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Chapter 33 Lao Zhang's Philosophy (33)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 2125Words 2018-03-20
"Miss Feng! Miss Feng!" Zhao Si lowered his head, looked at his feet, stuck his hands straight to his side, called Miss Feng, and moved his elbow outward. "Fourth brother, what's the matter?" Longfeng asked. "Miss Feng! Miss Feng!" "Please tell me." Longfeng smiled. "I say, but tell the truth!" "What do you listen to if you don't listen to the truth?" "To tell the truth, sometimes it really takes a beating!" "I can't beat you?" "Then, I'm going to talk!" Zhao Si swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said to himself: "Damn, the girl is speechless!"

He thought Longfeng couldn't hear, but she was actually pretending to be deaf on purpose. "Fourth brother, let's sit down in the house and talk about it?" Longfeng was about to walk into the house. "No! No! Those who pull rickshaws speak more smoothly while running than walking, and speak more vigorously standing up than sitting! Girl, if you are willing to listen, you should stand here and talk, otherwise I won't understand!" "Okay! Fourth brother, please tell me!" She smiled again. It was only the Lantern Festival at this time, and the north wind was no longer as bitingly cold as in winter.The faint sunlight shone on the north window, so she put two pots of perfectly bloomed daffodils on the window sill to absorb some sunlight.While she couldn't stop smelling the scent of the narcissus, she listened to Zhao Si's words.

"Girl, do you know Lao Zhang outside the city?" Zhao Si took her to smell the daffodils, glanced at her, and quickly turned his eyes back to his feet. "I know him, how is he?" "He, didn't he want to buy you to be the Dangdang that girls should be?" "Fourth brother! What is Dangdang?" "The policeman called me Dangdang. I don't understand what it means, so I use him to say all bad things. Girl, you are smart, you probably understand what I mean!" "Ah——I understand!" Longfeng stared blankly. With daffodils, the petals blown by the wind trembled one by one, emitting a fragrance.

"If you understand and don't want to find a solution, then why do you understand what he is doing?" "Fourth brother! Do you have a solution?" "Yes, but it's hard to say. You women don't allow men to speak frankly!" "Take me as a man, or as if I'm not here, just say whatever you want!" "Okay! Listen!" Zhao Si moved his hands, gesticulating and said, "It's such a thing, Sun Ba wants to buy you to do it!" Little daughter-in-law, Lao Zhang played tricks on it!" Zhao Si stopped and coughed twice. "Fourth brother, tell me! I don't blame you!" Longfeng said eagerly.

"It's all Lao Zhang's idea to sell you so that your father can pay off his debts. Li Ying told me that your father intended to promise you to Li Ying, but Li Ying was hesitant and asked me for an idea! I don't know your father's intentions at all, I thought you and Li should make a decision early, and don't fall into Lao Zhang's hands! What do you think of Li Ying?" Zhao Si blushed like a burning cloud, looking at her.Strangely, she was not in a hurry, and only played with the seam of her skirt lightly. "After all, women have other tempers. If I were her, I would be a bastard if I didn't kill Lao Zhang with a big knife!" Zhao Si said in his heart. "Fourth brother, I will not reject Li Ying. This is what I can tell you now. Let me think about other things. Fourth brother, thank you!"

"That's easy! Let me go! Think about it yourself!" Zhao Si walked out, very happy, and today he had a heartwarming talk with a big girl! After Zhao Si left, Longfeng sat on the steps, listening to the breeze blowing the paper on the window, the kitten on the wall was crying tenderly and slenderly, looking at her fingers, sometimes putting them near her mouth to bite her nails, Can't think of some ideas.After sitting for a long time, I stood up intentionally or unintentionally, and moved the two pots of narcissus into the house.He picked up a gray scarf and draped it over his shoulders, and went to the church to find Li Ying.

After discussing with Zhao Si, Li Ying felt like a big hard and cold stone rolling up and down in his heart.He doesn't like to talk, especially he doesn't like to let others see through his thoughts; but sometimes he holds a pencil in his hand, but asks others: "My pencil?"Sometimes I tell others: "I'm going to the East City", but say: "Is the East City the West City?"!Others laughed, and he laughed too, followed by a burst of blush, feeling sad like a pinprick in his heart. He was preparing to take the "Bible" to the market to sell, but he couldn't count how many copies he had after counting several times.Suddenly Zhao Si supported his shoulder and said in a low voice, "Miss Feng is waiting for you outside!"

Li Ying carried the "Bible" and the dragon and phoenix to the north, but no one knew where to go or asked where to go. When they reached Jingye Lake in the north of the city, the two sat down on a large bluestone. There were no pedestrians, only a patrolman walking up and down on the bridge, rattling the chain of his saber.There is thick ice in the lake, and a few children are smiling and skating on skates.The withered willows on both sides of the bank swayed their long branches from left to right, as if trying to escape the harsh cold wind.The ice on the shore sandwiched the remaining yellow and withered reeds, and the little sparrows kept catching the reeds and wagging their little tails up and down.The sun has set to the west, covered with a layer of light yellow fog, slanting the silver-gray ice, forming a piece of cold air.The galloping of the child and the flying of the little sparrow are like several shuttles, weaving a net of sorrow before the eyes of worried people.

The two sat for a while, then stood up and walked a few steps along the lake, because the patrolman on the bridge kept shooting him and her with detective eyes. "Sister Feng!" Li Ying said first: "This clean ice cube can be used as a coffin to cover my stinky bones!" Longfeng sighed, tightened the scarf tightly, and looked back at the setting sun who couldn't bear to leave the earth. They stopped talking, suddenly two big hands were inserted between the two of them, grabbing their wrists.Both of them turned their heads in the middle in shock, the two big hands loosened, and they laughed from behind.

"Fourth brother! Don't make such a fuss!" Li Ying said half angrily. "Good brother! It's better to be scared to death than to be covered with a big ice cube!" The three sat down again, and the patrolman on the bridge came over. "Master Police!" Zhao Si said, "We are the Salvation Army who came out to sell the "Bibles". They treat us as kidnappers, but the little kite took the hedgehog and opened his eyes by mistake!" Fearing that the patrolman would get angry, Longfeng quickly stood up and explained to the patrolman, and showed him the Bible that Li Ying was holding.The patrolman held the handle of the knife and walked away slowly while polishing the ground with his leather shoes.

"Fourth brother!" Longfeng said to Zhao Si: "Why do you talk to the patrolman like that, what if he gets angry!" "Get angry! The policeman will never! They are soft to bully and hard to fear. If you don't shoot him, he will numb you! They don't care about the shit on the streets of the rich, and they only care about burning incense in the homes of the poor! Needless to say, the two of you What the hell is going on!" "There is only one way, death!" Li Ying said. "Don't talk about death, it's too difficult to live after death! Run! Running is a good way!" "Where to run, how to run, do you have any money to run!" Longfeng asked. "Go ask Officer Long, your father! If you want to run away, he must have an idea. Will he be willing to betray you—his own daughter—?" "I can't run, what should my sister do if I run away?" Li Ying asked.Zhao Si held his head in his hands, thought for a long time, got up and ran south like a gust of wind, ran a long way, turned around and said: "See you at the meeting tomorrow!"
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