Chapter 24 Chapter Twenty-Four
The former Wangyou son Hang Tianzui was almost cornered by his enemies and relatives when he entered middle age.His enemy Wu Sheng tempted him to smoke opium with ulterior motives, and his relative Xiaocha even stole the last piece of tobacco cream he hid in the corner of the wall and smoked it.For this last big smoke, the two of them had to fight.Jia Qiao has been picked up by Wu Sheng, the servants and nanny at home have run away, and they have been beaten everywhere, but no one has persuaded them. Hang Tianzui couldn't believe this miserable and depraved scene.He couldn't figure out whether it was Xiaocha who was no longer Xiaocha, or whether he himself was no longer himself.Panting and panting, he leaned against the cigarette couch, looking at Xiaocha with a ghostly face, he wanted to cry without tears and asked himself: Is it possible to smoke opium because he dare not face up to his timidity?Could it be that if you know that his surname is not Hang Nai and Wu Ben is the illegitimate son of Chang Mao, then he can smoke opium?Is it possible to smoke opium if you know that your wife has an affair with your brother?He had thought those silent inner breakdowns would be enough for him to escape into the clouds, only to find that there was no greater sin than to sink into the abyss of opium.While beating his chest and spitting tears, he scolded himself, and on the other hand, he searched his brains to figure out where to get some more money in exchange for the big cigarettes.I searched every corner and every nook and cranny, and my eyes turned around the Mansheng pot.He didn't dare to look at the pot, he looked sad and salivated at the same time.He hadn't seen Lu Ai for many days, and he heard that she had gone out with her child.He wanted to get some calligraphy and paintings for him to sell.Weeping and crying, it was the first time Tianzui saw him kneeling down and hugging the young master's leg for the first time in many years. Let Wu Sheng swallow it. Young master, he is swallowing your life!" The young master was soft-hearted and had no other choice, so he had to suffer himself, piece together things, feel cold and terrified, and he couldn't stop smoking for a while. pause.He also couldn't remember how long it had been since he and Xiaocha had spoken honestly.The two of them had a hoarse voice because of smoking opium, their souls were out of their bodies, and their faces were completely changed. How could he bear this situation? He might as well smash his head to death in a corner.Thinking of this, he slammed his head towards the corner of the wall, limp, and he couldn't exert his strength.Xiaocha opened her blindfolded eyes and looked at her husband with a blank expression.Her heart was full of poppies.There was a chill in Hang Tianzui's bones - it's over, it's over.His eyes were dazzled, and his eyes were full of Venus, and suddenly he saw a black piece in the Venus, which was knocked out by him hitting the wall just now.He was overjoyed, ecstatic, Sven had already swept the floor, and it didn't matter to sweep it again. He climbed up on the cigarette couch and lit a cigarette.
How should I live next?He regained his breath, full of worries.He has no one to rely on, so he has no choice but to lean on Xiaocha.He hugged Xiaocha like this, touched Xiaocha's face and murmured to himself: "Xiaocha, what should we do? What should we do?" Two lines of dirty tears came down from Xiaocha.Tears made the skinny woman charming again, and the woman said: "Let's go, leave me alone." The woman's words made Tianzui's eyes fill with tears. It turns out that depravity can also produce dependent love, and not everyone can accompany him into such a deep love. of the abyss.Now that I think about it, the ugly behavior of them giving away their children and selling things and fighting each other is really shocking and tragic.He thought about it so suddenly and deeply, and after thinking about it, he opened his eyes again and stared at the Mansheng pot.He gritted his teeth and stamped his feet: let it go!You wandering Zhao Zhike, who knows which branch you are running and serving!You are a person who only lives for the world, not for your relatives and friends!A hero who even sends women home!I'm here to stick to your token, but I don't know that whether I go up the mountain of swords or down into the sea of fire, I won't have any news from you to comfort me!You fight north and south for the invisible and intangible world, how can you still have flesh and blood like us in your heart?You don't miss me, so why should I miss you!He copied the Mansheng pot and said to Xiaocha: "Wait for me and see what I bring back for you!"
He staggered out the door and saw a silver moon in the sky, the breeze was blowing, the willows were blooming, and the bustling market was as usual, he couldn't help feeling sad.What did all this matter to him now?All those external things—whether it’s the revolution or making a fortune, why can’t they establish a channel with him personally?Why forget your worries?There's only smoke—where to find a better panacea than smoke?Love has been loved, hate has been hated, sadness has been sad, revolution has been revolution, it is useless, useless, useless... He was stunned when he thought about it, this person is a guest ?Is this man with only one hand Zhao Jike?
Reunited with the guest at Wangyoulou Mansion in Yangbatou, Hang Tianzui felt ashamed.None of the former beauty couch, mahogany chair, carved pear flower table, blue and white pots from Ming and Qing dynasties, the Qingtian jade sculpture of Avalokitesvara, calligraphy and paintings all over the wall, and valuable things in the house are still there, and there is really nothing left.Hang Tianzui also knew that he had exhausted his family, but he never thought of being so poor. He wanted to ask Lu Ai, but he didn't dare to ask, so he quietly recruited Jiaping to ask about those things. Aren't they all sold?Jiaping said: "Well, Mom said that you don't want to let you see those things so you don't worry."
