Great time travel

Chapter 184: Agui's Story

On the second day after Agui came back to Weizhuang with a carload of Australian goods, the story finally spread from the shallow boudoir to the deep boudoir.Because Mrs. Zou Qi, who got the cheap blue silk dress, was proud of it, and asked Mrs. Zhao to appreciate Yi's silk dress. Mrs. Zhao told Mr. Zhao again, and she really complimented her.

Next, Mr. Zhao discussed at the lunch table with his eldest son "Master Fake Kun". Since "Master Fake Kun" returned to his hometown, he has long been troubled by the lack of various Australian goods in his life. So it was agreed that we should see what good things Agui has to buy.So regardless of the previous incident that Agui molested her maid, Wu Ma, and ordered him never to step into the Zhao family's threshold, she entrusted Mrs. Zou Qi to find Agui immediately.

In the afternoon, Agui brought all the remaining Australian goods to the Zhao residence with a basket on his back.To Mrs. Zhao's disappointment, the leather vest she wanted to buy was no longer available.To the disappointment of "Master Fake Kun", the illiterate Agui salesman did not sell any "Australian books and newspapers" he wanted this time, not even cigarettes. Can only continue to smoke pot.But what makes the children of the Zhao Mansion happy is that there are some Australian fruit candies and Nanyang dried fruits in Agui's basket, such as banana slices, dried coconut, etc. They look colorful and smell a sweet aroma , It's really drooling.Although Mr. Zhao has always been diligent and thrifty in managing his family, in order to save a few pennies and gas, he even stipulated that he was not allowed to light lamps at night, so he had a very early dinner and went to bed as soon as he finished eating.But seeing the pitiful looks of the younger generations, and thinking that these snacks can be taken out to entertain guests during festivals, Mr. Zhao finally nodded and bought all these rare snacks.

In addition, in Agui's basket, there is another good thing that is unanimously welcomed by the whole family.It was a couple of large glass bottles with latte caps called cans.The canned variety is only yellow peaches for the time being, but no one in the Zhao family thinks it is shabby: I saw that the bright yellow yellow peaches were cut into two pieces, soaked in transparent sugar water, and packed in crystal glass bottles. It has an indescribably wonderful beauty.

In the eyes of all the real late Ming turtles in Mr. Zhao’s family, this glass jar is full of a kind of science-fiction-like attraction. It was so tight that Mrs. Zhao couldn't unscrew it even though she tried her best.

Only "Master Fake Kun" seemed to have seen a lot of markets during his travels in Guangdong. Immediately, he happily took a bottle of canned yellow peaches, and took out a strangely shaped metal tool from his waist. Pry open a gap between the mouth of the glass bottle and the lid, let the air enter the jar, restore the balance between the air pressure inside the jar and the normal outside air pressure, then easily open the lid of the jar, and hand it over to Mr. Zhao as if offering a treasure. In front of him, "...Father, this is canned fruit from Australia. It's sweet! Mama Wu, hurry up and get a few pairs of chopsticks and serve the master to eat peaches!"

Therefore, everyone in the Zhao family, who usually eat plain food, opened a rare "Australian Meat" this time, and shared a can of canned yellow peaches in syrup. I frowned: Compared with other cheap and high-quality Australian products, the price of this thing is really not cheap, and it is much more expensive than the Australian refined salt Wu Ma bought before.

But recently, the "Master Fake Kun" who has been muttering "the bird fades out of his mouth" insisted on buying it, and Mrs. Zhao also chimed in and said that although this item is a bit expensive, it can be bought when Mrs. Zhao celebrates her fiftieth birthday in late autumn this year. , used to replace the pinched longevity peach, it is more dignified and decent in front of relatives and friends.Thinking about my [-]th birthday only once in my life, Mr. Zhao reluctantly agreed with a painful expression on his face.

——Although the ancients paid attention to using birthday peaches, there were no out-of-season fruits in ancient times. The days when peaches were on the market were only one or two months. Flour, rice noodles and the like made up a birthday peach handicraft to make up the number.

After Mrs. Zhao's family bought Australian candies, Nanyang dried fruit and canned yellow peaches, Ms. Zou Qisao bought Agui's last mirror and two embroidered handkerchiefs in order to save her daughter's dowry.Agui, who had sold out all the goods, was overjoyed, left the empty basket, hummed and left.

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The news that Agui had returned with a carload of Australian goods dominated the chatter of Weizhuang residents for two days.And Agui also enjoys the feeling of becoming a star and being greeted by people wherever he goes.But on the third day after Ah Gui came back, he was left out in the cold again.

——Because the people in the village have new and more exciting topics to talk about, and the trifles of small upstarts like Agui are naturally ignored.

