Chapter 42: Tiger Mom
Wang Laodao's plan is to take Wang Xiaobai to practice for two months, Wang Xiaobai is very worried that the five hundred yuan is not enough, but soon he found that there is no need for money, Wang Laodao took him to eat and sleep, walked to that and that, sleepy, took out a sheet from the backpack, spread it on the ground to sleep, hungry to find some wild fruits, roots, pick some mushrooms, fungus, pick some firewood, set up a fire, cook it and eat, thirsty river water, river water, stream water, do not need to spend a penny.
In the middle of June, the weather is already hot, and it is okay to sleep on the ground, but there are more mosquitoes, so I am not afraid, chant mantras, there are wild beasts in remote places, it doesn't matter, chant mantras, occasionally one or two meals can't eat, it doesn't matter, chant mantras...... Wang Xiaobai felt as if he was going to take the Long March again, but Wang Laodao told him that this was called returning to nature.
The advantage of returning to nature is that Wang Xiaobai has tempered his mind, difficulties are always there, if you want to go on, you have to solve difficulties, and get used to difficulties, Wang Xiaobai, who has the squeamishness of modern people, after a week, the squeamishness on his body is gone, the disadvantage is that there is no squeamishness, there is a smell, after all, it is inconvenient to take a bath in the wilderness, and he has to follow Wang Laodao to practice Taoism every day, and his body is sweating, and he gradually has a taste.
Wang Xiaobai, who is accustomed to personal hygiene every day, is not used to it, but there is water everywhere, so he can only endure it, Wang Laodao does not mention the third level, and specifically looks for a remote place to walk, go up the mountain, go down the river, go to the north for a while, and go eastward for a while, they are almost to the border, Wang Xiaobai is very incomprehensible, what is Wang Laodao going to do? Is it possible to go to Russia?
Wang Laodao didn't explain, stopped and stopped, kept pointing Wang Xiaobai, half a month passed in a blink of an eye, this afternoon came to a small mountain village, the village is very small, more than 100 households, except for some left-behind old people and children, basically no one left, came to this village because Wang Laodao has no cigarettes to smoke, and wants to buy two boxes of cigarettes.
Wang Laodao is very addicted to smoking, with Wang Xiaobai in addition to buying cigarettes, basically do not go to crowded places, the two of them feel wrong as soon as they enter the village, the whole village can not see people, but there is a sound of call sign on the right, walk towards the direction of the sound, close to find a family in the east of the village, the whole village seems to have gathered.
This is a very small family, with a small courtyard, two dilapidated tiled houses, the courtyard is crowded with people, men, women and children, and there are children who come to see the excitement.
The door of the room was wide open, and on the kang sat a girl of eight or nine years old, whose face was covered by locks of long hair, and whose facial features could not be seen clearly, was dressed in a red single coat, and her throat grunted...... The rude and weird sound was like the feeling of a seventy or eighty-year-old man who couldn't get up with phlegm.
Seven or eight middle-aged men were crowded in the courtyard, and among them, there was an old man in his sixties who was wearing clothes, cigarettes, and liberation hats, and at first glance he was an old man in his sixties like the village chief, who commanded with one hand on his waist: "Li Laosan, Zhao Laosi, Xiaozhu...... What are you doing standing stupidly, go and hold down the cow girl, if you don't hold this girl, he will kill himself, and he can't ask for it......"
said that they were in the prime of life, basically all men in their thirties and forties, and those who could go out of the young people went out to work, seven or eight men were guarding the door, their faces were scratched with blood, they were all panting, and they looked quite embarrassed, the girl in the house should be a left-behind child, her grandmother was half lying in the yard, crying loudly: "Old Zhao Village Chief, you can save our daughter, she is only nine years old, her parents are working outside, this is going to happen, how can I explain......"
In this case, a clear-eyed person can see that her house is an evil spirit, Wang Xiaobai couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wang Laodao, Wang Laodao frowned and didn't speak, but his eyes were shiny and shiny.
"Uncle Zhao, we can't hold it back, you see Niu Yanhui scratching us, she is evil, let's find someone to watch things, we can't ......"
"If you can't hold it, you have to hold it, come and help if you have the heart!" Uncle Zhao is old and strong, the cigarette bag and pot are put in the coat pocket, and when he enters the house, he will do it, and a few old men can just look at it, and follow into the house, Uncle Zhao just entered the house, Niu Yanhui, who was only nine years old, raised his head, his face was pale, his eyes flashed with a strange red, she opened her big mouth and smiled, her front teeth were pitch black, and the cheeks on both sides of her mouth were full of blood.
Uncle Zhao stretched out his hand to grab it, and the sudden change happened, Niu Yanhui, who was originally low, jumped up from the pit suddenly, and made a sharp and weird sound from his mouth, the harshness of the iron scraper: "The old Niu girl, damn it, this matter has nothing to do with you, get out of here," suddenly jumped down from the pit and pushed Uncle Zhao violently.
Niu Yanhui not only looked weird, but also had a lot of strength, pushing an old Uncle Zhao upside down and flying out, if it weren't for a few men behind him, he would have to fall hard, one of the strong guys hurriedly took over, but Niu Yanhui jumped up, grabbed the strong guy's hair and threw it out.
