Chapter 23 twenty three

One morning, Juexin received a letter from Shanghai from his third younger brother Juehui. He was reading it in his room when Yuan Cheng came in and reported: "The old lady Zhou Wai sent someone to invite her to play with the young master. She said yes. Miss Hui and my aunt and master are going back today." "Does Madam know?" Juexin asked casually. "I asked Qixia to report to her just now. Madam said she would go after breakfast," Yuan Cheng replied respectfully. "Okay, go and tell the visitor, I'll greet the old lady, and I'll come as soon as I've been to the company in the afternoon," Juexin turned around and ordered.

Yuan Cheng agreed and walked out.Juexin folded the letterhead and put it back in the envelope.Thinking of some of the words in the letter, he felt very uneasy, and the more he thought about it, the worse he felt.He picked up his pen and wrote a reply to Juehui.But he only wrote half a piece of letter paper, and Qixia came to call him to have breakfast. After eating breakfast, Juexin chatted with Mrs. Zhou and Shuhua for a while before returning to his room.He walked into the aisle and saw Keming coming out, followed by the servant Wende carrying a bundle.He stopped and said hello.Keming suddenly asked: "Liu Sheng hasn't come back yet?" Juexin respectfully agreed with a "yes".

Keming frowned and said, "Reckoning the days, he should be back. If he doesn't come back in two or three days, he can send another person to the countryside to inquire. "Yes," Juexin said, "Liu Sheng hasn't come back yet, probably because the situation in the countryside is not good and he hasn't done things well." ""Looking at the situation, we will inevitably suffer some losses this year," Keming said with a little anxiety. "Yes, I just hope this flood is not as severe as the rumors say," Juexin echoed worriedly. Keming didn't say anything else, and walked out of the aisle. "Yiya" sounded from the soles of the shoes for a while.

Juexin sat in the room for a while, drank a cup of strong tea, and was about to pick up his pen to continue writing, when he suddenly heard a commotion behind him.He didn't know what happened, so he hurried to the back.He walked under Shuhua's window, only to realize that the noise was coming from Guitang.He heard someone shouting: "Fifth Young Master, you can't do it. You can't do it." He hurried over and stepped into the corner door. The room on the left of Guitang is the bedroom of brothers Jue Qun and Jue Shi. There are a few maids gathered under the window of this room, and Qian'er and Cuihuan stand far away and shout.Juequn held a gleaming kitchen knife in his hand, and jumped up and down the steps, cursing and cursing.His brother Jue Shi hid in the room, and scolded him back.

"Fifth young master, you can't help it. Give me the knife. You play with the knife and see if you cut your hand. After a while, the wife will know that you will be beaten," said Aunt Li, and walked over, trying to take the knife from Juequn's hand. . "Sister-in-law Li, who called you to meddle in my own business? Are you worthy to meddle in me? Do you want to be stabbed?" Jue Qunzhuan cursed sharply with a red face.He chopped off the knife in his hand to Mrs. Li.But he wasn't serious about cutting her, so she dodged easily.Mrs. Li stuck out her tongue, grunted a few words, and slipped away quietly.

"Damn it. You have the ability to dare to come out." Juequn cursed violently. "You son of a bitch, you have the ability, you dare to come in." Jue Shi cursed loudly in the room. "If you don't come out, I'll × your mother." "My mother is still sleeping on the bed and hasn't woken up. If you have the ability, you can come ×." "I × your ancestors, I × your ancestors." Juequn brandished a kitchen knife and cursed . "Fifth brother." Juexin couldn't bear it, and called out angrily.Juequn ignored him. "My mother is your mother, and my ancestor is your ancestor. How dare you scold in front of your mother.

I'm going to sue my mother. " Jue Shi shouted challengingly. Seeing that he hadn't won, Juequn became even more annoyed, and desperately raised a kitchen knife and threw it into the room. "Fifth brother, be careful, don't cause trouble." Juexin warned in horror. "Fifth Young Master, you can't help it. He is your brother Luo." Nanny Yang hugged Shufang, and Aunt Ding shouted in unison while holding Juexian. But these words have lost their validity.The kitchen knife flew into the room through the glass window and smashed something before falling to the ground.Jueshi was so frightened that he cried "Wow" in the room.Shufang also cried loudly in Nanny Yang's arms.

