The dust settles

Chapter 42

Master Huang closed his eyes when he spoke, and asked in a surprised tone: "Is it really that fast? That's faster than I expected." He opened his empty eyes, stroked a few scorched beards and said, First, when the country was strong, many chieftains were entrusted. Later, when the country became stronger again, the chieftains were about to be eliminated. But at this time, the country became weaker, and the chieftains survived for another 200 years.Master Huang's empty eyes shone with light: "Master, it means that the country will be strong again in just ten years or so."

I said, "Maybe, it won't be ten years."

The master asked: "My old bones, can I still see that time?"

I didn't care to answer his question.I asked him why a strong country cannot have chieftains.He said he never thought of the Maggie's young master as a fool, but when it came to the fact that even the wisest man in the land was an idiot.Because no chieftain seriously wants to know what is a country and what is a nation.I thought about it, maybe he was right, because when I was with many toasts, I never heard them discuss such issues.

We only know that the chieftain is the king of the mountains.

The master said that a complete and powerful country can only have one king.That king must never allow other people to call themselves kings, even if it is just a small earth king.He said: "Young master is not worried about changes, because you are no longer living in the chieftain era."

I don't believe his words, because I know that I am surrounded by chieftains, that is, I live in the age of chieftains, not to mention that I am still waiting to be on the throne of chieftain Maiqi.

More importantly, I only saw the toast disappear, but not the future.

No one likes a future that they can't see clearly.

43. They are old
In fact, many people believe my words, saying that the chieftains have no future.

This is not because the prophecy came from my mouth, but because the clerk and Mr. Huang also agree with me.In this way, everyone is convinced.

The first one who believed in it was Maiqi Toast.

Although he pretended not to believe it, the butler told me that the old chieftain believed in mysterious prophecies the most.Sure enough, one day my father said to me: "I figured it out, otherwise, how could God let you go to hell, you are not a fool, what kind of god are you." Chieftain Maiqi now firmly believes that I have a mission to end an era of.

During this time, my father was moaning and sighing.Man is such a strange thing. He clearly believes that everything related to the chieftain will be turned into dust in the end, but he still hates not being able to sit in the supreme seat until the last moment.He looked at me blankly and murmured, "How could I raise such a son as you?"

This is a difficult question for me to answer.So I asked him why he made me a fool.

He has grown old and yelled in my face: "Why can't you see the present, but see the future?"

The Mrs. Tusi who gave birth to my foolish son is not as pretty as before, but she is much younger than the rapidly aging Tusi.She said to her husband who was as old as her father: "Now you are watching closely, my son doesn't look at the future, what else can he look at?"

I heard myself say: "Respected chieftain, take your wife, your servants, and your soldiers back to your own place tomorrow." I told him that this is not the chieftain's summer palace, this place belongs to the chieftain. That unseen future.In the future, all the official villages will disappear, and this place will become a new place, a place belonging to the future era without chieftains, which will become bigger and more beautiful.

Toast Maggie was stunned.

Of course I wouldn't tell him to leave right away.I have already written a post, sent people, and sent a fast horse to invite a few chieftains from the neighborhood to come here to meet him.I call this party The Last of the Toasts.The invitation is also written according to my statement: I respectfully invite a certain chieftain to come to a certain place to participate in the last festival of the chieftains.Strange to say, none of the chieftains understood the word "last" as a threat, and they all set out on the road after receiving the invitation.

The first one to come was my mother-in-law, she was still so young, followed by four beautiful maids, with a long sword hanging from her waist and a short spear pinned to the other.I spread the carpet under her feet as a gift, and took her daughter downstairs to meet her.She got off her horse, called her daughter's name repeatedly, and followed Tana upstairs without looking at me seriously.After a while, my wife's sad cry came down from upstairs.Chieftain Maiqi was very angry. He asked me to kill my mother-in-law. If that happened, Chieftain Maiqi said, "You are Chieftain Ronggong, and there is no power to stop you."

I told him it was me who held myself back.

He sighed for a long time, saying that I only know how to be the Maiqi toast.It seems that for so many years, I just sat there foolishly, not expanding the territory of the Maggie family, and not building a bustling town on the desolate border that did not belong to the Tusi era.

