Cartilage [Republic of China]

Walking into the house: "This time wait for me to come back obediently, and celebrate the New Year with you tonight."

Seeing that both of them got into the car, Zhu Yanren went downstairs alone. The gate of the yard was open, and the big yellow dog was lying lazily in the kennel. The servant brought it a pot of good meat, making it drool.The cook was twisting his body to plant flowers. When he saw him coming, he raised his head from the flowers: "Is the child cured?"

Zhu Yanren didn't realize that the child was him, but after he understood it, he didn't bother to argue with him, so he went straight to the topic: "Will your husband also go to the company to do business on New Year's Eve?"

The cook nodded, squatted down and continued to play with a plant with huge bulbous roots: "Master can't tell when he will go out. I don't know."

Zhu Yanren looked at the flower, it seemed to be a very precious flower like tulip: "Can this live?"

"Who knows." The cook pouted his fat buttocks, and carried it into the ground: "We don't know whether we can live in this place for a long time! It's better to use the good things."

Zhu Yanren felt that although the cook was stupid, he explained the truth very clearly, which seemed to be the case.So he squatted down from the side, looked at the flowers with great interest, and said to him: "What did Mr. Yi do?"

The cook glanced at him, patted the ashes off his body and left.He twitched his mouth, thinking something was weird.After thinking for a while, he suddenly remembered, facing the fireworks shell: "Bah, what kind of gentleman is he?"

10. Dependence

Zhu Yanren sighed, knowing that there would be nothing to ask from the servant.He looked up and saw that there should be no snow on New Year's Eve, but the sky was very low, gloomy and unhappy.

The bodyguards at the door did not let him go out, and he was not in the mood to escape now, he was walking back and forth very slowly, after several days of tossing around, he was also tired.

A cloud floated leisurely from the horizon, very white, which did not match the gloomy sky.It's very thin, but it's really aimed at the gloomy sky.He suddenly thought, after today it will be over.

Suddenly alone, like a delicate orchid in a greenhouse, the roof was blown off by the wind, and the walls were dissolved by the rain.It was left alone in the flower pot, waiting for the raging storm to come.Gotta go, he thought, gotta grow big.

Gradually, many people gathered on the road, and the gongs and drums became lively.The neighbors don't know whose children sneaked out, looking at the big yellow dog eating meat through the fence, and at the fireworks shells left on the ground.She was a pretty little girl, but she was dressed in rags, Zhu Yanren looked at the house next to her, she might have escaped from the countryside looking for relatives.

A man in a long robe and mandarin jacket knocked on the door, caught Zhu Yanren's gaze back, and then smiled and showed a gold tooth: "Master, I'm here to make clothes."

The servant opened the door for him instead of Zhu Yanren, and then he stood up, measured everyone's body, and said it would be delivered after the New Year.

He Tianqian suddenly thought, this is the Chinese New Year.He took his hand out of the cold water and patted it on his pants, shaking off a lot of lint, and he picked it up and stuffed it back.

Standing on tiptoe to look into the window, Zhu Ying's long hair scattered from the corner of the window.He was relieved and plunged his hands into the water again.

He and his mother escaped from the outside. They used to do some rough business, and they had a little savings due to their strength.As soon as he heard that the Japanese were going to come in, he took his mother and ran here. After finally entering the concession, he found that he had fallen into the quagmire. After all, his mother was too old and had an old disease, and she fell ill as soon as she came.He spent all his savings and didn't have much ability, so he became poorer and poorer in order to take care of his mother.

His mother died in the hospital last night, and he couldn't tell whether it was uncomfortable or relaxing.He also felt distressed and missed, but he only breathed a sigh of relief without shedding a single tear.It was as if, he already knew it, waited for it, and accepted it when it came.

He has no money yet, and the rest of the money is given to the hospital, which is considered as the cost of temporarily placing the corpse.He needs to find an errand quickly, or he won't find a decent place to bury his mother.

He pulled out his clothes, shook them, and ran quickly into the house.Spread out from the side of the stove.Desperately caught off guard, she hopped and tilted her body to look into Zhu Ying's room: "Is it cold?"

Zhu Ying didn't seem to be able to hear him, so He Tiangan didn't ask. If she was cold, she would probably tremble and let him know.And he asked only because he felt too deserted and wanted to talk to someone.

From the day he brought Zhu Ying back, he could see that Zhu Ying seemed to be crazy.But how crazy, how crazy he didn't know.

"It's Chinese New Year today, eat something warm." He Tianqian dried his hands, walked out, locked the door and went to the alley to buy ingredients.

