The dust settles

Chapter 39

I don't believe that children can want what they want, and don't want it if they don't want it.Tana showed me some pink pills; she said they were from India.There are many magical things in India, and the British brought many magical things to that place.So if something is beyond our comprehension, just say it comes from India, and we will believe it.It is the poppies that came from China. Mr. Huang said that the British got them from India a hundred years ago.So, I believe the pink pills can tell Tana to choose whoever she wants, whoever she wants, just as we can eat whatever cook we want.My relationship with Tana was so naked, but I loved the frankness and authenticity.I admire Tana for bringing our relationship to a position like this.She has the ability to manipulate things like this.She is also very good at picking when to discuss such things.

The wind pushed us from behind, and we rode for a long run.Finally, we stood on a small hill.In front of you, the flat plateau undulates slightly and unfolds vigorously.The eagle stopped very high in the sky, its wings outstretched and motionless.At this time, the concrete things became abstract, and the things that would have caused unforgettable pain were like a scorching bullet passing through the skin. Although it was fatal, it only burned some hairs.My wife said, "Look, what we discussed!"

The open scenery in front of me made my heart tolerate anything, and I said, "It doesn't matter."

Tana smiled, showing a mouthful of white and neat teeth, and said, "When you go back, these words will make your heart hurt again."

This woman, she knows everything!

Yes, those words, in the house, when I wake up in the middle of the night, will make my heart ache.Became a slow poison in my heart.But now, when the wind is driving the clouds in the sky, and the grass is blowing on the ground, words are of little importance.We also talked a lot, all of which were blown away by the wind, leaving no shadow in my heart.

Suddenly, Tana flicked the reins and ran back.This woman is peeing.Suo Lang Zelang came up with a flick of the rein, and walked side by side with me.In the past few years, he has become a guy with a thick neck and a thick throat.He looked away and said to me, "One day, I'm going to kill this goblin." The taxman's brown uniform made his face look dark and serious.He said: "Don't worry, young master, if she really does something like a bitch, I will kill her for you."

I said, "If you kill my wife, I'll kill you."

He didn't speak.He won't take his master's words too seriously.Solang Zelang is a dangerous guy.Both the housekeeper and the master said that such a person would only be reused if he met a master like me.What kind of master is a master like me?I asked them.Master stroked his scorched beard, looked at me from head to toe, nodded, then shook his head.The housekeeper said, follow along, and feel at ease.He said that the master is not a chieftain, so he is not afraid of his suspicion of treason.

Tana is back.

On this day, I seemed to see a vague and beautiful future. I led everyone to hold up their whips and urged their mounts to gallop across the field. , is an exciting landscape.

On that day, I also received a letter from a Han place called Chongqing.The letter is from my uncle.When my uncle came back from India that time, apart from coming to get a dowry for the wife of our poor British baron, it was also to welcome the Panchen Lama back to Tibet from China.But the master passed away on the way.The uncle returned to the place of the Han people.

The uncle's letter is in duplicate, one in Tibetan and one in Chinese.Both words mean the same thing.Uncle said in the letter, in this way, no one will convey his meaning to me wrongly.He knew of my great success on the frontier, and of my great means now, and asked me to lend him some silver.Because the Japanese are about to fail, if you work harder, the Japanese will fail, and Master Banshan's prayer will be fulfilled, but everyone must grit their teeth and work harder to defeat the most cruel man in the world. of demons.He said that when the war was won and he returned to India, he would use all his precious stones to pay off the debt.He said, at that time, everything belonging to my uncle belonged to my nephew.He wants to amend the suicide note and change the name of the English lady in our family to my name.He said in the letter that if his nephew said that the money was a personal contribution to the country, he would be very proud and proud of the Maggie family.

I asked them to prepare horses to carry the silver to the place called Chongqing mentioned in my uncle's letter.

Mr. Huang said that there is no need to be so troublesome. If you want to do business for a long time, it will be too troublesome to carry the silver around. It is better to open a bank account.So, we opened a bank account.Master Huang wrote a note, and my people took the paper stamped with the red seal of the silver number and sent it to Chengdu, saying that it was my uncle who could get [-] silver dollars anywhere in China.This is what Master Huang said.Later, my uncle wrote a letter, and he really received [-] silver dollars. From now on, our people no longer need to carry a lot of silver dollars when they go to Han to do business.Similarly, when people from the Han region come here, they don’t need to bring a lot of silver dollars with them, they only need to bring a note from the bank account with our bank account.Master Huang became the boss of the bank.

