Chapter 11 Marble (excerpt)-8

One said: "When you arrive in Hankou, you should buy a plaster and stick it on." One said: "When you arrive in Hankou, you should buy a bottle of tiger bone wine." Probably the boat will land in less than an hour. But people are not very happy, people's mouths are grumbling. Some said: "A ship like this shouldn't carry passengers." Some said: "This is in China. If it were in a foreign country, such ships would have been banned from sailing long ago." Some said: "Not only is it forbidden to sail, but it has been dismantled long ago. Such a ship can be in danger at any time."

Some said: "Such a dilapidated boat is not as good as an old buffalo, and you need a boat ticket..." The other went on to say: "Not only do you need the ticket money, okay! The bottom of the boat is upside down, and it will take your life." The ship owner in the cabin heard them yelling for a long time, and finally, he heard their yelling became more and more outrageous, and there was something about the ship going into trouble.The ship's boss poked his head out of the small escalator at the bottom of the bilge.At first he listened quietly for a while, then he delivered a speech:

"Your words are not in line with the national conditions. In the United States, the United States is an industrial country. Of course, broken ships like ours are a no-brainer. You didn't even look at it. What kind of country are we? We are a country with wooden boats! We only deserve to use wooden boats Now we have a steamboat, although it is not good, but it is a steamboat! Although it is too slow, it is faster than a wooden boat! Don’t act on your emotions, you have to pat your conscience, people always have a conscience. If you are critical, Those are the generation of traitors. When our whole country fights against the enemy with one heart, we are not afraid of any hardships. We have money to contribute money and strength to contribute. This is the spirit of our great Chinese nation, and we are worthy of being the descendants of the Yellow Emperor."

After finishing his speech, the shipowner withdrew his head back, and just got down to the bottom of the bilge when Marble woke up.He was sleepy and dizzy, and he could hear people talking on the deck. He wanted to get up and have a look. He knew in his heart that he couldn't control his body; I am very willing to sleep, and the more I sleep, the more I can't wake up, and my whole body is sore. At this moment, the ship owner came down from the escalator. Ma Bole stared at the red eyes and asked: "What's up?" The owner of the ship put two fingers on the tip of his nose, smiled so much that he stretched his shoulders and shrank his neck, and said:

"I exchanged two thousand yuan for this small broken boat, and I insured it for eight thousand yuan. If the boat capsizes, I will go to collect the insurance premium. If the boat does not capsize, I will pay two or three hundred yuan for one trip... Brother, you said that enough money is not enough..." The ship owner also patted Ma Bole on the shoulder. Ma Bole originally wanted to scold him as a "fucking Chinese", but after a pat, he felt that the boss looked up to him very much, so he felt how frank the boat boss is!He is a very upright, daring, naive person who says whatever he wants.So Marble asked:

"Which insurance company is it? Will the insurance company cover a ship like this?" Because Ma Bole's father once opened an insurance company, Ma Bole often followed the insurance company, and finally he had a little knowledge about insurance.The owner of the ship took a look at him and said: "Accommodating! Is it okay to be accommodating in China's affairs?" The ship owner said happily, so he patted Ma Bole's shoulder again, and said sweetly and confidently: "No matter what happens in China, accommodating is the right thing to do." It’s okay if you don’t have it! Brother.”

While talking lively, Mrs. Marble came. She hugged Jagger and led Joseph, and walked down the small escalator.When they came down, they were talking about the ship.The boss turned his head back and said it again to his wife, to the effect that the boat cost two thousand yuan. If the boat capsized, he would go to collect the insurance premium. My wife is very timid. She is afraid of derailment when taking a train, and she is most afraid of capsizing when taking a boat.But after the ship owner finished speaking, he was very calm, as if he put his life aside.She said to Marble: "Paul, look at this guy. They have two thousand dollars, and they can make twenty thousand dollars in a blink of an eye... You won't buy such a cheap boat and insure it. If it doesn't capsize, it will cost two or three times a trip. One hundred, if you turn it over, go get the insurance premium."

