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Chapter 18 sixteen

cat city story 老舍 4098Words 2023-02-05
I am so sad!A wail from the minister’s wife made me cry for the women of so many centuries. I pressed my hand on the darkest pages in history, and my eyes dared not look any further. It would be a mistake not to live in a foreign city.I'm homeless again.Where are you going?The cat people helping me were still looking at me, probably waiting to ask me for money.It's true that they robbed the minister's wife, but maybe that's not enough to make them give up their hope of winning the soul of the country?I had a terrible headache, and my teeth were broken.Gradually, I couldn't think anymore, and I was going to be sick.A warning came to my mind.I threw the national souls in a trouser pocket, ten yuan each, and five yuan each, on the ground, and let them divide it among themselves, or grab it, I didn't have the energy to care about it.The eight women were hopeless, and the minister's wife was also finished. There was a big puddle of blood flowing from her body, and her eyes were still open, as if she still cared about the eight goblins after death.I couldn't bury them, no one else, of course; the embarrassment and disappointment made me want to smash my head out with a punch.

I sat on the ground for a while.Although I was too lazy to move, I had to stand up after all. I couldn't watch these women stink before my eyes.I walked with a limp, probably a lot of embarrassment for foreigners.The street was full of people again.Some young people are holding a piece of white powder in their hands and writing on the wall next to the house. The wall is still very damp.The cleaning movement, the whole city has been washed, and every house has such a sentence written on the wall.Although my head hurt so much, I couldn't help laughing.After it rains, it is advocated to wash the whole city. It doesn't take a little effort from the people, the cat people really know how to do things.Yes, the stinky ditch was indeed washed clean by the rain, clean up campaign, haha!Am I a little crazy too?I wish I could pull out a pistol and kill a few white characters!

I seem to remember what Xiaoxie said: the other side of the street is a cultural institution.I went around, not to see the cultural institution, but to find a quiet place to endure for a while.I always thought that the houses in the downtown area should face each other, but here the houses on the street happened to be back to back. This new arrangement made me seem to forget my headache.However, cat people who don't like fresh air and sunlight can come up with this good idea. The back of the house is leaning against the back of the house, with no gap in the middle. This is not so much a street as a disease brewery.My headaches are back.Getting sick in a foreign country makes people particularly pessimistic. I seem to feel that there is no hope of surviving in China.

I didn't care to look at it carefully, and fell down when I found a shade. How long have you slept?I have no idea.When I opened my eyes, I was in a very clean room.I thought it was a dream, or a hallucination when the heat increased. I touched my head, and it wasn't very hot anymore!I am baffled.Still lazy, I closed my eyes again.With the sound of very light footsteps, I slightly opened my eyes: I am more fascinated than the fascinated leaves!She came over, touched my head, and nodded slightly: "Okay!"she said to herself.I dare not open my eyes again, and wait for the facts to explain the facts.After a short time, Xiaoxie came, and I was relieved.

how was it?I heard him ask in a low voice. Before I could answer, I opened my eyes. alright?he ask me.I sit up. This is your house?I was curious again. Both of us, he pointed, I would have liked you to come and live here, but I'm afraid Father won't.You belong to my father, at least my father thinks so; he doesn't want me to make friends with you, he says my foreign habits are too deep. thank you all!I glanced around the room again. You wonder why we are so clean here?This is what my father called foreign habits.Xiaoxie and Miquan laughed. Yes, Xiao Xie does have foreign habits.In his language, he uses more than twice as many words as Daxie's, probably many words are borrowed from foreign languages.

This is your home?I asked. This is one of the cultural institutions.We both live here.Powerful people can occupy the house of the agency at will.If the two of us can keep this place clean, we are worthy of the authority; whether we should occupy the public place for private use, it is inconvenient for us to delve into it unless others ask.Perfunctory, you have to use these two most interesting words!Fan, give him some fan leaves to eat. Have I already eaten?I asked. Didn't we pour you some leaf juice just now, are you planning to wake up again?Mi Ye is a real good medicine!Here, Miye is the king of all medicines.If it can cure the disease, there will be good hope for the disease; if it can't cure it, we have to wait for death.It can indeed cure many diseases.There is only one thing, it can save a person, but it can kill a country. Miye has such a small flaw!Xiaoxie has the taste of a philosopher again.

I ate some mistletoe again, and my energy was much better, but I was too lazy.I can see the wisdom of Maoguo and other foreigners.It is indeed reasonable for them to live in another place.The civilization of the cat country is not easy to mess with; as soon as you get close to it, it will glue you like paint, and you have to follow its way.The cat country is a vortex in the sea, and those who get close to it will fall into it all over.If you want to enter the cat country, you must be a cat person, otherwise, just don't mess with it.I tried my best to resist eating the lost leaves, but the result?Still have to eat!You must eat it here, don't eat it here, it's absolute.If this civilization can conquer the whole of Mars, there are probably many people in the cat country who hold such a dream. All the human beings on Mars will soon die together: filth, disease, mess, confusion, and darkness are the characteristics of this civilization; even if the molecules that make up this civilization There are also those with light, but those lights can never resist this dark force.This power, I saw, must some day be cut off by some true light, or some poisonous gas, as if to sterilize.However, the cat people themselves don't think so.Xiaoxie probably saw this move, but because he saw clearly that the game was already lost, he swayed without hesitation, laughing at his own failure.As for the big scorpion and the others, it was just a dream.

I have so many questions to ask Xiaoxie.politics, education, military, finance, production, society, family I don't understand politics, Xiaoxie said, my father specializes in politics, so ask him.I know about other things, and I don’t know about them. It’s best that you go and see for yourself first, and then ask me after reading.Only the cultural cause can I fully help, because my father has a little something to do with any cause, and he can't take care of it all, so I will be his representative for the cultural cause.You want to see schools, museums, antiquities, libraries, as long as you talk, I will satisfy you.

