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Chapter 14 Lao Zhang's Philosophy (14)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 3393Words 2018-03-20
On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lao Zhang slept until noon before waking up.Because of the boxing ceremony yesterday, the settlement of the shop's accounts, and the collection of the debts owed to the households, it was not until the fourth o'clock that I tightened my belt and fell asleep with all my clothes on.The bright moon in the style of foreign money reflects the golden buildings and jade buildings in the sky, copper caves and silver mountains, and there is another fairy world in Lao Zhang's dream.Ordinary people "toast to invite the moon", "sing to the wine",...Compared with Lao Zhang's dream, what ordinary people enjoy is material things, while what Lao Zhang enjoys is spirit, what a world of judgment!

Due to the severe warning from his stomach, Lao Zhang couldn't sleep anymore, although he tried to close his eyes several times.He got up and rubbed his eyes, trying to settle Lao Belly's rebellion. "Why do you eat good food during the season?" He thought: "There is no reason! Why do you need to eat? Why don't you eat grass and drink water like cows and horses? There is no reason!" Fortunately, Lao Zhang didn't think too much about it, otherwise, when he created "Theory of Degeneration", wouldn't people degenerate into oxen and horses grazing grass.

"Yes! Go find Sun Ba! As soon as he praises his food, he will tell us to taste some. Once we taste some, we will try some more. Why don't we just perfunctory my old belly! Yes!..." Lao Zhang raised his shoulders, took a mouthful of cold water, rinsed his mouth, and walked past Sun Ba's house. "Has Master Eight gotten up?" "Joke, what time is it, I still don't get up, Mr. Zhang, work hard, come in and sit down!" "I just got up." "What, did you drink too much?" "Then you have time to drink? When you pay the bill, you will be overwhelmed when you collect the debt! There is no way, who told us that we are the spirits of all things controlled by money!"

"Mr. Zhang, I have real lotus white from a friend. Let's have a drink." "No! I have to treat you today!" Old Zhang said boldly. "Ready-made food and drink, no trouble!" After Sun Ba finished speaking, Lao Zhang rolled his eyes and smiled, and said in his heart: "I never thought that Lao Sun's food is so easy to hope for!" After the dinner and dinner were set up, Lao Zhang looked very affectionate, like a camel in the desert storing water, planning to eat for the next week.Sun Ba said that the more the guests eat, the more he likes it.Unfortunately, the guest's stomach was like an autumn melon cracked and died. Sun Ba Neng was very happy to buy a coffin for the guest.

"Baye! Our meeting date is the day after tomorrow?" Lao Zhang said while eating, and was busy picking up the meat scraps from his mouth on the table. "Probably." "Who do you think should be the president?" "Isn't that all based on everyone's election?" Sun Baye was influenced by the self-government circles in the past two or three months, and sometimes he used new words and sentences very appropriately. "Who said that? We run the self-government association, we appoint members, and whoever we ask to be the president can be the president!" As he said, Lao Zhang picked up another piece of fat and put it in his mouth. "But it is! It is! Who do you think should be the president?"

"Wait a minute, do you have any wine left? I still owe a cup. After drinking, please ask my sister-in-law to make three bowls of hot rice for us. Let's eat it all at once, and then talk about the affairs of the meeting." ,OK?" "Okay!" Sun Ba went to the kitchen and instructed to cook the rice. After eating three bowls of hot rice, Lao Zhang added three steamed buns and a few pieces of Mid-Autumn moon cakes before he touched his stomach and said something he had to say: "I'm full!" He picked it up, and stood up accordingly, walking slowly in the house.

The base of the tongue can't hold down the esophagus, and the contents of the stomach push up in bursts. "Baye! Do you have Rendan? Give me some pills! It's a new habit, you have to eat Rendan after meals!" Lao Zhang smiled with his mouth closed to prevent the overflow of his esophagus. Sun Ba gave Lao Zhang a few pills of benevolence, Lao Zhang ate them, and tried to sit on the chair again. "Little Four! Little Four!" Sun Ba shouted. "Here we come! What are you calling me for? You are having a good time!" "Go and tell your mother to make tea!"

