Chapter 28 Part II.5.1

1 Everyone felt that the atmosphere of the day was a bit weird. It was past noon and no one had ordered dinner yet. The second wife's house is quiet, even if she usually wakes up late, it's time for Liu Ma to get ready to wash up.Only the sound of the chiming bell occasionally reports the meaning of time, and its trembling and long tail sound is also a bit strange. Mother Wen later said: "Earlier that morning, I thought the crow was making strange calls, and I even spit on it three times, but it didn't break this evil cook, Lao Wei, who was waiting impatiently. It was too late to serve the table. He went in and looked upstairs, and muttered, "I'm really not good at being a cook. I can't serve the dishes too early or too late.You are eating on time, so we have a good leader, and we have to say that I can't do it later. "

Just as she was talking, Mama Wen picked up Bao Li from elementary school and went home. When Bao Li entered the door, he yelled, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry. Why aren't you ready for dinner?" Seeing that no one agreed, he went straight into the kitchen and broke off a chicken leg when he saw the crispy chicken, and Old Wei stopped him, begging him, "My young master, your mother hasn't eaten yet. Turning around, she said to Mother Wen again, "Please drive up and have a look, what's going on, if you don't eat at home, let me know, and our servants can do things easily." Mother Wen took candy and said: "Now I beg you, after playing cards last night, you didn’t even ask you to serve a few bowls of wontons for our sister!” After all, she went upstairs.

Mother Wen first stood outside the door of the second wife's bedroom and said, "Madam, we are back, and the young master is hungry. Would you like to order the master to serve dinner?" No reply.Mama Wen raised her voice and asked again. Still no one in the room answered.Mama Wen first opened a narrow door, then opened it wide with both hands side by side, and stepped into the second wife's bedroom—— The bedding under the bed was in a mess, the doors of the large and small cabinets were open, and the clothes inside fell on the floor or hung on the doors of the cabinets. Leather shoes and embroidered shoes were scattered here and there, in pairs or pairs.She yelled in front of and behind the bed, "Madam, Madam..."

Then she rushed to the door and shouted to the servants downstairs: "It's terrible, my wife is gone, my wife is gone..." Although she knew in her heart that the second wife had escaped, she didn't dare to say that.When the people downstairs heard that the second wife had passed away, they hurried upstairs to see what was going on in the house.Mama Liu said, "Hurry up and report to the old man." The Bao family was in a turmoil and couldn't find the second wife, and it was inconvenient to search for her in the newspaper, so they had to hire a private detective. It soon became known that the second wife had left with her brother-in-law Bao Tianxin.

It wasn't until Bao Tianxin published a statement in the newspaper that he severed all ties with his family that the turmoil ceased. Mama Wen was biting the radish as she spoke, groaning, groaning, as if to accompany her words, "I've seen something wrong a long time ago. You see, she has been making red satin cheongsams and buying red satin embroidered shoes all year. More than forty I'm old, what are you doing?" He also said: "Once when I went to the upper room to deliver snacks, I saw my uncle lying in my sister-in-law's arms. After hitting there, the second wife was very kind to me. She didn't even mention me when she broke the vase, but told me to be more careful in the future. "

After a while, I finished biting a radish, and then hiccupped with a radish smell. "After eating radish and drinking hot tea, the doctor was so angry that he ran all over the street," said Mother Wen.She has neither hot tea nor radishes. The tea leaves are all stolen from the upper house, and the radishes are from the kitchen master. The excitement of the second wife was over, and the crowd became more and more scattered.Bao Li went back to his mother's third wife, and Lao Wei also resigned. Without the master, who will the master cook for? Mama Wen is eloquent and went to serve Mrs. Bao.The others left one after another, leaving Mama Liu and Ye Lianzi to look after the house.Leaf lotus seeds.I understand in my heart, do I need two servants to look at the house?

Ye Lianzi was able to make a living in the Bao family because of the second wife's decision, and she worked under the second wife for more than two years: "It seems to be the second wife's person. ’ Just say that she is not from the second wife, and because Bao Tianjian took her husband away, the old man Bao, the eldest wife, and the third wife can’t just resign the servant who has done a good job just to arrange for her. ... Ye Lianzi worked even harder to take care of the house without its owner, thinking that maybe her loyalty could move Mrs. Bao and leave it to her, that is to say, to leave their mother and son a mouthful of food.

