Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 7

Spencer Wang returned to the table to eat money and meat, and said: Artwork! Rowan Lao said: Artwork? Spencer Wang laughed.

The next day, the security guard of Qingfengyi brought fifty oceans to the house to propose marriage. The woman's parents learned that the person who wanted to propose marriage was Spencer Wang, and the betrothal gift was so heavy, so they asked: What should we do? The chief security officer said: You have to agree to this! I agreed. But the woman's parents did not expect that at dusk on the third day, the chickens would be on the shelves. Rowan Lao led people to carry the woman to the Zhengyang Town Office in a sedan. They were in a panic and refused to carry their daughter away so quickly. Rowan Lao couldn't do it. The woman's mother hurriedly took two blue and white porcelain bowls, filled them with rice and noodles, and asked her daughter to bring them, saying that if she brought the rice and noodle bowls, she would be able to eat and drink in this life. But the sedan left the courtyard gate and ran out of the post street like the wind, without taking the rice noodle bowl with it.

That night, Spencer Wang lit four large charcoal fires in the four corners of the two-sided room of the town hall, arranged a bath, soaked dried plum blossoms in hot water for the woman to wash, and then moved a wooden bed to the middle of the room. There were red candles around the bed, which were as thick as an arm. If one was inserted every one foot, the house would be brightly lit. After putting the woman on the bed, Spencer Wang sat on the chair beside the bed and smoked the hookah. The woman wanted to cover herself with a quilt, but Spencer Wang wouldn't let her cover her up. She wanted to cover her with clothes, but Spencer Wang didn't let her cover her up. The woman curled up and buried her face in shame. She just said that Spencer Wang came after smoking the hookah, but Spencer Wang still smoked the hookah pot. Slowly knead the shredded tobacco, press it on the tip of the pot, and blow on the paper fire. When the paper is burning, point it to the tip of the pot, snoring, blowing out the paper fire, and then snoring while watching. Inhale, and the smoke circles you exhale fly around the room. Throughout the night, Spencer Wang only said two sentences, one was: Nephrite, the other was: Wen Xue. I kept smoking the hookah and watching the woman until dawn. Spencer Wang put down the hookah pot, came out, stretched her body and said to Rowan Lao: Didn't she let me watch it? I watched it and I've seen enough. You can send her back. Rowan Lao said: Send it back? ! Spencer Wang said: I’m done with it.

Rowan Lao went in and told the woman what Spencer Wang said, and the woman cried and hit her head on the edge of the bed, causing a bloody patch. Rowan Lao stopped her, not allowed to cry, and urged her to pack up and leave. The woman couldn't stand up, so Rowan Lao wrapped her in a quilt and she pulled the quilt away. It was the first time that Rowan Lao saw a woman's naked body. When he wrapped it again, he grabbed one leg and stuffed it under the quilt.

Rowan Lao went to see Spencer Wang, his face flushed, and said: She is trying to commit suicide, if you don't want her, give her to me. Spencer Wang was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes wide and said: I don't want her, so why are you sharing the burden with me? !

Rowan Lao Er came back into the room, knocked the woman unconscious with one punch, wrapped her in a quilt, put her in a backpack, and carried her to Qingfeng Yi.

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The woman's name was Brielle, and her brother's name was Caspian. Caspian was a eunuch who used to castrate pigs and dogs for other people. He had just returned that day, and was fighting with Rowan Lao in the yard. The two were evenly matched. Rowan Lao said: I have a gun, but I won't shoot you for your sister's sake! Caspian's parents separated their son, saying that Rowan Lao had nothing to do with the matter. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the sky, then slapped themselves and cried: What kind of sin is this, what kind of sin is this! Caspian stopped fighting with Rowan Lao, pointed at the sun and cursed: Spencer Wang must be castrated in the future!