Zhao Jike said: "For this sake, do you still have those things in mind? It's really called the world is easy to change, and the nature is hard to change!"
After finishing speaking, Lu Ai brought two cups of tea with her own hands, which happened to be brewed with Huiming tea. Now we have tea that can compete with Longjing."
Lu Ai is not particularly impressed: "In fact, the purple bamboo shoot wild tea from Shuikou, the fragrant tea from Jingshan, and the Longding from Kaihua are all excellent teas. When we talk about tea in Zhejiang, it is much better. "
"You don't really know that when foreigners eat beef and mutton, they have a strong taste, and they must have a high aroma and mellow taste. Therefore, foreigners like Wuyi Kungfu and Qimen black tea. If you say that Longjing is so pure The ones that are pure and elegant can only be matched by leisurely and elegant people like us."
Zhao Jike saw Tianzui showing off his dandyism again, so he said let's get down to business, let's see if this Huiming tea will work.
"Why not? Didn't I say that my brave son is reporting to the United States, so he will leave soon."
"It's a pity about your body."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter," Hang Tianzui would laugh at himself, "Two Chaomen brothers, one disabled and the other defeated, can be regarded as sharing weal and woe. In the future, find an opportunity to go to the United States together, don't do any expos, and play with yourself of."
"You've been playing for half your life, and you've even played with big cigarettes. You should rein in your horse from the precipice."
Hang Tianzui made a bow, and said: "Little brother, I am about to listen to your advice. You see, a useless person like me, who has no literature, no martial arts, no business, no revolution, what's the matter?" Useful? Looking at this world again, if the country is not the country, the law is not lawful, and the family is not family, what is there to do? I really don’t understand that you guys are struggling with poverty, but people like Shenlu Village are struggling. You may not lose an arm, but I will give you a general of Anbang, and from now on, you will show your ambitions and save the country and the people. When I think of you, I just want to cry. Where does China want a hot-blooded man like you? Not to mention Call me such a useless and prodigal son..."
On the root of the window outside the door, leaning against Jiahe.He stared at Dad without blinking, his chest full and convulsed with pain and pity.When Jiacao saw her father, she wanted to go in, but he hugged her and said, "Little sister, we don't want to call father for half a month, because father will be tested once!"
"What test?" Jiacao asked.
"Brother, what did you tell her?" Jiaping also stared at the room, but said dissatisfiedly to Jiahe: "If Dad knows, our plan will fail."
In the room over there, Zhao Zhike said: "I am in the mountains, and I have to think about it seriously. China's affairs must be close to those of the West. The revolution in the political system is of course extremely important. Just like a person, he must have a head. But feet and hands are always indispensable. The people are the body, the army and the judiciary are the hands, so what are the feet?"
"Your statement is a bit new. According to you, what are those feet?"
"One is industry, the other is education." Zhao Jike stretched out two fingers, "Only when the country is rich and the people are strong, can it have the ability to gain a foothold in the forest of nations in the world; Wisdom. Without these two, if Sun Yat-sen is today and Yuan Shikai is tomorrow, the common people will care about his grandson, Yuan Shang, or Yuan Xia and Sun Shang?"
Hang Tianzui was still somewhat hesitant after hearing this, and said, "I've heard a lot of theories about saving the country through education and industry. There are many people who speak, but few do it. It's just talk."
"It will be effective if you and I act quickly!" Zhao Jike said at this time, just about to enter Hong Kong, "Tianzui, you and I, why not choose one each, and fight for the country, the people, and ourselves. , what do you think?"
Hang Tianzui was a little dazed, and said, "Look at me, which foot can I choose?"
"This statement is wrong. I, Zhao Jike, have lost his arm. I can no longer swing my spear and spear into Kuma to release Nanshan. What's more, my brother still has strength and a warm heart. It is also possible to cheer up and open up a world possible."
These words incited Tian Zui, and when Zui opened his eyes, his eyes sparkled like sparks, and he asked: "Brother, tell me, I will do whatever you want me to do."
"To tell you the truth, I have chosen to engage in education, so naturally you can only engage in business. To do business, you must have a foothold. Looking at the whole world, I think you should stick to your old profession of tea."
Hang Tian smiled drunk, and said: "As I expected, I know that you have made a big circle, and you still want me to eat tea."
"Could it be that you are really tired of this bowl of rice?" Zhao Jirong asked with a smile.
"Since we are destined to eat, we can't talk about never getting tired of it. After I get my body recuperated recently, I will discuss the long-term plan. What do Brother Zhao think?"
With that said, he had already started yawning.Zhao Zhike knew that he was suffering from smoking disease, and wanted to find an excuse to return to Yuandongmen to recover from his illness, so he quickly stood up and said, "Tianzui's words are wrong, China's affairs are bad because of this long-term plan. This has grown for five thousand years."
Hang Tianzui stood up: "Okay, according to my brother's opinion, we will start planning tomorrow, okay? You live here today, and I will come to see you tomorrow."
Zhao Jike stopped Tianzui and said: "Tomorrow will be tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows, which prodigal son who can't turn back will not be ruined by this tomorrow? I think it's better to start from today, from now on is the best!" "
Hang Tianzui was a little panicked now, he held Zhao Zhike's hand and said, "Sender, what are you doing, are you going to keep me here tonight?"
