Chapter 5 Chapter Four A Cloth Bag

That evening, when Bai Su came back, when I told her about it, she was also very surprised and asked me about my journey in detail.I said: "It's a pity that the two old people can't be contacted, otherwise, I can invite them to go with me." After hearing this, Bai Su's expression was a little weird. I saw that she must have something to say, so I kept quiet and waited for her to speak first. Bai Su took a breath: "Shortly after you left, I received a call from a middle-aged man with a Shanghai accent. He said that he just came back from Shanghai. In Shanghai, he met an old Mr. Bai. , Mr. Bai asked him to bring something, and he wanted to pass it on to me, and asked me to get it."

When I heard the news of Boss Bai, I was even more excited: "What did you bring?" Bai Su's expression was even weirder, I knew there must be something very strange about it, so I waved my hands anxiously.But Bai Su laughed again: "Guess as you like, you won't even be able to guess." I sighed, "You know I can't guess in a situation like this." Bai Su made a gesture to signal me to wait, she walked out, and I hurriedly followed, and saw her take off a cloth bundle on the banister of the stairs at the door. The cloth used for the cloth burden turned out to be blue calico that has not been seen for a long time. That kind of blue calico was once the most common calico in rural China.

I snatched the bundle, it was very light, and I untied it three times and two times. Even when I looked at the contents, I couldn't help being dazed. The things in the baggage are not weird at all, but I never imagined that Boss Bai specially entrusted someone to bring them from Shanghai.Indeed, as Bai Su said, no matter how I guess, I can't guess it. If I were to use simple words to describe the things in the baggage, I would have to think about it before I could say it.Those are some children's clothes, or to be more precise, the baby's swaddling clothes—these two words are used for the first time in so many stories and tens of millions of words.

The clothes of these babies include a small top, a pair of open pants (without diapers), and a piece of cloth with embroidery on one side. This piece of cloth is used to wrap babies. Shanghai babies, if Born in cold weather, they will be wrapped in this kind of cloth. The hands and feet are tightly wrapped and cannot move around, only the head is exposed outside. This method of wrapping babies has a special term called "candle wrap" - because after wrapping, it is a cylindrical section, which looks like a section of candle. In addition, there is a small shoe with a yellow tiger head decoration on the toe. It is a "tiger head shoe", which is also a shoe often worn by children in Shanghai.

I stared at these things for a long while, and finally asked a sentence: "What do you mean?" Bai Su laughed: "The gentleman who brought the things said that Dad didn't say anything else, just asked him to bring the things. It seems that Dad is here to test our intelligence, isn't it?". I couldn't help smiling bitterly: "There's no need to test, I admit defeat. This is a set of baby clothes. The white cloth wrapped around them has turned yellow. It has a long history and can be exhibited in a folk museum. I really can't see anything in it." Come."

Bai Su didn't dare to express dissatisfaction, but she was obviously also very troubled, frowning, shaking this one, and then patted that one.I waved my hand and said, "Don't worry about it, he will talk naturally after meeting him." Bai Su also laughed: "The older you get, the more you look like a child. It's weird." It's not that I don't want to know what it means that Boss Bai made a set of baby clothes, but I really can't imagine it, so what can I do? Bai Sulong took great care to pack the baggage again, and those clothes were indeed quite old, a pair of trousers with small slits, in the process of unfolding and folding, the creases were actually broken.

That night, Bai Su suddenly said to me: "You have three days to go to retrieve the container on the sunken ship anyway, and I want to take this opportunity to go to Shanghai." I stared at her immediately: "Do you know where the old man is?" Bai Su said: "Not exactly, but according to the words of the person who brought the things, there is some clue." I frowned: "Is there any special reason for you to go?" Bai Su sighed: "The only reason is that Dad is already so old, and the days that I can be with him are rapidly decreasing. I really want to try my best to get the chance to be with him."

