Chapter 15 autumn willow

one In a dark, medium-sized basement room, there are several criss-cross beds.There is a small window on the north wall opposite to the door. The light of a clear morning in mid-October shines through the window, and on the bed under the small window, a young man in his mid-twenties is sleeping. come.The young man's face was tired, his sleepy face was bloodless, but because of the bad light in the room, it was even paler and frighteningly pale.The thick and long black hair on his head is his only beauty point, and it is fluffy scattered on a white cloth western pillow.There are two beds near the door in the room, and the quilts have been neatly folded. The owners of these two beds, who are used to getting up early every day, have gone somewhere.There were no mosquito nets on the three beds.

There are two tables in the room, one is placed under the north wall, leaning against the head of the bed where the young man is sleeping, and the other is placed next to the door.Spread out on the two tables are some soap boxes, mirrors, cigarette jars, stationery, and several copies of Ding'an's complete works "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and the like.The table against the north wall is probably reserved for young people sleeping on the bed, because among the messy books in cans and boxes there is a foreign book with red leather and a light green diary, in the dark room Put a strange brilliance.There are two rows of horizontal characters written on the diary, "1921 Diary" and "Yu Zhifu".The title of the foreign book is "The Earthly Paradise" "By William Marris".

There is only one small door facing south in this place, and outside the door is the eaves, and outside the eaves is the courtyard. The sun's rays coming in from the patio gradually shone into the basement, and the dust floating in the basement could be seen in the sunlight. The young man who fell asleep on the bed opened half of his eyes and looked out the door. He felt that the sunlight was so strong that his eyes could not be opened.Turning inside, he hissed back to sleep.It was nine thirty-fifty in the morning, and now it was the quietest time in this small inn in a secluded alley, so the young man had to try his best to covet his peaceful sleep.

After half an hour, a man of about forty-five or sixteen years old, with a strong build, wearing a pair of dark glasses and a bald patch on his head ran in, approached the young man's bedside and yelled.Say: "Master! Where did you go last night? You haven't woken up yet?" The young man turned over, wiped his eyes, yawned, and said: "Oh! Mingxian! You came so early!" "It's almost ten o'clock, and it's early! Where were you last night?" "I was gossiping at Wu Fengshi's house last night, and I didn't come back until twelve o'clock. The governor said that the students who caused trouble were expelled. What happened?"

"I'm afraid it will be funny for a few more days!" After hearing this sentence, the stockman sat up from his blue silk quilt.Putting on a long-sleeved nightgown made when he was studying abroad, he ran out the door and went to the kitchen behind to wash his face and brush his teeth. Zhifu looked at the bright blue sky, brushed his teeth, and thought about the adventures he and Wu Fengshi went to work last night.When he finished washing his face and went back to his room to change into foreign clothes, Ming Xian was sitting on the table by the door of the room, reading "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty".After changing into the foreign clothes, the quality husband said to Ming Xian:

"Ming Xian! I'm really impatient to wait. We are here to teach, not to take refuge. If I hang in the air for another week or two, I'm afraid I will become extremely neurasthenic. !" From Zhifu's point of view, the current fad in the Fazheng College can be easily resolved.If a few troublemakers are expelled, and the governor or the director of education welcomes all the principal and staff back to school, everything will be fine.But this time, the turmoil lasted for more than a week, and it still could not be resolved, all because the governor was indecisive.Although he was so angry, he had some thoughts in his heart that he hoped that this incident would be prolonged for a few more days.Because Fazheng School is far outside the city, if the incident is resolved, after moving back to the school, it would be very difficult for him to go to work in the city during the day, and it would be even more inconvenient for him to enter the city at night because the city gates were closed early. Last night, The girl Wu Fengshi introduced to him, Haitang, had a bad face, but she was always a woman.At present, women have been cut off as hostages for two or three months. They only ask for a woman, and it is enough to talk to her, and ask about beauty and ugliness.What's more, the Haitang I saw last night seemed to be very loyal, and the hostess had already felt a little pity. If Haitang could treat him with all his heart, he would try his best to repay her. .

The quality husband and Ming chatted for a while, and then ran to the street for a stroll. two The autumn wind on the north bank of the Yangtze River is getting cooler day by day.After the Fazheng School incident was resolved, it has been almost a week since Shifu moved back to live in the school. The students who caused the disturbance have all been expelled. Because the warlord Li Maizong refused to allow him to be the leader of the education circle, Principal Lu For the future of the school, he himself resigned.That day was Principal Lu's last day at school. Since Principal Lu came to this school, everything has been rectified. Not only the people in the educational circles in Area A admire him, but even the few students who made trouble this time also admire him in their hearts.Most of the students who are generally neutral, when the turmoil occurs, although they don't come out to fight, they all fear Principal Lu like a father and love him like a mother. When they hear that he is going to resign, they all become lost shepherd boys The lost sheep just don't know what to do.In the past few days, the school's boarding dormitory has been like a heap of cold ashes, and no one speaks loudly even when he is free to talk.Among the teaching staff, most of them were hired by Principal Lu. After this turmoil, and seeing Principal Lu go again, they all feel sad.Because the successor principal is the most honest Xu Mingxian among colleagues, everyone can't resign, but everyone has no determination in their hearts, and they probably won't be far away.

Principal Lu had two hours of class early in the morning, and distributed the unfinished lecture notes to the students in Classes 1, 2, and 2. When he left the class, he said to the students: "I'm planning for the school itself. It's better to resign. You should study hard in the future. Don't let others say that you are not good. That is the best expression of your love for me. Although I have resigned now, your honor and disgrace, I I still regard it as my own honor and disgrace." After saying these few words, the eyes of the students in Classes 1, 2, and 2 turned red.

When ten o'clock struck, all the students of the school gathered in the lecture hall to listen to Principal Lu's lecture. The calm and open-minded Principal Lu, without changing his usual attitude, straightened his five-foot-eight-inch body, amplified his guttural voice like a bell, and said to the students: "I think you all know the whole story of this turmoil, so I don't want to say any more. But I am here, and Li Mai is always unwilling to give up. Rather than making Li Mai destroy this school for my own sake, it is better to sacrifice I personally want to keep this school safe. When I am about to leave, there are three things that I hope you can keep in mind in the future. The first is to pay attention to order. The lack of order is a common problem of us Chinese. In the future, I hope that you Order can be maintained at any time. If order can be maintained, then no matter what you can do. The second is to take care of your health. We don’t pay attention to sports in China, so most of the people are prematurely aging and cannot achieve great things. In the future, I hope If you can take care of your body and make your healthy spirit have a healthy place to attach to, then we will have hope in China. The third is to respect learning. When we are angry, although learning is useless and a gentleman is poisoned, but Ninety-nine return to the original, knowledge is our foundation after all, if the foundation is not solid, we will not be able to achieve great things and create great achievements after all.”