Zhao Jike said seriously: "Tianzui, this is your home, you keep me, not I keep you. It's just that I come out of the mountain again, not just for your sake, but also for the sake of my siblings and two children. Now, I don’t care if you keep me or not! If you keep me, I will stay, if you don’t, I will stay. When will you quit smoking, when will I go back home."
"You, you, what do you mean? Did you collude with me to make me suffer?"
Hang Tianzui got angry and lost his temper.
"It's an agreement, I'm here to save your life!" Lu Ai said, putting a jar of snacks on the table.
"Then you can't block me here like a kidnapping ticket! Let me go back, I will definitely come tomorrow."
Zhao Jike grasped Hang Tianzui's bony shoulder and said, "I'm drunk for days, I can't figure out whether I hate you more or love you more."
After speaking, he picked up the Mansheng pot, looked around, put it on a niche in the corner, and then turned around and left.Hearing this, Hang Tianzui was taken aback for a moment, but instead stood there stiffly.After a while, he woke up and heard a whistling sound. Only then did he know that he had been locked up by his family and forcibly quit smoking.
This move immediately caused him to have mixed feelings, all kinds of helplessness, a thousand kinds of emotions, who can he tell?Looking around, there is a couch, a table, two chairs, and then the windows, only to find that the windows have been nailed up with big wooden strips.
Doesn't this make him a prisoner alive?Thinking of this, he couldn't help shouting: "Lu Ai, come here!"
Lu Ai didn't walk away at all, and said, "Tianzui, I'll stay outside the door. If you have anything to say, just tell me."
At this time, Tianzui had already started to feel sad with snot and tears, so he begged her, "I know it's useless to beg you, you woman has a hard heart. If I ask for a little tea, she will definitely open the door early , let me live."
Lu Ai said: "I know you have her in your heart but not me, when you quit smoking, you are able to support her, and help her quit smoking, you just write a letter and divorce me, and I won't blame you. "
Tianzui stamped his feet inside, and said: "You know that I won't divorce you, without you in this family, we would have died a long time ago."
"You speak with a conscience." Lu Ai said, "But I still expect you to divorce me."
Tianzui was already suffering from severe pain in the smoke, and while crying to death, he yelled again: "Sender, sender, you see that brother is going to die, and you don't come to save him, don't you know that I am going to die in this place?" Do you have it?"
Zhao Jike said outside: "Tianzui, please be quiet. Think about other things. It's really sad. It doesn't matter if you want to roll over or hit the wall. Just be careful with that Mansheng jug. Unless you smash the jug too, the two of us It’s considered a breakup. If you survive today, the western doctor will come tomorrow and will cooperate with you to quit smoking. After three days, you will be cured.”
Tian Zui burst into tears in anxiety: "I can't make it through even a second, but you want me to endure it for three days... oh my god..."
He really started punching and kicking inside, rolling on the ground and hitting the wall, and howling like ghosts and wolves, only then did he realize why the house was completely devoid of valuable calligraphy, painting and porcelain, so he was ready to run wild in it.
Even he himself didn't know how long he had been struggling, he hit his head against the wall, howled, blood flowed from his mouth, but no one came to let him go.Thinking about it, I was afraid that I was really going to die because of this, but I heard someone crying outside, and I heard someone say: "Brother, be gentle, don't let Dad hear it, and I can't quit smoking anymore."
Listening to the voice, Tianzui knew that the one who was crying was to relax, and it was Jiaping who was persuading him, so he quickly lay down on the window and looked out.It was pitch black outside, and he couldn't see anything. He shouted hoarsely, "Jiahe, Jiaping, save your father, he is dying..."
Jiahe gasped loudly, and said, "Dad, Dad, just bear with it, you'll be fine if you get through this test, Dad, our whole family is here to save you...Dad, we're all doing it for your own good..."
Tianzui struggled to scream, his throat was so sore that he couldn't make a sound: "Son, I beg you, let me out, I beg you, let me die alone, don't save me, your father has nothing to do The cure is here..."
Jiaping interrupted his call for help: "Father, don't think about yourself, think about mom, think about us, think about such a big family, it depends on you to quit smoking and cheer up. You smoke opium No, sooner or later you will be smoked to death, it is better to suffer a little more now and quit it..."
"Fart, you little bastard! You're not my son! You heartless little thing! You look like something that popped out of a rock!"
Hang Tianzui cursed a series of dirty words that he never uttered normally.Jiaping said nonchalantly, "Father, if you have strength, you can just scold us. If you scold us more and don't think about smoking opium, you will be saved. Uncle Shike said, no matter how much you scold us, we will treat you did not hear it."
Hang Tianzui had no choice but to beg his eldest son again: "Jiahe, Jiahe, my good son, I love you the most in my heart, you are kind and kind, you are not like your heartless brother. Go and tell your mother, Let me go, all the property of Wangyou Tea House belongs to her, she can do whatever she wants! Son, son, I kowtow to you, I beg you..."
After Jiahe heard the sound of "bang bang" kowtow inside, he was sweating coldly, his eyes were full of stars, he only heard his younger brother call "big brother" a few times, and he didn't know anything.
