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Chapter 41 Section IX

stagnant water 李劼人 4061Words 2018-03-19
The young and decent lady that Aunt Cai and the others met was Xiangyun, the eldest lady of the Hao family.Their whole family just came to chase Qingyang Palace today. In order to catch up with the Qingyang Palace, in Hao's mansion, it can be said that it was mentioned not long after recruiting my younger brother.If this year hadn't been for the eldest young master to encourage the young lady three times secretly, talking every day, and motivating the concubine to help urge her, it must be the same as in previous years, until March 15th, still unable to get up. Hao Dasan was encouraged by everyone to the point that he could not delay any longer, so he took out the imperial calendar and chose a suitable date for travel.He also asked the third master to check to see if there was any offense. The third master had been instructed by the eldest lady, so he had to make a random calculation of Zichou Yinmao.

After the date was decided, in the first three days, Gao Gui asked Gao Gui to greet the steward of the Ma family with a film, borrowed a seat in Shuangxiao Temple, and booked a table in Zhengxing Garden.Then consider who will go, needless to say wives, aunts, and eldest misses, what Hao Dasan means is that he will not go, and take the second lady, and the third master will not go, but Chunlan can go.But the wife said that Chunlan has become an adult, Chunxiu just came, and she was about to take care of her, so she couldn't go, so she took Wu Sao to serve; the third master rarely went to lively places, why didn't he go?Gao Gui stayed to watch the house and asked Gao Sheng to follow the sedan chair.The wife's arrangement is quite good, everyone has no objection, and the other three are smoothed out by the eldest lady, and they are allowed to go, but they must first make up a day's homework.

Going to the Qingyang Palace is really unusual. Breakfast has to be a little earlier, and I sent a message to the kitchen the night before.The eldest lady was very happy, and discussed with her mother, aunt and grandma what to wear on the first night.The second lady liked it even more. She went to Chunxiu and said that she would definitely bring her a big Mo Naihe back tomorrow. Chunxiu was not active, she just wanted to take a nap; Convenient.Speaking of rushing to Qingyang Palace, what a rare opportunity!She could have asked the eldest lady to smooth things over and go play together, but she thought about it and stopped talking.Mrs. Li said that she wanted to go to the Jiuyan Bridge outside the east gate to see her son tomorrow, so she asked the wife and aunt for a day off.The whole family rejoiced for most of the night, but the master said that they must go to bed early so that they can get up early tomorrow.

In fact, when a string of sedan chairs walked out of the gate the next day, the machine bureau's off-duty post was about to be released soon. On the main road from the South Gate to Qingyang Palace, there are sedan chairs and cockroaches, and there are many people walking.The weather has been sunny for two days. Although the day is cloudy and there is no sun, the dust on the road is still very high.Although the spring water is coming out, the water in the river is still very clear and shallow before the weir is opened. City people like water too much and are too curious. General boatmen took advantage of this opportunity to get a few small boats and set off at the intersection of Liuyin Street. , in front of the Prince’s Temple, soliciting business; many people are actually willing to spend two small coins, run on the boat, and three boatmen, stepping on the water, push and grind the boat from the small pebble beach, and send it two miles There are many roads, berthing directly in front of Baihuatan.When the passengers stepped ashore, they were very satisfied. If there were poets, they would write a few poems about boating on the spring river!

There are several borrowed seats in the Shuangxiao Temple. Among them is a famous criminal master of Huayang County named Xu, who occupied the best place, the lotus boat, and also booked seats in Zhengxing Garden. Hao Dasan's family went upstairs next to Youhuangli.After washing his face, eating tea and smoking, he left Mrs. Wu behind, and then the whole family led Gao Sheng out of the Shuangxiao Temple and followed the main road to the Erxian Nunnery. The three gates of Erxian Nunnery are all selling wooden gadgets, small wooden fish, small mills, small Monet and so on.All children's favorite things.The second lady stopped immediately, and the eldest lady and the concubine each bought a red lacquered wooden box with a lock, and handed it to Gao Sheng.

I went in and looked at a few stalls of jade, all of which were not good.I just bought two bamboo grates and a few picking needles at Zhang Gongdao's stall.Walking up to Lu Zu's main hall, the woman burned incense, the master made a bow, and the third master respectfully bowed three times and kowtowed nine times, because he is a future disciple who intends to learn Taoism. After seeing the pavilion where Lu Chunyang and Han Xiangzi flew across the crane, they walked to the top and sat in the abbot for a while.When the Taoist priest went to the city, he was accompanied by a Taoist priest who was a guest, and brought out fried rice crusts, and talked about asking for a copy of "The Collection of Dao Zang Yao" to be placed in the Sutra Library.The young man was not very interested in these things, so he urged him to come out and walked in the garden.Then I followed the tourists and walked through the Qingyang Palace.

