Chapter XVIII: Husband and wife
The two gods greeted the great god between their eyebrows, and then decorated Sister Mei with the great god.
Nigami took out a roller from the cupboard, which looked a bit like a mace. It's just that one end of the stick is made of straw knots. And I looked closely, and there were many thin holes in the straw.
The great god took out a large handful of the incense that he had opened before and lit it, and handed it to the two gods in a group of three, and the two gods took it and inserted it into those thin holes, and I understood the use of those thin holes.
Smoke and fire immediately lit up in the room, and I choked and coughed.
I thought to myself, it seems that this strange thing is something that can be used over and over again. Otherwise, we will be allowed to buy them at the market.
After filling the mace with incense, the two gods motioned to Sister Mei to take off her shoes and go to the kang. and asked Sister Mei to sit cross-legged, tuck the pillows on the left and right behind her, and then hand the straw mace full of incense to Sister Mei and let her hold it up.
Sister Mei obediently did so, and I was confused from the sidelines.
After that, the two gods took out the red cloth that Sister Mei bought at the market before, and put a three-foot-three-inch long red cloth on Sister Mei's head. Tell me to sit on the sidelines and watch out. I nodded cooperatively.
Seeing that everything was settled, the great god moved a stool and sat on the side of the hall, with an incense burner at his feet, and the second god took three sticks of incense and lit them and inserted them in the incense burner, and then lit a single incense stick and handed it to the great god with both hands, and the great god took it with both hands.
Then the two gods shook the drum and sang in a low voice.
Only then did I notice that behind the drum was a lot of copper coins threaded with steel wire, and they sounded loudly to the rhythm of the two gods.
I listened carefully to the lyrics of the two gods, and it seemed that I had heard them before when I accompanied my mother to listen to the two of them, and only a small part was not quite different from the opera.
The more the two gods sang, the brighter their voices became, and the drums became more and more joyful, and even a little sonic shock in all directions.
The room was quickly fogged with cigarette smoke......
Then, suddenly, the great god sitting on the stool shouted, threw the incense in his hand, and clapped his hands violently.
Sister Mei, who was surrounded by smoke, sat in the middle of me with a red cloth on her head, and her body began to shake constantly with the beat of the drum, and the frequency became faster and faster. The two men on the ground were each hidden in the smoke, babbling strangely in a faint haze. I stared sideways at the flickering incense on the table, as if I had fallen into a strange world, and suddenly a wind blew in the room, and pounced on me, and I couldn't help but shrink into a ball of fright.
Suddenly, the great god shouted, and I was so startled that I almost jumped. When I calmed down, I only heard the great god sing with a pursed lips as if his voice had changed.
"Let's have some 'floating ocean with sea'......"
I didn't understand what 'floating ocean with sea' was, and when I pushed back the smoke, I saw the two gods pour some transparent liquid from the tea-like thing and put it in a small white porcelain bowl and handed it to the great god.
My nose was so smoked that I couldn't smell whether he was pouring water or wine.
The great god took it and took a sip, and then stopped singing, asking and answering questions with Sister Mei, who was constantly twitching under the red cloth, as if chattering.
The smoke in the house became heavier and heavier, choking my tears, I wanted to stand up and leave, but I didn't worry that Sister Mei was alone in the house, so I had to endure it. My mind was rummaging through the things that would make me happy in the hope that I would get through this difficult time.
How long did Sister Mei talk to the great god, and I was silent and thought about how long it was. There is really nothing pleasant in his mind, either Wu Tan, who faked his death, or Gao Qiang, who is wild at the door of the building, or flashes Jieyun's cold face, and the colored eyes of Manager Du, who will have to face from tomorrow.
When the ceremony was over, Sister Mei patted me on the shoulder, and I suddenly came back to my senses.
"Let's go......"
Through the smoke, I can still feel Sister Mei's satisfaction, listening to the voice is much more energetic than when I first came, I was just about to go out with Sister Mei. The great god who was cleaning up suddenly said.
"There's something on this little guy too......"
"Oh, not long after his ex-boyfriend died. Sister Mei was familiar with the person, and the great god nodded meaningfully when she heard the words.
Sister Mei cooperated with the great god and sang together, I couldn't cry or laugh next to me, and I blamed myself for not mentioning Wu Tan to Sister Mei just now, and now I can't say anything on such an occasion, so I had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and go out first.
It's already time for the weary crows to return to their nests......
After a while, Sister Mei also came out and walked out happily with me on her shoulder.
I unconsciously looked back behind me, and saw the great god with a happy face, smiling and smiling out to close the door, and the second son had long since disappeared......
I've heard Sister Mei say before that the great god and the two gods are made by husband and wife. I was suspicious, so I asked Sister Mei.
"Are they husband and wife?"
"Who?"
"Great god two......" I whispered and looked back again, the door was closed, tightly closed.
"Oh, generally the two gods are husband and wife, but they are not. ”
Sister Mei didn't care, and she didn't seem to notice anything wrong with everything behind her.
I was so clear that I was silent.
There was a three-wheeled motorcycle parked at the gate of the courtyard, and when we got into the car, we realized that it was the son of the great god who saw that it was getting late and helped us find it in advance.
