Chapter 2 Rat Friends
This year’s Spring Festival happened a lot of things, Hu Guohua tie a paper man cheating his uncle’s money things finally exposed, uncle angry on fire, a sick, not out of three days on the hand of death.
Hu’s relatives and friends are like thieves to prevent him, not to mention lending him money, even the leftovers do not let him rub a bite. Hu Guohua home the last pair of sandalwood box sold two silver Yang, this box is his mother’s dowry, has always wanted to keep a thought, did not want to pawn. But the addiction to cigarettes, can not care about that much, with the two dollars to buy a small piece of Fushou cream, rushed back home on the eagerness to light up the smoke fell on the bed, inhaled two mouths, the body as light as in the clouds.
At this moment, he felt like a god, usually those who are despised, insulted, bullied by the encounter are not important. And inhaled two mouths, suddenly found himself in the broken bed is still lying on a black thing, fixed eyes, the original corner of the bed lying on a big rat, the rat’s age must not be small, white beard, size with the cat is almost big, it is next to inhale Hu Guohua smoking gun in the smoke, as if it is also aware of the benefits of this fortune fortune cream, sniffing his nose greedily enjoy.
Hu Guohua found it interesting and said to the big mouse, “You guys also have a smoking addiction? It seems to be in the same path as me.” After saying this, he took a puff himself and sprayed clouds of smoke with his mouth at the rat, which seemed to know that he had no malice and was not afraid of him, raising its head to admit the smoke sprayed at it. After a long time, it seemed to have had enough, and slowly crawled away.
So a few days, this big rat every day to smoke with Hu Guohua, Hu Guohua everywhere was despised, no half friends around, the rat sympathized with quite a good feeling, sometimes the rat came a little late, Hu Guohua endured the addiction to smoke and so on it.
But the good times do not last long, Hu Guohua home is left with a bed and four walls, no longer have the money to buy cigarettes and soil, he was sad and helpless, sighing to the mouse, said: “Mouse ah mouse, today I am slightly out of food and clothing, but no more money to buy Fukushou cream, I’m afraid that can not smoke with you often this flavor.” After saying this, he sighed.
The mouse listened to him speak, eyes gleaming flashing, pondering, turn around and leave. When it was dark, the rat came back with a silver dollar on the pillow of Hu Guohua, Hu Guohua surprise, overnight, went into the city to buy a piece of Fushou cream, came back to the lamp under the light and burned, a big gulp, and the rat with the pain of sucking a full.
The next day, the mouse again took three silver dollars, Hu Guohua happy simply do not know what to say good, think of the previous reading private school when learning an allusion to the mouse said: “know the pipe Zhong, Bao Shuya is also, Jun know I am poor and poor and generous to me, really my confidant ah, such as don’t mind, we will be a brother of the Golden Orchid.” From then on with the rat brother, called it “brother”, food and drink with the same, together smoking cigarettes, but also in the bed to give it with cotton wool set up a nest, so that the rat also sleep on the bed.
People and rats are at peace, no less than bosom buddies, rats go out every day to bring back the silver dollar, as few as one or two, as many as three or five, and from then on Hu Guohua food and clothing without worry. Years later my grandfather recalled, always said that this period is the happiest time in his life.
After half a year, Hu Guohua gradually became rich, but isn’t there a saying? Fortune meets a good friend, bad luck meets the villain, also should be Hu Guohua is poor life, he was a villain to target.
There is a scoundrel in the village called Wang Erkangzi, he and Hu Guohua is not the same, Hu Guohua at least once rich, how to say also when more than twenty years of “Hu big young master”.
Wang two kongzi is not so good life, from his ancestors eight generations to his generation, have not worn a not exposed pants, he saw Hu Guohua family business lost, gloating, something on Hu Guohua scolding and insulting, bullying and bullying the year of the young master of Hu, to find a little balance in their own hearts.
Recently, he felt very strange, Hu Guohua this poor boy did not do any business, the family can pawn pawn, his relatives also died almost, how every day at home to smoke big cigarettes? Where did he get the money to buy tobacco? Maybe this kid has done a thief, I might as well quietly keep an eye on him, when he steals something to catch him and turn him over to the government, for a few dollars of reward money is also good.
But staring for a period of time found that Hu Guohua in addition to the occasional city to buy some food and tobacco, basically not to leave the house, but also never with anyone. The more he didn’t know how he got his money, the more Wang Erkangzi got itchy.
One day Hu Guohua went out to buy food, Wang Erkangzi took the opportunity to climb over the wall into his house, rummage through the cupboards to find Hu Guohua actually have any secrets. Suddenly, he found a big rat sleeping on the bed. Wang Erkangzi grabbed the rat and threw it into a pot of water boiling on the stove, and then pressed the lid on the pot, thinking that when Hu Guohua came home to drink the water, I would watch the fun from the side.
Not waiting for Wang Erkangzi to go out, Hu Guohua came back, just blocked him to the house, Hu Guohua look at the pot of rat, has been given to the living scalded to death, suddenly red eyes, copied up the chopper on the chopping, Wang Erkangzi was chopped more than a dozen knives, good thing that Hu Guohua is a big smoker, the hands of the powerless, Wang Erkangzi, although a lot of knives, but did not suffer fatal injuries, his body was covered in blood, he fled to the security team to ask for help, the captain of the security team is a relative of a local warlord. The captain of the security team was a relative of a local warlord, who was buying him a drink at the time. The captain saw that he had committed an assault with a knife in broad daylight, was there no law? He hurriedly ordered his men to tie Hu Guohua up.
Hu Guohua was escorted to the front of the hall, the security chief asked in a stern voice, why did you kill Wang Erkangzi with a knife?
Hu Guohua tears, sobbing described the circumstances of the matter, and finally sighed and said: “I want to think of my original hardship to die, without the mouse I can not live today, I did not expect that I was negligent and even made the mouse brother killed, it is not killed by me, but because of me and died. I’m sorry to have lost my friend, but I’m not ashamed to say that I did it alone, since I injured Wang Erkangzi, I’ll let you kill him and punish him, but I only ask that you allow me to go home and bury my brother, so that I can rest in peace.”
Before the security chief could say anything, the warlord beside him sighed and said to Hu Guohua: “Grandma, not forgetting kindness is benevolence, not being ungrateful is righteousness, if you are like this to a rat, let alone to a human being. I miss your benevolence and righteousness, and see that you have no one to rely on, in the future, follow me from the army as an adjutant.”
The barrel of a gun is the regime, the chaotic world, with the soldiers said words is the king’s law, the head of the warlord instructed his men, the king of the two kongs with a whip to Hu Guohua out of anger, and released Hu Guohua home to bury the rat, Hu Guohua with a wooden box coffined the body of the rat, dug a pit and buried, cried half a day, went to the head of the warlords.
As the saying goes: when you are hungry, eat chaff sweet as honey, when you are full, eat honey is not sweet. People to the poor bureaucratic collapse, others is to give him a bowl of porridge, a piece of cake will also be grateful, not to mention the mouse gifted Hu Guohua so much money, of course, the mouse’s money is also stolen. The sages said that they would not drink water from a stolen spring if they were dying of thirst, but that is the standard of character of the most holy and virtuous people, and it is still difficult for the ancients to do so, not to mention the mediocre people like Hu Guohua. I used to hear that smoking in the room, time flies and rats in the house will also be addicted, this is not true.