Chapter 10: The Piano is Out of Tune

While the magpie was cooking by the stove, he squinted at the two stunned people, and looked at the two stunned people who were a little wrong, and they didn't even say a word when they asked three times, and they knew that something must have happened. So I couldn't hold it anymore, and asked one after another, and I had to ask for a long time.

The second stunned couldn't stand the magpie's repeated questions, so he told the truth.

The magpie was crawling on the pot to wipe the cornmeal crumpet, which was sitting on the steaming hot pot, holding the clay with one hand and sticking to the stick batter with the other.

When the magpie heard that the cartload full of watermelons had been calculated, he threw away the rub that wiped the crumbles, sat on the ground, and began to cry! While crying, he said: "You stupid donkey, mourning star! Don't you know what kind of money that money is? That's my father's life-saving money! That's the money my brother gave me to let me go home and give it to my father and let me go to the hospital for medical treatment! My father is seriously ill and is lying on the kang now, just waiting for this money to see a doctor!

…… Ahhhh......h How can I explain to my family? How can I explain to my brother? What does my father take to the doctor? Oops, I can't live...... At the beginning, I didn't let you touch the money, you wanted to move, and said that you would embezzle it first, and you would pay back the money as soon as you earned money from selling watermelons. Okay now, what about making money? I've lost all that money...... Woowoo...... Wow, wow, wow, you're skilled, you're taking my dad's money and making a bet...... Wow wow wow......"

The second stunned man also felt a little aggrieved when he heard this, and thought that he should defend himself, so he said, "It's not because of you?"

The stunned wife cried and asked, "Because of me?"

"It's not because you took three big melons from the car this morning and lost the bet!"

"Didn't you look at the dog's eyes when you hugged the melons? Besides, if I hadn't taken those three melons, I wouldn't even have those three. As he spoke, he took out eleven dollars and six dimes from his pocket and threw them on the ground. said, "Isn't this the money for those three watermelons?"

It turned out that the magpie had brought three melons from the donkey cart and wanted to give them a meal to satisfy their hunger. As a result, I thought that these three melons could be sold for a lot of money, so I was reluctant to eat them, so I took them to the street and sold them all, earning eleven yuan and six dimes.

The magpie cried for most of the day, and suddenly wiped his tears, and "a grunt" jumped up and said: "I'm going to find this poisonous wolf who eats human flesh and drinks human blood! I don't believe that this cartload full of watermelons can be taken away without paying a penny? Let's just bet, it's just a joke, can you really take away someone's cart of watermelons for nothing? I'm not afraid to take this melon? I'm going to find this son of a bitch bastard, and I have to ask him to get this cart of watermelons back!" After saying that, as soon as he turned around, he rushed to the courtyard and ran wildly towards the gate! He wanted to go to Wang Jicai to get the cart of watermelons back.

When the second stunned man saw that the magpie had thrown away the rub and that he had not cooked the meal, he rushed out in a fit of rage, shouting that he was going to find the man who had taken the watermelon and asked for the melon! The second stunned man was stunned by the magpie's commotion for a while, and the house was full of smoke and miasma, and the rub had a stick batter on it, and one leg had fallen off, and the pot and the floor were splashed with stick batter everywhere. The boiling water in the pot where the noodles are boiling on the pot table, the steam in the house is filled, and everything in the house is in chaos in an instant!

The second stood there stunned, his head "buzzing"! He thought to himself: "It's all this bet that has caused the scourge! How good it would have been if I hadn't made this bet! The money has been earned, my wife is happy, the meal has already been prepared, and my stomach is full, so why is it so unlucky now! When I go home, my stomach is so hungry that I can't straighten my waist, let alone eat, and I have to be angry! Today is really unlucky!

"What can I do about this, where can I get all this money at once?" Suddenly, he was stunned, turned and chased after him, and when he ran out of the gate, he saw that the magpie was long gone. He spread his long legs and ran in pursuit of Huangling Village in the direction of Huangling Village.

The second stunned man ran and turned a corner, and when he looked at the back of the magpie from a distance, he quickened his pace to catch up. But the second stunned man was already so hungry that he didn't have any strength, and he couldn't run a few steps in his stomach before he raised his shoulders and gasped, but after all, he was tall and big, and there were two and a half steps of a magpie in one step.

The streets of this stone mill village are not the kind of straight and smooth wide streets, but like nine curved intestines, zigzag from the head of the village to the end of the village. Because the village has paved the street with some white stones, the footsteps of the people every day polish it like a white snake that bends and crawls.

Just as he was about to leave the entrance of the village, the second stunned man caught up with the magpie, rushed in front of the magpie with an arrow, turned around and stretched out two long arms to stop the magpie.

The magpie scolded, "Get out of here!"

The second stunned man was panting and said anxiously: "Do you think about the face of the big man?"

The magpie raised his eyebrows, crossed his willow waist with his hands, and scolded angrily: "What kind of bullshit face are you, you lost a cart of watermelons and said that you have that face?" After speaking, he got under the elbow of the second stunned man and ran out again.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed the magpie as if he were catching a sparrow, lifted his feet off the ground with both hands, and then put the magpie back in place.

At this time, the people in the village gathered around to watch the excitement, and when they saw the two stunned magpies like eagles catching chickens, they lifted it high and put it down, and they all laughed.

