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Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

Tea People Trilogy 王旭烽 11600Words 2018-03-20
When Hang Tianzui married a wife and had children, repeating the life of the previous generation, the life he vaguely realized in front of the Sansheng Stone was completely different from his current situation, and was proceeding in a very different way. In 1905, Zhao Jike joined the Zhejiang Anti-Qinghui Party Restoration Association in Japan; at the end of the same year, in a secret private house in Tokyo, he swore to join the China Tongmenghui, which was just established in August.Zhao Jike and Shen Lucun, a fellow from Zhejiang Province who came from France, were secretly interviewed by Mr. Sun Yat-sen at the same time.They unconditionally accepted the program of the Tongmenghui: to drive out the captives, restore China, establish the Republic of China, and equalize land rights.They made an oath that day: Be faithful and loyal, start and die, and if you continue to do so, you will be punished by everyone.

At the beginning of the next year, Shen Lucun returned to Shanghai, and Zhao Jike returned to Zhejiang with Xia Nv Qiudao, and lived again in Baiyun Nunnery, Nanping Mountain, and joined Zhejiang Wubei Academy as a teacher of engineering. In Puchang Lane, Zhao Jike once met his former brother Hang Tianzui unexpectedly.At that time, Hang Tianzui was sitting in the rickshaw with Jiahe on the left and Jiaping on the right.Seeing Zhao Zhike of the sword-wielding brigade, he was startled, stood up, and bumped his head against the hood of the car.His two five-year-old sons were amazed to see their father's flushed face, trembling lips and tears welling up in his eyes.Because of this, they deeply remembered the heroic man in military uniform. "He has a knife in his hand!" Jiahe said afterwards. "No! There are knives in his eyes!" Jiaping corrected, remembering something murderous in the man's deep-set gaze.

They still remembered that their father and the man didn't speak a word. One of them was sitting in the car and the other was standing in the road, and they held each other for a while.The man turned around, blew up a whirlwind, and walked away.His braid was thick and shiny, whipping the wind like a big leather whip. That year, something never happened in Hangzhou. In April, Huang Daoshi, Luo Hui, Hong Nianchun, etc. in Guanshan, Xincheng, led hundreds of people, set fire to the city, opposed to raising food prices, and were dispersed by officers and soldiers. In the same month, officials and gentry Wang Wenshao, Ge Baohua, Shen Jiaben and others raised more than 2 million taels of shares in order to run the Zhejiang Railway by themselves, drafted a draft plan, and insisted on the right of way.

On the 21st of the leap month, all machine operators in the lower city of Hangzhou went on strike to protest the continuous tax increase by the Qing government. In July, Tang Shouqian and Liu Jinzao founded Zhejiang Higher Industrial School in Xiemazi Lane In October, Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce was established, with Fan Muxu as the prime minister and Hang Tianzui as one of the directors. In the first month of the second year, there was a wave of Caosuo Gang gathering crowds to grab rice in Hangzhou, Yuhang and other places.Lin Ouchu's natal family was eaten up by these hungry people with rotten grass ropes around their waists, and relatives fled to Wangyoulou Mansion in the city to hide, angry with his wife and complaining about everything.The daughter-in-law said: "In this kind of world, it's cheap to eat rich people, and it's peaceful if no one is killed."

The mother-in-law said: "No one comes to clean up your house, so you can stand and talk without back pain!" The daughter-in-law said: "Who said there is no? Last year my family was eaten twice. My mother wanted to report to the police, but my father stopped him. He said let it go and let others live." Hang Tianzui said: "It's best to eat it up, it's the best to eat it up, and it ends up in a vast expanse of whiteness, it's really clean." The Hang brothers are used to this kind of strange and tepid disputes in the family.They were very curious, not knowing what it meant to eat a big family, and what it meant to have so many country guests at home.

On March 17th of the same year, Qiu Dao and Xu Zihua came to Hangzhou, and Zhao Jike secretly protected them. He went to Phoenix Mountain and drew the streets and routes of Hangzhou on the military map.In Yue's tomb, Zhao Jike saw Qiu Jin lingering for a long time from a distance, and couldn't bear to leave.He also heard her say to Xu Zihua: "If you can bury your bones here after death, you will be lucky for three lifetimes." In the same year, after Sun Yat-sen's uprising in Guangzhou, Qiu Jin went to West Lake again and gathered members of the Restoration Society in Baiyun Nunnery to secretly prepare for an armed uprising.After the meeting, Zhao Jike mysteriously disappeared in Hangzhou, and Shaoxing Datong Academy had an additional teacher named Zhao Chen.

