Chapter 36 The thirty-fifth return to return to look forward to new knowledge, deja vu, listening to songs and nostalgia for the homeland

It turned out that this supervisor not only lacked the bearing of a bureaucrat, but was also a child of sixteen or seventeen years old.At that time, there was a secretary-general's son who became a counselor at the age of eighteen. People quoted it as a strange story, but I didn't quite believe it.Now seeing such a young supervisor with his own eyes, why isn't he surprised?Even though Zhen Baoyin was young, he also knew the rules of entertainment, and politely asked Yang Xingyuan to sit down.The footman took three cigars, passed one to each of them, struck a match, and lit them one by one.

At this moment, Yang Xingyuan looked closely at Zhen Baoyin.Her delicate skin was neither yellow nor dark, and her cheeks had no color at all, and she looked paler. Her face was bald, and she wore a pair of large-rimmed glasses.At first glance, it seems very handsome, but on closer inspection, he is not energetic at all.He had two yellow fingers, and sat on the bed smoking a cigar, talking at the same time. In addition to talking about prostitution and gambling, he just talked about the current situation of the chief executive and the rich man's backer.When it comes to people who are wider, they are always called Xilin Hejian Xiangcheng.Again, rich people are addressed together with the person's surname and number instead of his first name, for example, Wang Kemin is called Wang Shulu, Cao Rulin is called Cao Runtian, and so on.At first Yang Xingyuan didn't know what kind of supervisor he was. Later, because he often talked about Mao Ge, Zhang Daci pointed out a few words, so he realized that he was the supervisor of reforming Outer Mongolia Mao Ge.

The three of them chatted for a while, then Zhen Baoqian forgot about it, and talked about local prostitution from the classics of prostitution.Then he asked Zhang Daci: "The person you mentioned, why didn't he come at this time? I'm impatient, let's find something to mess with first, okay?" Zhang Daci said: "You still burn two more, She will be here soon." Zhen Baoyin said with a smile: "I have enough smoke now. Let's wait for her to burn it for us later." After discussing for a while, I couldn't think of any temporary entertainment. At this moment, there was a man in white The waiter came in, and said softly with a smile: "Here we are." Zhen Baoyin said, "Why are you so sneaky? You can just come in." The waiter smiled and agreed a few "yes" before leaving. out.

After a while, I heard creaking and the sound of leather shoes.Looking up, two women walked in.A man in his twenties, wearing an apricot yellow suit, a white skirt, curly hair, and a string of beads hanging on his chest.A man of only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a bright red body, and even a red hat, half of his short hair was exposed behind the hat.As soon as they entered the door, there was a burst of powdery fragrance, and they gently called Zhen Zhang and Zhang Ye three masters.He smiled at Yang Xingyuan, and nodded slightly, as a greeting.Zhang Daci first said to the two of them: "The two sisters always speak English in front of us, and pass the test in secret. Today, someone who understands is here." to the characters.Zhang Daci then introduced to Yang Xingyuan, pointing to the older one named Ms. Aier and the younger one named Ms. Aisi.Ms. Aier was sitting on the cigarette couch, and Ms. Aisi was sitting beside Zhang Daci.Zhang Daci stretched out his hand to hold Aisi's hand, Aisi seemed to be indifferent, so he sat down next to each other, and sat on the same cigarette couch with Zhang Daci.Yang Xingyuan thought: "Looking at her like this, she is a social star."

He asked her how many years she had studied English.Without thinking about it, Aisi replied in English, "I have studied English for five years."She continued to speak English for more than ten minutes, and she spoke very fluently without any flaws.Yang Xingyuan thought to himself: "This is very strange. Pronunciation is so correct and speech is so smooth. They are real female students in Beijing. It's hard to pick one or two out of ten. It's no wonder that they hang up student signs to deceive people." When they were talking, Aisi's handkerchief fell to the ground, and she lowered her head to pick it up, revealing a large white area on her back and neck.Sitting beside her, Zhang Daci saw a peach-red silk sash around her neck, lifted it with his hand, and said, "You are so grown-up, do you still have a padlock?" It was exposed, and the lower end was tied with a small gold cross, which was very delicate.Aisi smiled and said, "You are always messing around." He hurriedly stuffed the cross into his collar.Zhang Daci said with a smile: "Once you are Europeanized, it makes no sense to be Europeanized. This is the most respected thing by foreigners, and you take it as a toy." The three of them were talking here, but Ai'er fell down on Zhen Baoyin's couch and talked with her. He burns.Zhen Baoyin said: "Our ages are quite suitable, I ask you to be an English secretary, will you do it?"

