We, the children of the honest street, are now scattered.
Laoshi Street is located between the old Junmen Lane and Shishikou Street in Jinan. Back then, when it came to the prestige of those old streets and alleys under the old West Gate city wall, there was no one who could match it. The residents of Honest Street have taken honesty as the foundation of their homes for generations. The great prestige of Honest Street should come from this. According to the research of a researcher surnamed Ding of the Jinan Academy of Social Sciences, there was a folk song in the old Jinan Mansion during the Republic of China: "The generous guy in the generous office, the honest man on the street." "The Generous Institute is a private charity in old Jinan.
In the nineties of the twentieth century, Ding researchers have made great efforts to protect the century-old buildings in the city, and Ding Baozhen's former residence, Gaodu Si Lane, Qizhong Temple, Bagua Building, Jiuhua Building, etc., are still demolished, and the honest street has also been razed to the ground overnight. Researcher Ding was furious, wrote a letter, voted for the mayor, left his job and went to the United States, and went to see his grandson. As for the feelings of this long note, it is strictly kept secret and is not yet known. Rumor has it that it was torn up by the mayor at the time, but those of us who came out of the street were skeptical, because we firmly believed that the wording of this long note was melancholy, and it was like a hadith for the ages, which was awe-inspiring. If one day this note is displayed in the 11th exhibition area of the Shandong Provincial Museum, we will not be surprised. We honest street residents can't be wrong, just like when Researcher Ding wrote this long note, we were each present at the scene.
If we have to say why, we can only tell you that it is because we are honest street people. The residents of Honest Street have always been the first honest in Jinan, and they are by no means vain. If there is no moral self-confidence of the century-old street, wouldn't it be in vain to bear the reputation of "Jinan No. 1"?
Learning to be honest, being more honest than being honest, and being proud of being honest is our life training that we have started from the ground, and it will not end in our lifetime. However, this does not mean that we all have a master.
We have no teacher, not only because the wind of honesty has long been integrated into our long traditions, the breath we breathe, the water we drink thirstily, and the food we eat, but also because, if we live in Honest Street, if we do not follow this unwritten etiquette, we will definitely become the public enemy of Honest Street, and this is not without precedent.
However, no matter how deeply we understand the noble fashion of Laoshi Street, we are still extremely confused by what happened to Chen Yuling in the Liu family's compound.
About half a year before Chen Yuling moved into Honest Street, the old man on the left side of the Mo family's compound had seen him. At that time, several children in Laoshi Street took Chen Yuling's hand and walked in from west to east from Shishikou Street.
Originally, Zuo Menbi wanted to come out to greet him, but he heard a "bang" in the kitchen and knew that his old cat had knocked down the sesame oil bottle. When he returned with the bottle of sesame oil, he saw that the man had walked past his door, surrounded by kind-hearted children. He muttered in a low voice, "Blind melon." ”
His old cat is called "melon".
His family runs a haberdashery store, and I can't say how many years it has been open.
The haberdashery store is on the street, and sometimes when he is not there, the people who come to buy things shout outside the window, "Door nose!" So, the most heard voice on the honest street is this: "Door nose, door nose!" ”
Whoever shouted, he agreed.
Chen Yuling opened a barber shop. rented two rooms in the Liu family's compound, and one by the street was slightly renovated, which is the façade. Say to people, "Don't go." It turned out that his grandfather was a head shaver in his life, and he was the kind of person who traveled to the countryside with a head shaving pick. Press the hammer and shave, dry push wet scissors, and walk the old way of haircuts.
Give people neatly and neatly, but they don't want more money. When I asked him why, he said it was without electricity.
I don't have electricity, but I use people.
When a person drinks water, eats food, and rents a house, he stops for most of the day, and his efforts are in vain?
Obviously, this person is honest enough.
In our memory, the most worthy of "Jinan No. 1" is the left door nose of the Mo family compound at No. 35 Laoshi Street.
Shrouded in the prestige of Mr. Zuo, the first honest old man in Jinan, we people, women and children, old and young, donkeys, eggs and dogs, are all children under his care. The original owner of this Mo family compound is a barrister, and we can't tell whether it is Zuomenbi, or Zuomenbi's father who was a barrister. Many people in Honest Street have childhood memories of riding high on a big black horse, and a gentle admonition is in their ears: "Ah, sit tight." ”
I don't seem to remember what the real name of the left door nose is. How did the nickname come about, and there is no way to verify. Although he is more suitable to be called "Zuo Bald Head", "Zuo Monk" and the like, people have not thought of changing it for him.
He's a bald head, and always has been.
One of the benefits of having a bald head is that you can shave yourself at any time.
The left front nose shaves himself, so his head can be kept very bare.
Chen Yuling stayed in the Liu family's compound and the barber shop opened, and the left door and nose went to help. Whether there is anyone in the haberdashery store or not, it doesn't matter, never lost anything.
The Liu family compound is not far from each other, one street south and one street north, standing outside the haberdashery store and shouting casually, the left door can be heard.
