Chapter 4: The Corrupt Official's Household Slave
After the embroidered shoes incident, the three of us became a plague in the village, go anywhere are not treated, the reason is that we attract ghosts, easy to hit the evil, in school no one dares to mess with us, even if we kissed the female classmates, touching their cheeks are no one dares to say anything.
Of course, this is still dipped in the light of Liu big head of his father, even in other people's home ground planing a few red radish and turnips and so on, people are also turn a blind eye, the day so day by day, until the age of ten years old, my life was plunged into a never-before-seen panic.
That year a lot of big things happened, first of all, my parents sealed the Azi spell, both out of the world, the village chief saw the big head and I want to be good, put together a few money to bury the two together, for the sudden death of my parents, I was sad and terrified for several months before I came out of the shadow.
As a village account, I inherited the reservoir in my father's name, although there is not much fish and shrimp in the reservoir, but it is my entire source of livelihood, the village people see me as a child, whenever I go to school, someone will come to steal, which led to my life is even more difficult than before.
Thankfully, shorty and big head of something in my house, which makes me heart more or less some comfort, that time hybrid rice has not yet been introduced, the family ration is very tight, but big head of the village as the son of the mayor, from time to time to bring me some surprises, let's say cookies, canned food, sweets, and so on.
In the second half of that year, the social atmosphere was very chaotic, a large number of young people went to the countryside to our village to carry out labor reform, to my surprise my family also planted a beautiful sister, with her help, that year I basically read the entire "Ten Thousand Dharma Returns to Tibet".
Of course, this sister is also a trouble, the village of those old bachelors, ill-intentioned men, every now and then to my home, let me very headache, and then in the big head of the help of the militia lent me a three eight big cap after a slight improvement.
This sister has been with me to the age of eighteen before returning to the city to go, and Liu big head was sent by his old man to be a soldier, shorty his old man because of the year things were revealed, arrested into the police station, his mother because she could not stand the blow to drink medicine away, since then, shorty lived in my house.
I asked shorty want to live to sixty-one, or even older not, shorty on the spot to ask if there is a way to unlock the A spell, I only remember when the sister of the countryside said to me that the village water problems, as if the mercury exceeds the standard, read a few years of school I know that the mercury this thing is not common, and in the "law of all return to the Tibetan" but there is a mention of it, said to be the ancient tombs simulation of the rivers and lakes used.
I guess there must be a group of ancient tombs under the south gate on the back of the hill, at that time the social atmosphere is better, the back of the hill is often people grazing cattle, and do not dare to look at it, until I dealt with the silver ingots sent to me by the big head of the countryside, I realized that grave robbing is a good good business.
The store is not very big, the outside looks very simple, a pair of broken door welded with a few steel bars, usually not many people, the door is locked, but I inquired about it and knew that the boss was nestled on the second floor.
When I touched out the silver ingot, that with glasses, like an old-fashioned boss on the joyful smile, tea and water, handing cigarettes to send snacks after asking me how much money.
Silver and RMB exchange, I basically do not understand, had to let him look at the give, that boss weighed half a day, from the wrinkled pockets to touch out two hundred yuan bill said: "small brother, we do not say the secret word, this thing on the market price of one hundred and five, I give you two hundred, and then what good things remember me on into".
I received two hundred dollars, suddenly surprised, live so long seen the biggest money is only five dollars, can not think of a small silver ingot can be exchanged for two hundred dollar bill, this is if the other antiques have to be worth how much money.
Drink a mouthful of water, forced down the heart of the surprise, took a look at the boss store objects, pointing to the white bottle in the cabinet, said: "How much is that worth?"
The boss smiled and thought I was interested, raised a hand and shook it, I was shocked, opened my mouth and asked him, "Just a broken bottle, you want five hundred dollars?"
With a poof, the boss sprayed a faceful of tea on me, and while reaching out to wipe it off for me, he said awkwardly, "Little brother, that thing is not something you can play with, not five hundred, not five thousand, but fifty thousand"
"What?"
I scared up, walked to the bottle under the examination of it, would like to reach out to touch, to see what 50,000 yuan of things feel, but reached out to the hand floundered in mid-air did not dare to fall, because too expensive, I'm afraid to break it can not afford to pay.
The boss pulled me to a chair and sat down, refilled a cup of tea for me, got up and closed the door before whispering to me.
"50,000 is still considered bad color, some objects hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions, if you can get, I guarantee you a life of food and drink."
At that time I did not know this boss will lead me step by step to the abyss, and he had a sentence of small talk, when I asked him where these things come from, he only stammered, love to say not to tell me is the tomb pulled out.
I think of the tomb in the reservoir, can not help but ask the boss said: "This township is not much of a big official, how could pull out so many strange and weird things?"