2 After the second wife left the Bao family, she thought she could always find a way to live independently by relying on years of experience in the society, a not-so-stupid mind, and the money in her hand. After arriving in Shanghai, he bought a house and became the second landlord.Because of my inexperience, I didn't need a receipt for the money I paid for the house, and I didn't know how to write a meticulous contract when I rented it out.Prices are so ruthless that they are soaring, but she can't bear to raise the rent. She tried to increase the rent a few times but was resisted by the tenants.Her so-called experience in the society for many years is nothing more than the skills cultivated in the brothel, and that kind of skills seem to be stretched in the business world of intrigue and deceit.The second landlord couldn't keep working and had to check out, because there was no receipt, and the money for the house was lost.

A tenant introduced her to go back and forth between Shanghai and Jiaxing to run the cigarette and fabric business to make a difference in the local price. From the second wife of the Bao family to the second landlord, and then from the second landlord to the Dan Gang, she fell again and again. Now no one can recognize that this woman who is covered in dust and carries a few bags on her shoulders and hides when she sees the inspector is the second wife of the Bao family. If she can't hide, she will be confiscated by the inspector.For a woman who used to live in a German-style mansion, this kind of life is too hard.

He also listened to other people's words and bought 180 mu of land in Jiaxing with the last money to sublease. Just got back today from nothing in the country.The reason is that those tenant farmers are poorer than her, and she doesn't have "Huang Shiren"'s scheming, so she "has no harvest".It seems that they have to sell the land, because she doesn't even have the ability to be a landowner. That's how the money was wasted. Besides selling herself, what other skills does she have?Even if you sell yourself, you are old and worthless now. Where is the way out?At this moment, she even has the heart to become a monk.

The festive atmosphere outside the house made her feel that it was not easy for a single woman to wander the rivers and lakes, but she didn't cry, nor did she keep smoking, she just lay on the bed with a gloomy face and thought about her thoughts. It's not even possible to tell anyone now.Bao Tianxin was studying in Hong Kong, and even though they sometimes corresponded, she never told him about it.What's more, some things can be said to others, and some things cannot be said to others.It is useless not to be able to tell people not because of the distance of the relationship. Those things that are destined to be endured by you must be endured by yourself.Even so, the poor second wife still sent some money to Bao Tianxin every month, not much, about ten yuan, enough to pay for his board and lodging in Hong Kong, so Bao Tianxin always thought that the second wife's life could go on. In the eyes of the second wife, although Bao Tianxin was not a man, he was a good man. To show his dignity, he even took off his platinum ring when he left home, and published a statement in the newspaper saying he was leaving the family.When she first arrived in Shanghai, she rented a safe at the bank to store her jewelry and cash, and asked Bao Tianxin to pick it up when she needed it. There was never any accident. If he had demolished the Baidang, he would have taken away her safe up. But he is the young master's fate, and he has no social experience and no social connections than her. His social connections are those of the Bao family. When people are unhappy, they will think of many things, and they are unfortunate things.First, he failed to catch up with his good parents. His father was a very useless person, and his mother looked down on his uselessness and fought with him every day.His father is also considered rare among men, but his mother beat him away. Since then, he has never heard from him and never returned home. Afterwards, the mother found another man, a man with great foresight. Under his plan, the mother forced her to become a prostitute and became a cash cow for them.That year, she was only sixteen years old.A man who worked in the Salt Bureau wanted to marry her, but my mother took this opportunity to beat the kind man hard, regardless of whether it would blow her chances of becoming a good man.The mother plausibly said: "It's not that I'm cruel. I still count on my daughter to live. Who can support me after she leaves?" When I followed my husband to the south, I found out that there was still an eldest wife in the family.The eldest wife is nice to her, she is a well-educated family who knows how to behave.Who would have thought that her husband would suffer from tuberculosis and die. The eldest wife herself has lost her support in life, how can she treat her kindly?She thought to herself that the money her mother raised when she got married must not have been spent, so she took the last bit of money from the eldest wife and went back to her hometown to find her mother. When