Chapter 20 Chapter Four

The first day of the first month of the Year of the Dog is the ninth day of my daughter's birth.According to folk customs, this is a grand ceremony, and all relatives and friends come. The day before, I called Wuguan and Yuan Ji, and asked them to borrow tables, chairs, teapots, bowls, cups, plates and chopsticks.After a rough calculation, there were nearly fifty male and female guests.In the east and west hatchback rooms, there are two tables for male guests, and one table for female guests on the mother's kang.I listed a recipe myself, eight cold dishes, eight hot dishes for each table, and a pot of soup at the end.Yuan Ji looked at it, and said with a smile: Brother, you can't do this.You're hiring a bunch of farmers, all of them with sack bellies.This thing is just enough to fill the gaps between teeth.You listen to me, don't make such a variety of numbers, just greet you with big pieces of meat and big bowls of wine, and the farmers go to the banquet, the best is this.You made it so delicate, one chopstick per person will be gone, there is nothing to eat, what are you waiting for?That would be a big shame.

I admit that what Yuan Ji said makes sense.Let the five senses go to the collection, and bring back fifty catties of pork, half fat and thin.Bring back ten roast chickens, which are fat and big meat chickens.I went to Wang Huan's tofu seller and ordered forty catties of tofu, and asked Yuan Ji to buy ten Chinese cabbages, ten catties of vermicelli, and twenty catties of liquor.Wang Renmei's family sent 200 eggs.Wang Renmei's father is also my father-in-law. He came over to see what I had prepared, and said with satisfaction: My son-in-law, that's right!Your family has always been stingy and ridiculed, this time you have to change your family style, be more generous, and let them go back with their stomachs in their hands. Those who do big things must have boldness!

When the guests arrived nearly halfway, they suddenly found that they forgot to buy cigarettes.Busy sent five senses to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy.Chen Bi and Wang Dan came in with their children.The five sense organs pointed to the present in Chen Bi's hand, and said joyfully: You don't need to buy it. Chen Bi has made a fortune in recent years and has become a well-known household with ten thousand yuan in the village.He first went to Shenzhen, where he bought electronic watches and sold them to those young people who like to follow the fashion.Later, he went to Jinan again, bought cigarettes at wholesale prices from an acquaintance in a cigarette factory, and asked Wang Dan to go to the market for retail sales.

I saw Wang Dan selling cigarettes in the market.On her chest is an ingeniously designed cigarette vending machine that folds into a box and unfolds into a case, with cigarettes inside.She was wearing a well-tailored blue calico padded jacket, and she was carrying a fat baby wrapped in a cotton cloak so that only her nose and eyes were exposed.Whether it is people who know her or people who don't know her, they will pay attention to her.The local people know that she is the wife of the cigarette dealer Chen Bi, and the mother of the fat baby behind her. Outsiders will think: This little girl who sells cigarettes behind her back is so pitiful and beautiful.People who buy her cigarettes are basically people who sympathize with her.

Chen Bi was wearing a stiff pigskin jacket with a chunky turtleneck sweater inside.He had a red face, a black-shaven chin, a high nose, sunken eye sockets, gray eyes, and curly hair. The five senses said: Here comes the big money. What big money, Chen Bi said, a small trader! Yuan Ji said: Tawarish, you speak Chinese very well, Chen Biyang raised the paper bag in his hand, and said: I'll shoot you to death! Is it smoke?Yuan Ji said, the guests are clamoring for cigarettes. Chen Bi threw the paper bag in his hand at Yuan Ji.Yuan Ji caught it and opened it, revealing four "Big Chicken" brand cigarettes.

Sure enough, it was a big deal, and it was generous.Yuan Ji said. Yuan Ji, with your mouth, Wang Dan said in a soft voice, a dead person can make you talk like a disco. Oh, sister-in-law, I'm sorry, Yuan Ji said, why didn't you let Chen Bi hold you in your arms today? I cut your mouth off!Wang Dan waved a small hand and said angrily. Mom, hug... Originally following behind Wang Dan, Chen Er, who was already about the same height as Wang Dan, turned to the front and groaned. Chen Er!I bent down, picked her up, and said, let my uncle hug her. Chen Er burst into tears.Chen Bi took Chen Er over, patted her buttocks, and said: Er Er, don't cry, don't you want to see Uncle Liberation Army?

Chen Er stretched out his hand, looking for Wang Dan. This child is born.Chen Bi handed the child to Wang Dan and said, just now he was crying and clamoring to see Uncle Liberation Army. At this time, Wang Renmei knocked on the window lattice and shouted: Wang Dan!Wang Dan!Come on! Wang Dan hugged Chen Er, like a puppy with a big toy in its mouth, which was a bit funny, but also a bit solemn.Her calf moved tightly, like a small animal running in a cartoon. This little girl is so beautiful!Like a doll, I said! How can the seeds planted by the Soviets not be beautiful!Yuan Ji winked and said: "Brother Bi, you really have the heart, I heard that you won't let your sister-in-law idle all night?"

Chen Bi said: Shut up! Yuan Ji said: "Take care of her and use her, you still have to use her to have a son!" Chen Bi kicked Yuan Ji and said: Didn't I tell you to shut up? ! Yuan Ji smiled and said: "Okay, okay, shut up, but I really envy you. After so many years of marriage, you still hug and kiss every day. It can be seen that free love is different from arranged marriage... Chen Bidao: Each family has its own difficulties, you know what the hell! I patted Chen Bi's slightly swollen stomach, and said: "The general's belly is out." Life is good!Chen Bi said that he never dreamed that he could live such a life in his life.

