Chapter 3 Chapter 1.2

Because of the temporary residence, the stove was not complete, so I went to a nearby restaurant to rent three bowls, ten plates, five small plates, a steamer, and a casserole.When I came back, I saw that the woman had cleaned the inside and outside of the house, put a few novels and anthologies of Zhuang Zhidie’s novels and essays on the table, and shouted, where is the map of Tongguan that I brought when I came to Xijing?Zhou Min said: If you are busy, what are you looking for?The woman said: Stick it on the wall, Zhou Min thought about it, and said something like a ghost fox! , twisted on the woman's ass.The woman groaned, and when she was coquettish, she lifted her skirt to show a piece of green, and then announced that she was doing nothing, she wanted to dress up!Zhou Min started to dissect the fish. After a while, the woman ran out to show the red dress, and then changed into a short black dress.The shirt, shoes, necklace, socks, one by one.Zhou Min said: You are a clothes hanger, you can wear clothes you want to eat. Teacher Zhuang is a writer, a serious person, and it is the first time we meet, so it is better to dress plainly.The woman picked out a yellow dress from a pile of clothes on the sofa, put it on, and put on makeup, eye shadow, and lipstick in front of the mirror.At this time, Meng Yunfang and his wife came, carrying a can of sweet-scented osmanthus flower thick wine and another bag of apricots.Zhou Min said: Who asked to bring things, isn't this the other way around?Xia Jie poked Zhou Min's forehead and said: I brought this wine to Wan'er.Your teacher Zhuang likes to eat apricots, I'm afraid you don't know his hobby.What about Wan'er, let me take a look at this younger sister, what kind of beauty is she? !Tang Wan'er rushed out to greet her: "Look, you won't recognize this sister anymore!"Zhou Min said: Why is she a younger sister, she is called a teacher!Xia Jie said: I don't want that title!Really rare talent!When the two women met, they twittered a lot of women's words, nothing more than your clothes look good, and you are so young, what kind of cosmetics do you use?Have you ever used a breast augmentation device?Tang Wan'er said: "Zhou Min, please tell me: I want to play chess pieces with Sister Xia!"Taking the chess pieces and the chessboard, La Xiajie went up to the pavilion on the second floor.The landlord went on a trip with his family three days ago, and the three rooms on the upper floor were locked. A wooden pavilion was built on the platform, and a stone table and four drum-shaped stone chairs were placed inside. The two talked and played chess. While looking at the street downstairs.Zhou Min has brought tea, candy, watermelon and peaches.Xia Jie said: Xiao Zhou, let's see what delicacies you give us today?Zhou Min said: I have to wrong you today, one is that there is nothing good, and the other is that I don't know how to do it, so let's talk about it.Xia Jie said: I don't intend to show off with you. When you become prosperous in the future, as long as you don't forget me.Then he shouted to Meng Yunfang downstairs: Hey, you have to go to the stove today, don't be a teacher, cross your legs and drink tea!Meng Yunfang said: I cook at home, but I have to cook when I go out?What's wrong with me today, when Zhuang Zhidie comes out, I'll be the grandson of a ghost!Even though they were talking, they went to the sink to wash their hands; the two women squinted their eyes and just laughed and laughed on the pavilion.

Zhuang Zhidie was originally scheduled to arrive at ten o'clock, but it was ten past ten o'clock, and it was still quiet in front of the door.Yu Yunfang cut the shredded pork, fried the meatballs, soaked the yellow fungus, put the fish in the oil pan, stewed the turtle in the casserole, and said: "The house number on the street is good, so he can't miss it." ?I'm going to look at the intersection ahead.Just walk down the street.There were not many pedestrians at the intersection. After standing for a while, he turned into an alley and hurried to Qingxu Nunnery. Qingxu Nunnery hadn't been built for a few days, the mountain gate was closed, and I pushed it in. An old nun asked who to look for, and Meng Yunfang said he was looking for Master Huiming, and the old nun led him to the main hall behind.It was chilly in the hall, and the sweat on his body disappeared immediately, but because he just came in from the sun, he couldn't see anything clearly.After standing for a while, I saw a bed in the corner of the hall, with a nylon mosquito net propped on it, and a person was sleeping there.

Yu Yunfang felt something was wrong, so he left.The people in the tent woke up and called Teacher Meng!Meng Yunfang turned around, and it was Huiming sitting on the bed, with his collar unbuttoned, his face rosy, and he was much more handsome than usual.Huiming said; the curtain was hung up, but he didn't put on his shoes and got off, still snuggled up on the bed: Come and sit here, are you passing by today?Meng Yunfang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: Someone invited me to dinner.Huiming said: I know you stayed for a while and then left.He turned his head and said to the old nun: "Go do your thing."The old nun smiled, opened the door of the temple and went out.

Half an hour later, Meng Yunfang left Qingxu Nunnery and trotted towards the crossroads. When he looked up, he saw a Mulan motorcycle parked by the side of the road.Feeling familiar, I took a look and saw that the right handlebar of the motorcycle had a piece of paint off, and a huge brick was tied with a rope on the back seat.I looked left and right, and sure enough, Zhuang Zhidie was standing in front of an old bookstall on the side of the road.Walking over, Zhuang Zhidie also saw him and said: Lao Meng, come and take a look, there is a joke here!Meng Yunfang saw that it was an old book, but it was "Zhuang Zhidie's works are poor. There is Zhuang Zhidie's autograph on the title page: Mr. Gao Wenxing Huizheng, the following is X month X day of X year, and Zhuang Zhidie's three characters are added. stamped.Immediately I felt embarrassed for Zhuang Zhidie, and scolded: For this kind of thing, the title page should be torn off if the book is to be sold as a gift. Zhuang Zhidie's book is not so worthless!Zhuang Zhidie asked: Do you remember who this Gao Wenxing is?Meng Yunfang couldn't remember, but Zhuang Zhidie said: It's a friend of Zhao Jingwu.I met me that day and said yes, my admirer, insisting that I give him a book.I bought it again according to the price, wrote it on the signature place on the spot, and then gave it to Mr. Gao Wenxing Huizheng. On X, X, X, X, X, at the Japanese bookstore.Meng Yunfang said: You give me this book, and only then will it be worth preserving.Zhuang Zhidie said: I have to send it to him.Meng Yunfang said: You let him hang himself!The two came to push the motorcycle, and Meng Yunfang said that Zhou Min was going crazy waiting at home, why did he arrive?Zhuang Zhidie said that he passed by the foot of the east city wall, where there were a lot of rotten bricks and stones, so he rummaged inside, and found out that this city brick was a Han brick.Where else can you find such a complete set!Just say: This is close to Qingxu nunnery, did you go there?Meng Yunfang blushed a bit and said: What am I doing there, let's go.Zhuang Zhidie asked him to go back first, and went to the post office to send the gift book by himself.

