Chapter 13
The Zhu family had always been the first to rise in Zhang Ma.
In the morning, at five o’clock she went out to buy the freshest fish. But today, as soon as she got up and opened the door, she saw Ma Tianbao standing outside the door, and a few tenants who were catching the morning shift were coming downstairs, all looking this way.
Zhang Ma’s eyes were as round as brass bells and she covered her heart: ”Scared me! When did you stand here!”
Ma Tianbao tied his hands: “No, not long.”
Zhang Ma thought about it and secretly glared at him, so she closed the door and didn’t ask him to go in, pushing him towards the stairs.
“Mistress and Miss are both still sleeping! Can’t let you in!” She muttered loudly, and when she met the tenant, she took the initiative to say, “This is my nephew from the countryside!”
Ma Tianbao did not dare to explain more, was pushed and shoved all the way down, out of the gate, the street is already full of traffic!
A collection of night incense car past, Ma Tianbao help Zhang Ma separated a little, Zhang Ma treat him much more amiable. The two crossed the street to the opposite side of the road, Zhang Ma called him to follow closely, while constantly chattering: “I heard that your parents are both subordinates, alas, this when the suffering of the subordinates, I am the most clear!”
“Mistress and Miss are both good people to get along with, even so, I’m still swallowing a handful of tears into my stomach ah! You see I’m at the age of being a grandmother, cooking and washing dishes and cleaning and buying things every day, I have to do all the work! Those three are all in their prime, they can’t even give a hand, it’s rare that they can help me bring dishes to the kitchen!”
Ma Tianbao then took the basket of dishes from her hand, and Zhang Ma’s expression became a little more kind, more willing to pull him in for some private conversation.
“You don’t see that the Zhu family doesn’t have much money anymore, but the weekdays are one tosser after another! Let’s say this breakfast, Mrs. must eat freshly made! Yellow fish noodles, bald oil noodles, all want me to get up early to buy back to do for her to eat!”
“And Missy, isn’t she well-behaved and understanding at school?” Zhang Ma narrowed her eyes and stared at Ma Tianbao.
Ma Tianbao blushed and nodded his head, although in his heart he didn’t want to hear Zhang Ma say bad things about Yang Yucan, but he wanted to know what Yang Yucan was like at home, so he didn’t stop Zhang Ma from continuing.
Zhang Ma coldly grunted: ”You don’t know, do you? Ever since she went to the girls’ high school, she learned from her classmates to eat western food! She has to drink coffee early in the morning! With bread and butter, ham and eggs! At my age, I had to learn how to make coffee just for her, and you don’t know how hard it is to brush that coffee pot!”
Ma Tianbao couldn’t help but defend his girlfriend, “There are a lot of people in our school …… who like to eat western food.”
Zhang Ma: “All those things she eats can only be bought in a foreigner’s store! So a small piece of butter costs a few dollars! She eats it every day, what kind of money can she afford to eat like that?” Speaking of this, Zhang Ma’s gaze was fixed on Ma Tianbao’s face, as if asking, “Young man, can you stand it?”
Ma Tianbao clenched his teeth and said in his heart that he would be able to make money in the future and afford to feed Yang Yucchan with buttered bread every day!
Zhang Ma saw that she could not scare him, so she had to end it hastily: “The small one is also a pain in the ass, sitting at home every day, there are four dollars of pocket money a month, back to the end of the month are spent clean, but also to take one or two dollars from her mother’s wallet, the family has everything, I don’t know where she spends it!”
Ma Tianbao heard this when the heart just jumped, a month pocket money four dollars, more than his monthly food costs two dollars, he ate in the school cafeteria, just eat a lunch every day, sometimes he can save forty-five cents. The things that Zhang Ma just said all came up in his head, making him deeply realize the difference between him and Yang Yucan for the first time.
Among her classmates at school, Yang Yucan didn’t look like a rich lady, and her only hobby was just buying pictorials to read. Usually do not love to go shopping, also do not like to wear new clothes, college years on the clothes are old, shoes are worn to bad before buying, pens are also sent to everyone at the beginning of the school that a commemorative card.
She studied hard, was diligent and generous, and was plainly dressed.
He then thought that she was a girl he could reach.
It turned out that she was not really poor, but just had a temperament that disliked extravagance.
In the future they got married, she suffered with him, but her sister is still pampered, will she then regret it?
This made him stay silent until the end.
Zhang Ma purposely strolled outside until the morning shift had left before leading him back.
Once inside, Zhu Yanshu was already fully made up to go to the ball, sitting on the sofa flipping through the pictorials waiting for breakfast.
Yang Yucan was still studying in her room and didn’t come out.
Yang Yuyan stood on the balcony of the living room to comb her braids, and when she turned around and saw Ma Tianbao and Zhang Ma coming in together, she said in surprise, “I thought you had gone back!”
Zhu Yanshu was also surprised and said exactly the same thing: “I thought you had gone back.”
Last night’s courage had disappeared with the passing of the night, not to mention that after Zhang Ma’s “complaints” all morning, he was able to appreciate Ms. Zhu’s true feelings even more.
