Chapter 49: The Ninth Story
When it comes to the old brother, there is a big basket. My brother is the oldest of our generation, he is much older than my parents, and even his youngest child is several years older than me, so I always call him my old brother.
The elder brother's father was a well-versed and knowledgeable Mr. I Ching, and he was a rare literate and hyphenated gentleman in the countryside at that time, so he gave the elder brother a name from the first hexagram of the I Ching
"Longtian" that is
"Seeing the dragon in the field, it is beneficial to see the adult". However, with the development of the times, the elder brother's
"Longtian" turned into
"Eida". But in the first half of his life, this
The word "Rong" did not bring him any glory or glory. The old brother is a hard-working man. His first wife was a strong-tempered, impatient, hard-working, and strong woman, for which they fought a lot, and even the parents of the elder brother did not want to see them, and for many years I thought that the elder brother was a man without parents.
At that time, although I was young, I knew that my brother was famous for fighting with my first sister-in-law.
As soon as they fought, the whole village was alarmed, and there were half Zhuangzi people who went to fight with them, and the whole street was full of people, and even the children who had just cried stopped crying when they heard them fighting.
The old sister-in-law is very capable, but that mouth is so scolding, anxious, she scolds everything, and she can't stop the car when she scolds, and even the eight generations of the old brother's ancestors can pass through her mouth several times.
Mom and Dad live in the backyard, can my daughter-in-law scold like this? The old brother was really anxious, he raised his hand and hit, the old sister-in-law was even more angry, and fought back, the two of them fought against each other, scolding while fighting, scolding and beating, and the villagers pulled for more than half an hour, but they didn't pull away.
The old brother stomped on his grandmother's little feet with one hoof, and the grandmother's feet were swollen and she couldn't wear shoes for several days. A few days later, the elder brother saw his grandmother standing on the street with a stick, and walked up humbly
"Grandma, your feet still hurt, right?" Grandma pointed at the tip of his nose and scolded
"Rabbit cub, in the future, if you have dog brains in your head, I won't care about it for you! This one doesn't listen to people's advice! "I didn't wait for the next fight, but the old sister-in-law died suddenly.
After the wheat, the old sister-in-law rode the brand new bicycle she had just bought back to her sister's house, and on the way back, she crossed the bridge and suddenly fell into the ditch next to the road.
The old brother seems to have been plucked out of the heart and bones, and he used to laugh when he fought with his sister-in-law for only two days, and he could tie 8 donkeys with a pouting mouth, and his face looked like a donkey, and this drooping face was longer than a horse's face.
The most unbearable thing is the third watch in the middle of the night, the youngest son
"Miss my mother" The old brother cried loudly, and the cry made the whole village sad. As a father with one hand and a mother with the other, the days are getting tighter and harder, and the old brother can't hold on anymore, so he gets married for the second time.
Saying goes
"A litter is hot, a litter is cold, and a litter is not a litter". The old brother already loves the child, and now he has married the stepmother for the child, and the helplessness and apology in his heart may not even be clear to him, and the old brother's heart is crooked on the children.
The first few times he was a father with one hand and a mother with the other, the days were getting tighter and harder, and the old brother couldn't hold on anymore, so he got married for the second time.
Saying goes
"A litter is hot, a litter is cold, and a litter is not a litter". The old brother already loves the child, and now he has married the stepmother for the child, and the helplessness and apology in his heart may not even be clear to him, and the old brother's heart is crooked on the children.
In the first few years, I ran in with a new old sister-in-law. The old brother no longer moved, just squeaked and called, and the old sister-in-law howled and cried, and the crying was half a night, and the cry of the old sister-in-law in those years became a sonata from time to time in the night of the small village.
At first, there were old, young, dear, and close people to coax and persuade, but gradually people found that the old sister-in-law was No. 1, and the old brother wilted aside, and slowly fewer and fewer people went, and finally only the cry of the old sister-in-law and the barking of dogs in the village were accompanied.
The old sister-in-law often goes out to do business, saying that she is doing business, but no one has seen what she has taken out, and no one has seen what she has brought back, only to see that she goes out alone, and comes back easily alone, and she is gone for a month or two.
So some people began to suspect that the old sister-in-law went to her divorced husband's house, so they kept complaining that the old brother should not covet the old sister-in-law's money to marry her.
What everyone recognizes, the person concerned can't tell for a lifetime. Even now, when he is over seventy years old, the old brother still hasn't gotten rid of that infamy.
