The dust settles

Chapter 21

The father asked the elder brother to set off with the headman on the southern border.It is to ask him to implement the decision he made when he was acting.The chieftain asked him to build a big house on the border near the main road, with water in front, a flat land, and a place for horses nearby.

The elder brother asked what the house was repaired for.The chieftain said that if you can't think of it now, you should think of it after the house is completed.

"Think about it while you're doing it." The chieftain said, "Otherwise, how would you keep such a large fortune?"

When my brother returned to his life, he lost a lot of weight.He told the chieftain how he did his duty and how magnificent and beautiful the house was.The chieftain interrupted him and said: "I know what you said, I know that you chose your address well, and I know that you don't keep looking for girls.

I am very satisfied with these, but I just want you to tell me if you have figured out the problem. "

His answer made me yell in my heart: Eldest young master!

He said: "I know the government won't let us eat other chieftains, war is not an option, we have to establish friendship with them, that is the residence of the Maggie's family on the border, so that the chieftains can come to spend the summer and hunt together. "

The chieftain was also afraid that his clever son would give the wrong answer, but there was nothing he could do.He was wrong.

The chieftain had no choice but to say: "Now, go to the north and build another house, and then think about whether there is any other use for it."

My brother played the flute in the room until midnight, and when he called for dinner the next morning, he had already set off for the north.my poor brother.Originally, I wanted to tell him the purpose of the house, but he left.In our family, I should be the one who likes his hobbies.He paid more attention to how the chieftain did things and how he talked.In the Tusi era, no one ever taught the art of governance as a course.Although this course is a tough one.Unless you have a special talent in this area, you don't need to study hard.My brother thought he was that kind of person, but he wasn't.It is one thing to fight a war, it is another thing to be particularly attractive to women, and it is another thing to be a chieftain and be a good chieftain.

It's time for my brother to come back again, and my father has been looking forward to it for a long time.Every day he looked at the northern road from the platform of the arcade.The road in winter is brightly illuminated by the sun, and on both sides are birch forests that have lost all their leaves.Father's state of mind must also be so empty.On this day, my father got up very early.Because Lama Menba made a divination the previous day, saying that there are visitors coming on the northern road.

The chieftain said, "That means my son is coming back."

Lama Menba said, "He is a very close person, but he doesn't seem to be the young master."

22. Mrs. England
My uncle and sister are back!

Uncle from Kolkata, India.Sister is from England.

My sister went to my uncle's India first, and then returned home with him via Tibet.They dismounted, went upstairs, washed off the dust, ate, and I didn't even have time to say a word to them.Just saw them clearly.I like the uncle's face.His face was a bit like his father's, but rounder, fleshier, and more smiling.As far as I understand, he is not the kind of person who wants to win everything.People who don't want to win everything are smart people. To be honest, although I am stupid, I like smart people.Let me tell you who I think are smart people.

There were not so many of them, and there were more than enough fingers on one hand to count them.They were Chieftain Maggie, Commissioner Huang, the tongueless clerk, and this uncle.Look, only four fingers have been used, and there is one left, which can't be pulled no matter what.I had no choice but to let the little finger stand there, showing a very stubborn look.

Uncle spoke to me, he said: "The little guy is playing with his fingers." He beckoned, told me to go over, and put a jewel ring on the upright finger.

The mother said: "The etiquette is too serious, the uncle's courtesy is too serious, this child will throw away the treasure like a stone."

Uncle smiled: "Gems are also stones, just throw them away." He bowed his head and asked me again: "You won't throw away my gift, will you?"

"I don't know, they all say I'm a fool."

"Why can't I see it?"

Father said, "It's not that time yet."

At this time, my sister also spoke to me, and she said, "Come here."

I didn't understand her right away, thinking it was time to be silly again.In fact, it's not that I'm being stupid, it's that when she speaks her mother tongue, her tongue can't turn round.She knew exactly how to say that sentence, but she couldn't move her tongue.She said vaguely: "Come here." I didn't hear what she was going to say.But seeing her stretching out her hand to me meant telling me to go to her side.Before that, her letters to us had been very intimate.Take me for example, she always said in her letters: "How about my brother whom I have never met, he is cute." Or, "Don't lie to me that he is a fool, of course, it doesn't matter if he is. The neurologist in England will cure him." Mother said, Miss is a good person, and she will take you to England.Now, this good sister came back, said something vague, and then held out her hand to me.I walked up to my sister, but she didn't hold my hand like an uncle, but blocked me with her hands and cold eyes.It was warm in the room, but she was still wearing white gloves.It was my uncle who understood what she meant and asked me to touch the back of her hand with my mouth.My sister smiled, took out some colorful bills from her wallet, arranged them into a fan, and handed them to me.My uncle taught me to say, "Thank you madam."

