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Chapter 6 Zhang Daxiang

Xiaozhai and others 沈从文 2818Words 2018-03-20
The noon cannon blared from the top of the city, and Zhang Daxiang ran out from the staff office, stood still under the corridor, and shouted vigorously, "Guards, guards!" A young Miao soldier was dressed like a general on a business trip, with everything in his body, and a very long flashlight hanging diagonally behind his back. He jumped out of the tea making place and stood upright. "Here!" Go to the staff. So the two left the Yamen and rushed home to have some snacks.When passing by Zhongsan Street, the owner of the grocery store, Mr. Mi, happened to have just picked up the mail from the post office. He lowered his head and tapped the small coffin-shaped wooden box with a small hammer.He caught a glimpse of the little Miao soldier passing in front of the store, and knew that Zhang Daxiang had left the office, so he ran out of the street to chase the God of Wealth.

"Advisor, Adviser, the goods from Shanghai have arrived! I'm from Mimi Co., Ltd. in Germany, and I'm waiting for you!" When the prime minister heard that Mimi's foreign goods had arrived, he was very happy, so he followed the grocer back to the store and stood among a pile of foreign goods to watch him open the box.The grocer has only one eye.Daxiang called him a tiger. "A tiger, be careful!" "I know! I hold it back with two hands like holding a phoenix. Is a tiger still a tiger by accident?" When opening the box, a tiger was very careful not to hurt the baby in the box.The difficulty of such work is thus increased.With this space, the prime minister's life experience and temperament can be briefly described here.

The prime minister is the only son of an official family in XX. He is twenty-two years old. When the guest army crossed the border six years ago, the prime minister's family was assigned a donation of 20,000 yuan, which had to be paid within three days.Daxiang's father couldn't get it out for a while, so he was forced to swallow cigarettes and committed suicide. From then on, Daxiang became the only man in the family.The guest army has set off, and the wife is in charge of the family.My wife advocated moving down, but a relative who was a military law officer in the local army came up with an idea, thinking that it was a common thing for the army to bully the rich, and no matter where you went, it was not the way to escape.If you get into the team yourself and want to mess with everyone, you won't be coerced by the army anymore.

It's a good idea to head home.So at a cost of 5,000 yuan, the Prime Minister became the staff officer of a captain in the XX Army.I don't do anything, just wear a brand-new and decent military uniform to go to the Yamen every day. After all, I am the son of an official family, with decent style and appearance, and my money is loose. Therefore, although the Prime Minister has no skills, he is still popular in the ministry. He doesn't have many personal hobbies, knows how to be cautious in life, and doesn't come to whoring or gambling, so he can't be regarded as a prodigal son.He paid his own money to find a follower, armed the soldier, and ran around with him every day.He likes flashlights, and the flashlights carried by the soldiers can be regarded as the largest flashlights in the army.At night, the prime minister would take this thing to the street and take pictures of people face to face for fun.The prime minister's flashlight is brighter than anyone else's, and everyone who is illuminated knows that it is the prime minister's flashlight.Therefore, the prime minister lived his life very interestingly, and at the same time he became a tiger's living god of wealth virtually.

………… The wooden box opened now is another big flashlight. When the wooden box was opened, there were some sawdust first, some wrinkled wrapping paper, and then some sawdust. Ha, isn’t the one lying obediently inside the sawdust just the baby who is eager to see through it?It was a specially made guy about two feet and five inches long, with a dazzling silver body, and a big octagonal head attached to one end. It really looked like Yue Yun's forging hammer in the play. Red and purple with excitement. "Let me, let me!" After holding it in his hand, he said, "A tiger, a tiger, take that big battery and fill it up!"

A tiger pretended to be majestic, as if it had been struck by lightning, its mouth half-closed, "Ah, what a treasure, it's like a machine gun!" A total of twelve batteries are installed in the box.After tightening the back cover, a tiger was taken aback. If he had two hands, he almost fell to the enamel booth. Although it was broad daylight, this thing was very powerful and not easy to parry. You can understand it at a glance. A tiger said on its mouth, "It's so powerful, it's so powerful," and searched the wooden box. From the sawdust, it found a large yellow paper list with one side in foreign language and the other side in Chinese.

The two of them studied carefully according to the instruction sheet, only to realize that this treasure can be used in various ways, how to shrink when the light comes on, how to enlarge when the light comes on, as well as the far and near control mechanism. "How much? A tiger." "How much? Fifty yuan. I remember that the invoice was fifty yuan. Don't worry, the foreign firm will never hide its big business." In fact, he remembered that the invoice was twenty-five yuan. A tiger knows his temper, as long as things are good, he doesn't care about money.Calculating slowly was exactly what he wished for.Seeing that the prime minister was already on the street, Fang said: "Consultant, staff, the bill will be settled in another day, it doesn't matter, you can take it."

