Chapter 283 Master-Disciple Relationship
After seeing off his senior brother, Wang Deming accompanied his master Xia Xiwu and his family and slowly walked home from Qianmen Railway Station.

"I can't recognize this place anymore," Xia Xiwu sighed. "Xipi City Street and Gong'an Street (Hubu Street) have also been demolished. When I was young, Tiananmen Square was facing Zhonghua Gate - it was called Daqing Gate during the Qing Dynasty, and Daming Gate during the Ming Dynasty. There are Qianbu Gallery on both sides of the square, and there are houses on both sides symmetrically, with a total of 288 rooms. It was the office of the six ministries, and the back was turned into shops."

"There was also Qipan Street south of Zhonghua Gate, where there were many vendors at that time," Xia Xiwu fell into deep memories. "The Qianbu Corridor was later demolished, and lilac trees were planted on the two streets. Only the red imperial walls were left on both sides. The urn city of Zhengyang Gate was also demolished at that time, and you can go directly to the front gate tower from both sides of the tower."

"All kinds of student movements at that time would come here, including the December 9th Movement, the May 4th Movement, the anti-hunger movement, and the anti-civil war movement."

"Now the red imperial wall has been demolished, and Zuo'anmen and You'anmen have also been demolished. Chang'an Avenue is really spacious. Has the White Pagoda over there also been demolished? It can't be seen anymore."

The old man hunched his back slightly and talked incessantly all the way.

After being sent back to Baoyu Hutong, the old man wiped his face and washed his hands, then went into the house and lay down on the kang and fell asleep. After leaving the house, Sister-in-law Huizhen called Wang Deming to the yard and said softly: "Deming, I see that the old man is worried because Dinghuan was assigned to the northwest. Come and visit him more often when you have time."

Wang Deming turned his head to look towards the east room of the north house. The summer sun was too strong and the glass was reflecting, so he could only vaguely see the figure of his master lying on the kang. In the main room of the north house, his master's wife was still sitting at the eight-immortal table making dumplings with a lonely look on her face.

There is a custom in the north: eat dumplings when you get on the bus and noodles when you get off. It was hot in the summer and there was no refrigerator at home, so the meat and vegetables for the dumplings were bought by the mother and daughter at the vegetable market early in the morning. As time was tight, they only wrapped half of the dumplings so that their brother could eat hot dumplings before leaving.

The traditional Chinese concept is to raise children to provide for one's old age. My master has no children, so Wu Dinghuan is the one he chose to take care of him in his old age. But now he has been sent to the Northwest for two years, but who knows?
Wang Deming thought for a while. His master was indeed in a bad condition today. His master might not come back for a few years. He has been away from home for a long time. There are old and young people in the family, and his master's wife is pregnant.

Qin Huairu is also pregnant now, but the pregnancy is not obvious because she is still young. She definitely cannot do it alone.

"Sister-in-law, you and Dabao are living in the west room of the north wing now. I will clean up the west wing later, and Huairu and I will move in together. It's still necessary to have a man in the family. No matter whether he can play a role or not, it will make you feel more at ease psychologically."

"Deming, how can this be possible?" The sister-in-law disagreed. She held her belly with one hand, with a firm expression on her face. "You and Huairu don't have to come! I'm still here even if your brother isn't here. Even though I'm pregnant, I'm very efficient at work and can definitely take good care of my parents. When I'm in confinement, just ask Huairu to come over and help out occasionally."

"Sister-in-law, don't hold on at this time. Just follow my instructions. I am also Master's disciple, and I have a share in providing for Master and his wife in their old age."

"De Ming." The strength on Master's wife's face seemed to disappear all at once, and her eyes turned red again.

Wang Deming was absolutely first-rate at his work. He first carefully inspected his master's house, calculated the quantity of cement, bricks, tiles, etc. to be purchased, and then rode his bicycle to Dabei Kiln outside Chaoyangmen and asked someone to bring back a horse-drawn carriage.

Wang Deming worked late and left early, polishing the bricks to make them meet and laying the tiles in a butterfly pattern. He managed to renovate the two-courtyard house into a brand new one in just a few days.

This second courtyard is now divided into two house books. One book contains the 4 back houses in the first courtyard and the 3 west wing houses in the second courtyard, a total of 7 rooms, which are in the name of Senior Brother Wu Dinghuan and his wife; the remaining 5 north rooms and 3 east wing rooms, 8 rooms are still in the name of Master and his wife. This is to avoid exceeding the standard of no more than 13 rooms per household. If the standard is exceeded, it will be forced to rent out.

A week later, Wang Deming rode his bike with Qin Huairu and a roll of luggage and moved into Baoyu Hutong.

This side belongs to Dongsi Street, which is very close to Dongsi 2nd Street where Zhao Shouyan's family lives, just across Beixiao Street. On the other side, Nancang Hutong is where Duan Qirui's house used to be. The current Dongsi Street Office was originally the mansion of Yungu, the nd son of Emperor Kangxi, covering an area of ​​more than square meters.

The nine-bay hall was once used for state council meetings. There are three pools in front and two in the back surrounding the hall, and five small stone bridges. There are two-story Western-style brick and stone buildings on the east, west and north of the courtyard, and there is a quadrangle on each side of the east and west.

After moving to Baoyu Hutong, Wang Deming made a special trip to visit it. After that, his life became very regular: One, three, and five were Baoyu Hutong, and two, four, and six were Xiaojingchang. As for Sundays, he would either play mahjong in Yongkang Hutong, or go to Zhao Shouyan's house to chat, and occasionally go to No. 18 Qinlao Hutong.
As for the work in the steel rolling mill, it is unremarkable, including seeing patients, prescribing medicine, acupuncture and massage.

It’s just that the big-nosed guy that Diana mentioned before, who would come to the steel mill to provide technical guidance, has already arrived and will move into the expert building specially built for them after the National Day.

However, Wang Deming had never seen Diana in the steel rolling mill. Their meals were prepared by a special chef and delivered to the expert building. He would not meet her during his daily work in the workshop.

Until one day Diana came to the clinic with several big noses. There were also the workshop director and Director Yang around. One of the big noses had a distorted face and hugged his arms. He first said a lot of things at the door: "What's the matter with you? Diana, what's the matter with you? I don't know what to do, but I don't know what to do."

Diana pretended to translate to Wang Deming in the room, with a unique exotic style, commonly known as a big tongue: "Doctor Davarish, one of our comrades has his arm hit. Can you treat him?"

"Come in and have a look first." Wang Deming stood up and waited for the big noses to enter the room. The pungent smell on their bodies immediately hit his nose. The autumn in Beijing is particularly cool and comfortable, but the big noses are doing technical transformation guidance in the workshop every day. The temperature there is too high. After sweating, their body odor cannot be covered even by the perfume.
Except for Diana, her body odor problem had long been cured, and she has been drinking Siwu Tang beverage.

Wang Deming held his breath and waved at the injured big nose. After pinching it twice, he seemed to casually grab the big nose's wrist, pulled it down and shook it up, "It's done."

Diana immediately translated: "Александр, каквысейчасотноситеськсвоейруке?"

"Oh my God, this is incredible! My arm has completely recovered!" The injured big nose's eyes were as big as copper bells, waving his injured arm, "Diana, you are right!"

After Director Yang and the workshop director escorted the big-nosed people away, Diana fell a few steps behind and whispered to Wang Deming, "Come to Qinlao Hutong tonight. I have something important to discuss with you."

(End of this chapter)