Bai Su spoke very seriously, and after I heard it, I also felt very heavy, so I just nodded to express my agreement, and Bai Su leaned towards me: "I'll leave tomorrow." Bai Su explained that he was leaving tomorrow, but at night, things took an unexpected turn. Shortly after the doorbell rang near midnight, there were cheers from Lao Cai and "hehe" laughter from Boss Bai.Bai Su rushed out from the study room, her movements were no slower than the beautiful scenery on a good day. I hurriedly followed out, Boss Bai was full of energy, and was striding in, Bai Su jumped down from the stairs, Boss Bai waved to me: "Have you received the things I asked someone to bring?"

Boss Bai asked, with a challenging expression on his face. I immediately said: "Got it, it's very interesting. Could it be that the things the old man used when he was a baby are not good?" Before Boss Bai asked me, I never even thought that this set of baby clothes had something to do with Boss Bai. At this time, he asked and asked for an answer. Boss Bai was taken aback when he heard my answer, and then said: "Of course it's not mine, it's a product for Hasan's little trick." As soon as he said this, Bai Su and I were very surprised, Bai Su hurriedly said: "Where is Mr. Hasan?"

Bai Lao Dao: "He stays in Shanghai and is still looking for it!" Bai Su said: "What are you looking for?" Boss Bai frowned with thick silver-white eyebrows, and his expression was very strange.In this regard, the father and daughter are quite similar. Whenever there is a problem in their hearts, they will have that look. At this time, I had already gone downstairs, Boss Bai made a gesture to signal me to sit down, I poured two glasses of wine first, and then sat down face to face with him, Bai Su sat next to him. Boss Bai took a sip of wine: "Ha Shan is about the same age as me, almost ninety years old, but he is looking for his parents like crazy."

I couldn't help sighing, there are more and more strange things, messy, I don't know where to start.Bai Su was calmer than me: "Mr. Hasan is an orphan? People who grow up in orphanages always want to know who their parents are, and Mr. Hasan is no exception. It's human nature." Boss Bai hummed: "Human nature? Why didn't he look for it sixty years earlier?" Bai Su said: "How do you know that he hasn't looked for it, maybe there is no result?" I couldn't help raising my voice: "What's up with that kid's clothes? How do you know it belongs to Hassan?" Boss Bai waved his hand: "It's a long story, and it just happened to be a coincidence. We decided not to show off and just treat ourselves as ordinary people. When we go to Shanghai, two bad old men will naturally not have any good entertainment. We finally found a family." The small inn, in Nanshi, will not sleep in the open after all, you never expected that the small inn still uses toilets and has no modern sanitation equipment." Boss Bai took another sip of his wine. The usual material life of the two elderly people belongs to the world's first-class standard. At this time, sleeping in a small inn where they have to get up at night to look for bedbugs, they don't think it is hard.In the Nanshi area of ​​Shanghai, there has not been much development in recent years. Everything is not much different from decades ago, but the people are more crowded and everything is more dilapidated. The familiar environment brings them too many memories of their youth, they have too many places to go and spend time, in front of a dilapidated brick wall, they can stand for a long time, whistling about the passage of time, naturally The environment is worse, but I don't think it is bitter. It was not until three days later that they traveled all over Shanghai that they settled down and found an institution that collected parts of Shanghai in modern history. During these three days, the host of the organization saw that these two old people had a lot of background and was very polite to them. They revealed their willingness to find detailed information from the Knife Society. A member of the committee is about the same age as the two, and specializes in the history of the Small Knife Society, did the two meet him?" Boss Bai and Hasan were overjoyed: "We should visit, please contact us first.". So, the three old people met in a house that can be listed as a national first-class protected cultural relic, and they admired each other-in fact, no one had heard of anyone's name before. The old man's name is Shi Daofu.Although he is old (older than Hasan and Bai Boss), he has a strong body and clear thinking. He is of