Chapter 28: Chinese New Year's Eve
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It was difficult to find a restaurant open on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and under the guidance of the innkeeper, the two had to go to the pidgin, no way, there was a street of tea houses, restaurants and brothels. In this era, pidgin has completely replaced Baoshan Street and Sima Road, and has become the most prosperous place in Shanghai at night, so now the Chinese New Year is the most lively here.
was walking, came to a restaurant door, outside the door is a big red lantern hanging high, inside is also brightly lit, it is estimated that in business, after entering, someone greeted up, saw only two people to the lobby, approached the inside to see a lot of people, and an old man with a little girl singing a song, the guests have a family, there are also some scattered and Yang Rui and their same travelers, it is estimated that there is nowhere to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner all ran here, Yang Rui smiled and said to Zhang Hanting: "It seems that we are not wrong, we have come to the right place." ”
After half a day of contact, Zhang Hanting was not alienated with Yang Rui, and his words were very casual, and he smiled: "I have never had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner like this, this time it is thanks to being a brother, otherwise I can only go to the church of foreigners to celebrate the New Year." ”
Yang Rui saw that he didn't want to talk about unhappy things during the New Year, and comforted: "Hanting, as the old saying goes, if you lose your horse, you don't know if you are blessed, isn't it just that you haven't paid one or two thousand yuan, what is there to care about, can you only earn this little money in your life?" I don't believe it, you have a good family background, you have a lot of reading, all you owe is experience, and there will be more opportunities in the future, if you really keep thinking about this thousand yuan in the future, what do you mean. Saying that, he raised the wine in his glass, "I was born to be useful, and my daughter will come back when I am gone, come, toast."
Seeing this, Zhang Hanting had no choice but to do it directly, and shook his head: "Oh, I'm going to be scolded by the old man when I go back this time, originally, I wanted to do something to show him, but who knew it would be done like this." He opened it with a folding fan and shook it, as if it was very hot - at this time he no longer had the dejected appearance of the morning at the fruit wharf, he changed into a sky blue gown, and put on a cotton vest of primary color on the outside, and the literati's fan was also taken out, and there were two cursive characters on the fan - Wu Wei, and the end was a rich man's style.
Yang Rui looked funny, thinking that it was snow outside, what kind of fan are you fanning. Seeing him talk about going home, I wanted to take advantage of the free time to go to his side in the past few days to have a look, it would be good to find a place to plant those few orange seeds, Yang Rui is just a fruit seller, I don't know how to grow seeds, and the fruits of later generations are basically grafted. At the moment, he said: "Hanting, I want to go to your place to have a look" Zhang Hanting was about to stand up when he heard this, Yang Rui stopped him and continued, "First, I want to see the scale of cultivation over there, and second, I want to bring back a few seeds from the West to find someone to plant them." Originally, I wanted to plant it in Shanghai during the Chinese New Year, but after all, it is cold here, and it is better to think about it. ”
Zhang Hanting was very grateful to Yang Rui for his help, and was very enthusiastic when he saw that Yang Rui wanted to go to Huangyan, as for what seeds, it was just a trivial matter to hand them over to the old farmers at home. At the moment, he said: "Today's matter is really thanks to the fact that I have become a brother, come to our side to live for a few days, I have the opportunity to do the friendship of the landlord." ”
Yang Rui saw that he still wanted to repay, so he emphasized again: "Hanting, the main thing I went to was to find a place to live for those seeds, this variety is almost out of place in the West, I don't know how much effort it took to get it, if I don't plant it well, then I may not be able to find it even if I go back to the West." This seed is extremely important. ”
Seeing Yang Rui emphasizing it so much, Zhang Hanting also knew that this matter was extremely important, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely ask my father to find someone to take care of him, and he will not miss a big deal." ”
Yang Rui was relieved to see that he understood the importance of the matter. I saw that the little girl who was singing there had finished singing, and I thought that I used to watch the Spring Festival Gala during the New Year, but now there is no sound here and only how boring it is to eat, so I said: "Do you want to find that little girl to sing?" ”
Zhang Hanting didn't know what Yang Rui was like to women, so he thought it was a good mouthful, so he readily agreed. So Yang Rui beckoned the old and the young to come over, the old lady took an erhu, came to the front and saluted the little girl, and then asked the old man in a dialect what he wanted to hear, the old lady's eyes seemed to be invisible, all relying on the little girl in her teens to lead, Yang Rui just wanted to make a sound, and then saw that the two of them pitifully wanted to give them more money and them, so they had no requirements for what they sang, and sang with them. So the erhu sounded, and the little girl also sang, at first Yang Rui didn't understand anything, and then the old lady pulled jasmine, as for what the little girl sang, I don't know, her voice is very good. After listening to a song, Yang Rui was a little unsatisfied, and asked him to play another song, this time he didn't understand what he was pulling, and finally after playing, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of the Shanghai Beach that he hummed by the river two days ago, and said: "Old man, I have a song here, I'm humming here, after you listen to it, can't you pull it out?" Zhang Hanting didn't dare to be surprised when he saw that Yang Rui understood the tune, and smiled silently.
