Chapter 26 third quarter

Finally got on the tram that she had been thinking about so much, Eileen Chang looked at all kinds of beings on the tram with joy: ——There is a young man in a beige and green checkered rabbit robe, wearing a pair of women's red and green striped socks on his feet, and holding a fancy painted ivory pipe in his mouth—of course it is an imitation ivory "Sibei" Goods—there was no smoke in the pipe, but he sucked it with relish, took it off for a while, took the pipe apart to play with, put it back in after playing for a while, and continued to suck in a decent way——Zhang Ailing couldn't help laughing Get up—that young man is so happy.She is also really happy.

——There is also the woman on the tram who scolded the man endlessly, and cursed her own man endlessly, but she couldn't leave him every single word. That wonderful conversation, a little tidying up is a good article. ——Even in a blockade, it is a small adventure.The tram stopped, but the people on the road started to run, the people on the left side of the street ran to the right side of the street, and the people on the right side ran to the left side.A maid tried to break through the line of defense, struggling and yelling: "It's getting late! Let me go back and cook!" But the people in the tram were quite calm, discussing such things as "being a human being and dealing with the world" as usual. The great truth, or worrying about the real troubles of "dry cleaning, smoked fish", and even a small affair as an episode, a romantic drama was staged in a short closed space.

There is a couplet in Qin Keqing's room: insight into world affairs is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is writing—if this is the case, all Shanghainese are scholars. All of these, Zhang Ailing saw them one by one, kept them in her heart, and wrote them down. She smiled and looked at her hometown and "folks" with interest from the eyes of a "foreigner", and felt a lot of new meanings - the long pole in the alley was picking up the children's open crotch pants, and the aunt sat at the door of the hall and took them off. While the dishes were chattering and chatting about homework; the glass jars on the counter in the store were filled with "Ginseng Mustard Wine", and the wine shop next door raised the flag of "Taibai Legacy" in the wind, and someone staggered over to drink, but it was cooking wine In winter, the children wear cotton-padded jackets, trousers, cotton robes and burqas, and they are short and fat, and they come staggeringly, with a pair of magical hanging eyes flying on their little yellow faces, which are very interesting and lovely; In a rickshaw, a woman sits obliquely on the cart, holding a net bag with persimmons in her hand. The driver squats on the ground, lighting the oil lamp. When it gets dark, the lamp at the woman’s feet is turned on; the stove for baking potatoes The style and the dull earthy red are very similar to baked potatoes; small restaurants often cook pumpkins at the door, although the taste is not necessarily good, the hot smell of melons and the bright red color give people a kind of "warm old and poor" Feel……

The street scene is even more beautiful and colorful, like a "show window of life", with endless meanings: in the cold morning, there are often people squatting on the sidewalk with a small stove, fanning out billowing white smoke, and passers-by rush to avoid it. Walking through the smoke, I felt a dreamy feeling in my heart; There are several children playing on the high ground at the door.There was an eight or nine-year-old girl with a long yellowish face, light eyebrows, and a thin purple jacket and blue trousers. She sat on the edge of the steps with her head bowed, her greasy hair hanging over her face. She was studying with a friend. The principle of knitting wool.Her wool was probably only enough to make a small cuff, but she looked very happy, and put the finished cuff of pink and blue wool on her friend's wrist for a test.Her friend stretched out a hand, looked around, and was also very happy.Ailing walked all the way there without looking back, but felt a little sad in her heart;

Someone installed a red light on the wheel of a bicycle. When riding, she could see the red circle rolling, which was extremely beautiful. The person sitting behind the bicycle was probably a handsome young woman, or a child, but one day she saw A postman in green was riding a cart, carrying a little old lady, probably his mother?she felt moved; Walking on the desolate road at night, I heard a song about fried ginkgo: "Sweet and fragrant, waxy and waxy". It was a teenage child, and the singing was still a bit rusty and not catchy.Aileen was also moved in an unspeakable way when she heard it. She looked over and saw a long, dark street, the child was guarding the pot, squatting on the ground, full of flames, it was really spectacular...

