sake of a ten-dollar job, I just want to be a low-class pimp behind this young man. Repay grievances with virtue.As for me, I repay kindness with grievances.Ordinarily, if his daughter has fallen, I should stand by and make amends. That is the truth.Now, I am helping others and leading his daughter to the path of degeneration. Is this what a person with ambition should do?

He was walking in the calm streets and alleys, which aroused his calm thinking, the more he thought that he had gone on the wrong path, and he had to correct it!Counting all the way to the entrance of the guild hall, I saw the shadows of two people dangling at the entrance of the alley from afar, and suddenly an old woman's voice said: "You also have a sister, for a few pennies. , just do it..." A man's voice was cut off again: "Don't shout, don't shout!" After that, he couldn't hear clearly.Shi Yi walked into the door of the guild hall, and then someone followed in, walked into the concierge, and continued: "Ping An, this child, is really disobedient. Jin Ling is a good child. His father is confused and asked her to do this. Wrong Once or twice, you can turn back if you take your heart. If you just drag people into the water, you will ruin the girl. We get a few small money, it is small, and we ruin her life. It’s enough to serve people, but do you have to do all the pimps with cigarettes and horses?” Shi Yi stood in the yard and listened to this enough.This is what the long class mother said.This old woman is usually open to money, but she is so opposed to her son's pimping!I have read more books than her, my heart is wider than hers, I also study Buddhism, and my outlook on life is more thorough than hers.It would be a joke if the old lady found out about this, that she is a quick-talking person, or if she taught me a lesson.I quietly walked back to the room, lit the lamp, and remembered the scene in the theater just now, swirling in front of my eyes like a dream.Thinking of Chen Donghai's arrogant and unrestrained appearance, I should have stepped forward and slapped him twice, but I was so obedient in front of him, and I followed his instructions in everything, if someone saw my behavior by the side , won't you sneer?There was a lamp on the table, a pile of torn books under the table, and a practical square mirror on top of the books.Stretching his body a little, he saw in the mirror, a figure with good features and honesty on his face.So I picked up the mirror and took a closer look. The straight and thick eyebrows, the slightly drooping eyelids, the two slightly round cheeks, and the broad forehead... Yes, this is a loyal face.So many old people say that I am young and mature.But how am I doing with myself?I'm just the most careless teenager.Thinking of this, he put down the mirror and slapped his hand on the table!I thought in my heart: "This mirror has given me a new path. From tomorrow onwards, I will be a good person, avoid Chen Donghai, and avoid Wei Airen. It is more difficult to avoid Wei Airen, except for working in the same organization. Besides, they are also working in the same room. After thinking about it, yes, that room is where the clerks are, not where the recorders are. I will go to the Charity Association tomorrow, and when I see Mr. Cao, the chief executive, I will say It is inconvenient to do things, so I asked him to transfer me to the recording room. That old Mr. Cao has a very stubborn mind, and the idea of ​​class classification cannot be broken at all. I said that he would still live with the recording staff. Naturally I agree. I am determined to leave them. Not only from tomorrow, but from tonight, I have changed my ways. Didn’t Chen Donghai give me five yuan? This five yuan is ill-gotten gains, I am determined No, donate all of it to the Red Cross tomorrow. If you want to be a good person, be clean. If this kind of behavior offends Chen Donghai, at most it will only break ten yuan a month's job, so what's the point? At best It’s just letting me starve like I was stuck in the guild hall before, what is it worth?” The more he thought about it, the more courageous he became, and he decided to leave those villains.Because I made up my mind, I felt calm in my heart. Although it was still the same as before, the room was empty of luggage, but my body was tight and I slept peacefully on the bed.

The next time I got up early, finished washing, touched the five-yuan bill, which was still on my body, drank a bowl of hot water in the kitchen, and then walked to the charity meeting.Today, probably because I am determined to be a good person, I am full of energy and take great strides.Not long after, I arrived at the charity club.Director-General Cao also made a carriage in the early years of the Republic of China.Later, the horse-drawn carriage was outdated, and no one cared about it, but I felt that taking this carriage was more humane and more comfortable than taking a rickshaw.Time doesn't matter, there is no need to go to the economy, so I stick to the old rules, and I still sit in a green-painted four-wheeled carriage.This carriage is no different from Director-General Cao's symbol. With this carriage at the door, it means that Director-General Cao is working inside.Shi Yi walked straight to the director-general's room.As soon as he entered the door, he took off his hat, and before he even nodded his head, Mr. Cao had already stood up, cupped his fists at him, slightly arched his hands and said with a smile: "Congratulations, this can be said that Heaven pays off. When Shi Yi heard this suddenly, he couldn't figure it out for a while, and just looked at him in a daze.Mr. Cao said: "Why are you looking at me?

