Chapter 6 Coincidentally

Yaoyao was wondering in her heart, and seemed to have a bad premonition. The ringing of the bell on the horse's collar became louder and closer, and one could imagine that both the rider and the horse were young and healthy. After a while, three security guards armed with guns came up to the col and said in unison: "What a place!" They all stood under the maple tree and waited.After a while, the officer on horseback came and saw several soldiers who seemed to be taking a rest, so he said, "Don't stop, just go." Glancing, she saw Yaoyao, dressed in blue, with a small triangular yellow flower on her green cloth apron, "Magpie Noisy Plum", sitting on the stone ridge in front of the ancestral hall, arranging maple leaves.

The eyeballs are bright and clean, and the expression looks more lively and beautiful than before.A small face is dark, so dark that it is delicate and pretty.The captain stopped his horse on purpose, tied the horse under a maple tree, took out the Commander's cigarette, and held the fire to the old sailor.While smoking, I can't help looking at Yaoyao. Seeing that it was the officer who had a quarrel with her father when she bought oranges last time, Yaoyao lowered her head to pick up the maple leaves, kept silent, ignored, but looked at her in her heart, "Is it better to leave or not?" She couldn't make up her mind.

The captain remembered the scene of the conversation in the orange orchard, and wanted to tease her: "Your leaves are so beautiful! Can you sell them? These are red leaves!" The old sailor knew the tribune, knew that the tribune was a bit coquettish, and was afraid of Yaoyao's embarrassment, so he answered from the side: "Captain, where are you going? Are you going to Chenxi County for a meeting? You are busy!" The tone was a bit social , a bit flattering, but not servile.Because he consciously does not violate the king's law and is not afraid of anything, the captain has power in Lujiaping, so he can't punish a decent commoner without reason.

The captain still fixed his eyes on Yaoyao, and casually replied to the old sailor, "I have something to do!" The old sailor said: "Captain, Uncle Luobo Xiteng gave you ten picks of oranges, have you seen them?" The captain said: "I sent the oranges back, and I haven't thanked you yet. Your place is really outstanding... Is this girl from Luoboxi?" At this point, he pretended to have discovered something suddenly: "Hi, I I know you! You are from that big courtyard, I know you. Little girl, don’t you know me?” Yaoyao remembered what happened that day, but still kept silent, just nodded, as if to say: "I know you too." Or as if to say: "I don't remember." The captain gave the impression that he wanted to ignore it. , a girl showing off as usual.

The captain saw too many people and eyes, so it was inconvenient to be presumptuous, so he struck up a conversation and asked some gossips to a few country folks who were carrying oil burdens.The few businessmen couldn't help but cringe at this local dignitary, and didn't know what to do.When he arrived, he saw that the captain had turned his direction and talked to the old sailor, so he picked up the burden and hurried on his way lightly.After they left, the captain praised Yaoyao to the old sailor, thinking that she really looked like a peony flower, growing in the countryside and being wronged.He also said some words of this kind that are neither civil nor military, nor urban, nor rural.Although Yaoyao bowed her head and made a hat out of maple leaves, she could hear every sentence clearly.I just think this person is annoying, not a well-behaved person.But he couldn't walk away, as if he couldn't stop listening.My heart was flustered and my face was hot.

The old sailors can understand it at a glance.But I just thought that this "important person" was passing by and met Yaoyao here by chance, a little bit of mercy, got off the horse to have a good time, and would have to hurry on the road in a while.Therefore, knowing that Yaoyao would inevitably be a little embarrassed in this situation, he didn't give her a way to solve the country.As for Yaoyao, even though she hates this person, she doesn't really hate people's compliments on her.Although all the words he said were not familiar to the ears of country people, they were still interesting and useful.