Principal Lu said a few simple words like this, and when he came down leisurely, there were a few weeping sounds in the auditorium, which could be heard.Zhifu looked at Principal Lu's unmoving face, saw his calm and relaxed attitude of a martyr, and was suppressed by the quiet air in the auditorium. There was already a sentimental feeling, and Hearing the student's sobbing, he immediately felt his eyes sore.Before everyone could adjourn the meeting, the quality husband ran back to the room alone. On the day Principal Lu went to school, Zhifu only felt a kind of grief and anger in his heart, and he had nowhere to vent, so he also took half a day off in the second half of the day, and ran into the city. He walked on the street for a while, always feeling bored. Unknowingly, his two feet walked towards the Golden Trout Alley where the officials and prostitutes gathered.At the gate of Lu and Ban, when he was hesitating, several men standing inside the gate yelled and said:

"Lead the way! Miss Haitang's room!" After hearing these calls, the stockman had no choice but to run in immediately.Haitang's short fake mother came out with a few wrinkles on her nose and a smile.Shifu entered the room and saw Haitang having breakfast there.She pinched the rice bowl in her hand and stood up from the table.Today she is decorated differently than last time.There is a braid on her head, and she is wearing a blue satin padded jacket, a green and gray bamboo cloth single shirt, and a pair of crab green lake crepe trousers underneath.She probably woke up just now, and the blood on her face hadn't flowed yet, so she felt paler than before. The shiny braids that were newly combed gave her a pitiful look.The stockman approached her and asked her: "Did you eat breakfast or lunch?" "We get up at this time every day, and we don't have any breakfast or lunch." After saying this, a sad smile appeared on her face, and the husband suddenly felt that she was cute, so he said to her: "Eat yours, don't come to greet me." After she put away her rice bowl, she smiled again and said: "I've finished eating, why doesn't Master Wu come today?" "He still has something to do, he always comes around at night." The fake mother brought a three-battery to ask the stockman to smoke, and the stockman took it and said to her: "thanks!" After the hostess sat down on the edge of the bed, the false mother asked him: "Master Yu, Mrs. Haitang is waiting for you, why don't you always come? Mr. Wu comes here every night." "He lives in the city, and I live outside the city. Of course I can't always come with him." Beside her, Haitang just listened blankly to the gossip between the hostess and her false mother.Neither came to interrupt, nor glanced at the stockman.She closed her upside-down eyes and smoked a cigarette there. The false mother ran out of things to say, so she talked intermittently about the recent bad business in the team, the monthly expenses, and Haitang's inability to entertain guests.Zhida didn't like the fake mother at first, and he was even more unhappy after hearing these words.So he left her behind, approached Haitang, and said to Haitang: "Haitang, what are you thinking here?" While talking, the hostess stretched out his hand and plucked her face.Haitang slowly raised her blunt eyes, smiled slightly at the hostess, and stretched out her hand to pinch the hostess's hand.Seeing that the two of them were having fun playing there, the false mother also ran out.The hostess took Haitang's hand and went to bed with her and fell asleep.The two faced outward, their heads resting on the folded quilt in the bed.Shifu glanced at Haitang, but her eyes were still fixed on the top of the bed.The stockman rested his head on her chest, and she only smiled slightly.The hostess felt that he had nothing to say to her, so he asked her softly: "How did your mother treat you?" She just replied to him: "there is nothing." Just at this time, a grown up and fat wet nurse came in with a seven or eight month old baby in her arms.The checker stood up from the bed, went up to look at the little doll, and Haitang followed, and the checker asked her: "Is it your child?" She shook her head and said: "No, it belongs to my sister." "Where did your sister go?" "have no idea." After answering a few questions like this, the nurse took the child out for a look, and the nurse went to the back room.The back room was originally the nurse's bedroom. The stockman sat down for a while, said a few gossips, and walked out from there.He walked southward on the narrow street for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, he went to a Muslim restaurant alone for dinner.This Jiaomen restaurant surnamed Yang, although it doesn't have a big facade, has a very handsome daughter-in-law who works as the locker, so every time the hostess goes to the city, he always goes to that restaurant to eat. As soon as the hostess entered the store, he looked for the daughter-in-law with his quick eyes, but today he didn't know where she went, and he couldn't find her downstairs.When the hostess