Qian Zhongshu’s Siege of the City Fragments Excerpts

(1)

The woman wearing sunglasses and a novel spread out on her body is very elegant and elegant in her clothes.

Among Asians, the skin is considered white, but unfortunately the white color is not fresh and a bit dry. She took off her dark eyeglasses and her face was pretty, but her lips were too thin and the lipstick wasn't rich enough. If she stood up from the deck chair, she would look slender. Maybe the contour lines were too hard, like those drawn with a square pen. She looked to be in her mid-twenties, but she was a new-school girl

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A person's age is like the age on an old-fashioned woman's wedding invitation. It requires what experts call external evidence to determine the authenticity, which cannot be seen by itself.

The boy's mother was already in her thirties, wearing a half-worn black gauze cheongsam, her face looked tired and sleepy from work, and with her naturally hung eyebrows, she felt increasingly sad and pitiful. The child is less than two years old. He has a flat nose, two slits for his eyes, and his eyebrows are high and far apart from his eyes. They are so lovesick that they look like the faces of Chinese people in newspaper caricatures. He had just learned to walk and wanted to run around all the time;

My mother was afraid of the heat, and her hands were tired and upset. She was also thinking about her husband's success or failure down there, and she couldn't help but scold the child as a nuisance. The child couldn't get anywhere before he changed his purpose and pounced on the woman reading a book.

(2)

Without a diploma, I feel as if I am mentally naked and without a package.

(3)

Ms. Bao has been accustomed to being scolded by her parents since she was a child. She is very smart and understands that she has to find opportunities and happiness by herself. So she would rather

get engaged to someone twelve years older than herself to have the chance to go abroad. The British are used to seeing white skin, and when they saw her dark but not black color and her fat and spicy appeal, they thought she was an authentic oriental beauty. She is confident that she can seduce people, so she seduces people very quickly and easily.

(4)

The sky turned dark early in the morning

The clouds revealed a few stars, the wind and waves were like the sound of gluttons devouring, the vast ocean during the day, At this time, everything is digested in the wider night. Against this background, the agitation of a person's body and mind is reduced to nothing. There is only a ball of hope for tomorrow in his heart, which has not yet fallen into the darkness. In the depths of the darkness of the vast desert, there is like a little firefly. of self-illumination.

(5)

It is said that "girlfriend" is the scientific name of "lover", which sounds more solemn, just like the biological name of rose is "Rosaceae"

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(6)

When Fang Hongjian went to his room to sleep, he found that Shuying’s photo was no longer on the table. He thought it was because his mother-in-law was afraid that she would miss people and get hurt

I am suffering from insomnia, so I came here to take it away. It had only been six or seven hours since we got off the ship, but everything on the ship felt like it had been a lifetime ago. The excitement when I landed has evaporated. I feel weak and insignificant. It is not easy to find a career and it is not easy to achieve love. The ideal dream of returning to China after studying abroad is like water on the ground. It turns into gas and rises to the sky, and then turns into rain and returns to the ground. People throughout this life are watching and talking about it. Now that I have returned to my hometown after thousands of miles away, the people of my motherland are soaking in a big soap bubble in the sea. When it is not broken, it is full of colors. It cannot withstand being scratched and disappears without a trace. He leaned against the screen window and looked out. The stars in the sky are dense and busy. They make no sound at all, but it seems that the sky is busy. A comb of the moon resembles a girl who has not yet grown up.

But she is not shy when seeing others, her light and outline are fresh and dewy, gradually complementing the night scene. The little insects in the small garden grass are talking trivially at night.

I don't know where the frogs are, working together to whistle, like the sound boiling in the fire. A few fireflies swam back and forth gracefully, not like flying, but like floating in the thick air; in the dark place where the moonlight could not reach, a little firefly flickered, like a microbe on a summer night. Small green eyes

eyes. Hongjian was accustomed to seeing this scenery before he went abroad, but when he saw it now, his heart suddenly tightened and hurt, and his eyes were so sore that he almost shed tears. Only then did he realize the beauty of life and the joy of returning home. The news in the "Shanghai Daily" was as unmindful as the buzzing mosquitoes outside the screen window. Hong

sighed slowly and yawned deeply.

(7)

Perhaps because too many people died in the war, the unused vitality of the dead was used for spring business.

That spring,

the weather was particularly good. The heart stirred up by this spring is like the gum flesh of a baby when its teeth come out, feeling an itch of vitality. Shanghai is a bustling city, and there are no mountains, rivers, flowers and willows as a place for spring to settle. The plants and trees in parks and residential gardens are like wild beasts in iron cages in zoos. They are restrained and lonely, and they don’t have enough time to let off steam. When spring comes, it can only live in the human heart, adding diseases and infections, cases of adultery, drunkenness and fights, and pregnant women. The last one is a good sign, as the population should be replenished during wartime

. But according to Mrs. Zhou, most of the children born this year are dead ghosts who have not yet reached the end of their yang life and are rushing to be reincarnated to find the age of their previous life

in order to live longer in the future.

(Uncle Qian’s writing is wonderful, these are just a small part, it should be enough for excerpting.)