018【Salon Appointment】
Weekend, May 2nd. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has been serialized to Guo Jing worshiping Hong Qigong as his teacher, and the powerful eighteen palms of the dragon descending make readers addicted. At the same time, the story of Huang Yong, the author of the novel, being forcibly invited by Chu Dashuai to be a foreign secretary, also slowly spread in Tianjin, becoming an absurd anecdote that people talk about.
These days, Zhou Hexuan occasionally goes to work at the Office of the Superintendent. However, his identity is not a government civil servant, but Chu Yupu's adjutant secretary, and he also received the rank of warrant officer (such as foreign officers, bare on the brochure).
Most of the time, Zhou Hexuan still stayed in the marshal's mansion to write novels, and Chu Yupu would let people read and listen to them when he was interested.
Two record secretaries were also invited, one named Xue Huairen and the other named Meng Zhang. They used to be newspaper editors, but recently several newspapers in Tianjin have been shut down, and these people are worried that they have no way to make money.
Every day, Zhou Hexuan brewed a pot of hot tea, smoked a cigarette and dictated a novel, and the two secretaries took turns to record. 3 cents per thousand words, at least 30,000 words a day, and 4 and a half yuan a day are equally distributed to them, which is already a very high income.
The two of them were sitting down to talk when they suddenly heard a rustling sound in the grass in the distance. Zhou Botong exclaimed: There are snakes! Zhou Hexuan took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and continued, "As soon as the words were finished, there was a fight in different voices, and it seemed that the snakes were so big. Zhou Botong's face changed greatly, and he rushed back into the cave, Rao is martial arts have reached the realm of supernatural realm, but when he heard the sound of this snake and insect swimming, he was frightened and scattered......"
"Mr. Zhou, slow down! I can't copy it. Xue Huairen said hurriedly.
Zhou Hexuan had to slow down his speech, and said for a while: "Okay, let's stop here today." I'm going to go out in the afternoon, so you won't use it. ”
The two secretaries hurriedly got up and said goodbye, with a very respectful attitude, firstly, because of Zhou Hexuan's status as a handsome adjutant, and secondly, Zhou Hexuan's literary talent really made them admire.
At noon, Zhou Hexuan found that Chu Nanxiang, Master Shen, Zhang Wukui and others were not there, and there were only herald Jia He and housekeeper Wang Dafu at the dinner table, and couldn't help asking: "I don't have to work this weekend, and Dashuai is not at home?" ”
Jia He is the cousin of the second aunt, and he has no real skills except for knowing a few words. He said: "I went out early in the morning, as if some school was opening and hanging. ”
In order to curry favor with Chu Yupu, Du Xiaoshan, a local "great benevolent", not only actively raised military funds for him, but also renamed a primary school in Tianjin as Yunshan Primary School (Chu Yupu is Yunshan).
This sycophant is really loud, no wonder Chu Dashuai will bow to Du Xiaoshan as a brother.
After lunch, Zhou Hexuan threw down his rice bowl and prepared to go out, today the French consul's wife is going to hold a salon, and he received an invitation very early.
Zhou Hexuan just called Li Xuanzhu, and the second aunt, third aunt and fourth aunt also went downstairs, followed by a group of subordinates, who seemed to be going to visit the department stores in the concession together.
The second aunt said in a weird way: "Since this house has lived in the fox spirit, I can smell the smell everywhere I go, and I don't want to stay for a moment." ”
"Isn't it? The vixen will also please people, and make the handsome man dizzy. The third aunt sneered.
The object of these two women's insinuations and ridicule is naturally that Chu Yupu's fifth aunt who just married home is too Xiaoqing, and it is too normal to be jealous or something.
The fourth aunt was too good to be a college student before, so she persuaded: "Second sister, third sister, let's say a few words, the handsome will definitely not be happy when they hear it." ”
The second aunt sneered: "Cut, the old lady has been with the handsome man for more than ten years, will she be afraid of that little prodigal hoof?" I'll have to give her some color another day, so that she knows who has the final say in this family! ”
The third aunt leaned over and muttered in a low voice, as if she was discussing a strategy, and soon laughed with the second aunt.
Zhou Hexuan had already walked into the courtyard, and when he looked back, he saw that the fifth aunt, Tai Xiaoqing, was hiding behind the window upstairs, secretly looking at the situation below. The two looked at each other from afar, Zhou Hexuan was nothing, but the fifth aunt closed the curtains with a red face.
"Jingle bell!"
Zhou Hexuan rang the bell of the bicycle, the iron gate of the Marshal's Mansion immediately opened, and Li Xuanzhu chased after him and shouted: "Mr. Zhou, you ride slowly, I can't catch up!" ”
"Sit back, I'll take you." Zhou Hexuan stopped on the side of the road at the door, and Li Xuanzhu immediately accelerated and jumped into the back seat.
This bicycle is an object of the Marshal's Mansion, and no one in the mansion can ride it at all, Zhou Hexuan has the mentality of waste utilization, and this car has become his exclusive car.
As for the watch that he had lost when he first crossed, he had already redeemed it. The pawnshop shopkeeper saw that he was followed by a big soldier, and he didn't even dare to collect the interest on his work, so he was afraid to return the original price.
The architecture of the Tianjin Concession belongs to the international style, and Zhou Hexuan has experienced it in later generations. Unfortunately, although the scenery is beautiful, it does not belong to the Chinese, and this is the world of foreign devils.
Li Xuanzhu hugged Zhou Hexuan's waist in fear, he always felt that the two-wheeled car was unreliable, and it seemed that he would fall down at any time. After riding for a while, he relaxed and asked curiously: "Mr. Zhou, what is that foreigner killing dragon?" Where can I find a dragon to kill? ”
"Hahaha," Zhou Hexuan was amused by him, and said in popular science, "Salon is the French word SaLon, and the ladies and ladies of Paris often turn their living rooms into social places, inviting some dramatists, novelists, poets, musicians, painters, and politicians...... Everyone listened to music while drinking tea, and chatted casually without restraint. ”
"Isn't it just Laqua (the Shandong dialect version of the chatter), what are you talking about killing dragons," Li Xuanzhu sneered, "The foreign woman just doesn't abide by the way of women, and she invites so many men to her home in the blue sky and daytime, maybe she wants to do something." ”
Zhou Hexuan smiled: "What you said is very insightful. ”
Li Xuanzhu was very useful for this compliment, and said unashamedly: "That is, the handsome man often praises me for being clever. ”
The two talked nonsense all the way, and soon came to the official residence of the French consul. Before they could get in, they saw a car coming from the opposite direction, Pu Yi in a suit and leather shoes was the first to appear, and then Wanrong in a pleated dress got out of the car.
Pu Yi walked several steps in a row before he suddenly remembered something, and stopped waiting with his left hand on his waist.
Wan Rong hurriedly walked to catch up, helped her black gauze lace lady hat, put one hand into Pu Yi's arm, and the other hand held the skirt, and the two became a loving couple by the way.
Hehe, the emperor and empress are also here.
Pu Yi turned his head to look at Zhou Hexuan, and didn't seem to have any impression of a little person like him. And Li Xuanzhu was also wearing civilian clothes today, and only brought a pistol to go out, Pu Yi didn't know that they were Chu Dashuai's people.