Chapter 104 Chapter One Hundred and Twelfth: Concerning the Troubles and Troubles of the Customers

At this time, Daozhi was totally dissatisfied. He walked into Mrs. Jin's room alone, his face still angry.Mrs. Jin said: "You saw him, what did he say?" Dao Zhi said: "What can I say? This child is ruined." After she said this, she also leaned on the chair, He crossed his legs and hugged his knees with both hands.Mrs. Jin said: "You are also so angry, what exactly did he say?" Dao Zhidao: "He is greedy for profit and wants to rely on the Bai family's way to find out his background, so no matter what happens in the family, no matter how he fails. , he doesn't care. I don't want to say it anymore. Anyway, he is my own brother. If I want to criticize him so badly, what good does it do me? If you want to know what he said, you can do it yourself Just ask him, I'm too embarrassed to say it." Mrs. Jin didn't know what Yanxi said, and since Daozhi refused to say it, it was hard for her to ask.Then he asked Xiaolan to urge Yanxi to come again.At this time, Yanxi was lying on the couch alone, holding a rope with both hands, twisting each other.Looking at the ceiling, he hummed casually.Standing at the door of the study, Xiaolan first called out to Master Qi.Yanxi was still holding the rope in her hand and ignored it.Xiaolan said loudly again: "Madam invites you, Seventh Master, do you hear?" Yanxi turned over and sat up, frowned and said, "What's the matter with you? I will rest quietly in the study for a while, Can't you? Go! Go! Don't bother me here." Saying this, he waved his hands several times.How dare Xiaolan resist Yanxi, she bowed her head and left without making a sound.Yanxi stood up and let out a long sigh.I snatched a box last night and put it in the room next to the study. I went in and looked at the box for a while, then sighed again.He looked at it for a long time, then suddenly sighed and said: "I didn't expect that." When he said that, he was alone, and wanted to go forward to open the box, but as soon as his hand touched the lid of the box, he was stunned again. Backed away, still fell on the couch, crossed his legs and shook in a daze.After being in a daze for a long time, he still jumped up and went to the small room to open the box again.I opened the box and looked inside, it was a mess, some clothes and odds and ends were stuffed in a random mess, and it was hard to tell which item belonged to which item.After combing the surface of the box for a while, I finally found my deposit booklet and check.I have always been afraid of checking the numbers, but now when I am frustrated, I have to carefully check the sums I have squandered in the past few months. How can this not be a headache?Because of this, holding these numerical documents in both hands, he suddenly threw them into the box, then raised his head and sighed: "Anyway, it's all spent, and it's over, what's the point?"

Someone outside suddenly interjected, "Why are you shouting alone in the room?" When Yanxi turned her head, it turned out that it was Zhu Yishi who had come.Yin said: "Look, is it bad or not? Let's make such a fire and burn my first yard. Now I have followed the saying, people and money are empty. You see, what should I do? " After finishing speaking, he also came to the outside room, leaned back and sat on the couch, and clapped his hands together.Zhu Yishi also frowned and said: "Speaking of it, it's really strange. Why is it that at this time, Mrs. Sister-in-law will disappear?" Yanxi shook her head and sighed.Then smeared the feet on the ground a few times.The depression and injustice in his chest can only be seen in a few expressions. It can be seen that he has no way to vent it, and the pain can be imagined.Zhu Yishi saw that he was worried, but there was nothing he could do to comfort him.Seeing that Yanxi was sitting with her legs spread apart, her elbows supported her knees, her head was resting on her hands, her eyes were looking at the floor, her hair was scattered forward, covering her forehead and face.Zhu Yishi said: "This is the end of the matter, and it's useless for you to be depressed. Haven't you found out where your wife is now?" Yanxi said: "Where do you want me to find out about the huge city of Beijing? She won't leave unless she makes up her mind. I don't care about this, but I have an indescribable pain in my heart. I have grown up so much, and today I know what a painful situation is. I don't know whether this pain is for people or things. You give I'll think of a way, how can I explain this difficulty?" Zhu Yishi couldn't help laughing and said, "I'm not the roundworm in your stomach, and you don't even know where your own pain is. As friends, we know where to start ?" Yanxi still held her head in both hands, her face turned to the floor, without moving.Zhu Yishi walked forward, patted him on both shoulders, and said with a smile: "There are many people in the front living room, everyone go to the front and talk. Talk and laugh, and you will get rid of your troubles." , pulled Yanxi's arm, and dragged it outside the study.Yanxi reluctantly stood up and let him drag her away.

