Chapter 18 Doing Good and Accumulating Virtue
“...... You, who have suffered a thousand knives, dare to play tricks on my niece Nong's Qinghua, I will kill your whole family! ......”
As soon as the sky was bright, the eighth aunt came out to do things again.
Flying Fish Boy They came back too late last night, and they were still sleeping at this time, and they were suddenly woken up by the sound of the eighth aunt's "ho ho" sharpening and scolding, he didn't know what was going on, and mistakenly thought that there was going to be a murder.
He hurriedly asked Wei Xiaotang, who was in the same room, to come to our room with him.
"Didn't you say you'd be cured? Why do you still come out to do things? "Wei Xiaotang heard about Nong's blue and white from Fangfang, and he knew something about Aunt Eight doing this kind of ritual.
My father was washing up in the bathroom, and when he saw the two of them coming, he walked out with a towel on his shoulder, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "It's Jiuyin's illness, but her niece Nong's Qinghua's illness is not yet cured." If it's okay, why does she come out to do this ritual? ”
The father continued, "There is nothing sick in the first place, but the two partners who like to play the piano are separated, so they are depressed and don't think about tea and dinner." When my father said this, my face turned red to my neck.
"Then why did she come out early in the morning to shout about killing?" Flying Fish Cub is still puzzled.
"Hasn't Fangfang been tested? Lang Lang Qiankun, where did the Gu poison people? As much as she engages in feudal superstitions, no one in the village committee cares about her? Father's face was serious.
When Wei Xiaotang heard what they said, he told everyone what he had heard.
Wei Xiaotang said that after Nong Qinghua returned to Cao Ping Duole Village in Vietnam, she was depressed and emaciated, and her condition became worse day by day. This morning, Aunt Eight called his younger brother and asked how Nong's Qinghua was doing? His brother said that it was getting worse day by day, and he didn't speak, eat or drink, and he was getting more and more emaciated.
His younger brother asked his sister again, saying that the person who had the Gu had found it? If you find it, quickly beg him for some antidote.
After hearing this, the eighth aunt didn't care about the village committee's criticism and education of her feudal superstitious activities, put down her mobile phone, put on her back, and came out to do things again.
In her opinion, it is important to save people!
After all, she was married from the mountainous area inhabited by ethnic minorities in Gao Ping, Vietnam, and she didn't read any books, she hadn't seen much of the world.
When the flying fish boy heard about it, he hurriedly ran to the door, and when he arrived at the door, he met Aunt Eight coming, who was still a whetstone on her chest, holding two sharp knives in her hands, and scolded while walking.
Flying Fish couldn't help but be alert, and hid in the corner a little, looking at the back road, in case she was killed, there was a way to escape.
But looking at Aunt Eight carefully, I saw that although she had a whetstone on her chest, a knife in both hands, and a murderous face, but seeing that she didn't squint, the flying fish boy slowly eased up, thinking, even if she went to kill, she didn't kill me, and besides, I had no enmity with her in the past, and I had no grievances recently, why did she kill me?
When he thought so, he plucked up his courage and asked with a smile: "Pretty girl, what are you doing so early in the morning, sharpening knives and shouting to kill?" ”
Flying Fish is from Guangdong. The meaning of "beautiful girl" in the Cantonese title is absolutely staggering: from the old woman in her nineties who lost her front teeth, to the babbling baby, whether it is a beautiful girl like a fairy, or a fierce woman with a hideous face and no human appearance, as long as it is a woman, they are all honored as "beautiful women". ”
Feiyuzi has been living in Tunli for a while, but he goes out early and returns late, he doesn't know much about the people in Tunli, but there is no one in Tunli who doesn't know him.
Aunt Eight suddenly saw someone answering, secretly happy in her heart, thinking, every time I come out to do something these days, the doors of every house along the way are closed, and I don't have time to hide when I meet someone halfway, I also suddenly turned around and wiped my pants to pee, I have never seen anyone come to talk, and I can meet one today.
When the eighth aunt thought like this, she put the two sharp knives flat on the whetstone, and complained to the flying fish boy with a sad face:
"Brother, my niece Nong Thi Qinghua fell ill after returning to Vietnam a few days ago, not eating, drinking, or speaking. I called my brother this morning and asked how she was doing. My brother said that if she didn't think about it, she wouldn't be saved, how beautiful and smart and well-behaved her niece was! As my aunt, I'm in a hurry, but I can't help it, I can only do things here! ”
Feiyuzi has also heard of this kind of ritual, saying that if he suspects that others have harmed his relatives by letting Gu go, he will take a whetstone, and while sharpening the knife, he will scold along the road: "I know who you are, you actually dare to give Gu to our family, I will kill your whole family!" ...... "Go all the way, scold all the way, the people who release the Gu will be afraid when they hear it, and they won't dare to play Gu anymore, and those Gu worms that are released will also be afraid after hearing the sound of sharpening the knife, and they will quickly escape, so that the person who has been poisoned by the Gu will be saved." It is said to be a popular spell in the Hmong mountains in northern Vietnam.
