Chapter 19
After breakfast, Yang Yucan will leave in a hurry, she has to rush to the school to find classmates to think about there is no other way, but the trouble is that Ma Tianbao never mentioned his family in school, it is estimated that the school knows that his parents in the Golden Mansion work of the people will not be more than a hand, alas, how can she ask about it?
Yang Yucan heart loaded with a lot of worries, Zhu Yanshu smiled and sent her out the door, but also did not forget to remind her to come back early today: “Ms. Wu will come over this afternoon, you do not want to be too late ah.”
Yang Yucchan promised and ran out, her footsteps playing a series of loud plates on the stairs.
Zhang Ma came over to collect the plates and was shocked to see that the buns were already gone, “You guys finished eating here!” She raised two short, stubby fingers at Zhu Yanshu, “Two cages!”
Yang Yuyan hurriedly defended herself, “I only ate two! It was all eaten by him!” She signaled Su Chunjun.
Zhu Yanshu: “Yan Yan! Call Mr. Su, it’s rude!”
Yang Yuyan is at the bottom of the food chain, she’s not the one who causes trouble, she’s always the one who gets scolded, and she’s used to taking the blame anyway, for two lifetimes.
She was quiet and didn’t say anything, and the adults’ eyes quickly shifted.
Zhu Yanshu scolded her daughter and continued to round up the situation, “Is Mr. Su full? If not, then eat some more!”
Zhang Ma grumbled under her breath, her eyes glaring intently, afraid that Su Chunjun would actually open his mouth.
Su Chunjun had the thickest of cheeks, and his face didn’t even change since just now.
He smiled and said, “I’m full, I’ve been out from home for three years, and for the first time, I’m able to eat a full meal.”
Zhu Yan Shu then laughed: “What’s wrong with that? In the future when you come, I’ll ask Zhang Ma to cook more, it’s better to have a distant relative than a close neighbor, we don’t have a man in the house, and having a man like you can still strengthen your courage.”
When Zhang Ma saw this, she took the empty plates and bowls and poured Su Chunjun another cup of coffee, muttering, “There’s nothing else in the house, and we’ve eaten all the rice in the morning.”
Su Chunjun picked up the coffee and took a sip, it was bland and tasteless, I think it was Zhang Ma who filtered the coffee grounds again and brought it to him.
He took out a pen case from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Yanshu first, “I’m going to work from today onwards, I’m afraid I’ll have to neglect second young miss’s homework, it’s really calling on my heart. This is bought some time ago, I want to give it to the second miss as a souvenir, today I took the liberty of coming to the door, but also ask you to take a look.”
Zhu Yanshu took it and raised an eyebrow when she saw that the box was Montblanc, and opened it to see that it was a female fountain pen with a white color and gold trim, shorter than a normal fountain pen and a little bit thinner as well.
She handed the box to Yang Yuyan, who had been sticking her neck out, and laughed, “Mr. Su gave it to you, don’t thank Mr. Su.”
Yang Yuyan’s eyes are clumsy and can’t recognize the brand, skimming over the glittering floral script, she directly picks up the fountain pen and pulls it out, picks up the notebook that Yang Yucan just gave her and flips it over to the back and starts scratching it, the movement speed is direct, cheerful and atmospheric.
Su Chunjun and Zhu Yanshu smiled together, unable to speak.
There was no ink in the pen, but the pen felt so lubricated that Yang Yuyan raised her head and said sweetly, “Thank you, Mr. Su.”
Su Chunjun waited for this thank you until the coffee was cold, should be down, encouragement: “I’ll give you some homework, in the future you turn in your homework every two days, to study seriously oh.”
Second Miss Yang then once again looked at him with murderous anger, in the way of her mother was beside, did not dare to make a sound.
Su Chunjun was satisfied, and Zhu Yanshu said, “There is one more thing I want to ask you for.”
Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “Mr. Su doesn’t have to be so polite, just tell me straight.” Heart said that must be to borrow money, but look at the pen on the sake of, lend him a few dozen is not a loss, her handbag has today ready to go to play poker prepared for a dozen dollars in change, a few coins and bills, are poured to him it.
Unexpectedly Zhu Yanshu thought wrong, Su Chunjun is trying to ask her to introduce a tailor store, he wants to buy a long shirt, it is best to get it before work today, he will go to the tailor store, put it on and go. Of course, the money for the clothes would hopefully wait until next month to be paid.
