I ran to the door, lying on the gate to look into the distance, I saw many torches in the distance, the figure was shaking, it turned out to be a wedding team, walking in front of a few people with trumpets and small drums, blowing and beating all the way, so festive.

Behind the band was a groom on horseback in a bright red wedding dress, with a big red flower hanging from his chest, but his face was expressionless, and his face was as white as flour, a little oozing.

And he passed by me, giving me the feeling that even people and horses walked lightly, how to say, it felt like a paper man and a paper horse, silent.

Behind him was a palanquin, covered with red silk, beaming with joy, and I thought to myself, it must be the bride sitting in it.

I was strange at the time, and my heart said that this is whose family is getting married, why don't I have any letter during the day, so I called my mother: "Mom, come and see, someone is getting married and passing by our door." ”

My mother was cooking dinner at the time, and she ran out of the house to see the excitement with a curious face, she came to the gate to take a look, and found that there was a figure in the empty street, she thought I was lying to her, and immediately gave me a slap in the ass, and scolded: "Little rabbit cub, how can anyone get married?" Are you talking about who in our Daliu Village can not give you a letter from your father if they get married? ”

I glanced at the greeting procession in front of the door, and I was anxious, and stretched out my hand to point to the bride's sedan chair and said, "I didn't lie to you, Mom, you look at it with wide eyes, this sedan chair is here." ”

Just as I was explaining to my mother, the people in the sedan chair seemed to hear a voice, the red curtain was lifted, and a bride wearing a phoenix crown stuck out her head.

She looked at me a few times, covered half of her face with a handkerchief, smiled at me, then lowered the curtain again, and then the sedan chair slowly drove off into the distance.

I said to my mother again, "You should believe it this time, did you see it, the bride smiled at me just now." ”

My mother didn't think I was telling a lie, so she looked at the empty street again, saw nothing, and her face was a little ugly, she closed the door without saying a word, and then took me by the arm and went into the house.

When I returned to the house, my mother was not allowed to go out to play in the mud, so I stayed in the house honestly, and was not allowed to go out without her permission, so I went back to the kitchen to cook on the fire.

During dinner, our family of three sat on the kang to eat, and the countryside had just been electrified in those days, but there was no TV, not even a radio, and in the dim light, I chatted with my father while eating.

My mother was the only one who didn't say anything, and she bowed her head to eat alone, and my father noticed her abnormality and asked, "Xiulian, what's wrong with you, why don't you say something, is there anything uncomfortable?" Why don't I call a doctor? ”

"I'm fine, it's just that today's double happiness is a bit abnormal." My mother put down her chopsticks, and with a worried face, she began to tell my father about what I encountered outside the gate, and at the end, she asked, "Guohua, did you say that the child saw something dirty?" ”

After hearing this, my father's face was not very good-looking, so he asked me: "Shuangxi, you tell your father the truth, do you really see someone getting married and passing by outside the gate of our house?" ”

I nodded and said, "I have nothing to do to lie to you, the groom is riding a big horse, and the bride is sitting in a big sedan chair, but it is magnificent, who is getting married?" Why don't they call us home? ”

At that time, if there was a happy event in anyone's family, the people in the village would go to the busy (help work), the men helped to carry the tables and chairs, set up the cauldron, and the women went to help wash the vegetables, brush the pots and pans and other work, and we children went to that house in groups of three or five to play, and ate with their parents at night.

My dad frowned tightly when he heard what I said, and said to my mother: "I haven't heard the letter from ten miles and eight villages, saying that whoever is married, besides, now the bride is picked up by donkey carts, and rich people use four-wheeled people, how can there be a sedan chair, that is the practice of ancient times, maybe Shuangxi really sees dirty things." ”

When my mother heard this, she was so frightened that she almost dropped the bowl on the kang, so she asked my father if the child was okay when he saw the dirty things, and he wouldn't get sick or something.

My dad comforted my mom and said it was okay, there were many strange things in the countryside, and there were more evil things than what Shuangxi saw.

He also said that if Shuangxi really has a fever, it will be fine, and tomorrow I will go to Wang Pozi to take a look, ask her to draw a talisman and burn it to ashes, and give Shuangxi a drink.

Mrs. Wang is a famous goddess in our village, if a child sees something that should not be seen, or bumps into an old man who has passed away, he will get sick and have a fever, then he will go to Mrs. Wang to ask for a spiritual talisman, and when he comes back, he will burn it to ashes and drink the water.

When my mother heard my dad say this, she made up her mind, and the previous gloom was swept away, and our family of three began to eat with laughter and laughter.

The next morning, my mother got up and made breakfast, and my father sat at the door of the house to smoke dry tobacco.

When I opened my eyes, I felt my head swelling and muddy, so I said to my mother, my head is foggy and uncomfortable, you let me sleep again.

My mom reached out and touched my forehead and found it hot, and it was burning with fire, and with an oops, she hurriedly called my dad to go.

As soon as my father came into the house and touched my forehead, he said that I had a fever, and when he thought of the strange thing I encountered yesterday, he didn't have time to eat, so he ran to Mrs. Wang's house to ask for a talisman without saying a word.

By the time he retrieved the talisman, I was already unconscious, my eyes closed, and I was lying motionless under the covers.

My mom fetched a bowl of water and burned the talisman to ashes, and my dad picked me up, opened his mouth, and poured the talisman water down.

After I was done, the two of them guarded me, my mom kept wiping my forehead with a wet towel, and my dad kept stomping his feet in the house.

It lasted until noon, when I finally woke up with a fever, shook my head, and found that it didn't hurt at all, and I ate two large bowls of rice like no one.

My parents were relieved to see that the fever had subsided, and they praised Mrs. Wang's spiritual talisman for being really divine, and it was more effective than the doctor's medicine.

Seeing that I was well, my parents thought I was fine, and after lunch, they told me a few words not to run around, and the two of them went to the fields with hoes on their shoulders.

Not long after they left, I climbed over the wall and went to my neighbor's house to find iron pillars to play, and the walls in the countryside were all piled up with yellow mud and broken grass, and they were not high, so I jumped over them.

Tiezhu's father is called Zhang Daniu, in addition to doing farm work in the field, he has nothing to do when he is idle to tinker with foreign cannons or something, the small animals in the mountains have not made him a scourge, and Tiezhu has also inherited his father's fine tradition, at this time he is holding a slingshot, and he is looking up at the sparrows in the trees with his head tilted in the yard.