The Complete Works of Xu Zhimo's Classical Prose

Chapter 59
I'm on my way to Tokyo alone in the train now; the train is shaking violently, but it's time for me to write to you, let me talk to you about the day before I go to bed.Jiyuan can see you in two days, this letter must be far behind him, you can know from him how I look when I arrive, and so on.He brought back a bunch of handkerchiefs, which I bought in a hurry for you, and they may not be fancy; I will check them again when I have a chance when I get to Tokyo, and if I find any good ones, I will send them to you.This is really difficult to solve. On the one hand, we must not buy Japanese products out of patriotism, but when we come here to see how exquisitely made everything is, we have to love it.Jiyuan said: If you come, you must pack a few boxes back to enjoy yourself.Speaking of I asked him to buy you a basket of Japanese cherries when he passed Nagasaki, I wonder if he can remember.Japanese loquats are huge, but not tasty.White cherries are also beautiful, but are they delicious?Our ship has been turning into the inland sea of ​​the island country since last night. The islands of Kyushu are brightly lit, and amidst the surging sea waves and the vast night, each has its own charm.Looking at the scenery of the inland sea this morning, it is very beautiful, the water is green, the islands are blue, and the sky is blue; the most interesting thing is that the small fishing boats are raising sails of various colors, yellow, blue, white Green and gray, floating in the light waves, I took a few photos, but because of the backlight, I'm afraid it won't look good.After the meal, the ship stopped outside the mouth of Kobe, and the Japanese boarded the ship to check their passports.I mentioned in the letter that the more attractive Chinese woman, probably to avoid kidnapping, the whole family went ashore in Japan.I told Uncle Wen that this is good, the men on the boat are all stupid, and the women are all ugly, how can we bear to go for more than ten days.I just imagined that if you came with me, how grandiosely we could walk side by side, causing everyone in the boat to stare!Dafengtou must go abroad, next year we must go to Xiyang alone because it is worth breathing the fresh air at sea.

The ship didn't dock until four o'clock, so I sent a radio to Jiyuan in the morning, so he asked Bao Zhenqing to pick it up, and a couple of journalists came with him, asking questions like this and that, but I got rid of it with a few slippery words , but we have to take a photo, tomorrow's Kobe newspaper can see our dignity.After landing, I drove around in a car. The new Chevrolet sports cars were the most on the street. After buying some things, I went to the mountains to see the male and female waterfalls, the place where Shuhua's brothers and sisters drowned or died suddenly.I like the mountains in Kobe. As soon as you enter, there is a tangy fragrance, and the general cool air invades your elbows and armpits, which is very wonderful.Along the way, there were small shops selling handicrafts and toys. Wen Bo and I bought two carved walking sticks.We went to sit and talk for a while by the male and female Takichi pond, the dark colors poured out from the verdant trees, and the sound of the flying spring filled the empty mountains at dusk: this is the unique beauty of Eastern landscape.Going down the mountain to take a rest in Jiyuan's apartment; Speaking of bathing, Jiyuan said that not only Tongbo dares to take a bath with other women, but even Shuhua is not afraid to take a bath with other men. This is an astonishing civilization!
We ordered noodles with scallions, which are scallions but not smelly, quite tasty.Mr. Bao sent me a telegram, only the word "Ping An", but I'm afraid you have to ask Xiaoyue for advice, because sending in Japanese is several times cheaper than in English.I went out to eat eel rice, and took pictures of Bao Jun (this photo can be seen in the Times).To catch up with the train, I bought a first-class ticket on the boat, but this express train only has a second-class sleeping car instead of a first-class one, and there is no space in the sleeping car, so I'm afraid I'll have to sit all night.I don't arrive in Tokyo until [-]:[-] tomorrow morning, so Tong Bo will come to pick me up.Going to Yokohama to board a ship the day after tomorrow, I want to go to Nikko or Hakone, I don’t know if there is time.Man, do you miss me?Are you feeling well?You are always in my thoughts, you must take care, love everywhere, have you written yet?After the day after tomorrow, it will take a month for you to get a letter from me, but I will definitely write to you every day, just in case you are not in a good mood now and the letter is too long and it will upset you.I know you don't like my philosophizing, but you know that your brother's love goes deep into your bones.I kiss you a thousand times.