Hang Tianzui called for help, and unexpectedly knocked his son Jiahe unconscious.
Jiaping's yell woke up Lvai and Jigu who were in the outside room.They rushed to the window, and Lu Ai angrily reprimanded Jiaping: "Who told you to come here by yourself? It's past midnight, it must have been your idea, look, you scared your brother!"
Zhao Zhike said, "It doesn't matter, the child is small and frightened."
"I didn't!" Jiaping said.
"You are different from him." Zhao Jike said, picked up the child and walked back.
Lu Ai watched Zhao Jike walking away with the child in his arms, and said to the crack of the door at the other end, "Tianzui, listen, I kneel down for you, I have been married to your family for more than ten years, and today is the first time I give you Kneel down. You quit opium, and you can do whatever you want in the future. If you don’t quit opium, you don’t want to get out of this threshold. I, Shen Lu, keep my word, and you understand it.”
Inside, there was no sound for a long time.Lu Ai went back to the wing with her sore feet, just as she stepped through the door, the howling and crying started again.Shen Luai finally couldn't bear it anymore.She felt that everything was meaningless, and that there was nothing left to fantasize about an incorrigible opium ghost.She started to walk out, but was stopped by Zhao Jike again.He said angrily, "What are you doing?"
"I let him go, I'll go!" Lu Ai said hysterically.
Over there, there came another curse with a different tone: "Zhao Zhike, I treat you as my own brother, and you beat me to death. I knew you were interested in my daughter-in-law. I'm dead. How are you two?" Let’s make a couple! You can’t hide this thing in your heart from me! You let me die, you let me die, I die to fulfill you, you two ride on a horse, and I also I can't control it anymore. You two bastards, why don't you let me die..."
Lu Ai's face turned pale when she heard this, and she was about to go limp.Zhao Zhike turned around.After a few steps, he stepped out of the courtyard and unlocked the door in twos and threes.Tianzui, who was lying on the ground, got the spirit out of nowhere, jumped up and rushed out the door, and was hugged by Zhao Jike, and the two fought into a pile.
Although the guest had only one arm at this time, the mad Hang Tianzui was still not his opponent.He was caught there by Zhao Jike, just like a piece of cardboard, it was useless for him to yell again and again, and there was no part of his body that could compare with Zhao Jike's strength, and he aimed at Zhao Jike's shoulder hard, and immediately bleed Got blood all over his face.Seeing the blood, Zhao Jike himself didn't say a word, but Hang Tianzui passed out first.
Here, Lu Ai and Jia Ping rushed over, seeing the blood on Zhao Jike's neck, his face turned pale with fright, and he didn't know what to do.Zhao Jike spat out bloody phlegm and said, "Bring a rope." The two men hurriedly looked for the rope, anxious, where can they find it?On the contrary, Jiahe, who had fainted just now, was awake now, and handed over the rope in a hurry.The host dragged Tianzui to the bed, and said, "Come and hold his feet, and I will tie him up to avoid danger."
Jiahe stood still hesitantly, but Jiaping was straightforward, strode up, held down the half-conscious father, and pinned him on the bed with two or three strokes.
Lu Ai looked ashamed, and said, "Is it useful to do it this way?"
Zhao Jike pointed to the Mansheng jug in the niche in the corner, and said, "The jug is here, and I, Zhao Jike, are here. You see, he tossed all night and didn't touch the jug. Hang Tianzui can be saved."
Jiahe hurried up to hold the pot, he was worried that his father would break it if he lost his mind.
Zhao Jike said again: "I went to invite a doctor to cooperate with the treatment. Lu Ai, you get some delicious food and feed him. You two, go back to sleep. There are still two days to fight."
Jiahe and Jiaping shuffled back to their room, and the two brothers were unusually depressed.After a while, Jiaping asked Jiahe, "Did you hear Dad's screams just now?"
"What?" Kawa didn't look up at his younger brother.
"It's what Dad said about Uncle Sender and Mom."
"……heard it……"
"Do you believe?"
"And you."
"I was afraid you would believe me!" Jiaping said bluntly.
"Me too." Jiahe turned his head away again.
"It's fine if you don't believe it." Jiaping Lu broke into a sweat, "I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat just now. How could Dad say such a thing? It's really shocking that a person who smokes opium will be so confused. I can't believe it."
Jiahe was already lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling, then sat up suddenly, his eyes were straightened, and his face was terrified.
Jiaping also sat up and asked, "Did you have a nightmare?"
"I dare not look up, I dare not look up, as long as I look up, I will see my aunt hanging from the beam..."
Jiaping looked at the beams of the house. Of course, he couldn't see anything. He patted Jiahe on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you must have been frightened by your father. If you think that if your father can't make it through, then your aunt will too." He noticed that his elder brother was trembling. , slapped him hard a few times, "Look at you, it's nothing, he'll get better soon, Dad will definitely be able to quit opium. I believe it."
"How do you believe it? Who told you?" Jiahe reached out and put his arm around his half-brother's shoulder.
"Here." Jiaping pointed to his own heart, "I told myself, I really believe in my own heart. What I want to be able to achieve in my heart must be achieved."