she returned to her hometown, her mother said that the money had already been spent, and she still had to go out to work as a prostitute. Just like this, he ran into Bao Tianjian again, but at that time Bao Tianjian was not a teacher, although his family had money, he didn't have much.Bao Tianjian insisted on marrying her. She said: "If you buy me with money, I won't do it. We are your lover and I am willing. As long as you treat me sincerely and can support my mother and my brother to go to school, it will be fine. " Bao Tianjian, who was married, welcomed the second wife into the door.She was open-minded and said: "I am destined to be the second wife. Who gave me this fate with you?" Bao Tianjian respected and trusted the second wife very much. She takes big.But her infertility made it difficult for Bao Tianjian.Old Mrs. Bao reminded him again and again that he could not have no successors. Although Bao had a family of hundreds of people, he must have his own flesh and blood, so he married the third wife.He felt sorry: the second wife; so he didn't dare to arrange it at home, and set up a small mansion for the third wife outside.If it hadn't been for the death of Bao's grandma, the second wife would have been kept in the dark when she saw a strange name Bao Li in the list of descendants of the family.Who is Bao Li?When asked about family members, they all faltered. But there are a hundred or ten people in the family, and there are many people with mixed conversations. If the second wife wants to inquire, she can't cover it. It was only then that Bao Tianjian knew that Bao Tianjian had a third wife and a child outside, and she started a quarrel, Bao Tianjian had no choice but to admit it. The second wife asked to send the third wife away, Bao Tianjian said: "I have children, how can I send them away! I am not betraying you..." He dared not say that there would be no successors, for fear of hurting the second wife who would not be able to bear children sore spot.The second wife also knows that this is her most untenable place, "Yes, I understand, who made me unable to raise a son? What's the use of you and I swearing to the sky? What do you say you love me? In the end Isn't it more expensive for a mother to follow her son? Forget it, let's not talk about it... How about this, take this Baoli and adopt it to me, and send the third wife away." Bao Tianjian hummed and haha ​​replied. After Bao Li was brought over from the small mansion, the second wife loved him very much.Because it was only a few months old, a nanny had to be hired to take care of it. The uneducated nanny, the second wife, didn't believe it, so she invited a special nurse from the hospital.Once I bought more than 20 pieces of small clothes, the children's family is growing rapidly, and some clothes are too small to wear without wearing them.Under this kind of upbringing, whether Bao Li will go to school or be a human being in the future, he can only fall into the "inferior" Wait. When Ye Lianzi came to Bao's house, Bao Li was seven or eight years old. He often snatched Wu Wei's small job and said, "Why do you eat our family's rice?" Wu Wei stood with his mouth down and his head bowed. What Bao Li wanted was Wu Wei's crying, but if Wu Wei didn't cry, he jumped angrily and said, "Little beggar, little beggar!" The leftovers from Bao's family were poured into the gutter bucket after bucket, why couldn't Wu Wei's small mouthful of rice be tolerated? When it was time to eat, Ye Lianzi murmured in her heart: Bao Li must not come to the servant's room, let Wu Wei have a whole meal.But Bao Li jumped up and down, ran around, who can guard against him? At some point, Bao Li stood behind him with a water gun, insisting that Wu Wei play with him.If Wu Wei didn't play with him, he would use a water gun to spray Wu Wei's face until Wu Wei couldn't open his eyes. Ye Lianzi, who was watching anxiously by the side, blocked her with a smiley face: "Young master, young master, my wife is calling you, my wife is calling you!" In this way, Wu Wei will not play with Bao Li even more.The more you don't play with him, the angrier he gets, and when he can't get angry, he reaches out to hit him. Bao Li can bear lotus seeds on Wu Wei's face, but she can't bear it if she fights hard. She hugged Wu Wei in her arms, and Bao Li's fists had to land on her body.She is a servant, what can she say to the master's child?He could only stare at Bao Li bitterly with his two eyes. Mother Wen said, "What are you afraid of if you let the young master hit you a few times?" Ye Lianzi said: "Who's child is not a child, why let him play?" Mama Wen said calmly, "Who made you a servant?" "I am a servant, my child is not a servant," she said. "If you are a servant, you shouldn't take care of the children. It's good for the master to let you take care of the children. Why don't you let the young master beat you a few times? Look at your eyes, staring like a master. It's fine if you have the master's life , why not!" Mama Liu said: "Say it! If it was your child, would you be willing to be beaten?" After Ye Lianzi passed away, Wu Wei also went to San: Mrs. Bao Li came back from Taiwan to visit