Chapter 40: The Weasel and the Master
Ma Xiaosan rushed out of the door in a hurry, and looked next door, only to see that the second brother Wang next door was wearing, thin pajamas and holding a fork to drive away the two shadows in front of the door.
"Go, go, get away, if you don't leave, I'll trample your cubs to death."
It was too dark for Ma Xiaosan to see what the two shadows were, but he could guess from the size of the shadows that they should be some kind of small animal.
Without saying a word, grab the broom in front of the door and go over to help.
Seeing that someone was coming again, the owner of the two shadows seemed to be a little frightened and fled in a hurry.
Ma Xiaosan's worried inquiry:
"Second Brother Wang, are you alright?"
The man with a dark face shook his head:
"It's okay, it's just a few weasels, probably attracted by the smell of meat that I hung outside."
Due to the cover of the night, Ma Xiaosan didn't see a trace of panic flash on the other party's face, and he didn't think much before speaking:
"I guess it's been snowing heavily in the past few days, and I can't find food, so I touched the village, hey, what is this?"
At this time, he noticed that the second brother Wang was stepping on a figure under his feet, and when he took a closer look through the moonlight, it was a little weasel.
Second Brother Wang's eyes fluttered and explained:
"I just came with three big belts and one small, which scared your sister-in-law enough, and stole all the meat outside, I came out to drive away, this little cub still wants to bite me, but fortunately, my legs and feet are smart and I stepped on it with one foot."
The little weasel cried low, as if begging for mercy.
It was too dark, and Ma Xiaosan didn't realize that the hand holding the fork hidden in the night by his second brother Wang was a little trembling.
Therefore, I didn't care to speak again:
"Second Brother Wang doesn't have to care, although this weasel is small, but since the wolf is naturally fierce, this year's snow is very large, and many beasts can't find Guo Dong's food, Second Brother Wang should not dry meat outside in the future, as for this weasel, especially resentful, at this time you caught the cubs of the two of them, the two of them will definitely retaliate again, second brother." It's better to let it go as soon as possible to save more trouble. ”
Second Brother Wang nodded:
"Thank you for the reminder, the second brother knows it."
Ma Xiaosan didn't say anything, and asked him to help say hello to Wang's second sister-in-law, tightened the clothes on his body and went back.
Looking at the back of the other party's departure, Second Brother Wang looked at the little weasel under his feet with an ugly face, hesitated, and finally grabbed the back of the neck and took it into the room.
Xiang Xiaoer, who was standing at the door of Ma Xiaosan's house, watched all this quietly, and then looked at the window of Second Brother Wang's house.
"Second brother, why did you come out? It's nothing, it's just three little things. ”
Xiang Xiaoer nodded, stroked the little white fox, and turned around and walked into the house.
Ma Xiaosan followed.
Silence regained in the night.
Only the north wind calling for his companions was left, and the broken bamboo cage in front of the window of the second brother Wang.
Everything seems to have fallen into peace.
Ma Xiaosan went back to sleep.
didn't know at all, just next door, his second brother Wang and his second sister-in-law had just almost broken out into a quarrel.
Second Brother Wang grabbed the weasel and returned to the house.
Wang's second sister-in-law, who was sitting on the warm bed on the stove, was startled.
"How did you bring it in?"
Second Brother Wang shuddered and scolded:
"Be quiet, you want everyone to hear!"
Second sister-in-law Wang didn't dare to go out just now, she eavesdropped on the window, naturally heard the speeches of Ma Xiaosan and Second Brother Wang, and knew that Ma Xiaosan next door had returned, so she lowered her voice: "Then you can't bring it into the house!" ”
Second Brother Wang found a bamboo cage and put the little weasel in, the little weasel still had blood stains on his feet, but the wound was not new, but more like an old wound and a new injury.
"The cage outside has been bitten by those two big ones, I guess they will have to come before dawn, so let's put it in the house first."
Wang's second sister-in-law looked unhappy:
"This is Wong Tai Sin, you put him in the house, and you still let me live."
Second Brother Wang's face stiffened:
"What's not alive, isn't it just a little weasel? What's more, when Boss Zhao comes back tomorrow morning, he will take it away, what are you afraid of. ”
Seeing Second Brother Wang's cold face, Second Sister-in-law Wang didn't dare to speak.
Nothing was said all night.