Because the captain had the opportunity to take advantage of it, he couldn't help saying a few more vernacular words.Although the listener didn't find it irritating, but what he said was hypnotized by his artificial words, as if he had sincere affection, and had already developed "love" for this country girl.Seeing Yaoyao's well-groomed hands and feet, he gradually felt uncomfortable.He deliberately looked at the time, showed off the platinum watch on his wrist, and seemed to understand that "the weather is still early, so don't rush on the road", that is, he sat on the stone bench.Chatted with the old sailor.At the end, they sang a song, which was "there are many beauties on the Peach Blossom River".The old sailor and Yaoyao both pursed their lips and smiled, as if they were appreciating carefully, but also seemed to be absent-minded, in short, they were separated by a layer.The tribune was a little shy, so he said to the old sailor in a mocking manner: "Old helmsman, have you ever been to Yiyang County? There are good brides in that place, and they have been published in books and newspapers. Shanghainese According to the movie, there are local beautiful stars singing in the machine show of EMI company! Compared with your women in Taoyuan County in western Hunan, Baimengmeng Songda looks like a pink winter melon, which is much more beautiful. Three, beautiful and capable!"

The old sailor was silent, because he only understood half of what he said, and the half he understood reminded him that a small part of his stumbles in life were caused by the little bitch in Yiyang County.Yaoyao is a girl, she is close to her, so it is not easy to say anything in front of Yaoyao, so she still just smiles.With a smile, he lost due respect for the tribune.He pretended to be a little boy in front of him, pretending to be alive, but in fact it was useless at all, he only knew how much money he wanted, and when he found the money, he either spent all his money on gambling, or let the old bitch and the bitch make it Trap to deceive.

Anyone who finds money for committing crimes will not have retribution on their own head in the future, but will also have retribution on their children. As for Yaoyao, she just felt that the singer in front of her was not very good at singing and was a bit silly, so she also smiled from the side.The meaning is exactly like not doing your own thing, happy to watch the water ducks fight.Everyone in the village is afraid of this tribune, but she is not very afraid of him.People are majestic, and the common people don't violate the king's law, so they can't control it, and they have no reason to be afraid.

The captain misunderstood the smiles of the two, and thought that there was a limit to the conversation, and anyone with vines could always be drawn to the fence, so he told the old sailor some stories about the female students in Changsha, as if he was talking to the old sailor, with the intention of She fell in love with flirting with Yaoyao, and clicked on Yaoyao's little girl, which aroused her yearning for the city and her worship of the individual. At the end, she forgot to say what she said, so she asked Yaoyao if she would go to the province in the future to "marry civilly and freely".Yaoyao felt that she was not used to hearing the words, so she just pretended she had never heard them, and went down to an old maple tree by the river.

