Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Five

So there was the big welcome and big recruitment that was recorded in the history of Shicheng in the beginning of spring. "Shi Wengzhai Years Record" clearly states: "When Yangchun is in March, the six rites have been completed, and the auspicious date has been determined. The two big families of the sedan chair industry, Ma Bu, who hate each other, re-demarcated the sedan chair area and established the Qin and Jin Dynasties. Good. Eighty and two sedan chair houses in the East and West City went out of business for employment, and the chariots and cars were moved, leaving the streets empty for thousands of people, alarming the officials and mobilizing the government.

This miracle constituted an important landscape in Bu Shouru's life course. In later years, Bu Shouru often recalled the day when the miraculous event happened, and felt that everything on that day was worth spending her whole life pondering. Under the surface noise that day, there was a raging undercurrent. Taking the opportunity of the invitation, Ma Erye once again showed his success to his father and Shicheng, turning the invitation into a demonstration of victory. Father is not stupid, he can see everything, but pretends not to. He only said that Second Master Ma was saving face by accepting concubines and moving sedan chairs.

And what she was thinking about at that time was to let the porters of the eighty-two sedan chairs in the city know that, as the daughter of the Bu family and the concubine of the Ma family, Bu Shouru was about to unify the whole city. The battle of the city sedan industry has begun.She is not only out for hire, but also for battle. Undoubtedly, it was an ambitious day. All kinds of sedan chairs filled the Liu Juren Street in front of the door, and the eight-carrying red satin sedan chair specially made for her by Ma Erye entered the door. The trumpet maker and ceremonial deacon stood in the yard, and the drums and horns rang together. It's kind of like a war.

Master Ma Wu was considered a great matchmaker, and he arrived very early in a big blue sedan chair, bringing dozens of his disciples and grandchildren with him, making the whole Liu Juren Street noisy. . Bu Shouru knew about Ma Wuye's crooked intentions. When the rogue family ran back and forth to match up this marriage, they wanted to take advantage of her, and they kept claiming that they were her natal family. Bu Shouru felt that Master Ma Wu would be useful in the future, and he didn't want to offend him, so he asked people to dress up, and said to Master Ma Wu with a smile, "Master Wu, you have to show some respect, this is my mother's house, you are not only a big The matchmaker also said it was my natal family!"

Master Ma Wu salivated with a pockmarked face and said, "We haven't decided yet, who am I from your natal family?" Bu Shouru asked back, "Who do you want to be?" Ma Wuye said: "Be a brother!" Bu Shouru said: "It's not your fault? You are such a big man, why should you be considered a natal uncle!" Ma Wuye was overjoyed: "Hey, miss you!" As he spoke, he touched Bu Shouru's face with his dirty hands. Bu Shouru really couldn't bear it anymore, he pushed Ma Wuye's hand away, and said, "To be an uncle, you have to act like an uncle!"

Ma Wuye said: "Hey, my uncle's niece's face doesn't look good anymore? What are you talking about!" He laughed dryly and said: "That old boy Ma Er is not easy to deal with, you will have a lot of places to use uncle in the future!" Knowing the truth, Bu Shouru said, "That's right, my father is useless, and I only have you as my mother's family now. It's not that you are so troublesome, I'm afraid I don't have such a marriage!" Ma Wuye said: "You are scolding me, I know you don't like this marriage." Bu Shouru laughed and said, "Who said I don't like it? I just like this marriage! Fifth Master, you wait, I will thank you for a table of wine on the day I return."

Master Ma Wu straightened his head: "Okay, okay, I'll wait, if I can't have wine then, I'll eat you!" Bu Shouru pretended not to understand what Ma Wuye said, and said: "In the future, I will inevitably disturb you. You don't want to push it, you make the decision for this marriage, and I will rely on you ..." Ma Wuye laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, it's my fifth master's blessing to be relied on by you girl! If you have anything to do, you can just find me!" My father was melancholy at the time, but he showed a happy expression on his face. He talked and drank tea with the married wife sent by Ma Erye, and looked into the back room from time to time with one eye. Do you want to stay with your own daughter for a while, or do you want to send her away earlier?

Ma Erye knew that his father was abolished and could no longer fight with him, and with the pressure of Ma Wuye and his disciples and grandchildren, he kept his promise and gave up his original idea of ​​setting up a sedan chair west of Daguan Road in Shicheng. Ask Ma Wuye and a few leading figures to be intermediaries, and tell his father: on the third day after the completion of the Six Rites, the daughter returns home, and the thirty-six sedan chairs in Xicheng will reopen. Because of this, Bu Shouru thought that his father probably wanted her to leave early, and this country bumpkin must have been thinking about the sedan number he will open soon, which is really funny... Naturally, Bu Shouru was also thinking about Brother Ba this day.

