54. Mr. Feng Shui is busy accumulating wealth, one street and two squares are flat from the ground
Fusheng and Sister A have a very good relationship, Fusheng's mother was weak and sick when he was a child, and Miss Shen was seven years older than Fusheng, so she took on the responsibility of her mother and took care of Fusheng. Until Fusheng was twelve years old, Miss Shen slept in the same bed with Fusheng, and Miss Shen arranged the bath. Even if Fusheng goes to study in the foreign school, he will mostly go home in the sister's room. Miss Shen's care for Fusheng can be described as meticulous, the reason why she is reluctant to marry too early is more worried about marrying her daughter to splash water, if she gets married, Fusheng's younger brother will have no one to take care of. Miss Shen got married, Fusheng was sad for a long time, who thought that Miss Shen would die after only two years of marriage, Fusheng couldn't help but be grief-stricken, and couldn't help but be angry with his brother-in-law Zhao Da, scolding Lord Zhao for facing the heart of a beast, and he would be punished by God.
Although Wu's mother felt sorry for her nephew, she also accused Zhao Da of not listening to her, harming Miss Shen and herself, and Zhao Da endured it. Everyone in the town knew that Zhao Da had killed his daughter-in-law after two years of marriage, and Zhao Da was so notorious that he could no longer raise his head. However, knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, knowing the daughter Mo Ruo's mother, and the Shen family's parents are all enlightened people, but they comforted Zhao Da, gossip is not enough to believe, don't blame yourself too much, people can't be resurrected after death, the funeral is simple, and the burial is safe. Li Shanren refused, since he couldn't enter the ancestral hall, he would stop the deceased at home and send him to the end. Ordered to carry the body of Miss Shen in the coffin in the lobby, light the tea oil lamp at her feet, set up a curtain according to the etiquette, and the men and women in the family wept and mourned, and Zhao Da put a red silk scarf on the corpse and put it in the funeral. The coffin was plastered with gold paper, the sun, and the silver moon, and three days later it was carried to a remote wasteland and buried.
After Sanqi, Zhao Da didn't want to stay in this sad place anymore, so as not to see the life of things, so he immediately left for Shanghai to fend for himself.
It's October weather, and the plane trees on the street have lost a little green, and have become more yellow or red. A gust of wind blew, and the leaves fell on the ground, covering the mahogany road with a golden carpet. Zhao Daxing rushed to walk on the road, an open-top carriage came in front, the horse's hooves "tuk-tuk" knocked on the road, the horse's tail swayed left and right, slowly swept in front of Zhao Da, Zhao Da couldn't help but feel distressed about the road.
The lord is right, Shanghai is really luxurious, even the road is made of mahogany, and the wheels and iron hooves are pressed on the road, trampling on money. But pedestrians and vehicles do not feel, they all like to walk in the middle of the road, all kinds of people and other lines are in a hurry, all kinds of vehicles are moving slowly, there are high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, and the signboard light boxes are like gibbons stretching out to the middle of the road, looking dazzled. Zhao Da was going to a modern liquor store, and stood on the side of the street for a long time, and the rickshaws passing by were carrying people, and none of them were empty. Finally waiting for an empty black rickshaw to come, he hurriedly waved to the driver, the black car was just about to stop, the "red-headed Ah San" on the side of the road quickly ran over to stop: "No parking, no stopping, black, no!" "Red-headed Ah San" and "Yili Wowala" English and Chinese talked for a long time, but Zhao didn't understand half of the sentence, so he had no choice but to go to the modern wine store.
Modern Liquor Store is not far from Ningbo Road, it is in the middle of the "big world" and "Paramount", and the business is very good. Especially in the evening, after dancing in the "Paramount Gate" and playing in the "Big World", the foreigners, compradors or bosses, and Xiaokai walked a little, and they walked to the modern wine store.
The liquor store is completely in the style of an English country pub, with a long cabinet against the wall, a long counter in front of the cabinet, and four single-column high stools lined up on the outside of the counter, many of the customers are foreigners, and foreign men like to stand in front of the counter to drink and flirt with ladies. On the other side, there are slot machines and batting machines for young customers. The wine cabinet is filled with brandy, whiskey, gin and wine from the cellars of Spanish wineries. Sailors from England, France, the United States, Portugal and Spain liked to drink the most alcohol, and they enjoyed drinking good wine from their own country in China, and often came to the store in the middle of the night with Chinese girls in their arms, invited the girls to drink foreign wine, and laughed with the girls. The girls, half-seated on high stools, wearing cheongsams with their thighs exposed, one leg half resting on the other, are courteous to the men, and they love the atmosphere. Sitting on the high stool, you can look at the man at eye level, there will be no embarrassment of looking down and looking up, and it will show your nobility.
During the day, there are mostly Chinese customers, including takeaways and dine-in eaters, all of whom are familiar faces, and they like to drink Xianghai's own rice baijiu. In autumn and winter, drinking rice baijiu is much more comfortable than drinking beer, and a glass of belly is full of gas, and this white, freshly brewed and bubbling rice baijiu brewed by the owner has become the signature liquor of modern liquor stores. Many guests bring their own jars and jars of liquor, take a rickshaw from Yangshupu, drink rice and white wine as beer, and then fill a jar or can to take away after drinking. The wine that came out overnight was sold out in the morning. When Zhao Da came to the liquor store, the drinkers who bought rice and liquor were still in a long line, he walked into the store, and the guy immediately greeted him: "This boss, what are you doing?" Zhao Da saw Xianghai in a straight suit at a glance, talking to someone in the corner of the store, he pointed to Xianghai and said, "I'm looking for your boss." Xianghai heard that someone was coming in to look for him, turned his head and saw that it was Zhao Da, and hurriedly got up and rushed over and hugged him tightly.