Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 232 Imperial Capital Rehabilitation ([-])

When a fellow countryman sees a fellow countryman, his eyes... are full of confusion.

Zhang Guorong looked at Chen Boqiang in front of him, his eyes widened, and it felt like his eyeballs were about to fall off.

Chen Boqiang was wearing a hand-knitted sweater with thick threads and large floral patterns, and gray trousers, which were wrinkled all over the trousers, making them feel a bit bloated.

Her hair was messy, as if she hadn't washed it in half a month. Under her feet were a pair of blue plastic slippers and gray woolen socks.

This is the same Chen Boqiang who is exquisite and elegant no matter where he goes. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a Yankee who has just arrived in Xiangjiang.

The two knocked on the door and entered the room. Chen Boqiang didn't turn his head. Obviously, he was used to the custom of stopping by here, and he already had the aura of not being surprised no matter who came.

"Xu Zai is here. Are you alright, Ah Fei? I didn't expect you to arrive so early. I thought you'd have to come back in the evening?" Chen Boqiang asked in a slow Hong Kong manner.

His back was facing the entrance, and he didn't see that there were two people coming in. He only knew from the answer at the door that it was Wang Xu who had arrived.

Now Chen Boqiang feels very familiar with Wang Xu. Although he has only been here for more than half a month, he already regards Wang Xu as an old friend who has known each other for many years.

Coupled with some habits of the imperial capital, Chen Boqiang has already acquired some characteristics of the citizens of the imperial capital, such as laziness.When Wang Xu entered, he greeted casually, but didn't even bother to turn around.

You know, in the first few days of his arrival, he had to entertain almost every guest who came, with a standard hospitable expression on his face, and hypocritical nonsense, which made him feel really hard.

Until Wang Xu personally showed him how the people here lived, and took him to visit the neighbors' houses, watching the guests come, and the people in the house were busy with their own work.

At most, I turned around and yelled at them: "There is boiling water on the stove, and the tea leaves are in the cupboard. If you want to drink, pour it yourself." Then he continued on his own.

Chen Boqiang was a little puzzled at first, but he was not a nobleman who didn't eat fireworks at all. After all, he was from a normal family, and it was not uncommon for him to see a more crowded and narrow living space in Xiangjiang than this.

The people over there don't really entertain the guests when they come, they really don't have that kind of skill.

So, now that he is here, Chen Boqiang has worked very hard to adapt, and acting in a movie is not bad.

Compared with Xiangjiang, the life here is not so convenient. He is a very clean person, and the hygienic conditions here are simple.

Not to mention taking a bath, you have to go to the yard to brush your teeth. A group of people greet each other face to face with foamy mouths. It is funny and sad, but it also has a little warmth.

He is a sensitive person, and he can fully understand and grasp the subtle emotions hidden in the market.

He has never experienced the bottom life in Xiangjiang, but he also knows that Xiangjiang is different from here, because the bottom life in Xiangjiang is too entangled with various gangs, and it is not as peaceful as in the courtyard here.

And from the perspective of work, there are quite high-level song and dance troupe leaders, old ladies from poor households who have no jobs at all, sanitation workers, middle school teachers, government workers, and unemployed young people.

This is not something that can be described and described by the three religions and nine streams, but it really has a feeling of gathering together regardless of high or low.

In Xiangjiang, you don't see sweeping aunts living next door to company executives, but it's nothing new here.

According to Xiangjiang's comparison, Uncle Li next door is equivalent to a middle-level company, but the few families in the inner courtyard are the most ordinary workers.

They live in the front and back yards, and the houses are about the same size. According to the regulations of the courtyard, the inner courtyard is more upscale, but the inner courtyard lives on the ground floor.

Of course, he didn't know about the chaos in the distribution of the miscellaneous courtyard back then. Those workers and Uncle Li didn't even work in the same unit.

How can there be any attention to front and rear yards, plus various sheds and kitchens built privately and randomly, this kind of place is now unified under one name, Dazayuan.

These people's food and clothing costs are somewhat different, but they don't make people feel the gully barriers. On the contrary, they are very familiar with each other, and it seems that their identities have really become blurred.

Chen Boqiang just watched, learned, and observed, but at the same time he was adapting and changing.After ten days or so, he suddenly felt that maybe this is also very good.

Therefore, when Wang Xu and the others came in, they saw Chen Boqiang turning on the coal stove in the middle of the room.

A fire chopstick goes up and down, and the movement is quite skillful.Chen Boqiang didn't take a serious look at the situation of the flames until several coal holes were cleared.

The flames jumped up, which was a sign that the fire had recovered, so he used the fire chopsticks to lift the fire lid and cover it, and then poked the lower fire door to turn it down a little, and then sat the kettle next to it on it again.

A set of procedures is not to mention smooth and smooth, at least it is familiar and easy to handle.

"You are proficient enough. You are so quick to learn. When I was a child, I burned myself just by tossing this coal stove." Wang Xu looked at Chen Boqiang's movements with emotion.

He took off his gloves, hung them on the small pole next to the coal stove, and covered his hands on the chimney,

"I'm smarter than you." Chen Boqiang joked with Wang Xu with a smile, turned around, and only then noticed Zhang Guorong who was still standing at the door in a daze.

"Leslie, why are you here?" Chen Boqiang's eyes lit up. When old friends met, he instantly lost the style of the imperial capital and switched back to Cantonese. He opened his arms and greeted Zhang Guorong.

"Long time no see, Danny, I heard that you are seriously ill this time, Xu Zai said you are recuperating here, of course I want to see you, are you better?" Zhang Guorong hugged Chen Boqiang tightly.

"It's much better. I'm in a much better mood recently." Chen Boqiang's smile was particularly bright today, and his friend came to see him specially, so why didn't he feel happy.

"How are you feeling recently, what?" Zhang Guorong let go of his hug, looked at Chen Boqiang's clothes in front of him, but hesitated to speak.

"My clothes? Hehe, it's cold in the imperial capital, and it's almost impossible to rely on a coal stove for heating here.

So I wore woolen trousers underneath, and the trousers I brought were too small.

The sweater and wool trousers were all given by the big brother in the backyard. He saw that the clothes I brought were too thin, so he gave me the sweater and wool trousers knitted by his wife. His wife even had a fight with her. I heard it all here, haha. "

Chen Boqiang wore this sweater a little too big. The guy in the backyard was a boiler worker. He was a tall man, but he was quite generous. His wife often quarreled with him because of this.

However, Chen Boqiang would definitely not take it in vain. He made the move, and the gift in return was naturally very generous. Since then, they have become familiar with each other and warmed up.

Sister Ying prepared a lot of gifts for Chen Boqiang, which were not too extravagant but could bring people closer together, such as Xiangjiang's candies, chocolates, silk scarves, watches, skin care products and the like.

In fact, they were all bought from the Friendship Store. I was in a hurry when I came here, and I didn’t even think about buying these, but it didn’t matter, they were rare items for ordinary citizens anyway.

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