Guo Jiefang pulled the burning ashes, and the ashes were scattered on the ground, shining with a little spark! The sky is like a stage covered with a huge curtain, with stars high and blinking cold, strange eyes! The bonfire burns, emitting a compelling heat. Everyone sat around and talked about inconsequential gossip. Guo Jiefang was bored, and begged Lao Liang to tell everyone a story. Lao Liang Touer also felt that the long night was slow and unbearable, so he agreed to tell a story to relieve his boredom!

Lao Liang coughed twice, and then filled the tobacco bag and pot with tobacco leaves, and then opened his mouth: "The story I told me······ It took place during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. Between Beijing and Shengjing, north out of Shanhaiguan, more than 70 miles away from Ningyuan City, there is such a small town called Qijiaji.

Although Qijiaji is small, it is better in terms of location. Here is bordered by the customs in the north, the Central Plains in the south, backed by the sea, and overlooking the Mongolian Plateau! It is a traffic hub that extends in all directions. Therefore, there are many businessmen here, and the travel is dense, so it is a prosperous scenery outside the customs!

It is precisely because of the prosperity of the market here that many craftsmen in the customs often bring their families to this place to beg for a living, and there is one such pastemaker!

The pastemaker's surname is Zhao, and his name is rich. In the early years, he took his children and daughters from the Guannai thousands of miles away, came here to make a living, and opened a pasting shop in this Qijia set, named "Tianshoutang", specializing in pasting paper people, paper horses, gold mountains, silver mountains, burning and burying funeral and other things.

Although the shop is small and profitable, Zhao Youcai is careful in his calculations, and he is skilled, and the mounting paper furniture is vivid, and gradually in this Qi family set is famous far and wide, and it is also the first place in the pasting line, and everyone knows it for a while!

This "Tianshoutang" has been open in the Qi family for nearly 20 years, and Zhao Youcai has also changed from a sturdy man from a foreign country to a frail old man with sideburns dyed with autumn frost! Although Zhao Youcai does not worry about food and clothing, he has not been comfortable in recent years. This is all because his wife He only gave birth to a girl, and did not give birth to another child for him!

He often thinks while holding the paper figure, will I have to bring my skills into the coffin? He was unwilling, first he begged God to worship the Buddha, sought medical advice, and then he thought, maybe I should have no son in my life! But I don't have a good job, I shouldn't be broken!

So he took in a few apprentices, watched coldly, and found that none of these apprentices were of his heart. Just when he was worried and sighed, this winter, there was a heavy snowfall. Zhao Youcai opened the door at dawn and found that he was lying stiff in front of the door all the way. Though he was doing the business of the dead, he was kind-hearted, and without saying a word, he commanded his disciples to carry them into the house.

After pouring a few bowls of ginger soup, he finally rescued the man, let the man eat, and washed his face, only then did he realize that he had saved a half-sized child. The half-grown boy looks very ugly, but his eyes are bright. Zhao Youcai groped through the ugly boy's head and asked him, how did he sleep at the door of his house? When the ugly boy heard this, he couldn't help but let out a loud cry of grief, and said something intermittently!

It turned out that this ugly boy's name was Gouwa, and his father and mother died when he was eight years old, and he was helpless and begging······ On this day, he walked to Qijiaji, because of the heavy snow for several days, he couldn't support it anymore, so he fell at the door of Zhao Youcai's house.

Zhao Youcai sighed and sighed, let the dog baby rest for a night, and wrapped him some dry food and fruits the next morning, wanting him to join relatives and friends and find a way to live! I don't want the dog baby to kowtow like pounding garlic, crying that he has no relatives and no reason, and he will be frozen to death by the cold when he goes out, and begged Zhao Youcai to take him in, and said: "Carry water, chop wood, sprinkle water, and clean without sparing any effort, but ask for a meal!" ”。

Zhao Youcai was originally a bodhisattva, and when he saw that the dog baby was strong and healthy, and his mouth was flexible, he liked it a little, and after a little groaning, he left the dog baby and accepted him as an apprentice! He also said to him: "Although the name of the dog baby is good, but let's open the door to do business, the picture is a good lottery, today you enter my door, I will change your name to be good?" Seeing that Zhao Youcai had left him, the dog baby was already happy, and nodded in agreement. Zhao Youcai is a craftsman, and he really has no knowledge in his stomach, so he held back for a long time before he said: "In the future, you will be called Laifu, isn't it more festive than ······a dog baby?" ”。

In the blink of an eye, Laifu got up early in the Zhao family, worked diligently, and cleaned up the huge "Tianshoutang" cleanly and properly. In his spare time, he watched his master work on pasting paper.

One day, Zhao Youcai went out to work and did not return for a few days. A new rich man died in the town, and he was anxious to ask for paper figures, paper horses and other things. The apprentices in the family didn't dare to get started, for fear that the main family would not be satisfied and smashed the signboard! Shiniang He's family is a woman's family, and she is so anxious that she doesn't know what to do. Laifu volunteered, saying that he would frame paper figures and paper horses. He didn't believe it, Laifu tied and pasted on the spot, and in a blink of an eye, it became a paper horse, and the paper horse was vivid, as if it was alive, and everyone was amazed!

Zhao Youcai came back to ask, and Laifu said that when he saw the master working in his spare time, the apprentice secretly wrote it down! Zhao Youcai was shocked and suspected of being a god! Since then, I have not used it to do miscellaneous work, but have concentrated on practicing my craft with him.