Ai'er was sleeping on the pillow, using a stick to burn the ointment, and was burning it on the lamp. Hearing this, he propped his elbows on the bed, looked up at Zhang Daci, and said with a smile, "Look, Isn’t this a weird thing? I’m his secretary and I’m paid monthly, so what’s the point of asking about my age?” Zhang Daci also laughed and said, “It’s not weird at all. You don’t have to talk about your age when you hire a male secretary, but you don’t need to ask a female secretary. We must talk about age." Turning his face to Aisi, he said, "He is a supervisor, so he can ask your sister to be his secretary. I am a small person, and I don't need a secretary, so what can you do?" Zhen Baoyin sat up on the bed He got up, patted his leg with his hands, and said, "There is another project, won't you ask her to be an English teacher?"

Zhang Daci said: "If such a name can be perfunctory, then it will be easy to talk about. Why do you have to say English teacher, that is, dance teacher, piano teacher, everything is okay." In a word, after talking about it, it was nothing more than a joke about the two of Aieraisi. Yang Xingyuan was leaning on a sofa next to her, with her feet crossed, one hand around the chair, her face supported, just smiling. Na Aisi sat next to Zhang Daci, but she couldn't help glancing over with her eyes.After a while, Aisi suddenly pursed her lips to smile at Yang Xingyuan, and lowered her head well.She saw Zhang Daci looking at her at a glance, and "puchi"

A laugh came out.Zhang Daci said with a smile: "What's wrong with you?" Aisi said: "Is it forbidden for people to laugh?" Zhang Daci said: "You are allowed to laugh, but there is no reason, and you suddenly laughed , laughing strangely." Aisi said: "Why is there no reason? The reason is in my heart." Zhang Daci crossed one leg, tilted his body, looked at Aisi's face, and asked: "The reason is in my heart! The reason is in my heart! What? The reason?" Aisi pushed Zhang Daci's head with her hand, and said with a smile, "I hate it! Go over. There is a reason in my heart, can you control it?" Zhang Daci couldn't help laughing when he saw her acting like a baby laugh.Zhen Baoyin said: "You are such a bitch. She talks to you well, but you want to interfere with her. After scolding you, you laughed again." While speaking, Zhen Baoyin had already smoked several cigarettes, Aisi took out her handkerchief, and With two flicks in the air, he frowned and said, "This room is full of smog and smog, it's really stuffy, let's sit outside." Zhen Baoyin also smiled and said to Yang Xingyuan: "Brother Xingyuan, let's sit outside. You can ask for advice on the wonderful dance of the two ladies."

Five people came together to the outside room.Yang Xingyuan saw a wooden box containing a ukulele on the round table at a glance, and guessed it was brought by the two ladies.I thought they would still be able to Lafan Ahling, so they were considered versatile. There used to be a footman and a guard serving in this house, but when they saw Zhen Baoyin coming out, they all stood like zombies. Zhen Baoyin shook his head slightly at them, and said, "Get out." They hummed like mosquitoes, agreed with the word "yes", and backed out.Yang Xingyuan sat casually on a sofa chair, and Aisi also sat down.She asked Yang Xingyuan with a low smile, "What's your surname? I haven't asked yet." Yang Xingyuan said, "My surname is Yang." Aisi said, "We seem to meet somewhere." Yang Xingyuan smiled and said, "Can't you?" Love Si used an index finger of his left hand to touch his lips, tilted his head and thought about it, and said with a smile, "This is indeed true." Zhang Daci walked over and sat down on the chair, sitting on Aisi's side, and She moved her body a bit, looking at Aisi and squeezing her side.He laughed and said, "As soon as you meet, you just make out like this and talk about yourself. We have known each other for half a month, how can we stay away from each other like a monkey? We should make out with everyone." .Aisi twisted her body and pouted, "What's the matter!" Yang Xingyuan stood up with a smile, and said, "What's the trouble? I'll let you sit down." Shen Daci said: "What did you just say? "

Espen stretched out his feet in two high-heeled shoes. At this moment, he flinched, turned his head and said, "I have a lot to talk about, but I can't tell you." Yang Xingyuan was afraid that Zhang Daci might have misunderstood, and said with a smile: "You said Isn’t it strange? She said she seemed to meet me somewhere.” Zhen Baoqian embraced Er on the opposite sofa, and was about to ask her to teach her how to dance, so he interjected, “Maybe there is such a thing, they often go to the Huayang Hotel , maybe you will pass it." Yang Xingyuan said: "Unless that is the case. But I don't know how to dance, I just go there once or twice by chance." Then he said to Aisi: "It will keep me in my head. Over there, Ai'er interjected and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you ask this question, don't be mad at Mr. Zhang." Zhang Da said: "It's irrelevant, we have nothing to do with each other at all, I'm still a matchmaker with them. I don't believe it." , you ask him." Pointing to Yang Xingyuan, he said, "You guys haven't come, I have already introduced you." As he spoke, he opened the piano case on the table, handed the piano and bow to Ai Er .Said: "Excuse me, excuse me." With a smile on his face, Al picked up the piano and stood up.Zhang Daci said to Aisi again: "Excuse me, excuse me." Aisi stretched her waist and said with a smile: "I don't have any energy today." Zhang Daci said to Yang Xingyuan: "The two of them, one La, a dancer. That's great. It's a pity that she doesn't honor face, and you don't have a good eye." Yang Xingyuan also smiled and said to Aisi: "Do you really not honor face?" Aisi stretched her waist again, and said with a smile: " Don't laugh at me." Zhen Baoyin took out the cigar from his mouth, tapped the ashtray on the glass ashtray on the table, and said to Zhang Da: "How about it, just let me know.