In the front living room, almost all the friends of the brothers are here.Seeing Yanxi, everyone felt that he was the one who suffered the most this time. They held hands with him and said that he was frightened.Yanxi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I have always held the purpose of almsgiving wherever I go. If the fire burns, I will fall down and have nothing to worry about." As he said, he leaned back on a soft chair with a smile, and sat half lying down. go down.Liu Baoshan held a cigar in his mouth, took two puffs of the cigarette as hard as he could, closed his eyes, lost his mind for a while, and sighed: "Oh! Everyone's luck is not very good during this journey!" Judao: "Why are you still complaining? Your life problems can be considered solved." Liu Baoshan stood up, bowed to Fengju twice, and said with a smile: "My uncle, don't flatter me like this, I can't bear it." Many people say that my life problems have been solved, so that I can't find a little trouble to mess around with. People always say that I don't need to be busy with this. Wasn't the big bamboo shoot last time all about the bad atmosphere? If you want to come for a while, it will kill me." Yanxi said: "What do you want to kill you? Anyway, you are better than me? I am really at ease now." A small seven-inch long ivory pipe with half a cigarette burning on it. He was wearing an old Zhiluo gown and a pair of slippers.He frowned, walked in slowly, clapped his hands lightly and said: "This time it's really gone." After finishing speaking, he took off the small cigarette pouch with his right hand, stretched his left hand, bent down and tapped it into the spittoon. soot.Feng Ju frowned and said: "Our second master is really a bit of a celebrity, look at his calm appearance. He brought a sentence to report here, and he only mentioned one leader. Everyone is waiting to hear what he has to say. He seemed to be okay, and he didn't say a word for a long time." He Sun still held the small dry pipe in his mouth, sat down on a wicker chair next to him, smoked a cigarette and said, "What are you busy with? Anyway, I didn't lose my temper last night. So anxious." Fengju said: "I'll let you speak calmly. Now everyone is listening to the second half of your speech, how about the second half?" Hesun said: "What mother said just now is that the family All the uses have been reduced, so why live in this big house? She is determined to move out to live alone. Do you think we can still live here after her old man is gone? Huichang said, she really wants to move." Feng Judao: "Is there really such a thing?" Hesun said: "Of course there is such a thing. If there is no such thing, how could I still intentionally tell such a lie?" Fengju said: "Actually, according to my opinion Come on, there is no need to hurry up this road, as long as other things are a little more frugal, and as for the house is big, it is your own, and you don't need to spend any more money." He Sun said: "You only know the other things. One, I don’t know the other. Although it doesn’t cost money to live here, if everyone moves out and rents it out to others, wouldn’t they earn some money and come in?” Feng Ju said, “Could it be that our family is short of these few people? Money? When we come to our house, we will have to live on tiles, and the big things will be over." He said these few words lightly, but after everyone heard them, they all remained silent.

