Chapter 7 Chapter VII

The moonlight reflected half of the shadow of the Three-Arch Bridge onto the river, and also threw the figures of the girls and kiln workers on the bridge into the swaying river water.Large flower boats and small flower boats are lined up along the river bank, and the lanterns on the boats embellish the splendor of the river.The vulgar and blatant laughter around him kept making Xiao Taiping's heart go wild, and the fire of desire ignited his whole muscular body with his blood.However, Xiao Taiping didn't dare to act rashly to the girl on the flower boat. The eighth year of Tongzhi was not the era of Xiao Taiping. At that time, Qiaotou Town was ruled by Zhang Sanye. The people in the town knew that there was a Wang Xiaoyue who could play the piano on the big flower boat, but they didn't know that there was a Xiao Taiping who was bound to become famous in the future.

Xiao Taiping hibernates at the head of the Sankong Bridge in the early winter of the eighth year of Tongzhi, waiting for Mr. Zhang and his first chance. Facing the bloody death, Xiao Taiping decided that his patience had reached its limit, he couldn't wait any longer, if he waited any longer, he might be buried under the dark kiln one day, and he opened the kiln as the owner of the kiln. Dreams can only be dreams forever. Xiao Taiping wanted to have a good talk with Zhang Sanye, and wanted to ask Zhang Sanye, he has been working in this Baijiayao for five months, and has it not come to an end?Could it be that the total value of the former Second Nian Army Regiment really is that he plowed and carried coal with his brute force?Is this Mr. Bai Er's original intention?He once wanted to go directly to Mohe City to ask Mr. Bai Er, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not appropriate.If all of this was originally ordered by Mr. Bai Er, it would be a dead end if he came to the door.Therefore, even if it was Mr. Bai Er's intention, he could only pretend that he didn't know, and only had a fight with Mr. Zhang Sanye.Bringing down Mr. Zhang is equivalent to bringing down Mr. Bai Er.Not to hurt the peace, it not only left a way out for Mr. Bai Er to go down the stairs, but also left a way out for himself.

Even though he has reached this point, Xiao Taiping still believes in Mr. Bai Er deep in his heart.After all, it was Mr. Bai Er, not others, who gave him his initial ambition and desire.In Xiao Taiping's deep impression, Mr. Bai Er really valued himself very much, and he recognized his status among the more than 200 Caotuan kiln workers. It was precisely because of this recognition that he was different from ordinary kilns. The brother's three kiln salaries are the basis for Mr. Bai Er's promise to buy the kiln. Xiao Taiping also thought that Mr. Bai Er might not know about all this, and it might be caused by Mr. Zhang.Mr. Zhang obviously looked down on him, and it was a kind of contempt for him to carry coal and plow coal. He wanted to kill his prestige in the eyes of his brothers, and he wanted the dark kiln to teach him a solid lesson.But what Zhang Sanye didn't expect was that after five months, instead of being killed, his prestige was not killed, but because he suffered and contributed together with his brothers, he gained more authority.Now as long as he gives an order, the brothers can abandon the whole Baijiayao.

Now that this is the case, shouldn't we have a good talk with Zhang Sanye?If he can't agree on an agreement, he will fight with Zhang Sanye. He will take all the brothers away under the pretext of asking for the pension money of the two dead brothers, and make the Baijiayao a waste kiln. Mr. Er was scolded in front of him, and in the end he had to ask Mr. Zhang to come to him... The flower boats in the river swayed in the shadow of the wind and lights, and some girls walked around from time to time in front of and behind them.The smell of makeup and powder penetrated directly into Xiao Taiping's nostrils, making Xiao Taiping's heart feel numb, and he couldn't help but burst into sensuality.Thinking about Mr. Zhang again, he hated him even more, his eyes fell on every flower boat, as if he saw Mr. Zhang doing that with the girls on the flower boats—Mr. But drinking the cold wind and standing on the end of the three-hole bridge waiting, this situation made Xiao Taiping unbearable.

It's not a day for pay, the business on the flower boat is not so good, there are always girls who come here and can't get any customers to joke with Xiao Taiping. A girl in a red jacket saw Xiao Taiping staring at Shibajie's big flower boat all the time, so she said, "Brother, why do you keep looking at that boat? That place is expensive, can you afford it?" Another thin girl standing on the bridge said: "The big boat and the small boat are not exactly the same. It's the same thing if you take off your clothes. Why should you be jealous of the big boat? Could it be that the girls on the big boat are gold and silver haired?" ?” After speaking, there was a burst of agitated and wanton laughter.

Amidst the laughter, the red jacket posted on it and said, "Come and sit on our small boat. It takes only two buckets of sorghum powder for a stick of incense. It's not expensive, and my elder brother can definitely afford it..." Xiao Taiping really couldn't resist the temptation of sensuality, he thought, Zhang Sanye didn't know when he would get out of Shibajie's big flower boat, and it was too anxious and annoying to stand on the bridge and wait all the time.So he looked at the red jacket, then at the skinny girl, and felt that the skinny girl was more popular, so he asked for the skinny girl, and went off the bridge with the skinny girl, and arrived at a small flower boat with two cabins.

