Chapter 10 Chongqing Personality Baisha Wharf 10

Brother Eight started his business career with the money he got from betting on stones.Gradually, he has become a well-known big boss. Now Brother Eight is making household appliances.He has three shops, one of which is in the busiest area of ​​Jiefangbei.And it was only a hundred meters away from the opera house where he was the former chief. Every day he could see his old colleagues passing by the store.There are bands, actor teams, stage teams, and of course office and meal groups.He saw almost all of his former colleagues. At first, he really hoped that they would come to buy his electrical appliances, let’s buy a refrigerator, a color TV, and an air conditioner——I’ll definitely give you really good ones (I know the secret of this), and they won’t make any money. Your money - I only recoup the cost.

But no, not one.They didn't even come into the shop at all, they exchanged pleasantries with him at the door, and then fled. After repeating this three times, he understood that they had no money. However, he was wrong.That day he finally saw Lao Deng passing by, so he stopped him.Without Lao Deng, there would be no Monk Jia from Yuantong Temple in Kunming, and Pianpian Town and Stone Gambling King in the frontier—and there would be no his Eighth Senior Brother today.Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China.Do not forget the person who opened the well when drinking water.He resolutely dragged Lao Deng into a seafood restaurant.

When going up the stairs, Lao Deng muttered that he didn't eat much seafood.Brother Eight thought he might be being polite.Seafood is more expensive.When ordering, he said a pound of boiled prawns, Lao Deng was surprised and said what to do with so many prawns, it was so hard to peel them. Brother Eight knew that he had underestimated others.Eating shrimp and crab has just become fashionable, and the concept of male shrimp and female crab has just become popular, and people are already impatient with eating. When asked what kind of wine to drink, the answer is to drink some beer, unless it is absolutely necessary, it will not be white.The eighth senior brother also understood that Lao Deng was not idle.The whole thing is to drink white wine. Sometimes I have to fight for alcohol and trade my body for my needs, that's it.

Sure enough, Lao Deng already had a business network between Kunming and Chongqing. But he is still the principal cello of the opera orchestra. Do you usually practice the piano?Brother Eight asked. What are you practicing?It's just that I don't have the mood when I have time. The band still has to rehearse symbolically twice a week. For traditional classical music, everyone has a baton. Those who can enter such a large opera house are not stupid. Although the salary is not much money, and the eight immortals cross the sea, each showing their magical powers, there is no one who really can't afford to eat.

Brother Eight asked about this and that, and Lao Deng told them one by one: those who were in the musical instrument business, those who were in the dance supplies business, those who sold insurance part-time, those who divorced and remarried, those who went to be mistresses, those who held training courses, those who were in the hotel There are buskers in nightclubs—some have been arrested for drug trafficking, and some have not been arrested for drug trafficking—but as long as they are notified of rehearsals or performances, they still come. Brother Eight nodded, saying that this is normal, but the art is over.

Lao Deng said, "Oh, it's over. It's over. To be honest, there is really nothing in this world that must be kept."Art, it sounds very elegant, but in fact it's just that those few people you like are surprised, and most people ignore you. But people in the past paid more attention to art, and the eighth senior brother was a little reconciled.Although he knew he was no longer interested.It is basically impossible for those who are on the road to business to return to art.The mentality can't go back. In the past, there was not much entertainment, but now there are so many types of entertainment, and it is easy and effortless, why should people bother to listen to things that you can't even understand!Why?Old Deng excitedly patted the table, as if he was a representative of the people.

Brother Eight couldn't help laughing.He asked, "You are Kebanluo, a top student at the Central Conservatory of Music. If you say you lose it, you lose it. Do you feel any sense of loss?" Yes, of course there are, and it will come for a while from time to time, but it doesn't matter after a while.People like us, who can't get up and down, can't become top-level masters, and can't be accepted by the people, so what's the point of just raising your bow all day long? You think more than I do, Lao Deng, I'm still the first violinist, I lose it as soon as I say it, and I don't have the ball to think about it.You have thought it through!

