"Brother, the teacher said that this table needs to be moved to the study room."
"It's a little heavy, come here and give me a hand."
"Oh, master, please rest now. How can I let you do such a thing as cleaning the table?"
"..."
In the new residence, the Sun brothers and the servant Liu Wu were busy working non-stop, but Zhou Hexuan had nothing to do.
Yes, Zhou Hexuan moved again, to a small western-style building facing the street in the French Concession.
The ground floor has long been rented out as a roadside store. Zhou Hexuan rented five rooms upstairs, with a kitchen, toilet and bathroom, and even a telephone in the room. The monthly rent is 90 silver dollars, plus water and electricity bills, and he also pays the rent.
I hired an old lady as a servant.
The monthly rent of 90 silver dollars is quite a lot. Nowadays, 1,000 yuan can buy a small courtyard house in Tianjin. It is not enough to pay Zhou Hexuan's rent for a year. He can only blame the house prices in the concession for being too expensive.
There are two main reasons why he is in a hurry to move:
First, as the president of "Ta Kung Pao", Zhou Hexuan must avoid suspicion and cannot always live in the young marshal's house. Otherwise, if this matter is exposed, people will say that "Ta Kung Pao" is Zhang Xueliang's mouthpiece.
Second, Zhang Xueliang's first wife Yu Fengzhi came from the northeast, and even his second wife Gu Ruiyu was kicked out of the house. Zhou Hexuan did not want to interfere with the young marshal's family affairs.
It was not only Yu Fengzhi who moved to Tianjin, but also the entire Zhang family.
Zhang Zuolin purchased eighteen villas in one go in Tianjin for his family's residence. At the same time, he bought the Shuncheng County Prince's Mansion in Peiping as his office residence.
The whole family moved to Beijing and Tianjin. It seems that Zhang Zuolin really does not intend to return to the Northeast. He wants to run the Zhili area for a long time. His intention is clearly revealed, that is, he is plotting against the whole of China and is not willing to stay in the three northeastern provinces and become a local emperor.
Later, Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese. For China, it is hard to say whether it was an advantage or a disadvantage. If he had not died, there would never have been a change of flag in Northeast China, and he would have been obsessed with entering the customs.
Looking at Marshal Zhang's development strategy over the years, it is that when he has the strength, he will enter the pass and fight for the world. If he is defeated, he will return to the northeast to lick his wounds and prepare to continue fighting endlessly! If someone kills outside the pass, Zhang Zuolin's hometown will not be protected.
He signed a treason contract to ask the Japanese for help, solved the problem and then regretted it.
To put it bluntly, he was a troublemaker, and a very powerful one at that. The Japanese were deceived by him over and over again, and finally they couldn't bear it anymore, so they deliberately killed Zhang Zuolin.
At this moment, the most unlucky ones were the old people and the young. Zhang Dashuai bought so many luxury houses at once and couldn't find any existing houses. So he targeted the former Qing Dynasty prince Baylor, and after a few greetings, the old people
The young man was so frightened that he quickly moved to make room.
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Zhou Hexuan's new residence.
Liu Wu, an old woman with an apron on her waist, brought the freshly cooked food to the table and suggested: "Master, why don't you buy a maid to take care of your daily life? I'm an old woman with rough hands and feet, and I can't do delicate work.
Son."
Although the bad habit of keeping slaves privately is strictly prohibited by law, it was not completely eliminated until the founding of New China. So Liu Wu said to "buy" a maid instead of "hire" a maid. Nowadays, wars are happening everywhere, and Chu Yupu is
In the Zhili area, taxes were imposed excessively, and people's lives were extremely difficult. It was very easy to buy a maid.
Of course, Zhou Hexuan could not turn back history. He said: "No need, just wash your clothes, cook the food, and clean the room. I will do the rest myself."
"Yes, sir!" Mrs. Liu Wu left the table after serving the rice and hid in the kitchen waiting to eat the leftovers.
These days, maids not only have a low status, but also receive very little wages.
Zhou Hexuan hired Liu Wu from an agency. Her monthly salary is only 2 yuan, which can buy about 40 kilograms of rice or 10 kilograms of pork. The only advantage is that she can eat leftovers with the host, so she has no expenses on weekdays.
, any money earned can be taken back to support the family.
"Sir, this place is nice and you can live comfortably!" Sun Yonghao came out of his room and ran to the kitchen to wait with a smile.
Of the five rooms Zhou Hexuan rented, one was his bedroom, one was a guest room, one was a study, one was a living room and dining room, and one was for the Sun brothers.
The Sun brothers are now equivalent to Zhou Hexuan's bodyguards and followers. They work in shifts every day. The one who is free goes to Li Jinglin's house to learn kung fu. Occasionally, Zhou Hexuan will spend money to send them to the shooting range to practice shooting.
The two brothers are extremely satisfied with their current life. They don't have to worry about food and clothing, they can earn money, and they still have time to learn martial arts and practice guns. It's like living in paradise.
Zhou Hexuan was sitting alone at the dinner table, feeling a little depressed. He walked to the kitchen and said, "Why are you all staying here? Come over and eat together!"
Mrs. Liu Wu quickly responded: "I don't dare to eat with the master."
Sun Yonghao also smiled and said: "Well, we can just eat the leftovers."
"Eat as you are told," Zhou Hexuan said speechlessly, "Also, don't call me Master from now on, please call me Sir."
The two of them came to the living room nervously, but they still didn't want to sit at the same table with Zhou Hexuan. Sun Yonghao put the dishes into the rice bowl, held the bowl and went back to the room to settle it himself. Liu Wu went to the kitchen again with the rice bowl and saw.
Zhou Hexuan's eyes were full of gratitude.
Is this the servility of Chinese people?
Zhou Hexuan was a little confused.
Although I finished my work early in the morning, the concept of dignity and inferiority that has existed for thousands of years is still engraved in the bones of Chinese people.
Take Sun Yonghao as an example. Last time Zhou Hexuan invited his brothers to a restaurant, they behaved very generously, eating big chunks of meat and drinking from big bowls. But now the brothers are taking Zhou Hexuan's salary and living in Zhou Hexuan's house. The relationship between the two parties has never been the same.
Friends become masters and servants, and there are certain rules that must be followed.
Love as much as you like!
Zhou Hexuan was too lazy to correct him and ate alone facing the empty table.
About evening, Zhou Hexuan took Sun Yonghao out and told Liu Wu: "Mother Liu, I won't be back for dinner at night. You can clean the room and then get off work."
"Okay, sir... ah no, sir, walk slowly!" Mrs. Liu Wu ran quickly to help open the door.
There is a banquet at the Lishunde Hotel tonight. Zhang Xueliang has invited prominent people throughout Tianjin. The purpose is to announce the establishment of the China Education Foundation and to ask these wealthy people to vomit some blood and donate money.
The Lishunde Hotel was founded in 1886. The Germans upgraded and renovated the mud house hotel. It had only three floors at first and was expanded to four floors two years ago. It is fully equipped with electric lights, telephones, fans and elevators.
In the late Qing Dynasty, many traitorous treaties were signed here. Sun Yat-sen, Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong, Cao Kun and many other important figures came to Tianjin and chose to stay in this hotel.
Zhou Hexuan took a rickshaw to the place quickly and took the elevator upstairs under the guidance of the waiter.
There were already many guests in the hall, and it was quite noisy. Not long after Zhou Hexuan entered, he saw Feng Yong waving to him: "Hexuan, come here quickly, I will introduce you to some friends!"
