Chapter Twenty-Five: The Old Believer in the Back of the Ridge
Neighbor Lao Xin's house
The nearest farmer is the old letter house on the back side of the mountain.
Lao Xin's two in-laws have not stopped since they opened their eyelids, and they never fell into the house from morning to night. I wear a straw hat when it's sunny, wear a hat when it's raining, and take it out for lunch, but I don't see it at night when it's dark and I go home to rest.
Not to mention that adults and even older children follow the outside to do things, and the girl Sanmao is left at home to take care of the four children who can walk, sit and climb.
Every evening their father came back, and the children rushed to him with his butt on the stool and still sitting down. Daddy's legs, back, and shoulders were full of children. Dad silently counted the heads in his heart, like counting the chickens in the cage: one pair, two pairs, three pairs----γ
As long as the number of children is enough, it doesn't matter if the children have a small broken skin, a piece of green, or a little blood, there is no need to make a fuss and go to the medical room for injections and medicines, as long as they touch them a few times with their hands and blow a few times with their mouths, they will be cured.
Dad was the wisest emperor, the most impartial judge, and the strictest instructor in the family, and sometimes acted as a peacemaker. The children rushed to the front, some were eager to show their merits, some were busy complaining, and some were coquettish and complaining, each with their own motives. They presented the experience of the day to their father, who rewarded him justly and fairly.
The father's heavy, strong voice drowned out the chirping children's voice: "You can't make a noise, according to the old rules, the master said one by one, I will sew his mouth with a needle and thread, so that he will not be able to eat tonight." β
The children immediately quieted down, because the roundworms in their stomachs had already helped them digest the food in their stomachs, and if they didn't eat anything, the roundworms rebelled in them and wanted to hang their intestines.
Sanmao, who was named the head of the child by his parents, couldn't wait to say it first. Although her parents gave her the power to discipline her younger siblings and gave her a bamboo stick to beat disobedient and mischievous guys, she was helpless and could not help the four and five as strong as a donkey. Let her mouth bubble up, and they will be the wind in her ears and the wind will go in and out of her right ear. Sometimes, in a hurry, she picked up a stick and beat them, but before the stick could reach them, the stick was snatched away, and she was beaten.
When she pulled up her long neck and wept bitterly, the two brothers sang a ballad: "The elder brother beats the elder brother, and the younger brother is angry in the corner of the door; "So she didn't dare to use this guts stick casually. As a result, her anger was already tight at the end of the day, and she couldn't wait for her father to help her vent.
"Dad, Si Gu is disobedient, I asked him to bring Qimao, his ears were stuffed with broken wool, and he ran out to play in the water and fish for shrimp. He slipped on his heels when you walked on your front foot, and he rushed in front of him when you were almost there. β
"Third sister, you have a mouth to talk about others, but you don't have a mouth to talk about yourself. You rely on your parents to support you, you become the commander, just directing us to do this and that, it is not at all as good as your wishes, and we will knock on our heads at every turn, and our ears will be torn out by you. Naturally, I'm afraid of you, how dare I stay under your nose? Si Gu couldn't care about the rule, and quickly interjected to defend himself. He didn't think he should say it, and he hurriedly said that he would be the one who would be beaten later.
"Let your third sister finish. Father said.
"Wu Gu stole the peanuts for the seeds to eat, and broke the vat containing the peanuts. I heard a "bang" first, and then I saw Wuqiu running over in a panic, and I went in to see that the cylinder was broken. There are also six mao and seven old disagreement, do a bunch of ripped skin, today in order to fight for the small stool, six mao pushed down seven gou, and threw his head into a big bag. There are also seven happy to cry, and there is nothing to cry about-----γ "If you want Sanmao to say something, this night may not be enough. β
Wu Gu also used strong words to clear his grievances: "Third sister, why do you insist on wronging me? I saw with my own eyes that the tank was broken by the flower cat." 'You can't eat with your mouth, and you can't talk nonsense. 'If you speak too carefully in the future, drink porridge and water with your mouth open.' β
"It's so delicious that you have to drink porridge and water with your mouth open!" Sanmao returned his mouth.
"It's noisy!" Da Mao was quite dissatisfied with their pestering father for not helping with cooking, and her mother calling her to go to the fire. She has just finished doing the outside work and has to do the work in the house, from the plow to the rake, how can she not be angry?
"You are still restless to play in the shade all day long, and I don't do anything at your age to chop wood, herd cattle, or pull pigweed? We who came out first have broken the law and deserve to be punished! We follow our parents in the fields day and night, and we work tirelessly and tirelessly, all to fill your 'bottomless pits, moths, vampires, and dung machines. 'Provoked me, I plugged your 'butt holes' with cow dung and sand. "Ermao helps.
"According to my original intention, it is better to pinch you to death one by one, chop up and feed the pigs, and extinguish the trouble. Da Mao continued to scold.