Meng Yunfang came back and said that Zhuang Zhidie would come soon, and went to the kitchen to cook. Tang Wan'er got down from the pavilion in a panic, and asked Zhou Min quietly, does her hair shine?Zhou Min said that there is always hair falling from both sides, remember to pinch it behind the ears, women need Zhou Min to remind them at any time.Zhou Min said, I have a cough.The woman then went to Louting to play chess with Xia Jie.At this moment, there was the sound of a motor outside the door, and Meng Yunfang shouted from the kitchen, here we come!Zhou Min ran out the door.When Tang Wan'er was watching, a Mulan car stopped in front of the door.Jumping down was a thin and short man, wearing an iron red sand washed cloth blouse on his upper body, a pair of off-white trousers on his lower body, no socks, and a pair of gray sandals.I was a little surprised for a while: Is this Zhuang Zhidie?He is so famous, why is he not tall at all, but he is riding a women's Mulan bike?What's even more surprising is that when he got out of the car, he didn't take out a comb to comb his hair, but deliberately messed up his hair with both hands.At the door, Meng Yunfang was introducing Zhou Min.He shook Zhou Min's hand politely, and said that the young man is very energetic and his hair has been oiled!I looked around again and asked why I lived here, it was so quiet!Entering the yard, he shouted that it is good to have a yard, the pear tree in the yard is good, and the grape tree on the wall is good.I live in that building like a bird, no sense of earth!Tang Wan'er felt that this celebrity was easy-going and funny, so she felt a little less nervous.When Zhou Min called her from below, she hurried downstairs, not wanting to lower her head, the Yunnan elephant bone hairpin pinned to her head fell, and fell impartially at Zhuang Zhidie's feet and shattered.

Zhuang Zhidie was talking to Meng Yunfang, and when he heard Zhou Min call Tang Wan'er to come down to see the teacher, he didn't care at first, the hairpin of Leng Ding fell under his feet and broke, and when he looked up, the two women on the stairs yelled, and one with long hair slammed Scattered a pile, hurriedly raised his hands to collect them, and immediately walked down while braiding at the back of his head. When he came to the yard, his hair was also braided.The two women in front of me: Xia Jie is over forty years old, wearing a bright red dress, with bare legs and protruding calves. Although her face is heavy with makeup, she feels unclean.Tang Wan'er was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. She wore a light yellow dress that wrapped her body tightly, making it fat where it should be fat and thin where it should be thin.The face is not in the shape of a melon seed, it is bright in bleaching, and the two thin eyebrows are curved, vivid and vivid.The most is the slender neck, as tender as jade, wearing a necklace, showing two tall beautiful bones.Zhuang Zhidie thought to himself: Meng Yunfang said that Zhou Min took a woman and came to Xijing after losing her family and property, so she wondered what kind of stunner this is. She really is a fine person, which is rare in Xijing city!

Seeing Zhuang Zhidie looking at her smiling, Tang Wan'er said: I'm so ashamed!But he raised his face, stretched out his hand generously, and said, "Mr. Zhuang, hello, it's a good fortune to invite the teacher to our house today. Just now I thought you would not come."Zhuang Zhidie said: If you don't go, you have to go to see the township party!Tang Wan'er said: Why does Teacher Zhuang still speak Tongguan dialect?Zhuang Zhidie said: Then what did I say?Tang Wan'er said: Who came to Xijing for ten and a half months, and then changed his accent when he went back. I thought you could speak Mandarin!Zhuang Zhidie said: Chairman Mao doesn't speak Mandarin, and neither do I!Everyone laughed.Zhou Min said: Let's all go inside and talk, the yard is very hot.After entering the room, Zhou Min naturally made tea and respected cigarettes, and repeatedly said that the place was narrow, which made the teacher wronged.Xia Jie said: Xiao Zhou, don't say so many polite words.You and your teacher Meng just go to clean up the food, and I will greet you.Meng Yunfang and Zhou Min went to the kitchen, and Tang Wan'er was still standing there, spraying jasmine perfume on the rotating electric fan.Xia Jie said: Zhidie, come and sit with sister-in-law. After you have been away for such a long time, people want to ask you every day.Zhuang Zhidie smiled and said: Sister-in-law Meng still has this heart!What have you been up to these days? Have you choreographed a good dance?Xia Jie said: I just asked you for this matter. The mayor instructed us to come up with a program, but when we put out a few shows, we didn't think it would work, and we were so worried that our hair fell out.Zhuang Zhidie said: You have Brother Meng now, why are you still calling me?Xia Jie said: "He can't do it, it's cloudy, and he talks about Chinese classical dance, Western modern dance, and he directs it himself. Other actors are annoying him. Come and see, I believe in your feelings." .Zhuang Zhidie said: What is it?Xia Jie said: One is playing sour dates, the other is bickering, and the other is carrying water. It is written about a man and a woman who meet each other on the well platform and fall in love with each other. .Zhuang Zhidie said: The idea is not bad!Xia Jie said: Is it not bad?It's just that there is not much dance vocabulary.Zhuang Zhidie said: Have you seen the Flower Drum Opera "Hanging Paintings" by Chen Cuncai in Tongguan?Tang Wan'er said: "I've seen old artist Chen's play. A man in his 60s, wearing such small shoes, can jump on the chair quilt at once. What's amazing is to grab a paper egg, drop it in the air, and use his toes One kick!He became popular before liberation. People in Tongguan said: I would rather watch Cuncai's "Hanging Paintings" than sit in the national world.Xia Jie said: drama is drama, dance is dance, they are not the same thing.Tang Wan'er blushed a little, and then nestled on the sofa without moving, in a daze of half-hearing.Zhuang Zhidie said: You can absorb the form of jumping chairs, such as carrying water on the well platform, can you let the actors jump on the edge of the bucket with both feet?Xia Jie thought for a while: Yes, yes, in order to show her excitement, I also want to show off her new pair of shoes. Let her step on the edge of a bucket with one foot on the edge of the bucket, and then change her feet step by step. Walk.She asked Tang Wan'er to find a piece of paper, and she asked Teacher Zhuang to help design it.Tang Wan'er saw that she couldn't get in the conversation for a while, so she added water to the two of them, and went to the yard.

Zhuang Zhidie talked in the house for a while, went to the toilet with an excuse, and also went to the yard.Tang Wan'er was under the grape trellis, covered in mottled lights and shadows, and was in a daze from boredom. When she saw the butterfly coming out, she immediately laughed.Zhuang Zhidie said: Listen to your accent, are you from Tongguan Dongxiang?Tang Wan'er said: "Teacher's ears are sharp, have you been to the Dongxiang area?"Zhuang Zhidie said: The best thing there is fried pork with bean shreds.Tang Wan said: That's all right. I said that the teacher came and I made a dish of fried pork with bean shreds. Zhou Min made fun of me, saying that most people are not used to it.Zhuang Zhidie said: That would be great!Looking at the woman with his eyes, the woman lowered her eyes.Zhuang Zhidie said to himself what kind of grape it was, and it was still green at this time, so he jumped around and wanted to pick one, but he didn't pick it.Tang Wan giggled, Zhuang Zhidie asked why?The woman said: They say you like to eat sour, I don't believe it, how a big man likes to eat sour, it's not a crime.Sure enough, the teacher loves it!Standing on a stool to pick grapes, the vines were still high, one leg was lifted up, the other leg reached the toes, the body was bent like a bow, and the sleeve of the right arm slipped down, revealing Bai Shengsheng's bare arm, Zhuang Zhidie clearly saw it There is a mole on the elbow.Zhou Min came out of the kitchen with the dishes, met and said: Why do you let the teacher eat green grapes, how do you eat vegetables when your teeth are sore?Zhuang Zhidie also smiled, and hurried to the toilet.

