Chapter 9 Chapter nine

The weather was unusually muggy.Mrs. Lin Ouchu had been worrying for a whole day, but instead she became restless.With her mouth slightly open, she walked around the room like a fish out of water.Her two eyes are shining, and her delicate hands are rubbing the side of the small fruit platter.There is a large pot of fresh cherries on the platter, and there are small boxes around it containing fragrant teas such as Jasmine, Huahong, Qianggui, Guirui, Dingtan, Suji, etc. A pair of Geyao celadon cups are brewed with boiling water. There was a faint glow under the candlelight, waiting for that person to come.

At this time, Cha Qing was putting down the lantern in his hand and was stepping into the proprietress' incense pavilion outside the hall; at this time, the people from Wengjiashan followed behind in a panic, and saw the corner of Cha Qing's blue shirt that was raised when he crossed the threshold.She was going to rush in stuttering, but now she thought of the young master's long eyes that wanted to be drunk.He changed his mind and decided to wait and tell Cha Qing first.So he squatted under the window of the building, hugged his knees, and smoked a dry cigarette. One day in Lixia, I went up the mountain twice.

When he came down from Mount Wu, the sky was still bright, so he took the empty cart and went to Yongjinmen to wait for the young master to live up to the boat. Unexpectedly, a girl got off the boat, she was very sick and drowsy, her cheeks were bright red.Without further ado, the young master helped the girl into the car, waved his hand and said, "Go!" Between pinches: "Where are you going?" "Of course it's in your house on Wengjiashan." The young master said, pulled up the car and ran away.When we got to the opening outside the mountain, the car couldn't be pulled up, and we had to carry it, so it was still a job.The young master, while panting and supporting by the side, told him intermittently how he fought Yun Zhongdiao in the water and how he saved a beautiful woman. In one scene, it became him and Zhao Jike.

Hearing this, he gritted his big teeth resentfully, and said, "I want to be here, but you need to do it. You just need to cough." When I arrived at Wengjiashan, I picked up the house, picked up the people in the house, lit the lamps, and coaxed the children to eat.I was surprised to see the young master and the young man carrying a girl on their backs.Hang Tianzui took out all his money.Thinking about it was still not enough, so he dug out an emerald ring from his underwear pocket that he was going to take to Japan, and said to the couple: "You can give this to her too, unless it is absolutely necessary, don't use it."

She pinched and said, "Master, don't give this to her, just take the money from home tomorrow." The young master said, "I'm afraid I won't be in the city anymore at this moment tomorrow." Holding the couple together, they were surprised when they heard it, and said, "The young master is talking nonsense again, where are you going to make trouble again?" The young master smiled, a little sad, a little proud, and didn't speak. Holding his wife in a hurry, he pushed her husband hard and scolded: "Damn ghost, how did Madam teach you on weekdays? The first thing is, the young master has to take care of the prison. Tomorrow the young master will disappear, how can you explain to the madam?"

I was also in a hurry, and when I was in a hurry, I was smart, pointing to the sleepy red shirt on the bed inside and said: "Master, if you don't make it clear, I dare not accept this girl!" At this moment, Hang Tianzui hated himself for talking too much, but there was nothing he could do, so he held up the ring and said, "Let me tell you the truth, I am going to study abroad in Dongyang tomorrow, and I will meet my guest at Gongding Bridge early in the morning. This ring, I won’t give it to you anymore, I’ll just give it to you, you’ve all seen it.” After finishing speaking, he walked into the back room, grabbed the girl’s right hand, and put a set on her index finger, which happened to be just right.The girl's hands were rough and pitiful. She put on the ring, but she didn't know it. She just clenched her fists, turned over again, and fell asleep.

Hang Tianzui half squatted down, touched the girl's forehead, and said, "I can't help but leave you here, it just depends on your fate. If there is something good or bad, I'll let you dream of Dongyang." I know your news. The people here are nice, much better than you swinging on the lake and working your life. If I don’t go to the Eastern Revolution, maybe I can settle you down better. Now I can’t even care about my own life. Where? You can still take care of others. In this regard, girl, you must be more forgiving." These words made the couple sad and anxious.It was the wife who was astute, coaxed her husband under the stove, and said, "Well, I can't hide this matter from my wife. Go back and tell me, so you and I don't feel guilty."

