Novel series: "One Hundred Years of Torrent" (Forty-two)

Poetry:

The water rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves hold out the heroes. Ordinary people look at the empty eyes. The cold moon is high, who is sad to fall yinghong?

The pawn peddler is on the road, accustomed to drinking cold snow and cold wind. The kiss and the bones are no longer met, and how many things are bitter are difficult to say.

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Part I: The First Twenty Years

Chapter Forty-Two

Wang Datuo, that is, Wang Baoyuan's two sons, were originally ready to go back on the same day, but Lü Shi said that he would not let go of anything, and the result was three consecutive days.

Several children in the village also came to visit Wang Datuo, and even Yang Bolin made an exception and invited Wang Datuo's two families to come to his home as a guest. For three days, Lü Shi seemed to have held back the words of three lifetimes, and all day long he talked endlessly with Wang Datuo, and from time to time he cried for a while and laughed for a while, anyway, he was almost out of shape. It was not until three days later that he reluctantly sent him to the village to say goodbye, and kept telling him to come back and turn around from time to time.

Wang Datuo's return also evoked Peach Blossom's infinite thoughts about her father.

Although I have thought about it from time to time before, and I have asked people four or five times, but there is always no definite news, plus the trivial chores at home have been continuous over the years, so every time I have put it all down halfway. But this time Wang Datuo came back, but her thoughts about her father seemed to be missing something. However, he asked Wang Maocai to inquire three times and came back to say that there was still no landing, and the fourth time he insisted that wang Maocai himself had to go over and inquire, and he stayed there for three days. This time there was finally a letter of approval, but it was still bad news: it turned out that the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Qing Army Boxers were fighting in Langfang that year, and just when a shell fell on her uncle's house, the whole family, including her father, was killed by six people at once, leaving only her five-year-old little cousin who now has no one to know where he went, whether he is dead or alive. After receiving such a letter of approval, Peach Blossom Tea and Rice cried and cried bitterly for three days before calculating this mind.

Without a minimum guarantee for the country's safety, what sorrow can be regarded as the death or death of the people? Everything is left to fate, anyway, since ancient times, the people are just uncaring ants, and no amount of sorrow is pity.

The countryside in winter is idle, the work in the farmland has basically stopped, and there is no other livelihood in the village today, so if you play a little, you will gamble money and drink, and the old and the old can only be squatting or sitting around the street every day, while enjoying the warm winter sun, while playing with each other haha chat gossip to pass the time.

On this day, at breakfast, as usual, there were five or six villagers gathered there to chat about idle days, and Wang Maocai was also bored today, so he led Qiu Shi to join in.

Since Li Pickpocket's legs were discounted by foreign soldiers, whether it was spring, summer, autumn or winter, he was a standing member of this gang, and since the decline of this dock village, he had no place to go, naturally this is also his favorite place to mix, and the other people are basically idle people.

Wang Maocai led Qiu Shigang to sit down less than a bag of cigarettes, and Li Xilai also stepped over with pearls.

Since the incident of beating Li Xifeng came out, both Li Xilai and Huang Shi felt as if they were inferior to others, and whenever any place was quietly standing behind people, today is naturally no exception.

Wang Maocai looked at the grandfather and son who did not have a complete dress on their bodies, and stared at them all over the patches on the left and the right, and the cotton coat of the small pearl even exposed a dirty cotton flower, And Wang Maocai's heart was full of indescribable bitterness. So he reached out and pulled the little pearl to him, brushed her hair with infinite pity, and then took a piece of candy from his pocket and handed it to her.

And the little pearl seems to be infected by Huang and Li Xilai, not at all as innocent and lively as other children of the same age, and has never played in front of people, and has never smiled or spoken with anyone. Timidly, she took the candy from Wang Maocai's hand and immediately turned around and returned to Li Xilai's side. Wang Maocai looked at the cowardly look of the little pearl, and couldn't help but frown and shake his head, sighing without saying any words.