After coming back and washing his hands, three cold dishes were already set on the table, and a few cans were opened, and Zhuang Zhidie naturally sat at the table.Xia Jie drank the sweet-scented osmanthus wine that he brought, Meng Yunfang only enjoyed almond fruit dew, and Zhou Min held a cup full of white wine to respect: Mr. Zhuang, you are a celebrity in Xijing, and you are the pride of our Tongguan people. The students have been taken care of by you. Ministry, this kindness will never be forgotten in my life.What I want to say today is to go to the editorial department. Some of the practices are inappropriate. I wrote a note under the guise of your name. I hope the teacher will understand.As for writing your article, I just learned how to write it, which made you laugh.Zhuang Zhidie said: The matter has been done, so there is no need to say that.I didn't read that article either. There are many people writing such articles now. Although it is to promote me, it is also someone else's article.In the past, someone wrote it for me to read, and I decided not to publish it after reading it, but they finally published it. People who write articles have the desire to publish, so I didn’t read such articles afterwards.Ren Zhou Min said: The teacher is so magnanimous, it is really unexpected, so be respected by the students, let's drink it up!Zhidie took it and drank it, and said: Brother Meng, you really quit?Meng Yunfang said: Of course I quit.Zhuang Zhidie said, why bother?We study Buddhism and Taoism mainly to borrow some things from the perspective of philosophy and aesthetics. Don't downgrade to burning incense and kowtow like folk old ladies.In fact, the monks and nuns in the temple are also a kind of occupation.Meng Yunfang said: You don't understand this, you are not in the game, and you don't know the situation.Practicing Qigong without abstaining from alcohol, meat, green onions, and garlic will cause you to lose your sense of qi; with qigong, eating alcohol, meat, green onions, and garlic will make you feel uncomfortable.Zhuang Zhidie said: In practice, the real masters in the world are all cultivated, and only disciples and grandchildren practice all day long.Tang Wan'er chuckled, but when everyone looked at her, they pursed their lips and turned their heads to look at the pear tree outside the window. The pear tree was holding up branches full of green leaves, and there was a hole in its curving old body.Seeing Tang Wan'er's beautiful expression, Zhuang Zhidie asked: What are you going to say?Tang Wan'er said: You talk about learning, I'll listen to it.Meng Yunfang said: What knowledge!

We are used to bickering, and now I am getting more and more out of touch with him.Zhuang Zhidie said: I think you like to go to extremes, and if you say quit drinking, you quit. I can't do this will.But stop drinking?This is the real Wuliangye!Meng Yunfang said: It's Moutai, I don't drink it either!Xia Jie had already drank a bowl of thick wine by himself, and asked Zhou Min to pour another bowl, saying: Zhidie, you are right, he has suffered from going to extremes all his life!When you came to Xijing, he was already well-known, but these years, you have become brilliant, and he is still him.Now I write fewer articles. I spend my whole day practicing Buddhism and practicing kung fu, and I don’t eat this or that, which also makes my stomach without oil!Zhou Min said: This means that Mr. Meng has no luck.Those who are self-employed in the world are blessed but not expensive; Mr. Meng is expensive but not blessed.Meng Yunfang said: This is right, your teacher Zhuang is blessed with both wealth and wealth, and you can live so well that you can have as much glory as you want!Zhuang Zhidie listened, and fixed his eyes on the beam of light that came in from the window lattice and shone on the dish. There were living things floating in the beam of light, with a wry smile on his face, and said: I have everything, but I need to break it.Meng Yunfang was taken aback and asked: What did you say?Zhuang Zhidie repeated it again: broken.Meng Yunfang said: It's hard for me to understand you now.To be honest, I didn't expect you to go to the brewery for so long, and the articles written in the newspapers recently seem to have a very different concept.Zhuang Zhidie said: I have also surprised myself, whether I have adapted to society or fallen.Meng Yunfang said: I can’t draw conclusions about this, I’m afraid it’s like how I became obsessed with qigong and had to quit alcohol and meat. Everything is the natural flow of life. For example, after heating water, there will inevitably be a self-organization phenomenon of broken symmetry.When the two of them said this, Zhou Min and Tang Wan'er half-understood, even though they were still laughing, their smiles were stiff.Xia Jie clicked his tongue and said, "Comrade Meng Yunfang, I was invited here for a drink today, not for an academic meeting. Don't sell those terms."Zhuang Zhidie waved his hand and said: Don't talk, let's have a drink.He picked up the cup and drank it himself.

