The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 595 That Was a Spring

The sky will be bright.

In the dormitory of the adjutant of the picket team of Yongdingmen Iron and Steel Plant, Sun Mingteng groped in the dark and changed into his regular clothes. He yawned and complained: "Oh my god, it's already past February and the dragon has raised its head, why is it still so cold?"

He dangled the rope to draw half a bucket of water, shook it up and poured it into the wooden basin, sucked in the cold air hissingly and wiped it for two and a half times, and felt full of energy.

So he strode out of the courtyard gate, crossed the square to the front of the barracks, knocked on the door one by one and shouted: "Get up, get up! Yesterday I signed up to guard Mr. Jiao, Du Te Niang hurriedly put on my clothes!"

There were vague responses and mumbled complaints.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, five tall and strong pickets came out in the dark. Sun Mingteng handed out the rubber sticks he had just brought from the equipment room one by one, and asked them to wipe their faces with cold water indiscriminately, and then big hands With a wave: "Let's go!"

Then a group of six people lined up in a long snake formation, trotted out of the steel factory, and rushed along the long street to Jiao's mansion.

Speechless all the way.

Approaching Zijin Street, we bumped into two similar teams one after another. Sun Mingteng originally wanted to say hello to them, but when the other party saw that he was leading the team, they didn't even bother to pay attention. run.

Bah~
What an amazing thing!
Sun Mingteng cursed resentfully, but knew that after all, he was incomparable with these people from work-study students.

But after thinking about it, in a short time, the adjutants of the major picket teams will be conferred with the ninth-rank official position—although it is a worthless military post, but it is still a high-ranking rank, not for nothing—Sun Mingteng couldn't help but feel complacent .

Speaking of him, it was also due to his luck, Chen Wansan and Li Qing were appreciated by Jiao Shun, one went to the Ministry of Industry to be an inspector [Nine Grades], and the other went to Engineering to be a secretary [Nine Grades], so he, the team leader, naturally became a superior Adjutant.

You must know that the current position is monopolized by work-students, and his grandson is also the only one for Scorpion Baba.

Soon.

The three teams rushed to the gate of Jiao Mansion one after another, and saw that there were three teams on both sides of the gate who had arrived first, but they had already turned into teams of five.

Sun Mingteng was still wondering, when he saw the two work-student adjutants turn around and explain to their subordinates, and then entered Jiao's mansion through the corner gate with ease.

Sun Mingteng wanted to take pictures of gourds, but when he thought of being alone with five work-student adjutants, he felt uncomfortable.

After hesitating for a while, he couldn't summon up the courage to enter the door.

At this moment, two servants of the Jiao family came out from the inside with their loads, put them in front of everyone and lifted the curtain, but there were two big buckets of hot mutton soup and two big baskets of sesame seed cakes.

This time Sun Mingteng was not polite, he was the first one to go up to the bowls and chopsticks, bought a bowl of mutton soup from cheap ones, grabbed a hand full of sesame seed cakes, squatted down against the wall and started eating hazelnuts.

His subordinate Zhanguang also rushed ahead, imitating him and squatting at the base of the wall, but couldn't help teasing: "Sun Tou, the food inside must be better than this, why don't you go in and try it?"

"roll!"

Sun Mingteng glared at the guy angrily, and said like Ah Q: "This is what I call having fun with the people."

Everyone laughed, and he poked his neck and added: "My mother also learned this from Mr. Chen Wansan!"

Suddenly no one dared to laugh anymore. Although Chen Wansan had only been in the steel factory for more than half a year, he managed the army very strictly and took the lead, so he was quite famous in the picket team.

What's more, he was promoted to the Ministry of Industry a few years later, and he was in charge of the picket team. Leaving aside retired officers, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was the captain of the picket team.

Everyone ate for a while, and when their stomachs were not so hungry, someone looked around and asked curiously: "Boss Sun, didn't we say that we are here to protect Mr. Jiao, so that those who go to Beijing to catch the exam will not cause trouble? Why am I alone?" Didn't see it either?"

"nonsense!"

Sun Mingteng picked up the mutton at the bottom of the bowl, sniffed and said: "You also know that those candidates came to Beijing to rush for the exam. It has been more than ten days since the 21st of the first lunar month, not to mention the big exam in a few days. , They still have to hurry up and review their homework?"

