"Moonlight, bright. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ride a white horse and cross the lotus pond.

The lotus pond is black, and the buckwheat is cut.

Buckwheat flowers, to the in-laws.

A pond in front of the in-laws' house,

Keep a carp eight feet long.

The fish head is used to make soup and drink,

The tail is used to enter the school......"

After practicing the standing pile gong at Uncle Liang's house, I walked out of the yard and saw my sister Xiaojing and Ou Yujiao sitting on a small stool, looking up at the bright crescent moon in the sky, clapping their little hands and singing nursery rhymes childishly.

Seeing me come out, two little girls ran over, and Ou Yujiao pulled the hem of my clothes and said:

"Brother Xianghong, I guessed the two mysteries you played."

"Really? So what do you say? I don't think it's right! “

"What a strange thing is born, and a beard grows out of its loin; Pull out the beard and peel it off, revealing the rows of buds (corn) that show your teeth, right? “

"Well, that's right, which one?"

"What was originally a large area has become a line; The thread does not make clothes, and it can be seen in the bowl that it is noodles and noodles. Isn't that right?"

"Yujiao is really smart. Did you come up with it yourself or did you ask your sister? “

"I didn't ask my sister, it was the two of us who came up with it ourselves."

Little sister Xiaojing hurriedly replied.

I smiled, patted my sister's head, and said to Ou Yujiao:

"Okay! I'll take you to catch crabs tomorrow. “

While talking, I walked to the front lawn, and the two little girls ran to their mother's side happily.

Qinniang and Guan Boniang sat in the flat to enjoy the cool and homely cooking, and sisters Xiaoling and Ou Meiyu sat on the front lawn, biting their ears and whispering. In the past few days, my mother has been helping in the kitchen of Secretary Liu's house, and she will not come back until she has a midnight meal (note) at night, and her sister and sister are afraid at home, so they come to Uncle Liang's house with me at night, and then go back together after I finish practicing.

In fact, Uncle Liang was not at home, he was also at Secretary Liu's house to help, but he came back in the middle and told me a few points and left.

I said hello to my mother and Guan Boniang, walked to the front lawn and sat down on the stone bar. Today is the seventh day of the sixth month, and the semi-circular first quarter moon has already climbed up to the middle of the sky, and the refreshing moonlight shrouds the earth like a light veil. I looked up and said casually:

"The third and fourth months of the first month, the first seven months and the beginning of August are semicircular. What else is there to say in the back, Sister Meiyu, do you know? ”

Ou Meiyu turned to me and said, "Who told you that the seventh and eighth months of the first month are semi-round?" ”

"I heard what the adults said, don't be wrong, look at the sky, on the seventh day of the first month today, isn't the moon just half round?"

I pointed to the moon in the sky and said.

"Oh, you guy always like to pretend not to understand, this is a folk proverb, the book says this:

The third and fourth days of the first month,

Fifteen or sixteen months are full.

Looking at the sun to distinguish the west and the east,

Look at the Beidou at night to know the north and the south.

Dragonflies fly low on the banks of rivers and lakes,

Rain is coming.

The wild geese will fly north and the sky will be warm,

The swallow returns to the south and turns cold.

An autumn rain and a cold,

Ten autumn rains to wear cotton.

Hear me? It's fifteen or sixteen months, not the seventh and eighth months, you know? Hello, don't make it up next time, others will laugh at you...... Giggle......"

I ignored her ridicule, and mentally read the proverb she had just read, and memorized it firmly. The neighbors deal with mud every day, most of them have no public culture, it would be good to remember the third and fourth months of the first month, how many people remember it all? I've listened a lot to just that, half-sentence proverbs, poems, and so on.

Speaking of which, Sister Meiyu has been living here with Uncle Liang for a month, and her leg injury is no longer a problem, but it still needs a period of recovery. I heard my mother say that I will go home in the next two days.

To be honest, I really don't want to give up on them. Needless to say, my mother and Meiyu, although Yujiao has only been here for ten days, I am already very familiar with each other, and I am almost inseparable from my little sister, running around on both sides every day, always pestering me to guess riddles (riddles) or something in the vernacular.

The most reluctant is of course Ou Meiyu. After a month of getting along, this beautiful and intelligent sister has given me a lot of joy and surprises. I thought I had read a lot of books and knew a lot, but I couldn't mention it in front of her. She told me many things that I had never heard of before, especially since she knew a lot of ancient poetry and allusions, and I was not convinced if I said them one by one.