He squeezed his teeth and said, "You need to explain it! Think it over and tell Uncle Cha Qing." On this end, Hang Tianzui had already come out to say goodbye, seeing his wife, he made a deep bow: "Auntie, please." Panicked, he pinched his wife's kneecaps and said, "Young master, you are doing things upside down. How can there be a master paying respects to a slave?" Hang Tianzui: "When I come back from Dongyang and the revolution is successful, there will still be masters and slaves. The world is one family, the world is the public, everyone has food and clothes, and the tea mountain does not belong to any one family. It belongs to everyone. What's the upside-down saying about being a human being?"

Picking up his wife and sending them out, he said: "Amitabha! I can't say it, I can't say it. If it is all yours, then the hundreds of acres of tea gardens in Wangyou Tea House will be wiped out? We have heard it. It doesn't matter, Madam listened, just think that she gave birth to another prodigal son." Hang Tian laughed drunkly, and said, "No, I'm just a prodigal! You all know it in your heart, so just don't say it." A stream of shochu, broken and broken, went away. Before Cha Qing raised his head, he knew that Lixia's night was strange.He could hear the slightest tremor in Lin Ouchu's voice.For many years in the past, this kind of tremor, faintly visible, like a gossamer, was always floating in a certain corner of Wangyou Tea House.Chaqing lowered her head, said hello softly, and sat down at the table as usual.

Lin Ouchu gently asked: "What to drink?" When Cha Qing raised her head, she was dazzled. Madam was wearing a lavender long-sleeved shirt with a large collar, the buttons on the collar were unbuttoned, and the two stand-up collars were boldly opened to the side. Cha Qing said, "Whatever you want." Lin Ouchu picked up a box of jasmine and said, "Let's drink jasmine, Lixia's old custom." "You're welcome." Cha Qing shook her hand. Lin Ouchu pushed the fruit plate over and said, "Accordingly, you are the same as a family, so don't be polite."

