Chapter 127 The storm caused by hairpin

On New Year's Eve the next day, Zhang Ke and his mother Liang Gezhen followed their uncle Zhang Zhifei and his family to their hometown in Dongshe to celebrate the Spring Festival.

This is what Zhang Zhixing firmly demanded. Zhang Zhixing stayed in the city and did not leave anyone at home, so he didn't have to worry about others coming to the door to give gifts.

Gu Jianping also took Tang Jing back to his hometown in Xintai. It seemed that Tang Xueqian was really good this time. At this time, the city could not transfer the car, so Zhang Ke asked Zhou Wenbin to drive Gu Jianping and Tang Jing back to Xintai, so that they would not suffer on the road.

Although my uncle Zhang Zhifei planned to settle his home in the city, he still planned to go back to Dongshe for the Spring Festival. Anyway, he has a car, so it is very convenient to go back and forth.

The ancestral house under Zhang Zhixing's name was raised by Zhang Zhiwei and Zhang Zhifei and several cousins ​​raised funds to renovate it, adding sanitary facilities, and the interior decoration was no worse than that of the houses in the city.

Uncle Zhang Zhiwei was surprised that Zhang Zhixing and his family of three returned to Dongshe to celebrate the Spring Festival. How could anyone be an official hide from gift-giving people these days?

Zhang Ke was very bored in his hometown in Dongshe. He just talked with Tang Jing on the phone, and it was very troublesome to talk with Xu Si on the phone.

Zhang Zhixing was on night shift in the city on New Year's Eve, and after work in the city on the first day of the New Year, he rushed to Dongshe at night and drove back to the city the next day. Zhou Fuming and Tang Xueqian went to the provincial capital together in the name of the city to greet the leaders of each province. He had to arrange the gifts.

Zhang Ke followed him back to the city on the second day of the lunar calendar, and also went to the provincial capital to greet Xu Xueping in the third day of the lunar calendar. Considering the relationship between the municipal party committee secretary Zhou Fuming, it was not convenient for Zhang Ke to take the ride in the city.

Zhang Zhixing drove Zhang Ke at the street corner, thinking that he must be entangled in the city today, so he asked Zhang Ke: "Did you come to the city for lunch?"

"I can't starve without you," Zhang Ke patted the earth-brown short windbreaker jacket and said with a smile, "Would you go back to Dongshe tonight?"

"I may stay in the city for night, so you can stay in the city guesthouse tonight."

"It depends on the situation. There will be different roads tomorrow. I will ask the Kumho Company to send a car to take me to the provincial capital."

Zhang Zhixing smiled, and no matter where his son would wander at night, he drove away.

It only took an hour to drive from Dongshe to the city. I got up early, and it was only seven o'clock in the morning. The fog on the street has not yet dissipated. People in the city got up late during the Spring Festival. The streets were deserted and there were no one, and firecrackers were piled up everywhere.

In 1994, the firing control of fireworks and firecrackers was not so strict.

For Zhang Ke, he still felt an unexplained stranger to the city. Perhaps he had become accustomed to the city fourteen years later. The newsstands on the street were not open, they did not have magnetic cards on their bodies, and they could not make public phones, so they walked along the street towards Shatin.

Zhang Ke did not rush to find Xu Si, and people were wandering around Shatin. The large area of ​​buildings in this area was built in the early years of the Republic of China, mixed with buildings with longer history. Standing in the distance and looking closer, these courtyard walls, roofs, porches, tiles, columns and relief decorations on the windows with completely different colors and shapes give people a feeling of being dazzling and beautiful, just like thousands of people, these old houses are also one face, without repetition or similarity.

Putting aside the exquisitely carved details, Shatian next to Qianmen Commercial Zone gives people an old and messy overall impression, and nearly 7,000 or 8,000 households are squeezed into less than two square kilometers. In addition to the rented population, there is almost a population of nearly 100,000.

The fog gradually dissipates, the light green sky becomes farther away, the breeze is clear and cold, and the sparse branches in the alleys also have sick leaves floating.

If I could clean up the place, it would be a very wrong place to live.

