Chapter 21 Part II.2.3

After stepping into the door, he forgot why he knocked on the door anxiously, and stood there in a daze for a while. "Back?" asked the stepmother. Only then did she think of the biscuits in her bosom, "Mom, this is for you." She was a little worried that her stepmother would refuse, thinking about how those eyes with great penetrating power pierced through the door and landed on the door. It's on her. But the stepmother patted the four sesame seed cakes affectionately and said, "Hey, they're still hot." Turning around, she gave Ye Zhiqing a sharp look. Where did Ye Lianzi get the money from?Ye Zhiqing didn't give it behind her back.

Ye Lianzi also backed out knowingly.If you don't have the experience of being beaten, or being powerless, or living under the fence, it is impossible to understand the state of "knowledge".For those who have these experiences and want to maintain the last bit of decency, "Zhiqu" is really a good fig leaf. Then it was a copper coin and a copper coin to fight for tuition fees.In order to save tuition fees, Ye Lianzi swallowed her pursuit of schoolgirl costumes again and again.If I can't go to middle school, it's better to wear that schoolgirl outfit.How many times has she put on that moon-white jacket, that black sarong skirt, that pair of white cotton socks, and those black strappy shoes in her imagination, or that moon-white bamboo cloth coat, that pair of white shoes and white socks? , don't call it a cheongsam, as soon as it is called a cheongsam, it is upscale, and it can't explain Ye Lianzi's vain insignificance.

This set of female school uniforms was actually not expensive, but she never managed to put them on, and asked Gu Qiushui to make one for her after she got married, but the face was already different.Now that her stepmother has put marriage on Ye Lianzi's agenda, her dream of middle school had to be completely shattered. Regardless of whether the woman sitting on the rickshaw was Ye Lianzi or not, Gu Qiushui got to know Ye Lianzi precisely because of this misunderstanding. Among the fragrant flowers and plants, the faint leaf lotus seeds are really like the cup of thirst-quenching tea after eating and drinking.But don't forget, green tea is nothing but green tea. After quenching your thirst, eating and drinking is still the favorite of most people.

Someone said to him: "...that is the miss of Quartermaster Ye in the division, and she lives in the same yard as Company Commander Sun." He rode his bicycle to the small courtyard with jujube trees, persimmon trees, and Luke, and put his bicycle under the window of Ye's house instead of Sun's.In terms of how to please a gentleman (not to mention chasing women), Gu Qiushui and Hu Bingchen have the same talent. From then on, there was another scenery under Ye Lianzi's window.Once this scenery enters the field of vision of a woman to be married, there is no deep meaning.

It is not surprising that soldiers can ride horses, especially in the Northeast Army where the "beard" started; on the contrary, it is very fashionable to be able to ride bicycles. Ye Zhiqing not only hoped that Ye Lianzi would have a good life, but also wished to follow his wife's advice and seize the opportunity to send her daughter away, but he couldn't understand this flamboyant and famous playboy.As far as he knew, Gu Qiushui was still having an affair with Company Commander Xiang's wife when he asked someone to propose marriage to him.So Ye Zhiqing said: "Our girl is still young, so I'm not in a hurry to find her husband's family."

Gu Qiushui also looked down on Ye Zhiqing, that little fat guy who always had round eyes, not only using round eyes to prove the golden rules of what he said and did, but also using them to embolden himself for his incomprehensible bullshit. If Ye Lianzi hadn't faced another difficulty, she might not have put all her eggs in one basket. Her parents were still in their prime, and she had to be careful, night or day, or she would run into embarrassing things head-on.She didn't understand why her father, who was not poor, refused to rent an extra house, maybe he couldn't get rid of the family custom of having one kang for the whole family?Where can she hide?How can I have my own space?The father and the stepmother would never keep themselves at home forever - it was not a matter of her burden. At that time, how could there be any reason for a daughter not to marry?But whom to marry?She was in a hurry, she was really in a hurry.

