【007】Old Friends
Zhong Kui wrapped the corn buns made by his father in soft paper and prepared to send them to his grandfather. He didn't know what happened, but he felt a little uneasy today. He suddenly thought of two friends. If anything happened in the past, they would
Two friends told him.
Thinking about it, maybe he felt so uneasy because he hadn't been to his grandpa's house for a long time! What he didn't expect was that this kind of uneasiness came from him. It was because of going to his grandpa's house and missing it somewhere.
, but something terrible happened.
The dead must be laid to rest on a hot day. The Yan family said that it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun. As long as Zhong Mingfa works quickly and the Yan family can afford the wages, they will bury Butcher Yan on the same day. In this case, Zhong Mingfa cannot rest easy.
, we have to keep digging and complete the tomb before dark.
Grandpa was overjoyed when he knew it was Zhong Kui. He took out the moldy steamed buns hidden under the pillow and gave them to the child.
Zhong Kui couldn't say that the steamed buns were inedible, so he deliberately chewed them and made a noise. This made his blind grandfather think he was eating steamed buns, but the fresh corn buns got into his stomach.
Grandpa likes to be clean, and his house is not large. Although he cannot see with his eyes, he can touch it with his hands.
A man's love of face is a fact that cannot be changed in his life. Zhong Mingfa asked him countless times if he needed help. The old man stubbornly refused his apprentice's kindness. He had been used to being strong all his life and did not want people to say that he was a useless waste.
This will harm others.
When Zhong Kui came to his grandfather's house, he still had to help him tidy up the house. He couldn't tell yet that he was cleaning the house for his grandfather.
Grandpa knew that Zhong Kui was a child who couldn't sit still, and only stories could calm him down.
As soon as Zhong Kui heard that his grandfather was about to tell a story, he quickly brought a wooden stool and sat next to his grandfather.
Before telling a story, grandpa, as usual, had to ask some interesting questions.
It was nothing more than asking Zhong Kui about the things that made his father angry, such as tearing off the portrait of his ancestor and wiping his buttocks.
Then Zhong Kui told his grandfather that he saw a mother-in-law setting up copper coins. After his grandfather heard about it, his facial muscles kept trembling.
"What else did she say?"
"She said that copper coins should be used to measure fortune and misfortune."
Grandpa was speechless for a few seconds, and then said slowly: "Grandpa will tell you a love story today."
Zhong Kui held his chin and stared at his grandfather intently, and the picture from his grandfather's story emerged in his mind; a handsome young man and a beautiful girl, both of them were in free love. Unfortunately, the young man's family was too poor and he did not have a betrothal gift to marry the girl.
When the girl turned fourteen, she was forced by her family to marry a rich man who was more than thirty years older than herself as a concubine. She was said to be a concubine, but she actually wanted her to be used as a fertility tool for the rich man's family. The rich man's eldest wife
He and his several wives failed to give birth to a boy or a girl to the rich man, so when the rich man married this girl, he pinned his hopes of inheriting cigarettes on her.
A few days after the girl married a rich man, an old man in her family passed away, and she had to rush home to pay her last respects as a filial piety.
The young man saw the girl coming back on a donkey at the entrance of the village. The girl ate chicken, duck and fish in the wealthy family and wore silk and satin. Her body became plumper and fuller. Her complexion was as beautiful as the Seven Fairies in the movie.
The young man was stunned.
The girl looked at the young man. Because he worked on the slopes of the fields every day, his muscles became stronger. He also grew taller, and his dark skin had a healthy luster.
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, then each walked in the direction they wanted to go.
Whenever the young man is depressed, he likes to go to a place, which is the slope full of wild flowers where he and she once stayed. The slope is a quiet area far away from the village and rarely disturbed by people.
After seeing the girl at the entrance of the village, the young man had no intention of working and walked aimlessly alone until he came to this slope again.
When the young man arrived, he was stunned. Unexpectedly, the girl came one step ahead of him, and she came riding a donkey.
The wind was like the flowers of Patchouli, tickling their faces and whispering in their ears, encouraging them to get closer slowly.
The warm sunshine and the blue sky were their quilts, and the earth full of wild flowers was their bed. There were no blessings or words of matchmaking. The two of them looked at each other for a moment and became madly entangled.
The girl is still a girl and has not turned into the legendary woman. This makes the young man surprised and happy. What surprises him is, didn’t the girl marry a rich man? Why is her body still intact? What is happy is that the girl actually survived in such a dangerous environment.
Here, I can still maintain my integrity and give myself the first time.
After finishing, the girl picked up and folded the clothes very quickly, and left in a hurry on her donkey without explaining anything to the young man.
After more than half a year, the young man learned from others that the girl was about to give birth. Because she proudly protruded her belly in the hostile eyes of many wives, she aroused jealousy and suffered revenge from all the wives.
I almost had a miscarriage, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The rich man repaired all his wives, and then straightened the girl up to become the eldest wife. Not long after, the rich man actually gave birth to a baby boy, and the rich man entertained him with a feast for three days.
Congratulatory gifts to relatives and friends.
What is so sad is that when the child was just one year old, the rich man was poisoned and died. How exactly he was poisoned could not be verified. But not long after, the young man saw the girl again. No, she was already a young woman, and she was pregnant.
She appeared in front of him holding the child in her arms.
Needless to say, the two of them must go to the place full of wild flowers to search for memories. When the young woman was happy, she told her story about how she used a trick to get the wealthy man to repair his big house and other concubines.
The young man didn't make a sound, but clenched his fist and slammed it on the ground.
"You also killed him?" The young man was silent for a long time, holding back these words, and looked at the smiling young woman with sharp eyes and asked.
The young woman's face condensed, and she said in a nonchalant tone: "If he doesn't die, how will you meet the child? The child is yours, this old thing is useless..."
The young man listened to the young woman's words and talked, his eyes shining brightly, as if she was talking about a trivial matter, and what she did was treated as a very interesting thing. The young man's face gradually became darker,
Suddenly he felt dizzy. In his mind, she used to be so kind and innocent. He didn't expect that just a few years later, she would become a murderer without blinking an eye.
The young woman is no longer beautiful in the young man's mind. He looks at her like a stranger...
The young man reported the young woman, and the young woman was taken away and imprisoned. Later she was said to be doing hard labor in the prison. After that, she was never heard from again. In the era of war and chaos, no one knew where she was exiled.
The only thing the young man remembers about her is that she knows a little bit about divination, which is how to measure fortune and misfortune by setting up copper coins.
"What about the child?" Zhong Kui asked impatiently.
Zhong Kui didn't see that when the story came to this point, muddy tears rolled down his grandfather's sunken eyes, and they immediately flowed down from the corners of his eyes and flowed to the base of his ears.
Chapter completed!