1. The prophecy of the blind
The beginning of the story is a bit bizarre. Why? Because it all started with meddling, or helping. A digression here, what exactly counts as a favor and what counts as nosy? This seems to be a distinction in our culture. Roughly speaking, taking care of the affairs of one's relatives and friends is regarded as helping, and those who are not involved with their own family are considered nosy. But in any case, if the favor does not help well, or even does the opposite, it is considered nosy. Nosy is usually a thankless task, and if you are not careful, you will be blamed by others, and even worse, you have to put your money, time, health, and even life on the line. Over time, there has been a sense of nosy in our culture.
At the beginning of our story, we were enthusiastic people who helped, and it was true that they helped, but they put themselves in.
The protagonist at the beginning of the story is the eldest young master of the Ge family, and the era of the Republic of China is more than ten or twenty years, that is, in the 1920s and 30s. Speaking of the eldest young master of the Ge family, we have to talk about the father of the eldest young master of the Ge family: Master Ge.
Mr. Ge was born in the countryside of Changzhou, Jiangsu, and it is said that his ancestors also came out of Hanlin, but in the generation of Mr. Ge, his father died early, and the family business was already in tatters. There is a widowed mother at the top of the family and a younger brother at the bottom. The family is very poor, and Mother Ge, who later became Mrs. Ge, is also an assertive and capable woman, and she has brought up her two sons healthily. Although I don't know a few big characters, I still firmly believe that literacy is very necessary. I don't know if I heard what the gentleman said, everything is inferior, only reading is high, and I firmly think that I can't read and write and don't dare to mix a decent meal anywhere. So no matter how difficult the days were, these two sons studied for two years.
When Master Ge was 16 years old, the Qing Kingdom had almost been defeated, and ordinary people were even more sad. Young Master Ge saw that it was really difficult at home, and it happened that Shanghai Kaifu was in Kaifu, so he went to Shanghai with his fellow villagers to be a young man in a foreign company. First, it can give the family one less mouth to eat and reduce the survival pressure of the widowed mother; Second, when I came to Shanghai, I was able to help my family with a few pennies. With this one out and one in, life at home will be much better.
Mr. Ge is a white and pure person, his family was poor when he was a child, he developed a good character of being diligent and able to endure hardships, plus he has a little culture, he is smart and refreshing, and he quickly gained a firm foothold in the foreign bank, and he was able to send a lot of money to his family in a few years, and Mrs. Ge and her youngest son were getting better. A few years later, Master Ge married a young lady from a small local family in Shanghai, gave birth to a girl the next year, and gave birth to a son every few years, who is the protagonist of our story, Master Ge.
Life went on so smoothly, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Master Ge was still a clerk in the foreign bank, although he had a long history, but Master Ge himself knew that the position in this life was only afraid of this. At that time, there were as many Chinese students studying abroad as if they were crossing the river, and those who returned to China to make a living were nothing more than a few cities, and those who had followers in their families went to Beijing to discuss a career in their careers, and those with advanced ideas went to Guangdong, saying that they were making some kind of revolution. The worst is to follow the foreigners in the concessions of Shanghai and Tianjin. The whole country, fighting in the east and making trouble in the west, today a big handsome man rises up, and tomorrow he may be shot by the water. In short, it was a lot of noise. Although Master Ge is experienced, after all, there is no Gao Wenhua, let alone foreign ink, and some high-level and well-known positions are naturally not the turn of Master Ge.
The old man of the Ge family is also a happy person, although the Miss Shanghai he married occasionally plays the temper of a small family, but he can be regarded as a good housekeeper, so he pins his hopes on his children.
