3. A son fell from the sky

In other words, there is an old bachelor in the village, and he is not a big name, and the people in the village call him Wu Er fool. Usually idle in the village, the only craft is to kill pigs and slaughter cattle gelding. It is said that at that time, a cow, even a donkey, was a laborer, and with this craft, he could make a good living, and even marrying a daughter-in-law was not a big problem.

It's just that this second fool is addicted to alcohol, and his mantra is: "If you are drunk every day, long live the emperor". When people invite him to steer a cow, they have to drink a few jars of wine and eat a lot of meat dishes, and over time, they will not invite him unless they have to.

On this day, there was free wine to drink, and the old boy ran faster than a rabbit.

This Mei family compound is second to none in Qinglong Town, and you can see a lush mansion from a distance, with white walls and gray tiles, a large house with several entrances and exits. On the black lacquered door is a couplet: ploughing and reading heirlooms, poems and books are passed on to the next generation. This is the usual practice of the rich people in Tangshan, who like to pretend to be educated regardless of whether they are literate or not.

In fact, Master Mei's father is a chef, when he was a child, he fled the famine in the city to ask for food, and saw rich people killing chickens and sheep and putting on a banquet to prepare for the New Year, while he was in tatters and his stomach was suffocated. So, he sneaked into a large house and stole two chickens, and finally escaped by fooling the watchdogs. It's pitch black outside, and it's the middle of the night, and if you want a pot or not, you don't have anything. Suddenly, he saw a foot of mud he had stepped on. So he had an idea, and he made a fire with mud, and the mud was as hard as a stone. I took it out and threw it on the ground, peeling off the mud, not only the chicken feathers were stained by the mud, but also the tender chicken was exposed. He ate one chicken in one go, then sold the other in a different place. He took the money and went to buy the goods, burned them as usual, and sold "called Hanako Chicken" in the town.

The old lady made money, and thought that this "called Huazi" was ugly, so she changed her name to "fight for *", not only to justify her own name, but also as a signboard, a color head, eat this chicken, make a fortune in business, and add color to those who write articles. He is also very good at using his brains, improving the method, putting some green onions, ginger, garlic and sauce in the chicken belly, and then smearing the lotus leaves on the outside with oil and coating the yellow mud, which looks higher and bigger, and the taste is more delicious after burning. So the business got bigger and bigger, and he earned this family business.

The proudest profession in Tangshan people in their lives is to be a civil servant. Therefore, since he was a child, he trained Master Mei to read exams and take civil service exams. However, this old man Mei was born with a smart face, but he pretended to be stupid and stupid, he shook his head every day, and he had words in his mind, but he just couldn't get into his brain, and he didn't even pass the Xiucai exam more than a dozen times. This old lady Mei put the firecrackers at home to celebrate her son, so that they became moldy and spoiled. Therefore, the old lady did not look at death, put the firecrackers in the coffin, and went to heaven with regrets.

As soon as you enter the courtyard of the Mei family, you are faced with a tall shadow wall, which depicts an auspicious picture, and it is a large courtyard to go inside, and there is an osmanthus tree planted in the middle. There is also a large third courtyard inside, and on the wall of the main hall hangs the portrait of Mrs. Mei, dressed as a commoner, with a self-deprecating smile, which seems to make people hear laughter.

On this day, Mr. Mei set up more than 30 tables of banquets in the outer courtyard, and invited the villagers and elders to come together to have fun and celebrate. In Master Mei's opinion, in order to purchase this banquet, he spent money that he had never spent in his life.

Let's just talk about this dish, of course, it is not as rich and foreign as the banquet in Xiangjie. However, this time, the meals at each table were better than the average family's New Year's Day. There are braised pork, steamed eggs, and even fried vegetables with a lot of oil, and many people can't wait to lick the bowl when they eat it.

The second fool saw so many good dishes, and his two hands were not enough. He drank eighteen large bowls of wine in one go. Of course, maybe in fact he drank more than that, but the people in the village described it as "eighteen".

