Ah Q was a good laborer. When he was in Weizhuang, he cut crops and threshed wheat, sailed boats and fished, and hoeed the fields and squeezed bamboo shoots. What was he not doing?
The next day, Ah Q went to the alley and stuttered out a bowl of fish belly noodles. He burped with satisfaction and walked back with dazzling eyes.
Qian Ye's office is really grand, with a huge stone gate, tall stone gables, and a gray stone floor. As far as the eye can see, there are thick, delicate and finely carved granite!
This is not a guild hall, it is simply a military fortress. Even small cannons cannot be opened.
No wonder, Brother Tang said there is a vault inside. Shaoxing Prefecture is financially developed. The headquarters of the 62 local banks are here, and the guards who guard them all have foreign guns and cannons.
The Cai Mansion, which is past the office, has a taller door and wall than the office, and the building is even more luxurious. The depth of the land cannot be seen, but the width is fifty or sixty meters!
A proper high-class family.
Cai Yuanpei's father was a high official in the imperial court and died relatively early. Several uncles include famous boxers, bankers, industrialists, and officials. They are all celebrities and sages. Uncle Cai Congshan is now in charge of the family.
When Ah Q walked through the gate of the Cai family, his heart felt a little soaring. If he climbed onto the Cai family's thigh, would he not be able to achieve great success?
Back in the back alley, my mind calmed down.
The courtyard is small and poorly laid out.
Together, our house and the Tang family next door are barely in good condition. From the outside, it seems that the two families were originally one family, but a partition wall was added in the back to separate them into two households.
He was crazy when Tang Shoude, the neighbor next door, went out on duty. When he saw Ah Q, he immediately became enthusiastic and invited him over and over again to have a casual meal at home tonight, which was also a way of catching up with him. Far relatives are not as good as close neighbors. From now on, we are a family!
Ah Q was a little dizzy from his troubles, but he had no problem eating.
The only thing Ah Q doesn't know how to cook is cooking. When he was at the Tugu Temple in Weichuang, he used to cook the food in one pot and cook it. But that can't be done now. Now he is a city dweller with status, no longer a country boy. Be careful and don't make the gentlemen in the alley laugh.
Fortunately, Ghost Ah Q was a hedonist in his previous life - people with their heads in their waistbands are all hedonists - they are particular about eating and drinking, and they also have craftsmanship.
Ah Q sighed, life seemed not as easy as before.
Ah Q picked up a few leaks and cleaned the walls and floor.
There were a few potholes on the yellow mud floor, but they were quickly repaired.
The main wall is the partition wall between two households. The workmanship is a bit rough. The wall is about three to four meters high. The main body is made of rammed earth. The one-meter-high footing is made of river pebbles mixed with mortar. There is no mortar covering. Many of the exposed stones are loose.
The land in the south of the Yangtze River is low and humid, and most of the houses are built with stone walls.
Don't let your feet loosen up the mud wall, otherwise it will collapse sooner or later.
Ah Q mixed the mud and mortar, pulled out the loose stones one by one, applied the slurry, and then put it back in place to refill it.
In this way, when the mortar dries, the wall base will be strong.
In this era, there was already cement, which was called cement. There were cement roads in Shanghai's ten-mile foreign market. Shaoxing Prefecture used a lot of cement to renovate the government offices in the past year. Gui Fu's residence in the backyard of the government office even built a cement tower.
There is no way, Shaoxing has a large population, a lot of money, a lot of celebrities, a lot of new-school people who sympathize with the revolution, a lot of intellectuals, especially a lot of foreign students, there are no less than a hundred wealthy children studying in the East and the West, ranking first in Zhejiang, and there are also many party members, Dananshan is just a bandit den. In short, unless there is no revolution, the revolution will happen in Shaoxing.
Therefore, everyone in Shaoxing is in danger. Guifu, for example, is afraid of revolution, does not dare to offend the revolutionary party, and is afraid of bombs. For example, Qiu Jin, who is famous for his deviance, is appointed as the supervisor of Datong School. However, he does not dare not to guard against the revolutionary party and the city defense. The camp prepared foreign guns and strengthened the government office. I felt very guilty and miserable.
Ah Q had no money to buy cement, so he had to make do with lime and yellow mud mortar.
He was busy when he suddenly heard voices next door.
It came from a gap in the stone.
It should be that the stone mortar on both sides of the same location happened to be loose, creating a sound transmission channel.
It was noon, and Tang Shoude went home.
Ah Q felt a little tired, so he sat on the wall and listened to the couple chatting.
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"Ezi, what do you think of this Ah Q next door?"
"How? What do you mean? That guy has a tall nose, so he must have a big weapon and a good job!"
The little girls were very unhappy.
Ah Q couldn't help but feel excited when he heard this.
Tang Shoude was unhappy: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"It's not me who said it, it's what the photo book said!"
Tang Shoude said: "Okay! I was wrong. I shouldn't ask my wife about a wild man, bah! What a wild man, look at my mouth!"
He also smiled: "I really have something to discuss with you. What do you think about telling him to my sister?"
The woman was surprised and said: "You are talking about a country bumpkin, leprous? Brother De, you are crazy. It's strange that Xiaoman would be willing to do it!"
Tang Shoude said: "Listen to me. Xiaoman is hiding and ignoring me. She has been brainwashed by the Revolutionary Party. I can't find her. I want Ah Q to sneak into Datong - he is in Western medicine for dysentery." As for Fang Zhi, it will only take a few days - find Xiaoman, then tie her up and tie her up!"
The woman sneered and said, "You don't understand a woman's heart! If you can tie someone up, you can make your heart come out? Can you still get married?"
Tang Shoute paused for a moment and whispered: "Women, isn't that the case? After getting drunk from a few glasses of wine, you move next door to cook raw rice and cooked meals. Are you afraid that she won't obey? - This Ah Q It’s no loss to her that she is a talented person.” The woman worriedly said: “I heard that the revolutionary parties are all outlaws. What if she can’t get over it and seeks accomplices to take revenge on you and me? Nizi is stubborn!”
Tang Shoude hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "The Revolutionary Party is responsible for confiscating the family and exterminating the clan. I can't let it go. At that point, I have no choice but to exterminate relatives first!"
The woman said: "That Ledi doesn't seem to be bold enough to kidnap people from the hands of the Revolutionary Party. I'm afraid he won't dare to take your job?"
Ah Q nodded inwardly, this woman understood me.
Unexpectedly, Tang Shoude actually laughed: "If you dare to say no, I will put him in jail!"