Drinking and drinking, only Zhuang Zhidie and Zhou Min drank, and the atmosphere couldn't get up. Zhou Min suggested that he could have a few punches with Mr. Zhuang. Then, seeing that both parties were insisting, they said: Zhou Min, don't treat Mr. Zhuang with the methods of your gang of idlers.Mr. Zhuang, I also offer you a toast.Zhuang Zhidie hurriedly stood up and took the wine glass.The woman said: Quan Zhan got to know Mr. Zhuang, so we stayed in Xijing. In the future, you will take Zhou Min, a student, and let him learn to write articles from you.Zhuang Zhidie said: Zhou Min is now in the editorial department, and I will have to ask him to submit manuscripts in the future.The woman said, then I will drink first!After a cup of drinking, Jing's face was flushed.Zhuang Zhidie then drank the cup, and the woman had three more cups in a row.Zhou Min coughed, and the woman stretched out her hands to pinch the loose hair behind her ears, her face became more and more beautiful.Zhuang Zhidie also took the pleasure of drinking three cups to wash away the desertedness just now, and grabbed the wine bottle upside down in his hand, dissatisfied with Tang Wan'er's massive amount. Everyone was laughing and joking, and Meng Yunfang went to stir-fry three meat dishes and three vegetarian dishes, and then served fried fish with pine nuts, hot kidney, = Pantian chicken, and a casserole stewed soft-shelled turtle.Xia Jie called the soft-shelled turtle good, and said that whoever can eat the needle bone will be blessed. In foreign countries, the needle bone is used as a toothpick, and it costs five dollars each.Separated the meat by hand, and put a portion on the small plate in front of each person.Tang Wan'er flipped through the dishes on her plate with her chopsticks, and found that there was a needle bone in one piece, so she said: I ate a lot of turtles from the Yellow River in Tongguan, but I thought it smelled like mud. Teacher Zhuang, your body is important, and this is for you. Bar!It can't be said that it was poured into Zhuang Zhidie's plate.Zhuang Zhidie knew that the woman cared about him, so he also took a piece and said to her: This is a good thing, you have to eat it.When Tang Wan'er looked at it, it was a turtle's head, black and ferocious, and she was taken aback. She squinted at Zhuang Zhidie, who pretended to be calm.The woman held the turtle head in her mouth and smacked loudly. When Zhuang Zhidie looked over, her ears and face blushed.Xia Jie was already watching, and when he wanted to tell a joke, Zhuang Zhidie said first: "Oh, I ate the needle bone!"Xia Jie said: Zhidie means good luck.On New Year's Day last year, I wrapped a penny in dumplings, but no one ate them.He came and asked him to eat, but he didn't want to eat it. He said you should try one, and give him one to eat. I didn't expect that there was money in that one.Tang Wan'er swallowed the turtle head, and her blushing faded away, but she didn't dare to look into Xia Jie's eyes, saying that she was going to fry some bean shredded pork, and got up and went to the kitchen. Zhuang Zhidie drank a lot of wine again, and his head sank unconsciously.Hearing ding ding bang bang in the kitchen, he said: I can't sit still when I smell the smell, let me see how to fry it?Xia Jie said: What's there to see? If you like to eat, I will let Tang Wan'er come to your house to make it for you in the future.You sit down honestly, eat this toast from me, and borrow flowers to offer Buddha, you have the right to take it as my thanks for letting you watch my dance.Zhuang Zhidie smiled and ate another glass, and glanced outside the door. The door of the main room was facing the kitchen. The kitchen door was not closed, and Tang Wan'er was busy there. Tang Wan'er cut the meat into slices in the kitchen, lit the gas, and the fire was bang bang, so many thoughts arose.I only put a small mirror on the chopping board in front of the stove, and the mirror just reflected Zhuang Zhidie sitting upright. I thought: In terms of shape, the writer is not handsome enough, but it is also strange. I think this person is cute, and the more he looks the better.In the past in Tongguan County, he only knew that Zhou Min was smart and capable, and could write articles. It turned out that Xijing is Xijing after all, and Zhou Min was just a little smart in front of him!Thinking of this, the oil was fried, and I was in a hurry to put the bean shreds, but I put a piece of uncut ginger. , He squatted down with an ouch. Hearing the woman screaming in the main room, Zhou Min ran over and broke the woman's hand away. A bright blister had already formed on her face. The woman hurriedly took a mirror to look at it, and tears flowed out.Everyone asked what's the matter, Zhou Min said: It's nothing serious, a little oil splashed on his face.Helping the woman to apply oil in the bedroom, Meng Yunfang said: Now this woman can do nothing but give birth to babies.Xia Jie said: Don't say that, I didn't even give you a baby!Everyone laughed again, and naturally Meng Yunfang went to the kitchen again. In the bedroom, Tang Wan'er whispered: What a pity, how can I meet people!Zhou Min said: It's nothing, Mr. Zhuang is not the kind of fastidious person.I was surprised when I saw him. I told you about the man lying under the belly of the cow and sucking the milk. Who do you know, it is him!The woman said: He is no more particular than you and me if he is not particular. You and I are sloppy if we are not particular, but chic if he is not particular!Zhou Min came out to eat and drink with him again, tearing apart the chicken and putting the chicken head in Zhuang Zhidie's plate.Zhuang Zhidie also put a chicken leg for Xia Jie, and put another chicken wing on a plate