Chapter 24: Hong Kong Businessmen
Life in the countryside is tasteless, there is no entertainment, every day in addition to planting, is with the daughter-in-law in bed to do "that", the countryside is not like Zhang Guozhong initially imagined, every moment there are strange things happen, in the years after the death of Ma Zhenren, except for a hedgehog "foraging (in the countryside)" on the buddy was Zhang Guozhong three to five to get rid of it, basically nothing happened. In the years after Ma Zhenren's death, except for a hedgehog "foraging (in the countryside, being possessed by a ghost is called bumping into the guest, and being borrowed by an animal cultivator is called foraging)", Zhang Guozhong took care of it in three times, basically, there was no major incident.
Time flashed to 1976, no Ma Zhenren days, Zhang Guozhong hanging sandbags every day, memorize the recipe, never broken, this is also Ma Zhenren's wishes, their own even memorize the recipe are not complete, what to carry forward the Maoshan Quanzhen?
October 25, 1976, for Zhang Guozhong is a special day, two days ago, he just had his 30th birthday, the morning of this day, Li Erma get up is at the door of a burst of dry heaving, Zhang Guozhong often look at the Ma Zhenren passed down the medical books, but also accumulated some medical knowledge, according to the level of his pulse seems to be, Li Erma has been pregnant (the pulse of the pregnancy is called "smooth pulse") (The pulse of pregnancy is called "Slippery Pulse", which is the pulse of a round, smooth, rolling ball, and is the easiest pulse to number, if as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner even "Slippery Pulse" can't be numbered out, then basically you can go to be a veterinarian).
Just when Zhang Guozhong in the house humming a little song whimsical, Li Sangui took a few days ago the newspaper ran all the way to Zhang Guozhong's home, at the moment Zhang Guozhong simply can not believe their eyes:
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee, represented by comrades ******, Ye Jianying, and Li Xiannian, has taken the categorical measure of placing *,*,******, ******, and ****** under quarantine review...
Such a big headline, printed in bold letters of the largest size, was printed on the headline of the newspaper, and underneath it was reprinted the Party Central Committee's Notice on the Incident of the ******, *, *, ******* Group.
In the Chinese land called the wind and rain for 10 years, the China stirred up the chickens and dogs jumped ****** so down, Zhang Guozhong really can not believe, two days ago, the commune wall is still affixed to the "comrade * study" banner, and this a few days ago, or the whole country to learn from the example of the comrade *, at this time has become a prisoner.
Li Erma than Zhang Guozhong small 5 years old, at this time the false age of 26, the weekly age of a little more than 25, but in the rural areas, has been counted as an older young people, according to the doctor's view, with the medical conditions in rural areas at that time, the age of childbearing is a certain degree of risk, in the event of encountering a difficult labor, the safety of mothers and children are difficult to guarantee. Therefore, in Li Erma pregnant 7 months, Zhang Guozhong Li Erma sent to the city's home to raise, ready to reach the due date will be sent directly to the hospital.
Zhang Guoyi to his brother has always been admired to the ground, especially at the moment his brother, in his mind has been omnipotent martial arts master plus demon hunting Luo Han, alone trotting 20 kilometers without resting this ability, Zhang Guoyi more than with a person boasted.
* After the end, Zhang Guoyi transformed into the Secretary of the City Board of Education Secretary and driver, the City Board of Education Wu stayed in the countryside earlier, once Zhang Guozhong grandfather's comrade-in-arms, * when he was struggling Zhang Guoyi had helped him a great deal, not only to send people to protect his family's safety, but also in the process of vindication of his grandfather, piggybacking on the process of vindication to help him collect vindication materials, so * the end of the day, after their own resumption of duties, Wu, the first thing to do is to put Zhang Guoyi, the first thing to do is to put Zhang Guoyi. The first thing to do is to ask Zhang Guoyi over.
That day, Zhang Guoyi carried two bottles of wine to the home of the Secretary Wu, after dinner, Zhang Guoyi asked the Secretary to help his brother from the countryside back to the whole, this is a hall-level cadres is too simple (Tianjin is a municipality directly under the central government, the mayor of the ministerial-level cadres, so the Secretary of the Municipal Bureau of Education at that time was a department-level cadres), and at that time, * the end of the hundred wastes waiting for the end of the old secondary school graduates such as Zhang Guo-Zhong, is the education sector urgently needed talent. The education sector is in urgent need of talent. To the Personnel Bureau comrades called, a paper transfer notice sent to Li Village.