On July 13th, the uprising was defeated, and Qiu Dao was arrested. On the 14th, he wrote the eternal quatrain "Autumn Rain and Autumn Wind Worry Sharen" in the court.At this time, Wushan Yueshui, in the dark night, the lone fast Zhao Zhike who has a blood feud is hurriedly walking.In the early morning of the next day, when Qiu Jin died at Xuantingkou in Shaoxing, Zhao Jike had just seen the city of Hangzhou, which had not yet woken up from the cancer. In 1908, in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager "died" almost at the same time. The dibao knocked on the gate of Wangyoulou Mansion with a small gong and announced two major events: one was that haircuts were not allowed for three months; The second is that they are not allowed to sing operas for one hundred days.

The prohibition of shaving their heads did not cause much psychological pressure on the two children; the prohibition of singing was a very distressing thing for the father of the two children.The affairs of the tea house were more and more divided up by the two women in the family.Cha Qing ordered others to do the rest.He was just in charge of a teahouse, and Lin Ruchang, Lin Ouchu's family member, was also in charge of the teahouse, so he lived by listening to operas in the teahouse.It turned out that I could still relax with Xiaocha at Wushan Yuandongmen, but Xiaocha gave birth again.This time they gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl named Jiaqiao and Jiacao.Because of Jiahe and Jiaping, Mrs. Hang felt that there was no need to bring them back, so she left them with Xiaocha.Xiaocha is in confinement, and has a couple of children by her side. She loves her so much that she loses her soul, so she doesn't care about Hang Tianzui.After Hang Tianzui was fresh for a while, he became bored again, like a headless chicken, busy at both ends, no one took him seriously.

After the new year, the weather is warm and the sun is shining.Hang Tianzui was extremely bored, so he dug out some costumes that he had collected on weekdays, and dried them in the sun.Dragon robes, skirts, embroidered children's clothes, and Tsing Yi are spread out all over the yard, colorful and colorful.There are also those wigs, headgear, swords, head flowers, etc., which are so golden that Yaode Jiahe and Jiaping can't keep their eyes open.Jiahe's hair is soft, his neck is long, his eyes are long, and he looks like a father. He sits quietly and watches his younger brother Jiaping wield a knife and a gun.

Jiaping was born prematurely, with a big head, small body, round eyes, easy to fall when walking, but also likes to run, which is the opposite of his brother.He was dragging a big knife made of tin. The big knife shone with a strange white light in the sun, making his round eyes dodge left and right.He turned the knife over vigorously again, and the blade began to jingle.Jiaping raised his knife, waved it into the air, and shouted: "Kill!" Jiahe sat on a chair under the porch and said, "Ah, look, this is how Dad looks." It turned out that Hang Tian had been drunk for a while, and his tumor came up. He put on a sweater with long sleeves, and started walking in small steps in the garden.Then, with a long flick, the cuff almost fell on Jiahe's face.Holding a knife, Jiaping was surprised to find that his father was dressed like this, muttering in his mouth, walking like flying, and then he appeared, stopped, looked at the sky, looked at the ground, and looked at the vegetation, and then sang up:

It turns out that the colorful flowers are blooming all over the place, but like this, they are all ruined. What a beautiful day, what a beautiful day, whose home is a place to enjoy the pleasure... The father stopped suddenly again, and said to his sons: "This one is "A Garden of Dreams". I saw a beautiful scholar, so, she..." Hang Tianzui made an appearance and sang again: For the beauty of flowers and the years like water, I searched all the answers, and felt sorry for myself in the secluded boudoir. ... It's the place where we met each other and saw Yiran... Jiahe clearly remembered that Mom came in at this time.Since he was a child, he knew that he was born by his aunt, so he was under the care of his grandma, but like Jiaping, he was called Shen Lu's mother.Mom was very kind to him, but she didn't kiss him, and never spanked him, but she often spanked Jiaping's little ass.Jiaping also knew that his father had a family called Wu Shanyuan Dongmen.Sometimes, when he saw his father gone, he would go up and grab the hem of his clothes, and say, "Take me to play at Wushan Yuandongmen." But Jiahe never said anything.It's all about Xiaocha's rush, let's go.Xiaocha called him, and he called: "Auntie." Xiaocha cried and said, "You were born by me, do you know?" "Yes, grandma said it." Hang Tianzui took Jiahe there "You're going to call me mom." "So, where's the mother in the house?" He asked in surprise. "It's the same as my aunt." Tianzui said, "Isn't it the same name? It's like this child doesn't call me daddy, but brother, I don't feel sad at all. No matter how you call me, I was born. Names are such things , can't be more hypocritical, whoever is serious is the number one fool in Tianzi." "Then why don't