Flying fish roe thought to himself: "Dog's day, why are you so feudal and superstitious!" If someone is sick, you should be sent to the hospital for rescue, if you don't send it to the hospital, you are sharpening knives and shouting to kill here, who are you scared? It's okay to scare the monkey, but if someone really tricks him, he hides in the dark to watch you pretend to be a ghost, and he laughs at you! Where does he need to be afraid of you! ”
He thought so, but he didn't say it. He looked at Aunt Eight, who was about thirty years old, with a big white face, round and plump breasts, and a tall figure, like a fierce woman slaughtering cows, pigs and gelding chickens in the local village.
"Your niece is so far away from your mother's house, is it useful for you to do things here across the mountain? You've been doing this for so many days, and your niece's condition has not lessened, but has become more and more serious, which is obviously not right! ”
Speaking of this, Feiyuzi looked deeply sympathetic to her and asked, "Pretty girl, call your niece again, what is wrong with her body?" If you are sick, you have to send it to the hospital, if your mother's home has no hospital or poor medical conditions, you can send it to us in China, our Ningzhou County People's Hospital is good. ”
After hearing this, the eighth aunt said with tears in her eyes: "If there was money to send it to China for treatment, we would have sent it a long time ago." But my mother's family hasn't even solved the problem of three meals a day, how can they have money to treat the disease? ”
"That'...... What's wrong with her? I can't afford to send to the hospital...... Then you can buy medicine here in China and go back. Feiyuzi spread his hands and gave Aunt Eight another idea.
"Brother, I called my brother in the morning, saying that Nong's Qinghua is now lying in bed, not eating, drinking, not speaking, becoming more and more haggard, asking her where she is comfortable, she doesn't say, she just keeps saying that she wants to go to China to learn Tianqin."
"Oh, if she wants to learn Tianqin, then let her come over to learn, don't we have a Tianqin training class in Ningzhou County? Isn't our Fangfang of Clam Tun the teacher of the Tianqin training class? Your niece is sick like this, if she wants to learn, she will quickly learn from her, take 10,000 steps back and say, if she really has three long and two short, you let her come to China to learn Tianqin, which is also to fulfill her greatest wish before she dies. ”
Flying Fish Boy may be so excited that she actually took Nong's Qinghua to come to China to learn Tianqin as her dying wish.
Fortunately, Aunt Eight is a strong woman with strong martial arts, and she doesn't care about this, she listened to Feiyuzi's words, and felt that in Feiyuzai's opinion, it seems that it is easy to come to China to learn Tianqin.
The eighth aunt spread her hands and said with tears in her eyes: "Brother, it's easy for you to be the boss, but don't say it from my mother's side, take a sum of money to let her come to China to learn Tianqin, that is, I don't know where to raise the money for her younger siblings to pay tuition fees next semester!" ”
"Poverty binds people's hands and feet!" After Feiyuzi suddenly came out with such a poetic sentence, he asked Aunt Eight with concern: "You can call your brother again, if his daughter really comes here to learn Tianqin, will her illness be alleviated?" If that's the case, call her right away, I'm responsible for the tuition fee for learning the piano, I don't want you to pay it back, if your niece comes to China to study Tianqin and gets sick, then it can be regarded as me saving people's lives, and it's better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter....."
While the two were talking, someone in the distance stepped on a dilapidated tricycle and shook the bell "jingling", and the flying fish boy looked up and saw that it was a man fifty miles away, with an old face and as thin as a monkey.
The person who came to the two of them on a bicycle and scolded while parking: "You don't want to be embarrassed again in Tunli, what's the use of you engaging in these feudal superstitions?" This is China, not your Duole village in Cao Binh, Vietnam. I've said it many times, if you're sick, send it to the hospital, don't pretend to be a ghost here, it's embarrassing, if you continue to toss like this, how will I mix here in the future? ”
It turned out that the person who came was none other than Aunt Eight's husband. His surname is Li, and he ranks eighth in the tun, and the people in the tun seem to be young and old, regardless of generation, all of them call him "Ah Ba." ”
After Ah Ba scolded his wife, he turned to Feiyuzi, changed his face, took out a pack of inferior cigarettes, took out one with a smiling face and handed it to Feiyuxiao, Feiyuzi quickly blocked it with one hand, took out a pack of Chinese cigarettes from his body with the other hand, and politely handed him one.