I saw that the person driving the motorcycle spoke in a relaxed tone, and looked like he was familiar with the road, and I am afraid that he was a frequent customer of the people who sent the fortune to the gods, and I found the fritters to be annoying.
The car had not been driving far away, and suddenly I heard a noise. Through the front windshield of the car, I saw a chilling scene.
A man of five big and three thick men held a shovel in his hand, and a thin, withered woman stumbled not far in front of him. The woman ran to the middle of the road, crying and howling, until the car we were riding in came to a stop.
The motorcyclist cursed bad luck, turned off the fire, opened the door and jumped out.
"Damn, I'm going to have a good life, but Lao Litou, are you looking for death again......"
The woman saw the motorcyclist owner as if she had seen a savior, hiding behind the motorcyclist with her hair disheveled, whimpering and crying miserably.
The man called Lao Li Tou was holding a shovel and was about to go around behind the motorcyclist, but was stopped by the motorcyclist and his neighbors who came later.
The woman was so frightened that she couldn't even cry, huddled into a ball, and clung to the placket of the motorcyclist's shirt and refused to let go.
"Iron Pillar...... Save me......" The woman kept begging for mercy with a hoarse voice.
Her husband stared at her viciously from the crowd, with an enemy-like face.
"You damn lazy bitch, how many times have you told you not to bring hair in your meal, let alone sand...... It's only been a few days since I made another mistake, and I let Lao Tzu eat my hair, I split you dead old girl, see if you're still lazy. ”
The woman's husband was scolding and trying to break free, and the crowd went to take a shovel and cut the woman. The woman was so frightened that she hid behind the owner of the motorcycle and refused to come out.
"You are really TMD, and you are in the midst of blessings, and you don't know blessings. The owner of the motorcycle, known as the Iron Pillar, trembled with anger, and pointed at the old Li Tou, who was still confused, and scolded. "How do you want your sister-in-law to serve you? When the sky arrives at the mouth of the meal, the dishes and chopsticks are put on the table, and the rice is served to you under the chin?...... I see that your hand is still lightly injured, how do you keep falling off. Since you can afford to hold a shovel, you should help your sister-in-law do more work in the field, what kind of madness is this?"
Lao Li, who was scolded by the motorcycle owner and holding a shovel, wilted, like a deflated bullfight, and slowly put down the shovel......
Everyone thought that Lao Li Tou would be able to stop, so they all let go of the hand holding Lao Li Tou. Before he could think of it, as soon as he let go, Lao Li Tou rushed over and gave his daughter-in-law a kick.
The poor woman hiding behind the iron pillar fainted without a voice, and her hand was still clutching the corner of the iron pillar's clothes.
Lao Li Tou was relieved, scolded and walked away with a shovel. Leave the poor woman lying on the ground like a dead body. Everyone hurriedly lifted her up and ran straight to the health center.
Tie Zhu sighed and returned to the car and started the car, scolding hatefully in his mouth.
"This is also called the ?!...... of husband and wife"
I was so scared that my body trembled terribly. Sister Mei knew my suffering, and held my cold hand to comfort me.
The motorcyclist turned pale with fright when he caught a glimpse of me, and he was busy and comforted.
"Don't be afraid, girl, my sister-in-law was just knocked unconscious, and it will be fine to wait for a few injections at the health center, and she won't be able to die." Then he sighed and said. "Lao Li Tou had a bad temper, he didn't go out to the construction site a few days ago to do odd jobs and injured his hand, and when he came back, he took his daughter-in-law to be angry, and refused to listen to the doctor's instructions to bandage his hand...... I don't know why he only has a grudge against those closest to him. ”
"I don't think that person is unreasonable, aren't you afraid that he will hate you?" Sister Mei comforted me, who gradually stopped trembling, but couldn't help but chat with the motorcycle owner curiously. "Your name is Iron Pillar, right? I heard her call you just now......"
"Yes, my name is Iron Pillar. The motorcyclist snorted. "I'm afraid of what he does, no one will be afraid of a man who beats his wife. ”
Tie Zhu was very talkative, and without waiting for Sister Mei to ask him, he continued.
"I've been in jail before. A bully in our village bullied me every day, and I was so anxious to be bullied that I took a machete and made him do. The whole village interceded for me. My life was saved, and I was sentenced to twenty-eight years. I behaved well in prison and was released after twenty years of squatting. But my daughter-in-law led my son to live a hard life, and when I came out, she was gone. I swore in front of the whole village that I would be worthy of my daughter-in-law's friendship with me and never touch the side of a woman again, so I had to guard my son to live. ”
Tie Zhu said this, raised his eyes and looked at me and Sister Mei from the rearview mirror and said. "The great god you told the fortune just now is a god in our village, and I usually call him Aunt Liu. It is not easy for her and her second son to read me and guard the child, but whenever a guest calls a car, she thinks of me first. ”
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Sister Mei kept chatting with Tiezhu along the way, and came to the station unconsciously.
I got out of the car with my legs still limp, and when I got into the bus and sat down, I began to close my eyes and recuperate.
When the sound of the car starting, I vaguely heard Sister Mei shouting goodbye......