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Chapter 27 hand story.3

Mao Dun's Novels 茅盾 1735Words 2018-03-19
The public opinion in county X sometimes refuses to be ambiguous about a person's origin.Although Zhang couldn't bear it as "the eighth child in the six households" was given by the unanimous generosity of the public, and the unshakable credit was established by the help of Huang Erjie's "living family tree", there was still discussion about Ms. Pan's "family background". Quite a lot. She had a square face, big eyes, thick eyebrows, and a rather muscular body.If she was an old lady in her sixties, people in X county would probably think she was a "lucky lady".It's a pity that she doesn't look more than twenty-five or six at most.However, it can also be interpreted as "noble minister". People in X county were good at speculating, so they lightly concluded that Ms. Pan was probably the "daughter of the general".Some people even said that there are quite a lot of warlords and division commanders who have gone to the field in Tbu, and one of them is the brigade commander who is Zhang Buren's father-in-law.

Mr. Hu San, the director of the Shantang, and "Zhang Liufang" are old relatives. Once he said to Zhang Ren: "Recently, veteran generals have been employed one after another. Guitai Mountain will come out soon? Haha!" "Ah! Rumors! There is no such thing. Yunxian's father has been dead for many years, and it is not..." Zhang couldn't bear to understand what the county people had guessed about his wife's father.Mr. Hu San smiled half-believingly, but he didn't ask any more questions.After a long time, the news of Mr. Hu San's "missing the point" spread widely in the teahouse. After heated discussions, the divergent opinions finally came to a consensus: there is probably no one who said that his father-in-law had been dead for many years for no reason, or that he was a "six-bedroom". "The Eighth Young Mistress" is only the family of Brigadier Pan in T port, but she must not be from a poor family. You only need to see how fashionable the clothes of "Eighth Young Mistress" are, and how generous her attitude is-even a little arrogant, which proves that she is The origin is not small.

Ms. Pan's clothes can naturally be counted among the "fashionable" teams in X County.She came in mid-September, and the weather was very warm, but she wore a new-looking thing that was probably made of silk and had no sleeves--I later learned that it was called a "shawl". But among the tea guests was a friend in a silk gown with a scorched face, holding a teacup in his left hand, and tapping the edge of the table with the long nails of his right hand, shaking his head all the time; He sneered a few times. Mr. Hu San's relative, Hu Si, poked his head over, narrowed his eyes, and asked:

"Hey, doesn't Lu Ziweng think so?" "Where, where? Your opinion, yes;" Lu Ziweng replied with a dry voice, bringing the teacup to his lips; but seeing the eyes from the nearby teahouses shooting at his face, he put down the teacup and teased With a light smile, he continued: "However, brother has a presumptuous remark--the eighth young mistress is indeed a noble lady, but, uh, have you ever paid attention to her hands?" Everyone was horrified; they hadn't paid attention to it, so they couldn't answer.Hu Si likes to be an expert the most, and he presided over the "conclusion" just now. He glanced at everyone, as if answering Lu Ziweng, or asking for everyone's sponsorship, and said loudly:

"Women's hands are another matter. The photo books say—oh, my memory is too bad. All in all, a woman's face doesn't care about her hands." Lu Ziweng smiled slightly, then picked up the teacup, this time it was finished.The voices of the tea guests buzzed again.Hu Si seems to be victorious.But the question raised by Lu Ziweng was not ignored lightly.Yao Ruihe, an employee of the chamber of commerce, suddenly remembered that he had once carefully looked at the hands of the "eighth young lady", and it was indeed a little "out of phase". He hurriedly told the principal of the primary school sitting opposite.

"Ah! I forgot if you didn't tell me; I squeezed her hand,—" "Oh—oh?" The eyes of the Chamber of Commerce staff were bulging like goldfish. "Nothing. Foreign rules, new schools, handshakes are common." The principal of the elementary school explained. "It seems, uh, very hard, and I have practiced martial arts." "That's right!" Yao Ruihe, an employee of the chamber of commerce, clapped his hands on the table, "So I don't think it's the hands of young wives!" Lu Ziweng turned to look at them and nodded and smiled.

Hu Si could hear it too, but pretended not to hear it, and patted the person next to him—— The head of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Laojiu, said on the shoulder: "Hey, Old Nine, twenty years ago, didn't we all pinch Second Sister Huang's hand? But Second Sister Huang is still Second Sister Huang, and we are holding her hand in the dark. Don't think she is some kind of young mistress!" There was a roar of laughter.The principal of the elementary school and the staff of the chamber of commerce were terrified, but also laughed.Lu Ziweng also smiled and said to Hu Si:

"Fourth brother still remembers being naughty when he was young, but it's a pity that there are not many bosom friends. However, let's say that, the hands are - very particular. The fingers of young ladies and masters from a wealthy family are slippery and soft , and slender. I have been doing rough work since I was a child, but that’s not the case; my fingers are thick and short, and the skin is rough. The wife of Carpenter Wu on South Street has a really good face, but looking at her hands, she is a carpenter. Wife." "Then, Zi Weng, do you think the hands in Liufang are not--not big?" Zhou Laojiu hurriedly asked, but then he glanced around in the teahouse, lest there happened to be "Liufang" "Li" acquaintance.

"Hey, this is taking too far again." Lu Ziweng made a grimace and replied with a hoarse smile. "Besides, you haven't paid attention to it, so why bother to say more." Hu Si felt that he was going to fail, so he interrupted repeatedly: "There is no need to argue, there is no need to argue, everyone has his own way." So the topic of the conversation was changed.However, the hands of "Eighth Young Mistress" have become famous since then.Whenever she went to the street, the eyes of troublemakers were all on her hands.The hands are not as good as the face, even if they become the eyes of the public, they will not be red, but maybe because of the winter season, people feel that the hands of "Eight Young Mistress" seem unexpectedly rough.

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