The heat begins to subside at this point every day, and even the wind blowing in the rice fields brings a little coolness.
Li Zhuyuan headed towards the rice field, closed his eyes, and took several deep breaths seriously.
"Xiao Yuan Hou, what's wrong, does the master have a smell?"
"No, grandfather, I'm smelling the fragrance of rice."
"Oh, did you smell that?"
"I can't smell it, it's different from what is written in the article, they say the rice smells good."
"Silly boy, you have the wrong timing, wait until you fertilize or apply pesticides, you smell it again, I guarantee that the smell will definitely be old!"
"Master, you are teasing me."
"Hahaha." Li Sanjiang twisted his neck and continued to carry the child along the ridge road, "Now they have no smell, but when they are harvested, dried, shelled, steamed rice and beaten rice cakes, there is hot white steam on it, isn't that fragrance just a long way away?"
"Master, you are right."
Li Sanjiang stopped, turned around and looked at the rice fields: "Actually, what is written in the article you read is not wrong. We farmers, looking at the crops in the fields growing well, there are grain pots in the barn, there is rice in the pot, we don't have to worry about starvation, this is at ease, I can stand anywhere, close my eyes and take a sip, it is all sweet."
"Understood."
"No, you don't understand, Xiao Yuanhou, you haven't really been hungry, you can't really understand that feeling. Let's go, it hasn't been many years since we can let go of our bellies and eat all-you-can-eat.
However, no matter what, it is incomparable to before liberation."
"Huh?" Li Chaiyuan asked in surprise, "Before liberation, did people eat enough?"
"Yes, before liberation, everyone could eat enough and no one would go hungry."
"Master, what you said seems to be wrong."
"Because animals are not human."
"Huh?"
"Xiaoyuanhou, before liberation, your great-grandfather and I also broke through the beach."
"Then do you know Xu Wenqiang, grandfather?"
"Who is Xu Wenqiang? I don't know. Your grandfather and I went by boat back then, which was very convenient, after all, Nantong and Shanghai are separated by a river.
At that time, I thought, it must be easier to find a job in Shanghai, and it is better than farming for the landlord at home.
I was also lucky, and as soon as I arrived there, I immediately found a job."
"What kind of job is the grandfather looking for?"
"Corpse carrying team."
"Did the grandfather work in the funeral home?"
"Heh, there was a funeral home at that time, but how could ordinary people go to that place?
At that time, the city government allocated some funds to take the lead, and some wealthy businessmen donated, and the job was ...... Every morning, the corpses are collected, the corpses on the streets and alleys are carried on their backs, and sent to the nearby Yizhuang for processing.
When the situation is good, there can be a few donated coffins, but it is not one person with one coffin, but many people crowded together, and one coffin is stuffed to the brim.
Grandpa, I still remember one time, many girls as big as you were taken over, and it took a lot of effort to get them in.
Alas, it can't shake, and it can't shake.
Do you know what it means?"
"Is it that the coffin is too heavy and can't shake on the outside, or is it stuck too tightly on the inside, and it can't shake?"
"Opposite. When the situation is bad, the corpses are swept away with a straw to collect them, and when there is no time to burn or bury them, they are thrown into the mass grave in the suburbs, which is cheaper for wild dogs.
If it's winter, hey, good guy, it's really tiring.
On the street in the morning, you can see many dragging their families next to each other, freezing hard.
Xiao Yuanhou, that was big Shanghai, it was a big city at that time, and it was rich when it was old.
But your grandfather and I are really busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and there is so much work that we can't finish it at all.
I was thinking......
There are so many foreign cars driving on the street, obviously in that ten-mile foreign market, looking up at the ballroom and theater buildings, in and out are old men in dresses dressed as rich ladies, but in the alley between the walls, you can receive people who starve to death every day.
After thinking about it for a long time, I finally figured out a truth.
They all walk with a pair of eyes, one nose and two legs, but only a small group of people are considered humans, and the others ...... No, the other heads are all damn lowly animals.