relatives in the mainland by chance. The appearance of the encounter, the arrogance and domineering of the past, seem to have been cut across the waist, sitting cautiously and gloomyly in the shadows that cannot be illuminated by the light. On the eve of the regime change in 1949, Bao Tianjian didn't want to go far away, but they were already too poor to pay for the money. This man who was born in the army and was not good at thinking, actually saw his own limit like a prophet, and panicked to the third wife. Said: "If you don't leave, the end will be too miserable!" The third wife smiled coldly: "You finally understand!" At this moment, Bao Li had no choice but to let Bao Li go first, saying that it was because of their troubles, and then figured out a solution slowly.In fact, I understand very well in my heart that the so-called "think of a solution slowly" is just the last glimpse of people's despair and unwillingness before falling into the abyss. When Bao Li was on the road, he could only bring a few boxes of clothes with him, nothing else.After arriving in Taiwan, I first settled down at my uncle's house, and then entered middle school.When people have no money, except for parents and fathers, few people care about your social relationship anymore, so naturally uncle treats him worse every day.He had to move out, sell off those few boxes of clothes to finish high school, get into aviation school, and serve in the Air Force.Relying on the convenience of the air force to do some business, I have a stable life. Returning to Beijing, where we had been separated for decades, was filled with mixed feelings. We exchanged tears, kowtowed and knelt in front of the third wife... He didn’t know that after 1949, the third wife, the birth mother, was knitting sweaters in a sweater factory. The sisters either sell vegetables at the vegetable stand, or work as small workers in the factory... The family is very poor, but he doesn't take a penny out of it—maybe he can't be blamed for not talking about his family, he is so poor . All in all, just as he tortured Wu Wei in the past, life tortures him now. After Bao Tianjian left, the second wife's life was not very affluent, but she never found Mrs. Bao, and only lived by selling jewelry.Jewelry is a plaything, how can one make a living from it?And does it feel good to go to the pawn shop?People know that Mrs. Bao's family went to the pawnshop, so what's the matter! She also always thought that Bao Tianjian sent the third wife away, but she didn't expect that the third wife did not leave. Soon the third wife told Mrs. Bao that the 3,000 yuan left by Bao Tianjian had been spent.I don't know if it's true or not, but Mrs. Bao was thinking about his grandchildren, so he decided to subsidize the living expenses of the third wife by one hundred yuan every month.But no.If anyone dared to give this money away, he was afraid that the second wife would know that she had lost her temper. I had no choice but to assign this job to Bao Tianxin.He didn't have any worries, anyway, he could send the money to the third wife while he was in the factory. That was the first time Bao Tianxin saw the third wife.I thought she was very young and pretty, but I didn't know she was so shrewd.Compared with the outside world, the third wife's rank may not be considered high, but among the straight-forward and single-minded Bao family, her shrewdness stands out, and everything goes smoothly.As early as when Bao Tianjian defected to the Communist Party in high spirits, she said: "What are you messing about? The momentum of the Bao family will be over since 'September 18'. Let's wait and see, and there will be no good results." Although the third wife gave birth to the Bao family, she looked down on the Bao family at all, and married Bao Tianjian even more unwillingly.Maybe that's why she swipes money every chance she gets? After Mrs. Bao passed away, the Bao family's compound naturally went to the forest. 'The small buildings in the courtyard, designed by German engineers, changed hands several times, and finally became the situation described in the first part of this book. Bao Tianjian and his wife moved back to their house in Beiping, because they had no means of earning a living, so the third wife had to buy a truck for Dong Gui to transport.On the eve of liberation, the current situation was uncertain, businesses were extremely cautious, and every family tightened their money, so trucks seldom made large shipments, and naturally they did not make much money. For this reason, the third wife was very angry with Dong Gui. After 1949, the Bao family had to dismiss the servants.Dong Gui followed Bao Tianjian since he was a child, and should have made a proper arrangement for him, but the third wife didn't care.Bao Tianxin said to her: "I have been with you all my life!" She said: "Who doesn't want to be a Bodhisattva, but who cares if my family can't eat?" As soon as Bao Tianjian died, the third wife sold the house with great foresight. The house bought for more than 40 pieces of sliver at the beginning can only be sold for more than a dozen.Even so, the buyer said: "Ma'am, you don't even look at the current