One
Yin Xueyan is not old. More than ten years ago, the group of Wuling who cheered for her at the Paramount Ballroom in Shanghai was young, some of the scales were opened, and some of the temples were frosted; Some of them came to Taiwan and became idle consultants in iron factories, cement factories, and man-made fiber factories, but a few of them became the chairman of the board of directors of banks and the chief executives of government agencies. No matter how personnel changes, Yin Xueyan will always be Yin Xueyan, still wearing her plain white cheongsam with cicada wing veil in Taipei, smiling so shallowly all the time, refusing to wrinkle even the corners of her eyes.
Yin Xueyan is really charming, but no one can tell what makes her truly charming. Yin Xueyan never likes to rub her rouge and powder, and sometimes at most she dots some Missy Buddha on her lips; Yin Xueyan doesn't like to wear red and green, the weather is hot, and in the summer, she is all silver and white, and she is very clean. Yes, Yin Xueyan has snow-white skin, a slender figure, and a long face with a pair of pretty and sweet eyebrows, but these are not Yin Xueyan's surprising features. People who have seen Yin Xueyan say this, and they don't know what the reason is, no matter how Yin Xueyan raises her hand or throws her foot, there is always a style that the world can't match. Others stretched their waists and frowned, which was ugly, but Yin Xueyan did it, but she was charming. Yin Xueyan didn't say much, didn't say much, and inserted a few words of Suzhou dialect in Shanghai dialect on critical occasions, listening to and ironing. Some dancers with insufficient purse money couldn't climb the stage called Yin Xueyan, but they went to Paramount to sit and watch, watch Yin Xueyan's demeanor, and listen to her say a few soft words about Wu Nong, and their hearts were also comfortable.
Yin Xueyan was on the dance floor, tilting her head slightly, swaying her waist lightly, and dancing so unhurriedly; Even if she was dancing fast foxtrots, Yin Xueyan never lost her proportions, she still looked so calm, so light, like a ball of catkins fluttering in the wind, as if there was no root under her feet. Yin Xueyan has her own melody. Yin Xueyan has her own beat. It will never affect her balance because of the differences in the outside world.
Yin Xueyan's charming places are really indescribable, innumerable. But one thing adds to her mystery. Yin Xueyan is famous, it is inevitable to attract jealousy, and her sisters who are jealous and jealous quarrel everywhere and say: Yin Xueyan's eight characters are heavy, and she has committed a white tiger, and the person who is stained will be defeated by the family, and the heavy will die. Who knew that it was because Yin Xueyan enjoyed a heavy reputation that the men in Shanghai Ocean Field were very interested in her. When life is leisurely and family belongings are fertile, you can't help but want to take risks and break into this evil star that is popular all over Huangpu Beach. Wang Guisheng, the young boss of the Wang family of the Shanghai cotton yarn chaebol, was one of the explorers. Driving a brand-new Kaidraco every day, waiting for Yin Xueyan at the gate of Paramount to finish turning the stage, the two went up to the roof garden on the 24th floor of the International Hotel to have a gorgeous supper together. Looking at the moon in the sky and the brilliant stars, Wang Guisheng said that if he could build a ladder with his family's gold bars, he was willing to climb up to the sky to pinch off the crescent moon and insert it on Yin Xueyan's cloud temples. Yin Xueyan smiled and didn't make a sound, stretched out her orchid-like delicate hand, and slowly and methodically threw the small crescent moon cakes coated with Russian mullet roe into her mouth.
Wang Guisheng invested desperately, made money by unscrupulous means, wanted to pile up his original wealth three times or four times, knock down the rich deer chasers around Yin Xueyan one by one, and then strung a chain with diamond agate, put it around Yin Xueyan's neck, and led her home. When Wang Guisheng committed the felony of collusion between officials and businessmen and was shot in prison, Yin Xueyan stopped at Paramount all night, which was regarded as mourning for Wang Guisheng.