walked upstairs slowly, several servants upstairs greeted him together. When he looked up, he met the daughter-in-law at the door.The daughter-in-law smiled at him, and the hostess blushed. Because he was wearing a foreign suit, everyone in the store knew him. As soon as he went upstairs, several servants asked him to go to that room. to the hut on the corner.One is that the depression this morning has not dissipated, and the other is that when I went to see Haitang in the afternoon, I felt that she was very cold, and Zhifu always felt happy and unhappy.After seeing the smile on the woman's face that time, although he felt lighter in his heart, he always felt a little lonely.When he wrote a request form and went to invite Wu Fengshi to have a drink together, he was only thinking about the fun in the overseas coffee shop: "If it's in a foreign coffee shop, then I can pull the daughter-in-law over and hug her on my lap. I can also give a few glasses of wine mouth to mouth, and I can touch her up and down. Alas, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have been born in China." "The treat is coming back soon, what dishes do you want?" A middle-aged Huizi asked again. "I'll talk to you when the guest comes!" After a while, Wu Fengshi came.A tall and handsome gentleman of thirty-one and twenty-two, as soon as we saw him, we knew that he was a man of good luck in the world of flowers and willows.His comely and wise face, clean clothes, and clear voice of his speech are all fascinating.Zhi Fu glanced at him, and by comparison, he felt that his family should not be able to win in Chinese society.As soon as Feng Shi entered the hostel's hut, he asked: "Master! Why did you come here alone?" Zhi Fu went to Haitang's house just now, how Haitang treated him, he was bored in thinking, so he ran here and told the plot.Fengshi laughed and said: "You are so bold, you dare to go to work alone under the bright daylight. That stupid girl Haitang, she was like this in the first place, and she didn't treat you coldly. Because she can't deal with customers, there are very few customers recently. I because of I love her honesty, so I introduced it for you, if you don’t like it, I’ll go to another team with you and find someone else.” Hearing this, the hostess thought back, and felt that Haitang's attitude just now was a sign of her stupidity, not a cold reception. He also heard that she had few customers recently, but he felt a sense of chivalry in his heart, so he made an oath to himself Say: "If I want to save the world, I must first save the individual. Since Haitang is so short-winged that she can't catch her, I will do my best for her." Zhifu drank a few glasses of wine and complained a lot to Wu Fengshi, moved by his own sad and intense tone, shed a few tears of self-injury.After speaking, he amplified his voice and said: "Poor that blunt Begonia, just like me, neither beautiful nor charming, so she ended up in a very miserable life. Alas, you are not famous and you are not married, so pitiful is not as good as a human being." After reading this, the stockman suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "Baitang Haitang, I will help you in the future, I feel that I love you very much. The person who buried the flower today is laughing like a fool, but I will know who it is in the next year!" When it was time to light the lamp, after dinner, Shifu immediately wanted to go back to school, but after being persuaded by Feng Shi several times, he went back to the deer and the class.At that time, he was still a little drunk, so he spoke a lot of chivalrous words to Haitang, Fengshi's lover He Zhu, and He Zhu's niece, an upright official Bi Tao.Just like the martial arts singer in the theater, Shifu slapped his chest, and cried out half-truthfully: "I used to be a good man who sacrificed his righteousness to wealth, Haitang! You don't have to feel lonely, I will put up an advertisement for you tomorrow, and recruit some rich masters to deal with you!" After Haitang heard this, she also spat at him, and Betao, who was only fifteen years old this year, was wearing a boy's long gown and mandarin jacket. Seeing the stockman's amused expression, she ran up to him and called him: "Hey, are you crazy?" The quality man looked at Bi Tao's shape, and suddenly felt Wu Chisheng, who he hadn't seen for two months.So he ran up behind her, put his body on her back, and asked her to get on the bed and talk to Fengshi Hezhu. Tonight, Feng Shi persuaded the hostess Shanglu and Ban Haitang to come here to relieve the anger of the hostess during the day.So as soon as he joined the team, Feng Shi walked into Haitang's room with Zhifu.Feng Shi's lover He Zhu and He Zhu's niece Bi Tao also ran over because Feng Shi was there.Feng Shi asked Haitang's false mother to buy opium cigarettes for one yuan because he said that he was too full from dinner tonight and could not digest it, and burned it on the bed. With one bite, he stood up from the bed, and played the funny drama of the righteous hero with Haitang Bitao.The hostess lay on