The dream with Shi Qiao was as beautiful as it was beautiful, but it was "the day of yesterday must not be left behind". Maybe when the boss is old enough, her father will marry her to a soldier who eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles to fill in the house, just like the company commander Wang who died of his wife.After Shi Qiao, how could she be reconciled to such a way out, anyway, there was no way out, so she had to be whoever she met.Compared with those soldiers, Gu Qiushui is considered outstanding... The opportunity is not to be missed, the time will never come again.After thinking and thinking, Ye Lianzi had no choice but to harden her heart and let Shi Qiao go.The sense of escape made her know what to do.And as soon as he could not turn the corner, he wrote a note and stuffed it into his father's pocket, three simple words: "I am willing." Seeing this note, Ye Zhiqing thought of the old saying that female college students should not leave behind, That's right, who will Mu marry Gu Qiushui marry?Looking at the officers around, they were much more disreputable than Gu Qiushui, and they couldn't go back to the countryside to find her a husband, so they had no choice but to agree to the marriage.

Ye Lianzi's note of "jumping over the wall in a hurry" was widely rumored. No one could have imagined that Ye Lianzi, who was young and silent, could be so shocking. They quickly got engaged.Not long after the engagement, Gu Qiushui followed Bao Tianjian to Hubei to "suppress bandits". Under the command of Zhang Xueliang, the commander-in-chief of suppressing bandits in Hubei, Henan and Anhui, the 112th Division of the Northeast Army deployed its defenses along the Ping-Han Railway, aiming to wipe out the eastern part of Xuhai, the Communist Party in the Yangzidong area.But all the eastern part of Xu Hai went underground to hide, preserve his strength, develop secretly, and never contact them at all.

Writing letters to Ye Lianzi became Gu Qiushui's only pleasure in his boring military camp life.His biggest hobby is to rewrite sentences in famous novels or Tang poetry and Song poetry; and then send them to Ye Lianzi or sing with friends.Gu Qiushui is not only better than those at that time, but even better than the businessmen who will engage in this business in the future. Gu Qiushui also wrote such a poem because he was stationed at Nanhu Lake in Wuhan—— As soon as he is haggard and heals the sick, he climbs the stairs, and looks far and wide. The grass is green on the edge of Yingwu Island, and there is no place to bury your sorrows in the mountains and rivers.

Very Zhang Henshui, very civilized drama. If you search carefully, you may be able to find their twin brothers in any Tang Dynasty Qilu or Wuyan. At that time, he was in his prime.What worries him?What's wrong with him?But arty. If it were Shi Qiao, he would definitely not be such a trafficker. So, compared to her encounter with Shi Qiao, Ye Lianzi had a clear purpose for this marriage.There is one detail that may explain something.No matter before or after marriage, she never said such passionate words as "I love you" to Gu Qiushui.It was only later that he gradually regarded this accidental marriage as a woman's original dream, and actually kept Shi Qiao in that midnight dream.

