Chapter 21 【Stars and Dust】

【Stars and Dust】 At Zhou Fohai's house, I saw the Nanhua Sutra written by Mrs. Guan on the case, which was authentic, but when I thought it was Ma Xiaotian Or someone from the Reserve Bank will not be treasured.Also Minister of the Army Ye Peng showed me dozens of Duan inkstones he had hidden Fang, I also find it boring.There is also a glass cabinet in the living room of Li Shiqun's house, filled with bottles made of white jade and sapphire, Pot, Ruyi, Jiyang, Moon Rabbit, as well as coral agate crystal ball and gold dragon and phoenix plate, I stand in front of the cabinet every time

Look closely, but don't even want one. Han Yuefu, The concubine has an embroidered Luo jacket, the luxuriant self-growth, the red Luo Fudou tent, the four corners to the sachet, There are sixty or seventy box curtains, green and green silk ropes, and the objects are different, and there are all kinds of them. People are cheap and things are also contemptible, and they are not enough to welcome future generations. They are left as a legacy, and there is no reason for them today. It hurts to think of those things, and even at that time, I didn't live in the past. I also don't like official entertainment.In Shanghai, Lu Yin, the police chief, and Geng Jiaji, secretary of the Ministry of Industry in the Concession,

There is a club with Pan Sansheng, the leader of the exchange, and at night there are only thick curtains, thick carpets, and sofas and chairs full, That place must not even be ventilated during the day, the electric lights just feel that it is dim, and the dancers are called to accompany the wine, and the feeling is just too much. A messy group of people eating.I have been there once, and I have seen the dignitaries in the political and military circles, including Luo Junqiang and Ding Xishan After the dinner, Luo Junqiang sat alone in the sofa chair as if he was in Nafu, Ding Xishan left at some time, and some people were

Take the dancers to play cards in the small room upstairs, where no one has to greet anyone, everyone is free, although scattered It is down, but it also has a strong emotional appeal. The Shanghainese are really like the same, and they have achieved the same level as the Westerners. The club is one of a kind.But I didn't like it very much, and I lost my appetite after going there once. And I didn't have the pleasure of visiting Qixia Mountain with Chu Minyi in spring and autumn.When I was in Nanjing, only because Jiming Temple was in the house. After that, I often go up for a walk when I have nothing to do, but it is similar to walking on Danfeng Street.In addition, only go to Xuanwu Lake and Ming Xiaoling Tomb.Zijin

I once went up the mountain from Taicheng, but came down again halfway through the walk. I felt that just living under Zijin Mountain like this, Seeing each other every day is the same.I have never been to Yanziji, Nanjing, and Longhua, a suburb of Shanghai, to see peach blossoms. I feel that the historical sites and places of interest are only there, and they have already become good. It is not necessary to have been to them all, and there is more than enough in this world. . Liu Bei loves sensuality, I know it very well, but every time the emperors of the Chinese dynasties hunted, and the ministers remonstrated, I generally used

To remonstrate rightly.People's interests, movies, games, travel, antiques, stamp collection or fishing, I don't have any, even reading I'm not greedy either, I just think it's best to only have a few books at home, so I never thought of having a study. I also seldom go to the homes of my colleagues.The three families that often go around, one is Hu Jin's family, I don't think it's because he is a painter, And just because his family was a small family in Shanghai during the war, he and Yin Xuan were young couples in love, and the two little girls under there, each

The next time I stayed for a light meal, although it was only green vegetable tofu soup and a plate of scrambled eggs, it was also a warm hospitality.Another family is Wu Sibao If you have money, you have to be like his family. It seems that the prosperity of the whole Shanghai has come to his house.again It is Chairman Wang's mansion, where the gates are clean and dignified, and it is above wealth and splendor. When I make friends with people, I don't covet sages, heroes, scholars, elegant people or revolutionary youths, but I only associate with people in the back alleys , although extremely ordinary, but there is no scheming, that is, the clouds and the sun are high, the mountains and rivers are quiet, there is no love, and there are gifts

. I have never persuaded anyone to join the Wang government. Only when Mu Shiying himself said that he wanted to participate, I introduced him to do it. Reported that he was assassinated soon, and I helped Mrs. Mu get a pension.At this time, they were some friends of Hu Jinren. Life is difficult, and those who want to find a job, I use them in the Legal Affairs Bureau.It's all just friendship, more real than politics It is true and has nothing to do with politics.Du Heng and Dai Wangshu had been to Hangzhou quietly, and they were very scared and nervous, but I met Dai Wangshu Shu, don't make it funny that there are so many politics-related things he said about the world.

