Chapter 4 old and new trends

During that time, the tide of the new civilization was constantly rising and falling around the stagnant life.This situation around Taiming came from various angles.The first thing Taiming deeply felt was the children brought by his relatives on his mother's birthday. They surrounded the yard, and everyone sang the pigeon coo coo and played games together. Taiming felt when he saw it.It was only then that Taiming realized that there was another world that he didn't know existed, and he felt that he was outside their circle.He remembered what Zhida had said. Not only that, but his father Hu Wenqing also said: "In the government hall, people who don't understand Japanese are equivalent to idiots." 'It feels like times have changed a lot.But why did his grandfather let him read Chinese?Taiming thought about it but didn't understand.

His father, Hu Wenqing, had vague expectations for the new education, but at present he still had to resolve matters, so that he had not yet decided how to educate his son.The current problem is how to buy back the lost land from his father Hu.This is a meaningful thing that a son should do, and it is something he has to do for his own interests. However, after painstaking efforts, the land was lost and recovered, only to find that there was a third party's creditor's rights on the land, which he did not see clearly.Secondly, due to a measurement error, his own land became owned by the owner of the adjacent land.Also, he felt that he was not as good as a western doctor. As a Chinese doctor, he participated in the rescue work at the landslide site, and the public doctor handled it neatly, so he could only stand by and watch.Some patients he considered hopeless were saved with a single injection.Especially for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, Han doctors often find it difficult to prescribe effective prescriptions.In order to correctly deal with the land issue, it is necessary to have new practical scientific capabilities that can be used flexibly. In addition, for the treatment of infectious diseases, Western medicine is much more effective than Chinese medicine. Hu Wenqing deeply feels these. The most important thing is that Western medicine and Chinese medicine Compared with medicine, there are many benefits.

Although Hu Wenqing was concerned about absorbing new knowledge so that he could keep up with the trend of the times, he still let his son Taiming be educated in Sinology by his grandfather, because he understood the stubbornness of the old man's mind.Taiming is like an unconscious boat drifting between two trends of the times. However, by chance, Taiming entered a public school.That was Mr. Lin who taught in a public school. He was not only well-educated in Sinology, but also good at capturing the mood of the elderly. He skillfully persuaded the elderly to agree to let Taiming enter the public school.That day, Mr. Lin, the principal of the public school and Mr. Lin, who was acting as an interpreter, went fishing in a pond near Hu's house. On the way home, they stopped by Hu's house. The old man invited them to drink tea and started a conversation.

Taiming entered public school from the second semester.In the school at that time, one could skip grades from the first grade to the third grade, and there were no restrictions on qualifications, and one could join the class midway.But the atmosphere of public schools is completely different from that of private schools, full of vigor and vitality.Taiming suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly opened up.The playground or classrooms are spacious and well-lit. Taiming then lived in the boarding house of Dazhong Temple.Horiuchi-san and Hayashi-san from the school also live there.Five or six boarding students, all of them are around 20 years old, and some of them are married.Taiming was quiet and studied diligently. Everyone liked him, and his studies were progressing smoothly.

What I saw and heard in school and everything else was full of freshness and surprises.In the past, Taiming heard people superstitiously saying that taking photos would take away his soul. In school, this superstition was easily broken, and everyone was relieved to be photographed. The changes are not limited to Taiming alone.After a while, he came home from vacation and saw that the pine forest, which was said to be related to the prosperity and decline of the Hu family, had been preserved with great attention, but it had been completely cut down and turned into a bare and miserable state without trees.Because it was rumored that all the forests would be nationalized, the trees were felled quickly.But later I learned that it will not belong to the government, but will be kept by the government.

Hu Wenqing is still busy going out to see patients every day.The land lost by his father was gradually bought back with his income.It seems that the Hu family has gone downhill, and the villagers believe that their fortunes are showing signs of recovery. As the economic situation improved, Hu Wenqing's clothes changed from black blouses to long gowns unknowingly, and his long gowns also changed from cotton to soft silk.He was wearing a patterned silk gown, and Hu Wenqing looked proud. But Hu Wenqing secretly possessed the shadow of a young woman, whom he met for the first time on his way home from a doctor's visit.Her name is Ayu.The parasite Ah San saw that Hu Wenqing admired Ah Yu privately, so he said in Hu Wenqing's ear with seductive sweet words: "Mr. Hu, a rooster can crow, any man doesn't care."Ayu is beautiful, with delicate skin, and gentle and affectionate, even marrying a doctor's wife is not faultable.There is only one mother in her family, and her family is clean.Mr. Hu, for a person like you, not only did you not marry a third wife, but you didn't even have a second wife. Hu Wenqing replied vaguely, "Yes, yes", but his liking for Ayu made him very tempted.Ah San saw through Hu Wenqing's mind.

