Rebirth of the small model of the Republic of China

Chapter 3

When he woke up, the whole room was pitch black.

Ye Chi realized later that he actually fell asleep?

It turned out that even if Ye Chi slept at home, he had to turn on the light in the room to fall asleep, otherwise he would feel his heart beating faster.

Over the past few days, I have slept very tiredly every day, intermittently, and it has only been slightly better in the past few days.

After moving his body, Ye Chi's mind was dizzy, and his body felt cold, but he felt hot all by himself. He touched his forehead, feeling a little hot.

Sure enough, I had a fever.

No wonder he fell asleep.

"Mr. Fu?" His voice was already a little hoarse. Alone in the darkness, Ye Chi's voice was trembling.

No one answered, and the rings on his hands had already been untied.

Feeling apprehensive, he got out of bed and walked to the door little by little.

Opening the door, the corridor was still lit, and rustling sounds came from downstairs.

Walking to the railing and looking down, Fu Lin was sitting on the sofa with his long legs draped casually, holding a red wine glass with one hand.

Ye Chi swallowed his saliva and moistened his throat. Just as he was about to apologize, the other party spoke first, "Tomorrow, Qiuyang will discuss salary with you."

Ye Chi was stunned for a moment, and immediately said happily: "Thank you! Today is my dereliction of duty, I'm sorry, I won't do this again in the future."

In fact, the big boss of the facial paralyzed artist who is not good at talking is actually just a good guy with a cold face and a kind heart?

When going down the stairs, Ye Chi also kept saying thank you.

Yechi's clothes were placed on the dark leather sofa.

Glancing at the clock, it was already 11:30 in the evening. At this time, foreign cars could not be called, but even if there were foreign cars, he would not take them.

——— Poor words.

I don't know if I can stay for a while?

When Ye Chi went downstairs, took back his clothes, went to the side to change, and turned to ask the other party.

What he saw made his breathing stop for a moment.

Under the white light, Fu Lin held the wine glass in his hand, raised his head and drank it little by little, his throat rolling.After drinking it all, a trace of red wine remained at the corner of his mouth.

Fu Lin is very white, and this red-white difference is particularly strong.

Then, under Ye Chi's watchful eyes, Fu Lin showed a little bit of white teeth, stuck out his tongue, and hooked the trace of wine into his mouth.

What Ye Chi said was suppressed on the spot.

The soles of the feet were cold, almost unable to stand, a chill came from the heart, the blood began to thicken, and the breathing became a little heavy.

"Mr. Fu...I..." Ye Chi couldn't say what he wanted to say.

Fu Lin put down his cup, as if he just noticed Ye Chi standing in front of him.He raised his eyes, his eyes lazy with a hint of pleasure.

Seeing Ye Chi, Fu Lin narrowed his eyes, and his emotions were fleeting.

This "wine" can no longer satisfy the taste buds.

Fu Lin pointed to the door with the finger that Fu Lin always used to order others.

"Go straight out and you will find Changyu Street."

Ye Chi: ...

This is what it means to send off guests.

Because of the fear in his heart, Ye Chi didn't even ask about the accommodation, and left directly.

·

Ye Chi ran home, and it was raining, but at least he borrowed an umbrella, but the rain was so fast that the umbrella was useless.

Fortunately, the way back only took him half an hour, and he met a guide, otherwise he would really get lost.

He doesn't know the way at all.

When I got home, it was all wet.

Opening the door, there was no heat in the room, and it was as cold as mud on the side of the road.

To be honest, when I lived in the basement in city b, it was never this cold.

————It is also the light of the heating.

But if he sleeps like this, he will die. He already caught a cold, but for the sake of his own safety, he still boiled water and took a hot bath.

After finally boiling water to take a bath, after taking a bath and making a mess, it was already two or three o'clock in the middle of the night.

 Finally, it was time to go to bed.

Ye Chi was already a little dazed.

Ye Chi predicted that he would definitely have a high fever, so in the early hours of the morning, in order to prevent it from happening, he first borrowed a thermos from the landlady.

Tomorrow will probably be spent with hot water———————Drink more hot water.

Because I slept at Fu Lin's house last night, I couldn't sleep at first, but after that it was too uncomfortable, and I fell into a drowsy state.She fell asleep in the second half of the night, but it was intermittent. Yechi would wake up whenever there was movement outside the door, and then fell asleep with her eyes closed in the heat wave.

Finally, he woke up.

The damp quilt seemed to be wet, Ye Chi curled up and did not dare to move, fearing that if he moved, he would lose the heat.

In fact, yesterday was more like a dream. After waking up, I felt very unreal.

Wearing it on Ye Chi's body is also like a dream. Becoming the big boss's painting model is like a dream within a dream, and it feels even more unreal.

"Mr. Ye, someone is looking for you." Apart from being stingy, the landlady is actually a warm-hearted person.

"Hey, who is it?" Ye Chi didn't want to remember, who would come to him?

"Master Ye San, I am Mr. Fu's secretary, Zhang Qiuyang." The voice came from outside the door along the cold wind.

secretary! ?Zhang Qiuyang! ?

