388 The grievances of the small literati class

Duke Robert launched a campaign entirely against Mr. Shandong, Zhang Meixi calmly faced the battle, and achieved a complete victory in all aspects, but the fruits of victory were shared by the people, and China's pharmaceutical industry, textile industry and other related industries all participated in the global market.

"A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, with an occasional flap of its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas, USA, two weeks later."

The reason for this is that the movement of the butterfly's wings changes the air system around it, and produces a weak air flow, and the generation of weak air flow will cause corresponding changes in the surrounding air or other systems, which causes a chain reaction, and finally leads to great changes in other systems. It's a science, chaos!

One attack by Duke Robert caused so many changes, thousands of them, that I don't know where to start. The tiny and faint size of a water droplet can also reflect the sun's brilliance. A small and faint drop of water has 100,000 living beings during the period. Therefore, it happened that in the public concession of Shanghai, a two-and-a-half-story Shikumen tenant, the incident that happened in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Mai also had a little fun.

Mr. Mak works in an unpopular department of the government, which is known as the cold yamen. But Mr. Mai is a learned person, and he also worked the Four Books and Five Classics when he was a teenager, and if it was still the imperial examination era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, maybe he would have made some achievements.

Although it is very unfortunate, Mr. Mak has encountered a great change unseen in 3,000 years. Mr. Mai still relied on one of his pens to get mixed into a government errand, and he was a decent literati who ate official meals and literary meals.

Mr. Mai's social circle on weekdays is full of words. You can scrutinize sentences, you can write fluently, you can even improvise poems, and you can sing in harmony with each other.

In this circle, friends are happy. People outside the circle have two completely different attitudes towards them, one is willing to bow to them and communicate with each other, calling them "sir". The other is the vulgar and rude warrior butcher and the like. Call them "sour ding'er".

Few years. Mr. Mai's greatest achievement, and one of the things he is most proud of, is the great victory of Sun Overseer over Wang Overseer. When entering the city, the float has to pass through three colorful archways, and the archway is inscribed. Several of the main leaders in the official hall avoided because of the war. So the dwarf pulls the general. It was promoted to Mr. Mai's head.

Mr. Mak saw that his colleagues had been waiting diligently to spread out the paper and press the paperweight. The pen was already in his hand. I had to say a few words of resignation with emphasis, and then rolled up my sleeves and started writing.

There are three sentences and twelve words in total. "Gong Gao Yue Mu", "Wei Zhen Southeast", "Delong Enbo".

Colleagues also said some words of applause

"Lao Mai's calligraphy skills have become more and more profound."

"Especially the last one. The most skillful, powerful through the back of the paper. ”

Mr. Mai's cheeks were flushed, and he couldn't help the smug energy in his heart. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he traced it on the last word with a sense of "power through the back of the paper".

In this way, the ink on the last stroke is a little too heavy. On the contrary, it feels like a snake is added. Mr. Mak regretted it and thought about destroying it again and rewriting it.

But my colleagues couldn't wait, and they all said:

"That's good enough."

I handed over the ink treasure to the messenger and took it to the shop where the plaque was engraved.

In general, Mr. Mai's income in the circle of literati can only be regarded as middle and lower-class, and his income in the official hall where he works can only be regarded as middle and lower-class.

Fortunately, he married a wife who was smart, virtuous and good at living. The husband and wife planned day and night, and the abacus beads beat day and night, so it was okay.

Mr. Mai's family has an old habit, which has been a habit in the Qijia family since the late Qing Dynasty, that is, in winter and summer, the clothes that change the season at home are all taken to the pawnshop. A pawn ticket will be written in the pawnshop. Wait for half a year, and then go to redeem and come back.

Toss twice a year, and you will have a sum of living money in your hand, although you have to pay one cent of interest. But with their husbands and wives' ability to bargain. It's cheaper to pay a portion of your daily expenses upfront.

This year, Mr. Mai's family still used the old habit of the past to go to the pawnshop to find a pawnshop. But times are different. None of this year's pawnshops accept ordinary clothes. Only Mr. Mak's big furry coat, and Mrs. Mak's fox eyes and gem-encrusted scarf, can still be used as out.

Mrs. Mak sighed:

"If you lose a sum of living money, life will be tight!"

Although they are missing a sum of living money, they are still a petty bourgeois literati family. Mrs. Mak inquired about the reason why the clothes could not reach the pawnshop, and also rushed to the cloth street to buy new cloth summer clothes for the whole family.

Mr. Mak said that he wanted to be thrifty, and at the same time he was thinking:

"This cheongsam of new bamboo cloth is also decent to wear to a banquet."

Mr. Mai is an official person, and he always has the opportunity to go to the banquet for three days and five days.

Although there is a lack of living money, this year's life is much smoother than in previous years. Shanghai's municipal government didn't know where it was getting a lot of tax revenue.

Mr. Mai's Leng Yamen, the original salary was always in arrears for three or two months, and even often discounted 70% or 60%. There was a lot of money today, and all the ones that were not bad in a day were distributed.

The two-and-a-half-story Shikumen rented by the Mai family was shared by a total of seven families. A few days ago, two families moved in, and Mrs. Mai put her freshly hot hair on her head and probed her brain.

The two new families were working in a weaving factory.

Mrs. Mai said to her husband privately:

"The new neighbor is a worker! I've inquired about the workers in the textile factory, and I'm not a foreman! ”

Mr. Mak hurriedly told his wife:

"Such worker neighbors, you must remember to be polite, and don't let them say that our family is high!"

The petty bourgeois literati family has a unique high level in front of the family of hired workers. The first is the spiritual realm, the vision is much higher, and the second is that the daily use is much higher.

Mrs. Mak nodded:

"Got it!"

The next day, Mrs. Mai went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, carried a bamboo basket, picked a two-pound hen, asked the vendors to slaughter, clean and divide it, wrapped it in oilcloth and put it in a bamboo basket.

She also found that the celery in the vegetable market was the most tender today, so she picked it for a few minutes and bought one to put in a bamboo basket. After finishing her grocery shopping, she went home with a basket and high heels.

The new neighbor greets her:

"Mrs. Mai, you're back from grocery shopping!"

Mrs. Mak replied:

"Yes, you go to work? That's early! ”

The new neighbor answers:

"It's not too early for us, Mrs. Mai is really early to get up, this celery, it's really tender enough to buy."

…… (To be continued.) )