"Sir, there's no problem, everything is on me..." Ah San showed a despicable smile, with an expression of comprehension. As a result, as Ah San arranged, Ah Yu accepted Hu Wenqing's financial assistance, and her home was added with new furniture such as beds and wardrobes.Hu Wenqing, a money worshiper, first tasted the joy of being crazy about women other than his wife.But he didn't know that when he didn't go to her place, in the bed he bought for Ah San, Ah San lay down and smoked opium. Ah San was not greedy enough, he introduced Ah Yu to Hu Wenqing, but he was not satisfied with getting some sweets.He said to Ah Yu: "Money, it's smart to get it while you can get it."For pigs, why should there be love? To extract money from pigs that can eat and drink for a lifetime, you should know how to do this! 'Ayu is the daughter of Ah San's relatives, and her name is Ah San'Uncle'.When she heard Ah San's words, she felt that what he said was also reasonable.Ah San then went to persuade Ah Yu's mother to agree to play a play with Hu Wenqing as her opponent.

Hu Wenqing didn't notice it at all, and drifted to Ayu's house on the way home from the clinic as usual.There was Hu Wenqing's favorite sesame oil chicken wine on the dinner table, and Ayu treated Hu Wenqing more affectionately than usual.After dinner, Hu Wenqing lay intoxicated on the bed he bought for her.Just like this bed is expensive, he wants to lure Ayu into the high-priced bed, but make her forget that it is a beautiful and intoxicating state of high price.Ayu understood all this, and soon she would slip into Hu Wenqing's sensual ecstasy like the soft air. Like opium, moment by moment passed with lazy intoxication, and soon Hu Wenqing fell into a comfortable sleep, it was midnight.

Suddenly, there was an urgent knock on the door, breaking Hu Wenqing's sleep.From the knock on the door, I heard: 'Who is it!The guy who secretly sleeps with other people's wives!kill him!open the door and come out!Cat slave! 'I don't know who yelled like that.Hu Wenqing jumped up in surprise.Ayu also jumped up, and she closed the messy skirt of her pajamas and said, "Ah!It's him! ' Ah Yu screamed in horror.Facing this unexpected situation, Hu Wenqing trembled in panic.The voices outside continued to shout.Ayu's mother's pleading voice was heard in the middle.Strangely, it seemed that Ah San had also come in such a late night.

'Wait a minute, leave it to me!Leave it to me! The people in the room heard Ah San's desperate efforts to stop the noise. Thanks to Ah San's wit, Hu Wenqing saved his life from danger.The condition was that Hu Wenqing had to pay a consolation fee of 500 yuan, write out an IOU, and pledge the gold watch, gold ring, gold chain, gold-rimmed glasses, etc., as collateral. He fled back in a panic. up. The next day, Ah San exchanged the IOU with Hu Wenqing for 500 yuan in cash.This is a pre-designed 'beauty bureau' scam.Moreover, Ah San took the lead in rescuing the crisis, and asked Hu Wenqing for a hundred yuan.From that day on, this incident was known as the golden cat incident, and it spread quickly in the village.

