Chapter 1 The mice are afu
Stay afu, like a mouse.
No parents, looking forward to five blessings.
One blessing has a long life, the second blessing respects money and wealth, the third blessing is healthy and peaceful, the fourth blessing is generous, and the fifth blessing knows the destiny of heaven and dies.
It's really not a blessing to stay in Ah Fu.
The little beggar, poor called flower.
The mouse is born in the year of the rat, and the mouse is called Du Afu.
No one knows where Dumb Ah Fu came from, and no one cares where he comes from.
After all, the town is full of people, no one asks where you're from, and no one cares where you're going.
Du Afu grew up with Ye Xianglang since he was a child, so when he grew up, he fell into the reputation of eating "Huang in the people" Zhang Da.
For example, Chen Qiusheng, he always scolded Ah Fu for eating "yellow among people".
The so-called human middle yellow, that is, rice field offering, corpse plus rice.
However, Ah Fu felt that it was nothing, it was better for someone to eat yellow than to starve to death, so he never paid attention to what Chen Qiusheng called him.
Stay Ah Fu followed Ye Xianglang to pick people in the yellow, Ye Xianglang picked in front, Stay Ah Fu was young and had little strength, so he couldn't help, so he often ran in front of Ye Xianglang and shouted.
"Yellow in the people, fragrant wood, yellow juice is coming! Get out of the way!"
The young Du Afu, seeing those pedestrians who bullied him on weekdays, but now they can't avoid him, I don't know why I feel a special sense of comfort in my heart.
So he learned to take out the "human yellow" that he had prepared earlier when he was beaten in the corner next time because he was beating him for stealing buns, and scattered it as a weapon.
Strength and numbers are not the only weapons to win.
But when he reacted, the old Yexianglang stood silently behind him, watching him take the white cloth containing the yellow of the person, and walk over without saying a word to take the things in his hand, and then buy half a string of sugar gourds for him to eat.
Why is it half a string? Because Ye Xianglang can only buy half a string of sugar gourds for the money of a day of night incense.
So on the day they ate the sugar gourd, Ye Xianglang and Du Afu didn't eat.
Afu, who woke up hungry in the middle of the night, suddenly remembered the taste of rice, and he shouted to Ye Xianglang that he was hungry, but Ye Xianglang said that he had no money, and the only thing he wanted to eat was Renzhonghuang.
Afu is not stupid, he will not eat human Zhonghuang even if he starves to death, so he endured it until the next day.
The starving Ah Fu has never eaten sugar gourds since that day, nor has he used human yellow as a weapon, let alone stolen buns.
From then on, Stay Ah Fu still followed Ye Xianglang to pick people in the yellow, Ye Xianglang picked, and Stay Ah Fu ran in front and shouted to open the way.
The two of them depend on each other for their lives, relying on the money obtained by picking people to be hungry for a full meal, so that Ah Fu has grown up slowly, although he looks a little malnourished, but he has never had a serious illness since he was a child, which is really amazing.
However, no one has ever cared if Ah Fu is sick or not, they only care about what day Ah Fu will grow up, and then take over the class of Lao Ye Xianglang and become a little Ye Xianglang who picks people to be yellow, so that their people can have successors to Huang.
There is only one person except for it, that is Chen Qiusheng, he seems to be too full to eat and has nothing to do, noticed this, and then said that Du Afu is Huang Zhangda among cannibals, so he has not been sick since he was a child.
Ah Fu was not angry when he heard this, but he hid a brick in his pocket the next day, and went to Chen Qiusheng's academy to find him for the first time.
It's a pity that he got lost in the academy, but he was also blessed by misfortune and met his destiny.
The little girl who was dressed in purple, with small dimples and tiger teeth when she laughed, was the only motivation for Ah Fu to enter the academy again and again, and then be beaten out of the academy by Chen Qiusheng again and again without resentment.
There is no other reason, the little girl is Chen Qiusheng's sister, named Chen Zihan, she and Chen Qiusheng are sisters and brothers of the same father and mother, and they are both the children of Chen Dong, a big family in the town.
Du Ah Fu always followed the two sisters and brothers from a distance, watching them take a carriage to the academy every day, and be taken back to Chen's mansion by a carriage after school.
Sometimes it is inevitable to be beaten when Chen Qiusheng finds out, but Ah Fu doesn't care.
The neighbors all said that if a man was beaten by his brother-in-law, it must be because he was not good to his wife, and Chen Qiusheng beat him, which proved that Chen Zihan was his wife.
However, he would not beat Chen Zihan, he had secretly made up his mind that he must be good to Chen Zihan, and he would help her do whatever she wanted.
In this way, day by day, Du Afu gradually grew up, and he secretly looked at the little girl more and more times, but he became more and more clear in the mouths of others that he seemed to be unable to take Chen Zihan in his life.
Because the daughter of a big family has never married Ye Xianglang, there is no such version in the rumors.
Later, Ah Fu said to himself that he would no longer go to the academy and no longer go to see the little girl.
But the day before yesterday I made up my mind, and the next day I couldn't help but go to the academy again, because I was worried that the little girl was too cute and would not be bullied in the academy, or suddenly a bandit rushed into the academy and kidnapped the little girl, and I happened to be absent, and I missed the opportunity for the hero to save the beauty.
Then there is the scene where he naturally defeats the thief by himself, Chen Zihan promises each other with his body, and then there is the happy ending of the candle night in the cave room and growing old together.
The idea of staying Afu is very simple, after marrying Chen Zihan, you must be unconditionally good to her, of course, if you can hug her and kiss a small mouth, it would be the best, it is what Mr. Zhenjiao storyteller said, "Peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic"!