Brother Ba never came back after he left that night. Bu Shouru calculated that Brother Ba would come this day, even just to see her. So, he kept procrastinating, waiting, arguing with Mr. Ma Wu, completely ignoring the displeasure of his father and the Ma family welcoming the master and servant, and kept looking out the door. When it was near noon, there was really no hope, so Bu Shouru went out of the back room, arrived at the main hall, faced his father who was slumped in the grand teacher's chair, kowtowed dumbly, got up and got into the big red satin sedan chair. The big sedan chair lightly rises to the sound of firecrackers and drums, and the castle seems to go along Liujuren Street, up Tianqing Road, around Daguan Road, and head east all the way.

At the front of the sedan chair, there are golden gourds, axes, stirrups facing the sky, flying tiger flags, and a red-background black-letter sign for quiet avoidance.Afterwards, four gongs cleared the way, four trumpets sounded, and sixteen big drums sounded.After the drum team is the suona team, which includes not only suona, but also sheng flute and nine-tone gong.Then there are two pairs of palm fans and two pairs of red umbrellas.The last was Bu Shouru's sedan chair. Sitting in the sedan chair, Bu Shouru couldn't see the magnificent scene outside the sedan chair, but she could feel the extraordinaryness of that scene, and she felt that she was worthy of such extraordinaryness.

