Chapter 17 2. Male Silkworm Moth

But I remember that an uncle of the same family who had produced the "five clothes" said that someone once pretended to be a descendant of the second grandfather and came to Zhang'an to recognize his relatives. Zhang'an people saw through him at a glance, took off his pants, and drove him out. Zhang An.There are also people who disagree with this. After confirming that this person is indeed the second grandfather, although the trousers seized that time were a pair of relatively expensive soft satin bloomers, they ruined a great opportunity to revitalize the Zhang family since then.

It was a summer when the south wind was more windy than the north wind. A five-foot-long wooden boat was filled with white sails by the south wind, and went northward along the Baihe River. The next handsome young captain in a royal blue silk gown.He set up an arbor with his hands, looked at the thick old mulberry tree, his eyes suddenly brightened, and then looked at the green mulberry fields, shouted: "Okay, I found it!" and hurried to the village , suddenly spread his arms and hugged the old mulberry tree tightly.This is where the differences started. Some people from Zhang’an said that he measured the thickness of the old mulberry tree’s waist and estimated the age of the tree; Hugging the mother who had been separated for many years, and then stroking the tree as if stroking the lover in a dream, he was surprised and happy and said: "Ah, you are the one I am looking for!"

The man from Zhang An rushed up to meet him and asked, "Guest officer, what did you find?" The owner said, "I found this old mulberry tree!" The man from Zhang An said, "I'm looking for this old mulberry tree from Zhang An?" The owner said: "Yes, yes, I searched along the Baihe River, and I found old mulberry trees and this large mulberry field." A young daughter-in-law with a baby asked happily: "Oh Is Xike a descendant of the second grandfather of my old Zhang family?" The owner of the ship was taken aback for a moment, then nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, my name is Zhang Fagui, and I am a descendant of our old Zhang family." The daughter-in-law Shouting to the village: "Come and see, the descendants of the second grandfather have come back to recognize their relatives!"

When Zhang An's people surrounded him one after another, the patriarch Zhang Fulai happened to be riding a donkey back from outside the village.He went out of the village to beg for tofu bills and returned empty-handed. He was repaying the debts for the people of the West Village. After hearing the conversation between the boat owner and the villagers, he answered on the donkey's back: "Wait a minute, did you bring back the broken pot?" "What?" Zhang Fagui was taken aback. "What? You don't even know the signboard of the old Zhang family! Let me ask you again, have you eaten sesame seed cakes?"

Zhang Fagui blinked his eyelids and said, "What? Eat sesame seed cakes! We don't eat sesame seed cakes, we eat rice, glutinous rice cakes, bacon, burnt spicy fish, braised dog meat, and salted duck." Zhang Fulai swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "It's fine if you don't bring broken pots and pancakes, but if you go back to the village to ask your ancestors, you can't come back empty-handed, right? Zhang'an is not very big, it's always your great ancestor." A piece of geomantic treasure left by grandpa is the place where our Zhang family reunite and gather. We must not forget to worship our ancestors, right? The wooden sailboat you brought back is not small, and it can hold hundreds of catties of bacon and a hundred salted ducks. Come down!"

Zhang Fagui was stunned and said: "That's right! I loaded a shipment of southern goods, as well as incense candles, candle holders, gold foil, and silver foil for ancestor worship, all of which were unloaded on Xiangyang Wharf. I came to Zhang'an , because... because I found a mulberry tree here, of course, I also came to visit Zhang’s clan, that’s right! A word ‘Zhang’ can’t be broken! If I can break it, it will become a ‘bow’. Isn't it 'long'? What is the bow for? It's a guy who hurts people. If you make it longer, won't it scare people away? Anyway, our old Zhang's 'Zhang' must not Break it off!" He looked around the village again, and said repeatedly, "Look at this mulberry garden, tsk tsk! I just took a look, and I knew it was the mulberry mulberry garden of our old Zhang's family, tsk tsk! Wait a minute The first-class mulberry orchard, that's right! With this first-class mulberry orchard, there will be first-class silkworms and cocoons, silk and silk, silk and satin, right?" He showed a bold and reserved look. With a smile, he patted his chest with a "boom", "I will charge as much as I have, and the price is easy to negotiate!"

