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Chapter 200 Zhao Ziyue (13)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 3818Words 2018-03-20
Ouyang Tianfeng went out early in the morning, and left a message for Zhao Ziyue and Wu Duan to go to the inaugural meeting of the Women's Rights Development Association earlier.After Zhao Ziyue got up, he discussed with Wu Duan all the preparations for the meeting.Among the preparations, of course what clothes to wear is the most important, because they are going to the "Women's" Rights Development Conference.Butuan is following the "Western Clothing Principle". Although the cloak is a bit hot to wear, it is folded and placed on the arm. Isn't it "there is no doubt that there is a cloak if there is a cloak that is not worn but is placed on the arm"!But Zhao Ziyue’s camel hair coat can’t be done in this way, (this is a point that Chinese clothes are not as good as western clothes!) You should wear a jacket, it’s not as fresh and beautiful as a camel hair coat.He rubbed his fists and stomped his feet and kept chattering: "How good is this?! How good is this?!" "Put on a jacket," Wu Duan suggested, "and put a little red satin strip on your chest, writing: 'Yes I didn’t wear the coat.’ Isn’t it all covered?” “But the range of ‘not wearing’ is too wide.” Zhao Ziyue frowned and shook his head and said, “People know that I put the coat on In the box, or in the pawn shop, it's not right!"

"Take a risk!" Butuan thought for a long time before saying, "Come on, 'Hua Sige big shirt doctrine!' Although it is a little cold to wear a big shirt after taking off the padded robe, but your body is strong, why are you still afraid of the cold! Besides, guess what? There is a mass of heat in the heart that increases decency, and the cold air is not easy to invade! Isn't it?" "Damn it!" Zhao Ziyue sighed: "Dead and resign to fate! It's that damned father who didn't send me any money! Anyway, if I freeze to death, I can't spare him in front of Lord Hell! There is hair tonic No? Old Wu!"

"Yes! Do you want perfume?" Butuan asked magnanimously and affectionately. "Yes! It's delicious! Otherwise, it would be a shame if you don't ask them to type out your smelly sweat in the women's rights meeting!" Wu Duan was busy bringing hair tonic and beauty lotion.Zhao Ziyue first combed his hair with crystal light tiles (glazed tiles), and then put a lot of flowers on his face.Killing the bad pimples on his face, he rubbed his face vigorously with his mouth open.After rubbing until the blood tendons burst out, I made the determination to "stop when enough is enough".Then unlock the box and go out, please respectfully invite Hua Sige's big shirt.

Wu Duan folded the cloak, with the silk inside out, and put it on his left arm.With his right arm inserted under Zhao Ziyue's elbow, two fragrant flowers set off from the rooftop apartment. In the emerald blue sky, there are a few gray clouds with white edges, floating in the sky from east to west.The two sat in the car, all looking up at the sky.For a while those floating clouds squeezed together to cover the sun, and Wu Duan wiped his sweat happily; for a while you pushed me and I hugged you and spread out, Zhao Ziyue straightened his chest and smiled.In this way, one was looking forward to the cloudy sky, the other hoped that the sky would be sunny, with different intentions but the same purpose, they came to Huguang Guild Hall.

Outside the door of the guild hall, there is a colored card with four big characters made of paper flowers: "Long live the female world". It was still early, and apart from the men and women in charge who were busy preparing everything, there were not many people in the venue.Zhao Zi said he looked around, but couldn't find Ouyang Tianfeng.He had to sit on a stool with Wu Duan and chat.The venue was spacious, and after sitting down, Zhao Ziyue felt a little chilly.He asked Butuan: "Are you hot, old Wu?" "It's a little dry!" "Give me the cloak, and I—hold it for you!"

The two were negotiating about storing the cloak when Ouyang Tianfeng ran in sweating. "Ouyang!" Zhao Ziyue stood up and called, "Why are you late?" "Old Zhao, come here!" Ouyang Tianfeng nodded his hand and called out to Zhao Ziyue.Wu Duan also stood up and followed Zhao Ziyue out.Walking to the gate outside the venue, Ouyang whispered to Zhao Ziyue: "You sit on the first row of stools under the podium, and put your hat on the side to occupy an empty seat. When Ms. Wang comes back, I will lead her to the Go there! Old Wu!" Ouyang Tianfeng turned his head and called Wu Duan, but Wu Duan was eager to hear the secret, so he handed over his smiling face.Ouyang said: "You have to help today, don't just sit there!" "What do you want me to do?" Wu Duan asked with a smile.