After a pause, he felt that saying this didn't seem to highlight the importance of himself and the others, so he added: "Besides, our more than twenty picket teams take turns to protect Lord Jiao, even if they want to make trouble, they don't have the guts! "

All the subordinates really liked the latter statement more, and they all spoke in agreement.

Another took advantage of the situation to belittle the exam candidates: "Weirds say that you are a scholar who is useless. If it were us, you would have copied the guy!"

"That's right, it's been said in the newspapers, what is the era of industrial power now, if you don't have the steel produced by our steel factory to make guns, you can beat the foreign devils?"

But there are also those who poured cold water: "Li'er is such a rationale, but he can't hold back that a scholar can become a high-ranking official. I heard that the people above want to take advantage of this spring to deal with Mr. Jiao. If Mr. Jiao really falls, all of us People are only afraid of..."

"Bah bah bah!"

Sun Mingteng spat a few times, and scolded: "Can you speak human language?! Mr. Jiao is a prosperous official, and even the emperor I value him the most. How could he fall?! I think those big headscarves are going to be finished! Wait for the engineering school When the students leave the teacher, it's time to grab their jobs!"

Everyone agreed in unison.

Someone lamented: "It's a pity that I'm getting old, or I would have signed up last year."

"My younger brother is old enough, but Ke Te Niang, this cowardly child, was brushed off in the first round."

Just as he was talking, he saw five work-study student adjutants coming out of the corner door again. Sun Mingteng stood up hurriedly and shouted: "Don't eat, don't eat, hurry up and line up."

Unexpectedly, the team was lined up here, but the five adjutants did not form a team, but let their subordinates wander around lazily.

Sun Mingteng was confused when he saw this, and the servant who came out to clean up the tableware saw him and kindly reminded him: "Our master said that it is not easy to run after eating. Recently, we wait until you finish eating." You won't be going out for a quarter of an hour, so let's get some food first, don't worry."

Only then did Sun Mingteng suddenly realize that he glared at the adjutants in embarrassment, but he didn't dare to be too provocative after all. He turned around and announced the temporary dissolution, and couldn't help sighing: "It's only Mr. Jiao who is willing to treat us as human beings. Officials with turban backgrounds don’t care about us.”

All the pickets nodded.

Today, through various propaganda methods—especially "Ta Kung Pao"—Jiao Shun has undoubtedly become a spokesperson for the interests of the working class.

Especially after Chen Wansan, Li Qing, Dong Xun and others were successively appointed officials, and the adjutants were also transferred to the military ranks, the workers who saw the hope of the future began to regard Jiao Shun as a spiritual leader more and more.

It is also because of this that when the Juren who came to Beijing to take the exam were instigated to besiege Jiaofu on the 21st of the first lunar month, more than a thousand people came one after another without waiting for the members of the Trade Union to mobilize. , I'm afraid that those actions are not panic, but bloody.

Just like that, another quarter of an hour passed before I saw two carriages slowly driving out of the corner gate.

When he got outside the door, Jiao Shun deliberately got out of the driveway and gave a loud cry before returning to the car.

Then the 36 pickets were divided into two teams, the front and the back, and they rushed to the Ministry of Industry surrounded by carriages. They were full of energy and high-spirited, and although they held rubber sticks in their hands, they seemed full of deterrence.

Inside the carriage.

Jiao Shun looked at it, but he was not in a good mood. Although the people who besieged his mansion on the 21st of the first month were scared away by the workers who rushed over after hearing the news, the court did not stop because of this, but took the opportunity to attack Gongxue and him again. Jiao's crowd rose up and attacked.

This is also because the impact of the previous "AIA Surprise" plan has far exceeded expectations, and it has triggered a trend of thought among the people that emphasizes industry over literature, and elevates engineering and studies too high for a while.

Those civil servants are afraid that they will shake the foundation of the imperial examination, and just as the three-yearly spring exam is about to start, people from all over the country gather in the capital. Launching a counterattack at this time is also a matter of course.

For this, Jiao Shun had to write papers to defend himself for several days. In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Engineering had accumulated a lot of official documents and official duties at the beginning of spring, so it was unavoidable that he was very busy.

But yesterday, February [-], the holiday, was invited by Wang Xifeng and Li Wan to pay private food in Muni's courtyard.

Hey~
It's still Aunt Xue who knows how to love others, and never forgets to bring some snacks every time.

Far away.

Actually Jiao Shun's biggest headache right now is not the criticism from the court, but his own marriage.

