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Chapter 140 Dr. Wen (9)

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As he walked, Dr. Wen settled the matter: I wanted to give Tang Zhenhua a good face, but she turned stinky; well, I will stop talking to the Tang family father and daughter just like I did to Old Chu.This is simply!Well, tying them all together is not worth a doctor's pair of ducks! I wanted to tell her the truth, but who knew she would be so awkward and persuade me to do hard work, what a joke!If a doctor wants to teach elementary school students—for example—why do he still need teacher students?joke!A woman has to be beautiful; she has an ugly face and no one wants to see her. Like Tang Zhenhua, she has to feel more and more self-pity, thinking that although her face is ugly, she has some thoughts; up!ridiculous!Well, with her looks, plus that old-fashioned expression, blow!Nothing!There is no need to reward her with even a face.

But this match can't be regarded as a failure, the Yang family, the Yang family, yes, go to the Yang family.Let me show you the surname Wen, if I don't jump up from this, I will be a doctor in vain! Let's say it this way, if she was also interested just now, followed my words, encouraged me, told me what her father knew, and gave me an idea. Seriously, if I can't get a rich woman , I really want to get closer to her——Tang Zhenhua.This cannot be considered cheap for her.snort!Playing that game with me, in American universities, so many famous professors have never taught me a lesson!It's over for Tang Zhenhua, whoever marries her will be in for a lifetime of bad luck!Young and young, with no aspirations and ambitions!Well, go teach schoolchildren all your life.I have to teach you to see what kind of character a doctor is!

The more he babbled, the happier he felt. He decided to give up the Tang family and his daughter. There was no need for such a waste. Putting them down, he wanted to visit the Yang family directly and quickly.This is only allowed to succeed, not to fail.If it fails again this time, it will really fall under Tang Zhenhua's words: give up Jinan.No, this time it must be successful.Not to mention, Lu Pingfu was able to enter the Yang family with a master's degree, so of course a doctor is more confident.become!That's right! The Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner, and the streets are selling the most eye-catching fruits and the most clumsy Rabbit King.For these fruits, Dr. Wen only felt a little glamorous in color, and never thought of buying them; if he wanted to eat, he had to eat American oranges or Japanese pears wrapped in paper; Chinese women, even if they look fun, are not very clean.As for Rabbit King, it doesn't matter whether it is clumsy or not, he doesn't look at it at all, and he doesn't care about paying attention to these things that can make a child like it for a long time.

As for those big and unreasonable moon cakes, he doesn't even pay attention to them; even if he really wants to taste them, he refuses to buy them. Wearing a foreign suit to buy moon cakes, he feels that it is a sign of surrender to the Chinese society, and he will never do it. Although none of these things caught his attention, the bustle and joy of the people finally made him feel a little uneasy.Suddenly, he smelled some sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance in the dusty and clamoring air. It was slightly sour, and it dissipated when it reached the tip of his nose, and he could never smell it again.This scent aroused his nostalgia, and he thought of the beautiful Sichuan, and his wandering.He hated the things and men and women around him even more. Chinese people celebrate festivals, which seems to be designed to arouse the doctor's emotion.He hurried back to the dormitory.

After dinner, he went to the secretary who invited him to give a lecture and pulled Gua'er back to inquire about the Yang family.This time he didn't go to visit in a hurry, he had to be prepared.According to the officer, the Yang family's pharmacy - Dashengtang - has been in business for more than 300 years. There are specialists who collect ginseng in the northeast, make donkey-hide gelatin by themselves, and have their own deer garden medicine garden.In Jinan, even in North China, they must be regarded as the authority of the medicine store.However, in recent years, there has been a lot of slack. There are many people in the family, the expenses are too high, and some of the children have set up branch offices in other cities, under the banner of the Yang family, but they do not pay the old cabinet.Even so, a skinny camel is always bigger than a horse, and it must be considered a wealthy family after all.When Zhang Zongchang was in Jinan, the officer said that whenever the Yang family sent mooncakes, they would pay a dozen for 500 yuan each.The stuffing inside is banknotes and gold jewelry.The uncle of the Yang family, after the festival, sent a councilor, and had a lot of activities in the officialdom.Although spending more and spending more did not make him richer because of it, but in the hands of Zhang Zongchang, the merchants followed the Yang family's door and did business with the provincial government.This point of communication between the government and the business still has lingering power to this day, so the chairman of the chamber of commerce is a member of the Yang family, and now even the vice chairman is in the hands of his son-in-law.

