Chapter 9 cotton shoes

——Excerpt from Miscellaneous Notes of a Temple Laoer As soon as I mentioned the pair of ripped cotton shoes under my feet, I felt sorry for myself.Sometimes, I would still caress the half-scratched bottom of the skin, take off the wool of the tissue, and drip three or two self-hanging tears at the front and back stitches. But in the past, I only felt pity for myself when I saw the cotton shoes, but the newcomer suffered some unreasonable insults because of the cotton shoes, which made me feel sorry for myself, but also very sad for it! The cotton shoes were bought for me by my younger brother in December last year.At that time, it was almost time to deliver the stove. I lived in an apartment and was at a loss.The younger brother in the village saw that my feet were terribly cold, so he generously put on a set of autumn jackets and went to Pingzemen West Zhaoheng. He accepted three yuan under the contempt of the fat guy, and then ran to a shop in Dashilan In exchange for a pair of dark gray cotton shoes with a single leather sole and dark gray wool.When he tucked one under his left flank and one under his right flank, he happily crashed into the narrow door of my room, because of the cold wind blowing my face, blowing my chest, everything that hit me was helpless , fled into the broken quilt and curled up, rubbing my feet that were swollen and swollen from the wind.

"Okay, okay, let's get up and have a look, try it, I spent a lot of effort to find this foot warmer for you!" The village brother thought I was asleep, and said loudly.The first time I touched the plush surface with my hands, my eyes were wet. The village brother knows what I mean. "Why, can't you?" He deliberately joked, "This thing can't be like women talking about free love and free love. But if you have money, you can still choose and recognize friends as you like, but let's just let it go... ...Rich and powerful people, what is it to find a woman? It is middle-class people, those who do small business to make a living, it is much easier to spend three hundred and two hundred to marry an old lady! However, our pair shoes, but it took a lot of effort—" I didn't want to listen to his words anymore, and hid my head under the quilt.

He seemed to be making a fuss. He didn't ask me if I would listen, but he still talked a lot before he struck up a conversation and transferred him to the Agricultural University. These two cotton shoes were stuck to my pillow the first night, I can't remember how many times I have touched them with my hands! First month, February, March, until now, I have never been separated from it for a single day.It was also by my side when I escaped to Jinzhou. Although I got another pair of woolen shoes when I went to Xizhaoheng for the second time with the village brother’s cloak, but I could only wear them when I went out. Old friends come.Whoever came to see it and asked, "What's the matter, are you still reluctant to part with those old cotton shoes under your feet these days?" He hurriedly said that the ground was damp and he was afraid of foot problems.This is the best answer, both official and true.So second and third, when anyone asks, or enters the room and pays attention to my feet, I will always put on a face and repeat the truth of this foot disease.

"Why, Mian—" I took it over, "I don't know, the ground is wet!" The place where I lived was indeed too wet, maybe it was fate. I changed the house, and in the end, the brick floor was still slippery and wet, and the green was soaked in the four corners, often like a corridor in the south after the rain.Fortunately, I have not heard of swollen feet and sore feet for half a year, and the moisture on the ground can't climb up the foot poles. The cotton shoes are very powerful. Grinding and grinding, the sole and the upper are separated, and the four sons are called buddies.The clerk, who has been impatient with my bad face all the year round, went out with two fingers on the heel of his shoe, and within half an hour he could be seen throwing the shoe through the crack of the door.At this time, I can walk around again, go to the locker room to answer the phone, go to the toilet room to urinate, and I am not afraid to show my thumb in front of people again.

In the past, it was the open end of the left one, and soon, the right one grew along the edge; and soon, the left one gave birth to fur foil from another place... until I left the apartment.In total, the left one, the cobbler got me 12 coins, and the right got 8 coins from me. The guy has been troubled by me, and I have already troubled him five times. It can be found on the upper of the shoe. The one on the right, I borrowed a needle the day before yesterday and sewed it twice. In the current residence, there are bright red lacquered panels under the feet. It seems that there is no need to be afraid of foot diseases, but what magic do I have to find a pair of candidates?The western clothes that the younger brother in the village bought last year have not yet been redeemed, and the autumn wind is blowing again.This place is deserted, coming and going, but in the end there are only a few acquaintances!If you live in the city like before, you can still walk on the road every day. If you are lucky, you can pick up a small wallet. As long as there is a five-yuan bill in the wallet, you will have autumn socks at the same time.In this country, who can drop a wallet for me to pick up?Pitiful!There is no hope.