Bitao's back, and after asking Bitao to put her back on the edge of the bed, he pulled Bitao and fell asleep on the side of the cigarette tray, facing Fengshi, who was sleeping on his side to burn the cigarettes, and the lotus beads lay on Fengshi's body , talking quietly to him.After the hostess Rabitao fell asleep, Bitao rode on him and asked about all kinds of irrelevant things.The quality man explained to her earnestly, and she also listened earnestly there.After talking for a while, Feng Shi and He Zhu's secret words stopped.After the hostess heard their secret conversation stop, he felt that he had talked too much, so he glanced at He Zhu who was opposite, and He Zhu was just standing there watching him and Bi Tao's eyes meet, He Zhu burst out laughing.This is Hezhu's unique loveliness, and she blushes the husband when she laughs.Hezhu smiled and said to the stockman: "You two seem to be best friends! Master Yu, you can just be my nephew!" The stockman raised his head, and said to Haitang who was sitting blankly on the chair in front of the bed: "Hai Tang! He Zhu wants to recognize me as his nephew, would you like her to be your aunt?" Haitang only smiled slightly when she heard this, and walked to the edge of the bed and sat down. The hostess sat in the Haitang room until after twelve o'clock that night. When he walked from the soft and bright prostitute's room to the dark and deserted street outside, the hostess suddenly had a cold spasm.He looked up at the blue sky.From the narrow street, I can only see a long and narrow strip of bottomless sky, with a few stars floating high above the clear night air.A kind of lonely sadness after joy suddenly occupied the quality husband's heart.Feng Shi wants to keep the hostess in the city, but the hostess refuses anyway.He asked Feng Shi for a ticket to leave the city, and the pledgee took a rickshaw, and ran down the city gate of the north gate from the street behind the sleepless people.The policeman guarding the city gate saw the hostess in his western attire and silently opened the door for him.The stockman got out of the car and went out of the city gate. On a rough country road, he stumbled and walked back to the school.He was surrounded by dark night air, and when he looked up, he could only see a blue-black endless blue sky and a few flickering autumn stars.A black shadow of the city wall was entrenched above the moat on his right hand like a monster, and a few faint barks of dogs flew from a distance, as if singing a funeral dirge below the city.The stockman returned to the school and opened the door with a soft call.I went to my room, lit a foreign candle, changed my clothes and went to bed, I could already hear the crowing of roosters in the distance. three The autumn light outside the city is getting old.In the Linghu Park near Fazheng School, there is a bleak scene of withered, willow and elm trees beside the road. In the cold morning, although there is no breeze, the rustling yellow leaves are rustling and falling down.In the slightly cold morning, I feel that the warm and soft heavy quilt is lovely. The innate love and dislike have cooperated with the quality of the propaganda, and recently the trend of wandering has become popular among the teaching staff of the legal and political school in A place. One day, when Zhifu, Ni Longan, and Xu Mingxian were discussing the romantic history of Tokyo, the loyal Xu Mingxian blushed and sighed: "The gathering and parting of life is so strange! Five or six years ago, when I was debauched, there was a prostitute I was very good with. I accidentally met him at a friend's table yesterday. A bad prostitute would always It is the first wealthy brothel in A, and then ran away with a little boy and disappeared. I was surprised when I saw her haggard appearance at the banquet yesterday. She said that little boy was dead , now she changed her name to Cuiyun, and she is still receiving guests in Luheban. She looked at my coarse clothes and seemed to be worried about me. She asked me how I am now. , it’s hard for her to shed a little sympathetic tears for me, and taught me to go to her place when I have free time.” Hearing this, the stockman also let out a long sigh, smiled sadly, and said to Ming Xian: "There is still a gift of ti robes. I should pity Fan Shuhan. I don't know the people of the world, so I look at them as ordinary clothes." After Xu Ming walked away first, Zhi Fu said softly to Long An: "The Lu and Banli, I also have a woman there, I will take you for a stroll sometime, and by the way, I can find out about Empress Cuiyun." It turned out that Xu Ming took over the post of principal Lu first, and his colleagues were all better than Zhao Kuangyin.This time, they called the Chenqiao Mutiny.So Zhifu called Xu Mingxian's old friend the queen. After this turmoil, the air in the school became very gray.When the faculty and staff meet the students, they always feel oppressed. When Zhifu was in class, he felt that the eyes of the students were all there saying - are you still here!We are not pitying you, are