Section VIII
Feng Shan won two games in a row against Yang Liu, and he won Wen Zhu. Before this, he had never gambled with Yang Liu. At that time, he had been gambling, mostly along with the gambling. Of course, it's all petty betting. He had won the house and the land, and when he took the deed and title deed handed by the loser, he did not even look at it, but he carried it in his arms, and when he returned home he threw it in the stove and set it on fire. He didn't pay attention to these things, he knew that he was going to compete with Yang Liu in the end, let Yang Liu's family be ruined, and revenge for his father's revenge was his real purpose.
He could not tell how many houses and land he had won so far, but every autumn there would be honest peasants who would pay him rent with grain, and the land he had won, and the rent would naturally be his. So he opened the door of the outer room, and asked the peasants to pour the grain into the grain store, and when the grain was full, and the man who delivered the grain came to the door, he waved his hand and said, "Take them all back, I have enough here, and the peasants will carry the grain with joy and go away."
Feng Shan took these things very lightly, money, wealth, housing, land and so on, never took it seriously in the eyes of gamblers. What is yours today will be someone else's tomorrow. Just like the relationship between man and the world, he came and went naked, not brought in life and not in death. All the flowers and willows in his life, and the rich and noble life are someone else's.
Feng Shan realized all this too early because of his father Feng Lao, his father won everything he should have won, and he lost everything he should have lost. He watched his father sink into the great river of the West with a stone in his arms, leaving nothing but a few bubbles. This is my father's generation.
He left Juxiang's house at the age of sixteen and worked in the casino, which was more than ten years. When he was penniless, he also gambled his life, and he survived all the way. He is practicing his hands, his heart, and even more courage. He knows what a gambler should be like in a casino, and without guts, he won't have a good mentality. The son inherited his father's business, he inherited many advantages of his father Feng Laomo, and with the training he had cultivated in the past ten years, he felt that he was enough to argue with Yang Liu.
While he was working hard to temper his mind, Yang Liu was expanding his family business. The share of the family business left to him by his father was carried forward in Yang Liu's hands again, not only won many houses and land, but also many young and beautiful women, some of whom only passed through his hands once, and lost to others. Yang Liu has two major characteristics, one is obsessed with casinos, and the second is obsessed with women. As soon as he got out of the casino, he plunged into the woman's arms. Yang Liu's women are not fierce women, most of them are from poor families. After they lost to Yang Liu, they all knew what their fate would mean in the future. Today they lost to Yang Liu, and Yang Liu will lose to others tomorrow. They came to Yang Liu's house, they have a house and land, and they naturally don't have to worry about life, they do everything they can to please Yang Liu, and they want to tie Yang Liu's heart, they don't want Yang Liu to export themselves soon. Yang Liu didn't have a quiet time in front of these women competing for favor, he stayed in this compartment today, and stayed in that compartment tomorrow. Yang Liu reveled in the life in front of him. If there was no Feng Shan, he really hoped to close the mountain and live like a rich man by relying on his current house and land.
Yang Liu knew that Feng Shan would not give up so well, Wen Zhu was just a bait for him, he hoped to kill Feng Shan through the bait of Wen Zhu, just like his father Yang Da won Feng Lao Mo back then, and cleanly let Feng Shan sink into the Xida River with a stone in his arms, so that he would have everything in his hands. Unexpectedly, as soon as he fought with Feng Shan, he was very surprised, Feng Shan's gambling skills were no worse than his, only two confrontations, Wen Zhu's live gamble became a dead gamble.
After waking up, Yang Liu no longer dared to be careless, two consecutive hard battles, not so much gambling, but gambling perseverance, a few days and nights did not fit his eyes, and finally Feng Shansheng was in physical strength, Yang Liu couldn't support it before he pushed the card and admitted defeat.
Yang Liu, who had been asleep for a few days, as soon as he opened his eyes, those women were fighting to pull Yang Liu into his room as usual, Yang Liu drove them away like coaxing flies, and he wanted to recuperate for a while and fight Feng Shan to the death. In those days, Yang Liuda didn't go out of the second door, he slept except for eating, and turned a deaf ear to the women who flattered him outside the window. Yang Liu had to drink a big bowl of chicken soup stewed with Northeast mountain ginseng every meal, and when he couldn't sleep, he still closed his eyes and recuperated, thinking about what went wrong in each round of gambling.
In the days when Wen Zhu lived peacefully with Feng Shan, he felt that it was really time for him to go.
Feng Shan was not at home at all for most of the day, and later Wenzhu discovered that Feng Shan brought back one or two hares or pheasants every time he returned. Only then did she know that Feng Shan went out hunting. Two meals a day are made by Wenzhu. Feng Shan never said anything about this, picked up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and went out. However, Ju Xiang appeared a few times when Wen Zhu was cooking on the fire, and at that time Wen Zhu had already stewed the vegetables in the pot, Ju Xiang unceremoniously lifted the lid of the pot, looked at the stewed vegetables, and then said: Feng Shan doesn't like to eat soup dishes.
After finishing speaking, he scooped out some of the soup with his own hands, sometimes tasted the dish with his own mouth, and said: The dish is light, you put more salt in the future, and then scoop some salt and put it in it.
Feng Shan came back late in the evening. When he came back, Wen Zhu had already folded his clothes and lay down, and Feng Shan lay down far away from Wen Zhu's laydown, and after a while, there was a sound of snoring. Sometimes Wen Zhu woke up in the middle of the night and found Feng Shan smoking, and the cigarette butt was burning at the corner of Feng Shan's mouth. She didn't know what he was thinking, just stared at him so quietly in the dark night.
As time passed, Wenzhu discovered that Feng Shan was a good person. It had been so long, and he hadn't touched her again. I didn't even look at her more. Not only that, but he also gave her freedom, he had to bet twice to win her, what kind of gamble was that, she hadn't been to the casino, I don't know what kind of gambling the men had. Father's gambling made them bankrupt, and they also put their lives on the line, she saw Feng Shan gambling twice, and when she came back, it was almost unrecognizable, and when she thought of gambling, she couldn't help but feel chills. She sometimes thinks that it would be great if Feng Shan didn't gamble, live in peace, there are not many men like Feng Shan, and after thinking about it like this, her face actually burned.
Wen Zhu thought of Ju Xiang again, she didn't know what the relationship between Ju Xiang and Feng Shan was, but seeing Ju Xiang's appearance towards Feng Shan, for some reason, she actually had a trace of jealousy. Seeing Juxiang's appearance, she felt more and more that she was a superfluous person here. She thought about going again, and she didn't know where to go. She had heard her father say that her hometown was in a small village by the sea in Penglai, Shandong, where there were also her aunts and two uncles. Since my father broke into Kanto, he has lost contact. To go, she only has to go back to her hometown, she doesn't know how far Shandong Penglai is from here, how many days to walk, since her father can walk from Shandong here, she can also walk back to Shandong from here. It was when Wenzhu made up his mind to get ready to go on the road that things changed.