Chapter 7: An Invitation from the Second Imperial Court
His taunt made me a little unhappy, and a wave of enthusiasm was suddenly cooled, and my face was unconsciously pulled down.
"Actually, I think your mother has a point, you have to listen to it. I heard you tell this story when I was a child, and I have obeyed you after so many years of thinking about it. People haven't been in contact with people for many years, and even if the relationship has passed, isn't it just a colleague and comrade-in-arms. ”
"In my life experience, old friends are most afraid of coming uninvited, and it is probably nothing good to appear so suddenly without warning, because nostalgia? For the sake of childhood friendship, more than ten years later? It sounds warm, but it's not realistic, and TV series don't dare to make it up like this. ”
Shi Ting shook his head and smiled as he spoke, which made me feel even more offended, he has been a woman for a long time, and he is familiar with all kinds of bloody and martial arts, for him, the sea is now a disaster, and the life and death of the past are all life and death, he has no sincerity towards women, but he is angry that he dares to deduct his shit experience on my head today.
"Why are you so good!" I looked at him coldly and spread my hands: "I am willing to do something else for her, which means that she still looks up to me, what I'm worried about now is what I can let her do?" What the do I have to be worthy of someone else coming to me in more than ten years? I'm ashamed to think about it. Besides, can't you say something nice to make me happy? Can't you sincerely wish me the time to run? Why are you such a philistine! ”
Shi Ting looked at me in a daze, I didn't expect that I would be in a hurry, an old face changed several expressions, and finally pinched his throat and said angrily: "Little Elder, don't worry, the flesh will be sour when you are angry." I heard that the elder is the reincarnation of the golden cicada under the throne, and the little woman doesn't want anything else, just a piece of meat on the elder! As he spoke, he shot me two flying eyes.
I know that he can't get off the stage and start messing around, but it makes me even more angry, I don't care who made this kind of no-limit joke before, and it is the second offense to involve Jiang He again, but I don't bother to reason with him, and I will find him to settle the account. So I waved my hand to divert the topic, so as not to continue to talk about it, and my face was even more unbearable: "What are you busy with except for soaking this Daughter of Destiny recently?" I think you're busy. ”
The girl came back at this time, and we began to order, and the girl didn't talk much, but she spoke very well, and she was well educated. We came to the breakfast very quickly, chatting while eating, and suddenly Shi Ting sat up straight: "Did you just ask me what I was busy with?" I almost forgot about it. I've been really busy lately! Do you remember those Malaysian relatives I told you about before? Very rich and stingy ones. I knew that Shi Ting must have something to say to the girl when he was shocked, so he actively cooperated with the singing and singing.
In fact, as soon as he said it, I remembered that these overseas Chinese relatives of Shi Ting were actually his uncle and second grandfather. His great-grandfather was a particularly wealthy old capitalist, and not only did he have an old villa on Gulangyu Island, but he also owned an alley on the fork of Zhongshan Road, the main commercial street in Xiamen. After the liberation, the transformation of private enterprises would realize that the limelight was wrong and ran overseas, taking away the eldest and second of the four sons at that time, and leaving Shi Ting's grandfather and his fourth grandfather in China. It seems that our classmates' analysis is somewhat reasonable, and some of their Shi family did usher in the fate of outlaw overseas at a certain historical moment.
After the reform and opening up, his relatives came back and recovered most of the confiscated property, including the villa.
Shi Ting has a bad opinion of them, and it is said that the gang is very stingy. A few years ago, Shi Ting, his grandfather and father went to Malaysia to visit relatives, and their relatives entertained them to eat seafood. When I came to the famous local seafood stall street, I didn't even get out of the car, and five cars poked out a row of people's heads and slowly drove all the way to ask, bargaining one by one.
Shi Ting felt very embarrassed: Lao Tzu didn't have any money for them, and they wouldn't be able to entertain them when they returned to China, and they would bargain, they were reluctant to eat if they were expensive, and they were worried that they were not fresh, what a thing! I remember comforting him at the time, five Mercedes-Benzes are not arbitrarily squandered, and you don't have any money and look down on eating gearboxes, so you don't have Mercedes-Benz. He was relieved by me to feel even worse.
"I've been helping them tidy up and renovate that old villa during this time, and it's almost done, let's go up and live for a few days, and you bring your Xinjiang girlfriend." Shi Ting said to me with a smile, I know he is talking about girls, one of his tricks is to take girls out to travel and live, this time it is more convenient, arrange a tourism project that does not leave Xiamen.
"Hasn't that villa been renting out all the time? How to decorate again? "Shi Ting's family has been helping to take care of those industries for so many years, of course, it is not for free, those relatives are stingy with food, but they do things one yard at a time, and they will never let people work in vain. That villa has been renovated into a style hotel and a café, and it has not been idle, Shi Ting has been working outside for so many years, and he has also earned a lot of errand money.
"The location is too remote, the business has not been good, almost a year to change, now Gulangyu can change the hotel café have changed, the broken location is not competitive, now quit, plan to renovate and sell it."
"How much will it cost?"
"The price is 165 million, and if you want, you will be given a brotherly discount."
"Get out, if you have the sincerity to remove three or four zeros from the back, it will only entertain me as a brother."