you call her Auntie and my mother, it's the same anyway." For many years, Xiaocha dared to answer such a sentence, and Hang Tian was stunned drunk, and said: "Call me aunt, okay? I am aunt, and you are all mothers, so let's settle it." Xiaocha smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid of her? She's the big one, and I'm the young one. I don't know the status, so I need you to settle it?" Jiahe opened his long eyes in bewilderment, he couldn't understand what meant that she was big and I was small.But he knew that his father was afraid of his mother.You see, now Mom has come in, wearing a purple jacket with a red flower on her temples.Mom was so pretty, Jiahe saw his dad's long sleeves froze in mid-air, and an embarrassed smile gradually appeared on his face. "Men are not men and women are not women, are they?" Hang Tianzui joked to himself, taking off the shirt covering his body. "It's nothing, the Hang family has always been yin and yang, it's nothing." Shen Lvai said. "Speak more clearly, less finger Sang and scold Huai!" Hang Tianzui suddenly lost his temper. But Shen Lv'ai was calm and calm: "Look, you are singing Du Liniang in the backyard, and I'm showing my face in the front hall, isn't it true that yin and yang are not distinguished?" "I'm protesting!" Hang Tian was drunk and his shirt was half untied, and he didn't have time to remove the wig and Huagang on his head, so he shouted angrily: "If the palace is dead, don't care about our common people? Why? They are dead, so I can't shave my face and sing. I'll just sing for them!" "You go to the West Lake to sing! I will accompany you." "You speak well!" "It's me who said it nicely, or you who said it nicely. I think you're just having a dream in the back garden." Shen Luai looked at the colorful flowers and powders in the garden, and at her bearded hair. The one-inch-long husband with flowers and beads on his head also became angry, and said loudly: "China is so strange. There are so many men, but there is only one Qiu Jin who is provoking trouble. No wonder she is a good woman." Life is hard, those at home suffocate to death, want to be a heroine, but are killed again." "You are so ambitious, but you also let go of your spring tea and autumn grass, you follow Qiu Jin's example and rebel, Guang "Hey, you said it right into my heart. If I can follow my wish like her and dare to be the first in the world, I will live a life like a human! My life will be worth it." As soon as the two of them came here, they heard someone applauding from behind and shouted: "Okay! Women don't give way to men!" Jiahe and Jiaping were listening to their parents quarreling, when they heard someone shout loudly, their small eyes looked out, and saw a man of medium height, wearing a long robe and mandarin jacket, a black woolen top hat, wearing a pair of round sunglasses, with a serious expression on his face. whiskers.The man took off his sunglasses, Jiahe and Jiaping couldn't help exclaiming: "Big braid!" Shen Lu'ai had never met Zhao Jike before, and it was strange that she recognized him in an instant.Her first glance at him is direct, grateful, and hot because he approves of her.The two of them were shocked in their hearts when their eyes met, and then Shen Lv'ai was flustered for a while, and turned her eyes to her husband.Among the original four people in the garden, only Hang Tianzui was the slowest.He looked at his long-estranged brother Ba, with his mouth half-opened blankly. "Why, I really don't know each other anymore?" Zhao Jirong asked with a smile, "I heard all the wonderful dialogue between you and your siblings." "Are you still willing to pay attention to me?" Hang Tianzui asked stupidly after he regained consciousness. "It's unreasonable!" Zhao Jike strode forward, "My brother, talk about this kind of foreign language." Only then did Shen Luai take the initiative to say hello: "Sit down, sit down. You are Zhao Zhike." "Famous Chen, courtesy name Jike, traveled east to Japan for a few years, and won the number one title, called Jianghaihuxia." But Hang Tianzui grabbed the guest: "Say, why didn't you come to me when you returned to the country, and didn't pay attention to me when you saw me, I just recognize you as a brother, you..." His eyes were about to ooze. Tears came and my lips trembled. Shen Lv'ai had already set up tables and chairs under the porch, and invited them to sit down, while tugging at the hem of her husband's clothes, she said softly, "Stop talking about that, take off your costume." But Hang Tianzui yelled loudly: "What do you know? I exchanged Jinlan with Ji Ke when I was as old as Jiahe and Jiaping. If I hadn't fallen ill, I would have gone to Japan with him a long time ago." Zhao Zhike sat down and said, "I don't think you have changed at all, you are still so brainless. It's not like you don't know that I'm a person who wants to beheaded and dig out my heart when the court meets me. Why do you involve me? You are not the same now as before. Now, I have family property and children, so I can't get involved." Shen Lv'ai was drinking a cup of good tea. Hearing this, she was startled and said, "Could it be that you, Qiu Jin, and Xu Xitun also started trouble together?" "Exactly." "I