Chapter 184: Gui's Story (Medium)

On the second day after Agui returned to Weizhuang with a cart of Australian goods, the matter finally spread from the shallow boudoir to the deep boudoir. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBecause Zou Qi, who got a cheap blue silk skirt, was proud, she invited Mrs. Zhao to appreciate Yi's silk skirt, and Mrs. Zhao told Mrs. Zhao again, and she really complimented her.

Next, Mrs. Zhao discussed with his eldest son "Wig Young Master" at the lunch table, and since the "Wig Young Master" has been worried about the lack of various Australian goods in his life since he returned to his hometown, he agreed that he should see what good things Agui has in his hands to buy. So he ignored the old matter that because Agui had molested his maid Wu's mother before, he was ordered not to step on the threshold of Zhao's mansion again, so he asked Zou Qi's sister-in-law to go to find Agui immediately.

In the afternoon, Agui carried a basket on his back and brought all the remaining Australian goods to Zhao's mansion. To Mrs. Zhao's disappointment, the leather vest she wanted to buy was no longer available. What disappointed the "wig young master" was that the illiterate Agui salesman did not sell any of the "Australian books and newspapers" he wanted this time, not even cigarettes, and I am afraid that he could only continue to smoke dry tobacco pots for the next few days. However, what makes the children of Zhao Mansion happy is that there are some Australian fruit candies and dried Nanyang fruits in Agui's basket, such as banana slices and dried coconut, which look colorful and green, and smell a sweet and greasy aroma, which makes people drool. Although Mrs. Zhao has always been diligent and thrifty, in order to save a few dollars on oil, he even stipulated that he was not allowed to hold the lamp at night, so he had a very early dinner and went to bed as soon as he finished eating. But seeing the pitiful look of the children, and thinking that these snacks could be taken out to entertain guests during the festival, Mrs. Zhao finally nodded and bought these rare snacks.

In addition, in Agui's basket, there is another good thing that is unanimously welcomed by the whole family. That's a couple of large glass bottles called cans, with latte caps and closures. For the time being, there is only one variety of canned yellow peach, but no one in the Zhao Mansion feels shabby: I saw that the yellow peach with a tender yellow color was cut into two slices, soaked in transparent sugar water, and packed in a crystal glass bottle, which looked indescribably wonderful.

In the eyes of Mrs. Zhao's family of real turtles in the late Ming Dynasty, this glass jar is full of a certain attraction similar to science fiction, and I was fascinated for a while, but I didn't know how to eat it: the iron lid on the glass bottle was really tight, and Mrs. Zhao didn't unscrew it with all her strength.

Only the "wig young master" seems to have seen a lot of the market when he traveled in Guangdong, and immediately happily took a bottle of canned yellow peaches, and took out a strangely shaped metal tool from his waist, and quickly pried open a gap between the mouth of the glass bottle and the lid, allowing air to enter the canned bottle, so that the air pressure in the canned bottle and the normal air pressure outside the balance were restored, and then he easily opened the lid of the canned bottle and handed it to Mrs. Zhao like a treasure, "...... Dad, this is canned fruit in Australia, it's sweet! Mother Wu, go get a few pairs of chopsticks and wait for the master to eat peaches! ”

So, everyone in the Zhao family, who usually has a simple diet, opened a rare "Australian meat" this time, and shared a can of canned yellow peaches in sugar water, and they were full of praise, but Mrs. Zhao asked Ah Gui about the price, but he frowned: Compared with other cheap and high-quality Australian goods, the price of this thing is really not cheap, and it is much more expensive than the Australian refined salt that Wu Ma bought before.

However, recently, the "wig young master" who has always muttered "fading out of his mouth" insisted on buying it, and Mrs. Zhao also said that although this thing is a bit expensive, it can be used to replace the kind of noodle peach, which is more magnificent and decent in front of relatives and friends when Mrs. Zhao celebrates his fiftieth birthday in late autumn this year. Thinking that he would have a fiftieth birthday in his life, Mrs. Zhao reluctantly agreed with a painful face.

-- Although the ancients paid attention to longevity to use longevity peaches, but in ancient times there were no out-of-season fruits, and the days when peaches were on the market were only one or two months, if the birthday of the "birthday star" did not happen to be in that time of the year, they could only let people use flour and rice flour and the like to pinch a longevity peach handicraft to make up the number.

After Mrs. Zhao's family bought Australian candy cubes, Nanyang dried fruits and canned yellow peaches, Zou Qi's sister-in-law bought the last remaining mirror and two embroidered handkerchiefs in Agui's hand in order to save a dowry for her daughter. Ah Gui, who had sold out the goods, was overjoyed, dropped the empty basket and left humming a song.

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The news that Agui came back with a carload of Australian goods occupied the topic of small talk among the residents of Weizhuang for two days. And Agui also enjoys the feeling of becoming a star and having people come up to say hello wherever he goes. But on the third day of Gui's return, he was once again snubbed.

-- Because the people in the village have a more exciting new topic to talk about, and a little trivial matter of a small exploding household like Agui is naturally ignored.