Zhang An was dumbfounded, and there was silence under the old mulberry tree.The young daughter-in-law pulled the nipple out of the baby's mouth, said with a smile on her face, "Second Grandfather and my son-in-law's elder brother, I really told you that you are right, Zhang'an lacks everything but silkworm cocoons, our old scalper in Zhang'an If you eat the mulberry leaves from our Zhang An, they will also produce silkworms!" She laughed "cheeky" and everyone giggled too.She suddenly frowned, showing that she needed love and affection, "Second Grandfather and my elder brother, why don't you come back earlier? In the past two years, silkworm cocoons have not been sold at a good price, and fewer and fewer silkworms are raised. I also use it myself. If you come back early next year, I will keep it for you."

Zhang Fulai was stunned for a moment, what?You keep it all for him?Even if he is a descendant of the second grandpa, even if he produced five clothes a hundred years ago, even if he can afford the first-class price, we can't keep everything for him, and leave it to our great-grandfather. people! Zhang Fulai was feeling angry when he saw the daughter-in-law with her arms open. Zhang Fagui's eyes were like a black fly that landed on her big tits and stared at her, then said with a smile: "That's right, I will definitely Come back early. However, folks, remember that silkworm cocoons, silkworm chrysalis, and silkworm moths are all treasures. Don’t forget to keep the male silkworm moth for me. Listen clearly, male—silkworm—moth!” He turned his face and covered his face. Mouth mask, said to a few young men huddled together on a dung pile, "Male silkworm moths can make our men happy every night, understand? Of course women also follow men to be happy, understand?" Then he amplified his voice , "Remember, the male silkworm moth just came out of the silkworm chrysalis, before it pressed the female silkworm moth to do work, it pinched its wings and dried them over a slow fire..."

"What are you talking about?" Zhang Fulai jumped off the donkey's back. "I mean, I also buy male silkworm moths. This is the emperor's old man's decree!" Zhang Fagui showed innocence and great interest, "Listen, old man, male silkworm moths are the ones that men can eat as soon as they eat them. The tonic is also a tribute collected by the imperial medicine workshop. The emperor sits down and asks about the government, so he also wants to go back to the harem to have a good night? He only eats five or six male silkworm moths at a time, and he can survive more than a dozen rounds How about making money one by one? But remember, you can’t ask it to work with the female silkworm moth... ”

An old man knocked on the pot and said, "Give him a bowl of water and tell him to leave!" "Thank you, sir! I'm not thirsty, I'm really not thirsty!" Zhang Fagui smiled, and raised his voice again, "Our old Zhang's family also opened a silk reeling and silk brocade weaving and dyeing workshop in Hankou, and there is a shortage of manpower right now. I think our Zhang'an The sisters who make good materials all have skillful hands in handling silkworm cocoons, spinning brocade, and dyeing and embroidering. The women in Hankou are struggling to earn the wages, but this fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, right? Our own sisters enter Our own Fuwowo, the wages are easy to talk about!"