Not long after he went out, many Japanese soldiers rushed outside, rushing, and everyone tried to hide on both sides.They ran in a hurry as if something serious had happened, and he was among the crowd looking there, and after a while, an ambulance squeezed out from the road, heading towards a certain place.I bumped into many people, and most of the people here were poor and numb, and wrapped in tattered clothes, they hurriedly escaped or fled.

He didn't dare to go shopping anymore, so he bought five eggs from the side of the road.I bought two more warm steamed buns and folded them back home.

The dinner in Yi Mansion was very sumptuous, and the servants were also beaming.Yi Jiage and Ji Yun were not around, so they regarded Zhu Yanren as their master, asking him where to post the New Year pictures and how cooked the dishes were.Although he didn't understand, but he was used to being pampered, and he was very happy to point fingers, but he got along with him a bit happily.

"Young master, do you want to take this dish back and reheat it?" Zhu Yanren sat alone in the dining room, the hands of the clock had passed 09:30, but neither Yi Jiage nor Ji Yun came back.The servants chattered endlessly, the house was decorated in red, and the festive ones couldn't be more festive. Only then did a maid remember that there was a person sitting in the dining room who hadn't eaten dinner, and wanted to chat with him while it was festive. talk.She didn't know what to call Zhu Yanren, and Yi Jiage always used "Master Zuzu's name" when he was arguing with him.

Zhu Yanren raised his hand to her: "No need, wait until they come back to reheat." He pointed at a grilled chicken in an old-fashioned way: "The cook has reheated it three times, if you move it again, it will be gone." The maid listened. She was deeply convinced, and felt that Bai Jing who wished Yan Rensheng was popular again, so she asked him: "Why does the young master look so foreigner?" She thought for a while, and was a little shy: "Like an angel."

Zhu Yanren stopped smiling: "Have you seen Angel?" The maid nodded: "There is one in the church! It's a naked doll."

After hearing this, Zhu Yanren's face changed, feeling that he was insulted.It's not good to eat people's white rice and put on the host's airs, so I changed the subject: "What does your master do?"

"You are asking the wrong person." Zhu Yanren heard that she had something to say, so she pulled away the chair beside her and made a gesture of invitation.The maid took a step back and waved her hands in embarrassment: "I'm standing..." She leaned against the pillar and nodded her chin with her fingertips: "I didn't come early, so I don't know how much. Soon." She said with a very lively smile, her face flushed: "It won't be long, the master is very young! I heard that he did some speculative business, so he made a fortune." She hesitated to speak.

Zhu Yanren knew that those who could make a fortune from speculative business either killed people and set fires or smuggled opium.This is the way most national disasters and wealth are issued, Zhu Yanren nodded, motioning for her to continue.

"But the master is indeed a good person, so he didn't do his original business anymore. Now he is doing serious business, but he is busy." She wanted to exchange her words with Zhu Yanren, so she asked him: "Young master, what about you?" You don't look like the master's cousin." Seeing that Zhu Yanren was surprised, she added: "The master told us. But we can guess, your father is the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zhu Ci Bar."

She understood without Zhu Yanren's words, because his eyes turned red without warning.She was suddenly in a dilemma, Zhu Yanren took a sip of the tea around him: "I'm fine, I'm just a little homesick." Then he asked: "Where is your home?"

Just as she was about to speak, someone outside suddenly shouted: "Juan'er, where are you going! Something has entered your room through the wall, go and have a look."

"Oh..." Juan'er agreed to run out, and before leaving, she took a happy look at Zhu Yanren.

It was only when Juan'er left that she blamed the cook for yelling, because the things that came running had long since disappeared.Immediately, he began to chatter about something like a child.

Zhu Yanren has a restless temperament, so he went to Yi Jiage's study room if he had nothing to do, and took out a brand new book to read.But the book itself probably has some problems, it's long and obscure, and it's all in English, with "the Odyssey" printed on the cover.After a while, he put down his book and walked around upstairs and downstairs, feeling extremely healthy.

Someone set off a loud firecracker outside, startling the people in the house.They all rushed out to see, it turned out that it was next door, and then looked at the sky, it was already almost midnight.Extending all the way from the door, the lights are feasting, singing and dancing are peaceful.

A car made a very uncoordinated turn from the end, turned again, and drove towards this side.I wish all the big and small people in the mansion were attracted, this is the master's car.

The car swayed and stopped in front of the door, and when the door flew out, Ji Yunxian rolled down from the driver's seat.Immediately afterwards, he scrambled to the back seat, almost as soon as the back door opened, Zhu Yanren could smell blood.The smell made him sick.

Zhu Yanren walked out with his gown in his hand, and waved his hands: "You two go fight separately.