My Reading Comprehension of Xianheng Hotel by Lu Xun

The layout of hotels in Luzhen is different from other places: they are all big counters facing the street, with hot water inside, which can warm wine at any time. People who go to work often spend four coppers to buy a bowl of wine after work in the afternoon and evening. This was more than twenty years ago, and now every bowl has to rise to ten pence. Standing outside the cupboard, they drank hot drinks and had a rest. If you are willing to spend an extra penny, you can buy a dish of salted bamboo shoots or fennel beans as a drink. You can buy a meat dish for a dozen pence. But most of these customers are short-sleeved gangs, and they are generally not so rich. Only people in robes walk into the house next to the shop, ask for wine and vegetables, and sit and drink slowly.

I have been working as a waiter at Xianheng Hotel in Zhenkou since I was twelve years old. The store said that I was too stupid, and I was afraid that I couldn't serve the customers in the gown, so I did something outside. Although the customers with short coats outside are easy to talk to, they also have a lot of nagging, which makes people confused. They often have to watch yellow rice wine scooped out of the jar, see if there is water at the bottom of the pot, and then watch the pot put into hot water, and then rest assured: under such serious supervision, the pot (cha? ) water is also difficult. So a few days later, the shopkeeper said I couldn't do it. Fortunately, the person in charge of the recommendation was very generous. Without being dismissed, he changed to a boring position specializing in warm wine.

I have been standing at the counter all day, taking charge of my duties. Although there is no dereliction of duty, I always feel a bit monotonous. The shopkeeper looked at lost face, and the customers had nothing to be humorous about, which made people look lively. Only Kong Yiji could laugh when he got to the store, so he remembered.

Kong Yiji was the only one standing drinking and wearing a gown. He is very tall; Blue and white face, often with some scars between wrinkles; A shaggy gray beard. Although I am wearing a robe, it is dirty and torn. It seems that it hasn't been mended or washed for more than ten years. He is always full of big talk when talking to people, which makes people half understand. Because his surname is Kong, others gave him a nickname, Kong Yiji, which comes from the semi-understood word "Shang Da Ren Kong Yiji" on red paper. As soon as Kong Yiji arrived at the store, all the drinkers looked at him and smiled. Some shouted: "Kong Yiji, you have added a new scar on your face!" He didn't answer. He said to the cupboard, "Heat two bowls of wine and ask for a plate of fennel beans." I will pay a lot of money. They shouted loudly again: "You must have stolen from others again!" Kong Yiji opened his eyes and said, "How can you make people innocent out of thin air ..." "What innocence? I saw with my own eyes what book you stole and hung it up the day before yesterday. " Kong Yiji blushed and the veins stood out on his forehead, arguing that "stealing books is not stealing ... stealing books! ..... how can you steal the matter of a scholar? " The incomprehensible words such as "the gentleman is poor" and "the villain is poor" caused everyone to laugh: the air inside and outside the store was filled with joy.

Listening to people talking behind their backs, Kong Yiji also read books, but in the end he didn't go to school and couldn't make a living; So I became poorer and poorer, ready to beg. Fortunately, I wrote a good hand, so I copied books for others and got a bowl of rice. Unfortunately, he also has a bad temper, that is, he is lazy to drink. After sitting for less than a few days, people disappeared with books, paper, pens and inkstones. If so, several times, no one asked him to copy the book. If there is no law in Kong Yiji, it is inevitable to do some stealing occasionally. But in our shop, his character is better than others, that is, he never defaults; Although there is no cash occasionally, it will be temporarily recorded on the chalk board, but it will be paid off within one month, and Kong Yiji's name will be erased from the chalk board.

Kong Yiji drank half a bowl of wine, and her red face gradually recovered. Someone asked, "Kong Yiji, can you really read?" Kong Yiji looked at the person who asked him and showed disdain. They went on to say, "Why can't you even get half a scholar?" Kong Yiji immediately a face of depression, face was full of gray, he said something. This time, it's all nonsense, and some don't understand. At this time, everyone laughed: the inside and outside of the store were full of happy air.

At these times, I can echo the smile, and the owner will never blame me. And when the owner sees Kong Yiji, he often asks him this question, which makes people laugh. Kong Yiji knew he couldn't talk to them, so he had to talk to the children. Once said to me, "Have you ever read a book?" I nodded briefly. He said, "read this book, ... I will test you." How to write fennel for fennel beans? " I think, do beggars deserve to test me? I turned my back and ignored it. Kong Yiji waited for a long time and said earnestly, "Can't you write? ..... I'll teach you, remember! These words should be remembered. When you become a shopkeeper in the future, you should use it to write accounts. " I thought to myself that I am far from the level of the shopkeeper, and our shopkeeper never takes fennel beans; Funny and impatient, he replied lazily: "Who wants you to teach? Isn't it just a word from the grass? " Kong Yiji is extremely happy, with two fingers long nails knocked on the counter, nodded and said, "yes, yes! ..... There are four ways to reply words, do you know? " The more impatient I became, I walked away with my mouth pursed. Kong Yiji just dipped her nails in wine and wanted to write on the counter. When he saw that I was not enthusiastic, he sighed again and looked sorry.

