When twilight fell, the black was like a cloud of thick ink gradually splashing all over the sky, and in that thick ink package, a bright moon was exuding a faint light. In the streets, the shops that were so noisy during the day were closed, and even the lanterns hanging on the doors were extinguished.

In the dark night, a ghostly aura is slowly gathering, and its target seems to be the Ruyi Rouge Shop, which has not even closed the door of the shop.

"Bang!" Something fell on Xiao Shengzi's head.

He touched his head, looked in the direction the thing was thrown, and then pulled the corners of his mouth into a slightly embarrassed smile.

"It's just a story, Ruyi girl, you don't have to be so stingy."

"Tell a story, tell a ghost story in my Ruyi Rouge shop, and tell such a non-scary ghost story. The devil can bear it, but I can't. I'm telling you, if you want to tell a particularly scary ghost story, if you can't tell it today, I'll let Brother Chang throw you into a mass grave. ”

"Then I'll tell you a story I heard when I was a kid." Xiao Shengzi first shook his whole body and said, "In our Sheng family, there is a particularly uncompetitive person. This person is called the bloom, that is, the bloom that blossoms and bears fruit. It is said that when he was born, a pomegranate flower happened to bloom in their yard. The blooming of this pomegranate blossom is also a particularly auspicious omen among the people. So, his father and mother named him a bloom, hoping that in the future, everything will go smoothly and the flowers will bloom.

said that this bloom is not angry, and it is also a little wronged by him. The reason why Sheng Hua is not angry is because he has a father who is addicted to gambling. The blooming father is called Sheng Li. Because of the word in the name, he always hoped to make a fortune from this gambling house, but unfortunately after gambling for more than ten years, he didn't see the fortune, but he was about to lose the little ancestral property left by his father.

In order to turn over the book, this Shengli even borrowed his relatives and friends, so that everyone was afraid to avoid him when they saw him. My grandmother said that in the early years, he also came to our house to borrow money, and my grandfather cut it out with a big knife. My grandfather went early, and I was not lucky to see him, and I don't know if he was as majestic as I am when he slashed people with a big knife. ”

Xing Ruyi glanced at Xiao Shengzi and felt that with his cute appearance now, even if he used a knife to cut someone, it had nothing to do with the four words majestic.

After this bloomed, Sheng Li began to run to the gambling house with his son. As a result, he really let him win. This has the first time, there is a second time, and after the second time, it becomes a habit. This bloom, when he was a child, he followed his father in the gambling house, and he was infected with gambling. It's strange to say that when he was young, whenever he followed his father to the gambling house, he would more or less win some money back, but since he grew up, he has never won money again. People in the family said that this bloom was originally a rich life, but it was a pity that his father Sheng Li did not bring the child to the right path, and as a result, he consumed the blessings that bloom brought from his mother's womb. ”

"I'm going to hear a ghost story, is this a ghost story you're telling?"

"Don't be anxious, Ruyi shopkeeper, listen to me slowly." Xiao Shengzi wiped his mouth: "My story is still long." ”

Xing Ruyi glanced at the sky, and said in his heart, it is quite long, according to your method of pulling three and four, it is estimated that you can talk until dawn.

"That night, just after eating, Sheng Blossom pestered his mother to ask for money. But where is there any money in this family for Sheng Kai to gamble, and his mother won't give it, so he picks up a stool and beats his mother vigorously. Until he beat his mother to the ground and couldn't get up, the old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he crawled out of the house to borrow money from Sheng Kai.

When Sheng Kai took the money out, Sheng Kainiang knelt on the ground, hugged his legs, and begged him vigorously: Son, you better stop it. Look at your father, he has gambled all his life and sold everything that our family can sell. Now, our family really has nothing but this old bone of my mother. If you're gambling, you're going to kill your mother, and you're going to gamble with your mother's old bones.

Maybe Sheng Kai Niang cried too pitifully, but this Sheng Hua really stood still and took a look at his home. At this look, even he himself was taken aback. This is still the home he saw when he was a child, and it feels too much to describe it as a home. In this house, there is really nothing else except him and his mother.

Sheng Kai stared at his red eyes, and said to his mother who was kneeling on the ground and holding his legs: Mother, I don't want to gamble, but our family is poor like this, if I don't gamble anymore, our family will not be able to live this life. Don't worry, if I win, I'll come back, live a good life with you, and never go to the gambling house again. If I lose, don't worry, I won't come back to this house, and I'm not worthy of you to be your son, so I won't come back to be angry with you.

After saying this, he broke the old lady's hand and took the money that the old lady had borrowed with great difficulty and went to the gambling house. As a result, Ruyi girl, you should have guessed it, he lost, and he lost completely.

Because when he went out, he said cruel things to his mother, and this bloom also felt that he had no face to go back, so he wandered around the street. As a result, he ran into a frightened carriage and was trampled to death by the horse's hooves.