Even though the Shanghai of "Xiao Bie Sheng is newly married" is full of devastation, in Ailing's eyes, the unique and intimate beauty of her hometown can be seen everywhere. Family affection in troubled times is so rare and even more precious. Even the house where my aunt lives has an awe-inspiring power, as if the gods cannot be bullied.One day Aileen broke a piece of glass on the tabletop, and she wanted to pay the same. One piece of glass was 600 yuan, which was a lot of money. She was already very tight, but she still hurriedly found the carpenter, not daring to neglect.

There was a Japanese poem translated by Zhou Zuoren in the newspaper: "Summer nights are like bitter bamboo with dense details. In an instant, it will be dawn." Zhang Ailing showed it to her aunt, who still couldn't understand her, but said: "Since you are so famous, there must be something about it? But maybe. A person who is famous to a certain extent has the right to talk nonsense." Zhang Ailing laughed—I really don't know that my aunt is too much about "famous". Disrespect is still too much value. My aunt never felt that my niece was smart, talented, and famous every day. She just complained about her, saying: "Living with you makes people very nagging and arrogant." The nagging is because Zhang Ailing Stupid, I always have to tell her one thing many times, muttering to her from time to time; Arrogant, also because Zhang Ailing is stupid, it seems that everyone around has become a superman with high IQ and omnipotence.

My aunt is actually very afraid of being nagged by others. She has a friend who is old and nagging. It seems that the years are as long as a thread when he speaks. I wish I could pick up a pair of scissors to cut her words.My aunt then sighed: "Life is too short, it's a pity to spend so much time with such a person—but being with her makes people feel that life is too long." Aileen wrote articles by herself, and also persuaded her aunt to write, but she disagreed, saying: "I can't do it as a literati. I specialize in telegraphing in the office, and I have developed a style of telegraphing. I can only blindly save words, take The drafting fee is not worth it.”

She described herself: "I am capable of both civil and military skills. I can write letters, and I can wear the soles of shoes." However, such an aunt with both civil and military skills is a bit useless in troubled times, and she is always in danger of losing her job—but maybe it is For picky sake. After leaving the foreign firm, she found a new job in the radio station, reporting news, reading editorials, and working for half an hour every day.At this time, they no longer had to eat scallion pancakes. One earned a salary and the other earned a manuscript fee. Compared with when Aileen first moved in, the situation was much better, and the German tenants also moved out.But my aunt soon had a new complaint: "I can get a salary of tens of thousands of yuan for half an hour every day when I talk about meaningless things; I can't get a single dollar for talking about interesting things all day long." resigned.

Ai Ling felt sorry for her, but Zhang Maoyuan said confidently: "If a man has to support his family, sometimes he has no choice. He has to do whatever it takes. Speaking of it, it is his responsibility, and there is a name. Like I don’t have a family, I do something I don’t like, I earn money with a sad face, and I live with a sad face, but why?” When life is really difficult, I sell jewelry.She had sold a lot of jewels in her hands, but only one piece of pale red pixia was kept until now, because it was not good.It was appraised before the war, and the store offered ten yuan, but she didn't sell it.So I kept it all the time, but I didn't know what to do with it.He sighed: "Looking at this piece of drape makes people feel that life is meaningless."

