Chapter 147: It's a nest
"Zhiyuan, I didn't expect you to go to Shanghai for a trip, not only did you gain a lot, but even your appetite also rose, just as we talked, you have eaten three bowls of noodles, and the cut beef has also entered your belly, could it be to follow Wu Erlang's example and come out with three bowls of work?"
Looking at the stack of noodle bowls beside Cheng Nuo, Lu Xun was also taken aback by this scene: "It's not that you won't be allowed to eat, but if you eat so much at once, your body can't stand it, and you will really suffer if you accumulate food at that time." ”
Cheng Nuo waved his hand, sucked the last noodle in the bowl, and shouted to the shopkeeper, "Master, please send another bowl." ”
I've seen something that can be eaten, but those are basically working people who do manual work, and it's really rare for a scholar like Cheng Nuo to have such a meal, and there are old acquaintances sitting opposite, so the shopkeeper has begun to pay attention to the situation here early.
Personally came over with a bowl of noodles and put two new heads of garlic on the table, and the shopkeeper said worriedly: "Dare to ask this gentleman, have you escaped from Tianjin Wei?" Our bowl is not small, but this bowl is the fourth bowl, and it is not good for the body to eat so much after being hungry for a long time. ”
Pouring vinegar into the noodle bowl, Cheng Nuo looked at the shopkeeper with interest: "Uncle, do you have a cross talk taste when you listen to my accent?" ”
The shopkeeper took a step back, looked Cheng Nuo up and down carefully, and was a little skeptical of his judgment: "Yes, your accent doesn't have the taste of Tianjin dialect at all, and the dress doesn't look like a desert escape......
The shopkeeper, who realized that he had said the wrong thing, hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, you, it's me who looks down on people, sir, don't take it to heart." ”
Cheng Nuo didn't care: "Say a thousand, say 10,000, it's better to have your noodles, this can make me add a few more bowls, otherwise, I will be full after eating one bowl." ”
In fact, the deeper reason is that Cheng Nuo's physical fitness is very different from before, although he eats a lot, his metabolism is faster, and his stomach has been digested after a while.
If it was as usual, no matter how delicious this noodle was, at most two bowls, Cheng Nuo would have to burp and start to loosen his belt.
Looking at the back of the shopkeeper, and then at Lu Xun who was impressed by his own amount of food on the other side, Cheng Nuo smiled: "It's a blessing to be able to eat, although we don't pay attention to eating well, but for being full, there are still some broken thoughts in my heart, if Brother Yucai is hungry, you can have another bowl." ”
Lu Xun couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and originally wanted to call the shopkeeper like Cheng Nuo, but his tight belly brought him back to reality, and he smiled with a smile: "I see, whoever invites you to dinner next time, the best restaurant is the fried sauce noodle restaurant." ”
Cheng Nuo chewed the noodles and said curiously: "Do you think I like to eat noodles, and it's cheaper to add noodles?" ”
Lu Xun shook his head and smiled: "No, that's because although the fried noodles in some places are a little more expensive, they can be refilled, but they can't take you to go often, otherwise you have to eat people down, and the rules of Beijing's noodles have to be changed because of you." ”
Cheng Nuo also laughed and said: "It's okay, we can still eat rice if you can't eat noodles, as long as you give me a side dish, just enough rice, it's still the same sentence, as long as you can eat enough during the special period, we don't have special requirements for eating well." ”
Just as the two were eating and chatting, and by the way planning for the future of the school, an old man suddenly came to the door of the restaurant, dressed in quails, with vegetables on his face, limping and moving his body to the door frame to help, stretching his neck to reach in, swallowing saliva from time to time, obviously very hungry.
"Where did you come from, doesn't standing at my door affect me to solicit customers, how can people outside come in, and people inside have no appetite to look at it."
The shopkeeper is very displeased with this kind of person who affects his business, but this kind of year, maybe he will have such a day, shake his head and sigh, put the two nests left over from the morning in his hand, pick up a bowl of noodle soup, pull the old man outside the door, and hand it to him politely.
"Old man, you eat slowly, you don't charge money for this, if you don't have enough to eat, I still have it there, as long as it doesn't affect my business."
The old man was also hungry, although the head of the nest was already a little cold, and it tasted a little hard, but the hungry people, where would they be able to manage these, pick up things and start to gobble up.
Because he was in a hurry to eat, he was choked and rolled his eyes halfway, and in the end it was the bowl of noodle soup that saved him.
Just when Wowotou finished eating, the shopkeeper who was watching on the side was about to let the old man leave, and Cheng Nuo and the others, who had finished eating noodles and paying the bill, happened to pass by them.
Seeing Lu Xun passing by, the old man immediately ran to Lu Xun happily, and he couldn't hear what he said clearly.
Seeing the old man, Lu Xun's expression immediately hesitated, and after a little look, his face was even more complicated, without saying anything, he took out ten pieces from his purse and handed them to the old man, and then arched his hand and left by himself.
Obviously, there is some friendship between the two, but for now, it may not be deep.