She's also a quick learner. Needless to say, playing chess, now the few of us combined are no match for her. There is also a weaving bamboo fan, she learned it at once, weaving it quickly and well, round, square, peach-shaped, with many patterns, and they all depict flowers, grasses, fish and insects on it, lifelike, very exquisite.

My sister laughed at the shit of the fans I used to make, and no one picked them up when they were thrown on the ground, so angry that I stuffed those fans into the stove and burned them all. Now we all make the fans in our home by her.

Of course, it's my business to chop bamboo and cut the slivers, one is that she is still on crutches and can't use her strength, and then she is a little girl, with delicate and slender jade fingers, how can she dance with a knife to make a sliver? If you are not careful, you will have to leave a bloody wound on your hand, which is distressing...... Alas, it would be nice if she was my real sister like Xiaoling, so that we wouldn't have to separate......

In the midst of his thoughts, he suddenly saved his task tonight, and he couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart. It should be past nine o'clock now, and my mother will come home at about eleven o'clock, so I have to act quickly and steal the chicken and deliver it to Daddy Gui's house.

We stood up and left, and said to my sister as we walked, "You and Xiaojing play here first, and I'll come when I go." “

My sister stood up and shouted, "Hey, where are you going so late?" Let's see if I will tell my mother to clean you up. “

"Xiangkun said that he wanted me to get the book for dinner, I forgot, I just remembered it, or I will come back to pick you up soon." This is the excuse I have arranged a long time ago, I ran as I spoke, and my sister was so anxious that she stomped her feet in the ping, and I ignored it, and turned the corner of the house and went away.

Ever since I received Daddy Gui's assignment in the morning, I've been thinking about how to complete it.

Don't look at a few of us who are naughty and mischievous, except for stealing other people's fruits to satisfy their hunger, we really haven't done such a thing as stealing chickens and touching dogs. Although today's life is hard, there are very few thefts in the countryside, and the neighbors do not lock the door when no one is at home, and it can really be said that the door is not closed at night. Moreover, most of the chickens and ducks in the village are kept in cages in the courtyard outside the house, so it is not difficult to steal one or two, as long as you have the guts.

You can't let others know about this, and of course you can't find Zhou Papi and their helpers, so you have to do it alone. I've figured out how to steal it, too.

I have a hen at home that never goes into the house at night, but flies on the branch of the orange tree on the side of the house to rest, and every time I go to catch it and put it in the chicken coop. This made me know that the chicken is night blind, it can't see after dark, and if you reach out and gently hold its belly, it will obediently let you carry it away without struggling or screaming.

I decided to do the same and steal the cock from Liu's bald family.

For this reason, I went to the house of Xiangkun of the fifth team in the afternoon, and bought Zeng Xiangkun with two comic books and the military chess, asking him to steal "Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation" from his grandfather to me, and return it to him after reading it. I said that I must do it tonight, and I will get it before going to bed at night.

When I went to Xiangkun's house, I had to pass in front of Liu Bald's house, and I had already recognized the location of the chicken coop and the chicken that was called, and I was just waiting for the night to act. Moreover, there is also the biggest convenience is that Liu Bald and Secretary Liu are from their own family, and both of them help with things at his house, and they have to keep vigil at night, and they will only go home to sleep after eating in the middle of the night. And Liu Bald's son has been separated and does not live together, his daughter is married, and there is no one at home, so he doesn't have to worry about being found out.

It is also strange to say, in the past, where someone died in the village, I didn't dare to go out alone at night, Liu Xing drowned a few days ago, and now Liu Liyang stopped in the hall, and the mountain carving, known as the bold, did not dare to come out alone at night, but I didn't have much feeling, plus today I got the peach wood amulet of Daddy Gui, and I was even more bold and had no scruples.

I went to Zeng Xiangkun's house first, learned two cat meows outside the yard, and after a while, Zeng Xiangkun sneaked out, handed me a wrapped book, turned around and slipped back into the house, I picked up the book, and returned the same way.

After all, it was the first time to be a "thief", no matter how well I thought about it, no matter how thoughtful I was, I was still very scared, my heart was "banging", and my calves were trembling, so that everything was as I thought, and the chicken was successfully stolen out of the chicken coop and sent to Daddy Gui.

It wasn't until I entered Daddy's house that I let out a long breath that I realized that my clothes and pants were soaked.

Daddy Gui was waiting for me at home, and he sat on the edge of the bed, looking much better under the oil lamp than he had been in the morning.

He took the rooster and led me into the kitchen next door, only to see seven bowls of vegetables in the open space, each with half a bowl of water in it. I saw him holding the rooster and going around the water bowl with a strange step, reciting a mantra in a low voice, opening his mouth to bite through the red comb of the rooster, dripping the blood of the chicken into each water bowl, and finally turning the rooster over and placing it in the middle of the open space, covering his head with a black cloth, and using a basket to buckle it outside.