Yanxi didn't pay much attention to everyone's opinions, so she asked Peng Zhen who was sitting beside her, "What's your attitude towards this matter?" Peng Zhen pondered and said, "If everyone really wants to move out, then That's okay, I mean, I think it's convenient for everyone to form a small family." Yanxi smiled lightly and said, "I'm fine now, whether it's a big family or a small family, it doesn't matter to me anyway. I'm alone, so I can settle down anywhere." Feng Ju said, "You're talking nonsense! Could it be that your children and daughter-in-law just let them disappear naturally and don't go looking for them?" Yanxi said, "If you get them back, She may not be able to cooperate with me, I think she won't leave until she makes up her mind to break up the partnership. It's not interesting for a couple to get married forcibly, but it's such a joy." He said so, and the room was full of people. It was a silence.It was Yanxi who sighed, stood up and said, "Don't be so sad, everyone. If you have anything to say, let's talk about it." Hesun said to Zhu Yishi, "Do you see any suitable houses?" I don’t need to be big, as long as it’s clean.” Zhu Yishi smiled and said, “Of course your big character is based on the current house in your house. But if it’s smaller than this, three rooms are small, and one is also small. How small should it be?" Hesun said with a smile, "Of course it won't be as small as one or three rooms, just like the one you live in, that's fine." Feng Ju heard what Hesun said. Said that it was moved, and I was very upset.But as expected, the old lady had this idea, the brothers are following the benevolent order, how can I interfere?Frowning, he said, "This is all urgent talk. Now let's talk about the aftermath of the fire. What you said is not about today and tomorrow. What are you busy with? I think Yanxi should be there Go inside and ask mother for instructions on how to deal with the Leng family." Yanxi said: "I'm very bored, these people are here, let's talk to each other, and you can relieve the boredom, you must let me see mother What? When I saw my mother, I was just scolded. There are only two ways to find someone. One is to advertise in the newspaper, and the other is to send a report form to the District Office. Report the loss and let them notify The police in the city went to pay attention. These two things seem to be blocked, right? Ask me to search the streets and cities, but I can't do it." Fengju said: "There is no way to think about it, can we just ignore it like this?" Liu Baoshan Nodding his head, he said: "If this is done properly, Seventh Brother should discuss it with the old lady. The matter has come to an end, and it is better to end it and not expand it." Yanxi said: "It's a strange thing. What are you talking about, burning down the house again? Even if the Leng family wanted someone from me, I didn’t send them away, not to mention that my Jin family still has a young man to accompany me.” Zhu Yishi said with a straight face: “This is the right thing to do. If you ignore it, it’s always bad. It’s one thing to think of a way and not to think of a way, but it’s another thing if the solution doesn’t work. If the old lady can’t help but blame a few words, it doesn’t matter. I don’t see the old lady.” Yanxi stood up slowly because everyone persuaded him to see his mother, so she stood up slowly and said with a slight sigh: “I really have no choice!” After saying this, she slowly He walked out of the living room door slowly and walked into Mrs. Jin's room.

Mrs. Jin was lying on a couch, holding a bunch of Buddhist beads in her hand, pinching them with one hand, and counting them with the other, her eyes were slightly closed, as if her heart was for nothing.Yanxi walked in slowly, she was still pinching the prayer beads, and didn't open her eyes to pay attention.Yanxi wanted to call her mother, but for some reason, she couldn't say the first word she knew in her life.After being unable to disturb the mother and unable to come, he turned around and walked away, so he had to sit down on a chair opposite to the mother.He touched the teacup on the table, and there was a jingle. Mrs. Jin opened her eyes and said with a sneer, "You still have time to see me? Aren't you busy?" Yanxi held the table with her hands The tea cup on the table, turned the cup, looked at the painting on the cup from a distance, and never made a sound.Mrs. Jin said: "Are you a little numb now? Why do you burn down the house and lose people, and you still seem to be okay?" Yanxi said: "How can I be okay? I am still restless until now. But fidgeting, I can only worry about it, can I still put it on my face, just talk and cry and express my suffering?" Mrs. Jin said: "I can't control you anymore, I am determined to move out of this place. Let's go to the house." Yanxi held the teacup in her hand, just turned it around to look at the patterns, and sighed for a long time.He looked at what Mrs. Jin was about to say again, only to hear Li Sheng yelling outside: "It's such a hot day, even if there is no danger, the anger there has not subsided, and it shouldn't go over there, hurt you now, you blame it!" Who is it? There is such a bad thing at the master's house, and you want to take advantage of it?" Mrs. Jin shouted: "Li Sheng, what are you talking about?" Li Sheng walked outside the door and said through the gauze curtain : "There was a handyman in the kitchen. He ran to the fire site to dig things out of the soil. A few bricks fell on the wall and fell obliquely from his ears. His shoulder was swollen. He wanted to come to beg his wife for grace. I gave him some money to heal his wounds, and I scolded him. Think about