Just in the distance, some boats came onto the beach, and a group of boatmen shouted to push the boat up, and it was about to reach the bottom of the col.Yaoyao walked a little closer, and saw a special mark on the mast of a ship, with sharp eyes, she recognized at a glance that it was the boat of the Song family of Luoboxi.This boat and my family's boat are often used to load goods together. I guess the boat my brother got must have reached the foot of the beach, so I was very excited and ran straight down the depression.After walking not far, I met the boatman with a fiber board hanging on his shoulder. It happened that it was her third brother who came!It turned out that my brother's boat was still three miles away, and he was just eager to go home, so he first followed the Song family boat to the beach.The fiber road is in the west of the river, and the radish stream is in the south of the river. The boat boarded the Sanli Beach, looked at the upper col for a rest, and watched the old sailors cross the river again.Unexpectedly, when going up the col, she met Yaoyao first. Yaoyao looked at her brother's sunburned shoulders and arms, loving and pity her brother. "Third brother, look at you, you are so tanned like a black cow spirit! We calculated that your boat will come to shore today. As soon as I see Song Yabao's mast, I will know that I want to see you! The magpie crowed behind the house in the morning Most of the day!" San Heizi wiped away his sweat while pulling at the front of his shirt, and smiled at Yaoyao, showing both love and pity. "Yaoyao, Zhuge Liang, you are so clever, I will come back! If I don't take the Song family's boat, I won't be there yet!" "Seriously! I'm sure you'll come!" "Hey, why doesn't female Zhuge take it seriously? Let me ask you, where's Dad?" "I went to see my godfather in town." "Where's mother?" "I have done Guanyinzhai three times, finished spinning five catties of cotton, and dried kudzu powder at home." "Where is sister-in-law?" "The elder sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law are all good. Not long ago, I was busy making oranges." "Where is it full?" "He's waiting for you on the col, and he has a lot of chestnuts for you to eat." "How are you?" "..." Yaoyao didn't say anything, she just bit her little lip, showing a row of white teeth, and smiled at her brother.He looked like he was about to say, "Guess what." So the two brothers and sisters went up to the col. When the old sailor saw him, he screamed, he grabbed the fiber board on San Heizi's shoulder, squeezed his fist and hit the young man's chest twice, his eyes narrowed. The little one: "Speaking of Cao Cao, it is Cao Cao. Three tigers, you are so powerful! In less than 40 days, it was another turnaround. I thought you would be caught if you came to Chenzhou this time. , I won’t let you walk until the Chinese New Year!” The young boatman just laughed, and argued with a smile: "Who would catch such an honest person like me? I don't violate the king's law.Man Man, who do you think will catch me?Except for the foreigners in the Gospel Hall who saw that I was pitch-black, and wanted to catch me to boil plaster, who do you say? " "Who? Do you think I don't know? The little bitch in Youjia Lane, Zhongnanmen, Chenzhou Prefecture. She watches boats at Zhongnanmen Wharf all day long, and only arrests honest people like you. I don't know? She knows everything. I also know that her name is Lotus. She is nineteen years old and belongs to the rat. She was born on May 24th. You can guess it even with your eyes closed!" "Manman, how could they want me? Only those who sit on the Hongjiang Wharf and put wooden rafts will be interested. I am an old official!" The old sailor pretended to be unbelievable, "Old officer Kong, I didn't borrow money from you. What are you doing pretending to be poor? The purse is empty, but if you are serious, it will be done. They will also give you a purse full of flowers. The fragrant melon seeds are all kneaded on the bed at night. The melon seeds are drugged, and you are afraid that you will not be fascinated after eating them? I dare to make a bet with you, you can lose anything..." The old sailor slapped his hands He bit Sanheizi's ear softly and said, "You don't eat the little bitch's footwashing water, that's a strange thing!" San Heizi smiled and argued: "Manman, you are so old and unscrupulous, you always talk about these things. You must have eaten it when you were young, and then you know this kind of thing. This is the old rule of twenty years ago, but it is different now. .Now it's..." The two of them were all jokes.With an intimate look, it was as if he saw the tribune next to him.The captain felt a little uncomfortable, so he used his status as an official to arouse the respect that the sailors who had just entered the col should have for him.The captain tapped his horsewhip on the ground, stirred the leaves of the trees in front of his feet, fixed his eyes on Sanheizi's face, "Boater, let me ask you, how many boats came up today? Where