Soon after Chen Yuling's barber shop opened, its reputation spread. Especially those middle-aged and elderly neighbors love his craftsmanship very much. Needless to say, the key is - listening to the sound of Nali sassy breaking is to enjoy it. Not to mention the crane dancing in the white sand. Tut!
At first, most of the people who came to Chen Yuling to get a haircut were people from Honest Street, and within a few days, the old Junmen Lane, Shishikou Street, as well as the West Gate Outside the Scissors Lane and the Basket Market Street, all came specially to find them. Naturally, someone will ask the left door nose for directions, and the left door nose will give enthusiastic directions:
"You can ask! Isn't it ahead? ”
For some time in the afternoon, the haberdashery shop is always very quiet. He took a pair of scissors with his left door and pruned turnips for the vines in front of his house. Unexpectedly, because of the moss on the ground, the small bench under his feet slipped, and he went to grab the trunk of the tree in a panic, and twisted his shoulder. I thought that a cold compress would be fine overnight, but when I got up to see it, it was swollen and high.
A half-blind old man on Chaoyang Street, with an ancient face, walked trembling with a stick. Such an old man loves beauty too!
The left door nose looked at him left and right, hurriedly pulled out from behind the counter, and reached out to help him. "Slow, slow." While saying in his mouth, reminding him to watch his step, he sent him to Chen Yuling's shop.
He asked Chen Yuling to shave his head, saying that his head was like grass, and how many years had it been. Zuo Mennose didn't just leave, but waited for him to finish shaving his head and then send him to the street.
Under Chen Yuling's hands, his head with unkempt grass lit up! The left door nose and scalp exploded.
After sending the old man away, he went home to shave his head. As soon as I raised my arms, the pain was unbearable, and I almost screamed. The old cat jumped away from him. This old man has no conscience! I put down the razor, went to the shop and sat down, and after a while, I was sitting on pins and needles, and turned around to get the razor again. When I raised my arms, it still hurt.
Looking out from the shop, I saw people who had finished their haircuts coming out of Chen Yuling's barber shop from time to time. It's okay not to look at it, but the more I look at it, the more I feel like grass is growing on my head. It's not just grass growing, lice are growing, scallop shells are crawling, and bird droppings are falling, and thorns are growing. That's uncomfortable, and I can't wait to pull a layer of scalp down.
The left door nose is restless until dark. Knowing that he couldn't sleep anymore, he brought the razor for his own use and went out to find Chen Yuling. The street was dark, and I didn't touch anyone.
Knocking on the door of Chen Yuling's shop, Chen Yuling thought something was wrong, and he said, bothering you in the middle of the night and shaving your head. Chen Yuling was suspicious, he was already sitting in his seat, took out the razor he brought, and said:
"Try this."
In the dead of night, the ears of the left door nose have never been as good as they are now. The sound of each hair breaking off at the scalp was low and clear, poof, poof, poof, he could hear it. It was also the first time he thought that the sound of shaving his head would be so beautiful and so intoxicating. It was as if a soft breeze was blowing from his scalp, and his head was shaved properly, but he was still sitting there.
Chen Yuling coughed lightly, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
His soul has drifted away to Daming Lake.
With the shadow of the lamp, Chen Yuling took another look at the razor and nodded, as if admiring.
In a flash, the left door nose made a big decision. He wants to give the razor to Chen Yuling, which can be regarded as a congratulatory gift for the opening of the barbershop, and he is not ready to shave his head again. After all, he is old, with old arms and legs, and he is afraid that he will not be able to get a rope. Chen Yuling came to Honest Street, and he had to shave his head by himself, as if he couldn't make sense.
Seeing Chen Yuling's hesitation, he said:
"I'm not going to spoil it."
"Oops." Chen Yuling was quite embarrassed.
"No respect, no respect."
Although the time is short, we can also see that Chen Yuling has many similarities with Zuomenbi. Chen Yuling said that he didn't use electricity for haircuts, and Zuo Menbi also said that his haberdashery store was opened in his own house, unlike people who still had to pay rent to the housing management office. Lawyer Mo went to the south with the Kuomintang, and before leaving, he gave the hospital property to Zuomenbi or Zuomenbi's father.
We all like to come to the haberdashery store on the left side of the nose to buy things, which are cheaper than others, and sometimes they don't make money, but he also sells them.
There is another reason, the Mo family compound is well preserved.
At that time, the public-private partnership, the father of the left door nose or left door nose took the initiative to hand over the main house to confiscate, and he only kept the west wing. He had never lived in the main house for a day. I don't live empty. What about your stay? You're a new master. He couldn't help it. The Mo family's compound is upside down, and when it comes to the left door nose or the left door nose's father's hand, it is almost always the same. The tethered horse stone and the upper horse stone at the door are all there, the finches on the gatehouse, and the pier on the wall are all very good-looking. In addition to the grape trellises, there are two large pomegranate trees in the courtyard, each of which is two feet high. Other yards are built haphazardly, dogs and teeth are staggered, and it is difficult to walk and turn around, but there is still empty space in this yard. When we were children, we also loved to come to the Mo family compound to play, and watch the old cat with him on the left door, playing flowers and grass in the open space.