Mr. Mei's wine is sweet potato roast, which is cheap and strong. This wine has no aftertaste, only momentum, poured into the mouth is like pouring into a fire, swallow it quickly, otherwise you will burn your throat and eyes, and then fall into the stomach, followed by a fierce rush up, hit the head, dizzy, very violent.

A good wine such as Du Kang should be warm and long, and it will not go up. However, a poor bastard like the second fool, after a busy day, tired and aggrieved, just wanted to come immediately, dizzy, and fell asleep.

At this time, the second fool went to the wine shop of Mr. Mei's house, took out two copper plates from the crotch of his trousers, and the guy gave him a bowl of sweet potato roast commonly known as "two kicks" as usual, he took the wine bowl, raised his hand and raised his neck, and the bottom of the bowl was turned over, and the wine fell into the stomach, as if it was poured into the wine vat, and there was no sound.

Today, there is free wine to drink, and the two fools can't wait to jump directly into the wine vat, of course, everyone is also strange, usually these two fools drink a bowl or two, and as soon as the feet are out of the threshold, they will go up and down, left and right, as if the wind blows willows, but how can they be so sober today?

Could it be that this Master Mei drinks for everyone for free, and his flesh hurts terribly, and he mixes water in it? This bucket of water is poured into his stomach, and he is not afraid to turn his home into a big night pot? The people who drank the famous drink left after a few glasses, and besides, the dishes on this table had long been swept away like a wind.

The second fool is different, a drop of wine in the water tank, he doesn't waste it.

He drank until midnight, and when everyone was gone, he was still drinking. There are only a few servants left in the Mei family to wash the dishes. These two fools sang local folk songs while drinking, and the singing made several old mothers blush and their hearts beat.

The little sister sends her lover

Sent to the elm tree

I remembered the past

and his brother herding cattle and sheep

The little sister sends her lover

Sent to Lianglidang

Catch yellow finches in the reeds

Fishing nets are scattered in the river

The little sister sends her lover

Sent to Sanliqiao

My sister panicked

Brother, you crossed the bridge on your back

…….

"Second fool, you poured a few mouthfuls of cat urine and started calling spring!" Mother Wu is the second fool's family, and she is also a highly qualified maid of the Mei family, so she hurriedly told him to stop.

These two fools also knew each other very well, and immediately stopped, "Sister, I'll drink three drinks and leave at the end"

Wu's mother was washing the dishes while chatting with the second fool. It's nothing more than gossip about telling him to be a serious person and live a good life. In the end, he talked about the Mei family again

"Although this eldest lady gave birth to a daughter, she was born by the mother of the main palace after all, no worse than her son...."

"The second wife hasn't eaten for two days, because the old man wants to buy a smaller ......"

"The third lady has recently added another box of satin clothes......"

…….

"Woman ......" The second fool, who had drunk too much, muttered twice to himself. He thought to himself, what is worse than the old boy surnamed Mei, looking at him like that, peeing is sparse, far from the upper of his shoes, of course he can't give birth to a son, if his five-room wives are all owned by himself, keep and regenerate a small Wang Zhuang.

Thinking about it, the second fool seemed to be in a demonic obstacle, suddenly stood up and knelt down to Mother Wu.

"Sister, I'm unmarried, you're widowed, why don't we sleep together from now on"

There was silence for a moment.

"Ahh Wu's mother took a breath, suddenly trembled, screamed and ran to the inner courtyard, and ran and shouted, and cried, as if her chastity had been insulted.

The second fool knelt on the wall and was also flustered, so he held the empty bench with both hands, and slowly stood up, he didn't know what he had done, and he was a little apprehensive in his heart, and he wanted to run away with the wine jar in a panic.

Turning around and about to take a step, there was a bang, and there was a very thick smack on the head. He hurriedly turned around, and Master Mei was standing in front of him with a big stick.

"You're the other way around,...... Damn old sluts". Master Mei used a big stick to chop down the second fool again. The second fool went to hold his head with both hands, and the slap was hitting the knuckles, which was very painful.

The second fool rushed out of the kitchen door, as if he had another blow on his back.