don't know if you know my brother?" "Mr. Shen Lucun, we are old acquaintances." Hang Tianzui said: "Now your revolutionary party can recognize relatives." Just as they were talking, the two little brothers ran over in surprise and hugged the uncle.Jiaping climbed onto his knees, lifted his melon skin cap, and Jiahe was behind, stroking the big braid carefully, "What are you doing?" the two brothers said, wanting to see if the braid is real or not. The one with the fake braid, "it's a real braid. But the time to cut it is coming soon." "I heard that when you move your hand, the villain will be thrown into the water?" Jiaping said.Zhao Jike laughed loudly, pointed at Tianzui: "You said that, didn't you?" Hang Tianzui also laughed, and said, "How about showing off again? Let my wife and children see it." Zhao Jike thought for a while and said, "Okay." As soon as the voice fell, the person was already in the yard.He looked around and spotted a camellia in full bloom.He squatted down, picked up a small stone on the ground, and let it go, like a meteor, people didn't see where the stone went, but saw the big red camellia fell to the ground.He walked over gently, picked it up calmly, and bowed to everyone like a man in the rivers and lakes, with the camellia in his hand, trembling.Jiahe was so dumbfounded that he couldn't even speak.But Jiaping rushed up, hugged Zhao Jike's leg and climbed up, shouting as he climbed, "Uncle, can you teach me martial arts? I have a big sword." Here, Shen Lv'ai pulled Jiahe over, hugged Jiaping again, and said, "Good boy, let's go out and play, uncle and dad have something to talk about." Jiaping twisted it a few times before Zhao Jike put down the child, gave him the flower in his hand, and said, "Here, do they look good?" Jiaping gave Jiahe a bunch of flowers and said, "It's not pretty. The big knife looks good." He was about to carry the knife he was playing with just now. Jiahe took the flowers, but looked at them carefully, sniffed them, then pulled at her mother's clothes and said, "Mom looks pretty, and mom wears them on." Shen Luai took the flowers, smiled sweetly, and walked out, with the two children by her side.When she got to the door, she put the camellia in her ear. In the evening of that day, Hang Tianzui and Zhao Jike were both six to seven points drunk.Shen Lvai sat beside Zhang Luo, only to know intermittently that Zhao Jike studied machinery in Japan, and entered the Meiji Technical School in Toyanding, Kitakyushu.There are very few places for Chinese students to be recruited every year, and the exam questions are also difficult, but he was admitted anyway, in order to specialize in making weapons and ammunition in the future and killing all thieves.As he spoke, he took out a golden melon from his pocket and said, "What do you think it is?" Shen Luai was curious and wanted to touch it with her hands.Blocked by Zhao Jike's hand, the little finger accidentally touched the palm of Shen Lv'ai, and it was scorching hot, and she retracted like a thief. "This is a bomb." Zhao Jike put it into his arms again, "I haven't left my body in the past few years, and when I need it, I can take righteousness into benevolence." "That's what we were going to do back then." Hang Tianzui interjected. Shen Lvai looked at Zhao Jike, a chivalrous man who had the guts to open his mouth after being drunk, half hidden and half hidden in the dark night, half of his silhouette was illuminated by the candlelight, just outlining his straight nose bridge and square chin, it was truly mysterious and charming, and his heart Head, an impulse that never had before surged up.She herself had already drank two or three percent of the Shaoxing wine, two peach blossoms surged up, reflecting each other with the camellia beside her ear, and three blossoms bloomed on her face.Looking at it, Zhao Jike couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Why did such a strange woman fall into the door of such a gentle man like Tianzui?As he spoke, he pulled out the German-made shell gun and said, "What do you do when I come today? I have come to ask you for something." "Why, do you want to kidnap tickets?" Hang Tianzui was already drunk, his figure dangling in the candlelight, "No need to tie up, just take it all, it's best to take me too. The Qing Dynasty will collapse, the revolution will succeed, sooner or later Things. Poster, I also joined the League, and my tea house was also incorporated. The revolution was successful, the world was unified, the land rights were equalized, the rich and the poor were evenly distributed, what kind of tea house should I open?" Zhao Zhike said seriously: "It's a good thing if you want to join the League. Funding the revolution is something you can't ask for. At this moment, there is a revolution to be done. I have to go out for a while. I can't carry this gun with me. I will hide it at your place first. How about it?" , do you have the guts?" "Why is this so difficult? Don't talk about hiding a gun, why dare to shoot?" As Hang Tianzui said, he took the pistol over.Unexpectedly, he was already daring by this time, and it happened that Zhao Jike had just opened the safety of the gun.He raised his pistol, aimed