The clerk said this was the most meaningful thing.

I asked: "Is there any meaning to things that have never happened?"

"What makes sense will make sense."

"Your words don't make sense to my head."

My clerk smiled.Over the years, his personality has become more and more peaceful, and he just writes down what he sees.When you are free, put a bowl of wine mixed with honey in front of you, and sit in the sun and taste it slowly.Later, some poplar trees we planted in the yard grew up, and his seat was moved from the porch to the shade of a large poplar tree.

He just sat under the tree and said, "Master, the days go by slowly." I said, "Yes, the days really go by slowly."

My emotion was heard by the butler, and he said: "What are you talking about, young master? Life is going by much faster now than in the past! So many unexpected things have happened, and these things would have cost at least 500 years in the past. 500 years, you know? My young master, [-] years may not be enough, but you still say that time passes slowly."

The clerk agreed with the butler.

I had nothing to say and nothing to do, so I went into the street to drink in the tavern.

The owner of the shop is quite familiar with me, but so far I don't even know his name.I once told him our relationship was not like a blood feud.The owner of the shop said that their brother's feud was Tusi Maiqi, and ignored the young master who did business on the border, collected taxes in the market, and opened a bank.I said, "One day I'll be toast."

He smiled: "At that time, you were our feud, but that was still far away."

People who live here always like to see things that are about to happen very far away.

I asked him if he felt that time was passing faster and faster.

The shopkeeper smiled: "Look, time, the young master has started to care about time." When he said this, he did use a mocking tone.Of course I'm going to throw wine in his face.The owner sat down and was in a daze for a while, trying to say something, but stopped talking, as if there was something wrong with his head that prevented him from expressing.Finally, he wiped the wine off his face and said, "Yes, time is faster than before, as if someone is whipping it."

41. Fast and Slow

Life on the border is very leisurely.

I've lived in the same room all these years.Every morning when I wake up, I see the same ceiling, even if I don’t open my eyes, every grain of wood on it is clearly reflected in front of my eyes.Outside the window, there are always those undulating lines on the ground.Thousands of sunrises, thousands of sunsets, every day, I wake up to the light from the same window, and those two long-standing problems don't bother me anymore.

I can't remember if this happened two or three years ago.

That morning, Tanner rested one hand on the pillow and looked at me inquiringly.Seeing me wake up, she bent down even lower, and put her probing gaze into my eyes.Her nipples rubbed against my face, and the strong breath of a woman came to my nostrils.She was still looking into my eyes, as if she could see inside of me from there.And all I could feel was the breath of her flesh.She has slept in the same bed with me for so many years, and I have never realized that in the early morning, when the morning light falls on the bed through the window, there is such a moving breath on her body.Her body smells good without spices.Usually, she uses a lot of spices, and I thought she smelled like other women.

The smell of Tana made me dizzy, and I gasped as if someone had suddenly strangled my neck.Tana smiled, a red cloud appeared on her face, a hand slid down from my chest like a snake, slid across my stomach, and held my firm and hot little brother.I thought, the little brother scalded her hand, she shuddered and said, "Oh!" Then, her body also became hot.Tana is a very good rider.Rolled onto me as lightly as on a horse.She undulates as if galloping on a horse.Take me to the distant horizon.

I don't know what passed before my eyes, whether they were real scenes or just colorful bubbles.I heard myself making the sound of a fierce horse.

Riders also yelled from horseback.

In the end, both rider and horse fell down.Sweat binds us together, and later, the sweat dries.A few bees stinging against the windowpane from outside.

Tanor put his lips to my face and said, "We all forgot about your question."

I said, "I know where I am, and I know who I am."

Tana sat up in bed, her face and breasts glowing in the morning.She asked aloud, "Do you know who you are?"

I jumped off the bed, stood on the ground floor, and answered loudly.

"Where are you?"

"Waiting for the toast place!"

Tana jumped off the bed with the quilt covered, and the two of them lay naked on the carpet hugging for a long time.It was this morning that she promised not to take the medicine that would prevent her from conceiving a child.I asked her what if I was really an idiot.I really mean it.She said: "Don't be afraid, there is no idiot waiting to be two chieftains in the world."

(End of this chapter)