Just as Zhang Yichen expected, judging from Luo Zhen's expression when he made the call, it seemed that the communication was not going smoothly. In the end, he just started swearing at the person on the phone. It was probably his parents on the other end of the line.
"Damn it, there's no hope…" After hanging up the phone, Luo Zhen's eyes turned red. "He's in the hospital now, I don't know what the result is. Now they asked me to come over, saying they have something to ask me…!"
"Don't worry, your uncle is awesome , isn't he? He must be busy right now, maybe he can find someone who is better than me…" Zhang Yichen began to comfort Luo Zhen, "It's not a big deal, it's easy, easy…"
"Fuck…" Luo Zhen spat on the ground. "Damn it, she took the initiative to ask me to play, I didn't seduce her, why is she blaming me now…? It's as if I summoned the ghost… I still don't know what the hell that pen fairy is!"
"Alright, alright… hurry over there, maybe they've already found someone capable of doing this. Go over there and describe the situation to them, maybe it'll help…" Seeing Luo Zhen rushing out to get a taxi, Zhang Yicheng shook his head helplessly, "The Pen Fairy has risks, you have to be careful when playing this game…"
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A day passed in a flash, and before he knew it, it was already past the time to get off work. After finishing his last novel, Zhang Yichen was just about to take a nap to get through the last two bird language classes, when he heard the BP machine in his trouser pocket buzzing. He saw that the number was from his uncle Zhang Guoyi: Mr. Zhang, urgent matter, please call back.
"What's the emergency so late at night?" After looking at the message, Zhang Yicheng said hello to the classmate next to him, and took advantage of the time when the teacher turned back to write on the blackboard, he slipped out of the classroom from the back door with the agility of a special forces soldier, and ran straight to the public phone at the school gate. His movements were even more agile than those of the Ninja Turtles. To be honest, Zhang Yicheng never dared to neglect Zhang Guoyi's affairs. Not to mention the need for pocket money, the most important thing was that, just like Luo Zhen didn't dare to offend that nB uncle, he also hoped that after the college entrance examination, this old man with great power and eyes would come forward to take care of the "aftermath"…
"Oh? You returned the call so quickly? Did you skip classes again, kid?" On the phone, Zhang Guoyi seemed surprised by the speed of Zhang Yichen's return call.
"No, I took a leave of absence…" In fact, whether I took a leave of absence or not is as obvious as lice on a bald head.
"Oh! Oh!! You wronged my nephew, hahaha…" After so many years, Zhang Guoyi's careless habit has not changed, "By the way, Yicheng, your uncle has an important matter. The child of a friend of mine seems to have had some minor trouble. The hospital can't do anything. Your father and your uncle went to Yunnan and won't be back for a while. What do you do? Or… you come?"
"If I don't come, would you think of asking my mother to come?" Zhang Yichen laughed. He always had a joke with this stupid old man.
"Okay, wait at the school gate, I'll pick you up right away!" Zhang Guoyi was about to hang up the phone with a chuckle, but just as he was about to hang up, he seemed to remember something, "Hey… wait, let's make an appointment as soon as possible to solve this matter. It's best not to delay other people's children's classes. Let's solve it today, okay?"
"It depends!" Zhang Yicheng was quite impatient. "I'm not 100% sure. It depends on the specific situation. Besides… we have to go back to my house first. I have to get my stuff…"
"Hey! OK! Yicheng, if you can do a good job for me, I won't let you down later…!" From the tone of his voice, it was clear that Zhang Guoyi was bragging about something. Zhang Yicheng knew this. This dear old man of his was definitely the type of person who said "If you have something to say, please tell me" in the Spring Festival Gala. He had no other hobbies but to brag about himself and act like a big shot. In the past few years in high school, this dear old man had really caused him a lot of trouble in this regard. Relying on his relative who knew Taoism, he probably boasted to the sky…
About twenty minutes later, an Audi A6 turned from the intersection opposite the school and kept flashing its headlights at Zhang Yichen.
"Yicheng, this is what happened… I have a buddy, his child had something wrong, and I have a very close relationship with this guy, when we meet later, you can just call him second uncle… We were friends since we were young, by the way, do you know the Pen Fairy?" In the car, Zhang Guoyi was talking incoherently and suddenly uttered the word Pen Fairy, which surprised Zhang Yicheng.
"Pen Fairy?" Zhang Yichen frowned and thought, could this damn world really be so small?
"Yeah, don't you know the Pen Fairy?" Zhang Guoyi didn't notice Zhang Yichen's expression. He held the steering wheel with one hand and started to show the way to play the Pen Fairy with the other hand… "Two people use their hands to hook the pen… like this…"
"No need to explain this! I know!" Zhang Yicheng laughed, "That old man's child is a girl, right?"
"Oh… yes!" Zhang Guoyi was surprised, "Have you learned how to tell fortunes?"
"Your last name is Ou, right?" Zhang Yichen continued to ask.
