Chapter 44: A Bicycle
I couldn't get past the BMW, and I had to watch it go away in the sunset, not because my engine was bad, but because my chain had fallen off. ’
Looking at the two gentlemen who were laughing all the way out of the house across the bicycle, Xu Yang suddenly thought of this classic joke in later generations, covered his mouth and snickered twice, the bicycle made by the Tang Dynasty not only has a low grip, but also the chain is inevitable.
After all, the tires do not have inflatable tires, that thing can't be made at all, just the material can't be found, and the fit of the chain is definitely not as high as in later generations, and the chain is also commonplace, as long as the operation is unqualified, the force is too strong, the chain will be dropped, which is now also a problem that their own craftsman team is trying to improve.
Fifty bicycles were sold out in an instant, and those boys who paid later and didn't buy bicycles beat their chests one by one, shouting loudly, there was a great posture that they wouldn't leave if they didn't sell their bicycles today.
Zhao, the head of the car sales team, comforted and said that the new goods will come next month and must be kept for all of you, so that you can persuade these sons to leave.
Just as Xu Yang was about to go to the counter to see how much money he made selling bicycles today, a shout suddenly came from the door.
"Childe! Slow down! ”
Xu Yang looked back and saw a creamy little boy with oily hair and flour, sweating profusely, leaning on the door frame, panting loudly into the house: "Ben Ben Gongzi, I'm here to buy a bicycle!" ”
"I'm sorry, but the bike is sold out, and if you want to buy it, you'll have to wait until next month." The car sales lady at the door smiled and said gently to the boy.
"Ahh What the! Sold out! Didn't they start selling at noon? The handsome boy had an expression of disbelief on his face.
"Yes, Childe, it's already two o'clock in the afternoon, and all fifty bicycles have been sold." The car sales lady always maintained a smile showing seven teeth on her face, which made people feel like a spring breeze, which was the result of Xu Yang's training for a month.
"Two moments? You've sold out of bikes in just two quarters?! The cream boy asked with tears in his face.
"I'm sorry, sir, it's all sold out, and there are still a lot of people who can't get bikes, so if you want to, you'll have to wait until next month's bikes are produced." The car sales lady is still very polite to this handsome young man.
When the cream boy heard that the bicycle had been sold out, the anger in his heart began to burn, and when he saw that there was nowhere to vent, he only heard him shout: "Heavenly man! I said to go early, presumably I can't buy a bicycle this time, and I won't take me to play when I go back, Zhang Er! Get in here! ”
A middle-aged man who looked like a slave who had been waiting at the door hurriedly climbed into the room.
The cream boy didn't look young, but his strength was not small, and he kicked the middle-aged man's buttocks and scolded: "This son said hurry up, you shitty man, now that the bicycles have been sold out, you are to blame!" With that, he kicked the big man twice.
The big man didn't show any signs of resistance, knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing, and cringed: "The villain should die, the villain should die, the villain was too slow to let the son buy a bicycle." I saw that his forehead was about to bleed.
The cream Xiaosheng was obviously still angry, and now he had no long things and nowhere to vent, so he could only find this stupid Zhang Er to vent, he raised his leg and kicked two more feet, probably because he felt that the kicked foot hurt, and he didn't know what to do, so he began to scold.
"You fighter, dead dog slave, when I get home, I will let my father quit your job and sell it as a slave!"
The strong man seemed to hear the sky falling, snot and tears flowed out of his brain, crying and holding the leg of the cream boy, and said heartbreakingly: "Son, don't dismiss the old slave!" The old slave has followed the Zhang family for eleven years, all of them are conscientiously serving the masters, and now there is a seriously ill old mother, waiting to feed his wife and children, and there is no land at home. With that, he kowtowed to the ground, and his forehead was already full of blood.
The concrete floor of the bike shop was also covered in blood, and it looked extremely pitiful.
But the boy didn't seem to have any sympathy, and just said coldly: "You just deserve to die!" I didn't let the master buy a bicycle! Master must have quit you when he went back! ”
At this time, Xu Yang couldn't stand it anymore, he walked up to stop the man named Zhang Er from continuing to kowtow, he glanced at the cream boy lightly and asked, "Are you from the Zhang family in Youzhou?" ”
The cream boy raised his head and said proudly: "Exactly, who are you to prevent me from teaching my servants?" ”
"You want to buy a bike?" Xu Yang's tone was a little cold.