When it was getting bright that morning, there was a loud sound of bugles from afar in the suburbs, and then a group of short-haired soldiers, wearing wet breeches and short coats, came to Weizhuang singing strange songs.The villagers were so scared out of their wits when they saw this, they thought it was the army of bandits who were about to enter the village, so they closed their doors and went out.Only Master Zhao, as the head of the village, could not avoid such misfortunes, so he had to bite the bullet and let his "Fake Young Master" go out to contact the military masters and find out their intentions.

But the subsequent developments made the villagers very confused. After leaving the village for half an hour, the "Fake Young Master" ran back with a happy face, and didn't even notice that he lost a shoe on his foot. arrive.Immediately afterwards, the Zhao's residence in Weizhuang was full of excitement, the middle door was opened to clean the streets and sweep the streets to welcome the guests, and the banquet was prepared by slaughtering pigs, cutting fish, buying wine and buying vegetables, and several maids and women were also replaced. He took off the new clothes that he was usually reluctant to wear, and ran around with a flattering smile on his face, saying that there was a very important guest coming to the door, or a distant relative of the Zhao family, maybe the Zhao family was about to prosper this time.

And the idlers in Weichuang didn't sound like there was going to be any disaster, they also left their houses one after another, and gathered around Zhao's mansion curiously to watch the excitement.

At noon, the river in Weizhuang was bustling like never before, and a dozen tank boats were pulled by an Australian self-propelled boat belching black smoke, and approached the river port of Zhao Mansion.According to the spectators, those boats were filled with all kinds of furniture and cages, and there were many well-dressed maids and servants, as well as a few elders in silk and satin gowns, who were carried in sedan chairs as soon as they landed After leaving the Zhao Mansion, Grandpa Zhao personally stood at Hebuto to welcome the guests.

Conjectures about the identities of these distinguished guests from the Zhao Mansion continued for another afternoon.By nightfall, all the gossip-loving idlers in Weichuang already knew that it was Mr. Zhao's distant relative, a scholarly family surnamed Xu from Suzhou Prefecture.

The man in charge of the Suzhou Xu family took refuge in the Australian and Song courts, and he was very important. However, the Suzhou mansion in Nanzhili has been in trouble and famine recently, making it impossible for people to live. Therefore, the old man of the Xu family led the Manmen's family moved away from their hometown and planned to move to Weizhuang, Shaoxing under the rule of the new dynasty.However, due to the haste of the incident, the new residence has not yet been properly arranged, and the family had to stay at Mr. Zhao's residence in Weizhuang for a while: Mr. Zhao was somewhat related to the Xu family, so after the Xu family moved south, they chose to live in Weizhuang. Settle down so that we can take care of each other in the future.

According to the gossiping women in the Zhao family, the distant relatives of the Zhao family, the Xu family of the Su family who had just arrived in Weizhuang, were a remarkable family of officials and eunuchs. The master Juren who once deposited his belongings in the Zhao family was so noble.The grandpa of the Xu family of this generation is even a star of Wenqu. Although under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, his talents were not met, but once he met the "Mingzhu" of the Australian Song Dynasty, he immediately made a fortune, and now he has become a scholar of Hanlin (actually, he is just a member of the Writers Association. Honorary member), it is unknown whether he will be appointed as a marquis or minister in the future.

The short-haired soldiers stationed in the outskirts were the engineer battalion sent by the Australian and Song courts to build the official residence for the Xu family in Weizhuang, and the construction would start as soon as the land was delineated.In addition, it seems that a government office will be built in Weizhuang, and it will be called a police station (in fact, it is the other way around. The main task of the engineering battalion is to build the police station in Weizhuang. The foundation of Xu Xiake's mansion was laid, and the main building of Xu's new mansion will be built by a contractor team from a private construction company in the future).

In short, the vast majority of Weizhuang residents feel deeply and honored by the arrival of Xu Xiake's family, the "Australian Song Hanlin Bachelor".The rumored grandparents of the Xu family, the relationship between the Xu family and the Zhao family, Xu Xiake's works and his respectable reputation in the "Australian Song court", and the new changes brought to Weizhuang by this "new dynasty nobleman" , have become excellent talking points for idlers in Weichuang.

In addition, the short-haired sappers who are building construction at the entrance of Weizhuang Village have also become a rather lively attraction. Every day, people gather around the construction site of the police station, pointing at the building that is gradually taking shape at the entrance of the village. (Because the Huameng had no intention of actively attacking the interior of Zhejiang Province for quite a long time, Shaoxing Prefecture and Hangzhou Prefecture were already regarded as the western edge of the occupied area, so the rural police stations had to function as border defense military strongholds.)
And these short-haired soldiers are full of white rice three times a day, and they have meaty and generous meals every day, which also makes many poor boys in Weizhuang greedy. If iron is not nailed, a good man should not be a soldier." The parents were so angry that they beat their chests.

