Liang Biao's woman surnamed Ding won the return of beauty.

After Ding married Liang Biao, he branched out, and after giving birth to two boys and three girls for the Liang family, he did not bloom again for many years and bear fruit.

However, after that, I didn't expect that when she was in her forties, she was like a plant in autumn, and only a few days before the leaves and yellow branches withered, she sprouted and bloomed again, and she actually bulged a big belly at the same time as her married eldest daughter Chunhua, ushering in the second spring of her life.

Chunhua's child is a girl, and because of her poor family, it is not easy to support her mother-in-law for a month.

In addition to the poor family background, he suffered from measles when he was a child, and his high fever caused a soybean-sized pam to grow in his left eye. At that time, the eyelid disease was not cured, which caused her to become blind in her left eye when she grew up, her husband who married with a disability was unproductive, and she couldn't even drink sweet wine when the child was born, and she couldn't get milk, and the child was so hungry that she screamed.

When a woman gives birth to her first child for three days, the child's father should go to her mother-in-law's house to make three moves and report the good news. According to the etiquette of the locals, it is necessary to bring sweet wine, red eggs and chickens for the good news.

Of course, if it's a boy, hold a rooster. When a girl is born, she holds a hen. In this way, the mother's family can know whether their daughter is male or female without asking.

Then the mother's family chose an auspicious day, and led the clansmen and relatives to pick up two cans of sweet wine, hundreds of eggs, a few chickens and ducks, a few loads of rice, as well as children's bedding, clothes, hats, fabrics and other gifts, to celebrate the joy of the tile.

But there were no rules in the famine year, and Chunhua's family was already poor, so her husband could only go to her mother-in-law's house empty-handed to report the good news. At that time, Ding knew that his daughter had not eaten, but Ding himself only prepared five catties of glutinous rice sweet wine and dozens of eggs. And when a woman sits in confinement, she generally has to prepare sweet wine made of twenty or thirty catties of glutinous rice and hundreds of eggs before she can use it for confinement.

But at that time, the year was not good, and there was no way, so Ding had to divide half of the things he prepared for Chunhua to eat.

In the past ten days, Ding gave birth to a fat boy, and Liang Biao was so happy that he knelt under the altar in front of the hall, burning incense and paper while kowtowing, and thanked God for blessing his bloodline to spread out.

Later, Liang Biao saw that his daughter-in-law and eldest daughter had not eaten or drunk during the confinement, and thought that there were still some blue and white porcelain, colored porcelain and silver ornaments hidden in the house. Some of these porcelains were bought from Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangxi when his ancestors were in business for several generations, and when they went out; Some of them were offered by others when their ancestors were officials.

Liang Biao thought that these things would not be of much use for a while hidden at home, leaving only the most beautiful millennium cup. At that time, he also felt that the name of this wine glass was auspicious, and he was reluctant to sell it so that he left it for himself to drink. And he took the rest into the city, found a buyer, and sold them all at a low price. And used all the money from the sale to save the emergency, that is, he used the money to buy 30 catties of glutinous rice and 5 or 600 eggs, which were specially provided for his wife and eldest daughter to enjoy during confinement.

Liang Biao's grandfather and father are the eldest grandsons of the eldest family of the old mansion surnamed Liang in Wenyang Tiancun, and the males of the two generations of him and his father are single. Now that he has reached the age of forty, he can add a noble son, and finally let his own blood have an extra branch, not to mention how happy he is in his heart.

When the villagers saw him holding the child together, everyone said in a tone of envy and congratulations:

"Lao Liang, you two are really blessed! I didn't expect you to live to this age, and come to it again in spring to give birth to a full cub! ”

"Hee-hee-hee!" Liang Biao smiled from ear to ear, and then promised, "This is all my lady's stomach fighting, and I gave my old Liang family another 'crooked eggplant'!" ”

Liang Biao's eldest son is called Liang Jie, and his youngest child is called Liang Xiong. Liang Xiong grew up to the age of five and suffered from measles, and the oil beans in his body could not come out at night, and the high fever did not go away, causing cramps and then shock.

Liang Biao climbed the Jiepai Mountain behind the village overnight, walked to his grandmother's house in Wujiazhai, and asked his uncle to help heal.

My uncle is a well-known local witch doctor and medicine doctor, who knows how to use spells to not only cure children for night crying, fright, diaphragm and other diseases, but also good at dealing with witch activities such as redeeming souls without companions, dark arrows and hidden guns, screening out pimples, warding off evil spirits and building bridges. Treating children with measles is even more unique, so others call him Doctor Wu.

Chunhua suffered from measles when she was young, and once lay in a coma in the corner of the stove for three days and three nights, and her life became extremely fragile and dying.

At that time, Liang Biao went to invite Dr. Wu to his home, and the old gentleman went into the house to set up an incense case, put a sharp knife on the desk, and used a square bucket to load a liter of rice, and also brought a bowl of water, and put a little seedling medicine in the water, and then asked Liang Biao to go to the chicken coop to catch a hen.

Doctor Wu took the chicken, and at first he saw the chicken chirping and struggling in his hand, and then he burned incense paper while reciting a mantra, and after using the so-called fixed chicken, the chicken became quiet.

Then he plucked the feathers from the belly of the chicken, smeared the water in the bowl on the breast of the chicken, used a stick of incense to the chicken to make a gesture and recited a mantra, and after casting the spell, he took out a sharp knife to stab the chicken into the body and cut open the belly of the chicken.

And the chicken still didn't bark, didn't struggle, didn't shed a drop of blood in his hand, just left it at the mercy of man.