"Exactly!" When the oily-haired and powdery-faced boy brother heard that there was a play, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Five hundred guan plus this servant of yours, I can sell you a bicycle right now." Xu Yang was a little too lazy to communicate with these children of the family.
In later generations, he always thought that these gentlemen were just lazy to do, although they bullied men and women, but they still had a conscience, but now after crossing the Tang Dynasty, he found that this is not the case at all, these gentlemen's hierarchical concept is unusually strict, you are a person with status, then I will respect you, value you, and be friends with you, but if you don't have an identity, then even a dog is not as good, your life, in their eyes, is as ridiculous as floating.
The cream boy in front of him, although he was well-dressed and handsome, still couldn't hide his blackened heart, it was ridiculous that these car sales ladies were still so polite to him, and many of them saw that he had just treated his subordinates so ruthlessly not only did not have the slightest pity, but also had a look of admiration and secretly sent Qiu Bo, which really made Xu Yang a little disappointed in Datang's injustice.
Insensitive and hierarchical suppression, compared with later generations, Xu Yang suddenly felt that the life of later generations was better, although later generations could not get rid of hierarchical discrimination, but at least the constitution clearly wrote the sentence 'All people are born equal', unlike here, people are not equal from birth, the son of a servant will also be a servant in the future, and the daughter of a maid will also be a maid in the future, parents don't even have the right to be a human being to their children, they can only be born to be a dog, and the greatest sorrow in the world is nothing more than this.
Is there a kind of prince and general Xiangning? Whoever stipulates that the son of the general must be the general, and the son of the Hou Ye must be the Hou Ye.
But Xu Yang has a deep sense of powerlessness, he can't change the feudal monarchy, he can't change the hereditary system, this is the rules and rules of the survival game in this era, whoever violates it will be kicked out.
Xu Yang didn't want to be kicked out, he just wanted to live quietly and happily, so he didn't plan to confront the world, and the slogan of 'fight to imperialism, long live communism' was burned to death by the Tang Dynasty people on the fire frame.
So he can only start from himself bit by bit, do what he can, and save a suffering servant when he sees one, Liu Qi is like this, and Zhang Er is the same.
Xu Yang felt that through his continuous efforts, he would definitely strive for more happiness for the enslavement and people of the world in the future, so that they would be proud enough when they mentioned that they were Tang people.
The cream boy left, happily pedaling a bicycle away, as if he was the happiest person in the world.
Xu Yang now understands why the ancients had such feelings, since ancient times, they have been deeply established in their self-centeredness, and they have contributed to others, it is simply a joke, the ancients did not deceive me.
His servant named Zhang Er leaned against the doorpost, looking at the back of the little boy in the distance with tears on his face.
Xu Yang walked up to him and handed him a tissue, the big man was so frightened that he didn't dare to take it, Xu Yang had to stuff it in his hand and asked, "He treats you so much, don't you hate him?" ”
The big man hurriedly knelt down again, choked and said: "The villain really deserves to die, he didn't help the young man buy a bicycle, and the punishment should be deserved, how can he be ruthless, the villain's ability is hard to resign, but the villain still has a seriously ill old mother and wife and children, and he really doesn't dare to apologize for his death, the villain's wife is innocent!" "After that, the old tears are rampant.
Xu Yang saw a middle-aged man crying like a child next to him, crying and choking up and saying that he had served the Zhang family for eleven years, the head of the Zhang family was not thin on himself, and now he can no longer repay the Zhang family and so on, he was speechless for a while, the descendants of the Tang Dynasty are sometimes like this, you may give him a bowl of rice, and he will be loyal to you for a lifetime, whether he is stupid or grateful, Xu Yang appreciates this kind of quality in short, such a quality is estimated to be rarer than a panda in later generations.
"Okay, okay, don't cry, your new master now is me, my name is Xu Yang, you can call me Xu Gongzi, follow me in the future, and I am guaranteed to be a thousand times better than your treatment in the Zhang family, well, this is your worth a hundred times, give it to you, leave it to you to support your family and treat your illness."
The big man named Zhang Er hurriedly bowed in front of Xu Yang, his head was covered with blood, and he swore to serve Xu Yang to the death. Little did he know that his life had changed from this moment.
When many years later, when the Imperial "Datang News" interviewed how this illustrious imperial general followed in the footsteps of Captain Xu Yang, Zhang Er always liked to show a smile of memory, and then lightly replied a word that made everyone misty - 'a bicycle'.
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