Chapter 4

Everyone was happy to be able to drive away an evil guest.

Zhang Ma then immediately came out of the kitchen, dried her hands, took her small purse for groceries and said, “Today, Mr. Su is staying for dinner! I’ll go outside and buy a grocery and come back!”

This was a rare occurrence.

Su Chunjun had been Second Miss Yang’s teacher for half a year now, and this was the first time he had gotten such high profile hospitality. Zhang Ma used to look at him as a fraud, specializing in deceiving the ladies and young misses of this family.

Su Chunjun was flattered, “You are so kind!”

At this time, Zhu Yanshu just happened to push the door in, she was happy to move her colors and said as soon as she came in, “Zhang Ma! Go outside and cut half a duck! I won twenty dollars at cards today!”

Now, it’s time for a big meal.

Su Chunjun couldn’t help but feel lucky in his heart!

Zhang Ma went out to buy meat and vegetables with joy, Zhu Yanshu just saw Su Chunjun, and was not petty about having one more guest for dinner, enthusiastically asking him to make sure he stayed to try the Peking Restaurant’s roast duck. What’s more, Second Miss Yang couldn’t wait to tell her mother about Su Chunjun’s heroic deeds from the sidelines, and Su Chunjun’s weathered old face reddened once in a while.

“So it’s him who came.” Zhu Yanshu sighed softly, pulled Yang Yuyan to sit beside her, and gently wrinkled her little nose: “Little girl, don’t raise a small family temper.”

Following this, she gave Su Chunjun a lecture on the causes and consequences.

Dong Zifeng is a person with very bad luck.

He is a local, but his parents died early, and he was ostracized by his aunts and uncles, so he had to drop out of college and start working early.

But he is too much love fame and fortune, unknowingly went off the road.

Although Yang Xuhe’s character is not good, Zhu Yanshu is quite admired his mind. Now there are many newspapers on the market and many different kinds of writers. Yang Xuhe can make a name for himself because he only writes about the saints. How many marshals came and went in the Nanking government, but they didn’t touch Yang Xuehe, because he only praised people ah. Although his writing was lacking, because of this reputation, every newspaper was happy to publish his articles, and from time to time he was asked to write a tribute to the saints on the front page, and even the police were less likely to come to his door.

Of course, Yang Xuehe was not without scolding for doing so. Some of the more radical newspapers also refused to accept his articles, Mr. Yang’s life is actually still quite poor, after all, the little public house is not so good to raise, the little lover and the little son also need to spend money.

But after Yang Xuhe got a new wife, he got one more skill, and started to write some advertisement articles to brag a little for some wonderful girls, because everyone knew that he had married a young and beautiful wife, and they all believed in his skill of searching and hunting for beautiful women. With this new income, his wallet gradually filled up.

These gossip is Zhu Yan Shu from the card table to hear, usually never say to the two daughters to hear, so as not to dirty their ears.

Today, this Dong Zifeng was led astray by Yang Xuhe.

Dong Zifeng lack of money, single-minded to rely on the article to make a name for himself, so he cultivated his own style of writing is the most popular satirical articles, say an old lady selling cookies on the street to satirize the police inaction of the kind of thing love to catch a shadow of a scolding only to appear to be superior.

But there are too many writers who are good at writing this kind of article, so it does not show Dong Zifeng. The article could not be submitted, naturally, could not earn money.

So Dong Zai Feng looked around for writers and authors who were good at selling their articles, and drilled down to learn from them. In the end, he came under the tutelage of Yang Xuehe. During that time, he often came to the Yang family for meals, and thus he got to know Zhu Yanshu’s mother and daughter.

But Yang Xuhe’s style of writing was not something that anyone could learn.

Yang Xuhe didn’t hide anything, and seriously taught Dong Zifeng how to compliment people, how to do it without revealing anything, how to take the initiative to compliment people, for example, I heard that there’s a newly appointed police chief? Then he first wrote a boast of the Secretary’s brilliant article, the wind heard one or two cases, all counted to the Secretary’s merits, so that when the newspaper published, the Secretary was praised, which does not recognize him as the author of the article?

Government officials come and go, not worried about no one to write, write more, reputation out, naturally, there are people to invite articles, but also have a pen fee.

Dong Zifeng immediately read from the book, but the old habits do not change, to praise one must be a disparagement!

Hearing this, Yang Yuyan couldn’t help but interject, “Will that work?”

Zhu Yanshu spread his hands, “Of course it can’t! Then if he writes one, he’ll be warned once, and if he writes another, someone will come to block the door and beat him up!”

This is not a compliment, it is clearly provoking!

But once you’re in the door, you’re like a married daughter-in-law, you can’t go back to being a girl’s family. Dong Zifeng character serious and persistent, after learning Yang Xueying’s style of writing, can no longer go back to the old days, complimentary did not learn, and even the previous only scolded people also forgot how to write.