"It's still different after all." Chaqing smiled, and threw a cherry into his mouth. Lin Ouchu was a little stunned, and the two sat for a while like this, neither of them opened their mouths. Mrs. Hang, Lin Ouchu, has been controlled by Chaqing's long-lost passion for many years.Moreover, it seemed that the more Wu Chaqing tried to get rid of her, the more she entangled him. Of course she could feel Wu Chaqing's slump after her husband's death, as if without a rival, a lover would not be a lover.When passing by the small warehouse, the door was ajar, and the inside seemed to still be filled with that dangerous and deadly passion. In the countless ambiguous expectations, Lin Ouchu felt like dying every time.After each time, Wu Chaqing's face was gloomy and cold, as if he had no human color. She still didn't understand why Wu Chaqing suddenly became cold towards her, especially towards her son Tian Zui. But for her, it was no longer enough to just have a son and a tea house that the son could inherit.She needs a man to restrain her, and in turn, she also restrains him. The slow rope that was restrained could only be the son surnamed Hang. Although he was indifferent to her, he never left for a day.The people of Wangyou Tea House gradually grow old in the forbearance of life. A gust of wind blew, Cha Qing said: "It's going to thunderstorm." Lin Ouchu looked at Chaqing: "It's no different from the thunderstorm in the past." "It's just that people are getting old." "Although people are old, some things are not old." Cha Qing squeezed the thumb and forefinger of the left hand that was holding the cherries lightly, and a cherry was crushed.He immediately stood up and said, "Let me go ahead before the thunder strikes." Lin Ouchu stood up, and the two collars were turned up even more, looking impetuous. "Thank you for being able to say such a thing, could it be that the sound of thunder only exploded in my heart day and night!" Suddenly a gust of wind blew over the candlesticks and teacups.Seeing that Lin Ouchu had a cherry in his mouth, Chaqing spit out: "What a strong wind!" As soon as the words fell, there was a flash of lightning in the sky, thunderbolts, like fried beans jumping and rolling in the sky, and the torrential rain fell from the sky. He didn't hear Lin Ouchu's small cry, he didn't have time to think about anything, and immediately ran out with his head in his arms.After running for half a distance, my mind was cleared, and I turned back to the small pavilion in the garden.From there, he saw the vague figure of the landlady's room closing the window with four hands.Then came the closing.Then, there was the sound of scrubbing between the heaven and the earth. With their hands hugging their shoulders, they paced back and forth in the rockery pavilion.He was honest, he only looked at the sky and nothing else, and he didn't take his eyes back until the heavy rain had been pouring down for an hour and then gradually subsided. The rain is also strange, and it stopped when it said it would stop.Pulled together to take it back.Thinking of his important mission, he paid attention to his wife's house.The doors and windows of Mrs.'s house were tightly closed, and there was no sound at all.Not a single candle.It's a little strange: why, Madam is sleeping, what about Uncle Chaqing?Oh!He beat himself on the head, really blinded by the rain, why didn't he see that Uncle Cha Qing had left.Thinking about it again, Uncle Cha Qing has lightness kung fu after all, walking out in such a heavy rain, there is no sound at all.Thinking about it again is wrong, the sound can be absent, but the silhouette can't be absent. Wow!Or maybe I was dazzled just now, and Uncle Cha Qing didn't come at all.Just as he was thinking about it, the candlelight came on again, the door creaked open, and a green lantern stretched out first, followed by Uncle Cha Qing, talking vaguely with his back to him.Then he turned around and walked a few steps, and saw the figure of his wife, as if she was cleaning her clothes for tea.After seeing the next thing, he couldn't believe his eyes even more. He saw Cha Qing holding his wife's shoulders, leaning against her face, and then walked away quickly.What I can't understand is that vigorous figure.He thought clearly, walked slowly, with his hands behind his back, and ignored people when they talked.Be meticulous in doing things.He didn't understand at all what was going on.When he was so dazed, the door over there was already closed, and the people here were blown away like the wind. With no other choice, he waded through the water with one foot deep and one foot shallow, walking on the path paved with cobblestones in a daze.He is a bit stupid, but he also knows that this matter is so important that no one can talk about it.So what about the young master?When he thought of the young master, he suddenly felt like a blow to the head. He thought that the young master was leaving tomorrow, so he couldn't care about anything else, and while chasing him, he yelled: "Uncle Cha Qing, Uncle Cha