"Handler! Come, take the flag with me!" Wu Duan's western style is to wear a red flower on his chest. Hearing what Ouyang Tianfeng said, he was so happy that he felt crazy; if he hadn't tried his best to suppress and restrain himself, he would have spit out blood at that time. Zhao Ziyue ignored them, hurriedly ran back to the venue, sat on the first row of stools, and put his hat beside him.He prayed wholeheartedly: She can come quickly!Forget about the honor of being the chairman and being an entertainer, and sat there respectfully waiting for her. Both Ouyang Tianfeng and Wu Duan hung red flowers on their chests, and they went in and out.Butuan put all his weight on his heels and toes, making the soles of his leather shoes creak.

It was almost eleven o'clock, and Zhao Ziyue had been sitting there for forty minutes, and the number of people in the venue gradually increased.Zhao Ziyue held his hat with one hand, and twisted his neck to look out: whenever a couple of men and women came in together, his heart skipped a beat; and then he saw that it was not Ouyang and Ms. Wang, which made him feel sour.Unintentionally twisting his neck too far, he saw Li Jingchun sitting behind a few stools.Zhao Ziyue hurriedly turned his head back, staring blankly at the blackboard on the podium.For a few minutes like this, he felt that this "non-twisting neck doctrine" was somewhat impossible.So I tried to twist back slowly, but before I could see the back, I had already painted a smile on my face, and called softly: "Lao Li!"

"Old Zhao!" Li Jingchun nodded. "How are you? I haven't seen you for a long time!" "It's not that I haven't seen you for a long time! You're getting fat, Lao Li!" "yes?" "Much fatter!" "Aren't you cold, old Zhao, wearing such thin clothes?" Li Jingchun asked sincerely. "It's not cold, it's still hot!" After saying that, Zhao Ziyue shivered. "Look, there is still a 'hot' cold war! Haha! You are a member, Lao Li?" "No!" "Why don't you join the club? I can introduce you to join the club!"

"Take a look and see clearly before deciding whether to join the club or not." The conversation between the two of them could no longer continue. Zhao Ziyue looked at Li Jingchun with one eye more or less, and looked out with the other eye: Ouyang Tianfeng was moving around the entrance of the venue, but Ms. Wang could not be seen.With great difficulty, Ouyang Tianfeng walked a few steps in, Zhao Ziyue stood up and pouted his mouth so high that he pouted at him. "She's coming, don't worry!" Ouyang Tianfeng ran over and said in a low voice, before running out again.