the same age as Hasan Bai. It was a very difficult thing, the three of them were talking about old things in Shanghai, and suddenly mentioned a place in Shanghai called "Zhengjia Wooden Bridge", and all three of them said in unison: "In fact, there used to be a wooden bridge there." The three of them looked at each other, and felt that there were probably no more than ten people in the world who knew that there was a wooden bridge on the Zhengjia wooden bridge, and it was extremely rare for the three of them to be able to get together, so it was even more irresistible. , really hit it off. But even so, the old man Shi Daofu has lived for a long time in the environment where everyone doubts the other person, and he still won't tell others immediately what is in his heart.They first talked about the history of the Small Knife Society for three days, and then, on the fourth day, when the three old men were slightly drunk, Shi Daofu asked, "Do you two know why I am interested in the history of the Small Sword Society?" What kind of people Bai Boss and Hasan are, I have long felt that during these three days, although Old Man Shi had a heart-to-heart relationship with them and provided a lot of history of the Small Sword Society, he was always a bit hesitant, and he stopped talking several times. The expression fell in the eyes of the two of them. The two also discussed it in private, and agreed that Shi Daofu had other secrets in his heart, which he had not revealed. They are old people themselves, so they naturally know the psychology of old people. If an old person wants to hide some secrets, no one can force him to tell them unless he is willing to tell them.If he doesn't take the initiative to tell it, then this secret will never be known!Therefore, Hasan and Boss Bai were very careful and never tried, lest they would startle the snake—even though they didn't know what secret Shi Daofu had at the time. Until that day, when Shi Daofu asked such a question, Hasan and Boss Bai looked at each other, and Boss Bai typed Su Bai (in Suzhou dialect): "Come on!" It meant that Shi Daofu was about to tell his secret. Hassan pretended to be nonchalant: "I don't know, if it's not convenient for you to tell, it doesn't matter if you don't." The more you tell people not to tell secrets, the more they want to tell. This is a common problem of human beings, and Stauff is no exception. But he took another sip of wine, puffed his lips for a long time, and took off some false teeth in his mouth and put them back on again. After a full two minutes, both Hasan and Boss Bai could hardly bear to swear, and he said: "My predecessor... had a little entanglement with the Little Knife Society, and I'm sorry because my predecessor... did it." People's affairs are not very glorious... This is a big secret, and no one has mentioned it for at least seven or eighty years!" Boss Bai and Hasan waited for a long time, suffocating, but when he heard him say these words, he couldn't help being angry and funny. Hasan couldn't help it first, and said, "Touch "Moldy head": "Did your predecessor inform you and send the knife society to the government?" In Shanghai dialect, the meaning of saying "to touch people's bad luck" is to be impolite, not to say nice things, to deliberately embarrass the other party, and to be more vulgar, it can be said to be "pour one ton of coal balls over", which is a kind of nonsense to the other party. Unable to get off the stage and unwilling to stop being mean. Hasan's words at this time were mean enough.Because according to Chinese folk tradition, sympathy is always placed on the side of the rebels, not on the side of the government. This is a kind of national rebellious psychology formed by China's feudal rule for thousands of years.There is no need to delve into the causes and consequences of the Xiaodao Society's rebellion in Shanghai. Dare to confront the government, and the government colluded with foreigners, that is enough to make the Xiaodao Society a hero in the tradition. Hasan's two sentences are tantamount to saying that Shi Daofu's predecessor had been a dog leg of the government, which can be regarded as a considerable insult.When Shi Daofu heard it, his eyes widened immediately, his face flushed, and he was very angry, but after he took a sip of wine, his anger disappeared, and he sighed a few times: "It's not that unbearable, but... I'm really sorry, I The previous generation... It was my uncle and aunt. I lost my father since I was young, and my mother disappeared without a trace. My uncle and aunt raised me. At that