Rowan Lao did not become San Hai's enemy. Rowan Lao felt that San Hai had a bad temper and became friends. He came to see San Hai after a while. Because he had a gun, he could catch chickens at anyone's house. After catching the chickens, he would let Caspian stew them in wine. One time, both of them were drunk. Rowan Lao said he wanted to marry Brielle. Caspian said, "I'll tell Brielle after you finish the jar of wine." Rowan Lao picked up the jar and drank. At this time, Caspian's father was arguing with someone outside the courtyard. It turned out that Caspian's dog was a male and had been looking for a female dog in a house on the street. The dog was chased away every time, and the dogs came more and more. Tonight, unexpectedly Two dogs came to cry on the roof of his house. Caspian's father said: Can dogs cry? The man said: Just crying! Caspian's dad said: If you want to cry, it's just a B!tch crying. The man said: Can a male dog cry if he doesn't seduce a female dog? When the noise got louder, Rowan Lao came out and said, "The dog is crying, let me see." Several people went to that house, and sure enough, the two dogs were still crying on the roof. Rowan Lao said: Which one is your female dog? The man said: On the left. As soon as Rowan Lao raised his pistol, it went off, and the B!tch fell from the roof. Rowan Lao pointed his gun at the man's forehead again and said: Do you know who I am? If you dare to find trouble with my father-in-law again in the future, I will give you bullets to eat! The man fell to the ground in fright, and Rowan Lao also fell to the ground, drunk and unconscious.

Rowan Lao was drunk all night at Caspian's house. Caspian's father asked Caspian, why did Rowan Lao say that he was his father-in-law? Caspian said that Rowan Lao drank too much and wanted to scare that family. When Rowan Lao woke up the next day and was about to leave, he wanted to see Brielle, but Brielle was in the wing and didn't come out.

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On July 15th, Rowan Lao went to the county town for business, but unexpectedly he met his cousin at the Chenghuang Temple.

There is nothing unusual about the City God Temple, but the ginkgo tree outside the temple gate is a unique sight in the county. It is so thick that it takes four people holding hands to circle it. It is more than thirty feet tall. When the leaves are golden, they can even illuminate the City God Temple in the evening. However, for half a month in a row, black smoke has been coming out of the ginkgo tree, and the black smoke is so big that people in the whole city can see it. In fact, it is not that the ginkgo tree has caught fire, but that a large number of mosquitoes have inexplicably flown in, and a black mass has appeared above the tree canopy, sometimes spinning into a straw hat shape, and sometimes pulling out several strips, which look like smoke from a distance. This smoke appears once a day, and each time it takes two pots of dry tobacco to disappear. Rowan Lao ran to see what was going on, and suddenly felt someone poking his waist. He turned around and raised his box gun. He looked and saw that it was his cousin.

My cousin is from Wanwanping, and his family is well-off. He has been sent to the provincial capital to study, and he has not come back for more than ten years. Suddenly, he is still so handsome, with an extra pair of glasses, and a bit of elegance. His cousin said that he had joined the county middle school as a teacher three months ago, and his name had been changed to Li Desheng. Rowan Lao also said that he was now in the security team of Zhengyang Town Office and was a platoon leader. The two of them, one in culture and one in martial arts, went to a tavern to drink. When they were about to break up, Rowan Lao said: If you have anything to do in the future, just tell me and I will settle it for you! Li Desheng really came to see Rowan Lao from time to time, but he was fine. He just came to drink and gave Rowan Lao a book. Rowan Lao was illiterate and did not ask for a book. He was interested in Li Desheng's wide cowhide belt. Rowan Lao put on his leather belt and left his coat open, then put on his gun, and walked leaning forward from then on. Rowan Lao was curious about what was going on in the provincial capital, and Li Desheng said that the country was now divided by warlords and was torn apart, and everything was in chaos. Rowan Lao said: I know this. Whoever has a gun is the king. Li Desheng also said that young people in provincial towns took to the streets to demonstrate against darkness and to make progress. There were frequent bloody conflicts between military police and students, and many people went to Yan'an. Rowan Lao asked: Is this the Yan'an where the Communist Party exists? Li Desheng said it was the Communist Party's Yan'an, where the Soviet government existed. Rowan Lao said: The town party headquarters has been shouting about anti-communism all day long, so we won’t talk about it. Li Desheng stopped talking and took Rowan Lao to drink again. When Rowan Lao drank too much, he started talking about Brielle.