Qing, stop, stop, stop!" stop!" At this time, Cha Qing had already walked out of his wife's yard, and was walking in the west lane, he turned his head, stood firmly, and stared at it.He ran close, stopped, and saw Uncle Cha Qing's eyes, which were both green at the moment. With a "dang" sound in his chest, what happened just now jumped out all at once. "It's midnight, where are you?" "I, I, I... came to look for you." He stammered, seeing Uncle Cha Qing's eyes getting greener and greener, "Young master, he, he, he said he was going to Japan." "when?" "Tomorrow, tomorrow morning, arch the high bridge." Cha Qing asked silently, Hei Quyue stood on the ground, two cloth shoes, the uppers of which were still dry, and the green lanterns, reflecting the green water on the ground. "Have you seen Mrs.?" "No." He didn't know how he could answer like this. "why are you not going?" "It's raining, hiding in the pavilion, it's too late... Uncle Cha Qing, the young master is going to Dongyang, I'm in a hurry." Cha Qing grabbed the beard, he understood everything.All over the body, there were bouts of cold at first, and then the heat rising from the soles of the feet.Without saying a word, he turned a corner and entered the yard where Master Hang Tian Zui Hang lived. Hang Tianzui found himself on the lake again, still standing on the boat, a swing came down from mid-air, and Hang Tianzui found a red shirt sitting on it. The swing was weird, it had no support, it seemed to be thrown straight from the sky.Hong Shan'er was so frightened that she cried desperately, Hang Tianzui could see her tears, but couldn't hear her cry.He wanted to call for help, but no sound came out.He picked up the autumn stem with his hands, and the autumn stem dangled and returned to the sky, turning into a black and small dot.He was completely burned, and he didn't know what to do, but a big face appeared in the sky, it was the eagle in the cloud.He pushed hard with his two big hands, and the swing hit him like a bullet, hitting him hard and crashing into the lake. The lake is very hot, like a big pool for bathing.Hang Tianzui asked and was hot, he couldn't breathe and struggled desperately.He finally yelled: "Help! Help! Sender, help!" Then he woke up. He vaguely saw two people, and felt his mouth was dry, so he said the word "water". Then, he felt moist water flowing into his chest, and after a moment of comfort, he fell into a drowsy sleep again. Chaqing touched Hang Tianzui's forehead, he had a fever and coughed, but he couldn't sweat, so he said, "It's a cold." Then he ordered to pick it up, and went to the housekeeper to get green onion drum tea.It turned out that this tea was prepared by Chaqing himself according to the prescription of "Taiping Shenghui Prescription", which contains scallion, light bean drum, nepeta, mint, mountain mast, raw gypsum, and purple bamboo shoot tea powder.In the prescription, the scallions are white, pungent, warm and suitable for yang, and can sweat and relieve the exterior.Taking Schizonepeta, the power of warming and dissipating is more pronounced.Light bean drum can not only help scallions and nepeta relieve the appearance, but also combine with mint, gypsum, and board to reduce fever. Adding purple bamboo shoots tea can strengthen the heart and strengthen the body. Decoction in water and warm clothes can help sweat and disperse evil spirits.Therefore, the general staff of Wangyou Tea House all take this herbal tea to relieve their headaches and fevers. Hang Tian took the medicine drunk, and sure enough he stopped shouting, sweated all over his body, and fell into a drowsy sleep.Cha Qing called out and came out to explain: "Tonight, you guard the young master, and you will report to Madam tomorrow morning. Don't mention a word about Dongyang. Tomorrow at five o'clock, prepare a car for me, and I will go to Gongding Bridge." He breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good. Otherwise, let me put the red shirt on Wengjia Mountain." Cha Qing lowered her face and said, "This is the young master's business. Do you understand?" I really don't understand much, my eyes are blank and my mouth is half open.Cha Qing waved him away.As he walked, he finally understood why Uncle Cha Qing's eyes turned green.Uncle Cha Qing told him to keep his mouth shut. In 1901 AD, on the morning of the next day of Lixia in the lunar calendar, Zhao Jike, the fourth son of Dr. Zhao’s family, a famous doctor in Hangzhou, stood at the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Wharf of Gonggao Bridge with a leather suitcase in his hand, ready to meet Hang Tianzui here and then take a small steamer. Straight to Shanghai. At five o'clock in the day, there are some small merchants and hawkers wandering on the pier, some of them hang wooden bags on their shoulders and hold wooden gates in their hands. They are selling Qingliang pills and diamond tooth powder, and some are making egg rolls with iron stoves.Zhao Zhike knew that they were all Japanese who came to Hangzhou after the Treaty of Shimonoseki.These Japanese expatriates carrying