In the end, it was Director Hong, a hot director in Shanghai's financial circles, who won Yin Xueyan. Director Hong divorced his ex-wife, abandoned his three children, and agreed to Yin Xueyan's ten conditions. So Yin Xueyan became Mrs. Hong and lived in a luxurious garden house in the French Concession in Shanghai, which was received from the Japanese. In two or three months, Yin Xueyan was like a late-blooming jade pear flower, blooming in an overwhelming manner in the occasion of Shanghai's high society.
Yin Xueyan really has the ability to press the scene. Whenever there is a feast, no matter the nobles and celebrities present, wearing sables and surrounding the fire beavers, when Yin Xueyan wears her silver fox with a lapel and waist, like a March breeze, flashes in lightly, the whole audience seems to be smeared by this gust of wind, and they always can't help but greet her. Yin Xueyan was in the pile of people, like an elf made of ice and snow, cold and compelling, stepping on the wind-like steps, and seeing that the eyes of those gentlemen and ladies were on fire together. This is Yin Xueyan: in the dance hall of the Zhaofeng Nightclub, in the aisle of the Lanxin Theater, and in the guest hall of the Houmen Mansion on Xiafei Road, dressed in silver and white, leaning crooked on the sofa chair, with that smiling smile on the corner of her mouth, she detained many managers and assistants of the banking industry, the owners of the yarn mills and Xiao Kai, as well as some upstarts and their wives.
But Director Hong's eight characters were softer in the end, and he couldn't withstand Yin Xueyan's heavy attack. lost his position in one year, went bankrupt in two years, and didn't even get an idle job when he came to Taipei. Yin Xueyan was quite conscientious when she left Director Hong, and in addition to her own belongings, she only took away a celebrity chef and two Suzhou aunts from Shanghai.
Two
Yin Xueyan's new mansion is located in a high-end residential area in Section 4 of Renai Road, and is a brand-new Western-style house with a very spacious living room that can accommodate two or three tables of banquets. Yin Xueyan has deliberately run her new mansion. The furniture in the living room is a one-color mahogany table and chairs. Several old-fashioned sofas with large backrests, Hunan embroidered pillows stuffed with black silk faces and mandarin ducks playing in the water, people sink into half as soon as they sit down, leaning on soft silk pillows, very comfortable. People who have been to Yin's Mansion have praised Yin Xueyan's living room for being well arranged, making people sit and refuse to move. There is a mahjong room with special equipment for playing mahjong, and the mahjong table and mahjong lamp are very exquisitely designed. Some guests like to dig flowers, and Yin Xueyan also set aside a room with soundproofing equipment, so that guests who dig flowers can be locked in it and sing and sing freely. There is a heater in winter and an air-conditioner in summer, and sitting in the Yin Mansion, it is easy to forget the cold and heat of Taipei City outside. The antique vase on the desk in the living room is full of flowers at all times. Yin Xueyan is very particular about flower arrangement, the rose shop on Zhongshan North Road has sent the best fresh goods all year round, and throughout the summer, Yin Xueyan's living room is delicately exposed with a sweet and greasy tuberose.
Yin Xueyan's new mansion soon became a meeting place for her old rain and new knowledge. When old friends came, talking about the old saying, everyone had a nostalgic feeling, thinking about it for a while, complaining in front of Yin Xueyan, as if Yin Xueyan was the eternal symbol of the Shanghai Paramount era, the evidence of the prosperity of Beijing and Shanghai.