When I was looking at the day, I didn't take into account the irrelevant variable of Chun Wei, but now I feel that something is wrong - his wedding day is set on February [-], and Chun Wei just ends on February [-], The students rested for two days to recharge their batteries, and it was time to find something to do when there was nothing to do.

What if when I got married, I was besieged by my disciples again...

Worrying that it would not end well, Laiwang even proposed to postpone the wedding at one point.

But Jiao Da resolutely refused to agree, and all the monthly stickers were posted, and it would be against the rules to change the marriage date temporarily.

What's more, Jiao Shun himself thinks that he shouldn't shrink back. Now that the engineering school is running well, the workers are also bursting out with unprecedented enthusiasm under his series of mobilization propaganda.

It can be said that as long as we pass the current hurdle, the future must be bright.

If the enemy is shown to be weak, the literati will intensify their efforts if they are not in order.

or……

How about making the scene bigger?

I don't believe that I have summoned thousands of 'guests', and those sour people dare to visit the door to make trouble.

However, the gathering of workers on the 21st of the first month has already been criticized by others. Fortunately, it can be justified by voluntary. If there is another one...

Hey~
Change is not easy!
Jiao Shun sighed, and simply lay flat on the car, ready to seize the time to recover some physical strength, after all, he had an appointment to go to You's house to catch the show in the evening.

…………

Like the Jiao family and the Xue family, the Rongguo Mansion has already been busy half a month in advance, and the scale is far from what the Jiao and Xue families can compare.

After all, on February [-]th, the Rongguo Mansion not only wanted to marry, but also married a daughter and a niece. The three marriages were crowded together, so it was naturally very lively.

However, the energy in the mansion is mainly concentrated on Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun.

After all, one of these two is the baby bump in the house, and the other is going to marry Jiao Shun who is in full swing.

As for Yingchun.

It's not that people deliberately ignored her, but that she herself was full of resistance to this marriage, and even broke up with the elder because of this, so others couldn't be too festive in front of her.

This morning, the maid who presented the wedding clothes didn't dare to stop, put down her things and left directly.

Xiuju looked at the bright red wedding dress on the wooden tray and sighed, and took a long while to get it up to the second floor.

When I entered the door, I saw Jia Yingchun folding paper airplanes on the balcony again, and she couldn't help persuading: "Girl, if you want to fold paper airplanes, you should also fold them in the room. Be careful not to freeze your hands and catch the wind and cold in this cold spring."

Jia Yingchun ignored her, silently folded the paper airplane, and threw it towards the surface of the lake that had just thawed and was covered with a layer of ice.

Seeing the plane landed on the ice, she seemed to have escaped the flood for a while, and she didn't look happy at all. She was about to get another origami to continue folding, when she suddenly saw the wedding dress on the table.

Immediately, as if she had been stung, her delicate body trembled violently, and a bit of blood melted on her already pale face.

Seeing this, Xiuju couldn't help sighing again, and then said in relief: "Girl, maybe things won't go as we thought."

"we?"

Yingchun's gaze shifted from the wedding dress to Xiuju, and said with a sneer, "Didn't you already make up your mind that you won't marry me to the Sun family?"

Xiuju didn't expect that she already knew about this, she panicked immediately, and said falteringly: "I, I don't want to be with the girl, it's just, just..."

After all, she was ashamed to say that she had been Jiao Shun's person for a long time, and now she was taken off the dowry list because of Uncle Jiao's help.

Yingchun didn't listen to her excuses at all, walked quickly to the table, stretched out her hand to caress the wedding dress made of high-quality materials, and after a long while suddenly said quietly: "I heard that the old man has become more and more ill recently?"

Xiuju vaguely guessed what she was thinking. Although she felt that it was inappropriate for a daughter to expect her father's sudden death, but thinking of Jia She's actions, she felt that it was only normal for Yingchun to have such thoughts.

pity……

Xiu Ju said regretfully: "Even though Eldest Master is sick, but I heard from the imperial doctor that since winter is over, spring, summer and autumn should be fine this year."

Yingchun's hand tightened suddenly, and several thin veins stretched out on Bai Yu's wrist, she immediately let go, and said with a soft smile without any warmth: "It's a pity that I can't go to his old man's bed to mourn. "

When Xiuju saw her look of nothing more than death, she also felt like a knife was twisting her heart.

But now, unless the old man died suddenly, what else could be done to stop this marriage?
(End of this chapter)