Chapter 14 Section IX

Although Mrs. Cai had finished listening, there was still some confusion between her brows.As he untied his chest to feed Jinwazi's milk, he looked up at Luo with his mouth twisted and said, "I really don't understand why we are so afraid of foreign devils? Speaking of which, there are not many of them, but it's just a coincidence, but We have muskets too! . . . " Unintentionally, Luo slanted his mouth, and his eyes landed on the sweater that she had unbuttoned the skirt of the jacket. The pink cloth, although it had been washed and faded a little, still set off the round and plump breast delicately and beautifully. Half of the breast is white and powdery.He hastily shifted his gaze to a few bean vines that were thriving with business and growing vines.

"... Cousin, you are a well-informed person who has been around for a long time, and you are better than ours!... Ours, apart from abacus and accounting books, only knows how to eat and sleep all day long. Speaking of it, How infuriating! If you want to ask him, out of ten sentences, I guarantee you that he doesn’t understand ten sentences. Our elder brother is not a teacher in a shop, why does he understand it?..." Luo Waizui was still standing there, casually reached out and picked a leaf of the bean, and rubbed it on his finger. "...Don't talk about a man, he doesn't even have the knowledge of a woman. Isn't the second grandma of the Han family a woman? Look, she doesn't know that? You and her set up a dragon gate, and you really know how to do it. Go, what a good talk! For three days and three nights, you don't want to leave her a step!..."

A bean leaf was crushed by Luo Waizui, and he picked a second one.Still thinking in my heart: "This woman!...This woman!..." "...Second Grandma Han has never read a book and can read. Ours, pretending to be a fake, even recognizes a lot of Chinese characters, but doesn't understand anything!..." Luo crooked his mouth and turned his head to look at her involuntarily.The slight shadow of the sun was shining on her face.Today is the day for going to the market, so she put on gouache and rouge. Although the original color was covered up, it also baked out an artificial color.These are quite common, as long as they are young women, as long as they are not working in the sun, with a little attire, they will have this kind of splendor, he knows it very well.And what surprised him the most was the pair of eyes that usually felt different, the white parts were extremely white, and the black parts were extremely black, lively and exquisite, with an indescribable air.At this moment, he was staring at himself with a flash of light, as if he wanted to shoot through everything in him.

He was still thinking in his heart: "This woman!...This is a weird woman who is restless!..." But he continued: "Fools are honest people, and I think honest people are better." Aunt Cai said without giving up: "It's better to be an honest person? It's better! You can be angry, eat boring food, and sleep boringly! I have been married to him for more than two years. You can ask him and tell me ten sentences. Is there any Longmenzhen? It’s not that he doesn’t want to show off, it’s not that he hates that I don’t like to show off, he really doesn’t. For example, foreign devils, I always like to know why we are afraid of him, you, big cousin, also said something The truth, I heard it, and I feel better after all; you ask him, I have asked him more than ten or twenty times, and he didn't say this one time: Do I know?...Ah! Speaking of which, cousin , I still want to ask you. If you want to say that our people are really afraid of foreign devils, it may not be so! You see, people dare to attack churches, burn down his houses, rob his things, and make foreign money, one by one. Foreign devils always feel as if they dare not provoke him, what is the reason for this!"

Luo Waizui had learned a lesson indirectly, and this time it was inconvenient to underestimate her, so he tried his best to tell the reason: "That's right. The common people are not afraid of foreigners, but they are oppressed by the government. They have to be afraid. Take the lesson plan of the Four Sacred Shrines. The church beat up and the foreigners ran away. It's over. The common people have never committed a crime against foreigners." Root hair? But the officials refused to follow, and they were horrified from the beginning of the platform. They insisted that the people had committed a heinous crime, and a few worthless foreigners, male and female, who were terrified to death, were respectfully welcomed into the yamen and made offerings to them. On the one hand, they raised hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to compensate them in the treasury, and sent soldiers to supervise the masons and build the church for them, which was taller and bigger than before. Still strong; on the one hand, they are vigorously and vigorously ordering people in one prefecture and two counties to be dealt with. Thousands of prefectural and county commissioners, as if they were dealing with an imperial case, did not give up at all. How many people were arrested and how many houses were destroyed. I picked up a foreign nail in the prison, and couldn't get rid of it. In the end, seven or eight heads were beheaded, and ten or twenty died standing in the cage, and many were locked up in the prison cell. Not released. For this reason, it would be better not to beat the church. After the beating, the arrogance of the foreigners was heightened. Although they did not pretend to be cannibals, since then, no one dared to provoke them anymore. Not only don't you dare to offend him, you don't even dare to flatter him; you're afraid they will get it wrong and think you're bullying him; all he has to do is run straight into the yamen and say something casually, and the officer will panic, and he can call the messenger immediately. Lock you up, no matter what is indiscriminate, you will fall to the ground with thousands of small boards, smash your legs, and then put a shackle on the shackle, and throw you into a prison to suffer the crime; no matter whether foreigners pursue it or not, they will always lock you up If you have money, you can buy a way, get out of the way, but if your family collapses, you won’t be dragged to death, and you’ve been skinned alive! Officials are so afraid of foreigners. Prestige, oppressing the people and not allowing trouble, so anyone who is doing official business in the local area is more afraid than the officials! Brothers on the pier, to be honest, who is afraid of provoking foreigners? However, because of being controlled by the officials, a person If something goes wrong and a thousand people are dragged down, who doesn't have any scruples? Speaking of officials, why are they afraid of foreigners coming to this field? Naturally, they are the same as ordinary people, being oppressed by the court, so they have to be afraid; , bring a gauze hat; who is an official who does not want to be promoted, but is willing to lose an official? As for the imperial court, why are they afraid of foreigners? It was once defeated by foreigners. I heard that Emperor Xianfeng still beat foreigners They were driven to Rehe, and when the Old Summer Palace was set on fire, they were almost burned to death. The emperor’s old officials were terrified, so although the number of foreigners was not many, I heard that there were only tens of thousands, all of them were as evil as gods!”

Mrs. Cai was fascinated by what she heard, Jinwazi was already asleep, she still let her brown nipple stick out, and forgot to cover up her skirt. At the end, she sighed and said, "Old Cousin, you really know how to speak! People who walk in the rivers and lakes are different. But you are the one who figured it out so clearly. Zhang Zhankui and the others may not be able to do it!" This is just a very common compliment, but to Luo Waizui's ears, it is very pleasant, and I admire her ability to speak, "It's really not like a woman in the village!"