How about you? "Zhang Daci said with a smile: "I am a stretcher, so what is it? "While speaking, Nai Er twisted his left hand, put Ji Ah Ling on his shoulder, and held the bow in his right hand, and then pulled it up. Ai Si stood on the carpet in the middle of the room, leaning forward and backward, swaying left and right, closing She danced to the beat. When she danced, she always had a smile on her face. Her eyes, like lightning, shot towards Yang Xingyuan from time to time. After dancing for a while, Fan A Ling stopped first, and Ai Si Holding the corners of the skirt with both hands, squatting down at a slant, eyes glanced at the three of Zhen Baoyin, Zhang Daci, and Yang Xingyuan. This look is very similar to that of foreigners. The three of them coincidentally, Applause. Zhen Baoyin pressed the electric bell on the wall, and the servant came in, standing in front of him with hands and feet. Zhen Baoyin said: "You tell them to prepare five snacks and bring them up. The sooner the better, the better." it is good. "The servant promised a few" Yes ", took two steps back, and then went out. After a while, the waiter in the hotel came in with a tray. Two plates of milk pastries were placed on the table. Five cups of coffee were served, and everyone sat around the table to drink coffee and have snacks. Because although Zhen Baoyin is very young, he is a bureaucrat assigned by the special mission, and Yang Xingyuan thinks that he is not a person in my way, so when talking to him, he always has a sense of disdain.Zhen Baoyin was so unrestrained, he was smoking and courting prostitutes here, it was time for him to be happy, seeing Yang Xingyuan's indifferent expression, he thought it was because of the first meeting, but he didn't pay attention.At this time, everyone was sitting and drinking coffee, so they couldn't help looking for something to say, so they said to Yang Xingyuan, "Is Mr. Yang busy with business? Old man Ding is very nice, and working with him is better than elsewhere." Hearing his words, Yang Xingyuan was inexplicable, Zhang Daci is over there, but he looks at Yang Xingyuan.Yang Xingyuan thought of what he said in the introduction just now, and she understood a little bit in her heart, so she agreed casually and passed it vaguely.Zhen Baoyin said again: "I'm still at President Hu's house, and I had a dinner with him." Zhang Daci knew that Yang Xingyuan was most afraid of talking about officialdom, so he broke the conversation and said with a smile: "These rich people like Danjiao. I don't know why? Hu Chunhang's service to Chang Xiaoxia is really impressive. The second one is Chen Boru, he and Niu Xiaoxin brothers and sisters are not together for a day." Zhen Baoyin said: "That's all. Is there any more? The fanciers who went to the sea, like Xiao Dan, played with the boss, why is that?" Zhang Da said: "Are you talking about Shen Ziwei? No wonder, he has suddenly become richer." Zhen Baoyin Said: "Whether rich or not, I don't know. I heard that I got to know a new friend in Jilin and borrowed thousands of dollars to make clothes for him. In addition, there is Zhang Huasong from the financial circle as his backer. It is not bad to eat and drink." It's burnt." Yang Xingyuan said: "This man is also a child of an aristocratic family, why did he get such a field? I don't think that's the case. "Zhang Da Ci said:" We treat people with loyalty, of course we don't believe it.However, he lives in Beijing to eat, drink, prostitute, gamble and wear, and where he spends a thousand foreign dollars a month comes from, but it is very interesting to study. "Yang Xingyuan said:" Where does he live? "Zhang Daci said:" It's not far from your place. "When he was talking, his eyes were looking at Aisi. Aisi said:" What did you say?Don't take advantage. "Zhang Daci smiled and said: "It's not enough to take advantage of a few words, so can you mention anything else? "Ai Er was smoking a cigarette, took it off from his mouth, held a flick of ashes between his two fingers, turned his hands back, handed the cigarette to Zhen Baoyin who was sitting next to him, pursed his lips, and shushed forward The breath, the smoke in his mouth, like an arrow, blows towards Zhang Daci's face, and he said with a smile: "Don't be scolded. "Zhang Daci laughed loudly, and kept saying "good fragrance". While talking, they were making trouble and fooling around for a long time. Aier went to the window and lifted the curtains, only to see half of the moon, under the shadow of the willow trees outside the building, and said with a