Although the city has gradually changed its thinking on urban construction planning, there are completely different opinions on whether to demolish or repair the old building complex in Shatian.

The key lies in the word money.

Zhang Ke himself made a preliminary estimate that it would take more than 3 billion yuan to repair and renovate all the old buildings in Shatian. This is Haizhou City’s three-year fiscal revenue. If this budget is really taken out, I am afraid that Tang Xueqian will be the first to give up the protective renovation plan.

All demolish and rebuild and develop commercial real estate, the city will be able to use commercial capital to complete the renovation of Shatin’s old city. This is a plan that saves trouble and achieves political achievements.

In the early 1990s, many cities in China gave up the protection of ancient buildings in the renovation of old cities. Another very important factor is the issue of municipal investment. In addition to municipal investment, it is difficult to introduce commercial capital to operate in the protection of ancient buildings. In the early 1990s, urban construction was short of money everywhere, and the tourism industry had not yet developed vigorously. It was impossible to take out one year or several years of fiscal revenue to protect ancient buildings.

Of course, delaying the problem until ten years can be solved. In addition to the development of the tourism industry, the increased awareness of ancient city protection, and the upper hand of urban marketing, sufficient fiscal revenue seems more like the most critical factor.

But which mayor would tolerate Shatin sticking on Haizhou's territory like a piece of dog skin plaster for ten years? What's more, it's right next to the front door where every inch of land is worth every inch.

Tang Xueqian could not be so noble and self-confessed.

Shugang River is the first step, and Shatin is the second step. If the city cannot afford money, it can only be handed over to the developer to demolish and develop commercial real estate. It may symbolically preserve the Qingyang Taoist Temple, the Thousand-year-old Zhangbian Garden, Danjingtai and other buildings, but it is meaningless.

Zhang Ke walked to Danjing Lane and met Xu Hongbo. Xu Hongbo was wearing bloomers and a shirt on his upper body. His clothes were very thin. Zhang Ke felt trembling when he saw it.

"Where is Teacher Xu getting up early to exercise?" Zhang Ke greeted.

"Why are you wandering around Shatin so early?" Xu Hongbo was sweating while running. Unexpectedly, he met Zhang Ke in Shatin early in the second day of the Chinese New Year.

"I'm back to Dongshe for the New Year. I rushed to the city with my dad in the morning and was about to go to Teacher Xu's house to pay New Year's greetings."

"You don't think of me so early. Besides, my family is there, why are you going here?" Xu Hongbo exposed Zhang Ke's lie.

Zhang Ke smiled helplessly and said, "When I arrived at Shatin, I would look at these old buildings and be foolish. If I hadn't met Teacher Xu, I could have continued to move forward."

"Haha," Xu Hongbo smiled, but accepted Zhang Ke's explanation. Now the teenagers only think that Shatian is old and messy, and no one will be impressed. Perhaps only those who are obsessed with architecture or art and photography will notice the beauty under the old and messy, "I'll go back and change my clothes first, you go to the chess institute to wait for me, and I'll invite you to have tea."

Seeing that Xu Hongbo had something to say, Zhang Ke nodded and agreed, and did not mention whether to pay New Year's greetings or not. He continued walking in Danjing Lane, and followed an alley that stretched in a slanted to the door of Xu Si's house.

I heard that there was no movement in the yard, thinking that maybe I hadn't gotten up, so it was inconvenient to find Xu Si, so I turned around and walked towards the Taoist temple. There were many dog-raising families in this alley. Zhang Ke walked over and the barking of dogs intertwined, which made Zhang Ke tremble and regretted not going around from outside.

When I walked to the entrance of the alley, I entered Chen Feirong's house. The Taoist temple was behind Chen Feirong's house and saw Xu Si leaning out from the gate of Chen Feirong's house.

"It's you?" Xu Si smiled in surprise, "It's just the second day of the New Year. Haven't you returned to your hometown in Dongshe to celebrate the Spring Festival?"

"Why did anyone guess it was my voice?" Zhang Ke asked strangely, "I didn't hum a song, who could guess I came?"

Xu Si laughed and said, "When hearing the dog barking in the alley, Xu Wei must be a little villain who doesn't do good things often. When he comes out, he's really you."

