Lady Lin’s First-ever Journey to Immortality: Fanwai 3: Wrong step by step (2)
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In the second year that Sanni became a child laborer in the tea garden, in 1911 AD, the great event that changed the feudal history of China, the "Xinhai Revolution" broke out.
In February of the following year, the Empress Dowager Longyu issued the "Edict of Abdication" on behalf of Emperor Xuantong, announcing the demise of the Qing Dynasty and the end of the feudal monarchy of China, which had lasted for more than two thousand years.
The entire Huaxia Land was caught in a noisy revolution.
Also born in the 32nd year of Guangxu, Aixinjueluo Puyi was the last emperor for three years, and was driven off the throne of the emperor by the unstoppable historical process, enjoying the most noble life in China, and having to bear history. The reputation of blame.
Speaking of Emperor Xuantong, isn't he also a six-year-old boy who is ignorant?
In comparison, Sanni, who grew up next to the patriarchal grandmother Shu, had a better life than imagined when she sold her life as a slave.
In the Emeishan tea garden where there is no Shu Jia Dani and Er Ni, San Ni is not called Sanni, but Yuanyuan. The day when the Shu family sold her was coincidentally just before the end of the Qing dynasty in the second year of Xuantong. At that time, it was only natural to buy and sell people. The deeds of sales in the government had written "Shu Yuan" in black and white, and the third daughter of the Shu family. Silver one or two whole.
Shu Yuan, the same as "Shu Yuan", left Shu's house. She became a leather monkey, showing no signs of a lady.
"Yuanyuan, hurry up and wash your hands, everyone is ready to eat!"
Time flies, nine-year-old Shu Yuan ran down the hillside with a small bamboo basket on her back. The big basket of new tea was firmly pinned on her small shoulder. She shook off and ran, walking on the rugged mountain road as if walking on the ground.
Others have to count the catty for picking tea, so Shu Yuan put down the basket and went straight to the kitchen, because she even belongs to the tea garden, so naturally she has no wages.
Outside the mountain, there are vigorous innovations, and the Shu Road isolates the troubles and becomes a small world by itself. The avant-garde clamoring about feminism can't control Mount Emei. In the tea shop, a group of female workers are obviously the main force in picking tea, and they are not qualified to go to the main room to eat.
There is a small table in the kitchen, a large pot of fried cabbage with pork slices, and shredded pickles in the sea bowl. Because these days are the golden period of tea picking, the workload of each tea worker is very heavy, so the tea garden owner does not Pampering with a few slices of fat pork, oil and the fragrance of cabbage, chopped soaked chili as a seasoning, it seems to be appetizing.
Shu Yuan picked up the bowl, chopsticks quickly picked up the shredded pickles and sliced pork, and finished two bowls of rice in a while.
The gluttony made the female workers joking: "Look at how much you eat every meal, why the arms are still thin and fleshless."
The female workers said and smiled and cleaned up the dishes, and Shu Yuan also followed with a silly smile, and was called aside by the manager.
The steward of the tea garden is the boss’s brother-in-law. His physique that he needs to get fat when he drinks water makes him more stylish than the boss, but he is not a villain who bullies others in the script, but is very kind. Strictly speaking, the owner of the tea garden is not a villain. Otherwise, how could Shu Yuan's "Deed of Selling Body" be signed to be eighteen? You know that is the most valuable age for a female tea worker.
"Yuanyuan, those wild tea trees on the cliff..." To such a little girl, the manager felt embarrassed to say his "plan".
Shu Yuan said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, do you want me to pick wild tea? Then I will start work tomorrow!"
The nine-year-old girl was precocious and sensible. She noticed Guan Zhang’s embarrassment and took the initiative to take the matter down.
The chubby Guanshi Zhang was relieved and felt pity for Shu Yuan, and in the end he just rubbed her head.
In this world, no one is easier than anyone to live steadily. Shu Yuan, who had been sold by her relatives, had nothing to eat as long as she worked hard, while the owner of the tea garden shouldered the vitality of hundreds of workers and had great responsibilities. There were only more things to compromise for her life.
The wild tea trees mentioned by Guan Shi have a lot to do with Shu Yuan.