Marble said: "Insurance is not easy. The ship is too bad to be insured. If it is insured today, it will capsize tomorrow. Who will insure you?" The boat owner slid aside and said: "Accommodating!" Mrs. Marble did not understand, and said: "how?" The boat owner said: "Go for accommodation!" Mrs. Marble remembered as soon as she thought about it, and turned to Marble: "The mainland insurance company, isn't Father Ma a shareholder? Let Father Ma say a word, and nothing can be done." The more the wife thought about Ma Bole, the more useless he was, she said:

"Father Nama and father are so close, what can he not do?" Marble said: "People may not be willing!" Mrs. said: "Father Ma is a believer in Jesus, and a believer in Jesus is the person who likes to help others the most." Marble said: "It's a matter of conscience." Mrs. said: "What matter of conscience?" Marble said: "Won't people drown when the boat capsizes?" Mrs. said: "Don't you look at when this is, are you afraid of death if you run away?" "The owner of the ship slid aside and said:

"That's right, buying a boat to do good deeds and saving a few more lives should be done." At this time, some people on the deck were cursing and talking. The boat owner became more and more deaf to his ears, and went up the escalator again, and wanted to make a speech again. At this time, a few wounded soldiers first greeted them and said: "Listen to the boss's speech!" So, indeed, a very quiet scene ensued.The first sentence of the boss said: "What am I doing?" Then he said the second sentence very calmly, "Everyone is fleeing, and you want to escape from a dangerous place to a safe place. As for me, I will go to Nanjing and Hankou. What am I for? I am for you! In other words, I am for our country and nation. If not, why should we do this business? Let’s talk about my boat, let’s carry others Is there any cargo that can’t be used? Does it mean that if you don’t carry guests, it will rot at home? But that’s it, in times of national crisis, you have to do your best. Those with guns go to the front line, and those without guns work in the rear. When everyone was fleeing, just be patient, and it will pass, making irresponsible remarks, which will not help the matter, and friction for nothing, it is the behavior of traitors."

The ship owner said a long paragraph earlier, which didn't seem like a speech, and it was only in the last two sentences that he grasped the essence of the speech.Because when he was in his hometown, he never dreamed that he would give a speech in public.He worked as a small street in his hometown.Now he doesn't have time to practice, and he just reads the editorials in the newspaper every day, and learns a little bit there.He was deeply impressed by the country and nation.Especially the "traitor" seems to be deeper, eating, sleeping, can't forget, always be on guard against the fear of becoming a traitor. It is always "Han Xian" and "Han Xian" when you speak. If there is no word "Han Xian" between words, it seems that there is no theme in a sentence. The word "Han Xian" has unconsciously become the meaning of the ship owner. Soul. If there is no "traitor", he will have no soul. He said when the sailors on his ship didn't work hard: "Aren't you a traitor? You eat other people's food and don't work for them." When he swore to his wife, he said: "I want to have the heart to marry a concubine, I am a traitor." And the most fun, and the most vividly spoken, is the considerate and sympathetic tone that is pushed from the father to the son, from the previous generation to the next generation.When he came home and stroked and played with his child, he said: "Your mother didn't do good deeds, and raised a bunch of you little traitors!" Because his children pulled down his fountain pen and were playing. The ship's boss just made the report, and not long after he went down to the bilge, he went up to the deck again, and it is said that he made another weekly paper.Because there are several young students on this boat, and one of these students once lived in a newspaper office. When the ship's owner showed up on the little ladder again, just showed up, and didn't speak at all, he predicted it.He said: "The owner of the ship is here to give a weekly paper, everyone be quiet." Everyone doesn't quite understand the four words "weekly paper".While I was in a daze, the ship owner's eye-catching and startling prose began. At the very beginning, it was "traitor" and "traitor".When it comes to later, the subject is still "traitors" because of the wide range involved.For a while, those frustrated passengers on the ship were hardly able to learn.It's just buzzing, and not many people listen to it.The boss saw that "traitors" were not very useful, so he talked about the conscience at the end of the evil.He said: "People must have a conscience, otherwise what am I doing? If my small boat is filled with a whole load of goods, it will also be smuggled. Isn't it more fashionable than it is now! But you can't do that, it's called human. You must have a conscience. What does it mean to have a conscience? To have a conscience is to be worthy of the sky above and the earth below. The