The dust settles

Chapter 45

46. ​​People of Color

I saw some newcomers on the street, but I couldn't tell which ones were colored.It's just that in the two newly opened shops, it can be seen that the guys wearing Tibetan clothes are actually Han Chinese.

At the hotel I frequented, the owner asked me what I was looking for on the street.I told him."Are they going to put color on their face? Their color is in their heart," he said.

"Then I wouldn't recognize them."

So, I sat down and drank in the store.I also joked with him that if his younger brother was around, he would attack Toast Maiqi these days and take revenge.I said: "If that revenge must be avenged, this time is the best time."

The owner of the store sighed and said that he didn't know where his brother had fled.

I said, "Then what are you doing here?"

"If I know my brother is dead, or if he doesn't want to continue doing it, I will do it. This is the rule set by our two brothers."

One of their rules makes my back chills, if the Machitoast dies before they do it, the next Machitoast, which is me, will automatically be the target of their vengeance, and the real Machitoast must be killed , can be regarded as revenge, I was scared at the time, and wanted to send someone to help the two brothers get rid of Toast Maiqi.The owner of the hotel smiled and said, "My friend, you are such a fool, why didn't you think of killing me and my brother."

Yes, there is no such thought in my head.

The shop owner said: "That way, you don't have to worry about the day I will come to kill you." He sent me out and said: "Young master has a lot of things to do, go back, go back and do your things."

While talking here, the owner of the brothel came to invite me.Still far away, the laughter of the girls, the creaking music on the record player, and the smell of stew and boiled peas came to my face warmly.I sat down in the hall downstairs, not wanting to eat anything or touch the girl in my arms.I think the air smells of syphilis.I was sitting with a clean girl in my arms, listening to the boss tell some funny things about the toasts here.Even her girls giggled when they heard the funny thing that happened to them, but I didn't find it funny.

I asked the owner of the brothel about Han people of color, she smiled and said, "There are colors and no colors, red or white is the same in my place." She spat on the ground, "Bah! Men of what color There is no difference, unless you are like the young master."

"How is the young master?"

She took out a piece of minced meat from between her teeth, flicked it away, and said, "I don't know who is like the young master, who looks stupid but not really stupid." From her tone, she seemed to have seen anyone of any color .Pooh!The woman who spread syphilis.

I walked out of the big house where the music was playing, and spat hard on the ground.

A lonely little whirlwind rolled over from far away. Along the way, under the bright sunlight, it swirled all the carpentry and grass clippings on the street into the air, making a crackling sound like a flag waving.Many characters avoided it while spitting at it.It is said that there are ghosts in the whirlwind.It is said that human saliva is the most poisonous, and ghosts and ghosts have to escape.But the whirlwind got bigger and bigger, finally, some girls rushed out from the big house, raised their skirts facing the whirlwind, and a flower called syphilis appeared on the crotch, and the whirlwind fell to the ground and disappeared.My heart was empty, thinking it was because I hadn't found any Han people of color, otherwise, the empty space would have been filled.

Just when I was looking for where the whirlwind had gone, the servants found me.

My wife ran away, and she ran away with Chieftain Wangbo.

Solan Zelang mounted a horse with a large group of people, and set off without waiting for my order.The cavalry was blown away like a whirlwind.They chased southward for three days, but they did not find Chieftain Wangbo or my wife.Suolang Zelang returned empty-handed, and ordered someone to set up an execution post in the yard, and asked Eryi to tie himself to it.I wasn't sad, but I couldn't get up in bed, and when I closed my eyes, Tana's beautiful face appeared in front of me.At this time, the scream of whips tearing the air sounded downstairs.The maid who was also named Tana took the opportunity to appear before my eyes again.For many years she was among the maids, and became more and more estranged from me.Now she's buzzing like a mosquito again, circling around my bunk.She told her master not to be sad, and kept cursing the name Tana.I want to give a mouth to this woman with small hands and feet who can spit out so many vicious words, but I don't want to raise my hand.I told her to go away, and I said, "Or you'll be assigned to a shoemaker who's blind in one eye."