I believe that Ye Lianzi, a woman like Ye Lianzi who marries a chicken and follows a chicken, and a dog who follows a dog, will eventually fall in love with Gu Qiushui habitually and create a corresponding love.In Wu Wei's view, Ye Lianzi was able to create a self-made love for this utilitarian marriage, and being obsessed with this self-made love for a lifetime is too unworthy.Unlike her love for Hu Bingchen, no matter how embarrassing the ending, how hard it is for her to justify herself, at least she has a proof: If she doesn't marry Hu Bingchen, he will always be a star in the world. In fact, isn't Wu Wei's love for Hu Bingchen also self-made?To a certain extent, even Hu Bingchen was created by herself. Soon, Ye Lianzi was transferred with his father to Xianning between Hankou and Puqi, and Gu Qiushui followed Bao Tianjian to Puqi for garrison.This is also the reason why Ye Lianzi arrived in Puqi with her stepmother the night before the wedding and stayed at the Mayonghe Inn on Chenghuang Street in Puqi. Ye Zhiqing, who has always been harsh, spent a lot of money for Ye Lianzi's wedding, and specially asked his step-wife to bring Ye Lianzi to Hankou to buy a dowry. Gu Qiushui did not go with them, nor did he stay in the same hotel, but went to Wuchang to stay first, and made an appointment with them in Hankou.Because he had corns on his left foot, the pain was so painful that he couldn't touch the ground, and he limped when he walked. He didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of Ye Lianzi.On the night of arriving in Wuchang, I went to a bathhouse near the hotel and asked the pedicure master to dig out the corn on my left foot. I didn't meet them until the next day.The pedicure master's workmanship is very good. The corn on Gu Qiushui's foot has never happened since it was dug out in the early spring of 1935.The deep memory of this trip is not so much because of the marriage, but because of the superb craftsmanship of this pedicure master.If Ye Lianzi insists on being passionate, what can others do? Ye Lianzi and her stepmother found a hotel to live in on the bustling Minquan Road full of small hotels. Early the next morning, they went back and forth around the bronze statue of the founding father, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, that is, the three roads of nation, civil rights and people's livelihood that concisely summarized the political views and revolutionary essence of the founding father, and bought blankets, tents, quilts, two There are only camphor wood boxes and other wedding supplies.This is the first time she has shared the future with a man.She was so eager, without hesitation, she jumped in.There are ready-made tailors in the silk shop.She pulled up pieces of fabric one after another, compared them on her body, and said to the tailor, a little thinner here, a little longer there... and made three cheongsams there (now you can say "cheongsam" instead of "big coat") ): a light pink satin cheongsam with dark red borders; a light gray silk cheongsam with purple and gray small flowers and leaves and light gray borders; a light yellow silk cheongsam with gray small flowers and light yellow borders .According to the fashionable appearance, it is three feet eight in length, with three straight buttons on the collar, and flower buttons on the front and sides.The craftsmanship is so good that women at the end of the 20th century will cherish their memories and sigh: Such a good craftsmanship can no longer be found now!It is said that twenty.In the last century, there was not a Hong Kong film "In the Mood for Love", which once reproduced the brilliance of this craftsmanship, but it can only be used as a museum collection, and it is no longer possible to "fly into the homes of ordinary people".Many things can only belong to a period of time, or even a moment, and when that time and moment is gone, they will go with them, and they cannot be retained even if they want to keep it. Among the two silk cheongsams, Ye Lianzi chose small floral patterns, and the transition of colors is also very particular.How did Ye Lianzi, who has never had a penny of autonomy, develop her own aesthetic taste?It can only be said that it originated from her mother, that is, Mo He's genetic genes. No matter how women's clothing changes, Ye Lianzi believes that the pattern of small floral patterns remains unchanged. Women who like small floral patterns are weak, introverted, enduring, hesitant to speak, elegant, and elegant... Unfortunately, elegance is often only used for appreciation and not for enjoyment.They don't have the catharsis of red and green, the joy of sour and hot, the immediate effect of heavy color, the hanging of death by crying and making a fuss, and the quick and boldness of wielding a knife to cut mess... Elegant women are also very fragile, and most of them pretend to be self-made. passionate.They will feel more embarrassment