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Volume 4 Leviathan Chapter 80 The Fuse

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    "Forget it for today, my tired bones are about to fall apart. Let's do it next time!" Yu Zhiheng waved his hand: "Ah Pao, you should also drink less. The price of rice has risen so much now that I have to keep the porridge for my wife and son.  "Money!" "Drink a few more sips when you're tired, warm up your bones!" Yu Pao ran out of the tavern, grabbed Yu Zhiheng's arm and pulled it inside, saying: "What's the matter, go get it."  Why does the repairman look down on the troublesome fellow? After a few glasses of old wine, all the troubles will be gone. Let¡¯s talk about tomorrow. If you have wine now, you will be drunk today!  They were workers wearing ragged felt hats and ragged clothes, and their nostrils were filled with the strange smell of bad wine and sweat.  For these people who have been numbed by the heavy mechanical labor of thirteen or four hours a day, using the inferior wine in the cup to stimulate their nerves can make them feel that they are human beings, not those rumbling machines in the factory.  An accessory to the rumbling machinery, this was the only little bit of fun they had in the day.  "Here, have a drink!" An earthenware bowl was placed in front of Yu Zhiheng with a bang. Yu Pao picked up the jug and filled it first for himself, then for Yu Zhiheng. While pouring the wine, he said: "This  I just stared at the bartender and scooped out the wine from the vat, but it wasn¡¯t mixed with water. Come on, Lao Yu, let¡¯s have one!¡± Watching the other party drink all the wine in the pottery bowl, Yu Zhiheng also picked it up.  Bowl, he took a sip of wine, and a strong bitter smell hit his forehead. Yu Zhiheng almost spit out the imported wine, and he put the bowl back on the table.  "What kind of wine is this? Why does it taste like this?" "It doesn't matter what the taste is. If it's intoxicating and can burn your intestines, it's a good wine!" Yu Pao replied casually. He looked at the bowl in front of Yu Zhiheng that only had a little drink, and asked:  "Lao Yu, you don't want to drink?" "No!" "Then give it to me, don't waste it!" Yu Pao grabbed the wine bowl and drank it in one gulp. Looking at his intoxicated appearance, it seemed as if the bowl was filled with fine wine.  Jade liquid is average.  "Ah Pao, drink slowly!" Yu Zhiheng saw Yu Pao getting another bowl for him and quickly tried to dissuade him. He was a little scared when he saw the other party's appearance.  "Don't stop me, this little drink is nothing!" Yu Pao laughed loudly: "It's hard to have a drink, why don't you hurry up, then you are still a man?" "Ah Pao! Ah Pao!" At this time, it was outside.  There was a woman's voice, and Yu Pao's expression suddenly changed. Just as he was about to stand up and find a place to hide, a disheveled woman entered the hotel with two five or six-year-old children, and happened to see Yu sitting at the table.  Pao immediately rushed over and cursed loudly: "You bastard, you come to drink again. My money and my child's rice money haven't been paid yet!" As he said this, he grabbed Yu Pao's arm and wouldn't let go.  "Let go, you stinky bitch!" Yu Pao tried his best to pull his arm back from the woman's hand, while being careful not to spill the wine on the wine bowl in his right hand.  "You drink, you drink! Drink to death! Even if you don't care about me, you have to do it for the sake of the children, right? They are all the children of your Yu family!" The woman argued loudly while pulling Yu Pao's arms hard  The arm, and finally the woman's body hit the bowl in Yu Pao's hand, and the wine spilled all over the floor.  "You bitch, get out of my way!" Yu Pao, who was distressed and drunk, pushed his wife away with all his strength. The unprepared woman fell to the ground. Desperate for life and her husband, she jumped up and cried:  "Okay, you drink. If you drink again, I will jump into the Suzhou River. I can't even drink porridge. The child is screaming from hunger all day long! I can't live this life!" "I'll just jump into the river! Am I not serious?  You have to work in the factory for thirteen or four hours every day, you can¡¯t even lift your arms, you can¡¯t even earn enough money to eat porridge, and you¡¯re not even allowed to drink, so what¡¯s the point of living?¡± Yu Pao groaned angrily!  He sat back on the bench with a groan, and poured himself another bowl of wine: "I just want to drink, you go dance!" "You're so good!" The woman rushed out of the hotel in despair, and said again to the side  Yu Zhiheng, who couldn't stand it anymore, stood up and reached out to take the wine bowl aside: "Ah Pao, go and bring your wife back, it's so outrageous!" "Lao Yu, ignore her, a woman, just cry.  Hang yourself! Just go back and smoke a few times!" Yu Pao took a sip of wine nonchalantly, and then there was a sound of people outside.  "Someone is coming! Someone jumped into the river!" Yu Pao's face immediately turned pale. He rushed out of the door quickly, and Yu Zhiheng also rushed out. The two rushed to the river, only to see a woman's head.  She was floating in the water, and she saw that she was wearing the same clothes as Yu Pao's wife who had just rushed into the tavern.  "Quick, get into the water and save people!" People hurriedly looked for the boat, and men who knew how to swim quickly took off their clothes and got into the water.  Yu Pao didn't look as careless as before. He jumped on the shore and was about to rush into the water. Yu Zhiheng hurriedly stopped him. He knew that this Yu Pao was a mountain man.As a human being, if you enter the water, you will sink, and you will not be able to swim at all.  