Jiahe stared at his younger brother as if staring at someone he didn't know.Those things in Jiaping's will that Jiahe didn't have began to play a guiding role even when they were young.
Jiahe didn't sleep anymore, and sat on the head of the bed in a cloaked coat. He was waiting for the dawn, and he was going to Wushanyuan Cave Gate.This is a very deep and very small secret that belongs to him, a deep hope and long-cherished wish in his heart.The heart that had been torn apart that night was put back together again.He longed more than ever to see his birth mother.
From that morning onwards, Hang Jiahe began to refer to his aunt as mother.The sun has risen, shining on the shops and signboards of Qinghefang, sprinkled on more and more people walking around, like sticking out a huge golden tongue, gently licking the wounded heart of last night .It hurts Hang Jiahe's heart and lungs when he thinks of his skinny mother.How did she survive last night, surrounded by such darkness, and her heart is also so dark, in this double darkness, she can't see her fingers, and it is difficult to be a human being inside and outside, how desperate is mother?mom!mom!Hang Jiahe walked towards the gate of Wushanyuan in the morning, self-blame and pity made him sad-he found that he loved his biological mother so deeply, and his indifference to his mother for many years was a deep grievance ——It turned out that he was so eager to be with his mother who was suffering and discriminated against.
On the one hand, Hang Jiahe was in great pain for his late realization of regret, and on the other hand, he was encouraged by the sunshine of the morning, and the figures of the shop assistants behind the door panel who were busy in the beam of dust. He walked past Weng Longsheng. When he was in the tea shop, he saw neatly dressed people walking through the fragrant and refreshing door, and he thought of his own Wangyou Tea House.He couldn't help puffing out his chest, feeling that he had a long way to go, and the mountains and rivers ahead were long and high.
And the cowardly and inextricable woman is more eager than ever to get opium.She is skinny and her family is poor.She had sold everything she could.When she faced Wu Sheng alone, the hungry tiger, the great pain and desire even made her forget her fear.
She was lying on the cigarette bed with disheveled hair, and even lost interest in standing up and getting some food for herself.The husband is under house arrest in Yangbatou.When her son Jiahe rushed to tell her the news, she screamed hysterically in front of Wu Sheng who arrived first, and then slammed into the wall with bare feet.Without her husband by her side, she could get neither money nor cigarettes, and she didn't know how to live.
Jiahe, who was looking for maternal love full of tenderness and attachment, was stunned by such screams. For the first time in his life, he knew that a woman is so ugly when she is crazy.He walked anxiously along the shops lined with gold-lettered signboards in Qinghefang, and the word "Mom" that he kept chanting was suddenly dissipated by the shouts.He only had time to call out to his aunt, and rushed up with Wu Sheng to pull his mother back, pressing her on the bed.
The robust tea shop owner, Wu Sheng, thought in disgust while pressing the small tea tightly, why bother to pay attention to this depraved woman again?She wants to smoke opium, let her smoke it, she wants to sell her property, let her sell it.Didn't she sell the former Qing blue and white bowl and teacup last time?She sucked enough pain contentedly, and then told him that the teacup belonged to Xiaolian. "It's a bitch's thing, you bought it." She was still a little happy, as if she was no longer afraid of him raping her.Maybe she doesn't care anymore?Maybe she had already guessed that he didn't care about her anymore.She even dared to taunt him—"This is a bitch's thing!" He became angry and smashed the bitch's tea cup to the ground, smashing his body to pieces.
"Do you think I don't care about this little thing of yours?" he roared, "I have all your sons in my hands."
Xiaocha looked at the shattered teacup, and the ugly face inside was also shattered. Xiaocha's heart tensed and then loosened. She had been afraid of this teacup for many years. People are smashed.
"The son is in your hands." The woman said lazily, she was sleepy.
"I'll have to put you to sleep sooner or later!" he roared, his face livid with anger.
"Go to sleep," she said, and then she rolled over on her own and fell asleep first.
But those were the words he said in the days when he brought her big cigarettes as scheduled when Hang Tianzui was not around.Today he tried to stop supplying her, and she screamed hysterically, and she tore her face in front of her fifteen-year-old son; I—give me—"
Wu Sheng didn't know whether he controlled her or she controlled him.
Hang Jiahe, who was drinking his mother's cup of tea with Wu Sheng, was exhausted, physically and mentally exhausted.It never occurred to him that if he dealt with his father, he would have to deal with his mother as well.He stared blankly at his mother's skinny face, thinking in his heart whether to tie her up or not...··
The eyes with bouncing eyelids opened, and they were so close to him, so close, not so close as his mother's eyes.Unfamiliar, suspicious, cunning, vicious, overjoyed... Xiaocha suddenly jumped up and grabbed Jiahe by the collar: "Are you my son?"
Jiahe was about to cry, he was suffocated by her pinch, but he still nodded.
Then, he felt himself being grabbed by the shoulders and pushed in front of the rogue boss.He heard his mother say with his own ears: "He is my son, I sold him to you, you give me big cigarettes!"
He heard the hooligan laughing, "You're crazy! Let me kill you."