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However, all of this has little to do with Agui who "returned to his hometown".

After a short period of glory, he became an invisible person who did not pay attention to the residents of Weizhuang, which made Agui feel very uncomfortable, but he had no way to vent, so he had to go to the hotel, first drank a few bowls of yellow soup, Then I brought a few interested drinkers together to bet on cards (gambling money) in the store. I saw a group of people squatting on a bench around a table. Count him loudest:
"... Four Hundred Azure Dragons!"

"...cough...open...la!" The dealer lifted the lid of the box and sang with sweat dripping down his face. "... Tianmen... Jiaohui...! Renhe Chuantongkong is there...! Bring Agui's money...!"

"...One hundred in the hallway... 150!"

Under such chants, Ah Gui's money gradually flowed into the waists of other characters.Seeing that his luck was getting worse and worse, Agui, who had lost nearly ten taels of silver in one breath, finally woke up. Although he was in an even more unhappy mood, he didn't dare to gamble again: if he continued to lose, he might not even go to a shop in the city. The cost of handling the goods is gone!I had no choice but to leave the gambling table, and squatted in front of the store with a pottery bowl drinking wine alone.

But at this moment, the little nun from the Jingxiu nunnery came across.Agui glanced at her for a few moments, and suddenly realized something vaguely.

"...I don't know why I'm so unlucky today, it's because I met you!" he thought.

So Agui "bravely" went up to meet her, and spit loudly towards the little nun: "...cough, bah!"

The little nun ignored her at all, bowed her head and just walked away.Agui couldn't help being more courageous, approaching her side, and suddenly stretched out his hand to rub the young nun's newly shaved scalp, with a dumb smile, and said: "...Sao bald! Go back, there is that monk waiting for you ..."

"...how do you move your hands and feet..." the little nun said with a flushed face, and hurried away.

The people in the hotel laughed.Seeing that his deeds were appreciated, Ah Gui became even more elated:

"...The monk can move, but I can't move?" He smelled of alcohol, smiled dumbly, and twisted hard before letting go.

"...You a noble who has lost all children and grandchildren!" The little nun ran away crying.

"...Hahaha!" Ah Gui smiled proudly, as if he had avenged all the "bad luck" of today.

However, lying in the hut of Tugu Temple that night, Agui felt that his thumb and second finger were a bit weird: they seemed to be smoother than usual.I don't know if there is something greasy on the little nun's face sticking to his fingers, or if his fingers are greasy on the little nun's face?
"...You a noble who has lost all children and grandchildren!"

Agui seemed to hear the cry of the little nun again in his ears.He thought: Yes, I should find a woman, and no one will offer a bowl of rice to the grave after the death of children and grandchildren... The sages have said, "There are three unfilial sons and no descendants are the greatest", so his thoughts are actually completely in line with the classics of sages and sages of.

"... woman, woman!" he thought.Five or six months ago, he once twisted a woman's thigh among the crowd under the stage, and later found out that it was Wu Ma, the maid of the Zhao family.Because of this incident, he was beaten and lost a lot of money, and the women in Weizhuang once kept him at arm's length.However, after he came back this time, those women ran to him because of the new clothes he brought, as if they had forgotten everything before.

Oh, these women are disgusting, they are all going to be prudish.

The next day, Ah Gui was sitting in the hotel in Weizhuang, drinking wine, and waiting for the Qian family's steward. He wanted to discuss with the Qian family about purchasing rice, which would be used to transport it back to the city and pay back the money to the shop steward. The batch of miscellaneous goods that were credited last time had to be purchased for the next batch, which would continue to be transported to Weizhuang.

At this time, Mama Wu and Mrs. Zou Qi happened to pass by the entrance of the hotel, walking slowly while gossiping about the Zhao Mansion.

"...My wife hasn't eaten for two days, because the master is determined to buy a small one..."

"...Woman...Wu Ma...this little widow..." Ah Gui thought.

Ah Gui was originally considered a decent person, although he didn't know what kind of master taught him, but he had always been very strict about the "defense between men and women".His theory is: Every nun must have an affair with a monk; a woman walking outside must want to seduce a wild man.

"...Our young mistress is going to have a baby in August..."

Agui put down the wine bowl, stood up, and walked quickly outside the hotel.

"...our young mistress..." Wu Ma, who didn't notice Ah Gui, continued to chatter.

"... Wu Ma, I sleep with you, I sleep with you!" Agui suddenly rushed forward and knelt down to Yi.

All of a sudden, the originally noisy hotel entrance seemed to be silent

"...Ah!" Wu Ma and Zou Qisao were stunned for a moment, then suddenly trembled, and ran back yelling, running and yelling, as if they were crying afterward.

Agui was also dazed while kneeling, so he slowly stood up, looked at the weird eyes of the people around him, and vaguely felt that something was going to go wrong.