for Zhou Min to serve to Tang Wan'er.Zhou Min said: Wan'er, come out quickly, Teacher Zhuang has brought you some food.The woman came out, covering her face in embarrassment, and said: I'm really sorry.Xia Jie said: Why are you sorry?The woman said: Give everyone a bad face, no respect for people!Zhuang Zhidie said in his heart: This woman is so charming.Meng Yunfang smiled and said: Your face is thin and tender, so rotten is also a kind of broken symmetry.The woman sat down, her face never fading, and she smiled shyly when she met Zhuang Zhidie's eyes.When Zhuang Zhidie brought some wine, he panicked and said to go to the toilet and get out. As soon as he entered the toilet and closed the door, the dust root had an erection, but he didn't urinate, he closed his eyes and gasped loudly, imagined many images in his mind, and some foreign objects flowed out, so he became more awake.Come back to eat food at the banquet, but the mood is depressed.At four o'clock in the afternoon, the banquet was withdrawn, and Zhuang Zhidie got up to say goodbye. How could Zhou Min stay politely, saying that he had something important to go to Ruan Zhifei's place, so Zhou Min sent the guests to the crossroads.When I came back, I saw Tang Wan'er was still leaning against the door, and called out, but the woman didn't respond, so why are you in a daze?Look at the scald on the face, the blisters have deflated, and there is a small idiot on it.Tang Wan'er came back to her senses, quickly pouted and said: I'm not ashamed today, am I?Zhou Min said: No, you look more beautiful today than ever!Talking about his wife.The woman asked him to kiss, but she didn't move, but said: They are all very happy, everything is fine, it is a pity that Teacher Zhuang's wife did not come.Zhou Min said: I heard from Teacher Yu that she is staying at her mother's house recently, and her mother is sick.The woman said: Sister Xia said that his wife is a good-looking person.Zhou Min said: They all said so.Will Zhuang Zhidie marry an ugly wife?Tang Wan'er let out a long sigh, and sat back on the bed with a blank face. That night, Zhuang Zhidie did not go back to his home in the compound of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Ruan Zhifei invited him to review a new show with the leaders of the city, and helped rewrite all the lines of the show. A group of actors made a fuss Play cards with him for fun.In the middle of the night, Zhu Die wanted to go home, but Ruan Zhifei forced him to go to his house for a drink.Ruan Zhifei newly decorated the room, and also wanted to show Zhuang Zhidie; There are so many handsome girls in the orchestra, but it turns out that all the actors are like persimmons with green skins, and Tang Wan'er is far behind in terms of color.Thinking about many details of the banquet during the day, he couldn't help feeling a little complacent, so he drank heavily.He also knew that Ruan Zhifei's wife was not at home that night.This couple is one who sells firewood and the other buys firewood. Neither of them interferes with each other's private affairs on weekdays. They only stipulate that they must be together on Saturday nights.So he took off his shirt, drank and chatted until he became groggy, and then squeezed into Ruan Zhifei's separate bedroom bed and fell asleep.When I woke up the next day, the sun was already shining on the window sills. Surprised, Ruan Zhifei’s room was indeed luxuriously decorated, and Ruan Zhifei was also flustered, saying that the wallpaper he used was imported from France, and the tea-colored glass for the doors and windows was produced in Italy. I bought thirty-seven sheets of Shanghai's famous five-ply plywood board, and I was not very rich.He took Zhuang Zhidie to look at the bathtub in the bath, then at the liquefied gas stove in the kitchen, and at the high and low combination cabinets in the two cabins. Only the door next to the hall was locked. Ruan Zhifei said: This is your sister-in-law's In her room, there is a genuine Japanese chandelier hanging there, you can see how rare it is!Taking out the key and turning the lock, Zhuang Zhidie was taken aback. Two people fell asleep side by side on the huge Simmons soft bed: one was Mrs. Ruan, and the other was a man. of.Zhuang Zhidie's mind suddenly buzzed, confused like a dream, but Ruan Zhifei was still introducing: This is my wife... When did she come back, we were asleep and didn't hear the door?Zhuang Zhidie didn't know what to answer, and Ruan Zhifei felt that it was not smooth if he didn't speak.Ruan Zhifei said: That must be me.After finishing speaking, he closed the door, and Qianzhuang Zhidie went back to his bedroom, and opened a closet door with a bang. Inside was a five-layer lattice, filled with all kinds of women's leather shoes of different sizes.I like shoes, he said: Every pair of shoes has a beautiful story.Zhuang Zhidie couldn't understand what he was talking about, looked at the white gums in the corners of Ruan Zhifei's eyes, and said: Wipe the corners of your eyes. ; I thought for a while, if this was bought for some women, why didn't I send it?Maybe give one and buy another, here as another kind of file?Ruan Zhifei took a pair to Zhuang Zhidie, and said: This pair was given to me by Manager Zhu of the West Street Mall the day before yesterday. It has no number and no story. I will pass it on to my younger siblings. You must accept it.Zhuang Zhidie