Then, the hand that was tightly grasping Jiahe's shoulder loosened.Jiahe didn't know how he ran out of the round hole.His whole body was cold, he was sweating profusely, his eyes were staring straight, and he was like a dead fish in the crowd, being bounced from east to west.When he saw the peeling and dilapidated high gate of Wangyoulou Mansion, he stopped with a shudder—he was terrified, terrified!No matter where he walked or from here, all he heard were hysterical and crazy shouts, and he was terrified.
What else does that woman named Xiaocha have now?Even the name "Little Tea" was erased by sin.Every day Wu Sheng would come to Yuandongmen to take a look around.He pinched her chin and said, "You are Hongshaner! Who said you are Xiaocha? You have to go back to me—go back to Hongshaner!"
When he roared viciously like this, he burst into tears with a broken heart, his face was flushed bright red, the corners of his eyes were stained with eye feces, and he beat his chest with his hands, and there were red handprints on his chest.
"Godfather, I'm so sorry! I really shouldn't! Woohoo! Look at her like this! She's dead or alive, hooooh! She's mine! She's mine! She's mine People!" Wu Sheng thought of Cha Qing, and his heart was stabbed.
"Bah!" Red Shirt spat at him numbly and viciously.
"I'll have to put you to sleep sooner or later!" he roared back, his face livid.
Finally one day, when Wu Sheng came again, he was almost flattered to see this woman showing the cautious smile she used to have.She cleaned herself up and applied makeup lightly.She waved her hands softly and slowly, and said, "A Sheng, come here."
Wu Sheng walked over to her side in a daze, and the woman lowered her right hand, hanging her fingers down, and the emerald ring slipped off.
"Here." She put the ring on Wu Sheng's palm.
"This is your husband's stuff, you want to change it to big cigarettes?"
"You go to Yangbatou for me, you give this ring to Tianzui, you call him. He will come to save me, and you tell him, if he doesn't come, I'm going to die..."
Wu Sheng stood up slowly, but his hands were stuck on the woman's neck. He wanted to kill her right now!The woman didn't panic, she opened her eyes in despair, she was thinking of dying.
"What if he doesn't come?" "It's yours, I don't want the ring." "Aren't you afraid that I'll lie to you?" "No." The woman laughed again, "You are good to me, you bastard. "
When Wu Sheng came back, he brought two sedan chairs with him. In the front one was Shen Lv'ai, the main house of the Kang family, and the back one was empty. The two women met at the round gate.
It was quiet inside the round door, the lamps had already been lit, but it was almost as if they were not lit, and there was a dead air in the room.Xiaocha was dressed neatly, and the smoking set was removed, and she quietly sat on the cigarette couch like a zombie.When the two women were relatively speechless, they only heard the maid Wan Luo uttering a voice: "Gee, squirt, filthy, dusty, dusty everywhere, rank... How did you live in this family?" ..."
Shen Lvai kept silent, and took out rice cakes, dried noodles, glutinous rice, bacon, fish, mushrooms, frozen rice cakes, fragrant melon seeds... When Xiaocha saw the frozen rice cakes, she swallowed them several times at once Lu Ai was heartbroken when she saw it, and said:
"Tianzui has been sent to the British Hospital. He has to quit drugs. He has to quit. He can't see you."
"...Got it." Xiaocha thought for a while and said.
"You have to quit too."
"No!"
"Think carefully..."
"In no mood."
"If you don't quit smoking, you won't be able to be a Hang family!"
"I don't want to be a Hang family."
"What did you say?"
"I don't want to be a Hang family."
"I brought up the sedan chair, come back with me. Quit smoking, don't go, I'll go."
"I'm not going back."
"You're crazy!"
"I'm crazy." The conversation between the two women can't go on, you scare Jiahe, right? "The face of the one leaning on the couch turned blue, and after a while, the one standing there said again: "Jiahe relies on you. "
The one who stood there was stunned for a while, then threw the emerald ring over and screamed: "Follow me back!"
Then she rushed over and dragged the scrawny woman up.Luai is tall and strong, and Xiaocha is like a stubborn chicken in her hand.But she seemed to struggle desperately because she already knew that her death was approaching.She screamed, shrunk her body, her waist tightened, her trousers came loose, the clothes on her upper body were dragged by Lu Ai, and then shrunk back up, revealing her belly button, most of her back and buttocks.Her fingernails were long and stuck tightly to the door frame, and her hair was hanging down, like a lunatic.She cried and cried, she was so ugly, Lu Ai was so angry that she gritted her teeth and dragged her forward, and Wan Luo who went with her also shouted: "Madam, don't drag any longer, my aunt's trousers... trousers..."
With a long sigh, Lu Ai let go, and she also collapsed on the threshold, gasping for breath, staring at Xiaocha for a while, stretched out her hand, stroked her hair, and slapped her forehead hard: "You ..., do you still want us to live!"
She burst into tears.
That night was so strange, Wu Sheng put aside the important matter of inviting water guests to dinner according to the rules of the tea shop, let the guys in the shop take care of themselves, and rushed to the gate of Wushanyuan in a hurry.He also goes on weekdays, but he never goes at night.He figured it out and knew that the woman had almost finished smoking opium again.Every time he took out his pocket to pay for something for her, his heart ached with pain, but every time he bought it, it was the same this time.