Early the next morning.
The first thing Ma Xiaosan did when he got up was to add firewood to the stove.
If you want to say let him wait for Xiang Xiao Ertian, it is estimated that he will have to wait until he is hungry and wants to make a fire.
Cold? I'm sorry, but I've never experienced this feeling, I was a dragon in my last life, and it's so amazing.
After filling the firewood and discussing with Xiang Xiaoer, Ma Xiaosan was going to give some of their prey to the second brother Wang's house next door.
Xiang Xiaoer didn't refuse, these things were not as difficult for him to get as they were.
As long as he encounters a wild beast, no matter how fierce it is, it can only enter his stomach in the end.
Ma Xiaosan deliberately picked a small boar, cut a large half, and sent it to the next door.
When he sent it, he found that the little weasel was still there, Ma Xiaosan was slightly surprised, this thing has some sayings in their place, saying that it is super capable and old, and it can even be cultivated into a small one, and it is called Huang Xian.
So most people don't want to offend, and the meat of this thing is not delicious, and the skin is not valuable, plus it is very grudgeful, sometimes offending one will attract a group of people to make a lot of trouble, so even if ordinary people are caught, they will let it go.
Since Second Brother Wang has had no descendants for so many years, he is particularly superstitious, so he thinks that the other party will definitely let go of this kind of thing as soon as possible, but he didn't expect it to flow all night, of course, he had already said it last night, and he was not a person of many words, so he didn't say it again.
After accepting the gratitude of the two, he returned to his home and began to boil water and cook.
Such a large piece of wild boar meat also made the Wang family and his wife a little happy, and they muttered in their hearts that they usually didn't take care of him in vain.
The pork is cut open, part of it is marinated and ready to be kept for its own consumption, and the other piece is ready to be sent to the city for some food in the next two days.
Not long after processing the pork, the Wang family ushered in a new guest, this person had a yellow face, long thief eyebrows and rat eyes, walked high and low, and one foot was injured.
This person is none other than Zhao Boss, the third family in Sanjia Village.
Boss Zhao was humming a song at this time, looking proud, very happy, and opened his mouth when he came in:
"My baby, can you show me?"
Second Brother Wang should arrive:
"Don't worry, it's still here, but last night, the big and small ones came again, you better hurry up and pick it up, as long as it continues to toss, I can't afford to toss."
Boss Zhao saw it at a glance, and the little guy in the bamboo cage in the room couldn't wait to walk over and mention it:
"Don't worry, I've already contacted me, even if you beg me, I can't put it here for you anymore, this is my baby, a big baby who makes money."
After speaking, he couldn't wait to go out of the door, but was stopped by Second Brother Wang: "Stand, the money hasn't been given yet, let's talk about it, I won't credit you this time no matter what." ”
Seeing that he didn't bluff the past, Boss Zhao spoke:
"Oh, am my boss the kind of person who doesn't believe in his word? Don't worry, this money has already been prepared for you, otherwise why would I go to the city? Isn't it just to raise money for you? ”
As he spoke, he took out a piece of silver from his arms and handed it to Second Brother Wang very reluctantly.
Second Brother Wang weighed his weight.
Get out of the way of the other party's body, this face is not clear at all.
Yingzhou is bitterly cold, and just these two taels of silver are enough for a family like Second Brother Wang to live for a year.
If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have taken the risk.
Boss Sun looked at the silver that the other party carried into his arms with some distress, although he said that he would get more later, but he was also distressed at this moment!
Who thinks they have a lot of money? What's more, he is such a delicious and lazy person, she has never seen so much money in her life, but unfortunately this is the price promised to Second Brother Wang at the beginning, otherwise the other party would not have sold this weasel to herself.
Reluctantly left the Wang family with the cage, and after walking out for a while, Boss Zhao reorganized his mood, and when he thought that he was about to get so much money, he couldn't help but be happy.
"Hmph, but what's the envy of two taels of silver? When I hand over this little thing to the Liu family, there will be 20 taels waiting for me. ”
Thinking of this first, I can't help but speed up my pace.
He limped into the city.
Sanjia Village is some distance from Yingzhou City,
In addition, Zhao Lao's legs and feet are not good, and he is busy in the morning and has not eaten, so he walked for a long time to arrive.
After entering the city without delay, he went straight to Liu's mansion.