The maid knelt down and said, "Please, I don't want to have a slave."

I said: "Then you go out.".

She said: "Don't assign me to a man. I am your woman alone. If you don't want me, I also remember that I am your woman."

Her words burned my heart, and I wanted to say something, but she closed the door, withdrew, and went back to the line of maids.

Downstairs, the whipped Solang Zelang finally cried out.

This gave me strength, so I went downstairs and told Eryi to stop.

This is the first time Eryi executed for me.Unexpectedly, Suo Lang Zelang became the prisoner.When the rope was loosened, he followed the execution pole, slipped and fell to the ground, and the chieftains were all around there, admiring the exquisite whipping technique of the executioners of Maiqi's family.Toast Ronggong wanted to say something, but he looked at my eyes and the whip in Eryi's hand, and swallowed his words.The same is true for Maiqi toast; now, among all the toasts, there is only one Lashepa toast who is my true friend.What he wanted to say, I didn't ask him to say it.Because it's no use talking about it.I told these chieftains, they asked me what I asked them to do, that is, to see how the women from the Ronggong family betrayed me.I told them that tomorrow, anyone who wants to leave can leave, and they already have my gift on them.

They spread their hands, meaning that they didn't get my gift, but they didn't know that the gift I gave them was called syphilis.

The chieftains are all ready to go.Come and bid farewell to my sad master.

Chieftain Lashepa said: "It's her, this mother, who told her daughter to seduce Chieftain Wangbo, young master, don't let her go."

Unexpectedly, just as the chieftains left one after another, Tana came back.She wobbled on her horse and came back.The dust on my wife's face was the color of ashes after a fire.She said to me very calmly: "Look, I will be your woman for the rest of my life, and I'm back." When she slept with the dead young master of Mai Qi's family, it was the same way.I wanted to say something to her, but nothing came out.I watched her go upstairs in front of me.The toasts all looked at me, but I watched Tana go upstairs calmly.At this time, her mother should never have come out, but the old woman came out to meet her beautiful daughter.The female chieftain of Ronggong found that the beautiful daughter's face was not bright at all.A fire burns everything down.Even when I saw it, I felt a dull pain in my heart. When Tana saw her mother, she burst into tears immediately.

Tana looked at her mother, who sat on the stairs and cried out.

At first, the female chieftain had a sad expression on her face, but slowly, the female chieftain straightened her waist, spat at the aiding daughter in full view, and went downstairs with one hand on her waist .When she walked up to me, she said, "This incompetent girl is not Rong Gong's daughter! You fool, go up and comfort her, tell her not to cry, I'm leaving!"

The logic of women is different. It seems that if there is such a sentence, the current matter has nothing to do with her.I don't think this is right, but can't think of anything wrong.The father yelled from upstairs not to let the woman go.Chieftain Maiqi came down from upstairs panting, and shouted to me: "If you follow her words, you will no longer be able to be chieftain of Ronggong! In the future, you will no longer be able to be chieftain of Ronggong!"

His son asked foolishly: "In the future? How can I be Maiqi toast and Ronggong toast?"

The toasts laughed.

Toast Maiqi almost fainted from anger. If the servants hadn't supported him, he would have fallen to the ground.Mrs. Tusi also came down from upstairs and shouted at her son, "Then you should be the chieftain of Ronggong first and then the chieftain of Maiqi!"

The female chieftain smiled, and said to Mrs. Chieftain: "Can your bad old man outlive me?"

The female chieftain spat at her daughter again, and went into the house to pack her things.

The chieftains also dispersed slowly, some immediately went on the road, and some even went to the brothel for the last night.

The wind carried Tana's cry as it had blown her song.

The clerk said to me with his eyes: "The play is about to end."

Master Huang was worried in the room.

He was worrying about the arrival of his colored brethren.The master lost his official position because he opposed the white Han people beating the red Han people, but he still preferred the white Han people to win.He said that if the white Han people took over these places, he still had a way out.And when the red Han people came, it was hard to say what they were going to do.I once paid for an airplane for white Han people, so my master and I quickly reached an agreement: If Han people, Han people of color must come, then let the white Han people come.

