1979 The Life of Idle Fish

Chapter 472
Two days later, Zhang Shenzhi arrived in the capital as promised.

Luo Tao drove to pick him up personally, and then drove from the Beijing Railway Station to the Mianmian Hutong Garage.

The rest of the journey has to be measured by footsteps.

Shen Zhi held the bag in both hands and arrived at the front door of Luo's house. When he looked up at the door, his eyes were a little dazzled. His eyes were deeply attracted by the bricks and decorations on the lintel in front of him. Come on, this kind of architectural design is rare in the south.

Stopped for a while.

Luo Taocai urged him: "Don't stand there in a daze outside the door. Besides, what's so good about this brick flower? After a while, I'll let you open your eyes and know what good things are."

"Hey!" He was very interested in the "good things" Luo Taoyan said. With a nervous and excited mood, he carried all his belongings into the Luo family's door.

The trajectory of mental activity is like sea water, which looks calm on the surface, but is actually surging undercurrents.

He was wearing an outfit that he and his family members thought was spiritual, with a white shirt and solid trousers, especially the belt around his waist. Outside, the most eye-catching place.

Carrying two small bags, he followed his teacher Luo Tao into the small courtyard. Looking at the somewhat trenchy courtyard, Zhang Shenzhi felt as if he had entered a Jiangnan garden.

With curiosity and fondness in his eyes, he looked roundly at the flowers and trees in the small courtyard.

He acted very reserved, using his steady and reserved character to try to suppress his own inner voice.

"Where are the people?" Seeing that there was no one in the courtyard, Luo Tao shouted.

Following Luo Tao's thick voice, Shen Zhi's body became more restrained.

This natural psychological reaction is a feeling that every normal person will have when they come to a strange place.

"What's wrong?" Then my mother Su Guilan's voice sounded. Seeing that there was a handsome young man behind Luo Tao, she patted herself, walked over and looked at Luo Tao with a smile and asked: "Hey, this is what you always say Be careful, right? This kid is really energetic."

Luo Tao nodded and introduced: "You really have a sharp eye. His name is Zhang Shenzhi, from Pingjiang. He is your son and my student."

Su Guilan was very satisfied with this handsome young man and nodded with a smile.

"Shenzhi, this is my mother, your name is..."

Before Luo Tao finished speaking, Shen Zhi was happy, his voice was crisp and there was no trace of nervousness at all, "Hello, Master!"

Su Guilan's face lit up with joy. She was happy, but she quickly refused and said, "My child, don't call me that. If you don't mind calling me Grandma Su, I'll do it."

"Hey! Hello, Grandma Su." The young man is quite knowledgeable.

Su Guilan was so happy. Who doesn't like obedient children? "Okay, let's not just stand around chatting in the yard and come in quickly."

The worries that Luo Tao had in his heart were gone. He was worried that Shen Zhi would be as quiet as they were in Pingjiang.

The three of them sat down separately and talked for a while.

Shen Zhi opened the things he had brought so hard along the way, "Grandma Su, these are some local specialties from Pingjiang. I brought them specially to honor you..."

This gift is divided into several small bags in the big bag, and there are various gifts, such as water chestnuts that have just been released, Pingjiang’s unique candied fruit and snacks, Pingjiang candies, Suzhou embroidery and Song brocade, and a small bag of dried shrimp rice skin .

"Hey, why are you bringing so many things? My child, you're exhausted from the journey." Su Guilan has seen a lot, and wonders how much these things she rarely sees are worth?
He smirked and said, "I'm not tired at all when I think about seeing you."

"Hey! This kid is really good at talking. Does he have a partner?" Su Guilan now has a bad habit, that is, she wants to introduce someone to whomever she likes.

Shen Zhi's inherent thinking can't keep up with Su Guilan's jumping thinking.

With a shy face and a slightly wry smile, she answered honestly: "Grandma Su, I don't have a partner yet."

"Really? If you don't mind, one day I will introduce you to a big girl from our capital city. Let me tell you that this girl from the capital city is no worse than the girls from your place. She is fair-skinned, beautiful, tall, except for her personality. Apart from being carefree, there is nothing wrong with her." Su Guilan worked particularly hard on the big girls in Beijing, as if she was afraid that they would fall into her own hands.