Although she didn’t like him, she had to be polite because of her training.
But he didn’t want to continue to make a fool of himself!
He had his own true heart, but the gulfs in this world could not be bridged by a true heart. But as long as Yang Yucchan loves him, he can be fearless!
Yang Yucchan heard the sound in the living room also rushed out, as soon as she saw him, she couldn’t help but smile, like the morning sunshine, sweet and warm heart.
Ma Tianbao stepped forward and grabbed her hand, in Zhu Yanshu’s thunderous gaze, he solemnly said: “When I find a job, I’ll come to you!”
Yang Yucan had long heard that he was going to look for a job, and quickly asked, “Have you found a job?”
Zhu Yan Shu also straightened up and listened carefully.
Ma Tianbao shook his head, “Not yet, but I’ve submitted many resumes and interviewed with several newspapers.”
Hearing this, Zhu Yanshu sat back again. Yang Xuhe had written articles all her life, she knew best how unreliable the newspapers were. Nowadays, there are newspapers everywhere on the street, and newspapers are springing up all the time. Sometimes, a person wants to run a newspaper out of the blue, and dares to open it without an editor, and many of them have only published one or two issues and then closed down. Can please like Ma Tianbao this kind of student, will not be what big newspaper.
Yang Yuchan older, know that my father is very unsuccessful in submitting articles, more than a fee owed for several years, often the phone call over, either the editor left, or the newspaper has quit.
So as soon as she heard that the newspaper is a little uneasy: “You also went to see other places?”
Ma Tianbao: “Actually, Mr. Wang said he would introduce me to a job.” If he couldn’t find a suitable job anywhere else, he just had to try the place that Mr. Wang said.
After not going home for the night, Ma Tianbao said a brief goodbye to Yang Yucan and then left, Zhu Yanshu enthusiastically sent him to the door, not too seriously invited him to stay for breakfast, but Ma Tianbao seemed to have finally learned to look at the color of his eyes and didn’t stay, but only lingered with Yang Yucan’s eyes for a long time before he finally left the Zhu family building.
Zhu Yanshu smiled and pushed Yang Yucan: “People have graduated, what about you? Why don’t you go write your homework!”
Pushing her daughter back into the house, the smile on her face couldn’t hang on any longer, and she huffed and puffed as she walked to the kitchen to complain to Zhang Ma: “I thought he had the sense to leave quietly early in the morning!”
Zhang Ma hurriedly took credit: “He was standing at the door as soon as I opened the door in the morning! I don’t know how many people saw him upstairs and downstairs!”
Zhu Yanshu was shocked: “What?”
Zhang Ma: “Thanks to my ingenuity! I pulled him away and told people that he was my nephew!”
Zhu Yanshu covers her chest: “Fortunately!”
Mrs. Zhang: “I think this kid doesn’t know what’s going on, he’s going to come back again!”
Zhu Yanshu glared: “I’m not afraid of him! I’m not afraid either! I thought it over last night, if you want to get married, you can! Car, house, gold bars, wedding banquet, not even one less! I’ll see what he can do to marry my daughter!”
After a busy day, it was business as usual.
Zhu Yanshu still went to play cards, yesterday owed a day of card games, today it is necessary to make up!
Zhang Ma was in a hurry to go to the sutra, Yang Yucan was in a hurry to go to class, only Yang Yuyan was still not in a hurry after breakfast, slowly setting up her textbooks and notes, making an appearance of wanting to study, but in her hand she was holding a novel and crookedly reading it on the sofa.
Suddenly there is a knock on the door, she put down the book to open the door to see only a day missing teacher Su standing in the door, full of joy, eyebrows fluttering, and even carried a bag of snacks in his hand!
Yang Yuyan tsked and took it with both hands: ”Teacher Su! I will definitely place this snack in the most conspicuous place! So that Zhang Ma can see it when she comes back!”
This was the first time Mr. Su had brought a gift to the door after being here for so long, eating and drinking from the Zhu family!
This is the first time Mr. Su has brought a gift to the house in all the time he’s been here, eating and drinking from the Zhu family.
Su Chunjun made a gesture to knock her on the head, raised it high, and let it go gently.
“Little bad guy, in vain I think of you, specially bought your favorite chocolate peanut candy, spent me a few dollars!” He smiled and walked in and said.
Yang Yuyan: “You got rich? You got a job!” She jumped high, scurried back like lightning, and circled around him, “Isn’t it? Isn’t it? It’s awesome!” Seeing that he was smiling smugly, he was vigorously bragging.
“Okay, okay, you’re spinning my eyes, sit down, I’m going to make coffee, you unwrap this sugar and taste it, see if it’s that flavor you like.”
He took off his rented suit jacket and drilled into the kitchen without recognizing him in the slightest.
Yang Yuyan still chased after him with the treats in both hands, “This can’t be done! I’m going to show it to Zhang Ma!”
Su Chunjun had suffered a lot of ridicule on a daily basis, how would he care about a few words from an old lady?
