Chapter 95 Cat Town (16)

I am so sad!A wail from the minister’s wife made me cry for the women of so many centuries. I pressed my hand on the darkest pages in history, and my eyes dared not look any further. It would be a mistake not to live in a foreign city.I'm homeless again.Where are you going?The cat people helping me were still looking at me, probably waiting to ask me for money.It's true that they robbed the minister's wife, but maybe that's not enough to make them give up their hope of winning the soul of the country?I had a terrible headache, and my teeth were broken.Gradually, I couldn't think anymore, and I was going to be sick.A warning came to my mind.I threw the national souls in a trouser pocket, ten yuan each, and five yuan each, on the ground, and let them divide it among themselves, or grab it, I didn't have the energy to care about it.The eight women were hopeless, and the minister's wife was also finished. There was a big puddle of blood flowing from her body, and her eyes were still open, as if she still cared about the eight goblins after death.I couldn't bury them, no one else, of course; the embarrassment and disappointment made me want to smash my head out with a punch.

I sat on the ground for a while.Although I was too lazy to move, I had to stand up after all. I couldn't watch these women stink before my eyes.I walked with a limp, probably a lot of embarrassment for foreigners.The street was full of people again.Some young people are holding a piece of white powder in their hands and writing on the wall next to the house. The wall is still very damp. "Cleaning Movement", "The whole city has been washed"...these sentences are written on the walls of every house.Although my head hurt so much, I couldn't help laughing.After it rains, it is advocated to wash the whole city. It doesn't take a little effort from the people, the cat people really know how to do things.Yes, the stinky ditch was indeed washed clean by the rain, clean up campaign, haha!Am I a little crazy too?I wish I could pull out a pistol and kill a few white characters!

I seem to remember what Xiaoxie said: the other side of the street is a cultural institution.I went around, not to see the cultural institution, but to find a quiet place to endure for a while.I always thought that the houses in the downtown area should face each other, but here the houses on the street happened to be back to back. This new arrangement made me seem to forget my headache.However, cat people who don't like fresh air and sunlight can come up with this good idea. The back of the house is leaning against the back of the house, with no gap in the middle. This is not so much a street as a disease brewery.My headaches are back.Getting sick in a foreign country makes people particularly pessimistic. I seem to feel that there is no hope of surviving in China.I didn't care to look at it carefully, and fell down when I found a shade.

How long have you slept?I have no idea.When I opened my eyes, I was in a very clean room.I thought it was a dream, or a hallucination when the heat increased. I rubbed my head, and it wasn't very hot anymore!I am baffled.Still lazy, I closed my eyes again.With the sound of very light footsteps, I slightly opened my eyes: I am more fascinated than the fascinated leaves!She came over, touched my head, and nodded slightly: "Okay!" She said to herself. I dare not open my eyes again, and wait for the facts to explain the facts.After a short time, Xiaoxie came, and I was relieved. "What's wrong?" I heard him ask in a low voice.

Before I could answer, I opened my eyes. "Ready?" he asked me.I sit up. "Is this your house?" I wondered again. "For the two of us," he pointed at the fan, "I originally wanted you to come and live here, but I'm afraid my father doesn't want to. You belong to my father, at least my father thinks so; he doesn't want me to be friends with you, he Said that my foreign habits are too deep." "Thank you!" I glanced into the room again. "You wonder why our place is so clean? This is what father calls foreign habits." Xiaoxie and Miquan laughed.

Yes, Xiao Xie does have foreign habits.In his language, he uses more than twice as many words as Daxie's, probably many words are borrowed from foreign languages. "Is this your home?" I asked. "This is one of the cultural institutions. The two of us borrowed it. Powerful people can occupy the house of the institution at will. If we can keep the place clean, we are worthy of the institution; whether we should occupy the public place privately, we don't ask. It’s inconvenient to delve into it too. To be perfunctory, I have to use these two most interesting words! Fan, give him some fan leaves to eat.” “Have I already eaten it?” I asked.

"Didn't we give you some misty leaf juice just now, are you still planning to wake up again? Miyae is a real good medicine! Here, misty leaf is the king of all medicines. If it can cure, the disease will have good hope; it Those who cannot be cured, have to wait for death. It can indeed cure many diseases. There is only one thing, it can save the 'individual', but it can kill the 'country', that's just such a small flaw in Mi Ye!" Xiao Xie Here comes the taste of the philosopher again. I ate some mistletoe again, and my energy was much better, but I was too lazy.I saw the wisdom of Li Guangguo and other foreigners.It is indeed reasonable for them to live in another place.The civilization of the cat country is not easy to mess with; as soon as you get close to it, it will glue you like paint, and you have to follow its way.The cat country is a vortex in the sea, and those who approach it will fall into it.If you want to enter the cat country, you must be a cat person, otherwise, just don't mess with it.I tried my best to resist eating the lost leaves, but the result?Still have to eat!You must eat it here, don't eat it here, it's absolute.If this civilization can conquer the whole of Mars—probably many people in Cat Country have such a dream—all humans on Mars will soon die together: filth, disease, mess, confusion, and darkness are the characteristics of this civilization; There are also elements of this civilization that have light, but those lights can never resist this dark force.This power, I see, must one day be cut off by some true light, or by some poisonous gas, as if to sterilize it.However, the cat people never think so.Xiaoxie probably saw this move, but because he saw clearly that the game was already lost, he swayed without hesitation, laughing at his own failure.As for the big scorpion and the others, it was just a dream.I have so many questions to ask Xiaoxie.Politics, education, military, finance, production, society, family...

