Chapter 22
The next few days were quiet.
Mrs. Zhang said that there were no rumors about Miss Jin on the street, and no one gossiped about the Jin Mansion.
Zhu Yanshu bought many gossip tabloids from the street, only one tabloid seems to be true to report that “a certain family’s daughter has fled for love, and her relatives are in tears”, but did not specify which family, and there is no goodbye tracking report.
Yang Yucan spends more and more energy on Wu Xiaoping, not as enthusiastic about the school as in the past, and has lost some weight.
Because of this incident, Yang Yuyan has been deprived of the right to go out for walks on her own. Zhang Ma now only goes out to buy food in the afternoon and stays home with her in the morning.
Being in the company of Zhang Ma for so many days has made Yang Yuyan even more eager for the outside world and free air. Fortunately, she still has a teacher, Mr. Su, to tell her stories about the outside world.
Su Chunjun now comes home late every day, often arriving at 11:00 or 12:00, and often skipping dinner. When Yang Yuyan heard about this, she secretly hid the snacks in the house and put them in front of his house.
When Su Chunjun found out, he quietly told her the next day when he came to have breakfast: “My door is usually unlocked, you can get in by pushing it, just put the snacks in the house next time.”
Yang Yuyan’s jaw dropped, and she was embarrassed to say that she didn’t want to keep giving it to him, so she could only say vaguely, “There are seven or eight families living in this building, so how can you leave the door unlocked!”
Su Chunjun laughed: “Now there is nothing in that house, after I pawned the fountain pen, there is only a room full of furniture left, the thief can’t carry my cabinet away, can he?”
Yang Yuyan suddenly realized, clapped his hands and said: “So that’s how I got that fountain pen? How did you pawn your pen? What fountain pen is so valuable?” Thinking of that Montblanc fountain pen, as if this snack can only continue to send.
Alas.
Su Chunjun knew that her focus would always be different.
He said, “I only brought two things with me from home. One is for your skewer, and the other is my birthday present when I was eighteen, a diamond-encrusted fountain pen, also from Montblanc.”
He hadn’t hit on either of these things since he’d been poorer from home. Where the string of beads was a relic from his mother, the fountain pen was a true favorite. Two years had passed, his nostalgia for his family had gradually returned to peace, and the agitation he felt when he ran away at that time had been smoothed out by the hunger and poverty of life. He gave the string of beads to Yang Yuyan because he wanted this beautiful and precious thing to continue to bloom where he could see it, if it had been hidden away, it would be like failing to live up to its beauty, and if it was lost, it would be even more upsetting.
Yang Yuyan is a pure and beautiful girl, he has a sense of responsibility for her as a teacher and a brother, but also a man’s desire for a beautiful young woman. But he has no body, no place to live, no life, how can he go to stain such a beautiful and fresh creature? He could not pick this flower if he could not be responsible for her.
He would rather stand beside her and wait for her with all his heart and soul, so as to live up to the little bit of his heart and thoughts for her.
As for the diamond-encrusted Montblanc, in the end in his eyes became a money figure. After he pawned the money, he first went to buy a beautiful fountain pen to give Yang Yuyan as a gift for her eighteenth birthday. Although it was a bit early, if he waited until March next year, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have enough money in his hand.
The rest of the money punched out a few gifts and got this current job.
So he became a pauper once again, and he didn’t even have money for food until next month’s paycheck arrived. At school, he could still take advantage of his classmates and eat their lunches, but now he could only go hungry. Luckily, Ms. Zhu and Ms. Yang Yuyan, two of the most kind-hearted women in the world, were willing to help him out, or else he would have starved to death.
The family were all kind-hearted people, even the maid, Mrs. Zhang, cooked for him every day.
He left that family, but found that there are still precious and lovely people in this world, it is really unexpected and pleasantly surprised.
Speaking of that string of beads, Yang Yuyan had always wanted to return it to him, but Su Chunjun had never accepted it, insisting that he couldn’t take it without returning her money.
