Night Lights

Chapter 149 The Soul of the Country

The Dharma Rope Clean Whip, seven feet two long, shaped like a snake, is divided into a head and a body, with eight trigrams on top and seven stars on the bottom; a head carved in peach wood, engraved with snake head patterns, and a snake body underneath, velvet hemp palm, twisted and woven. The end of the rope is smeared with ox blood; whipping demons, expelling evil spirits, asking gods to clean the altar, changing disasters and offering sacrifices to evil spirits are all for this thing; this name is: Dharma Snake Whip. ——Excerpted from the eighth volume of Jiangyin in "The Book of Words Without Words".

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Master Dai turned his head and took a look!
The one waving the fan was Yang Zhicai, the shopkeeper of Huibao Foreign Goods Store in Beijing.

This Yang Zhicai "fooled foreigners with domestic products, and then used foreign products to fool Chinese people", and made his fortune exclusively by selling foreign products.In recent years, there have been more and more people who like foreign goods. Some people find that foreign goods are rare, so they buy fresh ones, while others are proud of foreign goods, which makes his business more and more profitable. Incoming porcelain, metal, paper, clocks, cigarettes and other small commodities.In addition, he also collects red dates, cloth, tea, peanuts, silk cocoons, cowhide wool, antlers and other various things in China, and sells them to foreigners to ship overseas, and he also benefits a lot from them.

Yang Zhicai has a slender, fair face, showing shrewdness.

He is doing this kind of business for a living, so he can naturally speak a few foreign words.

Nowadays, it is a kind of honor to be able to climb up to foreigners. If you stand in a crowd of foreigners, you will feel that you are a bit taller than others.If you can accompany a foreigner for a stroll in and out of the city, you will be more energetic than a foreigner, so naturally you don't look down on others.

This Yang Zhicai's business in the capital was very impressive, he hired a shrewd man to take care of him, and he went all over the place to collect some antique calligraphy and paintings, and then sold them to foreigners.

Mr. Dai also often buys some antique toys, and he comes to exchange some fresh foreign goods with Yang Zhicai.Yang Zhicai would bring some silver every year, and come to this town to look for Mr. Dai to buy some antique calligraphy and paintings.Seven days ago, Baye Dai got a new small copper stove from Xuande Furnace, so he asked someone to send a message to the capital, asking Yang Zhicai to come and pick it up!

Yang Zhicai contacted the next family, the 'bald' foreigner in front of him, and they rushed here all the way...

of course!

Yang Zhicai also knew the treasurer Zhao of Ze Ren Tang.

Yang Zhicai wanted to be happy with foreigners when he was doing business, so he spent the whole day soaking in the kilns on Yanliu Street. After a long time, his waist strength naturally became exhausted.Coincidentally, shopkeeper Zhao has the ancestral 'Dingshanghong', a pill made of [-] flavors tonic and mixed with medicine, which is specially used to treat weak waist and weak legs. Every time Yang Zhicai comes, he must bring a pack of 'Dingshanghong' 'Go back... Just now he and the foreigners went to the city to look for Mr. Dai. He heard that Mr. Dai had come to Ze Ren Tang, so he rushed here, just happened to encounter such a scene!
This time!

Mr. Dai was staring at the bald-headed, red-bearded foreigner in a daze.Yang Zhicai laughed and said, "What's the matter, Ba Ye? You don't even know your old customers? This one, is the foreign man who has been selling goods from you, James!"

"Stick to death?"

Dai Baye thought to himself: What name did his parents give him? 'If you touch wood, you will die', wood overcomes soil, could it be that this foreign uncle is the life of the soil?Grandpa Dai was stunned for a moment, then he bared his teeth and smiled at 'Zhan Mu Shi', cupped his hands and said, "Uncle Zhan! Thank you for your help, and let my Eighth Master save face..."

While talking, he took out a small bottle from his arms, handed it over, and said, "Eighth Master doesn't have anything valuable on him, so you take this smoking pot, it's a gift from Master Zhan!"

'Zhanmu Shi' took it in his hand, and looked at the thumb-sized bottle, with poems and articles written on it, freehand brushwork, ink painting, looking through the wall of the bottle, it was extraordinarily delicate and delicate, naturally he couldn't put it down.Zhao Zhicai explained in broken English, Zhan Mushi was put into his arms, and Le's red beard flew up, stepped forward and hugged Baye Dai, and said something in English.

"What did he say? Three pieces of meat? Did he call me skinny?"

Grandpa Dai didn't understand, for fear of losing face.

Yang Zhicai smiled and said, "This is British, which means "thank you". James is thinking of you! He has never been so polite to anyone..."

After hearing this, Baye Dai smiled from ear to ear, turned his head and shouted to his subordinates: "How is it? Isn't the way of Eighth Master wild? Master Yang calls me brother and brother!" Although he said so, But I felt uncomfortable in my heart, and said to myself: "I gave him a fucking gift, can you thank me? I'm sorry for this snuff bottle... It's an authentic Debaozhai item! The inscription proposed by Ma Shaoxuan, you Look at the small print, thank you!"

Yang Zhicai was thinking about the small copper stove, so he changed the subject and asked, "Where is the small copper stove?"

"The tripod stove is a treasure. Why would I carry it with me and hide it at home? You can pick it up with me later! But..." Dai Baye turned to look at Lin Jiu, and said with a smile: "Wait for Baye, I'll take it first." Finish this matter!"

This time!