Tana was burned in the fire of lust by chieftain Wangbo, and was abandoned again.

If everyone wants something, I want it too; if no one else wants something, I don't want it either.The same is true for women, even if she is the most beautiful woman in the world, even if I will never see such a beautiful woman again.

Let her grow old alone in that room.

The female chieftain of Ronggong bid farewell to me, and I said, "Don't you want to take your daughter away?"

She said, "No!"

I said, "Chief Wang Bo abandoned your daughter."

"First of all, she's your wife," she said.

I said, "She'll wither and die in that house."

The butler said, "Let's ask Chieftain Ronggong what he wants to say."

The female chieftain said: "I want you to promise in front of so many chieftains that you will not send anyone to chase me down the road." Everyone heard this sentence.Solan Zelang, Eryi, and Mrs. Toast all shook their heads at me vigorously. They didn't want me to promise this woman.But the chieftains wanted me to agree to her request.They knew that if chieftain Ronggong could go back safely, they would not be in any danger.I had no choice but to say to the female chieftain: "Okay, you can rest assured and go on the road."

Toast Rong Gong walked away, and I said to the invited guests: "You can all go on the road with confidence."

After another day, the guests were gone.

Toast Maiqi took his wife and left last.When we parted, my mother's eyes were red, but our father and son had nothing to say.My mother bent down from the horse, kissed my forehead, and whispered in my ear: "Son, be patient, I will see you become a toast."

I want to say it's too late, time is moving faster and faster, but I can't say it, I just say, "I'm going to miss you, Mama."

Her tears came down.

Mother shook the reins and started on the road.I was deaf to the sound of the entire team of horses, but every time my mother's horse took a step, the patter of hoofs seemed to be stepping on the apex of my heart.I pulled the rein of the horse: "Grandma, the Han people of color are here."

She reined in the horse, stood there for a while, and finally said nothing, and with a flick of the whip, the horse started off again.

The foolish son chased after him again, and my wife bent down deeply from the horseback. I told her not to sleep with Toast Maiqi anymore, he had already contracted syphilis.It looks like she knows what I'm talking about.Although there is no such thing in the territory of the chieftains, she came from a place where there was already such a thing.

The housekeeper said, "Why doesn't the young master mention the matter of the throne?"

Master Huang said: "There are not many days left."

Solan Zelang asked me to allow him to hunt and kill Chieftain Ronggong, but he knew that I would not agree. This guy, his ultimate goal is to ask me to allow him to hunt and kill Chieftain Wangbo.So, I have to agree.My only condition is to kill Chieftain Wangbo if he is still on the way.If chieftain Wang Bo has already returned to the official village, he will do something again, and I will tell Eryi to kill him when he comes back.

He said nothing, took two short guns, and immediately set off on the road.He should have at least looked back at us, but he didn't, and I kept watching him disappear from my view.After he left, I counted the days he left day by day, that is to say, I counted my days by the number of days Solang Zelang left Ding.After leaving for a day, someone wanted to replace him as a tax officer. I called Eryi and gave the guy a whip.The whip eater was originally Suolang Zelang's subordinate, but this time, he was even stripped of the tax collector's brown clothes.I asked the steward to look through the register, and found that this man was still a free man, so I made him a slave.If Solang Zelang can return safely, he will be a free man.Because I am not a chieftain, so, how many free men and how many slaves under my command, I have to decide how many freemen and slaves I have.But this time, I just asked the two of them to switch. Thinking about it, my father didn't have much to say when he knew about it.

No. On the 12th day, Sangji Drolma's silversmith husband came.His wife was away, and Zhuoma went to the hot spring ranch to find the ranch girl with the same name as her.Because she saw that I hadn't been with Tana for a long time.I had two Tanas by my side, one who betrayed me and the other who didn't interest me at all.

The silversmith came to see me.I said he is not needed here.

