The woman who hanged herself, her stomach grumbled a few times, and then she let out a soft moan, and the old wine worm looked at it and said, "Okay, this fate has been picked up, a few people will carry her to the carriage, go back to the village to recuperate, and I will prescribe a few sticks of Chinese medicine." ”

After the old wine worm said this, everyone said that the old wine worm is a living fairy, and the old wine worm should be treated, and then the son of the evil mother-in-law came, and then gave the old wine worm a strong kowtow, and then turned around and kowtowed to us, and we had to go to his house with the old wine worm to thank him in person, this clock Da Biao spoke, and said the man fiercely, and then carried his mother and daughter-in-law into the carriage, the young man, took us back to the village, on the way I asked to understand, this man is called step-ancestor, his father died early, his mother did not remarry, and he was the master of the house at home, The family has 30 acres of good land, and life is okay.

His daughter-in-law was brought by a deserter a few years ago, and when she came to them, she was really hungry, so she volunteered to go to his house as a child daughter-in-law, and their family gave the family two buckets of wheat and signed a life and death contract. This is the old society, a bucket of wheat is about sixteen catties, and human life is worth two buckets of wheat, so at that time, the peasants collected three or five buckets more, and they wanted to marry a concubine to inherit the incense, which is still very reasonable.

We arrived at the house of our step-ancestors, and saw that this family was also a big family with high walls, a tall gatehouse, we arrived at the door of the house, and the lively people followed behind, some people begged the old wine worm to cure the disease, and the old wine worm arched his hand and said: "Fellow villagers, my old wine worm is all over the world, since there is a cure here, I will live here for a few days, give everyone a good treatment, everyone help carry people back, and then they all return home, and when I have drunk enough wine, I have enough alcohol addiction, I will see a doctor for everyone." ”

After saying that, Lao Zhangtou pulled the carriage into the courtyard, and everyone went up and carried the people down, and then left a few people, and the others went back. At this time, an old man came over, claiming to be the family of the step-grandfather, and asked the step-ancestor to quickly order someone to buy a banquet, at this time the old wine worm hugged the jar of unfinished wine and said: "What dishes are not dishes, my old man's favorite is the things in this cup, and I am enough to have this thing." ”

After finishing speaking, he picked up the wine jar and took a sip, and then said: "Good wine, good wine, happy and happy." Then he stared at the wine jar in the car and said, "You definitely don't like to drink these jars of wine, do you?" ”

As he spoke, his eyes were staring at the wine jar, just now the fairy wind bones and the domineering spirit when he was curing the disease, there was no more at all, now he was like a child who saw candy, he was hungry and spitted at the mouth, smacking his teeth, this clock Da Biao passed, and said to the old wine worm: "Old man, since you like this wine so much, we will leave a jar, and give the rest to you, do you think this is good?" ”

When the old wine worm heard this, he hurriedly hugged another wine jar and said, "Really, then I will laugh and accept it, don't worry, my old man said that if you drink your wine for nothing, I will definitely repay you." ”

I said, "I don't need to repay you, old man. ”

The old wine worm said, "Then what can I do, this is a treasure of yours, I took your treasure, how can I not repay it." By the way, I've got something for you. ”

As he spoke, he put down the wine, took two gourds, and then handed them to Mao Qinglian's hand and said, "Girl, you take it, this gourd is used for healing, dissolving stasis and reducing swelling, relieving pain and stopping bleeding." It is used for fall injuries, blood stasis pain, traumatic bleeding. One is the detoxification pill, which can detoxify all kinds of poisons, and these two medicines are made by me traveling around the world and collecting herbs. ”

Saying this, Mao Qinglian was startled, took a few steps back, and I hurriedly went over to play the round and said: "Old man, you must have been mistaken, my third brother is a man, I think you are drunk, and the old eyes are dizzy." ”

The old wine worm smiled and said: "I saw it wrong, I saw it wrong, the mouth is wrong in this world, but the heart can't be wrong, you hold these things of mine, although it is not a priceless treasure, but it is also a panacea, and it is difficult to find it in the world." ”