When the Prime Minister returned home, he shook his treasure at the old porter as soon as he saw the old porter. Seeing the old dog at home in the hall, he gave the old dog a shake.When you enter the main room, you will look at the ancestor sign.Back in the bedroom, the old nanny came to help him take off his military cap and change his shoes, and he shook the old nanny several times in a row.Except for the ancestral brand, every pair of eyes that have been dazzled, are still green for most of the day, as if they have been illuminated by the demon mirror on the list of gods.Daxiang's Coke is broken.

After a while, the old lady, aunt, mother, and girl all knew about this and came to watch the baby together. Touching it with their hands lightly and timidly, they all looked surprised and happy, and guessed the price from each other, some said one hundred, some said it was more than one hundred, and when the prime minister explained that it was only fifty yuan at most, everyone went He showed an air of disbelief, thinking it was too cheap. These people are paid two yuan a month.It's easy to believe in one's own affairs, a flashlight that illuminates the road is too ingenious, and I will never know how much it is really worth!

After the prime minister ate the steamed pigeon eggs indiscriminately, he explained the magic of the flashlight to his family, and asked them to close the door, and sent people to cover the windows temporarily with thick curtains to test the strength of the flashlight. Weak and various magical effects.The old nanny thought it would be better to experiment in an empty barn in the back room, so they flocked to the barn for advice.The little girl was asked to pretend to be a deserter, and first hid in a dark place in the corner of the barn. The prime minister turned on the flashlight, and a white light shot out, searching everywhere, and there was nothing to escape.When it came to the little girl in the back photo, the prime minister yelled, "You bastard, I caught you this time!" Then he rushed over with the little guards, as if they were really catching people, and the little girl only spent five days in the first ten days. I bought it for 10 yuan, and when I saw that the situation was wrong, I thought that the truth was going to kill her, and I didn't know what to do, so I was so scared that I burst into tears.The whole family laughed for a long time at this matter.

When the family was tired of playing, the prime minister took his treasure to the yamen for an exhibition. Played at the staff office for a while, and then passed the adjutant office, the military law office, and the military supply office. Everywhere he went, everyone who saw this treasure said, "It's amazing." The Prime Minister felt very happy to receive such praise.When he arrived, he had nowhere to go. An adjutant invited him to the reception. One said that the reception was full of representatives from various places and guests from afar. , you can take a picture of that hall and try to see if you can find something. When I arrived at the reception, a guest from other provinces was holding a Beijing eight-inch ivory cigarette pole, standing under the plane tree in the courtyard, staring at the treetops, searching for poems about going to the mountains with my teacher tomorrow.The prime minister didn't know this person, so he was embarrassed to dazzle people's eyes, so he just flashed the lightning light on the tree, and said to himself: "There are thieves in the tree, if you shine it, you will fall." The guest looked at the dancing things in the master's hand, smiled, and turned his head to one side to ignore it, as if saying: "Kids, play with this!" When we arrived at the hall, two people were playing Go there, and it was almost over. The prime minister stood in the hall, pressed the torch, and shot it everywhere among the dusty rafters, and said, "To catch deserters, use this Good!" The two outsiders didn't understand what they were looking for, so they packed up the chessboard and went back to the room. The Prime Minister was very disappointed, and let out a soft roar of "Go!" and left the reception area. At last they went to the city and wanted to shoot the flashlight out from the top of the city to see if they could shine through the main hall of Tianhou Temple in the opposite river. The temple was so surprised. When the prime minister passed by a tiger grocery store on Zhongsan Street, it was almost dark, and the prime minister pointed the flashlight at the grocery store. A tiger was altering the invoice of Mimi foreign company at the counter. Seeing a cold light, he knew It was the Prime Minister passing by, and he shouted loudly: "Oh no, this old man was shot with a machine gun!" The prime minister couldn't help laughing, and went into the grocery store to see a tiger.Let's ask him to discuss and see which silversmith has good craftsmanship. He will make a plaque with silver and engrave it with the word "machine gun", which will be tied to the end of the flashlight in the future.A tiger promised that he would take care of everything, and the Prime Minister shook the machine gun four or five times below the tiger and left the grocery store. Where are you going?Still go to the top of the city, because the sky has been discredited, and the prime minister knows that going to the city can display the magical effect of that treasure. The Prime Minister's family was waiting for him to come home for dinner, and they all knew the reason why the Prime Minister came home late today.The prime minister is happy, and all the family members are extremely happy. "Wuxi Township Records"
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