smile: "It's been a long time, it's still early, and the moon has just come out." Zhang Da said: "You are so confused, you can't even tell the east from the west, the north from the south, the moon looks down, you think it looks up." Ai Er winked at Ai Si, and said softly: "Let's go." Zhang When Daci saw it, he pulled El into the inner room to talk. After a while, Zhang Daci came out and Aisi went in again.Zhang Daci sat next to Zhen Baoyin, leaning his head against his head and said a lot of words softly.Zhen Baoyin smiled and nodded, and then said loudly: "Let her go back, it's better to let her go." While speaking, he took out his wallet, took two ten-yuan bills, and handed them to Zhang Daci.Just as Zhang Daci was about to take it, Zhen Baoyin retracted his hand again, and said with a smile: "You should be clear about your negotiation with Aisi. Otherwise, it is not clear, and it makes me go back and drive with you. It's really wronged. Zhang Daci pointed his hand into the room, looked at Yang Xingyuan and said, "In today's situation, why do I want to eat swan meat?" Zhen Baoyin said, "I don't know if you said that on purpose? In fact, It's not a problem." Zhang Da did not wait for Zhen Baoyin to finish speaking, and looked at each other, Zhen Baoyin smiled and handed him the money.Zhang Daci took the money and went to the inner room.After a while, the two of them came out from inside.Aier said to Zhen Baoyin: "Excuse me, please tell your housekeeper to go outside and call my coachman." Zhen Baoyin smiled and replied: "Yes." After pressing the bell, the servant came in, Zhen Baoyin said: "Go out and get Miss Ai's carriage to be harnessed." The footman agreed and went.Aier Aisi and the three of them nodded slightly with a smile, and said, "See you sometime." The three of them also stood up and saw each other off.Aisi stood beside Yang Xingyuan, pulled his clothes, and suddenly held his hand, as if there was something in the palm of his hand.This Aisi squinted her eyes, and when she rolled her eyes, Yang Xingyuan understood and pinched the thing.The three of them sent it to the door of the room, and then stopped sending it. The two of them, Aier Aisi, also left without looking back. Yang Xingyuan and Zhang Zhen sat for a while, talking about two things about being an official for fun.Zhen Baoyin said: "I didn't know Mr. Yang came today, it's very disrespectful, I'll find another place to talk about it another day." Although Yang Xingyuan was humble, he didn't know why he was so polite.Then he said to Zhang Daci, "I'll sit with you." Then he resigned from Zhen Baoyin and came to Zhang Daci's room.Yang Xingyuan complained to him and said: "You are so unreasonable! Why are you bragging about me, saying that I am a secretary?" Zhang Daci laughed and said, "It doesn't matter at all. You don't know something. This Supervisor Zhen is based on qualifications to make friends , the more you talk about your background, the closer he is to you. I said earlier that you are just a reporter, so you can’t sit still for a long time. You can’t sit for a long time, how can you get this girlfriend?” Yang Xingyuan laughed and said: "I don't want to have such a girlfriend. Why do I want you to brag for me?" Zhang Daci laughed and said, "That little guy is very interesting with you. Don't let him down. She asked me your address and address behind your back." I told her the phone number." Yang Xingyuan said: "Then you are fooling around! Why do I associate with them?" Zhang Daci said: "Don't underestimate her, carry your resume, maybe she is richer than us Much more." Although Yang Xingyuan admits to being innocent, it is best not to get close between men and women.If it is close, it is the old saying that the attraction of the sexes is inevitable. This attraction is very mysterious, and when it happens, it must not be restricted by any class.Yang Xingyuan thought about it, she gave me something just now, like a ball of paper, I want to see it.So he left without talking to Zhang Daci.When he reached the gate, he wanted to take out the ball of paper in his bag to have a look, but he held back because of the constant traffic at the gate.I got in the car, and when I took it out to look at it, it turned out to be a round ticket, and there was nothing there. Turning over the back, there seems to be some handwriting, but it is written in pencil. How can it be seen under the street lamp? At this time, the car passed West Chang'an Avenue, and the car was pulling on the smooth road, fast and smooth. The moon in the sky was obliquely