I asked, "Does madam mean sister in English?"

"A lady is a lady."

My sister is already married to some kind of lord in England.So, she is not my sister, but my wife, my wife.

Madam rewarded me with brand-new foreign notes.They were all tickets from the countries she passed through on her way back from England.I thought, why didn't she give me one or two gold coins, didn't she say that there are very beautiful gold coins in England?I think she doesn't really like me.I don't like her either.I wanted to see her in the past.That's because I often see her photos.When looking at the photos, the surrounding smell is rising from the yard of Maiqi's official village, which is the domain of Maiqi's family.But now, sitting there, she has a completely different taste.We often say that the Han people have no smell, if there is, it is just the smell of water, which is equivalent to saying that there is still no smell.People from England have a taste, and the one that is similar to us is the smell of sheep.It is the savages, like us, who have it undisguised.Those who have this taste and want to suppress it with other flavors are civilized people, such as the British, such as my sister who came back from England.She gave me the bill and touched my forehead with her mouth, a mixed smell came out very strongly from her.Made me almost throw up.See what that England has made of our women.

She gave her father a woolen hat, tall and stiff, like an upside-down bucket.Mother got some shiny, colorful glass beads.Mrs. Toast knows that such things are worthless.If she took off the smallest ring on her finger, she could exchange it for hundreds of these beads.

The uncle delivered the gifts to everyone's room later.Apart from the ring that was put on my finger, his official gift to me was a jeweled Indian sword.He said: "You have to forgive me. Among all the people, you get the least gift. The fate of the young master is like this." He also asked me, "Son, do you like to have an uncle?"

I said, "I don't like my sister."

He asked me, "Where is my brother?"

I said, "He used to like me, but not now."

They didn't come back specifically to see us.

When they came back, both the Nationalist Government and the Communist Party in the Han region fought with the Japanese.At that time, the central government was no longer in Beijing, where our ancestors had been, but in Nanjing, which we were not familiar with.The Panchen Lama also went there; therefore, we think the national government is a good government.The great living Buddhas of Tibetans will not go to places without merit.My uncle often went to Shigatse on business from India to Tibet, where the Tashilhunpo Monastery of the great Panchen Lama is located.For this reason, his business followed suit in Nanjing.Uncle also donated an airplane to the national government to fight against the Japanese in the sky.Later, the national government lost Nanjing.The plane paid by the uncle and a Russian pilot fell into the largest river in the world.This is what my uncle said: "My plane landed in the largest river in the world together with the young Soviet boy." The Panchen Lama wanted to go back to Tibet, so my uncle went to meet him with money and came back to see his hometown.I could tell that even if his father gave way to him, he would no longer be the magi toast.Of course, he still expressed some opinions on family affairs.

He said, first, get out of the vortex of strife and stop growing opium;

Second, he said that the Maggie family is already stronger than ever, so don't look too powerful.He said that now it is different from before, and the toast will not exist for long.One day, the western snow region will fall to the British, and the chieftains in the east will naturally submit to the Han country;

Thirdly, establishing a market on the border is the best idea. He said that if the Macchi can still exist in the future, it may rely on border trade to obtain wealth;
Fourth, he brought his niece back for a dowry.The father said, "I gave her to you. Didn't you give her a dowry?"

Uncle said: "When it comes to the dowry, she wishes to have two or three rich old men."

Father said: "See what you have taught her to be."

Uncle smiled and didn't speak.

My sister's performance made the whole family dislike it.She wanted to live in her original room, but the housekeeper told her that this room was cleaned every day, and it was exactly the same as when she hadn't left.But she wrinkled her nose and sprayed a lot of perfume inside and out.

She also said to her father, "Get someone to bring me a radio."

The father snorted, but still asked someone to move a radio to her.Uncle didn't expect that she would bring batteries from such a far place.After a while, a strange and harsh sound came from her room.She turned the knob of the radio back and forth, and it was the same sound.Uncle said: "Don't worry about it, no radio station has ever sent a program to this place."

"Back in London I have nothing new to talk about."

She said, "How was I born in this savage place!"

The chieftain became angry and shouted to his daughter: "Didn't you come back to ask for a dowry? Take the dowry and go back to your England!"