Xiao Si took a look at Lao Zhang, and whispered into his father's ear: "Teacher doesn't drink tea, he is afraid of hurting his stomach." Sun Ba smiled.Xiao Si looked back at Lao Zhang, afraid that Lao Zhang would see his secret, and hurriedly said to Lao Zhang: "Teacher, I didn't tell my father that you don't drink tea!" "Good boy, I missed it! I don't drink bad tea? How fragrant is your father's tea, how can I not drink it, hurry up, good boy!" Sun Ba was satisfied, and Xiao Si hopped shyly to the kitchen. "Baye! According to my opinion, Uncle Juling, our old man, should be the president." "My uncle really doesn't have the heart to do this, and besides, people in the club don't like old people."

"Listen, Ba Ye, I have a reason: who are the important people in the meeting now? Naturally, it is Nan Feisheng, Nagarshugu, and you and me. We all have similar reputations and talents. If we compete Get up and break up the meeting. It doesn't matter if the meeting breaks up. The important thing is that if the government immediately implements self-government, we will have no meeting to rely on. Isn't it too late for the big girl to get on the sedan chair and pierc her ears and eyes? So now we come To avoid competition among us, and secondly, to leave the president in our hands without competition, this is the reason why I advocate Uncle Ju Ling, our old man." "What is the reason?" Sun Ba ask.

"My eighth master! It's not obvious yet! You see, you are a local gentleman, and Uncle Ling is an old gentleman. Status, property, fame, from where you can see that the president must also fall into the Sun family. If someone carries him away , not only the shame of your Sun family, but also the shame of our Deshengxun. However, you, a gentleman, can’t overwhelm the old gentleman of our old people. You can object to the sports president, Nanfei students, and we will carry our old people out , they have nothing to say. The old man is naturally unwilling to do things, so, just right, let the old man be famous, and you and I will manage everything in secret. You understand, I didn’t mean to play us old man. In a word, we can’t be called Outsiders took the president away!"