With these preparations, Doctor Wu asked Ding to take off Liang Xiong's clothes and pounce the chicken on the child's chest. On the one hand, this practice is said to be because chickens have the magic ability to drive away evil spirits and avoid evil, and they can use it to avoid all kinds of evil gods and deliberately breed various evil means to harass patients; On the other hand, it is necessary to borrow the breath of the chicken to lead the person to breathe together, so that the chicken body can suck out the toxins from the patient's body.

Doctor Wu sat down after finishing his work, and slowly smoked a cigarette with Liang Biao's copper-headed long smoke pot. After a few hours of sleep, he went to take the chicken down, stitched its wounds with needles and threads, and kept it in the coop.

After that, not only does the person wake up, but after a few days the illness will be completely cured; And after the chicken woke up and healed the wound, it naturally lived.

In front of him, Liang Biao invited Uncle Wu Shenyi again, grabbed the rooster and asked him to concoct it in the same way, if the boy is sick, he will use the rooster, and if the girl is sick, he will use the hen. This time, after he was busy with his work, he let Liang Xiong lie down again, and then sat down to smoke.

On the day when Liang Xiong's condition became serious, Liang Xiong saw a large group of black eagles flying to a green bush in the back mountain to squat, shouting as if they were rushing to a meeting or a meeting, and calling out "ahh

They look like a group of starving ghosts, demanding meat from the villagers. In the evening, a flock of night owls also flew to the dam in front of the house, and hid in those dark corners, and they also screamed "whoa, whoa", like a life-urging ghost.

This night owl is a diurnal and nocturnal bird that cannot be seen during the day and only comes out at night to feed. When it rains for a long time, they often go to the cemetery at night to shout, forage for food or gather.

Occasionally, it can be seen flying through the night sky, and its figure is black and ghostly. Just because the bird's cry is bleak and terrifying, and it feels like it is similar to the ghost cry in people's imagination, the villagers regard it as a ghost bird.

Locals believe that black owls and night owls do not easily fly to the front and back of the house to scream, and when you hear them shouting around the house, you will think that the heavens are sending a bad omen, and you suspect that disaster will befall the villagers.

The terrible howl made people feel creepy, Liang Biao felt that the omen was not good, he heard that the ghost was afraid of people spitting, so he went to the courtyard and went to the outside of Tianba, "Bah!" Bah! Bah! He vomited three times in a row, and scolded again: "You, get away from Lao Tzu!" ”

The so-called ghost birds stopped calling for a moment, and then they chirped more violently.

In the past few hours, Dr. Wu saw that Liang Xiong's condition had not improved, and on the way he used various means of curing the disease, and finally saw that people couldn't do it, so he took the chicken and did not stitch up the chicken's wound this time, but just threw it in a corner casually and put his things in his bag. Before leaving, he said to Liang Biao: "There are people over there waiting for me to see a doctor...... I'll go and come back again. ”

As the saying goes, "doctors don't die", and doctors are most taboo to witness the moment when the patient is breathing. As soon as he made an excuse to leave, Liang Xiong choked his breath.

On the spot, Liang Biao and his family hugged the child, thinking about how well-behaved and cute he was when he was alive and often amused his father and mother. And now that the child is gone, the father and mother are empty and happy, and the two of them cry to death.

The people of the village came to visit and comfort him, and one of the old women came to persuade him: "Don't cry for him anymore, if you can make the doll cry alive, we will help your family cry a long time ago."

If this doll is really your cub and a member of your family, even if he usually suffers from ten calamities, he will not be willing to leave you and his family easily; He's just a dead ghost who loves to make his mother happy, a short-lived soul, even if he doesn't leave you in front of him, it will be ...... sooner or later."

After some persuasion, the old man called for a dustpan and threw it on the floor of the hall. Then he ordered some men to take the child from Ding's bosom, lay him down on a dustpan, and then went to find some paper money and put it over the child's eyes.

Ding still guarded the child and cried, and soon others went to boil an egg and find a white cloth, and the old man first wrapped the white cloth on Liang Xiong's head, which was considered to have worn filial piety to his father and mother in advance, and had a filial piety ceremony. Next, stuff the hard-boiled eggs and a few pieces of paper money into the child's hands and hold them tightly.

While doing things, the old man cried: "Suffer all evils! My little...... This paper money, you take it when you cross the Nai He Bridge, use it as road money! This egg, you take it to the underworld to hatch chicken cubs, and Lao Tzu allows you, a dead ghost, to be reincarnated! If you can't hatch the chicks, then you love to coax the mother and the child to be happy, short-lived soul, don't want to be reincarnated and come to coax people again! ”

Two old men who were good at carpentry came to help make a wooden box, and after they were done, they invited Sun Jiangou, the second fool in the village, to come and bury Liang Xiong's body and nail the wooden box with bamboo nails. When the sun set, the two old men carried a few hoes and shovels, and led a few young people to carry the wooden boxes to the mountain behind the village for burial.

At that time, no matter who had an unfortunate thing in their family, the people in the mountains were enthusiastic and often took the initiative to comfort and help to do things. After they were busy with related affairs, they didn't say that they hoped that the host's family would come to entertain life, and they couldn't bear to drink a sip of water, so they went home for dinner.

At that time, the mortality rate of children in the village was high, and many children in a village would die within a year. There are many small mounds of earth overgrown with weeds on the hillside, and most of these mass graves are buried here after children who could not cross the iron threshold after suffering from measles.

A pile of new soil was added to the barren mountain, and the parents had a little girl under their knees.