My brother rushed back from the northern border upon hearing the news.Strange to say, he was the only one in the whole family who admired his sister very much, and acted in front of us as if this English lady was his real relative.But my dear sister said to him: "I heard that you always seduce those village girls. It's not decent for a nobleman to do that. You should have more contacts with the daughters of the chieftains." Hearing this, the elder brother couldn't laugh or cry.It seemed that she didn't know that the chieftain's daughters were many days away by mule and horse.It's not that you can walk there just by picking up your legs when you think of it on a moonlit night.

He said bitterly to me: "Maggie's family is full of strange people!"

I wanted to go along with him, but thought he included me.

When my sister came back, my father gave her two loads of silver and some precious stones.

She was worried about putting them in other places, so she asked people to move them all from the underground warehouse to her room on the fourth floor.

The father asked his uncle, "Why, is she having a hard time in England?"

The uncle said: "Her life is so good that you can't imagine." The uncle said, "She knows that she will never come back, so she asks for so much money. She just wants to live a good life that you can't even imagine. Value those things."

The father said to his mother, "My God, I don't like her, but she was lovely when she was little, and I'll give her some more gold."

Mother said: "Anyway, Chieftain Maiqi has been growing opium for several years, and he feels that he is richer than everyone in the world."

The chieftain said, "She really looks like her mother."

Mrs. Tusi said: "After the gold is in hand, she'd better leave early."

The uncle said: "Don't be sad, what I gave her is much more than what you gave her."

After the sister got the gold, she said: "I want to go on the road, I think I should go back."

Mrs. Tusi said: "Madam will not live for a while?"

My sister said: "No, if a man leaves a woman for a long time, something will happen, even if he is an English gentleman."

Before they left, my sister and brother went for a walk, and my uncle and I went for a walk.

Look, we also have a little habit of foreigners for the time being.Some of my brother's actions are getting more and more funny.The person that everyone dislikes, he just wants to act like he likes it very much.When the two of them are together, I don't know what they say, and I don't want to know.But I had a great time walking with my uncle.He said to me, "I will miss you."

I asked him again, "Am I really a fool?"

Uncle looked at me for a while and said, "You are a very special child."

"special?"

"That said, you're very different from a lot of people."

"I do not like her."

Uncle said: "Don't worry about it, she won't come back again." "Aren't you coming back too?"

Uncle said, "Will I become an Englishman? Will I become an Indian? No, I want to come back, at least when I die, I want to close my eyes under this sky."

The next day, they were on their way.Uncle kept looking back.My sister changed into a white dress of the British, with a piece of black veil hanging down the front of the hat.When she said goodbye, she didn't lift up the black veil.

My sister is about to leave us forever and leave my hometown.On the contrary, the father was still worried about his daughter's future. He asked his uncle, "Since silver is valuable in England, is it also money?"

Uncle said: "It's money, and it's money in England."

My sister has been talking with my uncle about what kind of places they will pass along the way.I heard her ask again and again: "Can we really ride in Chinese sedan chairs?"

Uncle said, "Sit if you like."

"I don't believe that the Han people in black will walk with a small house on their shoulders."

My brother said, "That's true, I've been there before."

The uncle said, "That's not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about bandits on the road."

My sister said: "I heard that the Chinese are afraid of the British. I have a British passport."

When we spoke, they had reached the mountain pass, and we stopped here to watch them go down the mountain.My sister didn't even look back, but my uncle kept turning his head and waving his hat at us.

After my sister and the others left, my brother started to treat me well again.He said that when he became a chieftain, he would often send girls to me.

I smiled foolishly.

He patted my head: "Just listen to me. Look at your Tana, no ass, no boobs. I'm going to give you a woman with big tits and big ass."

"Let's talk about it when you become a toast."

"That kind of woman is a woman, and I want to give you a real woman."

"Wait until you really become a toast."

"I want you to taste what a real woman is like."

I became impatient and said: "My dear brother, if you can be a toast."

His face immediately changed color, and he stopped talking, but I asked, "How many women are you going to give me?"

"Go away, you are not a fool."

"You can't say I'm not a fool."

At this time, the chieftain appeared, and he asked the two sons what they were arguing about.I said, "My brother said I'm not a fool."

The chieftain said: "God, you are not a fool, who else is a fool?"

The future chieftain heir said: "That Han woman taught him to play dumb."

The chieftain sighed, and said in a low voice, "It's not enough to have a brother who is an idiot, is his brother about to become an idiot too?"

The elder brother lowered his head and hurried away.There was a dark cloud on the chieftain's face, and it was because I said a lot of stupid things that made him smile again.He said, "I wish you weren't a fool, but you are."

Father reached out and stroked my head.Something deep in my heart moved violently.In that deep and dark place, let a beam of light shine on it, and when I wanted to take a closer look at the scene inside, the light went out.

(End of this chapter)