you leaving too? ——Therefore, when the teacher heard the bell for class, he always felt that he was slow to go forward, but he was opposed to his brave mind before the storm. There were days when he was afraid of meeting the students.After class, he felt like a person who was exempted from a certain kind of hard labor, feeling a little light, but when he thought about going to class tomorrow and seeing the indifferent faces of those students, he felt depressed.At this time, he would have no choice but to run into the city, or go to the Jiaomen Pavilion surnamed Yang to get drunk, or go to Haitang's to kill the midnight.So after the fad was over, after moving into the school for the second time, the quality husband always had to go to the city every day.Looking at his colleagues, he also felt that they were suffering mentally just like him. After listening to Xu Mingxian's words, Zhi Fu unknowingly spread the gospel of wandering to Ni Longan, and urged him to go to Luhe class to find out about Cuiyun.After hearing this, Ni Longan pretended to be terrified and said to the hostess: "You are so brave. What if you are bumped into by a student?" The quality man answered him: "Sex is so big. My teacher may not do it, but I don't want to be bound by morality. Students can whoring, but can't teachers not? Those opposition parties who want to attack us morally, if you carefully Go investigate and investigate, I am afraid they will do more obscene things there!" These few words moved Ni Longan's heart, and a smile appeared on his pale yellow and slender face and said: "But it should always be kept secret." The next day is Saturday, and there are no classes in the afternoon.After finishing his lunch, Zhifu ran into Longan's room and said to Longan quietly: "Tonight I agreed to play cards for her in Haitang's room. You can be considered a partner. One is Wu Fengshi, and the other is Fengshi's friend. We call his niece and son-in-law Cheng Shuhe. Do you know him or not? ? Now I'm going to the city, waiting for you at Feng Shi's house, after you have dinner, come to the city immediately!" At six o'clock in the afternoon in the short winter days, the city streets of City A are fully transformed into night scenes.On the busiest street, the shops on both sides have turned on the lights, and the shopkeeper is chewing the leftover grains after the meal in his big mouth, and stands around the counter blankly, watching the passers-by.When a woman walked by, they chatted and laughed in whispers.People who just came to the provincial capital from the countryside squeezed the pipe in their hands and walked slowly on the four or five feet wide street, looking east and west.The rickshaw driver who answered the bell rang the bell, shouted loudly to give way, cursed people, and ran there desperately.If there are women or prostitutes sitting in the car, they scream louder and run faster, pitiful for their perverted sexual desires, apart from being truly satisfied at this moment, they can only vent to the prostitutes who have a lot of viruses .In the narrow brothel alley, rickshaws were being piled up at this moment, presenting a lively scene in the yellow-gray light.After the emissary from the restaurant came with a small note, those living Buddhas who adjusted their sexual desires pretended to be glamorous, and ran away in a rickshaw as if they were flying.On the street with restaurants, there are a few messy rickshaws parked on both sides, and the air is filled with the smell of fried fish, where they lure the wandering middle class to drink and courteously.In the windows of several restaurants, there were shadows of men and women reflected, while the melancholy sound of the huqin strings and the crisp sound of meat radiated into the cold, grayish-yellow air outside.A group of prolific carnal suitors stood underneath, smelling the fragrance across the water.There were also those who made a serious face and stood to taste the taste of the fleshy sound, and there were also those who cried out in despair and walked away slowly. At this time, Zhifu, Wu Fengshi, and Ni Longan walked down the long street slowly, looked around at the entrance of Qianqian Lane, and then hurried in.They walked two steps into the alley, and met a speeding rickshaw.The quality man raised his head and saw that it was Bi Tao and He Zhu.Bi Tao was wearing a silver-gray satin gown, a small black iron machine satin vest, and a round melon skin hat on one side, sitting on He Zhu's body. There is often a layer of red and white floating, a pair of big eyes that stare at people, like owls in this dark night, staring at the passers-by.The hostess is because she is still young and innocent, and secondly because she resembles Wu Chisheng in some ways, and originally liked her more than Haitang. When I met her in this place, I felt even more painful when I saw her like this. Love, so I rushed forward, grabbed the rickshaw and shouted: "Bitao, where are you going?" Bi Tao said in her child's guttural voice that hadn't turned turbid yet: "Oh, are you here? Let's go sit