situation. I can't guarantee whether this is a bad move. Maybe all the dozen or so strips have been folded." The third wife said: "I dare not compare with those palaces. This kind of house can be said to be first-class in Beiping. What do you say if you spend more than a dozen sliver to enjoy such a house?" The house is really good, and it is really cheap , but the buyer did not estimate how the last car he drove would play a role in his class composition in the future. According to the law, the money should be divided equally between the third wife and the eldest wife, even if the third wife has many children, it can be divided according to the head.But Bao Tianjian hadn't been buried yet, so the third wife called her natal family, saying that Bao Tianjian had borrowed two gold bars from her natal family when she was ill. money from my sister. The third wife asked Bao Tianjian's friend for help, saying that Bao Tianjian didn't leave any money, how would she live after leaving her alone with so many children?For the poor kid's sake, please tell the Bao family how many notes Bao Tianjian borrowed from you while he was still alive and has not returned them. In this way, the third wife first withdrew a few gold bars from the house sale money, and the remaining money was distributed according to the head. The eldest wife only got a few taels of gold in the end. The ability of the third wife, who is a lady, to plan strategies is obviously much better than that of the second wife who has gone through the rivers and lakes.After that, the Bao family could only live by selling gold or selling things. A set of mahogany chairs and tea tables with marble only cost fifteen yuan, and the buyer was not willing to take it.The third wife ran out of notes before long, so she had to go to a sweater factory to knit sweaters.At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, the third wife was beaten to pieces by the Red Guards, and she was reformed through labor under the supervision of the street.The Bao Family Courtyard in Tianjin was confiscated by the rebels, and the entire Bao family was driven into the basement where Ye Lianzi lived... When the bruised third wife was sweeping the alley broom after broom, she was also sweeping the dust of the past with broom after broom.The third wife finally understood that she was just a funeral object. She came to the Bao family at the moment when the Bao family began to decline and perish. She had neither enjoyed love nor glory and wealth. with.She often thinks of what Bao Tianjian, who never satisfied her heart and never did anything serious, said on the eve of liberation in 1949: "If you don't leave, the end will be terrible. His only correct choice, but failed to realize. The Bao family is a big family, with many people talking about it, and there will always be a day when things can't be covered. The second wife learned that not only was the third wife not sent away, but she also received many special cares compared to her life.I feel very out of balance.So I asked Bao Tianxin.Bao Tianxin said: "They have sons and daughters, no matter how they do it? You live in the Bao family's compound, and if there is a problem, someone will take care of you. Compared with this, is her difficulty greater than yours?" The second wife asked the third wife's address again, but Bao Tianxin didn't tell her.She said: "I don't want to quarrel with her, but I want to bring her home. Wouldn't that save some money?" Bao Tianxin said: "You have such a bad temper, what if something like Wang Xifeng and Second Sister You happened?" Although the second wife came from a brothel, she didn't care much about money.People who don't care much about money are likely to be relentless in other areas, such as feelings, which is probably related to the fact that she didn't get much love since she was a child. People who seldom receive love and care belong to "high-risk groups" whose emotional reactions are not normal. Once they receive even a drop of love from eye drops, they can make waves in that eye drop.Conversely, once emotionally reduced to abject poverty, there is also the possibility of "extreme poverty makes wind", especially when a man betrays, he will always regret his past investment, completely lose the original self-sacrifice, and thus go to the extreme. At this point, it should be said that the second wife and Wu Wei are very similar. A few days later, she said to Bao Tianxin: "Your second brother broke his promise to me, and my relationship with him seems to be over. Now that this is the case, I have to leave." There are many reasons why Bao Tianxin and his second wife left together.It can be said that he was inspired by the new trend of thought, or he followed the fashion of running away from the rich family. It can also be said that he only wanted to leave that big family with conspiracy and no culture.None of the sisters went to school, and the family was feudal. This made Bao Tianxin, who had some culture, feel deeply depressed. Most of the classmates’ families were employees. Although the economic conditions were moderate, they were very warm. Heart longing. Although his mother loved him, she had already