Chapter 304
Although we haven’t seen each other for only two days, although the French Concession is not a poor place, although Zhu Yanshu and Prof. Dai brought a lot of money with them when they moved out, Zhu Yuyan still felt that Ms. Zhu and Prof. Dai who lived in the French Concession must be suffering, so she did some scavenging in Zhu’s building, and also made a list for Su Chunjun to send some back, and in the end, the car was stuffed to the brim with stuff, and the windows couldn’t even be opened.
Zhu Er Miss sat in the passenger seat, driving is Chen driver, Su Chunjun in the officialdom, body can not help, can only be turned into the heart of this car of things sent over.
Zhu Er Miss sat on the car, put a large basket of eggs on the lap holding, clear voice said: “drive.”
Driver Chen slowly started the car and drove towards the French Concession.
It was now broad daylight, and there were still not many people on the road. But there are some scavengers, carrying a basket, hand a long bamboo pole, along the street to pick up garbage and horse manure.
Zhu Yuyan pay attention to look at the street stores, are still closed.
Chen driver said: “Now where is the business ah? They’ve all gone back to their hometowns.”
Zhu Yuyan: “Didn’t the government say that there are favorable measures to open the market?”
In the past, merchants had to pay a lot of fees to set up store, such as fire-fighting fees, sanitation fees, security fees, and so on, not a single penny less.
Now the government is advocating for people to go out and do business, and it’s even saying that it’s formulated a series of measures.
Su Chunjun said it seems that some of the fees will be reduced or waived.
Driver Chen: “That’s what they say at the top, but they don’t care at the bottom! How can we get by without collecting money? The police have to come out to keep order, and they don’t get paid, so when the store opens, they’ll have to charge for it.”
Zhu Yuyan secretly sighed.
There is no money everywhere. Mayor Feng is dead, and the money he lost while he was in office is completely unaccounted for. The people from the Finance Bureau had gone in for 80% of the money, and hadn’t spit out a single penny so far. The accounts have been leveled, Su Chunjun said the accounts of the Finance Bureau shows that there are still more than 4.8 million dollars, and there are nearly 60,000 taels of gold in stock.
There is gold in, the government has the courage to issue banknotes, calm the market.
But now the money, do not know where to go. Gold, has been reduced to nothing.
Mayor Feng died a hundred times, around the beloved in the living only Su Chunjun left.
Chen driver has heard many whispers, said that the money must have long been Su Chunjun handed over to Jiang dignitaries, otherwise Jiang dignitaries can love him like a real father?
But Driver Chen knows very well that this is not the case at all.
Su Chunjun really doesn’t know anything. His days at Mayor Feng’s side were too short, and he was simply left behind by Mayor Feng to prepare to push the pot. That’s why Essential Jiang knew Su Chunjun so well, because Mayor Feng hadn’t put much effort into touting him in front of his superiors.
And now it has also been found out that Cai Wenhua, who was assassinated by the assassins, is the one who could possibly know where the gold went.
Cai Wenhua was assassinated and died at the time, so it was possible that there was something else going on.
However, Mr. Chiang was no longer going to pursue the matter any further. Finding the gold is not likely to give him another credit. It was better to do more than less, and it was now a complete success.
He drew many big cakes for Su Chunjun, encouraging him to be loyal and diligent in his official duties, promising that he would recommend him in front of the principal.
Of course, Su Chunjun himself got such a big “benefit”, on some official matters can only turn a blind eye.
At least the government has no money, he can no longer find Jiang want.
As soon as the government has no money, it asks the people underneath to use love to generate electricity. People like Su Chunjun or Chen Driver can find money anywhere, and they don’t owe their salaries to anyone.
But the lower level employees, like the police, don’t get paid.
Zhu Yuyan knew that Driver Chen was right. Regardless of what the top said, as long as a store dared to open, the police from all bureaus would run over to collect the money.