The younger siblings responded with a "tsk" to the last words of the eldest sister. "You pinched us all to death, leaving you with a one-legged bone to support the sky." Hmph, do you know if you are still allowed to hold on to the sky? I'm afraid that if you don't eat 'peanuts', you will have to go to jail and wear them. Hmph, I'll measure your's blood!"
"Come, come to me, I can't kill you, count your life long. Da Mao said as he went to catch the four. Si Gu hurriedly got into his father's crotch, and his mouth was not soft: "Now count your palms as big and your fists are hard, wait a few years to come and see!"
At this time, their father stopped the increasingly fierce bickering in time, and said something to calm Da Mao's anger: "Sanmao, you listen to your father the most, you go and help your mother cook on the fire, and let your eldest sister rest." β
The father said to the eldest daughter who came over: "Boss, and the second child, I know that you two are quite obedient as sisters, sensible and diligent, and are good helpers for your parents. But who called you bosses? As the old saying goes, 'The first thing to rot is when the mound comes out.'" 'Who told you to come to Hades and make an appointment with these brothers and sisters?, and since the appointment came, you must not throw them away, but it is still your duty to provide for them! They are ignorant and not worth bothering about. β
Dad's words both relieved their hearts and turned around and blamed them.
Then their father taught Si Gu a lesson: "Si Gu, you can't bear it, you don't do anything serious, and you go out to play in the water secretly." Do you know that people drown in the weir pond every year, and there are foot-pullers looking for a substitute. If you walk a lot at night, you will always run into ghosts, and if you don't listen to the warning, you will lose your life there sooner or later. We have raised you for so many years, and the grass has eaten half of the mountain, and the water has drunk a pond. We can't afford to give up so many things for your life! Listen, I won't say it a second time, and in the future, if you don't have an adult present, you will hide out to play in the water and fish, I don't know if you escape, I know that if I don't break your leg, I will lose. β
"Well, next time I won't dare. "When the wind made the rudder, the four rudders immediately forgave me.
"There are also five pills, which are delicious and lazy to hang cards, and you have a way to get out and eat the things that are coiled by snakes. You steal the peanut seeds you left, and bite the stone next year, right? It's really delicious and you don't keep the seeds. Stealing food and not admitting it. This is the lice on the monk's head - obviously. Except for you, a gluttonous cat, who has a strong cat that can break such a large tank?"
"You didn't see or catch me breaking the tank, so why did you accuse me? I saw that it was the cat that broke it. "The five big ghosts of people are treacherous.
"You have an iron mouth to dry the certificate, and you have to fight for a dead toad to pull live urine. Okay, you go and get the cat now, I'll move the jar and let it overturn in front of you, and if you don't find it, if you can't break it, I'll kill you!"
"It's scary, maybe my life is only worth a jar and a few peanuts? Yan Bianzhao doesn't know how many good things to eat at home! He doesn't eat peanuts and beans. Wu Gu said sourly.
"Dogs don't think they are poor, and cubs don't think they are ugly. Now as long as his family accepts you, I will immediately beat gongs, drums, firecrackers and cannons to send you there, and Lao Tzu will treat you as if he had never given birth to you. "Dad was angry.
"Dad, he can't be angry with these two bitches. They are here to collect debts and take revenge. After a tiring day, the meal is cooked, and I eat early to rest. Mom shouted from the stove.
When they heard that the meal was opened, the children forgot their grievances and unpleasantness, and were busy finding dishes and chopsticks and grabbing the rice spoon. The five are the fastest, the first to grab the rice spoon, fill a full bowl and press it with a spoon, and pile it up.
Sanmao on the side scolded: "You came out of the hunger prison, this tight bowl of rice must burst your belly!"
"I touched you, provoked you, ate you? You sued me first and didn't bother with you, you are so energetic that you think dwarves are good at shaving their heads. Lao Tzu will dig you to death with a spoonful, don't bully you!"
"You robber cub, Jap, knife-cutter, short-lived ----," the mother scolded as she scraped smoke and ink from under the pot to apply it to Sanmao's wound.
The father was angry: "Lao Tzu originally wanted to pardon all of you today, but it seems that if you don't beat you, you will fly into the sky." It's really a drum in the temple of God and Buddha, and it doesn't beat the dust for three days. "Grab the five sticks and press them on the bench, pick up the mallet and hit it.
"Slow, let me take off my pants, the flesh can grow new if it is broken, this pants are broken and my bare ass should be broken, and others will be
Laugh at my cock coming out to drink water. Wu Gu said and pulled his pants down.
Lao Xin's high-raised mallet did not fall, and after listening to this sad words, he looked at the pointed ass that didn't grow a few taels of meat, and no matter how angry his brain was, he would calm down. I only have such a little ability to raise this group of babies, so that they lack food and clothing, they are just to fill their stomachs.
Lao Xin lifted his son's trousers, hugged him for the first time, put him at the table, brought the bowl of rice back to him, and watched him gobble it up.
When Lao Xin wanted to give him half of the rice in his bowl, Wu Gu said something even more uncomfortable: "Dad, I won't eat you anymore, if I eat more, it will turn into, and if you eat it, you will make more food for all of us." β
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