Wu Qingyun is a very famous fortune teller in Qiantang Town and even the entire Beiping City, in his early years, he lived in the countryside, and if the livestock of the villagers could not be found, he would be asked to calculate, or the village would find him to help choose the land when digging wells.

When Yuan Shikai said that the emperor was imminent, he heard that there was a strange person in Qiantang Town, so he brought his subordinates to visit, and wanted to ask Wu Qingyun if he called the emperor if the empire built could be peaceful forever, Wu Qingyun was silent for a long time when he heard this, and asked him to come back in the third month after being called emperor, and everything would be known at that time.

Yuan Shikai gave him a mansion in order to thank Wu Qingyun, and after returning to Beijing, he ascended the throne as the emperor within a few days, changed the name of the country to Hongxian, and established the Chinese Empire.

This incident spread in Beiping City at that time, and Wu Qingyun became famous at that time, and many rich and famous people came to visit him over the years.

Since I was a child, I have listened to the old people in Sanlitun talk about some strange things, so naturally I have heard of Wu Qingyun.

I thought that when Wu Qingyun was in school, he said that the champion was me, but he didn't expect that the person he was referring to was Xiao Wu.

On the way, Jiang Sheng saw that I was unhappy, as if he knew what I was thinking, so he said: "Jiang Rong, the fortune teller's words can't be believed, he didn't say it himself, people's lives can not be determined in a word, which way to go ultimately depends on how you live, you are much smarter than Xiao Wu, you are also interested in reading, there is a brother, even if you are the champion in Qiantang Town in the future, you will be the champion." ”

"Hmm!" I muttered in response, and my heart felt more relaxed.

After Jiang Sheng and I went home, we saw a strange middle-aged man standing in the courtyard, the middle-aged man had a scruffy beard and a bad smell of alcohol on his body, Jiang Sheng frowned, protected me behind him and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Jiang Sheng, this is your uncle." Mother's voice came from inside the house.

My uncle's name is Zhang Laibao, when my grandmother and grandfather came late to have a child, and gave birth to my uncle in their forties, so I named it Laibao, and gave birth to my mother Zhang Xiumei the next year. The old couple is very doting on their uncle, counting on their uncle to pass on the lineage, giving their uncle everything at home, and the mother eats leftovers from his uncle's food, and the clothes he wears are not worn by his uncle, and the clothes on his body are patched all year round.

Grandma often says that raising children to prevent old age, while daughters are losing money, and getting married is spilled water. At the beginning, my uncle went to see my mother every once in a while, and then I couldn't help but scold my grandmother and never went to see my mother again, and no one even guarded her on the day of her mother's birth.

Mother is not a ruthless person, she has always thought that blood is thicker than water, home is home after all, and later married her father Jiang Zhengyang, and Lao Jiang worked as a soil doctor in Langzhong, helped grandma take care of the disease, and was also a person with status in Qiantang Town, and grandma's family took a little serious view of her mother.

After a while, my mother came out of the house, holding a flower cloth handkerchief in her hand, and my uncle looked at me and Jiang Sheng and burped, and said: "Jiang Rong, this little girl has grown so big, Xiumei, that little hairy head is the son of you and Chen Gong Bosheng, I heard our mother tell me, she looks really Peugeot, and I don't know how many little girls will be harmed in the future." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about." Mother said.

"How can I talk nonsense, I have always seen people accurately, not that I blow, this child can do great things in the future, sister, you are blessed." As he spoke, the uncle snatched the handkerchief from his mother's hand and hurriedly opened it. "How's that money?"

The mother said in embarrassment: "There is only this amount of money at home, you take it to your mother to see a doctor first, it is not enough, and then I will think of a way." ”

The uncle's face was a little ugly, and he said: "Xiumei didn't say you, I loved you so much when you were a child, my mother beat you and I protected you, outsiders bullied you and I worked hard with him, this mother was sick and asked me to come all the way to get some money, you sent away these dozens of yuan, do you look down on your eldest brother?" ”

I shouted, "My family has no money, it's all borrowed!" ”

"What, borrowed out, lent to whom?" Uncle asked loudly with a glare.

"Jiang Rong, adults don't interject when children talk!" Mother scolded.