I feel more comfortable than eating lost leaves: I can ask the big scorpion about politics; I can ask the little scorpion about cultural affairs. With these two scorpions, I can probably get a general idea of ​​the situation in the cat country. But can I live here?I dare not ask Xiaoxie.In good conscience, I really have no intention of leaving this clean room.But I can't beg for mercy, wait! Xiaoxie asked me what to see first, ashamed, I was too lazy to move. Tell me a little about your own history!I said, hoping to see something about the situation in Daxie's family from his words.

Xiaoxie smiled.Whenever he smiles, I think he is cute and hateful.He himself knew that he was superior to other cat people, so he didn't want to reach out and pull them for fear of getting his hands dirty!He seemed to feel that it was a great misfortune that he was born in the country of cats, that he was the only rose among the thorns.I don't like this attitude. My parents gave birth to me, Xiaoxie began to say, Mi sat beside him, looking into his eyes.That's none of my business.They love me dearly, and it's none of my business.My grandfather also loves me very much. It is not a novelty to have a grandfather who does not love his grandson.Childhood life seems to have nothing to say.Xiaoxie raised her head and thought for a while, then looked at him with her head raised.Well, here's a little thing that might be worth your hearing, if not mine.My wet nurse is a whore.A whore is allowed to be a nurse, but I am not allowed to play with any other children.This is special education in our family.Why not hire a prostitute to babysit the child?rich.We have a saying: money can attract ghosts.This wet nurse is one of the ghosts.Grandfather was willing to have her because he thought it was best for prostitutes to look at boys and soldiers to look at girls, because they or they could teach boys and girls everything about men and women.With sufficient knowledge, marry early and have children early, so that you can be worthy of your ancestors.Apart from whores, there are five gentlemen who taught me to read, and five gentlemen who are like wood taught me all the knowledge of the cat country.Later, a Mr. Wood suddenly lost his wood and ran away with my wet nurse.The four Mr. Wood were also kicked out.When I grew up, my father sent me to a foreign country.My father thought that anyone who could speak a few words of a foreign language was considered to know everything, and he needed a son who knew everything.After living abroad for four years, of course I understood everything, so I came back home.Contrary to my father's expectation, I didn't know everything, but I had some foreign habits.However, he didn't stop loving me because of this, and he still gave me money as usual.As for me, I am happy to spend some money, He Xing, Hua, Fan, and everyone joins in the fun all day long.On the surface, I am a representative of my father and host cultural undertakings, but in fact I am just a parasite.I don't bother to do bad things, and I can't do good things. The more you use these two precious words, the more oily they become!Xiaoxie laughed again, and Mi laughed too.

Mi is my friend, and Xiaoxie guessed my thoughts again, a friend who lives together.This is another foreign habit.I have a wife in my family, and we got married when I was twelve years old. When I was six years old, I was taught by the prostitute's wet nurse. Naturally, it is impossible for a layman to get married at the age of twelve.My wife can do everything, especially bear children, the best woman, according to my father.But I would like to be fascinated.My father would rather ask me to marry him as a concubine, but I refuse to do so.My father had twelve concubines, so taking concubines was the most legitimate thing to do.My father hates fans the most, but he doesn't hate me very much, because although he thinks foreign habits are hateful, he admits that there is indeed such a kind of habit in the world, called foreign habits.My grandfather hated fans, and he also hated me, because he didn't recognize foreign customs at all.I live with fans, and I have nothing to do with fans, but they have a great influence on the youth of the cat country.You know, people in the cat country think that the relationship between men and women is just that.Marrying a wife, that’s it; taking a concubine, that’s it; playing a prostitute, that’s it; now that you’re stressing about free association, that’s it; having lost leaves to eat, the next thing is to think about that.I am a role model for young people.We all marry wives first, and then go to free association. I have set an example.However, the old people hate me to the bone, because marrying wives and concubines allows everyone to live together, just for that, and after that, they will have a group of children.Now for free association, we can't get rid of wives, and we have to prepare another place for our lovers, otherwise, it's not regarded as having fulfilled foreign customs.In this way, the money has to be spent so much that the old people can't afford it, and the old people don't take the money, so the young people will naturally quarrel with the old people.My sins with fans are not small. Won't you break away from your old family completely?I asked. No way, no money!Free association is a foreign habit, but we cannot give up the domestic habit of asking Lao Tzu for money.The two are not in harmony, how can it be perfunctory? Old people can't think of a good way? What method do they have?They admit that women are only for that.They themselves take concubines, and they don't object to young concubines. How can free association be prohibited?They can't do it, we can't do it, everyone can't do it.Marrying a wife, taking a concubine, and freely associating with each other, all have to have children; who will take care of the children after they are born?The old man can't do it, we can't do it, everyone can't do it.We only care about such problems.Regardless of children's issues.The old ones desperately marry concubines, and the young ones desperately strive to be free. On the surface, they all have a lot of trouble, but in fact it is just that. The result of that is that there are more kitten people who are not cared for, fed, and educated. This is called Increased perfunctory.My grandfather is perfunctory, my father is perfunctory, I am perfunctory, those young people are perfunctory; responsible is the most annoying term. What about the woman herself?Could it be that they are willing to admit that it is for that purpose?I asked. Fan, you said, you are a woman.Xiaoxie said to the fan. I?I love you.There is nothing to say.If you are willing to go home to see the wife who will have children, you can go, and I don't care.When do you stop loving me, I will eat forty fan leaves in one go, and I will die of fandom! I waited for her to go on, and she stopped talking.
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