This is thanks to Chairman Hua.Yuan Ji said. I can see that I am grateful to Chairman Mao, Chen Bi said, if the old man hadn't died on his own initiative, everything would still be the same. At this time, another guest came, and everyone stood in the yard and listened to us.The guests who had already settled down in the wing room also came out when they saw the excitement outside. Jin Xiu, my uncle's little cousin, squeezed close to Chen Bi, raised his face and said, "Brother Chen, our village has fully captured you." Chen Bi took out a pack of cigarettes, threw one to my little cousin, lit one himself, put his hands in the slanted pockets of his leather jacket, and said with style: Tell me, what did you pass on to me?

It is said that you only took ten yuan with you, and you flew to Shenzhen.The little cousin scratched his neck and said, saying that you are following a Soviet delegation, you look so pompous, those ladies thought you were a member of the delegation, and kept bowing to you, so you said to them, Hala Shao, haha La Shao... said that you arrived in Shenzhen, lived in a luxury hotel with the Soviet delegation, ate and drank for three days, and got a lot of gifts for nothing, and then you sold the gifts on the street for twenty yuan The electronic watch, after selling it back, has the capital, just toss around a few times like this, and you will send it.

Chen Bi touched his big nose, and said: Tell me, let's make it up! The little cousin said: Say you went to Jinan, wandering on the street, and met an old man crying on the street.You go up and ask: What are you crying about?The old man said that he went out and circled and couldn't find his way home.You send the old man home.The old man's son is the chief of the supply and marketing section of Jinan Cigarette Factory. Seeing that you are kind-hearted, he befriends you as a brother, so that you can buy cigarettes at wholesale prices. Chen Bi laughed out loud, and after laughing, he said, "Little brother, isn't this making up a novel?"Let me tell you the truth, I did take the plane a few times, but I paid for the ticket.Jinan Tobacco Factory does know a few friends, but the cigarettes they sell to me are only a little cheaper than the market price, and a box can earn three cents. In any case, you are a capable man, said the little cousin sincerely.My father asked me to worship you as my teacher. Here is the truly powerful man. Chen Bi pointed to Yuan Ji and said, "This man knows astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom. He knows everything about five hundred years ago, and he knows half of what will happen five hundred years later."You should worship him as your teacher. Brother Yuan is also amazing, my little cousin said, Brother Yuan set up a fortune-telling stall in our Xiazhuangji, known as a half-immortal.My aunt's old hen was lost. Brother Yuan counted and said, ducks go along the water, chickens go along the grass, let's look for them in the grass nest.Sure enough, I found it in the grass nest. Chen Bi said: He is not only good at fortune-telling?He knows how to do more.If he teaches you anything casually, it will be enough for you to eat and drink for a lifetime. The facial features said: Kowtow to worship the teacher! Dare not dare.If I do these things, I will not be able to get on the platform, and I will make a living in a low-level manner.You should learn from your cousin and go to be a soldier or an officer, or go to college or go to college.Only in this way can you walk on the bright road and become a superior person. Yuan Ji pointed to his own nose, and then pointed to Chen Bi's nose, saying, including him, none of them are engaged in dignified careers.We have no choice but to do this, you are young, don't learn from us. The little cousin said stubbornly, this is what you call real skills. Serving in the army and going to college are not considered real skills. Chen Bi said: Okay, little brother, you have your own ideas, that's great, let's do it together then! I asked my five senses: Why didn't Wang Gan come? The five sense organs said: He must have gone to the health center to stand guard. This brother is really obsessed with ghosts, Chen Bidao, even three horses can't turn around. His house is wrong, Yuan Ji said mysteriously, the location of the gate is wrong, and the location of the toilet is also wrong.I told your father-in-law more than ten years ago that the door and the toilet must be changed immediately, otherwise you will go crazy!Your father-in-law thought I was cursing him, and he wanted to beat me with a whip.What's the matter?Has it come true?He leaned on a stick, bent over, and ran to the health center whenever he had time, playing dead dogs, pretending to be a rogue, what is it if he is not crazy?Wang Gan is even better, a real farmer, but with the head of a petty bourgeoisie, who is fascinated by the acne-covered lion cub, and is basically insane. I said, "Okay, relatives and friends, don't listen to Yuan Jihu, take a seat, let's take a seat." Yuan Ji said: "The feng shui of our commune's compound is not good. From ancient times to the present, the gate of the yamen faces south, but in our commune, the gate faces north. The one facing the gate is the slaughtering team. They use their knives all day long." In and out, the red knife came out, blood and flesh were mutilated, and the evil spirit was too heavy.When I went to the commune to report, they said that I practiced feudal superstition and almost detained me.What now?The old secretary Qin Shan suffered from hemiplegia, and his younger brother Qin He was a veteran psychopath.A new secretary, Qiu, took a dozen people to the south for inspection. There was a car accident, and almost all the troops were wiped out.Feng Shui is a big deal, don't be afraid of your toughness, no matter how hard it is, you can't be tougher than the emperor, right?The emperor also has to talk about Feng Shui... Be seated!As I spoke, I patted Yuan Ji at the same time, and said: Master, Feng Shui is very important, and eating and drinking are also very important. If the gate of the commune is not changed, then there will be insanity and major events.Yuan Ji said, let's wait and see if you don't believe me!