"I do some good things occasionally, but you just slander me like that?" Zhang Ke smiled and said, "I took my dad's car back to the city in the morning. Teacher Xu asked me to come here to wait for him. What did you come to Chen Feirong's house early in the morning to do?"

"Chen Feirong's family will treat her next year. We will prepare today. Let's come and help."

Zhang Ke leaned his head and looked in. Xu Wei and Chen Feirong were looking here with badminton rackets.

Xu Wei laughed and said, "I'm talking about it. The dogs in the alley are only evil to the little villains."

Xu Si's mother and Liu Fen sat in the corridor. At this time, she stood up and refused to let Xu Wei talk nonsense. She asked Zhang Ke to go in.

Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Uncle Chen invited me to come for dinner tomorrow. I'm rushing to the provincial capital tomorrow, so I'm here to pay New Year's greetings today." He bowed and asked Xu Si again, "Where is Uncle Xu and Uncle Chen?"

"I went to the vegetable market to buy tomorrow's vegetables."

"Today is the second year of the Chinese New Year, will there be someone in the vegetable market?" Zhang Ke asked strangely.

"Everyone is like your eldest master. If the factory starts early, it will start work tomorrow." Xu Wei sarcastically said, "The paper mills do not have annual leave, and my mother still works on the first day of the Lunar New Year."

Unless the paper mill is under maintenance or mechanical failure, the production line will not stop due to annual leave. Xu Si's mother can take a few days off in the warehouse, which is relatively easy.

Zhang Ke touched his head and was unwise to argue with Xu Wei. He asked Chen Feirong with a smile: "Are you playing badminton?"

Chen Feirong didn't say anything. Xu Wei glanced at him and handed the badminton in front of him: "Is this a tennis racket? I'm so tired and sweaty, you can play."

Xu Wei stuffed the racket into Zhang Ke's hand, and Chen Feirong also stuffed the racket into Xu Si's hand: "I'm tired too, Sister Xu Si, please come and fight."

Chen Feirong was still wearing a coat, with a fair face and no sweat on her forehead. She knew she had just finished the game. Xu Si was blushing, and the sweat on her forehead was not dry yet. Seeing that Chen Feirong was unwilling to play with her, and she didn't want Xu Si to be tired, Zhang Ke shrugged and walked to the corridor to put the racket on the small table, saying, "I like to play hard. Once I use hard, the ball will fly to the roof." He turned to Xu Si and said, "I'll go to the chess academy to wait for Teacher Xu."

Zhang Ke walked out of Chen Feirong's yard, Xu Si caught up from behind and asked him, "Did you think your relationship is getting better?"

"When is the best time?" Zhang Ke asked strangely, suddenly remembering the gifts he brought from Hong Kong a few years ago. Xu Sidu had seen them one by one. She had also seen the hairpin with broken diamonds. At this time, just put it on Chen Feirong's head, "Are you talking about the hairpin on her head?"

"Yes, what do you think I said?"

"I want to give her a gift, and she will probably be embarrassed. Do I dare?" Zhang Ke smiled and said, "You know that Tang Jing asked her to occupy a place to set up a street stall... I was so heartbroken that I was so sad that I brought back such a gift. This hairpin is expensive."

Xu Si smiled with a pair of beautiful eyes, and raised Zhang Ke: "Your girlfriend is quite generous. She doesn't know that you have bad thoughts about Fei Rong, right?"

Zhang Ke turned his head and looked at Xu Siyan's beautiful eyes, with a slightly bent corner of his mouth, showing a frivolous and warm smile, and said, "I will think about you."

Looking at the faint smile on Zhang Ke's face, and the deep black eyes seemed to tell him that this was not a joke. Xu Si leaned back slightly. Although Zhang Ke did not move, he felt his breathing closer. His warm nose and nose were almost pounced on his face. He felt his face getting a little hot, and he pursed his lips and scolded him: "What nonsense!" But his eyes became shy as a girl, and he reached out and pushed him out, "You go to find Teacher Xu, I won't go with you anymore, so as not to listen to you crazy words."