This report made Dr. Wen happy, but also a little scared.Happy, this is exactly the family he wants to enter, rich and powerful, capable of both government and business; afraid, what if the Yang family and Lu Pingfu question him like the same?It is too late to prepare immediately, who can still recite "Materia Medica"!There is almost no preparation in terms of knowledge. Others sell medicine and I study education administration. How can I get through it? If there is no preparation in terms of knowledge, then one should know something about the love and temper of the people of the Yang family.This, but you can't ask the director of the YMCA for advice, because the YMCA won't criticize anyone.After much deliberation, I still have to go to Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang knows everything.

How dare you go find Old Tang again?Just now, I wanted to win over Tang Zhenhua and teach her to be a detective, but who knew that she would be so ignorant that she didn't show her face.After touching her nails, how can I find her father again?Besides, it's not like I didn't try my best to perfunctory Old Tang. I went to teach English for nothing, and I tried to talk to him with all my energy when I met him, but the result was enough to strengthen others' vigor and destroy my own prestige.What to do?Can you still teach the doctor to kowtow to Lao Tang? Just be tough, take Commissar Jiao and shoot him!However, that old slicker will definitely pretend to be afraid, help on the surface, and sabotage secretly, which is not good.Let's do this, give him something hard and soft at the same time, look at him, first see how he fights back.If he also comes to be tough, then we will turn our faces and deny each other, I'm sorry; if he softens, it will be better, so as to save everyone from falling out and embarrassing.After thinking about this way, he took out his pen and wanted to write a letter to Mr. Tang.The letter must be firm, telling him that he has no time to teach English, with a bit of dissatisfaction in his tone, and teaching him to figure it out on his own.Along with the letter, send a basket of fruit, which is soft as a gift.That's right, the combination of hardness and softness, let's see what he does!

However, writing a letter is not easy.Write it in English, for better or for worse, you can always bluff them.But if they can't understand it, it's not in vain.Let’s write in Chinese, no matter it’s good or bad, it’s not as convenient as English. There are many things that can be said very euphemistically in English, but can’t be done in Chinese.What's more, everyone in the Tang family knows how to turn around a few times. If I don't turn around well, won't I be ridiculed by them?Even if you put in some effort and edit it well, your own Chinese characters will be a problem.You can just wipe the cross casually when you write foreign characters, but you have to pay attention to Chinese characters, and I don't understand these details at all.After staring at the letter paper for a long time, I feel more and more awkward. Everything is awkward in China!

After spending several sheets of letter paper, I finally decided to write off all the meanings I remembered in English, and simply wrote a few sentences: "Because I am busy with work, I will stop teaching English. I have a basket of fruit, please accept it!"...Okay, This saves trouble, and because it is simple, it can show a little toughness.As for the calligraphy, just slide it with a pen, without revealing the traces of hard work; American doctors don't pay attention to calligraphy. The next day, even the letter and the fruits were sent. Sure enough, Mr. Tang came to thank him that afternoon, holding two boxes of Cantonese mooncakes in his hand, as if to see his aunt coming.Dr. Wen frowned and locked the smile in his heart.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Mr. Tang arched his hand between his brows, and closed his eyes slightly, as if he was feeling his humility in his heart.After sitting down, Mr. Tang sighed. "Dr. Wen, I'm terribly sorry, I'm sorry! The little girl's temper... I had a fight with her!" Mr. Tang did have a fight with Zhenhua.He thought that he had done his best to create opportunities for her as a father, but she didn't understand; several times, he had let people with degrees go out of thin air, and he didn't understand what was going on with her. "Three sons and one daughter, treat her more or less, the doctor doesn't need to treat her...she doesn't know anything!"