In the spring of the second year of Xuantong, the third wife of the Shu family fell to the bottom of the cliff and died to pick wild tea. Shu Yuan became an orphan. This is not one accident for these wild teas. Two years after Xuantong, the owner of the tea plantation suspended the picking of wild tea. This year, if it weren’t for a big figure to call for this tea, Guan Shi would not call Shu Yuan his idea. On the head.
The current situation is turbulent, and the maintenance of the tea garden is more difficult than in previous years.
On the second day, when the waning moon above his head had not faded, Guan Shi took Shu Yuan and the other two tea workers to climb to the top of the mountain with torches. When Chaoyang was eager to try to break free from the shackles of the clouds, Shu Yuan carried a small tea basket on her back, with a two-fingered rope tied around her waist, and slowly fell below the cliff.
The uneven gravel on the cliff rubbed her shoulders, and Shu Yuan arched her body as Zhang Guanshi said to minimize direct contact between her body and the cliff. She clutched the rope tightly with both hands, trying to find a foothold on the cliff with her toes.
The rope descended for about several tens of meters, and Shu Yuan had already seen the top of the tea tree canopy growing on the cliff with clouds and mist below. Amidst the white mist and the morning light, the dark green tea crown is slightly green, which is the new bud this year.
Shu Yuan dragged the tea basket from her back to her waist. The so-called Mingqian tea is nothing more than a few buds emerging from the crown-like tea branches. The nine wild tea trees on the cliff are more than 200 years old. At its best, the tea production in Mingqian is no more than a catty. Wuyishan's best Dahongpao is worth a thousand gold, but Meishan wild tea is not well-known, and in the eyes of some people, it may not be worse than the former.
White mist lingers in the mountain stream, and the tender buds are still covered with round and lovely dew. Shu Yuan's two hands swiftly passed between the tea trees, and a piece of tender leaves fell into the tea basket. Because the rope was hanging in the air on the cliff, there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead after picking a wild tea.
Nine wild tea plants did not grow in the same place. Shu Yuan pulled the rope behind the waist after one plant was lighted, and Zhang Guanshi and two tea workers on the top of the mountain would pull her up.
After taking a rest for a while, recognizing the sign, Shu Yuan was again dropped by a rope and placed next to another tea tree on the cliff.
This wild tea was originally the oldest tree, and the place where it grew was unusual. The other plants grew out of the tea fruit that fell on the cracks in the cliff with soil. This tea tree is the longest, and the roasted tea leaves are exceptionally fragrant, and the place where it grows is also extremely precipitous. Unlike other wild teas, there are footholds. Shu Yuan has to be suspended by ropes in the air to pick tea!
She cautiously leaned her back against the cliff, and was about to pick the new leaves of the old tea tree, when there was a chirping sound above her head.
Shu Yuan looked up, and saw a golden figure leaping between the haunting mountain walls, and she quickly climbed up the rock.
"Hey, who raised the monkey?!"
Yes, what appeared in front of Shu Yuan was a monkey that was half big and not small. It looks no different from the wild monkeys that can be seen everywhere in Mount Emei, except that the hair on its body is golden yellow, and it is very shiny.
It is said that it was raised because the monkey also had a bamboo basket attached to its back. When Shu Yuan was stunned, it squeezed its teeth and has agile arms. It has picked up the new leaves of the old tea tree crown this year. Mostly!
Shu Yuan blinked, suspecting that she was still dreaming: Where did the monkey **** her tea?
The monkey was carrying the tea basket to run, Shu Yuan was anxious, reaching out and grabbing Jin Hou'er's tail.
The monkey was in pain, and grinned at her in protest. Shu Yuan pressed her lips tightly on the monkey's long tail with a stubborn expression. Her actions obviously annoyed the monkey. It had no effect when compared with hand and foot. She showed her fangs to bite Shu Yuan's arm——
Shu Yuan was horrified, and suddenly there was another loud shout above her head:
"Naughty animal, let you pick tea, don't hurt people!"
The voice is clear and cold, coming through layers of fog. Yun Wu lost Shu Yuan's eyes. She raised her head and saw a man standing at the other end of the cliff. She could only see him dressed as a blue Taoist priest, but she couldn't see what he looked like.
Glanced from a distance, I felt that the man seemed to be coming from a high place in the clouds, feeling completely different from the tea factory workers she had seen in her daily life. Shu Yuan hesitated, the golden-haired monkey had already escaped, jumped on the cliff, and plunged into the arms of the man.