The strange thing is that the big was tossed by Daddy Gui, except for a slight movement, it did not make a crow from beginning to end. After placing the rooster, Daddy Gui placed a bowl of water on the buttocks of the basket, then took out a piece of yellow paper with a talisman drawn, bit the middle finger of his right hand, printed a drop of blood on the talisman, burned it, knelt down with his face north, kowtowed three heads, muttered a mantra, stood up and led me out of the house, and closed the door and locked it.

This toss seemed to take a lot of effort from Father Gui, and he sat on the edge of the bed sweating profusely, gasping for a long time before calming down. He stretched out his hand and patted me on the shoulder, and said with relief: "I really don't mistake you, this thing is well done, you go back, come to me tomorrow at noon, I will try to teach you some useful ones, as for the effect, it depends on your own cultivation and comprehension in the future." “

When I returned to Uncle Liang's house, my mother and mother all entered the house, and I guess it took me an hour to go back and forth, and when I entered the house, my sister was already dozing off on the table. My sister and Meiyu got together to read a book, but my mother and Yujiao were not in the house, so I guess they were either going to the toilet or taking a shower. I didn't answer my sister's complaints and nagging, handed the book to Meiyu, and said proudly:

"Look, "Zhou Gong Interprets Dreams", I said that I can get it if I can get it, don't lie to you, right?"

Ou Meiyu took the book and said with a faint smile: "Isn't it just a book?" Look at you proud! I'm just going to say that?, this book is actually not very interesting, and it promotes some feudal superstitions. But since you brought it, I'll look through it for two days without embarrassment and give it to you. “

It's not early, I have to go home to take a shower, I don't dare to delay any longer, I put my sleepy sister on my back, and go home with my sister.

Early the next morning, as expected, I practiced standing in the hall, and just after finishing the exercises, the high-pitched scolding voice of Jiang shrew came from the entrance of the village, and Jiang shrew took the stage to sing. What "chop the braincase, chop the braincase, cut the toad braincase", "pierce the intestines, rotten stomach, rotten head and rotten hands and feet" scolded so poisonous that I didn't dare to listen to it in a panic, but the scolding was in my ears.

I was uneasy, hastily collected the work, and hurriedly carried the basket out and walked to the side of the back mountain. My sister shouted in the house, and I pretended not to hear it, until I turned the corner of the hill and couldn't hear it far away.

Sure enough, I can't do it, I sighed. By the time I went home for breakfast with half a basket of pigweed, Jiang had already withdrawn her troops, but I heard that something had happened to Secretary Liu's house again.

Secretary Liu's father, Liu Shengtang, suddenly fell to the ground and was unconscious. Just when Jiang shrew was screaming heartily at the entrance of the village and scolding the "chicken thief", Liu Shengtang, who was in his seventies, may have been overly sad because of his father's bereavement, and he had not rested well for two consecutive nights, and he was not in good health and suddenly fell unconscious in the mourning hall, and the family was in a hurry.

The Liu family decided to suspend the old man Liu Liyang at home for five days and four nights, originally on such a hot day, for fear that the corpse would rot and stink, he usually only stopped for three days and two nights. When you die, you count as one day, and when you mourn, you count as a day, but in fact, you only park for one day at home. Old man Liu has two resurrection experiences, and the Liu family did not dare to mourn in a hurry, looking forward to a miracle reappearing, so they parked it for two more days.

As a result, two days passed, the old man did not come back to life, but Liu Shengtang fell ill and fell into a coma, and it seemed that he was more than lucky.

The people in the village talked about it: there is a mourning in the mourning hall at home that has not yet been mourned, and this one has fallen down, and I am afraid that this matter is a bit evil. Didn't the Liu family run into evil? But don't get a double coffin out! After all, Liu Shengtang is also over seventy years old, and his health is not good, who can say for sure?

Note 1: Midnight dinner: a custom in the countryside in our area. But whenever someone in the village dies, the same village people will go to worship and mourn, and at night they will play cards and chat and sing funeral songs in the mourning hall and courtyard, called "accompanying the night", which is actually a wake, accompanying the deceased who was originally familiar with the last journey, but because it is only a neighbor of the village and not a relative, it only keeps the first half of the night, and the second half of the night is the relatives of the deceased. In order to thank the neighbors for their hard work, the filial piety family will buy Jiulai meals in the middle of the night, so that the neighbors can go home to rest when they are full, and this meal is called midnight dinner.