When the two lit a cigarette, the eighth aunt said: "This is the dead ghost of my family, I know that I am wandering outside all day long, the acres of sugarcane land at home are barren, the weeds are chest-high, and I have never seen him take care of it, and my niece from my mother's side has fallen ill in the past few days, and he doesn't care, and he scolds me everywhere for being ......embarrassed."
"You know what a! ...... "Hearing that his wife counted him down again, Ah Ba raised his slap and was about to slap his wife, but his hand was blocked by Flying Fish Boy in the air.
"Oh, brother, don't do it, it's good to discuss, it's good to discuss." Flying Fish Boy is busy.
Later, I learned that after Ah Ba graduated from junior high school and returned to Tunli, he never did his job. As a farmer, he has never farmed or farmed, but he is not a lazy person.
He pedaled a tricycle all day long to go around the village to buy chicken feathers, duck feathers, toothpaste shells and other kinds of rags, in the dry season of winter, he went to Zuojiang to salvage clam shells, tons and tons of salvage them, and sell them to the owners of feed factories from other places, it is said that these bosses use this thing to make feed.
In the summer, when the Zuojiang River was flooded, Ah Ba wandered around the river all day long, and he could also salvage three or five corpses from the river every year. When the family of the deceased is found, he will inevitably be given a reward.
Ah Ba often said to others: Do farmers have to go to the field to farm? Not necessarily, snakes have snake paths, rats have rat holes, each with its own magical powers!
Although Ah Ba does not do farm work, he also earns a lot of money a year, but he has a problem, this is good gambling, as long as there are a few dollars on his body, he is itchy and unbearable, and he has to find a few gamblers to gamble a few handfuls, and he has always been addicted to gambling, bad luck, and the result of every gamble is to lose more and win less.
Ah Ba is a good gambler, and no woman is willing to marry him at the age of forty. Later, after being introduced, he started a family with two widows who dragged their children and daughters, but Ah Ba did not wash his hands after becoming a family, and he still gambled and his gambling addiction did not decrease, so within a few years, the two widows dragged their children and daughters away one after another.
When I was fifty years old, I saw that the matchmaker was unwilling to help, so I had no choice but to ask Vietnamese acquaintances to help introduce me, and finally married a Vietnamese woman who was twenty years younger than herself.
Although the eighth aunt thinks that her husband is ugly, but the economic conditions in China are several times better than her mother's family in all aspects, and she is satisfied.
When he heard that Feiyuzi was willing to pay 1,000 yuan for free to let Nong's Qinghua come to Ningzhou County to learn Tianqin, Ah Ba knelt down with a "tom", he had never seen such a generous boss!
After being so frightened that Flying Fish quickly helped Ah Ba up, he thought to himself: Although I have a few dollars, if I see anyone who is poor, I will give money to whomever I want, then I am afraid that within a few days, the door will be full of people, and my account will soon be left with little left.
However, this time it is Nong's Qinghua who is sponsoring, although she is not my niece, but she also loves Tianqin, and besides, she and Jiuyin are also good friends at first sight, why not let the two of them learn Tianqin together?
A thousand dollars is not too much, and less is not too much. That's a lot of money for the ethnic minorities in the mountains of northern Vietnam, but I'm here to ...... How to say, sometimes one or two cigarettes are the price, just smoke less......
Besides, let him come and learn Tianqin with Jiuyin, if he really cures her illness, then it can be regarded as my good deeds and accumulated virtue. When she recovers from her illness, Aunt Eight will no longer carry a whetstone on her back every day and hold two sharp knives in her hand to scream and scold in the tun, otherwise, let her toss like this again, even if she doesn't hurt people or livestock, it will make chickens and dogs jump, and people will be panicked. Why bother?
"I think so, you should call Nong's parents now, and clearly tell her parents that I am willing to help her pay for her tuition, let her come to China to study Tianqin, and ask them if they are willing?"
Hearing what Flying Fish said, Ah Ba immediately took out his mobile phone, quickly dialed the phone, and "squeaked" into the mobile phone for a long time, Flying Fish didn't understand a word, however, Flying Fish looked at Ah Ba and thought: Don't look at this guy's poor jingle, wearing tatters, and his dark and thin face doesn't seem to have eaten a meal of meat, but he can speak Vietnamese so well!
Perhaps surprised to see Flying Fish's face, Aunt Eight whispered to Flying Fish, saying that she not only knew Mandarin, vernacular, Zhuang, and Miao dialects, but also Vietnamese, Burmese, and Thai.
"Dog's day! This is really a compound talent! Why is it useless? Flying Fish thought to himself.