While eating, the crying from upstairs died down.The female chieftain had no intention of going downstairs.I ordered Dolma to bring a large group of maids to deliver sumptuous food to the chieftain.For three days in a row, there was only a word from the female chieftain from upstairs, asking Haosheng to take care of her horses.The bright-eyed and white-toothed maid who came down to pass the word said that their master's horse had been bought from the Mongols for so much money.

I sat in the sun, squinted my eyes and looked at the sun, and asked someone to bring out those Mongolian horses.

The two boys knew immediately what I was up to and started fucking right away.A few shots were fired, and the female chieftain's Mongolian horse fell down, blood gurgling on the ground.The bullet casings jumped out of the gun barrel and rolled downstairs with a clang.The butler led someone to send the money twice the price of the horse to the chieftain.

The maid who sent the message was terrified, Solang Zelang grabbed her hand, stroked it for a while, and said: "If I kill your ignorant master, the young master will definitely reward you to me."

The maid glared at him.

I said to the maid: "At that time, it will be your greatest blessing that my tax collector will want you."

The maid's legs gave way and she knelt down in front of me.

I told her to go back, and behind her, in a voice that could be heard in this great house, I called, "Don't worry your master, she'll have better horses when she goes back!"

I didn't plan to do this in advance, but it worked.

In the evening, the female chieftain brought Tana downstairs for dinner.She still didn't want to condescend to talk to me, but she chatted patiently with Toast Maggie and his wife.Tana kept looking at me, first furtively and then boldly.Her gaze was provocative on the surface, but hidden behind it was fear.

After the meal, the female chieftain waved her hand, and her servants brought in the maid Suolang Zelang liked.They had already whipped her.The female chieftain turned to me with a bright smile and said, "This little hoof has misrepresented my words. Now, I will kill her."

I said: "I don't know what this girl passed on to her mother-in-law? She asked me to feed your horses. Could it be that you are passing on the news that those valuable horses will starve to death?"

This time, the female toast gritted her teeth even more, and asked the other three maids to push their companions to death.

Solan Zelang, my tax collector rushed in from outside and knelt down in front of me. I asked him to get up and speak, but he refused. He said, "My master knows what I mean."

I said to my mother-in-law: "This girl is the fiancée of my tax collector."

The female chieftain sneered and said, "What kind of an official is a tax officer?" She said that there are many things about me that she doesn't understand and don't like.

I said, here's the thing, this world that's being created isn't going to be to everyone's liking.

"Whatever shitty official he is, he's an official." The chieftain turned her face to chieftain Ronggong who had shared the bed with her, and said, "Your son doesn't understand the rules, this little hoof is a maid, a slave. "

This sentence made Mai Qi chieftain feel uncomfortable.

This female toast, she has been against me.I invited her here just to have the chieftains gather for one last time, but she was determined to oppose me.These years, the chieftains have lived with peace of mind. Perhaps, they thought that a good era has just begun.Now, I want to make this female chieftain who survived the famine by relying on my wheat and kept her seat feel bad.I told her that the people around me, except for Tana, who was born in a noble family and was the chieftain's daughter, were all born as servants.I called the head of the maids, Sangji Dolma, the executioner and photographer Eryi, my personal maid, the daughter of the groom, and introduced their backgrounds to her one by one.These servants showed the dignified smiles of superiors in front of other masters.This made the female chieftain very angry.She said to the maid, "Do you really want to talk to this man?"

The maid nodded.

The female chieftain said again: "If I forgive all your sins..."

The maid walked firmly behind Solang Zelang, interrupted her, and said, "I have not committed any crime."

Eryi raised the camera, there was a loud bang, and then a blinding white light, which also frightened my mother-in-law quite a bit.Her terrified expression was caught in the camera.After taking the picture, the female chieftain said that she will go back tomorrow.

I said, there will be other toasts coming here as guests.

She said to Toast Maiqi: "Originally, I could have a good talk with you at this point, but you are old and have no energy. If other chieftains want to come, I will wait for them and have fun together. " Her tone was as if those chieftains were her old friends.

