Chapter 002: Drunken Fox
Seeing the name of his ancestor written on the tombstone, Bei Hai was sure that he was not wrong, if he hadn't recognized the wrong ancestor for a long time, it would be really a shame.
In order, the offerings were placed on the two of grandpa and grandma, and then grandpa grandma, grandfather and grandmother, not only the offerings on the table, but also the burning paper kowtow or something, and Bei Hai was not short. Those who kneel are upright and square, and those who knock are loud. If the ancestors knew about it, they would be relieved.
After the ceremony, the time had reached more than twelve o'clock, and the little bit of food in the morning had already been consumed, and the stomach had begun to rebel a little.
He sat down directly next to the stone offering table in front of his grandfather's grave, wiped his hands on his pants, reached out and took down the paper plate containing the beef offerings on the table, and pinched a piece of beef and put it directly in his mouth.
This is the custom of Bei Hai's hometown, a set of processes has been followed, it means that the ancestors have been 'enjoyed', since the ancestors have used it, the 'leftover' is of course left to the filial sons and grandchildren. Outsiders can't eat it, but Bei Hai eats it as a matter of course.
"Grandpa, grandma, your second elder bless me with a smooth job this time, wait for my grandson and my work to be stable, I will find you a granddaughter-in-law, and then give birth to a great-grandson, you next to you also use a little heart, bless me more, if I don't have an explanation, you don't have a few decades of running without incense to enjoy" while eating Bei Hai muttered to himself and talked to his grandparents. As the old saying goes, the children and grandchildren are constant, so that the incense can be endless, and it is not a threat to them.
"Do you say I hate Lu Yigen?"
Bei Hai's hand has been replaced by a plate of white chopped chicken, and he is carrying a chicken leg to his mouth: "I used to hate him, but now that I think about it, that's it, I can't guarantee that I will go to a prestigious university in China, it's better to live happily than worry about this matter, why should you spoil your mood because of irrelevant people in just a few decades, you two elders say yes?" ”。
This Lu Yigen is from the Wu family under the mountain, his father died when he was six years old, and his mother remarried, and he disliked him for being a drag oil bottle and threw him away. Bei Hai's grandfather looked pitiful and brought it back, and he can be regarded as an adopted son. Waiting for the days to go in the future, it will become more and more progressive, and the society will be more open, Lu Yigen became the first batch of people to go out of the mountains and go out, somehow went to the United States, and became an American. By the time the American returned, Behai's grandfather had already died.
At the beginning, Lu Yigen was thinking about repaying the kindness of parenting, and he must take Bei Hai, the single heirloom of the old Bei family, to study in the United States, so that Bei Hai's father only needs to prepare a small half of the tuition fee for college. Originally, this was a good thing, but going to study in the United States was something that others couldn't think of, so Bei Hai naturally followed Lu Yigen to the United States.
At the beginning, Lu Yigen still thought that he grew up eating Lao Bei's food when he was a child, but things changed after a long time. There is no filial son before the bed of a long illness, not to mention the grandson of Bei Hai, the adoptive father. Gradually, there was a gap in my heart, and the heart of repaying the favor was thrown out of the clouds.
In terms of learning, Bei Hai was able to study and play with Lu Yigen's two children at first, but soon he was arranged to work in a restaurant when he had nothing to do, and then the time spent working became more and more serious, and finally it developed into washing dishes and dishes every day after school, and working until the restaurant rested. After a long time like this, where can Bei Hai be admitted to any university.
When Bei Hai was eighteen years old, he voluntarily left Lu Yigen's home and followed his friends to make a living in society.
It is true that Bei Hai has become an American, but he has actually become half an American illiterate. With only a high school diploma, what do you think you can do in that society in the United States? I can only do some untechnical work. But just a month ago, Bei Hai got a good job. It is precisely because he has to change to a new job that Bei Hai can have time to return to China to visit his relatives at this time in July.
Bei Hai chatted with his ancestors while eating, half of the meat in the offerings was eaten, and Bei Hai's stomach was completely full, and he looked at the grandfather and grandmother in front of him, and there was still one that had not moved at all, and he really couldn't eat it.
Reaching out to prepare the last fruit after dinner, the orange had not yet been peeled in his hand, and a slight rustling sound was heard in his ears, and there was a whoooh oo
Raising his head, Bei Hai followed the direction of the voice and fixed his eyes, and saw a fiery red figure appear five or six meters away from him.
A red fox!
It's not big, it's only two circles bigger than a domestic cat, an authentic mountain fox. But this fox looks like he hasn't eaten for a few days, his stomach is shriveled, the ribs on his waist can be seen, and the red fur is not very bright, and it has no luster, and it looks a little dull.
Not to mention the appearance of this fox, just looking at the meat on the table beside Bei Hai, the little eyes did not turn, and he was also hungry to the point of fearlessness, if it weren't for the wild fox to see the person, he would have turned around and ran away without a trace.
"Look you're hungry too"
Seeing how pitiful this fox was, Bei Hai picked up a piece of chicken breast on a paper plate and threw it over.
As soon as he saw that the piece of meat was in front of him, the fox took two steps and immediately took the meat in his mouth, tilted his head, and devoured it.
As soon as the fox walked like this, Bei Hai noticed that the fox's right hind leg was a little unfavorable, and it seemed that he had suffered some minor injury. Such an injury may not be anything to a person, and it is good to raise it for ten days and a half months, but for wild animals, any small injury may kill itself.
It is estimated that it was because of this injury that the fox failed to hit its prey, and it became hungry like this.
The chicken that Bei Hai threw out went into his stomach, and the fox who had finished eating it curled his mouth with his tongue and yelled at Bei Hai again.