Candles were lit on the smoke couch, the woman was clean and dressed, wearing a pink single cloth shirt, her eyes lit up when she saw Wu Sheng.Wu Sheng was taken aback, his mouth was half open, pink under the candlelight!His eyes narrowed—the pink was unedged, not furry anymore.
Candlelight summoned him back to nights when nothing had happened, but everything had happened.Wu Sheng became angry from embarrassment, and his usual raging mentality rushed out like a leopard coming out of the mountain.
"You see, look, I just got it, Northeast goods. You sniff it. It's not so easy to want to smoke. What else can you give me? I don't think you have anything to give me. You have nothing to give me. There's only one ring, and that ring is mine now. What else do you have? You only have this house. Pledge the house to me, and that'll be enough for you to smoke for a while. It's a pity that the house is worth it, Jia Where will Qiao live as an adult in the future? Could it be that he also went to a teahouse to be a tea boy at the age of seven or eight like me, eating the boss's double-faced slap for breakfast? No, no, the house must be left to Jiaqiao! Then what else do you have? If you think about it carefully, I, Boss Wu, don't do business at a loss."
Wu Sheng half closed his eyes and shook his head, holding the small piece of cigarette in his hand, half complacent and half threatening.耳边一小阵寨寨审寒的声音，他睁开眼睛——一下子又紧紧闭上——他虚幻了。他再次缓缓睁开夹紧的眼皮，放目光到人世来，他看见烛光下一具青里透白的皮包骨头的裸体，大腿和小腿一样粗细，胸乳如两枚僵硬的冻果，脖子扭转，像一小截千磨万拽的井绳。
吴升心惊肉跳从榻上弹跳而下，刹那间只想夺门而逃，然那僵尸一般的人竟说话了，"来呀，我有我呢！"
你有你？吴升把头别转——你还有你吗？他咬牙切齿地挤出一行字："谁说我不行！"
然后他惊慌失措地想："难道我真的不行了？难道我……"
"谁说我不行！"他吼了起来，饿虎一样扑向女人。他一跃而起时尚不知道自己究竟要干什么！是要强暴她还是拥抱她！结果却两者都不是。他扑倒在榻前时，看到的正是那双皮包骨头的脚，这双脚看了令人心碎。吴升双手抱住了女人的脚，一声不吭地流下了眼泪，咸水竟把女人的脚背打湿了。
现在他知道他已经对她无事可干了。他已经把她打得粉碎了，永远也不会再有那粉红色毛边的烛光下的女人了，他把她彻底给毁灭了。可是他毫无欣慰，他只觉得他自己的一部分，也被彻底毁灭了。他觉得他们两人同病相怜，天生的一对，相依为命，不是他毁灭了她，而是他们毁灭了他和她！时光不再，他再也没有机会向她证明他的力量了！谁说我不行的意思直到此刻，才被吴升破译了出来——可是破译得太晚了！应该被用来作证明的力量，却在那无穷无尽的生命折磨中消耗殆尽了！
我们再也无法知道这场漫长奇特扭曲的男女关系的尾声了。沉积着的过于复杂的历史再也提炼不出简洁明朗的生活。当杭氏家族的人们与吴升本人同时撞开吴山圆洞门时，当他们看见挂在梁上的女人又轻又小，挂在半空，如同一片轻烟时，双方彼此射出了无比仇恨积怨甚久的目光。尸体下有一张遗书，原来是一张房契，吴山圆洞门的房主是写在这女人名下的。她说，房子托吴升代管，待嘉乔成年后还给嘉乔。她对所生的其他两个孩子中只提到了嘉草，那只她生前送来送去送不到位的祖母绿戒指，送给女儿。