But in the past few days, the weather has been fine, and there are still many people visiting the mountains. My hope is not dead. I want to find my needs in Banshan Pavilion, or Langfeng Pavilion, or Jianxinzhai, or... whatever it is. .In order to make this hope confirmed in the daylight, I ran here and there all over the mountains every day. Walking and walking, I dragged my cotton shoes out of the house.Mr. students, all paid attention to this peculiar sound, and at the same time, their eyes shone with a strange color.Brethren, is this an indecent thing?Don't laugh at me, don't criticize me, I am not elegant, if I go out and find my luck, I can be like you when I turn around!

I walked to the library.This is a large library for people to visit.A white German-style house houses thousands of old books.Just looking from the outside is a delight!The house is well built, with red-painted wooden railings on the outside. "I want to borrow some books." "Okay," said the steward, his eyes fixed on my feet. Haha, you have good eyesight, you saw my feet - I thought it was funny. I hated my eyes a little, so I wiped the baseboard on the floor on purpose to make it make noises that would make the steward uncomfortable, slap his throat, and make a nauseous sound.He, him, not only showed an ugly look of disgust on his face, but his body also convulsed. …You guys help him think about it, besides checking out the book for me, is there any way to drive me out of the library as soon as possible?

See Xinzhai spring water is extremely clear, flowing glass, just flowing.I hope it's not "seeing the heart", so the sound of the water to me is just like a country old woman chattering in the middle of the night.Maybe it's because my ears are too weak, and many people say that the sound of the spring is music. Although the sound of the spring is tasteless, it is not offensive; compared with the gentlemen next door to my house who talk about literature and art every night, it seems that this old woman's nagging is a little more thorough.So I sat down after proving the wallet was hopeless.

I raised my right leg, tapped my kneecap, shook it, and recited Bai's "Changqing Collection" that I had just borrowed. ... In the stupid aquarium, the useless toad is dirty in shape and fleshy, haunting the mud and sand.At the turn of June and July, when the rain is torrential, the toad gets his wish, and the happiness is beyond measure!The earth is rich in its species, and the sky and its voice can make noise... Bai Weng's poem and Zhang Shiliu's toad poem are excerpted, and they are still very useful today.Unexpectedly, at that time, there would be so many annoying little things!

In today's Beijing city, it is probably raining in June, and there are quite a lot of toads!It must be that there are too many people who love to listen to "advocating the rain department": and many poets have mixed themselves into the frog team, so I don't see anyone coming to write poems with frog again. ………… Two tourists came to meet his own heart by the fountain.One old and one young.The younger one is in their twenties, and the older ones are in their twenties.Although my whole body is valued by myself, it is inferior to a cotton shoe under my feet: but meaningless pride makes me great.Moreover, the old man's face was as gentle and lovely as a ripe peach, so when he approached me, I made his face soft and showed a friendly smile.