Twenty minutes later, the woman was fished out of the water, but it was too late. There were no signs of life on the young woman's pale face. Beside her were two immature children.  Yu Pao knelt beside the corpses of his wife and children, his eyes dull, as if the god of death had taken away life from his body.  Waves of whispers came from all around: "The woman jumped into the river, why did the two children also fall into the water?" "It seems that the woman jumped into the water with the two children, and they drowned together!" "Ah? Why, this woman is crazy  "Sick?" "Where is it? My husband is drinking and there is no food in the house. The mother can't bear to leave the two children to starve and freeze, so she just takes them down there!" "That's not true!  It¡¯s your husband who¡¯s doing the evil thing, right? This whole family was destroyed in one go!¡± ¡°Get out of the way, everyone, don¡¯t crowd together. What happened?¡±  Coming over, they saw the crowd gathered and took off short black wooden sticks from their waists.  The people dispersed, revealing the bodies and Yu Pao behind them. Seeing that it was not a gathering of people making trouble, the patrolman safely inserted the wooden stick back into his waist, walked over, and began to ask the tavern owner who was watching the excitement what happened.  .  Yu Zhiheng stood aside and watched all this quietly.  He knew that it wouldn't be long before the patrol officer from the patrol room would take away the three corpses and Yu Pao. After asking about the situation, Yu Pao would be released. Maybe the patrol officer could also get a few taels of silver from the tavern owner.  .  The two corpses, the older one and the younger one, will be rolled up casually with a reed mat and buried in a mass grave behind the hilltop, just like the ones that appear on the roadside every day.  No one cares about the names of the mother and son or why they died, because this kind of thing is too common.  In just a few more days, people will forget about this unfortunate family, as if they never appeared in this world again.  "It's all gone, it's all gone! Let's go do your own thing!" The patrols had figured out the situation, and they began to shout loudly, and people scattered in all directions, sighing softly from time to time.  Yu Zhiheng also left with heavy steps. He had never felt as tired as he did today, a kind of tiredness that came from his bones, so he decided to return to his residence and have a good sleep.  Yu Zhiheng's residence is a four-story house. This kind of building made of adobe bricks, lime mortar and wood is very common in the local area. It was built by land speculators on the purchased land and rented to workers.  The construction of this kind of house is crude and crude, and the distance between the houses is so close that even a woman can easily jump from one house to the next house. As for sunlight, fire protection, air circulation, etc.  It's even worse. The only advantage of these houses is to cram as many workers as possible into the smallest possible place to get enough rent, and Yu Zhiheng's residence is on the top floor.  Yu Zhiheng opened the door, and a wave of heat rushed out of the room. The August sun in Shanghai turned the small room into a big steamer.  But the exhausted Yu Zhiheng couldn't care so much. He fell on the bed and fell asleep.  I don¡¯t know how much time passed, but Yu Zhiheng heard a fierce knock on the door. He struggled to open his eyes and saw the face of a coworker appearing outside the window.  "Brother Yu, get up quickly!" "What's the matter?" Yu Zhiheng got up and randomly found some clothes to put on him.  "The price of rice has increased again. Go buy some and stock up, otherwise you won't have anything to eat at the end of the month!" "What, the price of rice has increased again!" Yu Zhiheng suddenly woke up, and while putting on his shoes,  He dug out the pocket under the bed and asked, "How could this happen? This is the third time this month!" The worker outside the door explained: "There is nothing I can do. The gentleman at the rice shop said that the imperial court ordered a ban on the import of foreign rice. Cao Cao  The gang has blocked the canal again to prevent rice from coming from northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu. It¡¯s so noisy. Let¡¯s go! It¡¯s going to be closed soon!¡± ¡°Hurry up!¡± Yu Zhiheng heard this and picked up his pocket.  He rushed outside, and as soon as he got downstairs, he saw people rushing to buy rice in twos and threes on the road, and he couldn't help but quicken his pace.  The two of them turned two corners, and there was a rice store in front of them. From a distance, they could see a crowd of people. Hundreds of people had surrounded the rice store, and they were all buying rice.  Seeing that something was not going well, the manager of the rice store did not remove all the door panels as usual, but only two door panels. The waiters inside the door all had sticks in their hands to prevent people from outside from rushing in. It was not like this.  When doing business, it's like guarding against thieves smashing into the store.  When Yu Zhiheng saw such a long queue and didn¡¯t know how long it would take, he couldn¡¯t help butI was in a hurry, but the rice shop was selling rice very slowly. It took me half an hour to finish a business. I wonder if I would be able to take my turn when it closes at night?
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