Chapter 12 Section VII

It is often said that those who can do more work.We came back to Tianhui Town when Luo sneered, stayed for a few days, either alone, or with Zhang Zhankui, Tian Changzi, and Du Laosi, and left again. There is no definite place, and it is not in the provincial capital of Chengdu, but as far away as Chongqing. This fact is really enough to prove it.He often lives in one place, but rarely walks hundreds of miles in his life. People like Cai Xingshun and others look like gods to him.Sometimes Cai Xingshun couldn't help feeling a little emotional, and when talking about Mrs. Luo's old cousin to Mrs. Cai, he always said this: "Oh! Sit on the ground and watch passers-by!"

Before Cai Xingshun got married, when Luo Weizui returned to Tianhui Town, as long as he didn't bring a whore rabbit or other incidents, he always landed on the Xingshun.Since Mrs. Cai came back, the backyard of Yunjizhan has become his hometown.Only when you are very free, go to Xingshun to sit. Xingshunhao is one of the best big shops in the town, and it has been in business for fifty years.So its houses are quite grand!Facing the street is a large shop with two bays. Outside the shop door, there is a four-foot-wide eaves; inside the shop, shelves occupy half of the side, and even the floor is covered with candles and cannons; a writing counter is three feet high and two feet wide. Under the shelves and on the counter at the back, there are all kinds of the most famous liquor in the town, which are labeled Mianzhu Daqu, Ziyang Chense, and Baisha Shochu in name.There is a tall rectangular wooden stool inside the counter, and a low standing wooden chair with low legs outside the shop. Both are heirlooms of Xingshun, and they are also the treasurer's throne; but now the throne inside the counter has been given to the shopkeeper. Mother, only when the shopkeeper's wife is tired from work and writing accounts at night, the shopkeeper will sit on her behalf.

Inside the shop, outside the counter, there was still half an empty room, and there were two very strong and simple cypress Eight Immortals tables. On top of the two tables, there were two big, tall, and uncomfortable writing chairs. Sanfang is a wide and heavy bench, which is the seat for wine sellers when preparing to go to the market, and occasionally a few mature wine drinkers come to sit in the leisure market.The mud walls on both sides were painted with plaster during the wedding ceremony, and they are still white; on the inner wall, there are still hanging congratulations from neighbors and friends when Hongfa was opened 50 years ago. Even though the cinnabar paper has faded, the friendship of the predecessors is as grand as yesterday.Just above this wall hangs a shrine, which is dedicated to the god. Under it, on the side of the counter, there is a double door, usually with a blue cloth curtain with white flowers. For the inner cargo room, I piled up some things and furniture, and put them in this room by going up the temporary stairs to the upstairs.Because there are mud walls at the front and back, and there are only three doors, except for the one that leads to the pavement, the other one leads to the empty dam at the back, and the other is on the right wall. Entering it is the bedroom of the shopkeeper and his wife; The windows, where the light passes through, depend entirely on the three rows of bright tiles on the top, and the bright tiles have not been scrubbed for several years, so the light through is limited.There are two big blocks of windows in the bedroom, the front one is facing the cabinet room, the square window lattice is pasted with white paper, and at some point, a rare glass brick was embedded in the window lattice, which was as big as dried tofu; It’s really convenient to have this guy, just go to the back of the bed, remove the sticky flying paper, and you can see the situation outside clearly, but people outside can’t detect it; The dam can be propped outward.On the left, there is another small single door.Of all the buildings, this one is the best, which is almost the main part; the upper part is also a floor, but it is not inhabited, and the lower part is a floor; Over the eaves, the shaded scenery has been forcing into the house.

On the left side of the empty dam, next to the inner goods room, is the kitchen room. The side of the kitchen room used to be a pigsty. Since Aunt Cai thought pigs stink, she has changed it to stack firewood since she came.Where the firewood used to be piled up, some plants and flowers, and a shelf of beans and pumpkins were planted.The days are long and there is nothing to do. When the sun is not shining, she likes to sit here with a low bamboo chair as a way of life.The bad thing is that Mumu Shi, the neighbor on the right, has raised many chickens, and the bamboo fence is broken again. When there is no one around, it is most likely to be invaded by a few chickens with big fists, crawling the floating soil under the plants and flowers in a mess, and And sprinkled piles of chicken manure.There is also a dense bamboo fence on the outside, and a door is opened. When you go out, you will find the path behind the field; three or four feet away, there is a small ditch with flowing water, along with more than a dozen alder trees, where Mrs. Cai and her neighbors wash their clothes. ,right here.

