The unruly grain officer didn't think it was a big deal. Since there is a Taoist priest's semi-refined jade bracelet to protect her, then she must be a blessed person. And the man whom the blessed man marries will surely be even more blessed.

At that time, arranged marriages were the norm, and my grandfather, who read the Four Books and Five Classics, naturally would not be disgusted with this kind of marriage handled by my father. In the letter, he saw his father mention the girl with the blood-colored jade bracelet on his hand, and he couldn't help but be curious, hoping to see what she looked like earlier.

Grandpa's mood when he returned at this time was a little complicated, one was because the matter of the weak king had not yet settled, and he didn't know when and where he would encounter it again; The second is that the world is uneven, with no enthusiasm and revenge, but I don't know how to display my talents. Except for the occasional anticipation when I think of the girl wearing the blood-colored jade bracelet, I am bored and disheartened at other times.

Although I walked towards my hometown, I had no direction in my heart.

Anyone has had a time when they were lost when they were young. Grandpa is no exception.

During that time, Daddy learned to smoke. The good cigarettes collected by Abba Xu's family were all stuffed by the village chief to his father. Grandpa pushed and pushed it back, but couldn't push it off. He smoked the same cigarette that was supposed to be enjoyed by Abba Xu.

One day, my father was lying in a small hotel and smoking. At that time, he lay in a comfortable position on a bamboo chair in a small hotel, enjoying the quiet passage of time in the smoke. Before the age of thirty, he was not eligible to enjoy the bamboo chair at home. The bamboo chair is still enjoyed by the grain officer for the time being. When I first sat on this bamboo chair, it was because when the grain officer went out to collect grain, he walked on the field path, and the sedan chair was not easy to lift, and the sedan chair man could only carry the bamboo slippery. Bamboo slip is to put a bamboo chair on two bamboo poles, carried by two people, although not as majestic as a sedan chair, but light and convenient.

My father, who had just learned to smoke, not only felt choked when he smoked, but also felt that his eyes were smoking.

But that day, he didn't choke his eyes when he was halfway through his cigarette.

Is it getting used to it? Grandpa was suspicious.

Dad looked up and saw the bamboo slipper perched on the beam overhead, sucking his nose hard, inhaling the smoke into it, and his stomach swelled like a ball, but it quickly returned to its original state, and the smoke did not come out again. It turned out that it had absorbed all the smoke that my father had spewed, so it didn't choke its nose and smoke its eyes in the house.

Seeing that it was also smoking, Grandpa smiled and said to the bamboo slipper on the beam: "That's not how you smoke, you have to inhale it first, and then spit it out!" ”

Suddenly, the bamboo slipper sneezed and spewed out all the smoke in his stomach. The roof suddenly became smoky, like a dark cloud entering the house.

The owner of the small inn hurriedly ran in from outside, saying that he saw smoke coming from the cracks in the roof tiles, so he came to see if it was on fire.

Since then, every time my grandfather smokes, Zhu Yuzi will run to the beam of the house to smoke and spit out cigarettes, and he is very happy.

Prior to this, although the bamboo slip followed the father, but there was no communication between the two, the father was just like raising a small pet with him, and the bird keeper, there was no difference between the cricket, but this bamboo slip was a little cultivated. But after smoking became a common hobby between the two of them, their relationship became closer, and they became like master and servant, like friends. Zhu Yuzi began to care about his father and protect his father, just like he did to Abba Xu when he was in Radish Village, and he was even more active.

Abba Xu used it as a tool to be used, while Grandpa did not treat it as an animal, but as an equal creature. Although the bamboo slip is small, you can feel the difference, so you can give more rewards to your grandfather.

Every time he smokes, he goes to someone else's house to steal something.

The first time I stole it for my grandfather was an apple.

Grandpa was very surprised when he first saw an apple on the table in the house. He hadn't bought apples, and it was unlikely that anyone would have brought them. He looked left and right, thinking that someone else had gone to the wrong room and put his apple here. The next morning, Daddy noticed that there was another pear on the table. The door was closed when I slept at night, and this time it couldn't have been left by someone else who went to the wrong room.

In the midst of hesitation, the bamboo slipper ran out from behind the pear, squeaked at his grandfather, stood up and waved his front paws, as if he had come to treat him.

Grandpa knew that the mouse had a stealing nature, and knew that it had stolen these things, so he waved his hand and said, "Thank you, I don't eat these things." You're a bamboo slipper, stealing is to survive, I don't blame you. But I am a human being, and if I share the spoils with you, I will become a thief. Eat it yourself. ”

When my grandfather went to the water room to get washing water and came back, the apples and pears on the table were gone.

The second time, Zhu Luzi brought a golden hairpin for a woman to her father.

Grandpa knew that it was stolen again, and said with a smile: "You think apples and pears are worthless, so I don't accept them." This golden hairpin is very expensive, I will accept it. Is it? ”

Zhu Yuzi looked at her grandfather, and her eyes flashed.

Daddy said: "You see, this golden hairpin is engraved with patterns, which is both a decoration and a mark. If I take it out and exchange it for money, the owner can find me through the pawnshop, and I will be arrested. You're not helping me, you're hurting me. ”

After a while, the golden hairpin was gone.