Dong Zifeng didn’t know how to write any more.

At this time, Yang Xuhe also fell in love, lost interest in teaching students, and devoted himself to the pursuit of love. Dong Zifeng was like traveling halfway up a mountain, unable to go up or down, so he had to stand at the waist of the mountain and blow the cold wind, becoming more and more cold and hungry.

Wish Yan Shu: “He came over before, I borrowed a ten twenty dollars, just circumference him to eat a meal.” Just did not expect this person tasted the sweetness after, no money to come over to borrow, refused to stand on their own.

Yang Yuyan was fast-talking: “I can see that good people can’t do it!”

Zhu Yan Shu pointed a finger on her forehead: “Nonsense! How can you not be a good person?”

Yang Yuyan changed her tone: “I don’t want to be a bad person, but I don’t want to be a good person either, just don’t mess with me!”

Zhu Yanshu laughed at her, “Are you going to be a loner? At such a young age, you’re actually going to come out of the world!”

When Zhang Ma bought back the meat and vegetables, Yang Yucan also came back, seven big dishes and eight big bowls were set up on a table, half a roasted duck bought back from the Beijing restaurant was set up in the center, there was also a plate of chopped marinated meat, sumptuous!

Su Chunjun has not seen meat for a few days, the saliva flooded out of control, on the table before the modest some, on the table on the head just focus on eating, and so on the end of the table, the table two trays of meat, not a trace of left, all ate all.

Zhang Ma tsked: “Eat really clean ah! I thought I could eat for a few more days.”

Su Chunjun was so thick-skinned that he just assumed he wasn’t talking about himself.

Zhang Ma said, turning to Yang Yuyan, “I don’t usually see you eating meat, why did you eat so much today?”

Yang Yuyan was smart but not smart enough, she thought she was talking about herself and immediately refuted, “There are so many people on the table, I’m not the only one who ate.”

Su Chunjun couldn’t help but laugh, looking at his own this student is really more and more love.

After the meal, Su Chunjun should naturally say goodbye, he just stood up, Miss Yang Yu Cicada said: “Mr. Su sit down and have a cup of tea.”

Su Chunjun thought that people are polite, he has relied on a meal, it is time to go.

“No, no.” He said, “I’m in a hurry to go back to burn the stove, or I’ll freeze at night.”

Yang Yuchan: “There’s still time for a cup of tea. You can take a piece of coal from home later, it’s very fast to start the fire.”

Su Chunjun was very puzzled, but also readily sat down, he naturally sat with the second young lady Yang, saw her hand holding a piece of cookie to nibble.

Doesn’t eat regular meals, loves snacks.

Su Chunjun can see that Miss Yang is afraid to have a difficult thing to say today, which pulls him as an outsider to stay, I think it must be playing the outsiders present Zhu Ms. will not be angry calculations. He moved only half a year, already know Ms. Zhu very well, I heard that even in her own home, as long as out of the bedroom will be neatly dressed, the two daughters are also strict requirements, the youngest daughter refused to go to school, she even scrimping on food to hire a home teacher. This kind of pretentiousness, when it is down and out of the big girl.

Ms. Zhu, a lady of great virtue, will definitely not be angry in front of him, a neighbor of outsiders.

No matter what Ms. Yang is going to say in a while, with him as an insurance policy, at least 30% of the risk can be guaranteed.

Su Chunjun was inadvertently used as a bumper, even if he is not happy, there is no way, after all, eat people mouth short. But he is also not willing to be dragged in as an embarrassment. So he looked for Yang Yuyan next to him to speak.

“This seems to be a milk cookie from Uncle Tom’s Cake Shop.” He said.

Yang Yuyan was generous and took the cookie box to him, “Zhang Ma bought them when she bought bread today, do you want to eat them?”

Su Chunjun shook his head, “I don’t eat.” After a pause, he deliberately asked, “Didn’t you used to say that none of this cake is edible?”

Nowadays, the cake, earthy to the core, of course there’s no way to eat it. These were Second Miss Yang’s original words.

Yang Yuyan was stunned, and Su Chunjun continued, “Then why are you willing to eat his family’s cookies now?”

With Second Miss Yang’s temper, that was a sure way to roll her eyes.

Su Chunjun was waiting for Yang Yuyan to get angry.

But he was wrong this time. Second Miss Yang said, “The cookies are different.”

The second lady said, “The cookies are not the same.” She was so proud of herself that she didn’t feel guilty.

Su Chunjun immediately laughed, a child’s temperament, changing her mind when she said she would, with a good reason.

“Where are cookies and cakes different?” He asked seriously, not looking that way at all.

Yang Yuyan: “The cake is made ugly and hard to eat, the cookies are not bad, and the ingredients are real.”

She was so sure that Su Chunjun also started to think that the cookies in this cake store were really better than the cake.