time, my uncle was a craftsman, and he only repaired shoes for others. , set up a small stall at the entrance of an alley, I was four years old when the incident happened, and I already have a little memory!" When he said this, he pointed to his own head, as if he was very proud that he could keep the memory for three quarters of a century. At this moment, Hasan and Boss Bai couldn't help but look at each other, laughing and laughing. They never thought that Shi Daofu would "start from the beginning". If he continued to talk about what happened when he was four years old, when will he be able to finish it?Moreover, what kind of taste does this kind of old millet and rotten sesame seeds sound like?I'm afraid it will suffocate people to death! Both of them had the same thoughts, so they both opened their mouths and yawned loudly at the same time.Generally speaking, such "hints" are quite effective, but they are useless in front of Shi Daofu. While pointing to his head, Shi Daofu continued: "I still remember what happened that afternoon. The guests’ leather shoes were brought back to a big restaurant. The smell of the food in the big restaurant made me salivate until I reached the shoe stall at the entrance of the alley.” Hasan and Boss Bai smiled wryly, toasted each other, took a sip of the wine, and thought there was no other way, so they had to listen.Thinking about the scene of a poor kid entering a large restaurant (Western restaurant), smelling the aroma of the food and salivating, it is quite moving, so the second yawn is not uttered. . Shi Daofu continued: "As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the alley, I saw a person holding a 'candle bag', talking to my uncle. The uncle seemed to be in a difficult situation. That person is so tall, I want to raise my head I can only see his face, and I can't reach his waist height, so when I approached him, I saw a bright knife pinned to his waist, with red silk hanging on the handle, very airy." At this point, Shi Daofu stopped for a while, and looked at Hasan and Boss Bai. The two of them were here, not only did they not yawn, but they could hear something.The person that Shi Daofu mentioned was obviously a member of the Little Knife Club. It was a good time for the Little Knife Club to be in Shanghai. How could a member of the Little Knife Club be connected with a baby? (Ha Shan and Boss Bai are from Shanghai. Naturally, when they heard 'candle bag', they knew what was going on. They knew that there must be a baby in the bag.) They came here just to find information about the Small Knife Club, and with this kind of living information, they naturally couldn't ask for it. Therefore, as soon as Shi Daofu looked at them, the two quickly made gestures, asking him to continue, especially Hasan, who naturally likes to listen to weird stories, and his attitude is very respectful, and said repeatedly: "Please Say, please say!" Shi Daofu tilted his head. After all, it was a long time ago. He had to search his memory before he could speak. "The man gave the 'candle package' to my uncle, but my uncle didn't accept it. I saw the little girl wrapped in it, her eyes were dark and she looked very cute, so I couldn't help but reach out and touch his head. That person handed the 'candle package' to me!" Boss Bai let out an "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Hasan slapped Boss Bai on the back of his hand all of a sudden: "Don't interrupt!" Shi Daofu turned his hands behind his back, put on a posture of hugging the baby, and shook it left and right twice. (When Chinese Wutu draws a bow and shoots arrows, the standard posture is "one hand is like holding a baby, and the other is like Mount Totai". It can be seen that there are certain gestures for holding a baby.) Shi Daofu's expression was completely immersed in the distant memory, he said: "It was very cold at that time, and the wind at the entrance of the alley was very strong, that little girl's face was flushed with cold, I couldn't help but use my own face to After posting the post, Xiaonan laughed instead, I found it very interesting!" When he said this, he suddenly took a breath: "At that time, I was only interested in teasing Xiao Yin, and didn't pay attention to what the man said to his uncle, but suddenly felt a tight hand, and the man carried the baby over again, and hugged it well After a while, I handed it over to my uncle, and strode away. My uncle was holding the child, looking very nervous, and suddenly said: "Hurry up and close the stall, and we will talk about it when we go back!" I am used to closing