If you want to talk about this Liu Mansion, it is one of the largest families in the entire Zhouzhou City, and there is a lot of business at home, and I really envy some ordinary people.
But this old man of Liu Mansion is not happy at all, without him, without a queen, without a son!
There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great!
Not to mention that no one inherits this huge family business, even after his death, there is no rock wool to see his ancestors.
Because he has a son, the old man of the Liu family has married many concubines, but without exception, he either does not lay eggs or gives birth to a daughter.
For this reason, Master Liu was worried.
Fortunately, five years ago, he met a master who gave him a way to crack it.
said that this Liu family master is a water life, the flood is gone, and it is destined to be no queen, if you want to crack it, you must find a woman of a family to marry, in order to leave offspring.
Si'er's heartfelt Master Liu, who didn't care about the truth or falsehood, decided to give it a try.
So he asked the master to help him find out which woman in the clan was Mu Ming.
This investigation really found one, which is the half-sister Fang Ling's sister who has not yet come out of the cabinet.
Master Liu has some difficulties, which is really human.
So in the end, I still didn't agree.
Seeing this, the master gave him another trick, the master collected all things wood qi and forged a medicine, as long as a woman takes it all year round, it will increase his question Your wood qi, but Master Liu can give birth to an heir.
Of course, Master Liu agreed, so he spent a lot of money to buy the magic medicine.
Not to mention that it is really useful, after taking the medicine for 7749 days, one of Master Liu's concubines was happy, and she really gave birth to a baby boy after ten months.
Mr. Liu was overjoyed.
Feast guests on the day.
The whole family was beaming.
It may be that the joy is too much and the joy is very sad.
Master Liu's son is surprisingly stupid, he can't learn anything for a year, he can't even cry, if he doesn't know how to eat and move every day, Master Liu suspects that this is a dead one, but stupid is stupid, it's good to have a baby son.
In a flash, Mr. Liu's son is now four years old, but this child is surprisingly stupid, and even now he can't leave, he can only let people serve, let alone speak.
For this reason, Grandpa Liu was worried about his gray hair and found many famous doctors, but he couldn't find out what kind of illness this Liu family son had.
Fortunately, a few days ago, that master appeared in Chau City again.
The old man of the Liu family was overjoyed when he encountered the aftermath and asked him to help take a look.
As soon as the master diagnosed, his face was ugly and said, it was Master Liu's fate, and the child's wisdom was washed away, and for today's plan, he could only find the flesh of the immortal and let him take it.
Master Liu was numb when he heard it.
He had heard the story of this immortal, but where had he seen it, even if he had seen it, this immortal was not a fool Pingshan gave him meat.
Fortunately, this master explained that this immortal meat is difficult to find but can be replaced.
The substitute is the fox, yellow, white, willow and one of the five gray immortals.
Living in Zhouzhou, he naturally knows these five immortals.
There are gods and men in Tianhan, and there are different legends in various places, but different from other regions, there are five kinds of animals that have divine powers. It is this fox, yellow, white, willow, gray!
They are also known as the Five Immortals.
They are the fox fairy (fox), the yellow fairy (weasel), the white fairy (hedgehog), the willow fairy (snake) and the gray fairy (mouse)!
There are many legends left in the island.
Chaju is next to Goryeo, and Goryeo is the most dishonest of the barbarians outside the Saiwai.
For thousands of years, he has been harassing Tianhan.
But it has never troubled Tianhan, precisely because of the existence of these five immortals.
It can be said that the rest of the Tianhan is guarded by gods with divine power, and this continent is actually guarded by this demon immortal with divine power.
Therefore, the local people will defeat the five monsters of Goryeo five times.
It is called the Five Immortals of Zhouzhou.
A lot of people are always worshiped in the guys.
Of course, not all of these five animals have divine powers.
There may be a few, or it may be just one.
Therefore, when the master explained that as long as ordinary weasel meat was fine, this Master Liu agreed without hesitation.
It's not that no one in Qizhou has eaten these five immortal meat, in the deep mountains and old forests, the eyes are hungry, and the bark is gnawed on for you, so don't care about those five immortals who have never seen the five immortals.
But even so, after the Liu family released the bounty, few people went to the wild to find the weasel.
One is because there is still some fear in my heart, and the other is because I have never caught it, and in the winter, this weasel is extremely clever, and I am not very sure that I can catch it.