However, Zhang Ailing didn't think so, she was living in high spirits.In her heart, she just felt that "there are so many things worth seeing". In summer, the curtains were drawn in the room, and a pile of old pajamas were piled up on the asparagus straw mat. The turquoise blue and blue together have a kind of subtle beauty, she saw it by accident, and was happy for a while; the lamp in the bathroom was newly equipped with an air-proof cover, and the green and black light shone on the bathtub basin, everything was cold It was cold, blue and black in white, coated with a new layer of lubrication, and became simple. Looking in from the door, it looked exactly like a modern picture, and she felt novelty and joy again, as if Alice walked in. Entering fairyland; reading a book under the lamp at night, the trumpet in the military camp not far from home played a familiar tune, and the children downstairs picked up the tune of the trumpet and whistled, which made her happy, as if meeting a bosom friend in troubled times... It is so easy to be happy, even in troubled times, even if she has no job and has a bright future, but she still has youth, talent, hope of life and infinite possibilities, accompanied by her aunt and the friendship of Yan Ying. Yanying's father opened a large-scale jewelry store on Chengdu Road in Shanghai. The name of the store was Mo Xidian, which had the same pronunciation as his surname.The signboard is bilingual in Chinese and English, the front door is open, and the back door is in and out. The glass cabinets in the shop display all kinds of jewelry inlaid with diamonds, which are shining and dazzling. Those gems are expensive and not many people can afford them. There are always very few; the house is upstairs, and there is a pavilion at the corner, where there are Eight Immortals tables, stools and chairs and other furniture for dining or receiving guests-Zhang Ailing came here and chatted with Yanying.She later arranged the assassination site as a jewelry store in "Lust, Caution", and described it meticulously, which is probably the inspiration given by Mo Xidian. At that time, Yanying was actively learning Chinese, and Aileen taught a hundred surnames, "Zhao Qiansunli", just taught a "Zhao" character, Yanying couldn't wait to have a wonderful comment: "What does Xiao mean? Ailing said: "It means 'resemblance'." Yan Ying said: "Then 'unworthy offspring' means not like, does that mean he was not raised by his father?" She couldn't stop winking.Ailing was dumbfounded, this Yan Ying didn't know a few characters at all, but she had already learned how to be playful and make jokes about Chinese characters. The two of them were walking on the road, when they saw the signboard of the store with a large advertisement, Yan Ying stopped to study it, and then read out aloud: "Big what is prosperous. Old is what. I recognize 'Biao', 'Fly' I recognize Recognized—you said 'ming' is a bird singing, but what does 'biaofeiming' mean? What does 'coffee' in 'coffee' mean?" Chinese characters are read from right to left, she knew.But modern Chinese is sometimes from left to right.Whenever she reads from left to right, she happens to read from right to left.Yanying was very annoyed, but she still smiled, she didn't know whether she was laughing at the profoundness of Chinese or at her own clumsiness. Passing by the newsstand, Yanying went through all the pictorials on the newsstand, but didn't buy any.The newspaper vendor said sarcastically: "Thank you!" Yanying replied: "You're welcome." They sometimes meet to watch Shaoxing opera, listen to Pingtan, go backstage to watch Western scenery, and sometimes meet friends together.At the party, a lady said: "I have such a temper, I like to be alone." Yanying immediately added: "Lonely with a man." Eileen Chang sat on the side and couldn't help laughing loudly.Fortunately, that young lady is also acquainted and can stand a joke. One of Yanying's friends got married, she went to congratulate her, and each of them got a piece of wedding cake.They said: "Wrap it in paper and put it under the pillow. It's auspicious, and you can get married early." Yanying said: "Let me put it in my stomach and put the pillow on my stomach." She is still so unrestrained, and greedy for desserts. When she comes out with Aileen, no matter what they do, the last repertoire must be related to eating. Sitting in a cafe, each of them has a piece of cream cake, and another order of cream ; a cup of hot chocolate with cream, and another order of cream.Then start chatting. She told Aileen the story of a love triangle: "The eternal triangle is in England: the wife and the lover are hugging, the husband came back and bumped into him, the husband was very embarrassed, made some excuses, took his umbrella, and went out again ;Eternal triangle in Russia: wife and lover embrace, husband comes back and sees, furious, draws three pistols from his side, gives each of them one, he also takes one, each points at the temple, bursts With one sound, he committed suicide at the same time." After the story was finished, she sighed with emotion: "Jealousy is such a thing—it's impossible to think about it. For example, I and you are good friends. If I have a husband, when I mention you in front of him, I always just say Your benefits, of course, he only knows your benefits, so he likes you very much. Then I am reluctant. It is not convenient to explain, I am bored in my heart, and I can only be cruel to my friends in other things-it can be very cruel. It's a tragic thing when years of relationships are slowly being shattered." ——These were later written into the article by Aileen.