In this way, the Mo family compound is basically full of people during the day, and it is quite popular. Left Men Nose had a wife and died. A girl got married and lived in the eastern suburbs refinery, and she was busy with work and didn't come much. He could have found another wife, but he didn't, saying that he was afraid that his wife would get angry in the underworld.
There is no hell of a hell! The old ancestor made up the words, and he took it seriously. He spent the sun and moon slowly alone, but he didn't feel bleak.
He has haberdashery. There are flowers and plants. There are old cats. There are neighborhoods. He wants to live in the Mo family's compound until he dies of old age. Ren Dongfang has changed people several times. The main house used to be the office of a unit in Lixia District, and later the unit moved into the newly built district government office building at the foot of Maoling Mountain, and there was only a broken sign left at the door, which was eroded by wind and rain. Others said that he had a secret mind, in fact, to wait for the barrister to return. He was to return the property to the barrister in its original condition.
Time passed, the world was turned upside down, and the barrister's bones were left behind. He didn't care.
Wait.
That's a bit of a delusion, isn't it? However, it is also more respectable. The world is so big, how many can do it?
Honestly, etc.
Wait.
Especially when he was sitting in the shop, and no one came to buy anything, he lost his mind, and suddenly he was startled, and his expression was very like seeing the return of a distant traveler.
This time he was still so surprised, but what he saw was only Chen Yuling.
Even though the barber shop is busy, there is always a time to spare. Chen Yuling didn't come out much, afraid that customers would not find themselves when they came to get a haircut, and delayed other people's work in vain.
As soon as Zuo Menbi saw Chen Yuling, he seemed to find that Chen Yuling's gaze was hidden. Zuo Mennose was a little suspicious at that time, and leaned back into the shadows behind him, not to greet him. Sure enough, Chen Yuling didn't greet him either, just as if he didn't see him, and hurriedly walked over.
Maybe I really didn't see it.
When Chen Yuling came back, Zuo Menbi didn't know, because he didn't just sit in the store.
For two days in a row, Chen Yuling walked in front of the haberdashery store with her head half-bowed, and she didn't say hello to Zuomenbi. The left door nose seemed to be aware of it, guessing that something might be wrong with him, and it was difficult to tell himself.
When I saw Chen Yuling again, it happened that there was no one in the store to buy anything, so I leaned out of the street early and greeted:
"Old Chen, come and sit."
Chen Yuling opened her mouth and stammered, as if she didn't know what to say, and she didn't say a word for a long time. Zuo Menbi felt that he was embarrassed for him.
However, in the middle of the night, the left door nose was lying on the bed, and when I heard the sleepy old cat raise its head and "meow", I saw a vague figure flashing on the window pane, and I hurriedly opened the door, it was Chen Yuling.
Invited Chen Yuling to come in, Chen Yuling didn't sit down, so he took out a wooden box with both hands and said:
"Mr. Zuo, Chen can't accept this razor."
The left door nose is a little anxious:
"Isn't it just a razor, you don't like it."
Chen Yuling shook her head again and again. "How can this not be said on the 'dislike'." Chen Yuling's words were earnest, "I'm afraid I've insulted it." I was looking for a better box to match it, but I couldn't find it. This box is old, only the cowhide on it is that I went to the souvenir company and bought it and sewed it myself......"
"I don't know how many years I've been using it, how can I think of using a box to hold it?" Zuo Menbi couldn't help but interrupt him, "It's also lost on the windowsill, and it's also lost on the pot." I am ashamed that you suddenly gave it such a delicate box. What's in there? ”
Mr. Zuo said. Chen Yuling reverently opened the wooden box and said, "It's not just rare, it's still quite rare." Although Chen has never seen the world, he also recognizes it. It is produced in a foreign country and has a foreign name, called 'Damascus Razor'. I can't tell how old this razor is. You see it's still like new, and it can be broken by blowing. Steel is good. Uzi steel. It's a secret to make this steel. This knife is also out of print. For many years, I only heard of its name, but did not see its form. I didn't see it that day. ”
Before he knew it, he had retreated to the edge of his chair and sat down, and said in deep thought:
"I also knew that this razor was good, and I suspected that it had a strange texture and never had to be sharpened, but I didn't expect it to be as good as you said. Come to think of it, it's not bad either. Master Mo was famous in Jinan Mansion back then, and he was a character who traveled south and north, and it was not surprising that he could have one or two rare things. I have lived in this yard for many years, and I have picked up a lot of gadgets, but I have never paid attention to them, whether they are stone or wood, combs and cigarette bottles, they are also picked up and thrown away. It's the pearl secret investment, who made me an illiterate? ”
"Therefore I have come here to tell the cause and send the razor back." Chen Yuling said, "Chen someone would never dare to accept such a good thing." I have received Mr. Zuo's good intentions. As he spoke, he placed the box on his left hand. The left door nose didn't refuse, just saw that Chen Yuling's face secretly showed a hint of relaxation.
Chen Yuling walked away, and sat on the left door nose all the time, and did not get up to see him off.
When the old cat crawled at his feet, he leaned over and said to the old cat:
"Melon, it's not Lao Chen, I'm stuffy in the gourd, how can I know the details?"