No, no, no, Lao Deng kept shaking his head, this is not considered clear.Let me tell you what I really thought through. what is it Art has reached the stage it is today, and we can't blame the people. It is entirely caused by us who engage in art. Yep?I would like to hear about it. How did art come about?It's from entertainment.A long, long time ago, in a group of people, there was someone who could play tricks that others didn’t know, such as whistling, using a stick to beat out rhythms on a basin, and making people, horses and horses out of mud. interesting.Entertainment happens.This stage, we can call it the fun stage.

People who will find fun for everyone will naturally be treated well by everyone.For example, when digging, everyone said hey Zhang San, stop digging, come and whistle for us.Of course Zhang San would rather whistle than dig.This second stage we may call the stage of kindness. Kindness should be very important, kindness is benefit, right?In this way, some people will deliberately practice certain entertainment skills in order to be treated well.Let's call this stage the practice. At the stage of practice, art is formed. I am talking about man-made art, which should be the result of human behavior.Then these people who take the initiative to practice are what we call artists later.

There is bound to be competition between artists - this is human nature, there is no way around it.This is what makes a human being, and he must compare.This stage is called competition. The tragedy of art begins at the competition stage.What is a competition?It's endless, it's getting more and more intense, and it's getting more and more mysterious -- well, it's becoming more and more incomprehensible.To be honest, you play the violin, those things of the master Paganini, are they really good? Eighth brother interjected at this time: more admirable than comfortable. By the way, in the end of the competition, it became a show off of skills, which made the experts admire.You can't understand it, let alone ordinary people?Why should the public go to great lengths to understand you.At this point, art has entered the mysterious stage.