“I’ve accepted your fountain pen, I heard that this one is a few hundred dollars! You don’t need to return that ten dollars.” Second Miss Yang said generously.
Su Chunjun said, “Alright, although I’m all set to pay it back as soon as I get paid next month, since you said so, then I’ll ……”
Yang Yuyan glared at him, “I’ve said I don’t need you to pay it back! You’re underestimating me aren’t you!”
In order to prove that he wasn’t underestimating Second Miss Yang, Su Chunjun borrowed all of Second Miss’s newly acquired few pieces of pocket money.
He had money for lunch!
Su Chunjun left happily.
In the morning, Ms. Yang was writing her homework, and the more she wrote, the angrier she became.
She felt that she had been duped!
But after Mr. Su told her about all the hard work he’d done at work, she felt that she should forgive him for being so pathetic.
Su Chunjun is a small member of the Finance Section, and the Finance Section manages the government large and small up and down all the people’s food and drink, take a taxi and live in a store, drink and eat meat, live in the hospital to accompany the dancing lady …… and so on.
Before closing the accounts every month, you need to take the account slips from all the offices to calculate the total account. The company is responsible for the collection of all the articles, is the work of Su Chunjun.
This is also in view of the fact that he is a graduate of a famous university, is a cultural person, and only entrusted with the important task.
So, Su Chunjun is on the run every day, waiting for all the adults in all the offices, sections, apartments, hotels, dance halls, and small public houses to get the notes out of their hands.
Otherwise, if you don’t cash in this month, you won’t be able to cash in next month.
But the adults do not think that the last month’s notes can’t be cashed in this month, they think that as long as they bring over the notes, any time is possible to cash out the money.
If the Finance Section doesn’t give them the money, it means that the people in the Finance Section are deliberately giving them a bad look, and intentionally jamming their notes.
This work who do will be scolded.
Su Chunjun is the one who sent over to be scolded, he also has to go up and down the smile, and take great pains to get the strips from the hands of these people.
Compared to these people, Yang Er Miss has become particularly cute and lovely, and her strange little temper is even more pleasing to the eye.
Su Chunjun came to talk to Ms. Yang every day, got a few words from her, received a glare from her, and was able to keep a good mood all day long, even though he could dry his own face.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and coal and charcoal sellers are hawking along the streets every day.
Zhu Yanshu collected this month’s rent and then counted out one hundred dollars, fifty dollars for the police station and fifty dollars for the fire brigade.
She wrote two red envelopes and personally handed them to the two bureaus.
The director of the fire-fighting team had a big belly, and had dealt with Zhu Yanshu for many years, and had always been amiable, and after receiving the red packets, he said: ”Recently there are more coal burners burning charcoal, and there are more places where accidents happen. But the Zhu family is no need to worry, there is Ms. Zhu in, must be everywhere properly, everything is safe.”
Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “It’s all because you take care of us.”
After returning home, she wrote a letter to inform and post it in the building, and went door to door to remind them to be careful with the fireplace and not to have accidents, if they burn, they can’t be saved.
After this trip, she didn’t go to play cards for two or three days and was exhausted.
Zhang Ma stewed bird’s nest for her to eat, replenish the body.
Zhu Yanshu ate the sweet bird’s nest soup and said, “The more the New Year comes, the more things to do, and also have to write spring scrolls.”
She, the landlord, wants to make the New Year auspicious, she has to write a pair of Spring Festival couplets for each family, and then send them to the door, hoping that the coming year will still be smooth, and everyone will be in peace, so that the days can be lived in peace and prosperity.
Zhang Ma said, “Let Big Sister and Second Sister help you write it.”
Zhu Yanshu said, “I’ll do this myself. It’s been a year since I’ve written, so I’ll start practicing tomorrow.”