Shen Zhi looked shy and embarrassed, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer this.

He sat awkwardly on the chair and smiled shyly.

"Ahem, let me tell you, don't be so shy when you meet a little girl, be bolder, be sweeter,..." Su Guilan refused to let go of this matter, and started bombarding the white field.

Shen Zhi really couldn't accept that Grandma Su was so enthusiastic towards him when they first met, so he asked Luo Tao for help with his eyes.

Luo Tao, who had been drinking tea and watching the show, smiled and said: "Mom, you are afraid that you will not be able to be a matchmaker today."

Luo Tao met the regretful look in his mother's eyes and continued: "I am a college student now that school is about to start, so how can I have time to fall in love?"

Today's college students should first state that they also fall in love on campus, but the school has express regulations that students are not allowed to fall in love. In mild cases, they will be recorded a fault, and in serious cases, they may be expelled.

In addition, current college students still have a considerable desire for knowledge, and most of them focus on learning.

As for the love that can make people lose their fighting power, no one will choose to try it themselves, but secretly learn knowledge through "Mei Jinping".

The presence of women will only delay the king's drawing of the sword.

"Hey! College student! Tell me, why didn't you tell me earlier that Xiao Zhang was a college student?" She said a few words to Luo Tao, and then said to Shen Zhi: "College student, that's terrible. Xiao Zhang, don't dislike Su Grandma is nagging,...you have to study hard, don’t be anxious about your partner, after you graduate, the girls will be lining up for us to choose."

"By the way, which school are you from?"

This old lady also likes to ask questions. Luo Tao thought it would be over after she said a few words, but he didn't expect her to ask this question.

It's really hard to say about this now, because his admission notice hasn't come out yet. Luo Tao dared to say that he was a college student, which was also the reason for his expectations for him. Also, Shen Zhi estimated that he could be admitted to college after finishing the exam.

As for whether he can get admitted to the capital, that's hard to say.

However, in order to come to the capital, he had to fight against all odds. He applied for all five universities in the capital, whether good or bad, and now left it to fate.

Shen Zhi couldn't lie or tell the lie, so she blushed and said, "Grandma Su, I..."

Luo Tao quickly picked it up, "Shenzhi is from Beijing University."

"Oh, that's great. Your master is a high school student, so you will be better than him in the future." Su Guilan admired family status, diplomas, and culture even more.

She has always respected those educated families and admired those scholars. This has never changed in her because of her improvement in status.

As for why she didn't encourage and persuade Luo Tao to take the college entrance examination, the first factor was the general environment of the times. In the early days of reform and opening up, people's thinking was still that workers were more popular than smelly Laojiu.

No matter how much she respected educated people, she could not help but consider her son's future life.

Another point is that the most important thing is that judging from Luo Tao's past results, the university has already rejected him.In addition, I haven't entered the school gate for four or five years. Instead of wasting time on something that has already seen results, it is better to work hard and earn a few dollars so that I can find a wife.

It would be bad if you kept saying this, which is shameless.

Although successful people since ancient times have not concealed this point, Luo Tao really didn't want anyone to make a fuss about it in the future.For example, Mr. Ma took the college entrance examination three times, and later it became an inspirational story. Little did he know that he was a lucky guy, lacking in strength but just lucky.

Not everyone has his luck.

There are only two results for not accepting fate. If he succeeds, the probability is 90.00%, and if he fails, the probability is [-]%. Those who fail are mostly not as good as ordinary people.

There are many people who refuse to admit defeat, and there are people everywhere who don’t have a clear understanding of themselves.

There are many geniuses, but few become geniuses through hard work.

"Mom, why are you talking about this when you have nothing to do?"

"Tell me about it, you don't often say that going to school is not the only way out, but it is a shortcut to something." Su Guilan was very unconcerned.

Since Luo Tao became a writer, she likes to remember what Luo Tao usually says that she thinks makes sense.

Luo Tao further impressed her, "But it is the shortest way to success."

"Yes, that's it." Su Guilan looked particularly happy when she heard the original words.

Seeing that she thought of this and wanted to say something else, Luo Tao quickly changed the subject, "By the way, Mom, where are the other people in the family?"

Su Guilan said: "Oh, Lin'er and Sister He took the children to the department store. They said they were buying a TV set. They should be back in a while."

