Chapter 9: Bereavement
Li Lintang has married this girl for less than a month, and the little daughter-in-law's stomach has moved, what a long face! The people below are all talking: Our dart number, the wife of the deputy chief dart head, the stomach is angry!
A few days after the little daughter-in-law became pregnant, she yelled that she wanted to eat sour. It's sour, Li Lintang thought to himself, a sour and spicy girl, her daughter-in-law must be a little boy! Thinking of this, Li Lintang was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth every day.
But if she doesn't dart, Li Lintang will accompany her daughter-in-law in her own small courtyard, not letting her touch the mud, and not letting her take a step at the courtyard gate, and lying on the kang for eight hours a day, let alone housework! Li Lintang's little daughter-in-law drank the fetal pills three times a day, and ate meat, fish, and tea eggs. Seeing his daughter-in-law's belly getting bigger and bigger day by day, Li Lintang's heart is getting happier and happier day by day.
On a rainy night in the autumn of that year, after Li Lintang was kicked awake by his daughter-in-law, he ran into the rain without even putting on his clothes. The midwife's wife was startled by the embarrassed man who blocked the door at the door of her house, and almost didn't dare to open the door to Li Lintang, until she heard Li Lintang's repeated sentence "My daughter-in-law is about to give birth".
Back in Li Lintang's small courtyard in the dart number, Wen Po only said that she asked Li Lintang to wait outside the door. I waited from midnight to noon the next day.
Li Lintang anxiously snapped his fingers outside the door, watching the maid with a towel and hot water go in and out under the command of Wen Po, listening to his daughter-in-law's already hoarse shouts getting weaker and weaker. Later, Wen Po went out of the room, her hands were full of blood, and she ran to Li Lintang: "Li Daguan, send your daughter-in-law to the medical hall opened by foreigners!" If it bleeds, it will kill someone! ”
"What did you say?" Li Lintang didn't expect to wait for such news, "Aren't you a stable woman?" Can't you handle it? ”.
Wen Po said with a bitter face: "Li Guanren, Mrs. is too young and the child is big, I'm afraid I can't hold it." Send it or it'll be too late! ”
"Prepare the car! Go to the hospital! Li Lintang no longer hesitated when he heard this, and found a carriage and went straight to the foreigner's hospital.
Still waiting, just waiting in front of my room, now waiting outside the delivery room of the hospital.
"Big or small?" These are the words that Li Lintang waited for half an hour. In front of him stood a foreign girl, wearing a white coat and a heavy mask on her face, and only her eyebrows could be seen.
"Protect the child," Li Lintang pondered for a moment, "How much money you want, I will give you all the bankruptcy." Li Lintang felt that he must have an incense.
The official of the foreign girl said in general: "The maternal age is too young, and there is too little exercise after pregnancy, and it is too late." We can only try to keep the mother or the child alive. It may also be that neither the mother nor the child will survive, so be prepared. ”
Li Lintang was stunned, and said, "I have money, I'll give you as much as you want." ”
The foreign woman didn't take any more stubble, turned around and went back to the delivery room.
Three days later, without stopping the first seven days, Li Lintang mourned his daughter-in-law. The body was transported back to Gaomi and buried in the ancestral grave of the Liu family. Li Lintang is Liu Henglu's godson, and he has no father or mother, and his wife should be buried in the ancestral grave of the Liu family.
Someone persuaded Li Lintang to stop the first seven, saying that maybe the girl would come back to take a look. Li Lintang didn't say anything, but he didn't listen to others' persuasion. The child and the child are dead, and they can't even find their souls, so what's the use of still having a mortuary?
When the foreign ghost woman took the child out, Li Lintang knew that something was wrong! What did the woman say to him about "deformed" and "cat face", it was all nonsense, and Li Lintang could see at a glance that it was a tiger-faced doll! The sin he made back then finally found himself back on his body, and the prestige of "Tiger Fist" is nothing more than the price of this animal's life!
Li Lintang watched the spade after spade of soil sprinkled on the coffin board, and couldn't help but complain to himself: Why didn't I think of it? Thinking of the tiger-faced baby who had opened his eyes just after birth, he looked at Li Lin and Tang Xie and broke his qi pulse. Li Lintang was even more unhappy in his heart - it should have been Li Lintang's son!
Li Lintang couldn't wait to take off the piece of skin that was tattooed on his back with the tiger going down the mountain! But what's the use of that? The daughter-in-law, who had been in the house for less than a year, died, and the son who had not had time to choose a name also died.
lost his wife and buried his son, and Li Lintang turned half of his hair white overnight. He used to always think about something, what hurdles, he could get through them with a pair of fists and a stick, but now he understands that creation makes people, and the will of heaven is difficult to violate. I'm not a Da Luo immortal who can level anything, just a dart head who messes around in the dart game.
He is not only worried about the death of his wife and children, but he is even more worried that he may not be able to have children for the rest of his life. I'm afraid that the tiger soul I practiced back then is a pair of hands stretched out and I can't count it, what if everyone comes to pay off his debts? Li Lintang was scared.
This evil stubble, Li Lintang did not pass. It was also this evil stubble that made him feel that wine was a good thing. When you are drunk and unconscious, you can either make a fuss or fall asleep, and you can let go of anything in your heart. During that time, Li Lintang didn't pick, what turbid wine? Just be strong! In this way, Li Lintang drank more and more, and it became less and less likely to get drunk, and the less easy it was to get drunk, the more he drank.