The little girl was shocked by the sky-high price, Shi Ting pretended to be low-key luxury, and smoked another cigarette, this time I didn't stop him. Although the inheritance is not his, it seems to be an honor to handle a large amount of money.
"I remember standing on the roof of the building and seeing the cemetery of the church, it was not very easy to do business, and now people's concepts are different from before, and the houses that can see the cemetery are not easy to sell." I've been there before, and I've always thought the villa was eerie.
Shi Ting winked at me and told me not to continue, I knew that he was afraid of scaring the girl and ruining his plan to stay for a few days.
The girl was really interested, and kept asking how there could be a cemetery in a place as big as Gulangyu, so I had to explain in Shi Ting's resentful gaze: "Xiamen was a very early missionary, and there were many religious believers, and the first Christian church in China was built in Xiamen. At that time, in order to reduce the influence of foreigners on the people, the government built many consulates across the sea on Gulangyu Island. According to the colonial habits of the West, everywhere you go, you build a church first, and then build a community around the church. When the parishioners died, they were buried in the cemetery next to the church. I didn't think that they were very positive when they saw God, and a large number of people died in thirty or forty years, and a place as small as Gulangyu Island could not be used, and after a long time, it became a church and cemetery in the middle, surrounded by houses. In fact, many rural areas in southern Fujian are also mixed with yin and yang houses, since ancient times, everyone doesn't care much about this, and the side of the house is often the ancestral tomb. I also saw a large grave in the middle of the heavenly court surrounded by several high-rise buildings in a community in Guangzhou. ”
The girl nodded, "We have this in our hometown." However, Gulangyu Island is still quite strange, with a huge statue of national hero Zheng Chenggong standing on the seaside, and behind him are rows of old consulate houses, as well as churches and cemeteries of parishioners. The girl said earnestly, and her mouth was flattened.
"What's strange is that a national hero is a national contributor to the nation, and sometimes it has little to do with the context. For example, Zheng Chenggong himself is not a purebred Chinese, he is Japanese, he is mixed-race. His father, Zheng Zhilong, was a native of Quanzhou, a pirate, and was in his twenties when he became the largest pirate in Asia at that time. Zheng Zhilong married this Japanese wife at the age of eighteen, and Zheng Chenggong was born in Nagasaki, Japan, which was later warmed by the Americans. And Zheng Zhilong is still a Catholic, there is a Spanish name named Nicholas, his personal guards are not Chinese, all dark-skinned Catholics, many history books say that they are black, in fact, I heard the old people in the family say that it should be Filipino. When the Philippines was occupied by Spain, the faith was Catholic. Moreover, the Spaniards, like the Dutch, could not defeat the Zheng family at that time, and the Philippines was also the sphere of influence of the old Zheng family. Therefore, the background behind Zheng Chenggong is very historical and realistic, and there is nothing inconsistent. Shi Ting continued.
"It's all from this part of East Asia, and it's not mixed-race, it's the same race. At that time, the concept of the state and nation had not yet been formed, and the Chinese used to only have the concept of the world and Yidi, but did not have the concept of the state and the nation, and I remember that the concept of the Chinese nation was formed because of the War of Resistance against Japan. So at that time, everyone lived in the same area, and it was common for trade and marriage to be common. The girl defended Zheng Chenggong.
The concept of the Chinese nation was first put forward by Liang Qichao, and it was indeed made clear during the anti-Japanese war. But the Japanese are not of the same species as us, who is of the same species as them? I can't afford to lose that person. In terms of blood, we belong to the Qiang and Tibetan ethnic groups, while the Japanese are more of South Asian Dravidian blood, the black dwarfs, the lowest untouchables in the Indian caste. What is the same text and the same species, a strip of water, that is the united front slogan of the Japanese army during World War II, in a vain attempt to climb relatives with us! Shi Ting said disdainfully.
"No, Japanese, Korean, and Manchu have very similar grammars, they all belong to the Altaic language family, they should have been immigrants from the mainland, and the Japanese emperor didn't say that their ancestors were more likely to come from the Korean Peninsula." The girl is stubborn.
"They are Austronesian, not Altai, this is still inconclusive, I think they are black dwarves from South Asia, with the same fierce and savage nature, and we are not related by blood." Shi Ting didn't let her, and the two of them talked about it lively.
I now kind of understand why Shi Ting likes her so much, both of them like this kind of pitched topic, and they can talk about the world behind closed doors, review and review, and use the so-called electrocardiogram to shock each other.
When the naan bun meat was served, I took a photo and sent it to Jiang He, leaving a message: "Do you want to eat it?" I'll bring you to eat later. ”
Jiang He gave me a big smile back.
When I was about to disperse after dinner, I felt that I should repay Shi Ting's kindness just now, so I said to the girl: "You have to treat Shi Ting well, he is my good brother, his feelings are relatively simple, he fell in love once and was dumped, you are his second girlfriend." He just told me that he was going to take you back to your parents. ”
Sting was startled and looked at us with a smirk. The girl smiled and rolled her eyes: "Don't be funny, how did I hear that he has rich experience in love and has been on the battlefield for a long time." ”
"Really, really!" I raised a hand and palmed it to her: "You have to trust my girlfriend." ”
Shi Ting pushed me: "Don't mess with me, I'll ask you and that girl to go to the villa for a vacation to make amends, right?" ”