“Alright, I know what Second Miss means, I’ll send it a few more times in the future, okay?” He said.
Yang Yuyan smiled and only then let him go.
When the coffee was ready, Su Chunjun added milk for her, put in sugar, and made a bowl of cream and put one on it, and came out and rolled up his sleeves while saying, “This kitchen of yours is full of things. Try it and see how it compares to the ones I make at the coffee shop.”
Yang Yuyan sipped the cream and licked her lips, “You’re not working in a coffee shop, are you?”
Su Chunjun sat on the sofa, holding his coffee and making a profound gesture, “You guess.”
Yang Yuyan laughed, “You’re so facetious, surely not.”
Su Chunjun laughed: “I’m so poor, how can I have face?”
Yang Yuyan: “You’re holding your breath to make a splash, aren’t you?”
Su Chunjun was stunned, surprised that she could hit the nail on the head.
“In the past, I underestimated Second Miss, I didn’t think that she was actually a know-it-all.” He teased with a smile.
When Yang Yuyan glared, he said with a straight face, “No more jokes, my job is actually just running errands and doing odd jobs for people.”
Yang Yuyan: “Where do you work?”
Su Chunjun: “The Nanjing government’s financial department, I just joined yesterday, a small clerk.”
Yang Yuyan sat up straight and asked seriously, “How did you get in?”
Su Chunjun smiled and was about to continue teasing her when someone knocked on the door, so he got up and went to open it, “Wait and talk.”
Yang Yuyan also stood up and went to get the pamphlet that was placed in the cabinet, “Probably here to pay the rent.”
However, when the door opened, what appeared was Sun Zhao, who he had met only last night, and two attendants, all with a bad look on their faces. When the three of them saw the door knocked open, they were about to barge in, Su Chunjun blocked the doorway and shouted, “Second Miss, don’t be too busy to get the booklet, it’s better to pull out a phone and go to the police station first, I don’t think they are here to pay the rent.”
Yang Yuyan: “Sun Gongzi?”
Sun Zhao might as well wish the Zhu family had a phone, he couldn’t make a big deal out of it!
He pulls out a smile and asks squarely, “Second Miss, our Miss wants to see you, she specially asked me to invite.”
Yang Yuyan: “Miss Jin?”
Sun Zhao smiled, “Yes, want to invite second miss over as a guest.”
Su Chunjun: “Oh? But you guys didn’t look like you wanted to invite someone over as a guest just now.”
Only then did Sun Zhao fix his eyes on him, “I wonder if this gentleman ……”
Su Chunjun: “Su Chunjun, I’m not Miss Yang’s home teacher, we’re in the middle of a lesson, so we’ll have to go to Miss Jin’s appointment next time.” Said he was about to close the door.
Sun Zhao hard top not let the door close.
Yang Yuyan even more stupid also see the problem, she ran to the telephone without saying a word, grabbed the phone and shouted: “Help me get the police station to find Captain Zhao!”
Zhu Yanshu has to send gifts to Captain Zhao six times a year, so she must be looking for him!
Sun Zhao didn’t realize that this Second Miss Yang was so skilled at calling the police, he quickly shouted, “Wait! Second Miss Yang, your sister has already been invited over by us! If you don’t go, she won’t be able to come back!”
Yang Yuyan froze as she held the phone receiver and slowly hung up.
Su Chunjun: “Did you guys find your way to the door after inquiring about the Yang family? I’ll tell you the truth, the richest member of the Yang family is Yang Xuhe! He lives in Room 112 of Chengcai Hutong, with only a woman and a child who is only a year old at home, if you want to kidnap someone for ransom, go there!”
Sun Zhao nearly died of anger at these words, “We are not the Demolition White Party!”
Su Chunjun sneered, “Are you not here to kidnap people?”
Sun Zhao: “I work at the Golden Mansion, and I just met with Second Miss Yang yesterday!”
Su Chunjun: “You met her yesterday and came to kidnap her today?”
Sun Zhao didn’t expect to meet such a biter as Su Chunjun, and gritted his teeth, “Brother, what does this have to do with you?”
Yang Yuyan’s heart chilled when she heard these words and immediately looked at Su Chunjun!
Su Chunjun did not retreat an inch, “I have a teacher-student friendship with the second young miss, if I throw her away now, I will never want to sleep a peaceful night in this life.”
Sun Zhao did not want to delay any longer and simply said, “We have no ill will towards Second Miss, we just want to invite Second Miss over to say a few words. If you are not at ease, just follow along and go over. I’ll just say one thing, it’s necessary for me to invite Second Miss today, if you stop me again, I’ll be impolite!”
Su Chunjun stared at Sun Zhao for a couple of moments and said, “Then I’ll go with Second Miss to taste what the Jin family’s tea is like.”
He turned back to pick up his suit jacket and beckoned Yang Yuyan, holding her tightly, “Don’t be afraid, teacher will accompany you. I don’t think the people from the Golden Mansion are going to kill in broad daylight. It’s just that if they want to kill, teacher will also be in front of you to help you block.”