Chapter 23: The Blind Man's Fortune Telling
When Liu'er had an accident, Huzi's grandmother was also there, and she didn't go back until Lang Zhong said that the adults and children were safe.
Along the way, Liu Quan, the grandmother of the tiger in her head, echoed what Shi Liu said.
"This Liu Er has a big life, and the kid in the belly is also a big fortune, he fell into the river, and he was almost out of gas, and in the end, the big one didn't die, and the small one was safe, and there will be a blessing after this catastrophe."
This Shiliu clan is equivalent to the goddess of the village. Occasionally draw a talisman for a frightened child, and someone will invite her to see the red and white celebrations. Every time he spoke, he was talking about what scriptures he claimed to be cultivating, and what temples were named.
The old lady Liu Quan's mind still clearly remembered Shi Liu's ghostly face. Zhao Jinshi next to him listened attentively, looked at this Shiliu clan without blinking, and kept nodding in agreement.
Zhao Jin also said to himself: "It can be seen that this kid is blessed, Grandma Huzi, you don't let your grandson marry her back." It's a lucky thing. ”
I remember that I didn't agree at all at that time, and what I said was: "Liu'er is a lucky star?" How is this possible, looking thin. ”
What did the Shiliu clan say? The old lady recalled carefully.
Shi Yanagi seems to say: "Thin is thin, but it is different when you are pregnant, and people's luck will change with the change of things." Judging from the resurrection from the dead, this is not an ordinary change! ”
Someone next to him also said: "Isn't it Fuxing, seeing that it doesn't work, his face is blue, and after a while, he came back to life without anything, and Lang Zhong also said that the mother and son are safe." Fukuzawa went deeper. ”
The old lady kept changing her mind all the way home.
"Grandma Huzi, where did this come from?"
Standing at the door, Shi Liu shouted.
"Hmmm! Go home. ”
She replied casually without raising her head, and quickened her pace to go home.
"Ask her where she came from, and tell me what she was thinking when she went home."
Shi Liu said puzzled. Shaking his head, he sprinkled the dirty water in his hand and returned to the house.
As soon as the old lady got home, she closed the door and called her wife, Huzi Niang and her father. Huzi has stayed in the house since Liu'er came, saying that he was uncomfortable, but in fact, he was too weak to come out. The family didn't know what to do with him for a while, so he went after a few scoldings.
"Mother, what do you think?" Hu Ziniang Liu Zhang hurriedly asked, "Is it not alive?" ”
"Nothing was saved," Liu Quanshi glared at his daughter-in-law and said, "I lived." ”
The old lady sat on the stool, put down her upturned legs, turned around and said with an unfathomable face: "You say this is not strange, seeing that Liu'er's girl's face is almost blue, and she is almost out of breath." This Lan'er of Zhao Dazhuang's family patted it with her hand, and spit out dirty water, and gasped for breath after a while. ”
"That's alive?"
Liu Zhang's small eyes rolled and asked in surprise.
"Alive." The old lady still maintained the expression she had just now, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say.
The daughter-in-law was a little disappointed: "Alive, not dead?" ”
The old lady glared at her and scolded fiercely: "Death, what death." ”
This Liu Zhang was not angry when he was scolded, his eyes rolled, and he asked again: "Is the belly okay?" ”
"It's okay, Lang Zhong said that both mother and son are safe."