The young daughter-in-law hurriedly asked: "Second grandfather's son, do you want me?" Zhang Fagui was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "How dare I say no! It's just that sister-in-law is inconvenient for you to take care of your children, and it's easier for unmarried girls to do work." Come back, as long as you are an elf, you can do well on the trampoline, whether it's "Mandarin Duck and Love", "Dragon and Phoenix", "Kirin giving birth to a child", "Peacock Spreading its Tail", I can't find it with a lantern. There is no reason not to!" Zhang Fulai and more than half of Zhang An's men smelled the evil smell, the smell of vinegar, and the smell of urine.Zhang Fulai flicked his whip abruptly, but the "crack" was not as loud as the "crack" of a big whip driving mules and horses, so he pointed the whip stick at Zhang Fagui's nose, "Say it again, boy!" "Did I make a mistake?" Zhang Fagui expressed sincere fear, "I only know a little bit about the way of life on this stretcher bed, how dare I play tricks in front of our sister Zhang An! There are thousands of patterns on this brocade , and those "crazy bees, waves and butterflies" and "bees sting flower hearts", I won't show my shame in front of our old Zhang sisters one by one!" Zhang Fulai was confused by what he said, his eyes went blank, and he felt doubly annoyed.Even if I was wrong, even if you were talking about the way of life on the brocade, you didn't ask Zhang An if there were men in charge of the women?Are they the cows and ewes you tie on your trouser belt, and you can take them away if you want?Zhang Fulai walked over with squinted eyes, propped Zhang Fagui's chin up with a whip, and said with a hum, "You don't look like a descendant of the old Zhang family's second grandfather, you are a fucking human trafficker who runs a kiln!" Zhang An's man suddenly pulled the mulberry pole and mulberry stick, and started a defensive battle for Zhang An's woman. Zhang Fagui hastily supported the whip with his palm, "I swear, I will swear to our fellow Zhang'an folks right now, if I am not a descendant of the old Zhang family, I would be the shit out of a donkey whore made by a son of a bitch Kron pushed the donkey dung out, okay?" The old man knocked on the cigarette pot again and said, "Stop cursing! Isn't this cursing the ancestor of our Zhang family! Tell him to take off his shoes and check his toenails." When Zhang Fagui heard this, his face turned pale, and his head shook like a rattle, "Everyone, don't tell me to take off my shoes. I know that my old Zhang's toenails are divided into two parts, but mine are not. My old grandmother’s grandmother is a Miao and Tujia girl by the Yangtze River. The emperor also gave my old grandfather a great beauty who paid tribute from the Western Regions as his wife and house because of his meritorious service in brocade weaving. The purebreds of the old Zhang’s family in the Han Dynasty were only scattered on the borders of the Miao family and the Tu family, and then planted in the bellies of beauties from the Western Regions, so the crops grown are somewhat different!” Zhang An burst out laughing.Zhang Fulai also laughed out loud, but he couldn't help but order his three sons to release Zhang Fagui, take off his powder-soled soap boots, stuff them into the donkey's bag, and shouted, "Take off your trousers, look!" The birthmark on his ass!" A pair of egg blue soft satin bloomers, two black silk tassel leg ties, and a pair of brocade shorts woven with one mandarin duck oppressing another mandarin duck were pulled off by all kinds of hands and feet.The women in Zhang'an all pulled off their headscarves or covered their faces with their palms, and then looked through their fingers. A big white buttocks pouting up to the sky can be said to be flawless, and there is no blue or any other color. Zhang's imprint. Zhang Fagui howled like a pig: "Pants, my pants!" The trousers have become the trophies that Zhang'an people compete for. He struggled and shouted again: "Child, child, my child!" child?Like a thunder explosion on a sunny day, Zhang Anren's head "boomed".When did Zhang An have his child?Which shameless woman hooked up with him early?Zhang Cai, who had been to Hankou as a errand, was well-informed, fearing that there would be a life lawsuit, he hurriedly explained: "He speaks Hubei dialect, and he doesn't want his children, but his shoes, and the clothes he wears are His 'children', all Hubei people wear 'children' on their feet." Under the old mulberry tree, it was like a pot of boiling water, boiling with laughter. Zhang Fagui had already given up all efforts to get back his trousers and "children". Thanks to the ripped gown to cover up his shame, he ran toward the river with bare legs and bare feet.Zhang'an chased them to the river bank and yelled.Only the woman and a few young men stood under the slanting sunset, looking wistfully at the wooden boat that weighed anchor and departed. Zhang Fagui picked up the broken gown on the boat, held the thing that was passed on from generation to generation in his hand, and shouted on the boat board: "Zhang An, take off your trousers too, and give me Bibi bastards! You guys!" Monkey cheeks with sharp mouths, eyebrows and mouse eyes, hunched backs, small heads and small brains, isn't that thing also called a scorpion? Take your broken pot slices and exchange them for sesame cakes. The ancestors of the Zhang family have long left you in this place where bastards are raised I forgot who you are! To tell you the truth, I didn’t come here for you, Zhang An, I just praised the mulberry garden here, and I fell in love with the little girls who can weave silk and brocade here. Take the mulberry leaves and eat them yourself, let's see what kind of cocoons you can make! The little girls also keep them for your own use, I'm sorry you can't fuck a golden pony!" Zhang Fagui scolded people heartily and uttered a lot of epigrams, every word of pearl and agate, every sentence was like