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Chapter 26 hand story.2

Mao Dun's Novels 茅盾 1216Words 2018-03-19
This is the fact: when Ms. Pan Yunxian and her husband Zhang Buren came to X County, and they were called the "Eighth Young Mistress" of "Zhang Liufang" by the county people, there was widespread whispering, and this "twittering" The focus turned around and finally fell on Ms. Yunxian's hands. The so-called "Zhang Liufang" is naturally a glorious "number" in the old and dilapidated "family tree" (whether it actually exists or not).This "Fangtou" was formally established and gained social status in X County, probably in the year when Zhang Renren's great-grandfather took the Chinese test in the countryside. Always have a good memory, and it will always be "adult beauty", so when the term "Zhang Liufang" has been hanging for more than ten years, it has faded from people's mouths, and only the nostalgic elders may occasionally mention it, but it must be added The last adverbial, "formerly", in a word, when "Zhang Liufang" is endless, suddenly Zhang couldn't bear it, and it was the nostalgic elder who remembered the former "Zhang Liufang". There is indeed a branch of the descendants under the name of the old man in the "Township Examination Chinese Style" living in Tbu, and this young Zhang Buren is not only from Tbu, but also his long-dead father's "official name" is indeed on the "Pu" ( No one has seen this thing before, but everyone has one in his mind) as if he has it, so the people in X County, who still have the ancient style, must "glory to all the Lord".

But why do you call Yunxian the "Eighth Young Mistress"?This again comes from the word "no" in "unbearable".There is a poor old woman in the county. When she was young, she was known as "Second Sister Huang". Her husband is long gone, her son is dead too, and her daughter-in-law is "married again", but she is still "Second Sister Huang", and the "past" of her youth will always live in people's memory.The relationship between this second sister Huang and Zhang Liufang is by no means ordinary.When the second young master of Mr. Xiaolian got married, the second sister Huang was the bridesmaid.At that time, she was a veritable "second sister".Later, the grandsons of Mr. Xiaolian got married, and the second sister Huang, although she was over middle age, was still a character that everyone liked.Only the youngest Young Master Sun was half-civilized, and Second Sister Huang seemed to be too old when she got married. However, it was inconvenient for the Zhang family to change the old rules of the ancestors for the job of a bridesmaid. go.In recent years, whenever Second Sister Huang mentions that "Liufang is finished and there is no one left", she must mention her relationship with "Zhang Liufang" which is by no means general.She seemed to be both proud and sad when she said:

"Hey, under the name of the old man in the six rooms, which room is not my accompanying room? Everyone is watching them grow up! Well, the tree has no hundred years of glory, really! Cough!... Only the old man's last Young master Tang, when the old master died, he was less than ten years old, and then he got at odds with the second young master, and went out of the pier alone, and I heard that he also got married and started a business, but he was not my second sister Huang's companion. " Now, the old woman's second sister Huang heard that "Zhang Liufang has someone again", and it is the same line that came out of the wharf, and the young master in his thirties brought the young mistress. The second sister Huang was very excited and went to visit him sincerely. .

Second Sister Huang heard that the new young master was called "Unbearable", so she called him "Eighth Young Master".As for Yunxian, of course it is the "Eighth Young Mistress".Second Sister Huang mistakenly changed "unbearable" to "bashun", and gave a reason that only she knew. The youngest generation in the sixth room, including those who died early, happened to be the eighth. People also think that "Bashun" is probably a nickname, while "Unbearable" is a homonym.Regardless of Zhang Canren's own denials, the people in X County respect this almost extinct old family and call him "Zhang Liufang's eighth young master", or "the old eighth of Liufang".

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