Chapter 15: Ancient Customs, Last Straw
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties fell ill, Yun Bride began to go to the village to find milk for Cao'er to drink.
But after all, other people's families have to feed their own children first, and the rest is very small, sometimes more, and Grandma Cao'er is not there, so it is wasted.
Cao'er is always hungry and has no milk to drink when she cries. This made Grandma Cao'er and Cao'er's mother very anxious.
Grandma Cao'er had no choice, so she thought of a way, she used warm boiled water, adjusted a bowl of salt water, a bowl of white sugar water, and touched Cao'er's mouth respectively, Cao'er's lips turned her head away after touching the salt water, and Cao'er's grandmother put the sugar water over again, Cao'er actually stuck out her tongue after touching the sugar water, and stretched out her head to lick it again.
Since then, white sugar water has become a substitute for grass instead of breast milk.
In those days, a family's savings were more than 100, there was food and drink, and it was a good thing that the baby could not cry, so where did it matter if the nutrition was not nutritious?
Of course, at that time, let alone seeing milk, it was the term milk, which was almost unheard in the countryside. Therefore, Cao'er's body has always been relatively thin, which is probably related to her initial diet.
Since then, white sugar has become an inseparable meal seasoning for Cao'er for many years, and it was not until Cao'er was ten years old and in the fourth grade that she began to gradually break off her dependence on sugar, which is a later story.
For the sake of this continuous disaster at home, Grandma Cao'er and Yun Ling went to ask the nearby goddess to come to the house on a fixed day to ask the ancestors and the ancestors of the stove god to see what caused these successive disasters, so as to find a way to deal with them.
It is said that the goddess has a special constitution in the countryside, and after following the master, she can talk to the ghosts and gods, or be possessed by the ghosts and gods, and specialize in helping people communicate with their deceased relatives.
Generally, after the funeral in the village, or if there is something at home, they will ask the goddess to ask. This custom is still practiced to this day. After asking, according to the size of the question, they will give a red envelope of 10 to 100 yuan. Of course, some people with solid family backgrounds are also very accurate about the things asked by the goddess, so they give more.
No, so many unpleasant things have happened in the Yun family for a while, and now even the doctor has no choice, so he can only ask God for a hexagram at the end.
When she came to the house, she lit a candle on the cooking stove and put incense on it, and after she had done it three times, she folded her hands, closed her eyes, and began to recite the words. After a while, he screamed and screamed, as if he was in pain.
The Yun family, young and old, but everyone who was at home stood beside them, motionless, and no one dared to make a noise.
After a few minutes, the goddess opened her eyes and led everyone to the living room, where she sat down and began to tell everyone the news she had received about the Yin Man.
I saw her eyebrows raised, and she looked at the Yun family sitting next to her very strangely, and her eyes fell on Grandma Cao'er, and said:
"Your ancestors, Yunxin, and his grandparents have all come, and they have all spoken, saying that your family is still safe and sound, that is, your eldest daughter-in-law, did you collide with which side of the sacred last year, so there will be some pain this year."
"Besides, your family is estimated to have conflicting characters, show me your granddaughter's eight characters. I'm completely sure. ”
The goddess added.
After taking the eight characters of the grass, the goddess pinched her fingers and calculated, and muttered a few words in her mouth. Say:
"The child's future can't be said by everyone, her grandmother, you come here, I'll tell you first, and then you decide who to talk to."
So, Grandma Cao'er asked Ming Qing to hold Cao'er, and then drove the Yun family who were sitting around to work, leaving only herself and the goddess to sit opposite each other.
"Grandma Yun, I'll just say it straightforwardly."
The goddess said with a serious expression.
"Say, it's okay."
"This eldest granddaughter of your family was born at 12 o'clock at noon, and judging from the eight characters of her birthday, her life is hard. Although she said that she was seriously ill, she would have nothing to do in the future, but her relatives were thin, which was not good for her parents, especially, alas, especially her mother! ”
The goddess said solemnly.
"Ahh No wonder! So what to do? ”
"I can give your eldest daughter-in-law and eldest son some talisman water to drink, and then draw a talisman for your eldest granddaughter, but these are difficult to stop, it is best to stay away from her parents, it is estimated that it will be better."
"Huh? This, this... To tell you the truth, her mother, who is my eldest daughter-in-law, has been in poor health recently? Is there any way to crack it? ”
"Oh, I don't dare to guarantee it, I can only say try, this little girl of your family, her life is too hard! If only it were a man! ”
The goddess deftly continued:
"Besides, didn't your eldest daughter-in-law not hold back on the way back from her parents' house last year and soaked in urine in the grass on the hillside? This weakened her own body again, and it was even more difficult to resist her daughter's fate. ”
In fact, the goddess knows a little bit about the fate of the eight characters, but if you want to say whether those methods such as runes and runes are useful or not, I'm afraid no one knows except herself.
After hearing this, Grandma Cao'er couldn't help but be worried, so she asked the goddess to give Fu Shui, let Ming Qing drink it on the spot, and left Yun Xin's share, and instructed Ming Qing to stare at Yun Xin after getting off work. She also put away the talisman that the goddess had given to Cao'er and placed it under her granddaughter's pillow as the goddess requested.
After the goddess left, Grandma Cao'er waited for Yunxin to come home from work, drank the rune water, and then called everyone together for a meeting again.
"The goddess is here today, I have shown it to the family, don't worry, it's not a big deal, the ancestors and ancestors all say that our family is fine."
Grandma Cao'er continued:
"However, she also said that the eldest daughter-in-law is still weak, and the grass was born at twelve o'clock at noon, which is a woman's life and a man's life, if only it were a male doll, but this baby went out of her mother's womb in a hurry, and she came out without taking all the guys, and she turned out to be a female baby, and her life was harder, and she may be a little against her parents, so in the future, I will take this baby, the eldest daughter-in-law is weak, rest more, and the boss also happens to work in the team, and it is far away, so it will not be in the way, so everyone will take care of it more."
After a while, everyone knows that the mother wants to work more by herself, she has to spend more time taking care of Cao'er, and Yunxin and Mingqing should not be too close to the children.
The brothers and sisters of the Yun family have all received a new socialist education, so they naturally do not believe in the words of the goddess, which is feudal superstition in their eyes. But their mother has the attitude of "I'd rather believe what I have, not what I don't have", and they don't object to this.
It's just that Yun Xin and his wife are more embarrassed, but in order for Ming Qing's body to get better, Yun Xin thought that Ming Qing and Cao'er had less contact and less worry, so they acquiesced. The Ming and Qing dynasties can also understand the good intentions of their mother-in-law, and it is inconvenient to say anything.
After a month, the swelling of Cao'er's incision has completely disappeared, and the scar is still red where the knife was opened, and it takes some time to scab over. A big stone in Yunxin and Ming Qing's hearts finally fell to the ground, at least, their daughter was fine. Grandma Cao'er waits for her eldest granddaughter every day, and she is also very happy to see her granddaughter's improvement.
But Ming and Qing are going to review it in a few days, and Yun Xin's heart can't help but prune. I'm worried about what the outcome will be.