Facts have proved that Chen Muwu's hopes were in vain, and he still underestimated the current influence of "Shen Shen".
In this era when there are no other entertainment options except listening to operas, playing mahjong, smoking cigarettes, and visiting brothels, people in the upper class who have no worries about food and clothing spend their free time either making people or reading newspapers.
As the largest newspaper in the country by circulation, many people will read the advertisement in the corner of the 22nd page, let alone the piece of tofu news on the tenth page of Shenbao.
After the three-day New Year's Day holiday, on the morning of January 4th, as soon as Chen Muwu arrived at the office, his colleagues came up to ask about the discussion meeting.
"Hey, Old Chen, no wonder I asked you to go to the Tianchan Stage to watch "The Civet Cat for the Prince" on New Year's Day. You said you couldn't spare the time that day, but it turned out that you were going to the Ministry of Industry to show your face!"
"It's my fault, it's my fault, I'll do it next time, I'll do it next time."
This is Mr. A. They both graduated from the Ministry of Transport's Lushan University in the same year and joined the two railway administrations together. Therefore, they have a relatively close relationship, and their conversations are not too big or too small.
"Brother Hanchen, I read the newspaper yesterday and saw that your splendid style has really enhanced the majesty of our countrymen and destroyed the arrogance of foreigners. I admire you, I admire you!"
"Brother X, it's funny, it's funny."
This is Mr. B, an old man whose beard has begun to turn white. He calls him brother, which makes Chen Muwu very embarrassed.
Today's address etiquette is very cumbersome. Two people, regardless of age, call each other "brother". It looks like they are very close, but in fact it is the most distant sign of the relationship.
"Engineer Chen, my wife's sister recently came to Jihai from Jiangli's hometown. Can I set up a table at Xinghua Building to introduce you to each other?"
There was also a certain B who fished in troubled waters and wanted to take the opportunity to introduce Chen Muwu to his wife as his brother-in-law.
This is not because of his scientific literacy, but because he has long coveted the Chen family background behind him.
After finally dealing with colleagues in an office, the British chief engineer asked his secretary to call Chen Muwu into his office to meet with this young man who was rising to fame.
There was a person among his subordinates who could talk to Einstein, which made the pot-bellied chief engineer earn a lot of face in the salon hosted by a bank manager's house yesterday, and the hostess also favored him.
He exchanged a few polite words of encouragement with Chen Muwu, and also used his authority to give the young man three months more salary as a bonus.
This can be considered a... blessing in disguise?
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Zhang is only three years old this year. Ten years later, he will live in the Eddington Apartments on Hart Road and become neighbors with Chen Muwu. He has always lived in the occupied area. He is an obedient citizen of the imperial army. He is crazy about advocating the culture of co-prosperity in Greater East Asia for Xiao Qben. A traitor, a love brain who was turned into a PUA by the traitor Hu Lan and then fell into chaos and eventually gave up. She has countless little bourgeois fans in later generations. Ms. Ailing once said in the future: "Be famous early."
Chen Muwu has not read her works and has no opinion on Ms. Zhang's character, but he disagrees with what she said because he is obviously not used to the feeling of sudden fame.
After being watched as a rare animal in the unit for a whole day, Chen Muwu fled the office as fast as he could as soon as the work bell rang like the sound of nature.
I finally squeezed into a No. 5 tram from the North Railway Station. The word "crowded" is used because no matter whether it is cold or hot in winter or summer, the tram compartment is always crowded like sardines.
In later generations, there will always be pseudo-petit bourgeoisie who have been brainwashed by novels and TV shows. They always praise how great the Republic of China is. In the Republic of China, Baihai was the largest city in the Far East, comparable to London in the UK and New York in the United States. It has convenient transportation and tram lines extending in all directions. That’s right.
Chen Muwu really wanted to pack up these Thirteen-Pointers, who had no idea how much water was in their heads, and bring them to the world he was in now to see what the real scene was like.
While waiting for the bus, everyone was still polite gentlemen and ladies.
As soon as the tram arrived at the station, everyone, regardless of age or sex, immediately lost their grace and rushed to get on the tram. No one was willing to be outdone.
Those who are unfortunately left behind can only climb or tie themselves to the handles inside and outside the door - in most cases, the tram door cannot be closed.
Occasionally, Chen Muwu had a reasonable suspicion that the Indian trains in later generations, which carried passengers in one section more than six sections, were actually the red-headed men who maintained law and order in the concession today, who brought the essence of crowded trams back to China from the beach and brought them back to China. Based on this, it was carried forward.
The No. 5 tram crossed the old garbage bridge and drove along Minjiang Road to Rishenglou. Chen Muwu got off the bus here and waited to transfer to No. 12.
While waiting for the bus here, his eyes would always fall on the two department stores Xianshi and Yongan.
These two companies, located at the northwest and southwest corners of the intersection of Main Street and Jiang Road, can be regarded as landmark buildings in the Shili Foreign Market: magnificent European-style buildings, exhibits in the glass windows that change every few days, Colorful neon lights create a dreamy atmosphere. Gentlemen in suits and ties hold ladies in furs and high heels, coming in and out in an endless stream.
However, hidden in the dark corners where neon lights do not illuminate, there are more beggars than the number of customers of the two companies.
They were barely clothed and had little food to eat, and they relied on a few coins thrown on the ground by kind-hearted gentlemen and ladies they occasionally met, so that they could barely sustain themselves for the next few days.
"Dang, Dang, Dang..."
After the No. 12 tram entered the station, there was another desperate crowd. Chen Muwu squeezed onto the tram and found a seat at the door.
In this kind of downtown station, there is no extravagance to have a seat on the tram. As long as you can get on the tram, you must recite Amitabha.
After sitting on Gordon Road, he got off the bus and walked for more than a mile. After passing two intersections, Chen Muwu walked to Seymour Road where his house is located.
This public transportation is not convenient at all! After getting out of the car, I was asked to walk for so long! he thought.
But Chen Muwu completely ignored one point, that is, his family lived in a wealthy area in the concession, and was a neighbor of Hartung Garden, the largest private garden in the beach. It was the first-class quiet place in the concession. How could trams be allowed? What about passing by "clang-dang-dang" regardless of day or night?
When other neighbors go out, they all take cars or foreign cars. Only he, a young clerk, leaves early and returns late every day and squeezes into the tram with others.
Yes, Chen Muwu, the "poor" Chinese who sympathized with Planck and resonated with Rutherford, was actually born into a wealthy family.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to spend 100 yuan on a typewriter and not feel bad at all - that would cost him less than half a month's salary!
