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There are many times like this in spring, the sky outside the window is gloomy, and the drizzle falls continuously in the garden. After the spring break, Xiangxiang returned to the big house in Yunsheng Town.

The young masters and young ladies of the Du family all live in the middle courtyard. There is a grape trellis in the corner of the middle courtyard, and there is a well under the grape trellis. Xiangxiang never dares to go near that well. He always feels that the place does not get sunlight all the year round and is gloomy. of.

The younger sister, Du Liangxin, likes to play there. The little girl is 12, and she looks like a mouse when the master is around, and she doesn't dare to take a breath.At other times, she looks like a dominatrix. Xiangxiang saw her open the mouth of a little maid with an awl. Later, the maid was sold out by the eldest wife. Xiangxiang sometimes felt that seeing Du Liangxin was like seeing the first girl. Two big wives.

The fifth aunt is too beautiful. Master Du likes him very much, and also likes the son that the fifth aunt gave him.Moreover, the fifth aunt's natal family seems to have become popular in the past few years. The people in her natal family have confidence and have a place in the Du family. That's why she can eat at the table, while the second aunt can only stand.Du Liangwen was raised very well by the fifth aunt. His hair was combed shiny, he wore foreign leather shoes, and he wore a satin robe. At first glance, he looked like a rich and expensive young master. The fifth aunt seemed to have studied for two years. Knowing how to teach his 10-year-old son to study well to please Mr. Du, Xiangxiang felt upset when he saw the child. Regardless of how small he was, he would bite and spit on everyone.

The elder brother Du Liangmo didn't go home on vacation, Xiangxiang felt relieved, he didn't want to be picked on by people he hated and quarreled with.

Xiang Xiangku was sitting by the window, staring at the raindrops falling from the eaves, his mind was very peaceful, he had already accepted his fate after being in this world for so long, and it’s not bad to be able to stay somewhere like this all day long, no need There are people to wait for hard work. If you add a computer, the world will be complete.

The second aunt came in with a plate of dried walnuts, and sat across from Xiangxiang, smashing walnuts for Xiangxiang while chattering.

"I heard that the master will welcome the sixth aunt to enter the house in two days. She is said to be the daughter of old man Li's family in the town. She just turned 14 this year."

Xiangxiang glanced at Second Aunt Tai, seeing that she had no displeasure expression, so he asked, "Are you handsome?"

"I don't know, but she must be very fresh. Otherwise, Mr. Jun wouldn't want her. His father owed him a lot of money, so he used his daughter to pay for it. I think your grandfather was like this back then. He wanted to give you When two uncles got married, they paid me a 40 yuan dowry gift. In the end, they were still too poor to survive. "

Xiangxiang said angrily: "They are too much, how can they do such a thing that I'm sorry for you."

"Stupid boy, who is sorry for who? It is my high incense to be able to marry the master as a concubine? If I marry your uncle who is a poor farmer, you will not be able to eat now, let alone go to school. This house Which of the maids in the house is not looking forward to it, even the two girls in Liangmo's house have long been raised by the young master's concubine, thinking that who doesn't know, when you pass 16, we will give it to you like Liangmo Take the two maids."

Xiangxiang sweated coldly: "No need."

"By the way, I brought you something when I came back this time." Xiangxiang got up and took out a wooden box from the bag, and handed it to the second aunt: "You take it, the condition is quite good."

The second aunt took it and opened it, her eyes lit up: "Hey, where did you get the jade bracelet?" The second aunt put the bracelet on her wrist, looked left and right, she liked it very much.

The second aunt asked: "Is this bracelet better than the one my master gave me in the early years? It's worth a lot of money, where did you get it?"

"Didn't I tell you that I was working for a foreign devil? The shopkeeper under the foreign devil gave it to me. I thought I would say something nice for him."

The second aunt was very happy when she heard this: "What kind of work did you do for him? This foreign devil is really rich. You said that the foreigner has blond hair and blue eyes. This is really scary. I can see him sometime." .”

The spring rain was bleak in the garden, and the room was gloomy. Xiangxiang was drowsy in the soft voice of his second aunt.

"Concubine, concubine?" Chunyan, the maid next to the second concubine, opened the door and came in.

"Shh, what's it called? Didn't you see that the second young master is going to sleep?" The second aunt taught in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

"Aunt Six's sedan chair has just been carried in."

"Why did you come here today? Didn't you have to wait for the auspicious day for two days?"

Chunyan said: "I don't know what happened, but Aunt Six's sedan chair has already been carried into the garden."

"Understood, you go down."

Xiangxiang sat up from the recliner and asked, "Aunt Liu is too late? Why is it so quiet outside? Don't you need to visit the hall?"

The second aunt looked at Xiangxiang too whitely, and flicked the veil at him: "You child, the more you live, the more you go back. What kind of hall does the aunt worship, and it's over when you bring it in. The house is consummated tonight, and it's enough to meet people tomorrow. "

Xiangxiang curled her lips and said, "It's really unreasonable to marry a 14-year-old girl as a concubine at such an advanced age."

"It's not the case to say that it's hurtful. You forgot that the sixth concubine who was brought in this year should have been ranked eighth. Didn't two of them die in front of her?"

Xiangxiang was taken aback, and closed his mouth.

The next day, everyone in Du's house met Sixth Aunt Tai Qinglian, who lived in the south wing of the back garden, next to Fifth Aunt Tai Qiuyue's residence.The little girl is extremely beautiful, she is indeed a beauty from the water village, although she is quite young, she is generous and not timid at all, she took the initiative to let a little maid accompany her to greet the aunts and concubines in each room.

