Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 73
Translated by Serena Love
He Songbai touched the address on the IOU.
It is an old house in S City. The old red-brick house with round-arched doors, the style is mixed between traditional Chinese style and Western-style. It is exquisite and magnificent. The deep alley stretches straight to the end, and people can't see the inside.
He Songbai checked the house number before confirming it and knocked on the door.
After a long time, a chubby middle-aged woman got out of the painted door, and cursed with her hands on her hips, "Have a little bit of a brain. Knock on the door so early in the morning, what do you want!"
He Songbai asked in Mandarin, "I'm sorry, I want to find someone, is Zhu Housheng lives here?"
The middle-aged woman saw the tall and handsome young man in front of her, and she was full of energy. He apologized sincerely, and his honest appearance made her anger halved.
"The family with the surname Zhu has already moved away!"
He Songbai heard this, and he felt so disappointed. He asked, "Where has their family moved? I'm here to find relatives."
The woman wiped her greasy hands with her apron, "How do I know this!"
After she finished speaking, she closed the door with a bang, and the dark coffin-like door stood coldly before He Songbai's eyes.
He put away his disappointment and went to the restaurant to buy a basket of fried steamed buns for 50 cents.
He knocked door to door and asked people, and give a bun while asking.
After almost finishing two basket of fried buns, he finally came to the door of a unit called "Jianjian Textile Mill" with dark eyes. He asked the uncle who guarded the door about Zhu Housheng.
The uncle took a look at the young man's broad clothes, and saw that he was born handsome, he was only a worker, and he didn't dare to fool him. He said bluntly, "This man is no longer here! What... You ask where he is now? Just ask the old workers in the factory to find out..."
After several twists and turns, He Songbai found nothing. He was hungry can't bear it. He squatted on the street and ate a piece of dry cake. At this moment, the sky is dark and dark clouds are coming, and soon thunder and lightning flashed, and a pouring rain fell.
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He Songbai stood awkwardly under the eaves of a house, the rain falling like pillars and a puddle splashed and wet his pants. There is no news from the debtor, which makes He Songbai feel very depressed.
He loved the clothes made by his girlfriend very much, and he cherished his wet trousers and doesn't dare to go forward in the rain. He Songbai waited for an hour until the rain hadn't stopped, and finally ran back to the guest house under the heavy rain.
The waiter in the guest house disliked that he is covered with water and wet the floor he has just mopped. He Songbai speeded up his pace and ran upstairs. He ran into the girlfriend as soon as he reached the top of the stairs.
Zhao Lanxiang touched his wet arm and said distressedly, "It's such a heavy rain, why you didn't wait and run back?"
He Songbai wiped his face, bared his teeth and smiled, "It's okay, it's as if I took a bath."
"What kind of rain is this? I still take a cold shower in winter!"
Zhao Lanxiang pushed him into the bathroom and filled some hot water for him.
"Change your clothes after washing!"
He Songbai took a warm hot bath, and feels that every pore in his body is trembling with comfort, making him temporarily forget the frustration caused by not being able to collect debts.
After changing into clean clothes and going out, he saw the subject's bright eyes. She stared at him and asked, "Have you finished visiting old friends?"
He Songbai honestly admitted, "He is not found."
Zhao Lanxiang said sternly, "I have a way to help you find him. If you are willing to tell me why you are looking for this person, I will teach you how to find him."
He Songbai thought for a while, looked at her caring gaze, and told her truthfully.
"Grandma gave me an IOU and asked me to collect the debt."
He Songbai took out the IOU carefully placed in his pocket and showed it to Zhao Lanxiang.
Zhao Lanxiang was extremely surprised when she saw the numbers listed.
"It turns out that your family used to be so rich."
He Songbai smiled bitterly.
"Okay, don't worry, I will help you find this person."
Zhao Lanxiang said sternly, she had a series of information about the debtor.
"I have a friend who works in a newspaper office here, looking for publications." She took out a stack of food stamps in her pocket and said thoughtfully.
In the early morning of the next day, a notice about the size of a thumb was published somewhere in the city newspaper of S city.
"I found some food stamps and personal belongings on November 5, 1976, Mr. Zhu Housheng, please go to the newspaper office and contact me as soon as possible with his identity certificate. Address: xxxxx, Zhou Sheng."
After reading the news, He Songbai was a little bit dumbfounded. He rolled up the newspaper as if it has great importance.
"I don't know if it works."
Zhao Lanxiang lifted her chin, "You will see if it's useful."
People die for money and birds die for food. This truth has never changed. After seeing this food stamp, Zhu Housheng had to come to the newspaper office. The professional term is called "fishing law enforcement" by little Huzi. People who are greedy and love taking advantage are often brought down by his trick.
"No one can compare life with this family. They owe so much money to your grandmother, and still live freely. Don't their conscience be disturbed?" Zhao Lanxiang mocked.
