The Spring Festival passed before I knew it.
Su Mingzhe also received the admission notice from Shuimu University and needs to report before February 25th.
He planned to take Luo Yuzhu to Yanjing with him. He would not come back for at least four years.
At this time, Luo Si finally remembered that Luo Yuzhu was his daughter. Before the Chinese New Year, he came to Su's house and quietly gave Luo Yuzhu two hundred dollars.
This is a double return of Su Mingzhe's gift money.
During the Spring Festival, Su Mingzhe took Luo Yuzhu back to her parents' home. Luo Yuzhu's stepmother also changed her attitude. Not only did she tear off a few feet of cloth and make two new clothes for Luo Yuzhu, but she also took Luo Yuzhu with her and told her a lot of things. In the husband's way, he finally called his son to him and asked him to call Sister Luo Yuzhu several times.
No matter what Luo Si and his wife thought, whether they did it right or wrong in the past, Luo Yuzhu was very moved just by their current attitude.
Luo Yuzhu was also a family-loving person. After being tortured like this by Luo Si and his wife, she suddenly became reluctant to leave Pujiang.
However, Su Mingzhe had even completed the procedures for the two of them to go to Yanjing together, and he would not let Luo Yuzhu be willful.
When leaving Pujiang, Luo Yuzhu kowtowed to Luo Si three times at the station.
Su Mingzhe had no choice but to kneel down and kowtow.
On the platform, seeing Luo Si reluctant to leave, Su Mingzhe had to interrupt the scene of deep love between father and daughter:
"Dad, the train is about to leave. Take care of yourself. I will definitely take good care of Yuzhu when we get to Yanjing."
"Mingzhe, I entrusted you with the jade beads."
Although Luo Si was reluctant to give up, the matter had come to this and he could only send her off with tears.
Seeing the train gradually leaving, Luo Si hunched over and looked around blankly:
Why do I have such a miserable life? My ex-wife died just a few years ago. I married a beautiful daughter-in-law and gave birth to a son to continue my good life. How come I am now suffering from a terminal illness just a few days after my good life?
The sweet wife Luo Sixuxu married was only twenty-five years old this year, ten years older than Luo Yuzhu. It should have been the most beautiful time in a woman's life.
But before the Spring Festival, he was suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness. He went to several hospitals and was diagnosed with a life expectancy of half a year at most.
Compared with Luo Si's sadness, Chen Jianghe, who came to see him off, began to feel passionate about "the sky is high enough for birds to fly, and the sea is wide enough for fish to jump" after the sadness of farewell.
Before Su Mingzhe left, he told Chen Jianghe: "It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books." '
It doesn't matter if Chen Jianghe can't read books. He can go to other places to increase his knowledge and expand his knowledge.
Chen Jianghe was particularly convinced by the words of his elder brother Su Mingzhe.
When he got home, he tidied up and gave the keys to the house to Uncle Chaojing next door, asking him to help look after the house when he was free. He also went to visit his 'adopted father and stepmother' at his home.
In the past few years since Su Mingzhe took Chen Jianghe in, although Chen Jianghe had worshiped Su Chaoshan and his wife as his 'adopted father and adopted mother', they could never get close to each other.
Fortunately, Chen Jianghe is a person who values affection and righteousness. He comes to visit every now and then, which can be regarded as a kind of friendship.
Now that others are leaving Pujiang, they naturally want to say goodbye.
After saying goodbye to his adoptive father and mother, Chen Jianghe secretly went to Chenjia Village.
Ever since Su Mingzhe taught Chen Jianghe how to hunt, Chen Jianghe has quietly gone back several times.
Unlike the relatively open economic market in Pujiang, the market management in Yiwu is quite strict.
The sugar-cracking gang that "exchanges chicken feathers for sugar" was labeled a "restoration" more than ten years ago.
With this hat on, Chenjiacun, which originally relied on "exchanging chicken feathers for sugar" to make a living, has become a target of strict protection by its superiors in recent years.
Chen Jinshui, the head of Chenjia Village, was sent there for several years of education.
After Chen Jinshui was released, he burned the ancestral tools of each family for walking in the streets.
It may also be that Chen Jinshui performed well and later became a role model in education.
In the 1980s, when towns were merged, Chen Jinshui was actually recommended and became the mayor of Chenjia Town.
This incident is also a blessing in disguise.
When Chen Jianghe came to Chenjiacun, he didn't enter the house. He just looked at it quietly for a few times, turned around and left.
At this moment, Chen Jianghe thought he was carrying a bag of eucalyptus on his back.
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On the train.
After transferring trains at Lin'an Yuhang Station.
On the train, Su Mingzhe spent more than 200 yuan and asked a leader on the train to buy two sleeper tickets at double the price.
When the two found their sleeper car, they didn't expect that there was already someone inside.
Moreover, these two people, a man and a woman, with their clothes half untied, were obviously trying to do something good.
"Excuse me."
Su Mingzhe pulled Luo Yuzhu and retreated quickly. Fortunately, he was in front. If Luo Yuzhu saw it, it would be disgusting.
I didn’t expect that these people in the 1970s would dare to play so much. They were so courageous.
Su Mingzhe and Luo Yuzhu stood outside the door for two or three minutes, but there was no movement inside. Su Mingzhe had to knock on the door to remind the other party not to go too far.
At this time, the man inside opened the door and invited Su Mingzhe and Luo Yuzhu in.
Su Mingzhe put his and Luo Yuzhu's luggage and packages inside, but they were sitting in the corridor.
In this way, Su Mingzhe and Luo Yuzhu stood outside the door, chatting with each other for a while.