This side, after all, is more lively.Wives and young people don't want to look at farm tools, because they don't know their uses or their names.But Hao Dasan must take everyone to see it, saying that he wants to let everyone know how difficult farming is, and don't think that rice is easy to eat. When I walked to the Bagua Pavilion where bamboo wares were sold, I lingered for a long time.I bought some bamboo ware and two bamboo chairs, which the second lady wanted.After buying a lot of things, he asked Gao Sheng to take them to Shuangxiao Temple first. When the woman and the young man were touching the copper sheep, Hao Dasan suddenly caught a glimpse of three teenagers, all with braids on their heads and three loosely combed ones, all dressed in colorful clothes, with ruffian faces.There is a green braid that is still in the braid, pulled from behind, and swaying circles on the fingers.They kept close to each other, squeezing next to his daughter.When the eldest lady stretched out her hand to touch the copper sheep, a man in a maroon collar also reached out to her shoulder.Pay attention to the eldest lady and others, still talking and laughing, without feeling it.Hao Dasan was already upset, and urged everyone to leave quickly, while squinting at the three of them.

Walking to the birth stage, the eldest young master has already led the second young lady up.The eldest lady also wanted to go up, but the wife said it was too high, for fear that she would get dizzy, so the concubine did not go up.When everyone was discussing, those three people seemed to be interested, so they squeezed sideways from between the wife and the young lady.The man wearing the red collar even bumped the young lady with his shoulder, the young lady stepped back instinctively, and heard the man muttering in a low voice: "What a flower, it smells so good!" The young lady blushed immediately. , the wife got angry and cursed: "You son of a bitch! Don't you walk without eyes?"

The three had already walked up the stone steps, and one of them turned around and said, "You will be crowded when you go out for a stroll! If you are afraid of being crowded, don't come out!" Hao Dasan didn't think much about it, but he couldn't help but open his mouth, so he stared and shouted with pomp: "You bastard! What do you want?" All three stood still, one raised his eyebrows, and said to Hao Dasan: "Hey! You can curse people when you open your mouth. Who is afraid of your bureaucratic accent? Tell you, I am afraid that yours will not come to mess with you!"

The second one said: "Ask him, what kind of thing is he? What kind of thing did I touch him? How dare he swear at people!" The eldest young master stood on the earthen platform, not daring to come down, the second young lady was already crying, she hugged her elder brother tightly, and told him to leave, the third young master would only talk slowly, would only teach the servants, and would not quarrel.Only rely on the two mouths of wives and aunts to resist the empty noise.The old man was so angry that he just yelled: "Reverse, rebellious! There is no law for the king!... Gao Sheng!... Gao Sheng!..." The eldest lady was so shocked that she grabbed the third uncle and just fought.A lot of spectators gathered around.