at the two skylights on the door, and shouted triumphantly: "Bah! Bah!" Before the shouts fell, there were two loud bangs like popping beans, crisp and loud, deafening and deafening.Then came the shattering sound of glass windows falling to the ground, piercing through the dusk and shaking this quiet deep house in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhao Ji jumped up abruptly, pulled back his pistol, stuffed it into his arms, and rushed to the door.Master hang was so frightened that he lost his drink and was dumbfounded.Only Shen Lu'ai, after being startled, immediately rushed into the room and took out a hanging firecracker from the cabinet, threw it out of the room, threw it to Zhao Jike, and said, "Let it go!" Zhao Jike understood, ran to the courtyard, grabbed a bunch of Baizi cannons and fired them.There was a burst of crackling, attracting people from all over the courtyard.Lin Ouchu also came and asked, "What did you say, setting off firecrackers for no reason?" Shen Lu'ai said: "I saw a fox in the garden during the day, and I was afraid it would make trouble, so I set off firecrackers to scare it away." Lin Ouchu looked up and saw that it was Zhao Jike who hadn't seen him for a long time. He clapped his hands and smiled and said, "Songke, what kind of fox am I? It turned out to be you. I haven't seen you for many years. My daughter-in-law set off firecrackers to welcome you." Daughter-in-law said: "When is it not easy to let go, but the guests come to let go!" "Tianzui is drunk, and he dare not let it go. I am also timid, so I begged Brother Zhao." Lin Ouchu saw that there was nothing unusual, so he left. As he walked, he said to Zhao Zhike, "You have seen it, my daughter-in-law, I have many tricks, and I will trouble you when I come here. Come and talk to me in a while, your father." You are sick. Have you visited? You have no legs, where can you find your shadow? I don’t know what gust of wind has blown you back from Japan..." After everyone had left, Shen Lu'ai realized that her face was cold and she was covered in cold sweat.Zhao Jike was also sober at this time, made a bow, and said, "I'm scaring you, brother and sister." "My name is Luai." Qi said, "Thanks to you." Zhao Zhike hesitated for a moment before saying, "As long as Tianzui is with me, he will get into trouble. As soon as I leave, he will be fine." Shen Luai stretched out his hand With white hands and long fingers, he said: "Give it to me." "What?" "Gun" This..." "I'll keep it for you." "This..." Hang Tianzui went out of the house with his head covered, and said, "You just give it to her, no problem Zhao Jike said: "This is a dangerous thing, a woman..." Hang Tianzui laughed haha: "Look, my wife, I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of? She can manage such a big tea house, but she can't control a gun." Shen Luai looked at her husband, and said softly to Zhao Jike, "He drank too much." Zhao Jike walked back and forth in the garden twice, and gave the gun to Shen Lv'ai.Hang Tianzui clapped his hands and said, "Sender, wait for me, I'll go with you. This time, no matter what I say, I have to go with you..." Saying so, the person was paralyzed, drunk as mud.Zhao Jike and Shen Lu'ai went up and carried him into the back room.Shen Lvai said: "Brother Zhao, you have seen it all, you are drunk and dreaming." Zhao Jike had no choice but to keep silent. "Brother Zhao, take him away." Zhao Jike smiled: "No, he can't do it." Shen Lu'ai was taken aback for a moment, she understood, and said nothing more. The short gun brought by Zhao Jike, and the two sounds that Hang Tianzui fired in a daze, strongly shocked Jiahe and Jiaping.These two children's memories of life seem to have started from that day.Everything they experienced in the future has a starting point for their narratives. For example, they didn't say that Wang Wenshao's funeral was in 1908. They said it was the year they met Mr. Zhao.On that day, the streets of Hangzhou were deserted by tens of thousands of people. People from Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Suzhou flocked to watch the funeral. Thirty-six coffin bearers were sent from the capital, but none of the thirty-six coffin bearers knew— —They are burying the last prime minister of the Chinese feudal dynasty. They are burying the Qing Dynasty. They are burying the closed dynasty with a feudal history of two thousand years! The funeral started at six o'clock in the morning, starting from Qingyin Lane of Xiangfu, along Jiangshu Road to Fengshan Gate, and at ten o'clock, it was only two-thirds of the way.The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Hang family took their children to the street to watch, and when they came back, they said, "Oh, the god of opening the way is higher than the eaves of the house. There are three paper houses and eighteen boxes of paper ingots. I have never seen such a big ostentation!" " The lively Hang Tianzui locked himself in the room fighting crickets, and said, "That's right, after two years, Xuantong won't be able to sit on the dragon chair anymore. Wang Wenshao is sending the end of the Qing Dynasty. Can it be lively?" Lin Ouchu was terrified when he heard this, and said: "The children