The steward, who always understood me in such matters, said to the silversmith, "Sangye Drolma is the head waiter of all the women here, and you are no match for him."

The silversmith cried out that he loved his wife.

The steward said: "Go back, the chieftain really wants to fulfill your promise and ask him to give you the status of a free citizen."

The silversmith could have begged me well, and I sat next to him when he was talking to the housekeeper, but he showed a proud smile on his face, and said, "The chieftain will reward me with a status." He put his hands on his shoulders, and he walked a few steps before he turned around and said to me: "Master, if I come back again, you will have to pay me for silverware."

What he meant was that if he came back, he would be a free man worthy of Dolma.I said, "Okay, I'll pay you twice the price." The silversmith turned around, and I saw loneliness and pain from his back.I remembered that "he lost his status as a free citizen because of Sangji Drolma. Looking at his back; I tasted the bitterness in his mouth and the heart when he attracted my personal maid. This time, he is going to recover his status as a freeman for Sangye Dolma. I am desperate for his future.

There is no hope for the silversmith to go on this trip, but everyone is the same, whether it is a silversmith, a chieftain, or a slave, they all only want to do what they want to do, and dare not ask whether there is hope for doing so.From the standpoint of secretary Weng Boyixi, nothing is interesting, but he still needs to find a comfortable place to sit down and think hard.The silversmith went out for a while before I told Eryi to ride a fast horse and chase him back. The silversmith saw the executioner chasing him, thinking he was going to die, and wiped his sweat all the way.Eryi took him to a brothel.There, amidst the deafening music, the silversmith smelled roast meat and peas cooking in bone broth, and almost fell to the ground.The girls helped him upstairs, and he ate two big plates on the bed.While exerting force on the girl's stomach, he kept belching. He was really full.

Sangji Zhuoma came back from the hot spring ranch.She returned empty-handed, the girl had married far away.I sat with my former maid, relatively silent.She asked me in a low voice if I missed the past.I do not want to talk.She sighed and said that I was a loving master.I told Sangye Dolma that the silversmith had come.This time, it was her turn to sigh.I know that she loves silversmiths, but now she is actually an official, and she knows very well that as soon as I become chieftain, her slave status will disappear immediately, so when faced with this question, she remains silent.

When Eryi came in and reported that the silversmith was working in the brothel, Sangji Zhuoma shed tears and said, "Thank you, young master, for making the silversmith happy."

The proprietress left the silversmith behind, and she said, "Hui, I'm about to make a lot of silverware."

People who have come back from the brothel say that the exquisite silverware in the brothel is getting more and more every day.Sangye Dolma shed tears a few more times.She would not sleep with the butler any more, but she did not visit the silversmith either.This is the ending of the love between the maid and the silversmith.

It has been almost a month since Suo Lang Zelang left, and there is still no news.On this day, I looked at the road leading to the south.Tana was followed by Tana, I mean, the chieftain's daughter was followed by the groom's daughter, I mean my wife was followed by my personal maid, who came to me.The unfaithful wife had just sucked enough opium, her face was haggard, but her eyes were shining with madness, her body was shaking in the wind, I reached out to help her, she seemed to be in the cold wind grown up."Your killer will never come back," she said.

I'm not one to keep everything in mind, and then I'd be wise instead of a fool, and she's treating me like one.She reminded me of the old days.I went downstairs and left her upstairs.Down below, I called Tana, and the groom's daughter came down, leaving the chieftain's daughter on it alone.At a high place, behind the carved railing, the wind was blowing her clothes, and she seemed to be flying.If such a beautiful woman flies to the sky against the wind, no one will be surprised. Her life is so beautiful that people believe that she is a fairy in the sky.But she didn't fly up, she still stood there alone, this way, her body would become even colder.

I dreamed that Tana was transformed into a jade figure, shining under the moon.

When I woke up in the morning, there was frost on the ground, which was the earliest frost of the year.Before long, it will be winter.

Solang Zelang finally came back, he lost a hand and a gun.

(End of this chapter)