shining on the locust trees on the side of the road, and the shadows of the trees fell to the ground row by row. The moonlight on the ground appeared, extraordinarily white and clean.The leaves of the weeping willows on the side of the road are all green, and the trees seem to be very wet, holding the moonlight, it seems to be a little light green.Looking at the electric lights on the electric poles by the woods, they all reflected a light color, and they were not so bright. Yang Xingyuan was at the Lanqiao Hotel just now, his ears and eyes were mixed with voices and colors, among the clumps of beautiful flowers, although he was happy, he was always groggy.Now that I've arrived at this place, I don't see any signs of wealth and honor. For a moment, it's like a dream.From the change of prosperity and coldness, he thought of the sentence "color is emptiness", and from the sentence "color is emptiness", he thought of the two sisters of Ai Ersi, who seemed to be knowledgeable people, why did they do this kind of life of selling human flesh? ?After thinking about it carefully, I don't understand why this is?From this point of view, there might not be any lords and wives ostentatiously on the street... Thinking of this, I suddenly heard two cars chasing up from behind, and two people talking in the car.There is a sentence that catches my ears, "will you go tomorrow?"It sounded like an acquaintance's voice.Yang Xingyuan listened to what he said, and it happened that the two cars followed closely behind, and could hear every sentence clearly.At that time, another one replied: "Naturally, why not? I have already reserved three seats in the first row." This one seemed to laugh and said, "I have reserved three seats, do I have a seat?" The other said: "If you want to go, of course there will be a seat for you. If you don't go, there will naturally be someone to fill the vacancy." This one said: "Very well, you can just ask another expert. There is a place to go tomorrow, which is much better than your place. "That one said: "Where is it, let's hear it." This one seemed to be smiling: "Tomorrow afternoon, Wu Zhifen will invite the head at Xilao's house and ask me to join him. Do you think it's interesting?" The other said: "You don't want to." Nonsense, they left the elders to play the role, do you have a share?" This one said: "To be honest, there is such a thing, although I didn't ask for the role, I actually inquired about it." The other said: "How do you know? This one said: "Xi Lao is our fellow countryman, and his fifth young master is also a half-hearted celebrity. Yesterday, I was talking about drama with some friends. Some people said that Fang Zhixian's drama was not good, and he blushed anxiously." Hot ears, quarreling with other people. Some people laughed and said, you only protect your Fang Ganmei, not your Wu Ganmei. He said, why not defend? Today I am still discussing with the old man, and the day after tomorrow I will play cards for Zhifen? " Hearing this, Yang Xingyuan interjected unconsciously: "Bark! Why are you announcing other people's secrets in this thoroughfare?" The man was shocked, and under the shadow of the moon, he took a closer look, and it was none other than Wu Bibo, not the other one. It's Wu Bibo's classmate, and Yang Xingyuan will live too.Wu Bibo laughed and said: "You daredevil, you suddenly yelled, we were taken aback." Yang Xingyuan said: "Now you put your books aside and don't read, are you enjoying the horns every day?" Wu Bibo said: "That's just a coincidence. Yang Xingyuan said: "Just now I heard you say Mr. Zhou Xi. I remembered something. Hua Boping came to Beijing, and he was looking for these people. Please come to my place tomorrow morning, and I will look for him with you all the way." Go." Wu Bibo agreed.Having said that, the car arrived at the place where the roads diverged, and each went his own way. After a while Yang Xingyuan arrived at home, the first thing he needed to do was to read what was written on the bureau ticket. He waited for the long shift who brought water to make tea to leave, and then closed the door again.Then I took out the bureau ticket and looked at the words written in pencil on the back. It was: Mr. Yang: I really know you very well. Tomorrow at six o'clock in the afternoon, I will wait for you at No. 9 of the Shenzhou Hotel.When you leave the yamen, please come and meet me so that we can talk carefully.This matter must be kept secret. Yang Xingyuan took it in his hand and looked at it several times, thinking to himself, how could I