"Ayuan, look at my godfather's hair is white! Nong is still like a branch of evergreen, getting younger and younger! ”
Mr. Wu, who worked as the general manager of a bank in Shanghai and was a frequent visitor to Paramount Gate, came to Taipei to work as a consultant in an iron factory. When he saw Yin Xueyan, he always liked to pull her to say this half-jokingly and with a little self-pity. Manager Wu's hair is indeed completely white, and he suffers from severe rheumatism, he walks very staggeringly, his eyes are trachoma, his eye hair is upside down, he has tears all the year round, and his eye circles have begun to fester, revealing pink flesh. In winter, Yin Xueyan always moved the electric heater in the living room to Manager Wu's feet, personally presented a cup of Tieguanyin, and said with a smile: "Where is it, the godfather is the old man who is strong!" ”
Manager Wu ironed in his heart, regained a lot of self-confidence, blinked his presbyopia that had lost his eyelashes, and in the Yin Mansion, he voted for a "sitting palace" in public, and sang in a desolate and hoarse voice: "I am like a shallow water dragon, trapped on the beach." ”
Yin Xueyan has the kung fu of fascinating men and women. The wives who befriended Yin Xueyan have been counting her behind their backs since Shanghai. When Yin Xueyan was on the rise, the wives in this class were angry and said: How you climb, Zuo is just a waist girl. When Yin Xueyan's backer was doomed, they sighed and said: Life can't be escaped, and the angry girls can't be messed with. But for more than ten years, none of the wives in this class were reluctant to leave Yin Xueyan, and they all gathered in Yin Xueyan's mansion in Taipei, and they had to admit that Yin Xueyan really had something shocking about her. Yin Xueyan can get a seventy-fifty discount in Taipei's Hongxiang Silk Village, pick out the most beautiful embroidered shoes in the small garden, Shaoxing drama in the Red Mansion, Yin Xueyan is the best, when Wu Yanli sings "Meng Lijun", Yin Xueyan can get a free front-seat ticket, and when it comes to Beijing-Shanghai snacks in Ximending, Yin Xueyan is all fine. So this class of wives, led by Yin Xueyan, went to Ximending, watched Shaoxing opera, sat in 369 and ate osmanthus dumplings, and often threw away the unsatisfactory things for more than ten years, as if Yin Xueyan was full of the musk of the glory of the world in Shanghai, and smoked the middle-aged women who had vicissitudes of the past into a half-drunk state, and couldn't help but relish the crab roe noodles of Shanghai Wuxiang Zhai. The wives in this class are often prone to getting emotional. Yin Xueyan has extensive sympathy for them one by one, she always patiently listens to their grievances and grievances, and says a few words of comfort when necessary, ironing out their anxious tempers one by one.
"It's better to lose, it's good to lose! Anyway, there are old cows and horses at home, I don't lose, and others lose for me! ”
Whenever Mrs. Song lost money playing mahjong, she complained to Yin Xueyan with sourness. Mrs. Song suffered from women's menopausal obesity in Taiwan, and her weight increased to more than 180 pounds, and her appearance was very bloated. Mrs. Song has a lot of sad words, because her husband Assistant Song has an affair and treats her quite coldly, and the other party is a slender little wine girl. More than ten years ago, Mrs. Song was in the limelight at the social scene in Shanghai, so she is particularly yearning for the old days.
Yin Xueyan is naturally the right person for Mrs. Song to pour out her heart, because only she can understand Mrs. Song's sense of the past and the present. Sometimes when it comes to sadness, Mrs. Song can't help but hide her face and cry.
"Sister of the Song family, 'people are not good for a thousand days, and flowers are not red for a hundred days', who can keep a lifetime of glory and wealth?"
So Yin Xueyan handed over the hot towel to Mrs. Song and persuaded her with pity.
Mrs. Song refused to accept her fate, and always had to complain: "I don't believe that my life is worse than others!" Like Nong, the younger sister of the Yin family, Nong doesn't have to worry about it for the rest of his life, naturally someone will come to help Nong. ”
Three
Yin Xueyan really doesn't have to worry, the carriage and horses in front of the Yin Mansion have never been broken. Old friends certainly regard the Yin Mansion as a paradise, and the general new knowledge also finds the rare attraction of the Yin Mansion elsewhere. Yin Xueyan Mansion has always maintained its grandeur. Yin Xueyan has never been willing to reduce it to the pomp and circumstance of Xiafei Road in Shanghai. The people who come in and out, even if some of them are outdated, but they have their identities and their styles, so as soon as they enter the Yin Mansion, everyone feels that they are important, even if the title was invalidated more than ten years ago, after Yin Xueyan affectionately called it, it is also like having been entitled, and a lot of superiority has been psychologically restored. As for the general new knowledge, Yin Mansion is a good place to establish socialization.
Of course, the most attractive thing is Yin Xueyan herself. Yin Xueyan is a most competent master. Every guest, regardless of the old and the young, she greeted them properly. As soon as I entered the Yin Mansion, sitting on the sofa covered with black silk chair cushions in the living room, everyone had a sense of being at home and not thinking about it. For most of the year, the Yin Mansion is always full of friends.
