Chapter 2: The Genesis of the Wu Family

The symbol of the Wu family, also known as the Yizhan Hall, is a powerful big hand wielding a small golden axe, slashing a hideous-looking poisonous snake into blood splatters. Below, there is also an inscription: A tooth for a tooth, revenge will be avenged.

This big vernacular comes from his father, Wu Yongchang.

His father is from distant Tangshan. Where is Tangshan? Wu Xiaonan was unimpressed. When he was a child, he remembered listening to his father tell stories about Tangshan. After listening to it, he was very excited, and couldn't help but buy Bruce Lee's movie "Tangshan Big Brother" disc to watch, looking at it, he felt that it was his father's struggle history.

His father has been very powerful since he was a child, which is an unbroken myth in his family.

Wu Yongchang didn't even know where he came from, in his words, he fell from the sky, or jumped out of the cracks in the stone like Sun Wukong.

When he was a child, Wu Yongchang often hugged Wu Xiaonan when he ate, drinking and eating at the same time, the wine dripping from his chin dripped into Xiaonan's small mouth, and he licked it with his mouth without hesitation, licking it with relish. Perhaps it was this beautiful experience that made him inseparable from wine for the rest of his life, whether happy or disappointed, everything was in a glass of wine.

He likes to listen to his dad talk about "Journey to the West" when he is drinking, and of course, he doesn't seem to understand it. Wu Yongchang said that a long, long time ago, a big stone suddenly fell from the sky, three or four zhang high, and there were almost three or four zhang around, this stone is not like the ordinary stone only calcium carbonate, but has seven holes and eight orifices, and has a psychic fairy fetus, that is, the same as the fetus in the mother's womb. This immortal fetus bathed in the wind and rain every day, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, and reached the tenth month. Suddenly, one day, lightning flashed and thunder, and a lightning bolt split the stone. A baby popped out of it, and suddenly his eyes shone brightly, and everything trembled. Dexterous as a monkey, swift as a leopard, and fierce as a tiger, the baby quickly became the king of the jungle. He drank fresh dew every day, ate sweet fresh fruits, and lived a carefree life. However, he often dreamed in his sleep that his hometown was a fairy mountain in the middle of the vast sea. So he built a boat of his own and began his long journey home, in which he experienced nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, but finally his dream came true.

Xiao Nan has been hearing this story for 10 years, and he never gets tired of hearing it, he feels that this is his family's myth and history, and he will tell it to his son in the future.

Another myth of Wu Yongchang is that he did something amazing with the village priest when he was in Tangshan.

He helped the priest build a telescope, and they used the telescope to look at the objects on the moon as if they were right in front of them, and what was even more amazing was that he saw through the telescope that there were intelligent beings on the moon, with bat-like wings, and when they were in the water, they were very agile to open all their wings, and when they came out of the water, they would shake off the drops like ducks, and then quickly close and close.

This astonishing scientific discovery made Wu Yongchang very depressed, originally, he thought that there was not Chang'e living on this moon? He wanted to use this mirror to observe Chang'e taking a bath.

Wu Xiaonan was skeptical of this story, he went to college, and although he studied so-called business administration, he also knew a little about so-called astronomy and physics. He thought to himself that if it was true, he could win the Nobel Prize in Physics. However, he thought that his father was right in saying that a man who can't brag is not a man.

From life to death, Wu Yongchang didn't know who his biological father was. Maybe it's a farmer fleeing the famine, maybe it's a brothel client and prostitute, maybe it's an adulterous dog man and woman.

At that time, there were wars and famines everywhere, and sometimes people had to eat tree bark, Guanyin soil, and even their own children. Wu Yongchang is grateful that his parents did not exchange him for food.

In Tangshan, a name is a name, and a word is a word, but Wu Yongchang has no words. He often jokes with people that he has the word "nine deaths and one life". There are only three things I have encountered in my life: the first is snakes, insects, rats and ants; the second is jackals, tigers and leopards; The third type is the Charm of the Spirit. Decades have passed, and it is not out of line to say that it is still alive in this world.

As for the story of his birth, he listened to the people in the village. He couldn't find a trace, and when some people threw their children, they would put a padlock or jade pendant or something so that they could find it later. However, his biological father and mother left him nothing, even the quilt wrapped around his body was new. It's a lot of imagination, but it's not much of a clue. As he grew up, he gradually forgot about his parents, and sometimes, especially when he was half-drunk and slightly hungry, he thought that maybe he was really the son of heaven.

The place where people found him is called Qinglong Town, a small town by the sea, which has been extremely prosperous since ancient times. It was not until the emperor's policy of "no piece of board allowed to go to the sea" that the country was closed and closed to the country, which gradually declined.

Xiaowangzhuang in Qinglong Town was no different from other places in Tangshan at that time, with houses, mountains and rivers, cattle and sheep, and pedestrians, everything seemed to be not much separated from history. When the sun sets, the smoke curls up, the animals are leisurely, and the twilight is a pastoral scene.