Only one day later, also in the evening, Zuo Menbi also knocked on Chen Yuling's door.
"Lao Chen, you must accept it!" Left Door Nose reiterated, "This is also the razor that has a relationship with you." ”
Although Chen Yuling repeatedly refused, she did not refuse.
However, on the evening of the second day, Chen Yuling came to the door again.
"A gentleman doesn't plunder people's beauty, Mr. Zuo obviously wants me to suffer for nothing!" Chen Yuling's eyes were very earnest, "If Mr. Zuo thinks I'm too tough, let me be tough this time." ”
There was no expression on the left door's face, and it took a long time before he slowly spoke:
"You're tough. If I don't take it, what will you do? ”
Seeing that Chen Yuling couldn't help but panic, her voice trembled:
"That's the only way to pay it back."
Left door nose slightly chin:
"Lao Chen is from our honest street."
Chen Yuling said:
"Forgive me."
This time, the left door nose sent Chen Yuling out of the courtyard gate. Chen Yuling bypassed the stone and walked away, before he turned back to the courtyard and stood under the pomegranate tree, but forgot to enter the house. The next day, Lao Wang, who lived in the east wing, found that a pomegranate leaf had fallen from the pomegranate tree, and a semi-bald branch on the tree was lifted into the air, and the traces of the pomegranate were still there.
Although the return of the razor took place in the dark, it was later known to us in Honest Street, and there was a rumor that it was three for three and three for three. It seems that if you don't have three things, you can't make a good story.
Actually? The left door nose pulled the pomegranate leaf, and the handle hurt. I rubbed my fingers and went back to the house, and slept until dawn. After feeding the cat, he put on a neat suit and walked out of the house, and when he met people on the street, they thought he was going to the moat to practice twisting his waist. Many people should remember that when they came to the haberdashery store to buy something on this day, they called the other "door nose", but no one responded, and they only saw him in the store in the evening. It turned out that he went to the eastern suburbs.
左门鼻去东郊看闺女,恰巧陈玉伋的闺女来老实街看爹。
Chen Yuling also had a wife and died. Chen Yuling is also only a daughter who has married out.
After looking at Chen Yuling's daughter, people thought that this girl was very much like a person on the honest street. Who? It's not clear for a while.
The girl came, and Chen Yuling was overjoyed. Those who came to get a haircut ignored it again when they saw it, in order to keep the father and daughter together for a little longer. also told Chen Yuling which places were fun, and asked him to take his daughter around.
He's going, but his daughter isn't going. The girl finally got away and came to Jinan, and she wanted to help her father pick up the cleanup. knows that she is pure filial piety and has a good heart, and it is precisely because there is a father who has a daughter.
Zuo Menbi didn't know that Chen Yuling's daughter was coming, and someone saw him in the store and said to him casually. Before he reached the gate of the Liu family's compound, he saw Chen Yuling's daughter carrying a small dustpan and was about to go in. He couldn't be more familiar with that figure, so he blurted out:
"Big girl!"
Chen Yuling's daughter turned her face and asked suspiciously:
"You are ......"
He knew that he had made a mistake, and suddenly recognized him as his daughter, and his face sneered.
Chen Yuling heard the movement of the left door nose in the room, so she came out and introduced to her daughter:
"This is the old man Zuo I told you. Please sit in the old man's left. ”
Chen Yuling's daughter hurriedly said:
"Uncle, please sit inside."
"It's all a family, what's polite?" The left doorman said and entered the house. sat down with Chen Yuling, and saw that Chen Yuling's daughter was busy pouring tea, so he said again, "I heard that you are coming, I just came to take a look, don't be busy." After asking again how the family was okay, and then asked Chen Yuling what she was missing, she said goodbye.
When Chen Yuling's daughter left, he wrapped all the candied fruits and candies in the store and asked her to take them back to the children who went to school, and told her to call the children to come together next time.
When Zuo Daniu came to Honest Street, people suddenly remembered who Chen Yuling's daughter looked like. Zuo Daniu hadn't seen Chen Yuling yet, so Zuo Menbi sent her to meet Chen Yuling.
Coming and going like this, outsiders feel like relatives between the two families.
The cold and summer festivals are easy to change, and it is a year in the blink of an eye, and it is the time when Chen Yuling first came to Honest Street. During this period, the head of the left door nose was also shaved by Chen Yuling.