The high-ranking chieftains are actually very lonely.

Once you have the silver, you either can’t sleep, or you dream of someone coming to snatch it when you fall asleep.There are women, but in the end, good women want to dominate you, and bad women can't arouse the lust that sleeps deep in the fat body.In the end, the toasts are old, and the place that made a man full of self-confidence has long since died forever.Toast Maiqi was wrapped in fat, and looked helplessly at Toast Ronggong with whom he had had a romantic relationship.

They are all old.

Night fell.

Miss Si looked much older than in the morning.The same goes for my mother and father.In the morning, they dressed themselves up, and more importantly, they still had some energy in the morning. In the afternoon, the dust on their faces, coupled with the sleepiness of the elderly, revealed the truth; Mai Qi and Rong Gong were looking forward to something else. The chieftain came early, and the servants laid out soft cushions in the most sunny place upstairs, and the two chieftains sat on the cushions and looked into the distance.Mrs. Toast enjoys opium in the house.She said that in her hometown in Handi, many people lost their fortunes because of such a little hobby, but in Maiqi's house, there is no need to worry that their dead bodies will be exposed on the street one day for smoking a few cigarettes, so she should enjoy it. This blessing.I asked Mr. Huang to talk with my mother, and the two Han people could talk about things in their hometown in their own words.

When the weather is fine, there will always be a gust of wind on the river at noon.

The wind on the river is blowing towards the summer palace of chieftain Maiqi.The servants stood up and blocked the wind with their bodies.Every day, there are guests.Almost all the toast came.Of course, Lashepa toast is indispensable.Chieftain Lashepa is related to the Maiqi family. During the famine years, when I first built the village, he lived here for a long time.Among all the toasts, I would say that he is the one who knows how to do business the most.When his troops appeared on the horizon, the chieftains who arrived first all came down from upstairs.I saw that the red carpet used to welcome guests had been trampled dirty by the toasts who arrived first, so I asked someone to replace it with a new one.Toast Lashepa crossed the sleepy town at noon and onto the wooden bridge.Even fatter.The first thing everyone sees is an inflated sack placed on the horse's back.When the horse was in front of me, I saw my friend's kind face between the baggy body and the wide-brimmed felt hat.

Look, more than half of the chieftains in this land stood in front of him, but he only raised his hat to these people.At the beginning, I took away a large piece of land from him, but when he got off the horse, he hugged me tightly. The two of them touched foreheads, cheeks, and the tip of their noses. The sobbing voice said, "Oh, my friend, my friend."

Toast Lashepa could no longer walk upstairs by himself.

Master Huang had a beautiful chair, and the servants carried the toast Lashepa upstairs in the chair.Sitting on the chair, he still held my hand tightly and said, "Look, the strength in my waist enables me to sit on horseback, and the strength in my hands enables me to hold my friend."

I want to say that this toast should be a model for all toasts.

The chieftain who came on the last day was a young man, nobody knew him, he was the new Chieftain Wangbo.He started from the southern border and made a big circle, so it took him longer than everyone else.The shortest way was through Chieftain Maggie's territory, and he didn't have the guts.Hearing this, Toast Maiqi laughed out loud, and soon, his laughter turned into a violent cough.Chieftain Wangbo ignored Chieftain Maiqi.He believed that this man was an opponent of the late Chieftain Wang Po, not his own.

He said to me: "I believe we will have common topics."

I poured him a bowl of wine, which meant to tell him to continue talking.

"Let's bury our hatred in the ground, not in our stomachs," he said.

The butler asked him if he had anything to ask the young master.

Chieftain Wangbo smiled. He asked for a place in the town, and he also wanted to do some business here.Mai Qitoast shook his head at me one after another.But I agreed to Wang Bo's request.He said he would pay taxes to me on time.I said, "What do I need so much money for? If the Chinese are still beating the Japanese, I'm just like my uncle; I paid for planes. But the Japanese have already lost, so what do I need so much money for?"

Someone said: "Didn't the Han people start fighting themselves?"

I said, "Master Huang said that this battle is China's last."