Yin Xueyan herself rarely goes out, and on these dates, she always arranges the cards for the guests in advance; Sometimes two tables, sometimes three. She has a clear understanding of each guest's brand and fetishes, so the brand partner is always very ideal, and has never hurt the harmony. Yin Xueyan herself supervised the two Suzhou aunts with clean heads and clean faces to greet her. The lunch point is Ningbo rice cake or Huzhou zongzi. Dinner is the Beijing-Shanghai side dishes of the famous chef of Yin Mansion in Shanghai: gold and silver legs, concubine chicken, shrimp, drunk crab -
Yin Xueyan personally designed a rotating menu and turned out a table of exquisite feasts every day. In the second half of the night, the two aunts held snow-white ice towels sprayed with star flower water, so that the guests of the big war party woke up their heads, and then a bowl of chicken soup and silver noodles made supper. The guests threw down the table very generously, each time a total of two or three thousand. Guests who win money are certainly worth exciting, and even guests who lose money are willing. ate and played in Yin's mansion, and at the end, Yin Xueyan sent someone to call a taxi and send them home one by one.
When the game was raging, Yin Xueyan changed into light clothes, circled between several tables, and walked back and forth lightly with her wind-like steps, like a silver-white priestess, praying and sacrificing for those who were fighting.
"Ayuan, godfather is about to lose again!"
Every time he was defeated, Manager Wu blinked his eyes with rotten eyelashes and wailed to Yin Xueyan for help.
"It's still early, godfather, it's time for you to figure out the next four laps."
Yin Xueyan put a black silk chair on the back of Manager Wu's rheumatism, and comforted this old man with a perverse fate with pity.
"Miss Yin, you saw it. I didn't play a wrong card tonight, and my luck was like that! ”
The female guests also often appealed to Yin Xueyan for mercy, and sometimes Mrs. Song was in a hurry, and she didn't care about her identity, so she grabbed two dice and said, "Phew! Bah! Bah! Don't ask for a face, look at what you have moldy! ”
Yin Xueyan also went over as usual, using a sympathetic tone to comfort them. At this time, Yin Xueyan's words were as awe-inspiring as an oracle. At the mahjong table, a person's fate is often out of control, and the guests are begging Yin Xueyan for her words to restore confidence and strengthen their fighting spirit. Yin Xueyan stood aside, holding the three nines of the golden mouth, slowly puffing smoke rings, looking at her group of proud, frustrated, old, prime-like, once dominant, once magnificent guests, frantically fighting each other and slaughtering each other.
Four
Among the new guests was a middle-aged man named Xu Zhuangtu, a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Born with a dignified appearance, tall, sturdy body, wearing a well-tailored suit, he looks extraordinarily handsome. Xu Zhuangtu is an emerging industrial giant in Taipei City, with the industrialization of Taipei City, many large enterprises came into being, Xu Zhuangtu has a flexible mind, has a wealth of knowledge of modern business administration, is in his early forties, and became the manager of a large cement company. Xu Zhuangtu has a wise wife and two lovely children. With a happy family and a promising career, Xu Zhuangtu became an ambitious entrepreneur.
The first time Xu Zhuangtu entered the Yin Mansion was at a birthday party. Yin Xueyan made the 60th birthday for Manager Wu, and Xu Zhuangtu was Manager Wu's nephew, so he came to Yin Xueyan's mansion with Manager Wu.
Yin Xueyan really decorated that day, wearing a moon-white short-sleeved brocade cheongsam with a row of large pan buckles in the color of a concubine; The feet are also moon-white satin soft-soled embroidered shoes, but the toes are dotted with two flesh-colored begonia leaves. In order to please her, Yin Xueyan made an exception to put a blood-red tulip on her right sideburns, while a pair of inch-long silver pendants hung from her ears. The judo in the living room is also decorated with joy. The case was all replaced with tuberose that had just been hinged, and as soon as Xu Zhuangtu stepped in, he smelled a sweet fragrance that refreshed people's brains and lungs.