did your boats park yesterday?" Until then, the older brother Fang paid attention to the captain, and hastened to answer the question respectfully and honestly according to the etiquette of the people on the water when meeting high officials.Yaoyao felt a little uncomfortable, so she said, "Third Brother, Third Brother, go to the Manchu Temple. There are oranges the size of rice bowls and chestnuts the size of fists, waiting for your help!" From the look on his face, the captain already saw that the sailor was Yaoyao's relative, and also saw that Yaoyao no longer cared about the officer because her elder brother came by her side, not only did what she said and sang at the moment didn't make sense. Meaningless, that is, I have a good-looking talent plus my status and gold watch, and it is completely meaningless.Feeling this kind of contempt or neglect, one star and one meter was disgusted by the domineering impression left by the last time I bought oranges, so I couldn't help but become a little angry.He was just about to wait for the two of them to come out on the rowing boat, find some small troubles, show off their prestige, and make some color for Yaoyao to see.By coincidence, seven or eight well-tanned, strong young sailors happened to be walking by the river. They all went up to the col and came to rest in front of the ancestral hall. The old sailors were family.Knowing that this group of people are all acquaintances guarding the ancestral hall, the captain changed his plan, led the horse to ride on it, whipped the chrysanthemum and green horse twice, and ran down the col jolting. The old sailor was chatting and laughing with San Heizi in the ancestral hall, and when he saw many young men coming, he hurried to collect cold water, brought a large bucket of cold water to the maple tree, and asked everyone about their problems.The boatmen sat on the stone benches under the maple wood and on the bluestone steps in front of the ancestral hall, smoked and talked about the news of going down the river.These people have been naked in the river for many years, and they don't care about it in the twelfth lunar month, but they think it's a miracle that the female students in the city wear sleeveless clothes, and they don't seem to wear hakama under their long robes, and they discuss it as a joke. It is inevitable to get a little intricate happiness.When the Yaoyao brothers and sisters came out of the ancestral hall, they changed the subject and talked about the "new life" in Changde Mansion.A flat-faced sailor said: "The last time I went to Taoyuan from Chenzhou to get on Mr. Teng Wu's boat, a foreigner from the American Gospel Church on board said to me: The Japanese want to take your land and take underground coal, iron ore, cinnabar, The mercury was dug together. The officials in charge in Nanjing refused to agree. The two sides sent people to negotiate. If the negotiations were not successful, Japan would send troops. You, China, must fight against them next year. If there is a war, everyone will be a soldier. China has tens of thousands of soldiers. Thousands of soldiers fight the Japanese devils, as long as you can unite, the Japanese devils will be defeated. They have fewer people, and you have more people. It will pay off if you fight, and you will suffer a little bit, and you will make money in the end! What foreigners say makes sense, everyone wants to fight the devils go!" "What's the use of devils asking for coal? We produce coal in Chenxi County and ship it to Chenzhou Prefecture. It can't be sold for thirty cents or one hundred catties. It's uncomfortable to burn with oily smoke. It's not good for cooking. Incense. The flames are green and cloudy, like a will-o'-the-wisp. What's the use of coal? I don't believe it!" "Their machines have to burn coal to move!" A naive little sailor interjected: "When the war starts, we all go to serve as soldiers. Where can we get so many guns?" It turned out that the flat-faced sailor, who floated across Dongting Lake and had been to Wuhan, said: "The Hanyang Arsenal is more than ten miles wide and has thousands of large machines. It makes guns and cannons, and even machine guns! Anti-aircraft guns!" The other said: "Why are there no guns? The new arsenal in Chenxi County can make machine guns, and one shot is 200 rounds. I will serve as a soldier tomorrow to fight the war. I must carry the machine gun. Point it at the devils with bald heads." , make a fool of yourself!" "Everyone is a soldier, a security team? When you become a security team, who will be sent to pay for food?" "Of course there is a way, the quartermaster will find a way!" "Is there any way? It's not on the spot... the president of the Chamber of Commerce is too busy!" "Where, the central government will always have a solution! A learned and conscientious official will not be harsh on the country people. If the official is good, the brothers will naturally be good, and they dare not act recklessly." "It's good for us to be stationed in Hongjiang. We can get whatever we