so-called heaven, earth, ghosts, and gods are also." While talking, the boat owner patted his chest with awe-inspiring uprightness and convinced everyone on board. Everyone was dumbfounded by what he said, and some were so moved that they burst into tears and said: "China cannot perish..." The owner of the ship then made a more profound statement about the main reason why he has not yet become a "traitor"; he stated the determination that he has not yet become a "traitor". He said: "I didn't smuggle. What did I do? Is it out of conscience?" Going on, he continued, and patted his chest again. The chest was straight forward, so that people would not dare to have evil thoughts when they looked up. on the chest. It doesn't look like a ship owner anymore, what kind of person does it look like?People couldn't sum it up for a while, they just felt that China could not perish if such a great figure could stand in front of them. That strong word resounds over there: "Why didn't I smuggle? For the conscience of heaven and earth. Then the resolute words were repeated again: "Why didn't I smuggle? For the conscience of the world." As the issue got further and further away, people at this level didn't notice it.Originally, the problem lies in the "slowness" of the ship and the "brokenness" of the ship.Later, the words "broken" and "slow" were not mentioned at all, it seemed that the passengers on the ship, everyone had no conscience, it seemed that after a while, everyone ran over in groups to be "traitors" up. The boat owner said again: "Why don't I smuggle with the Japanese? I am for the conscience of the world!" People were very moved after listening to the repeated strong declaration of the ship owner.As for the "brokenness" of this ship, the "slowness" of this ship, those small programs, people have long since abandoned them, and are only moving towards the great future of China as a whole. Passengers were moved and sang the March of the Volunteers together regardless of labor, business, agriculture, education, or military! "... Arise, you who would not be slaves, Build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood, The Chinese nation is at its most dangerous time, ... We are united, Brave the enemy's fire, advance,... At this time, the waves on the big river rolled one after another, turning white flowers and foaming, and hitting the bow of the ship. Looking back, the vast river is indifferent, and there are no waves, but the distance is full of loneliness.That kind of white smog not only filled the river, but also filled the banks of the river. It seemed to be waiting, waiting that if a "shipwreck" came, they would swallow it. Looking from the front, the river can't see the end, and white smoke is also rising from that distant place, and the white smoke is also silent.It has been drawn up, and if a "shipwreck" comes, it must swallow it. This boat, which is gradually losing its screws, how will it escape this danger?How could it escape its fate? The passengers on the ship didn't think about this, because Hankou was right in front of them.They were all happily disembarking from the boat. The more pain this boat caused people, the easier it was for people to be happy and forget the pain. When the whole ship saw the big bell tower in front of Jianghan Pass, almost everyone thought in their hearts: "Here we are, Hankou is finally here." They didn't think about it, did they fight for it to get to Hankou?Or let the ship owner transport them in a mess? In short, they are happy, they are overjoyed, they are all lucky ones, they are all the pride of heaven.One by one, they touched their chins and opened their mouths, as if they were waiting to swallow something, or they were all eager to eat the big bell tower standing in Jianghan Pass. Some people don't even have the words of emotion, "Here we are, Hankou is here after all". They just think in their hearts: "After going ashore, you have to take a good bath and have a good meal." After a while, the boat stopped on the middle of the river in front of the big bell tower.This is not at the pier, but waiting for the personnel from the quarantine office to come up for medical examination. The people from the quarantine department came, sitting in a small white motorboat, as clean as a big whitebait.The quarantine officer on the ship was also fully dressed in his own clothes, a white hat, and a white mask on his mouth. The little steamboat drove very fast, wow wow wow, stirring up the river water into white waves.The small steamboat stopped when it was three feet away from the center of the river.The quarantine officer yelled at Jiang Xin: "Are there any patients on board?" The ship's boss shouted from the deck: "No." So the quarantine officer waved his hand! "open it!" So the steamboat carrying Ma Bole, and two or three people suffering from dysentery and one suffering from tiger lela, sailed to the pier. When the boat arrived at the pier, after a while, the boat rushed to the sky. They are all the favored children of heaven, they are alive, they are so happy that they can't control themselves, as if they just bought a lottery ticket and won the jackpot an hour ago, they