When she rubs her eyes and looks again, the cliff is still that cliff, the clouds have not cleared, and the breeze is blowing loose on the mountain top, where are the shadows of Taoists and golden monkeys?
Shu Yuan was surprised and suspicious that she finished picking tea, and she told Manager Zhang and the employees what she had seen. Guanshi Zhang stretched out his fat palm and waved to her again and again: "Don't talk nonsense, beware of alarming Master Mountain God!"
The employees are also very taboo about this topic.
Over time, Shu Yuan became doubtful of what happened to her.
Is it dazzled that day? The cliff on the opposite bank of the wild tea tree is as slippery as a knife, and the monkey can swing around with the vines. How can a big living person climb the cliff on the opposite bank?
In the blink of an eye, the Republic of China has been established for 13 years, that is, in 1924 AD, Shu Yuan has been born into a slim 18-year-old girl.
In the early winter of November this year, the tea farm on Mount Emei entered the winter break.
In remote Beijing, the warlord Feng Yuxiang launched a coup in Beijing and relieved Wu Peifu from the Beijing government. The Regent's Cabinet passed the "Amendment to the Conditions of Preferential Treatment for the Qing Dynasty". On November 5th, the last emperor Puyi in the Forbidden City was expelled from the palace.
What is the national political situation, it has nothing to do with a female tea farm worker. Shu Yuan's world is limited to the ups and downs of Mount Emei. She only listens to the tea farms and gossip about the Qing imperial family. She never thought that she was the same age. The last emperor had little contact.
Others have just stepped down, and they have also been emperors.
Where is Shu Yuan?
The eighteen-year-old girl was full of thoughts, and her unknown fate made her unable to adapt.
After the accident, Mrs. Shu and the auntie sold her to the tea shop. Now that the time limit is over, although Shu Yuan has grown into a tea picker who is valued by the tea shop owner, she still depends on the elders for her lifelong affairs. .
Shu Yuan looks very much like her mother, and has the advantages of her father’s five senses. The eighteen-year-old girl is very beautiful and often provokes gossip about the middle-aged female workers in the tea shop. If the royal family is still there, look at her appearance. Just the life of a mother.
Fortunately, the owner of the tea shop is a square person, and Shu Yuan is in a cloth and skirt. She is forced to hide in the mountains and no one makes her mind.
It is not entirely correct to say that no one made her idea.
In the spring, the uncle's cousin went up to the mountain to see her. At that time, his eyes flickered. After that, the uncle's mother took her son to have two scenes and said that she would take Shu Yuan home to get married.
The owner of the tea shop took out the identity deed he had been in the government and sent away the shameless auntie by pointing to the black and white letters on it.
Afterwards, everyone comforted her. The deed stated that Shu Yuan’s marriage was not related to Shu’s family affairs. Although the Qing government is no longer there, the contract before the Republic of China can’t be cancelled, right?
Shu Yuan doesn't show up on her face, but she is extremely unsure in her heart.
Sure enough, the attitude of the tea shop owner has changed before this year has passed.
"Yuanyuan, the tea market is really difficult..." The boss's face was gray, and he didn't dare to look directly at Shu Yuan's eyes, and fell on the big water tank behind her.
Shu Yuan smiled hard.
She suddenly found that the white hair of the tea shop owner's temples had increased a lot in a short time.
The always and kind Zhang Guanshi is also avoiding her sight.
Actually, she has also heard from the employees about the pressure that the tea shop has been under during this period. Shu Yuan neither blames the tea shop owner nor Zhang Guanshi.
Who should I blame?
Shu Yuan packed up her clothes, put some money privately given by the proprietress close to her body, carried the package and left the tea garden where she had lived for six years.
At the gate of the tea garden, the auntie and cousin stomped their feet and rubbed their hands with cold, looking inside.
Seeing Shu Yuan carrying a small package and showing up, the auntie smiled very proudly.
"Sanni, my aunt will take you home to live a good life! Poor girl, you won't have to wind and sun pick tea in the future. Look at this, you were born to be a good person... The auntie said earlier that my niece has a lot of luck, and I will help your cousin and our old Shu family more in the future..."
The big aunt is talking about it, and the cousin enthusiastically agrees.
The mother and son talked about a big call, but Shu Yuan didn't listen much. But the words "fate is good and good fortune" pierced Shu Yuan's ears and her heart was dull.