Hey, no, livestock are also valuable, and they will be stuffed with a handful of forage when they are hungry, but they don't even deserve a coffin board, and they can be collected when they die because they feel that it will affect the appearance of the city."
Li Chaiyuan hugged Li Sanjiang's neck a little harder, and pressed his face against the grandfather's back: "Then the grandfather learned the skills at that time?"
"I guess so, at that time, I carried the corpse for a day, so I only mixed in the food and clothing money for the day; Now, if I catch one and bring it up, I can eat and drink spicy food for a while.
It's better to be liberated, people are finally human and valuable."
"My grandfather also said that when I was a child, I was beaten with a whip as a long-term worker for a landlord's family."
"Listen to the Han Marquis fart, his hair has just grown up, and we will be liberated here, and those landlords have also been ...... Hey, Xiao Yuan Hou, are you not talking about Han Hou?"
"It's Grandpa Bei."
"Hahaha, your dad's father in Beijing?"
"Well, he said that if he hadn't been able to survive, he wouldn't have followed the team to make a revolution."
Li Sanjiang suddenly paused at his feet, and turned his head to look at the child behind him:
"What?"
"What's wrong?"
"Your Grandpa Bei, have you fought?"
"Hmm."
"Are you still alive?"
"Alive."
"Did you fight the devil first?"
"I only played later."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk!"
"What's wrong, grandfather?"
"Xiaoyuanhou, do you have a good relationship with your Grandpa Bei?"
"During the holidays, I will go back to eat with my parents."
"What about usually?"
"Don't go."
"Ah, won't you move around?"
"Grandma Bei and her mother have a bad relationship."
Li Sanjiang: "......"
"Uncle and the others live with Grandpa Bei and Grandma Bei, Mom, Dad and I live outside, Mom doesn't allow me to go to Grandpa Bei, and even Dad occasionally goes home secretly, not daring to let Mom know."
"This Lan Hou, what is going on in your mind?"
Li Sanjiang didn't understand very much, of course he knew that it was normal for there to be conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but that was also a matter of mother-in-law!
Such in-laws, if you don't flatter and serve well, what else do you want?
But after thinking about it, Li Sanjiang suddenly felt that this seemed to be something that Li Lan would really do.
In the room of honest mud dog eggs, a golden phoenix suddenly appeared.
If Li Weihan's ancestral grave hadn't been with his ancestral grave, he would really suspect that Li Weihan's ancestral grave was on fire, and the smoke was not enough.
When she was a child, she was sweet and well-behaved, and she was endearing, and when she grew up a little, she could train her four brothers to be afraid of her.
I remember that when she brought the object home, Han Hou and Gui Ying were so restrained that they were embarrassed to look at people, he Li Sanjiang had seen the world, stared up and down for a long time, and took the initiative to step forward and nag;
At that time, he noticed that the man was only disciplined to the point of a chick pecking rice and nodding in front of Lan Hou, and he didn't know that the man with a white and tender face was a poor daughter-in-law who had just been abducted into the village by traffickers.
Li Sanjiang also knew about Lan Hou's divorce, otherwise Xiao Yuanhou would not have been temporarily put here, as usual, when men and women divorce, everyone will stand on the woman's side first in terms of emotional tendency, but Lan Hou divorced...... Li Sanjiang actually sympathized with that man a little in his heart, and he was able to endure it for more than ten years, which was not easy.
"Xiao Yuanhou, you changed your surname, right?"
"Hmm."
"Alas."
Li Sanjiang sighed, you actually changed your surname back, even if you don't change your surname, you will leave, then Xiaoyuanhou is still a servant of that family.
"Xiao Yuanhou, listen to the grandfather's advice, after you return to Beijing, find more opportunities to get close to your northern grandfather and northern grandma, understand?"
"Don't go."
"You are obedient, my grandfather will not harm you."
"I can't go, my mother will be unhappy if I go."
"You ......."
"If my mother is unhappy, she won't be Xiaoyuan."