In a few years, Zhao Youcai poured his money into his pockets, and his skills made great progress, and he was better than the blue. In a few years, Zhao Youcai became more and more old, and he discussed with the He family to recruit Fu as a son-in-law to inherit the mantle. Although He thinks that Laifu is ugly, but the woman has three virtues, and this first virtue is the husband, so He had to agree.

After Laifu got married, Zhao Youcai handed over the "Tianshoutang" to him to operate, and he and He lived for a long time. In another five years, the husband and wife died one after another, and only the two husbands and wives of Laifu were left in the "Tianshoutang".

Laifu has a wooden personality and is not good at words. His daughter-in-law Cuilian is able to speak well and is exquisite, so bargaining on this "Tianshoutang" ushered in the send-off, all kinds of miscellaneous things, all by Cuilian alone to ······!

It is said that this Cuilian and Laifu have been married for five or six years, and they have no children under their knees. The husband and wife inevitably contradict each other. Cuilian didn't come to the good fortune, but because of her parents' orders and matchmakers' words, she didn't dare to disobey. After the death of his parents, no one took care of him, and he gradually showed his arrogance and indulgence, and he hated that he was blessed with dark skin and could not speak sweetly, so that he was so old that he wasted his life, isn't it a sigh? Cuilian is merry by nature, and within a few days, she hooked up with the town's pranky Niu Er and became an adulterer, this matter is well known, and only one person is hidden from Laifu!

He has dozens of thugs under his command, all like wolves and tigers, extorting merchants and shops, and beating people half to death if they don't agree with each other. Because Niu Er's eldest brother sits on the throne of the county in the county, no one dares to take care of it locally, so he has become a tyrant in the Qi family set, and those who are afraid call him a big worm!

Niu Da Worm has nothing to do, and only stays in the flower street wine shop. On this day, he was full of wine and food, and a group of fox friends and dogs were rampage on the street, and inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of Cuilian going out to see off guests. When he saw Cuilian's graceful appearance and handsome appearance, he was stunned on the spot. Everyone in his companions laughed at him, the evil ghost in the color, hopeless!

Since Niu Daworm saw Cuilian, he didn't think about tea and dinner all day, and he couldn't sit still, and when his subordinates saw him like this, they came up with an idea to let him pretend to be a patron and see his face. The cow insect was overjoyed when he heard this, and acted according to the plan. Niu Da Worm was originally born with a lofty spirit, and deliberately modified, since he was more than a hundred times stronger than Laifu, he gave his spiritual teeth, talked and laughed, and coaxed Cuilian to giggle ······!

Who is this Cuilian? That's also a delicate heart, two ghost eyes. When she saw that the cow was suave and had a lot of gold on her body, she was already confused and overjoyed. The two of them went back and forth, and finally rolled to one place!

At first, the two were also sneaking around, avoiding people's eyes. But how can there be an impermeable wall? After a long time, everyone knows about the neighbors, but because of the obscenity of the cow and the big worm, everyone does not dare to confide in Laifu.

Laifu often goes out, and he puts his mind to studying the craft, but he doesn't notice what the two of them are doing. On this day, Laifu came back from doing work outside, walked to the door of his house, and suddenly heard the old man Ding called himself, the owner of the fabric shop opposite the door, Laifu felt strange, because although he lived with the old man Ding on the opposite side, but he did not have a deep friendship, what did he tell himself to do? Old man Ding hurried to grab Laifu in three steps and two steps, and invited him to go to the drunken moon upstairs to drink together. It's been three days since Laifu went out, how can he drink at this time? He thanked Old Man Ding and insisted on going home.

Old man Ding couldn't, so he had to let him go. Laifu pushed open the courtyard door, saw that the bedroom door was closed, and the window was covered with a curtain, and his heart suddenly "popped", thinking: "What is she doing when she closes the door on this sunny day?" ”。 Suspicious, he went down to the window and listened to the movement in the house. I heard a man and a woman in the room laughing, and the man asked the woman, "How am I better than your ugly husband?" ”。 The woman giggled and said, "How can his dead ghost compare to you?" He is a stone in the pit, and you are the flesh and ······ in the heart of the slave! ”。

Laifu listened to the woman's voice, it was his wife, and his anger was not trivial. You must know that although this blessing is cowardly by nature, the natives still have a bit of a muddy nature. He picked up the axe used to chop wood in the courtyard, kicked it on the door, and shouted at the house: "······ Phew······ What a shameless pair of dog men and women······ Get out of the house and get out of the house······ Otherwise, I'm going to call someone······!" ”。

The laughter in the house stopped abruptly, and after a while, the sound of rustling began to be the movement of dogs and men in the house, dressed and wearing hats······ Laifu became more and more annoyed, and the door panel kicked "Woo Woo" mountain sound!

The old man Ding on the other side of the door ran into the courtyard at some point, grabbed Laifu and persuaded: "Laifu······ Rifle ······ Don't kick it····· Go to my house for a drink······ Suppress the heart fire······ What's the matter······ I'll talk about ······ tomorrow! ”。

Laifu was furious, shook off Old Man Ding's hand, and scolded loudly: "What kind of bastard are you talking about? Do you want me to be a turtle bastard like this······ for no reason? I want to see who the adulterer is on this roof. ”。