Sure enough, after Cheng Nuo caught up, he asked the reason, the other party did have something to do with the old man, but it was just an old neighborhood, and they hadn't seen each other since they moved, and it had been five or six years.
Seeing each other again now, I didn't expect the old man to make a living by begging, and I have to sigh that the years are ruthless.
With his hands behind his back, Lu Xun paced and looked into the distance: "Although ten pieces are few, it is enough for this male to get two stitches." ”
"Needle, what is this, isn't it unwell, go to the hospital and ask the doctor for acupuncture to cure the disease?" Hearing the word "needle", although Cheng Nuo was a little skeptical, he didn't dare to confirm it.
"If that's what you said, then it's a good thing, don't say it's ten, twenty or thirty, I can give it." Walking on the bank of the moat, Lu Xun said with a little melancholy: "The truth is not as simple as we think, I am afraid that the money just now will be used by him to fight morphine." ”
As the most important alkaloid in opium, it accounts for about 10% of opium, and fluctuates slightly with the proportion of different components.
As early as 1806, when Jiaqing was still alive at the end of the Qing Dynasty, this thing was refined and sold to various countries, causing serious social problems to the local area.
In order to quit opium, this one relied on morphine to make a transition, so that his body was full of needles, but what he didn't know was that morphine was more addictive than opium.
As early as when Japan invaded Shandong, it used Shandong as a base and imported morphine as one of its trade characteristics, and it spread throughout China. Wherever the Japanese have the upper hand, the morphine industry is particularly thriving.
Later, Jiang Guangtou saw that this industry was indeed profitable, so he simply cooperated with Du Yuesheng to build a morphine factory in Shanghai. Later, in order to appease public opinion, he also pretended to arrange someone to investigate the factory, but he didn't know that his eyebrows were thrown to the blind man.
When the man received the order, he actually seized the factory, which led to the dismissal and the resumption of production.
Of course, this is also a later story, it can be said that from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the liberation, drugs have been raging in the country, and the people are miserable.
Seeing that Cheng Nuo was almost digested, Lu Xun leaned on the railing and said: "This duke is three brothers, half-sibling, and he is the second. Yi's father is alive, and he is the deputy commander of a certain banner, and he is good at selling shortages. There is a price for official vacancies, so there is no need to talk about it in detail.
If he lacked a vest, he had to sell it for thirty taels of silver, and he made a few heart-destroying money because of his wide range. It's a pity that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was late, and his father also died. The three young masters fought a lawsuit for more than half a year because of the competition for family property. Later, someone mediated and divided the three by dividing the issue, which was considered to be a solution.
It's a pity that this public has a penchant for needles, and the workmanship is lazy, and he has long since retired, and now he is looking for money for a living. His original residential house had been bought by an officer, and it was unexpected and reasonable that he had fallen into such a situation this year. ”
Cheng Nuo couldn't help but be curious: "His father was the deputy commander of the capital at the beginning, and he didn't have old acquaintances to take care of his descendants?" ”
Lu Xun smiled and explained: "When this deputy capital was alive, he was very stingy, except for the New Year's Festival, he easily did not eat meat noodles, and he would always repay poverty when he saw people. The most ridiculous thing is that there is a cook at home, and he is afraid that the cook will make money, so he buys vegetables across the basket, and everyone calls him 'cross the basket'. ”
Hearing this, Cheng Nuo also sighed: "Greedy and mean all his life, and future generations have ended up with this result, no wonder the ancients once said, 'A penny will not go, only sin will follow'." ”
Looking at the dignitaries and nobles on the other side of the moat, entering and exiting high-end restaurants, Lu Xun couldn't help but snort coldly: "Now the gentlemen who are hugging each other, the cars in the western-style buildings are like ladies, and they are full of joy." Although he has done evil, he is not wronged. Now it seems that the idea of the new craftsman is slightly better than that of the old craftsman. ”
Looking back at his surroundings, there were some numb and poor people, especially after seeing that the owner of the noodle shop was willing to give alms, some people began to surround him.
was so angry that Lu Xun really wanted to take out a pen and paper and alert the world: "But it's really a nest!" These people don't know, if they want to have a full stomach, do they have to go to the other side to find those powerful people, and embarrass a small businessman in a noodle restaurant, what's the matter? ”
The shopkeeper apparently had a plan for a long time, and handed over the leftovers to the leader of them, claiming that after he distributed them, he succeeded in changing the goal of the siege of everyone, and the contradictions were also transferred, and finally closed the door and isolated everything outside the door.
Looking at this scene, Cheng Nuo patted Lu Xun on the shoulder and said with a smile: "When the weak are desperate, fate does not allow them to be reasonable, and their only hope is to live."
Brother Yucai, just relying on the power of pen and paper, I'm afraid it's not enough, if you really want to change the scene on both sides of the strait, and cut off the needle pricking thing, it will take several generations of efforts.
It is not a few so-called 'elites' who are driving the change of this era, but the silent majority of the working people behind us, and grassroots education is an important way to transform.
When it comes to starting a primary school, you have to think twice before you act! ”