Chapter 17: The Sound of Firecrackers
The sound of firecrackers woke up Pengxiang from his dream, he got up with a bone, saw that his father and mother were cooking dumplings, and then looked out, the yard was still dark, but the sound of firecrackers was endless.
Peng Cheng woke up, Bai Xue also woke up, and Chunmei brought out new clothes for them.
Peng Cheng put on a student blue pants gown, looked up and down, and was very happy.
Bai Xue put on new cotton pants with large flowers, put on a red silk gown, changed into new cloth shoes, combed two pigtails by herself, and inserted two sea flowers, and she was also very happy.
How to wear the new clothes of the unique Pengxiang is not suitable, the jacket is last year's jacket, after wearing a few days was locked into the box by the mother, this year to wear, small, the sleeves are shortened, barely put on the tight uncomfortable, the button can not be buttoned, the mother laughed and said that he grew fast, last year was still very big, the pants are changed with the old pants of the father, it is comfortable to wear, but it is very fat, and the legs are very loose in a trouser leg. No belt, find two shoelaces to tie up, too thin to tie, and then look, find a baggage belt, Pengxiang didn't want it, he took it off and threw it aside angrily, and put on his torn cotton jacket, rotten cotton pants, and went out without a sound.
Wang Sen saw it in his eyes and asked her, "You didn't make him a new dress?" ”
"He doesn't want to be good, he can't wear good clothes," Chunmei said with a smile.
"Look at what he wears, on the New Year, it makes the child unhappy," Wang Sen was a little dissatisfied.
"Three days and two days have passed, what does it matter if the child dresses well?"
As he was talking, the three Jinguang brothers came to kowtow, and looked at what they were wearing, all of them were new, with new pants, new gowns, new hats and new shoes.
Looking at what other people's children are wearing, and then looking at what his own children are wearing, Wang Sen is very angry, he said with a dark face: "It's not that the family has no money, it's okay to make one for him,"
"The money was lent to his second uncle for marriage, didn't I tell you," Chunmei said.
"Then you will send them all, and you don't know if you can leave some money to tear two feet of cloth for the children?" Wang Sen was angry.
"At that time, I wanted to sell the little pig to him and pull his clothes, didn't the little pig not sell it," Chunmei defended.
"If the little pig can't be sold, he won't be ripped off, why don't you tell me if you don't have money? You go and give me the money to get it back, you don't have the money to marry any daughter-in-law," Wang Sen said angrily as he threw the colander on the ground.
"Are you talking humanly, how can you ask for it now, you are willing to borrow money, and no one forces you. I still don't want my child to wear it well, all these years, have I ever pulled a piece of clothing, I bought a scarf and gave it to his sister-in-law, I don't want to wear it well," Chunmei was also angry, she said and sat on the edge of the kang to wipe her eyes.
Wang Sen also stopped making a sound, and he smoked a smoky cigarette.
Bai Xue ran in from outside, saw that she was about to cry, and said that people said that her cotton pants were not good-looking. Chunmei picked her up and wept.
Pengxiang entered the house, and when he saw his father and mother like this, he wanted to sneak out, but his father stopped him and said, "Our family has money, and when we open a set, we will give you a new one." ”
Pengxiang didn't make a sound, he leaned next to his mother. Chunmei took his new clothes again, and Pengxiang put them on obediently.
The alley was lively, full of laughter and greetings.
When they came back from their grandmother's New Year's greetings, the brothers went to kowtow to Wang Shuzhouni again.
When they entered the house, the brothers knelt down and kowtowed. Zhou Ni sat cross-legged on the kang, she looked at Pengxiang, couldn't help but smile and said: "Look at the pants Pengxiang is wearing, they are fatter than mine, how did your mother change it for you?" ”
Everyone in the room laughed, and the little face of the laughing Pengxiang was red, and he didn't dare to raise his head.
Jin Chengdu laughed so much that he fell into his mother's arms and couldn't sit up.
Wang Shu couldn't help but smile and give the brothers candy, Pengxiang didn't want it, Wang Shu just stuffed it into his trouser pocket, but the sugar fell out of his trouser leg. The room was full of people laughing and leaning back and forth, and Zhou Ni covered her mouth with laughter and hurriedly lowered her head.
Wang Shu picked it up with a smile and stuffed it into his hand.
When the brothers came out, Peng Cheng gritted his teeth and scolded, "Zhou Nizi, Zhou Da Fatty, he threw the candy on the ground, stomped a few feet, and then grabbed Pengxiang's candy and threw it on the ground......
The stupid lady happened to come over and pick it up, and said to Chunmei: "You see Xiao Xiangzi and Da Chengzi threw away all the sugar, how painful it is." As she spoke, she put the candy on the table and took out some peanuts and melon seeds from her pocket.
