Roaming in the dark

Chapter 20 Sitting there
Sitting there, Sheng Chuncheng raised his head slightly, turned a little sideways, and turned his ears towards Teacher Zheng.

This is what Sheng Chuncheng observed and concluded in the massage shop. When blind masters listen to people talking, they usually look like this, with their heads tilted up slightly, with a smile on the corner of their mouths, and then their faces are turned slightly sideways. Their eyes look at each other. When they don't reach each other, their ears replace part of the functions of their eyes. They use their ears to identify each other.

Sheng Chuncheng imitated this action a lot, and this action became his subconscious reaction. Sometimes at home, when Ding Huamei talked to him, he would do the same thing unconsciously. Ding Huamei stared at him and stretched out his hand turned his head, turned it and gave it up, crying:

"Okay, you just keep this conditioned reflex."

But after all, if the other party is a normal person, you will still feel awkward when talking to you like this, and feel ignored by him. Ding Huamei reached out and turned Sheng Chuncheng's head back, shouting:

"I was talking to you, did you hear me?"

Sheng Chuncheng hurriedly said: "I heard it, I heard it, and I didn't miss a single word."

Teacher Zheng and Sheng Chuncheng said:
"If we want to say this, we will talk about [-]. After the Qing government and the British signed the "Nanjing Treaty" and the "Five-Port Trade Charter", Shanghai officially opened as a port. Then, the British, French and Americans opened up a concession in Shanghai. At the beginning, all the people living in the concession were foreigners, and Chinese were not allowed to live in the concession.

"Small knives will cause trouble. Many Shanghainese took refuge and fled to the concession. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established Nanjing as its capital. More Chinese from the Jiangnan area fled to Shanghai and also fled to the concession. The most people were from Ningbo and Suzhou. Shanghai In the past, it was just a small town under Songjiang County. After the opening of the port, because of foreign trade, this place developed rapidly.

"Ningbo people, Suzhou people and Subei people. Shanghai is called Jiangbei people. They are the largest part of Shanghai's population. There are also Cantonese people. Cantonese people come with foreigners and work as compradors or small managers in various foreign firms. In a few years, the number of people in the Anglo-American Concession and the French Concession has grown from a few thousand at the beginning to 40 to 90.00, and more than [-]% of them are Chinese.

"The territory of the concession has also begun to expand. From the earliest part of the Bund, which is now the Suzhou Creek, it has been expanded twice, and the area has increased dozens of times."

"After the number of people increased, the land price in Shanghai, just like now, is growing rapidly, and it has skyrocketed by more than ten times in a year. Some people who transferred their land to others this year will regret it when they see the situation in the second year. I want to get the land back. Of course, it is very difficult. If I don’t want to come back, I think, you have earned so much by relying on this land, so you have to share some benefits with me.

"I went to find someone, and of course they refused. How can there be such a thing, the land has already been sold to me, and they still come to ask for money? The seller can't get it by himself, what should I do? It's the same as now. I went to the underworld to ask for it. However, the underworld in Shanghai had not yet fully formed at that time.

"But everything is like this. Where there is demand, there will be supply. At that time, in the society, there was such a group of people who specially accepted commissions and came to do things for others to ask for benefits. into.

"What do these people do when they come to your door? He doesn't mean to threaten you with a knife to scare you, but to sympathize with you. When he arrives at your house, he sits down and sings while crying, saying that his family has transferred this land to you. After that, in my own family, life is so sad now, who is sick, has no money to buy medicine, and now has no choice but to sell their children and daughters, and so on.

"Anyway, how miserable is it? When I arrive at someone's house, I cry and make trouble for a whole day. The next day, a large group of people still go and cry when they block the door of the house. It's very difficult for them. Showing weakness in front of you is not showing strength, and people are crying to death, so you can't beat them.

"Even those red-headed assams from the patrol room came over and saw this situation, so they didn't bother to take care of it.

"It's like this every day to find you crying for poverty. The last part of the family is really annoying, so I have to take out part of the money to send it away. Today, I go to other people's homes to cry for poverty, which is called Tanzhangtou. Their rhetoric and singing all have a fixed format, and a dramatic form has evolved, that is, Tanhuang, Tan is the homonym of sigh.

"It's just a few people sitting on the stage, a table, and a few chairs, pulling, talking, and singing. You say something to each other, like talking about a big book. There are Ningbo Beach, Suzhou Beach, and Benbang Beach in Shanghai.

"Because of the existence of such a group of people, later when people transfer land, they will pay attention to it, especially on the land deed or the bill of exchange, and indicate 'never beg', which means, if you transfer it today, don't regret it , Don’t come to Tanzhangtou to beg in the future, don’t come to this set, tell me, your client, are they going to use Tanzhangtou to collect money now?”

Sheng Chuncheng laughed as he listened, imagining Brother Dong's big tongue, stuttering, what if he went to someone's house and cried and sang, saying reasoning like this, reasoning like that, what would happen?This picture, don't be too beautiful.

Teacher Zheng sighed, and she said: "I don't know whether to be happy or sigh that the underworld has been forced into this way, but one thing is certain, that is, the credit system of the whole society is facing collapse. Now no one believes such nonsense as one promises."

The two of them ate for more than an hour for this dinner. After finishing eating, Sheng Chuncheng wanted to help Teacher Zheng clean up. Teacher Zheng called out:

"Oh, what's the use of you, I'll clean it up by myself, it's time for exercise, soon, let's go, I'll take you out."

The two went out of the courtyard and walked towards the school gate together. Sheng Chuncheng didn't take out the blind man's cane, and stuck it on the ground. Instead, he held Teacher Zheng's arm, and the old lady led him out. From time to time, students and teachers would come over to greet the old lady and say hello to Teacher Zheng.

Two more times, the old lady simply stopped and stood there to discuss the problem with others. Sheng Chuncheng listened quietly and discussed it. The old lady looked at Sheng Chuncheng, as if suddenly awakened, and called Said, oh, I won't tell you anymore, I still have things to do.

After walking more than 200 meters, the old lady stopped when she met someone, and discussed with him again.

It was only 10 minutes away, and they walked for more than half an hour to reach the gate. The two of them stood, waiting for the car to arrive. Sheng Chuncheng got in the car. Teacher Zheng told the driver to go to Jingfang No. [-] District and not to commit crimes. Take more detours, know if you don’t, honesty will be rewarded.

The driver quickly said, no, no, old lady, don't worry, I won't do bullying.

He had already seen that Sheng Chuncheng was blind.

The car turned to No. [-] road, Sheng Chuncheng's cell phone rang, and the voice said that it was Sister Chen calling, Sheng Chuncheng took out the phone, swiped his finger on the screen from left to right, and Sister Chen's voice came from inside:

"Xiao Sheng, do you have time now?"

"Yes, what's the matter, Sister Chen."

"Could you come over and help me now? I've been running down there all day today, and my back hurts."

Sheng Chuncheng said yes, I'll come over right away.

Putting down the phone, Sheng Chuncheng said to the driver: "Master, we are not going to Jingfang anymore, you take me to Binjiang."

(End of this chapter)