are so happy that they are crazy, even screaming.People ran to the shore, and people dispersed. No one stayed on the shore, or looked back, what danger will happen to this boat in the future! This, people didn't take it to heart at all, and after a while, the person who was rushing to get on the shore even saw a shadow. chapter Five When Ma Bole arrived in Hankou, he didn't live in Hankou. He only stayed in a hotel for two days, and then moved to Wuchang with his wife and children.Because there is a friend of his father over there, who used to believe in religion when he lived in Qingdao, but I don't know if he believes it now, but there is a bronze Buddha in the living room. As soon as Ma Bole arrived in Hankou, he went to Wang's house to pay a visit that day. Mr. Wang said: "Move to Wuchang! Wuchang is so quiet. I have lived in Wuchang for nearly ten years... After leaving Qingdao, I lived in Wuchang when I arrived in Hankou. Since I have lived here until now, I..." That Shandong accent has not changed in ten years.Ma Bole felt very affectionate after hearing this. After a while, two more plates of dim sum came up.One plate for Ma Bole, one plate for Mr. Wang.Those are home-made spring rolls. The winter bamboo shoots, vermicelli, and mung bean sprouts rolled inside are delicious and refreshing.When Ma Bole saw the snacks, he felt that life was happy. Originally, he was very polite, and he was embarrassed to eat it, but how could he not eat it?It was yellow and rolled with egg skin. It was so clean and cute, and it was so yellow and eye-catching! At first, Ma Bole only cut a small part of the egg roll with a knife, and put it in his mouth, as if he was trying to taste it.He thought to himself, don't eat too much, because eating too much will make people laugh. When he was talking with Mr. Wang, he unconsciously cut off a small bit and put it in his mouth. The conversation went on and on and on and on and on.Mr. Wang asked his father if he still had any shares in the insurance company? Marble said: "No, it's taken out." Ma Bole sent a large egg roll to his mouth.Before he could swallow it, Mr. Yu asked him again: "I heard that your father donated another piece of land to build a gospel church?" Marble said: "Not yet, not yet." As soon as he opened his mouth, he stuffed another large egg roll into his mouth. This time the mouth is too small, the egg rolls can't turn over in there, squeezed and wiped, just like the fleeing train or the boat carrying the fleeing people.Ma Bole's mouth was stuffed so that there was no room to stand. Marble thought, this time is bad, this time is bad!Because that thing can't be swallowed for a while, and people are not fish or snakes, they can swallow food whole.But Ma Baole's tongue wouldn't allow it to turn over. This time, Ma Bole was fooled. Although the thing was finally swallowed, Ma Bole's eye circles were reddened. After half an hour, Ma Bole didn't eat any more. The conversation was always very coherent. Ma Bole occasionally glanced at the egg roll, and then wanted to do it again, and then wanted to open his mouth again.It just so happened that the female worker brought up another plate of hot food, which had just been fried from the bottom of the pan. When Ma Bole saw it, he thought in his heart: "I can't eat it this time, it's not a joke." When the egg roll was served in front of him, he evaded and said: "Enough, enough." But the female worker still put the dish beside him. Marble thought: "Don't eat it, don't eat it." He didn't even dare to look that way, but Mr. Wang asked him a question, and he answered it.But it is always dangerous to look without a place to look.So when I wrote about Bole, I focused on Mr. Wang's twitching beard when he spoke. Mr. Wang's beard is not very dark, but has a yellow beard and a mustache. It is very straight and thick, and it jumps and jumps. It took me a long time to watch it, which is very interesting.If you only choose that part of a person's body to look closely at, like looking at the eyes or ears, it will become more and more strange; or the earlobe is very large, like Guanyin Bodhisattva; or The earlobe is very pointed, like a soldering iron mouth, which will be very interesting. When Ma Bole was watching Mr. Wang's yellow beard interestingly, Mr. Wang opened his mouth and put an egg roll into his mouth from under the beard. Marble was taken aback: "What's the matter, it's time to eat!" Ma Bole was also infected immediately, and started eating at the same time. One after another, this time it was not blocked, but eaten and swallowed.Because Mr. Wang was also eating, he didn't have time to ask him anything, so naturally he didn't need to answer, so he was asked to eat up a plate of egg rolls peacefully. This plate of egg rolls left Ma Bole's lips glistening with oil. Finished.Mr. Wang asked him: "Should I move to Wuchang?  … Marble said: "Moved, moved." It seems to say: "With such delicious egg rolls, there is no reason not to move them." Back at the hotel, his wife asked him: "How about the house in Wuchang?" He said: "The egg rolls in Wuchang are delicious!" The wife got angry and pouted all the way during the move.When she got on the ferry and crossed the river, the wind from the river came, blowing her hair up like a little mushroom, and she didn't even need to press it with her hands, she was so angry that she was like a balloon, her little face was swollen. , so on the ferry across the river, she didn't say a word. Little Jager shouted: "Mom, look! The white dove has landed on the water, it has landed on the water." After the little Jager shouted, seeing his mother standing indifferently, Jager took his mother by the skirt and said again: "Mom, is this our white pigeon flying here?" David laughed as he listened.Say: "This is a water bird, this is not a white dove." Joseph said: "It's up to you to say, I also know that this is a water bird." David says: "How do you know each other?" Joseph said: "How do you know each other?" David says: "I saw the pictures in the book." Joseph said: "I also knew it from the pictures in the book." David despised Joseph's learning.Joseph despised David's strength. David was about to question Joseph: "Which book did you read?" Before he could speak, Joseph clenched his small fists, stretched his chest forward, and yelled: "Son, come here." Seeing that the two children were about to fight, Ma Bole walked over and separated the two of them.At the same time, he said to his wife: "I don't look at it, and I'm not afraid of being laughed at." The wife said nothing, and stared at the river.Ma Bole didn't know what was going on, and he was still talking about Fengya: "There are two mountains in Wuhan, the Turtle and the Snake, facing each other across the river. The Yangtze River and the Han River converge here. Next to it are the Daye Iron Mine and the Hanyang Arsenal. This is the largest armory in our country..." Before he could finish memorizing this passage, the wife said: "I have no idea." Ma Bole didn't know that his wife was angry, so he said: "Isn't it in the geography textbook?" Mrs. said: "No." Marble said: "You forgot, you made the child faint. Isn't that in the first grade of native geography?" Ma Bole and his wife finished yelling, and when they turned around, they saw David and Joseph circling there too! David asked Joseph: "What kind of river do you think this is?" Joseph said: "Yellow River." David says: "No, this is the Yangtze River. Geographically speaking, you haven't read it yet." Joseph suffered a loss, and was about to fight when he suddenly remembered a war song: "...the Yellow River...the Yangtze River..." It turns out that Joseph confused the Yellow River with the Yangtze River, not because he didn't know, but because he didn't understand clearly.Now that I think about it. Joseph said: "Yangtze……" David says: "No, this is the Yangtze River." Little Jage was standing beside her, with round eyes, because she had just misidentified the waterfowl, and she was still embarrassed, she said to herself: "What waterfowl! Pigeon bird." At this time, the water birds on the river spread their wings and flew away from the water.They flew far away and made a bend, some of them disappeared, and some of them still landed on the water. It looked like they were sitting. The waterfowl was so fat, it really looked like a white dove. The small steamer crossing the river rushed forward, struggled forward, and made a sudden sound.It looks very brave, but in fact it is just putting on an air to frighten the water birds on the river. When it encounters a waterfowl, it rushes over and disperses the waterfowl.When it encounters a wave, it hits a horizontal line, honestly, and pretends to be its grandson docilely. This small boat crossing the river was almost the same as the boat that Mabole used to come to Hankou from Nanjing. It was almost the same, and the boat creaked. All that is missing is whether the ship is as insured as the one that brought Maborough.If you don't have insurance, you will be fooled. It doesn't matter if the boat capsizes and drowns a few people, it's a pity for this small boat. But judging from the voice and smile, this boat and the boat that brought Mabole were born of the same mother.There is no second sentence, not brothers, but sisters, because their appearance is exactly the same, the voice is chug, and the posture is crooked, they are also exactly the same. The people on this boat are like horses, standing upright, at a loss, with no expectations in their hearts, as if they don't know their destination.Maybe they themselves really became a horse, let him do what he wanted, and follow the boat wherever it went. Because it is a short distance, it will arrive in a short time.From Hankou to Wuchang, it is about half an hour. The Yellow Crane Tower is right in front of you. Ma Bole felt that everything was in order, the house could be lived, the escape was over, and he had escaped to the place, and his wife brought it with him. Once the wife brings it, the economy will not be a problem.Ma Bole felt that everything was "OK", and when he was happy, he recited a poem from the Yellow Crane Tower, "The Poetry Says". At the beginning, Ma was afraid that he would not be able to recall it, and only remembered the last two lines: The yellow crane is gone forever, The Yellow Crane Tower is