want. The flower girl on Xiahe Street is from Yangzhou. She is white and has a narrow throat. She sings a good show and sings your soul to the sky! Play, play, sing, He is good at everything, and he can also speak Beijing dialect, and he calls people 'boiled eggs', but he dare not offend his comrades." Everyone was talking and laughing, and they all felt that if they were members of the security team, their lives would be much better than they are now.All innocent wishes reflect another reality, that is, how incomprehensible a countryman's impression of the "security team" is.It always seems to be majestic and a bit annoying, but if the position is assigned to him, he will definitely be able to do many illegal things, making ordinary people feel helpless, it is really not a bad job! "The captain of our security team here - the one who just rode a horse, was aggressively asking Mr. Changshun to sell a boatload of oranges a few days ago, and said that he would take them down to the provincial capital to give gifts. The chairman has everything. Friendship, each person will give a few picks. If he refused to sell, he sent his brother down to Luoboxi to cut down all the orange trees in his orange orchard, which destroyed the Feng Shui of Lujiaping. Yaoyao's father gave away ten picks of oranges. Tomorrow you will all become security forces, but you all want to rely on power to overwhelm others? Yunnan province produces gold, don't tell people that you want a big golden rice bowl, put a golden toad, and give maple trees Look at the uncle in the ancestral hall, because I have friendship with him! Even if I have a golden toad, I am useless, but by the way, I asked someone to bring a black copper inlaid silver cigarette holder and a bamboo hat with thin strips. When fishing for slugs, smoke while watching the fish take the bait!" A sailor patted his chest and said, "Okay, it's my job. I've really become the captain of security, and I will definitely send someone to Yunnan to do it." "But remember well, don't rely on power to oppress people and bully the common people. If you want cash to buy spot goods, fair trade, I will take it without official price!" Everyone thought it was funny and laughed together.As for local dignitaries buying oranges forcibly, Teng Changshun can’t say how to eat stuffy vegetables. I ask the president of the chamber of commerce to say a good word and send ten picks of oranges to settle the matter. He and another time absconded because of deserters and abducted guns, forcing the local government to pay for the guns. According to the locals, it is not surprising, but it is close to the saying "adding an extra snail in the middle of a pile of snails", so everyone let it go lightly, and only three sunspots were caught. Hearing this news, because it concerns the interests and face of his family, I was a little angry, but I wanted to understand what happened. Sanheizi said to Yaoyao: "Yaoyao, there is nothing to do here, let's cross the river and go home. When the boat arrives, I have to rush to the town to make an account. My boat is loaded with goods from Dajichang. There are a lot of kelp and squid, and I'm going to settle accounts with their captain." Yaoyao said: "Okay, let's go. Manman, we have to go back." The old sailor gave Yaoyao the cage filled with chestnuts and the cage made of willow branches.When Yaoyao took the hand, she smiled and said, "Manman, ouch, I really made a lot of money today!" Seeing that the cage was quite heavy, San Heizi stretched out his hand to pick it up and tried it: "Let me see how heavy it is." "He lifted the cage, ignored Yaoyao, and left first.Yaoyao rushed after her elder brother, arguing to San Heizi as she walked, "It's impossible, it's impossible, the sky is bright and the world is peaceful, you can't rob people." I’m too tired, I don’t need you to take it, I’ll carry it back by myself!” But San Heizi had already strode down the maple col, and the rest of his back disappeared behind the maple tree.Yaoyao had no choice but to take the toy made of maple leaves and follow.The old sailor kept yelling from behind: "Yaoyao, Yaoyao, bring you Huazigou in two days, we'll go catch quail on the Sanli Pai River Island!" Yaoyao stopped beside a big rock and replied: "Okay, okay, it's full. We will definitely go in three days! Today you cross the river and go to my house for dinner. I forgot to tell you that San Heizi's birthday is today. You must kill the chicken, the fat hen that weighs seven and a half catties. Just wait and come! I will leave the gizzard and liver for you to drink with!" The old sailor said: "Thank you, Yaoyao. I will go to the town in a while, see Sanheizi's boat, and eat the rock candy red dates he brought from Changde Mansion! I killed the chicken and saved a wing. I will eat it tomorrow. If not, you’d better do me a favor and eat it!” Yaoyao said: "Manman, you'd better come to eat! Go to the town to see the boat first, and then come back with Sanheizi. I'll take you across the river by punting at night. You must come!"