Because of Chen Yuling, the number of bald heads on the honest street has increased significantly. Lao Jian, a retired cadre in the No. 9 courtyard of the Red Gate Pillar, used to cut his hair and comb it meticulously, which was very stylish. Once itchy, I simply shaved my head. The Ninth Courtyard was once the Champion Mansion. Old Jane shaved her head and joked that she would not be able to go into the ninth courtyard again. This incident made the residents of Honest Street talk about it for a long time, and they all said that Lao Jian had shaved his head and became funny. Xiaofeng, a well-known street ruffian in the east lane of the county, has nothing to do on weekdays, wanders around, and causes trouble. I heard that there was an old head shaver on Honest Street with superb craftsmanship, so he brought a group of like-minded little brothers to find him with a bald head with a convex and concave head. When encountering something like the bad thing that came to us, we residents of Honest Street couldn't think of how to stop it, so they could only secretly sweat for Chen Yuling. He has a bald head, we have all seen it, pecan-shaped, convex and concave, and if you are not careful, you may scratch your scalp. If you don't talk about being beaten and scolded, the barbershop will definitely be lost. Xiaofeng entered the store, and the entourage was waiting at the door of the store. Unexpectedly, the store has been quiet, like a drop of water. Suddenly, I saw Xiaofeng walking out of the store. When I went in, my scalp was iron-blue, and when I came out, it was white, like an eight-hundred-watt bulb, and I couldn't find a single hair stubble, and I was drowning in the flesh. After coming out, he didn't say a word, but hugged his entourage to the east. We had a false alarm and rushed to the barber shop to see Chen Yuling sitting in a chair, hanging her head motionless, as if asleep.
In general, the days are peaceful as usual, and the hustle and bustle is only outside the Honest Street. Until that 10,000-year-old monster appeared on Honest Street. The first person to discover it was none other than Lao Jian, a retired cadre of the radio factory.
There is a cleansing spring on the side of the lion's mouth, Lao Jian went to the cleansing spring to fetch water, passed by the Wujia paper shop, and turned his head to catch a glimpse of a smooth thing curled up in the corner. With just one glance, Lao Jian could see that this thing had never been seen before, not even in the world, and it was still glowing with poisonous flames. He was afraid of it, and it was afraid of him. He screamed:
"Yokai ——!"
And he ran back.
As soon as this call ran, many people were drawn to the streets. The people gathered around them, and when they saw that the thing was still shrinking down to the base of the wall, their eyes were full of fear, and they concluded that it was harmless. Old Jane was frightened and followed the people back. The listeners, babbling as they guessed what it was, leaned over to examine it and said:
"It's a cat."
I guessed everything just now, even freaks, mythical beasts, and I didn't guess the cat.
"Whose cat is like this? Not even a single hair. ”
Old Jane said:
"It's a shaved cat."
"It's even more wrong." Everyone laughed, "Who can shave their hair like this?" From the beginning to the end, in the ears and eyes, in the paws of the feet, everything is the same. Oh, my eyelashes have been shaved off. ”
However, after Lao Jane said this, and then looked at the monster, there was indeed some shadow of a cat. "Don't play 'Tanuki for Prince' last night." And they said. They asked each other, "Whose cat is this?" ”
"Whose cat? Look at whose house it goes to, it's whose cat. Old Jane said. When he had regained his courage, he stretched out his toes and tried to kick the cat into the middle of the street. It doesn't move, like the cat is going to shrink itself into a wall. "It's ashamed." Old Jane said.
"What is a cat shy?" Some people don't think so.
"Throwing you naked on the street, aren't you shy?" Old Jane said, "Let's stay out of the way." ”
Before he finished speaking, he heard a continuous shout from afar:
"Melon! Guagua! Melon! ”
The scene of the naked old cat running all the way on the streets of Jinan is simply a shame that has not been seen in a hundred years on the street. At that time, before Zuomenbi arrived, the old cat, which was originally slow, jumped up, and before anyone woke up, he got out of the crowd and ran desperately towards Lion's Mouth Street. From behind, it looks like a thin rubber flying rapidly over the street, and the air crackles. We all agreed, together with the left door nose, and chased after each other. The old cat ran to Lion's Mouth Street, turned north, and turned around from a small alley to the busy Quancheng Road. At this moment, we all clearly feel that Quancheng Road is the heart of Jinan and the heart of the whole world, bright red and delicate, like pomegranate flowers blooming. A naked old cat walked through this heart, out of the old West Gate, and ran more than a mile along the moat. None of us knew its intentions. Further ahead is Daming Lake, and I saw it running and jumping and falling into the river. When we arrived, the water in the river dissolved, the hair-like algae swayed, and the shadow of the old cat could not be found.
The left door nose was out of breath, and before he reached the place where the old cat fell into the water, he couldn't walk. He sat down on the ground, looked at the running water, and said bitterly:
"Melon, can't you wait for me? If you were a man, and you were my age, you would have left me in this way. ”
It didn't sound like an old cat who had committed suicide by drowning in water, but his wife.
We wondered again, is this old cat male or female? Some people say, "Mother." Oh, that's right. What old lady was stripped naked and thrown on the street, and she could not die of shame? Some people say, it's a male, didn't you hear the left door nose call it "melon"? Oh, yes, too. Don't old men have to be cheeky? Old men are even more cheeky. Both men and women should be cheeky. Lao Jane also said, what else can you feel when you throw a person naked on the street? The key is that this old cat, who has been with the left door nose for many years, walked naked through the streets and crowds in broad daylight, vowing to turn the blue water into a ghost.
So, who shamed the old cat, and also shamed the residents of our honest street? What kind of devil's hand can shave a cat so bare?