Just as he wanted to pick up where he left off, Yang Yucan gathered enough courage and said in a shaky voice, “Mom, for your birthday on the third of October, my classmates would like to treat you to a meal at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.”

Zhang Ma is cleaning up in the kitchen, at this time can not help but poke her head out.

The living room was silent.

Yang Yuyan’s eyes don’t mention how smart and fast they turned, Su Chunjun stretched his head and took a slice of cookie, occupying his mouth.

Zhu Yanshu put down his teacup, cleared his throat, and said slowly, “What classmate of yours is it?”

Yang Yucan’s throat tightened and she said softly, “Just an ordinary classmate of mine.”

Yang Yuyan couldn t help it and voiced, “Ordinary ……?”

Su Chunjun’s quick eyes and hands pulled her, making her swallow the latter half of her sentence back.

Ordinary classmate? Who to fool!

But Miss Yang was already nervous, and if she wanted to finish the play, she couldn’t scare the main character away.

Su Chunjun felt that Second Miss Yang hadn’t yet grasped the key to watching the play: it was to keep quiet!

Zhu Yanshu was a piece of old ginger and didn’t dwell on whether it was an ordinary classmate or not, and proceeded to ask down the line, “What’s his name?”

“How did you two meet?”

“What grade are you in?”

A series of painless questions slowly pacified the nervous Yang Yuchan.

Yang Yuyan and Su Chunjun, as well as Zhang Ma, who was hiding in the kitchen doorway and sticking her head out, saw the fish go into the net with their own eyes and felt doubly sympathetic.

But none of them had the kindness to open their mouths to remind them, all of them waited to watch the show.

This ordinary classmate, of course, is a man.

Surname Ma, called Ma Tianbao.

With Yang Yucan is a classmate, two years older than her, consistent character and academic excellence. The two helped each other in their studies, appreciated each other, and finally, after a year-long mutual temptation, reached a consensus and decided to go on dating with the goal of marriage.

Yang Yuchan graduated next year, Ma Tianbao students graduated this year. After graduation, of course, we have to consider the problem of starting a family, so Ma wanted to visit Ms. Zhu, and Yang Yuchan thought of Ms. Zhu’s birthday as a good opportunity.

Yang Yuchan finished her speech and held her breath, waiting for the verdict.

Zhu Yanshu was very considerate: “In that case, just let him come to the house, why go to the Hyatt? How expensive that is.”

Yang Yucan immediately comprehended the kindness in Ms. Zhu’s tone, the big stone in her heart was put down, the whole person relaxed quite a bit, and she hastened to put in a good word for Ma’s classmates, “He said that mom’s birthday should be celebrated, so he purposely borrowed his classmates’ money to make a reservation.”

Yang Yuyan’s eyes were about to glaze over.

Borrowing money?

It was Su Chunjun who had to sigh for Miss Yang. Originally, he thought that with the two daughters of the Yang family, the second young miss was falsely shrewd, and the eldest young miss should always be better. Now it looks like both sisters are the same, neither is shrewd enough. In comparison, it was still the Second Miss he had taught that was a bit better, at least able to see what was wrong with Ma’s classmates. Miss Yang was left only touched.

In the end, it was still Ms. Zhu who was old-fashioned, and smiled at her words and just said with a smile, “His classmates are quite well connected then.”

Yang Yucan couldn’t help but feel happy, seeing Ms. Zhu’s attitude was so good, she hurriedly asked, “Then mom, did you promise?”

Ms. Zhu nodded: “Yes.”

Ms. Zhu nodded: “Yes.” Yang Yucan: “Then I told him?”

Ms. Zhu: “Say it.”

Yang Yucan jumped up at once, her face full of smiles couldn’t be stopped, she circled around in the living room and ran back to her room.

Zhang Ma in the kitchen really couldn’t stop worrying and talking! She didn’t even have time to put down her rag and came straight out, “Mrs! This way ……”

Ms. Zhu cleared her throat and stopped Zhang Ma, then turned to Su Chunjun, who had been watching the play all night, and said, “Mr. Su, I’ll have Zhang Ma hold a piece of coal head for you.”

Su Chunjun was very smart and hurriedly stood up, “I’m really sorry to have disturbed you for the whole night, so I’ll take my leave now.”

Ms. Zhu smiled as usual: “It’s nothing, you’re Yan Yan’s teacher, you’re just like a member of our family. Yan Yan, go see your teacher off.”

Yang Yuyan was the least preoccupied one, half not realizing the wit in her words just now, patting the cookie crumbs on her hand, she said enthusiastically, “Ms. Su, let’s go!”

Standing in the doorway, she also winked at Su Chunjun, “Teacher Su, you’re full today!”

Su Chunjun used to always talk about being poor and not having enough to eat. Today she returned the favor.

Su Chunjun looked at this little wit and said in a bad mood, “Memorize your vocabulary well tonight! You’ll be tested the day after tomorrow!”