Chapter 38: Admonition
"Zhuzi mentioned Wang Zheng, Guan Xin did not use the word "small" to describe them when they went down to the house. But this time, he used it, which shows one thing, the other party is likely to be a big man at the same level as Lingyan.
At night, I sat across from the black cat, which didn't make any noise all day. I was holding the second pot of the bottle, wondering what it was. The door of the courtyard was opened, and the old man slowly walked over in a green military coat.
"Hey, old man, it's cold at night, why don't you sleep and run out?"
I hurriedly walked up and asked.
"It's cold, it's much colder than this when I crossed the snowy mountains, and I wore less clothes than now. At that time, I was not afraid, but now this little wind blowing can still kill me?"
The old man had a big temper, and I stuck out my tongue and quickly brought him a chair. The fat man and Luo Qiong had already gone to see Zhou Gong at this time, and I was the only one who couldn't sleep.
"What did you get back today?"
The old man asked.
"It's a feral cat, but it seems a little weird. I can't tell you what it is. ”
I don't make it clear that I don't know, and secondly, you and the old man have been talking for a long time, and he may not be able to understand, so he simply forgot about it vaguely.
The old man took out a cigarette from his pocket, the big front door, the fat man smoked peonies every day, the old man said that he was not used to smoking, and said that the big front door smoked like a cigarette rolled by himself in the mountains, and the taste was positive, because he had not smoked expensive cigarettes.
After lighting a cigarette, he crossed his legs and said while swallowing clouds and spitting fog: "I heard Cui Er say that you have earned a sum of money, tens of thousands, right?"
I immediately nodded, the fat man will lie to everyone in the world, but he will not lie to his family.
"It's good to make money, but we can't make money. You can't do murder and arson, you can't take the needle and thread of the common people, if you do something that violates the law and discipline, I will be the first to send you to the police station. ”
The old man felt that we had not done a good job, so he hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, we are all law-abiding citizens and don't do bad things." ”
The old man nodded, continued to smoke, and suddenly said: "You guys are also doing that kind of thing, I met a fortune teller in the north a few years ago. What does it mean, tell you?"
"Okay. ”
I just didn't feel sleepy, there was wine around me, and the old man had a story. I quickly picked up a table and got two cups and a stack of peanuts. Waiting to hear the stories of the older generation.
The old man took a sip of wine, smoked a cigarette and said, "It was the Republic of China, and the situation was particularly turbulent. I had only been in the army for a short time, and I was a small soldier who camped with the army in a small village. At that time, the soldiers of one of our squads were very young, and the squad leader was not a few years older than me. At that time, everyone in the village went to the town to catch the market, and we felt novel, so we called the chief and reported that we were helping the villagers to transport goods. In fact, it was a class of people who went to the town to be lively. When I was in the market that day, a fortune teller came, just like the fortune teller in the big play. He wears a watermelon hat, a beard, and a scholar-like gown. Without looking at people with their eyes, there is a small flag next to it. At that time, fortune telling was a three-dollar once, and you couldn't count more, and you couldn't fail to give money if you did. When we went, there were quite a lot of fortune tellers, but at that time, many of the common people did not know about our Red Army, so they were very scared, and when they saw us, they ran away. The squad leader thought it was funny, so he took the lead in fortune telling, and finally it was my turn. After I sat down, he asked me if I was looking at words or looks. Ahem......"
The old man coughed a few times, I hurriedly stepped forward and patted him on the back, the old man waved his hand and said, "I smoke too much, and my throat is itchy." It's okay......"
He took a sip of wine, pressed his throat, and continued: "I didn't know much at the time, and I didn't know much at that time, so let's just talk about looks." He asked me again if I wanted to see my face or my palm, and asked me to write my birthday. I couldn't write it, so I reported it to him and asked him to show it all to me. Your fortune teller stared at me for a long time, and finally said that I had been a wanderer all my life, but I was peaceful in my old age, and I had some small money in my life, but I was not very rich. ”
"Pretty accurate. ”
I chimed in with a smile.