down first, we're going to get out of the game in the first spring, and we'll be back." Hearing her childlike voiceless voice, the hostess was even more reluctant to let her go, so he took her by the hand and said, "Bitao, come down, just ask Hezhu to go alone, come down and go to your house with me." Bitao also stretched out a small hand to pinch the stockman's hand and said: "I'm sorry, you go first, I'll be back, please wait for fifteen minutes at most." The stockman had no choice but to take her little hand to his mouth, took a bite, and said to her: "Then come back quickly, I have something important to tell you." Zhifu and Ni Wu went to Haitang's room, and there was already a cigarette tray on her bed.The three of them lit a cigarette on the bed for a while, and Cheng Shuhe also came.Shuhe is about thirty or so, and he is also a tall and thin man, with a few red spots on his face, wearing a pair of myopia glasses, and there is often a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, because he is a child of Hezhu. His niece, an upright official, is a guest of Bitao, so everyone calls him his niece and son-in-law.It turns out that the most popular girl in this Luhe class is Hezhu.The second is Bitao, but the redness of Bitao is only due to the lotus beads.The quality man looked at He Zhu's handsome face, and described it with a half-smile, a strong flesh color with some red and black, and a figure that was neither long nor short. Although he loved her in his heart, but because she was too red, his robbery The spirit of helping the poor never allowed him to have a good impression of He Zhu.Wu Fengshi was an old customer of He Zhu when he was humble, and he has been in and out for five or six years. Not only He Zhu has a special affection for him, but also the master of Lu and Banli has a little awe of him.Therefore, Hezhu is the most popular girl in Luhe's class, and Wu Fengshi is the most powerful prostitute in Luhe's class. into.This is the origin of Cheng Shuhe's nickname, niece and son-in-law. After Uncle Cheng arrived, Feng Shi ordered Haitang to set up a table to play cards.When the table was being set, there was a burst of shouting outside the door, and Bi Tao jumped into Haitang's room.Just as Bi Tao jumped out, Shifu also ran over and hugged her tightly.Step by step, he hugged Bitao to the bed, and the quality man pushed Bitao on Cheng Shuhe's body and said: "Uncle, after all, Bi Tao belongs to you. I bumped into her on the road just now and asked her to come back, but she refused no matter what. Now as soon as you arrive here, you can see that she jumped back immediately." Uncle Cheng smiled and asked Bitao: "Where are you out?" "First spring." "Who called?" "Master Jin." Shifu went on to say: "Is He Zhu back?" Bi Tao's eyes were bare, her mouth pointed, and she pretended to be angry and replied vigorously: "do not know!" The table was set, Wu Fengshi, Ni Longan, Cheng Shuhe took their seats.Shifu didn't like playing cards at first, and wanted to gossip with Bitao tonight, so he asked Haitang to play for him. After the four of them sat down, the quality man walked up to Bi Tao who was sitting behind Uncle He and said softly: "Bitao, are you still mad at me?" Saying this, the quality man put his hands and body on Bi Tao's shoulders.Bi Tao moved her body to the left, but the stockman took a break and fell on Shuhe's back. Everyone laughed.Bi Tao laughed so hard that she couldn't sit still, she stood up and ran away, and the stockman chased her twice before he caught her.Holding one of her hands, the quality man dragged her to the bed, and after the two bodies fell asleep on the side where the cigarette trays were stacked, the quality man said to her softly: "Bitao, are you really angry or fake?" "How about it?" "Really?" "Hey! Really, it's up to you to mess with me!" "Is it true? Then I love you to death." After saying this, the quality man hugged her fiercely, and brought his mouth close to Bi Tao's face, biting hard, suddenly two tears fell down his face.Bitao was bitten by him and wanted to scream loudly, but when she looked at him, she was surprised when she saw that there was a pool of clear water in those flexible eyes, and two tears had already flowed down her cheeks. , just froze.The stockman stared at her blankly for a while, then gently called her to say: "Bitao, I have a lot to say to you, but I still feel like I can't say it." After another pause, the quality man said to her quietly one by one: "When I was three years old, my father died. At that time, our family had no money and was very poor. I studied in the study room, and because my husband loved me very much, I was often bullied by my schoolmates. I didn't have any money. Qili, beat them, but after being bullied by them, I always cry alone. If I tell my husband, then my husband must punish them. Well, if you tell me once, next time they bully me It must be worse. If I tell my mother, my poor mother, who was sad, will always cry with us. Because of this, I have been deceived, and I can only swallow my tears alone. Go to