According to legends in Hu Village, men and women come out to join me when they only know that I am an official outside, but most of them don’t like me. They can read and write, so I can only introduce them to work as clerks or handymen, or give them travel expenses to send them back.every time they come A group of people just live in my house in Shanghai, no matter whether they can live there or not, it’s okay to lay a shop on the floor by themselves, It's all such ignorance, which makes Qingyun helpless and funny, but the people in the mountain village are rough, but they also have vitality.

Like Qingyun, I have no reason to dislike them. In this way, even Yu Fucun's younger sister, Cheng Kui's son Shouxian, and Chen Haifan all came. .My younger sister of the Yu family abused me when I was young, and I have to worry about her. She is a child, so if I don’t care about it, she doesn’t speak like that It was the child who said it, and it was clearly the adoptive mother who told her to do so.I haven't seen her for eight years now, she married a man with no future, but Since I'm in Shanghai, I'm supposed to go see her, she clings to my elder brother, and I use her and his wife as a little girl in the Propaganda Department.

I also made some clothes for her, because I always used the money from the Yu family when I was young.But she is in the Propaganda Department She is very rough and dissolute, so I have to pay less attention to her.If in Western literature, love her and hate her, or the Christian style of forgiveness Excuse me, it can be good material, but my treatment of her is just for the sake of being a human being, and even any exciting scenes cannot constitute . Na Chengkui, he refused to lend me money for Yufeng's funeral in the past, but when I was teaching in Guangxi, I sent money to Hu Village on a monthly basis At home, he still transferred it, because he lived in Zhangzhen and it was convenient to withdraw money, but my mother died of illness, so Qingyun went to ask him to borrow fifteen. Yuan he also refused, so the money I sent back arrived immediately, he was lucky enough to do this kind of place, and afterward Qingyun told me I mentioned it and just said it with a helpless smile.With the depreciation of banknotes during the war, Cheng Kui's usury exploits 10% a day Kong, his only son, Shou Xian, came out to join me, but I took him in and took care of his studies. And career, from Shanghai to Nanjing. In my Nanjing home, everyone went to the court to enjoy the shade one night in summer.Bewildered by the door lamp, a partridge flew to He fell to the ground, flew and bumped wildly again, turned over and fell to the ground several times, and was about to catch him, but he was bitten by a dog and snatched it quickly. , has been bitten to death.I'm not a man who abstains from killing, but because it was flying around and crashing around just now, it died like a witch's nightmare. It was so uncomfortable, so I asked the guards to throw it away, but Shouxian wanted to burn it and eat it, but he couldn't, which was a pity.Wei Shi Laozuo had a heartache, so he got a hedgehog to open his heart to make medicine. The hedgehog was full of thorns, very hard to kill, and it was easy to find Shouxian killed it, and he didn't even frown when he did such a thing.But once a letter came from his family, he made wine in the backyard The house of the workshop caught fire, and he read the letter and wept.This is also a lot of crying, young people beat the world, and he His family is still the richest man in the neighboring Sanbao.He is tough in dealing with others, and shed tears when he made a mistake. interest. I want to buy some land for my nephew, so I sent 14,000 yuan to Cheng Kui and handed it over to my elder brother, Na Cheng Kui, his My son is relying on me now, and he actually used the money to stockpile goods, and he paid them back after a year and a half. Mu of land, the value of banknotes depreciated to only redeem five mu of ancestral property.Later, Cheng Kui's family was in bad luck, so Shou went back first. Wandering in the countryside, looking devastated, his father and son were at odds, and died of illness not long after his birthday.That's how it's not happy The name and color of mourning and music are really inappropriate for even a little emotion. Chen Haifan and Ma Xiaoan came back from Guangxi before me.Haifan's family was very poor during the war, he went to Shanghai came to see me, and I used him as an editor at National News.Ma Xiaoan was the mayor of Wu Rong, his hometown, and sent his My son came to Shanghai to meet me.The afterglow of the May Fourth era has been extinguished on them, it is really a lifetime, Cao Jing One autumn, basically only the style of the young