Chapter 7 Where the Soul Returns Gui Ying called her granddaughter at night
After Xu Guiying's mother and daughter returned home, they reported the results of Geng Banxian's divination. Zhu Xinghua was skeptical of this result, but when he heard that his granddaughter was not possessed by a ghost, he sighed; The Zhu Yuzhen sisters and brothers disagreed with this conclusion and even scoffed at it, they felt ashamed and sad for having such a stubborn mother who believed in charlatanism.
Xu Guiying ignored everyone's gossip. She went into the bedroom and took a Jingjing sweatshirt, and then asked, "Which one will go to Gongjiaba with me?" Everyone was surprised and asked, "What time is it?" Mom, you're not confused, are you? Xu Guiying said categorically: "Don't shout now, it's useless to shout during the day, and you can't shout." If you are seen by the bad guys in the team, do you want a future? ”
Seeing that the children were standing still, Xu Guiying picked up the flashlight and walked out the door. Zhu Xinghua shouted: "How many of you still don't follow your mother? Is it impossible for Lao Tzu to go? The brothers and sisters had no choice but to change into sneakers and reluctantly follow their mother to Gonggongba.
As soon as she arrived at the bank of the Gonglaoba River, Xu Guiying began to call faintly: "Jingjing, grandma took you home!" Obedient, our family is gone! We're here! When the brothers and sisters of all families saw their mother calling so carelessly, they couldn't help but want to laugh one by one; But because of their mother's majesty and even more intimidated by their mother's piety, they suddenly felt that their mother was so hard-working, so pitiful, and they were so unfilial as children. Zhu Yushan began to sob, and then Zhu Yuzhen, Zhu Zhihui and Zhu Zhicheng were also strongly infected...... They called out one after another: "Jingjing's house has gone!" Jingjing's house went! ”
The family kept shouting, "Jingjing's family has gone", and walked in the direction of home. When she arrived at the door, Xu Guiying asked the people in the house loudly: "Is Jingjing's family here?" Zhu Xinghua replied with understanding: "Jingjing's family is here!" Xu Guiying asked three times, and Zhu Xinghua also answered three times.
Walking into the house, Xu Guiying put the undershirt in her hand on Wen Jing's body. She then washed her hands with soap and then lit three sticks of incense and inserted them into the incense burner in front of the statue of the Stove. The statue of the god of the stove is actually an old, greasy and faded New Year's painting, and it is difficult for everyone to preserve it to this day.
After offering incense, Xu Guiying found the futon that had bowed to Guanyin Bodhisattva countless times in the middle of the night, and bowed down to the god of the stove with the same pious mood, in order to pray for the blessing of the god of the stove to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters. At the age of 50, her body was completely fat, and it was not easy to kneel down and get up again, but she relied on the support of her hands to fulfill the requirement of kneeling three times.
After worshipping the god of the stove, Xu Guiying took out a bowl and put it on the stove, filled half a bowl of water, and then took three chopsticks together, and erected the three chopsticks in the bowl with his fingers. She shouted "Jingjing's house is here" while grabbing water from the bowl and pouring chopsticks from top to bottom...... After about two or three minutes, Xu Guiying's eyes lit up - the three chopsticks actually stood straight in the bowl! The success of "Standing Water Bowl" indicates the success of "Shouting Soul", Jingjing's real home is here!
Xu Guiying immediately carefully walked to Wen Jing's bedside with the bowl in her hand, turned around her head three times, and then took out the chopsticks and placed them next to her pillow.
By the time all this was over, it was already the middle of the night, and everyone was sleepy with yawns, so they hurriedly washed and fell asleep one by one.
The next day, when the sun was on the third pole, Xu Guiying woke up groggily, and she was too tired after not closing her eyes well for several days. When she woke up to find that her husband was gone, and her granddaughter was gone, she suddenly had blood in her head, and she ran out of the room before she had time to put on her slippers......
At this time, Wen Jing was playing with the three chopsticks on the table in the living room. When she saw her grandmother getting up, she asked, "Did my grandmother put the chopsticks next to my pillow for me to play with?" She beckoned her grandmother to see a triangle she had made with three chopsticks, and then said: "Jingjing lives in Xiaoyizhuang, Dad lives in Meichi, and Mom lives in Paitou ......" Xu Guiying looked at this scene in a daze, suddenly had a sour nose, and hugged Wen Jing tightly in her arms.
It turned out that Wen Jing woke up the earliest in the morning, and then everyone got up one after another, and when they saw Xu Guiying snoring, they didn't call her. After breakfast, Zhu Xinghua took Zhu Yuzhen to work at the bus station, while Zhu Yushan went to the school to teach, and Zhu Zhihui and Zhu Zhicheng were playing and chatting outside the house...... Xu Guiying suddenly felt that such a normal and orderly day had not been seen for a long time.