The three of them all rushed forward.One pointed at his wife and said, "You bitch, don't put on airs in front of others! I'm afraid I won't know about your details? I've had enough of the persimmon garden's bastards!" The one in the date red collar bar shouted: "What are you talking to that woman? Take this young thing to burn cigarettes!" He openly raised his hands on the young lady.The eldest lady hid behind the third uncle again and again, but the elder stepped forward, and was sealed by the third general's collar, which was almost impossible to untie.The people who watched the excitement were so happy that they all laughed. The one wearing the date red collar frame was even more proud, rolled up his sleeves, and was about to pounce behind the third master.The eldest lady was also ready to cry.The situation suddenly turned unexpectedly. Because suddenly someone patted the shoulder of the young man wearing a bay red collar, and at the same time, a very rude voice shouted calmly: "Friend, isn't this place for fun?" The three of them all turned around, only to see three men standing in unison, facing them.The two are tall and broad-shouldered, with rough faces, and a bulge in the middle of the belt, which seems to have the appearance of a guy. "Hey! Brother, don't scratch your face with shit, our rivers don't pollute wells!" This is what the person who pointed at Mrs. Hao called "smugglers" said, and his tone was already very kind. A short man said: "No, don't play yellow accents! If the road is uneven, others will shovel it, and those who know each other will put away their knives and pick it up, and walk your Qingqiu road, otherwise, use words!" The boy who grabbed Hao Dasan's neckline interjected, "Is that how you say it? Did you let me go?" The two tall men stepped back abruptly, bowed their waists together, stared at each other and said, "Don't give up!... Show the guy!" Both of them had their hands wrapped around their waists. The man in the maroon collar hurriedly smiled and said, "I can't move! He's yellow!" The three men laughed loudly and said: "I think you are all sluts! Don't pretend to be silly, go to burn cigarettes with the old men, you can eat something good!" All three of them changed their colors and said, "We are not good friends, brother,..." The left side of the face wearing the date red collar was slapped early, and he hurriedly held his burning face in his hands. The tall man raised his palms and shouted: "Whoever calls you brother and brother will not even call you godfather!" This play seemed to be performed more vigorously than the previous one, and the spectators kept laughing.The show continued until the three teenagers all knelt down to beg for mercy, and the three men kept telling them to take off their pants and show their faces on the spot. At the end, a woman squeezed out from the crowd and said to a tall man, "Forget it! Brother Zhang, just let them know! "She walked beside the three teenagers, and said one by one: "You ruffians, you should be damned!"As long as it's a woman, if you look a little more pleasing to the eye, once you come out, you will suffer to death!Don't you have any sisters in your family?Didn't meet my old lady today, how many of you are doing well! " Zhang Zhankui turned his mouth to Luo and said, "Forget it, listen to what my sister-in-law said!..." Then he kicked his foot and said, "Go back to the den and hide! Still have a butt to see people?" This scene is considered to be completely over, and everyone dispersed, criticizing this woman who is late and early!And Mrs. Cai is indeed proud. First, she is the lady of your official family. No matter how arrogant she is on weekdays, once she is embarrassed by the ruffian, she still has no choice but to be bullied; If you do yourself, you won't get ahead, but once you mention it, you don't even want your life. The people dispersed, and when Luo Weizui and the others were looking for the embarrassing group, none of them disappeared.They were all surprised and said: "This family is really interesting! Others helped them out of the siege, and they slipped away without even saying a word of thanks!" Aunt Cai pursed her lips and said with a smile: "I called them away when you were in the limelight, lest you feel sad when the young lady thanked you." Luo smirked and said, "This tasteless little vinegar is really inexplicable!" They just came out for a leisurely stroll. Mrs. Cai bought a picture of a beautiful woman with her make-up and her feet in a sun umbrella at the place where Jianzhou woodblock paintings were sold, and a satirical picture of a country girl with big feet getting her pedicure. , and then go to Erxian Nunnery.When I went to Baihuatan, I planned to stop by Shuangxiao Temple, but because I saw a lot of people, wives, sedan chairs and horses at the door, I knew that I had borrowed all the seats, so it was inconvenient to go in. Hao Dasan's family was sitting upstairs feeling remorseful, and the second young lady was alone by the railing, watching the passers-by on the road, and suddenly ran in and said, "Father! The woman who told us to go quickly, was walking from outside the wall with those three men. walk over!" The eldest lady stood up abruptly and said, "Please come up!" The wife also said: "That's right, that's right, just call and ask for it!" The master pondered for a moment, then hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "No!" The wife was very surprised and said: "No? Don't you even say thank you?" The master shook his head twice and said: "Thank you to that kind of person, and put our face there? Don't you see clearly who they are?" The eldest lady blushed and argued: "It doesn't matter who they are, they are always our benefactors!" Her father sneered and said: "You are smart, you are confused again. If you call that kind of people in, a person from the Shuangxiao Temple will know about it? It will be a joke if it is spread! Speaking of it, How Miss Hao molested people in Qingyang Palace, don’t tell me, do I have the face to face people? I have repeatedly told you not to mention a word after you come back, because you are afraid that it will spread. Now you are saying that Someone shouted to come in, think about it." The wife suddenly realized, nodded together with the third master and said: "That's right! Those people don't know our surname or what we do, let them talk, who knows it's us. I have to make it clear, can such a person's mouth be sealed?" Hao Da held the bong three times, nodded his head and said: "Isn't it? You have also thought of this level. But you haven't thought that they can still use this topic to make a big fuss. That is a lifelong disaster! So the ancients Well said, great virtue is not repaid, that is the reason.” This makes perfect sense.It happened that the cook asked Gao Sheng to ask for instructions, when will the dinner be held.Everyone was unhappy to be here again, so they ordered to open immediately. I planned to return home drunk, but I just burned a silver pot of flower carvings, and I haven't finished eating yet.
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