"Oh, it's great to read here!" The old man misunderstood me, where am I reading a book?It's funny in my heart, but I can't play haha. He also said: ""Changqing Collection", four series, right?" This is the tone of a Sichuanese. "correct." "The edition is very good." He moved the civilization stick on his left side to his right hand, and took out his left hand to read my book. "Not very good either. Some are okay, some are terrible." Now I can use Hunan dialect. So he sat down, I sat down, and we talked.Heaven and earth, my words seemed to arouse the surprise of the young man next to me.Unfortunately, when I raised my feet, two big cotton shoes came into the eyes of both young and old at the same time.The poetic and unrestrained young man carefully walked to the other side of the pool to ask the old man, the old man was too honest, so he made a random estimate for me!If I had only said that I was a tour guide, the boy would not have noticed anything about my cotton shoes.Maybe as a tour guide, a new pair of shoes will pop out of the boy's pocket. I regretted a little, but I watched them walk out the door slowly. At night, the sun had just set behind the mountains, and some gray clouds covered the sky.The distant mountains are still bright, and there is no wind, so there will be no rain! I chased my fate, and went up to Banshanting from the main road next to the hotel in a bored and rascally way.On the road, I met only three short-clothed men with hoes on their shoulders and cigarette pouches hanging from their waists, humming and singing some unknown songs.This is a worker who goes home to rest, not a gentleman who enjoys the evening scenery of Xishan.It doesn't care about the clouds in the sky or the smoke in distant villages, just like me. Arrived, not far away.Over there, by the doorway, something stopped me.These are two roughly equal shadows, running side by side as if close together.This is not a ghost, there is clearly a murmuring sound.However, I am a little scared.Under the twilight that is half-swallowed by the gods of night, in front of the gloomy doorway, two torches with heat and no light are burning and mixing. There is nothing more terrifying than this in my life! That one, from the white silhouette of the straw hat, it can be seen that it is the male one, and the head is closer to the other one. "Haha, you guys are kissing!" The soles of my shoes rang under my feet. After all, the girl has good ears. When the chin wearing the white straw hat was sent over for the second time, she hurriedly refused and turned around. Things that fall into my eyes are like sand and thorns, itching in the eyes and pain in the heart.I soon understood my duty to withdraw immediately. What a blessed couple!Don't worry, no one will disturb you again!I bumped into you inadvertently before, please don't worry too much!Today the moon will not come out immediately, except for the stars and fireflies.In such a gentle and quiet place, just hug and kiss until your enthusiasm is exhausted.Just hug, do what you have to do, let it shake your body the most, until your enthusiasm is exhausted. I escaped quietly. People who haven't taken off their cotton shoes, of course, shouldn't envy others. It was getting darker.My eyes were dim, and I couldn't tell who was coming from five steps away.Look at the body, and don't move around for a while. "Well, it's Shen, what's wrong with you?" It's our boss, Mr. Chief of the Education Section. He hit my shoe with the little dog-beating stick he was holding, and I thought he was asking me what I was doing up the hill at night, or what color my face was, but then he hit my shoe again: "Why, shoe— ——"meaning how not to get involved, it's unsightly.I get it. "It sucks. I don't have the ability to buy shoes, so—" He didn't let me finish, smiled, and left.As for why I told my boss these things, I couldn't think of a second better answer afterwards, because I can't say witty words to my boss, and I can't make jokes, so it's just a joke made by God, It was too dark, and I couldn't tell what kind of shoes I was wearing, so my boss judged my guilt from the strange sound of the shoes. Smiling, I thought I was intentionally indecent.Indecent is right.But, boss!What kind of Jaffa do you want from me?Although I am still young, I can look like a gentleman and walk with a waddle; but I am a useless person, and I don't have a rich father who gave me money to educate me.People who have not read books, how can they imagine that other gentlemen are so civilized and refined? The black shadow of the boss disappeared in the smoke, leaving only the sound of rattling leather boots, and I felt sad for my cotton shoes. ...Why do you still want your boss to use a dog-beating stick to scare you into beating you?You showed up in public at the wrong time, and made the eyes of the two young girls at the gate of the girls' school yesterday praise and criticize, I feel very uncomfortable in my heart!Didn't that woman at the Langfeng Pavilion yesterday walk away when she saw you, or if she didn't bother to be with you, she hurried away?If the boss's dog-beating stick is used as a civilized stick, it is enough to represent his own civilization; if it is used as a pointer, then only those male and female sheep who are restless in the prison will be beaten; if it is used to prevent dogs from biting, You can only take a few hits after gnawing on his foot... In any case, you shouldn't be hit by him for no reason two or three times!Oh, my poor shoes!Your fate is too bad!Why was it that when it was displayed in a decent shiny glass cabinet, how many people chose it, but they didn’t buy you, but ran to me, a poor man, and taught you a lot of hard work that you shouldn’t have to suffer, and how much you shouldn’t eat Mud, despite being insulted by women for no reason, and being beaten repeatedly by others?Oh, poor shoes!My shoe of the same fate! On September 5, 1925, in the West Building of Jingyi Garden, Xishan