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People want face and trees want bark. When people don't want face then they will be invincible in the world, and when trees don't want bark, they will die. She has always stayed away from this kind of people.
He Songbai said: "We haven't been in contact for so many years. In the past two to three decades, people will have something to do and can't think about paying back. You know the situation in my family. Grandma can't care about that much..."
He also faintly understands that if that person is still living well, he is probably deceiving him and his family is weak.
But seeing the girlfriend's sarcasm, He Songbai's dark eyes flashed with a scorching smile.
This method worked quickly, mainly because Zhao Lanxiang's friend in S City is very good. She really thought that the owner has lost a lot of important items, and she deliberately left the notice for a few days.
On the second and third days, three "Zhu Housheng" came to the newspaper to receive food stamps. He Songbai kept watching in the dark. Two of them were a child and a young person. Only one of them is a middle-aged person. on. He was dressed in a light gray tunic suit, neatly closed, with a mirror frame on his nose, which looked like a gentleman.
Zhu Housheng received the two pounds of food stamps he got from the accident, and thanked the staff of the newspaper indifferently, and left the newspaper with a lack of interest.
He walked all the way down the street, took the food stamps to the black market to buy two pounds of rice, and kicked off the beggars who were begging along the way.
He Songbai followed, all the way to Zhu Housheng's home, and then to his unit.
He walked around the deep streets and alleys where the chaotic poor people lived, and took out two yuans.
His eyes were fierce and gentle, and two extremely contradictory emotions flashed in his eyes. He attracted a few gangsters and said with a fierce expression, "After it's done, the money will go to you."
The gangster took his money, he took his IOU and went to Zhu Housheng's door to guard it.
He Songbai is hidden in the street, reading the newspaper while observing the movement.
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After finding out Zhu Housheng, He Songbai squatted in front of his house for several days.
Zhao Lanxiang is also waiting in the guest house for news from the man. In the past few days, they were rushing around to find someone. They really haven't visited S City.
Although she has been tired of visiting this place decades later, women's nature to love to shop is persisting no matter what era they are in. How could she wasted this precious opportunity to be in S City, which is a "shopping center". She took advantage that He Songbai is out to collect debts, and she went to the department store to buy things.
The department store has a dazzling array of things, both varieties and styles are more than a hundred times richer than those in the countryside. Zhao Lanxiang looked at the goods on the shelves with restraint, and occasionally asked about the price. This year, the salesperson has a higher eye and an extremely bad attitude.
But she couldn't put herself up in front of Zhao Lanxiang. The salesperson promoted, "This pearl cream is very skin-nourishing, and the face is white and beautiful after using it. Where can you find such a good thing out of town?"
"Look, comrade, this is a famous brand in S City."
The salesperson saw that Zhao Lanxiang was born with fair-skinned, dressed decently, and the texture of the leather shoes on her feet is also quite extraordinary. She must be financially capable, and regardless of other customers, she just stayed around her.
Zhao Lanxiang is very annoyed. She glanced at the salesperson, picked up the pearl ointment, sniffed it, and said, "It smells very sharp. Is it methylisothiazolinone? Imidazolidinyl urea?"
"Sorry, I'm a technician in the factory. This kind of thing will make your face rotten. Don't recommend this cream or that cream to me."
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Zhao Lanxiang knows that she has an uncle who works as a department store supervisor. After the policy has been slightly looser in the past two years, many state-owned factories have "matched up" with the salespersons of department stores in order to break the situation of losing money for years.
The salesperson recommended her fabrics and clothes, but Zhao Lanxiang shunned them one by one.
She said politely, "Comrade, I will warn you seriously, if you interfere with me, I will complain about you."
The salesperson choked, and she put on a night girl face and stopped talking.
Zhao Lanxiang happily picked up a lot of things, malted milk, a nutritional product for body conditioning, is much cheaper than the black market in Qinghe County, so she bought two cans. A "Goldenbird" watch, which is not as expensive as Longines, and you can get it for a hundred yuans; and a red-light brand radio.
After buying these items, she went straight to the post office and sent them back to the country as her friends in the name of sending items to relatives. When she went to the newspaper office, she borrowed her friend's identity certificate in advance. When she arrived at the post office, she calmly watched these "big pieces" put into wooden boxes one by one, and the postman hit the nails with a hammer to seal them.
When she bought so many things, she also completely emptied her belongings, so no errors were allowed.
A "Goldenbird" watch is sold for 108 yuans in S City, and if you get it in the country, it will range from 150 to 200. Longines is too expensive, and it may be difficult to buy for a while. She thought of buying a Longines too! But a small watch is much better for re-selling!
She wore the "Goldenbird" watch directly on her hand.
The plain watch makes the woman's pink-white arms look more slender and small. This is an elegant, round and heavy men's watch.
Zhao Lanxiang paid a postage of 80 cents and walked out of the post office comfortably.
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