loads and pushing carts came in first. While baking and selling egg rolls, they learned Chinese from Hangzhou people and asked about customs and customs.Gentle and elegant Hangzhou citizens infiltrated by the legacy of the Southern Song Dynasty are carefully and politely exchanging gifts with the small vendors of the Yamato ethnic group, but the Japanese ronin with swords in their waists and disheveled hair take the opportunity to rush into the Gongding Bridge, and gang up with the underworld gang of youths who gang up on murder. The Hong gang became one. In the autumn of 1900, Gong Gaoqiao was dominated by Dongyang people and the Qinghong Gang.At this time, the Japanese set up a post office in Gonggao District, set up a steam turbine club, and showed the earliest silent movies in Hangzhou on the streets, which really shocked the Anti-Ren people.There are also teahouses opened by Orientals in Gongding Bridge. Hang Tianzui once sneered: "Can this be regarded as a teahouse?" It turns out that the Japanese have implemented a "five-house" policy in Gongding Bridge: smoking hall, gambling hall, brothel, newspaper hall, theater.The teahouses have been affected by these five teahouses, and have long since lost tune. For example, the Yangchun Tea Garden opened by the Yangqiao on the main road, the Tianxian Tea Garden opened in the middle of the Erma Road, and the Ronghua Tea Garden opened on the Lima Road. Almost all of them have become prostitutes in collusion with hooligans and prostitutes. The stronghold, the entire Gonggaoqiao became a public prostitution area.Most of the better prostitutes are in Fuhai, with nearly 200 households; the second-class prostitutes hang out in the tea garden wine shops along Dama Road and Lima Road; and the third-class prostitutes are in Gongding. West end of the bridge.There are often wandering rice merchants and bamboo wood merchants fooling around here. Zhao Jike waited alone on the pier by himself, and the prostitutes who came to pester him never stopped. Hearing his accent, most of them were from rural areas in western Zhejiang.Zhao Jike is not lustful, and he doesn't have the sentimentality of Hang Tianzui, just like what happened on the lake yesterday, he beat Yun Zhongdiao violently and then he walked away. He won't have the clinginess he had later, so when those prostitutes came over, he felt annoyed . "Go, go, go," he waved his hand like driving away a swarm of flies, and complained in his heart that the little steamer was about to set sail in half an hour, and many people had already boarded the boat. What the hell did the guy do.While his heart was anxious, he heard someone calling his name behind him: "Young Master Zhao, Young Master Zhao!" He looked back and saw that it was pinched.He was overjoyed, and was about to wave, when a person came from behind, he stopped waving, and the joy on his face gradually turned into a sneer. At this time Uncle Cha Qing was standing firmly in front of him, making a full bow. "Mr. Zhao, Young Master Hang suffered from the cold on the lake yesterday and was sick on the couch. He couldn't go eastward to Japan with you. The old man came to inform me so that you won't worry about it." Zhao Jike smiled faintly, bowed back, and said, "Thank you, Uncle Cha Qing. There is no need to be a guest. If others want to go or stay, it's at your convenience. I will take my leave." Uncle Cha Qing grabbed Zhao Jike, and as soon as he made a move, Zhao Jike knew that he was from the martial arts, and couldn't help being startled.But Chaqing took out a money bag from his pocket and said, "Take it." Zhao Jike wanted to decline, but Chaqing threw himself into his arms and said, "Forty years ago, this old man was also a good man!" Come on, shake your body and disappear. When Hang Yi Hang Tian was drunk and lying in bed in a daze and sick, his peer Wu Sheng was secretly shuttling back and forth between Longxing Teahouse and Wangyou Teahouse.Every time he brought exciting and good news to Wu Chaqing: Wan Fuliang's wife went to court for property; Wan Fuliang fell ill with anger; Wan Fuliang died of anger; The Longxing Teahouse is closed; the Longxing Teahouse is about to be sold, and several buyers have come to see it. The price is too high to sell. Lin Ouchu said: "It was sold for three hundred taels of silver back then, but now Wanjia sells it for five hundred taels, and it has been ruined in such a dilapidated appearance. Wouldn't it be laughed at if you bought it all?" Wu Sheng lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows and said, "That's true, that's true." Uncle Cha Qing pondered for a moment, with his ears turned sideways, as if he was full of thoughts, he said, "Buy it." Lin Ouchu raised his eyebrows, and Wu Sheng rubbed his hands together. "Wangyou Tea House is rich." Wu Chaqing said. Wu Sheng rubbed his hands together, but stopped rubbing.He hates this sentence, he hates that Wangyou Tea House is rich, and in this moment, this young man even hates the person he loves in his heart.He ran back and forth like a spy, but his intention was