Xiangxiang was very uncomfortable seeing him. Such an immature child was married to an old man who was over 40 years old.

The second aunt took all kinds of dried fruit and candied fruit to entertain the sixth aunt. The sixth aunt was very good at talking, and after a while she affectionately called the second aunt sister.

After Qinglian left, the second aunt spat and said, "Little girl has a lot of eyes in her movies."

Xiangxiang asked her what was wrong, and the second aunt said: "Before she came, she probably inquired about everything in our house. She knew that I gave birth to a son, so she asked the little girl to bring a gift last night. The third aunt And the fourth aunt didn't send anything."

A few days later, when the spring break was coming to an end, Xiangxiang asked the second aunt: "I'm going back to school the day after tomorrow, can I take a maid from home? I plan to rent a house outside the school, so I need to find someone to do it for me. eat."

"You can't bring a maid." The second aunt said: "If the master knows, I thought you brought a maid to mess around outside. In this way, I will help you find an old lady to take care of you."

"He's raising his concubine, the sixth room, and he still cares about me."

"You silly boy, don't say a few words."

Xiangxiang went back and rented a small house near the school for 5 yuan a month.The bedroom of the house faces the sun, and it is warm in the room even on cloudy and rainy days.A few days later, the old lady introduced by the second aunt sent it over. After asking, I found out that it was actually the wife of the uncle. The woman looked more than 50, with a stooped back, yellow teeth, and a mouth full of bad smell. , Xiangxiang gave her money to buy vegetables and cook, but ended up buying some leftovers. Although she knew that she was greedy for money, Xiangxiang could only turn a blind eye for the sake of the second concubine.

Mr. Smith's business has been very busy recently. He went to China to do business. At that time, the imperialist powers took the responsibility of carve up China, built factories in China, plundered a large number of China's mineral resources and natural resources, and directly shipped them abroad or manufactured them. Finished products are dumped in China.Mr. Smith is one of these people, making a lot of money from the convenience of giving foreigners a green light at home.Smith has recently been in the business of tea business. He transported a batch of tea from Wuyi to be shipped abroad, and received a large amount of tea from tea merchants in various places. Xiangxiang ran around with him every day but did not get any benefit. The foreign devil thought that white people were superior. Xiangxiang's teeth itch with hatred, if it wasn't for the generous wages he paid, Xiangxiang would have quit the job early in the morning.

At dusk, Xiangxiang followed Smith to a western restaurant, where Smith met a Russian.

Xiangxiang only heard Smith call him Noah Wav. The Russian looks only in his thirties, but he is a shareholder in Citibank. He is tall, thin, and handsome, so he can speak easily Not slow, totally different from grumpy Smith.In this month alone, Smith had two appointments with that person, but each time the negotiation broke up badly. Smith was bearded and stared at by the angry man, and then he took his temper on Xiangxiang, blaming Xiangxiang for not doing it for them. Good translation.

It turns out that the route for selling tea in the past was not only to cross the ocean, but also to transport it to Mongolia, Russia and other places by the southern waterway along the road of Shanxi merchants in the past. Not close anymore.

This evening, there was no agreement again, and Mr. Smith's face was ashen, and he scolded Xiangxiang as soon as he walked out of the restaurant.What kind of yellow pigs and Chinese people poured out all at once, and at the end came a sentence, "If you can't do it, you go away."

The seven orifices of the Xiangxiang Qi were filled with smoke, and he thought that he would no longer work for the foreign devils, and it was thankless.Smith left Xiangxiang alone on the side of the road, and then drove away.

When Xiangxiang was worrying about how to go home, the Russian guy suddenly appeared behind him and called Xiangxiang to a halt.

"Du, you are a talent."

The Russian guy said this to Xiangxiang.

This night was a special night for Xiangxiang. The Russian guy took out 3000 US dollars in cash in front of Xiangxiang. At that time, US dollars were the same price as gold. The money was equivalent to two gold bars. Xiangxiang's eyes were straightened.

The Russian said, "I just need you to do one thing for me, and I'll give you another $3000 afterwards."

Xiangxiang returned home with the dollars that hadn't been warmed up, and carefully locked them in a drawer.Then Xiangxiang nestled on the bed and covered his head with the quilt, he heard his heart beating wildly.

The Russian said he wanted a list of all of Smith's tea merchants.

The weather is getting warmer, flowers and butterflies are flying everywhere, green leaves begin to cover mountains and rivers in large swaths, many spring flowers begin to compete in beauty, bees are buzzing, and bugs come out of the soil to manage high-rise buildings.

Xiangxiang School's homework has caught up a lot, at least when he is asked to write an essay in classical Chinese, he will not frown.

But I still haven't made any friends. There are not many rich students in the school, and there are not many coquettish ones like Xiangxiang who rent a house by themselves outside, not even the former Du Liangyu.Xiangxiang never thought of showing off, but affected by the habits of housewives, he couldn't bear this kind of hard life without eating or sleeping.

So the petty bourgeois life in Xiangxiang was considered exquisite in that era. Not to mention the old lady was sent to serve at home, and there was meat every meal.Therefore, the gap between the rich and the poor is regarded as a thorn in the flesh by many male students who are jealous and jealous.What's more, Xiangxiang also knew a foreign language that was new to people in that era, and serving as an interpreter for people in the concession was equivalent to being rich and talented, with a bright future.

Soon, Xiangxiang, an excellent male creature, was excluded and isolated by the same male creature collective.