Chapter 6: The Calamity
The Li family, hearing Mr. Yang's serious warning, invariably put away their smiles. All eyes looked at the child in Zhang Caijuan's arms.
On the day of the full moon wine for the child, Li Baoguo drank a little too much wine because of his old age, and when he was sending off the guests, he fell lightly and broke his arm.
Mr. Yang smiled bitterly and said, "The calamity of innocence has finally come, and retribution is coming. ”
Li Baoshun's wife secretly took a look at it, this son originally belonged to her. reached an agreement with the Li family, and everyone was tight-lipped about the matter of borrowing the fetus in the future. As if it had never happened, she didn't come to see the child. There is no objection, Li Baoshun has blackmailed the Li family for a few hundred yuan.
The cold comes and the summer goes by, and the time of the year flies by in a flash. In the blink of an eye, the child was going to be a year old.
The night before the child's birthday, Mr. Yang said to Li Baoguo: "Tomorrow is the child's life day, your whole family must be careful, this time the disaster does not know who will befall you, everyone asks for more blessings!"
"I really don't have any good ideas, so let's give the child a name to suppress it a little, I hope it can start to work. ”
"Well, what's the child's name?" asked Li Baoguo.
In those days, boys' names were almost the same, and what was the founding of the army, the founding of the country, the founding of the country, the love of the army, the love of China, and the love of the country were basically this routine.
Mr. Yang is a person with great powers, of course, he can't go with the flow.
Let's call him "humble cultivation", "modesty" means humility and respect, and "cultivation" is self-cultivation. I hope that the child will be humble to others by cultivating himself, and he will cause less trouble for you. ”
Righteousness, self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world may Mr. Yang has placed too many high hopes on this child, but he didn't say it.
"Okay, listen to Mr., just call him Li Qianxiu. ”
At this point, the child's name has finally been found," Li Qianxiu. ”
Celebrating a child's birthday is also a great joy in the Northeast. The seven aunts and eight aunts, as well as relatives and friends outside the tunli and tun all came to pay tribute.
At that time, the gift was different from now, some took newspaper wrapped in two catties of white noodles, some took three catties of dried noodles, and some brought a few eggs. Taking three or five dollars in cash was the best gift at the time. It is really not the same as the tens of thousands of people who are now shooting! The rapid expansion of materials has brought about the psychology of comparison, and the current style of etiquette is indeed not a good phenomenon.
But no matter what kind of gifts the guests bring, the host family must treat them equally, and they should not be intimate because of the value of the gift.
The Li family naturally held a banquet and entertained all the guests warmly and thoughtfully.
Just say that after the lunch banquet is over, all the guests will be sent off. Li Rui and Li Baoguo cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in the yard. Because there were so many guests, there was also a wine table in the courtyard.
Li Baoguo was brushing the bowl while talking to the old man Li Rui: "Dad, why didn't you see Mr. Yang?"
"He, he doesn't like such a lively occasion, so he should find a place to stay by himself. Li Rui looked up and responded.
Suddenly, Li Rui saw a fireball the size of a basin suddenly appear in the air behind his house. Old Man Li thought he was dazzled, and rubbed his eyes to take a closer look.
At this time, the fireball had already flown to the roof of the Li family's house and fell violently. At this moment, several whirlwinds blew on the flat ground in the courtyard, whirring and spinning straight to the spot where the fireball landed on the roof.
When the fireball met the wind, the fire became even more violent. In a few minutes, the wind helped the fire, and the fire burned with the help of the wind. The roof tiles of the directly burned roof made a clattering sound, and it stands to reason that the tiles made of mud are not easy to burn. And there are no other combustibles on the roof to support combustion. But this fire is like someone pouring gasoline on it, and it will swallow up the three houses of the Li family in an instant. And it's going to spread to the thatched hut next door.
Li Ruiye and the others watched all this dumbfounded, Zhang Caijuan hugged Xiao Qianxiu and rushed out of the house screaming.