On this day, we waited by the moat for a long time before walking back to Honest Street with a heavy heart. Even when we sit at home, we don't want to speak, and it seems that there is a huge hidden worry like a dark cloud on each of us. When the night comes, we can close our eyes and repeatedly see the naked old cat dragging the white light away in the night. The next day, many people woke up sleepy-eyed, obviously unable to sleep well, and Lao Wang, who was in the same hospital as Zuomenbi, yawned again and again. Lao Wang deliberately walked to the Dufu Huqin shop at the east entrance of the street to spread the news of Zuomenbi last night.
The light on the left door nose was not turned on all night, and Lao Wang thought that he had gone to the edge of the moat again, so he called him this morning, but found that he was in a haberdashery, and he was still wearing yesterday's clothes. Lao Wang lied and said that he wanted to make half a bowl of soy sauce, and he didn't ask him anything.
We all nodded. Since the old cat is gone, why poke people in the sore spot again?
As he was talking, he walked from the left door, and he was dressed in new clothes.
"Look at the girl." Zuo Mennose said, with a little smile on his face, but our hearts couldn't help but be sour.
The back of the left door nose disappeared on the honest street, and we had hope again.
One day a year ago, Zuo Menbi also went to the eastern suburbs to see his daughter as he is now, but Chen Yuling's daughter came to Honest Street to see her father. If Chen Yuling's daughter can come as scheduled, who can not be moved and sigh for such a past life on the honest street? At a glance, we found the soy sauce bowl that Lao Wang held in his hand.
"Oh, the soy sauce hasn't been sent back yet." Lao Wang couldn't help but laugh.
We couldn't expect Chen Yuling's daughter, but the time for Zuomen's nose to return to Honest Street was the same as last year. The old man didn't have to worry about having a cat to feed at home, and he refused to stay at his daughter's house for one night. We sneaked into all corners and watched him walk into the Mo family's compound, anxiously waiting for him to come out again, and then see if he was going left or right.
The most qualified judge on the honest street to act as a judge for the cat abuse case is someone else! From yesterday until now, we have been speculating about that despicable murderer. We even thought of Xiaofeng in the east lane of the county, thought of all the people outside the honest street, and then constantly overturned our own ideas. This made us want to hurt our brains, but in the end, it still didn't work.
In fact, in the three days after the cat abuse case, Zuo Menbi was the first to step into Chen Yuling's barbershop. There he shaved his head and walked out into the street, as if there was never a cat that was not a cat, and we seemed to be relieved.
Only a week later, the left door nose got a kitten. He said that he slept until midnight, and heard a voice in his ear calling him, and woke up very scared. The sound was also strange, not like it came from a human mouth. Then he heard movement under the door, and dared to walk over to find it a stray kitten.
"Do cats have souls, you say?" He asked the people who came to the haberdashery store to buy something.
"How can a cat have a soul?" The person who buys things says, "People have souls." ”
He kept shaking his head.
"It's the soul of the melon calling me." He said, "The melon can't bear me, and has attached itself to this kitten." ”
"Maybe ......" The person who bought the thing heard the numb scalp and wanted to leave.
"If you look closely, it looks like some melons." Zuo Mennose said, rubbing the back of the cat's neck with his hand, "Little pitiful, this little pitiful." ”
"Hello."
Honest Street soon rumored that the old cat had manifested his spirit. This wronged soul must have a lot of unwillingness. However, from the cat boy in the hand of the left door nose, we can't see it for the time being. The cat boy was called the old cat's name, and it was almost inseparable from the left door nose. Wherever he goes, he carries it with him, and he often caresses it gently while constantly chanting, "Melon, be good." Melon, good. This kind of scene makes people feel in a trance that the unfortunate old melon has come back from the dead.
Regarding the gender of the cat, it is not a problem at all. This is a small male cat.
The cat boy completely took off the filth of a stray cat, and in the arms of the left door nose, like a cute baby. What about the left door nose? It's like being a kind old man. He held the still delicate cat in his hand, sat comfortably in the blackened window frame of the haberdashery, and on the beech wood table on one side of his body were two large glass jars filled with candy and candied fruit respectively, and a feather duster hung on the container behind him, and the items in the container compartment were lined up, and various brands of cigarettes were neatly stacked on a specially made pallet, which could be reached without getting up. In the quiet air, the fragrance of pomegranate flowers wafting from the courtyard was slightly blowing...... Such a scene, dark and simple, seems to reveal a long light, which can illuminate the past, present life and future life of Honest Street. And in the face of such a transformation, even if we only occasionally glimpse it when passing by, we will be in awe. After experiencing the turmoil in the early stage, such a feeling of reverence is almost unprecedented.
No one expected that at noon one day, the little melon that was just able to walk steadily staggered and climbed onto the eaves of the paper shop. We were terrified, especially on the left side of the door, whose face was as earthy as the color of the sweat on our bald heads, and whose sweat grains were as big as grapes, and which were rolling down with a puff. Because we were afraid that the little melon would be frightened, we didn't dare to come out, and we looked up to our faces and tried our best to make thousands of gestures on the street, hoping to coax it down.