The two other parties have the same status as Su Mingzhe, and they both went to school in Beijing.
The woman was admitted to the School of Foreign Languages, and the man was admitted to Yanhang.
The four of them chatted for a while, and when it was time for lunch, Su Mingzhe took Luo Yuzhu to the dining car to eat.
When Luo Yuzhu and Su Mingzhe saw that the two people didn't follow them, they couldn't help but ask:
"Azhe, which one is better between Shuimu, Yanhang and other colleges you got admitted to?"
Su Mingzhe smiled slightly and said: "Actually, it's almost the same. Yanhang and School of Foreign Languages are not as established as Shuimu, but these two institutions are also industry leaders among similar institutions."
"I feel like they are not as good as Mizuki. I can see that they are very envious of you."
Luo Yuzhu's words made Su Mingzhe laugh.
After Su Mingzhe laughed, he explained to Luo Yuzhu:
"They don't envy me, they envy us."
"Envy us?"
Luo Yuzhu's face was full of doubts. She had never been to school since she was a child, and she didn't know a few characters. She couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she thought, what would those two college students envy her?
"Why do they, two college students, envy us?"
Seeing that Luo Yuzhu misunderstood what he meant, Su Mingzhe explained:
"Don't you see? These two people said they were lovers, but when we entered the door, they subconsciously let go of each other's hands and deliberately distanced themselves."
Luo Yuzhu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "It's true, the posture they were sitting in just now was too regular."
When the four of them were chatting just now, although Su Mingzhe and Luo Yuzhu were sitting in the aisle, they also behaved intimately from time to time, such as feeding each other snacks, helping each other take off their heavy coats, etc.
However, the man and woman had been sitting quietly, not as bold as before.
Seeing Luo Yuzhu react, Su Mingzhe told her:
"So, my analysis is that they may have been lovers before, but for some reason they separated and started families and got married. In fact, the relationship between the two now... one is a married woman, and the other is a married man."
"Maybe... I'm just shy."
Luo Yuzhu frowned when she saw Su Mingzhe's determined look.
Su Mingzhe didn't refute her, just smiled.
During the rest of the journey, Luo Yuzhu took a closer look at the two people opposite him, and then realized that the other person seemed to be exactly what his man had guessed.
The look in the eyes of both men and women was so wrong, they didn't look like a normal couple at all.
With this judgment, Luo Yuzhu felt that living in the same carriage with such a man and woman was as disgusting as eating a blowfly.
It was hard to get off the train.
I guess we won't see each other again in the future.
Therefore, the four people said goodbye very politely.
After leaving the train station, Su Mingzhe took Luo Yuzhu straight to Dongcheng District.
Originally, Shuimu University arranged for someone to pick him up at the train station, but Su Mingzhe didn't want to live on campus, so he didn't go to say hello to the reception staff at Shuimu University.
When he arrived in Dongcheng District, Su Mingzhe found the street office with ease. After showing his university admission notice, he began to ask about the purchase and sale of a house.
It was 1978, there were many people buying and selling real estate, and the subdistrict office also had relevant personnel to handle these matters.
However, because Su Mingzhe is a foreigner, the staff in the office are not very enthusiastic.
For people who have lived in the imperial city since childhood, all outsiders are countrymen.
When the two countrymen first arrived, they wanted to buy a house in Yanjing, and they even wanted to buy a courtyard house.
Where did this nouveau riche come from, a local rich man.
The reason why Su Mingzhe and Luo Yuzhu were not kicked out of her office was because the office lady was being polite.
Su Mingzhe was not angry when he saw that the office lady had a bad attitude.
After all, chains of contempt are everywhere in this era, and Su Mingzhe has seen them a lot.
He asked Luo Yuzhu to wait at the door. When there were only two people left in the room, Su Mingzhe quietly took out an envelope from his pocket and said with a smile:
"Sister, I need your help with something. I have a relative in Xiangjiang. He knew that I was coming to Yanjing to study, so he gave me some money. However, the money was all in foreign currency. I heard that in Yanjing, It’s not convenient for foreigners like Beijing to buy things directly, so they have to go to some friendship store. Look, you are troubled, can you exchange it for a note from Yanjing or something?"
When the lady in the office heard that the envelope contained foreign currency, she immediately had a smile on her face. She opened the envelope and took a look. It was full of green banknotes.
This eldest sister has also seen the world and knows that this is called a "beautiful knife". After checking it, she felt that it was not fake.
The eldest sister smiled even brighter:
"Young man, you...hey, well, why did the eldest sister see that you are so close to each other? The eldest sister will do you this favor."
In Yanjing, there are many rich people, but the rich people do not have various bills and cannot buy things.
And even if you have a bill, you can't buy everything.
If you want to buy things without any scruples, only this kind of beautiful knife is the most practical.
The bank's exchange rate is about 1:1.5.
However, the exchange rate in private transactions outside the bank has long been one to two or even one to three.
Su Mingzhe put a bunch of US dollar bills in the envelope, all of which were twenty yuan. There were thirty bills in total, which was six hundred yuan.
If this eldest sister helps exchange according to the exchange rate, she can earn three to four hundred yuan by changing hands.
Although Su Mingzhe was Chi Guoguo's bribe, when the matter was discussed outside, no one could find fault.
Therefore, the eldest sister changed her attitude drastically and said with a smile:
"Brother, please sit here for a while and wait for me to ask you questions."
The office lady said, pushing the envelope back again.
"That's troublesome, eldest sister."
Su Mingzhe sent the eldest sister out with a smile, then called Luo Yuzhu in, sat down with him, and waited for the eldest sister's reply.