Isn't it because you have been promoted and came to approach me? Shi Yi shook his head and said, "No, I don't know about such a thing." " Mr. Cao said: "I said, how could you know the news so quickly?"This morning, I got a call, saying that you are doing a good job, and I will promote you to a clerk and pay a salary of 30 yuan a month.In our place, there is no need to add people. In order to add you, the president even thought of a way to transfer the old clerk here, so that the vacancy is made, and you can fill it. You did something meritorious, which attracted the attention of the president, and you were specially promoted. "Shi Yi knew in his heart that it wasn't that Chairman Chen had a good impression of me, but that fourth master Chen helped me with a sentence or two. As for the great contribution, this issue cannot be studied. Thinking of this, He couldn't help but blushed, and said in a low voice: "No credit at all? "Mr. Cao laughed and said: "You don't need to study this for the time being. I thought you were very honest and could support and support you. It's just that this kind of position in the meeting has been completely arranged, and there is no way to add another person. Go in, since the president is willing to do this for you, then it is exactly what I want.Do your job well, don't let down the president's kindness in cultivating you.The place where you write is originally the seat of the clerk, and you can still do business there. "Shi Yi prepared a big article that should be replaced. At this time, for some reason, it has been completely wiped out. The only thing he can do is stand in front of others and only claim to be right. The old man said a few more words If you want to encourage him, tell him to go back to his room to do business, so Shi Yi can't say anything, and quietly walked back to the original office. When Ai Ren saw it, he stood up and bowed with both hands: "Congratulations, congratulations, the news you got is better than that." I'm still fast, it's really refreshing for people to celebrate happy events. "Tu Yi knew that he got the news from Chen Donghai, and he was kind enough to deal with it, so he never ignored it. So he smiled and returned it, saying that it was Duomeng who helped him.

After a while, many colleagues came, and they all came to congratulate Shi Yi.Among clerks and officials, it is nothing more than making a bow and saying a few polite words after meeting each other.However, when those recorders came, the situation was different. Everyone watched Shi Yi with their eyes open, as if thinking, why did he jump up all of a sudden?Even though we have been working as recorders for three or four years, we haven't climbed a step.So after they met, they said congratulations, and there were more than a dozen sentences in a row, that is, they were estimating in their hearts, and they said a lot without knowing it.Only then did I realize how difficult it was to get this clerk, so naturally I also liked it.When it's time to get off work at night.A few colleagues were talking and laughing, Shi Yi was promoted today, and he must treat everyone to a big meal.Shi Yi couldn't help but took them to a small restaurant to eat and drink. The five yuan bills that were originally placed on him to donate to the Red Cross were unknowingly scattered and transferred. To the hand of the tavern keeper.Until late at night, when Tu Yi returned home, it happened that two northwest winds blew in the air and whined.Shi Yi thought to himself, I am afraid that the cold weather will increase tonight. How can a bare bed bear it?I have plenty of money on me, so let's temporarily rent two quilts to sleep on.By tomorrow, how much is the total principal and interest of the quilt?If all the money in your body is enough to do this, then you don't have to hesitate any longer.From now on, don't I have an income of 30 yuan a month?Living in a poor life like me, how can I spend a dollar a day?I can let go and enjoy it a little bit. In the past, I was chasing after the girl who picked up coal cores, but now I earn money for my own use, which is more than enough.With such joy in my heart, I don't know where the toughness I was trying to build up yesterday disappeared to.At that time, he took out the money and ordered the long class to rent two quilts.The head class looked at him, couldn't help laughing and said: "Mr. Hong, it's not that I'm a talkative person, you earn ten yuan a month, which is better than when you're unemployed. Why are you making such a fuss that the beds and beds are all covered?" Is there any more?" Shi Yi smiled and said, "That was absurd in the past, and it has become such a scene. From now on, it will be fine, and I have money." At this point, he shook his head slightly.Yin said: "You should congratulate me, I was promoted today. I am now a clerk, and my monthly salary is 30 yuan." With this kind of money, there will be no more famines. It is also a blessing for our long shift to live in the guild hall with a few more errands, and we can get a little bit of money." As he spoke, he shouted haha ​​all the way go out.Those who lived in the guild hall heard the words of the chief class and knew that Hong Shiyi had been promoted, so they all went to his room to talk with him and find out what happened.Shi Yi felt that this was a way to save face. Apart from admitting that it was a fact, he also said that he didn't think he was working hard, but he was always cautious and did things whenever he had something to do, so the president agreed.

