Chapter 114 Hongze Garment Shop (1)
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Back to the Republic of China
In the thirty-first year of the Republic of China, one day in the cold winter wax moon, the sky was gray and yellow, chaotic and stagnant. The vendors who set up stalls on both sides of the road had long since packed up their homes, and the occasional car horn or two sounded once or twice.
There were few people on the road, the pale black mirror-like street, Pedestrians trampled brightly, Several families lit oil lamps, and a man carrying a burden walked past the street, The shouting and shouting gradually faded away with his steps, and later, in the distance, only the undulating "Oh... Ahh
Not far from the south archway, there is a tailor shop, the shopkeeper is a round-faced tailor fifty miles away, surnamed Zhao, the third in the family, formerly known as Zhao San'er.
Zhao San'er's father is an honest farmer, the family has so many acres of barren land, but the family has a large population, only rely on the old father to work in the field, it is difficult to make a living, helpless, when Zhao San'er was eleven or two years old, he found someone to introduce, came to this city, and learned the craft of making clothes with a master surnamed Zhou.
After Zhao San'er became a teacher, he stayed in this cabinet and became a craftsman. He is smart, he is good at his work, he does his work carefully, he does rough work, he does fine work, he does leather work, cotton work, single work, male work, and women's work can be described as excellent. Customers often ask him to do the work by name.
It didn't take long for Zhao San'er to say goodbye to Master Zhou, with the help of friends, to start a new stove, in the area of the south archway, found a few rooms, opened a faΓ§ade, and hung a wooden sign of "Hongze Garment Shop" outside, and officially started his own business.
Decades have passed, Master Zhou has long passed away, "Hongze Garment Shop" is becoming more and more prosperous, and Zhao San'er's craftsmanship is also well-known in the local area. Zhao San'er has a characteristic because of his work, that is, he can't do without long, medium and short scissors, so he is nicknamed Zhao San'er.
Zhao Sanjian has a son, named Zhao Sanshuang, named Zhao Xiaoshuang. Zhao Sanjian doesn't have much knowledge, so he can be a pair of good things and be auspicious.
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"Zhao Xiaoshuang! Lin Chen, do you hear that? Your past life has appeared! Your past life! β
The fat man put a few sticks of firewood and grass into the fire, and when he heard the name, he couldn't help but repeat, his eyes looked at Lin Chen.
"Shh
Lin Chen made a gesture lightly, signaling him not to disturb, and then nodded to the fat man knowingly.
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Where did Zhao Xiaoshuang come from?
Zhao San cut raw? Not really!
Zhao Xiaoshuang was taken over by Zhao Sanjian's fourth aunt from a mother-in-law who asked for food, so who is Zhao Xiaoshuang's surname? Who are they? Who is his father and mother? Zhao Sanjian didn't know.
Zhao Sanjian only remembered that the fourth aunt told him so.
It was said that a mother-in-law who asked for food came to Zhao Sanjian's rural fourth aunt's house, and the fourth aunt was feeding the chickens in the yard, only to hear a "pop" sound, as if someone had tapped on the courtyard door of her house, and then listened, and there was no sound again.
The fourth aunt thought that she had heard it wrong, and continued to feed the chickens, and after a while, she heard a "pop" again, and the sound was not loud, but this time someone was really tapping on her door.
When the door was opened, there was an old woman in tattered clothes, slumped under the stone pier, with a broken bowl and a wooden staff beside her. The woman looked very weak, her face was thin and skinny, the corners of her eyes and mouth were covered with scattered wrinkles, the wrinkles on her forehead were deeper and more obvious, as if they had been carved with a knife, her small eyes were slightly closed, her back was bent, she seemed to be hungry and dying, and she held a baby in her arms that was only a few months old, extremely thin, not crying or making trouble, her eyes were closed, as if she was asleep.
The fourth aunt saw that they were pitiful, so she hurriedly brought some hot porridge.
The woman didn't even have the strength to hold the bowl, and her mouth was open with sweat, so the fourth aunt barely fed her a few mouthfuls with a spoon. She eased up, opened her eyes wide, gasped, and weakly popped out a few words from her shriveled mouth: "Auntie, this baby has a hard life, give him a way to live!" Please! I.. I'll get you on your knees!"