Of course, if it was easy, the Liu family would not issue a reward.
But there are still some people who want to make this windfall.
Among them was Boss Sun, who happened to go to the city.
After Boss Sun returned home, he looked for the weasel, but unfortunately he couldn't find it for a long time.
Just when he was about to give up, that night, he heard a movement next door, although he was lazy, lazy to eat, and did not repay the money, but his heart was still not bad.
Worried that something would happen to his old neighbor next door, he got dressed and went out.
But I don't want to see two big, one small and three figures making trouble.
And the second brother Wang next door has already caught the small figure.
Seeing Boss Sun coming to help, the other two figures were scared away, and only then did Boss Sun see the small figure clearly.
It was the weasel he thought about day and night.
Originally, Second Brother Wang was going to put this little thing away, because he lived on the edge of this deep mountain and old forest, and he was inevitably a little afraid of the five immortals who were passing by.
But this Brother Sun stopped it as soon as he could.
This is a cash cow, you can't put it, or you sell it to me.
But this second brother Wang is unwilling to take such a big risk for a little money.
Immediately, Boss Sun added the money to two taels of silver, and Second Brother Wang was moved, but he knew that this Second Brother Wang definitely didn't have so much money, so he had to pay first.
He also saw that the other party had a way to accept this yellow skin.
Boss Sun did not hesitate and immediately agreed, let Second Brother Wang take care of Huangpizi for a day, and he went into the city to raise money.
The money was not easy to raise, so Second Brother Wang didn't come back until the next day.
Everyone knows what happened at Second Brother Wang's house during this period.
Besides, this Boss Sun followed the housekeeper of the Liu Mansion into the backyard of the Liu Mansion.
Only then did I find out that there were still two weasels in the iron cage of Liu's mansion.
"I look familiar with these two yellow skins, so like the one that escaped that day?"
Soon he didn't think much about it, after all, people look at weasels and weasels look at people, they are all face blind.
What he was worried about was that with these two, the Liu family would not accept them.
Then he spent a hundred taels of silver, which he and the housekeeper borrowed temporarily.
Fortunately, the housekeeper said that the promise he promised yesterday was okay.
He gave him all the money, and took a weasel under his hand.
Boss Zhao left happily.
Not the slightest notice was the sad gaze of the two weasels in the cage, and the sarcastic smile of the little weasel when he entered the cage.
Soon, Master Liu came here with the master.
When the master looked at it, he said that it was still this small.
Childe is small, and if it's too big, I'm afraid I can't bear it.
Master Liu readily agreed, and he was ready to let go of these two big ones.
But he was stopped by a master.
The master speaks:
"After all, this is Huang Xian, it's better to hand it over after the end, otherwise I am afraid that the heavenly opportunity will be revealed."
Master Liu thought that one was to eat, and the other was to kill, since the master wanted it, then take it away.
So he began to have people prepare a weasel feast.
In the words of the masters, once this Huang Xian dies, there will be resentment, so it is necessary to suppress this resentment with joy, so let Master Liu invite relatives and friends to make it more lively.
For the masters who can give birth to sons, Grandpa Liu is naturally extremely convinced.
So he ordered them to prepare.
In the evening, he feasted and killed a weasel for his son to eat.
Liu's family began to get busy.
At this time, Xiang Xiaoer's shoulders squatted on the little white fox and Ma Xiaosan's animals with hunting roads also came to the city.
After working for a while, the skin and meat were replaced before and after, Ma Xiaosan wanted to buy rice, noodles and salt, but was stopped by Xiang Xiaoer.
"Don't be busy buying it yet, the second brother will take you to eat a good meal today."
Looking at the dense black clouds over Liu's mansion, Xiang Xiaoer couldn't help but smile.
The three hobbies of life, revenge, storytelling, and joining in the fun!
Ma Xiaosan, who thought that the second brother was going to pay out of his own pocket to invite him to dinner, naturally had no reason to refuse, and happily followed behind.
The two came to Liu's mansion, looking at the two of them dressed, and the guards stopped them unexpectedly.
Xiang Xiaoer didn't panic at all, and revealed his identity as a storyteller.
The guard was a little suspicious, but went to the butler anyway.
After the butler's test (to put it simply, a short paragraph), the two were finally put in as they wished.