There are many people who say it, and the old brother is a little convinced. So I followed the old sister-in-law. When he saw the old sister-in-law carrying the huge bag of porcelain on her back and squeezing it on the train, the old brother couldn't help but squeeze up from the crack in the person and stretched out his hand to support the heavy big backpack.
The old sister-in-law turned her head from her armpit and thanked the kind helper. As soon as he saw that it was the old brother, he suddenly rushed to the top of his head, and pressed it hard in front of his accomplices and so many people, but he didn't have a seizure.
The ticket check began, and the old sister-in-law stood up and went to the toilet, and the old brother grabbed her
"Why are you going?"
"Blind! I didn't see the ticket check! The old sister-in-law roared angrily. The old brother stuffed the ticket to the old sister-in-law, hid in the toilet by himself, and stayed for 1 or 2 hours.
After coming out, the old sister-in-law scolded the old brother
"Dead child, I don't even want to eat a baked cake, you are good, and you still buy a ticket, you said that you can buy a ticket to do business, and you still follow me, instigated by those chewing tongues, to see if I raise a wild man......" The old sister-in-law is distressed about that ticket, so how many pieces of porcelain in her bag have to be scrapped!
Along the way, the old brother was like a child who had done something wrong, and he served the old sister-in-law, and the old sister-in-law only gave him a side face.
When he came back, the old brother had a little more smile on his face. Due to the perennial eating style and sleeping in the open, it is not good to eat outside, drink badly, and sleep without knowing where to hide for a night, this person can endure hardships, but she can't stand this body.
The old sister-in-law is sick. I have gallstones and kidney stones. A few months in the hospital and a year or two at home.
In the days when the old sister-in-law was hospitalized, the old brother served him carefully, and some people ridiculed him for being better than his own mother.
The elder brother's mother even asked him tremblingly
"When I'm sick, can you do the same to me?" The old sister-in-law is well, but her body has already been overdrawn by her, and it is indeed no longer possible.
She can no longer carry such heavy goods, nor can she squeeze such a long train, and she can't show her ability to jump out of the train in advance when the train enters the station.
For the sake of his 4 wolf cubs, for the sake of this family, the old brother who has served the crops for half his life embarked on the road of business.
To say that it is to do business is actually to buy and sell, mix the price difference, and then rush to sell rat poison in the alleys.
It was on this road that he not only built a house for his four sons to marry a daughter-in-law, but also practiced a mastery.
The old brother's mastery is to mix rat poison. The rat poison he prepared said that if the rat dies in a few steps, the rat will die in a few steps.
At first, everyone didn't believe it, they all said that the old brother was bragging, and some people said that he was
"Don't blow it up, you can't make up for it if you blow the cowhide!" In order to prove his ability, the elder brother did an experiment in public.
At night, the mixed corn is sprinkled on the ground where rats often walk in the house. Because at that time, they were all earthen houses and earthen walls, and the ground was also earth, and after the rats crawled over, they would leave a shallow imprint, which was very easy for everyone to believe at first, and they all said that the old brother was bragging, and some people said that he was
"Don't blow it up, you can't make up for it if you blow the cowhide!" In order to prove his ability, the elder brother did an experiment in public.
At night, the mixed corn is sprinkled on the ground where rats often walk in the house. Because at that time, they were all earthen houses and mud walls, and the ground was also dirt, so after the rats crawled over, they would leave a shallow mark that was easy to identify.
Everyone sat on the chair, sat on the bed, squatted on the stool, turned off the lights, and waited quietly.
After a while, the rat began to move, and put his head out of the hole to look around, his little eyes glowing in the darkness, and after watching for a while, he learned that Suoso moved along the corner of the wall, and after thinking that he was safe, he began to be bold, sniffing and heading towards the table and the cupboard.
On the way, I found corn kernels on the ground, and I thought it was spilled by the careless owner when he was carrying the grain, so I squeaked a few times and ate it quickly.
Somebody's cough startled the rats to flee, and the lights came on at the same time. The rat that had not eaten the corn shrank in the hole and looked out, and the rat that had eaten the corn seemed to be drunk, and after a few steps, he fell to the ground with his belly up, stretched his neck fiercely, and slammed his legs on the stool, and whimpered for his life.
However, the old brother's medicine is true and fake, the people in the village and his own people give the real medicine, but it is not the original medicine, it is the food mixed with the medicine, and only a little bit is given each time.
In the words of the old brother
"This medicine is too poisonous, I'm afraid something will happen if I give too much." Even so, there are many dogs and cats that have eaten poisonous rats and have been poisoned.
In the set, it was up to the old brother to judge who sold him what medicine.