After Hu Wenqing suffered a loss of 600 yuan, he was temporarily taught a lesson and never mentioned Ayu again.But about two months later, when he heard from Ah San that A Yu had been filed for divorce by her husband, his attachment to A Yu rekindled.He lost a large amount of money because of her, and he would never forget it. So he proposed to marry Ah Yu as a concubine through Ah San's intermediary.There is no problem with Ayu, but the difficulty is how to get his wife, Acha, to agree to her taking a concubine.Hu Wenqing discussed with Ah San, and Ah San used his strategist's ideas. One day, Ah San accompanied a fortune teller who was said to have crossed the sea from China, and pretended to come to Hu's house.He wears black glasses, holds a big fan in his hand, and speaks with a Tingzhou accent. 'It is an indisputable geographical fact that the Hu family's outstanding people are outstanding. Although the Hu family's geography is good, everyone has their own destiny. Destiny has its ups and downs. Naturally, there are long-lived people and short-lived people. This is fate.Those who don't know their fate and resist are ordinary people, even if they are a man, relying on the strength of ordinary people will not help.It is better to take the method of evasion.If Xiang Yu had known in advance that there was a danger of Gaixia, he could have avoided the disaster and won the world later.It's a pity that how many famous generals and heroes in ancient and modern times did not believe in fate, and used their strength to resist fate in vain. ’ He said the opening remarks like this, citing Kong Ming, Liu Xuande, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other fools who fought against fate to illustrate.Then he said that Mr. Hu's face was full of murderous misfortune. He probably suffered a bad luck recently and almost died, but because of his ancestor Yu De and Mr. Hu's own accumulation of goodness, he was saved from disaster.But the disaster is not over yet, the way to avoid the bad luck - he paused here, and said in a solemn tone, is to have a second concubine. The physiognomist said again: "Let me pay my respects to Mrs. Ling, and compare both sides, so that I can make a complete judgment." Hu Wenqing gladly asked his wife who was on the side to show her the picture.The wife obeys her husband obediently.The fortune teller said: "Madam is the appearance of a millionaire, but she shows that she cannot monopolize her husband."Otherwise, Mr. Hu will be in danger. "Ziwu Yichong", this year is entering the Ziyun, and it will not be easy to pass through five years.Mr. Hu is really a double wives. The fortune teller bluntly said this judgment. Since it was judged like this, Ah Cha looked away.What's more, it is a common thing for a husband to take a concubine in society, and she doesn't feel much pain.For some reason she remembered all sorts of things connected with concubines.Ah Cha married into the Hu family as a child bride when she was eleven years old.At that time, the Hu family was a prestigious family in name only, but in fact their family was poor.Although there is income from the land, it is only enough to pay interest.She got married at the age of sixteen, and she still chops firewood or helps in farming to dry rice.After that, Hu Wenqing's medical industry developed, and the value of the land also increased, and the debt was paid off in only six or seven years.The rejuvenation of the Hu family is said by the villagers to be due to Ah Cha's blessings. It has been twenty-five years since Ah Cha got married, and she never went back to her natal home with her husband once, nor went to the street to watch a play, and Ah Cha never thought of herself as happy or unlucky.Every day, work from early in the morning, rest when tired, and then work again.Ah Cha finally had to think about it, it was after her husband met Ah Yu.She missed the old days when she didn't have to think about anything.However, Ah Cha finally thought that she had two sons and one daughter. Even after she died, there would still be a son who would carry the incense burner for her, and a daughter who would carry the torch to the grave. Thinking of this, Ah Cha was relieved from her boredom.Old man Hu didn't particularly object to his son's taking a concubine, and silently expressed no opinion.On the contrary, the eldest son, Zhigang, was opposed to his father's concubine.But Ah San also had wisdom in this regard, and he gave Hu Wenqing a plan: allocate a few more lands to Zhigang's "eldest son Tian" when the family was separated, so as to appease the dissatisfied eldest son.In this way, the second wife, Ayu, married into the Hu family.Although the times have changed, the negative society is still repeated.Sometimes Taiming came home from school on vacation, and he was not used to this kind of change in the family, feeling unable to blend in.This is because his perception of the changes in his family is too different.For example, he imitated the trend of intellectuals who were advancing at that time, and cut off his braids to become a bald head. The shaved bald head still has a circle with the scars of the braids. The guy who loves to chew his tongue gave him the nickname of "lime gangster" .The old people, on the basis of the principle of 'the body, hair and skin cannot be damaged', think that cutting off hair is equal to cutting off the head, and criticize the practice of cutting off hair.He also said that according to the ancient customs, cutting off hair is a kind of lynching for adulterers. Taiming cut off the braid on his own initiative.When she returned home for the first time after losing her hair, her mother, Ah Cha, looked at her and said, "Taiming, you look like this, you won't be able to see your ancestors when you die." ' she said in a trembling voice of despair, shedding tears.Brother Zhigang half-mockingly took off Taiming's hat and introduced it to everyone. The younger sister kept saying, "It's ugly! It's ugly!" When he came back from school, she took care of him like a family member. But Taiming couldn't get close to others who became part of the family while he was away. In short, there was a disconnect between him and the family. He felt He couldn't make up for it at all, he went home as usual during the holidays, and went back to school immediately after visiting his parents. And the void that couldn't be filled, he enriched himself with learning and knowledge.