the stall. Follow my uncle back, and my uncle will give the child to me to hold, and I will play with him all the way." Boss Bai was a little impatient when he heard this: "Please speak briefly, without going into too much detail!" Shi Daofu said "hmm" and remained silent for a while. Hasan glared at Boss Bai, blaming him for interrupting the conversation. After a few minutes in the factory, Shi Daofu said: "I was too young at that time, so I didn't know what happened. What happened, when I grew up, think about it, knowing that person... must have given my uncle a lot of benefits, entrusting my uncle to take care of this baby, because it didn't take long for my uncle to suddenly have money to buy a house, um, right now The house I live in has a long history, and his life has become easier, and he no longer has a cobbler stall, but he didn't take good care of the little girl." Probably because he was born as an orphan, Hassan was very nervous about what happened to the baby, so he quickly asked, "What did your uncle do to that child?" You know, people at that time were not as civilized as they are now. If there was a dead baby on the road, no one would go to ask about it, and it would be treated as garbage. If his uncle took advantage of others and had bad intentions, the baby would be extremely dangerous. Shi Daofu didn't answer Hasan's question directly, but just waved his hands to signal him not to worry, and then said: "The baby has been at uncle's house for three days, and my aunt doesn't like him, and she dislikes him very much. On the contrary, I think there is one more." The little brother is very interesting, and one night, I heard the conversation between my aunt and my uncle, and I knew the reason why my aunt didn't like that child." When Shi Daofu said this, his facial features were crowded together, making it appear that there were more wrinkles on his face.Any old man has of course been young, had a childhood, and was no more than a four-year-old when he heard his aunt answer. At that time, the conversation between his uncle and aunt was only 30% to 40% understandable to a four-year-old child, but because of this conversation, it left a deep impression on his mind, and he kept repeating it. After thinking about it, as I grew up, I finally understood the meaning of it.When he told Hasan and Boss Bai after so many years, he naturally understood the meaning and understood the conversation between his uncle and aunt back then. He first heard his aunt say: "Are you really going to raise this little red guy?" His aunt was naturally talking to his uncle, who pondered for a while before answering: "The money he left is enough to raise a hundred children, so I can't... If I promise, it won't be counted!" Shi Daofu's comment is: Uncle is an honest man, but Auntie is very shrewd, alas, I am so poor, shrewdness comes from poverty! Aunt immediately said: "No, first, Xiao Dao will rebel, if caught, he will be killed. If you take in the children of Xiao Dao, if you don't kill them, you may also face a lawsuit and go to jail!" Uncle muttered, "You want the money from the Knife Club!" Auntie's answer: "There is no name engraved on the money!" The uncle argued: "The child's forehead is not engraved with anyone's son, just treat it as the birth of you and me!" Aunt shouted: "You are going to die! If you don't look at it, this child will die!" The child has a high nose, big eyes, skin color like preserved egg, he is a mixed breed, can you and me have a baby?" When Stauford's aunt spoke these words, it was of course authentic Shanghai dialect, people of mixed race were also called people of mixed race. When my aunt said this, my uncle hesitated: "Looking at it, it looks a bit like it. People say that the bigger the hybrid, the more visible it is. Well, this...how can I do it?" Auntie was very decisive: "Ji Tui. (Throw him away.)" Shi Daofu added: "When I heard this, I almost jumped up. A living person, how can I just throw it away? But I was very afraid of Auntie, so I pretended to be asleep and didn't dare to make a sound." Hearing this, Hasan became even more nervous: "What happened then?" Boss Bai chuckled: "Ha Shan, you have met a veteran storyteller, and he won't speak out straightforwardly. He must whet your appetite." Shi Daofu shook his head: "It's not to whet your appetite. Things have to be explained clearly, and only those who listen to them will have a taste. The first one (Dream of Red Mansions) is also wordy in the same way. If you want to be straightforward, say a few words. , we can finish talking, what else is there