Although the strong goodwill in our hearts turned into a variety of postures, tones and expressions, and flew towards the little melon, the little melon ignored it and climbed from the paper shop to the Ruyi gate tower in the Wang family's compound. Someone had moved a ladder from home, but it didn't stop, so it climbed the mountain of Li Quanfa's sheng shop, passed through the Miao family's crude medicine shop, Zhang's mansion, Xiaowei noodle shop, and Yuan's old house, and arrived at the Liu family's compound. It squatted down on the roof of the roll shed of Chen Yuling's barber shop and looked down at us on the ground. The sun was shining brightly, shining it like a small cloud of gas, and it was about to dissipate.
"Melon."
Left Door Nose screamed. The voice is not loud, but it can make people hear boundless sadness. He stretched out his hands to the melon.
We also called:
"Melon."
"Guagua."
"Melon."
"Melon."
"Guagua."
"Melon."
"Melon."
……
In our memory, we have never been like this day, like toads in a pond. At that time, we didn't even think that we were standing in front of Chen Yuling's barbershop. We called "melon" and "melon" so sincerely for half an hour. Later, it was Jane's second son, who worked in a canvas factory, who climbed up the roof along the ladder and got the melon down. Left Door Nose went home with a small melon. Some people said that as soon as we left, Chen Yuling quietly appeared at the door of the barbershop. There is no doubt that Chen Yuling did not mix in the crowd during that small half an hour, calling Xiaogua with us. We were anxious, and he sat in the barbershop with not a single face.
In the middle of the door frame, Chen Yuling's arms drooped like two injured wings, and her whole body seemed to be tightly tied into a reed stick by some rope.
The next day, we had a bunch of uninvited guests on Honest Street again. The leader is none other than Xiaofeng in the east lane of the county. The last time I saw him was last year. I haven't seen him for a year, but he seems to be stronger than before, and his arms and legs are thicker. He wore a finger-thick necklace around his neck, which was gold-plated at first glance. He led people from the old Junmen Alley and went straight to Chen Yuling's barbershop. He walked into the barbershop, his attendant still waiting at the door. But in a short time, a panicked shout came from the barbershop.
Xiaofeng walked out with Chen Yuling in both hands. "Go to the hospital, go to the hospital!" He shouted. Someone told him that the Ji'antang clinic at the entrance of Whip Finger Lane in the north was the closest, and he couldn't think of calling a taxi, so he ran to Whip Finger Alley with Chen Yuling in both hands.
Chen Yuling only shaved Xiaofeng halfway, and then fainted to the ground. The doctor said that he was lacking in qi and blood, and prescribed him a few doses of decoction. After he returned home, we went to see him, and by the way, we provided him with Minghu lily lotus seed soup, angelica cooked black-bone chicken and other dietary remedies, and persuaded him to eat more brown sugar, jujubes, and red beans. We can see that Chen Yuling obviously doesn't talk much, and she just says "thank you" to anyone.
He was surprised when his daughter came. The girl said that Uncle Zuo had a letter.
"How can you die?" He said.
The girl persuaded him to go back with her, and he said:
"Just go."
The girl said, I know that this is the place you finally chose, let's wait until we are well raised and then come back? I can't lose it. He closed his eyes and did not speak.
After taking the decoction and being cared for by his daughter for a few days, he was able to stand in the barbershop, but his face was still thin. The girl has to go back, and he only has this sentence to say goodbye:
"Just go."
We were all touched by this, and he meant that he already belonged to Honest Street. Think about how he looked when he first came to Honest Street, what kind of look was that? We can't help but feel sorry for him. As a result, there is less business in the barbershop. He often sat alone in the store all day. Someone noticed that he was repeatedly shaving his head. He's a man, neat and clean from head to toe. He shaves his head with great skill, but he doesn't keep his head bald. Like the old Jane of the past, he left his head parted. We haven't noticed for a long time that his split is always neither long nor short. I didn't see him go find someone to cut his hair. I knew that he cut out the split head himself.
What does it mean when he shaves his head? Do you want to shave your head? He can cut his own head, let alone shave his head. But he didn't end up doing it.
In the dead of night, he came to the Mo family compound.
"Mr. Zuo, shave my head." He said.
The left door nose didn't feel the accident, touched the small melon, and asked leisurely:
"You're not afraid?"
"Don't be afraid."
The melon's eyes shone green.
"I've never shaved anyone else." Left Door Nose said.
"Cut, count it mine."
"Offended." The left door nose looked calm, and turned to the little melon, "Melon, go." ”
The little melon jumped from his hand to the head of the bed and lay down honestly, watching him turn around and take out a wooden box from the cabinet.
Chen Yuling shaved her head.
Except for the left door nose and the small melon, no one on the honest street has ever seen Chen Yuling's shaved head. The next day, Chen Yuling opened the door of the store without seeing her on the third pole in the morning, and we all thought of bad things. There was a knock on the door, but there was no movement. We went out into the courtyard and found the door locked. When I asked the residents of the same hospital, they didn't know. We didn't expect him to leave Honest Street like this for a while. At noon, when he felt bad, he expressed his suspicions. The landlord, Lao Ma, said that he had paid the rent for three years in advance, and he had to tell himself first if he wanted to leave. If he wants to quit the lease, it's also very okay.
