Chapter 358: Camel Xiangzi
"Decent, strong, dreamy, self-interested, personal, strong, great, Xiangzi, I don't know how many funerals he has sent with others, I don't know when and where he will bury himself, bury this degenerate, selfish, unfortunate, socially sick child, individualistic doom ghost!"
Looking at the young man in front of him, Zhuang Yan was in a trance for a while, and such a text appeared in his mind.
Xiangzi, if Zhuang Yan didn't guess wrong, the person in front of him was Xiangzi, the decent, dreamy Xiangzi.
If you want to talk about modern China, Lao She is definitely an unavoidable mountain, and when you want to talk about Lao She, you can't talk about one of his masterpieces, "Camel Xiangzi".
Different from his other masterpieces, such as "Four Generations in the Same Hall" and "Teahouse", this "Camel Xiangzi" should be known to more people, especially Zhuang Yan's generation, because they used to have excerpts from "Camel Xiangzi" in high school textbooks.
Before reading the book Camel Xiangzi, he had heard the name of the book a long time ago, but he never read it, so for a long time, Zhuang Yan thought that there was such a camel called Xiangzi.
It wasn't until I bought a copy later and went back and saw a paragraph written by Lao She at the beginning that it suddenly dawned on me that Xiangzi was not a camel, but a person.
"We're going to introduce Shoko, not camels, because 'camels' are just a nickname. โ
The first sentence in the book is this, it seems that Lao She knows that the name he gave to the book will cause misunderstanding among others, so he will explain it clearly at the beginning. But Zhuang Yan knows that this is also a little skill of Lao She, a seemingly simple sentence, but it will cause you to want to look down, want to know this Xiangzi, why there is a nickname "camel".
Thinking about "Camel Xiangzi" in his mind, the Xiangzi himself in front of him was snubbed by him.
When Xiangzi saw Zhuang Yan fฤ lรจng, he held the money on the table in his hand again and said, "Boss, don't you sell your car?"
Zhuang Yan came back to his senses, "Sell, of course sell, what car do you want?"
Hearing Zhuang Yan's words, Xiangzi was a little anxious, leaning on a new car by the door, and said, "Boss, didn't you say that this car has just been built, and the person who ordered the car doesn't want it, so you sold it cheaply?"
Zhuang Yan slapped his forehead, there seems to be such a plot in the original book, Xiangzi was originally going to save up to a hundred to buy a car, but he happened to meet a car that someone didn't want after ordering, the original price seemed to be more than a hundred, because the deposit was not needed, so the shop owner was willing to ask for a little less.
It seems that in the book, Xiangzi also bargained with the boss, and finally took it for more than 90 yuan.
But now......
Zhuang Yan didn't expect that he would become the owner of the car shop, so he thought about giving Xiangzi a little discount, so he smiled and said, "Okay, keep the money, you can take the car." โ
He thought that there should be no problem with this change in the plot, so it was better to sell it to Shoko happily and make him happy. After all, Xiangzi is so miserable, and Zhuang Yan has a sympathy for him.
But before he could speak, the smile on Xiangzi's face had not yet faded, and a middle-aged man suddenly came out of the store, frowning and shouting, "Dog, you pickled thing, when will it be your turn to call the shots, get out of the way." โ
After that, the man also kicked Zhuang Yan, and then walked up to Xiangzi with a smile and stared at the money in his hand, "How much money did the guest bring?"
Xiangzi didn't expect the shopkeeper to suddenly change people, and he became nervous all of a sudden, for fear that he would not be able to buy this car, he blushed and said, "Ninety-six." โ
The shopkeeper shook his head, pulled the rickshaw out, opened the shed and put it down, honked the horn, praised the car to the bumble, and finally kicked twice on the steel wheels, "Listen to the sound, bell-like! Pull it, you just break the car, if the steel bar is soft, you can take it back and throw him in my face!
The shopkeeper obviously wanted to make up the whole thing, but Xiangzi only had so much money, and finally the shopkeeper sighed, "Make a friend, the car is yours......"
After Zhuang Yan was kicked, he kept standing by and watching the boss bargain with Xiangzi, and finally saw that he still agreed to the price of ninety-six, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
He was still depressed in his heart, he thought he had become a shopkeeper, but he didn't expect that he was just a handyman.
At the same time, he was a little surprised, the identity of this dream was different from the past, he turned out to be a person inside, although he was just a nobody, but he was really the person inside, with an identity, and he could move independently. He thought again, in the future, in the world of "Camel Xiangzi", he can only use this identity to continue walking?
While he was thinking about these questions, the shopkeeper and Shoko had already paid for the goods, and Shoko had already pulled his new car and left.
The shopkeeper saw Xiangzi away, turned his head, looked at Zhuang Yan, and scolded, "Learn a little." โ
Then he went to the back room again and never came out again.
Zhuang Yan pursed his lips, what are you studying? Ninety-six yuan, or ninety-six yuan, not a single penny.
Xiangzi left, Zhuang Yan actually wanted to catch up, but considering his identity, he stayed in the store for a while, and the boss has not moved since he went to the back room.
After a while, Zhuang Yan couldn't help it and walked to the back room, but there was a small room in the back, a warehouse-type house, with a total of not a few square meters, but there was no boss.
He searched around the room, but he couldn't find where the boss had gone. With just one door and no windows, can he still run away?
After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, Zhuang Yan simply stomped his feet, ready to find Xiangzi, this is just a dream world, even if it is real, there is no need to worry too much about it here.
After making up his mind, Zhuang Yan went out, and as soon as he walked out of the door, the owner of the noodle restaurant next door smiled when he saw him, "Boss He, where are you going, the store is not closed?"
Zhuang Yan was stunned, didn't I call the dog a handyman, why did I become the boss again?
Unclear about the situation, he said hesitantly, "It's okay, go out for a walk, and come back in a while, don't worry." โ
The owner of the noodle shop was also warm-hearted, and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's okay, you go, I'll show you some." Door-to-door relationship, you can rest assured about this little thing. If you want to go out at this time, is there something new coming out of the restaurant on the street next to you?"
Zhuang Yan couldn't understand what he was saying, so he left after a perfunctory sentence.
The owner of the noodle shop looked at Zhuang Yan's back, and Wu Zi was still saying, "This Boss He usually smiles, why is he cold today." โ
The proprietress of the noodle shop was preparing ingredients in the store, and when she heard her man chattering there, she took a stubble, "His eldest sister Li has not had a good temper in the past two days, maybe it was a quarrel between husband and wife." โ
"Tsk, that's a strange thing......"