non-utilitarian, he was just attached to the person who rescued and comforted him since he was a child, but he hated Wangyou Tea House. He didn't know how to do this contradictory thing. Lin Ouchu had never heard such insolent words from Chaqing's mouth, and everything that came out of Chaqing's mouth lost his temper.She wondered, but Cha Qing said, "It's time for Tianzui to get married." Lin Ouchu flickered back to twenty years ago, and she remembered what Cha Qing had said when she was sitting on the porch with the baby in her arms.He said: "If you have money, you can redeem the Wangyou Teahouse." The owner of Sanyayuan, Amao, was one step too late, and the Longxing Teahouse had already changed hands.It can also be said to return to the original owner - Wangyou Tea House.Wu Sheng, the whistleblower, not only didn't scream, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't understand why he ran out of Wangyou Tea House in a hurry, and then ran towards Sanya Garden non-stop, as if he The greatest pleasure in life is to watch other people fight with each other, even though he is not a fisherman. When Wu Chaqing accompanied Hang Tianzui upstairs, Wu Sheng, who stayed behind, stood respectfully at the top of the stairs and kept saying, "Go slowly, the stairs are so broken that no one can leave." Hang Tianzui almost ignored him, he was thinking about his own thoughts, Wu Sheng looked at the back of his head, and began to hate him again.This young master of the Hang family doesn't go wild with joy, laughs, or speaks, and he doesn't care about Uncle Cha Qing, who cared for him growing up? ! Wu Chaqing opened the upper casement of the teahouse, and the dust billowed towards the new owner.After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was Xiaoyangchun in October, and the sunlight slanted into the teahouse, interspersed in different ways, and the dust was shining with a gray-blue light. Leaning on the railing, you can see a lake.On the opposite side, Baoshi Mountain, Geling Mountain and Qixia Mountain were transformed into a thin silhouette by the sunlight and lake light.The cruise ships on the lake moved back and forth on the water that was as bright as tinfoil, because they were so slow, it looked like the West Lake was a frozen painting. Hang Tianzui narrowed his eyes.He thought of Zhao Zhike's Baitiao in the Waves.Thinking of what he said, West Lake is like a vast ocean to fish and shrimp, but it is just a small bonsai to him.Thinking of this, the sharp despair and boredom suddenly captured his heart, and it was raised to the throat, making him unable to breathe.Tears filled my eyes. He can't think of Zhao Zhike, as long as he thinks of him, he has a feeling of being choked to death.He knew it was because he wasn't walking with him.Moreover, from now on, he can no longer walk with him. He scratched the table a few times with his fingers, and his fingers were covered with thick dust.On the small, half-person-high stage to the north of the teahouse, spiders formed webs.As soon as the window was opened, the net fluttered gently in the wind. It seemed that it was about to be broken, but it never broke.Hang Tianzui stared blankly at the stage, thinking, will I still be happy just because you gave me a teahouse? "Let's call it Wangyou Tea House." He heard Wu Chaqing say this. "Whatever, whatever you want." "The teahouse is yours, whatever you want is yours." "I'm casual, really." "If you can't go to the East, you can do whatever you want." Hang Tianzui fell silent for a while.The two of them had never spoken alone on this sensitive subject. Hang Tianzui stared at the lake water for a while, and then asked eagerly, "He, he... didn't scold me?" "Why scold you. It's not that you don't want to go, the number of days!" "...You also accept your fate," "...Admit it!" Wu Chaqing said firmly. Hang Tian's Zui Ergen burned up all of a sudden, and said: "I don't want to recognize the number of days. Is it also the number of days if I want to get married? I know, this is your idea for my mother. We Wangyou Tea House, big and small I can't think of anything without you. I'm in your hands. You're my number one, you know how much I..." "……hate me?" "No." Tianzui leaned back against the window frame, whenever he was overly excited, he would start to stutter, "I was thinking, thinking, saying... I, I, I have no, no, no way , leave...leave you, no, no, no...how to..." He stuttered so badly that he couldn't continue, tears were about to flow out. Seeing Hang Tianzui's appearance, Wu Chaqing clenched her thin hands into fists, and the veins on the back of her hands burst out.Then, go to close the windows one by one.It was dark in the teahouse.Empty, hollowed out, nothing left. When the two of them walked past Wu Sheng who was standing at the top of the stairs, Wu Sheng was holding a rag in his hand and felt that they were far away from him.He felt that he was in Wangyou teahouse, but not in the teahouse.When he touched it with his hand, it was an iron wall of air.He thought, when will the teahouse fall into his hands.