At the farewell meeting, Captain Li and his three sons had red eyes, "Guozhong ah, you can not forget the folks ah, every now and then come back to take a look..."
"Well, well..." Zhang Guozhong is also a sour nose, can not say a word, this is after all, living together for ten years of folks, usually bullshit drinking feel nothing, now really want to separate, really can not let go. But to be honest, at this time Zhang Guozhong just came to the countryside that share of the sharpness has not, after all, or young people, the vision of the outside world of flowers and desire at this moment in Zhang Guozhong's heart has been burning for many years.
Old Liu's case in Zhang Guoyi's walk also overturned, out of prison, Zhang Guozhong waited outside the prison, riding a bicycle with the old Liu's head in the Deng Ying Lou restaurant ate a table, spent Zhang Guozhong twelve dollars, although there is nothing emotional, but this old Liu's head is, after all, his own brother, but also be considered a kind of remembrance of Ma Zhenren it.
After being transferred back to the city, Zhang Guozhong in a junior college as a teacher, teaching language, to be honest, Zhang Guozhong these years on the study of ancient literature, their cultural attainments help a lot, although it has been ten years have not taught, but the language of this junior college is still difficult to defeat Zhang Guozhong. The days passed day by day, and it looked like Li Erma was on her due date.
"It's a boy..." the nurse took off her mask and told the family waiting anxiously outside the door. Zhang Guozhong was so happy that he knelt on the ground right then and there, "Master ah..., I'm a father!" Although the nurse has delivered a lot of pregnant women, seen all kinds of happy behavior, but have not seen this, "Oh, my brother he is like this, his master two years ago in a car accident, they do not have a child, they want to hug the apprentice's child ..." Zhang Guoyi immediately make up blind stories ...
But this came the most happy or Zhang Guozhong's parents, originally on Li Erma this rural girl, the two old people also so, but the child was born, or a boy, Li Erma in the family's status immediately got a leap forward, although the concept of equality between men and women was the focus of the social education at that time, but the patriarchal ideology of the whole family, especially his grandfather's thinking still has a place.
According to the year of birth, the child's five elements lack of earth, according to the master's tips, the child should be brought to the city head of the earth, Zhang Guozhong pondered for half a day, then gave the child a name called "Zhang Yi Cheng".
The school gave Zhang Guozhong a set of houses, a family of three in this building life is not bad, at least there is running water, sewerage and electricity and television, which in the countryside are not even dare to think about. According to the standard at that time, the house Zhang Guozhong got should be called "single kitchen" (the early housing standard in Tianjin is as follows: the most elementary building should be a single kitchen, that is, it only has its own living room, and many neighbors share the same kitchen and a toilet, and on top of that, it is a single kitchen, that is, it has its own independent kitchen but the toilet has to be shared with the neighbors, and then, in the mid-to-late 1980s, it has a single kitchen and a partial kitchen, so-called single kitchen and partial kitchen, so-called single kitchen and partial kitchen. In the mid to late eighties, there were the so-called sole single and partial single, the so-called sole single is a one-bedroom house with an independent toilet and kitchen, the so-called partial single is the highest class of housing in the first place, it is a two-bedroom house with an independent toilet and kitchen, which was at least the treatment of a departmental cadre in the mid-eighties, and up to now, the so-called sole single and partial single are still synonymous with one-bedroom and two-bedroom houses for the people of Tianjin). Zhang Yicheng was enrolled in the nursery attached to the school, and Li Erma was arranged to work in the school-run factory, producing travel chess with magnets.
Time flies like an arrow, the spring breeze of reform and opening up soon bathed the land of China, time into the 1980s, Hong Kong businessmen, Europe and the United States foreign businessmen such as the mushrooming of these big cities in China blossomed, large to automobile, home appliance manufacturing, small to financial real estate investment, the whole country everywhere is the shadow of the foreign businessmen, Tianjin is also not to be taken care of outside, especially some of the Hong Kong businessmen, or driving a small car flaunted through the city, or in the Friendship Hotel dashing to be On a cup of coffee more than twenty dollars (Friendship Hotel is Tianjin's earliest foreign-related hotels, opened in 1974, since then the foreign-related hotels are also Shunde Hotel, Hyatt Regency Crystal Palace Hotel, only much later, respectively, in 1985, 1986, 1987 opened, which Shunde Hotel in the 1880s, it is said that up to now still preserves Mr. Sun Yat-sen lived in the (the room, but involved in foreign business later), no matter what moves foreign businessmen make, have become an example for some newly rich Chinese.