Many years later, she also said that in the sedan chair that day, she already knew that she could accomplish something, and she always thought that the sedan chair floating on the street was all hers, all of them. The loud sound of drums and horns shook the rotten air in Shicheng, and it also made Bu Shouru's ears hurt.Bu Shouru remembered the deserted solitary sedan chair when he entered the city at the age of eight. It was a small sedan chair, carried by two people, Brother Ba in the front and Third Master Qiu in the back. Qiu Sanye always sang "Welcome the sedan chair into the bridal chamber" at the top of his voice, without beginning or end. When Qiu Sanye is not singing, it is very quiet, only the sound of the sedan chair, footsteps, and the wind in his ears. The wind is blowing from the mountains, carrying the scent of flowers. The sedan chair was unobstructed, and one could see clearly in all directions, mountains and water in the distance, and Brother Ba's back in front. It was so hot that Brother Ba carried the sedan chair, he put his coat on his shoulders, and his back was bare...I missed Brother Ba even more, for a moment I even forgot that I had already gone to battle, and only remembered Brother Ba, still cursing bitterly, cursing in my heart Brother Ba is black-hearted.While cursing, she lied to herself and said to herself, the sedan chair she was sitting in, the guard of honor in front of her, and the small sedan chair and messenger sedan behind her were not going to Ma's house, but to Brother Ba's house. Brother Ba's home is behind the mountain, she knows. Brother Ba said that when he married her, he must go back to the mountain and let all the elders behind the mountain see her. She was still reluctant at the time, and said, "It's not a monkey trick, what's there to see?" Now, I really want to go behind the mountain, go with Brother Ba, and let Brother Ba hug her. When they arrived at Ma's house, Lin and Ma Erye worshiped the world. Bu Shouru still thought that as soon as Brother Ba came, she would make up her mind and abandon everything she had planned. No sedan chair, no sedan chair, just a Brother Ba, and Brother Ba lived and died together, never to be separated again. Brother Ba didn't come. Only then did Bu Shouru give up his heart, and he stabilized his wavering heart. According to the rules handed down by his ancestors, he bravely worshiped heaven and earth with Second Master Ma and drank the house wine. That night, Second Master Ma dragged him to see him Ma Erye's original wife Ma Zhou. Ma Zhou was so old that he couldn't even sit still, and he coughed endlessly. When Bu Shouru was looking at her, he was calculating the last days for her, thinking about how to give her a funeral. At that time, she calculated that Ma Zhou's life expectancy was one year, but she never thought that Ma Zhou would die in less than one year, due to illness. Like Uncle Bu, Second Master Ma also has no children. The eldest wife gave birth to two daughters, both of whom left the court; Kong secretly told Bu Shouru that he wanted Bu Shouru to give birth to him. Bu Shouru thought it was funny: a sixty-two-year-old old man still wants a child, what an idiot's dream talk!Not to mention that old things are not good enough, even if it is okay, she will not give birth to him, she can only give birth to Brother Ba. The night of the bridal chamber made Bu Shouru even more disgusted. Erye Ma, with his gray pigtails, was as careless as his pigtails, and he couldn't break her body even after a long while.But he didn't let her go to sleep, he huddled over her body like a dog, still panting. Bu Shouru looked at Second Master Ma and thought, can such a useless old thing defeat her father? It's ridiculous! Dad is ridiculous! Ma Erye is also ridiculous! These two rascals are not worthy of being in charge of the eighty-two sedan chairs in Shicheng. From today onwards, their good days are coming to an end! On the bed, I negotiated the price with Erye Ma and asked him to give her ten sedan numbers. Ma Erye said: "I will feed you and drink for you. What do you need the sedan chair for?" Bu Shouru said, "Earn my own money." Ma Erye said: "I will give you your private room." Bu Shouru snorted, "You're unreliable. You're so old, if you kick your legs one day, who will take care of me?" Ma Erye said: "Don't try to lie to me, I have crossed more bridges than you have walked, you want to help your father, I gave you the number of ten sedan chairs, and I gave it to your father..." Bu Shouru giggled wildly and burst into tears: "It's really hard for you to cross so many bridges! I can't even see what I put on my face! If you can hire me to be a child, will you still call me Dad?" ? Will I help him? Even if you help him, I won’t help him.” Ma Erye asked suspiciously: "If you don't help him, why are you willing to enter my door?" Bu Shouru put back the smile on his face: "It's for me to enter your door. The thirty-six sedan chairs in the west of the city are not his, but mine! It's the price I sold you! Do you understand? Back On the day of the door, I will send this bumpkin back to the countryside, there is nothing for him to do in this city!" Second Master Ma was shocked, and after being surprised, he was overjoyed and said again and again: "Okay, okay, if you can really do this, I... I will give you the number of the fifteen sedan chairs!" Bu Shouru nodded: "Then it's settled." Second Master Ma thought about it but was worried: "You...you won't lie to me, will you?" Bu Shouru said: "Why am I lying to you? After three days, if you see my father again in the city, I'm the only one to ask. But you have to think about it. Will you regret it if you promised to give me fifteen sedan chairs? I want Lord Ma Wu to be the witness." Ma Erye said: "What do I regret? You have all entered the door of Ma's house, and all yours are mine? Now we have all the sedan numbers in the city." Bu Shouru said, "You're wrong! What's mine is mine, and it has nothing to do with the Ma family!" Ma Erye said: "Don't talk about it, you are a woman, can you manage so many sedan chairs?" Bu Shouru said: "Don't forget, I grew up in a sedan chair! I can take care of it myself, and I can also ask Third Master Qiu to take care of it for me." Second Master Ma laughed and said perfunctorily, "Forget it, I'll take care of it for you. Third Master Qiu is an outsider and unreliable. Your aunt and grandma are only waiting for money..." Bu Shouru rebuffed straight away: "What's mine is mine. I'd rather not have the fifteen car numbers you promised than let you meddle in my affairs. If you want to play tricks on me, don't blame me for fighting with you! For the car number, I... I dare to work hard! You have to be clear about this!" Only then did Second Master Ma know that Bu Shouru was serious, and after thinking for a long time, he finally agreed. Bu Shouru caught up again and asked, "Be clear, will you give back the names of the fifteen sedan chairs?" Second Master Ma didn't dare to say no, he just said: "I...I'll think about it again!" Bu Shouru got up and blew out the lamp, turned his back to Second Master Ma and said, "Okay, think about it, I'm asleep, don't regret it when you figure it out, I hate the elders who don't talk about it." Ma Erye didn't want to sleep, so he climbed onto Bu Shouru panting again. Bu Shouru pushed Erye Ma down and almost pushed him off the bed. Second Master Ma is a famous figure, and he has slept with many women in his life. How can he see such a thing?He was so angry that he pinched Bu Shouru's thigh and cursed: "You bastard! Stinky X! Even your father is no match for Master, and you still want to use your stinky X to rule Master? Dream on!" Bu Shouru also grabbed Second Master Ma's leg and shouted: "Old Wang Batou, I'm not going to cure you, come on, you have the ability! You can only be a dog licking my stinky dog!" Ma Erye was caught in pain, so he let go first. Bu Shouru also let go. They were all naked, wary of each other, and froze for a while. Ma Erye was never stiffer than Bu Shouru, but when he softened, he first smiled awkwardly, then choked and shed tears, saying that he owed Bu Shouru a sinful debt in his previous life, and he might have to repay it with his old life. In the end, Erye Ma gave up. Having never surrendered to any woman, Erye Ma surrendered to Bu Shouru on the night of his bridal chamber at the age of sixty-two. The nine sedan chairs in Zhuangyuan Hutong were used as a source of private house money, and they were all given to Bu Shouru. These fifteen sedan chairs were obtained by Uncle Bu through neither conspiracy nor brute force. This night was of great significance to Bu Shouru. It established the future relationship between Bu Shouru and Ma Erye, and established an unprecedented order in Ma's house. Clutching the paper, lying on the bed bearing Ma Erye's incompetent ravages, Bu Shouru burst into tears, soaking the embroidered pillow. With tears in his eyes, Bu Shouru thought that Second Master Ma might change his mind. Just in case, he had to go to see Fifth Master Ma early in the morning, and ask Master Fifth to cover his hands with a hand-painted signature in front of Second Master Ma. She also thought that she had to make it clear to Mr. Ma that the thirty-six sedan chairs in Xicheng belonged to her. Mr. Wu had to help her get rid of that country bumpkin's father, and he would take care of her more in the future.