"Alas...... What you said is that you are mother and son, and your mother likes you no matter when."
"No." Li Chaiyuan's voice was very low, but he was very sure, "If my mother is unhappy, she won't want me, I understand her."
Li Sanjiang had to change the topic: "Xiaoyuanhou, do you have your homework with you, and ask your mother to bring back the homework and books tomorrow."
"I didn't bring it back."
"Ha, you are a little clever ghost, you deliberately don't bring the book back, you can have fun in the countryside during the summer vacation, right?"
"Well, it's fun."
"You still have to study hard and go to school, so that you can live a better life in the future, wait for these days, let your sister Yinghou come to make up lessons for you, you can learn from her well."
"Okay."
"That's good."
The grandfather and grandson chatted all the way, walked to a river, the river was farmland, and walked along the path along the river for a while.
Li Sanjiang's dam is several times larger than Li Weihan's.
The three houses, the middle one facing north and south, is a newly built two-story building, but unlike the square architectural style of the Cuicui family, the new house of the Li Weihan family is very wide, extending from east to west, and is a large strip.
However, although there is a second floor, there are only a few separate rooms on the second floor, like a few blocks placed on a large platform.
On the left and right sides of the new house are two bungalows, facing each other.
"Grandpa, your house is so big."
"That's not true." Li Sanjiang's tone was proud.
In addition to fishing for corpses, he also does a paper tying business, which requires a wide field to stack raw materials and finished products, in addition, he also rents tables, chairs and plates.
Although the cost is not high, he has already recovered the cost after all, and now he is a hen that lays eggs steadily.
Therefore, the first floor of his new house is equivalent to a large warehouse, and the second floor has three rooms, which are as empty as a rooftop.
Li Sanjiang put Li Chaiyuan off his back, took his hand and walked into the middle room.
The west half is neatly stacked with tables and chairs, and the large baskets are full of all kinds of plates and dishes;
The eastern half is lined with paper men, paper houses, and paper horses...... Li Zhuiyuan also saw a Santana made of paper.
A woman of her mother's age and dressed plainly was coloring, holding a paint plate in her left hand and a brush in her right hand, and her pen was fast and smooth.
The woman noticed the comer, turned to look over, looked at Li Chaiyuan, and asked:
"Uncle, who is this child, he is so white and tender."
"Tinghou, let me introduce to you, this is my great-grandson, named Li Chaiyuan. Chase away, this is your Aunt Tinghou."
"Aunt Ting."
Li Chaiyuan felt that this generation seemed a bit wrong, but in front of people who were not related by kinship, everyone had their own opinions.
"Hey, be good." Liu Manting put down her things and walked over, bent down, and touched Li Chaiyuan's face with both hands, "It's so cute."
Li Chaiyuan took half a step back to avoid it, with a shy smile on his face.
"Uncle, you didn't bring your children over to play before."
"Ha, no child dared to come to me to play before." Li Sanjiang took out a cigarette from his pocket, "Tinghou, this girl has to stay with me for a while, you help him go up and clean up the house, oh, by the way, Xiao Yuanhou, are you afraid of sleeping in a room alone?"
"Don't be afraid, grandfather."
"Well, it's okay, anyway, the grandfather will sleep next to you, hehe. Okay, Tinghou, I'll leave it to you, I'll go to the porcelain jar first."
Li Sanjiang lit a cigarette and walked out to the toilet.
"Come, Xiaoyuan, go upstairs with Auntie."
There are so many things piled up on the first floor that even the staircase entrance is more than half obscured, making it hard to find for first-time visitors.
Li Chaiyuan noticed that there were still steps going down here at the staircase, and asked: "Aunt Ting, is there another floor below?"
"Yes, there is a basement below, which is about the same size as here."
"Is it the same thing?"
"No, they are all your great-grandfather's things, your grandfather is reluctant to throw them away, so he specially dug a layer just to store them."
"Oh, that's right."
"Also, Xiaoyuan, my name is Liu Manting, you can call me Aunt Liu in the future."