The sweet dream of staying in Ah Fu woke up in the winter of one year.
It was a very cold winter, but at the beginning of October, it snowed heavily in the town.
The College is closed and all students are on holiday until the snow disappears.
The Chen family held a big banquet that winter, invited the whole town to eat the Chen family's eldest lady's wedding wine, and even invited Ye Xianglang and Du Ah Fu.
However, they can only eat some leftovers from other people's food in the back room, although it is leftovers, but it also makes the stay Ah Fu feast, the person in charge of the kitchen pity the two, and also gave them a miscellaneous bag, and by the way sent a happy bowl with leftovers.
It was supposed to be the happiest day for staying in Ah Fu, but it became the most uncomfortable day when he walked through the gate of the Chen family.
At that time, Chen Dong, the master of the Chen family, was personally sending his future in-laws Fang Tanluo out of the Chen Mansion, and the eldest lady of the Chen family and the son of the Fang family, who were the protagonists, were naturally present.
Ah Fu happily followed behind Ye Xianglang, carefully holding the wedding bowl containing the leftovers, and the next second he saw Chen Zihan and Fang Qiuyi in red wedding dresses.
Then there was a "snap", and the red bowl was shattered.
Du Afu rushed forward desperately, took Chen Zihan's hand and asked her why she wanted to marry.
Covered in the fragrance of wood, Xiao Ye Xianglang frightened the two distinguished adults and Chen Zihan very much, and they hurriedly called their guards to throw Xiao Ye Xianglang out.
Old Night Xianglang hurriedly bowed and apologized to the guards.
Those guards just covered their mouths and noses, and after receiving Chen Dong's instructions, they told the two of them to get out of here.
In the winter snow that year, Du Afu cried and ran back to the mass grave on the Sanlipo slope on the outskirts of the town.
Behind him, the old night Xianglang silently followed him, and when he saw that he ran too fast and fell to the ground, he wanted to go over and help him up for the first time.
But he was stunned Ah Fu cried and roared and asked him, why is he a night fragrant lang, why did he adopt him? why didn't he starve to death directly, but survived to be such a broken night fragrant lang?
Why do other people's children have sugar gourds to eat but he doesn't? Why do other people's children have enough food, clothing, and books to read, but they don't? Why.......
Ah Fu had never asked Ye Xianglang these questions, and he didn't mention a word, but on that snowy night, he said them in this way.
Old Night Xianglang seemed to have been hit hard, he stared at Du Ah Fu with wide eyes, that look was something that Du Ah Fu had never seen before, vicious, angry, crazy, and killing were all hidden in it.
That's not his Ye Xiang Lang, his Ye Xiang Lang's expression is numb, his eyes are dull, he is a waste who can endure any insults from others, and he is a walking corpse-like existence.
And not the monster in front of you right now.
Just when Ah Fu was extremely scared, Lao Ye Xianglang's body moved, and he fell into the snow, and Fang Cai's terrifying momentum disappeared without a trace.
Later, Ah Fu dragged Ye Xianglang back to the small thatched hut next to the mass grave little by little, and boiled a basin of hot water to wake Ye Xianglang up.
After waking up, Ye Xianglang didn't say anything, regained his previous numbness and silence, wrapped the tattered cotton wool he had picked up from nowhere, and slept alone.
That night, Yokarou said a lot of dream talk, and from time to time he would cry like a madman.
Ah Fu didn't sleep all night, his mind was full of Chen Zihan wearing a red wedding dress, he told himself countless times not to think about it, but he still imagined countless times that he was the one standing next to Chen Zihan in a red wedding dress and holding her hand.
Early the next morning, Ah Fu slowly fell asleep.
When he woke up in a daze, he felt that his whole body was hot, and there seemed to be a figure in front of him, who was holding a bowl of hot porridge to feed him, he couldn't see the person's face clearly, but subconsciously opened his mouth to eat the whole bowl of porridge, and then fell asleep deeply.
For some reason, he felt a warm current in his body warming all his organs, gradually calming down the heat in his body, but sleepiness took over his brain, making him have no time to think about it.
When he woke up again, it was already night, the thatched hut couldn't burn oil, and Du Ah Fu could only see things clearly with the help of the shallow moonlight, so he slowly got out of bed and walked to Ye Xianglang's side.
Seeing that Ye Xianglang's old face like dead wood was full of snot and tears, he kept saying dream words that he couldn't understand, as if he was apologizing to someone, begging for forgiveness, and then crying bitterly, while letting out a terrible scream.
Seeing that Ye Xianglang was trembling, Ah Fu took a copper basin with yellow in the middle of the person, and lit the thatch to keep warm.
The night was as deep as water, and Ah Fu stayed by the brazier, slowly waiting for Ye Xianglang to wake up, he looked at the fire, and added firewood to it with an expressionless face, his face was the same as those grass and trees.
Probably when the sky was gray, Ye Xianglang woke up, and the first thing he said when he saw Afu was to let him go to the academy and ask He Hanling, the master of the academy, to take him in.
Then, Ye Xianglang closed his eyes again and fell asleep.
But this time, no matter how Ah Fu called Ye Xianglang, Ye Xianglang just maintained that posture and did not move.
Yekaro never opened his eyes and woke up.
Du Afu set fire to the hut, and Ye Xianglang said to him a long time ago that if he didn't wake up one day, he would directly set fire to the entire thatched hut.
Thatched huts are always stocked with thatch.
Standing in the wind and snow, he took one last look at the scattered lonely graves and smoke-filled huts, tightened his patched torn cotton jacket, and walked towards the town one foot deeper and one foot shallow.