Just listen to the bang!Ma Zhaoxue helped Bai Shibao out of the house.Bai Shibao heard the gunshots, fearing that something might happen to Lin Jiu, he forced Ma Zhaoxue to help him out to see what happened.

Lin Qiusheng supported Lin Jiu, and asked, "Uncle Jiu, is your arm okay?"

Lin Jiu waved his hand, frowned and said, "No problem! Fortunately, no bones were hurt, but I just shocked the Patriarch!"

"Master Patriarch? Haha! I'm the Heavenly King, and I have to kowtow to my eighth master today!" Dai eighth master raised his thumb and said with a smile: "See? This is the one in the hands of the old master. The guy is not a vegetarian!"

Lin Jiu glared at Baye Dai angrily, and shouted: "You are dignified, a Chinese, relying on foreigners to face each other, you are not ashamed but proud of it, and you even sold your ancestors' gadgets to foreigners for money! It is really embarrassing to the people of the country. !"

"Ok?"

Dai Baye glanced at Lin Jiu, and said with a smile, "Baye, I can sell whatever I want, even if you demolish the house and buy land!"

"nonsense!"

Lin Jiu said angrily: "In today's world, the spirit of the country is declining, and the spirit of the people is booming, but the arrogance of foreigners is rising day by day. They are plotting to take our people's fat and people's anointing first, and then take our country and society! But you group of ignorant and foolish people, You don't recognize the treachery of foreigners, but you worship them instead.... The weird foreign goods you buy are all discarded by foreigners, but you take them as treasures and exchange them with our national treasures! It really ruins our folk customs, Defeated our hearts!

Do you know that foreigners are all cats and dogs, how good can it be?You exchange the things that your ancestors worked so hard on, what is the difference between digging up your ancestors' graves?You are so shameless, aren't you afraid that the souls of your ancestors will come to you? "

"Oops! It's the other way around!"

Master Dai said angrily: "Why do you dare to teach me a lesson?"

Yang Zhicai laughed beside him and said, "The ancestors have been blocked for a long time, can they still ask us to settle the score? What time is it now? No matter how good the things of the ancestors are, it is worth giving up. The thick braids of hundreds of years have been cut off, not to mention What about these old things? Uncle Yang has a good saying, which is called: keep pace with the times!"

"Bastard!"

Lin Jiu said angrily: "You scum!"

Dai Baye said angrily: "Baye, I like to shave my head, and Mr. Yang likes to shave his face. They each have their own preferences! What the hell are you? How dare you teach me a lesson here? Make me anxious... My name is Uncle Zhan! You two guns!"

"I never thought about that!"

Right now!

Bai Shibao lowered his head, and suddenly said such a sentence, which made everyone confused.

What Lin Jiu said just now made Bai Shibao feel goosebumps all over his body. Thinking about how he used to be greedy for gambling and sold all his ancestors' belongings, it was really outrageous.

I only heard Bai Shibao talking to himself: "We write from right to left, but foreigners write from left to right. Our books are written vertically, while foreign books are written horizontally. Our compass is called a compass, but foreigners use it to set the north needle." , our tea bowls are on top, and foreigners’ tea bowls are on the bottom..."

Ma Zhaoxue frowned and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Bai Shibao came back to his senses and shouted: "It turns out that they have been fighting against us all the time!... More than ten years ago, the Allied Forces of Eight Nations entered Beijing, burned, killed and looted, how many people of our country were bullied? How many good things from our ancestors were lost? I admit it." I don’t have the courage to fight guns and swords when foreigners come, but I still have this sense of shame! I haven’t read a few books, but I have heard a lot of storytelling stories in teahouses. It means: heaven, earth and universe, my country is the center!"

"well said!"

Lin Jiu nodded beside him and said, "What a 'My country is China'!"

Bai Shibao exclaimed: "I now understand what big things Yan Zifei and Ma Wuye are talking about!" At this point, Bai Shibao raised his head and cupped his hands at Lin Jiu, and said, "Daozhang Lin, today I understand it thoroughly!"

"and many more!"

'A Lantern' stood aside and said in a daze: "Who did you just say, Swallow Flying? Fifth Lord Ma?"

Lin Jiu asked: "What? You..."

'One Lantern' clasped his hands and shouted, "These two are my sworn brothers!"

"what?"

Everyone was surprised, and Dai Baye dropped his jaw in shock.

Just listen to "a lamp" said: "I burn incense and kowtow, and worship Jinlan with the strange Qianma Wuye, Anqing Tieshanzi, Wuhu Yanziping, Changzhou Yiyixiang, Jiaolongshan Yuan Longzhao, female hero Cao Shangfei and others. Life and death brother!"

After hearing this, Lin Jiu thought to himself: No wonder his fists and feet are so good. It turns out that he, Ma Wuye, and Yan Zifei are sworn brothers, so he naturally has kung fu... Then, he clasped his hands and clasped his fists as an apology for what happened just now.

When Dai Baye saw it, he immediately became angry!
What's the matter?Put me aside, are you 'brothers' here?

I saw him shouting to Yang Zhicai: "I'm telling you the truth! I have a pair of small copper stoves! I planned to take them apart and buy them, but now that I've lost face here, I can't take care of so much anymore. Buy one and get one free; Uncle Zhan helped me out of this bad breath, and I will give you the other tripod for nothing!"

Yang Zhicai laughed and said: "It's easy to say! They even scolded me just now, can you let him go lightly?" After finishing speaking, he whispered a few words in the ear of 'Zhanmu Death'.

'Zhanmu Shi' touched his bald head, his expression suddenly angry...

(End of this chapter)