He was a little dizzy from the fever, but when he heard Qian's voice, he immediately put on his coat and opened the door.

"You are..." Zhang Qiuyang was surprised. Although he knew that the third young master of the Ye family had broken ties with the Ye family, he would not be reduced to this point.

"Yesterday, it was raining and cold. It's not a problem. What's the matter?" Even though Ye Chi, who was already dizzy from the burn, stared at his eyes, incidentally, there were silver coins shining in his eyes.

Zhang Qiuyang almost laughed out loud. He has been a secretary for so many years, and he is still very accurate in judging people.

In the young master in front of him, the desire for silver dollars almost popped out of his beautiful eyeballs.

"We sign a contract, can we go in and talk?"

"Okay." Ye Chi turned sideways and let Zhang Qiuyang in.

Zhang Qiuyang wore glasses and looked gentle and delicate.

He looked around, is this young master of the Ye family really here?This environment is really not good.

"Please sit down." He was so cold that he couldn't even speak clearly when he was shaking.

Ye Chi found a coat from the luggage, put it on outside, wrapped like a piece of dough.

"That's right, I'm here to discuss salary with Young Master Ye."

Ye Chi nodded: "You can call me Ye Chi."

Secretary Zhang nodded: "I heard from my husband that you are free from Monday to Sunday."

"Yes."

Secretary Zhang nodded, lowered his head and thought for a while: "If you can be on call, I will add some more."

Of course Ye Chi had no objection: "No problem."

"The salary is set at 25 yuan. Do you think there is a problem?" The secretary has considered it. At present, the textile workers only earn 8-12 silver dollars a month, the workers are about 14-18 silver dollars, and the salary of elementary school teachers is only about 30. The price is already very high.

In Shangyanshang, they are businessmen, and they will neither let themselves suffer, nor let the boss lose face.

And as far as this job is concerned, the price is already very generous.

Ye Chi agreed without hesitation, and the other party was very conscientious.

"No problem at all."

"Okay, just look at the contract and sign in the last blank."

Ye Chi reached out to accept the contract, and there happened to be a little red mark from the buckle last night on the exposed wrist of the sleeve.Even Yechi himself saw it only now.

Ye Chi shrank his hands indiscriminately.

Ye Chi carefully read every word. Although he was already dizzy and the characters were still in traditional characters, he still endured a strong sense of discomfort and read the entire contract in order not to suffer.

In the end, he signed with his favorite wild grass, but in fact he was really weak.

"Okay, that's fine." Zhang Qiuyang also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that his boss liked Ye Chi very much, so he asked him to settle the contract early in the morning.

He felt more and more strange that the reputation of the third young master of the Ye family was really different from that of others.

&Sure enough, this person can't believe what he said.

When Zhang Qiuyang left, Ye Chi's face was blushing, and he looked extremely uncomfortable.But even so, Ye Chi still sent Zhang Qiuyang to the door.

"Secretary Zhang, go slowly, see you next time."

So Secretary Zhang didn't know that the string was plucked, and felt that the young master was too miserable, and he really couldn't bear it.

So under the influence of this emotion, Secretary Zhang accidentally did an unnecessary thing, went to the pharmacy to get the medicine, and sent it to this weak young master.

Ye Chi received the medicine, but at the moment he was already a little confused, the landlady saw that Ye Chi was really sick, so she decocted the medicine for him and persuaded him to drink it.

The landlady didn't like the third young master at first, but after getting along, she felt that the rumors outside were really unbelievable.

This Yechi is gentle and gentle to people, and has a very good temper and character, he is not as playful as rumored outside.

However, when Zhang Qiuyang went to pick up Fu Lin, it was a while late, a little behind the agreed time.

……

"The contract is finished?" Fu Lin sat in the back seat of the car, lowering his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yes, everything is done." Fu Lin nodded.

Secretary Zhang was a little nervous. It took him a while to get the medicine.Fu Lin is very disgusted that his subordinates don't follow his orders, and do extra things that don't matter.

Fu Lin raised his eyes, "Are you sick?"

Fu Lin smelled the medicine on Zhang Qiuyang's body.

Zhang Qiuyang's heart skipped a beat, and he thought he wouldn't be so clever, would he? "no……"

Zhang Qiuyang immediately told the whole story, and added fuel and jealousy, and doubled the story of Ye Chi's tragedy. It seemed that if he didn't help, Ye Chi would die on the spot in that small rental house.

Fu Lin stared at him without saying a word.

Zhang Qiuyang felt uneasy. He had stayed by Fu Lin's side for so long, and when Fu Lin didn't speak, he was a little nervous.

Zhang Qiuyang was Fu Lin's closest person, but he still couldn't guess what he was thinking.

After a while, Fu Lin raised his head and looked at Zhang Qiuyang from the rearview mirror: "Don't waste time, don't make an example."

"Yes!" Secretary Zhang pushed his glasses.

Fu Lin is a person with a strong desire to control.