Familiar and big customers of the tailor’s store like Zhu Yanshu could settle their bills once a month. Madam, Miss, Mrs. and Mr. just need to sign their names when they made the clothes, and settle the bill together at the end of the month.
Zhu Yanshu heard this and said, “That’s not difficult, I’ll hang up the phone and go ask.” She got up and went to make the call, her ears still perked up, Yang Yuyan was really curious and asked, “Why are you wearing a long shirt? Don’t you always wear suits?”
Right, why. Zhu Yanshu was also curious.
Su Chunjun then explained it one by one.
It’s because where he works, there are all accountants wearing long shirts, no one wears suits. And these old gentlemen with abacuses and beads are most disliked by young people in suits. Su Chunjun only went to work, is the lowest level of the section, people are slight, which is why you have to hurry to change the dress, so as not to invite people to hate.
“All take abacus ah?” Yang Yuyan let out a gasp, followed by remembered that now there should be no calculator and computer, is not to use the abacus. “Then do you want to use an abacus too?” She asked.
Su Chunjun laughed: “I have to learn it now, everyone has to learn it now. Except for Mr. Accounts, who will dial that? But I’m just running errands now, I have to learn the abacus on my own while I have time, and the gentlemen are all very arrogant and not very willing to teach me.”
Yang Yuyan immediately said, “Then you invite them to smoke and drink.”
Su Chunjun was amused by her, “Second Miss is right, I’ll go out and buy a pack of cigarettes, and when I arrive, I’ll ask them to smoke one, so they’ll treat me better.”
Wish Yan Shu listened to the gossip, but also with the tailor store said well, hung up the phone over and said: “has spoken well, Mr. Su now go over, take the clothes can be changed, to have the inappropriate let them now change is also not too late, Xue Ji’s tailor master is into the family into the technology of the top of the good!”
She wrote down the address, Su Chunjun took it and immediately took his leave, the same footsteps hurriedly ran downstairs.
Listening to the sound of that thud far away, Zhang Ma only came out of the kitchen, looking at the coffee also drank up, skimmed his lips and said: “This teacher Su really refuses to suffer! He gave our second young lady a fountain pen, but also earned a long shirt to go! He has no money in his pocket but still wants to pretend to be generous!”
Zhu Yanshu was holding back her laughter just now, but now Fang laughed out loud and said to Yang Yuyan, “This Mr. Su of yours is probably really broke! He probably didn’t eat last night and has been starving until now!”
Zhang Ma said again, “Two buns!”
Yang Yuyan couldn’t help but speak for Mr. Su, “Those buns are small!”
Zhu Yan Shu picked up the pen case and tsked, “For the sake of this pen, let him eat as many buns as he wants to get back. It’s a Montblanc yet.”
Yang Yuyan’s eyes widened and immediately held the piano in her hands again to look at it again and again. Previously, she had eyes that didn’t recognize Mt. Tai, but now she could look at it again.
Zhang Ma didn’t know what a Montblanc was, but she could also hear that this fountain pen was worth a lot of money, and since her family didn’t lose out, she got a lot smoother, packed up the things on the table and went into the kitchen.
“Where did he get the money?” Yang Yuyan issued a soulful question.
Zhu Yanshu: “There are still three catty nails in a rotten boat. Your Mr. Su is not an ordinary family out, don’t look at him every day so poor that he does not even have the money to eat, the first time I saw him, he came to find me to rent a house, the opening is to be able to put down a bed, a three-door bookcases, a sofa, a desk of the house. He didn’t have any money in his pocket at that time, so he wrote the lease and had to pay next month. That’s all it took to rent such a big room!”
Yang Yuyan didn’t understand, but Zhang Ma was already in the kitchen craning her neck to listen, and immediately tsked, “He’s going to rent such a big room all by himself?”
Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “Yes, he’s alone! The last room he looked at was fifteen square feet, big enough for a family of three. He went to buy second-hand furniture and actually pulled back a sofa. Ordinary people have never heard of a sofa in their home. He is so poor that he eats noodles every day, but he actually wants a sofa in his house, so it is evident that in his eyes, a sofa is not used to show off, but is a necessity.”
