Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 25

The next day, Ma Sheng took the gold yuan coupons and went to the town market. He did not go to eat spicy soup and fat sausages, but wanted to buy some cloth to sew clothes. The store said that now that the government had issued banknotes from the Northwest Farmers Bank, the gold yuan coupons were invalid. Ma Sheng was so angry that he smashed the gold dollar coupons on the way back and cursed himself for being unlucky. When I returned to the village, I went directly to Wang Caidong and said, "You know that this gold yuan coupon is invalid, why don't you give it to me?" ! Wang Caidong said: I only found out about this at noon! Ma Sheng tore the gold yuan coupon into pieces, threw it in Wang Caidong's face, and said: Give it back to you, I won't show any favor to you! A group of chickens ran past in the alley. They all quacked as if they were laughing and ran out of the alley. The news that the golden yuan coupons were invalid spread throughout the old city and village on this day.

The richest person in Laocheng Village is Wang Caidong, and the poorest person is Ma Sheng. This is obvious because of the lice on the bald man's head. But Bai He is an Ai Xian sect. Even though he is in debt to the Hong family, as long as he eats lo mein once, he will definitely sit on the bamboo pole outside the courtyard gate with a bowl and pick up the noodles high with his chopsticks. People passing by say : Are you eating long noodles? He said: Eat it, eat it every day! When the courtyard door was closed, he must have been drinking porridge in the house. In the autumn, I dug some fungi on the hillside and sold them at the market for a few bucks. Liu Shuanzi from the village asked his son to buy wine for his engagement, so he borrowed all the money. His wife complained, and he said: The Hong family scolded me. We are poor, and many people look down on me. If Liu Shuanzi can borrow money from me, I am a rich person in his eyes! Except for Baihe, the people in the village live in hiding, wearing a new dress and always wearing an old one outside. If it doesn’t rain in October, the next year’s wheat harvest will be poor, so what should I do? What a fart? ! When we met, we always asked if we had eaten, and the answer was always that we hadn't eaten. Of course, if you haven't eaten, you should be hungry. No one invited you to eat, not even a polite word. However, as soon as the golden yuan coupons became invalid, everyone cried bitterly: Oh, how can you say that money is useless if it is useless? ! He took out a roll, a pile, or a bundle and burned them at the door while crying.

Liu Shuanzi was finally going to marry his son, so he killed a chicken and gave Ma Sheng a pair of chicken intestines. Ma Sheng carried it while walking through the village alley. When he saw the money burner, he said: Wow, your family still has so much money! No one paid attention to him and he continued walking, followed by a swarm of flies. The Hong family's son put the money in the toilet to wipe his B*tt, but his father said it was better to burn it, out of sight and out of mind. When they were burning in the yard, the son threw the whole wad of money into the fire. His father thought that the whole wad could not be burned thoroughly, so he asked them to burn them one by one. The son became impatient and said: "Buying land is always too expensive. It's expensive. I want to buy it." Wait and wait, until the land is not bought, the money is useless! His father said: Who has front and back eyes? I want to know that you will be a white-eyed wolf when you grow up, and I should drown you in the urine bucket when you are born! The father and son got into a fight, and the daughter-in-law threw the wooden God of Wealth in the main room and cursed: I respect you every day, but you are hurting me like this! The adopted daughter took the firewood back and asked her: Mom, what are you having for lunch? The daughter-in-law took her anger out on her adopted daughter again and scolded her: "Eat the bones!" Throwing the incense burner over, it hit my adopted daughter on the shoulder, but the ashes in the incense burner fascinated her face, and she shouted loudly: God, what kind of king is this? You have a big mouth, you can eat meat without vomiting. Bones! Ma Sheng happened to arrive at the door and said: Noisy, are you scolding the government? There are people being shot every few days on the riverbank in the county town! The daughter-in-law was stunned for a moment and said: Who am I to blame for giving ideas to the government? After saving for decades, you can be called rich, and then become as poor as a pauper overnight? ! She was secretly scolding Ma Sheng in her words, but Ma Sheng was not angry and walked away with his head shaking, saying: "We want the same thing!" We are all human beings. How can we become poorer or richer without our noses and eyes? !

Wang Caidong did not burn the gold yuan coupons. He wrapped the gold yuan coupons in oil paper, put them in an urn, and hid them in the cellar of the back room. Now he took them out in bundles and spread them out in the yard to bask in the sun. The sun is warm, and the sparrows standing on the courtyard wall chatter, as if they are stirring up trouble. Wang Caidong asked Jade Bracelet: Do you think this money bundle can hit someone to death? The jade bracelet said: You said the year before last that you could kill someone with too much money. Wang Caidong said: Did I say that? Said? Suddenly my mind became confused, as muddy as a pot of glutinous rice. I stood up to go to the toilet. I didn’t know for a moment whether the toilet was in the northeast corner of the yard or the northwest corner of the yard. It was obvious that it was not the gable of the main room. When I walked past, I bumped my head. on the wall. The jade bracelet said: What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Jade Bracelet's cry made him suddenly wake up. When he saw blood on the wall, he was dumbfounded and said: So much money is useless? Really useless? ! The jade bracelet helped him to the kang in the house, and he went to the yard to bundle up the money and put it in a straw bag and piled it in the corner of the kang. That night, the rooster crowed twice, and Yu Bracelet woke up, but Wang Caidong was sitting on the kang. She asked why he still wasn't asleep? Wang Caidong said: I look at the money bag and don’t let the mice eat it. The jade bracelet said: It is already a pile of rotten paper, just chew it. Wang Caidong said: Are you saying it is really not money? The jade bracelet said: No one’s money is money anymore, not just ours. Wang Caidong said: Nonsense, money is money! The jade bracelet said: It's money, it's money. Spread the money on the kang and use it as a mattress shop! I really laid it out on the kang, one layer of it was not finished yet. Wang Caidong screamed again, put the money into the basket on his back, and asked for the jade bracelet to follow him to the ancestral grave. The jade bracelet said: It's okay to burn it on the grave. The ancestors may be able to use it in the underworld. But Wang Caidong took a hoe when he went out.

When opening the gate, someone seemed to be walking in the alley. Yuzhuo quickly closed the gate and waited until she could no longer hear the footsteps before going out of the north gate to the ancestral grave at the foot of the back mountain. Wang Caidong did not burn the money for his ancestors, but dug a pit, wrapped the money with oil paper, took off his own clothes and wrapped it again, saying: The ancestors are watching over us, and money will make more money in the future! Yuzhuo thought her husband was mentally ill, but she did not allow him to wrap it with clothes, because the way to curse someone to death is to bury that person's clothes, so she said: You bury yourself? ! She took out the clothes and put them on Wang Caidong before burying the money.