to see?" Hasan held up his hands in a gesture of surrender: "Okay... okay... I'll let you explain the ins and outs clearly." Shi Daofu sighed: "My uncle also opposed it at the time." His uncle said, "Let me think about it." Thinking about this, there was no sound for a long time, and Shi Daofu was a child after all, so he fell asleep in a daze. The next day, he was woken up by his aunt early in the morning, and saw that his aunt was wrapping the little boy up on the bed with a broken cotton wadding. The network was broken and broken. After wrapping it up, I tied it with a straw rope for a few turns. At this time, my uncle came in from the outside and took a newspaper. The newspaper wrapped two fried dough sticks, so more than half Soaked in oil to become translucent. Uncle took out the fried dough sticks, handed one to Shi Daofu, bit the other one himself, folded the newspaper very small, and stuffed it into the cotton wadding. Aunt asked, "What is this for?" The uncle said: "I don't know when this child was born. The man said it was his father, but he didn't even leave his name. His parents don't know. The date in this old newspaper should be considered his birthday." .” When Shi Daofu talked about this, Boss Bai noticed that Hasan's expression was not right - his face was pale, his hands were shaking uncontrollably, and the half glass of wine in his hand was constantly spilling out. He stared straight at Shi Daofu. It seemed that he wanted to stretch out his other hand to point at Shi Daofu, but he couldn't lift his hand when he said anything. Boss Bai was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "Ha Shan, what's wrong with you?" As he spoke, he walked over, supported Hassan's hand holding the wine glass, and held the wine glass to his mouth. Hassan took a big sip, but he was a little powerless. Only half of the big gulp went into his mouth, and half of it went into his mouth. flowed out. Boss Bai was even more surprised. He hurriedly pressed his hand on top of his head, rubbed it vigorously, and said, "If you're going to have a stroke, you'll have to wait until you've finished listening to the story..." It was only then that Hasan breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm fine, I'm fine." He pushed away Boss Bai's hand, and asked again: "Do you remember the month...and the date of the newspaper that wrapped the fried dough sticks?" ?” Shi Daofu also saw that there was a big difference in Hasan's expression, but he couldn't imagine what happened anyway, but Boss Bai felt a little bit, and he couldn't help but "swish" a breath of cool air.At this time, Hasan's hand held his hand, which was actually cold—in Boss Bai's memory, there was only one time when Hasan held his hand so tightly that it was cold, and it was theirs. When they were both eleven or twelve years old, before they fought with a vicious young man who was nearly twenty years old, at that time, the two of them worked together to beat the guy who thought the two children were easy to bully, his head was broken, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. Shi Daofu nodded: "I didn't know many characters at that time, but I could read one, two, three, four, and it was December 20th." Hasan's throat made a "cluck" sound, his eyes rolled upwards, and he seemed about to pass out.Boss Bai couldn't help but let out an exclamation, stretched out his hand on his temple, and flicked it lightly. This first-aid technique finally knocked Hasan's eyeballs down. He looked at Boss Bai. , Exhale more and inhale less.Boss Bai hurriedly said: "Ha Shan, calm down, I'm afraid it's a coincidence, I'm afraid it's a coincidence." Hasan's air is like a silk: "Coincidentally?" Shi Daofu was very surprised. He didn't know what evil Hasan had committed, so he opened his eyes wide and didn't know what to do.Boss Bai hurriedly said: "Just talk about it." As soon as he heard "December 20th", Boss Bai knew that things were too unimaginable, wonderful, and coincidentally incomprehensible. Boss Bai and Hasan have known each other since they were young, and after decades of friendship, they naturally know that Hasan’s birthday is December 20th, and also know that his birthday is not his real birthday, but his wooden box on the orphanage door (specially It is used to place abandoned babies. After giving up the abandoned babies, pull a rope, and a bell will ring, and people in the orphanage will come out to watch. The abandoned babies must run away quickly after pulling the rope, otherwise found in the Orphanage, and refused to accept the baby), on a piece of old