In the summer of that year, my mother went up the mountain for three days, disappeared for three days, and after two months of coming down the mountain, her belly grew bigger day by day.

According to the gossip in the village, my mother was ravaged by something in the mountains for three days, by wolves, snakes, and wild boars, and that she was pregnant with a demon fetus.

For a while, there were all kinds of versions flying in the village, but my mother was kind and quiet, and never explained.

She is so quiet, she rarely talks to me for a month, she goes to cook when I'm hungry, and she covers me with a quilt when I'm sleepy.

I don't know why she is so reticent, to be honest, I thought she couldn't speak when I was a child, until I was sensible, and I heard the children in the village mockingly call me monkey baby, wolf child, I cried that day, she spoke seriously, "Don't cry, you are human." ”

A few simple words, the voice is very gentle, I know that she can speak.

I believe it, because I don't have anything out of the ordinary, and that doesn't prove it?

But as I grew older, my mother's behavior became more and more strange, she was quiet, she didn't communicate with people, and the most incomprehensible thing to me was that she had to go out on the third day of every month.

On this day, whether it is windy or rainy, even if it is a knife, she will go out early on time, and only go home at night, it is simply thunder, since I can remember, everyone in my family on the third day, she is never at home.

At first, I didn't know what she was going out for, but the people in the village pointed at me and said that I was a monkey baby, and some people said that I was a wolf child, and I really couldn't listen to it, and once on the third day, I secretly followed my mother out far away.

In the end, I found that she actually went up the mountain alone, and I waited alone until the evening, only to see that she was going down the mountain with a tired face.

I didn't dare ask about it, but from that day on, I knew that I might really be a monster child, otherwise what would my mother do when she went to the mountains on time on the third day of every month?

I thought my mother would not miss the appointment, until one time when I was going up the tree to pick fruit, I broke my hand, which was very serious, and my mother took care of me for three days and three nights, day and night, including the third day of that month.

In my memory, until today, it was the first time she didn't go out on the third, but at that time, I saw with my own eyes that she was very anxious and wanted to go up the mountain, but she was worried about me and "missed the appointment" for the first time.

After that, my mother went up the mountain, and she came back very late that day, and she was very tired, so I didn't dare to ask about it, thinking that it was over, after all, the third didn't go out, and nothing happened!

But no, the day after she returned, she did something I couldn't have imagined.

It took her half a day to embroider two words with cloth, and I only knew what the words were when they hung them out like a signboard, and I was stunned for a long time, and I saw that it was the word "fortune telling".

Can my mother tell fortunes? What is Fortune Telling?

I didn't understand at the time, but she said to me, "Li Yi, you won't break your hand in the future, from today onwards, I will write you to you." ”

I nodded dumbfounded.

But a woman who doesn't speak tells fortunes, and the people in the village all read jokes, after all, all the fortune tellers under the overpass can speak well, flickering back and forth, you are good, you can't speak, how to tell fortunes?

However, my mother and I are such a "wonderful" pair, and it has spread like this, and some people have come to see the joke and really come to try it.

After all, my mother's fortune telling costs ten yuan at a time, which is cheap.

Somebody was drawn in, and my mother would look at it, and write it in less than three minutes, and then ask me to say, "I did it," and it was a good word to say it.

In less than three months, my mother became a well-known fortune teller.

In addition to accurate fortune telling, there is another rule that makes my mother more famous, and that is:

If you earn enough 30 yuan a day, it doesn't count, and fortune telling only collects 10 yuan at a time, if you have more, you can't do it if you have less, that is to say, only three people a day, and even if the rest of the people give 10,000, 100,000 my mother will not count.

My mother made me remember this rule, and I remembered.

But it's closed today, because it's the 3rd, which means that once a month my mother has to go up the mountain, and sure enough, my mother, like the usual 3rd of every month, made me breakfast early, and then said that there was something to do and went out.