I bought a TV set to put in Shen Zhi's room.

Now there are two color TVs in the house, one in the main hall of the north room, and another in Sister He’s room in the backyard.

As for Luo Tao and his wife, they don't have one in their bedroom. Neither of them likes to watch TV, so there's no use buying it.

Luo responded to his mother, "Oh."

He said to Shen Zhi: "Shen Zhi, let's go and see the accommodation prepared for you."

"Okay, teacher."

The room prepared for him is in the east wing of the east courtyard.

The decoration is very warm, with many southern flowers and plants specially placed.

In order to welcome Shenzhi's arrival in the evening, a table was specially set up in the Orchid Garden and Mr. Pan was specially invited. This was a kind of wordless acknowledgment that Shenzhi had entered the Zhang family's door.

Everyone had a great time together, and Luo Tao divided the Pingjiang specialty snacks that Shen Zhi had brought so hard from Jiangnan into three portions, and honored Mr. Pan, Mr. Jin, Lao Zhangtou, his father-in-law, and his mother-in-law.

After Shenzhi had a short rest for the day, Luo Tao and his wife took their two little ones with him to visit the most famous attractions in the capital.

But he didn't take him to the Palace Museum. Luo Tao naturally had his own plans as to why he didn't take him there.

He wanted to wait for Shenzhi's notice from Beijing University, so that he could show off.

It's interesting to think about it.

Since he couldn't go to the Forbidden City, Luo Tao took him to another place in the capital that was most attractive to cultural relics collectors.

The Houhai antique morning market just started to emerge this year.

Let me explain here. The morning market is mostly held between four and seven in the morning. The morning market was formed because of the emergence of small vendors selling vegetables. Because some people feel that selling vegetables all the time is not very exciting, so they sometimes bring food with them. Selling antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

Later, some people gradually only sold antiques, and a circle gradually formed.

The things bought and sold have changed, but time has not changed much.

Why do you close the stall at around seven o'clock? Because the people in the yamen go to work at eight o'clock.

As for the time period of the ghost market, it is after the early morning and before the morning market.

It was dark and the moon was hanging in the west. The master and the apprentice carried a bag and two flashlights and disappeared around the corner of the alley on their bicycles.

We arrived at the place soon, and by the moonlight, we could vaguely see the stalls on both sides of the road, (cough, isn’t this nonsense) the crowds didn’t reach the level of chaos.

When approaching the morning market, Luo Tao asked Shen Zhi, who didn't know the rules for the first time, to turn off the flashlight.

This rule came about because every time the yamen came to copy, everyone would shine a flashlight and shout: Stop, don't run.

They also put a lock on it for safety.

If Luo Tao and his two men had just shined a flashlight when they came and shouted something like that, they would have been frightened half of their lives.

"Hey! There are a lot of people today. Let's go." Luo Tao sighed and pushed the car forward.

He has been to this place several times and is very familiar with the layout of the stalls here. The exits at both ends are usually too conspicuous and easy to be copied, so they are all selling handicrafts.

If the location in the middle is good, there will be some good things for sale.

The two of them walked the cart for a while. When Shen Zhi saw that Luo Tao was just looking at it casually, with no intention of stopping at all, Shen Zhi couldn't help but asked, "Teacher, don't you want to take a look?"

"Don't worry, let's walk inside again."

Luo Tao has also developed a pair of fiery eyes. Even if he is an old guy, even with the faint moonlight, he can judge [-]% of things at a glance.

It was Shenzhi's first time visiting the morning market, and he was somewhat curious about this place.

Although he didn't ask Luo Tao again along the way and followed the cart honestly, his eyes were not honest and he looked around. With this virtue, the seller here knew that this was his first time here.

This is a big fat sheep for them to slaughter.

"Don't look around. This way, people will know your details at a glance." Luo Tao whispered to him the knowledge points that are never taught in books.

Shen Zhi is still a fool in the antique circle, so he has learned some appraisal methods and means, but he knows very little about the rules of the market opened up in the dark.

After Shen Zhi heard Luo Tao's warning, he immediately withdrew his scanning eyes and said, "Oh."

The master and apprentice pushed the cart forward for a while. Luo Tao's footsteps suddenly stopped, and his eyes were fixed on a piece of porcelain.

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