thunder.Zhang Anren was scolded by him, sweating profusely, covered in goose bumps, and fighting with yellow teeth.The old mulberry tree shook its head rustlingly, and a few wilted mulberry leaves fell down.Zhang Fulai rode a donkey again, leading a few rogues to chase the boat and scold them.The boat went down the river, turned a bend in the river, and disappeared instantly. Not long after, a boatman on the Xinpu wharf on the other side of the river came back from Hankou and said to the people in Zhang'an, why did you scold a golden mountain of your old Zhang's family!Zhang Fagui's ancestors really escaped from the famine along the Baihe River. Later, they worked as silk craftsmen in the Silk Brocade Workshop of the Emperor's Weaving and Dyeing Department, and invented the weaving methods of "Youlin" and "Xiangfeng". A reward from the Weaving and Dyeing Department.Today, his descendants set up their own brocade workshop, with 200 looms, and built a Zhanggong Temple at the entrance of Pizi Street in Hankou.There is a heart guard mirror on the body of Zhang Gong's clay sculpture gold, which is said to be made of a "leading head" on the iron incense burner. Everyone in Zhang An seemed to have been whipped, each of them was stunned, and then sighed.When it was time to drink soup at night, the stoves in every family did not emit smoke, only gas.Husband and wife talk back, father and father quarrel, throw pots and bowls, and gossip.At night, no one lights a lamp, no one makes love, cats don't cry in spring, dogs don't go into heat, only owls laughing strangely in the mulberry garden. Zhang Fulai slept with his head covered for two days, then went to the mill and beat the donkey's rump with a whip to grind old tofu, then poked his neck and said, "Hmph, even if he is a descendant of the second grandfather, he is not a purebred. Already!" On the issue of whether Zhang Fagui is a pure-bred descendant of the second grandfather, although the people of Zhang'an have differences, but since then, the people of Zhang'an have lost their belts to eat steamed buns, sesame seed cakes, flat food, and even eat. The possibility of eating stewed meat with vermicelli and Zhang Fulai's performance have reached a consensus on the issue of making Zhang'an people notorious and prestige.People in Zhang An unanimously pointed out that even if Zhang Fulai is riding on the back of a donkey, he doesn’t look like Zhang Fei at first glance. He can only drive the donkey to grind tofu and still can’t collect the tofu bill. The old tofu that can't be broken in the ground is the kind of soft tofu that "tie the tofu with a hemp rope - you can't lift it up".Even if he has the highest seniority, and is the "diliu grandson" born on the treetops of the 100th generation by the eldest son passed down from the eldest son of the great grandfather, he is a crooked melon at first glance. Jujube is not material for being a patriarch. Everyone spotted Zhang Cai.Zhang Cai is the head of the whole village. He has studied in a private school for three years, and has been appointed by the government as a village official to urge grain dispatchers. He has also inherited the two-acre "Zusang" from his great-grandfather and grand-grandmother.He is the only one in the village who is well-informed, and only he understands that "children" in Hubei are equivalent to "shoes" in Henan.What is particularly trustworthy is that he not only ate the steamed buns that the great grandfather wanted to eat, and the sesame seed cakes that the second grandfather dreamed of, but also took the lead in enjoying the flat food that the three grandfathers never dared to imagine. A meal of flat food is eaten on New Year's Eve, but whenever he wants to eat flat food, his wife will make small flat food into the shape of ingots and ask him to chew and swallow them, and dip them in balsamic vinegar garlic sauce.The historical task of Zhang An's prosperity must fall on Zhang Cai's shoulders, and it is time. The people of the Zhang'an clan started a glorious process of democratization. In the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall, an "Old Man's Meeting" was held in the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall. I handed over the earthen pot that contained the broken pot, and I was not allowed to mention "Po Guo Zhang" from now on, and I changed my name to the great grandfather as "Romo Zhang"; the song of the third grandfather said "Drink a sip of cold water and I will go" , renamed "Liangshui Zhang"; regardless of whether Zhang Fagui is a descendant of the second grandfather, it is an indisputable historical fact that the second grandfather had a special liking for sesame seed cakes, so it was renamed "Seed Cake Zhang". "Poguozhang" changed its year name, and in the first year of "Romozhang", although Zhang An did not have a prosperous scene, Zhang Cai was not interested in keeping the broken pot, so he became a cattle broker and learned to "pinch" The unique skill of "the code" is to tuck your fingers in the sleeve or extend them into the cloth bag to "operate in the dark", grab the buyer's or seller's fingers, pinch the price in the sleeve or cloth bag, and pinch out the price that others can't see. The "kickback" of the "rebate", just "er oh, er oh", drove a group of Nanyang cattle to Laohekou. The sales of Zhang An's silkworm cocoons did not improve, and the countless male silkworm moths did not turn into countless coins.The men in Zhang'an vent all their curses on fate and all their yearning for a happy life on the male silkworm moths, and strictly prohibit the male silkworm moths from having sex with the female silkworm moths. Eat and even pinch the wings and eat them alive, and take merciless revenge on the male silkworm moths.Every night, in the darkened farmhouse, panting like cows, the screams of the women came and went: "Moth...moth...damn it...little dear...moth moth!" Zhang'an's population grew wildly like weeds, but large tracts of mulberry gardens were barren day by day.