it, everyone feels sad, and he still comes to ask for grace. This kind of person is heartless." Mrs. Jin said: " What does he mean by digging out things in the fire?" Li Sheng said: "He thought that the gold, silver and treasures in Qiye's house could not be burned, and they must all be buried in the rubble and bricks. Take out some first. Ma'am, do you think this thing is hateful or not?" Mrs. Jin sighed and said, "People's hearts are like this. People without knowledge don't have to argue with him." Li Sheng said: " I fell into the soil and dug out a small flat box, probably Qiye’s, the outside is not broken, and it’s still locked." Yanxi snatched it out from the room and said, "Is there another box? How about it? Let me see." Li Sheng held a two-foot rectangular flat box in his hand, raised it and said, "Look, isn't this?" It turned out that it was a small green-painted iron box, which was originally placed Some letters and papers are fragmented, and I don't remember where they were put.With the guarantee of iron sheet, it did not burn, which was an accident.Mrs. Jin asked in the room: "What kind of box did you find? Is there anything in it?" Yanxi said: "It's irrelevant, it's a box for documents. I have the same key in my study. I'll open it later." .” When he said that, he quickly picked up the suitcase and ran into the study.After finding the key, he opened the box, and as soon as he lifted the lid, he laughed out loud.It turned out that the documents inside were all burned to a burnt yellow, and when I stretched out my hand to squeeze it, it turned out to be a handful of ashes.Because the box, although it is made of iron, cannot be burned out, but this kind of heat can always pass into it, separating the box, and this is how the paper is coked.Carrying the suitcase, he walked out of the corridor and fell to the ground, thinking that it was not worth paying attention to.However, when he fell like this, there was a sound, and he pushed his foot away from the paper ashes to see, it turned out that there was a mirror hidden in the paper ashes.Bending down to pick it up, I didn't realize I was startled.I remember that a few days after the wedding, I took a photo box and took several pictures with Qingqiu.There is a picture of a few pots of chrysanthemums piled up under a pine tree, Qingqiu is looking sideways at the flowers, the posture is very good.When I was happy, I equipped it with a round mirror frame, a glass brick mirror, and a thin glass cover for the photo.Just put it on the table, unexpectedly accidentally broke the mirror, my face was very ugly at that time, fortunately Qingqiu was not in the room, so I quickly hid it in the box.Still thinking in my heart, when we are old in the future, we will take out this photo and break the superstition.Now that Feng has gone to Loukong, this matter is really a little believable.Thinking so in my heart, holding a broken mirror frame in my hand, I just lost my mind.Someone behind him asked, "What are you doing standing in the sun? Aren't you afraid of being exposed to the sun?" As he spoke, the man took the mirror over.Looking back, it turned out to be Mei Li.Meili took the mirror and looked at it, only to see a photo inside.Most of the photo leaked from the gap between the mirror frames and was burnt.In the half of the mirror, there is only half of Qingqiu's shadow left.She continued, but also remained silent for a long time.Yanxi was in a trance, but she came to her senses after taking over.Seeing this now, she asked, "What are you doing all the time looking at?" Yanxi just asked, but Mei Li remained silent, still holding the mirror in a daze.There were a few drops of water dripping on the mirror.Yanxi looked down and saw that she was crying and had already shed tears.Yanxi said: "What are you doing?" He didn't ask, but after he asked, Mei Li cried out loudly, and the tears flowed down like sand.Yanxi said: "What's the matter with you? Standing on the road and crying, people saw me and thought I bullied you!" Mei Li said: "Don't you bully others? You... how much do you hurt? I Looking at this photo, it seems that sister Qingqiu was burned to death." She turned around and ran away as she spoke.Yanxi heard what she said, although it was a child's words, but in her heart, because of this matter, she also felt an indescribable pain.He hurried back to the study, closed the door, rested his head on his hands, and sat down against the desk.I don't know how long I sat there, someone knocked on the door and called Qiye a few times.Yanxi was confused, so she called out and came in.It was Jin Rong who opened the door and came in, and said in a low voice: "Oh! Don't be sad, it's important to take care of your health. In the front living room, there is a big table of food. I'm afraid you won't be able to eat it, so I ask the kitchen to make some light food and send it to you. Can you come and eat in the house?" Yanxi said: "No, I can't eat any more." Jin Rong said: "You have to eat something, it doesn't help if you are hungry." Yanxi stood up and sat down again.Seeing that he was hesitating, Jin Rong said again: "Qiye, you didn't eat anything in the morning, you have to eat some. In the afternoon, you still have something to do, if you don't eat anything, you will get sick. "Yanxi sighed and said: "Like a family that is falling day by day, it is clean after death, so you don't have to look at it with your eyes, and you don't have to be sad." Jin Rong said: "You can eat as much as you can, but you It's also good to sit with everyone and have a heart-to-heart talk." Yanxi stood up and stomped her feet and said, "Okay, I'll do what you say." As he spoke, he walked into the front living room.