At this time, the people in the tun looked at the firelight and rushed over one after another, everyone took the bucket with the bucket, and the one with the water scoop took the water scoop, and the one who shouted began to put out the fire. At that time, there was no running water in the countryside, let alone a pump. Ordinary people go to the common wells in Tunli to dig water, and those with better conditions will have their own wells.
The sudden fire has completely blinded Li Baoguo and his grandfather. It was only in the shouts of the people that Li Baoguo reacted. I saw him running towards the house at a high speed. A small wooden box was held out in the worried eyes of the people. Maybe it's his family.
"Don't mess around, everyone, stay safe. Mr. Yang had also rushed back home after hearing the news. I saw that everyone inside and outside the courtyard was already in a mess. Had to stand in the yard and shout loudly.
"Everybody get out of the yard and don't put out the fire. Mr. Yang continued to shout. Everyone was stunned when they heard Mr. Yang's shouting. "Why don't you let it be saved, what if this fire is going to burn to the neighbor's house? Besides, the neighbor's house is still a grass house?"
In everyone's puzzled eyes, I saw Mr. Yang pointing at the flames spreading in the direction of the neighbor's house, and chanted in his mouth: "There are fires in the world, and they all obey me." All the fires retreated, just because they couldn't burn through. Let the fire god curse, hurry, retreat ......" but I saw that the flames that spread to the neighbor's house seemed to have encountered something terrible, whirring and burning, but not half a step forward.
Seeing this scene, Old Man Li Rui hurriedly approached: "Big brother, hurry up and put out the fire." ”
"Brother, it can be extinguished, but it can't be extinguished, let it burn. In fact, the word "retreat" of the fire god mantra is followed by the word "extinguish". If Mr. Yang extinguishes the words, the fire will be extinguished in an instant. Mr. Yang didn't want the fire to go out, and he had a reason.
The neighbors and people who came to fight the fire were lying on the wall watching the excitement and discussing.
"This old man is sick, why don't you let us go up to put out the fire?"
"If his family has money, burn it, don't go to the old one, and don't come to the new one. ”
"Did you see Baoguo snatch that wooden box? It must be full of money. ?”
All kinds of words filled the ears of the Li family and Mr. Yang. And the three houses finally turned into ashes in everyone's discussions. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
Xiao Qianxiu looked at the house that had turned to ashes in his mother's arms, and seemed to have a smile on his face. But Mr. Yang looked at Xiao Qianxiu with a little more worry and helplessness in his eyes.
After the fire, the Li family naturally wanted to rebuild the house, and Li Baoguo meant to build three more brick houses. And Mr. Yang said forget it, just like other families in the village, let's build three thatched huts and live in a fool's house. and told him to save some money, just his little family background, not enough to be humble and tossed. The Li family sighed for a long time.
Since Qian Xiu stopped breastfeeding, Mr. Yang took over all his affairs. Naturally, the Li family did not dare to have any objections.
After the monks had walked, Mr. Yang brought two sandbags and hung them on his feet, and ordered him not to take them off at any time. And as the age of the humble cultivator increases, the weight of the sandbag continues to increase.
In addition to making Qian Xiu fit and healthy, Mr. Yang also asked him to recite mantras and draw talismans. Qian Xiu didn't understand the meaning of these strange words and symbols. Sometimes, he is naughty and deliberately lazy. Whenever this happens, Mr. Yang will viciously punish him. For example, punish him for squatting for several hours, or punish him to sleep in the cemetery at night, or meditate and practice qi, and never sleep for a day and a night. In short, they are all training that is beneficial to the spiritual aspect.
The Li family sometimes sees that Qian Xiu is young, and will secretly intercede with Mr. Yang for him. Mr. Yang just smiled and said nothing, what should he do next time.
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and time is like a white horse. With a flick of a finger, more than ten years have passed in a flash. The Chinese people finally ushered in the eighties.
Since the reform and opening up, the state's policy has been getting better and better. The lives of the common people are getting richer and richer! Almost every household in Lijiatun has been turned into brick houses, but the current "first loser" Li Baoguo is still those three thatched houses!