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Chapter 18 The First Guest

"Teacher Xue, please tell me."

Xue Yu pondered for a few seconds before continuing, "You really don't want to go abroad? You are still young, you should go outside to see more."

"I don't want to." Su Chen had already answered this question before, and he went on to say, "Besides, I'm just a freshman now, and I really haven't thought about going abroad. I'm afraid that when I come back from abroad, everything here People are not."

He just expressed his obsession with the old objects at the root of the imperial city in a very vague way, but to Xue Yu's ears, it was a different flavor.

Things are right and wrong?

"Well, if you want to go abroad, I can help you get a place." Xue Yu did not continue this topic: "The water is boiling, prepare to soak your feet."

"Good."

Su Chen quickly brought two basins and two clean towels.

"Hey, you really have everything prepared here, even two basins and towels." Xue Yu couldn't help laughing and said, "Are you ready to welcome guests at any time?"

"It's better to prepare in advance than to have nothing when you need it." Su Chen said with a smile: "And I've been thinking of inviting you over as a guest during this time."

"is it?"

Xue Yu smiled: "It seems that I want to take advantage of you, a rich man, and try what it feels like to be a courtyard house."

"I guarantee you a worthwhile trip."

The two talked while pouring boiling water into the basin.

Naturally, you can't soak your feet here, and the girl must wash her face, wipe her body and so on.

Xue Yu raised the basin: "I live in Westinghouse, right? Then I'll go there first."

"Okay, I've heated up the kang, it shouldn't be so cold tonight, Mr. Xue, go back to your room first." Su Chen began to prepare to extinguish the fire in the stove.

Now it is in the study, if there is a fire, there is no place to cry.

"it is good."

Xue Yu went to the west room with the water basin, put the basin on the ground, and then turned around and closed the door.

Sitting on the kang, I immediately felt bursts of warmth.

The bedding and pillows are all new, the bed has been made, and a new pair of shoes is also prepared. This guy is so careful.

Xue Yu washed his face first, and then prepared to soak his feet.

At this time, Su Chen also closed the door of the study, went back to his bedroom, and began to soak his feet.

When I came out to pour water, the lights in the west room were still on anyway, so I didn't know what the people in the room were doing.

He turned back to the room, closed the door, and fell asleep.

After soaking her feet, Xue Yu came out of the room with water. After pouring the water, she looked up at the north room and saw that the lights in the room had been turned off. After standing in the snow for a few seconds, she also turned around and went back into the room. , began to turn off the lights and go to sleep.

Siheyuan is good everywhere, but the toilet is outside, which is very bad, especially in the current winter, getting up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet is the most troublesome.

If the pit is already full, forget about how fucked it is.

Therefore, people in the capital basically have to prepare things like chamber pots.

It's okay if it's a small one, but it's better to run out if it's a large one.

Su Chen got up in the middle of the night and had a tuba, shivering from the cold.

Compared with him, Xue Yu slept until he woke up naturally, and was no longer like before, always waking up in the middle of the night.

After she got up, she looked at the time. It was six o'clock in the morning, a long-standing work and rest habit.

After coming out of the room, she glanced at the north room, and found that the room was closed tightly, probably the people inside hadn't woken up yet.

But as soon as he walked to the door of the kitchen, he heard the sound of clanging from inside.

When I looked around, the person I thought was sleeping was actually making breakfast!
"Wake up so early?" Xue Yu stood outside the door and asked with a smile: "Could it be because I came here for the first time as a guest, so you deliberately woke up early to show me?"

Su Chen turned around: "The plan for a day lies in the morning. I have to get up to exercise every morning. I have already boiled the water. You can wash your face and we can have breakfast."

"Uh-huh."

It feels good to be taken care of for the first time.

After Xue Yu finished washing his face, Su Chen served two bowls of noodles: "Today I will let you taste my cooking."

Just plain egg noodles.

"It just looks better than the one in the cafeteria." Xue Yu took a sip and said, "It's not bad, at least I don't need to spend money."

"Then come over and cook when you have time, and let me try your cooking." Su Chen said with a smile.

Xue Yu rolled his eyes at him: "It's a good idea, I think you are just planning to find a free cook, I don't want to be fooled by you."

After the two were full, they began to return to school.