This blooming lady waited for a night, but did not see her son come back, so she went to the street to look for it, only to see her son lying on the street. This Sheng Kai didn't have a car at home, and Sheng Kai Niang dragged him home with his corpse. When he got home, he found a more decent dress from a pile of rags and put it on for him, and then sat in the yard and cried. Sheng Kainiang first cried that her life was bitter, and she finally married a husband, but her husband was a gambler and lost her huge ancestral property. Finally, when I was looking forward to my husband's death and finally being able to live a peaceful life, my son also became a gambler and died on the street. This blooming mother hugged her son's corpse and cried for three days and three nights, and directly blinded her eyes from crying. The people in the clan couldn't bear to ignore it anymore, so they scraped together some money and buried the blooming corpse, and then scraped together some things to help Sheng Kainiang arrange the house, and the better they were, whoever had more food would send a bowl to Sheng Kainiang here, and take turns every day, don't let Sheng Kainiang starve to death again.

On the seventh day, the blooming lady went to the mountain to see the bloom on crutches, and when she groped for the grave, she found some flowers. Sheng Kainiang knew those flowers, and when she was a child, she often went to pick them when she went up the mountain. Those flowers are called morning glories, also called trumpet flowers, and they bloom very wildly and beautifully. It's a pity that since she got married, she is no longer in the mood to see these flowers and plants.

Sheng Kainiang thought that after this, she would be left alone at home, so it was better to pick some flowers and go back. She couldn't see with her eyes, so she pulled a morning glory vine with her hand, and dragged it home.

When Sheng Kainiang came back, everyone saw her holding a cow in her hand, a black cow. When Sheng Kainiang returned home with the cow, the cow suddenly spoke. He said, "Mother, I'm in full bloom." When I was alive, I was too bad, I gambled with those people all day long, and as a result, I gambled myself to death, and I made your eyes cry blind to my mother. Lord Yama felt that I had gone too far, so he punished me for turning into a black bull to repay your kindness. Outside this city, there is a wasteland, and when it is dawn tomorrow, I will take you there. Sit on the edge of the ridge and watch until I finish plowing the land.

Sheng Kainiang, without waiting for the black cow to finish speaking, hugged the cow's neck and cried again.

The next day, as soon as the day dawned, Sheng Kainiang heard the cry of the black bull. Someone happened to come to deliver the meal, and Sheng Kainiang told the relatives who sent the rice the words of the black cow. The relatives felt that Sheng Kainiang couldn't stand the blow, and they were stunned when they missed their son, but they didn't say anything. Since then, Sheng Kainiang has followed the black cow out of the city every day, and when spring goes to autumn, she has grown a lot of food.

Sheng Kainiang remembered everyone's kindness, so she gave all the food to her relatives.

After another year, everyone knew that Sheng Kainiang had a black cow that could be cultivated by herself, so someone hit the black cow with this crooked idea. Take advantage of the night to jump to the blooming house, wanting to take the black cow away. But the black bull was originally in full bloom, and it refused to go back with the thief. In a fit of rage, the thief stabbed the black bull to death with the knife he was carrying.

Before he died, the black cow told the old lady that his time had come and that he would no longer be able to help the old lady farm. But the cowhide, beef, and the bezoar and beef bones in its stomach can be sold for money, and it asked Sheng Kainiang to sell it and use the money from selling it to support the elderly. And with that, the black bull died. Sheng Kainiang was no longer reluctant, and according to the instructions of the black bull, she sold it, and the money from the sale, Sheng Kainiang did not ask for it, but donated it all to the temple. She hopes that this Buddha can be gracious and bless her son to be reincarnated into a good family in the next life, to meet a good father, and to live this life safely and smoothly. ”

"Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, this blooming mother is also pitiful enough." Xing Ruyi sighed: "Then what happened to this blooming mother in the end?" ”

She was taken care of by her relatives in turn, and less than half a year after selling the black cow, she left, with a smile on her face, as if she had seen her son and husband. It's just that I don't know if Shengli and Shengkai in the underworld are still gambling or not. I guess that this bloom should not be gambling, so I don't know if this bloom has changed. ”

"It will change." Xing Ruyi nodded his chin: "I heard that gambling is not allowed in this underworld, and once you find it, you will be chopped off and thrown into the oil pan to fry." ”

"Oh, Ruyi girl, as soon as you say it's fried, why do I think my stomach is uncomfortable? It's over, it's definitely something bad. Xiao Shengzi was just about to get up, but he was caught by Xing Ruyi's wrist.

"Ruyi girl, let go quickly, I'll wait to go to the thatched house."

"You're not having diarrhea, you're sick." Xing Ruyi walked behind the counter, took out a small box and threw it to Xiao Shengzi: "Three pills at a time, three times a day." ”

"What is this?" Xiao Shengzi pinched those small black particles and asked.

"Morning glory seeds. It is written in the medical book that the seeds of this morning glory can kill insects and accumulate insects, which is just right to cure your disease. ”

"Killing insects?" Xiao Shengzi looked at his stomach: "You mean, I have worms in my stomach?" ”

"It's a worm, it's just a common roundworm, look at it scares you." Xing Ruyi looked at Xiao Shengzi's frightened appearance and just laughed unkindly: "It's okay, this kind of ascariasis, but anyone who usually doesn't pay much attention to food hygiene, especially drinking water hygiene, will get it." If you are really afraid, don't always drink raw water in the future. It's better to boil this water and drink it. Come, Brother Chang, fox, let's have tea. ”