Guanyin Bodhisattva has finally appeared!
In the afternoon, Xu Guiying went to the Chinese medicine store of the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a penny of cinnabar according to Uncle Geng's care. She took an ear of cinnabar, wrapped it in a thin piece of paper, and then cut a small piece of red silk to wrap the paper bag; Then, she used a red rope to string the cinnabar bag to make a beautiful pendant, so that Wen Jing hung it around her neck against her skin. It is said that only by allowing the medicinal qi of cinnabar to penetrate the skin can it have the effect of calming the nerves and souls.
When Xu Guiying was making cinnabar bags, she kindly asked Wen Jing how she fell into the merit dam that day and how she climbed up. Wen Jing said: "That day, I was squatting on the bank of the Gonggong Dam to watch the little fish eating river grass, and a person passed by me; Baal, who was in the distance, suddenly roared at the man, and I was startled and fell into the river...... I grabbed the thatch and climbed up. But how I got home, I can't remember. ”
"If you fall into the river, if you don't see it, you'll drown like those little puppies! Aren't you afraid of death? Xu Guiying continued to ask.
"Doesn't it hurt to die? But I'm not going to drown, because I love water and fish! I really want to be a little fish that can swim around in the water. Wen Jing imagined excitedly.
"If you want to be a little fish, you have to learn how to swim! Catch Ming'er and ask your uncle to teach you how to swim. But you have to promise your grandmother that you will not be allowed to go to the river alone from now on? If you don't obey again, grandma will have to call your mother to pick you up! ”
"I don't want to go back to Zhuji, don't live with my parents, they quarrel at every turn. And my mom doesn't like me, she treats me fiercely. ”
"Silly girl! Mom just has a bad temper, how can she not like you? Don't you miss your mom and dad very much? ”
"I miss them a lot, but I don't like my mom, I just like my dad. My father never scolded me for not hitting me, but my mother scolded me and beat me. ”
After Xu Guiying listened to her granddaughter's words, her heart was clouded again after being happy for a few hours. She looked up to the sky and sighed: How long will parents worry about their children?
One afternoon in a busy day, Xu Guiying carried a rock candy bag and went to Uncle Geng's house alone. First, he thanked his hexagram for allowing her to call back her granddaughter's soul; The second is to ask Uncle Geng to calculate the fate and future of her granddaughter.
Uncle Geng said: "Report your granddaughter's physiognomy and birthday!" Xu Guiying sighed and said, "I just don't know the eight characters of the little girl!" So I haven't told her fortune until now. ”
"What's going on? Tell me about it! Uncle Geng had 10,000 question marks written on his face.
"Alas! There is no more confused woman in the world than my big girl. When you are pregnant, the fetal position is not correct, and you do not go to the hospital for examination in advance; As a result, when she gave birth to a little girl, she was not born for three days and three nights. In the end, my granddaughter came out on two legs first, and almost didn't kill her mother. Her mother was in a coma for several days due to heavy bleeding, and when she woke up, she didn't know the little girl's birthday; The hospital also didn't have a registration, and I couldn't find it. What do you think the hospital was in chaos at that time? The anti-Japanese period was not so chaotic. ”
"Then isn't your eldest son-in-law with him in the hospital? He's got a record, right? ”
"Alas! There is no busier man in the world than my eldest son-in-law. When his wife gave birth to a little trick, he was being chased and killed everywhere by the rebels on the opposite side; It's too late to run for your life, so how can you take care of this?"
"What about your eldest girl's mother-in-law? When a daughter-in-law gives birth, someone has to take care of her mother-in-law, right? ”
"My mother-in-law is seventy or eighty years old, and she has to be supported by others when she walks. My eldest girl has two sisters-in-law in the country, and they are both older than me, so I can't count on them! I regret it now, I shouldn't have promised the girl to marry in Zhejiang, and now I can't do anything, and I can't help her in the slightest. ”
"Oh! That little trick didn't have a birthday, and this fate is not easy to count. If you ask a thing, you can take a hexagram, and you don't need eight characters; If you want me to tell a fortune, you have to have eight characters. Do you know the approximate time? ”
"It seems that after giving birth for more than ten days, it will be Qingming, probably at noon. Anyway, I don't know what day or time it is, only the gods know. ”
Uncle Geng blinked his eyes with an "oh", crossed his two thumbs and spun the windmill for a while, and suddenly patted his thigh and said, "Sue me about your eldest girl's eight characters, and I'll push and see." ”
Geng Banxian has the meaning of saving the country with a curve.