The door is so big, only nine-year-old Niu Yanhui is weird and doesn't like words, the guy fell and lay at the door for a while and couldn't get up, the door was blocked, and he couldn't get in at all, Niu Yanhui's cat-like limbs jumped to the kang, jumped next to the quilt on the kang, looked at the person at the door with a weird smile, and giggled...... Weird laughter.
This scene at Lao Niu's house made all the people watching the excitement gasp and exclaim, Wang Xiaobai asked Wang Lao Dao in a low voice: "Master, let's take care of this matter?" ”
"Wait, I haven't seen what is in this child's body, it's a little strange, this child has a fishy smell, but it's not possessed by a wild fairy, it's a bit interesting......"
It's all at this time, what's the point? Wang Xiaobai asked anxiously in a low voice, "Master, is the little girl fascinated by wild things?" ”
"No, definitely not, I haven't seen what it is, I'll see!"
Wang Laodao wanted to take another look, but Niu Yanhui suddenly screamed: "I will harm the daughter of the old Niu family, I will harm the daughter of the old Niu family......" After repeating it several times, he rolled his eyes widely, and turned all the black eyes over, and then put his thumb into his mouth, gnawed it, and the blood flowed down the corners of his mouth, but he was still gurgling...... Weird smile.
Wang Laodao's face changed, and he said to Wang Xiaobai: "It's a tiger mother!" ”
Hearing the four words tiger mother, Wang Xiaobai was a little confused, he was too familiar with tiger mother, not only he was familiar, but also the children in the three eastern provinces were familiar, when he was a child, if he didn't sleep well at night, grandparents, parents and parents would be angry and said to the children: "Sleep well, don't sleep well, tiger mother will catch you...... Obedient, if you are disobedient, the tiger mother has caught you! ”
Tiger Mom is simply a lingering shadow and nightmare of childhood, about Tiger Mom, there are many legends and versions in the Northeast, Wang Xiaobai has heard the version is like this, saying that there was a family in the past, the man in the family died early, the widow lived with three daughters, although the family was poor, but the small life was still good.
One day, grandma's birthday, the mother went to grandma's house, and when she left, she told the three children to close the door tightly, and outsiders told the door not to open, to take care of each other, and the three children agreed in unison,
Mother met a tiger spirit who had not yet cultivated on the way, her name was Tiger Mother, and when she met her mother, she ate it, and that night it was pitch black, and she couldn't see her fingers, and there was a strong wind, and the treetops were blown whirring. The mother did not come back, and the three sisters closed the door and snuggled up to each other, all hoping that their mother would come back soon.
After the tiger mother ate her mother, she knew that she still had three daughters, so she moved and ate them all, and the tiger mother put on the dead mother's clothes, pinned her tail to the top, and wore a scarf on her head, and came to the house, but the door was closed very tightly, and the tiger mother couldn't get in, so she knocked on the door: "I'm back, it's your mother, open the door for me!" ”
The eldest daughter felt that something was wrong, and her voice was too rough, not like her mother's voice, so she replied, "You are not our mother, so I can't open the door for you!" ”
The tiger mother was a little anxious, and shouted again: "Second daughter, second daughter, Mom loves you the most, open the door for Mom!" ”
The second girl also felt that something was wrong, looked out along the crack in the door, saw the hair on the face of the tiger mother, and replied: "You have hair on your face, it's not my mother, I can't open the door for you!" ”
The tiger mother was very persistent, pinched her throat, covered her face, and continued to shout: "Three, three girls, open the door for Mom, it's too cold outside, I'm about to freeze to death, open the door quickly......"
The third child was the kindest, and listened to the tiger mother say that it was pitiful, so he opened the door, and the tiger mother entered, and lay down on the bed, saying that she was too tired, and then let the three daughters also go to bed, and the three girls really thought that the mother was back, and they all lay on the bed, and in the second half of the night, the tiger mother was hungry, and took out one of their mother's toes and toes and ate it.
Gaba Gaba Gaba...... The voice was particularly crisp, and the third child was woken up and asked, "Mom, what are you eating?" ”
The tiger mother said: "Your grandmother gave me some hazelnuts, and I knocked the hazelnuts." ”
The third girl asked again: "Mom, why do you have so much hair on your body?" ”
The tiger mother said: "Your grandmother gave me a sheepskin jacket, and I wore it backwards!" ”
"Mom! So why do you still have long tails? ”
The tiger mother hates the third child very much, just wanted to catch the third child and take a bite, the eldest and the second child heard that something was wrong, and dragged the third child to run outside, there was a big poplar tree outside the house, and the three sisters climbed up, the tiger mother could not climb the tree, and hurriedly turned around under the tree, shouting: "Big girl, second girl, little third girl, drag me up!" ”
The three sisters thought of a way and said to the tiger mother under the tree, "You sit in the wicker basket, and the three of us will drag you up with ropes." The tiger mother didn't think much about it, according to the method of the three sisters, found a wicker basket and sat in, and found a rope to tie to the wicker basket, and threw it to the three sisters on the tree.
It is said that after the tiger mother fell to her death, in the spring of the following year, a Chinese cabbage grew under the poplar tree.