In the midsummer of '98, I spent a month in the courtyard clean. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Cao Team and Xiao Lei went to Guangdong to investigate the case, Huan Sheng and Feng Bu went to Shanghai to open a new store, Feng would have dragged me there, but when I thought of the hot and humid weather in the south, and Wu Nong's soft language that I didn't understand very well, I still decided to stay in the small courtyard honestly.

In recent years, Beijing has been engaged in infrastructure construction everywhere, new buildings have risen one after another, and old bungalows have been slowly demolished. The number of people working and doing business has also increased. Near my home, it is a place with convenient transportation and relatively cheap rent, not far from the West Railway Station, which has naturally become a favored foothold for many foreigners. Every few days, some new faces will appear in the alley.

But the biggest thing these renters from all over the world have in common is that they are busy. I left in a hurry early in the morning, and came back in the middle of the night, and I didn't communicate much with the neighbors around me, as if I was just a passerby who slept here at night, and the different living habits greatly reduced the neighborhood atmosphere of Hutong as a family.

But Ma Jinsong, who opened a small shop at the mouth of the alley, didn't see it that way, there were more rentals in other places, and his small shop was very prosperous, and the sales volume had doubled several times, and the biggest benefit was that he no longer had to fight with the neighbors and aunts in the alley. Renters will never turn over and look at things for a long time, let alone account for being more expensive than supermarkets, and don't bargain, who do they earn if they don't make money?

A year ago, Ma Jinsong opened up the bungalow next to the original store, doubling the business area. When the place was bigger, he was thinking about doing some more business projects. At that time,Beijing's lottery industry is beginning to flourish,He actually found Cao team to help,Drag relationships,Climb acquaintances,Go to approve a lottery ticket sales point.

Team Cao and Ma Jinsong know each other, purely because they always buy alcohol and cigarettes in a small store when they come to me, but Ma Jinsong is a familiar child, can speak well, since the Cao team wore a police uniform to buy cigarettes, every time the Cao team went to his store, Ma Jinsong was extraordinarily enthusiastic, serving tea and pouring water, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, so that the Cao team was embarrassed to go if he didn't buy more things.

Ma Jinsong was in his early forties that year, and he had five brothers and sisters in the family, he was the youngest, and the neighbors called him Ma Wu. Ma Wu is also a strange person, where is the strange? It is very easy to attract strange things.

After graduating from high school, Ma Wu was just in time for a large number of unemployed young people to find a job, so he wandered in the alley for more than a year, and became a hutong skewer with his idle hands, and his family worked hard to make him a temporary worker in a pastry factory. Unexpectedly, since he worked there, the pastry factory began to cause rat infestation, and often stole all the raw materials for making pastries. The factory didn't dare to give drugs, so they put some rat traps, rat cages and the like. But the rat was like a spirit, and never touched the food that was dangerous, preferring to go to great lengths to steal the hidden pastries.

The factory was overwhelmed, so I went to invite the famous old man Lu from the South Third Ring Road to help. Old man Lu is a famous exterminator in Nancheng, what weasels, foxes, wild cats, mice, snakes and scorpions, etc., are caught with their hands.

When the old man arrived in the factory, he went down to the well, made a net sleeve, and tossed for a week, without even touching a mouse hair. Ma Wu was curious at that time, so he followed Old Man Lu every day to see his craftsmanship. Later, Mr. Lu squatted in the factory at night, and Ma Wu simply moved into the factory.

The two of them guarded for almost half a month, and the old man Lu finally used the old method of a sesame oil jar to catch the big rat in the pastry factory. But this mouse was really scary, a foot long, with white fur all over its body, red eyes and gray claws, and its cry was not a squeak, but like a wild cat that had been provoked, and its throat was whirring.

Old Man Lu had never seen a mouse like this, and he was stunned for a while. I don't know if it was because of this mouse for too long, Ma Wu was angry with it, picked up a stove hook casually, hated and stabbed down, the mouse in the big clay pot could not avoid it, hissed, from the back to the abdomen was penetrated by the furnace hook, dark brown dirty blood splashed Lao Gao. Maybe Ma Wu used too much force, the hook went down, and the clay pot clicked and shattered into several pieces.

At that moment, Old Man Lu exclaimed in surprise and reached out to grab Ma Wu's wrist, but he was still a step too late. Old Man Lu sighed, and reprimanded him a little angrily, "Boy, don't say a word first, this thing can't be killed." ”

"Old man Lu, no wonder the neighbors say that you have a compassionate heart in the yearbook. This big rat is the first of the four evils, and everyone gets it. Ma Wu replied nonchalantly.

"Boy, you know a fart, I didn't have you when I got rid of the harm. This rat looks like this, it must have become a refinement, and it has cultivated the Tao, you go down with a hook and abolish its Taoism, it will give up, you kid is in trouble, and he thinks his life is long. Old Man Lu didn't pay attention to him, cleaned up the corpse of the mouse, and left without looking back.