Seeing Xu Si hiding in the yard, Zhang Ke had a warm smile on his lips. The Spring Festival in the city is somewhat boring, mostly only children, and neighbors don’t have much contact. Some students from the chess academy gathered in the Taoist temple early in the morning. Because Haizhou has a custom of gambling during the Spring Festival, he gathered two tables to play cards, and a few teenagers were gambling.

When Zhang Ke came to Taoist temple, he was so nonsense. He either played chess directly with Xu Hongbo. The students who recognized Zhang Ke in the chess school respected him. When he saw him coming in, several people stood up to let him participate in the card game.

People who are dedicated to learning Go are all good at mental arithmetics, and Zhang Ke was not sure how to win the money from the students of the chess school. He smiled and said that he was waiting for Teacher Xu to come. When the students of the chess school heard that Xu Hongbo was about to come over later, they were still a little scared. They immediately cleaned up the card game and made an appointment to go to XXX's house to fight again. In a blink of an eye, they left all in one go.

Xu Hongbo came over and felt strange. He stepped into the yard and said, "Why are these children here to play in the chess yard today? Why did they leave so early?"

Zhang Ke smiled but didn't answer and asked Xu Hongbo: "Come here, what's the matter with Teacher Xu?"

Xu Hongbo took the cooking utensils to boil water, but said, "It would be great if Xu Haishan's girl can come to cook tea for us."

Zhang Ke smiled, Xu Hongbo was quite tasty and asked Xu Si and Xu Wei to serve tea, but he didn't catch up with the life of the old princes. He thought it was beautiful, and he didn't believe that Xu Hongbo could hide any good tea in the chess yard, and he wouldn't let all the chess-study boys steal all of them? Seeing Xu Hongbo putting out a whole set of tea sets, he couldn't appreciate purple clay utensils. This kind of thing was everywhere on the streets of Yixing, and it might be that it was still valuable in the early 1990s.

Since Xu Hongbo was holding back, Zhang Ke only came over to drink tea. As soon as the sun came out, there was no cold air in the yard. Zhang Ke sat in the yard of Taoist temple. After hearing Xu Hongbo talk about the knowledge of drinking tea for the whole morning, Zhang Ke also filled a lot of tea. As soon as noon approached, Chen Shan came over to invite him and Xu Hongbo to drink. Xu Hongbo was trying to go, and Zhang Ke rushed to say, "I'm full of tea, learn a game of chess with Teacher Xu at noon and eat less."

Chen Shan heard Xu Si say that Zhang Ke would rush to the provincial capital tomorrow and could not invite him to dinner tomorrow. Today, he would treat him to dinner while others were in Shatian. He would help him to talk without saying anything about the comfort money before the New Year. After the New Year, Liu Fen would go to the paper mill to work, and he would also ask him to help him speak again. Chen Shan heard Zhang Ke refuse to go to his house to have a meal cleanly, and he looked embarrassed, and he stood there and didn't know what to say.

"Can chess be full? A young man is kind-hearted and I'm not hungry, so I'll play a game of chess with you." Xu Hongbo got up and went to play chess.

"It's not too late to wait until you play the chess and then start the game." Chen Shan walked out of the Taoist temple with a smile, without any special impatientness on his face.

"The Chen Shan family will treat you tomorrow, and the banquet will be held today for you." Xu Hongbo brought chess and squinted his eyes at Zhang Ke.

Zhang Ke said calmly: "You poured my tea for the whole morning and didn't say anything, otherwise I would have left long ago and I had no plans to stay for lunch. If you don't play chess, I'll go back first."

Xu Hongbo quickly put down the chessboard, but he didn't say anything, so he couldn't let Zhang Ke leave. Zhang Ke just made three consecutive stars, and Xu Si pushed the yard gate in, grabbed the chess piece from Zhang Ke and threw it into the chess box, and said, "Everyone is waiting for you to have a meal, so why are you playing chess? Let's put it here first and wait until lunch is over."

Drinking tea makes you hungry. After drinking tea for a whole morning, your stomach is empty after peeing. Xu Hongbo smiled and said, "I can't play chess, I have to go and drink." After a while, the man got up first and walked out.

Holding Xu Si's hand, Zhang Ke saw that she was a little anxious and asked her: "What's wrong?"