vacant here. The wife stood here without making a sound, her state of mind was very condensed, she was not confused by anything, she stood quietly, she didn't even notice any water birds, Yellow Crane Tower and the like.She wondered what the house in Wuchang was like, but the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't figure it out.After much deliberation, which side the window was open to and which side the door was open to, it was because she hadn't seen it, so she couldn't even think of a shadow. "How many houses are there, one, or two?" She was about to say it, but when she got angry, she stopped asking.How can there be such a person!I don't even know how many houses I want to live in.The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She turned her big black eyes and stared at Ma Bole with her white eyes. Ma Bole was not conscious at all, and put his hands in his trouser pockets. When he was happy, he recited the two lines of the Yellow Crane Tower poem again: The yellow crane is gone forever, The Yellow Crane Tower is vacant here. Because his voice was a little louder, the eyes of the whole ship were all shining towards him. Marble said in his heart: "Fucking Chinese, don't know how to appreciate art... After a while, when the boat arrived at the pier, everyone became anxious. Before the gangway fell, some people jumped out from the railing.As soon as the springboard fell, people rushed out, the young and vigorous rushed forward, and the old and weak were squeezed to the point of cursing and screaming. Ma Bole hugged little Yage, and his mind flickered, as if he had come to Songjiang Bridge again. When he got to the shore, he thought: This is strange, why is China full of Songjiang bridges! Ma Bole was sweating profusely, and the broken piece of his nose was still covered with a medical cloth. But this was just to scare Ma Bole, in fact it was nothing, and he forgot it after a while.What's more, the escape has also reached the end, the house is also available, and the economy is no longer a problem. So after a while, Ma Bole came alive again. When he ordered a foreign car, he beat the driver, because it used to cost eight cents from Hanyangmen Wharf to Mopan Street, but now it costs 12 cents. Damn, don't hit him and keep him! "He's making money for the country, why don't he fight!" When he arrived at the Wang mansion, Ma Bole still yelled. Mr. Wang nodded and said yes, and said: "It's right to warn them too." Mr. Wang said again: "I hoarded some coal the day before yesterday, and I earned five cents in three days, and ten cents in five days... I got up in the morning and went to inquire about the market price. What do you think? Half. Usually it’s a dime, but now it’s a dime and a half. When I go up, it’s just a slap in the face. I’ll talk about it after I’m done..." Marble shouted beside him: "That's right, he made the country rich." As soon as Mrs. Marble entered the room, she saw the bronze Buddha in the living room. She thought, could it be that Mr. Wang no longer believed in Jesus?So the wife didn't dare to say a word about the socializing with the churchmate, but she just thought in her heart, go to the house she rented as soon as possible. The wife and children were all sitting on the sofa, but Joseph was standing and jumping on the sofa, stepping on piles of small footprints with the blue cover.The wife stared at Joseph, but Joseph was not willing to listen; the wife's face turned red and then pale, and she said in her heart: children and adults are so irritating.I don't know what to say.She glared at Ma Bole several times.Ma Bole didn't understand yet, thinking that tea had spilled on his clothes, or something, he just looked at the collar of his suit to see if there was nothing wrong, so he continued to talk with Mr. Wang. I kept talking about the egg roll that I ate yesterday and it was served again.So Marble ate two slightly. After eating, he left the Wang family, took his things, and walked towards the direction where the house is still unknown, but the male worker of the Wang family was leading the way. The wife was so angry that she didn't raise her eyebrows and didn't open her eyes. On the corner of Mopan Street, there are two big stones in front of the gate of the small courtyard, and a rake tree grows in the gate. This is the house of Ma Bole and their new ancestors. On that second floor, rats swarmed.Ma Bole ran up to take a look first, and bumped his head at the entrance of the building as soon as he went upstairs.Waiting up, the first step is to step on a dead mouse underfoot. The house was empty and the air was fresh.It's just that there are too many mice, but it doesn't matter, mice are afraid of people after all. As soon as Ma Bole stood in the middle of the floor, the little mice didn't dare to run away in a big way, so they all shrank their necks and rolled their shining eyes at the door, and five of them hid themselves. There are two rooms in total. Ma Bole liked this house very much. He liked that the house was broken and had rats, because it was in line with his philosophy of fleeing. Saving money was the first priority in fleeing. At this time the wife also