Seeing this situation, he opened his mouth and said as usual, "Alas, a child with such a small number of children has no father or mother." ”

Since Li Pickpocket was beaten by foreign soldiers, it seems that his temperament has also been completely reversed. Now that he had heard the words of his mouth wide open, he was very dissatisfied and immediately took up the stubble and said, "At any time, you must show that you can be patient, and you are not allowed to say a word in front of people." Which pot does not open which pot, you really are. ”

And this big mouth seems to have changed its temperament today, and after listening to Li Peel's words, he immediately felt that he had said the wrong thing, and he twisted his head and stopped speaking.

They chatted over here on the stalls of idle days, and slowly stepped over an old man in rags from outside the village.

Look at this old man, although he is ragged, his face is very rosy, his snow-white silver hair is scattered behind his head, and a white silver whisker hangs straight to his chest. In his right hand he carried a withered and scaly branch, on his left arm was a worn-out basket, and behind him was a tattered roll. Although the dress is a little worn, the old man also gives people a very fairy wind Dao bone-like feeling.

The old man went straight to them and said tremblingly, "A few masters, poor poor little old man, just chew it casually." ”

Looking at the old man's pitiful look, Wang Maocai was very unbearable in his heart, so he turned back to Qiu Shi and said, "Go home and ask your brother to send a nest and a bowl of water." Qiu Shi listened and staggered back to the left and right.

Watching Wang Qiushi walk into the house safely, Wang Maocai turned around and asked, "Old man, where did you come from?" ”

After Wang Maocai finished asking, the old man said with infinite sorrow and half tears, "Oh, it is from Fengtian." Hi, can't mention it. The village was completely destroyed, and the three old and four young people in the village were dying. The old Maozi and the Orientals fought without heaven and earth, and they really couldn't survive, so there was no way to run out. But before fengtian could go, my poor daughter-in-law let her beard be cut off, and the child did not want to climb the train track. My poor son also beat the beard to death. The old partner will not be able to go to Tangshan, and will leave in a few days. The ten-year-old girl in Tianjin also let people buy it, and the rest of me will be wherever I go. ”

When Wang Maocai heard that something was wrong, he immediately asked, "How many days have you been out?" ”

"Hey, I guess it's been three or four years, and I can't remember it anyway."

While talking, Chun Lei had already taken a bowl of water and walked over to Wang Maocai, who turned around and handed it to the old man. The old man kept thanking Wang Maocai.

Looking at the old man's pitiful appearance, Li Pickpocket stroked his stump leg while saying fiercely: "Hey, you can't complain about anything, you can only complain about this unfortunate court." A good country let an old lady take charge and see what the people have been tossed into. However, thank God, the old ladies are finally gone, or they don't know when they are going to be tossed. ”

After Li Pickpocket finished speaking, he opened his mouth and immediately said incomprehensibly: "You say, the old ladies don't know what kind of evil they are committing, and if they want to toss it like this, doesn't she understand at all that if she continues to toss it, it will bring disaster to the people?" If the people are all finished, then will this court have no foundation? How could she not even make sense of this? And those senior officials who were in charge of the dynasty didn't even have a clear eye, how could she toss this Great Qing into such a way? ”

Hearing this, the old man turned back to them while nibbling on the nest and said, "Hey, you are all in The Guannei, you don't know much about this great Qing ancestor, and you certainly won't understand why the Lafayette is so tossed, this is the number of deaths given by their ancestors." ”

As soon as he heard this, the interest of opening his mouth immediately rose again: "Hey, then you always tell us in detail, how is it that their ancestors gave the number of deaths?" ”

The old man took a sip of water, cleared his throat and said slowly, "This Great Qing, originally it did not belong to the family of ai Xinjue Luo, but belonged to the Yehenara family." In the early years, the Aisin Kyora family was for the Yehenara family to defend the state, but then their family slowly grew, and fought with the Yehenara family for three days and three nights, and finally defeated the Yehenara family completely. Nurhaci was afraid that the Yehenara family would turn around and retaliate, so he ordered the Yehenara family to be exterminated by the Nine Tribes. And the leader of the Yehenara family swore to heaven before his death: As long as there is still one woman left in the Yehenara family, it will also destroy the foundation of his state. Didn't this Lafayette have the surname Yehenara, and this is what he came to complain about on behalf of his ancestors? Do several grandfathers think that Lafayette is gone? Not only that, but isn't this Empress Longyu the niece of Lafayette at the moment, she is also surnamed Yehenara, and they are willing to give up when they are about to destroy this Great Qing. ”

