Chapter 8: The White Lotus is Released
It's very hot, it's stuffy, and it's probably going to rain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but there is not a trace of clouds in the sky, maybe it will fall in the middle of the night, maybe it will fall tomorrow. Most of the courtyards in the countryside are earthen courtyards. Ants moving to farm yards in the summer are often seen. There is a small loose soil at the mouth of the ant hole, and a large group of ants stick to the soil skin, some roll food, some go in and out, and some run blindly. It feels like they're chaotic and hurried.
Bai Lian walked in her yard in the summer, and she was also cautious, for fear of stepping on an ant with one foot. She can't say that she hasn't stepped on one to death when she's so big, but as long as she sees it, she will bend down and gently pinch it with her hand to see if it's dead. Convinced that she was dead, she placed it in a corner far from the footsteps of pedestrians, sprinkled a handful of earth and buried it.
Daddy White Lotus caught a thrush out of nowhere and put it in a homemade cage made from sorghum stalks. In just a few days, the thrush loses its vitality and does not call or eat. If you don't release it early, I'm afraid you'll die. Bai Lian and her father both knew this, but her father was reluctant to let it go, and as soon as he put it, he couldn't see it. In the past, his father had also caught sparrows, and he couldn't be locked up for two days, either starving to death, or being angry, or hitting his head to death. They are not free and would rather die.
This time Bai Lian decided to release the thrush, and she smoked the movable sorghum stalk in front of his father, without saying a word. The thrush flew into the air and into the distance, and the white lotus breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Bailian's mother bought five catties of eggs from outside, and when she entered the gate, she said, "I met Wanjin just now, and said that a snake had escaped into the courtyard of her son, a blind woman at the entrance of the village. People ran to see it. ”
Daddy White Lotus said, "It looks like it's going to rain heavily again." ”
Bai Lian said, "Then I'll go and see it too." ”
Mom and Dad knew that their daughter was taking advantage of the excitement in her heart to see Wanjin.
"Go ahead." Mom and Dad said lovingly.
The daughter's back disappeared at the gate, and the mother said "sigh" and said: "Seeing that the eldest is not small, the two of them are not in a hurry, and they are still like children." ”
"Both of them are gods and witches, you say, when will we be able to talk about marriage normally!" The father also sighed.
Bai Lian saw Wan Jin's black dog running towards her on the street and followed her.
There were many people standing in the house of the unfilial son, and Bai Lian saw Wan Jin at a glance, so she walked over to him. The second little one who herded the sheep held the tail of the snake in his right hand, a cauliflower snake that was not small. He kept shaking the snake's tail, and the snake's head tilted upwards hard, trying to bite Erxiao's hand, but it was still in vain.
"Just stoned it to death." The unfilial son said.
"I said let's let it go, look at its poor bastard." Er Xiao said.
"I saw that it was so abominable that it was about to burrow into my coop. There's an egg in the coop. "The unfilial son said," he thought of eating the eggs first, filling his stomach, and then quietly coiling in the chicken coop, and when it was dark when the chickens returned to the nest, he would really kill all the chickens. His words amused the people.
"Let's release it, this is your chance to do good." The white lotus sincerely reminds the unfilial son.
When the unfilial son saw that it was a white lotus, he hesitated. The heart said that if you really eat my chicken, the distressed thing is that I am not you, and it is easy to say that you do good deeds and accumulate virtues, then let you try it. At this time, he had forgotten how much White Lotus had paid for his mother, and the evil heart had prevailed again. He said, "Well, if you dare to personally carry this snake to the river beach and release it, I will promise you your kindness." ”
No one thought that he would come up with such a bad idea, and some people in the crowd scolded him for his lack of morality, and everyone looked at Bai Lian.
Bai Lian is actually timid by nature, how dare she carry a snake with her bare hands? Even if there are a few big men who dare, I'm afraid that few of the hundreds of people in the village dare. Bai Lian seemed to stare at the snake a little nervously.
"Don't dare? I don't think you dare! Then I'll stone it to death. How do you smash this hanging? Well, there it is, I'll take some dry wood and light it, and burn it in the fire all at once! Burn alive! The unfilial son said triumphantly and viciously.
"I dare!" Bai Lian suddenly walked to the second little and said, "Give it to me!" ”
"I said you unfilial son, you are such a fool! Look at what the second little hand is carrying? It's a string of Qianlong copper coins, a string of copper coins! Wan Jin said suddenly. He wanted to relieve Bai Lian, and he could feel that Bai Lian's heart was now beating "suddenly".
Everyone thought it was a joke. The unfilial son opened his mouth and stared at Wanjin stupidly. He couldn't believe what Wanjin said! He stammered a little: "I believe, I believe!" But two days ago, you said that the string of copper coins was a snake, how can it be that it is a snake today, and why has it become copper and copper coins again? ”
The crowd listened in bewilderment, and some said that it seemed that both of them were nervous.
Bai Lian also looked at Wan Jin with a confused expression.
"This time and that time." Wan Jin said.
"Well, I'll listen to you again today to see if what you say is fulfilled. I said Erxiao, you just carry it like this, hard work for you, I'll light a cigarette for you. "The unfilial son lit a cigarette for Erxiao." You carry it, and in a moment it will become a copper coin. ”
Erxiao shook his head, smiled at everyone, and said, "Everyone is laughing, my Erxiao really can't do magic, really can't!" Everyone also smirked as if the second monk was puzzled.
"White Lotus, count you as brave. But I won't let you go now, I want money, I want money! The unfilial son said to the white lotus with a smile.
Everyone was looking forward to that miraculous moment. Suddenly, the wife of the unfilial son came out of the thatched house in a rage, and cried out loudly: "I said why did I lose the three chickens, they all fell into the pit and drowned!" It must have been this snake that scared it! I'll kill it! No, I'll burn it right now! My three chicks that I managed to feed with great difficulty! ”
The unfilial son hurriedly ran to the hut and saw the corpses of three chicks floating in the hairy pit. His chicken coop is in the thatched house, so it must be that the snake came in and scared the chickens, and dodged in a panic and fell into the hairy pit.
"Burn it! Burn it! The unfilial son was dizzy all of a sudden, gritted his teeth and said, It doesn't matter what copper coins are, it doesn't count whether a string of copper coins is worth or three chickens are worth it. He picked up a bundle of dry firewood from the firewood pile next to the thatched house, put it under the head of the snake carried by the second child, and took out the lighter to light it.
"Slow!" Bai Lian shouted to stop. I saw that she quickly took out five yuan from her clothes and handed it to her unfilial son. "That's enough to buy ten chicks." After speaking, he pressed the money in the palm of the unfilial son, and then snatched the snake tail from the second child's hand, imitated the second child's method of shaking the snake, and trotted out towards the gate.
No one could resist Bai Lian's move, a big girl's family had such courage! Wan Jin hurriedly chased out and chased him all the way to the river beach. When Bai Lian arrived at the river beach, he immediately released the snake. She smiled happily as she watched the cauliflower snake scurry freely into the grass. But suddenly, her eyes went dark and she fainted. Wan Jin arrived and slowly picked up the white lotus.
The unfilial son looked at the five yuan in his hand in a daze, and seemed to come back to his senses and figure out what was going on. He threw the money hysterically: "What a god! What a god! O god of gold! A cauliflower snake really fucking becomes money, money! ”