Chapter 9 Uncle Hu and the Fox Fairy
Uncle Hu is immersed in his story: I have six children in my family, and I am the second among the boys, the fourth in line. It is also the least favorite child of parents.
You really don't know how poor we were back then. I couldn't even sleep on the kang, so I built a board on the ground as a bed, and sometimes in order to punish us for making mistakes, we threw them directly under the bed.
It's fine in the summer, but it's cold in the winter. I don't lie to you, even the rats are not happy, and they don't want to move their nests.
Huang Xiaoxian smiled like Yinling in the wind, crisp and good-sounding, she rarely laughed so heartily.
The old man said, "Don't you believe it?" and think I'm bragging?"
Huang Xiaoxian asked suspiciously: "If it doesn't want to move its nest, you can kill it, and the mouse is not a protected animal." ”
"It's really not good!" Uncle Hu said seriously: "The rats will take revenge, and their grandchildren will line up to find you." ”
Huang Xiaoxian laughed unscrupulously again, and the old man was also happy when he saw her happy appearance.
After taking a sip of wine, the old man continued: "Because my eldest brother is the eldest brother, my grandmother hurts him a little doting, and my younger brother, who is the eldest of the ranks, is also a favored person.
My sister and sister were married very early, especially my two older sisters, and my sister was also before me.
Let me tell you this, I am the last child in my family to get married.
When there are many children in the family, you are either at the top or last, and the unlucky ones are in the middle. Especially someone like me, who has an unpleasant personality, and my father and mother don't like me the most.
When I was a child, I liked the teacher in the village, pestering him to accept me as a disciple. This is the first thing in our family.
My parents scolded me for being lazy all day long, thinking that maybe I would be more productive if I read a book, and they also hoped that I would become a learned person, if I could become an accountant, a security officer, or a bookkeeper in the village.
But I'm not this material, not only can't go to the ground, but also average learning, anyway, the people in the village shook their heads when they saw me, and later they gave me a nickname called Four Lazy.
From then on, my life never saw the sun again, and the most respected person in the village was a good hand in the crops, or such a learned teacher, and I was born in the middle.
I can't do any work in the field, and I can't even tell the difference between grass and seedlings. Later, because I didn't like the work in the field so much, I knew it, and I deliberately cleaned up the seedlings, so angry that my father and mother beat me and scolded me.
My eldest brother got married when he was seventeen years old, and my younger brother got engaged at the age of fifteen. My father and mother even wanted me to marry a widow, but I resolutely stopped me.
Our family lives in a place called Loess Gang, which is very remote. One day, when my father returned, he brought home a dying and somewhat strange dog. Although the hair is faded, the eyes are unusually sharp.
It seems to have been seriously injured, my father has been fond of small animals all his life, and he often retrieves some kittens and dogs, and often makes his mother scold the dog's blood, and there is not enough food at home, so how can there be anything for the dog? But he just won't change it.
Later, I learned that the so-called dog that my father picked up was actually a fox.
Although there is a big difference between a dog and a fox, no one had ever seen a fox at that time, and what is particularly interesting is that this fox seems to be leaning on the dog on purpose, which makes people think it is an old dog.
In less than a week, the mother's fire has been going on for no less than seven days, and on this day, my father had no choice but to send away the dog that was almost raised.
One evening on the third day after I was sent off, an old man knocked on my door, and we both slept that day. Dad thought that people had gone to the wrong door, but the man gave these three things to his father inexplicably.
He said: "There are no good things, give three things to your three sons, maybe it can be useful." With that, the man left.
When my mother came out, she saw that it was three useless things, and she scolded angrily, saying, "What are you tossing in the middle of the night?" My father didn't understand who gave these three things, and why did he send them, and the old man's father outside the door didn't know him at all, so he thanked him in a daze.
I deliberately lit the lamp and looked at the three things, but I didn't realize what a good thing it was, and what to do for him.
Three things came into our hands at the time of the feast. I can only pick them and don't want the rest. If it weren't for my mother's fact that none of these three things were useful, I wouldn't have been able to get my hands on any of them.
My brother's family already has a child, so I asked for the little box. My brother thought the hat was still a little useful, and it was September, and the hat was ready to be worn, and I only got a fan that was useless.
I've been drinking ink for a few days, and I always think it's not that simple, and you think, people send three useless wastes at night, isn't this looking for scolding? But what is the use, I don't know, and no matter how you look at it, it's a very ordinary thing.
The broken fan in my hand was of no other use at all, and I fanned it lightly twice, but there was no response. I also thought I was thinking too much, and it didn't take long for me to forget about it in the back of my mind.
One day, my mother called me to go to the field to inspect the beans, which was a particularly hard job, and my boss was unwilling, but there was no way. My mother not only likes to scold, but especially likes to get started, and I can't count how many times I have been beaten by her since I was a child. Even if I'm that old now, she'll be fine.
Just worked for more than an hour, I was so tired that I sat on the ground out of breath, my mother is a diligent person, and I have already done it to the front.
I took advantage of the fact that she couldn't come back for a while, so I ran home to rest. I was thirsty and hot, especially when it was too hot, and I lay on the kang so hot that I was like a pancake, and my mother's cauldron was still boiling buds.
After lying down for a while, I couldn't stand the heat, so I picked up the fan and fanned it vigorously. Something no one could have imagined happened. I actually flew. The first time I had no experience, I actually fell and my nose was bruised and swollen, but I didn't feel any pain at all, I knew that I had obtained a treasure.
I didn't give up and got up, but this time my head hit the roof, and I instinctively grabbed the beam of the house with a bewildered expression.
I experimented back and forth five or six times, and I finally mastered the art of using it.
As soon as I flew up, my hand stopped, and the man must have fallen, and no matter what I did, one of my hands could not stop, and with five points of force I was able to maintain a certain height.
I was able to fly? I just fell so badly, I didn't believe it was real.