"You can even figure this out?" Zhang Guoyi's eyes were as big as walnuts, "You're great, kid…"
"This world is really so small…" Zhang Yicheng was also convinced, thinking that maybe Luo Zhen's uncle was so awesome back then, but it was his uncle who asked him to find a school for Luo Zhen… It is said that with the Internet, the world has become a village. Now it seems that the network of relationships of these adults is definitely capable of turning the world into a household…
As Zhang Yichen expected, the best friend who grew up naked mentioned by Zhang Guoyi turned out to be Luo Zhen's uncle with the surname Ou, whose name was Ou Jinyang. According to Zhang Guoyi, the two knew each other before the special period. Ou Jinyang's father is Ou Huaxing, a teacher. He once taught Zhang Guoyi and was the only teacher in the school who was pretty good to Zhang Guoyi. Later, when the special period began, Ou Huaxing made a slip of the tongue during a lecture and called out the great leader's name. He was considered disrespectful to the leader and was then labeled a traitor, which implicated Ou Jinyang's entire family. One winter in the middle of the special period, all the glass in the Ou family was smashed in the middle of the night. At that time, Zhang Guoyi was in power because of the joint school revolutionary column, so he took people to beat up the people who smashed the glass and vented his anger on the Ou family. Since then, the two of them have been upgraded from ordinary friends to close friends. After the special period ended, the two lost contact for a while until they accidentally contacted each other two years ago. As for Ou Jinyang's nephew, Luo Zhen, who is also Zhang Yicheng's classmate, it seems that he really did not get into the key middle school because of Zhang Guoyi's relationship, because Zhang Guoyi had never heard of Luo Zhen at all. It seems that in addition to Zhang Guoyi, Ou Jinyang has other connections in the education field.
Honggang Garden is one of the early luxury houses in Tianjin. Although it is also a unit house, this unit house is definitely not the same as the unit houses that ordinary people live in. The whole community is full of five-story small Western-style buildings. Each unit has only eight households, but there are two elevators. This is definitely not the same as the traditional tower houses where two or three hundred households share two or three elevators. The elevator fee alone is not something that ordinary people can afford in a year. Ou Jinyang's family lives in this community, and it is a duplex house of more than 300 square meters. According to Zhang Guoyi, his family has no less than five or six high-end houses in the city, and the house in Honggang Garden is just the "main house" of the Ou family.
Because they were delayed for a while to pack up their stuff at home, it was almost ten o'clock when the uncle and nephew returned to the city. But the lights were on in the Ou family's house. When Zhang Yicheng and Zhang Guoyi entered the house, a group of adults were sitting in the living room, staring at each other, while Luo Zhen and his parents were not there.
"This is my eldest nephew!" Zhang Guoyi was not polite. He pulled a chair and sat down before the host allowed him to sit down.
"Oh…oh…" A middle-aged man with an oily face slowly stood up. It was hard to tell whether his expression was embarrassed or surprised. He kept looking at Zhang Yicheng's school uniform and asked, "What's your name…this…young gentleman?"
"What's the use of calling me sir? Just call me nephew!" Zhang Guoyi licked his big belly, looking like a chivalrous hero of Liangshan. "Yicheng, call me second uncle!" It seems that this uncle with oily skin is Luo Zhen's nB uncle Ou Jinyang.
"Second uncle!" Zhang Yichen bowed to Ou Jinyang.
"Student?" Next to Ou Jinyang, an "old lady" who was dressed with makeup and looked like the Thirteenth Sister of Temple Street and looked at the wrinkles on her face, she was at least forty years old. She suddenly said, as if she had noticed Zhang Yichen's school uniform, "You…you…" The "old lady" stood up and kept saying "you" for a long time without uttering a complete sentence, but from her expression, the three words "distrust" were almost written on her forehead with a carbon pen.
"Sit down!" Ou Jinyang's greasy face twitched violently, and he seemed a little embarrassed. He turned around and glared at the "old woman" next to him, then looked at Zhang Yichen and Zhang Guoyi with embarrassment, and opened his mouth twice but no words came out.
"What?" To be honest, Zhang Guoyi was a little embarrassed at this moment, frowning and revealing his gangster look, "What's wrong with the student!?"
"Oh… it's okay, it's okay…" Seeing that Zhang Guoyi was about to glare at her, the old lady softened, "I'm just saying, it's so late, and other people's children can't study, how unbearable…"
"Hey… this, there's nothing to be ashamed of…" Zhang Guoyi curled his lips, "My nephew is a good student, the top of the class, so he doesn't care about this for a while…"
To be honest, Zhang Yicheng knew that his old man had no other hobbies, he just liked to brag, but you are bragging too much, right? In the class, he can rank first in everything, but in this study, he can only be the last. Besides, it’s okay to brag to outsiders, but Uncle Ou’s nephew, Luo Zhenke, the second party involved in this incident, is his classmate. The last place in the grade is always held by the two of us brothers… But the saying "I don’t care about it for a while" is true. With my current study, it doesn’t make sense even if I care about it for a while…
"Yeah! That's what I said!" Ou Jinyang's flattery followed and patted Zhang Yicheng on the shoulder in a fake manner. "I said this kid is very good-looking and has a bright future. At first glance, he is a potential student of Tianda University…"
To be honest, Zhang Yicheng's hair stood on end after hearing these words, and hives appeared on his back. He really deserves to be the general manager of a group company. He can say such corny words so calmly. It is a loss to the country if such a person does not become the general manager…
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*Uncle: Father’s younger brother, called “Bo” by Tianjin people, pronounced “bai” (pronounced “bai”).
*Bu Luo Ren: Tianjin dialect, meaning "can't bear it" or "feel bad".
*Tianjin University and Nankai University: refers to Tianjin University and Nankai University, the two best universities in Tianjin.