The chieftains asked Master Huang whether the red Han would win or the white Han.

Master Huang said: "No matter which side wins, the chieftains will not be what they are today. They will not be the supreme kings they think they are."

The chieftains asked: "With so many of our kings united, can't we defeat a Han king?"

Master Huang laughed loudly, and said to Mrs. Mai Qi Tusi, who was also Han, "Ma'am, did you hear that? These people are talking in sleep."

The chieftains were very dissatisfied, and the female chieftain rose up with her sword and wanted to kill my master.The chieftains persuaded her again.The female chieftain shouted: "Are there any men in the chieftain? All the men in the chieftain are dead!"

44. Toasts

The chieftains sat and chatted together every day.

One day, the housekeeper suddenly asked me what was the purpose of inviting these people here.

I just started to think about this question, yes, I invited these people just to ask them to meet with friends and enemies before they die?If I say yes, no one believes that there is such a good person in the world, even if the good person is a fool.What's more, this fool sometimes does the smartest things in the world.If not, no matter how I think about it, I can't think of what to invite these people to do.

I couldn't figure it out, so I asked the people around me, but everyone had a different answer.

Tana's smile was a bit stern, and she said that I just wanted to show myself in front of the two women of Ronggong's family.

She wasn't right.

I asked Master Huang, and he asked me back: "Young Master, do you know why I have come to this point? I think I am a smart person like them, otherwise I would not have come to this end." He remembered sad things.He said a few very elegant words: It is difficult to return to a family, and it is difficult to vote in a country.He sees the future of work and life.He said that in the future, no matter what color Han people win, he will not sing.This is what he said, "There is no opera singing by me".He opposed the war between the red Han and the white Han, but they fought anyway.The white side won and he was red.The red side won, and he couldn't even remember what he had done for them.I didn't expect Master Huang to be so sad.I asked him if his uncle liked red Han Chinese or white Han Chinese when he was alive.

He said they were white Han Chinese.

I said, "Well, I like white Han people too."

He said, "That makes sense, but I'm afraid you're wrong about liking it." When he said this, there was a puff of cold air on my back.The sun is shining brightly, and I can't tremble in front of others.

The master said: "Young Master, don't just like one color first. You are still young, unlike me who is already old. It doesn't matter if you like it wrong. Your career is booming."

But I have made up my mind, I like my uncle, and I will stand by his side.

I found the clerk, who was busy writing.After listening to my question, he slowly raised his head, and I understood the words in his eyes.He's a mystic, and I know he doesn't have any substantive answers.Sure enough; there was only one sentence in his eyes: "Fate cannot be explained."

Solang Zelang was very dissatisfied that I didn't ask him, so he found me himself and said, "Didn't you summon these people to kill them all?"

I said with certainty: "No."

He asked me again: "Young Master, you really don't have such a plan?"

I still answered: "No." But my tone was a little hesitant.

If Suo Lang Zelang persisted, I might really order to kill the chieftains.But he just snorted in his nostrils and said nothing more.Suo Lang Zelang was angry, so he yelled loudly at some of his fellow tax collectors.My tax collector is a curmudgeon.He has always had the desire to kill, and has always been very envious of his good friend Er Yi, who was born to kill.He once said: "Eryi was born to be an executioner. It is unfair for a person to be born with something instead of nothing. So someone asked him, is it unfair for a chieftain to be born a chieftain? He dared not say anything Yes. The butler once suggested that I kill him. I believe his loyalty has not been promised. Today’s incident proved this point again. Seeing his disappointment when he left, I really wanted to grab a toast and tell him to have a murderous addiction .”

With this little episode, I no longer ask myself why I invite the toasts here.

On this day, I drank with the toasts.Each of them came to toast me, only Maiqi Toast and Ronggong Toast didn't show any sign.After two rounds, I don't want them to persuade me, I drink it myself.Chieftain Lashepa and Chieftain Wangbo, who are closest to me, persuaded me not to drink anymore, saying that the owner was already drunk.The father said: "Tell him to drink. My son is almost as drunk as he is not drunk."

(End of this chapter)