Zhang Guoyi is not an oil lamp this anyone knows, this day, Zhang Guozhong is at home to prepare a lesson plan, outside suddenly someone knocked on the door, Li Erma opened the door, only to see Zhang Guoyi with a height of up to one meter six small man entered the house.
"This is Mr. Prince Howe." Zhang Guoyi introduced, "is preparing to invest in a feed mill in Tianjin."
"Hello hello!" Zhang Guozhong had never seen a foreign businessman before and immediately put down his lesson plan and greeted him with both hands.
"This... is the Mr. Zhang you mentioned, right? ... "The small man looked at Zhang Guoyi.
"Yes, this is my brother," Zhang Guoyi greeted him with a smile, "He is the only one who can handle your matter in the whole of Tianjin..." It looks like Zhang Guoyi may not have boasted anything with this Hong Kong businessman comrade.
"Mr. Zhang, if you can help me, money is not a problem, please, I hope you can be merciful!"
When the Hong Kong businessman said this, Zhang Guozhong was also flabbergasted, he hadn't done anything, how come someone was begging for his mercy? It was as if he had killed many people.
"My name is Prince Howe, Department of Hong Kong Bank..."
"Mr. Wang, you... what do you mean by that...?" Zhang Guozhong also had a head full of questions. The words "Hao", "Biao", and "Dragon" were all names that people from Hong Kong and Taiwan were accustomed to using, and names that were mixed with these words were unimpressive in Zhang Guozhong's opinion, and were simply vulgar to the bone. This Prince Howe in front of him was no exception, "Mr. Wang, there is something to say slowly, don't be in a hurry."
At this time, Li Erma had already served a bowl of water, and Prince Howe had sat on the stool.
"Mr. Zhang, I have a department, you must help..." said, Prince Howe took a dozen Hong Kong dollars out of his wallet and put it on the table, "Mr. Zhang, this is a little bit of department, I heard that you're very good at this department, if you help me this time, I will definitely have a big thank you! If you help me this time, I'll be sure to thank you!" Said that prince hao made a bow posture, deeply lowered his head, words with a crying voice.
"What's wrong with this person?" Zhang Guozhong secretly asked Zhang Guoyi.
"It seems like he ran into something evil, and was introduced to me, I thought that this fertilizer would not flow to outsiders, so I brought it to you..."
"Mr. Zhang, look at this..." said Prince Howe, taking out a piece of jade from his bag and handing it to Zhang Guozhong.
It was a piece of superb jade, permeated with a luster that could not be replicated, and with Zhang Guozhong's insight, he had never seen such a smooth jade before. "Mr. Wang, this jade..., is there anything wrong with it?"
Glancing at Zhang Guozhong, Prince Howe showed a hint of helplessness, "Mr. Zhang, do you really think, there is no problem with this thing?"
"My grandfather bought this from an Englishman, and since it was bought at home, it has been haunted constantly! The house is haunted every day, this thing is too evil, now I want to sell it, but I can't..."
Zhang Guozhong almost didn't cry out, something can't be sold and you come to me, this Maoshan magic is not an advertising company, if you can't sell your stuff, I can't help you to market it.
"Mr. Zhang you misunderstand, it's not that it doesn't sell..." Wang Zihao sipped his water, "but that it sells and comes back on its own...", Wang Zihao sighed again. "Every time I came back, the buyer's house was washed silver (dead)! At first I thought it was a coincidence, but now it's no coincidence!" Prince Howe lost control of his emotions. "Open wash, I sold it to a Malay friend, but not after six months, Malay friend sent it back, said this thing is not auspicious, the family washed silver (dead), and then a Taiwanese friend, bought, the whole family washed all, this thing and to himself (himself) back, and then I donate it to the museum, but also by the silver sent back, said that this thing is evil, and then I looked for silver to bury it in the wild. Then I found silver to bury it in the field, the result is that it again remembered himself (himself) back to the original safe where he was stored, the whole family was scared to the half-wash ah! Now, I can't even throw this thing away, I'm worried that my family will also wash people ah!"
Holding this piece of jade, Zhang Guozhong carefully scrutinized, no matter how this is a piece of ordinary jade, there is no any strange, Murphy...