"Mr. Tang, please don't think so!" Dr. Wen said solemnly: "I am not at all for Ms. Zhenhua. I am too busy, too busy!" He wanted to speak more fully: "One reason is that friends are getting more and more slowly, and they have to socialize; second, they often go to the library to read books; it is inconvenient to buy foreign books here, so I have to read some old Chinese books, which are interesting. The brain is like a knife, no I like reading very much, I like it very much!" After telling this lie, he felt that his status was indeed very high, and he never forgot to read. After chatting for a while, the relationship slowly turned back to intimacy: From Mr. Tang's point of view, it was all Zhenhua's fault; but since you lost a son-in-law with a doctorate, don't lose another friend.From Dr. Wen's point of view, since Old Tang has given in, he is embarrassed to kill them all; no matter how you say it, Old Tang is a useful person.This kind of understanding first hovered in his heart, and gradually revealed in his tone of voice and words. Like boiling a kettle, it first foams inside, and then the hot air pushes open the lid.The words explained, both parties got some comfort, and the more they talked, the more intimate they became, as if they were old friends for many years. "Dr. Wen, there is something I want to discuss with you." Mr. Tang took advantage of the warm feelings and proposed some practical mutual assistance: "I heard that they are going to set up a committee to investigate and eliminate radical Ideas and characters. The committee members are all part-timers, so naturally they don’t have much time to do things, so a commissioner has to be hired. Although the work is not very sweet, it is very free. It is just to go out to investigate and investigate, and then make a report. Investigate everywhere, Natural status is not low, even the county magistrate and all the local officials have to take good care of them. Not to mention, the most worthwhile place is here: if a few cases are really investigated and reported, the commissioner in the province will Showed his face; the provincial government reported it to the central government, and the provincial government showed its face again; this is a promising matter, maybe after a year or so, it may be transferred to the central government; the central government is very, very careful about this matter Xiaoer Jianhua is very suitable for this job, but the disadvantage is that the qualifications are too low. Even if we entrust all the committee members, I am afraid that it will not be smooth when it comes to qualifications. Doctor, if you are willing to do it, I am sure, it will be successful. With your qualifications and my hard work, I will definitely be able to succeed. After I am successful, I will open the skylight and tell you the truth, you will be the commissioner, and Jianhua will be your assistant. If you don’t have to be idle, Jianhua will also go to experience and practice. This is our Agreement, a gentleman! Doctor, if you are willing, I will do it right away. But, forgive me for nagging, you must take Jianhua with you! How about it?" "Let me think about it!" Dr. Wen was unusually solemn, rolling his eyes and tilting his head, like a startled chicken: "Think about it!" Mr. Tang waited with a smile, and said in his heart: "Think about it! I'll run around for you, but you still think about it, pretend to be this fucking garlic!" He really felt a little bit unfair: If he or Jianhua had a doctorate qualification!No way, for Jianhua's future, we have to borrow the title of doctor, no way!He could only smile and watch the doctor think about it. "Well, Mr. Tang, roughly speaking, how much salary does the commissioner get?" The doctor asked in a low voice. "That can't be said." Mr. Tang's intimacy with the doctor ran away again. If it wasn't for cultivating his own son, he really wanted to slap the doctor twice, although Mr. Tang would never dare to slap anyone. "It's a way out, isn't it?" "Okay, we cooperate, we cooperate!" The doctor felt that he should pull the words back, not to be too tense. "If there is real cooperation, if there is you, then there must be Jianhua?" "Sure!" The doctor stretched out his right hand. Mr. Tang knew the etiquette of shaking hands at first, but he forgot this etiquette because he felt aggrieved, so he arched his hands, and then hurriedly clasped his hands around the doctor's wrist, as if he was going to practice bunting in Chinese martial arts.
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