Brother Eight interjected again: Artists have also entered the stage of being ignored. So, just look at the path that great art has traveled: 1. Entertain people; 2. Be treated well; 3. Take the initiative to practice; 4. Compete and compete; .Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The eighth senior brother drank silently.He thought of the distant golden flower.Thinking of what she said under the huge banyan tree, those fast ones are not pleasant, what would you do with them?Are you running a human race?He told Lao Deng what Jin Hua had said. Lao Deng lowered his head, then nodded again, then laughed and said, this is freedom and justice.Why do you declare something elegant and let the public buy something that only a few of you know?What is it if this is not coaxing? The eighth senior brother nodded silently.He was thinking about the Straqin that was still in Yunnan.When I came back with a large bag of money, I was dizzy and didn’t even think about it. After I settled down and started my business, I missed it very much. I was afraid that it would be lost or damaged. Good-------Later, the business was done in high spirits, and suddenly I felt that it was ridiculous for a person to play the violin for a living!Imagine yourself in this life, I'm afraid I won't fuck that thing again, right?There is nothing strange about that world-class famous piano-whoever takes it can take it! But at this moment, after demonstrating the uselessness of art, I can’t explain why, but I miss it————The panel’s antique style, the tiger pattern on its back panel looks like a South China tiger, and the piano head’s The artificial carving is really indescribable----he sighed heavily. The two chiefs were relatively speechless.After a while, Lao Deng raised his cup and said, let's do it, let's go. The two left the restaurant and parted ways to blend into the thicker and thicker flow of people on the street. On May Day this year, Brother Eight made his last stay in his electrical store in Jiefangbei.His business is getting bigger and bigger, and he no longer bothers to make electrical appliances.He's going to do real estate.This big shop located in the busiest city center is going to be offered to someone else.When someone came to see him, he talked with them. In the afternoon, it began to rain suddenly.It was raining heavily, and it looked like it might be over today.In this case, no one will usually come to buy electrical appliances.Brother Eight thought to himself to close the door.Just as he was about to command the staff, a person suddenly came in, faced him directly, and called Eighth Senior Brother clearly. Eighth Senior Brother was stunned for a moment.Although he was used to being an electrical appliance boss, the ears of the former chief were still the most sensitive organs in his body.He recognized the Yunnan accent, and it was the taste of the western border of Yunnan - he realized: this is the people from Pianpian Town. The visitor was in his forties, white and clean, not as dark as the average Yunnanese, with a suit and leather shoes, and still had a bit of a female look that couldn't be removed-this made the Eighth Senior Brother recall layer after layer of memories: I was in my heart He called him a yin and yang person; he let himself experience the barnyard wine called "Zhajiu" which he drank through a bamboo tube; he gave himself two small tubes of perspiration medicine: white fast and short-acting and yellow slow and long-acting- -----He stepped forward quickly, held the other party's hand affectionately, and said that an old friend is here, please sit down. He invited his old friend into the manager's room and sat down with the host and guest. It turned out that the old friend often went north to Chengdu, Xi'an, Taiyuan and other places, and usually did not go to Chongqing. This time, the aunt asked him to take the violin that the eighth brother left with her, so he made a detour and came to Chongqing. Where is the piano?Brother Eight asked.He was a little strange: he came all the way to deliver the piano, but he came empty-handed. "I put the violin in the hotel first, and I'll talk about it when I see you first. Besides, I don't know if it's okay to just bring the violin here for you." He explained. Brother Eight laughed.He thought that according to their feelings, a big boss who likes to play musical instruments is a bit cheap.Thank you for your kindness, he said.But he was still a little strange, always feeling that there was something inside. He called Brother Seven and asked him to accompany him. He also called two young female employees who could drink and joke, and invited his old friend to the luxurious revolving restaurant. Seventh Brother Pegasus arrived.After the eighth senior brother came back, he always found it interesting to hear him talk about the frontier affairs from time to time.Now that he was about to see the people in that area, as a scholar, he couldn't help being a little excited. An old friend said that the stone-cutting king was the old man who made the violin box for the eighth brother, and he finally made a bet the year before last.In short, he is the virtue that can't be changed no matter what: buy a stone and want to cut it to see what's going on.If he doesn't cut the open money, he can obviously gamble up the price, but he doesn't, he wants to cut it.What he wants is no longer money, what he wants is the truth. The year before last, he had a lucky turn of events. He bought a piece of lime peel from Ma Nachangkou for 6,000 yuan. When he cut it open, it turned out to be 80% green. The 6,000 yuan became 880,000 yuan.After that, it got out of hand, cut a piece and rose a piece.. People who gamble with stones have some unclear creeds.Some people see that his own bet starts to go well, and they expect him to be solved by others, so many people dare not ask him to make up his mind.But as long as you dare to ask him, he also dares to make up your mind for you.The result is the same as before, basically one piece of solution and one piece of increase. The car is back, the house is back, and all the wives are back. In the past few years, he was down and out, some sympathized with him, some looked down on him, some predicted that he would never recover, and of course there were those who never disliked him and always helped him -------- all of them are sincere congratulate him.His house is often full of guests. Not long ago, he gambled again on an old Pagan water stone, thick bean bottom, bought it for 300,000 yuan, cut it up immediately, and sold it for 6.5 million yuan. Everyone went to congratulate again.He served