Zhang Ma nodded and said, “A sofa is more comfortable than a chair.” Then she proudly said, “He only has one second-hand sofa, which is not as many as the sofas in our house!”
Zhu Yanshu laughed even harder and waved her hand, “Don’t compare this. Mrs. Zhang, I think this Mr. Su is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, he looks a bit down and out now, but in the future, it’s hard to say. In the future, if we cook at home, we can bring him along, do more, we can also make a good karma, we don’t want anything else, we just want him to take care of Yanyan in the future.” She was really worried about her little daughter.
Zhang Ma is also very worried about the second young lady of the family, weak, sickly, disaster-prone, cat-fighting and incapable, she nodded her head and said, “Okay, then I will make more food in the future.”
Zhu Yanshu finished breakfast, made up her makeup and had to rush off to play cards.
Yang Yuyan put away her valuable Montblanc and picked up her old fountain pen.
When Zhu Yanshu saw it, she said: “Don’t use your old fountain pen, use your new fountain pen! If you don’t use the new one, it’s a pity to put it away. Give this old one to Ms. Wu when she comes this afternoon.”
Yang Yuyan obeyed, sucked the Montblanc into the fountain pen and copied the words and sentences seriously. I don’t know if this fountain pen really works that well, or if it has some magic power, she actually fell in love with writing with it.
Zhang Ma was at home with her in the morning, and when she came out a while later, she saw that she was still writing, didn’t hide back in the house to read, didn’t look for her to ask for snacks, and didn’t wander around touching anything.
Zhang Ma was so touched that she sent her snacks several times.
When Zhu Yanshu came back to eat at noon, Zhang Ma praised her, “You have been studying seriously all morning!”
Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “Since I’ve been studying all morning, let’s not study in the afternoon, read a book, listen to the radio and do something else.”
Yang Yuyan doesn’t feel that today’s study is difficult, copying is laborious, she says: “This new fountain pen is really good, better than all my previous pens, my wrist doesn’t get tired at all when I write with it.”
Zhu Yanshu: “Good things are naturally comfortable to use, twice the result with half the effort. If you use this pen, you should remember your teacher Su’s kindness to you in the future. These days I can also see, your teacher Su treat you with sincerity, in the future you treat others to be a little more sincere, do not have no big and small.”
Mr. Su certainly has a true heart for her.
Yang Yuyan knew since Su Chunjun was in front of Sun Zhao that Mr. Su really cared about her and loved her.
Yang Yuyan nodded, “I know, I will definitely treat him better in the future.”
Zhu Yanshu: “Then the homework he assigns you, you need to be more serious about it as well.”
Yang Yuyan wrinkled her face, but she still set aside half an hour in the afternoon to memorize, and reviewed her previous homework again by picking the ones she didn’t know well, she almost didn’t recognize herself anymore.
Zhu Yanshu went to play cards in the afternoon as usual, and Zhang Ma hurriedly went to buy food and ask for talismans, and then came back to burn it for Yang Yuyan to drink.
Yang Yuyan looked at it from afar and covered her mouth, “Zhang Ma, what is this?”
Holding the cup in her hand, Zhang Ma said, “I got this from Huang Da Xian, and it works like a charm! This talisman is worth 20 cents! And the holy water the church gave me, that one doesn’t cost anything.” She pointed to another cup and said, “You drink this talisman water first, then drink the holy water.”
To summarize, drink the ones that cost money first, then drink the free ones.
Yang Yuyan was held down and drank two cups of godly water that she didn’t know the bottom of, lying morosely on the sofa, she saw Zhang Ma rummage through an old cookie box that had long been unused, wiping it clean and pouring a paper bag of snacks into it, she just wanted to change the flavor of her mouth, reaching out and taking a fried snack wrapped in thick white frosting, “What’s this?” Taking a bite, it was crispy and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Mrs. Zhang: “I bought these cheap snacks at the market and will use them to serve guests later. We have to put away what we eat.”
Zhang Ma said and put the cookies that Yang Yuyan usually eats into the cupboard.
Zhang Ma: “The ones you’re eating were bought in a cake store! It’s several dollars!”
There’s also the chocolate peanut candy that Mr. Su sent yesterday, Yang Yuyan hurriedly took a piece and chewed it in her mouth, it was much better than the snacks just now, sweet and fragrant.