"How about zai? Not much. "

On several occasions, the children in the neighborhood laughed and rushed to the scene and surrounded Kong Yiji. He gave each of them one. After eating the beans, the child was still wandering, staring at the plate. Kong Yiji panicked, held out five fingers to cover the plate, bent down and said, "Not much, I don't have much." Straightening up, he looked at the beans, shook his head and said, "No more, no more!" how much is it? Not much. "So this group of children got separated in laughter.

Kong Yiji is so cheerful, but without him, others will live like this.

One day about two or three days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the shopkeeper was slowly checking out, took off his pink board and suddenly said, "Kong Yiji hasn't been here for a long time. I still owe nineteen dollars! " I also think he hasn't come for a long time. A drinker said, "Why did he come?" ..... he broke his leg. "The shopkeeper said," Oh! " "He's still stealing. This time, I lost my mind and stole it to Ding's house. Did you steal anything from his house? " "What happened later?" "how about it? Write a defense first, then fight, fight until midnight, and then break your leg. " "What happened later?" "Then I broke my leg." "How about a discount?" "Why? ..... who knows? Maybe it's dead. " The shopkeeper stopped asking, but slowly calculated the account.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the autumn wind is getting colder every day, and it's almost early winter. I have a fever all day, so I must put on a cotton-padded jacket. There were no customers in the second half, so I sat with my eyes closed. Suddenly I heard a voice, "Warm a bowl of wine." Although the voice is extremely low, it is very familiar. No one was there when I watched it. Standing up and looking out, Kong Yiji sat on the threshold under the counter. His face is black and thin, and his figure is out of shape; Wear a worn-out jacket with legs crossed, put a cattail bag under it and hang it on your shoulder with a straw rope; When he saw me, he said, "Heat a bowl of wine." The shopkeeper also put his head out and said, "Kong Yiji? You still owe nineteen dollars! " Kong Yiji was very unhappy and replied on his back, "This ... will be paid next time. This time it is cash, and wine is better. " The shopkeeper smiled and said to him as usual, "Kong Yiji, you stole again!" " But this time, he didn't argue too much, just said, "Stop joking!" " "Make fun of? How can you break your leg if you don't steal it? " Kong Yiji whispered, "Break, fall, fall ..." His eyes seemed to be pleading with the shopkeeper, so don't mention it again. At this time, several people had gathered, and the shopkeeper smiled and said, I'll heat the wine and take it out and put it on the threshold. He took four pence out of his tattered pocket and put it in my hand. When he saw that his hand was covered with mud, it turned out that he had come with this hand. Soon, after drinking, he sat and walked slowly with this hand amid the laughter of others.

I haven't seen Kong Yiji for a long time since then. At the end of the year, the shopkeeper took off the powder board and said, "Kong Yiji still owes nineteen dollars!" On the Dragon Boat Festival the following year, he said, "Kong Yiji still owes nineteen dollars!" I didn't say anything until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I didn't see him at the end of the year.

I didn't see him at last-maybe Kong Yiji really died.

Written in 19 18 winter.

1. Short-sleeved clothes gang: It used to refer to working people wearing short sleeves.

2. Chu: rich.

3.chàn: mixing and doping.

4. Recommendation: In the old society, people who introduced domestic workers also generally referred to people who introduced occupations.

5. Voice: This refers to attitude.

6, full of words: it means full of classical Chinese words. This place is used to show the nerds in Kong Yiji.

7. H.E. Kong Yiji: Red paper (red paper: a kind of copybook printed with red font for children to copy China's calligraphy). In the old days, the most popular words were printed with simple strokes and seemingly incomprehensible words, such as "Shang Ren Da Kong (building a hill before the Ming Dynasty) has become the masterpiece of 372 boys and 89 sons." ), printed with "Shangdaren Kong Yiji", contains various strokes, which are relatively simple, with three words and one sentence.

8. "Scholars are poor": For the language, see The Analects of Confucius Wei Linggong. "Poverty" means "sticking to its poverty", and the ethical significance will not be changed because of poverty. Strong and safe.

9. Admission: In the imperial examination system of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, young students passed the initial examination of the county examination, the re-examination of the government examination, and then took the college examination (Taoist examination) presided over by the school administration. Students' status in Mingfu County is called entering the school and become scholars. It is also stipulated that provincial-level examinations should be held once every three years, in which scholars or supervisors take part, and the winner is Juren.

10. Making a living: making a living and planning how to live.

1 1, note: now write "copy".

12. There are four ways to write the word "Hui": in the past, there were only three ways to write the word "Hui": Hui, Zou and Zou, and few people used the fourth way (adding a word Mu in the middle of a Zou). Kong Yiji, a scholar who was deeply poisoned by the imperial examination education, often took some useless words seriously as knowledge and skills.

13, "How much is it? Not much ":See" The Analects of Confucius Zi Han ":"Great, ask Zi Gong:' Is the master a saint? "How much ability!" Zi Gong said,' The general who consolidates heaven and earth is holy and powerful.' Hearing this, Zi said, Do you know me? I am cheap, so I can despise it. "How many gentlemen are there? Not much. " This has nothing to do with the original intention.

14. pleading: also called "pleading", that is, confession. This refers to the plea of self-incrimination without the government.

15, year end: year end. In the old society, when the accounts were settled at the end of the year, the debts were mainly demanded from the debtors, who spent the New Year as if they had passed the customs clearance, so it was called "annual customs clearance". The following Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also the time limit for checkout in the old society.