Chapter 52
The village suddenly boiled.
The custom of Rongguo: Giving birth to twin children is a blessing from God.
The people in the village forgot how much they wanted to get rid of Zhang Li before, and then came uninvited one by one.
Those newly married girls and little daughters-in-law who are not pregnant after marriage are even pulled by their mothers or mothers-in-law to stay in Zhang Li's small courtyard for a long time, hoping to be touched by Zhang Li's blessings and have both children and daughters.
Zhang Li was alone, and he was worried that the two children would not be easy to raise, but these people came and helped a lot - the child's diapers were washed, and the child's small clothes were originally prepared by one person, and now they are not enough to wear.
After Zhang Li's confinement, he held his two children and kowtowed from house to house, thanking the villagers for their protection.
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Five years later, Zhang Li's sons and daughters have been able to run all over the village.
Zhang Li still remembers the words of the Taoist priest at the beginning, and protected a pair of children like eyeballs, for fear that some flash would hurt his son's life, but he didn't know that people were not as good as heaven, and her youngest son still had an accident.
On that day, Zhang Li was weaving at home, and her daughter led her younger brother to play in the village, and somehow led her younger brother to the trestle.
Zhang Li's family usually sees it firmly, and they don't let this pair of children get close to the river at all, for fear of any accidents. But that day she was so confused that she only cared about spinning and weaving, and later, an older child who reported the news ran home and told her that her son had fallen off the trestle, and Zhang Li was almost crazy, so she threw down the shuttle in her hand and ran to the river.
The trestle bridge except for the part that stretched into the water, the highest place on the river beach was only five or six feet above the ground, and the children in the mountains were solid, and there was no accident when they saw Tian'er climbing up and down there. The child of the Li family was unlucky, because he was young, and he was strictly controlled by his mother, he had never played on the bridge, and he also learned to jump when he saw others jumping off the bridge. Other children are older than him, and they will choose a height that suits them and jump down, landing with their feet on the ground, but he doesn't understand, so he goes to the highest place and flips down with his head down.
If you fall into the river, it will probably be better, which child who plays together can't water? can reach out and save it. But Zhang Li's son fell to the river beach. There were pebbles the size of an acetate bowl on the river beach, and a five-year-old child, how could he afford such a collision, and there was suddenly a hole in his head.
Zhang Li's daughter was already scared stupid, she would only hold her brother and cry, crying and shaking, shouting for her brother to get up, and when Zhang Li arrived, the child had already been shaken out of breath and less in breath, and he was out of breath when he saw it.
There is an old man who often goes into the mountains to collect medicine in Xianrentun, and he is also a rough doctor, and he is the only doctor in Xianrentun. Zhang Li hugged his son and went straight to the old man's house, and after the old man investigated, he stroked his beard and shook his head. After dressing the child's wound with herbs to stop bleeding, he asked Zhang Li to go home, and said five words from beginning to end: Resign yourself to fate.
The villagers who heard the news all sighed, and some people mentioned the fate that the Taoist priest gave to Zhang Li's family at the beginning, which caused the villagers to sigh for a while -- some sighed that Zhang Li's life was bitter, and some sighed that the Taoist hexagram was effective.
Zhang Li hugged her son and didn't let go, seeing that her son's breath was getting weaker and weaker, she suddenly remembered that the Taoist priest had left a talisman for herself.
She didn't know how to use it, so she simply gritted her teeth, went back and turned out the rune paper and put it on the lamp to light it, turning it into a bowl of rune water and pouring it into her son.
The child's teeth had been bitten to death, and most of the bowl of runic water was sprinkled outside, and Zhang Li saw that there was no hope, so he finally hugged his son and cried loudly.
The onlookers were all in pity.
But at this moment, the Taoist priest floated in.
The Taoist priest held Zhang Li's son in his arms, and then instructed Zhang Li to go and ask for a hundred lights to come back.
The onlookers went home one after another to find the lamp and send it to the door, but it was also thanks to the fact that there were more than 100 households in Xianrentun, and the lamp was quickly gathered.
The Taoist priest immediately lined up the hundred oil lamps, dispersed the people, and began to cast spells.
Twelve hours later, Zhang Li's son slowly opened his eyes.
The Taoist priest told Zhang Li that he had changed his life against the sky for this child, and from then on the child would die peace-free and without disaster.
Zhang Li thanked him and watched the immortal take off into the air.
Later, Zhang Li spun and sold the thread, sold it for a year, and then used the money saved to paint a portrait of the Taoist priest, and offered incense every day until today.
I suddenly understood why I was attracted to Zhang Li's eyes.
It is clearly the eyes that can only be possessed by people who have seen through the warmth and coldness of the world, but who are still alive like human beings-clear, warm, and serene.
Just like the old lady of the fox clan in Fox Village who failed to survive the catastrophe, it makes people unconsciously want to get close.
When the little daughter-in-law saw that I didn't speak for a long time, she thought I didn't believe it, and hurriedly said: "This is all true, people say that the Taoist priest is actually a mortal immortal!" If you don't believe it, you can go to the village and inquire, the older generation has seen this with their own eyes. ”
I believe.
This kind of pretending to be a ghost is really Hu Liuye's style!
Although Hu Liuye is not very in the village, his anecdote, the black-haired old fox, is often used as a notebook.
I asked my daughter-in-law, wouldn't these be all Zhang Li's own words to her?
The little daughter-in-law shook her head shyly, saying that she had heard it when she was working with the daughters-in-law in the village.
Well, I guess too.
After the peanuts in her pocket were finished, the little daughter-in-law also boiled the water in the pot. When she got up to wash rice, I asked her, "I heard that a woman gave birth to a child with one foot in the ghost gate, but is it true?" ”
The little daughter-in-law's hand shook, and the washed yellow rice almost spilled out of the scoop.
My heart sank: Is it really that scary?
"If you knew that this child would kill you, would you still want him?"
I stared nervously at my little daughter-in-law, waiting for her answer.
Perhaps, I can see my mother's heart for me through this mortal woman.
The little daughter-in-law's face was pale, her lips trembled for a long time, and finally she couldn't hold back her tears.
She pointed at me and said, half embarrassed and half frightened, "Don't you know what you said, it's very unlucky?" ”
Oh? Yes, she should have given birth, and it would be really bad luck to hear me say such things again!
I don't know how to comfort this sad little daughter-in-law in front of me.
If she's a fox too, I can help her smooth her hair.
But she's just a mortal. I don't know how mortals comfort their fellow human beings.
I raised my paws......
Oh no, I raised my hand to run her hair. It was the only thing on her body that was considered hair.
But looking at the oily and slippery bun, I couldn't get rid of it.