Liu Dahe is a figure often mentioned after tea and dinner in Liujia Village. He has three brothers and one sister, named Liu Dajiang, Liu Dawu, Liu Dashu, and Liu Yunniang.

When Liu Dahe was born, his mother Xu had nightmares for several nights, and she woke up sweating every morning.

On this day, she woke up in the morning and complained about her dark circles in front of the bronze mirror, and her eldest son Da Jiang ran in panting and said to Xu: "Mother, it's not good, two of our chickens have died." ”

When Xu heard this, he immediately put a piece of clothing on his body, and regardless of the taboo of not being able to blow the wind in the confinement, he went to the chicken pen to see his eight chickens, and sure enough, two of them had died, and the other six were also unspirited.

Xu is now doing confinement, can't do without eggs, seeing the two dead chickens a little anxious, standing outside the chicken pen for a while, remembering that he is still doing confinement, he walked back to the low room slowly.

As soon as Xu Shi lay on the bed, she heard a giggling sound, she turned her head and saw that her little son who had just been born for a few days was grinning with a small mouth, looking at Xu Shi at this time, she felt that this smile was particularly dazzling, she said in her heart, could it be that this newborn son brought her bad luck, and the nightmare seemed to start from the day this son was born.

That night, Xu had another nightmare, and woke up early the next morning, and his eldest son Dajiang ran in again: "Mother, it's not good, all our chickens are dead." ”

Eight chickens, but it's a lot of money, Xu heard that the chicken was dead this time, so he didn't go to the chicken pen to see, and went directly to the pillow to cry and wet the pillow.

Xu's husband Liu Quan is a daughter-in-law, and when he saw Xu's sadness, he persuaded her: "The child is her mother, I heard that you can't cry during the confinement, otherwise your eyes will be bad." ”

Xu Shi took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears: "You think I want to cry, you can't make money, you can only talk empty words, eight chickens can be exchanged for a lot of things, I'm so distressed." ”

Liu Quanyu smiled: "Don't be too sad, I'll go back and bury all the chickens, and I'll buy you a few chicks to raise next year." ”

Xu: "Let's stew the chicken and eat it, no, no, let's take the chicken to the town and sell it, although it can't be sold at the price of live chicken, we can get some money anyway." ”

Liu Quan: "No, these chickens may have plague, you haven't gone out these days, so you don't know that many chickens in the village are dead, if you sell them, we can't afford to pay for them." ”

Another long night passed, Xu woke up from the nightmare again, and the eldest son Dajiang ran into the house and said to Xu: "Mother, it's not good, the people in the village said that the chickens in the village died because of the younger brother, and in the past few months, there is only one newborn child in the village, and he brought the plague god." ”

Xu turned his head to look at his youngest son, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that what the villagers said made sense, how strange this little son's smile was, he might really be an ominous person, so he placed his youngest son in the stove room where half of the wall was leaking.

Liu Quan returned home after finishing his farm work, and heard Xu say that he let his youngest son sleep in the stove at night, and he couldn't bear it: "The child, her mother, such a young child, do we really let him sleep in the leaky stove?" ”

Xu: "There is something wrong with this child, after he was born, almost all the chickens in our village died." ”

Liu Quan: "That's all nonsense from the people in the village, don't believe it, who says that their children are bad." ”

Xu closed his eyes and ignored Liu Quan, and Xu was in charge of everything in the family. Although Liu Quan couldn't bear it, he didn't dare to take his son back to the main house.

It's also strange to say that the youngest son Dahe was not by his side this night, and Xu didn't have nightmares, he slept comfortably, and woke up radiant in the morning.

She looked left and right at the bronze mirror, and said happily to Liu Quan: "Look, sure enough, what the people in the village said is that there is some truth, he left my side and took away all the nightmares, you see how good my face is today, let him sleep in the stove in the future." ”

From this day on, Xu no longer cares about anything about his youngest son, does not make clothes, and does not give milk......

No matter how you say it, he is also his own son, and his father Liu Quan can't ignore his biological son, so he feeds Liu Dahe rice soup and wears the small clothes that his three sons used to wear.

When Liu Dahe grew up and could eat by himself, Xu didn't let him serve on the table, or even let him appear in front of him, for fear that he would be unlucky.

Liu Quan tried his best to leave some food for Liu Dahe at every meal, so Liu Dahe ate cold rice every day, and even sometimes couldn't eat, but he didn't get sick once when he was seven years old, Xu felt that Liu Dahe was definitely a scourge, she had never seen a child grow up to seven years old and never be sick once, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, so she asked her mother's sister Da Xu to help find a way to get this son away.

Da Xu's life in the town was well-informed, and it didn't take long for him to come to Liujia Village to reply to Xu's: "The town's carpentry shop recruits apprentices, and boys over the age of nine are asked, and I heard that they will be given 500 Wen." ”

Xu Shi was very happy to hear it: "Although Dahe is only seven years old, he has a good body and bones, and he is not short, and some people believe that he is nine years old." This is really a good place, and there are 500 yuan, I can make clothes for a few children in the family, and my sister will help me send Dahe to the carpentry shop, I picked up some eggs, and when my sister left, I took them back to the big girl and the little girl to eat. ”

Da Xu only gave birth to two daughters, Da Ya and Xiao Ya, and originally thought about succeeding the youngest son of the Xu family, but every time Xu told her how this little son Dahe was unlucky, she listened to it many times, and slowly broke off the idea of succeeding this child.

Da Xu glanced at Liu Dahe, who was sweeping the floor in the yard, as Xu said, he was really not short, but he didn't expect that the children who ate leftovers and worked a lot every day would grow so strong, in fact, the matter of succession can still be considered.

Xu Shi saw his sister stunned at her youngest son, and hurriedly reminded her sister: "Sister, I tell you, you must not cross the river, this child is really ominous, I didn't lie to you, he was born and all the chickens in our village died, when he was by my side, I was sick every day, and I had nightmares, I put him in the stove, and my illness was cured." ”

Da Xu couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, every time she moved the idea of adoptive, her sister said something like this, for seven years, it has not changed, and she can recite it backwards.

A month later, Xu successfully sent Liu Dahe to the carpentry shop in Phoenix Town as an apprentice, got 500 big money, the whole family put on new clothes, the heart was beautiful, there was a smile on the face all day long, the whole person looked much younger and more beautiful, the big Xu was surprised to see the changes in Xu's New Year, so he asked Xu: "My sister is a lot younger and more beautiful this year, what kind of recipe is this?" ”

Xu said with a smile: "Where is there any recipe, it would be good for the people in the village to have enough to eat, how can it compare to the people in your town." Sister, let me tell you, since I sent Dahe to the carpentry shop in the town, I feel more and more comfortable, and the people in the village say that I have become younger and more beautiful, which proves that the child is really a bad person, without him by his side, I am all right, well, this should be the reason. ”