As soon as the fox's cry fell, Bei Hai smiled and threw another piece. Next, as long as the fox screamed, Bei Hai threw a piece, and in the end, he directly put the paper plate two meters away from him, and the fox no longer seemed to be afraid of Bei Hai, and buried his head in eating.
Bei Hai looked at the fox who looked up at him from time to time and munched, and said with a smile: "You fool, how do you know that I didn't lure you over, and I was going to make a scarf with your skin!" I don't want to eat a little food."
How did Bei Hai know that this fox hadn't eaten anything decent for almost two weeks because of his leg injury, maybe this time he had already made up his mind in his heart to die and be a full fox, so he came with the smell of meat! There is a way that the world is the biggest eater, and it is better to eat a dead fox than a starving fox, so I got the courage to ask Bei Hai, a living person, what he wanted to eat.
The rest of the meat went into the fox's belly, and Bei Hai looked at the fox who was staring at him again: "Don't look at it anymore, I won't look at it anymore!" After speaking, he waved his hand at the fox: "I'm going back, you can go back and forth from where you go!" ”。
After speaking, Bei Hai stood up from the ground, patted the dirt on his buttocks, and then carried the sea blue with most of the bottle left and prepared to turn around and go home.
Before he had been gone for a quarter of an hour, Bei Hai heard another ooze behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that the fox just now had followed at some point.
"Don't follow me!" Bei Hai looked at the fox and said a little impatiently: "Go back, there are dogs in our village." And even if you follow me, I don't have a place to raise you, go back! ”。
After speaking, he continued to stretch out his hand to the fox to catch up, and at the same time jokingly said, "Go!" Go! Go home. Let's eat and drink enough together is also fate, but there is no banquet in the world, now let's go back to our respective homes and find our mothers! ”。
The fox looked at Bei Hai, moved two steps to this side, then opened his mouth and spit out something to the ground, and screamed at Bei Hai.
The fox returns the favor! Seeing this action, Bei Hai's mind couldn't help but jump out of the stories he had heard countless times when he was a child. I've heard a lot of this kind of story, but if someone said in the past that the fox knew how to repay the favor, Bei Hai laughed nine times out of ten, but now I can't help but Bei Hai doesn't believe it when I put it on myself.
Curious about what the fox had brought to him, he took two steps towards it, and bent down to touch it. Gently twist the floating soil on it and reveal the contents inside.
Looking at the things in his hand, Bei Hai couldn't help but be stunned, although it was not very bright, Bei Hai still recognized it, this small piece of gold, a small ingot made of gold, only a small gold ingot made of thumb cover is not more than ten years old. And it seems that this color is also a bit old.
Tumulus?! Bei Hai touched the small gold ingots in his hand and immediately wondered if the fox had made a hole and drilled into an ancient tomb. Who would dare to say that there are not one or two ancient tombs in this hundred miles of mountains?
Thinking of the tomb robbery novels he had read before, Bei Hai immediately opened his mind and thought about it wildly. For a turtle and silk, there is nothing more desirable than the treasure in the ancient tomb.
Thinking about it, Bei Hai himself was so happy that he even forgot the wise saying that the ancient tomb belongs to the country.
Squatting down and pinching the little gold ingots in his hand, Bei Hai's face was full of smiles, and his voice was also very gentle, for fear of scaring away the little fox in front of him who was 'shining with golden light'.
It stands to reason that after eating a few pieces of broken meat from you, the little gold ingots given by Brother Fox are quite interesting, even if Bei Hai, an old man who has worked in American restaurants for seven or eight years, has to say that Brother Fox is arrogant in tipping, which is really rich and capricious.
"Where did you get this?" Bei Hai shook the little ingots in his hand at the fox, and got rid of an unscrupulous uncle who wanted to deceive the lollipop in the little doll's hand.
The fox is just a fox, where can I understand what Bei Hai said, really if the fox comes to say: If you want to know, follow me. I'm scared of Bei Hai peeing pants!
As soon as the fox heard Bei Hai speak, he jumped and shouted happily twice, and then Bei Hai said that the fox came like this again, and one person and one fox 'chatted' for more than half an hour.
"Damn! I can't stand it" Bei Hai really didn't withdraw the fox, and after talking for a long time, he was a little thirsty, and subconsciously unscrewed the bottle cap and poured a sip, and only remembered when he drank it into his mouth that he was carrying the blue of the bottle of the sea. At this moment, the wine immediately squirted out of his mouth, and a water stain was scattered on the ground in front of Bei Hai.
The next thing that surprised Bei Hai was that the fox immediately stuck out his head and began to add wine stains from the dry branches on the ground. It looks very good, and the sound of smacking his mouth can be heard clearly by Bei Hai.
Bei Hai watched the fox licking the wine, and muttered dumbfounded: It's still a wine fox!
After watching it for a while, Bei Hai had an idea in his heart. As long as you know that you have a hobby, you can drag it down, and the corruption cases on the news are not one or two things, anyway, every time the originally pure petty officials are lured by unscrupulous people, and finally they are corrupted. Where can a mere fox escape!
Since there was something good, Bei Hai immediately did what he liked, directly unscrewed the bottle, took out the small wine bowl he was carrying, poured half a bowl and put it on the ground, and then the fox immediately smelled the wine and came over, stretched out his head and began to lick the wine in the bowl without any scruples.
No wonder it is written in the book that there are three bowls of Oka, it turns out that there is a real reason.
In less than ten minutes, the little fox in front of him drank three small bowls in a row, and even began to swing while standing. Then he staggered and turned his head towards the way he came.
Bei Hai followed the swaying fox with a wine bottle with a smile on his face, and took this opportunity to see where the fox lived and what the house number was! It's convenient for everyone to move around next time, isn't it?
Hey!
Bei Hai, who was following the fox, felt a little obscene when he heard his laughter.