"Aunt Liu, are you not local?"
"No, my aunt is from out of town and will do paper-tying for your grandfather."
"Are you alone, Aunt Liu?"
"Auntie's lover is also here, rented your great-grandfather's field, and then we will work together on weekdays, tying paper and sending tables and chairs; He should be back from the field soon, and you can call him Uncle Qin when we meet.
In addition, my aunt's daughter and mother-in-law are also here, just the bungalow on the east side that you saw when you came in, and your uncle and I live on the west side.
Auntie's whole family is here, and she relies on working for your grandfather to make a living.
Before liberation, we all have to call you young master."
Xu had just heard Li Sanjiang talk about the corpse carrying team on the way here, Li Chaiyuan was now a little uncomfortable with this joke, and shook his head subconsciously and said:
"That's feudal dross."
"Huh?" Liu Manting was stunned for a moment, this kind of word came out of a child's mouth, it was indeed very surprising.
"Aunt Liu, just call me Xiaoyuan."
"Okay, Xiaoyuan. I heard your great-grandfather talk about you, you came back from Beijing, right?"
"Well, yes."
"Are you used to living here?"
"Habit, it's good here."
"Don't you think it's boring?"
"No, there are a lot of fun things here."
"That's good, Auntie colors the paper figures every day, and her hands are numb."
"Auntie is very good at drawing, very professional."
"What a major, Auntie drew this only when she drove the ducks to the shelves, how can she know how to draw."
However, your posture with the palette and brush is exactly the same as that of the teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.
"If Xiaoyuan wants to draw, you can help Auntie, it's actually not difficult to color."
"Okay."
Since returning to my hometown, this is the first time I have communicated with people in Mandarin throughout the whole process, and there are no longer so many Nantong dialects and so many "Hou".
Even my brothers and sisters who went to school only used Mandarin when they helped themselves "translate" at first, and when they turned their heads, they naturally changed back to dialect.
When she came to the second floor, Liu Manting opened a door, the furnishings inside were very simple, an old-fashioned bed and a wardrobe, and besides, there was not even a stool, but it was very clean and should be cleaned frequently.
"Xiaoyuan, you live here, your great-grandfather is next door to you. You stay here for a while, and I'll bring you the basin, handkerchief and spittoon."
"Thank you for your hard work, Aunt Liu."
"This kid is really polite."
Liu Manting went out, Li Chaiyuan looked around his room and walked out, really ...... There is nothing to look at.
The second floor is a large terrace with three rows of clotheslines standing in the center, and there are no balconies or guardrails around.
When you walk to the side, you can see the dam in front of you, and in the distance you can see the small river and farmland.
Li Chaiyuan felt that he could set up a chair here, and he would definitely enjoy sitting here in a daze.
Not far away, on the ridge, a middle-aged man was walking here with a hoe, the man was very tall, and where the white vest could not be covered, clear muscles could be seen, and in the afterglow of the sunset, it was very glossy.
He should be Aunt Liu's husband, Uncle Qin.
It seems that Uncle Qin didn't farm before.
Although farmers generally have a lot of strength, due to diet and other living habits, few can grow this kind of tiger back muscle, and they are usually that kind of lean.
Look down and look to the left.
"Huh?"
When I came forward first, I couldn't see the door of the bungalow on the east side because the firewood pile on the dam blocked my view, but now I stand on a high place and see it.
Inside the middle door of the bungalow, there was a little girl about the same age as herself.
She wore red embroidered clothes on her upper body, ink-colored pants with white lines on her lower body, her hair was combed into a spiral, and her feet were a pair of light green embroidered shoes.
This outfit is very retro, without any modern elements, but it doesn't look old-fashioned at all.
Because this is not a piece of cloth that the mother of the family made for her daughter casually, the details on her clothes are full of detail, it must have taken a lot of labor and thought, and the overall combination is very harmonious, wearing a kind of dignified lady.