master of the old family in Shaoxing remained, and the red, polygonum and white apples all withered.Jia Baoyu in Dream of Red Mansions It is indeed a broad-minded view to ask people to pull out those stumps of the defeated lotus.But Daiyu quoted the Tang poem "Leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of the rain" It is also good, not only has the meaning of loyalty, but also transcends the sense of ups and downs to the point that it is just the principle of ups and downs. There is also Principal Xu of Hangzhou Huilan Middle School who is hiding in Shanghai. I also met. Huilan is run by the American Baptist Church. The school closed after the Pacific War, but he still treats people like I saw him when I was a child, but old.To open in previous years It wasn’t him who got rid of me, but Fang Tongyuan, the director of academic affairs. Fang Tongyuan, like most people in the church, has a frame. Even his walk seems to be on a shelf, and he has a God who can frown at the world, but now he I heard that he is the magistrate of Dinghai County, and Dinghai also belongs to the Nanjing government.Su Shi said that life is like claws in snow and mud, "on the mud, by chance, Keep your fingers and claws, Hongfei's multi-counting thing", in fact, it is nowhere in life that we don't meet again, it is true that the three generations and ten directions are all present . The third uncle of the Si family in Hangzhou, when I lived in the Si family in the past, I saw him so powerful that he didn't even look at people from the corners of his eyes. Rich, but so stingy that he even pays interest to his sisters. He lives in Shanghai, and his home is as cold as a temple of wealth. Now he is still wearing a blue robe, a black coat, and legged trousers. He comes to see me in Chen Zemin's car, and he just knows how to play a clown.another example When I was teaching in Baise in the past, a professor from Lingnan University brought his assistants to investigate, and I led them to the countryside and the market. If you talk to him, he will either sigh, or say "No, you don't know", and now he is working as a counselor in the Propaganda Department , I became his boss.Liu Yuxi replied to Niu Sengru's poems, At first I saw Xiang Rucheng Furi, but now I am the prime minister's door-sweeper, It has been a long time to think about the past, but fortunately, the light is clear and the frequency is gone. I just love this sentence "Reminiscing about the past and asking for a long time", it is very humble, but it is not regretful and ashamed, and it is above praise and criticism . There are also the parents of Miss Yu's fourth from Hangzhou, who were trapped in Shanghai during the war. I also went to see them, and met the third daughter sister.In the past, I wanted her fourth sister in a daze, but she was the only one who helped me from the bottom of my heart.This third lady is ambitious She is a very talented woman, and she is talented. When she was a daughter, she lived in her natal family, and after she got married, she lived in her husband's family. She was always the head of the house. Her husband's family and her natal family are well-matched rich businessmen in Hangzhou, but she feels that marrying a husband is a child of a rich man, I didn't have a good day as a man, but I got divorced and went to Japan to learn weaving.This time I returned to Shanghai because of the war. Once upon a time when I was twenty-two years old in the new autumn, my wife was recuperating in Manjuechang, West Lake. I went to visit and ate mixed with lotus root. Fresh sweet-scented osmanthus and chestnuts. When returning home, I will be on the same yacht with the third and fourth misses. The third miss will keep an eye on her sister's movements , Seeing that I am an honest poor student, I am afraid that I will be left out, so I have a kind of care for me intentionally or unintentionally. , although we seldom talk to each other, I am also grateful in my heart.That day, the boat was still disabled due to heatstroke, and the third lady was a woman from Hangzhou. With a fair and delicate face, she was wearing a white silk cheongsam with a flower embroidered on the hem. Ten years later, when I saw her today, she was still an unrestricted member of her daughter’s family, calling the Nanjing government a police officer in front of me. The police are false policemen, and I am still like the boy in the past, and it is always difficult to get used to talking to my daughter's family.life was The momentary scenery, in this way, is always destined to be with people in this world. Although gold is easy to get, a confidant is hard to find , but even if it is like this to be in the world with the virtuous and the virtuous, it is also a kind of utter devotion.