The old lady didn't understand the Beijing dialect very well, but he didn't hear what Yang Rui said, but the little girl listened to it, and after the little girl said it to him, the old lady nodded, Yang Rui took out a piece of foreign yuan from his pocket and put it in his hand, and said, "Old man, if you can pull it out, I'll give you another piece." Seeing that he shook his hand and put away the money, Yang Rui began to hum on the beach, afraid that others would react slowly, so he hummed more slowly, the old man is not bad, he can pull it out the second time, but he is not very proficient, and he will be very skilled when he is the third time. Zhang Hanting next to him also listened to it very interestingly, and opened the fan to fan back and forth. Yang Rui couldn't help but sigh in his heart: What a talent, no wonder people say that blind people have good ears. Then he asked the little girl, "Do you know how to sing?" ”
The little girl shook her head, Yang Rui did not force it, there was a late Qing version of the erhu solo Shanghai Shangtan is already very satisfied, and then asking people to be able to sing is not too unrealistic, at the moment I found a newspaper to write the Chinese version of the lyrics on it to the little girl, the little girl took it but did not read, Yang Rui asked: "Are you illiterate?" She nodded, carefully putting the newspaper away in her arms. Yang Rui gave the old lady another two yuan to beat them away, and the two walked to the gate, and the little girl turned around and bowed deeply.
Dinner with the accompaniment of the erhu is very delicious, Zhang Hanting is humming this unknown tune until the end, it seems that the music is the same, no matter how many centuries have passed, everyone understands the charm it contains. After eating, I walked to the street, it was already the beginning of the lights, the whole street was brightly lit, it was not lively, Yang Rui had no hobby for nightlife, but Zhang Hanting was not familiar with anything in Shanghai, the two just walked back to the hotel.
As soon as Yang Rui returned to the room, he went to see the rotten oranges, which were placed in the corner before, in order to prevent mice or something, he also found a small wooden shelf to frame it, and now he turned it out to remove the rotten skin, but there were two seeds, and he thought that it was really good luck, so he saw if he could plant it, so he quickly and carefully packed it up with a matchbox, stuffed some newspapers into it, and took it to Huangyan in a few days to see what the fruit farmers in Zhang Hanting's house said.
That night, Yang Rui waited for the bell to ring at twelve o'clock in the room, but before twelve o'clock, the sound of firecrackers rang out, and a long firecracker was also put in Mr. Huang's house downstairs, and the whole yard was full of gunsmoke. Hey, it's the New Year, 19o3, I really don't know what God got me to do in this era, Yang Rui leaned back on the chair and shook, looked at the black roof, and asked silently in his heart, I have done more than a hundred crossing tests in the alley in the past three months, but it has no effect. Yang Rui has lost confidence in going back to modern times, it seems that he can only follow the local customs, do what he can do, and do his best.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Rui and Zhang Hanting went to the Shanghai Passenger Terminal, the wharf is also in the 16th shop, the Chinese New Year Chinese ship is suspended, to open after the fifteenth year, although the foreigner's passenger ferry is in operation but only to Ningbo, from Ningbo to Taizhou Huangyan there are more than 300 miles of road, to go back and wait for the return to the fifteenth day of the first month, it seems that it is not possible to go, 6 lines there is estimated that there will be news before the fifteenth, such a big deal always has to toss several times to smooth the transaction, so Yang Rui can not go, He also told Zhang Hanting about this reason, and Zhang Hanting could only regret it, but repeatedly asked Yang Rui to go to Huangyan when he was free, Yang Rui thought to himself, if he was busy, he knew when he was free, but he said that he must be sure, and told him again to plant the seeds well, which is a big deal, and then said goodbye to him.
The next few days are very boring, every day is to copy books, eat, sleep, at first very unaccustomed, but after two days Yang Rui instead enjoyed such a life, not disturbed, in the process of copying is also a learning process, see the pages full of manuscript paper, feel a sense of achievement, at the same time learning makes people's thoughts become quiet, thinking in the book, exploration is very pleasant, Yang Rui only hopes to go on like this forever, but this desire was quickly interrupted, as he expected, The person who interrupted him was the fat gentleman of the 6th line, he was inspired by the four hundred yuan, and turned back like a spinning top, and turned around enough at home and in the old man's mansion, and now he has turned into the concession.
Yang Rui asked the shopkeeper who reported the news to go back first, and let the Mr. Wu drink tea first, and he arrived later. After the guy left, Yang Rui copied for a while before getting up to pack up his things, lock the notebook, put on a padded jacket and went out.