That morning, when it was dawning, a loud military trumpet was heard in the suburbs, and then a group of short-haired soldiers, wearing breeches and short coats, came to Weizhuang singing strange songs. The people in the village were so frightened when they saw this, thinking that the army of thieves was going to never have a soldier, so they closed the door one by one, and Qian Xiucai's wife and Zou Qi's sister-in-law's daughter also smeared pot ash on their faces. Only Mrs. Zhao, as the village head, could not avoid such changes, so he had to bite the bullet and let his own "wig young master" go out to contact the military masters and inquire about their intentions.

But the subsequent development of events made the villagers very confused, only to see that the "young master of the wig" left the village entrance for half an hour, and then rushed back with a happy face, not even noticing that he had lost a shoe on his foot. Immediately, the Zhao Mansion in Weizhuang was also boiling, and it was a big open middle door to clean the street and sweep to prepare for the guests, and it was to kill pigs, cut fish, drink and buy vegetables to prepare for a banquet, and several maids and women also changed into new clothes that they were usually reluctant to wear, and they were running with a smile on their faces, saying that there were great distinguished guests who were coming to the door, or distant relatives of the Zhao family, and they couldn't say that the Zhao family was going to develop this time.

The idlers in Weizhuang didn't seem to be in trouble, and they also walked out of the house one after another, curiously gathering around the Zhao Mansion to watch the excitement.

At noon, the river of Weizhuang was unprecedentedly noisy, and more than a dozen boats were pulled by an Australian self-propelled boat emitting black smoke and approached the river port of Zhaofu. According to the idlers who watched the excitement, those boats were filled with all kinds of furniture and cages, and there were many brightly dressed maids, as well as a few old men wearing satin robes, as soon as they came ashore, they were carried into Zhao's mansion in a sedan chair, and Mrs. Zhao personally stood at the head of the river port to welcome guests.

The speculation about the identity of this group of distinguished guests in the Zhao Mansion lasted for another afternoon. At night, the idlers who like to chew their tongues in the whole Weizhuang already know that they are distant relatives of Mrs. Zhao, a scholarly family surnamed Xu in Suzhou Mansion.

The man in charge of the Xu family in Suzhou took refuge in the Australian and Song Dynasty courts, and he had to be reused, and the Suzhou Mansion in Nanzhili had recently been in turmoil and famine, which made people unable to live, so the old lady of the Xu family led the Manmen family to move away from his homeland and prepare to move to Shaoxing Weizhuang under the rule of the new dynasty to live. However, due to the haste of the incident, the new mansion has not yet been arranged, and the family has to spend some time in the mansion of Mrs. Zhao in Weizhuang for the time being: Mrs. Zhao has some relatives with the Xu family, so after the Xu family moved south, they chose to settle in Weizhuang, so that they could take care of each other in the future.

According to the long-tongued women in the Zhao Mansion, the distant relatives of the Zhao family, the Xu family of the Su family, who have just arrived in Weizhuang, are a great family of official eunuchs, and their ancestors have been able to push back to the Han Dynasty in ancient times, which is many times more noble than the old man in the city who once deposited his belongings with the Zhao family. This generation of the old lady of the Xu family is even more Wenqu star, although under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Huai Cai did not meet, but once he met the "Ming Lord" of the New Dynasty of the Australian Song Dynasty, he immediately soared to the top of the sky, and now he has become a bachelor of Hanlin (in fact, he is only an honorary member of the Writers Association), and it is unknown whether he will be crowned a marquis in the future.

The short-haired soldiers stationed in the suburbs are the engineer battalions sent by the Australian and Song Dynasty courts, which are specially designed for the Xu family to build construction and official residences in Weizhuang. In addition, it seems that a government yamen will be built in Weizhuang, which will be called a police station (in fact, it is the other way around, the main task of the engineer battalion is to build a police station in Weizhuang, and according to the instructions of the Phoenix Villa Headquarters, use your spare time to help lay the foundation for Xu Xiake's mansion, and in the future, the contractor team of its own private construction company will build the main building of the Xu family's new mansion).

In short, for the arrival of Xu Xiake's family, the vast majority of Weizhuang residents are deeply honored and honored. The rumored illustrious ancestors of the Xu family, the kinship between the Xu family and the Zhao Mansion, Xu Xiake's writings and his decent scenery in the "Ao-Song Dynasty", and the new changes brought to Weizhuang by this "new dynasty nobleman" have all become excellent talking points for the idlers of Weizhuang.

In addition, the short-haired sappers who are building at the entrance of Weizhuang Village have also become a rather lively attraction, and people gather around the construction site of the police station every day, pointing at the watchtower-shaped building at the entrance of the village. (Since the Huameng had no intention of taking the initiative to attack the interior of Zhejiang for a long time, and Shaoxing and Hangzhou were already considered to be the western edge of the occupied area, the rural police stations had to function as border military strongholds.) ）

And these short-haired soldiers are full of white rice three times a day, and they have a rich meal of meat every day, which also makes many poor young men in Weizhuang drool, shouting all day long to join the army, so that those parents who still firmly believe that "good iron does not hit nails, and good men do not serve soldiers" are so angry that they beat their chests.