came upstairs.My wife's opinion may be different from Ma Paile's. Chapter Six Every morning when Ma Bole got up, he quietly looked at the batch of cake trees by the window, watching for a long time.After a long time, I didn't just wait and see, but developed a feeling for those batches of cakes.On rainy days, the leaves are dripping with water. Especially in the dead of night, the water droplets dripping from the trees seem to be as big as small saucers. It slapped on the ground. Every morning when Ma Bole got up, he would quietly watch the batch of deer trees, and sometimes he would sit facing the window with a book in his hand. Marble feels that life is happiness.How happy life is, you have to eat and drink, and there is a cake tree outside the window. Ma Bole has been in this house for five or six days.Although my wife had a few quarrels, it was because the house was too bad.Ma Bole didn't take this matter to heart, because he thought: You have come to Hankou, and you can't run back. So he lived with peace of mind.What's more, not far from where he lives, there is a "not necessarily living" bun shop, and he often buys buns to eat. Every time he gets angry with his wife, he goes to buy steamed stuffed buns to eat, and after eating three or five of them, the anger really disappears.Tried and tested again and again, very clever. "Waibuju" Baozi shop can be reached after turning two small bends. There is a plaque at the door, with black characters on the white plaque. The plaque is already antique, like an elegant calligraphy and painting, hung on the street up. "Not necessarily living" steamed stuffed bun shop has never advertised, and there is no pretense at the entrance, just relying on the three words "not necessarily living", it is impossible to see that there are steamed buns in these three words.But its reputation is well known.If you live in Hankou and come to Wuchang, if you are an elegant gentleman, you have to buy a few steamed stuffed buns at "Waibuju" and take them home, or just stand there and eat two hot ones regardless of whether you are hungry or not. , keep eating and saying yes.After eating, wipe the oil on your lips with your fingers, and the oil will come out brightly. Because this steamed stuffed bun shop does not have seats, whether you are willing to eat or not, whether you are willing to buy or not, it is an old-fashioned and authentic business, which depends on the natural and obvious of its long history.So if you want to eat hot, you have to eat standing up.There is absolutely no such thing as hypocrisy and hypocrisy to ask for a small account after entertaining for a while. This business is really old-fashioned. Instead of greeting customers when they come, they are very indifferent, as if whether you buy or not, there is no shortage of you as a buyer. You walk in and say: "Buy buns." The proprietress who was handling two hands of flour on the noodle table only raised her eyes slightly: "Wait a moment" After she finished speaking, she picked up a piece of rolled bun skin from the noodle table, and then hit the green flies on the stuffing pot with her hands, because the flies filled the stuffing pot. If a few are beaten away, I'm afraid they will be killed, and they will be mixed into the stuffing, wrapped into buns and smothered to death for the flies. The bun buyer stood aside and waited until the proprietress made three or five buns, then slowly stood up, chasing the flies that landed on her nose, walking all the way.Hit in every possible way, but the flies will not go away in every possible way.When the proprietress stood still, the fly landed on the tip of her nose again. The proprietress said: "How many?" At this time, the steamer on the pot was still covered. The person who bought the steamed stuffed bun said that he wanted three or five.After finishing speaking, the proprietress stretched out her hand, brought the bun money first, and then opened the steamer.Buns cost three cents each.If there is no change, a "milliage ticket" is handed in.At this time, the lid of the steamer was still closed, and the proprietress went to the money basket to find change. The steamer can only be opened after all the formalities have been completed.When I opened the steamer, there was only one lone bun left. So she refunded the money and slapped the fly that landed on her nose.It took a lot of work, and this bun came out of the steamer. " But the buyer not only didn't feel impatient, but thought the buns were more delicious, so he held them with lotus leaves very preciously.When he was about to leave the door, he turned around and asked: "Wait a minute, okay?" Just listen to what the other side says: "Come on in the second half of the day, it's not for sale now." People who buy steamed buns don’t even think about it. Baozi shops are for selling steamed buns, so why don’t they sell them after a while?It's just that everyone says: "The shelf of the steamed stuffed bun shop in 'Waibuju' is really big, and there won't be any if we go late." Not only is it late, but it is also not available if you come early. There is a period in the first half of the day and a period in the second half of the day.