Momo
Eighteenth

Empress of Canada
June23rd, 1928
Darling:

This is the 8th day on board and I haven't told you much about what it feels to be on board such a big ship as the Empress of Canada. The fact is we very much regret having taken to this boat instead of one of the Dollar-line boats. This is a Canada ship, a Britisher, not American. Consequently the atmosphere on board is pervaded with that British chill which is made doubly worse by the sea chill of the Northern Pacific. You mean to tell me this is summer time? Yes, except in the sight of here and there barely surviving white flannels and white canvas shoes one finds it extremely difficult to make out any trace of summer. Enter the drawing rooms and you feel (not surprisingly) the good of the radiators heartily at work again; go to the decks and you feel the good of caps and overcoats and heavy shawls and thicks teamship rugs tightly tugged round your sides; look at the sea ​​and you are confronted with indifferent masses of steely water hemmed in by hazy horizons and overcast with a misty firmament that promises neither sunlight nor glad-hued clouds. And you mean to tell me that this is summer, the month of June?

Wemps just proposed a star plan to us which, if successfully carried out will combine art and money.”Go to join the Hollywood crowd and make a million gold dollars of fortune out of say three years’ work”he says he can think of no better plan than that.

Sister:

Let me tell you some jokes: This week, every night, I have been lazy, and I can pass by wearing a Chinese coat instead of a formal dress.Wen Bo said last night: It's Saturday, let's try on the dresses.He started to put it on an hour earlier, and I lay still, thinking that I would put it on if I wanted to, so how long did it take.But when it came time to get started, the first hurdle was the collar; the few stiff collars I bought were a little too small, which was a sin and a joke.Because you tried so hard to put it in half, and if you were not careful, it came out again!It made my hands sore and my stomach almost turned over, but the collar still couldn't be buttoned in.I had no choice but to go out wearing Chinese clothes.Today, I started working an hour and a half ago. It was hard to go left and right, crying and laughing. It took a whole hour of trouble to buckle it up.Now that I have eaten, there is still no trouble, no out!The troubles of this civilization are really unbearable.When I come to the United States, I really want to wear Chinese clothes often, but I only have one new one to wear. I asked you to do it for me last time. I wonder if it will work?

Haixing was extremely cold, I put on all my outfits and still felt cold.The sky is also gloomy and not sunny; the past few days in China are just yellow plums, and we have hardly seen sunshine since we left Japan.The wind on the deck was unbearable, so I often had to hide in the room.The only pastime is to chat with Wenbo.This is delicious!We have been talking for several days in a row, and we can't finish talking.Today, I opened my eyes, yes, I had a strange dream early in the morning, what Freddy called Mrs. Tao to play around with a stick and beat him to death. (one dollar), from Zheng Yuxiu to Xiao Hei Niu.After finishing this, I talked about famous girls, such as Aizhihua, Pannu, Yaqiu, and Yaxian, and talked nonsense for a long time.This has talked about, and talked about contemporary politicians, bankers, young masters, scholars, and the wives of scholars, everything has been discussed.Man!It's cold, and people who go out are very homesick.Yesterday I missed you terribly, but I couldn't write many words when I started to write; today I really miss you too, very sad, maybe you miss me too.Who doesn't miss his dear in this gloomy weather in Huangmei?
You must take extra care of yourself everywhere for me.

Wen Bo brought a box of women's clothes, who do you think belongs to it?Do you know Chen Jieru?Chiang Kai-shek's wife, she was in New York with Zhang Jingren's third lady. I opened her suitcase to see what kind of ruler, chalk bag, EMI libretto, perfume, clothes, everything.I will report in detail when I see her in New York.

There's a movie tonight, Billie Dove's, going to see it.

Momo Kiss

June 24
June 25:
Tomorrow we will sail across the meridian, that will be an extra day.Today is 25, tomorrow should be 26, but it is still 25; so we have an extra Monday on the boat, and we have to live an extra day.Unfortunately we have to come back, and we still have to get rid of it one day.Do you understand this truth?child!Our ship was going northeast, so it was getting colder and colder.In the past few days, the ladies are almost wearing leather cloaks.But after tomorrow, we turned to the southeast again, and the weather became warmer every day.When you arrive in Victoria, it is not far from Shanghai.It must have been very hot south of New York in the eastern part of the United States. I was a little scared to wear these deadly foreign clothes, but I had to bear it.

I had enough food and sleep on the boat, my spirits were much better, and my complexion gradually changed.It's not like when everyone was in Shanghai, everyone was a little bit unlucky.My body is better and my mind is at peace.How else could I have written my letter last night?Then you will feel that it is different at a glance.Life in Shanghai is really bad when you think about it.When you are stuck in it, you get deeper and deeper; you don't feel that it is the most dangerous, but when you jump out, you know that life is not deserved.