and embarrassment in life. Such women are born to be ravaged. Gu Qiushui didn't spend any money, he only bought a gold bracelet and a watch for Ye Lianzi. The bracelet and watch, before long, played a very important role. Ye Lianzi and Gu Qiushui's wedding was basically organized by Ye Zhiqing, which was in line with Gu Qiushui's principle: "I never spend money when I play with women, and the woman who asks me to spend money is definitely not in love with me." It also seems to have some truth.Accompanied by her stepmother, Ye Lianzi came from Xianning to Puqi, where Gu Qiushui lived, the day before the wedding, and stayed at the only inn in Puqi Town, Chenghuang Street.Puqi is rich in gardenia flowers, and it is said that the fragrance of the wind can float to Xianning.I don't know if others have smelled it, but Ye Lianzi must have smelled the fragrance of gardenias in Puqi.The wedding ceremony was held at Ma Yaohua Transportation Company.Perhaps to show his style, Gu Qiushui arrived a little late on purpose.The officiant was so anxious to go in and out, he kept asking, "Why isn't the groom here yet?" They hadn't discussed the wedding attire in advance, it was purely coincidental, Gu Qiushui wore a gray suit, Ye Lianzi wore the light pink satin cheongsam with three crimson borders, and a pair of pink embroidered satin cheongsam on her feet. shoe. Gray is selfless.Its life seems to be to set off other colors, to turn the mediocre spectrum of other colors into gorgeous. The light pink cheongsam, which was originally somewhat common, showed unexpected elegance due to the contrast of gray.People praised: "It's really a gifted man and a beautiful woman, a man with a talent and a woman with a beautiful appearance!" Three days later, Ye Lianzi wore this light pink satin cheongsam again, and took a wedding photo with Gu Qiushui at the "Xiangzhen" photo studio in Puqi Town. Only the big protruding ears stood behind her. Apart from the pair of protruding ears, Wu Wei thought she got nothing from Gu Qiushui. If it was as simple as she thought, it would be great to just inherit the pair of protruding ears from Gu Qiushui. Gu Qiushui's official rank is not high, but he is a popular person who can speak in front of the teacher, so there are many congratulatory guests.Later, there was no room in the house, so the ceremony was changed to a small square in front of Ma Yaohua's transfer company. Not long after, that is, in 1936, General Zhang Xueliang gave a speech on resisting Japan and saving the nation in tears at the timber factory next to the old Lushui Bridge opposite this transshipment company. The wedding was held in the manner of a civilized marriage. Gu Qiushui also made an impromptu speech: "During the national calamity, although I am married, I will not forget to save the country, and I will never let down my will in my own small world." I also hope that Ye Lianzi will straighten her eyebrows and blacken her lips to join the anti-Japanese and regain the lost ground.” Although it was ignorant, it was praised by the guests, not only touched the ladies present, but also touched the soldiers who had left their homes.Dots of crows, It is still the scene of the year. only your daughter has grown lively and innocent; Only your daughter left behind, come to comfort my broken heart! She sang carelessly, and as she sang, she suddenly recalled the lyrics, and after a few more smacks, she felt that the lyrics were not auspicious. Thinking of the song she loved the most in the past, she felt a little strange. Why did she look so far away when she was just married... From then on Don't sing it anymore. Even Gu Qiushui thought about it, why does Ye Lianzi keep singing this song?As if foreshadowing something. Although Ye Lianzi hated this song, she was destined to continue singing this song. Their life can be said to be thriving. Gu Qiushui, the small company commander, still has a lot of idlers.There was Uncle Ji, who was originally a company commander of the 112th Division, the predecessor of the 12th Division. Because he had no education, he was reorganized and transferred to Gu Qiushui's pursuit artillery company.Gu Qiushui asked him to manage guns and ammunition, and didn't treat him like a soldier, and called him Uncle Ji.Gu Qiushui said that he was not a soldier in the first place. After Uncle Ji retired, Gu Qiushui saw him as pitiful; he asked him to serve as a sergeant, with seven yuan of military pay every month, let Uncle Ji live in his own home, and gave him two cups of wine for every meal, as a side note. Cook for their little family and help out. Gu Qiushui is stingy with women, but not with men. He puts his salary in the drawer. Uncle Ji buys vegetables and rice, and uses the money to take it from the drawer. Gu Qiushui and Ye Lianzi have never settled accounts with him. They have always gotten along very well.He also raised a brother, Lao Jiu, who is very smart and