"Ayuan, Godfather brought a decent guest to Nong." Manager Wu was wearing a brand-new spinning silk gown, leaning his back, and introduced Xu Zhuangtu to Yin Xueyan with a smile, and then pointed to Yin Xueyan and said, "My godlady is really filial." I, an old man, have to rush to make a living for me. I thought: I am not in office now, and I am not in the world, and this old bone will be tormented by rheumatism every day. Regardless of his blessings, now I will talk about Miss Gan's birthday wine in a big way. My nephew, who is young and promising, rarely indulges in it, and now he is happy with our group of old decays. Ayuan is the most appropriate host, I will hand over the strong plan to Nong, and Nong will entertain him well. ”
"Mr. Xu is a rare guest and a relative of his godfather, so he naturally wants to be a little different from others." Yin Xueyan replied with a smile, the blood-red tulip in her hair trembling.
Xu Zhuangtu really received a special treat from Yin Xueyan. At the banquet, Yin Xueyan sat next to Xu Zhuangtu and diligently persuaded him to drink and let the dishes, and then whispered to him: "Mr. Xu, this is our master's specialty, you taste it, how is it better than the restaurant outside?" ”
After finishing the banquet, Yin Xueyan personally served a bowl of frozen almond tofu to Xu Zhuangtu, but there were two bright red cherries on it. When Xi Cheng finished playing the game, Yin Xueyan often walked behind Xu Zhuangtu to watch him play cards. Xu Zhuangtu's cards are unfamiliar and often make mistakes. It's only eight laps, and Xu Zhuangtu has already lost half of his chips. In one round, when Xu Zhuangtu was sending out a plum blossom five-cylinder, suddenly Yin Xueyan leaned over from behind and stretched out her delicate hand to hold down the back of Xu Zhuangtu's hand and said, "Mr. Xu, this card can't be played." ”
In that game, Xu Zhuangtu and a pair of "full garden flowers" won back most of the output chips at once. One of the guests jokingly protested: "Miss Yin, why don't you come and order some Zhang for me, and see that I have lost too." ”
"Mr. Xu's first trip to our house, of course I was embarrassed to let him suffer a loss." Xu Zhuangtu looked back and saw Yin Xueyan smiling at him, a pair of silver-eared pendants hanging from the feet of her jet-black hair, waving back and forth.
The tuberose in the living room spit out a puffy fragrance in the middle of the night. During the banquet, Xu Zhuangtu drank a lot of hot flowers, and with the excitement of the card table and the plate of "full garden flowers", he was already a little drunk when he left.
"Miss Yin, it's all up to you, otherwise tonight's mahjong will definitely be a complete failure."
When Yin Xueyan sent Xu Zhuangtu out of the gate, Xu Zhuangtu said to Yin Xueyan gratefully.
Yin Xueyan stood in the door frame, dressed in white clothes, with her hands clasped in front of her chest, like a Guanyin, and replied with a smile towards Xu Zhuangtu: "Where is it, Mr. Xu will come to Baixiang the next day, and we will study the Mahjong Sutra together." ”
After two days, sure enough, Xu Zhuangtu came to Yin's Mansion again and asked Yin Xueyan for the tricks of mahjong.
Five
Mrs. Xu Zhuangtu sat on a wicker chair at home, staring at the door, her cheeks thinning day by day, and her eyes sunken into two deep pits.
When Mrs. Xu's godmother, Grandma Wu, came to visit her, she took Mrs. Xu's hand and exclaimed, "Oh, my godmother, I haven't seen you for a month, why are you thin and out of shape?" ”
The grandmother of the Wu family is a woman in her sixties, with a sturdy figure, no half white hair, and a pair of enlarged little feet, still walking like flying. The grandmother of the Wu family once went to Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan to listen to the sermon, and worshiped a profound master in the Baiyun Temple above as a master. Because the old mage took a fancy to the Wu family's grandmother's talents, he passed on the mantle to her when he ascended. The grandmother of the Wu family set up a dharma hall in her home in Taipei, with a statue of her old father in the center. Under the statue hangs an eight-foot square yellow silk. According to the grandmother of the Wu family, her grandfather often appeared on this yellow silk and granted her the opportunity, so the grandmother of the Wu family could predict the good fortune and eliminate the disaster. The Wu family's grandmother has quite a lot of followers, most of them are middle-aged women, and some of them have quite a social status. The economic environment is not scarce, and the hearts of these wives inevitably feel empty. So on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, they stopped playing mahjong for a day, or the gathering of the standard meeting, and came to the Dharma hall of the grandmother of the Wu family in groups, reciting scriptures and bowing devoutly, giving alms and distributing wealth, and relieving the poor, so as to seek peace for themselves or their families. Some of them had incurable diseases, and some had family disputes, but the grandmothers of the Wu family all generously promised to pray for divine help for them in front of the old master's spirit.