newspaper in the old cotton wadding that bound him. The orphanage was very open-minded, trying to preserve what the orphan had when he was found. Naturally, the old cotton wadding could not be preserved, but the old newspaper was still preserved, and it was shown to Hasan when he was ten years old.The oil stains on the newspaper were still there, and it was obvious at a glance that it had been wrapped with fried dough sticks. Hasan once said bitterly to Boss Bai: "Do you know why I only eat flatbread and not fried dough sticks? It's because I'm not as good as fried dough sticks. You sticks won't be thrown away, but I was thrown away." The mood of the orphans is mostly extreme grief and indignation, and Hasan is no exception, so when Shi Daofu talked about the relationship between his family and the Small Knife Society, and the details of the baby before it was abandoned, Hasan became more and more frightened the more he heard it—— After all, he is old, so it is difficult for him to bear such stimulation!That baby back then turned out to be him!Today's world shipping giant Hassan. Boss Bai also had a feeling of dizziness, which was really unbelievable. Things that had been buried for a long time, at least eighty years ago, and things that no one thought anyone would know about, were revealed bit by bit in the midst of chatting. Isn't it amazing? Boss Bai knew that he was talking about "coincidence", but in fact there could not be so many "coincidences".He tried to calm Hassan before he asked, "The baby was not just thrown away, but sent to the orphanage, right?" Shi Daofu looked surprised: "How do you know? Uncle took me there. He was waiting for me on the opposite road. I hugged Xiaonan and put it in the wooden box at the entrance of the orphanage. I even looked at Xiaonan's face once and pulled him rope, and ran away with my uncle." Hasan's voice sounded like a dying Tsing Yi: "Which road is the orphanage on?" Shi Daofu raised his eyebrows: "Fanhuangdu Road, there is a church next door." Hasan's body is like sifting chaff, it can no longer be faked, Boss Bai hurriedly said in his ear: "Don't let others know!" Hassan tried his best to nod his head, and asked again: "That day is—" Shi Daofu said: "It's December 24th, a holiday for foreigners, and it's terribly cold." Hasan still couldn't stand the stimulation and passed out. Boss Bai waited for a minute before rescuing him, because he knew that the stimulation was too great for Hasan. If he was woken up immediately, he would faint again. One step closer to Hades! Shi Daofu was inexplicably surprised, and asked repeatedly: "What's the matter? What's the matter? He seems to have been greatly stimulated?" Boss Bai concealed: "I don't know why, he has this problem, don't ask him too much, once you ask, the problem is more likely to occur!" Although Shi Daofu was puzzled, he didn't dare to speak out. A minute later, Hasan woke up leisurely, yelled, and danced like a ghost. After dancing for a while, he finally calmed down, drank heavily, and urged: "Speak up!" That night, Stauff heard the conversation between uncle and aunt again. Auntie said: "We move, Shanghai is so big, no one will know when we move, if we have money, buy a house, start a business, what can't we do? Daofu is our child, no matter what, it's better than raising him." That hybrid is good!" (Hassan let out an angry snort when he heard the word 'mixed breed'. Stauff once described his appearance as a child: high nose, big eyes, and dark complexion. He has Middle Eastern ancestry.) The uncle sighed: "If his father finds us, it will be terrible. The knife on the man's waist can be used to shave his beard!" Aunt scolded: "No way! Who told him to do this kind of thing in Shanghai, he is too stupid!" Uncle couldn't help sighing. Later, I bought a house and opened a shoe store, and my life became much better, but my uncle seemed not as happy as before, always sighed and drank again, and died when Stauff was eighteen years old. My aunt lived a few more years, and she said to Shi Daofu when she was dying: "Daofu! As a human being, you really can't do bad things. Oh, you still remember when you were a child, a few days, our family had a little girl ?” Stauff remembered very well: "I sent him to the orphanage." Auntie ordered Shi Daofu to open a box, and took out a small bundle from under the box: "This is the clothes that the child wore when he came. I don't know why, but his father doesn't want him... It's not that he doesn't want him, but he is left for him. Your uncle, that man said that he would come back to pick up the