Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had just eaten two boiled dumplings with their family members before Zishi, and clinked glasses with their grandfather and father for a glass of wine. They did not wait for the bells to ring for each other's New Year greetings, so the palace's orders came down. Up.
"Let's go to Furong Garden? What did you do earlier?" Beckham complained, and suddenly his eyes rolled again, and said to Xiao Yuan, who had been with him all the time, "How much money do you think we can get for New Year's Eve this time?" "
Xiao Yuan was in a daze, everything seemed to be messed up during the New Year, countless people in the mansion were dangling like revolving lanterns, obviously unaccustomed to noisy.
Hearing Beckham's question, Xiao Yuan said dumbfounded: "At least one hundred."
"Why are we so worthless? We will listen to me in the place for a while. I hope that they will have to pay a New Year's greeting. We will throw out 100,000 sticks for a New Year's greeting. Think about it in your heart, hum!"
Beckham decided to resort to the ultimate ultimate move, throwing money first, and then collecting money.
"It's not a business. For the New Year, everyone is happy, but it is a pity that Xiaoji, Xiaoxiang, Xiaoru, Xiaoyi, and they are too young, Xiaohong just can run, I am now worried about giving her fake ears.
You said that if she didn't do it, she was born without ears and had trouble listening to the voice. If she did, would she think we look down on her without ears, or why do we have to give her a pair of ears? If it wasn't for the impulse to accept her as a sister, wouldn't it be unnecessary to think about it? "
Xiaoyuan said to Beckham as he followed the team out.
Zhang Fang next to him took the words and said, "It was not impulsive, it was a correct decision. For example, I, my brother and Zhang Qiang, brother Zhang Qiang is a native of Luzhou, if we didn’t accept him as a son. , Is it so easy for mountain people to go down the mountain
And my brother and I. The two of us are sons and daughters of the foster father. The whole Yizhou... the ethnic minority will always feel at ease. In fact, both my brother and I know that whoever chooses the foster father is chosen. We are chosen precisely because We are about the same age, it is our luck.
Xiaohong has no ears and is also our younger sister, a member of the Datang Inspection Envoy, let’s see who dares to look down on children with physical defects. Didn’t his brother and sister both acquiesced. "
"It makes sense." Xiao Yuan nodded. Many times he did things for political purposes. Of course, when I first received Hong'er, I didn't think of the political significance. I just looked at Hong'er. The power to go down.
Thinking of Hong'er, Xiao Yuanshun thought of the original master book and the woman, and asked: "Where is the master book at that time, where is Hong'er's mother?"
"I don't know." Xiaobei also remembered, and she turned to look at the maid.
It's not easy for the maids to do. In addition to the little ancestors, they have to remember many things, and even help make suggestions at critical moments. Any maids from the Zhang family can be used as county magistrates.
"The master book is already a commoner, and the family has planted dozens of acres of land. I heard that the spirit is not very good. Sometimes when I am free, I mumble "Hong'er". Do business together, not our house.
It was the little lady who told me that if a relative used another relative as a hand, it would be an insult to both at the same time, and he must be allowed to act independently, and the little son agreed.
They opened a tea shop on Chang'an Avenue, South Street of Wubenfang. The place is very good, and the place is very good. My family tried their best to arrange it. Now they sell tea from all over the Tang Dynasty. The little boys and little ladies only need to get them. New tea must be sold at the tea shop first.
Fermented tea, semi-fermented tea, green tea, scented tea, regardless of variety, ordinary people can drink, there is the most comprehensive, there are more than a thousand consistent net income every month. "
"Ah? So much? I am not saying that they make a lot of money, I am saying how can a tea shop have so much profit." Beckham said in surprise.
"Because their tea is all genuine tea." The maid replied.
"That's right, when tonight is over, we are going to have a look, and Xiaofang, are you homesick? Brother Zhang Qiang has already seen his family when he returned to Luzhou, and you haven't been back for a long time."
Xiaobei suddenly thought of this question. She felt that if she left her brother and sister for too long, she would miss it very much.
Zhang Fang pondered for a while and said, "I also think, but we have been here very well. I have forgotten what my father and my mother look like. When we are going to the north to train soldiers, let's take a detour and let's go back. Take a look at home."
Then he sighed and said, "If it weren't for the baby candy shops in various places, I wouldn't even be able to outline the appearance of my hometown. At that time, the family would be considered a kind of transaction.
Before our Datang implemented the compulsory education system and fully provided welfare, many people who had children were given out. They said they were given, but in fact it was a kind of sale, but the price was very low, a few eggs, or a dollar. Meat, it doesn’t even need anything, as long as the other party promises not to harm the child.
All this is due to poverty. Even my family cannot refuse this temptation. If you give your children to you, you naturally have to take care of the entire family.
My brother and I are the bargaining chips on both sides of the balance. Datang needs the loyalty of my tribe. My tribe needs the welfare of Datang. But as a bargaining chip, I have no regrets. I have a group of brothers and sisters. If I want to, I can follow Da Tang every day. The emperor of Tang ate together, and I can let the beloved brother Xiaobao and sister Juanjuan hug me.
The patriarch of the family should never expect to have this glory. What I need to think about is how to face the people in the future. It is very troublesome. Who makes my identity different? "
"That's right, I didn't even think about it. I was in this status since I was born. It's so scary. I always wanted to live the life of a child from an ordinary Datang family, but it was always unsuccessful. We didn't meet other big families. Children, one by one was very bullish, but they didn't know how many eggs were weighed per catty when they asked them how the chickens lay their eggs.