"My wife, I don't think your complexion is good!" The grandmother of the Wu family looked at Mrs. Xu carefully, shook her head and sighed. Mrs. Xu lowered her head and couldn't help crying sadly, and said a lot of heartfelt words to the grandmother of the Wu family.
"Mom, your old man saw it," Mrs. Xu said intermittently with tears in her eyes, "Our Mr. Xu and I have been married for so long, don't say a bad face, we have never even said a heavy word." Our Mr. Xu is a competitive person. He always said, 'A man's heart is three out of five that should be devoted to his career.' 'After coming to Taiwan for more than ten years, I finally looked forward to the development of their cement company, and he came out, I saw that he was busy socializing outside for business every day, and I was only secretly anxious in my heart. Career is not career second, pray for his health and well-being, our mother and son are willing to suffer more. Who knew that since last month, our Mr. Xu seems to have changed as a person. Often do not go home for two or three nights. When I asked, he smashed the bowl and chopsticks, and his temper was terrible. The day before yesterday, even the two children were beaten severely. Someone sent me a word that it was Mr. Xu who had someone outside, and he was still a figure with a head and a face. Mom, I'm a person who does my duty, where have these things happened? Can people still hold up and not be out of shape? ”
"Miss Gan," the Wu family's grandmother slapped her face and said, "If you don't mention it, I won't say it." You know I'm the one who is most afraid of peddling. You called me Mom, and of course I did it to you. You know that fat woman, Mrs. Song, what kind of 'Mayflower' little wine girl her husband Song co-ordinated. She ran to me with a handful of snot and tears, asking me to beg the teacher for her. I took her husband's eight characters to count, and sure enough, I broke something. Mrs. Song made a vow in front of her father's spirit, and I recited twelve scriptures for her. Now isn't her man going back obediently? Later, I advised Mrs. Song: 'Don't mess around with those fox-like women all day long, and it's important to recite scriptures and do good deeds!' Mrs. Song told me the original number of your Mr. Xu's affairs. That Yin Xueyan, what kind of good thing do you think she is? She didn't have two clicks to be able to catch these people? Even if you are a decent gentleman like Mr. Xu, she has the ability to grasp it firmly. This kind of thing has happened in history: Bao Xi, Daji, Feiyan, Taizhen - this disaster! Do you think they're all real people? Wicked! Whenever there is a troubled time, these demons have descended to earth one after another, disturbing the world. That Yin Xueyan doesn't know what it is! I see you, you have to change a way to eliminate this disaster for you, Mr. Xu. ”
"Dear Mom," Mrs. Xu couldn't help but cry again, "You know that our Mr. Xu is not the kind of man who has no conscience. Every time he came back from a long stay, he didn't say anything, but I knew he didn't want to go. Sometimes he sits alone and smokes violently, and his tendons are stacked, which is really bluffing. I didn't dare to persuade him, so I was in a hurry. In the past few days, he has been even more obsessed, and he came back and shouted that everyone in the company was looking for him. He and the workers also lost their temper, and yesterday they fired a few of them. I persuaded him that he couldn't deal with those rough people, and he even scolded me. His behavior is very abnormal, he doesn't look like it, and he can't help but worry! ”
"That's it!" The grandmother of the Wu family nodded and said, "I'm afraid that you Mr. Xu also committed something, right?" Hand me his eight characters, and I'll test them for him when I go back." ”
Mrs. Xu copied Xu Zhuangtu's eight characters to the grandmother of the Wu family and said, "Mother, it's all thanks to your old man's blessing." ”
"Don't worry," the grandmother of the Wu family said before leaving, "Our master is the most powerful and can solve problems for others." ”
However, the master's mana was not able to save Xu Zhuangtu. One day, just as Xu Zhuangtu slapped the table and scolded a worker, the worker suddenly went berserk, and a flat drill pierced Xu Zhuangtu's chest from the front to the back of the chest.