I said, "Then thank you, old man." ”

The old wine worm picked up the jar of unsealed wine and said, "No thanks, no thanks, you have given me such valuable things, and my two gourds are nothing." ”

Talking and picked up the wine jar and drank a sip of wine, at this time the step-ancestor had already let people make a banquet, let us go over to eat, we looked at a table of dishes, although it is a peasant dish, but there are large pieces of meat, large bowls of vegetables, peppers, salt and the like, put it just right, we Shandong people are sincere, hospitality people are like this, there are not many tricks, in the old saying, that is to pull gluttony, pepper salt, the taste is a bit heavy, the dish is as thick as the character of the year.

We were eating, then we saw the daughter-in-law coming, now the little daughter-in-law does not have the terrifying appearance just now, although the face is still white, but the lips are a little ruddy, this little daughter-in-law looks good, big eyes and double eyelids, apricot eyes, melon seed face, this kind of now, that is a big beauty, but in that era, but not welcome, at that time everyone likes the plate face, she came from outside the door, kowtow to us, a strong thank us for saving our lives,

Her voice was very small and hoarse, and she cried as she spoke, and when she saw that her daughter-in-law was crying, she hurriedly went up to comfort her, and the little daughter-in-law choked up and said: "Step-ancestor, I am bitter in my heart, and the only thing I remember this time is you, otherwise I won't come back." ”

When the step-ancestor heard this, he was like a child, and he cried with his daughter-in-law, and then the old wine worm said, "What kind of business is it that you cry like this, you have something to say, and I will call the shots for you, old wine worm." ”

The little daughter-in-law said: "Then I said, I am from Henan, a few years ago my hometown in Henan suffered from drought, the family really had no choice, so I came out to ask for food, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, those boundaries in Henan have been affected, we can only come to Shandong to ask for food, when the food is going to come here, our family is hungry."

At that time, my father discussed with me and said, "Nizi, our family is going to starve to death, and if this continues, our family will probably starve to death, so it is better to find a way for you to live." ”

I said, "What way to live?" ”

My mother said: "I discussed with your father last night, your sister, as far as you are good-looking, we, we discussed to make you ......"

I said, "Mother, what should I do?" ”

"Let you find a family here to be a mother-in-law, how can we not only order food to grow food back, but also have one less mouth."

After my father said this, he squatted there holding his head and didn't speak, I felt that the world was spinning, and I cried there, but in the end, I looked at the hungry sisters a few times, and I could only agree, and my father found someone to ask who lacked a daughter-in-law. On the second day, someone said that there was a family that wanted to adopt a child daughter-in-law, that is, the woman in charge of the family, and her reputation was not very good, but the family had 30 acres of good land, and she did not have to worry about eating in the past.

My father said the middle of the sentence, and then sent me here, no matter how I cried, it was in vain, my mother-in-law gave my family two buckets of wheat, my father carried back to his hometown, looking at their backs, I couldn't cry, in the end, I wanted to marry a chicken with a chicken and a dog with a dog, or live here with peace of mind.

It is said that my mother-in-law is evil, evil mother-in-law, my mother-in-law is even more so, it was okay at the beginning, but then it showed its original form, and before dawn, let me get up and grind, make pancakes, so much firewood at home, and torture me, let me go to collect firewood. After the round house, it was still like this, every day I was forced to go to the persimmon forest that was only the bones of the dead to pick up firewood, and my step-ancestor felt sorry for me, so he secretly helped me, but every time as long as the mother-in-law knew, she scolded.

One day I went to collect firewood, and saw a section of sawn wood in the persimmon forest, I was a little strange, this is whose wood was sawed down, just to keep it home to make a cutting board, so I went home with my step-grandfather, pulled the wood home, and after going home, I told my mother-in-law, my mother-in-law was not angry, and asked my step-grandfather to pull it to the carpenter's house to make a plank, but because of this plank, something terrible happened to our family. ”