At this time, the guests and hosts at the table in front all sat down and raised their chopsticks to eat. When they saw Yanxi arrived, they all stood up and waved to him: "Join!" Yanxi usually meets a large group of friends. If someone welcomes him, he must be very happy and clamor to join.This time was an exception, he just frowned, smiled faintly, and sat down on an empty chair next to him.Among this group of people, Zhao Mengyuan is the happiest now, because he has not been affected by the decline of the Jin family's power, and he has opened a new path in the officialdom, so he is still very active.So at the whole table, he was the happiest and talked the most.He first smiled at Yanxi and said, "Seventh brother is a god of happiness. He never knew how to write the word "sorrow" for this sad person, and now he is frowning all the time. You have to look at everything, and don't just think about it when you are frustrated. All of us are trying to figure things out with you. You burned something, of course it’s nothing, but Mrs. Madam, we discussed it in detail, and if she didn’t take the child, she might have some accident. Take the child, I can't bear to abandon the child." Yanxi hesitated for a while, looked at these people on the table, opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly held back.Zhao Mengyuan said: "Think about it, am I wrong?" Yanxi didn't make a sound.The people at the table, according to Zhao Mengyuan's words, everyone discussed.Yanxi originally wanted to sit with everyone and temporarily forget about this matter, but it was precisely this matter that everyone was talking about, which inevitably aroused infinite troubles in her heart.So simply don't mention a word, just listen to what others say.But even though he didn't speak, he couldn't eat at the same time. He held up the chopsticks and just fiddled with the rice grains on the bowl, picked up a few grains, and sent them to his mouth without taking a bite of rice.When Fengju saw it, he frowned and said, "I think you can't eat like this, so you don't have to eat it. If you try to eat it, it will be even more uncomfortable in the future." Yanxi put the chopsticks down, pushed the bowl, and Get off the table and sit aside.After all, Feng Ju was the eldest son, and seeing accidents happening at home, he felt depressed and unhappy, and only ate half a bowl of rice.Hesun was thinking about the separation in his heart, and he was even more silent as a person who didn't talk much.Peng Zhen knew that Qingqiu and his wife were not suitable, and felt that his wife was a little too much for her, so Qingqiu left, he felt somewhat responsible, and felt uneasy.These four young masters were all worried. The friends here naturally couldn't overwhelm the hosts, and quickly finished the meal. There were many bowls of dishes on the table, and some of them didn't put chopsticks on them.Feng Ju walked around the table in a circle and sighed.Yin said to Liu Baoshan: "Second Lord, we have a lot of dinners together, probably not many meals like going to the Hongmen Banquet like this? Hey! The scenery is different, and the eyes are different from rivers and mountains."

Hesun took the footman's towel, wiped his face, took out the cigarette box, took a cigarette, and put it on the end of the pipe.He took out the fire box on his body, swiped the lighter, lifted the lid, and the flame burst out, tilted his head, and sucked the cigarette into the flame.Covered the firebox and slowly put it in his pocket.But taking advantage of this moment, two bursts of thick smoke came out.Sitting quietly on a rattan chair, the person lay back and crossed his legs.Seeing two printed materials on the coffee table next to him, he picked them up and covered his face with both hands.Fengju said: "Hesun, where were you when the fire started last night?" Hesun was still reading the printed matter, and replied casually, "I fell asleep in the room!" Fengju said, "Have you woken up yet?" Sun said: "If there is a fire in the house, why not get up? What do you mean?" Fengju said, "I see that you are so calm and calm, it must be that the thunder is coming before you. Changing color, everyone is very bored, you seem to be fine." He Sun just put down the printed matter, stood up and said, "What do you call me? I cry and dance to everyone, and things will be peaceful, won't it?" Feng Ju frowned and said, "You are simply incoherent!" He Sun ignored him.Seeing that Zhao Mengyuan was looking out through the glass window with his hands behind his back, he called Lao Zhao.As soon as he turned around, Hesun said with a smile: "Now I know what the ancients said about the poem that people get better after being poor, and that is the truth. Look at our uncle, in just three minutes, a lot of allusions came out of his stomach. .” Everyone is also wondering why Fengju is making such a fuss about his writing today?As soon as Hesun said it, everyone thought about it and couldn't help laughing.The smile was all right, but it caused another round of trouble.