The bow and stern of the small flower boat can be loaded with people, and there are already passengers in the cabin on one side of the bow, which is full of enthusiasm and madness. Xiao Taiping and the thin girl went up from the stern, opened the curtain and entered the rear cabin.There was almost nothing in the cabin except for a broken mattress full of filth.As soon as she entered, the skinny girl lit a short and thin incense stick, then quickly took off her dress and said to Xiao Taiping while taking it off: "...Brother, I am the most kind person, I will never cheat you, you should hurry up, once the incense burns out, I don’t care if you don’t finish the day, if the day goes on, you will have to pay again.”

Xiao Taiping became angry when he heard this, grabbed the thin girl and said: "Don't be afraid that I don't have money, if I don't have a day today, let's have a good day!" After finishing speaking, he put the thin girl on the ground Under his feet, he pulled his pants and stepped up like a horse. The skinny girl dodged under her body, not letting Xiao Taiping go in, and stretched her hands high: "Brother, the money has to be paid first, and the work ticket for the kiln is also fine." Xiao Taiping once again felt that he had been slighted: Even this kind of lowly whore that everyone can fuck is afraid that he can't pay for a few buckets of sorghum. Does Xiao Taiping still look like a human being? !Angry and resentful, Xiao Taiping took out a few work tickets and threw them on the skinny girl's face and body fiercely, cursing: "Little bitch, are these work tickets enough for you once a day?!"

The skinny girl became docile now, but she let Xiao Taiping play with her heart. Xiao Taiping hated Mr. Zhang in his heart, hated the whore who only wanted money under him, and hated the world that looked down on him, so he played tricks on this time he bought with money. Here is entirely his white meat.Later, on a whim, I stabbed the hard thing into a place that shouldn't be stuck. The skinny girl was greatly surprised. After screaming, she stretched her trembling hands behind her back and said with a painful moan, "Day...day this...here we have to... add... add... The money for a stick of incense..."

Since it was more money, Xiao Taiping went to that place viciously, and made blood dripping from the skinny girl's buttocks.Gradually, the skinny girl stopped screaming in pain, and Xiao Taiping relieved himself and let go. The skinny girl seemed to have died once, and she couldn't sit up anymore.In addition to the first stick of incense that entered the door, the subsequent incense was naturally forgotten, so it was not easy to settle the bill.The skinny girl didn't mention the matter of settling accounts anymore, she just bent down on the blood-stained broken mattress and wept.