brought his leather shoes; he left Ruan Zhifei's house in a hurry, the motorcycle had already passed the intersection of Guangji Street, Fang remembered that he had a notice of manuscript fee on him, turned around and went back to the bell tower post office to collect the money, which was not much, more than two hundred yuan.When I came out, I saw a lot of pedestrians on the street. I looked at my watch and it was already off-duty time. I swayed to the parking lot with the shoe box in my hand. I felt that I just accepted this pair of leather shoes and did something boring. Smiling, his heart suddenly moved, so he went to the phone booth and called Jing Xueyin's house.A man's voice came from the phone, asking directly: Who is it?who?Knowing that this was Jing Xueyin's husband, Zhuang Zhidie hung up the phone.I called Jing Xueyin's work unit again, and after inquiring, I found out that Jing Xueyin had gone to visit relatives at her parents' place. Before she came back, she patted the shoebox, walked out of the phone booth disgruntled, and sat bored under the newspaper column next to her. Read newspapers.A young man approached in a flash and whispered, "Do you want glasses?"As soon as the clothes were bright, a pair of round mirrors with hard legs hung on the chest of the vest.Said: To tell you the truth, my younger brother stole this. The real stone mirror is clearly priced at 800 yuan in the store. My younger brother wants money and is eager to sell it. You can give me 300 yuan, so I can find a cheap one.Zhuang Zhidie looked up at the sky, the sun was shining brightly, his eyes squinted and smiled, he took it out on his body, took it out, it was not money but a business card, and said: Brother, to tell you the truth, my brother is also in this business.Make a friend, here is my business card.The man took the business card and read it, saluted backwards with a slap, and said, "So it's Mr. Zhuang, what an honor!"I heard your report once, but you are fat and have a small belly, I don't recognize you anymore!Zhuang Zhidie said: Do you also like writing?The man said: I have dreamed of becoming a writer since I was a child, and a small poem of mine was published in the city newspaper last year.Zhuang Zhidie said: Xijing is amazing. When a meteorite fell from the sky and killed ten people, seven of them were literature lovers!The man walked away ashamed.Looking back at him while walking, Zhuang Zhidie felt funny and angry, so he went into a grocery store, considered the two hundred yuan manuscript fee very cheap, and bought a set of Jingdezhen porcelain plates, a frying spoon, a A briquette stove, and a set of tea sets. I immediately wrote down the address of Tang Wan'er's house and asked the store to deliver it properly, but I rode Mulan straight to my mother-in-law's house on Shuangrenfu Street. Fifty-five years ago, there lived a strange man named Niu on the banks of the Wei River in the outer suburbs of the city.At that time, Yang Hucheng had just ended his swordsman activities on the Guanzhong Road, and he had become a martial lord in Xijing City, so he was invited to be his staff.This strange man has only one ambition, and he doesn't want to live in the city. He still builds three thatched huts in the countryside and sets up an acre of Susukida to live a lazy and comfortable life.Whenever Commander Yang has any important matters, Fang is willing to go to the city once.Soon, Henan warlord Liu Zhenhua besieged Xijing, and failed to break through for 80 days, so he adopted the Japanese strategy to dig tunnels from outside.Everyone in the city knew that the enemy was digging a tunnel, but they didn't know where the tunnel would exit. Day and night they buried earth urns in the ground, filled them with water, and watched the movement of the water. Everyone was in panic all day long.The strange man came, dressed in long robes and jackets, walked around the streets and alleys, stopped, sat on a stone at the gate of the teaching ground, smoked waterpipes, smoked twelve whistles, and said: "Here we pick mud and dig ponds, put A lake.Yang Hucheng was dubious, but still diverted the whole city's water to store it there.As a result, the exit of the tunnel was hitting the bottom of the lake. One day, the center of the lake sank and the water overflowed from outside the city. Liu Zhenhua had no choice but to retreat. Yang Hucheng thanked this person and gave him an alley in Shuangrenfu Street to live in, but this person still returned to the Weihe River. On the shore, the son lived in the alley.Because this place is the largest of the four sweet water wells in Xijing City, my son opened the Shuangren Mansion Water Bureau, which supplies sweet water with carts and donkeys every day.This period of history, Zhuang Zhidie is the most willing to say that if there are visitors at home, his wife Niu Yueqing must take out the photo of her grandfather and the water board of the water bureau to look at it, just look at it.I have to go to the streets and alleys of Shuangrenfu to point out the scene of the Niu family living alone in this alley.Niu Yueqing reprimanded Zhuang Zhidie: Are you making fun of the decline of my Niu family's descendants by making such publicity?Even if my mother didn't give birth to a child, if she had a child, she wouldn't just stick to those few bungalows now!Zhuang Zhidie always salivated and said: How am I laughing?The Niu family is