In the past two days, the boat has been a little angry. A kind of disguised gambling was held two nights ago: the gamble was on the number of miles traveled by the boat, and the letter said it was unclear.But auction sweep is a kind of auction. Gambling is fun, of course.We lost a few bucks.This afternoon, we are racing horses. There is an old saying: horse racing on the top of the boat means that there is no way out.But we actually had a horse race on the boat.Let me tell you: lay a blanket on the ground that is divided into six rows and twenty grids, take six horses and wooden horses, of course, put them on one end of the starting line, and then take three big dice and throw them on the ground; , the first, second, third and third horses will each run up one grid; if they then throw three dots, the first horse will jump up three steps.So whoever finishes twenty grids first gets champagne.Tickets cost half a dollar per ticket, and you can buy as many tickets as you want.The total proceeds from the ticket price all go to the champagne, divided according to the number of votes, each vote gets a certain amount.For example, six horses sell a total of 50 tickets, which is [-] yuan.If the champagne horse is the first horse and there are ten votes bought, then ten yuan will be distributed for each vote.A total of three competitions were held today, two ordinary and one "jumping bang"; we won two dollars, which is considered fun.

Second June 25:

What is memorable today is that I had a meal of Chinese rice in the evening, a bowl of soup with abalone and chicken slices, which was quite delicious, and four pots of dishes such as Cantonese salted fish and straw mushroom balls.I ate a bowl and a half of rice, half a bottle of white wine, and there was another Chinese couple on the same boat: the male surnamed Li and the female surnamed Song, who were engaged to be married to Li Jishen's secretary in Guangdong; we had dinner together tonight and played two rounds of mahjong after dinner. .Because I drank too much wine and ate too much cigarettes, I was quite uncomfortable; I was a little dizzy, so I hurried back to my room and fell asleep.

Today I showed the antiques to Uncle Wen: he said that’s not acceptable, foreigners are more concerned with textual research, and you have to explain the history of the antiques in their entirety.He also said: The bronze wares of the three generations do not contain gold, and the fonts are too neat, so they may not be very old; when they were unearthed, by whose hands, and by whom they were judged, all these have to be known.All famous bronze wares can be found in archaeological books.What era is this gram furnace, who made it, and why is it called "gram"?I left in a hurry and didn't ask for details. Please Ruiwu give me details (and must be based on evidence and reliability) and send me a letter as soon as possible. Add "Via Seattle" to the front of the letter, which can be a week faster.You also need to know when the bottle is from the Ming Dynasty and where it came from.I just opened the Hanyu today, why did my father only give me some ordinary ones.The last time I saw some medicine shovels and what not, I was a little disappointed, but of course I tried to try them out.Wen Bo said that this is not easy to do, because firstly, you have to find a way, and secondly, the Americans have already done their best when they are taken advantage of in recent years.Recently, they have become very smart. They know all the goods and markets in China.Second, even if there is a buyer, the commission for the introducer must be quite large. For example, Ji Yuan said that he sold paintings in Japan for [-] yuan. Because of our status, if they find evidence that something is unreliable and we want to talk big, it would be embarrassing.But he has acquaintances along the way, and he will try his luck to see it.Did Jingwu and the others arrive in Shanghai?I miss them very much.If you come, you don't feel lonely, and there are people at home to take care of you; if you don't come, I won't write another letter; if they arrive sooner or later, you just let them read the letter.

I learned a lot from talking with Wen Bo.He was a friend who cared most about us in secret.He'll have an idea, you know that.But I don't know exactly what he has been doing in the banking industry and recently in the political circle as a single person in the past few years, and I will tell you later.He is now carrying a whole body of debts, in order to buy a clean slate, he can stand on his feet when he goes out to do things.In the eyes of ordinary people, he is a big fool; because he let go of many opportunities to make a fortune, this is his character, and it also shows that he is ambitious, that is, he is worthy of being our friend.He admired his mother very much, saying that she is not only [capable] but also thoughtful, and may be able to come out to do things in the future.Being on a boat is a wonderful opportunity for introspection.The more I think about it, the more I feel the need for both of us to wake up quickly.This kind of relaxed life in Shanghai is really unacceptable. I have to heal your body first, and then set up a scale, create another world, and do things that others can't do, which also makes parents feel angry.

I have also reached my age, and I can no longer be a young master. I live like a tiger, and I have experienced all kinds of troubles recently. This is all because my life is not on the right track.Man, you really love me, you have to think about my life, think about our common happiness; first seek good health, and then do positive things.It is dangerous to do nothing, and it is definitely not a good thing to have enough food and warm clothes to do nothing.If your health can recover in the past few months, you must at least learn painting seriously and read some official books.If you want to come, you have to be serious, and you can't coax yourself. I really hope that you can listen to Mo's words.How are you living?when do you wake up in the morningThe first important thing is the beginning of the life revolution.

milf kiss you
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