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As she spoke, the mother-in-law was about to get up, and after moving a few times, she couldn't get up, so the fourth aunt hurriedly held her down and told her to rest.
The fourth aunt took the baby in her mother-in-law's arms and looked at it carefully, this child looked really pitiful!
He was thin as a piece of paper, wrapped in earthy blue rags. His eyes were closed, his little face covered in dirt and dirty, and his bare head was disproportionate against his thin body. But it can be seen that this is a handsome boy with a straight nose and a straight mouth.
What is particularly striking is that under his left ear, there is a striking vermilion mole.
Just after being tossed, the baby woke up and began to cry.
"Mother-in-law, this baby is still looking for you!" The fourth aunt said.
The mother-in-law sighed, and two lines of tears flowed from her dry eyes.
Her mouth opened, and before she could say anything, she began to gasp, and the more she gasped, the more she gasped, the more she gasped, and she didn't catch her breath, but she tilted her head and died at the door of the fourth aunt's house.
The fourth aunt was a kind person, looking at this mother-in-law, and looking at this child, it really made her sad, so she found someone and wrapped the old woman who asked for food with a hemp mat and buried it.
The fourth aunt and the fourth uncle have never had a baby, but it is strange that since they brought this child, they have given birth to two boys, one girl and three babies one after another in a few years.
The fourth uncle is just a small business with a little needle and thread, barely making ends meet, these days, the war is in chaos, and it is not easy to support himself, not to mention having to face four children plus two adults, six mouths.
Life is forced, so that they can't breathe, helpless, the fourth aunt and the fourth uncle shed tears, or decided to give this baby away, although it is a child, but even kittens, puppies, raising some time will have feelings, not to mention a cute child! However, I am really powerless, I can't raise it anymore, and I can't give it away. In the end, the husband and wife thought of the honest and kind Zhao Sanjian, so they sent it to Zhao Sanjian.
Zhao Sanjian likes children, Zhao Sanjian's wife passed away a long time ago, and he couldn't leave him a son and a half daughter, He has been alone, and the fourth aunt gave him a baby, which can be regarded as making up for Zhao Sanjian's regret.
Since then, Zhao Sanjian has relied on the skill of making clothes for people, and has been a father and a mother, a handful of, a handful of urine, and finally pulled the child up.
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Xiaoshuang is already seventeen or eighteen years old, a first-class man, thin, but he is born extraordinarily handsome, his white face is like the autumn moon, his eyebrows are like ink paintings, his eyes are like autumn waves, the bridge of his nose is straight, his temples are like knife cuts, and his demeanor is heroic, but the mole under the root of his left ear is more and more eye-catching.
Every time the eldest girl came to do the work, the little daughter-in-law couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
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At this point, the Taoist priest paused, took off the water hyacinth, and drank the water.
The fat man turned his face curiously, stretched his head in front of Lin Chen, looked at Lin Chen up close, and said, "I didn't see it, your kid was actually a beautiful man like Pan An in his last life!" β
Lin Chen smiled evilly: "What's wrong? I was attractive all my life! Do you envy, jealous, hate? β
"It's a pity that life is miserable! Picked up from the mother-in-law who asked for food! What is there to envy! The fat man sighed.
Putting down the water hyacinth, the Taoist priest wiped his mouth and said, "He should be considered a good life!" β
Hearing what the Taoist priest said, Lin Chen didn't feel happy in his heart, so he said to the fat man, "Did you hear that!" The Taoist chief said that I was a good life! After that, he asked the priest curiously, "How do you say this?" Why do you say I'm a good life? β
The Taoist priest shook his head and said, "This, I can't talk about it!" Realize it for yourself! β
Lin Chen remembered something, the smile on his face was gone, and he lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "Comprehension? The fortune teller in front of Unbooksa Temple has already said that my girlfriend and I only have three years to live! He said there was no solution, and you said there was no solution! You still say I'm a good life! Aren't you contradicting yourself? Dao Master, are you amusing me? Or make fun of me? β
"Dao Chief, you're talking about your life in your previous life, right? Is that right? Dao Chief? The fat man followed.