in decline, isn't it also my son-in-law who came to the door? !Niu Yueqing called mother at this time, mother, mother, did you hear that?Your son-in-law's tone means that he is a celebrity, and he has won face for the Niu family!Tell me, is his current status as high as my father and grandfather's at that time?There was still an old lady living in the small courtyard of Shuangren Mansion. She was unwilling to go upstairs to the courtyard of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Zhuang Zhidie and Niu Yueqing were struggling with each other.Every time Zhuang Zhidie enters the streets and alleys here, the past history suddenly emerges, he wants to stand on the well platform that has been sealed, and watch for a long time that the rope on the bluestone of the well platform is worn out like sawtooth. Qu Cao'er, imagining the scene in the streets and alleys back then, thought that Niu Yueqing's words to reprimand him were right. The sun was at the top, and the heat was poisonous. Zhuang Zhidie rode Mulan into the alleyway, and his upper body felt dry, and his eyes were blinded by sweat.But a wandering dog was lying on the road, panting with a long tongue.Zhuang Zhidie couldn't dodge in time, so Mulan leaned against the wall. The car didn't fall down, but a piece of skin was scraped off the little finger of her left hand.Entering the gate of the small courtyard, Zhao Jingwu was talking to Niu Yueqing in the room, and ran out when he heard the sound of the motorcycle, saying: Finally, I waited for you back!He helped to carry the city wall brick behind the car into the house.Niu Yueqing screamed: Don't move this junk home!Zhuang Zhidie said: Take a closer look, this is a Han brick: Niu Yueqing said: You put it in the room at the Federation of Literature and Art so that no one can get in, so you still have to put it here!A city wall brick is said to be from the Han Dynasty, and the flies in the house should also be from the Tang Dynasty!Zhuang Zhidie looked at Zhao Jingwu with embarrassment, but said: This sentence is artistic; your artistic cells are only most active when you are angry.Ask Zhao Jingwu to put the bricks on Mulan's back seat and tie them up, and greet them to come in and sit down.These are a few old houses with a large depth. The pillars and the boards of the partition walls on both sides are made of high-quality red pine wood.Although there are many people, insects, flowers and birds in the relief, the prosperity of the year can be seen after all.Behind the partition wall on the left, an eighty-year-old lady was sleeping there, and when she heard Zhuang Zhidie's voice, she yelled to let her pass.The old lady died of her husband at the age of fifty, and became confused at the age of sixty-three.The year before last, I fell asleep for half a month, and only said that it was going to pass, but I came back to life, and since then, I have been talking ghosts and doing crazy and weird behaviors.In Dongyue years ago, Zhuang Zhidie was suddenly forced to buy her a coffin, cypress wood, cypress wood from the heart.庄之蝶说你这么硬朗的身子还要活二十年的，现在买了棺材干啥，况且城里人不准土葬的。老太太却说我不管的，我就要的，我看着我的棺材我就知道还有个我哩。不吃不喝，进行要挟。庄之蝶没法，只好托人去终南山里购得一副。老太太却就把床拆了，被褥放在棺材里去睡，牛月清和娘闹，认为这样让外人看了多难看，以为儿女虐待老人，庄之蝶便对牛月清说，娘多半患了自恋症，她喜欢怎么办就怎么办吧。奇怪的是她以棺材为床后，每每出门，脸上就要戴一个纸做的面具，气得牛月清不让她多出门上街。庄之蝶却喜欢逗她，说她有特异功能；如果自己能这样，不用学外国的魔幻主义小说，照直感写出来自然而然就是魔幻小说的。老太大喊叫他，他就走过去。那房间里窗子紧关，窗帘严闭，庄之蝶忽地沁出一身汗来。老太大说：这热什么呢！我年轻的时候天才叫热的，六月六就炸了红日头，家家挂了丝绸被褥晒。老年人的寿衣也晒，你爷爷却夹了伞从村巷里走，一句话不说的，村里人赶紧收拾衣服，紧收拾慢收拾，雨就哗哗啦啦下来了！现今天不热了，你觉得热是心热，你蘸口唾沫涂在奶头上就不热的。庄之蝶笑着没有说话，老太太手指头蘸了唾沫涂在他的奶头上，也顿觉两股凉气直钻心中，打了一个激灵儿。老太太说：之蝶，刚才你爹回来了，就坐在你坐的那地方，给我说他泼烦，说他的新来的邻居不是好邻居，小两口整天价吵，孩子也顽皮，常过来偷吃他的馍馍。你给你爹点一炷香吧。屋里一张案桌上放着岳父遗像，香炉里香灰满溢。庄之蝶点了香，抬头见墙角上一个蜘蛛旧网，尘落得粗如绳索，拿了拐杖去挑。老太太说：不敢动的，那是你爹来了喜欢呆的地方！庄之蝶还要问，老太太就说：他来了，香一点着他就来了。你死鬼刚才在哪里着，这般快就来了？庄之蝶扭头四下看看，什么也看不见，香燃着，烟长如丝，直直冲上屋顶。老太太又说老头子在开水牌匣子，骂道：家里传下来的古董就这些水局的牌子，你还要拿走吗？上次市长也来家专门看过的，人家再来看拿什么看的？当枕头一直枕在头下的小匣子，老太太就压在了屁股下。 庄之蝶只觉得好笑，还要说什么，牛月清在外屋喊：你净跟娘在那里说什么鬼活呀！你说完你走了，唬得我还敢进屋吗？庄之蝶走出来，说：娘说的事情也怪，怕是一种心灵感应吧！六月十九日是爹的生日，虽说十多年都不过了的，今年这生日别忘了买一刀麻纸给爹烧烧。就问赵京五有什么事，赵京五说：论说起来也没什么大事，想让你去我家那儿看看。 我家是旧式四合院，市长决策在我们那儿修建一座体育馆，一大片房子就得全拆，你要再不去看，便再也看不到了。庄之蝶说：总说要去，总是抽不开身子；可我还要提醒你，你说要送我几件古董的。赵京五笑道：没问题，随便从床下取个什么，也比得你那块城墙砖。 今日午饭嫂子就不必做了，我做东，咱们去吃葫芦头去。我还有一宗大事要说给你的。牛月清说，大热天的葫芦头怎么吃，臭哄哄的，我才不去的。庄之蝶说：这你就不懂，葫芦头是西京小吃第一碗，虽说是猪大肠泡馍，调料不同味道就不同了。你以前吃过东门口福来顺的，当然差了，正宗的在南院门的春生发，传说祖上是得了孙思逸的真药方子，吃起来就不一般。你经年便秘，那是肠子上有病，吃什么补什么，该去吃的。牛月清说：吃什么补什么，那京五就吃不得了！庄之蝶说：京五怎么啦？牛月清说：京五刚才给我说冤枉，他看中唐坊街一个女于，又不好意思向人家说破，见天去街口等候那女子去上班、下班。相思了一月，三天前去街口听见劈劈啪啪燃鞭炮，近去瞧热闹，才知道那女子结婚了，新郎不是他！京五什么都行，就是不会恋爱，有二两猪脑子哩，还要再去吃猪肠子？庆之蝶说：京五失恋了？吃什么补什么，那就吃女人！赵京五哈哈笑起来，说他准备独身主义呀，起身拉庄之蝶就要走。牛月清说：先不要走的，把我的事办完了，你们走三天三夜我也不管的。庄之蝶问：又什么事啦？牛月清说：今早我去朱雀百货大楼给娘买了个挠手，娘老说身上有虱，哪儿有虱，人老了皮肤发痒。买回来，谁知隔壁王嫂也孝敬了娘一把挠手，王嫂的倒比我买的做工好，我想把买的退了回去，只是担心退不了，你们出出主意怎么个退法？庄之蝶说：一个挠手值几个钱，费这心思。牛月清说：你好大方，你是龚靖元嘛！赵京五说：嫂子过日子仔细。牛月清说：男人再能挣钱，婆娘不会过日子，也是白搭。何况他耙耙没齿，我匣匣还敢没底？京五，我想去了商店当然尽说好话，夸这挠手材料好，做工也好，我是实心实意买了的，可谁想到孩子他爹也给老人买了，而且又都是你们的货！你想想，一个老人挠痒痒，能用了两个挠手吗？都是吃工资的人，一分钱也是不易的，多买一个放在那里，这不是浪费吗？所以希望能退掉一个。如果人家坚持不退，那就讲理儿了，说买卖要公平，如今共产党员都有退党的自由，买个货也不能退吗？现在的售货员都年轻，谁吃这一套，要变了脸儿吵怎么办？那咱也变脸，吵！你说说，吵起来用书面语言还是用粗话？庄之蝶说：让我听听你的书面骂语？牛月清说：你们强词夺理，混蛋，小王八羔子，操你娘的！庄之蝶说：你说粗话说顺了，书面语言说着说着就滑了，操你娘应该说操你母亲的，这就文明了！气得牛月清说：京五你瞧瞧，你庄老师就是这号男人，从来不为我遮风挡雨！赵京五说：庄老师在外边可是年轻人崇拜的偶像哩！牛月清说：我嫁的是丈夫不是偶像。硬是外边的人宠惯坏了他，那些年轻人哪里知道庄老师有脚气，有龋齿，睡觉咬牙，吃饭放屁，上厕所一蹲不看完一张报纸不出来！赵京五只是笑，说：我给你出主意，如果变了脸还不顶用，你就寻他们领导，领导不见，就给市长拨专线电话。牛月清说：就这么着，我立马就去，你们等着我回来再走！老太太听见牛月清要出门，却一定要牛月清化了妆走。牛月清不喜欢在脸上搽这样涂那样，就不理娘，兀自走了。老太太在卧屋里嘟嚷不休：让戴面具不戴，连妆也不化，人的真面目怎么能让外人看了？