"Bastard," Master Mei scolded again in the back.

The second fool ran out of Mei's house, followed by a heavy closing of the door and the sound of gossip-swearing. Anyway, there are few people in the village who say good things about him, so he doesn't care.

He stood alone for a while, still feeling a headache, remembering Master Mei's mother Wu, and fantasizing about his big bed and the extremely soft and comfortable satin quilt.

A cold wind blew, and he shivered, and he went to the base of the wall to soak up his urine and sobered up a lot.

Just as he was about to go back to sleep, he suddenly heard a movement, he turned his head to look for the west, and found a pillow-sized bag at the door of Master Mei's house.

The second fool was drunk, thinking that the rich man's house had dropped something, could it be silver?

So I rushed over excitedly, only to see a baby wrapped in a small red jacket, which looked like it had just been born and its eyes were still closed.

The second fool touched him with his hand, but he didn't move, touching his little face, as if he was also blown cold by the wind.

The second fool put his cold hand in and pinched his little feet, he drank too much wine, and he didn't know how heavy it was, he didn't react when he pinched it, and pinched it twice, and the child suddenly laughed twice.

The second fool was startled, afraid that he would be dazzled by drinking too much, so he took the child to the lantern at the gate of Mei's house to look. In this town, the Mei family lights up at night, especially these days, every day all night.

He pinched it twice, and the kid laughed loudly.

"It's fun!" The second fool has never seen a newborn child, and he will laugh when his eyes are closed. Anyway, he hadn't seen any other kids before, and he thought it was so interesting.

His first reaction was that this was the child of the Mei family, maybe it was the illegitimate child of which aunt's wife, or the rich man Mei had a child with which little widow? He brushed aside his little baggage and saw the little cock. The first reaction of the people in Tangshan when they see the child is whether there is such a thing, as if it is a family heirloom!

He thought to himself, this rich man's life is too good, and he doesn't lack anything in this life. He wanted to throw the child into the Mei family's cattle pen, so he dug a deep pit in the corner of the cattle pen and buried the dead child wrapped in a mat. Half a year or even a year later, cow feces and cow urine corrode the young flesh and bones into dung, and then dig it up, dry it in the sun, mash it, and apply it to the ground. The cattle pens of Xiao Wangzhuang's families are buried with premature children, and the fields of every family are covered with manure soaked with flesh and blood. The rice grown in this way is fragrant and sweet!

It's not that the people of Tangshan are cruel. But at that time, there was no ultra-thin Durex, and there was no way for everyone! It's eco-friendly and affordable!

However, when he thought of the child smiling at him, he couldn't bear it.

The second fool screamed and knocked on the door panel of Mei's house, and a vicious dog rushed out, and he took a bite at the second fool, and several members of Mei's family came out to punch and kick.

"Don't fight, don't fight, your child has fallen"

"Put your mother's shit" Master Mei came up and kicked again.

"Look, look," said the second fool, pointing to the burden next to him.

Everyone knows that Master Mei's big house has just given birth to a daughter, and the person who threw the child probably took this right and wanted the Mei family to raise the child together.

They take it for granted that the Mei family is a well-known rich man, and they are not short of this bit of silver. It's a pity that the richer the person, the more stingy he is, and when Master Mei sees his pig eating more, he can't wait to go up and kick it. Whoever wants to take food out of his mouth is really looking for the wrong master.

Master Mei insisted that this was a child born to a second fool and a crazy woman begging for food on the roadside. "Second fool, you are grinding with your bare ass, and you are embarrassed to turn around a corner!"

After speaking, a group of family members laughed, and Master Mei was also infected by this joyful atmosphere, and also laughed. Then drove away the two fools.

Although the second fool doesn't know the truth of "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great", he thought that he was over half a hundred years old, and he had no money to marry a daughter-in-law, and such a son fell from the sky, isn't this a ready-made incense? So, the second fool suddenly became happy again.

It is so easy for a person who has nothing to be happy, he is a sister Lin who fell from the sky, he is a son from the sky, poor and happy.