The stores that dared to open their doors now had backgrounds.
The Japanese stores, for example, have no such worries.
Cars drove into the French Concession.
The foreigners became more numerous when they arrived here.
Zhu Yuyan stuck her head out of the car and looked around, seeing many foreigners still walking leisurely on the street, she was surprised and said, “I thought all the foreigners had run away, what, so there aren’t any?”
Driver Chen said, “Foreigners are not afraid of the Japanese. Even if the Japanese really occupy the city, they won’t bully foreigners, the Chinese are enough for them.”
Zhu Yuyan cursed an expletive.
Driver Chen held back his laughter.
It was sunny and green here.
Almost all of them were rows of villas, and there was a small garden in front of each house, with roses, hydrangeas, and lavender.
Ladies in western-style stand-up dresses and coats and lace hats held parasols, and some of the gentlemen would have a dog on a lead, and the dogs were bouncing and active, and the gentlemen and the elegant ladies were as beautiful as oil paintings.
They arrived and the car stopped in front of a white villa.
Chauffeur Chan rang the bell and honked the horn vigorously until he called out the people in the house.
The way was simple and rough.
The door was opened by a woman in her twenties and behind her was Zhang Ma.
When Zhang Ma saw Zhu Yuyan in the car, she peeled her off and walked down quickly, smiling, ”It’s Yan Yan who’s here! Elder Sister Gao, quickly tell madam that the second miss is here!”
Elder Sister Gao hurriedly turned around to go back and call out for someone, Zhu Yuyan said, “Wait, wait, bring the stuff in first.”
Driver Chen had already gotten out of the car and opened the door, lifting the eggs with one hand and helping Second Miss Zhu out of the car with the other.
Zhang Ma pulled her, took a look into the car and was shocked: “How many things did you take here.”
Zhu Er Miss was very thoughtful: “There is no market here, and the stores are not open, how can you buy things? I’ll just bring it all to you.”
Mrs. Zhang: “You don’t know, the little Japanese are so smart, they drive here every day. Milk, eggs, vegetables, you can buy them all. Everything is available, only US dollars or pounds.”
Big Sister Gao took the eggs from Driver Chen’s hand, smiled brightly, and gave a big bow to Zhu Yuyan: “Good day, Second Miss, Second Miss, my last name is Gao, just call me Xiu Xiu, I can do everything, and I can also take care of children.”
She wanted to continue selling herself, but Zhang Ma pushed her away, “Alright, alright, bring the stuff inside.”
At this time another woman in her thirties came over and Zhang Ma introduced, “This is Tang Ma. This is our second miss.” Tang Ma was a chatty person, and smiled as soon as they met and said, “Good day, Second Miss. The second young lady is so handsome… Did the aunt not come with you? He must be too busy at work… Auntie is a capable person!”
She said as she took the things from Driver Chen’s hand without any delay.
Driver Chen took the things out one by one.
Zhu Yuyan: “Thank you ……”
With the three of them, Big Sister Gao, Mom Tang and Driver Chen, two trips back and forth were enough to move the stuff.
Zhang Ma pulled Zhu Yu Yan inside.
Zhu Yuyan: “Where’s my mom?”
Zhang Ma: “Not here, she went out with Professor Dai, I don’t know what she did. By the way, Principal Tang’s wife is here, go and say hello.”
Zhu Yuyan: “I should.”
Zhang Ma sent her to Principal Tang’s wife and said, “Mrs. Tang is a quiet person, when we’re all at home, she comes out to talk to us, when your mother and Professor Dai aren’t here, she stays in the house by herself and doesn’t ask us to go in to work. She’s a nice person, too. On her first day here, she made six small dumplings with her own hands and invited everyone to eat them, and the next day she made pancakes with her own hands. She’s not like you mother and daughter, she’s a lady of the house.”
Mrs. Tang was a very kind person, she just seemed to be ten years older than Principal Tang, and looked very old.