The most important thing is that the girl has a fair face, eyebrows like a crescent moon, although she has a melon seed face but has just the right amount of baby fat, she is like a finely crafted work of art, you can't find even the slightest need to change from it, as if any extra move is a blasphemy and sin.
At this moment, she was sitting on the bench inside the threshold, her feet on the threshold, and she was looking straight ahead. The last touch of stubbornness before the sunset pulled out a line of light and shadow, which was just across the threshold in front of the house, which was exactly where she stepped on it.
Li Chaiyuan lowered his head and kept staring at others was rude, although ...... She is really good-looking.
She should be Aunt Liu's daughter.
When I looked up again, I found that the other party was still in that posture, looking forward.
It stands to reason that she was standing on the second floor, such a big person, and still looking at her, she should have noticed something, at least, she would glance at herself.
Could it be that he is too dazed?
Li Zhuiyuan raised his hand and waved it, he was sure that his action would definitely attract the attention of the other party, but...... Without.
The girl was still sitting there, her feet on the threshold motionless, she didn't look up, she didn't turn her head, and she didn't even blink.
Could it be that he is blind?
Li Zhuyuan shouted: "Hello."
The girl still didn't respond.
Are you still deaf and mute?
Li Chaiyuan felt a strong sense of regret in his heart.
Children of this age have a very clean and pure heart, and there is no thinking of adult men and women, even if it is Li Chaiyuan.
If the girl in front of him was disabled, it would be like a bloody hole cut out of a beautiful thing, whether it was a man or woman, it was an individual, and he would feel deep regret.
"Xiaoyuan."
Aunt Liu's voice sounded from behind, she walked to Li Chaiyuan's side and said with a smile: "Xiaoyuan, she is Auntie's daughter, Qin Li."
Li Chaiyuan nodded.
"Okay, Xiaoyuan, go to the house first, and Auntie will help you arrange your things."
Li Chaiyuan was slightly surprised, because Aunt Liu only introduced her daughter's name, there was no follow-up, generally speaking, you should ask about the age to divide the brothers and sisters, and add: You can play together in the future.
There are not many things, and after they are arranged neatly, Aunt Liu clapped her hands and said: "The toilet is at the back of the first floor, and you can use the spittoon in the house at night."
"Okay, I know, Aunt Liu."
"Then Auntie will go cook and call you when she's ready."
"Hmm."
Walking out of the room again and returning to the rooftop on the second floor, Li Zhuiyuan's eyes unconsciously looked there again.
The girl was still in the same position as before, still looking ahead, she seemed to be frozen there, never moving.
At this time, he saw Uncle Qin walk to the threshold, squat down in front of the girl, and speak softly to her.
But from beginning to end, the girl was still in that position, and she didn't even notice a trace of her father.
It gives people the feeling that although she is there, she does not have any perceptual contact with the world.
Uncle Qin noticed Li Chaiyuan, and he waved his hand: "Hello, child."
Li Zhuiyuan responded: "Hello uncle."
"Xiao Yuanhou, come down for dinner!" Li Sanjiang's voice came from downstairs.
Li Chaiyuan was a little surprised, is it so fast?
When I went downstairs, in the gap between the paper figures on the first floor, two square wooden benches were merged together as a dining table, on which were a plate of braised pig's head meat, a plate of braised pig ears, a plate of cold kelp and a plate of fried peanuts.
No wonder they were prepared so quickly, they should have all been bought from the market during the day.
"Sit down." Li Sanjiang opened the cap of the liquor bottle and filled himself with a large glass.
Li Chaiyuan sat down on the small bench opposite him, looking at the large bowl of rice piled high in front of him.
"Master, I can't eat so much."
"Heh, of course my grandfather knows." Li Sanjiang smiled, "You eat first, the rest is mine."
"Oh."
Li Zhuiyuan started eating.
Li Sanjiang handed over the wine glass and asked: "Xiaoyuanhou, do you want to drink some?"
Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "Children can't drink."
"Yes, that's right." Li Sanjiang was also amused, took the cup back and took a big sip, and picked up several peanuts in a row and put them in his mouth, "In the Han Hou family, there are no such good dishes, right?"