On that day, it was the annual Shangyuan Festival, and every household in the remote Xiaowangzhuang was busy making Lantern Festival. At ten o'clock in the afternoon, the clear sky with light clouds and high wind suddenly darkened, and dark clouds rolled over, pressing down, and a snowstorm was coming. The villagers were disappointed and worried that the snowstorm would wash away the joy of the Lantern Festival.

They had planned to go out into the field at night, both adults and children, to pick up torches. This is the hemp pole, broken broom head, sunflower pole accumulated in a year, lit in the field, thrown into the air, watching the fireworks in the sky, driving away the bad luck and bad luck of the year. It's a commemoration of a year's hard work, and of course a little fertilizer to nourish the land from the ashes that burn.

At this time, in the Mei family compound of Master Mei, a big family in Xiaowangzhuang, he was pacing anxiously outside the delivery room. He is over half a hundred years old, although he has hundreds of acres of fertile land, as well as oil mills, wine shops, salt farms and other industries, but he has no heirs.

This time, the daughter-in-law finally became pregnant, but she encountered a difficult birth, and the girls carried water and basins in and out, From the inner room with a thick curtain, there was a painful cry of his original partner Mei Wang.

Master Mei anxiously asked loudly at the back room, "What's wrong?" Can't give birth? “

Although the midwife is experienced, it is rare to work so hard: "It's a lot of effort!" Hard! Wow! Don't stand stupidly, you hold on to that side, hold on to this side! Before the words fell, the sound of Mei Wang's struggle was heard.

With a miserable scream from Mei Wang, the midwife in the back room shouted: "I was born!" Suddenly everything fell silent.

Master Mei breathed a sigh of relief, the burden of his heart was lifted, he sat on the stone steps, cried like a child, and the grievances in his heart were released at once.

In that era, a man had no offspring, and the average person laughed at women and complained about women, while a man with a wife and four concubines laughed not only at self-esteem, but at his qualifications as a man.

The midwife in the back room then shouted, "It's a daughter! “。 Master Mei doesn't care if it's a daughter or a son, as long as it's a person, what else can you ask for.

In the silence, Mei Wang wondered: "Why is there no movement?" Don't you cry when you are born? “

Inside, the maid hugged the child who had been wiped clean: "Why doesn't this child cry?" “

The midwife is covering the Mei Wang's quilt. The midwife said, "If you don't cry, you can't do it, he won't gasp, he won't fight!" Spanking hard! “

The maid slapped the child's buttocks twice, but the child did not respond. That maid is usually afraid of the master's family, how dare she beat the little master.

The midwife was anxious: "Shoot hard!" Come on, the owner has given you dinner."

The maid slapped hard again, but there was still no response.

"I'm coming!" The midwife took the child from the maid's hand and slapped it twice, and the child finally cried out twice.

A room full of people startled, and then they all laughed, and everyone laughed,

Mei Wang was exhausted, closed his eyes and slept with peace of mind.

This is the only child of the Mei family so far. It is also strange to say, as soon as the baby landed, the crying did not stop, and the dark clouds of the day began to gradually disperse, and suddenly the sun was shining in the sky, and thousands of miles were clear, just like the Mid-Autumn Festival.

According to Tangshan, this Mei family is going to be a big man. The people of Tangshan believe that if a baby is born with a vision, it may be rich and rich.

There is a legend, or just a wild history, that there was a great emperor's mother a long time ago, who used to sleep by the big lake in the wilderness and dreamed of immortals. One day, when her husband went to see her, he saw a dragon lying on top of her, and when he walked over her, he disappeared, and then she became pregnant, and finally gave birth to the emperor. Look at the face of the emperor again: the appearance is accurate, the beard is beautiful, the face is dragon-like, there are 72 black moles on the left leg, and the body is often long, and when it itches, it is scratched one by one like dragon scales. When he grew up, he encountered a white snake, and then waved a knife to cut the white snake and rebelled, you say it's strange!

However, I also have some doubts about this legend, can it also be said that this emperor's mother had an affair, so he didn't look like his father, and then when he grew up, he found out about this, so he wanted to break with his mother's affair, so he slashed the white snake with tears? In short, these statements are a bit absurd after all, but they are suitable if they fool some people.

This Miss Mei didn't see anything special. It's the same, the voice is loud, if you don't cry, it's enough, a cry is amazing, from the first sound, the cry is shocking, and if you don't go well, you will cry so much that the aftermath of the family is lingering, and it will not stop for three days. In this regard, she is also a strange woman.

Master Mei is also very happy to have a daughter. So, once in his life, he took out some grain and rice, bought a little fish and meat, moved a few jars of wine from his winery, and invited the villagers to rub it together, and drank it for three days.

This is really a great joy better than the New Year. What did the people in the village eat at that time? Generally, they mainly eat coarse grains and vegetables, meat, eggs, and milk basically do not meet for a year, and in the spring famine, it is also common to eat bran vegetables.

At the same time, what did the people on Xiangjie eat, breakfast was milk, bread and salted pork left over from the previous day; Lunch is bread, cheese, a small amount of beer, cured pork, potatoes, cabbage or turnips; Dinner is bread and cheese, and on Sundays you can eat fresh pork, butter, rock sugar, beer, tea, and other nutritious things.

Based on this alone, Wu Yongchang must go to find the legendary Xiangjie!