After the stupid lady left, Peng Cheng scolded and said how the uncle's family laughed at them.
Chunmei was very angry when she heard this, and hurriedly asked Pengxiang, when she saw her son on the haystack of the earthen kang in the northeast house, no matter how he screamed, Chunmei felt uncomfortable, she regretted it, no matter how difficult it was, even if she borrowed money, she should ......
When I came back from my grandfather's house, I didn't know why, Peng Xiang was sick, he had a high fever, his whole body was very hot, his mouth was full of burning bubbles, and he was just talking nonsense, he was delirious, he couldn't wake up, his face was terrifyingly white for a while, and his face was full of red light for a while.
Frightened, Chunmei hurriedly called Zhihao's mother, gave him a fever-reducing injection, and rubbed his whole body with liquor, and the fever subsided. At night, he burned again, for several days, during the day he was fine, nothing happened, but at night he had a fever, and he was unconscious.
Zhihao's mother had no choice, so she called the hospital to check, and the hospital had to spend money, just started spring, so what about the money, besides, he was fine during the day, and Chunmei dragged it and didn't go with him.
The second fairy girl heard about it, and spread it everywhere that it was the fox fairy haunted, and the Bodhisattva gave her a dream, and the fox was before becoming an immortal, and every night when the moon rose to find a boy soul to marry and cultivate, after cultivating for 7749 days, the boy soul would be taken away, and even the Bodhisattva could not save him.
The words reached the ears of the grandmother, and the grandmother hurriedly invited the second fairy aunt to the house.
Although Chunmei didn't believe it, she knew that the second fairy girl was eating and drinking, but there was no harm in letting her show the child, and besides, she really didn't have a problem with the child's illness.
So, Chunmei bought paper money and offerings according to the request of the two fairy aunts.
The second fairy aunt asked Pengxiang to lie on the kang, and she started to do it. Look at her cloak, her eyes are wide, holding a peach wood sword, there are words in her mouth, chanting mantras, sticking charms, incense, paper baking, peach wood sword stabbed to Peng Xiang's whole body, just when she swung the sword and jumped, somehow, she actually came to a golden rooster independence, standing motionless in front of Peng Xiang, staring at the boss, the tongue stretched out, the peach wood sword in his hand was also inexplicably on fire, the fire burned more and more, and the fire point fell, fell on Peng Xiang's hair, a bad smell of burning.
Chunmei grabbed and extinguished the fire in her son's hair, and snatched the peach wood sword of the second fairy girl and threw it in the swill bucket.
The second fairy girl sat on the kang with her buttocks, and slipped off the kang in a hurry, without saying a word, she ran away.
Grandma was chasing after her, and she scolded while chasing, "You are an old immortal, you have rabbit legs, what are you running?" Wait......"
Chunmei was busy looking at her son, her son was fine, and she smiled at her.
After a while, grandma came back with a breath, she took a sip of tea and said: "The second fairy aunt said that our Xiangzi's life is too hard, almost lost her old life, the fox fairy's Tao is deep, she has been burned by fire, I am afraid that her old life is difficult to protect, and she is busy begging the Bodhisattva to save her life at home." She also said that if you want to cure Xiangzi's illness, you should jump the god and invite Lei Gong to come. ”
Chunmei smiled and said, "Could it be that Lei Gong is more powerful than the Bodhisattva?" Bodhisattvas are saviors. Saying that, she mentioned the swill bucket for her mother-in-law to see, there was a layer of oil flowers floating in the swill bucket, and the mother-in-law scooped up half of the wooden sword to look at it, and sniffed it on her nose, she suddenly realized, "This wooden sword is soaked in castor oil, okay, this dead woman pretended to be a ghost, fooled me, I looked for her, scolded her." ”
So saying, she walked out.
Chunmei stopped her and said: "Believe it or not, it's not people who come by themselves, she also eats a bowl of rice, it's not easy to see her lonely, it's not good to find her, besides, Ni's marriage is also thanks to her, Ni is so happy." ”
She persuaded and said that she moved her mother-in-law. Yes, seeing that Ni was white and chubby after getting married, and she was pregnant, she was so happy, and she was really grateful to the second fairy aunt, thinking of this, she was not angry.
See the offerings on the table. She said to Chunmei: "The heart of the Buddha knows, let's beg for the child," she said, she re-lit the incense, knelt down and burned the paper money, and there were words in her mouth, all kinds of gods, demons and monsters, all listened to me, hurry up and bless my grandson to get better, who will harm my grandson again, I will skin him alive, swallow him alive, chew him up and throw him into the dung pit......"
Chunmei knelt on the side and couldn't help laughing.
Seeing his grandmother's funny appearance, Peng Xiang also giggled......
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