know her?This is very strange, in any case, I do not have such acquaintances.I scrutinized the piece of paper sentence by sentence, suddenly realized, and thought: "Yes. The most important part of this is a word from Xia Yamen. She thought I was a grand lord, so she tried her best to contact me.In fact, I am a cold scholar, you have been fooled by Zhang Daci.I thought she wrote me a note, or really had something nice to say.It turns out that this is a very common thing, why bother to pretend like that?Don't let other people see this piece of paper.If you don't know the reason, why don't you say it's an affair when you see it? "Thinking of this, I lit a match and burned the paper. On the next day, Wu Bibo really came.He asked: "Hua Boping, what is he doing in Beijing on this day?" Yang Xingyuan said: "I don't know if I'm free either. He said a few words. He came here for the issue of elected governor. He meant to talk to the elders in Beijing separately. He asked these elders to help him a little bit. "Wu Bibo said: "Old Zhou Xi is very stubborn. After hearing these petitions, there is no one who does not feel headaches. What do you do with him?" Let's go into details." The two talked for a while, and then went all the way to the hotel to meet Hua Boping.Hua Boping bought a stack of daily newspapers and was reading them there, but did not go out. He first asked Yang Xingyuan what happened to the apartment he was reading.Because of the Lanqiao Hotel last night, Yang Xingyuan felt that this kind of hotel was not a good place, so he said that there were no vacant rooms, and then he thought about it.After talking for a while, he left first, but left Wu Bibo here to accompany him to his hometown in Xixi last week. Because it was time for lunch, Hua Boping had lunch with Wu Bibo first, and the two of them sat and waited for the meal, so they started chatting.Wu Bibo asked him if he had visited anywhere since he arrived in Beijing?Hua Boping said with a smile: "Last night, I went to some Kaiming theater to see Mei Lanfang's play. Who knows where I went, just happened to stop the show, and read the play report at the door. The show won't be until Saturday." Wu Bibo said: "Why did you go to the opera on the first day you arrived in Beijing without taking a rest?" Hua Boping said: "We are in the south, and the name Mei Lanfang sounds too familiar. I'm familiar with it. I wonder how good-looking it is? I have to see it once before giving up. But every time I go back to Shanghai, I can't find Mei Lanfang there. So when I arrive in Beijing, I am eager to solve this problem." Wu Bibo said: "It's true that people from the south come to Beijing like this. But Beijing will listen to operas, but he is not welcome." Hua Boping said: "What? Beijingers don't welcome Mei Lanfang?" Wu Bibo said: "People from the mainland find it strange when they hear this kind of talk. Have you lived in Beijing for a long time? Naturally, you know. For example, when people from the south come to Beijing, those who are rich must bring two leather goods back to the south. In fact, the leather goods in Beijing are not cheaper than those in the south, and sometimes they are more expensive than Shanghai. It seems that the medicine in the south is called Jingshushi. In fact, people in Beijing call this kind of stuff rat shit, and they see it sloppily. Besides, I remembered another thing. Winter in Beijing is extremely cold, and a stove is indispensable in every house. Ordinary people just use A kind of white mud stove, put briquettes in it to burn. Small family, even if it is not winter, they usually use white stove for cooking and boiling water. It is not worth much. You can imagine that when I went back to the south that winter, I went to a fashionable man’s house. There is such a white stove in his living room, and a special white copper shelf is made to set it up. A few knots of red charcoal are burned in it. He thinks it is very fashionable, and he calls it a Tianjin stove. I was so funny then.Southerners regard Mei Lanfang as a fairy, and they probably regard Tianjin Stove as a treasure. "Hua Boping said:" I don't believe what you say. "Wu Bibo said:" Of course you don't believe it.When you go to listen to Mei Lanfang's play one day, you carefully examine your front and back, and what percentage of people speak Beijing dialect, then you have a proportion. "However, although Wu Bibo said this, Hua Boping absolutely refused to believe it. The two of them argued for a long time, but there was still no result. They didn't stop talking until they