The third time, Zhu Luzi brought a few crumpled paper balls to his father.

Grandpa opened it and found that it was a large amount of money. The bamboo slip into the mouse hole and out of the mouse hole is not convenient to carry a large area of paper, so it crumples the banknote into a ball.

Grandpa laughed and understood the meaning of the bamboo hairpin - the apple is too cheap, and the golden hairpin has a unique pattern, so there is no mark on the money, right? You can't be sure whose money it is, right? So it sent money directly.

Grandpa grabbed the tail of the bamboo slipper, mentioned it in the air in front of him, and said: "The reason why Abba Xu ended up like this is because he is greedy for money and has improper means. You have not been able to improve your cultivation with him, and it is also because you have not changed your stealing nature. Since you have been able to cultivate the human nature you are now, you must be spiritual, so you must not be overshadowed by your stealing nature. This is just like what we say about having both ability and political integrity, and it is difficult to be of great use if there is virtue but no talent; Talented but not virtuous, harm others. You have the talent given by God, but your virtue is not good, which damages your cultivation, and it is difficult for you to become a great tool. ”

The bamboo slipper hurriedly put his two paws together in a gesture of arching, indicating that he had comprehended.

Daddy knew that he thought he had taken advantage of Daddy's cigarettes and wanted to pay for some cigarettes. So, my father said: "The cigarettes I smoked, if you don't smoke them, they will dissipate naturally, and I can't take them back and use them again." So you don't have to worry about not going. ”

Zhu Yuzi nodded repeatedly.

The country is easy to change, and its nature is difficult to change. Although Zhu Liuzi understood what his father said, he still had to do some petty theft, but he no longer stole money to bribe his father.

My father's habit of smoking continued until he was in his seventies, and then his lungs weakened and he coughed incessantly when he smoked, so he quit smoking.

My grandfather once pointed to a high wooden chair in my father's bedroom and said to me, "In the past, your grandfather sat on the edge of the bed and smoked, and the bamboo slipper smoked on the beam above it.

In the old days, the old house had no suspended ceiling, the beams were like the ribs of a thin man, and the scales of the green tiles were visible.

My grandfather pointed to a round black shadow the size of a pot on the roof tiles and said that the bamboo slip had blackened the tiles in that area by spitting smoke on the beams for a long time.

Less than a month after Grandpa's coffin was buried in the ground, a fist-sized hole appeared in the grave, leading straight into the tomb.

The well-wishers of Thrush Village secretly found my grandfather, saying that it was probably an unlucky omen and asked my grandfather to find a way to prevent it.

The Grandpa smiled and said, "It's okay." It was my father's old friend who came to visit. ”

Grandpa carried a shell sachet and a bamboo slip while walking, and when he walked to the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou, he encountered a continuous heavy rain and was trapped in a small hotel in a small county town for seven days and seven nights.

On the evening of the seventh day, Take-yoko came back from outside and squeaked and panicked. Daddy didn't climb up the beam when he was smoking, but unexpectedly spun around on the table, scratching the table with his paws.

When Grandpa saw that it was abnormal, he put it in his hand and asked, "Are you sick?" Rats get sick too, I almost forgot. ”

Takeko shook his head violently and squeaked.

Seeing it, Grandpa shook his head and asked, "Is it unsafe in this house, you told me to leave as soon as possible?" ”

Zhu Yuzi still shook his head violently and squeaked.

"Is it that the rainy day is coming to an end, and you will give me good news?" Daddy asked again.

Takeko still shook his head violently, squeaking and screaming.

No matter how smart humans and animals are, they cannot reach the realm of language communication. Just as an adult speaks to a child who can only babble, he can judge his joys, sorrows, and sorrows from the child's performance, and what he wants and does not want, but he cannot communicate more complex issues.

Daddy didn't understand why it was so panicked, so he had to comfort him: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

But the bamboo slipper couldn't be quiet, jumped off the table, and circled at his father's feet.

Grandpa thought to himself, last time it did this to ask me to take it away, this time also want me to take it away? Although the rain has stopped a bit, it is late at night, and it will be dawn tomorrow to get out of here.

Daddy was excited. Could it be that it was going to take me out to see something?

"What are you going to take me out to see?" Daddy asked.

Zhu Yuzi's footsteps immediately stopped, raised his head and looked at his father with those small and shining eyes.

"Let's go, then."

Grandpa put away his cigarette, put on a coat, and walked out with a bamboo slipper.

I haven't seen the bamboo slipper panic like this, and it must not be a trivial matter to make it like this. Grandpa thought as he walked.

Outside, the moonlight is like water.

The place where the small hotel is located has the name of "the three provinces of chicken song". This means that the crowing of chickens here can make people in the three provinces hear. Because it is located at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. Grandpa suddenly thought to himself, is it that the weak king is afraid that I will run out of Sichuan and secretly chase here? And Zhu Yuzi is so nervous because he saw the weak king? If that's the case, wouldn't I be caught in the net if I ran over with the bamboo slipper?