loves to play mahjong. He eats, drinks and gambles all day long, but he doesn't go whoring.Regardless of the wife and children, the money won't be taken home.His wife had nothing to do with him, so everyone asked Gu Qiushui to take care of him, and Gu Qiushui asked Ye Lianzi to take Lao Jiu's wife and children to live in their small home.Gu Qiushui was young at that time, and he didn't take money seriously, thinking that the future was great, as long as he had friends.Fortunately, he is the company commander, and his military salary of more than 200 yuan per month is very useful. The depressed Gu Qiushui often recalls these days, and whispers to himself: How wonderful that is! Gu Qiushui, who is newly married, often takes Ye Lianzi out of the Nanyingxun Gate of Puqi Town to visit the surrounding scenery, or cross land and water, climb Changshan (also known as North Chibi Mountain), and pay tribute to the relics of the Three Kingdoms. At the foot of Changshan Mountain is Dingxie Pond, which is said to have been formed by Zhou Yu's step.Four hundred meters to the west is Zhoulangzui, under which there is Zhoulang Bridge, from which you can enter the ancient battlefield of Chibi. There is a bone-drying platform on the mountain. It is said that the bones of the fallen soldiers of the Eastern Wu Dynasty are dried here for easy transportation. On the north bank is Wulin, the place where Cao Cao garrisoned grain, where Zhou Yu burned Cao Cao's chain warships.In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was defeated and fled to Taniguchi, only twenty-seven soldiers remained with him..." It's a pity that there is no trace of the Seven Star Altar that Zhuge Liang borrowed from the east wind, and there is only a daydream... The high-spirited Gu Qiushui stood on the top of Changshan Mountain, shaking his head and stomping his feet, chanting Su Shi's "Nian Nujiao·Chibi Nostalgia": The great river goes east, the waves wash away, and the eternal romantic man.To the west of the old fortress, the human way is Zhou Lang Chibi of the Three Kingdoms... The former photographer of General Zhang Xueliang was a friend of Gu Qiushui, and he took many photos for them in his free time.Gu Qiushui especially likes the one by the lotus pond. They are both sitting on the bench, his left arm is tightly around Ye Lianzi's shoulder. Ye Lianzi still had her hair cut back then, how young she is!Gu Qiushui kept this photo all the time. As he traveled far and wide, when the "Cultural Revolution" came, he had to entrust the photo and valuables to a worker friend. After the "Cultural Revolution", he planned to get these things back. The whereabouts of all the pieces are missing.What else can I say? Even the clothes Ye Lianzi made after her marriage were designed by Gu Qiushui. Once he took Ye Lianzi on the train.That day she was wearing a beige suit, lined with a snow blue shirt, a black tie, a short skirt underneath, and a beige peaked cap.In that era, among a bunch of soldiers, this outfit was really a fancy dress. Bao Tianjian thought it was an actor from somewhere, so he asked his nephew to go to the ordinary car to inquire, only then did he know that it was Gu Qiushui's wife.From then on, all the wives in the teacher asked Gu Qiushui to design their clothes.It's not that he is partial, no wife can wear the charm of Ye Lianzi. Once when Gu Qiushui came back from the division headquarters, he saw Ye Lianzi standing at the gate of the city waiting for him from a distance, standing tall with his suit vest over the cheongsam... Thinking, who taught her to wear it like this? Occasionally thinking about the days before marriage, Ye Lianzi felt that she was just a person waiting to pick up the leftovers. Until now, she had a serious position, became a wife of someone, and had a certain right to speak.And all of this was given to her by Gu Qiushui, how could she not love Gu Qiushui?Such a day, how could it not be a day that Ye Lianzi will have endless aftertaste in his life?In the future, even the best days seem to be better than this time. Ye Lianzi never denied her past happiness because of Gu Qiushui's brutal abuse of her in the future. In this regard, Wu Wei does not have the atmosphere of Ye Lianzi. After all, Ye Lianzi's blood relationship with her mother Mo He's family is closer than that of Wu Wei. A person who is too single-minded will transform into the opposite over time.People no longer appreciate single-mindedness as an excellent quality, but excellence has become a kind of oppression.Sure enough, Gu Qiushui gradually realized that life with Ye Lianzi cannot be casual. It's like they went on an outing that day, stayed in a place with mountains and water for a while, and then circled up the mountain road.In the late spring weather, there is a hot, sweet and ambiguous smell in the air, and the rhododendrons rolling on the hills are in full bloom with their breasts exposed.Ye Lianzi, wrapped