had lunch in the hotel. After dinner, Hua Boping changed into a long jersey and added a mandarin jacket, and he and Wu Bibo came to visit Mr. Zhou Xi.Zhou Xi's old family lives at the foot of the east city wall, where the place is noisy and quiet.There is an open space at his door, and a row of green locust trees are planted around the open space.Near the door, there are five weeping willows planted in another row, which fits the poem "five willows weeping at the door are like Tao Qian".When Hua Boping and Wu Bibo arrived, it must be Zhou Xi's home.The two went to the concierge to hand over their business cards, and asked if the master was at home?The concierge saw that Wu Bibo was an acquaintance, so he said, "Just get up! Please sit in the living room, I'll go in and have a look." Then they came into the living room.Hua Boping saw that there was a red kang couch in the middle, and mahogany Taishi chairs on both sides.Along the roof beams, there are hexagonal gauze lanterns hanging.In addition, such as porcelain vases, copper tripods, qin tables, and writing desks, they are all antique and interesting.Hanging in the middle is a pair of naves with four large characters, "Old and strong", and the last paragraph reads "Gift minister Zhou Xipo".The next paragraph reads "Xuantong Fourteen Years Royal Pen".Next to it is a couplet on coral tiger skin paper, which reads, "Iron shoulders bear morality, and hard hands write articles."The upper paragraph reads "Master Zhou Fangbo Xipo is elegant and upright", and the lower paragraph reads "Regenerating Kang Youwei".Hua Boping thought: "Only these two things, I'm afraid other families don't have them!" At this time, I heard someone coughing twice in succession from outside the screen, and then a person turned out, wearing a maroon forging jacket, a sky blue satin jacket, and a red melon skin hat with a nail in the middle. There was a rectangular piece of green jade, and on both sides of the hat, a few strands of gray hair were exposed, as if there were braids hidden in the hat.He was holding a pipe in one hand, and under the pipe was a stick of paper coal.He walked into the living room with a smile, and Wu Bibo first told Hua Boping that this was Mr. Xi.As soon as he entered the door, Hua Boping hadn't greeted him yet. Holding the cigarette bag in both hands, he bowed and walked in.Hua Boping had no choice but to cup his hands and make a few bows.Elder Zhou Xi raised his hand, and asked him and Wu Bibo to sit down on the grand master's chair.Elder Zhou Xi said first, "Mr. Hua is from the south?" Wu Bibo interjected, "He has admired Elder Xi's name for a long time, so he specially asked me to bring him over to see him." : "I dare not take it. Now everything is reformed, we are old and useless, it is the time of your youth." When he said that, he held the cigarette pouch in one hand and retracted the other hand into the sleeve of the big shirt, groping for a long time , took out a folded plush towel, wiped the beard under the nose a few times, and then wiped the left and right corners of the mouth a few times.But he hadn't wiped it clean, and there was still some snot on his beard, like dewdrops, clinging to it.At this time, the servant came in with a small round saucer and put it on the table beside it.There were three bowls of tea in the tray, and the footman placed the bowls one by one on the tea table next to the three guests.There is a porcelain saucer under this tea bowl and a cover on top. Hua Boping seems to have seen it before when he was a child, but now he came to Beijing and encountered it again.After the tea was offered, the footman took another hookah and a piece of paper coal to Hua Boping, and he had no choice but to accept it.He is in the south, and it is not easy to see a hookah for many years. Of course, he doesn't smoke.But since the man handed over the pipe, it was inconvenient not to smoke, so he just blew on the paper coal with his mouth, intending to take a puff.But blowing paper coal is not something a layman can do.He couldn't blow it after more than a dozen blows, so he had to press the paper coal on the end of the cigarette pipe and suck it with his mouth.This time, I didn't smoke until I didn't smoke. I took a sip of the smelly water in the pipe, which was astringent and spicy. I quickly drank tea and rinsed my mouth, and then spit it into the spittoon in front of me.When Wu Bibo saw it, he couldn't help smiling at him, and Hua Boping became more and more embarrassed.Fortunately, Mr. Zhou Xi didn't pay attention.Hua Boping recalled