passed away, and he had to ask his sisters for any money he needed: they were very tight, spending one piece, asking for one piece, and giving one piece, which made him feel even more desolate without a mother. Whatever delicious food the cook cooks, the second wife will always say to Bao Li: "Go, ask your little uncle to eat something." It's not a delicacy, but he feels that the second wife cares about him more than his sisters. He also can't stand Mrs. Bao's scallion dipping sauce.The whole family gathered around the big table to eat scallions dipped in sauce. It was nothing more than a scene of family happiness. After the dinner table, they went to the restaurant outside.Maybe it's also because of some speculation with the second wife.However, the difference between the speculation between a man and a woman and the personal relationship between a man and a woman has never been clear, otherwise he would just leave, and why would he publish a statement in the newspaper about breaking away from the family? One time, when I took a train from Beiping back to Tianjin, there were many Japanese on board. Bao Li was sitting by the door with his small hand holding the door crack. When the door was closed, a Japanese pinched Bao Li's hand, and the handle was bleeding.The second wife stood up and grabbed the Japanese man by the collar relentlessly.At that time, the Japanese were quite reasonable, and asked the hygienist in the car to bandage Bao Li's hands. Don’t once Bao Li fell asleep on the train, and someone on the train was talking and laughing loudly, Bao Tianjian lost his temper, and shouted at him: “You guys are so noisy, you scare my child!” The second wife said at the time: "What's so great about your child? This is a public place, what right do you have to interfere with other people's jokes?" All are scenes that young students are interested in. In fact, there was no reason why Bao Tianxin had to run away from home, it was just that he caught up with an era of running away from home.He has neither Bao Tianjian's ambition to regain the Northeast Kingdom, nor Hu Bingchen's great ideal, so he can only catch up with those classmates who don't know who went to the mainland or Hong Kong for a while, and he can't tell what is wrong with leaving this place family. When he asked his sister for travel expenses, the second wife said: "If you really want to leave, I will help you." So they went to Shanghai together, and then he transferred to Hong Kong to study. The second wife suddenly cut off the financial aid to Bao Tianxin, and the letter she wrote to her was returned by the post office, with the postmark of "no such person found" on the envelope.As a result, Bao Tianxin's wandering life was unsustainable, so she had to write to her sister.Bao Tianjian has returned to Tianjin at this time, whether Bao Tianxin can go home depends on his attitude.Whether Bao Tianxin and the second wife eloped or fled in love is hard to say, but they did run away together. Can Bao Tianjian say not to let Bao Tianxin go home?He can't hang around outside, and his elder brother won't let him go home, which is beyond reason and reason.Bao Tianxin, who is regarded as a prodigal son, does not seem to have fully learned his lesson and corrected his evil ways. He is still a young master, riding a "three-gun" sports car all day long, with a mirror on the handlebar, and colorful wool coils wrapped around the flywheel. , swaggering through the market... On the eve of the liberation of Peking in 1949, Bao Tianjian asked Bao Tianxin to flee as soon as possible.Bao Tianxin, who has traveled to Shanghai and Hong Kong, no longer yearns for wandering fashion.Bao Tianjian, who went through the trip to Yan'an, reminded him earnestly: "If you don't leave, you must be mentally prepared, and the movements are one after another." Bao Tianxin, who was riding a flashy "Three Gun" bicycle, said: "I have never done anything taboo by the Communist Party, and I don't care about any political campaigns. Anyway, I just work and eat. What's the big deal?" Isn't it just hard work?It's not that he hasn't experienced hardships, such as the days of wandering outside.But what he didn't expect was that he couldn't tell the truth anymore, which was more unbearable than suffering. During the Great Leap Forward in 1958, the factory manager said that the output could be doubled, but Bao Tianxin, the planning section chief, said, "Judging from our equipment, we can't do it at all." The factory manager was not happy.Bao Tian thought, if you are unhappy, at most you will not let me work here, and I can go elsewhere.Thinking that the rule of the rivers and lakes is "the tree of life is evergreen, no one stays here, but one's own place", so in the end, he had to watch the gate. The second wife thought of the house she bought for her mother before she left, should it be full of people?She returned to Beiping, and settled down in that house, sometimes passed Longfu Temple, and occasionally thought about it, Bao Tianjian's house was nearby. After her mother died, the second wife sold the small courtyard, bought two storefront houses near Baita Temple, and opened a small shop to sell