"yes, that's accurate, think about how many years I've been fighting. After joining the Red Army to fight the little devils, and later participating in several wars of liberation, I didn't die. He was shot several times, but none of them hit the vital point. It's fate, but the squad leaders I used to join the army, and my comrades-in-arms were not so lucky, and almost all died on the battlefield. Once, we were ordered to hold on to a piece of high ground for six hours, and in the end we were left with the company commander and me. The opponent pressed up, and my company commander blocked the bullet for me at the critical moment, and I almost died, but at that time, our artillery fire was suppressed, the enemy was defeated, and my life was saved again. ”
After speaking, the old man shook his head and wiped his somewhat cloudy eyes with the back of his hand.
"You are hard-hitting, that's why you are blessed later. Fatty, they all enjoy your creation. ”
I ate peanuts and raised my glass to him.
"I actually don't believe in creation or anything, the party I joined for three or five years, I don't believe in these, I only believe in Chairman Mao and communism. But there are some things that I find incredible as I get older. The fortune teller said that I had a calamity in my old age, and that it should either behave on me or on my family. At first I thought my little son had been robbed, but now that I think about it, maybe not. Cui Er is now in that business with you, and it is difficult to say what the future will be. I just hope he's safe, and if I die one day, this kid can take care of himself. ”
I didn't pay much attention to what the old man said at the time, and it wasn't until a few years later that something happened, and I thought that maybe the old man had already felt something at that time. The so-called old man knows the destiny of heaven, that is a perception that juniors do not understand.
"Don't worry, I share weal and woe with the fat man, life and death. ”
Maybe it's a little bit of a head, I raise my glass and shout haughtily.
"Don't keep talking about dead words, it's not good to read too much. You boys haven't been to the battlefield, you haven't experienced anything like that, and you don't understand how painful it is to die. Okay, I'll go back to bed, and you go to bed early. ”
The old man stood up, trembling to the place where the black cat was being held, and put his hand into the gap in the covered iron plate, I was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Old man, be careful, that thing is very fierce." ”
But to my surprise, the black cat didn't resist at all, and let the old man touch his head, feeling very well-behaved or a little scared.
"The kitten is pitiful, if you can put it away, it's not good to kill old people. By the way, I'll invite a friend to dinner after a while, and you'll all have to accompany you and introduce you to you, you're a capable person. ”
After speaking, the old man walked back to the room with his hands behind his back. I was amazed, and thought that the black cat had been modified, but when I walked over and lowered my head and just looked over, the black cat screamed strangely, and rushed to the door in front of me, so frightened that I took a step back, punched it back to its original place, and hurriedly covered it with an iron plate.
Why is it okay for the old man to touch it? I can't even look at it? Damn, it's evil.
Thinking in his heart, he felt that the second pot was coming up, and he went back to his room to sleep.
This sleep came to noon the next day. Early in the morning, I heard a non-stop shouting in the yard.
"Xiaoshan, come out and see. ”
The fat man shouted outside my door.
I walked out in a daze, looked down and was dumbfounded. The black cat, who was still menacing to me last night, was lying on the ground at the moment, looking dying. Luo Qiong flicked with a stick a few times next to him, this guy didn't resist at all, he was short of breath, and he looked like a seriously ill patient.
"What's going on? Someone has been here at night?"
I asked curiously.
"No, Xiaoshan, if this thing dies, we will be in trouble. ”
I didn't need to be reminded by the fat man, and if I wanted to catch the earth beast in the shadow, I had to find a way to figure out why the wild dogs were attacking the discotheque. But if the other party finds out that a black cat is dead, it is estimated that it will be transferred immediately. When the time comes, you won't be able to find out any results!
"Fatty, do you have meat, fish, or dead mice. ”
I asked in a low voice.
"Yes, I caught a dead mouse at home two days ago, and I haven't thrown it away yet. I'll bring it. ”
The fat man hurriedly fetched the dead rat, which had stiffened its body, and threw it in front of the black cat at my signal.
After the dead mouse fell, it was quiet for a few seconds, and then the black cat bit the dead mouse into its mouth, and then swallowed it whole!"