child. All these years, we have been worried, how can we have a good life? People from the Small Knife Society, with red eyebrows and green eyes, kill people without blinking an eye!" Although Shi Daofu despised Aunt Aunt, his words were kind when people were about to die, and Shi Daofu was also very sad. Auntie ordered again: "You...keep these well. If that person comes, give it to him. The child is in the orphanage. If he dies hard, he will grow up too, so that their father and son can be reunited." Hasan burst into tears when he heard this, and Shi Daofu smiled: "That was more than a year ago. I still keep those baby clothes." Hasan jumped up straight: "Take it and see." Hasan's attitude is so strange, even if Shi Daofu is a fool, he can see the signs of it. He stared at Hasan for a long time, and then patted his forehead, as if he was talking to himself: "No way, No way." As he spoke, he looked at Hasan with an expression of extreme doubt and shook his head again and again.He must have also thought that the baby he put into the wooden box at the entrance of the orphanage was right in front of his eyes. But that was incredible.He told two people he just met about a past event more than 80 years ago, but one of the audience was related to that story. Shi Daofu pointed at Hasan, wanting to say something, but couldn't say anything, and his outstretched hand was also trembling.Since he opened his mouth wide, he could see half of his teeth missing, and Boss Bai couldn't imagine what happened to him when he was just a child.None of the three old people made a sound, because the coincidence was a bit strange, and the atmosphere was naturally very strange. Hassan was the first to break the silence. He shouted hoarsely, "You said just now that you still keep...clothes...take it out and have a look." Shi Daofu stood up, a little unsteady, stretched out his hand, pressed it on Zhang Baxian's table, took a few breaths, and still stared at Hasan: "You...you are that baby?" Hasan made a moan-like sound, and Boss Bai hurriedly said, "Probably so." Shi Daofu seemed to be possessed, and his expression was extremely excited. He pointed at Hasan's finger and trembled even more: "It must be, it must be." Because of his excitement, the wrinkles on his face seemed to be squeezed together, and his voice became weird: "I remember your nose, that little girl's nose is hooked and high like yours, not like a Chinese, so don't blame me too much Uncle and aunt, if you were Chinese, they wouldn't send you to an orphanage." Hearing what Shi Daofu said, Boss Bai was very annoyed. He raised his white eyebrows, slapped the table hard, and said, "Whatever conditions you want, just agree, there are so many wordy words." When Boss Bai got angry, he was very awe-inspiring, and Shi Daofu slapped uh, with a very aggrieved expression on his face: "I...even told you that my predecessors in the family did such a thing, but you...don't want to say anything to me, I'm already so When you are old, what kind of ax will you use?" ("Cu Tiao Ax" in Shanghai dialect is a kind of behavior that "takes money" and threatens to get monetary benefits.) Boss Bai thought about what he said just now was a bit harsh, so he snorted and didn't continue to lose his temper, but just looked at Hasan. Hassan sighed, "The baby you're talking about...I think it was me. I grew up in that orphanage. The only evidence that can identify my origin is the oil-stained newspaper dated 12 The twentieth day of the month." Shi Daofu said "ahh" repeatedly: "Really, really. This is really a coincidence." Hasan took a breather, and said again: "The past events you narrated are extremely important to me, can you think about every detail carefully, that man who...entrusted me to your uncle , he said it was my father?" 史道福连连点头：“我叔叔是那么说，他给我叔叔的钱还不少，不但可以买房子，还可以开鞋铺，所以把你送到孤儿院去之后……做了这种亏心事，他们都十分不安，怕你父亲找上门来，会对他们不利。” 哈山盯着史道福看，虽然一时之间，他没有出声，可是他想问什么，实在再明白也没有，他想问的是：“那个人，我的父亲，后来来了没有？” 可是就在这时，史道福转过脸去，咽了一口口水：“我就去拿那些东西给你，嘿，真是想不到，会……隔了那么多年，还会物归原主。” 他说着，转身走了开去。他的屋子虽然旧，但是格局还在，他们谈话之处，是客厅旁的一间房间，一般作为小客厅或是古董间，他走了出去之后，走过客厅，上了楼梯，木楼梯旧得格吱格吱直响。 史道福一走，哈山立时向白老大望来。白老大也立时明白了他的意思是在问：“这人说的事，是真的还是假的？” 白老大的回答是：“你的事，没有人知道，他也不可能造出这样的一故事出来。” 哈山的神情怪异之极：“那么……我是中国人了？” 白老大道：“至少，令尊是中国人。对了，史道福再回来时，我们可以叫他尽量记忆令尊的样子，照他的描述，画出令尊当时的样子来。” 哈山挥着手，显然他的思绪，紊乱之极，不知道说什么才好，他站了起来，团团乱转：“我父亲竟是一个小刀会的会员，他……为什么把我托给别人呢？” 白老大的分析是：“说不定那时小刀会溃败，那鞋匠多半样子还老实，所以先把你托给了他再说。” 哈山站着发怔，过了一会儿，才长叹了一声：“不论当年又发了什么事，当然是俱往矣。” 白老大也叹了一声：“你在这里的孤儿院中长大，才会有你过往的一生，要是被鞋匠养大，大不了和史道福一样。” 哈山面肉抽搐了几下：“我当然不会怪任何人，唉，要是在衣物上，能有多一点线索就好了。” 他说到这里的时候，木楼梯上又传来了格吱格吱的声响，不一会，史道福又走了进来。他的手中拿着一只包袱，解开来之后，摊在桌上，就是后来我和白素看到的那一些婴儿用的衣物。