This night I bought a few coppers of tea, made a pot of tea, and talked with everyone.On the bed, it is covered with a quilt again. This kind of comfort is indescribable.In another day, he will naturally go to the Charity Association to work as a clerk as usual, and he has absolutely no intention of leaving Wei Airen.When there was no one around, Ai Ren smiled quietly at him and said, "Hey! Old Hong, fourth master Chen has done you such a great favor, why don't you go thank him?" Shi Yi blushed and said, "Why should I How about thanking him? It’s not convenient for me to just go to someone’s mansion.” Ai Ren said: “Don’t you know how to write a letter?” Shi Yi said: “This is the opposite.” Ai Ren said: “You write it well Don’t post it from the post office, I’ll just send it to you.” Shi Yi said: “How dare you take it?” Ai Ren said: “That’s not what you said. We are all flies on the rice spoon, just eating together, we It's the fish helping the water, and the water helping the fish, making use of each other." Seeing that he had explained everything completely, Shi Yi wrote a letter and handed it to him without being polite anymore.

On the next day, Ai Ren met him in the office.Then he smiled and bowed to him and said, "Lao Hong, I have something to ask of you. I wonder if you will agree or not?" Tell me, what do you want me to do? Didn't you say it? The fish help the water, and the water helps the fish. What's the problem? And my ability is weak..." Ai Ren shook her head again and again before he could finish speaking. He started to say: "That's not the case at all. I still stick to one sentence, the fish help the water, and the water helps the fish. Since we both run errands for the fourth master, we must unite. What I mean is that I really want to be more advanced I don’t know what you mean?” Shi Yi not only doesn’t want to make love to this kind of person, but if he is willing, the kind of begging he said is very shameful.Then she blushed and said, "You are not very cautious when you speak. Why do you start talking about running errands in this office?" Ai Ren smiled and said, "What does it matter? To be honest, people who work here Man, who didn't hug the Chen family's thigh?" Having said that, he looked behind him and said in a low voice, "Although it is Mr. Cao who is doing business here, he is completely fulfilling his duty, and he is also doing it for other people. Find a right where you are, and sew up this obligation. Do you believe me or not." Shi Yi couldn't refute him in any way, so he nodded with a smile.Ai Ren smiled and said: "Let's not talk about this anymore, let's talk about changing posts. I also understand very well that there is something that I can't get along with..." He spoke slowly, his face turning pale. Gradually become solemn.Seeing that he was getting angry, Shi Yi quickly stopped him and said: "If you want to say this, you are out of touch. I have today, and it is all carried by your brother. How can you say something that is not good for me?" What about it?" Ai Ren laughed and said, "It's not that I said something that revealed the bottom line, people say the four words of fox and dog party, which is very intentional. People here..." When he said this, he lowered his voice a little Ge, and then said: "Who is not in this situation? Everyone is sneaking and has a connection, why should we be lonely." Shi Yi smiled and said: "The more you say, the more wrong, why are you scolding yourself? What about it?" Ai Ren said: "I dare to say something boldly, there are not many people who live in such a filthy society with exceptions." When he said this, after all, he couldn't help but raise his voice a little, which made everyone in the next room A colleague, Qiu Haishan, was startled.He is short-sighted, with a pair of glasses as big as copper coins, which are tightly hung on the ears by soft wire feet, two high cheekbones, and a short stump of a black beard on his chin. It can be described as another kind of person.In addition, he was wearing a gray jacket that was stained with oil stains and dirt.After seeing it, it makes people feel a little unhappy. This Mr. Qiu is short on seeing but not short on listening. In the next room, he had heard the words of Hong and Wei's obeisance, so he rushed into the space where the two sat, and made a deep impression on him. A bow.Touching the two sleeves slightly on the nose twice, showing a very sincere look, he said: "Mr. Hong is young and mature, and Mr. Wei is so humane. I am 24 points in admiration. The two of you want to get married. The bond of Jinlan, helping each other, is the best thing. The younger brother is a colleague, and he also wants to join Gao Pan. I don’t know if it is possible? Brothers who have always been sworn brothers are always based on the standard of the three righteous men in Taoyuan. With the younger brother, there are three people in total. Isn't that great?" Shi Yi never had anything to evade Ai Ren's request, but this gentleman came to recommend himself again, which made him even more helpless.I thought to myself, if I want to be sworn brothers with this kind of person, it is really a city rat, but he is a first-class clerk, and he can get a salary of 50 yuan a month, which is very close to Director Cao. It seems that it is inappropriate for a celebrity to offend him, so he kept silent.But this Mr. Wei immediately showed a very happy look, came forward and said: "This is very good. Where is Mr. Qiu Guigeng? Probably you are not allowed to be called younger brother." Qiu Haishan said: "The idiot is thirty-six I'm old, but I'm the big brother." After speaking, he laughed.In this way, two out of the three people agree with the element of changing posts, which makes them the majority.Shi Yi was forced by the situation, so he had nothing to say.