are four or five years old, and your mouth is still so smelly. Be careful if you say it, it will kill you!" "Mom, how could he have the courage, General Tong'er is just one!" Shen Luai relieved her mother-in-law disdainfully. "He didn't, but the sender did. My eyelids twitched when the troublemaker came back from the sender!" Jiahe and Jiaping still remember that they went to Liangshanmen to watch the train in 1909.They said it was the summer after they met Uncle Zhao.They were deeply impressed by this major event in their childhood, because they saw him again that day. The earliest railway in Hangzhou is related to all political, economic and military actions in China after the Opium War.In short, the earliest construction of the Suzhou-Hangzhou Railway, which started from Suzhou in Wu Yi's soft language, passed through Shanghai and Hangzhou, and ended in Ningbo, was indeed proposed by the British side to the Qing government.A supervisor named Sheng Xuanhuai of the China Railway Corporation signed a so-called "Suzhou-Hangzhou Railway Draft Agreement" with the British businessman Qihe Foreign Company, which is the tea export broker of Wangyou Tea House. At that time, the British side was in a hurry to open up a colony in South Africa, so no formal agreement was made.This made the United States and Italy overjoyed, and their successors sounded the alarm for China's emerging national bourgeoisie.After exactly seven years, in 1905, the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang decided to build their own railways. In Zhejiang, the person who took the lead in this matter was a Xiaoshan native named Tang Shouqian.Both Zhao and Hang had important contacts with him.Although his ambiguous attitude in the case of Qiu Li made Zhao Jike despise him very much, but his role in the road protection movement made Zhao Jike look at him with admiration.It was at this historical turning point that the salt transport envoy of the Western Huaihe River in the late feudal dynasty became the prime minister of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Co., Ltd. under the capitalist economic system, which paved the way for him to be the first governor of Zhejiang Province after his recovery. In November 1906, the Zhejiang section from Hangzhou gate to Fengjing started construction.When the historical prelude to the construction of the railway in Hangzhou was opened, Tang Shouqian participated in another major political activity and became an enthusiastic supporter of the constitutional monarchy at that time and a leader of the constitutional faction. On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1907, Tang Shouqian, a Jinshi in the Guangxu Year who was born in Xiaoshan in 1857, held a banquet at home to welcome his son-in-law, the future master of Chinese studies, Ma Yifu.During the banquet, it is said that Tang Shouqian showed the engineering drawings of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway to his son-in-law, and the son-in-law was furious. The future master of Chinese studies said: "This is not to build a railway for China, but for Japan." The original drawing indicated that the station would be located at the Kunshan Gate, and that there would be a branch line leading to the Gongding Bridge. In this way, the market in Hangzhou was bound to be led to the Japanese Concession. It is said that Tang Shouqian listened to his son-in-law's opinion and set up a station in Qingtai Gate, using the cave city as a convenient gate.The trains are closed and opened at any time when they come and go. This is the origin of Hangzhou City Station today. In the same year, the construction of the railway started, and the British businessmen who were busy with "colonization" in South Africa sued the Qing court and demanded a stoppage of work.The Qing government had no choice but to obey.Zhejiang gentry, merchants and academic circles resolutely resisted. When the "National Rejection Association" was established, Hang Tianzui, as the representative of the tea industry, was really excited. On August 13, 1909, the Hangzhou-Shanghai line was officially opened to traffic. When the train entered the city gate, there was a huge sound, and the city people sang: The railway twists and turns for several long, branching two Shanghai and Vietnam Qiantang. The strange limbs are flying like dragons and phoenixes, and Fu Kua'e chisels the female wall. On the day when it was officially opened to traffic, Hang Tianzui made a big move. The whole family went out to Qingtai Gate to watch the huge monster of the train. This decision made the women in Hang's family very excited.Shen Lu'ai was very happy. As early as ten days ago, she started to prepare food and sunshade.Lin Ouchu made a special trip in a sedan chair to find Chaqing who was waiting for Chaomen, and asked for his opinion.Cha Qing had worked hard these past few years and was getting old too. Hearing Mrs. Hang's suggestion, he smiled lightly and said, "You guys go." "Aren't you going?" "It doesn't matter if you don't see it, but whether you use it or not is the important thing." How Lin Ouchu understood it, and said with emotion: "I'll go back and tell them, the train will pass, and the tea business will