Master Ge, a daughter and son, has been talented and intelligent since childhood, plus his family is well-off, he was sent to school early since he was a child, and his grades have not disappointed Mr. Ge's expectations.
said that on this day, Young Master Ge was playing with a group of children in the alley, and a dying blind man came to him. These children hated the blind and dirty, and ran away with a bang. Young Master Ge felt pity for a while, so he gave the remaining meat steamed buns in his hand to the blind man. The blind man was also very hungry, and devoured it, but he was choked, and he didn't pour his breath evenly, seeing that the blind man was going to be choked to death by this meat steamed bun, and he should not die. Young Master Ge's mother, Mrs. Ge, happened to come back from outside, hurriedly took a bowl of water, and finally poured the blind man's breath up.
The blind man took a breath of relief, and said to himself: "I don't want to be choked to death by this mouthful of meat steamed buns, even if I eat your meat steamed buns, I can't accept your love in vain, this boy will be a loser in the future, and he will lose your family at least 100,000 oceans." But this child's son, your grandson, is very promising. ”
When Mrs. Ge heard this, her face darkened, the mother was willing to let her son be a loser, not to mention that she had just saved her life? immediately opened his mouth and sarcastically said: "100,000 yuan? Thank you for your good words! It's not worth 100 yuan to sell our whole family, okay. "Mrs. Ge is not wrong in what she said, that year, 100,000 yuan, just kidding, she was a top rich family, and she still needed to compete with other people's families in the alley to use the toilet?
The blind man listened and sneered: "I am straightforward, and now I have fallen into the rivers and lakes, and I don't want to talk to you as a woman, if you want to be a loser, you need to go back to the countryside as soon as possible, and come back until you are 40 years old!" ”
After saying this, the blind man got up from the ground tremblingly, and went away without looking back. Mrs. Ge spat a few mouthfuls at the blind man's back, muttered a few words in her mouth, and led the child home.
If you want to say that this blind man also has a background, the famous iron-mouthed god in the rivers and lakes, as for why it fell into today's situation, it has nothing to do with our current story, so I won't say much. It's just that Mrs. Ge wasted a great opportunity in vain. But the matter of fate is mysterious, and it can only be said that the blind man has no relationship with the wife of the Ge family.
got such an unlucky sentence for no reason, Mrs. Ge was naturally in a bad mood, pinched the ears of the young master of the Ge family and went home. It's nothing more than a small episode in life, which naturally can't be said to the neighbors, which attracts ridicule from Bigfoot. Mrs. Ge was busy cooking and taking care of the housework, so she forgot about it.
When Mr. Ge was 40 years old, his daughter was 15 years old and his son was 13 years old. Another foreign comprador took a fancy to Mr. Ge's qualifications, and hired Mr. Ge as a manager with a high salary, with a seniority of 500 yuan, and a year-end dividend. Master Ge is naturally extremely willing. Since then, according to the current words, Master Ge's life is like opening a hanging, seeing that his family is big and big, and he is building a house. In less than a few years, Master Ge can be regarded as a small figure in Shanghai.
Although Young Master Ge is a child, although it is not a life of fine clothes and food, he has never suffered, and when Master Ge made his career, Young Master Ge had already gone to college. Shanghai St. John's University was a famous aristocratic university at that time, and Young Master Ge was admitted with his own ability, which really made Old Master Ge happy. As soon as he went to college, coupled with the excellent conditions of his family, Young Master Ge naturally made friends with many rich and noble children. If you want to say that Young Master Ge, his eyebrows are the same as when he was young, and his skin is also white and pure, but from his mouth and chin, he follows Mrs. Ge, and the two are mixed together, and he looks like he has lost both the honesty and honesty of Master Ge and Mrs. Ge's shrewd philistine, which is a not very successful work. But fortunately, he is white and pure, he is sincere in dealing with others, he is extremely intelligent, and he is the eldest son and grandson of the Lao Ge family, so he is naturally pampered and cared for in every way!
At that time, although cars were still expensive, they could be afforded by the wealthy. Young people are energetic, and they all have good family backgrounds, so they are naturally willing to drive around in their spare time. It doesn't matter if you take this ride, Young Master Ge's life as a loser will begin.