"The pickles made by grandma are also delicious."
"Huh."
Li Sanjiang clamped a piece of pig arch into Li Chaiyuan's bowl,
"Your grandparents are stupid, they are not used to those cubs, if you want your grandfather to say it, it is enough to take care of your son's generation, but also to take care of your grandchildren.
Actually, if your grandfather's family doesn't have so many children who open their mouths and don't have to drink thin, he can also make some wine every night."
Li Chaiyuan ate silently and did not answer.
"You are different." Li Sanjiang waved his hand, "Your mother gave the money, your uncles are really white-eyed wolves, a bunch of shameless and skinless things."
Li Chaiyuan continued to eat.
"The soup is here." Aunt Liu brought a bowl of loofah and egg drop soup and placed it on a wooden bench, "You are eating."
Then, she left, and Li Chaiyuan realized that Aunt Liu's family did not eat with the grandfather.
"Xiaoyuanhou, there is something that my grandfather has to remind you, if you live here in the future, you can wander around other places, just the east house, don't go."
The east room is where the girl sits.
"Why?"
"Tinghou's daughter is in the east room." Li Sanjiang poked his head with the tip of his chopsticks, "There is something wrong with that little girl, don't get close to her, it will be bad if you get scratched and bitten by her then."
Scratch bite?
It was hard for Li Chaiyuan to imagine that the little girl named Qin Li would be associated with these behaviors.
"Don't take it seriously, when her family first lived here with me the year before last, I gave the candy to that girl, who knew that as soon as she put the sugar in her hand, she threw the candy away, and then scratched and bit me like crazy, and she didn't die as fiercely as her."
"I know, grandfather."
It's good that she is neither deaf nor blind.
"Well, let's eat, eat well, my grandfather will give you a vegetarian meal."
Li Chaiyuan ate first, put down his chopsticks, and Li Sanjiang ended drinking and brought his rice bowl over to pick up rice.
The toilet was behind the room, Li Chaiyuan walked out first and walked around the dam, and happened to see the little girl being led by an old lady to stand up and walk to the dining table inside.
She should be Aunt Liu's mother-in-law.
In this grandmother, Li Chaiyuan seemed to see the shadow of his grandmother Bei, and there was a grace and elegance.
The little girl sat at the dining table and did not pick up her chopsticks, while the old lady kept whispering next to her.
When Li Chaiyuan returned from going to the toilet, he saw that the little girl had started eating, she only ate what was in her bowl, and the grandmother took a small plate to pick up vegetables for her.
He could notice the corner of his grandmother's eyes sweeping over him, but she didn't say hello to him.
Back in the house, Li Sanjiang had already eaten, and Aunt Liu was cleaning up.
"Xiaoyuan, the bathing place is in the innermost room upstairs, Auntie has already poured hot water for you, it may be a little hot, you can add cold water yourself."
"Thank you, Auntie."
When he came to the second floor, Li Sanjiang, who had eaten and drank enough, was already lying on a wicker chair that he didn't know where he had moved it from, holding a toothpick in his left hand and a cigarette in his right hand, humming a little tune and burping wine.
Li Zhuiyuan's eyes stayed on the rattan chair.
"Ha, tomorrow Ming'er will ask Li Hou to go to the market to buy one for you."
Li Hou should refer to Uncle Qin.
"Okay." Chase Li smiled, he really wanted it.
"The bathing place is there." Li Sanjiang pointed, "You wash me first and then wash me."
"Got it."
The bathroom is very narrow, probably temporarily covered later, with a rubber water pipe connected to the water tank.
Li Zhuiyuan tried the water temperature, it was a little hot, but there was no need to add cold water.
When he came out of the shower quickly, Li Sanjiang also stood up: "Go to my room and wait for me."
"Okay."
At this moment, it was completely dark outside, and the moon was hanging in the sky.
Li Chaiyuan glanced at the east room again, the door of the bungalow was closed, and the lights were on in the room.