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However, all this has little to do with Agui, who "returned to his hometown".

After a short period of scenery, he became an invisible person who was not concerned by the residents of Weizhuang, which made Agui feel very unhappy, but he had no way to vent, so he had to run to the hotel, first drank a few bowls of yellow soup, and then pulled a few interested drinkers, together in the store to bet on the card treasure (gambling money), only to see a group of people squatting around a table on the bench, Agui sweated in the middle, and the voice was the loudest:

“…… Four hundred dragons! ”

“…… Cough...... Open...... Hoo! "The dealer opened the lid of the box and sang with sweat on his face." …… Heavenly Gate...... The horn is back......! People and halls are there......! Agui's silver coin is ......! ”

“…… 100 ...... One hundred and fifty! ”

Under such a chant, Agui's silver money gradually flowed into the waists of other characters. Seeing that his luck was getting worse and worse, Agui, who had lost nearly ten taels of silver in one go, finally came to his senses, although he was in a more unhappy mood, he didn't dare to gamble anymore: if he lost again, he was afraid that he would not even have the capital to go to the city to repay the account and handle the goods! had to leave the gambling table, and squatted at the door of the store with a pottery bowl to drink alcohol.

But at this time, the little nun in the retreat came from the opposite side. Agui glanced at her a few times, and suddenly vaguely realized something.

“…… I don't know why I'm so bad today, it's because I met you! He thought.

So, Agui "bravely" greeted him and spat loudly to the little nun's side: "...... Ahem, phew! ”

The little nun ignored it completely, lowered her head and just left. Ah Gui couldn't help but be bolder, and actually approached her side, suddenly stretched out his hand to rub the little nun's newly shaved scalp, smiled stupidly, and said, "...... Sassy bald! Go back, there's that monk waiting for you......"

“…… How do you move your hands and feet......" said the little nun, blushing, as she hurried away.

The people in the hotel laughed. When Gui saw that his deeds were appreciated, he became even more elated:

“…… The monk can move, but I can't move? He snorted with wine, smirked and twisted hard before letting go.

“…… You deprived of grandchildren! The little nun ran away crying.

“…… Hahaha! Ah Gui smiled very proudly, as if he had taken revenge on all the "bad luck" today.

However, lying in the hut of the Tugu Temple that night, Ah Gui felt that his thumb and second finger were a little strange: they seemed to be a little more slippery than usual. I don't know if it's a little slippery thing on the little nun's face stuck to his fingers, or if his fingers are gripped on the little nun's face?

“…… You deprived of grandchildren! ”

Ah Gui's ears seemed to hear the little nun's cry again. He thought, "Yes, I should go to a woman, and there will be no one to offer a bowl of rice to the grave...... The sage has a cloud, "unfilial piety has three nothings and the queen is great", so his thinking is actually completely in line with the sage classics.

“…… Woman, woman! He thought. Five or six months ago, he had twisted a woman's thigh in the crowd under the stage, and later learned that it was the Zhao family's maid Wu Ma. Because of this incident, he was beaten and lost a lot of money, and the women of Weizhuang also stayed away from him for a while. However, when he came back this time, the women came running close to him because of the new clothes he had brought, as if they had forgotten everything before.

Oh, these women are so hateful, they all have to pretend to be "hypocritical".

The next day, Ah Gui was sitting in the hotel in Weizhuang, drinking wine, while waiting for the Qian family's steward, he wanted to negotiate with the Qian family about buying rice, which would be used to transport it back to the city, repay the last batch of groceries to the steward of the business, and buy the next batch of goods, and continue to traffic them to Weizhuang.

At this time, Wu's mother and Zou Qi's sister-in-law happened to walk through the door of the hotel, walking slowly while talking about the gossip of the Zhao Mansion.

“…… My wife didn't eat for two days, because the old man was determined to buy a small ......."

“…… Woman...... Wu Ma...... This little orphan widow ......," Gui thought.

Ah Gui was originally a serious person, although I don't know what Master instructed him to be, but he has always been very strict about the "great defense of men and women". His doctrine is: All nuns must have fornicated with monks; A woman walking outside must want to seduce a wild man.

“…… Our young grandmother is going to have a baby in August......"

Agui put down the wine bowl, stood up, and walked quickly to the door of the hotel.

“…… Our young grandmother ......" Wu's mother, who didn't notice Ah Gui, was still nagging and said.

“…… Mother Wu, I'm sleepy with you, I'm sleepy with you! Agui suddenly grabbed it and knelt down to Yi.

For a moment, there seemed to be silence at the door of the originally noisy hotel

“…… Ahh Wu's mother and Zou Qi's sister-in-law took a breath, suddenly trembled, screamed and ran back, and ran and shouted, as if they were crying later.

Ah Gui knelt and was also flustered, so he slowly stood up again, looked at the strange eyes of everyone around him, and vaguely felt that something seemed to be worse.