"Yes! That's right! The more you say, the more correct you are!" Sun Bali stood up and shouted out of the window: "Little San's mother! Change the tea and make tea!" "Naturally, you and Li Shandong are not willing to give up the old man," Lao Zhang continued, "Longshu Gu, I will go and tell him that he dare not disobey us. The remaining Nan Feisheng is so helpless that he can't help but stare blankly. As for the staff, give Lao Long the chief of the investigation department, Nan Feisheng the secretary, and mine, because your uncle is the chairman, and your nephew is the accountant. You come to socialize. I manage the money, and you go to socialize. , the result in the future will be whoever communicates the most and who will take advantage." "Exactly! Where's Li Shandong?" "He——, his general affairs! The shopkeeper's general affairs are called 'get what you want'!" "But, if we think this way, can the members follow suit?" "Baye! You are too honest! Honest people are really not suitable for doing civilized affairs! Didn't you and I invite the members to join us? You use the money to buy snacks for them, can they disobey your orders?" "Okay! Let's do this! Mr. Zhang, tell them how hard you have worked." "Of course! Paying for the car is nothing!" Lao Zhang patted his stomach: firstly, to shake his stomach, and secondly, to express his generosity and enthusiasm. "It's my business to pay for the car, and being the chairman of my uncle, asking you to pay for it, there is no such reason in the world!" "Small things! I don't care at all!" Lao Zhang raised his stomach and stood up. "Wait, it's still early, I'll get you the car money!" "No!" Lao Zhang walked out shaking his head and waving his hands. Sun Ba stopped Lao Zhang with one hand, and took out two yuan from his pocket with the other.Lao Zhang didn't take the money, he just listened to Sun Ba put the money in his pocket.With a bang, the two yuan seemed to sink deep in his pocket, and he couldn't help saying: "Is there a way to do this?" Then he sat down with his stomach in his hands. The two talked again about the Autonomous Council.Sun Ba planned that if his uncle became the president, he would buy a house in the city so that he could socialize widely.Lao Zhang succeeded in self-government, handed over the school to others, lived on interest money, and devoted himself to politics.The two people unconsciously danced with joy and praised each other. "To be honest, Ba Ye, there is nothing good about doing business. You can only get a little bad money from business. Chapter 23.) Being an official brings fame and fortune! For example, if a businessman has money and wants to marry a concubine, some people may look down on him. But once a person becomes an official, no one will look down on him if he does not marry a concubine. But it's much worse!" "Exactly! Exactly!" "Looking for something to talk about, Eighth Master! Do you want to have a concubine or not?" Lao Zhang's main purpose was to go around the Hetao and arrive at Bohaikou. "I don't want to have a concubine, really!" Sun Ba said sincerely. "Eighth Master! Eighth Master! You have to think about your status! Now you are a gentleman, and once you succeed in self-government, you will be an adult. How many adults do not marry concubines? Let me ask you! Military officers do not marry concubines until they become battalion commanders. Xiao, can his superiors communicate with him? Can he be promoted by a civil servant until the governor does not marry him? Ba Ye! You are going to go to the political world, and you don’t follow the crowd, okay? Some wrote blood books without biting their middle fingers. "Your eighth sister-in-law gave birth to a son and adopted a daughter for me, and I want to marry another one, am I sorry for her?" "Marrying a concubine is not against my sister-in-law!" Lao Zhang moved the chair closer to Sun Ba, and said in a low voice and eagerly, "If you want to enter the political world, if the rich people in the political world come to the house to have a look , Dressed up like Mrs. Eight, can you get it out? You really want to show Mrs. Ba, and it’s no wonder you don’t laugh her front teeth off! The truth is, I don’t have any ill-will with Mrs. Ba, you hear me clearly! Besides, now It’s the time when women are cheap, you want to keep old, restore, have big feet, bind feet, choose at will, the price is not expensive, we are more than forty people, we don’t enjoy such a little blessing, when we are old and eighty Let’s talk about it? And marrying a concubine is the most important thing to go to the political world, so happy to kill two birds with one stone! In terms of property, you are the god of wealth, I am the land, and I still want to taste the taste of a concubine. Besides, you are a big gentleman, Future adults! Eighth Lord! Think carefully, what I say is not to be listened to, just put your fist on Lao Zhang's mouth!" "How dare you! How dare you! Everything you say makes sense!" "It was justified! Why didn't I persuade you to go whoring? In fact, whoring is also a human thing. Because it is dangerous! Buying a girl by yourself is smooth, clean, and valued by others. There are only benefits and no harm. Eight Lord, think about it! Do you mean it? I, Lao Zhang, don’t want to spend any money, so I’ll find you a caring person!” Sun Ba didn't answer. "Think about it yourself, I have to go to the city!" Old Zhang stood up, thanked Sun Ba for the meal, and went out, and Sun Ba sent him out of the gate. Xiao San and Xiao Si are playing under the tree outside the door, seeing Lao Zhang coming out, Xiao Si asks: "Are you going to leave school tomorrow, teacher?" "Isn't it enough to let it go for three days?" Lao Zhang said with a smile.It's like a kind and kind teacher. "Good teacher! Eat our food, don't let our school go, wait until I tell my mother, I will never cook for you in the future!" "Your father feeds me." "My father? Tell my mother to spank his ass!" "Nonsense! Xiao Si!" Sun Ba lightly slapped Xiao Si. "Your mother is overbearing!" Lao Zhang glanced at Sun Ba. "Not overbearing, like Mrs. Zhang? Dare to be kind!" Xiao Si will never be afraid of Lao Zhang. "Little Si! Come quickly! Look at how many legs this big spider has! Yo..." "Really, Xiao San?..." Xiao Si ran to the base of the wall. Lao Zhang took the opportunity to escape!
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