the stomach. Since then, I have become a timid, hopeless, and powerless person day by day. When I was twelve years old, I met a daughter from our neighbor, and I loved her very much in my heart. But I was scared, so I could only look at her shadow from a distance, because as soon as she approached me, I felt as sad as if I was about to die. I thought about her every day and every night for two years, but I never saw her face to face She was once. When I talked to her, needless to say, there was no more. Is it strange to you? Later, she became friends with one of my schoolmates. Everyone said bad things about her, and I often defended her in my heart. Now she I married another man, and I heard that three or four children were born. I entered middle school at the age of fourteen, and was bullied by my classmates. At the age of eighteen, I went to Japan with my brother, just running around. The one who went there has been running for seven or eight years. They are Japanese, they bullied me even more. I dragged this one until this autumn. You see, the half-dead body came back to China. In Shanghai, I accidentally met A friend, his surname is also Wu, his appearance is not much different from yours, and he is even younger than you. He is sick, his face is very pale, but he is also very good-looking, like transparent white glass Yes. When he talks, his voice is just like yours. After playing with him in Shanghai for half a month, I realized that I will never come without him. But I can’t live with him for a few days. My friends here Another telegram to urge me to come up here, and I had to separate from him. The night I got on board, when he came to see me off, guess what, the two of us hugged like this, I cried all night. I have been here for more than two months, and I am very busy, and the things I do are tasteless. I haven’t written to him yet. Now that the weather is cold, I am afraid that his illness will get worse again. Ah! It was only after Master Wu introduced me half a month ago that I recognized Haitang and you. Haitang is not beautiful, she is stupid, and she has no customers. Although I feel sorry for her and want to help her, but I also I don't have much money, so I can redeem her. You are so good and cute. When I see you, it's like seeing my friend named Wu. But you, you are not mine. Because you and Haitang is in the same team, and it’s not easy for me to come to you every day to talk to you, and you are very busy, so it’s not easy for me to meet you often even if I come here. It’s rare to meet you today, and you are so angry Now, do you think I am uncomfortable or not?" 质夫悠悠扬扬的诉说了一番，说得碧桃也把两只眼睛合了下去。质夫看了她这副小孩似的悲哀的样子，心里更觉得痛爱，便又拼命的紧紧抱了一回。质夫正想把嘴拿上她脸上去的时候，坐在打牌的四个人。忽而大叫了起来。碧桃和质夫两人也同时跳出大床，走近打牌的桌子边上去。原来程叔和赢了一副三番的大牌，大家都在那里喝采。 不多一忽荷珠回来了。吴风世就叫她代打，他同质夫走上烟铺上睡倒了。质夫忽想起了许明先说的翠云，就问着说： “风世，这班子里有一个翠云，你认识不认识？” 吴风世呆了一呆说： “你问她干什么？” “我打算为龙庵去叫她过来。” “好极好极！” 吴风世便命海棠的假母去请翠云姑娘过来。 翠云半老了，脸色苍黄，一副憔悴的形容，令人容易猜想到她的过去的浪漫史上去。纤长的身体，瘦得很，一双狭长的眼睛里常有盈盈的两泓清水浮着，梳妆也非常潦草，有几条散乱的发丝挂在额上，穿的是一件天青花缎的棉袄，花样已不流行了，底下是一条黑缎子的大脚裤。她进海棠房里之后，质夫就叫碧桃为龙庵代了牌，自家作了一个介绍，让龙庵和翠云倒在烟铺上睡下。质夫和翠云、龙庵，风世讲了几句闲话，便走到碧桃的背后去看她打牌。海棠的假母拿了一张椅子过来让他坐了。质夫坐下看了一忽，渐渐把身体靠了过去，过了十五六分钟，他却和碧桃坐在一张椅子上了。他用一只手环抱着碧桃的腰部，一只手在那里帮她拿牌，不拿牌的时候质夫就把那只手摸到她的身上去，碧桃只作不知，默默的不响。 打牌打到十一点钟，大家都不愿意再打下去。收了场摆好一桌酒菜，他们就坐拢来吃。质夫因为今天和碧桃讲了一场话，心里觉得凄凉，又觉得痛快，就拼命的喝起酒来，这也奇怪，他今天晚上愈喝酒愈觉得神经清敏起来，怎么也喝不醉，大家喝了几杯，就猜起拳来。今天质夫是东家，所以先由质夫打了一个通关。碧桃叫了三拳，输了三拳，质夫看她不会喝酒，倒替她喝了两杯。海棠输了两拳，质夫也替她代了一杯酒。喝酒喝得差不多了，质夫就叫拿稀饭来。各人吃了一二碗腕稀饭，席就散了。躺在床上的烟盘边上，抽了两口烟，质夫就说： “今天龙庵第一次和翠云相会，我们应该到翠云房里去坐一忽儿。” 大家赞成了，就一同上翠云房里去。说了一阵闲话，程叔和走了。质夫和龙庵、风世正要走的时候，荷珠的假母忽来对质夫说： “于老爷，有一件事情要同你商量，请你上海棠姑娘房里来一次。” 质夫莫名其妙，就跟上她上海棠房里去，质夫一走进房，海棠的假母就避开了。荷珠的假母先笑了一脸，慢慢的对质夫说： “于老爷，我今晚有一件事情要对你说，不晓得你肯不肯赏脸？” “你说出来罢！” “我想替你做媒，请你今晚上留在这里过夜。” 质夫正在惊异，没有作答的时候，她就笑着说： “你已绎答应了，多谢多谢！” 听了这话，海棠的假母也走了出来，匆匆忙忙的对质夫说： “于老爷，谢谢，我去对倪老爷吴老爷说一声，请他们先回去。” 质夫听了这话，看她三脚两步的走出门去了。心里就觉得不快活起来。质夫叫等一等，她却同不听见一样，径自出门去了。质夫就站了起来，想追出去，却被荷珠的假母一把拖住说： “你何必出去，由他们回去就对了。” 质夫心里着起急来，想出去又难以为情，想不去又觉得不好。正在苦闷的时候，龙庵却同风世走了进来。风世笑微微的问质夫说： “你今晚留在这里么？” 质夫急得脸红了，便格格的回答说： “那是什么话，我定要回去的。” 荷珠的假母便制着质夫说： “于老爷，你不是答应我了么？怎么又要变卦？” 质夫又格格的说： “什么话，什么话，我……我何尝答应你来。” 龙庵青了脸跑到质夫面前，用了日本话对质夫说： “质夫，我同你是休戚相关的，你今晚怎么也不应该在这里过夜。第一我们的反对党可怕得很，第二在这等地方，总以不过夜为是，免得人家轻笑你好色。” 质夫听了这话，就同大梦初醒的一样，决心要回去，一边用了英文对风世说： “这是一种侮辱，他们太看我不起了。难道我对海棠那样的姑娘，还恋她的姿色不成？” 风世听了便对质夫好意的说： “这倒不是这样的，人家都知道你对海棠是一种哀怜。你要留宿也没有什么大问题的，你若不愿意，也可以同我们一同回去的。” 龙庵又用了日本话对质夫说： “我是负了责任来劝你的，无论如何请你同我回去。” 海棠的假母早已看出龙庵的样子来了，便跑出去把翠云叫了过来，托翠云把龙庵叫开去。龙庵与翠云跑出去后，质夫一边觉得被人家疑作了好色者，心里感着一种侮辱，一边却也有些好奇心，想看看中国妓女的肉体。他正脸涨得绯红，决不定主意的时候，龙庵又跑了进来，这一闪龙庵却变了态度。质夫举眼对他一看。用了目光问他计策的时候，他便说： “去留由你自家决定罢。但是你若要在这里过夜，这事千万要守秘密。” 质夫也含糊答应说： “我只怕两件事情，第一就是怕病，第二就是怕以后的纠葛。” 龙庵又用了日本话回答说： “竹杠她是不敢敲的。你明天走的时候付她二十块钱就对了。她以后要你买什么东西，你可以不答应的。” 质夫红了脸失了主意，迟疑不决的正在想的时候，荷珠的假母，海棠的假母和翠云就把风世龙庵两人拉了出去，一边海棠走进了房，含着了一脸忠厚的微笑，对着质夫坐下了。 Four 海棠房里只剩下质夫海棠二人。质夫因为刚才的去留问题，甚经已被他们搅乱了，所以不愿意说话。鲁钝的海棠也只呆呆的坐着，不说一句话，质夫只听见房外有几声脚步声，和大门口有几声叫唤声传来。被这沉默的空气一压，质夫的脑筋觉得渐渐镇静下去。停了一忽，海棠的假母走进房来轻轻的对质夫说： “于老爷，对不起得很，间壁房里有海棠的一个客人在那里打牌，请你等一忽，等他去了再睡。” 质夫本来是小胆，并且有虚荣心的人，听了这话，故意装了一种恬淡的样子说： “不要紧，迟一忽睡有什么。” 质夫默默地坐了三十分钟，觉得无聊起来，便命海棠的假母去拿鸦片烟来烧。他一个人在烧鸦片烟的时候，海棠就出去了。烧来烧去，质夫终究烧不好，好容易烧好了一口，吸完之后，海棠跑了进来对假母幽幽的说： “他去了。” 假母就催说： “于老爷，请睡罢。” 把烟盘收好，被褥铺好之后，那假母就带上了门出去了。 