in a royal blue thin velvet cheongsam, walks through the shadows of the forest.The chirping birdsong became like a code word, one after another, people couldn't help thinking about this and that.Gu Qiushui approached Ye Lianzi and put his arm around her waist, Ye Lianzi's eyes immediately became two big question marks. Gu Qiushui leaned close to her ear, and asked softly with a smile, "How was last night?" Ye Lianzi thought about it seriously; then she said "hmm".But it is not the fourth sound that people usually express affirmation, but the first sound that the lips of the donkey don't match the mouth of the horse.It can be understood as a question mark, or it can be understood as an affirmation that the bed is wide, the bedding is soft, the sheets are clean, and the pillows are of a suitable height... In short, it is definitely not the same as what Gu Qiushui wanted to hear. Love between men and women needs to be stimulated, activated and stimulated.But no matter what Gu Qiushui said, Ye Lianzi was "good".If it was because she was kicked out of life and forgotten when she was young, and she has lived for more than 20 years without forgetting, it is not surprising that she has never read the book Love Between Men and Women. What is strange is that she has never opened the book herself. Book of Desire.A woman who has no desires and demands is too boring and cannot create some embellishments for men. Of course, too many demands are not acceptable. Every time he comes home, he is always greeted by Qian Yi's "Are you back?" Such words are equivalent to not saying, or more boring than not saying.If you take her out to eat in a restaurant or watch a play, the wine is just right, and the play is singing lively, she will suddenly ask: "What time is it?" "Nine o'clock." "Oh, it's already nine o'clock." It seemed that she had something important to do and had to finish it before nine o'clock, otherwise it would be delayed. After a while, he asked again, "What time is it?" "Nine twenty." "Oh, it's already twenty past nine." She looked very sorry for the time. "What's the matter?" Gu Qiushui asked at first. "No, no." If not, stop asking the hour. "Su San Qi Jie" just sang "Three Trials" and she asked again: "What time is it?" As a result, he couldn't drink wine happily, and couldn't watch the play, so he had to go home. What are you doing at home?Sit facing dry. When talking about the past, she would suddenly say something about Uncle Guang Ji saying that she wanted to buy chickens tomorrow when she was just aroused by the past of misbehavior and pleasure-seeking. " or " Is today's fish salty? " Flirting with her doesn't make sense.It's like Gu Qiushui said: "Where did you go to visit? You don't miss me, I'm still waiting for you to eat. If I didn't see you beautiful, I would beat you; but I don't want to beat you." Ye Lianzi just smiled when she heard that.Although it is enough for a woman to have a good face, other aspects are dispensable, but it can't be so "nothing"! Introduce some wives of colleagues to her, let her go out to play mahjong, and stop going after one or two visits. It's not that they haven't trained Ye Lianzi, they taught "DuiDaiHe" today, 'she just touches it down, three "Ten Thousand", three "Red Middle", three "White Board"... tomorrow teach her a " One dragon", she forgot "right, right, and right", and only eat one, two, three, six, seven, eight, two, three, four... After playing cards, they would always go for snacks. The generous Mrs. Yu Lianchang paid the bill, and Ye Lianzi insisted on paying back her share. Ye Lianzi never causes trouble, but often makes people feel uncomfortable.She makes people uncomfortable, not because of what she does, but because of what she doesn't do to disturb what others do.For example, how many copper coins are worth a bowl of glutinous rice balls and a piece of rice cake?What I eat is just casual and small kisses with wives.Either you come to be the host, or accept it calmly, but Ye Lianzi wants to pay back her few copper coins, making the atmosphere of little kisses and hotties like raw food in a pot. Everything goes well for Mrs. Yu, and she is used to it, so she can't see things that make her feel uncomfortable.Whether this thing is a thing or a person, she has to adjust it.So Mrs. Yu couldn't help but want to say something to Ye Lianzi, who not only defeated her happiness, but also everyone's happiness: "Is this little money worth pushing around like this? You have to pay back the money to call it repayment? You Just ask me one more time later. Well, well, I'll accept it, but don't make you sleepless for a few nights because of these two little money." For a moment everyone stopped talking and laughing; they started to eat in silence.Ye Lianzi didn't care whether she violated the rules of the wife's club, or what the wife said, but after looking at the price, she still put those few copper coins on the table.