What's the point of them living like that? According to the story told by my brother, it is called elite education. The elite just don't know that the usual seven to nine eggs are a catty? I don’t know if the newly opened eggs can weigh eleven, or brothers and sisters. From the most basic farmyard manure to the upper political struggle, we can teach us everything.
I dreamt that day, I thought, who am I? I don’t seem to have myself. I am one of my brothers and sisters at home, and then I have to study and show it to my family. When I’m outside, I’m a diplomat, responsible for all kinds of external communication. I was born in Zhang’s family and did it. Things do not belong to me.
In the fall of this year, I saw that there were children in Luzhou who were on vacation to pick up the rice ears. I helped him pick them together. He complained, saying that he usually goes to school, listens to his parents at home, and is on vacation. While helping out with Tanaka’s work, there is only half an hour every day for him to play.
Ha, after that, I felt that I was very happy. He could only play for half an hour every day. It turned out that it was not me who did not belong to me. A few days ago, I thought that many adults do things during the day and come back to cook at night. Look at the children, are they not their own? Who are they? Can't figure it out. "
Xiao Bei followed Xiaofang's words, and the more he said it, the more he went to the topic, and at the end he was silent.
Obviously, philosophical matters are not suitable for children to ponder, even if they have heard too many stories.
No matter how many people gather on the road, the car of the Zhang and Wang family will give way as soon as they see the car of the Zhang family. They don’t need to honk any horn. Someone threw eggs when the bayonet walked away, and hid after throwing one.
Even the guards are very relaxed. When passing by, the common people will help to look at both sides. No one wants to rush up. If someone really wants to sue, you can find a business from Zhang Wang's family. At this time, rush over and complain. The reason is too bad, no one believes it.
By the time of Furong Garden, it was the fourth quarter of the first day, and my ears were buzzing with the sound of firecrackers, and the stage built by Furong Garden was echoed with "pop" songs that I don't know who wrote the lyrics.
After a while, the sound of firecrackers in Furong Garden stopped, and Beckham let go of her ears, and said depressedly: "I said that the sound is loud. It turned out to be specially set for us. Uncle the emperor is really free. How much my lucky money, hum!"
Zhang Xiaobao was also shocked so that his eyes turned straight in circles, the power of gunpowder was visible, and he stepped forward to pull his younger brother and sister.
"Brother, ask something." Beckham stretched out his hand to let his brother pull, and said: "Do you think you are yourself? Are you living for yourself? Are you tired?"
Zhang Xiaobao was stunned, and Wang Juan next to him was also stunned. At the same time, the two of them were a little worried, because many people who committed suicide had thoughts like this, thinking that the process of life is too simple. No longer important.
Stopped, Zhang Xiaobao made a thinking statement, and said for a long time: "Tired, many times I feel that my existence is meaningless, wearing a mask of hypocrisy all day long, and speaking insincerely, sometimes I even want to end my life.
I had a dream that day, I had a dream that I had died, and then I found that many people cried again. You cried, our parents cried, and even your majesty cried. Then it spread to the entire Great Tang. At that time, the Great Tang seemed to have lost its soul. The same, full of sadness.
I just couldn't figure it out. I died alone. What was the relationship with other people? Then, the chain rang, and I saw the cow head and horse face, the two "people" were crying there, and their voices were crying hoarse.
I wonder, I told them, we met again, that, I seem to have seen them before, it's been too long, a little forgotten, let me say, what happened to you two? sick? It can be cured, it can't be delayed.
They knelt down immediately and hit the ground with their heads. Niutou spoke first, "What are you doing again? Didn't you agree last time? If you don't toss us for a hundred years, why don't you say anything?" I said I'm boring to live, it's better to die.
Ma Mian followed and said, "Why is it boring? Do you see how many people cry you died? So many people need you, you are better than me and Niutou, and no one else wants to see us. You are old and happy, don't you know?"
I said that’s not what I meant. I mean I’m too tired to live, and I don’t have time for my own. I can’t take a rest. It’s better to die. If you don’t bother me, I’ll be happier.
"It’s you who bother us, okay? You don’t plan to make the underworld peaceful, don’t you know if you don’t do it like this? Ghosts should be reasonable too. If you’re tired, you don’t care about others and find a clean place for fishing. After touching the shrimps, planting the fields, making flowers, don’t you feel tired?"
This is what Niutou said. At first I heard it made sense, and then I thought, no, no one knew me anymore. What was the meaning of my life, so I said no, others had to know me.
Then the two of them came up with a simple idea, and printed what you did in the newspaper every day for everyone to read, but after everyone saw it, they couldn't bother you.
In this way, I agreed. After listening to them, I regained my positivity. After another three days, I was always upset. I told others about my affairs, but gave me a feedback. When I am a transparent person, isn’t it? I'm not alive, and everyone doesn't care about me. What's the point of being alive
So..."
"So brother, you saw the cow head and horse face again, and they knelt down for you again, didn't they? They are quite tenacious. If I am the two of them, I have a dead heart. You are too tossing."
Before Zhang Xiaobao finished speaking, Beckham had already thought of the answer.
"Okay, I see. Actually, I don't live for myself. I really live for myself. I won't be able to live. I need others to identify with me. I also need to look at my decision to change other people's lives. Why? Then you You must first see who I am, who I am, I am Zhang Xiaobei, my existence is a symbol, and my name will inevitably become a legend, the kind that trembles after hearing it."
"Go, let others tremble first, and ask for the New Year's money. Who would dare to give less today, and I will listen to his family's welfare in the next year." Zhang Xiaobao waved his hand and strode towards Li Longji's presence. Behind him is a group of children who want to become legends.