"Can a dead rat turn the sky upside down? Ma Wu muttered, not taking it seriously.

But after that, Ma Wu slowly began to feel that something was wrong. One night when I fell asleep, I was suddenly bitten by something in my ear, and I woke up in shock, and when I reached out and touched it, my hand was full of blood. I went to the hospital and got a tetanus injection, leaving a small row of deep tooth marks on my ear.

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, he got up to go to the public toilet, walking, and always heard very light footsteps behind him, Ma Wu walked forward, and the sound also followed, Ma Wu stopped, and the sound stopped, making him break out in a cold sweat, and when he plucked up the courage to look back, there was nothing behind him.

The wires of your own appliances are bitten off by rats, and the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen will fall inexplicably in the middle of the night. Sometimes leftovers are not eaten at noon, and when they are left in the evening, they will spoil and emit an unpleasant smell. Ma Wu didn't know the cause of these strange things, but he was young and bold at that time, and he didn't take it too seriously, but often joked with his neighbors.

Perhaps because of the courage of the body, these strange things disappeared after a few months. Slowly, Ma Wu also gained the name of a bold horse, and in this southern city, he gained some prestige.

Later, the idlers with good deeds looked for Ma Wu to fight for courage, Ma Wu looked at face more than anything else, and he was a single, so he had no scruples, so he went to the cemetery with them, went to the air-raid shelter, and broke into the old house, never ambiguous.

It wasn't until I got married and married my daughter-in-law that I accepted my playfulness and stopped fooling around outside, and in the early nineties, I opened this small shop, and my life was nourishing.

That year, when I spent a lot of time at home, I always went to his shop to buy some cigarettes and alcohol. I am a neighbor elder who grew up watching Ma Wu, and I have never seen Lotte's Ma Wu when he was worried, but in the past two days, when he went to the store, he always looked preoccupied, watching TV and being stunned.

Even if there are neighbors who come to buy lottery tickets, he is not as enthusiastic as before, helping people to choose numbers. Those who buy football lottery always like to gather in his shop, drink a beer, chat about the game, and sometimes watch the game on TV. But Ma Wu didn't seem to have anything to do with him, no longer participated, didn't speak, and continued to be stunned.

I thought it was Ma Wu's quarrel and bickering, he was worried about family affairs, but I often saw his daughter-in-law come to the store to help when she had nothing to do.

After a few days, Ma Wu brought two bottles of good wine and a few small bags of Yueshengzhai's sauce meat to my house, saying that the old neighbors and old neighbors came to walk around, but his gloomy state was written on his face, and I knew that he must have encountered a problem that he couldn't understand.

"Chang, do you say that bad luck is a human psychological effect or is it really manipulated by something. Ma Wu poured my glass full of wine, and did not look at me, but looked up at the grapes that were still green on the vine and asked me.

"Ma Wu, you are a famous horse in our area, you are not afraid of gods, ghosts, demons and foxes, what, let this thing of luck stump?" I smiled at him and took a sip of my cup.

"Tangible things, I'm really not afraid of anything, you said ghosts and gods or something, I've really bumped into it twice, at most it will scare you, but it can't hurt anyone, but this bad luck, hey, you can't see or touch it, but you can feel its existence. It's really a dead heart when it's entangled. ”

"Ma Wu, let's take it slowly, I may not be able to help, but it will definitely make you feel more comfortable. I moved my chair to find a comfortable position, buried myself in it, and waited for him to speak.

Ma Wu's eyes did not leave the grape trellis, as if he said to himself: "People are unlucky because of a greedy word, everyone understands this truth, but when it comes to the end, who has this determination? Anyway, I don't." ”

These philosophical words came out of Ma Wu's mouth, and they were serious, which made me full of interest in his story.

Ma Wu's story begins with him doing a lottery ticket sales point. Ma Wu thinks about the problem straightforwardly, and can even be said to be mindless. Others told him that he opened a point of sale to sell lottery tickets to make money, he and Ben did not go to investigate, nor did he calculate the accounts, thinking that the person who came to buy lottery tickets bought a bottle of beer and cigarettes in his store, and the turnover of his small shop also went up, as for selling lottery tickets themselves to make money, he didn't think much about it. In addition, the house is also ready-made, and it can be used by repainting and painting, and it immediately starts to run.

(Whoever has an appearance or a voice is a thing.) How can things be far from each other? Then the creation of things is invisible, and it stops at nothingness. The husband will be in a deep place, but hide the unprovoked discipline, and swim in the end of all things. One of its nature, nourish its qi, contain its virtue, and create it through things. If the husband is the one, his heaven is complete, his god is incomprehensible, and the thing is ridiculed by himself? The husband and the drunk fall in the car, although they are ill and do not die. The joints are the same as those of man, and the offense is different from that of man, and all of them are gods. The ride is also known, and the fall is also known. The fear of death and life does not enter his chest, and he is not afraid of things. Peter was all in wine and in the like, and in heaven he was all in heaven?

--"Liezi")