Every time Luo Waizui came to sit and talk, he always squatted on the high chair above the square table in the shop, holding a three-foot long monkey's head bamboo tobacco rod in his mouth.Cai Xingshun always smoked cigarettes with him on his low-legged throne, while Mrs. Cai sat at the counter and chatted casually.Most of them are less than half a bag of leaf cigarettes, and someone will come to Luo Weizui, and he will not leave, and there are always many people talking about this and that with him at the square table for a week; At first I didn't understand it, but when I asked Cai Xingshun afterwards, I didn't understand it either. Later, I got familiar with it and understood a little bit.At first, I was amazed that Luo Waizui and the others spoke and behaved extremely rudely, even to the point of being appallingly rude. It was clearly a good word, but they had to be yelled out in a cursing voice; but after several times, they could distinguish the rudeness Among them, there are also very delicate speeches, not only do not feel scary, but feel warmer and more energetic than the gentle ones.She really wanted to join in the discussion, but it was a pity that there was no space for her to intervene, and she couldn't talk about it herself, and she had nothing to talk about.Looking at my own husband, when everyone is talking, he always half-closes his eyes and sits there on his back, not stupid, not stupid, and everyone does not look at him.On the contrary, Luo Waizui has always been the same to him. When he eats leaf cigarettes, he always passes him a cigarette, and when he has something unimportant, he always asks him for a few words.Whenever she asked him why he didn't talk to everyone when she was alone, he would always shake his head and say, "It's nothing to do with me, what are you talking about?"

Only once or twice, because Luo Waizui came and it was time for rushing to the market, the seats outside were crowded with people and it was not easy to sit, so he slipped to the empty dam in the back by himself, smoking a cigarette, thinking about something.On the one hand, Cai Xingshun had to take care of the buyer, because the shop only used a 14-year-old apprentice named Tupanzi, who was not considered capable and could not be a double; .On the contrary, Mrs. Cai felt that it would be inappropriate to let him be alone on the empty dam, so she hugged the golden baby who was still a cloth scroll, and left the closet room, dragged another bamboo chair, and put it under the red tree to sit with him.

Sometimes, when talking with him about the age and the weather, Luo Waizui would talk casually; sometimes when he had nothing to say, he would tease the child and find something to talk about from the child.Only once did I suddenly mention a case that everyone has been talking about in recent months: it was a grain farmer in the city, who was not convinced because of the trivial matter of five buckets of millet, and sent him, a tenant, to the county. .The officials don't ask, once the card room is lost, it will take a few months.The tenant has a relative, a brother on the pier, who once came to ask Luo to intercede with the yamen, and asked Mr. Zhu to send a letter of concern. When the grain household found out, they immediately submitted a submission, including Luo Waizui, saying that "money can pass through the gods, and power can return to heaven."The county magistrate was very angry, and the messenger locked up the grain household. He wanted to beat him up, but he suddenly yelled, claiming that he was a disciple.At this moment, all the people in the Second Church, from the magistrate to the cheerleaders, were all horrified, and hurriedly asked him to stand up, but he knelt on the ground and refused to obey: "Your priest must be invited to come, I will not get up." Yes; I don't believe that a little pao brother can collude with the yamen to oppress our parishioners! How dare you lock me up and beat me! You must ask the priest to write a book to refer to your magistrate's future. !" Afterwards, Luo Waizui and the others inquired carefully, and it was clear that this person had not been taught.But the county magistrate was already stunned, and the tenant dared not let him go, nor did he dare to settle the crime of the grain householder’s yelling at the court. He said to his friend: “Since he has the guts to bombard me with the parishioners, how do you know he won’t do it tomorrow? Seriously go to teach? If he is punished today, and the priest really comes tomorrow, will I still be an official?" It doesn't matter if the official softens like this, Luo Waizui and others' faces are really wiped out.When people talked about it, those who sympathized with them all complained about it, saying that in the current world, it has become unreasonable!Those who resent them laughed and said: "There is also today! Brother Pao will have a time!"

Talking about this matter, Mrs. Cai asked Luo with an exasperated voice: "The religious people are also people like us, why do the government fear them when they eat foreign religions! Are foreign religions so fierce?" ?” Luo Waizui still looked normal, and said flatly: "The foreign religion is not fierce, only the foreigners are fierce, so the government is afraid of him and dare not offend him." "Why are foreigners so violent?" "Because they have powerful guns, we can't beat him." "How many are there?" "Then I don't know.... I don't think there are many people here. You see, there are only a dozen people in Chengdu alone?"

She stood up and raised her voice: "Then you are too bad! You often boast: there are so many piers in the whole province, and you have so many brothers and sisters. You are not afraid of the sky and the earth! Why do you even have a dozen foreigners? There’s nothing we can do! Let’s just say that they are firing fiercely, and after all there are only a dozen or so of them, and we can fight for a hundred of them, and we can kill them all!”