The uncle was a little annoyed, stared at his mother and said, "Xiumei, you still don't think I'm your eldest brother, we are a family, why did you recognize me when you married someone else?" There is something to be said and hidden. ”

Mother said: "I usually do laundry and cooking at home and don't go out to work to make money, this money is earned by Jiang Zhengyang, it is not under my control, there is only this money at home, you take it first, if you don't want me to take it back, it will save him from coming back and blame me." ”

Seeing that my mother said this, my uncle hurriedly put the front in his pocket and said, "Then let's make do with it first, you also know that our mother's stomach disease is not a day or two, this time the pain is tight, it is not easy for the old man to raise us, I am also trying to find a way to ask others to borrow, your sister-in-law has to break up with me all day long, how can I make enough money?" You can't just let me carry it. ”

"Thank God you don't take it for a gamble." Mother said. "Don't think I don't know anything, Zhengyang has someone he knows at the police station, you make it clear to me if you commit a crime, if you don't gamble on the family, it won't be like this."

"Xiumei, you said that your sister deserved, I stopped gambling a long time ago, and I had to be angry when I came all the way to see you." Uncle said with a bitter face. "Okay, okay, I won't tell you, I'll take the money back to treat our mother first, and I'll come to see you in a few days."

After the uncle finished speaking, he walked out of the courtyard, and the smell of wine on his body was pungent and unpleasant.

I looked at my mother and said, "Mom, Dad said don't give the money to my grandmother and uncle anymore, my uncle took it to gamble, and my grandmother was also partial, and she said that she was sick if she was not sick, and she gave the money to her uncle." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I went to your grandmother's house with your brother some time ago, she couldn't get out of bed while lying in bed, I only went once in a long time, and it is also appropriate for children to send some money, don't talk too much in front of your father." Mother said.

"Mom, is our family out of money?" Jiang Sheng asked. "Didn't Uncle Li leave me a lot of money in the bank when he left, you just go and take it out for some use."

"No, that's the money you will use when you grow up, you can't move it, our family still has some money to spare, don't worry about it." Mother said. "Wash your hands and get ready to eat, the rice in the pot is almost cooked."

My mother said this but she still looked worried, and when my father came home for dinner in the evening, what my mother was worried about still happened.

The father said, "The family hasn't cooked meat for a while, so you can buy some tomorrow." ”

The mother hesitated for a moment, stopped the chopsticks, and the father saw that it was a little tired, so he got up and took the box off the wardrobe, he rummaged through the box, dropped the box on the table, and asked, "What about the money?" ”

The mother lowered her head and did not look at her father, and said, "My mother is sick, and her stomach has been bad these days, and she can't go down to the ground because of the pain. ”

"How many times?" Father yelled. "How many times have I asked you?!"

As he spoke, his father grabbed his mother's shoulders and pushed her onto the kang, he pointed at his mother and shouted, "You ruined woman, you don't know who your mother and your eldest brother are? What is the money taken from our family? Do you know that I work hard to make money, I work for the Japanese to make money, my head is pinned to the belt of my pants, and you take my money to others?! ”

My father has always been disgusted with my mother's maiden family, and in the past few years, my grandmother has asked my father and mother for money for medical treatment for various reasons.

Uncle is proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, because he owes money and fights with others many times, it is not a matter of entering the police station once or twice, and once his grandmother came to beg her mother to let her raise money to bail her uncle out.

The more his father spoke, the more angry he became, he clenched his fists and walked towards his mother with red eyes, Jiang Sheng immediately stood in front of his father, he opened his arms, pouted and glared at his father angrily and shouted, "Don't hit Mom!" ”

The father's chest rose and fell, and he snorted and said: "Look at how much your son protects you, you have raised a good son, let me tell you Zhang Xiumei, your mother and your brother are bottomless pits, our family is richer than Zhao Fugui's family, and they can't withstand their defeat!" Don't think that I lent money to Zhao Shugen and Ma Aiguo is an elbow turned out, you know what kind of person your mother and your brother are, even if I throw away my money, I won't give them a point. If you want to go, I haven't stopped you, people haven't seen you as an adult, so don't stick a hot face on a cold ass! Think about it yourself, I originally kept some money and could last until the end of the month, I was paid, you can do it yourself, if the days are too long, you can say it. ”

After my father finished speaking, he lifted the table, and the dishes, chopsticks and plates were smashed to the ground, and I cried loudly, and my father yelled: "Cry, cry, cry, you know how to cry all day long, get out and cry!" A loser, a loser, and a wild seed who disgraced me. ”