Xiao Taiping picked up the work tickets scattered in the cabin and counted them. There were six tickets in total, and he took out four more to make up ten tickets. He threw it in front of the skinny girl and said, "You are kind, and I am kind. Here are ten tickets." You can go to the accountant of Baijiayao tomorrow to exchange money for the work ticket of 'Dian Wusheng', or call it sorghum." Because of the ten work tickets, the skinny girl saw that Xiao Taiping was extraordinary. Although her butt hurt unbearably and her heart was unbearable, she no longer dared to treat Xiao Taiping like an ordinary rough person, and she choked up and said something to Xiao Taiping: " Thank you...thank you big...big brother..." Xiao Taiping ignored the skinny girl again, and opened the curtain to go ashore. When he got to the hatch, he remembered to ask, "Hey, what's your name?" The thin girl said: "The little girl's name is... her name is Yu Gu'er..." ——This is how Xiao Taiping and Yu Guer first met. Xiao Taiping and Yu Gu'er will remember this situation for a lifetime.Later, when Yu Gu'er achieved her flower kiln business and became a famous figure in Qiaotou Town in one fell swoop, Xiao Taiping always liked to mention the contempt she received back then, always smirking and asking Yu Gu'er to protect her buttocks.Yugu'er is not shy or shy, and scolds in front of the girls from time to time: "...I have today, and I earned it by real skills, not to mention selling x, even sold the buttocks, who are you all?" Do you have the ability to endure hardship like my old lady back then?!" That night, Yu Gu'er still remembered a man's ambition. Yugu'er remembered that after Xiao Taiping asked her name, he came back to her again, pulled her to sit up, pointed to the lights on the boat in Helilou and said, "Yugu'er, let me tell you, don't think that I am a kiln worker who plows coal today, so I look down on me! What I said today is here: I will visit all the flower boats on this river one day, just like you today. trembling……" Yu Gu'er was too frightened to say anything, watched Xiao Taiping get out of the cabin, and jumped onto the shore. After landing on the shore, Xiao Taiping went to the bridge to see the big flower boat of Eighteenth Sister.The lights on the big flower boat are still on, and there are bursts of piano sounds coming with the wind, and occasionally a girl singing, I can't hear what she is singing.Xiao Taiping, amidst the music of the zither, the wind and the singing, imagined what it would be like when he would visit these flower boats every day in the future——Xiao Taiping at that time never imagined that when his time came, the old bustards of these flower boats would be killed He fucked the jade bones of his buttocks. Standing on the bridge for a long time, seeing that it was already the middle of the night, Mr. Zhang still had no intention of getting off the boat. Xiao Taiping became anxious, and he already had the thought of not waiting any longer. At this moment, a string of lanterns came across the bridge.Mr. Xiucai's father, Mrs. Tian, ​​was sitting in his sedan chair, cursing the flower boat bitch all the way, and came to arrest Mr. Xiucai.Later, there was a commotion beside the big flower boat under the bridge.Mrs. Tian smashed two red lanterns on the big flower boat with her crutches, and pushed a steward under Eighteenth Sister into the river, and finally took the talented scholar who was only wearing flowered underpants by pulling his braids off the boat building. This commotion was really not small, and it made Zhang Sanye out of trouble.Zhang Sanye wobbled and jumped off the big flower boat, and was fixed by Xiao Taiping's eyes.Xiao Taiping saw Mr. Zhang walk across the Three-Arch Bridge, got off the embankment, and walked towards the shopkeeper's room of the Bai family. He followed after Mr. Zhang until he reached the stone road in front of the shopkeeper's room. He coughed dryly, weak He called out loudly: "Third...Third Master!" Although he had a dry cough at the bottom, Mr. Zhang was still taken aback, turned around, and asked in panic, "Which one?" Xiao Taiping took a few quick steps, and came in front of Third Master Zhang: "Master Zhang, it's me, Xiao...Xiao Taiping." Third Master Zhang calmed down, looked at Xiao Taiping negatively and asked, "It's late at night, what's the matter with you?" Xiao Taiping wanted to be tough, to have a fight with Mr. Zhang, but for some reason, when he saw Mr. Zhang, his toughness disappeared. He couldn't help but nodded and bowed, and the words he wanted to say changed. He didn't mention it. Otherwise, start by saying: "Third Master, that... that day under the kiln, I... I was almost... crushed to death!" Zhang Sanye let out a "huh". Xiao Taiping said: "At that time, I...I thought, if...if you really hit me to death, no one will help you, Third Master." Zhang Sanye said: "Be careful in the future." Xiao Taiping said: "Nowadays, there are...a lot of brothers are afraid, they don't want to go to the kiln, and they all come to me to settle things." Mr. Zhang obviously didn't want to hear it anymore, and started to walk towards the shopkeeper's room. While walking, he asked casually, "You——you came to me just for this matter?" Xiao Taiping had no choice but to follow Mr. Zhang, and said as he walked: "Master Zhang, you and Mr. Bai Er treat me well, give me three salaries, I... I feel worthy of you and Mr. Bai Er. I Just tell the brothers, we have to go down this kiln..." Zhang Sanye didn't seem to have heard Xiao Taiping's confession, so he went to the gate of the shopkeeper's room and knocked on the door. In the sound of knocking on the door, Xiao Taiping held back his anger and said to Mr. Zhang: "...Master, the heart of our kiln master is not stable at the moment, you always see if you can mention it to Mr. Bai Er, Let me, the little one, take care of your boss and Mr. Bai Er, stand out, and stabilize the brothers first?" Zhang Sanye smiled contemptuously: "Oh, do you want to build a kiln again?" From Zhang Sanye's contemptuous smile and sarcasm, Xiao Taiping had already discovered the futility of waiting in the middle of the night, but he was still struggling in his heart and mouth, and murmured: "San Ye, little one... The little ones were almost crushed to death, almost..." Zhang Sanye was unmoved. Xiao Taiping said again: "I... I want to make a kiln, and it was also Mr. Bai Er who took the initiative to mention it, and... it was also for your old man and Mr. Bai Er. Third master, think about it, if... If the brothers give it together You left the barren land, what do you always do? What...how do you explain to Mr. Bai Er? Bai...Mr. Bai Er...what should you do?" At this time the door was already opened, Zhang Sanye stepped into the door with one foot, left the other foot outside, turned his head and said a famous saying to Xiao Taiping - a famous saying that has been passed down in Qiaotou Town for a century and spread to more than half of China ——A famous saying that was used as a teaching material for class education in the second half of the next century because of its strong color of capital oppressing labor: "Three-legged toads are hard to find, but there are plenty of people with two legs!" , Mr. Zhang was still unsatisfied, and added: "Everyone who wants to get out, get out, even you Xiao Taiping!" As soon as the words fell, Mr. Zhang closed the door with a "bang"... Xiao Taiping was stunned. He never imagined that the five months of patience had resulted in such an unbearable result. Slowly moving his sad, indignant and desolate eyes away from the dark door of the shopkeeper's room in Baijiayao, Xiao Taiping raised his face full of tears and looked at the night sky in the winter of the eighth year of Tongzhi where the stars and moons were twinkling. Out of anger, he howled loudly like a wolf: "I... my mother..."