Chapter 40: The Unspeakable Taste
As soon as the buttocks sat up, he heard a loud roar behind him, and when the frightened coachman turned around, the eldest young master was already running wildly behind, and the coachman immediately jumped out of the carriage, he couldn't care about the carriage at all, and left a carriage that he had just bought and chased after the eldest young master.
No matter how the coachman called from behind, the eldest young master didn't seem to hear, didn't stop, and didn't look back, the helpless coachman had to chase desperately, looking at the eldest young master's hands and constantly grabbing his hair, listening to his crazy shouts, the coachman was shocked and scared, he didn't know why the eldest young master looked like this when he read the announcement, he only blamed himself for not being literate, if he could know the reason, maybe he could help the eldest young master.
At this moment, the eldest young master is like a mad madman, everywhere he passes, everyone is afraid, and the coachman does not think that this is a glorious thing.
The coachman thought that he could help after catching up with the eldest young master, but in the end he found that he couldn't help anything, and he didn't know how to open his mouth or persuade him, so he could only follow the eldest young master inch by inch, watching him laugh madly, cry like crazy, and sometimes not know what to call stunned.
The young master who ran wildly knocked over the soup and cake stall on the roadside, and the coachman had to take out a few copper plates and send them to make the stall owner who was about to get angry put down his gloomy stinky face.
The eldest young master knocked down a passer-by, he didn't even look at it and continued to go crazy, and the passer-by who was about to catch up with the flat shoulder was immediately stopped by the coachman, and the kind words and copper plates blocked the man's scolding face, and when the coachman made the person happy, he found that the eldest young master had disappeared.
The coachman kept looking in the streets and alleys, asked passers-by, entered a inn, entered a brothel, and finally the sweaty coachman finally found the eldest young master in the Qiuyan Building on East Street.
The coachman didn't know if the eldest young master was crazy, and sat with him in this land of wind and snow, but the coachman was not interested at all, and the woman who had just been automatically sent back was driven back by his indifferent attitude・・・・・・
When night fell, Wang De's family had not yet fallen asleep, there was a large table of dishes in the hall, six children sat at the dining table, looking hungrily at the fragrant dishes on the table, constantly swallowing spit, these children only had food in their eyes, only one girl was different.
Perhaps she was the oldest of the children, and the little girl dragged her chin and stared not at the cold food, but with the three women next to her, her eyes were looking in the direction of the door, all of whom were expecting the return of the pillars of the family.
After another quarter of an hour, the little girl still didn't see the expected person back, the little girl's slender willow eyebrows frowned slightly, her heart began to beat faster, I don't know when, she felt that she was more sensible, she wouldn't be coquettish for no reason, crying, sometimes to her father, just because she liked to be close.
"Mother, when did you say when will Daddy come back, is business important today, why haven't you come back for so long, I haven't seen Daddy come back so late when I was in Chang'an before." The little girl couldn't sit still, so she came to a woman who didn't hold a child, pulled her sleeve and asked a serious question.
The woman touched the little girl's head, sighed and fell silent, and she didn't know what the reason was because she hadn't come back yet.
Without getting a reply from her mother, the little girl hung her hand in frustration and did not return to the dinner table, even if the six little siblings at the dinner table were already secretly eating with their hands, she had no intention of taking care of it, she slowly walked out of the hall, sat on the threshold, dragged her chin and continued to look in the direction of the door.
There was a staccato sound of conversation outside, and the little girl didn't pay much attention to it at first, and it was not a new thing for men to do this when they were drunk.
When the intermittent sound got closer and louder, there was a faint sense of familiarity, listened carefully a few times, the little girl suddenly stood up in surprise, and happily called 'Daddy' and ran towards the door, just ran down the steps, the door of the gate was opened, the little girl found that the housekeeper was helping the rickety daddy to walk in, Daddy's hands shook around weakly, and shouted 'This is not a fact, this is not a fact, it is a lie, it is a lie, right・・・・・・
Daddy was repeating these words, the little girl didn't know what Daddy meant, and she didn't know why he was so drunk, looking at Daddy sometimes shouting, sometimes sneering, sometimes laughing, the little girl was suddenly scared, and suddenly she felt that Daddy was so strange, so terrible.
This is the behavior of a madman, his father should not be like this, the little girl did not regress, nor did she continue to move forward, if it was in the past, as soon as her father came back, she would be the first to run over and beg her father to hug, but today, she just stood there quietly looking at her father.
The mother and two aunts were clustered around the father, and they were at a loss, so they only asked the subordinates to hurry up and make the sobering soup for the father, and the father was soon helped away by the three servants, and the mother who had calmed down immediately asked the only coachman who knew about it.
The coachman said that he didn't know why, but he gave his mother a piece of paper, and the coachman said that her father was crazy because of this, and the little girl didn't know what the paper was, but she found that after reading the paper, her face quickly became gloomy, and the whole person almost collapsed.
The two aunts saw their mother's appearance like this, snatched the paper in their mother's hand and only glanced at it a few times, and their faces were instantly gloomy, and the baby in the arms of the two aunts was quickly taken away by the maid who rushed over, and they also sent three chairs very intimately, and the three adults sat down weakly, like a storm, and tears fell down.
Seeing the three of them beating their chests and crying, the little girl's heart was even more sorrowful, and she wondered what kind of paper could make her father run and shout on the street, buy drunk in a brothel, and make her mother and aunt cry and wail like this.
So, she quietly walked over, quietly picked up the paper that had been thrown on the ground, she didn't immediately look at anything, hid it in her arms, secretly hid in her room, lit the wax lamp, nervously and excitedly opened the magic paper.
What attracted the attention of the little girl the most was a portrait on the paper, and the man who looked at this portrait was not very big, almost only four or five years older than her, how could such a person make her father and aunt so painful, this person looked quite cute.
Maybe it has something to do with the words on it, but the little girl can't understand the words on it, she lies on the table in some distress, and after a while, she picks up the paper and stares at the portrait for a long time, and then continues to lie down.
It was late at night, and the little girl who had not eaten dinner did not feel hungry, so she hid the paper in her storage wooden box, and only after locking it did she lie down in the bed, and closed her eyes, sometimes her mind was sad like her father and aunt, and sometimes it was the image on the paper, which was deeply imprinted in her mind, although she didn't know what the reason was, but she knew that the abnormal behavior of her father and aunt must be related to this person・・・・・・
When she woke up the next day, the little girl found a strange phenomenon, her father was no longer crazy, he was not as drunk and crazy as yesterday, and there were no tears on the faces of her mother and aunt, and the four adults had bright smiles on their faces, no different from the past.
But the little girl felt that they were forcing a smile, and that it was so abnormal that a person crying as if nothing had happened the next day, and that she might not want to be as sad as her siblings.
Since the adults are so well-intentioned, there is no need for the little girl to ask them what happened yesterday, and she also acts happily as if nothing had happened.
"Daddy, you're going out again, are you going out this time, why are you carrying a burden?" Seeing that her father was about to go out, the little girl ran over with a cheer.
Wang De squatted down as usual, kindly stroked his beloved daughter's hair, and smiled softly: "Daddy is going to a distant place to discuss a business this time, and he may not be able to come back for a while, Xi'er, you are the eldest in the family, you have to take care of your younger siblings, understand?" ”
The little girl nodded heavily, and after seeing her father leave, for some reason, there was an indescribable uncomfortable taste in her heart・・・・・・