The boss frowned, as if in thought, after a long time he smiled and said to me: "Qing Dynasty Heshen know it, he has a family slave is our township, as for the village ...... don't know."
Heshen?
I was surprised not small, when I went to school, the teacher said that he was the first corrupt official in Chinese history, and then the family property were copied by the Jiaqing Emperor, but the thin dead camel is bigger than a horse, the door people rely on the master can also be glorious, is it said that the graves on the island is his house slave?
The boss saw my hesitation, and stuffed me with five dollars, saying that it was for me to buy wine, I struck out and refused him, and asked Heshen in return who this house slave was.
"This man is called Liu Quan, at that time was Heshen's great general manager, what's the matter, little brother could it be that you have met?"
I thought about a few families in the village, it is true that most of them are surnamed Liu, could it be that there is really Heshen's house slave Liu Quan buried on that island? Thinking of this, I hurriedly grabbed two hundred dollars and said goodbye to the boss before hurrying back to the village.
After I found Shorty, I spent twenty dollars in the kiosk, beer and white whole big box, and then threw Shorty fifty dollars, let him go to the butcher man to chop a few pounds of tenderloin meat, just as we are ready to paddle back to the canoe, happened to meet the widow Zhang.
A few years down the road, this widow but still charming, no wonder big head his old man always like to run to her home, she carried a few pieces of clothing, see us and meat and wine, suddenly surprised and said.
"You two little bastards, you didn't steal a lot of vegetables from my family's land when you were little, and now that you've grown up, you don't visit me."
She rummaged through a pile of things, picked up a very large piece of tenderloin and stuffed it into her basket, and rushed to me and Shorty, "Auntie Zhang's man died early, and she had a hard time, so this piece of meat will be the compensation for the two of you little sons of bitches for stealing vegetables from my house."
Shorty saw Aunt Zhang will be the largest piece of pick away, that is five pounds of meat, have more than a dozen dollars, he was anxious, reached out to Aunt Zhang's basket to touch, do not think the meat did not touch out, but pulled down a few pairs of floral underpants to, I hurried to stop Shorty, smiling to the long widow said.
"Aunt, big head has no mother, you and his old man things we also know, so let's do it, the meat counts my brother three filial piety to you, in addition to bring you a bottle of good wine."
After saying that, I picked up a large bottle of two pots of head into her basket, she was very happy, let me and shorty to her home for dinner some other day, shorty looked at her with bated breath to take away the meat and wine, and then turned around and scolded me for being horny, looking at the widow Zhang.
I see that there is a serious matter to discuss with him, but also do not care about his whining, the boat will be paddled to the middle of the reservoir before stopping, unscrewed two bottles of beer and handed him, grunt a few mouths before saying.
"You ah is buckle, think big head of his old man did not less take care of the two of us, that Zhang widow how to say is also an aunt, we can have ideas about her, besides, you see this is what?"
Finished, I touched out a hundred dollar bill from my pocket, the short man's eyes immediately green, a hand snatched over, surprised, said: "You kid is not stealing, this is a hundred dollars ah, the big head of the family can not find such a large amount of money."
I do not care about the hundred dollars, let the shorty received, cautioned him that this money can not be used in the village, have to go to the countryside to spend, and then told him about the embroidered shoes, he was happy to giggle.
"Oh ...... mountain brother, according to you, brother and sister are rich, no wonder the widow Zhang took away so big a piece of meat you don t care, go, let s quickly go back to cook meat and drink, and go on a trip in the evening."
I was happy in my heart, hands clasped fists, looked at shorty and said: "Just like that", said, he and I laughed a lot, paddling the boat fast, not long after the shore.
Shorty holding a pile of things, face happy flowers, although he is also eighteen years old, but still very small, I worry that he can not afford to take, but unexpectedly he skillfully avoided me, and mysteriously said.
"Mountain brother, there is something I hid from you for a long time, in fact, my old man used to be a walker, I'm small because he practiced bone shrinking, what's more fucked up is that he also forced me to practice, said what inherited the mantle"
I heard, don't want to shorty or a kung fu, heart don't mention how happy, back home to fetch a fishing net full of holes, the effort to fish up a three pounds of carp.
I can say, that night is the most sumptuous meal I have eaten for more than ten years, a big bowl of meat, a big bowl of wine, the pot of rice and I and shorty have not touched a grain of rice, I thought that this is what I want to live in, the days of poverty is finally at the end of the day.
After three rounds of wine, shorty and I took a wood cutter, carrying a hoe on the canoe.
To be honest, during the day do not feel anything, but at night, this reservoir is really a little eerie and scary, plus to go digging graves, the heart is more hairy, and shorty seems to be completely unafraid, even blowing the world is only good for the mother's whistle ......