The venue was almost full of men and women, and in the midst of chirping and chirping, a bell rang outside.Ouyang Tianfeng ran over again and told Zhao Ziyue in a low voice. "Make Ms. Wei Lilan the chairman!" "that is?" "That!" Ouyang Tianfeng secretly pointed to the right side of the stage with his hand: "The one in green clothes!" "Drink! My mother!" Zhao Ziyue saw the pre-arriving chairman at a glance, and stuck out his tongue for as long as he couldn't take it back. "I said, if such an ugly guy is the chairman, I can declare myself out of the meeting!" "Don't talk nonsense!" Ouyang Tianfeng slapped Zhao Ziyue lightly and then walked out, telling the members along the way to give Ms. Wei the chairman of the campaign. To be honest, Ms. Wei is not ugly, but there is nothing particularly beautiful about it.Round face, thick eyebrows, no white powder on the face.Not short in stature, with a straight waist and a blue dress, she lost a bit of the woman's attitude.Although Zhao Ziyue is a young man, his concept of beauty is not very different from the ancients who admired the cherry mouth and willow waist, except that he hated the foot binding.Besides, the purpose of his going to the Women's Rights Conference was to see women, beautiful and delicate women, so he couldn't help being disappointed when he saw Ms. Wei's simplicity! The bell stopped, and the audience clamored to elect the chairman: the audience clamored to elect Ms. Wei Lilan as the chairman, and it was the lady who belonged to the word "Wei Lilan" who walked onto the stage.Zhao Ziyue lowered his head and did not dare to look up. He regretted that he forgot to bring his black glasses. The chairman was reporting the reason and process of the initiation, when Ouyang Tianfeng came over and said to Zhao Ziyue: "Professor Zhang is coming back to give a speech, pick him up and drive him down!" "That's easy! Is she coming or not?" Zhao Ziyue asked eagerly in a low voice. "Come! Just come!" After the chairman's report, I invite Professor Zhang Mengshu to give a speech.Professor Zhang came to the stage. He was about forty years old, with a yellow face, long and beautiful eyebrows, kind eyebrows, and a scholarly attitude. "It's unreasonable for the Women's Rights Development Association to ask men to give lectures!" said a young student sitting next to Zhao Ziyue. "Wait to find fault with him and drive him down!" Zhao Ziyue said to the young man very kindly. "Everyone, male and female friends! It is a great honor to meet with the comrades of the Women's Rights Development Association." Professor Zhang said in a pleasant voice. Cooking, tailoring--" "You're talking nonsense!" A woman in the field stood up, holding a small white fist and shouting: "What's a 'tailor'? We women learn 'sewing', what is a tailor--" "Hit him! Hit!" Zhao Ziyue shouted. "Tailoring and sewing," a man stood up and said fiercely and seriously in the field: "As far as I see, there is no difference. Is it possible to only sew clothes without tailoring? Or the term tailor is better than sewing! Besides, Zhang What the professor said was 'women's career in the past', I ask this lady to understand before she speaks!" These few words quite aroused the welcome of some people. Although the sound of applause was not like thunder, it was not less than the explosion of firecrackers.Professor Zhang nodded to everyone with a smile and continued: "——The acquisition of women's rights is not made out of thin air. During the European War, British women replaced men in all undertakings, and even carried and unloaded goods on the railway station were all done by women. Then, the increase and development of women's status after the war It's natural, because they have really fulfilled their duties in society, so that men can't despise them. As for our women's career, I really dare not say that it has developed, but I would say that there is almost no women's career—" "This is an insult to the Chinese women's world!" The seven or eight women in the back shouted in sharp and fierce voices: "Why is there no women's career? We women are just female teachers! Huh?——" "Go down! Hit! Hit him!" Zhao Ziyue shouted desperately.Then he stood up and threw a handful of copper coins in his pocket onto the stage with a clatter.The chairman took a few steps back, the men rushed to the stage, and the women fled to the sidelines, creating a mess. Professor Zhang was surrounded by several friends, and Zhao Ziyue couldn't do anything, so he changed "beat him" to "drive him out!" Professor Zhang walked out with several friends without a word. The chairman settled down.Professor Chen Sao was also invited to give a speech.Before the people in the audience could hear clearly, Professor Chen had jumped onto the stage and bowed deeply to the people. "Girls and lesbians!" Professor Chen Sao shouted like a thunderbolt, suppressing the uproar in the venue at once: "From the perspective of human history, women have contributed more to the development of culture than men, because ancient history records It's all about women's rights being greater than men's rights, that's a fact!" The applause from the audience extended to three minutes. "In the current social organization, it seems that men are more powerful than women, but in fact, I would like to ask two questions: First, without women, can there be a family, can there be a society, can there be a country, can there be human beings?—— " "No!!" The audience shouted earth-shatteringly. "Second," Professor Chen shouted with his eyes wide open, "How many men are not afraid of their wives?" "No!" The women in the audience shouted in unison.Only one man shouted: "I'm not afraid!" "Aren't you afraid?" Professor Chen asked with a smile, "You don't know how to respect women's rights!" "Halla! Hala!" The women in the audience stamped their feet and shouted.The sound of applause was extended to ten minutes, and Professor Chen could no longer be called to speak, so Professor Chen bowed and went down. Professor Chen stepped down suddenly, and the chairman had no choice but to announce the election of the chairman's staff.All the members got their votes, and discussed in groups of three or four about who should vote.The female members couldn't think of who to lift, and they kept scolding that the pencils prepared during the meeting were not working well. Zhao Zi said that he put the votes in the ticket box, and ran out before hearing the election results. "Old Zhao!" Wu Duan stretched out his thumb at the door and said to Zhao Ziyue, "You are really good at it!" "Where's Ouyang?" Zhao Ziyue asked. "He left, and went to dinner with an officer's son named He Jinshan!" "Okay, this kid has wronged me!" Zhao Ziyue sighed. "how?" "Ms. Wang is not here!" "Didn't you see Li Jingchun?" Wu Duan asked suspiciously, "If he comes, she can't come! Guess—"
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