"Sister-in-law Li, Qian'er, Nanny Yang, Mrs. Ding, go and tell your wives, it's terrible." Juexin shouted in panic, while he went to pull Juequn.Juequn realized that he had done something wrong when he saw the accident, so he found a gap in the crowd and ran outside and slipped away. Juexin saw several maids call open the door, and rushed inside to see if Juexin was injured.He was very upset.He sighed.He suddenly heard a woman talking to herself: "It's a reward for the world." It turned out that Mrs. Qian with high cheekbones and a long face walked past with a gloating expression.He heard someone calling him "big brother" again.This is Shuying's voice.Shuying stood at the door of her room waiting for him to go.

"Brother, I'm terrified. I've seen too much of this," Shuying saw Juexin come to her side, grabbed his wrist, and said with worry, boredom, and pain. "I think this is just the beginning, and there will be many more things like this in the future," Juexin quietly replied fearfully. "So what should I do?" Shuying asked painfully. "I don't know what to do either," Juexin replied helplessly.He seemed to hear a voice in his heart saying: What should I do?It was his own voice.His heart actually spoke in rebellion. "What should I do? The third brother's journey is not difficult." Juemin interjected behind Juexin.Juexin and Shuying didn't notice Juemin approaching, and he spoke suddenly, which surprised them both.Juemin's firm voice rang repeatedly in Shuying's heart.Shuying understood the meaning of that sentence.Shuhua appeared next to Juemin, and Shuhua came with Juemin.Shuhua didn't hear Juemin's words clearly.She also didn't notice what Shuying and Juexin were talking about.She approached them and said with righteous indignation: "This is too outrageous. The fourth aunt didn't come out to stop, and almost killed someone. I don't know where the fifth brother escaped? We should catch him and beat him well." Pause." "Why didn't you catch the fifth brother?" Juemin asked coldly, "You met him running out." Shuhua paused for a moment, then said frankly: "The matter of the fourth aunt is still Take care of me. If I touch the fifth brother, the fourth aunt will come up with new tricks later. Anyway, the fifth brother's kitchen knife can't kill me, let him make trouble." "Although I said that, but After all, they are members of the Gao family, and if they make a joke, everyone will lose face. They should have thought about it earlier," Juexin said in a worried voice.

"You still want to save face. You are really helpless. Do you still have to reason with the fourth aunt?" Juemin complained annoyedly because he was not used to hearing such words. Juexin was speechless.He was very sad.He thought: They don't understand me now, I am alone, and my difficulties will never be known. He stood so close to his brothers and sisters, but their hearts were far apart.Shuhua was still beside him and said: "This is the tutor of the fourth father and the fourth aunt. The fourth aunt usually uses the fifth brother like that. Do you think she is willing to beat the fifth brother?..." The women gathered on the stone steps on the left side of Guitang The servants have left.Jue Shi was still crying in the room.Afterwards, Mrs. Wang's sharp scolding sounded again in the room.But she stopped after two or three curses.A figure jumped in from outside the corner door, and then another.