The magpie blushed for a while, stood on tiptoe and scolded: "The second stunned told you, if you don't let me go today, I will die to show you!" After speaking, he pretended to hit the corner of the street. The second stunned grabbed the magpie back again, and then "plopped" in front of most of the people in the village, and knelt down for the magpie on the street!

The second stunned knelt down and said, "Can you save me some face? Aren't you making such a fuss to make the people of Huangling Village laugh at me?

The magpie scolded angrily: "You are still a fart! You bastard! You bastard a cart of watermelons for nothing, and you still have your face in front of people?"

The second stunned said: "It's okay if you scold me at home, but let's not go, ah!"

The magpie was still angry, his apricot eyes widened, and he said, "You lost so much of my father's money for medical treatment, isn't this a deliberate attempt to harm my father?"

When the second stunned man heard this, he was so anxious that he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally came up with an urgent sentence, saying: "I want to harm your father...... I wouldn't have reached out to save your dad in the first place!"

The magpie said, "You mentioned this matter again? What? I married you a fancy girl and accompanied you for eight or nine years, and this bit of grace has not been made up?"

The second stunned man knew that he was out of his mouth, and hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that." ”

The magpie said: "People like you, who used to live with me, just thought about this matter all day long, thinking that you were kind to my family, so you didn't take my family seriously. Okay, now that I've been with you for eight or nine years, and I've made up for it, let's go our separate ways from now on, and no one owes anyone anything. After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave. The crowd hurried over and grabbed the magpie.

The marriage between these two stunned men and magpies was formed by a coincidence. People often say "marriage, marriage", there is a marriage if there is a fate, there is no marriage if there is no fate, and marriage is caused by fate. "There is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, but there is no chance to meet on the other side!" However, the marriage between these two stunned men and magpies is even more surprising!

It all started with Magpie's father. The magpie's father was a fan of collecting herbs, and every year he had to go up the mountain to pick and dig medicinal herbs according to different seasons, and then go down the mountain to dry them and sell them at the medicinal herb purchasing department. Then subsidize the household.

One summer, honeysuckle bloomed all over the mountain on the peak opposite Magpie Village. There are lilac, white, and golden, some budding, and some are already blooming, and the fresh fragrance of honeysuckle wafts all over the mountains. It's the most lush year for honeysuckle not seen in decades. It is said that this honeysuckle can not only prevent heatstroke and cool down, reduce fat and lose weight, maintain beauty and beauty, but also clear heat and detoxify. It can not only be drunk as tea in summer, relieve heat and cool down, but also a precious medicinal material.

The magpie's father was overjoyed, and every morning, as soon as it was dawn, he got up and went up the mountain. He waded through the dew and went deep into the honeysuckle bushes, and plucked the handfuls of the honeysuckle and put them into baskets.

It is said that honeysuckle picking is very particular. Honeysuckle is pale purple before flowering, and white when it first blooms, so it is best picked when it blooms white. After that, the honeysuckle becomes golden. At this time, the honeysuckle picked is not as good as when the white flowers are blooming. And honeysuckle has a characteristic, the flowering is inconsistent, some bloom early, some bloom late, some are still buds, and some have already bloomed into golden petals. Therefore, it is necessary to go up the mountain every day to pick in batches. The best time to pick honeysuckle is between the early morning when the sky is twilight and before the sun rises. Because during this time, honeysuckle has not yet received sunlight, and the dew-soaked buds have not yet bloomed. At this time, the buds picked are full of nutrients, fragrant smell, and beautiful color.

One morning, the magpie's father went up the mountain to pick the basket on his back. He climbed several mountains in a row, picked a basket full of honeysuckle buds, and was about to go down the mountain, when he suddenly saw a high mountain peak in front of him, growing a lot of very beautiful honeysuckle, the buds were fat and big, the color was gorgeous, full of nutrients, with the slight morning breeze, swaying frequently, as if beckoning to him frequently.

His heart was pounding, and he couldn't resist the temptation, so he grabbed the weeds and shrubs and climbed upward. When he climbed into this piece of colorful honeysuckle, he looked back, and there was a cliff hundreds of zhang high not far away, this cliff was like a knife chopping an axe, and the cliff was a strange rock. Suddenly, a feeling of fear spread like an electric shock all over the body, and the legs, knees, and popliteal sockets suddenly became a little weak. He thought, "This is a good idea, or you will die if you miss!"

So he trembled and grabbed the honeysuckle buds and plucked them down. "It's so good! It's the first time he's seen such a beautiful honeysuckle." He thought happily as he picked. For a moment, he was both happy and excited, and the cliff under his feet had long been forgotten.

Perhaps people who work at height have this regularity, at first they are highly nervous due to fear, but after a long time, the fear decreases, and paralysis will occur, which will lead to loose attention and mental relaxation, and then the danger will come.

And the magpie's father is no exception, because he likes this mountain medicinal herb too much. Such a good honeysuckle fascinated him and forgot everything, and he didn't know that he was in danger. Spread out his hands and only care about picking a large handful, just when picking a fat bud, he pulled hard, and because of the excessive force, his body lost his balance and fell backwards. Suddenly, his body rolled towards the edge ......of the cliff like a stake rolling down from a high mountain.