质夫看看海棠，尽是呆呆在坐在那里，他心里却觉得不快，跑上去对她说了一声。他就一个人把衣服脱了来睡了。海棠只是不来睡，坐了一会，却拿了一副骨牌出来，好像在那里卜卦的样子。质夫看了她这一种愚笨的迷信，心里又好气，又好笑。 “大约她是不愿意的，否则何以这样的不肯睡呢。” 质夫心里这样一想，就忽而想得她可怜起来。 “可怜你这皮肉的生涯！这皮肉的生涯！我真是以金钱来蹂人的禽兽呀！” 他就决定今晚上在这里陪她过一夜，绝对不去蹂躏她的肉体。过了半点钟，她也脱下衣服来睡了，质夫让她睡好之后，用了回巾替她颈项回得好好，把她爱抚了一回，就叫她睡。自家却把头朝开了。过了三十分钟的样子，质夫心中觉得自家高尚得很，便想这样的好好睡一夜，永不去侵犯她的肉体。但是他愈这样的想愈睡不着，又过了一忽，他心里却起了冲突来了。 “我这样的高尚，有谁晓得，这事讲出去，外边的人谁能相信。海棠那蠢物，你在怜惜她，她哪里能够了解你的心。还是做俗人罢。” 心里这样一想，质夫就朝了转来，对海棠一看，这时候海棠还开着眼睛向天睡在那里。质夫觉得自家脸上红了一红，对她笑了一脸，就把她的两只手压住了。她也已经理会了质夫的心，轻轻的把身体动了一动。 本来是变态的质夫，并且曾经经过沧海的他，觉得海棠的肉体，绝对不像个妓女。她的脸上仍旧是无神经似的在那里向上呆看。不过到后来她的眼眼忽然连接的开闭了几次，微微的吐了几口气。那时窗外已经白灰灰的亮起来了。 Fives 久旱的天气，忽下了一阵微雨。灰黑的天空，呈出寒冬的气像来。北风吹到半空的电线上的时候，呜呜的响声，刺入人的心骨里去，无棉衣的穷民，又不得不起愁闷的时候到了。 质夫自从那一晚在海棠那里过夜之后，觉得学校的事情，愈无趣味。一边因为怕人家把自己疑作色鬼，所以又不愿再上鹿和班去，并且怕纯洁的碧桃，见了他更看他不起，所以他同犯罪的人一样，不得不在他那里牢狱似的房里蛰居了好几天。 那一天午后，天气忽然开朗起来，悠悠的青天仍复蓝碧得同秋空一样。他看看窗外的和煦的冬日，心里觉得怎么也不得不出去一次。但是一进城去，意志薄弱的他，又非要到金钱巷去不可。他正在那里想得无聊的时候，忽听见门房传进了几个名片来，他们原来是城内工业学校和第一中学校的学生，正在发行一种文艺旬刊，前几天曾与质夫通过两次信的。质夫一看了他们的名片，觉得现在的无聊，可以消遣了，就叫门房快请他们进来。 几个青年，都是很有精神、质夫听了他们那些生气横溢的谈话，觉得自家惭愧得很。及看到他们的一种向仰的样子，质夫真想跪下去，对他们忏悔一番。 “你们这些纯洁的青年呀！你们何苦要上我这里来。你们以为我是你们的指导者么？你们错了。你们错了。我有什么学问？我有什么见识？啊啊，你们若知道了我的内容，若知道了我的下流的性癖，怕大家都要来打我杀我呢！我是违反道德的叛逆者，我是戴假面的知识阶级，我是着衣冠的禽兽！” 他心里虽在这样的想，面上却装了一副严正的样子，同他们在那里谈文艺社会各种问题。谈了一个钟头，他们去了。质夫总觉得无聊，所以就换了衣服跑进城去。 原来A城里有两个研究文艺的团体，一个是刚才来过的这几个青年的一团，一个是质夫的几个学生和几个已在学校卒业在社会上干事的人的团体。前者专在研究文艺，后者是带着宣传文化事业的性质的。质夫因为学校的关系和个人的趣味上，与后者的一团人接触的机会比较多些，所以他们的一团人，竟暗暗里把质夫当作了一个指导者看。近来质夫因为放荡的结果，许久不把他们的一团人摆在心里了，刚才见了那几个工业和一中的青年学生，他心里觉得有些对那一团人不起的地方，所以就打算进城去看看他们。其实这也不过是他自家欺骗自家的口实，他的朦胧的意识里，早有想去看看碧桃、海棠的心思存在了。 到了城里，上他们一团人的本部，附设在一高等小学里的新文化书店里去坐了一忽，他就自然而然的走上金钱巷去。 在海棠房里坐了一忽，已经是上灯的时刻了。质夫问碧桃在不在家，海棠的假母说： “她上游艺会去唱戏去了。” 这几天来华洋义赈会为募集捐款的缘故，办了一个游艺会。 女校书唱戏，也是游艺会里的一种游艺，年纪很轻，喜欢出出风头的碧桃，大约对这事是一定很热心的。 质夫听碧桃上游艺会去了，就也想去看看热闹，所以对海棠说： “今晚我带你上游艺会去逛去罢。” 海棠喜欢得不了得。便梳头擦粉的准备起来，一边假母却去做了几碗菜来请质夫吃夜饭。质夫吃完了夜饭，与海棠约定了去游艺会的旧戏场的左廊里相会，一个人就先走了。 质夫一路走进了游艺会场，遇见了许多红男绿女，心里忽觉得悲寂起来。走到各女学校的贩卖场的时候，他看见他的一个学生正在与一个良家女子说话。他呆呆的立了一忽，马上就走开了，心里却在说： “年轻的男女呀，要快乐正是现在，你们都尽你们的力量去寻快乐去罢。人生值得什么；不于少年时求些快乐，等得秋风凋谢的时候，还有什么呢！你们正在做梦的青年男女呀，愿上帝都成就了你们的心愿。我半老了，我的时代过去了。但愿你们都好，都美，都成眷属。不幸的事，不美的人，孤独，烦闷，都推上我的身来，我愿意为你们负担了去。横竖我是没有希望的了。” 这样的想了一遍，他却悔恨自己的青年时代白白的断送在无情的外国。 “如今半老归来，那些莺莺燕燕，都要远远地避我了。” 他的伤感的情怀，一时又征服了他的感情的全部，他便觉得自家是坐在一只半破的航船上，在日暮的大海中漂泊，前面只有黑云大浪，海的彼岸全是“死”。 在灿烂的电灯光里，喧扰的男女中间，他一个人尽在自伤孤独。 他先上女校书唱戏场去看了一回，却不见碧桃的影子。他的孤独的情怀又进了一层，便慢慢的走上旧戏场的左边去，向四边一看，海棠还没有来，他推进了座位，坐下去听了一忽戏，台上唱的正是琼林宴，他看到了姓范的什么人醉倒，鬼怪出来的时候，不觉笑了起来，以为中国人的神秘思想，却比西洋的还更合于实用。看得正出神的时候，他觉得肩上被人拍了一下。他回过头来一看，见碧桃和海棠站在他背后对他在那里微笑，他马上站了起来问她们说： “你们几时来的？” 她们听不清楚，质夫就叫她们走出戏场来。在质夫周围看戏的人，都对了她们和质夫侧目的看起来了。质夫就俯了首，匆匆的从人丛中跑了出来。一跑到宽旷的园里，他仰起头来看看寒冷的碧天，现有一道电灯光线红红的射在半空中。他头朝着了天，深深的吐了一口，慢慢的跟在他后面的海棠、碧桃也来了。海棠含了冷冷的微笑说： “我和碧桃都还没有吃饭呢！” 质夫就回答说： “那好极了，我正想陪你们去喝一点酒。” 他们三人上场内宴春楼坐下之后，质夫偷看了几次碧桃的脸色，因为质夫自从那一晚在海棠那里过夜之后，还是第一次遇见碧桃，他怕碧桃待他要与从前变起态度来。但是碧桃却仍是同小孩子一样，与他要好得很。他看看碧桃那种无猜忌的天真，一边感着一种失望，一边又有一种羞愧的心想起来。 他心里似乎说： “像这样无邪思的人，我不该以小人之心待她的。” 质夫因为刚才那孤独的情怀，还没有消失，并且又遇着了碧桃，心里就起了一种特别的伤感，所以一时多喝了几杯酒。吃完了饭，碧桃说要回去，质夫留她不住，只得放她走了。 质夫陪着海棠从菜馆下来的时候，已觉得有些昏昏欲睡的样子，胡乱的跟海棠在会场里走了一转，觉得疲倦起来，所以就对海棠说： “你在这里逛逛，我想先回家去。” “回什么地方去？” “出城去。” “那我同你出去，你再上我们家去坐一会罢。” 质夫送她上车，自家也雇了一乘人力车上金钱巷去。一到海棠房里他就觉得想睡。说了二句闲话，就倒在海棠床上和衣睡着了。 质夫醒来，已经是十一点十分的样子。假母问他要不要什么吃，他也觉得有些饿了，便托她去叫了两碗鸡丝面来。质夫看看外面黑的很，一个人跑出城去有些怕人，便听了假母的话，又留在海棠那里过夜了。 six 妓家的冬夜渐渐地深起来了。质夫吃了面，讲了几句闲话，与海棠对坐在那里玩骨牌，忽听见后头房里一阵哄笑声和爆竹声传了过来。质夫吃了一惊，问是什么。海棠幽幽的说： “今天是菊花的生日，她老爷替她放爆竹。” 质夫听了这话，看看海棠的悲寂的面色，倒替海棠伤心起来。 因为这班子里客最少的是海棠，现在只有一个质夫和另外一个年老的候差的人。那候差的人现在钱也用完了，听说不常上海棠这里来。质夫也是于年底下要走的。一年中间最要用钱的年终，海棠怕要一个客也没有。质夫想到这里，就不得不为海棠担起忧来。将近二点的时候，假母把门带上了出去，海棠质夫脱衣睡了。 正在现实与梦寐的境界上浮游的时候，质夫忽听见床背后有霍霍的响声，和竹木的爆裂声音传过来。他一开眼睛，觉得房内帐内都充满了烟雾，塞得吐气不出，他知道不好了，用力把海棠一把抱起，将她衣裤拿好，质夫就以命令似的声音对她说： “不要着忙，先把裤子衣服穿好来，另外的一切事情，有我在这里，不要紧，不要着忙！” 他话没有讲完，海棠的假母也从门里跌了进来，带了哭声叫着说： “海棠，不好了，快起来，快起来！” 质夫把衣服穿好之后，问海棠说： “你的值钱的物事摆在什么地方的？” 海棠一边指着那床前的两只箱子，一边发抖哭着说： “我的小宝宝，我的小宝宝，小宝宝呢？” 质夫一看海棠的样子，就跳到里间房里去，把那乳母的小室宝拉了出来，那时的火焰已经烧到了里间屋里了，质夫吩咐乳母把小孩抱出外面去。他就马上到床上把一条被拿了下来摊在地板上，把海棠的几件挂在那里的皮袄和枕头边上的一个首饰丢在被里，包作了一包，与一只红漆的皮箱一并拖了出去。外边已经有许多杂乱的人冲来冲去的搬箱子包袱，质夫出了死力的奔跑，才把一只箱子和一个被包搬到外面。他回转头来一看，看见海棠和她的假母一边哭着，一边抬了一床帐子跟在后面。质夫把两件物事摆下，吐了一口气，忽见边上有一乘人力车走过，他就拉住了人力车，把箱子摆了上去，叫海棠和一个海棠房外使用的男人跟了车子向空地里看着。 质夫又同假母回进房来，搬第二次的东西，那时候黑烟已经把房内包紧了。质夫和假母抬了第二次东西出来的时候，门外忽遇着了翠云。她披散了头发在那哭喊。质夫问她，怎么样？She wept and said: “菊花的房同我的连着，我一点东西也没有拿出来，烧得干干净净了。” 质夫就把假母和东西丢下，再跑到翠云房里去一看，她房里的屋椽已经烧着坍了下来，箱子器具都炎炎的燃着了。质夫不得已就空手的跑了出来，再来寻翠云，又寻她不着，质夫跑到碧桃房里去一看，见她房里有四个男人坐着说： “碧桃、荷珠已经往外边去了。她们的东西由我们在这里守着，万一烧过来的时候，我们会替她搬的，请于老爷放心。” 原来荷珠、碧桃的房在外边，与菊花、翠云的房隔两个天井，所以火势不大，可以不搬的，质夫听了便放了心，走出来上空地里去找海棠去。质夫到空地里的时候，就看见海棠尽呆呆的站在那里。 因为她太出神了，所以质夫走上她的背后，她也并不知道。质夫也不去惊动她，便默默的站在她的背后，过了三五分钟，一个四十五六，面貌瘦小，鼻头红红的男人走近了海棠的身边问她说： “我们的小孩子呢？”，海棠被他一问，倒吃了一惊，一见是他，便含了笑容指着乳母说： "look!" “你惊骇了么？” "there is nothing." 质夫听了，才知道这便是那候差的人，那小娃娃就是他与海棠的种了，质夫看看那男人，觉得他的面貌，卑鄙得很，一联想到他与海棠结合的事情，竟不觉打起冷痉来。他摇了一摇头，对海棠的背后丢厂一眼轻笑的眼色，就默默的走了。 那一天因为没有风，并且因为救火人多，质夫出巷外的时候火已经灭了。东方已有一线微明，鸡叫的声音有几处听得出来。质夫一个人冒了清早的寒冷空气，从灰黑清冷的街上一步一步的走上北门城下去。他的头脑，为夜来的淫乐与搬火时候的杂闹搅乱了，觉得思想混杂得很，但是在这混杂的思想里，他只见一个红鼻头的四十余岁的男子的身体和海棠矮小灰白的肉体合在一处，浮在他的眼前。他在游艺场中感得的那一种孤独的悲哀，和一种后悔的心思混在一块，笼罩上他的全心。 seven 第二天寒空里忽又萧萧的下起雨来，倪龙庵感冒了风寒，还睡在床上，质夫一早就跑上龙庵的房，将昨晚失火的事情讲给了他听，他也叹着说： “翠云真是不幸呀！可惜我又病了，不能去看她，并且现在身边钱也没有。不能为她尽一点力。” 质夫接着说： “我想要明先出五十元，你出五十元，我出五十元，送她。教她好做些更换的衣服。下半天课完之后，打算再进城去看她，海棠的东西我都为她搬出了，大约损失也是不多的。” 这一天下午，质夫冒雨进城去一看，鹿和班只烧去了菊花、翠云的两间房子和海棠的里半间小屋。