"Fifth brother is here again," Shuhua said in surprise.The first person is Jueying, and the latter is Juequn.Juequn seemed to have done nothing wrong, jumped down to the courtyard with a smile on his face, and followed Jueying to the goldfish bowl.The two of them lifted the barbed wire covering the tank and looked down at the goldfish. "Fourth brother, you don't go to study," Shuying scolded.Jueying looked up at Shuying, and called "Second Sister".He still lowered his head and reached into the tank to fiddle with the water plants. "Second sister, let's go in. What do you care about him? You can't afford to be angry with him," Shuhua persuaded Jueying not to listen to Shuying, fearing that she would get angry. No one noticed Juexin's facial expression.He stood there in a daze, as if in a dream, and now he was awakened by Shuhua's voice.He didn't want to stand here any longer, and quietly walked outside alone.Seeing that Juexin had left, Shuying didn't want to keep him, but invited Juexin and Shuhua to her room. Juexin came back to the room, feeling very depressed. He thought about it, but he always felt that everything was not going his way.He didn't want to go to the company right away.He asked Mrs. He to pour a cup of strong tea.He spread out the letterhead and continued writing to Juehui.He wrote down what happened just now in detail, and he also mentioned Xi'er and other things that he didn't like.Finally, he wrote indignantly: "The family is different now than my grandfather was in Japan. All brothers don't think so. Third brother, don't suspect that I am too old-fashioned and stubborn. I said that if you want to change, of course you must change it, don't change it. They are bad. They don’t want the old ones that are good, and don’t want the new ones, no matter whether they are good or bad. But they come up with something weird, which makes you feel sad. The so-called lamenting the death of the typical, sadness and new knowledge can’t be both... "Juexin wrote here that he felt that the meaning was not enough. When he had to think carefully, his thoughts suddenly stagnated again.He couldn't think of a suitable sentence, and while he was thinking hard, Yuan Cheng opened the curtain and came in, reporting: "Young master, Uncle Liu is back, and now I'm waiting to see you in the concierge." Juexin heard that Liu Sheng had returned.A burst of surprise rescued him from entangled thoughts, and he quickly put down his pen and turned around to order: "You call him to come to my room immediately." After a few minutes, a tall shadow entered Juexin's room .Liu Sheng spoke the local dialect with a Shandong accent: "Master, Liu Sheng is here." "Liu Sheng, you have had a hard time on the road," Juexin turned his chair and said gently to Liu Sheng. "Working for the third master and the eldest young master, how can you call it hard work?" Liu Sheng smiled with his hands down. "How is the situation in the countryside? Have you seen the tenants?" Juexin asked. "Back to Young Master, Liu Sheng's trip to the countryside this time did not go well," Liu Sheng said with a little panic, "This trip to the countryside took a lot of detours before we arrived at Wenjiang County. It's not quiet outside the city, there are sticklers everywhere.Liu Sheng didn't dare to go out of the city, so he lived in the city. He tried every means to ask someone to send messages to the tenants everywhere, asking them to come to the city. After waiting for several days, he didn't even see a single tenant.It was only later that I learned that they were all in hiding because they were afraid of being robbed by stickmen and that the army would clear the country for money.Liu Sheng couldn't find it.After living in the city for ten days, not only did I not see a single tenant, but I didn't even see the fields. I don't know if the fields have been flooded.Later, I heard that the wind was not good, and there were many rumors.Liu Sheng was afraid that the third master and the eldest young master would be in a hurry, so he rushed back.Liu Sheng was confused about the facts... "Another unpleasant news. Juexin was very upset, but he still pretended to be calm and said: "It's not your fault.The road is not quiet, and there is nothing to do.It's good to go again in a few days.I see you are working hard too.You go back and rest for a while.Wait for the third master to come back before sending someone to call you. "Liu Sheng agreed gratefully, and walked out. Just as he stretched out his hand to push the door curtain, he was called by Juexin again. Zhu Juexin gently ordered: "Go out and ask my big class, Lao Wang, to get the sedan chair ready. I want to go to the company. "Juexin saw Liu Sheng's shadow disappearing outside the curtain, and suddenly remembered the unfinished letter in front of him, so he turned his chair over, raised his pen and lowered his head, and hurriedly wrote on the unfilled letterhead: "I want to write now." Went to the company.Today, my grandma invited my mother and me to have dinner, and my cousin Hui is going back to her mother's house.I'm afraid I won't be back until evening.I am afraid that you will miss the letter, so I will send you this written point.Please, I wish you good health.Brother Juexin × Month × Number, namely × Month × Day at 2:30 p.m. "He put down his pen and hastily folded the letterheads he had written, put them in an envelope, sealed the envelope, and then stood up and went to the inner room change clothes.