牛月清一走，庄之蝶说：我在外边前呼后拥的，回到家里就这么过日子！赵京五说：嫂子这不错了，她文化浅些，可贤惠却比谁都强。庄之蝶说：她是脾气坏起来，石头都头疼。对你好了，就像拿个烧饼，你已经吃饱了，还得硬往你嘴里塞。就让赵京五在这儿坐着，他先骑车把城墙砖送到文联那边的房里去。 刚返回来，一杯茶还未喝净，牛月清就进了门，提了一包刚出笼的肉包子，喊叫娘快先吃着，一脸红光光的，说，你们猜猜，结果怎么样？赵京五说：这么快回来，人家还是不退？牛月清说：退了！赵京五说：嫂子行，出门在外到底要强硬呢！牛月清说：哪里就强硬了？我一去站在柜台，人家售货员问买什么，我支支吾吾说不清，人家就笑了，问是退货吧？我立即说退的。人家接过去就付了款，完了！赵京五吃了一惊：完了？牛月清说：可不就完了！这么的容易，我倒没意思起来了。三个人都不言语起来。庄之蝶说：咱们常常把复杂的事情想得过于简单，但也常常把简单的事情想得太复杂了。牛月清撇了嘴道：作家这阵给我上课了！老太太吃包子，还嫌味淡，便取了碗在她的卧室里舀瓮里的醋。瓮很大，揭了布馕盖儿，满屋中都是味。赵京五说：什么香，这么浓的？牛月清说：娘，你搅醋瓮了？酿醋是每日都要用一根净棍儿搅的。老太太说：不用搅了，熟了。赵京五说：你们家自己做醋？牛月清说：你庄老师有怪毛病，街上的熏醋不吃，只吃白醋，我酿了一大瓮的。味儿真是纯的，给：你盛一塑料桶吧！赵京五说：我没庄老师挑剔，什么都吃的。如果泡有泡菜，我改日来尝尝。牛月清说：那你寻着地方了，我们家有泡菜、咸菜、糖蒜、辣子，只要你喜欢吃！当下便寻了塑料袋儿，竟各类给装了，让赵京五走时带上。庄之蝶说了几句他们家有乡下人口味的话，突然记起鞋子的事，就从提兜取出来给牛月清。牛月清说：给我买的？庄之蝶没有说是阮知非送的，她恶心阮知非，骂是流氓。就说是昨日在孟云房家，夏捷送的。牛月清见是一双细高跟的黑色牛皮尖脚鞋，叫道：天神，这么高的跟儿，这哪里是鞋，是刑具嘛！庄之蝶说：我最讨厌你这么说话，如果是刑具，满街女人都是犯人了！牛月清就一边脱了旧鞋来试，一边说：你总希望我时髦，穿上这鞋，我可什么也不干了，你能伺候我吗？穿进去，前边就凸鼓起来，一立身直喊疼。牛月清的脚肉多，且宽，总是穿平底鞋，庄之蝶为此常叹息，说女人脚最重要，脚不好，该十分彩的三分就没有了。牛月清当下脸上不悦起来，说：我要穿高跟，只能穿北京产的，上海产的穿不成。庄之蝶只好将鞋收起，说那就还给人家好了，免得落一场人情。就和赵京五出门走了，装鞋的兜儿挂在摩托车上。一出街口，赵京五见庄之蝶情绪好起来，说起南郊十里铺有一农民企业家，姓黄的，人极能行，办了一个农药厂，已经有三次寻到他，说是一定要庄之蝶为他的药厂写点文章，文章可长可短，怎么写都可以，只要能见报纸。庄之蝶就笑道：你又拿他什么钱了，你偷了牛让我拔桩？ !赵京五说：我怎么敢？ 不瞒你说，这厂长是我姨家的族里亲戚，姨以前给我谈说，我推托了，这厂长又三番五次上门求我，我就寻你了。我也想，为什么不写呢？这号文章又不是创作，少打一圈麻将不就成了？稿酬我敲定了，给五千元的！庄之蝶说：那我署个笔名。赵京五说：这不行，人家就要你的三个字的名。庄之蝶说：我的名就值五千元？赵京五说：你总清高！现在的世事你清高就清贫吧，五千元也不是小数，你写一个长篇大不了也是这个数。庄之蝶说：让我考虑考虑。赵京五说：人家说好今日也来我家的，你拿定主意，钱的事你不要提，我要他先交钱再写稿，现在这些个体户暴发了，有的是钱。说话间，两人到了赵京五家。一个爆玉米花的小贩在门前支摊子生火炉，烟雾腾腾的，赵京五近去踢了火炉，骂了：哪里没个地方、在门口熏獾呢？小贩手脸乌黑，翻了白眼要还手，扑了几扑，还是咽了口唾沫把火炉提到一边去了。庄之蝶等烟散开，看看门牌，是四府街三十七号。门楼确是十分讲究，上边有滚道瓦槽，琉璃兽脊，两边高起的楼壁头砖刻了山水人物，只是门框上的一块挡板掉了；双扇大门黑漆剥落，泡钉少了六个，而门墩特大，青石凿成，各浮雕一对棋鳞；旁边的砖墙上嵌着铁环，下边卧一长条紫色长石。赵京五见庄之蝶看得仔细，说这铁环是拴马的，紫色长石就是上马石，旧时大户人家骑马上街，鞍鞯上铃丁冬，马蹄声嗒嗒有致，倒比如今官僚坐小车威风的。庄之蝶很欣赏门墩上的雕饰，说西京城里什么风物都被人挖掘整理了，就是门墩浮雕无人注意，他要拓些拓片出来，完全可以出版一本很有价值的书的。进了大门，迎面一堵照壁，又是砖雕的郑燮的独竿竹，两边有联，一边是苍竹一竿风雨，一边是长年直写青云。庄之蝶拍手叫道：我还未见过郑燮的独竿竹哩，你何不早拓些片呢！赵京五说：现在要拆房子了，我准备把这完全揭下来。你要喜欢，你就保存吧。庄之蝶说：这两句诗当然好，但毕竟嵌在照壁上不宜，未免有萧条之感。入得院来，总共三进程，每一进程皆有厅房廊舍，装有八扇透花格窗，但乱七八糟的居住户就分割了庭院空地，这里搭一个棚子，那里苫一间矮房，家家门口放置一个污水桶，一个垃圾筐，堵得通道曲里拐弯。庄之蝶和赵京五绊绊磕磕往里去，出出进进的人都只穿了裤头，一边炒菜的，或者支了小桌在门口搓麻将的，扭过头来看稀罕。到了后进程的庭院，更是拥挤不堪，一株香椿树下有三间厦房，一支木棍撑了木窗，门口吊着竹帘，赵京五说：这是我住的。进了屋，光线极暗，好一会儿才看清白灰搪的墙皮差不多全鼓起来。窗下是一张老式红木方桌，桌后是床，床上堆满了各类书刊，床下却铺了厚厚的一层石灰。庄之蝶知道那是为了隔潮的。赵京五招呼在两只矮椅上坐了，庄之蝶才发现矮椅精美绝伦，一时叹为观止，说：我在西京这么长时间了，真正进四合院还是第一回。以前人总是说四合院怎么舒服，其实全成了大杂院。这要住一家人是什么味道？赵京五说：这本来就只住我们一家，五0年，城市的贫民住进来，住进来了就再不能出去了；且人口越来越多，把院子就全破坏了。庄之蝶说：是你们一家的，以前倒没听你说过，能有这么个庄宅，上辈人是有钱大户了？赵京五说：说出来倒让你吓一跳的，岂止是有钱人家！你知道清朝时八国联军攻北京吧，慈禧太后西逃西京那是谁保驾的？那是我老爷爷。老爷爷做刑部尚书，是名震朝野的大法家，这一条街全是赵家的。八国联军攻到了京城，他是朝里五个主战人物的领袖，且暗中支持过义和团。朝廷对抗不了洋人，慈禧西逃，李鸿章留京与鬼子签了辛丑条约，洋人就提出要严惩主战派，点名要交出我老爷爷，由他们绞死。慈禧无奈，在西京下了圣旨，西京市民在钟楼下六万人集会反对；声言若交出我老爷爷，慈禧就不能呆在西京。 慈禧一方面迫于民情，一方面也不忍将自己的大臣交给洋人，就下了一旨赐死。我老爷爷便吞黄金，吞后未死，又让人用纸蘸湿了糊口鼻而亡。死时五十岁。从那以后，赵家一群女人，为了生计，一条街的房就慢慢卖掉，只剩下这一座院落。你瞧瞧，现在留给我这后代的只有这两个矮椅了。庄之蝶说：嚯，你原来还有这般显赫的家世，半年前市长组织人编写《西京五千年》，我负责文学艺术那一章，书成后，看到有一节写了清朝的一个刑部尚书是西京人，知道这段故事，想不到竟是你的祖上，要是大清王朝不倒，你老爷爷寿终正寝，现在见你倒难了！赵京五笑了：那西京的四大恶少，就不是现在的这般崽子了！庄之蝶站起来，隔了竹帘看见对门石阶上有红衣女子一边摇摇篮的婴儿一边读书，说：世事沧桑，当年的豪华庄院如今成了这个样子，而且很快就一切都没有了！我老家潼关，历史上是关中第一大关，演动了多少壮烈故事，十年前县城迁了地方，那旧城沦成废墟。前不久我回去看了，坐在那废城的楼上感叹了半日，回来写了一篇散文登在市报上，不知你读到没有？赵京五说：读过了，所以我才让你来这里看看，说不定以后还能写点什么。竹帘外的红衣女换了个姿势坐了，脸面正对了这边，但没有抬头，还在读书，便显出睫毛黑长，鼻梁直溜。 庄之蝶顺嘴说句：这姑娘蛮俊的。赵京五问：说谁？探头看了，说：是对门人家的保姆，陕北来的。陕北那鬼地方，什么都不长，就长女人！庄之蝶说：我一直想请个保姆，总没合适的、劳务市场介绍的不放心。这姑娘怎么样？能不能让她在他们村也给我找一个。赵京五说：这姑娘口齿流利，行为大方，若给你家当保姆；保准会应酬客人的。但院子里人背他说，主人不在，她就给婴儿吃安眠药片，孩子一睡就一上午。这话我不信，多是邻里的小保姆看着她秀气，跟的主儿家又富裕，是嫉妒罢了。庄之蝶说：那就真胡说了，做姑娘的会有这种人？两人重新坐下，赵京五就关了门，开始打开一个木箱，取出他收集到的古玩给庄之蝶看，无非是些古书画、陶瓷、青铜器，钱币、碑帖拓片、雕刻件，庄之蝶倒喜欢起那十一方砚台了。赵京五最得意的也正是这些砚台，它不仅是端砚，兆砚、徽砚。 泥砚，且所产年代古久，每一砚上都刻有使砚人的名姓。他一方方拿起来让庄之蝶辨石色，观活眼，用手抚摩来感觉了，又敲了声在耳边听。然后讲此砚初主为谁，二主为谁，历史上任过几品官衔，所传世的书画又如何有名，热羡得庄之蝶连声惊道：你这都是怎么收集的？赵京五说：那几方是收集得早了，有些是和人交换的，这一方花了三千元买的。庄之蝶说：三千元，不便宜哟！赵京五说：还不便宜？现在把这方拿出去卖，两万元我还不让的。月前去莲湖区博物馆，因市上建了大博物馆，各区的文物都要上交，区博物馆就把所收藏的一些小件东西未人注册登记，想处理了为职工搞福利。我去见了这砚，爱得不行，要买，他们说一万元，还了半天价，毕竟熟人好办事，三千元就拿走了。庄之蝶半信半疑，又拿过砚来细细察看，果然分量比一般砚重了几倍，用牙咬了咬，放在耳边有金属的细音，而砚的背面一行小字，分明写着文征明玩赏。庄之蝶骂道：京五，你懂这行，再有这等好事，要忘了我可不行，你的什么事我也不管了！赵京五说：你不急嘛！最近有人给我透风，说是龚靖元的儿子龚小乙手里有一方好砚，他是吸大烟的，说是单等他爹出国访问后就出手，等我去看了，如果是真货，弄了来我一定先满足你。我说过要送你东西的，这两件怎么样？庄之蝶看时，是两枚古币，又翻来覆去了半日，嘿嘿笑道：京五，你个鬼头，骗别人倒好，竟来唬我，这孝建四铢珍贵是珍贵，却是汉五铢钱脱胎换形来的，这枚靖康元宝也是普通宋币制的！赵京五尴尬他说声：我是试你的眼力的，还真是行家里手！那我送你一块真家伙，这可是稀罕物的。便取了一个红丝绒小包，打开了，是两枚铜镜。赵京五比较着，要拣出一枚给了庄之蝶。庄之蝶认得一枚是双鹤衔绶鸳鸯铭带纹铜镜，一枚是千秋天马衔枝骛凤铭带纹铜镜，心下喜之不尽，一伸手全拿了过来，说：这活该是一对儿，要送就送个双数。你收集的砚台多，赶明儿我也送你一块，你凑你的百砚好了！心下自喜。赵京五却一时为难了，说：我送了你，但你得向汪希眠给我求一幅画的。庄之蝶说：那还不容易吗？改日我领你去他家，要什么画什么，他还得拿酒肉招待的！当下拿了镜到窗前观看。 这时节有人敲门，赵京五问：谁？并未回答，忙示眼色，庄之蝶立即将镜揣入怀中，赵京五自个也关了木箱上锁放好，上边堆一些破旧书报问：谁呀？回答：是我。赵京五拉开门就叫道：是黄厂长？ !你怎么现在才来，庄老师已经在这里等你了半天，一块去吃饭的，我们的肚子早都饿得咕咕响了！庄之蝶看时，此人又粗又矮，一脸黑黄胖肉，却穿一件雪白衬衣，系着领带，手里拎了一个大包。站起遂与之握手。黄厂长握了手久不放下，说：庄先生的大名如雷贯耳，今天总算见到了！我来时说去见庄先生呀，我那老婆还笑我说梦话。这手我就不洗了，回去和她握握，叫她也荣耀荣耀！庄之蝶说：噢，那我这手成了毛主席的手了？ !三人都嗬嗬大笑。黄厂长说：庄先生真会说笑话，真是人越大越平易！庄之蝶说：我算什么大！弄文学的只不过浪个虚名，你才是财大气粗！黄厂长还在握着庄之蝶的手，握得汗渍渍的，说：庄先生，话可不能这样说，我看过你的一些报道，咱都是乡下穷苦人出身，过去钱把我害苦了，现在钱是多了，但钱多顶得住你的大名？ 我可能比你年长，说一句不客气的话，以后有什么手头紧张，你给哥哥说一声，有我的就有你的。咱那药厂生意正好，101农药市面上很紧俏，你几时能赏脸儿去看看，我们随时恭候哩！赵京五说：事情我对庄老师说了，咱也不必绕圈子，都是忙人，庄老师从来不写这类文章的，这回破了大例。你安排个时间，叼；日去厂里先看看，然后是五千元你交给我。见报是没问题的。话可说清，只能是五千字！黄厂长这才松开了手，给庄之蝶鞠了一躬，不迭声他说：多谢了，多谢了！庄之蝶说：那几时去呢？黄厂长说：今下午怎样？庄之蝶说：那不行的，大后天下午吧！黄厂长说：行，大后天我来接你好了。京五，庄先生这么看得起我，我太高兴了，咱们出去吃饭吧，你说上那个饭庄？赵京五说：今日我做东，我们商量了去吃葫芦头的。黄厂长说：吃葫芦头太那个了吧！庄之蝶说：吃葫芦头方便，这儿离春生发又近的。黄厂长说那就依你，掏了包儿里一瓶西风酒，三瓶咖啡，两包蓼花麻糖，一条三五牌香烟，让赵京五收下。赵京五不好意思，说：见一面分一半，庄老师你把香烟拿了吧。庄之蝶拒不要，说洋烟大爆抽不惯的。黄厂长就说了：京五你不要让了，庄先生爱抽国产烟，改日我买三条五条红塔山送去。这点小礼品再推让，我脸上就搁不住了！赵京五收了礼品，却仰面对庄之蝶笑，笑了笑说：肚子是饥了，可你难得来我这儿一趟，能不留个笔墨吗？只写一幅，耽搁不了些许时间的。庄之蝶就说：你是个笑面虎，你一笑，我就知道又要有事了！可你什么没有，倒要我的字？赵京五说