Since then, there has been no news of Chen Yuling.
It was another year and a half before the door of Chen Yuling's barber shop finally opened. We rushed to take a look, and found out that it was Chen Yuling's daughter who came to move her father's things. Hurriedly asked her father how he was, and she said indifferently that her father had passed away. He died shortly after returning to his hometown. I couldn't eat, and I was so thin that I only had a handful of bones before I died.
When we heard it, we heard the bad news of any old man on the street, and the sorrow in our hearts was like a tidal wave. In fact, before we knew it, we had long regarded Chen Yuling as a resident of our honest street.
After packing up the things, we all came to see off Chen Yuling's daughter. Chen Yuling's daughter walked up to the old gentleman on the left door and whispered a few words. Then, he walked to the Mo family's compound with Zuo Menbi. From behind, it looks like a father and daughter.
When Chen Yuling was dying, she deliberately asked her daughter to take another look at the razor for herself. Zuo Mennose opened the wooden box with a solemn expression, and Chen Yuling's daughter seemed to hear it screaming inside. Zuo Menbi took it out and handed it to her, but she didn't dare to take it. The razor lay flat like a small pool of dark water, glowing with the color of the water, erecting like a pure green flame, but flashing with a icy luster.
"Take it." Chen Yuling's daughter waved politely.
Left Door Nose Says:
"Fine."
"I've seen it for my father." Chen Yuling's daughter said, "Since my father let me see it, it is naturally a good thing." If it is a good thing, how can others touch it? ”
"It's not Lao Chen's daughter. That's fine. "The left door nose is put away, and he said." It was originally going to be given to Lao Chen, but he didn't want it. Honest people are tough. But what am I going to do with it? I couldn't lift my arms up my head, I was shaking, and I couldn't shave myself anymore. ”
Suddenly, Chen Yuling's daughter asked in confusion:
"Uncle Zuo, tell me, what happened here that year?"
"It's fine." Zuo Mennose said calmly, "Your father is honest, what else can he do?" ”
"Uncle Zuo, my father has never offended you."
"Look at what my daughter said, how could Lao Chen offend me? I'm angry......"
"That being the case, I'm relieved." Chen Yuling's daughter said.
"Oh, all at ease."
As soon as Chen Yuling's daughter left, the residents of Honest Street began to rumor that she had brought a razor. This time, Chen Yuling couldn't refuse. He will not be able to stretch out his hand from hell. The razor would be offered by his daughter at her father's grave. Most of the people in the world who don't know the goods will be safe and lonely, and the wind and rain will be covered by the sun and dust, and finally disappear in the long time.
The little melon has grown into a big cat, and all day long, I can't hear the female cat bark. We often see the left door nose looking for cats along the street, and while walking, we call:
"Melon, melon, melon......"
Lao Wang, who was in the same hospital, had a bad idea:
"Castrate."
Left door nose frightened like:
"No, no, no."
Lao Wang is just a casual joke, looking at our Jinan No. 1 honestly making trouble.
That year, the big word "demolition" was written on the walls on both sides of Honest Street. It's about ruining Honest Street. In fact, the news has long come out, Dongliushui Street, Gaodusi Lane, County East Lane, Shunjing Street, Bangpeng Street, countless old streets and alleys are among the demolition. We were not happy, and boycotted one after another, and also united with Zhang Shu, the third son of the Zhang family in the Miao family's compound, to negotiate with the Lixia District Demolition and Relocation Office. Zhang Shu is the deputy director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, and a random approval of a slip can become hundreds of millions.
Suddenly, I heard that several elderly ancestors on Laoshi Street had taken the initiative to sign a demolition agreement with the government. This despicable act of disobedience has undoubtedly aroused our anger. We walked briskly along the smooth bluestone pavement of Honest Street, and we couldn't help but curse and spit on those who signed the agreement. However, the most famous Zuo ancestor on Honest Street spoke. The arms can't twist the thighs, and they are honest street residents, but they are still honest. What are the benefits of confronting the government? Hasn't Kuanhousuo Street fought against the government? In the end, it was still demolished, and the compensation fee was still lost. If you cooperate early, you can pay more compensation for each family. The street is not generous, and the honest street cannot be honest. In the same way, honest people do not suffer.
We were honest, we really didn't suffer a loss, we took more money, and we were placed in a good position.
On the day of the demolition, Honest Street welcomed countless people. They either took a sketchpad and drew quickly, or they held their cameras and pressed the shutter in a frenzy, regardless of east, west, north and south.
Honest Street was unrecognizable and finally calmed down. An old man from the north of the city who picked up tatters found a delicate small wooden box from the ruins, thinking that it was filled with gold and jade, and was very excited.
When I opened it, it was just a razor.
The blade is stained with a delicate hair.
"Cat hair."
The old man muttered dissatisfiedly after identification.
A dry wind blew, and the hair suddenly broke in two, like a light soul, crystal clear in the sun, and each of them was lost.
(Tianya, Issue 4, 2014)