milk, barely making ends meet. After 1949, I changed to selling eggs for a living. I bought more than 200 chickens and kept them in two houses. There were chickens and chicken droppings everywhere.But the eggs couldn't be sold, and they lived a life of ganzi that didn't last.There was another chicken plague, and the chickens died, and everything was sold out, and finally reduced to making a living by pasting cardboard boxes.And because she had never done these things before, she did not do well. The cadres on the street and the residents in the alleys also looked down on her, and some people called her: "Little Wife" and "Old Whore".Being arrogant by nature, she went in and out alone, and did not communicate with anyone, just like the saying "heart is higher than the sky, life is thinner than paper". Ye Lianzi, who re-settled in Beijing in the future, often thinks of the one who gave her a chance: the second wife, hoping to get together again to repay one or two. Ye Lianzi, who sometimes went to Xidan with a bucket to buy live fish for Zen Moon, passed by Baita Temple, but she didn't know that the second wife she never forgot lived in this place so far away.After Bao Tianxin started working, her monthly salary was about 70 yuan, and she was employed in a relatively small circle in Beijing. She soon learned about the situation of the second wife, and from then on, she gave the second wife 30 yuan a month.Only in this way can he justify his conscience, because during the two years he was outside, he was supported by his second wife.Bao Tianxin's wife never cared about his income.When she got married, she didn't have any dowry. She only brought a broken piano from her mother's house, and she didn't hear anything outside the window. It is said that Bao Tianxin's wife is a bit stupid, maybe she secretly laughed in her heart, she still doesn't know who is stupid! Only Bao Tianxin often went to visit the second wife. They bought a pot of loose wine and put a plate of boiled peanuts. They didn't say anything, just bowed their heads and drank the wine, but they never got drunk.Bao Tianxin either left some money or something, and left without a word. 3 Accompanied by the melancholy of new and old lotus leaves, one by one who does not know when it will end, autumn is approaching day by day. That day, I opened the box to find winter clothes for Wu Wei. As soon as I moved the box, a white paper bag fell from the back of the box. When I opened it, there were twenty-four yuan and a letter inside.It was written on the envelope: Ye Lianzi personally signed it. Open the envelope first.After reading the signature, I realized that it was a letter written by the second wife. The letter reads— "...I'm very sad. Teacher Bao betrayed me. I can't wait for this family. After I leave, the people here will bully you even more. Go find Gu Qiushui, don't wait stupidly, he is in Hong Kong... "The money is for you, not much. I don't know if it's good or bad when I leave, so I can't leave you more..." Only then did Ye Lianzi know that Gu Qiushui had arrived in Hong Kong! How did the second wife know that Gu Qiushui had arrived in Hong Kong?Of course it was Bao Tianjian who sent the letter.Bao Tianjian could write a letter to his family, why couldn't Gu Qiushui write a letter to her?Let her wait here foolishly, and always worried that Gu Qiushui didn't know that she went to Bao's house, and he couldn't find her when he returned to Peiping. But she immediately blamed herself for thinking that way. In the years of war and chaos, Gu Qiushui was born and died outside, so there must be some difficulties for him not to write. Didn't he say "wait for me when I come back" when he left?Since she was asked to wait, she will wait. If she can't come back now, she will definitely come back when the world is peaceful. This rather vague information made Ye Lianzi immediately feel that she had something to do, and she no longer felt that the Bao family's meal, which could be lost at any time, endangered their lives as before.She quickly told Ding Donggui. Dong Gui said to his wife in private: "What's going on? Why hasn't Company Commander Gu sent a letter to his family? He didn't even say to pick them up, just dumped them to the Bao family. No wonder the Bao family treats their mother and daughter more and more shamelessly, it’s almost worse than servants.” Dong Gui’s wife said: “What’s the matter with the man always staying outside and not writing home? Aren’t you afraid that you have to send a letter to your family, the war is in turmoil, whether you are dead or alive, you have to let your family know, right?” But they didn't say these words in front of Ye Lianzi. They discussed for a long time and hesitated for a long time.The Bao family's meal obviously won't last long, and it's time to think of a way out. Ye Lianzi was also very scared if she really wanted to say go.She has never traveled far alone, even when she came to Tianjin, Dong Gui would take her with her, let alone to the auspicious place in Hong Kong. Dong Gui thought about it and said, "This twenty-four yuan is not enough to pay for the trip to Hong Kong..." Ye Lianzi said, "I still have a gold bracelet."