The old lady looked at everyone and said calmly, but the expression on her face was hesitant, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Liu Zhang pretended not to see it, and said to himself: "If you fall into the river, both mother and son are safe, Fuda!" ”
Hearing her daughter-in-law's words, the old lady's face changed abruptly. Turning his face to his daughter-in-law, he asked with an unpredictable expression, "Do you also think it is blessed?" ”
"Yes! Isn't that a blessing? Liu Zhang glanced at his mother strangely, and said as a matter of course, "You want to!" This Liu Er wants to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river early in the morning, so he must choose a time when no one is around! When did someone go to the river so early, but this Zhao Xiaoming passed by there so early to go to his uncle's house, it was already early, and he happened to meet her jumping into the river, but this Zhao Xiaoming is a person who knows how to swim in the water, and he kindly rescued her, many of them failed to save people and took him. But this Zhao Xiaoming not only went to save it, but also rescued it. There are not one or two people who fell into the water, Liu Erwa last year, and a passerby the year before last...... Look at who can save and live, no! But she just lived, this is not Fuda, but what should Fuda do. ”
Liu Zhang excitedly stroked his arms and said about the people who had fallen into the water one by one. The people in the room listened attentively, too. Only the old lady was out of it.
Liu Zhang's expression was even more unpredictable when he looked at his mother, and asked tentatively: "By the way, mother, who else says so." ”
"Oh, that's what the Shiliu clan said too." The old lady glanced at her daughter-in-law and said.
"Stone Goddess." Liu Zhang was a little surprised. With his eyes wide open, he couldn't close his mouth, and asked incredulously, "Did she really say that?" ”
didn't wait for her mother to squeak, she first said with a puzzled expression: "This Liu Er has never seen anything different from others since she was a child, how can she be blessed?" Do you think it's a lucky star in your belly? ”
After Liu Zhang's question, he looked suddenly enlightened. He patted his leg again and again and said, "Yes, it must be a good pregnancy." ”
"Mother," Liu Zhang raised his head suddenly and said, "That's the blessing of our Liu family." ”
"Our Liu family?" Obviously, Huzi's father and Huzi's grandfather couldn't turn the corner, and asked puzzled at the same time.
"What Liu Er has in her stomach is not our Liu family." Liu Zhang said proudly.
Except for Liu Zhang's happy face, the other people in the room still looked solemn, bowing their heads and not saying a word.
Liu Zhang put away his smile and said blankly: "You guys, what's wrong?" How not to speak. Isn't that a good thing? ”
"What a good thing!" Huzi's grandmother reprimanded, "The daughter-in-law you want to marry is Sanya, not Liu'er." ”
Liu Zhangshi was scolded and lowered his head, he wanted to say it but didn't dare to say it out loud, only one person muttered on the side: "It's not that I want to marry, it's your grandson who has to marry." This child is always the seed of our Liu family, maybe in the future, he will support the court, and the matter of honoring the ancestors will depend on him. ”
"This ......, old man......"
The old lady shouted at the old man and looked at Huzi's grandfather inquiringly.
Huzi's grandfather cautiously spoke: "Do you want to quit your relatives and marry Liu'er?" ”
Huzi's grandmother frowned and couldn't make up her mind, so she sat silently.
Liu Zhang's eyes rolled around, seeing that no one spoke, she said cautiously: "If there is really a lucky star in the stomach, Liu Er is also a blessed star, why don't you marry back, maybe you can spread the branches and leaves." ”
Liu Zhang had just finished saying this, so everyone looked up at her.
The old lady opened her mouth and scolded: "It's not that you can't give birth, you have given birth to so many and only lived one." Looking at the big buttocks, it's useless to give birth. You are immoral. ”
Liu Zhang didn't dare to resist, but just said hesitantly: "You can't blame me for this!" ”
"Alright, alright, stop arguing." Huzi's grandfather knocked on the table and shouted, "We don't know if it's blessed or not, so we can't just go back like this, it's unreasonable." ”
Tiger Daddy came and said: "Who can know this?" ”
Liu Zhang was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "The blind Zhang in the town can be counted." But God, last time I said that Master Wang added one person, and the concubine really gave birth to a son. ”
The old lady clapped her hands and said, "Yes, blind man."
"Daughter-in-law, you go to the town to find a blind man." The old lady's calloused hand fumbled through her clothes and pulled out ten cents.
"Mother, how can this ten cents be enough, it will cost four cents for this round-trip car, Zhang Blind doesn't know how much he wants, how can he ask for ten cents. If there is no blind man, it is not bad if you don't do your best. ”
"I won't give you ten cents."