Opening Li Sanjiang's door and walking in, Li Chaiyuan reached out and found the rope on the wall next to the door, and pulled it down.
"Tick-tock."
The lights are on.
The furnishings in the grandfather's bedroom are simply a replica of his own bedroom, an old bed and a wardrobe.
However, in the area in the middle that should have been empty, there was a dense circle of lines and a row of small candles, and there was an old book spread out on the ground next to it.
Li Zhuiyuan picked up the book and found that the book was not printed but handwritten.
The cover reads "Kinsharo Bunjing".
Opening the contents inside, I found that they were basically formation patterns and some annotations, the pictures were very scribbled, the annotations were written very casually, and most importantly, the words were really ugly.
It is far from the words written by Grandpa Xu of the Chinese Department who is good at making Dongpo meat in the family yard.
Soon, Li Zhuiyuan found the exact same formation map in the book as drawn on the ground, which reads - "Transfer Through the Evil Formation".
The effect is to transfer the evil energy from one person to another person, and it is also marked: it hurts people.
Li Chaiyuan looked at the picture in the book, and then looked at the painting drawn by the grandfather on the ground.
"How do you feel...... How many of the drawings are inconsistent?"
However, the pictures in the book are also hand-drawn, and they are crooked, so it is not easy to compare.
"It's also possible that the grandfather didn't draw it wrong, but the pictures in the book are not standard."
The two freehand schools, even if they draw the same thing, are really difficult to compare.
At this time, Li Sanjiang walked in after taking a shower, shirtless, wearing big blue pants.
Seeing Li Zhuiyuan holding a book and reading, Li Sanjiang couldn't help but laugh and said: "Ha, do you understand, Xiao Yuanhou?"
Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "I understand."
"Okay, okay, you can understand, our little Yuanhou is the smartest."
Li Sanjiang touched Li Zhuiyuan's head, took the book in his hand, and threw it aside.
In order to understand it a little, he had to ask the retired old village teacher in the next village several times, who liked calligraphy.
Later, Li Sanjiang stopped going, because the last time he went to see him at his house, Li Sanjiang also brought his own paper figure;
If it is given for nothing, the money will be confiscated, and the children will thank themselves again and again.
Therefore, how could he believe that Li Chaiyuan, a ten-year-old child, could understand this.
"Okay, Xiaoyuanhou, sit there, sit and don't move."
Li Chaiyuan sat down obediently in the designated position, while Li Sanjiang bent down and lit all the candles on the ground, then took out three black ropes and tied them to Li Chaiyuan's wrists, ankles and neck.
The candlelight flickered, Li Sanjiang began to mutter, he read quickly, still using the southern dialect, Li Chaiyuan couldn't understand it even if he listened carefully.
But I think this tone is very similar to the little song that the grandfather hummed on the rattan chair after eating a full meal.
After reading for a while, Li Sanjiang finally stopped, he smashed his mouth, he should be a little dry, but at this time it was not suitable to go out to drink water, so he could only cough dryly to clear his throat, and then reached out to touch his back, and when he took it back, there was an extra talisman in his hand.
Li Zhuiyuan was a little curious, the grandfather was wearing a pair of pants all over his body, where did this talisman be placed before?
After sending the talisman to the candle to light it, Li Sanjiang began to wave the talisman paper.
"Sizzle!"
When he was almost burned, Li Sanjiang slapped the talisman paper between himself and Li Chaiyuan.
"Snap!"
In an instant, all the candles went out, and the incandescent light bulbs in the room flickered a few times before returning to normal.
Li Chase looked left and right, then looked down at the black rope tied to his body:
Is this the end?
It seems, I don't feel anything.
"Okay!"
Li Sanjiang stood up, walked up to Li Chaiyuan, lowered his head, and pulled with his teeth and hands, breaking the excess parts of the three ropes, but Li Chaiyuan's neck, wrists and ankles still left black rope loops.