what he had said just now, and then continued, "Actually, when it comes to handling affairs, we still rely on the elders." Elder Zhou Xi sighed and said, "People's hearts are not ancient, the world is declining, and now we have reached the end of the mountain. Time. Slowly say that if we don’t come out to do things, even if we go out to do things, we will have no way to start. We are not outsiders. As far as I know, any republican government or free reform is simply nonsense. The ancients said: “A half of the Analects can rule the world. "We have inexhaustible sources of Chinese scriptures and sages, and what Western methods do we need?"In the past, it was considered a disadvantage to select scholars through imperial examinations, but now it is simply out of the question. A common man can be a public minister out of thin air.After being dismissed from office, he is still a common man again. " Wu Bibo is used to hearing it, so it doesn't matter, Hua Boping heard this discussion, and thought to himself: "We in the south always think this way. When the provincial government fails, we can go to Beijing to invite The old man in Yujing, it turns out that the old man in Yujing's discussion is nothing more than that." He was on the side, and it was just Weiwei. Zhou Xi talked happily, and said: "Today's scholar-bureaucrats, how can they know anything, they are nothing more than prostitution and gambling. If there is something good on the top, there must be something wrong on the bottom. "Speaking, I leaned back, leaned on the back of the chair, turned my head in a circle, shook it a few times, sighed and said: "The current weathering is really bad.To marry a wife is not to be ordered by parents, to be told by a matchmaker, to be well-dressed... "Speaking of which, a footman came in and said to Zhou Xi, "My lord, there is a call. Elder Zhou Xi asked, "Who's calling?" "The servant said:" Boss Wu. "Old Zhou Xi listened, his beard cocked up with a smile, and he put down the cigarette pouch. The footman picked up the earphones from the wire tray on the piano table and plugged them into the wall. Elder Zhou Xi took the earphones, "Hi" With a loud voice, the delicate voice over there first asked: "Godfather? "Zhou Xi said with a smile: "It's me, where are you? "The other side said:" I said, I'm at home, and I'm going to the theater soon.I said, today is a new play, I have reserved a box for you, will you go? " Zhou Xi said: "Go and go." The other side said: "I said, then, I can stay, don't not come." Zhou Xi said: "You child, when did I wrong you?" He said "goodbye" with a smile and hung up the phone. Zhou Xilao put down the phone, still holding the hookah, talking to the two of them.Wu Bibo said, "Is it Zhifen's phone number?" Zhou Xi said with a smile: "This child is innocent and innocent!" Wu Bibo said: "I have never seen her off the stage. If she is on the stage, she is very steady. The last time I saw her, she appeared "Sacrifice to the River" is desolate and melodious, extremely sad." Zhou Xi was more happy when he heard people say that he was a good daughter, than when people praised him.Without saying a word, he laughed aloud first, patted his leg with his hand, and said: "It's strange, it's just so desirable. She looks so quiet and quiet on the stage, making people have to sit upright." Hua Boping Sitting aside and listening wistfully.Wu Bibo said: "You may not know that Xilao has several young ladies, all of whom are now very famous Kun Ling. The one who called just now is one of the young ladies named Wu Zhifen. Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism has no place to vent, and it is really a last resort to send it among golden jars and sandalwood boards." Wu Bibo's two words, which seemed to be flattering but not flattering, unexpectedly entered Zhou Xipo's heart every word, and he couldn't help but express He patted his leg again and said, "Here! My brother can see clearly." 吴碧波道：“再说这几位小姐，也真是解语之花，忘忧之草，实在的得人疼。”周西老燃着纸煤正在吸烟，听到一个疼字，忍不住要笑。水烟一呛嗓子，捧着烟袋，弯着腰咳嗽不住。吴碧波华伯平看见周西老被烟呛着了，都有些替他着急，那周西老咳得满脸通红，鼻涕眼泪都流出来了，好容易止住了咳嗽，吐了一日浓吐沫。又在衫袖里掏出那块毛手巾，擦了一擦脸，这才重新捧着烟袋和他们说话。而且咳得这个样子，并没有收他的笑容，他将纸煤指着吴碧波道：“你这个疼字，形容得淋漓尽致。那几个孩子……”说着，又掉转头对华伯平道：“华伯兄没有见过，唱得很好。”华伯平道：“那我一定要瞻仰的。”周西老很是高兴，说道：“不知二位有工夫没有工夫？若是有工夫，我们今天可以同去。”华伯平先来的时候，听见周西老说了一大套忠君爱国的话，直觉得浑身不痛快。而今看起来，这老头也是一个知趣的人儿，自然很欢喜，不等吴碧波说，就先说道：“我们都愿奉陪。”周西老本想打电话出去，邀几个人一路去坐包厢，而今华伯平答应陪着去，就不用得找人了，便说道：“在这里小坐一会儿，回头我们同去。”吴碧波一想，老头儿有一个包厢在那里，正怕找不到人去坐，我们这样一答应，正中其计，那又何必。便道：“伯平兄和西老一块儿去罢，我先告辞。”周西老连忙站起来，将手一指道：“坐下坐下！一块儿去。我里面还点着灯，一路躺躺灯会。好不好？”说着，便将他二人往里让，一直引到他自己看书抽烟的房里来，抽一个多钟头的烟，才同坐着周西老的马车，一路到康乐戏园来。