"What about the car money? It's almost noon, and I don't know what time it is, and I don't know if there are many blind people. You can't delay anything if you take the car faster, mother, you see if it's true. Liu Zhang's put away the copper coins and looked at his mother flatteringly.
The old lady took out two more copper plates from her pocket, threw them over, and said, "You can take the money, if you have more, remember to return it."
"Whoa! Mother, I'm going! ”
Huzi's mother changed her clothes and took an ox cart to the town at the head of the village.
Not in the market, there were only three people on Old Man Liu's ox cart, two from the neighboring village, and one was Aunt Wang from the village, who was a broken mouth.
As soon as Hu Ziniang got into the car, this Wang Auntie pretended to ask mysteriously: "I heard that Liu'er was rescued, do you know?" ”
Liu Zhang replied casually: "How can you not know this, how can anyone in the village not know about such a big thing."
Aunt Wang said tentatively: "Liu'er has a big life! Don't you want your home in the stomach? ”
"The child is in charge of this matter, and his grandmother is in charge, and I don't know about it!" Hu Ziniang shirked.
Aunt Wang: "Oh! Then he asked, "Where are you going?"
Liu Zhangshi said hesitantly: "Go to the town, buy, buy things."
"Why don't you go to the market to buy it, you have to pick and choose it cheaper."
"I didn't expect it to be in a hurry when I was going to the market."
"Aren't you spending more? This comes and goes, and the car money costs two pennies. ”
Liu Zhang pretended to frown, spread his hands and sighed, "That's not no way, what are you doing in the town?"
Aunt Wang said happily: "My eldest sister took an embroidery, and the price was higher than before, and she asked me to go too."
Liu Zhangshi came and hurriedly asked: "What kind of embroidery work, also introduce it to me." My family has borrowed a lot of money and is trying to make money! ”
Aunt Wang said embarrassedly: "It's not that I don't introduce you, I'm also going for the first time, and I don't know the situation yet!" If there is a job, I will definitely take you with me. ”
Aunt Wang promised her with a ticket.
Liu Zhangshi pleased: "I'll leave this matter to you." Don't forget. ”
"No, no. Just wait and hear! ”
Aunt Wang promised Hu Ziniang with her mouth.
Soon to the town. Hu Ziniang watched Aunt Wang walk away, and then walked in the direction of Wang's blind man's house.
Zhang is not completely blind, one eye is blind, and the other eye is good.
In the early years, I learned some physiognomy with the Taoist of Youfang, half-truths and half-truths, saying those unfathomable words in the photo book, there are really many people who believe in him, most of them look for him to look at physiognomy, fortune-telling, and do things.
Zhang Blind sat on the half-light and half-dark Taishi chair, dressed like a gray robe. looked at Liu Zhang's and asked casually, "You are here to ask for a reckoning." ”
Liu Zhang sat on the small stool and replied: "Yes, yes." Also ask Daisen for help. ”
The deep voice of the blind man Zhang seemed to have magical power, and it went straight to the bottom of Liu Zhang's heart: "What do you want? ”
Liu Zhangshi hurriedly said: "It's that Xiao'er got married the day before yesterday, but another Gu Liang fell in love with my youngest son, and today he was rescued but didn't die. ”
The blind man pinched his fingers, and only then did he say quietly: "I am blessed." ”
Liu Zhang asked anxiously: "What about the relationship with Xiao'er?" ”
The blind man glanced at Liu Zhang, who was looking at him, and said, "Blessed to be able to get married." ”
"I can get married." Liu Zhang repeated.
Hu Ziniang happily paid the money. It seemed that he had only taken a breath when he went out, and the feeling of depression seemed to be swept away with the sunlight outside the house. I secretly said in my heart: Zhang Blind is really a master, and he really has a feeling of breathlessness in front of him, immortal!