"I don't understand politics," Xiaoxie said. "Father specializes in politics. Ask him. I know or don't know about other things. It's best that you read it yourself and ask me after you've read it." Only the cultural cause can I fully help, because my father has a little something to do with any cause, and he can't take care of everything, so I will be his representative for the cultural cause. You can look at schools, museums, antiquities, libraries, as long as you Talk, and I will satisfy you." I feel more comfortable than eating lost leaves: I can ask the big scorpion about politics; I can ask the little scorpion about cultural affairs. With these two scorpions, I can probably get a general idea of ​​the situation in the cat country.

But can I live here?I dare not ask Xiaoxie.In good conscience, I really have no intention of leaving this clean room.But I can't beg for mercy, wait! Xiaoxie asked me what to see first, ashamed, I was too lazy to move. "Tell me a little about your own history!" I said, hoping to see a little about the situation in Daxie's family from his words. Xiaoxie smiled.Whenever he smiles, I think he is cute and hateful.He himself knew that he was superior to the other cat people, so he refused to reach out and tug at them—for fear of getting his hands dirty!He seemed to feel that it was a great misfortune that he was born in the country of cats, that he was the only rose among the thorns.I don't like this attitude. "My parents gave birth to me," Xiaoxie began to say, Mi sat beside him, looking into his eyes. "That's none of my business. They love me very much, and it's none of my business. My grandfather loves me very much too. It's not a novelty to have a grandfather who doesn't love his grandson. There seems to be nothing to talk about in his childhood life." Xiaoxie She raised her head and thought for a while, then Mi raised her head to look at him. "Well, here's a little thing that might be worth your while, if not mine. My wet nurse was a whore. A whore can be a wet nurse, but I'm not allowed to play with any other little kids. It's a special thing in our house." Education. Why hire prostitutes to babysit children? We have money. We have a saying: money attracts ghosts. This wet nurse is one of them. Grandpa wanted her because he thought prostitutes looked at boys and soldiers looked at girls. The best way, because they or they can teach men, women and children everything about men and women. With sufficient knowledge, you can marry early and have children early, so that you can be worthy of your ancestors. Besides whores, there are five gentlemen who taught me to read , five wood-like gentlemen taught me all the knowledge of the cat country. Later, one wooden gentleman suddenly lost his wood and ran away with my wet nurse. The four wooden gentlemen were also kicked out. I grew up , my father sent me to a foreign country. My father thought that anyone who could speak a few words in a foreign language would know everything. He needed a son who knew everything. I lived in a foreign country for four years. Of course I knew everything, so I went home Come. Contrary to my father's expectation, I don't know everything, but I have more foreign customs. But he doesn't love me for that, and he gives me money as usual. I am happy to have some money, and Stars, flowers, fans, everyone makes fun of it all day long. On the surface, I am a representative of my father, hosting cultural events, but in fact I am just a parasite. I don’t bother to do bad things, and I can’t do good things. The more oily you use it." Xiaoxie laughed again, and Mi laughed along with her.

"Mi is my friend," Xiaoxie guessed my thoughts again: "A friend who lives with me. This is another foreign habit. I have a wife at home, and I got married when I was twelve years old. When I was six years old, a prostitute The wet nurse taught me that it is impossible for a layman to get married at the age of twelve. My wife can do everything, especially can bear children, the best woman, according to my father. But I am willing to be a fan. My father would like to let me marry a fan Concubine, I don’t want to be a concubine. My father has twelve concubines, so taking a concubine is the most legitimate thing. My father hates me the most, but he doesn’t hate me very much, because although he hates foreign customs, he admits that there are such things in the world. A kind of habit, called foreign habit. My grandfather hated Mi, and I also hated me, because he didn't recognize foreign habits at all. I lived with Mi, and I have nothing to do with Mi, but it has a great influence on the youth of Cat Country. You know, People in the cat country think that the relationship between men and women is just "that". Marrying a wife, that's it; taking a concubine, that's it; playing with a prostitute, that's it; now we pay attention to free association, that's it; if you have a fan, then it's Think so. I am a role model for young people. We all marry wives first, and then go to free association. I set an example. But the old people hate me to the bone, because married wives and concubines allow everyone to live together, It is only for that, and after that, a group of children will be born. Now free association, you can't get rid of your wife, and you have to prepare another place for your lover, otherwise, it's not considered a foreign habit. It costs a lot, and the old people can't afford it, and the old people don't take the money, so the young people naturally quarrel with the old people. My crime of being a fan is really not small."

"Won't you be completely out of the old family?" I asked. "No, no money! Free association is a foreign habit, but we can't give up the domestic habit of asking Lao Tzu for money. The two are not in harmony, how can we be 'perfunctory'?" "The old people can't think of a good way?" "What can they do? They admit that women are only for that purpose. They take concubines themselves, and they don't object to young nags. How can they forbid free association? They can't, we can't, everyone can't. Marry Wives, concubines, and free associations all have to have children; who will take care of the children after they are born? There is no way for the elderly, we have no way, everyone has no way. We only care about such problems, regardless of children's problems. The old people desperately marry concubines, The little ones are desperately trying to be free, and they seem to be having a lot of trouble on the surface. In fact, they are just doing that. The result of that is that there are more kitten people who are not cared for, fed, and educated. This is called perfunctory. I Grandfather is perfunctory, my father is perfunctory, I am perfunctory, those young people are perfunctory; 'responsible' is the most annoying word." "What about the women themselves? Are they willing to admit that's why?" I asked. "Mi, tell me, you are a woman." Xiaoxie said to Mi. "Me? I love you. There is nothing to say. If you are willing to go home to see the wife who will give birth to a child, you can go, and I don't care. Whenever you don't love me, I will eat forty fans at once. , Make fans die!" I waited for her to go on, and she stopped talking.