But afraid of other people's gossip, the two still left separately.

When I returned to the classroom, I was naturally in a state of intense study.

Zhou Weishen lay beside Su Chen's ear mysteriously and asked, "You've been quite mysterious recently, what are you busy with?"

"Hey, what else can you be busy with? It's not doing something shameful." Su Chen said haha: "Isn't this worried that it will affect your studies, so I simply lived outside."

"Trust you asshole."

Zhou Wei didn't want to talk to the grandson again.

Although Su Chen's heart is in the classroom, his heart has already flown outside the classroom, to the antiques that are currently displayed in major trust stores.

He no longer has any goods in his hand, so he needs to find a way to get another batch of goods, otherwise he will have nothing to eat.

Moreover, he has always had a sense of crisis.

Never stay in the comfort zone to live, as long as there is an opportunity, take it, and if there is no opportunity, create an opportunity.

It's a pity that Cao Weimin ran to dump the wood, otherwise he really wanted to use Cao Weimin to make another fortune.

He couldn't help but miss Cao Weimin a little bit. It would be great if there were a few more people like Cao Weimin. A watch worth ten or twenty thousand would be given if he asked.

After class all morning, after lunch, Su Chen wondered if he should go out and find someone to collect those antiques for him.

There are always people who say that they collected antiques desperately at the beginning, and then stayed there to eat ashes in the end.

Why not buy it when no one is paying attention?

Do we have to wait for the price of antiques to rise before buying?
But if you feel that you don't know the basics, you are likely to be fooled.

It's not good to have no one around you.

Wait until Sunday to go out and have a look. At school, there is only time to go out for a stroll at night, but there are also many gangsters at night.

On the other hand, it's time for a vacation.

There is also more time.

……

Finally, the winter vacation is ushered in, because some students' hometowns are far away, and they need to order train tickets, so the vacation has already begun.

In the courtyard, Xue Yu opened the small bag she carried with her, took out the tickets and bits and pieces of money inside, and counted them.

Then he looked at someone sitting across from him warming himself by the fire, and asked, "Have you booked your train ticket back?"

"No, I plan to go back later." Su Chen looked at the tickets that Xue Yu spread out on the small table, and asked curiously: "Mr. Xue, are you going shopping?"

"Well, isn't it time to go back for the New Year, so I thought about going to the department store in Wangfujing to buy something to take back." Xue Yu put the tickets and money back in her bag: "Let's go there later."

"Okay." Su Chen nodded.

He turned his head to look at the old objects on his shelf, wondering if he could make a few more changes today.

Xue Yu didn't understand his liking for collecting antiques, because people nowadays are looking for new and fashionable things, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people selling these antiques.

"You really have a close contact with history. Are you going to buy a few more pieces in the capital when you go back later?"

Su Chen nodded: "In the past, only princes and nobles could play with these things. Now it's our poor people's turn to have a chance to play with them. Do you think I can think of a way to get a few more?"

"Are you still a poor person?" Xue Yu rolled his eyes: "You are already a landlord and rich man. In the past, people like you would be criticized."

She looked at the time and said: "Let's go, it's not early, if you go late, there will probably be too many people."

"Row."

After the two wrapped themselves tightly, they went out and went straight to the department store in Wangfujing.

When the two of them arrived at the department store in Wangfujing by bus, they saw that it was already overcrowded. Because it was the Chinese New Year, many people came to buy new year's goods in advance.

Whether it is the candy or cloth counter, or the counter of major appliances, there are long queues.

"My God, so many people?" Xue Yu's eyes also turned black.

If you have to line up, who knows when it will be lined up.

She hesitated for a moment: "Forget it, let's go to the trust store, there is no ticket, and the price is also affordable."

"Listen to you."

The two turned around and left the department store, heading straight for Dongdan.

Trust stores are also overcrowded, and people who can't afford department stores basically go here.

Xue Yu walked around twice. She wanted to buy a fur coat for her father, but most of them were worn by others, so she felt a little disgusted.

It seems that we can only go back to the department store.

When Su Chen saw someone selling expensive hardwood furniture in order to buy new year's goods, he instantly regained his energy and suddenly had an idea.

Turning to look at Xue Yu beside him: "Mr. Xue, when did you get the ticket to go back?"

(End of this chapter)