After listening to these things, he seemed to understand everything, and patted his thigh: "I will just say, how can the imperial court be so evil, everything is uneasy and common sense, and it is such a reason for making trouble for half a day." But this old lady is also dark enough, she and the royal bull, but what is the obstacle to the people, do you see that this tossing the people is still a world? ”

The old man heard this, turned his head and said slowly, "This master, I see that you don't understand." She wants to toss the foundation of this state, and not bring disaster to the bottom of the world, can it be called a toss? ”

After listening with her mouth wide open, she said with hatred: "Grandmother, she wants to toss the foundation of the state, but she has to bring the people of this world with her. We fucking mothers are also unlucky, how can we get into the hands of these old ladies! ”

As soon as the voice of the open mouth fell, Li Pickpocket hurriedly stopped: "I said big mouth, these words are also in our place, even if it is the end, but don't dare to go out and talk nonsense." This is not a trick. ”

As soon as Li's voice fell, he opened his mouth and immediately replied with a big grin: "Look what you said." I'm not that three-year-old kid, can't I even tell the difference between the weight and the weight? Although the words were said like this, it was easy to change and difficult to move, and when he opened his mouth to a certain time, his broken mouth was completely out of his own.

The old man ate the nest and drank a bowl of water, then stood up and walked out of the village with a trembling gratitude.

Looking at his fading back like a broken candle in front of the wind, Wang Maocai sighed and said, "Alas, it seems that this is also a reader's ah, committing this crime in these years and months to toss into this look, I really don't know how long he can support him in the end." ”

Li Pi also sighed and said, "Alas, we still have less knowledge, what is he, listen to my son, in that capital, there are more streets than this." If you want to say that you are committing sins, this is the real evil. ”

After three or four days, Zhang Dazui was cut down in the street by the directly subordinate patrol police in Zhuozhou, and there was not even a minimum court trial, on the charges of: slandering the palace, slandering the imperial court, spreading treason, and harassing the public security.

It turned out that the day of the opening of the mouth was to go into the city to sell their own cabbage, and when it was over, he stopped in a tea house in Zhuozhou, catching up with a few people there chatting gossip, and this big mouth was mixed, and when he talked about it, he made up a story to listen to the words of the homeless old man at the mouth of the village that day and added salt and vinegar to show off. Unexpectedly, there were several spies from the Governor's Office at the neighboring table, so they were treated as rebels and took a straight face on the spot, directly handed over to the patrol police, and then they were corrected on the spot, and they were not even given the opportunity to appeal.

The words of the wandering old man that day really should not have been heard by him. But he didn't hear the wandering old man's words, and this big mouth didn't know where to listen to some gossip, and then he would go around talking about it in a leafy way, and his problem was innate.

This Great Qing Dynasty seemed weak to outsiders, but it was still mighty to its subjects.

At the end of the dynasty, due to the confusion of the political system, the imperial court became more and more afraid of the public opinion of its subjects, and was deeply afraid that the wanton spread of public opinion would aggravate the already confused political system, thus making the foundation shake more seriously, and the government of the dynasty would collapse rapidly. Therefore, every time such a season comes, any one, even a humble street gossip, will be frightened by the imperial court as a sign of rebellion.

With his mouth wide open, he likes to talk about the Dafa snail in a big way, so he knows the secret history of the source of the Great Qing that he has never heard of before, can he still not show off everywhere? Unfortunately, he caught up with the decline of the temple at the end of the lamp.

The big mouth was hastily gone, but zhang Defu and Zhang Defu were bitter. Zhang Defu had just turned eighteen this year, and his daughter-in-law had not yet had time to say it, but there was no Lao Tzu at first. And the family originally had no savings, nor did they cultivate land, so how could Zhang Defu say that his daughter-in-law would be difficult in the future. alas! In this village, there is one more young man who is difficult to marry a daughter-in-law.

(To be continued)