grow." "Here, wholesale and postal packages are supported by me. But I met Wu Sheng who was expelled by me the day before yesterday, and he came to me to buy a lot of tea. I asked him where the funds came from, and he said that he now wants to eat on the railway. Yes. After he left, I realized that he was going to do business on the train. There are so many people coming and going, how many people want to drink tea?" When Lin Ouchu heard about it, he forgot about watching the train, and hurried home, found his son and daughter-in-law, and discussed the matter with them.The son said: "If we are disappointed, can't we not do business?" Shen Lu'ai has also changed a lot since Zhao Jike came.Lin Ouchu couldn't tell exactly where she had changed.In short, she is not as concerned about the tea house as before.But those things outside, such as refusal of funds, running a school, are extremely enthusiastic.After hearing Lin Ouchu's suggestion, she just smiled and said, "Mom, let's talk about it after watching the train." "After watching the train, you'll be too late for anything." Lin Ouchu called for a job by himself, divided the tea into very small bags, and planned to hire someone to sell it on the train.When the son and daughter-in-law met, they didn't stop them.Very good, as long as there is something to do, the mother will be at ease. At night, Hang Tianzui didn't leave, Shen Lvai was very surprised and said: "Why don't you leave? I'm not afraid that you will be missed over there!" Hang Tian gave a drunken smile and said, "I met the postman today." Shen Luai frowned, turned around and fanned Jiaping, and asked, "Is he alright?" "The higher industrial school opened by Tang Shouqian started a class, and the teaching is about machines." "Sniff, it's finally safe and sound." "Where is it? I'm buying weapons. Guess what he wants me for?" "How do I know?" Shen Lv'ai said with a face heated up, pretending to be serious. "He introduced me to my class." "real?" "Then there is still a fake? There must be two introducers, and one more, you can't think of it." who? " "Your elder brother, Shen Lucun." "I didn't expect that." Shen Luai put down the sleeping child, walked around the room holding a round fan, "If I were a man, I would also join the club and make a career out of it." "And your business." "What can I do?" "The sender asked me to raise a sum of money, which can be used for future affairs." Shen Luai stopped shaking her fan, squinted her eyes, and asked, "Really?" "That's still fake!" Shen Lv'ai thought for a while and said, "You'd better go to the accounting room and search every day." Hang Tianzui stomped his feet, "You're not making a fool of me. I have to do something, why bother?" "Look for your mother. For your Hang family's affairs, now I earn the money, and she is the one who spends the money." Hang Tianzui slumped on the grand teacher's chair in frustration, and said, "It's over, I'm at the guest's place, and I'm still boasting. Look, this is his IOU." Hang Tianzui gave the note to his wife, and said, "I still said, what kind of IOU do we need between brothers? He said that it was written for younger brothers and sisters. Alas, he really confirmed it." Shen Lvai took a look at the IOU. The paper was full of four sentences and a signature. It seemed to jump out of the paper: "Han Xin ordered troops, the more the better. The revolution is successful, and the amount will be returned." When Shen Luai saw the note, she didn't say a word, opened the box, took out a jewelry box, opened it, it was full of gold and silver jewelry, took off a jade threshold from her hand, and spread it all in front of Hang Tianzui.Hang Tian was drunk, looked at his wife, tears came out, and said: "Luai, I'm nothing." Then he hit his head hard with his hand. Shen Luai shook her hand and said, "Now that you have joined the alliance, it is different from before. You need to show your masculinity. Crying and crying like this, who is worthy of it?" Hang Tianzui thought about it, and immediately stopped his tears, and said: "I have agreed with the guest today, and I will take care of the affairs of the tea house in the future. I should take care of the finances of the mother, and I have to take care of them." Take care of it. If you don't have financial power in your hands, what will you do if something happens?" "You said this, I have married myself, and I have said it no less than ten times." "That's the emptiness in my heart. So what if I earn money? I never smoked opium like my father did. Money is something that needs to have a real place to go. If you earn it, you can make money." "You earned money and raised that Wushan Yuandongmen, isn't it Bentou?" After hearing this, Hang Tianzui was speechless.After a long time, I said: "I know, even if I jump into the Yellow River, I won't be able to wash myself away. Today's guest also scolded me, I shouldn't behave like this, I said that it's not that I want to live like this, but that this kind of work has come to me. Forget it, I'm sorry for you anyway, and you don't pay attention to me anymore, so I have no choice but to live like this." He carried the jewelry box and walked out the door.It never occurred to him that his wife's heart was only