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Lin Chen said: "I've been secretly happy for a long time, it turned out that I was talking about a good life in my previous life!" β
The Taoist priest said, "You are different from others! Heaven can't be leaked, don't ask anything else! β
Subconsciously, the fear in Lin Chen's heart had been magnifying, he really hoped to hear a trace of comforting words from the mouth of the Taoist priest, and he really wanted to release the terrible assertion of the fortune teller that he only had three years of yang life left as a fart!
"It seems that my face in my previous life was not bad! No wonder Xu Aqi is so nostalgic for me in her previous life! β
Putting aside his worries, Lin Chen smiled and pretended to be relaxed.
"Xu Aqi has seen you in your previous life?" The fat man asked.
"Hmmm! That's what she told me! That day, when I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard a woman's voice calling me the name 'Zhao Xiaoshuang', and later, Xu Aqi seemed to be possessed, walking and talking strangely, also calling me 'Zhao Xiaoshuang', and calling me 'tailor', that voice sounded really yin and yang, quite scary! When she woke up, she told me that she had gone to another world, saw a lake, saw many people wearing cheongsams and horse coats, and saw Zhao Xiaoshuang! She knew that that person's name was Zhao Xiaoshuang! also said that he is simply handsome! β
"She's been taken away!" The Taoist priest interjected and said, "To put it bluntly, it is actually a relatively heavy karma, and the unjust soul creditor occupies her body with some kind of karma. After the occupation, what she did and what she said belonged to another soul. In other words, the unjust soul creditor took control of her body. Therefore, what you heard was not what Xu Aqi said! Her own soul is squeezed out, and the soul that leaves the body will become extremely active, and some remaining memories will be awakened, in her opinion, it is to see some scenes from her past life! I remembered some people and things! β
Lin Chen blinked his eyes and asked curiously, "Who will be the unjust soul creditor here?" β
"Did she tell you anything else?"
She said that she was thirsty at night and got up to drink water, only to find that the glass was stuffed with black hair! She also said that when she saw the door open, there was a woman dressed in black, with her long hair draped, and she was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground, and the woman came to her, and then she knew nothing! β
"It should still be her!" The Taoist priest said.
"Who?"
"Woman in Black!"
"You said the evil spirit that has been haunting us?"
"That's right! If it takes a long time, it will be difficult for the soul of the body itself to go back, and the person will be finished! β
The firewood burned vigorously, and the light of the fire made the faces of the three people red.
Lin Chen rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Xu Aqi saw me-Zhao Xiaoshuang in her previous life, she was quite happy, saying that she saw a beautiful man like Pan An, and this life is worth it, and she also criticized me for being inferior to the first life, the longer I go, the more obscene I become, hehe!" I'm speechless anyway! β
Hearing this, the fat man laughed breathlessly on the side, patted Lin Chen's shoulder, and comforted: "Don't be depressed, women sometimes squeeze men, it's a sign of love for you!" When I was at home, my daughter-in-law also loved to squeeze me fat, and said that when a man is fat, he has no sex appeal at all! I am ashamed to say it! Fortunately, she didn't compliment me on my obscene appearance! β
"Who's so obscene! Can't speak! I am 1.78 meters tall in this life, with a straight nose and a straight mouth, and clear eyebrows, although I am not as good as Pan An, but I am also a handsome pot! Where am I obscene? Xu Aqi, that's okay to make fun of me, fat man, you also coax! Lin Chen glanced at the fat man angrily, turned his head and said to the Taoist priest: "Daoist, you give me a reason!" β
The Taoist priest smiled but did not speak.
With a smile in his eyes, the fat man pulled down the corner of Lin Chen's clothes, and said with a smile: "I'm really angry!" Because I was fat, I was squeezed almost every day in our construction team, and my co-workers always used me as a laughing stock, and I was not angry! I'm just kidding you! Who doesn't know that your old man is a handsome guy! β
Lin Chen said stupidly: "Don't talk so much to hurt your self-esteem!" β
"Don't dare! Don't dare anymore! β
"That's pretty much it!" Lin Chen turned to the Taoist priest and said, "Daoist, who will Xu Aqi be in the story?" β
"Listen to me continue the story and take your seats!" The Taoist priest said lightly brushing the floating dust.
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