wine to guests.During the dinner, he said solemnly in Wei Xun: "For such a smooth bet, God wants me to go."Everyone was waiting to speak, but he shook his head and said with a smile, what are people, we are all God's pawns, and we are all God's will when we swing around, don't think that you are really capable.Everyone was speechless. The next day, he recruited four wives to his side, and distributed all the property one by one. A few days later, he suddenly called back his children and grandchildren who were away.Those who were able to come back came back, he said, I will die within three days, so don't go far away. No one believed his words, and they all quarreled with him.He just laughed and didn't make any distinctions.But the family did not dare to go far. On the third day, at lunch, he drank a small cup of wine and ate a small bowl of rice as usual.Then, as usual, I went back to my room for an afternoon nap. The difference is that I didn't get up when it was time to get up.It's time for dinner and I didn't get up.Only then did the family find out that he was dead.He fell asleep like this. The number of people who came to his funeral was enormous--some flew in from other corners of the earth. But there is a kind of people who dare not come.It means that after the bet is raised by a stone, you wash your hands in the golden basin, rely on the stone to cut a piece of noodles to sell some money, and cut another piece of noodles to sell some money, so as to support the rest of your life and your children and grandchildren.The stone gambling world looks down on this kind of person. The funeral attendants all admired the King of Stone Cutting for not looking at money, but looking at the truth.No matter how poor you are, as long as you buy a stone, you will never dress it up and use it to gamble for money, but you must cut it open to see what happened. Among the mourners, a person who came back from Brazil said that the stone-cutter king didn't just want to see the truth of the stone, but what he wanted to see was the truth of life, the truth of God. The old friend talked about these things in Pianxiang Town while drinking.Those who speak are plain, but those who listen are interested. Scholar Seventh Brother smiled, and gently said to Eighth Senior Brother that the way of life is really different from person to person. In comparison, the life of those of us in the busy city is really boring. Coming out of the restaurant, the two followed their old friend to pick up the violin.Opening the piano case, the world-class piano lay quietly, intact, as if it was still playing yesterday. The eighth brother casually opened the compartment at the end of the piano case for small things such as strings and rosin, and saw a small bottle at a glance—it was Jin Hua's "Furazine" bottle.His heart beat violently a few times.He picked it up and saw that there was only half of the powder inside.He gets it. He asked his old friend, are Jin Hua and Da Ma still in good health? An old friend said that they all moved out of the town, and I haven't seen them for some days. When I moved, I gave these to me and asked me to bring them to you at a convenient time.Brother Eight nodded and said nothing more. The two bid farewell to their old friends and returned to the eighth brother's residence.The eighth senior brother has not spoken.Senior Seventh Brother had heard about Jin Hua long ago, and he understood that Jin Hua's illness had reached a certain stage, so she killed herself.Give the other half of the medicine to Brother Eight. If he also contracts this disease, he will do as he pleases. hero.Scholar Seventh Brother said. Brother Eight said, I finally understood why my old friend didn't give me the violin as soon as he came. That's right, Seventh Brother said, then how can you still be in the mood to eat this meal. These people are very smart, the Eighth Senior Brother nonchalantly said, they are smarter than us.After a while, he took the small bottle in his hand again, looked around for a long time, and suddenly said, "She is my wife, and we are married." She is a very happy person, scholars say, a truly free person, she lives as she wants, and dies as she wants. She lived so beautifully----so she will always be beautiful.We can't.Because we are greedy for life, we are old, ugly, and embarrassing----Eighth Senior Brother muttered to himself.He took out a bottle of Remy Martin from the wine cabinet, filled two goblets, and said, philosopher, let us drink to her, to my wife who has gone away! "I write philosophy papers all day. When I was a student, I felt mysterious and noble. Now, the more I write, the more boring I feel. Because these things are correct, but useless. Yes, I have been doing correct and useless things." "Doing the right but useless thing is not right. But if you want to live, you have to do it. Otherwise, why do you ask the country for money? Haha!" "Yes, yes, many of the things we do are just an excuse to receive a salary----living like this is really meaningless!" "Forget it, people like you can only live peacefully like this." "That's right. I don't have as much psychic power as you. I can only live this little parasitic life." "Small? When you become the dean of the Academy of Social Sciences, or even the minister of some department——" "It's impossible for me. I don't even have the mental strength to climb up. I'm tired just thinking about it! Really, let alone actually climbing, I'm tired just thinking about it!" "It's really worthless, haha, you can only be a scholar, your soul is very fragile---ah, you are really incomparable to someone like Jin Hua!" "Don't talk about her, there is no comparison with you! You have made money, which is good, but your contribution is beyond the reach of ordinary people." "Everything is fair. Looking at it from a macro perspective, everything is actually fair----I don't hate the princess at all now." "Why did you suddenly talk about your old lover?" "Correct me, she has never been my lover. If there is no such thing, how can she be called a lover? We can only be called lovers. We are very good friends now. I also told her about Jinhua's situation. I Show her the pill bottle." "It's been so many years, I can ask you the truth. Really?" "No really. At that time, I was looking forward to a full wedding night. That's it." "So now that I think about it, don't you regret it?" "Then of course. If I knew it was like this fucking - in fact, there have always been many opportunities, it's a pity that I am still struggling to restrain myself, haha!" "-------People have changed. People's changes still come from encounters!"