on Zhao Jike's words just now: it turned out that Zhao Jike also sympathized with her and knew her situation.Shen Lvai shed tears rarely, and said to her husband who came to the door: "I will go to watch the train in a few days, and take her with me." After eating Hang Tianzui, she could hardly believe her ears. "You mean, she..." "She's suffering too. Jiahe is seven years old, and mother still won't let her into Hang's house." "Lv Ai, Lv Ai," Hang Tian rushed back drunk, "Green Love, you are really a good person." Shen Luai shook her head: "I'm not good. Maybe one day, I will do something that will shock you." After Luai said this, she started I was taken aback. On the afternoon of August 13, 1909, under the scorching sun, from outside Qingtaimen to Liangshanmen Station, the nearby open spaces along the line were crowded with citizens in Hangzhou.Carrying stools, carrying dry food and herbal tea, and wearing straw hats, they trampled the pre-harvest hemp fields into a mess.Frail and sickly women, some of whom suffered from heat stroke on the spot, were carried under the shade of trees.After they regained consciousness, they resolutely refused to go home, even lying down to see the train. Wu Sheng, a small tea vendor carrying herbal tea and running back and forth among the crowd selling tea, has a very good business today.He was tanned red and black, and dressed in rags, but he was in good health. He was much more mature than before, and he seemed calm and unhurried.There is a big basket on his rack cart, and the basket is full of bags of tea in small packages.Wait a while, he's going to get into the car with the basket on his shoulders from here. Along with the acquaintance between the train and the Hangzhou people, Wu Sheng also reunited with the long-lost Xiaocha.At that time, he scooped up a spoonful of water for the buyer, but when he looked up, it was Xiaocha. She was much more beautiful and mature. When she saw him, she dropped the spoon in surprise and left—only her courage remained the same.Wu Sheng also saw Chuo carrying a big basket like him—he was also here to sell tea.All the good things were taken by the Hang family, and Wu Sheng was immediately filled with anger.But he calmed down immediately.He believed that when he got on the train, he was not his match. Hang Tianzui warmly shook hands with his introductions Zhao Jike and Shen Lvcun. The latter two were accompanying Prime Minister Tang Shouqian on inspection and took the opportunity to introduce their new comrades to Tang Shouqian.Hang Tianzui saluted the founder of Hangzhou Railway gracefully and appropriately.When Tang Shouqian said, "Young people are awesome, you will be the pillars of China in the future", he didn't expect that the younger generations were really awesome. Two years later, they took him to the Chinese political stage. Shen Lu'ai saw her elder brother and Zhao Jike beside him from a distance.The eldest brother was carrying a civilized stick and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, Zhao Jike was wearing a white Hangfang shirt, Hang Tianzui was wearing a long gown and a folding fan, and the three of them surrounded Tang Shouqian like jade trees facing the wind, attracting discussions from people around. When the two children saw Zhao Jike, they were overjoyed, shouted and rushed over, hugging each thigh tightly.Shen Lucun then said: "Look, if you don't recognize Dayong, you should recognize Mr. Zhao first. It's really unreasonable!" Hang Tianzui hurriedly ordered Jiahe and Jiaping to call him Uncle, and Jiaping said "Uncle" in a perfunctory manner, then threw himself on the guest again and said, "Uncle Zhao, you never come to my house no matter how old you are, I miss you very much." " But Jiahe was a little older, and bowed respectfully to his uncle. Did Shen Lucun read happily after seeing Jiahe being polite and understanding at a young age? "Said: "Hello, uncle. "Pick it up and say "I'm reading at home." "What to read?" "At the beginning of human beings, nature is good." "that's it?" "还有呢!大舅。今天下,五大洲,亚细亚,欧罗巴,南北美,与非洲……" 大家一听都乐了,沈绿村给他擦了一脸的汗,说:"我便考一考你,好吗?" 嘉和赶紧爬下,站好,说:"请出题。" 那一旁,汤寿潜见这小公子如此秀丽聪慧,便道:"来个对课,行不行?" 嘉和歪着头想想,说:"试试看。" 汤寿潜顺嘴说:"火车。" "轮船。" 大家一愣,都笑了,说对得好。 沈绿村说:"忘忧君。" "不夜侯。" 沈绿村大惊,说:"这茶中的典故,怎么你就知道了?" "奶奶教的。她说,忘忧君、不夜侯,甘露兄,王孙草,都是茶。"去沈绿村又道:"我考你一个难的,不是对课,看你能说出来吗?"嘉和还是歪着头,想想,说:"试试看。""九溪林海亭有副对联,上联是——小住为佳,月吃了赵州茶那下联呢?""曰归可缓,试同歌陌上花来。""你可知为什么这么写?"杭天醉得意一笑:"你这就难不倒他。"嘉和皱着眉头,费劲地说:"赵州茶不是赵的茶,是个和尚叫赵州和尚。人家问他事情,他只说一句话——吃茶去。" 大家看这样个小东西,一本正经解释仍语,不由得又笑了。 "那下一句呢?" "那是讲皇帝的。皇后娘娘回乡下探亲,皇帝给她写信,说,野地里花开了,你慢慢看着,别急着回来。" 沈绿村摸着孩子头,说:"天醉,我只可惜一件事……" 杭天醉连忙打发嘉和走了,才说:"你可惜嘉和不是绿爱生的。"客沈绿村叹口气:"我看嘉平日后难以守成,三岁看到老啊。"那边,嘉平已经爬在了赵寄客的背上,骑上了他的肩,赵寄和沈绿爱说着话呢。"弟妹,你给我的东西,我都变卖了。""卖就卖吧。""玉镊子没卖,得空还你。" "这是何必。"沈绿爱的脸上就沁出了汗来,粉脸桃腮,煞是动人。 赵寄客看着看着,别过脸去,突然支起耳朵,说:"火车快来了" 所有的杭州人,这时都一起从铁路两边冒了出来,他们踩平了两边的络麻地,自己却齐刷刷地插得比络麻还密。许多人站在条凳上,远远地看着那黑龙怪物呼啸而来。就在这时,小茶和绿爱,这两个女人,隔着铁轨,目光骤然相碰。凭着各自手里抱着的孩子,她们认出了对方。同时,她们都下意识的,把孩子往怀里一搂。 什么感情都来不及表达-一仇恨、忌妒还是宽容;什么感情都来不及表达,因为火车扑面而来了。这庞然大物,以雷霆万钧、摧枯拉朽的不可一世之气概,排山倒海而来,无人不被它吸引,无人不被它震撼,无人不被它征服。一片人声鼎沸——是欢呼!是惊叫!抑或是呻吟! 车上的人们在向下面招手,他们顺应火车,火车便带他们一日千里,谁若想阻挡它,死路一条。 嘉和与嘉平,被火车的巨大身影吓呆了,他们分头扎进了母亲的怀抱。但好奇心又使他们抬起头来。天上烈日如故,铺天盖地的车轮声和人们的呼喊声融成一片。这两个孩子终于也伸出了双手——他们是将与火车同行的一代人。
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