"Xiaoyuanhou, don't untie these three rope buckles tonight, just sleep like this, and I'll cut them off for you tomorrow when you have breakfast."
"Okay, sir."
"Well, you go back to sleep."
"Good night, grandfather."
"Good night, good night."
Li Zhuiyuan stood up, and as soon as he walked to the door of the room, he heard a "pop" sound behind him, and when he looked back, he found that Li Sanjiang was holding his foot and falling to the ground.
He had helped him bite off the rope before, but when he was about to bite off the rope on his ankle, he accidentally fell.
Li Sanjiang's legs were raised and overlapped, one hand rested on the back of his head, and the other hand waved at Li Chaiyuan:
"Don't go to bed yet."
"Oh."
Li Zhuiyuan returned to his bedroom and lay down on the bed.
He covered the thin quilt on his stomach and fell asleep.
Next door.
"It should have happened, right?" Li Sanjiang said to himself, "It must have happened, the light bulbs are flashing, it can't be that the circuit contact is bad."
Immediately, Li Sanjiang glanced at the book that was thrown on the ground again, and doubted himself: "No, the person who wrote this book probably didn't see the light bulb at that time, right?"
But soon, Li Sanjiang found new evidence: "What am I thinking about, the candles are extinguished, then it must have happened."
After saying that, Li Sanjiang stretched and walked to the bed to lie down.
"Oh, I'm really tired today, sleep...... Sleep."
He did too many things today, and he was pulling corpses, fishing corpses, and drawing formations.
As soon as his head touched the pillow, he snorted directly.
But when he fell asleep, Li Sanjiang turned over, and after whispering a few times, his brows gradually furrowed.
He dreamed.
In a dream,
He found himself sitting on a white jade stone platform, surrounded by towering palace walls and magnificent palaces.
In front of me is a door opening on the right, and on the left is a large open area that extends to the pool and dragon bridge.
"Grandma's, this is the Forbidden City?"
Li Sanjiang has never been to the capital, so naturally he has never been to the Forbidden City, but he has seen it on the wall calendar and on the open-air movie screen, isn't this where the emperor lives?
Hey, I actually have this dream, it's interesting.
Li Sanjiang subconsciously wanted to touch the cigarette in his pocket, but he couldn't get one?
But when he reached out and touched it, he grabbed something fluffy, and when he looked down, he saw an orange cat lying on his lap.
The orange cat seemed to have just been sleeping, and was woken up and turned over with some dissatisfaction.
"Get out of here."
Li Sanjiang ruthlessly pushed the orange cat away.
After the orange cat landed, it rolled around and stood up, and shouted at him dissatisfiedly:
"Meow!"
Li Sanjiang didn't take it seriously, stretched out his hand and patted the remaining cat hair on his legs, then took out the cigarette box again, pulled out a mouthpiece, and then took out a match and lit it for himself.
At this time, there was a dull rubbing sound of "squeaking" diagonally ahead......, which should be that the palace gate was opened.
Li Sanjiang took a puff of smoke: "I remember hearing that I have to buy tickets to go to the Forbidden City, will I be fined for fare evasion?"
Immediately, Li Sanjiang patted the back of his head: "I'm fucking in a dream, buy a fart ticket!"
Spit out a puff of smoke ring, Li Sanjiang smiled proudly:
"This is really a good deal, people have to take a long-distance train to Beijing to go to the Forbidden City, and they have to buy tickets to enter.
The friction of the palace gate finally stopped, and footsteps were heard in front, inside the three door openings.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Dull and neat.
Li Sanjiang leaned forward slightly, and thought to himself: Do I have to queue up to visit the Forbidden City?
But soon,
Li Sanjiang was stunned, because in the three door openings, it was not tourists who came out, but three rows of people wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms and flower feathers on their heads, and they jumped out according to the same rhythm.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
The cigarette in Li Sanjiang's hand had slipped off at some point.
Suddenly, they all stopped beating and fell into stillness and dead silence.
The next moment,
They collectively turned left in place, facing Li Sanjiang.
(End of this chapter)