Chapter 17 The State
Zhuang Shuyi is a person who can't sit still, otherwise he wouldn't have done so many interesting things.
Her foot injury was not serious, and although she healed quickly, the men at home looked fussy and insisted that she stay at home to raise it. "I'm almost raising mushrooms. I don't care, I'm going to go out to play."
"No, your feet still hurt." Yang Bo refused without hesitation.
"Hmph. I have a wheelchair, but I don't walk. Let's go, let's take me to play. I heard that there is a temple fair today. I want to go and see it." Zhuang Shuyi's tricks are as good as those who act coquettishly.
"No." After finishing the business, Liu Yi came to play with Zhuang Shuyi. Before entering the door, he shouted to dissuade him.
"Cousin, you are here to make trouble again. What you and my father and others are going to say, but they are finished?" Zhuang Shuyi knew that his cousin had something serious, but he couldn't resist his cousin's name, which was too noisy and could not be serious at all.
"I've finished speaking. Yangbo, why do you ask you to go together? You don't go. Just stay with my cousin." 6 Biaoyi made a joke with a few smiles.
After staying here for a few days, he finally understood what the word "Full Dog" that his uncle said came from.
Yang Bo is very capable and is indeed more protective of Liuliu than anyone in this family. If his uncle's favor for Liuliu is counted as ten, then it would not be an exaggeration to count as ninety-nine.
"When I go to my father, how can I be interesting? Cousin, don't you know that my place is Kunlun Fairyland? When ordinary people come, they will become immortals; when gods come, they will be happy to be overwhelmed." Zhuang Shuyi smiled and joked with jokes in the novel.
"Yes, yes, yes. I'm not happy about Shu either." 6 Puyi picked up a book and started reading it.
"You are so big-faced, so what a god. Don't change the topic. I want to go out to play." Uncle Zhuang took a pear and put it on his cousin's head, teasing him.
"Don't make trouble. This book is the original manuscript, let me finish reading it." 6 Biaoyi ignored her nonsense and did not raise his head, allowing the pear to stay on his head.
"I'll give it to you. Anyway, I've read it, but I don't think it's very interesting. I'll take it away when you get home." Zhuang Shuyi didn't care how much energy and money the book had spent, as if she was giving away some irrelevant gadgets.
"Take it seriously? You don't allow me to regret it." 6 Biaoyi almost immediately held the book in his hand. Even if he had money, he couldn't find it. He wished he could set off home now so that he could keep this treasure.
"If you have a sister, you will have a brother. Look at you like this, you are the same as Liuliu. They are both bookworms who love books as much as their lives." Yang Bo smiled faintly and joked.
"Hey, you wooden stake, why do you talk so much today?" The two of them were familiar with each other, otherwise there would be no such thing as much.
"Don't interrupt, take me out for fun. Otherwise I'll go by myself." Uncle Zhuang threw a pear at them alone.
In the end, of course, Zhuang Shuyi won, and there is no doubt about this.
Yongning is located near the sea, so the sea trade is very prosperous, and there are many foreigners coming and going.
Many of Zhuang Shuyi’s foreign books were purchased from them. She can speak many foreign languages. Although she is a bit messy and grammatical, it is very useful. For example, in the current situation.
"She said this is only for US dollars. Is this cousin so valuable?" Zhuang Shuyi helped translate.
"Okay, tell her to leave this Virgin Image for me. I'll go back and get it right away. I may not have enough on hand, so I'll ask my uncle to borrow some first." After 6 Puyi said that, he ran away.
"Cousin, please wait. I'll help you with it, don't panic." Zhuang Shuyi immediately pointed at him and even gave half of the newly bought osmanthus candy to the other party.
"Is this something brought from a church in Spain?" Yang Bo felt that 6 Lie Yi was a little strange, and he thought about the value of this thing in his mind.
"That's what she said." Zhuang Shuyi stuffed him a piece of candy and continued.
"This girl was originally coming to us for business with her father, but she didn't expect that there were pirates hidden on the boat, and all the people in the boat were dead. She and some girls and children were left to run errands and do odd jobs. Later, they poisoned the pirates with arsenic and ran away in all directions."