I would have liked to follow my mother up the hill last time, but I'm not sure what she's doing up the hill, if I can see my father I haven't seen in fifteen years.

After I waited for my mother to go out, I was about to follow my mother up the mountain secretly, but just as I was about to close the door, Zhang Changsheng from the next village blocked my door with one hand.

He is a reseller of antiques, and every time he has a new treasure, he will come over and spend ten yuan for my mother to calculate whether he can start it, whether he will make money, etc., and I am familiar with him all this time and again.

"You know the rules, my mother doesn't count today," I hurried up the hill with my mother, and of course I shook my head and said straightforwardly.

"I know, but I got a treasure yesterday, and I have a lot of things in my heart, your mother is not here, so you can give me an idea," Zhang Changsheng hurriedly pushed me into the house.

I was helpless, "I'm really in trouble, you can come to my mother tomorrow." ”

But when I say this, I still subconsciously look at his face, which is my subconscious behavior for three years with my mother, in fortune telling, we don't think of faces as faces, but as physiognomy.

The most important thing in the phase is Yintang, some people Yintang is blackened and is about to go to bad luck, and Zhang Changsheng Yintang is shiny, plus his nose on behalf of wealth and luck is oily, it is a little reflective, of course it is the opposite, this is a sign of fortune.

This shows that the treasure he received yesterday can help him make a fortune, and he has good fortune.

"Li Yi, I know you've had a few moments, help me take a look, uncle will give you a big red envelope."

Zhang Changsheng took out a red envelope and gave it to me, it seemed that there were two or three hundred, I hurriedly shook my head, "Don't, you know my mother's rules." ”

"I know, then you can show me." He took back the red envelope again, took out ten yuan and stuffed it into me, this guy tricked me.

I was speechless, others gave money, of course I spoke, and said what I had just seen on his face, he was a little surprised to hear it, and hurriedly said thank you and walked to the door.

But when he left, he fell at the door, he got up from the ground, probably fell into something in his pocket, he took it out and looked at it, and cursed at the door.

I walked over suspiciously, and found that he was holding a jade seal-like seal in his hand, I didn't know much about antiques, but I thought the seal was very strange, like a scarecrow, but there were no eyes, ears, mouth, or nose.

There were a few quaint words engraved under the seal, and I didn't see it very clearly, but the left hand of this scarecrow-like seal was broken just now.

No wonder he wants to scold, this antique can be sold for a lot of money, and now it is broken, that is, it is ruined, I subconsciously looked at his face, and found that the light on his nose has indeed been dispersed, and the fortune is gone, indicating that this seal is worthless.

"It's really unlucky, this is Lao Liu, who often goes up the mountain at the head of the village, said yesterday morning that he found it on the mountain, and I spent 300 yuan to collect it, and now it has fallen like this, and I don't know if it can be sold, alas." He sighed and left, presumably trying to find a way to fix it.

I didn't tell him about his bad fortune just now, I didn't bother to say it, every time I knew that I didn't dare to collect money, I would definitely not forget it with him next time.

I closed the door with a muttering and ran to the other side of the mountain, but halfway through, I was stunned because I saw my mother walking back.

What's going on? Every time on the third day, my mother would go out for a day without being able to move, and when it snowed heavily a few months ago, my mother still went out in the morning and came back in the evening.

Why did the third day of the month change today? For me, it's the sun coming out of the west.

I thought I was wrong, but no, my mother "missed the appointment" again on the 3rd today.

I quickly hid, watching my mother go home in a hurry, I was puzzled, and secretly couldn't help but run back, peeking at the window of my mother's room, one corner of the curtain opened, and I saw my mother closing the door, looking for something in the cabinet, she had a lot of sweat on her forehead, as if her body was in pain.

Of course I was surprised to see her like this, could it be that my mother fell, so today "No. 3 missed the appointment"?

I was anxious to go in and ask about it, and I saw that my mother had taken a box from the cupboard, but with a click, her left hand was broken......