Zhu Yuyan’s heart drummed at the sight, worrying that she was so old, could she labor all the way?
But on second thought, Principal Tang is probably not assured that Mrs. Tang left behind, Mrs. Tang away from Principal Tang can not, alas.
Mrs. Tang speaks Suzhou dialect, but she also speaks English. After Zhu Yuyan could not understand the dialect, she chatted with Mrs. Tang in English.
Her English was taught by Principal Tang after she married him. She said the first time she picked up a book to learn English was when she was already thirty years old.
The two of them chatted for quite a while, and after a while, Mrs. Zhang came in to deliver snacks and sat down to chat with them as well.
Mrs. Tang spoke dialect with Mrs. Zhang, and English with Zhu Yuyan, and the three of them surprisingly chatted quite animatedly.
Mrs. Tang was really an old-fashioned woman, good at women’s red and women’s work. She also specialized in learning about the stove business, which was cooking, before she got married. So she was really good at everything, burning stoves, killing chickens, picking fish, and so on.
Zhang Ma then pointed at Second Miss Zhu and said, “Look, what do you know? Alas, you and your mom are both like this, when you’re getting married, you don’t know anything. Your mom had your grandparents to keep an eye on her, and she married in her own home, so she’s never been to her in-laws’ home. Now you have no one to back you up, what are you going to do?”
Zhang Ma had always been worried that Zhu Yuyan would still be unable to do anything after she married and would be disliked and bullied by Su Chunjun.
Even though she knew that Mr. Su was a good person, she still had to worry.
Zhu Yuyan held onto Zhang Ma, “You don’t have to worry, I know everything in my heart.” She quietly whispered in Zhang Ma’s ear, “I have some money stashed away! You forget, I have a charitable foundation, that’s where the money comes from!”
Zhang Ma was relieved to hear that she had money stashed away, “Good, it’s good that you know how to hide money.”
Zhu Yuyan waited for half a day without seeing Ms. Zhu and Prof. Dai return, and could only leave in a hurry. Before she left, she told Zhang Ma, “It’s time to plan the wedding. You can let my mom make up her mind quickly about the date, so I can go and order the wine.”
She realized that she was already a very proactive and modern woman, and look, she pushed for the wine, is there anything more spontaneous than her?
As a result, Mrs. Zhang was much more forthcoming than she was, saying, “Why bother your mom? She’s so busy right now that she can’t even eat a hot meal every day. Don’t bother her, just discuss it with Mr. Su and let us know when the wine is ready.”
Zhu Yuyan: “…… OK.”
Sitting in the car, she more or less had a feeling of discomfort of a little bird being kicked out of the nest by the mother bird.
…… I don’t even want to leave home yet, are you guys so impatient? You don’t even want to leave the house anymore, are you all so impatient?
Zhu Er Miss went happily and came back not too happily, beaming and grimacing, no one in the house dared to talk to her, just waiting for Mr. Su to come back to save her life.
As soon as Su Chunjun entered the house, he was confronted by a succession of listeners and grannies, who told him that Miss Zhu was unhappy.
“Second Miss is not happy.”
“The second miss is not in a good mood, Mr. Su, go and coax her.”
Mr. Su took off his jacket and went to coax his fiancée.
The fiancée stood in front of the jukebox listening to records with a beautiful back. She wore an old cheongsam in duck egg green, her neck was snow white and slender, her waist was like a thin willow, and underneath were round and plump lines.
Mr. Su licked his lips, walked over and wrapped his arms around her from behind, just as Second Miss turned around, he took the opportunity to steal a scent.
Warm, soft and fragrant heat.
“Good boy, I’m back, miss me or not?”
The good boy in his arms said daintily, “Don’t want to, roll, spread out.”
Su Chunjun laughed, thinking, only she scolded him, telling him to take the scolding and still want to listen to a few more sentences, and not get tired of hearing when.