Six
Manager Wu of Xu Zhuangtu's funeral committee became the director general. Because of the busy days and rheumatism, he fell back on crutches when he wore in and out of the Bliss Funeral Parlor, and he was very staggering. On the day of the hanging, the mourning hall was set up in the funeral home. For a while, the wreaths of relatives and friendly funeral tents were lined up all the way to the door of the funeral home. Colleagues in the cement company are saving the four big words of "losing talents". The number of people who come to pay their respects starts at 9 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Xu had already cried like an idiot, wearing sackcloth mourning clothes with two children, kneeling in front of the spirit to thank her. The grandmother of the Wu family led twelve Taoist priests, dressed in magic clothes and holding the dust, to solve their grievances and wash their karma at the altar behind the mourning hall. In addition, there are more than a dozen monks and nuns who are chanting sutras and worshipping great compassion.
At noon, the people who came to pay their respects were already crowded into the hall, and just as the crowd was bustling, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and then the whole hall fell silent, solemn. It turned out that Yin Xueyan flashed in like a gust of wind at some point.
Yin Xueyan was still dressed in plain white, her face was not powdered, she walked to the steward lightly, lifted the brush unhurriedly, waved her name on the signature book, and then walked to the center of the mourning hall, the guests were separated from each other, let Yin Xueyan walk to the mourning platform, Yin Xueyan stared, smiled, and bowed deeply three times towards the portrait of Xu Zhuangtu. At this time, the relatives and friends present were all stunned.
Some looked surprised, some angry, and some confused, but everyone seemed to be suppressed by a potential and did not dare to act rashly. Xu Zhuangtu's tragic death this time, some relatives on Mrs. Xu's side were angry with Yin Xueyan, and they didn't expect Yin Xueyan to have the courage to break into the Xu family's mourning hall. The occasion was too tense and abrupt, and everyone was a little at a loss for a while. After Yin Xueyan finished saluting, she walked up to Mrs. Xu, stretched out her hand and stroked the heads of the two children, and then solemnly shook hands with Mrs. Xu. Just as everyone was looking at each other, Yin Xueyan walked out of the Bliss Funeral Home with her windy steps. There was a big chaos in the mourning hall for a while, Mrs. Xu suddenly knelt on the ground and fainted, and the grandmother of the Wu family hurriedly threw away the dust, rushed over, and carried Mrs. Xu to the back hall.
That night, Yin Xueyan's mansion became a card game again, and some of the cards were arranged during the day after Xu Zhuangtu's memorial service. Manager Wu brought two new guests. One is the newly appointed manager Yu of Nanguo Textile Factory; The other is Chairman Zhou of Dahua Enterprise Company. This night, Manager Wu's luck had a miracle, and a series of slams were in and out. Manager Wu kept laughing and screaming, tears dripping down his blood-red eyes from his rotten eyelashes. In the twelfth lap, there was a plate Manager Wu who suddenly shouted with his hands fluttering: "Ayuan, come on!" Come on! 'Four joys are coming'! This is really a strange card that has not been seen in a century. East, South, West, North - it's all together, take out and draw a double! People said that they were happy with the big four, and the omen was ominous. I've been unlucky all my life, and I've had this weird hand, and I've never been able to do it ever since. A-Yuan, A-Yuan, Nong, look at this deck of cards, isn't it cute? Interesting or not? ”
Manager Wu shouted and laughed and scattered mahjong all over the table. Yin Xueyan stood beside Manager Wu, gently pressed Manager Wu's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Godfather, cheer up and make two more games." I went back and won the money of Manager Yu and Chairman Zhou, I will eat your red!