After Ah Ba finished chatting with the Vietnamese side, he said to Feiyuzi with a smiling face: "I asked my brother-in-law, who is Nong's Qinghua's father, and he immediately asked Nong's Qinghua, and Nong's Qinghua heard that she could go to China to learn Tianqin, and she immediately agreed." And her illness seems to be half of the cure immediately, I also told his father that without further ado, instead of letting Nong's Qinghua lie in bed every day and be haggard and tormented, it is better to send her over tomorrow, and finally I told his father that I will send Nong's Qinghua to A19 National Boundary Monument at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, and I will pick her up. ”
Later, I realized that after Nong Qinghua and I returned to her hometown without saying goodbye, her so-called illness was related to learning Tianqin, especially me.
Why did I have a few days of depression after she went back, and I didn't think about tea and dinner?
After a few years, I finally understood that this might be a hazy first love, right? And I'm only thirteen years old, and I still can't explain this kind of feeling, but it's like a breastfeeding child, suddenly being held out of his mother's arms, because his mother is going out, and the child will inevitably cry after all, but after a while, the child will forget about it.
So after a few days, my painful mood was also diluted by the heavy study tasks, coupled with Fang Fang's meticulous care for me, especially when she personally took me to test me with the core of the banana tree to see if I was a Gu, and my father Feiyu kept coming to comfort me, I also slowly recovered from the pain of parting with Nong's Qinghua.
However, Nong's blue and white is different, although she is also thirteen years old, but looking at her figure, her red and simple face, she has already begun to fall in love, with buds to be released, this is not surprising, because the age of marriage for Vietnamese girls is much earlier than in our country, and it is very common to start looking for her in-laws at the age of thirteen or fourteen. So she fell ill after returning to China, in essence, she was lovesick to me, and it was the lovelorn who knocked her down.
This time, she heard that she could come to Ningzhou, China to learn Tianqin again, and the teacher who taught the qin was Fang Fang Tianshi from Clam Tun, and when she heard the news, she burst into tears and laughed, because she knew that I was also learning Tianqin under Fang Fang.
"Now that it's all arranged, I'll transfer the money to you." Feiyuzi took out his mobile phone, but after opening WeChat, he asked worriedly: "Didn't Nong's Qinghua be driven back last time because he didn't have documents?" Can she come tomorrow? ”
Ah Ba laughed when he heard this, and he said: "You don't have to worry about this, boss, we are all border people, and the border people of both countries often move around, and it is very ......easy to go abroad."
The eighth aunt also echoed and said: "My dead ghost has no other skills, but he has a great ability to go abroad, and he is very familiar with the public security on the Vietnamese border opposite, he turned around and called back to explain, and asked my brother to immediately get the documents for Nong's Qinghua, and he can come over tomorrow, you can rest assured." ”
"Then I'll transfer this money to you, or your wife?" Feiyuzi picked up his mobile phone, looked at Ah Ba and Aunt Ba and said.
The two of them said loudly in unison, "Give it to me!" ——”
As soon as the words fell, Aunt Ba pushed Ah Bayi away and said loudly, "For you?" I'm not at ease! I'm afraid that you will gamble again, and in the end, my niece will not have to come to learn the piano. ”
"Oh, why do you talk like that? Am I that kind of person? I usually gamble on pleasure, but now it's such an important thing, do you think I have no principles? "Ah Badao.
"Otherwise, I'll transfer it directly to Fang Fang Heavenly Master, and the money will be handed over to her anyway."
The two had no choice but to say that it was okay.
After Feiyuzi finished transferring the account, he made a statement on behalf of Fangfang without authorization: "Fangfang Tianshi could have exempted Nong's Qinghua from this tuition, but you also know that Fangfang's Tianqin training class is not for her alone, but for five or six teachers to run it together, she is only one of the shareholders, she can't mess with the rules, right?" You see, I've already transferred the money to her. After that, he showed the screen of the mobile phone transfer to the two of them.
"Yes yes, thank you boss! Thank you to the owner! The husband and wife pounded their heads like chickens pecking rice.
Ah Ba asked carefully: "Boss, you came to buy mahogany furniture, how are you contacting now?" ”
Flying Fish was stunned for a moment, and thought, I came to buy mahogany furniture, but I didn't tell anyone else in the tun, how do you know?
Feiyuzai pretended to smile calmly: "It's almost, I'm still in contact, I have to shop around, I have to take a look at it and then decide." ”
Ah Ba put away his smile, slapped his chest seriously, and said loudly: "Boss, you are here with us, what do you need to use me, you can tell me, go up the knife mountain, get off the oil pot, I will give up my life!" ”