After drinking, naturally you can't dart, let alone the distance, it's a dart between the two cities, who can rest assured that a drunk man will be escorted by a big banner in the head? In this way, Li Lintang was idle. He is still the No. 1 person in the dart bureau, and anyone who looks at him is polite, he is still the deputy head of the Tieyuan dart, and he is served by someone for food, clothing, housing and transportation. But he knew he wouldn't be able to do this for long.
After the New Year, the Tie Yuan Dart is no longer in charge. When I am old, I have been in the wind and waves all my life, and I have also been beautiful, and I have not lost. As a result, the red paper peach charms of the New Year in the Tie Yuan Dart were not dirty, and they were all replaced with white ones.
On the day of the mourning hall, Li Lintang didn't drink, he was dressed in white, and followed the chief dart head of the Tie Yuan Dart, the eldest son of the boss, to welcome and send him to the hall to keep a watch.
On the day of the funeral, the head of the dart sat in the position of the big boss. It is only natural for a son to inherit his father's business. It was also that day that the position of the chief dart head and the position of the deputy chief dart head of the Tie Yuan Dart were vacant.
Li Lintang clearly remembered that day when he played the new boss to find him, and the language center chatted with him for a long time until the third watch. After that day, Li Lintang became the chief instructor of the eight dart bureaus, responsible for training all the newcomers in the dart bureau workshop when they don't dart. The eight dart bureaus jointly contributed money to Li Lintang, and Li Lintang still lived in the small courtyard of the Tieyuan Dart.
The vice president of the Tieyuan Dart has changed to a newcomer, in his early twenties, born in Orion, and that shotgun is very good. It is said that it is a stone's throw away, and find someone holding a willow leaf, saying that hitting the tip of the willow leaf will not hurt the root of the leaf! The position of the head of the dart has been vacant, and it is said that when the head of the deputy head of the dart survives the year, it will be directly raised.
With the appointment of this vice president, there are more and more people practicing marksmanship in the dart bureau, and there are fewer and fewer people playing fists and feet. Li Lintang knew that his fists, feet, sticks, and kung fu were not treated well by this big master, but he was also happy, drunk and woke up day by day. I earn less money, and my life is more comfortable. mixed day by day, and just mixed up for two years.
In the twenty-third year of Guangxu, in the winter of that year, a major event occurred in Shandong, which alarmed the imperial court!
In Juye County, Shandong, two evil German missionaries, one named Rigalio and the other named Noh Francis, were beaten to death in the church by angry villagers. The death of two priests does not matter, the death of these two priests stabbed the Germans in the waist!
The Germans blew up the hair at that time! I want the Great Qing Kingdom to come up with an explanation! It is said that the Chancellor Yamen put forward six demands to calm the anger of the German people. Prime Minister Yamen and Lafayette disagreed at first, and discussed with the Germans if they could change some other demands?
The Germans looked at it and became! If you don't agree, let's fight! The guns rushed directly into the Yellow Bay! If you don't agree to my request, I'll knock Shandong down myself!
How dare Lafayette fight again, don't say it's six, sixty are all promised! hurriedly asked Li Hongzhang and Weng Tongyi to sign the "Jiaoao Concession Treaty" with the German envoys, so that there was no more war.
In this way, two priests died, and the whole of Shandong became the chassis of the Germans!
In fact, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Germans who have the final say, ordinary people have to live their lives as they live. But there is one thing that is inseparable from the common people, which is more in line with the dart bureau - the Germans want to build the railway!
Several big masters of the dart bureau are like a mirror in their hearts, if the railway is completed, these eight big dart bureaus in Jinan will have to fucking go to the street to ask for food!
But what can be done? Now whoever dares to get along with the Germans is not able to get along with his own head! Of the eight dart games, none of them dared to be the first bird. And a lot of open-minded guys have begun to think about which big family to go to to protect the family and make another living.
Li Lintang didn't have anything else to think about, not that he couldn't see what the current Dart Bureau Workshop looked like, but that he believed that "craftsmen who starve to death in famine years" can have a bite to eat at any time.
In this way, the railway has been repaired, and along the way, it encounters mountains and plowing mountains, ravines and ditches, and crops and farmlands, regardless of crossing it. The workers who built the railway were not from Shandong, but laborers hired from Tianjin by Germany. These fake foreign devils look superior everywhere, which makes Li Lintang feel disgusted.
Later, in the summer of the 25th year of Guangxu, the railway was repaired to Gaomi and Liujiazhuang.
Gaomi is a low-lying area, and most of the fields are reclaimed from drained swamps, and even many villages are built on drained swamps. The Germans were in a hurry, and when the railway passed, there were no drainage facilities or culverts, and when it rained, it was flooded with water! Wash away the crops and rush into the village!
Naturally, the villagers who suffered wanted to reason with the German railway company, and the railway company ignored these villagers. Then he sued the government, and the yamen couldn't afford to provoke the Germans!
This matter can't just be left at that. Old man Liu Henglu personally took his tenants and the men in the family and went straight to the construction site. Which Cheng thought that the main owner didn't see it, a fake foreign devil, and the number of Tianjin words in his mouth fell away from this crowd, pointing at the leading old man Liu!
When did Liu Henglu suffer such anger? Can't afford to mess with the Germans and can't afford to mess with you? So he instructed his subordinates to beat this fake foreign devil into a bunch of violent pieces, and overturned the side piles of the railway. Walk away!
The next day, Mr. Liu entangled hundreds of villagers, young and old, in nine villages and eighteen tuns in Gaomi County, to demonstrate at the railway company. How can you think of it, the railway company is really lawless! The army was transferred directly from Qingdao and killed more than 20 villagers who came to demonstrate on the spot.
And the old man Liu Henglu was the first to be killed by the Germans!
By the time the news reached Li Lintang's ears, three days had passed.