对她的大儿子杭嘉和，这杭氏家族的长子继承人她只字未提。同样未提的是与她共同生活了十几年的丈夫——依旧还在医院里治疗的杭逸杭天醉，这个一生都无性格的女人在最后所表现出的巨大反叛巨大骚扰，犹如悬案与世仇，绵延至子孙后代，也再一次惹起杭、吴二家的新一轮仇恨。
被埋葬在鸡笼山茶园杭家墓地上的杭天醉之妾，坟墓位置在右下方，单穴。住在那里的村民，惊奇地发现这个女人被同时祭奠了两次。上午人多一些，由一个女人主持。下午却只有两个，一个中年男人和一个十岁左右的男孩。
杭天醉浑然不觉地在医院里度过了艰难而又平易的戒毒生涯。知道小茶的死讯，并没有使杭天醉疯狂昏厥。在忘忧楼府的书房里，他静静地呆了三天三夜。没有人去打搅他，他也不去打搅别人。三天以后，才由绿爱陪同去了鸡笼山。他在小茶的坟前站了一会儿，突然问："怎么没有种上茶树？"
绿爱说："等着你来呢。"
两个人便从茶园中移一株新茶，种在坟前。天醉指着旁边一株问行不行，绿爱摇摇手，跑到正中央挖了一株。把茶苗往坟前埋时，杭天醉蹲着捧上，突然心痛如绞，啊呀一声，捧着心口，头上豆大汗珠就出来了。绿爱连忙问他要不要紧。他摇摇头，一会儿，好了。绿爱说："你不要恨我没告诉你，我是怕你受不了。"
"我没有恨你。"
"我晓得你恨我。我去接过她了……我拖不动……"绿爱哭了。
"还是死了好。"杭天醉说，他的口气冰凉彻骨，冷漠无情。
绿爱转过头来，看了他丈夫一眼，她吓得一跳，离开她丈夫好远。这个男人完全变了，连他的容貌也变了，和躺在地下的茶清伯如此相像。特别是他的眼神——那种什么都明白、什么都不说的眼神。从什么时候开始，他变成了另一个男人了呢？
小茶之死，拉开了忘忧茶庄杭氏家族的告别之幕，从此以后，生离死别的一幕幕场景，便被连绵不断地搬上了杭家五进大院的人生舞台，乱纷纷你方唱罢我登场，忘忧茶庄便成了一杯天地间的无尽苦茶。
先是赵寄客接到了北京大学来信，邀他去北大执教。他很快就答应了，行前数日又秘而不发，突一日前来忘忧楼府，要接了杭天醉去湖上走走。杭天醉凝神半晌，长叹一口气："又要走了！"
赵寄客淡淡一笑："此时不走，更待何时？"
杭天醉便晓得赵寄容乃有所指，说："那是我犯烟痛时胡说的，何必当真！"
赵寄客正襟危坐，许久方说："天醉性情中人，何必作假！"
这一次，他们和童年出游一样，去的又是南山。雷峰塔，夕照山，捧出了一番黄昏中的西湖。雷峰塔可真是又老又皱，身形斜歪，一脸惟淬，却依旧凌空突兀。塔顶生老树，残缺中它那特殊的风姿又挺住了四百年。暮色苍茫，枯藤老树昏鸦，颓塔败墙，然斜阳夕照，依旧十分风光。
两个弟兄在塔下盘桓，却见数名白发老姐正在挖那塔基角。赵寄客笑曰："雷峰塔也是倒霉，说是镇了白娘子，大家就都咒它，又挖了它的砖去逢凶化吉，岂不又成宝贝，雷峰塔也是左右为难了。"
"何时你也有了这种雅兴来指点湖山？"杭天醉冲了他一句。
"你也不用牢骚满腹，我这次北上，你若有心，与我同去算了。"
黄昏里杭天醉的目光亮了一下，又淡了。半晌，才说："我是没劲了，两个儿子中你挑一个去吧。你挑谁生的我都没想头。"
"你这不是为难我吗？"
"你若说不出这句话，不妨我替你说了，你实在想带了她去，我也不拦。我已经想透想空了，你又何必遮遮掩掩……"
他的脸上立刻结结实实挨了一记大耳光！倒把他打愣了，打笑了，说："这倒像是因果报应！她打了你的！你便打了我的！哪一日我再打了她的，我们就算是一个轮回了。"
赵寄客一只拳头握得紧紧的，咬牙切齿说："你当我赵寄客不是血肉之躯，没有胆量！赵寄客什么事情不敢做得？难为是你的……
"他气得说不出话来，一口气就跑到塔下湖边，扎进西湖，用他那一只独臂在水里扑打起来。
他水淋淋地从湖里上岸时，暮色四起，只见天醉正坐在柳下等他。手里还捧着那只曼生壶，见了寄客，举了举壶，说："内清明，外直方，吾与尔偕藏。"
"滚！"他吼道。
杭天醉道："我想来想去，还是嘉平跟了你去，把嘉和给我留下吧。忘忧茶庄，日后靠的还是他，我是决计不管了。"
赵寄客理都不理他，管自己穿衣服，要走。被杭天醉拦住了，说："就让嘉平去了吧。"
嘉平跟着赵寄客北上那一日，全体去了火车站送。嘉平高兴得什么都忘了，只记得那北京二字。嘉和微笑着，心里凄凉委屈，满腹愁肠。赵寄客拍着嘉和肩膀说："你这孩子温文尔雅，心地善良，委曲求全，为人重信义，守诺言，是块当先生的好料子。只是忘忧茶庄将来怕是要你多担一点。嘉平跟着我这样一个江河湖海的人，将来又不知浪迹何处呢！"
嘉和迷茫地看着赵寄客，看着他说话时瘫痪洒洒的神情。连那一只空荡荡的袖子都晃荡着，一副拿得起放得下的扬长而去的架势。他不由得再看看绿爱妈妈，她依旧那么冷漠高傲，她说话时热烈如火，不说话时却又那么冰冷似铁。她身上不见一丝的离别的隐情，嘉和无法想象赤木山之夜了，他几乎怀疑自己是做了一个春梦。
突然，拿着《申报》的嘉平叫了起来："获奖了！中国获奖了！获金奖了！"
大家乱纷纷地都凑到报纸上看，从旧金山传来的消息告知，巴拿马万国博览会上，中国有七个茶品获得了金银奖，其中惠明茶果然获得金奖！
这巨大的喜悦，把暗淡微妙的生活，一下子冲出了彩虹。别离之际的汽笛奏鸣着，听上去，也不再那么凄婉。这个世界不再是那么一成不变，随时都会有什么出其不意的新事件涌来——然而，除了静候等待，留下来的人们，还能干什么呢……