Chapter Thirteen Feeling Feelings, Cut the Braids
Ah Fa swallowed, but unexpectedly, he was curious for a moment and attracted the legendary martial arts master. To argue with him? Forget it, this man is obviously a bad guy, and he really doesn't have much money, and there is no need for fighting! Tickling his head, Ah Fa walked away indifferently.
"What's going on? Why did you quarrel with someone just now?" Ah Fa bought items from another stall. Caifeng walked over and asked curiously.
Ah Fa smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on. I just want to see the sword he sold, and he actually got such a big temper."
"Sword?" Caifeng pursed her lips and said sneered: "Are you interested in this fighting and killing thing? Are you ready to compete with someone to go and grab the dock next time?"
Haha, Ah Fa smiled softly and didn't want to explain anything. After this storm, he felt almost gone and felt hungry, so he walked towards the snack stall in the night market.
The lard rice combines the dishes with the staple food, making them easy to make and taste delicious. Only in this way can the bacon that concentrates the essence of the time be able to bring out the umami flavor of the rice. Fry the fresh vegetables, mix them with the rice, add a little lard, and bake them with the rice. It smells so fragrant, and it is fine even if you eat three big bowls.
Caifeng's eyes became wider and wider, and she only looked at the "hate Afa" and suddenly turned into "fried Afa". It was not until she noticed the look of Afa signaling her that Caifeng woke up, shook her head and said she would not eat it, and pushed the bowl of rice in front of Afa. Then, she put her hands and chin, and watched Afa perform without hesitation with interest.
A burst of rapid footsteps passed by, and a small figure ran past Caifeng. Before Caifeng could feel it, a flower on her head disappeared.
Ah Fa suddenly stood up and threw the bowl in his hand out. With the series of sounds, the little thief fell to the ground, attracting the attention of others. But soon, everyone diverted their sight and seemed indifferent. This was an era of sweeping the snow in front of the door.
The little thief who fell was a thirteen or four-year-old boy, dressed in rags, had gray face, mud, and swollen left eye, which seemed to be caused by the recent. In a brief panic, he looked at Afa without fear, without saying anything, and let Afa take away the beads in his hand and handed them to Caifeng, who was still confused.
Afa didn't remember whether he dared to stare at others so boldly and provocatively when he was so old, and after doing bad things, he met with his eyes, and a trace of loneliness and trauma flashed in the child's bruised eyes. They were so deep, hidden behind his pretended stubborn appearance, which shocked Afa. Afa, a young man who had traveled to Shanghai back then, suffered a lot, so similar!
"Where is your family?" Ah Fa's tone was very gentle.
The boy blinked, touched the back of his head, which was hit by the bowl, and turned his head without answering.
"May I have your name?"
"What's your business?" The young man stared at Ah Fa and said hatefully: "Do you want to send me to the police station? Come on, I'm not afraid of you!"
Ah Fa shook his head, reached out to take out the money in his pocket, which was only a few dollars. He squatted down, put the money gently in the boy's arms, looked at the boy with a complex look, stood up and walked away silently.
"Hey." Caifeng followed Ah Fa for a while and couldn't help but scream.
Ah Fa stopped and looked at Caifeng with inquiring eyes.
"That" Caifeng didn't know what to say. After a while, she said in a stern voice: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Ah Fa replied lightly, "Let's go back!"
The rickshaw was moving forward in Zeba. Afa opened and closed his hands and fiddled with an old razor I had just bought from the street stall. He was thinking about something, but when he passed by a bright place, the razor occasionally reflected light and shadow, flashing across Afa's face.
Caifeng glanced at Ah Fa from time to time, wanting to ask some questions, but she didn't know how to speak.
The blade is thin and sharp, and the handle is very smooth. I don’t know how long it has been used by a barber. Ah Fa thought this should be a very suitable close-fitting weapon, which is better hidden and less conspicuous than a pistol. Moreover, it has such a normal function. In Caifeng’s shocked and puzzled eyes, Ah Fa took off his hat, put the razor on his scalp and cut off his braid.
"Are you crazy?" Caifeng's eyes almost fell out and she stuttered: "This, this is something that needs to be beheaded."
Ah Fa smiled and didn't reply. He shaved the hairs in a few slashes, and a big bald man made a brilliant appearance. He took out a cross he had just bought from his pocket, shook it at Caifeng, and put it on his neck. Now he doesn't have to be afraid, right?
After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it implemented a barbaric and bloody hair shaving order, and the 200-year history of Chinese men with q-shaped hairstyles in a sea of corpses and blood began. Over the past 200 years, people experienced the process of resisting the Q-shaped hairstyles from being forced to accept, and then being numb. In the end, it no longer regarded it as a barbarian custom, but as a custom of a great country in the Celestial Kingdom. On the other hand, when Westerners looked at the Chinese Q-shaped hairstyles at that time, they were full of confusion and contempt, and were called pig tails.
The first to discover the ugliness and inconvenience of braids and take action should be overseas Chinese. In 1898, Singaporean Chinese publicly proposed to cut braids in newspapers, which caused great shock and controversy in overseas Chinese society.
The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was a very important event in Chinese history. Since then, the Qing government’s prestige has been ruined and its control over various places has weakened. Local forces have begun to grow. In the concessions in various places and in the Northeast, the Qing government has been unable to effectively exercise sovereignty.
Due to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing court, overseas Chinese, some international students, as well as some revolutionary organizations, began to cut braids and encouraged them. With the return of international students, a small number of young students began to cut braids in southern provinces where the central government of the Qing Dynasty was weakly controlled by the Qing Dynasty. This was obvious that they were ugly and inconvenient, but in fact they meant a break with the Qing government.
Although there are very few people who cut braids in Shanghai and around the world, the government turned a blind eye and no longer punished them for this. Unless it was deliberately found out that the Qing government's control was no longer the same as before, so it could only adopt a default attitude. By the time the new army was trained, although it was not officially announced, the braids were already defaulted.
Chapter completed!