"Feirong told her mother to cry, you are still hiding here to play chess. Do you think you have a conscience?" Xu Si glared at him with a angrily, took out something from her pocket, and spread it in front of Zhang Ke. The cat-shaped hairpin inlaid that Tang Jing gave Chen Feirong was stuck in half. "Zhou Fu came over and said that this hairpin was expensive and worth several thousand. Feirong said it was given by a female classmate, and no one believed it. She threw it on the ground in a hurry and broke it. Aunt Fen asked her to come and invite you to dinner. She didn't want it. Uncle Chen came over to invite you, but you were pretending. As soon as Uncle Chen went back, Aunt Fen said a few more words to her and started crying..."

Zhang Ke picked up the hairpin and looked at it, smacked his lips, and said, "The inlaying technique is quite good. The hairpin has fallen into two pieces, and there is no broken diamond. Why did Zhou Fu come here?"

"You're not asking him to come and accompany you. You're a big shot now..." Seeing Zhang Ke's evil smile on his lips, Xu Si said angrily, "You, why do you say hello? You can still laugh?"

Zhang Ke held Xu Si's palm in his back hand, clasped his fingers on her palm, feeling very warm. He squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "What did I do wrong?"

"You don't understand the girl's thoughts?" Xu Siheng glanced at him, saw him showing innocent eyes, bit his lower lip and said hatefully, "You still pretend not to understand!"

Zhang Ke shook his head and sighed, saying, "A little girl of sixteen or seventeen years old is too sensitive, so it's better for Sister Xu Si. I'll send this hairpin back to me, so don't let others think I gave her?"

"Speaking of others, how old are you?" Sometimes he is willing to hold his hand. When he hears his age, Xu Si pulls his hand back, and feels a little sad. Seeing Zhang Ke put the hairpin that was broken into two bents into his hand, he asks him, "What should I do if you leave it to me?"

The hairpin was given by Tang Jing, and Xu Si could not help Chen Feirong explain it. Even if she explained, her parents didn't believe it. Liu Fen seemed to be more willing to believe it was given by Zhang Ke. When Zhou Fu was joking, Liu Fen was quite proud. When he saw Chen Feirong throwing the hairpin into two, he became annoyed and scolded Chen Feirong.

Zhang Ke thought for a while and said, "I'd better find another place to have lunch. This matter is hard to explain. I'm so uncomfortable to keep an eye on everyone."

"You have to pat your butt and leave. What should I do with Chen Feirong?" Xu Si pushed him, "Be careful that Xu Wei has been looking for your thorn."

Zhang Ke smiled helplessly, stood up and pushed Xu Si's shoulder forward: "Okay, okay, won't you just have a meal? Can you still slaughter me for a drink?"

The banquet was placed in the wine room on the east side. Zhang Ke and Xu Sixian went into the yard. They saw Zhou Fu squatting under the eaves of the corridor and smoking. They smiled and said, "For the New Year, Director Zhou came here to have a free meal. Can't he hurry up tomorrow?"

Zhou Fu couldn't explain that Chen Shan called him to come in specially, and smiled embarrassedly, saying, "I will be on duty in the factory tomorrow, so I can't miss this wine."

Chen Shan called everyone to the winery. Chen Feirong went out of the inner room, and the tears on her cheeks were not dry. Chuchu was pitiful and stared at Zhang Ke and asked, "Tell me to my parents, who gave me the hairpin?"

Zhang Ke didn't expect Chen Feirong to be so wronged, and she was quite unbearable to be embarrassed. She took two hairpins from Xu Si: "You said this?" Seeing everyone looking at this, she smiled, "My cousin bought street stall goods from the night market, I don't know how much it is worth. I took a few books from you, and my cousin was playing with the stalls. Seeing that you were troubled, you were a little bit disgusted, so you didn't care about it," she turned around and threw the two hairpins across the courtyard wall. Only two subtle sounds of water were heard, and the hairpins filled with broken diamonds were thrown into Shugang River to the east. Zhang Ke clapped his hands, "How much is it worth? Okay, let's have dinner, I'm hungry."
Chapter completed!