Sitting there, Sheng Chuncheng raised his head slightly, turned a little sideways, and pointed his ears in the direction of Teacher Zheng.
This is what Sheng Chuncheng observed and concluded in a massage parlor. When blind masters listen to people talking, they usually look like this. They tilt their heads slightly, smile at the corners of their mouths, and then turn their faces slightly sideways to the other person. Their eyes look at the other person.
When they are not seeing each other, their ears replace part of the function of their eyes. They use their ears to identify each other.
Sheng Chuncheng imitated this action many times, and it became his subconscious reaction. Sometimes at home, when Ding Huamei was talking to him, he would do the same unconsciously. Ding Huamei glared at him and stretched out his hand.
He pulled his head back, then gave up immediately and shouted:
"Okay, just keep this conditioned reflex."
But after all, if the other person is a normal person, you will still feel awkward and ignored when he talks to you like this. Ding Huamei reached out and pulled Sheng Chuncheng's head over again, shouting:
"I was talking to you, did you hear me?"
Sheng Chuncheng said quickly: "I heard it, I heard it, I didn't miss a word."
Teacher Zheng and Sheng Chuncheng said:
"If we want to talk about this, we have to talk about 1843. After the Qing government and the British signed the "Treaty of Nanjing" and the "Five-Port Trade Charter", Shanghai officially opened as a port. Then, the British, French and
The Americans opened a concession in Shanghai. At the beginning, all the people living in the concession were foreigners, and Chinese were not allowed to live in the concession.
"The Little Knife Club caused trouble. Many Shanghainese took refuge and fled into the concession. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing its capital. More Chinese from the Jiangnan area fled to Shanghai and also fled into the concession. The largest number were from Ningbo and Suzhou. Shanghai
It used to be just a small town under Songjiang County. After the opening of the port, this place developed rapidly due to foreign commerce and trade.
"Ningbo people, Suzhou and Subei people, Shanghai people are called Jiangbei people, they are the largest part of Shanghai's population, and there are Cantonese people. Cantonese people come with foreigners, and they work as compradors or small proprietors in various foreign companies, but they are just
In just a few years, the number of people in the British and American Concessions and the French Concession quickly increased from a few thousand to three to four hundred thousand, and more than 95% of them were Chinese.
"The territory of the concession also began to expand. From the Bund area across the current Suzhou River, it was later expanded twice, and the area increased dozens of times."
"After there were more people, the land prices in Shanghai were growing rapidly as they are now, soaring more than ten times a year. Some people who transferred their land to others this year regretted it the next year when they saw the situation.
I want to get the land back, which of course is very difficult. If I don't want to come back, I think, you have made so much from this land, so you must share some of the benefits with me.
"I went to find them, but of course they refused. How can such a thing happen? The land has already been sold to me, and I still want money? The land seller came to ask for it himself. What should I do? It's the same as now.
I went to the underworld to ask for it. However, at that time, the underworld in Shanghai had not yet been fully formed. It could only be said to be a quasi-gang society. Moreover, in the concession, there were arrests of houses, so they did not dare to mess around.
"But everything is like this. If there is demand, there will be supply. At that time, there was a group of people in society who specially accepted commissions and came to people's homes to do things to ask for benefits. If they got the benefits, they would talk to the clients.
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"What do you do when these people come to your door? They don't threaten you or scare you with a knife, but they want to gain sympathy. When they get to your house, they sit down, talk, cry and sing, saying that their family is transferring this land to you.
After that, life in my own family is so difficult now, so and so is bedridden, there is no money for medicine, and now there is no choice but to sell off the children and marry the children, etc.
"No matter how miserable it is, I went to someone's house and cried and made noise all day long. The next day, a large group of people went there and blocked the door of their home and started crying. It was also difficult for them to deal with it. All these people were there
Showing weakness in front of you is not a show of strength. People are crying until they are dying, so you can't hit them.
"Even those red-headed men from the patrol room came over and saw this situation and didn't bother to take care of it.
"I kept looking for you every day to cry out about my poverty. In the end, I couldn't bear the job, so I had to use part of my money to spend it. Going to someone's house every day to cry out about my poverty was called Chan Zhangtou. These professional Chan Zhangtou, in the end,
Their rhetoric and singing have a fixed format, and a dramatic form has evolved, which is Tanhuang, which is a homophone for sigh.
"It's just a few people sitting on a stage, a table, and a few chairs, talking and singing. You say something and I say it. It's like a big book. There are Ningbo Beach, Suzhou Beach and Shanghai's Benbang Beach.
"Because of the existence of such a group of people, when people transfer land later, they will be very careful. In particular, they will write 'never beg' on the land deed or proposal, which means that if you transfer it today, you will not regret it.
, don’t come to Tanzhangtou to beg in the future, don’t do this, tell me, your client, are they going to use Tanzhangtou to collect money now?”
Sheng Chuncheng laughed as he listened. He imagined what would happen if Brother Dong, who had a big tongue and stuttered, would go to someone else's house and cry and sing, saying that he should learn this way of reasoning and that way. Don't let this picture be too beautiful.
Teacher Zheng sighed and said: "I don't know whether I should be happy or sigh because the underworld has been forced into this state. However, one thing is certain, that is, the credit system of the entire society is facing collapse.
No one believes this nonsense now."
The two of them ate for more than an hour. After finishing the meal, Sheng Chuncheng wanted to help Teacher Zheng clean up, but Teacher Zheng shouted:
"Oh, you're of no use. I'll clean up later and treat it as exercise. Come on, let's go. I'll take you out."
The two people walked out of the courtyard and walked towards the school gate together. Sheng Chuncheng did not take out the blind man's cane and hold it on the ground. Instead, he took Teacher Zheng's arm. The old lady led him out. Along the way,
From time to time, students and teachers would come over, greet the old lady, and say hello to Teacher Zheng.
On another two occasions, the old lady simply stopped and stood there to discuss the problem with others. Sheng Chuncheng listened quietly and discussed for a while. The old lady looked at Sheng Chuncheng, as if she suddenly woke up, and shouted
He said, oh, I won’t tell you anymore, I have something else to do.
After walking more than two hundred meters, she met someone. The old lady stopped again and discussed with the person again.
It was only ten minutes of walking, and they walked for more than half an hour before arriving at the gate. The two of them stood, waiting for the car to arrive. Sheng Chuncheng got into the car, and Teacher Zheng told the driver to go to Jingfang 2nd District and not to commit any sin.
Make more detours and know there are no mistakes. Integrity will be rewarded.
The driver quickly said, "No, no, don't worry, old lady, I won't do bullying."
He had already seen that Sheng Chuncheng was blind.
The car turned to Road No. 1. Sheng Chuncheng's cell phone rang. The voice said it was Sister Chen. Sheng Chuncheng took out the phone and swiped his finger from left to right on the screen. Sister Chen's voice came out:
"Xiao Sheng, do you have time now?"
"Yes, what's the matter, Sister Chen?"
"Can you come over and help me do it now? I've been running down there all day and my back is sore."
Sheng Chuncheng said yes, I will come right away.
Putting down the phone, Sheng Chuncheng said to the driver: "Master, we are not going to Jingfang anymore. Please take me to Binjiang." This chapter has been completed!