·

Ye Chi finally got better. After taking the medicine, although the traditional Chinese medicine took effect slowly, the fever subsided a little the next day.

He just lay down for a day and a half, thanks to the landlady during this period.

In modern times, you can still order takeout, but in this era, there is no one to take care of you, and I am afraid that if you die in the room, no one will know.

Supporting his not yet fully healed body, he put on his coat and got out of bed to eat something.

He bought the noodles, boiled them in a pot, added some salt and cabbage, and ate casually like this.

After eating, he lay down again, until the third day, he was very agile.

However, he has already thought about it during this period of time. In this era, he can have flexible time without expensive transactions.

———— Shoeshine.

His Ye family is in Nancheng, so he is going to go to Beicheng to shine his shoes. If it is further away, fewer people will know him.

When he changed into a new outfit and showed up in Beicheng with his tin box containing the shoeshine tools.

No one noticed him at all.

Ye Chi tried his best to make himself look gray.

He bought a gray scarf to roll himself into glutinous rice balls, which also covered half of his face. He even bought a gray coat from a second-hand shop that looked old but was very warm and clean.

Nobody wears a coat to shine shoes.

Sitting on the little vest, he rubbed his hands, feeling a little nervous.He also just learned to shine shoes——from a shoemaker who the landlady knew well.

Before Ye Chi did this, at most he would polish his leather shoes with some shoe polish.

His small box is made of iron, and there are all kinds of brushes and shoe polish in it.A high chair is placed in front of the box for guests to sit down.

He got up early, hoping that the early bird would catch the worm.But let alone guests this early in the morning, not even a bird was seen.

Hopefully it will open today anyway.

It's just too cold.

Ye Chi was worried about getting frostbite, so he bought a brazier with a huge sum of money. The price of coal is still cheap these days. One silver dollar can buy a lot of charcoal, and he piled it in the aisle.

Just take a few for normal use.

Because the aisle can still be exposed to sunlight occasionally, it will not make the coal damp.

Worried that it was too cold outside, Ye Chi brought out a small brazier to warm his hands.In a few days, it will be deep winter, and I am afraid it will be even colder.

He has also inquired before that the common currency in this era is silver dollars, and silver dollars can be exchanged for about 200 copper dollars, but because the exchange rate is unstable, it sometimes fluctuates.

But the silver dollar is the currency with the most stable purchasing power in this era.

One copper dollar can buy almost one egg, and his shoe shine is priced at two copper dollars. In fact, after calculation, almost one copper dollar is equivalent to a modern one dollar.

It's just that the prices of things in this era fluctuate greatly, and the demand side is also somewhat different.

Generally speaking, housing prices are not high in this era, but materials are very expensive. Eggs are safe to eat because ordinary people can raise chickens and ducks.

But if you want to have a higher quality of life, 30 yuan a month is far from enough.

Although he is only working as a model for others for the time being, and also works part-time as a shoe shiner, but if he wants to live a better life, he still needs to find a way out.

After all, these days have passed, and there is nothing abnormal. It seems that he will live with this body for the rest of his life.

Fu Lin's salary is definitely enough for his daily expenses, so there is no need to worry about it.

Only Ye Chi has to pay back the money he owes.

After thinking about it, the first guest came to the door.

He has passed the skills of the uncle in the leather shoe store, and the shoe polish, shoe brush, soft cloth and small watering can are all high-quality goods.

In addition, he had already practiced his technique more proficiently, and the first guest held his brazier and was quite satisfied, so he readily paid the copper dollars.

"Little brother, the craftsmanship is good, are you just here?"

The guest was wearing a black coat and a black soft hat. He looked plain and looked like a businessman.

"Yes, the stall opened on the first day, and you happened to be the first customer." Ye Chi was wearing a big scarf, speaking in a low voice, like a white-core glutinous rice ball.

"Haha, your brazier is well placed, just enough to warm your hands." After chatting for a while, he looked at the pocket watch on his chest, "No more chatting, I'm rushing to work."

Rich man, that pocket watch is worth a fortune.

If there is one, there will be two. Although he came early, many bosses who are rushing to work or opening a store will really visit the new face when they see the new face.

In just one morning, he also wiped five pairs.In fact, most of the customers will have their own shoe shiner, so this business should be done slowly.

At noon, he bought an egg pancake at a nearby pancake stand, which tasted good and was filling.The most important thing is that it is oily.

After eating, he sucked his hand.

Then take out the small kettle and take a sip of the tea warmed by the brazier, which can be regarded as a sense of satisfaction.

When the stall opened in the afternoon, there were a few more customers, but there were not enough charcoal fires, so he took out two charcoal fires from the box and put them in the stove.

It was open until noon.

Fu Lin, who came out of the restaurant, was still accompanied by Secretary Zhang. Secretary Zhang was reporting something. Fu Lin was listening very seriously at first, but just listening, when he raised his eyes, he saw a figure.

His gaze stayed on the gray figure.

The sun was setting, and Ye Chi was going to close the stall, so he lowered his head to pack his things.

Just at this moment, a pair of shiny leather shoes appeared in his sight.

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