Yang Bo was stunned. In his opinion, he was a gentle and lively foreign girl. There was nothing wrong with her dressing but not fashionable. She didn't look like she had suffered a disaster at all. "Did she...n't she think about going back?"
Zhuang Shuyi turned his head and said a few words to the girl, then turned to answer.
"I thought, she said she wanted to dream of it. But she couldn't go back. There was a war breaking out at her house, and she didn't know who was fighting with whom. But her father said that if she didn't leave, she would die. But she didn't expect..."
Still dead.
Zhuang Shuyi stopped smiling and stared at the sky blankly, losing his words for a moment.
Those who lose their country are probably the corpse of their lives. Walking in the world, they think they are alive, but suddenly they think of the word "country" and they will fall down on the Forgetful River.
I don’t know who the next sigh belongs to.
"I brought it, I brought it." 6 Biaoyi was so angry that he handed a stack of banknotes to the girl and held the statue of the Holy Mother, which allowed him to explain to Zhuang Shuyi. "This statue of the Holy Mother is exquisite in doing its work, and it seems that everyone has produced it. My teacher happened to like to collect these things."
"There is no reason that it is so expensive... Forget it, A Nian, let's leave the things we bought today for her." Zhuang Shuyi knew that this money would not be short of things, and she was a foreigner, so no one would make things difficult for her.
But Zhuang Shuyi felt very sad. Her heart was empty, as if something could cause her heartbreak from the girl's smile.
"Okay." 6 Pingyi was still unable to figure out his mind, but Yang Bo didn't ask any questions. He nodded silently, put down his things, pushed Zhuang Shuyi's wheelchair and left.
What exactly is a country?
Zhuang Shuyi realized for the first time what a heavy word this was.
"A Nian, what is the country? When I was a child, my grandfather said that the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, and we were all slaves of the country. But later, my father said that the Qing Dynasty was the Qing Dynasty and we were from the Republic of China. But my father liked the Qing Dynasty, which was even better than the Republic of China. I know."
Zhuang Shuyi leaned against the railing and looked at the ginkgo forest in the distance. The autumn wind brought the coolness of the night dew and brushed her frowning brows.
"A Nian, what is the country? What is the Qing Dynasty? What is the Republic of China? If the Republic of China is destroyed, will I be a slave to the destruction again? But now Taiwan and the Penghu Islands have been stolen by the Japanese, Hong Kong and Kowloon have been swallowed by the British, north of Heilongjiang is still in the pockets of the Soviet Union, Beijing, Shanghai... wherever they are their concessions."
"Is this Republic of China still the Republic of China for us Chinese? Sometimes I wonder, does the Republic of China really exist? Or is it a dream we deceive ourselves?"
Zhuang Shuyi held his chin and sighed.
There was no emotion on Yangbo's surface, and his outstretched hand calmed her movements but gentler than the autumn wind. "You have too many questions. What's the point of being a slave who is destroyed? If you live in this world, you'll be free as always."
"I thought you wouldn't answer me?" Zhuang Shuyi laughed, but was a little pale. "Doesn't it matter? Maybe it's right. Living is probably no different from dying."
"How could it be different?" Yang Bo frowned slightly. "You can eat, drink, and have fun when you are alive; if you die, you can only lie in the cold ground and do nothing."
"A Nian, you are such a fool. If you die, you will have nothing. However, the God and Buddha in the West said that there will be another world after death. The ancients also said that there will be a judgment after death. If this is true, isn't it no different from living?"
Zhuang Shuyi said, and somehow he thought of something else.
"When it comes to this, I have seen the Book of the Afterlife in Egypt. Their hell is different. The one who judges the living is a kobold. I think it is called Anubis. It's interesting. His feathers are placed on one side of his Libra, which seems to be called the Feather of Truth..."
Zhuang Shuyi's thoughts have never stopped for a moment. The things he was thinking about the previous moment were thrown behind the mind the next moment. This time is no exception. Even if it is such a heavy topic, it cannot last long in her flowing thoughts.
However, even the turbulent Yongning River will retain something shining that will not be destroyed.
Chapter completed!