By the first of November, Zhu Yanshu took a piece of gold and first went to the silver cabinet to play two chains and two earrings, preparing to give them to his two daughters to wear on New Year’s Eve. Then go to the bank to withdraw two thousand dollars, go to the shopping mall to buy back the watch that looked good.
But as soon as I got home, I locked it all up and didn’t even tell Zhang Ma.
The matter of the Jin family seems to have passed and there is no trace of it anymore, and Yang Yuchan also seems to have forgotten about Ma Tianbao. But Zhu Yanshu didn’t dare to relax, she felt that things were definitely not over.
Sure enough, on November 5th, the phone at home suddenly rang.
Zhang Ma didn’t dare to answer the phone, so Yang Yuyan went to pick it up, and once it was connected, it turned out to be from the Jin public house.
On the other side was Mrs. Jin, who said she wanted to take Yang Yuyan to her home to play.
Yang Yuyan thought that the promise of recognizing her goddaughter was just a pretext, and when she received the call, she remembered the past, as if she had encountered an evil spirit, she didn’t want to go at all.
Zhu Yanshu came back and dialed the phone back to ask for details, Mrs. Jin’s Tai Chi played extremely well, did not reveal half a word, but did mention Miss Jin again.
Mrs. Jin invited Yang Yuyan to go over and play, saying that she wanted her to be a companion with Miss Jin.
Miss Jin has found it!
After Zhu Yanshu confirmed this one thing, she did not object to Yang Yuyan going to the Jin Mansion.
Zhu Yanshu said: ”Jin Gongfu doesn’t use his power to oppress people, we can’t pretend that his power doesn’t exist. They are willing to be polite so that we can be at peace, if they are not polite, we can only bear it.” This was a fact that could not be dodged and denied.
The truth was the invitation from the Golden Public House, and it was best for their family to comply and not test the Golden Public House’s bottom line.
At that time, Su Chunjun was willing to take Yang Yuyan on a trip instead of making a big fuss, expecting to make a big fuss to make the Jin family stop, because to go hard with the Jin Mansion was to hit a stone with an egg. The other party is the stone, they are the eggs.
Zhu Yanshu: “I’ll go with you. Last time I met Mrs. Jin, fortunately she is still a reasonable person, I think this time, she shouldn’t be forceful either.”
Yang Yuyan just wondered, “What is Mrs. Jin looking for me for? It’s just Miss Jin, could it be that she has something to look for me?”
Zhu Yanshu was also strange, she scrutinized her own daughter, even with her mother’s eyes, she could not say that she had the good character of being loved by everyone and the beautiful appearance of being outstanding.
Zhu Yan Shu: ”Anyway, they can’t cheat you of anything, so why not go boldly and safely? In the opera, it is said that the male son forcibly robbed the folk’s daughter, then the folk’s daughter also needs to have a flowery face to be able to do so. You don’t have to worry.”
Zhang Ma said, “Our second miss is still born quite lovely!”
Yang Yuyan was dumbfounded, and refusing again seemed like she was being overly arrogant.
So she decided to accept the invitation.
However, the two of them must hide the matter of going to the Golden Mansion from Yang Yucan.
They pretended that nothing had happened, and after Yang Yucan left for school, they said goodbye to Mrs. Zhang, boarded a yellow bus, and went to the Golden Mansion.
However, it was originally scheduled for two people, only Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yuyan. As a result, Yang Yuyan didn’t hold back and spoke with Su Chunjun, her words were timid, and Su Chunjun followed after breakfast.
Zhu Yanshu, of course, preferred Mr. Su to go with her, and was overjoyed. She wrapped Yang Yuyan’s head and face with a scarf to prevent the early winter wind from blowing her face, sat on the yellow bus with her arms around her, and sighed, “It’s really a blessing to have Mr. Su as a neighbor.”
Su Chunjun’s car was right behind him, Yang Yuyan turned her head to look at him, and when the two of them met eyes, she made a face.
Su Chunjun giggled.