Her mother told her that the weasel was indeed an evil animal, and that her seventh uncle had caught a weasel in the mountains. The weasel was bigger than anything he had ever seen. The seventh uncle brought the weasel home, and others said that such a big weasel may have become a sperm, and if it is not a sperm, it is also the king of weasels. The seventh uncle skinned the weasel, put the skin away, and waited for the skin-collecting dealer to come and sell it for some money. But from the night he skinned the weasel, every night many weasels went round his house, some jumping on the windows, some into the chicken coop. One or two weasels are easy to deal with, too many can be scary. Uncle Seven and his family didn't dare to come out. Uncle Seven knew that these weasels were coming for him, and blamed him for skinning the weasels. After the weasel had been making trouble for many days, Uncle Seven couldn't stand it anymore, so he took out the weasel's skin and threw it out of the window. The weasel outside saw that the skin was thrown out, and he took it in his mouth and left. Since then, the weasel has never come to harass Uncle Seven's family again.

And her mother said, "If you hit the weasel with a mallet, it will become like me and eat all your chickens."

More than 50 years have passed since then, and the old man has never dared to fight weasels again.

But the old man said that after I experienced this incident myself, I had heard people talk about the other side of the weasel. In my mother's house there is an old lady who has no children and no daughters, and she has the only old hen, and she depends on the old hen to lay eggs in exchange for money. Once, a little weasel dragged the old lady's old hen away and ate it. The old lady complained a few words when she saw chicken blood and feathers in the floor. The next day, a very large weasel came to the old lady's house with the little weasel in his mouth, and killed the little weasel in front of the old lady, leaving the little weasel at the old lady's feet, signaling that the little weasel would be given to the old lady to compensate for the loss. The old lady sold the little weasel and came back with a hen.

The old man said, so, ah, it is the nature of the weasel to steal chickens, there is no way, but it also knows that it can't let people go to a dead end. This is how people and animals get along.

When I heard the old man talk about her understanding of weasels, I thought of what my father said to Luo Buzhai about dealing with weasels.

Luo Buzhai has indeed been doing what his father said. He had encountered this weasel before, but it was all trivial, and Luo Buzhai didn't care about it.

The road is narrow, but I didn't expect to run into it here.

However, Daddy decided to let the weasel live. Grandpa said: "You came to steal chickens, and you overheard the bedside talk of the couple, and it was inevitable that you couldn't think about it." In this way, let's let you go today, and you won't do harm to others in the future. ”

The man kowtowed in joy.

"But you have to be a weasel in front of the woman, or she'll be confused." Daddy said.

Where did the man dare to resist, and hurriedly said: "I will do what you say!" ”

So, Grandpa called the woman and the tinker in, and told her face what the wasawhile was doing, and by the way, the tinkerer told her secret in Thrush Village. The troublemaker turned into a weasel in front of them and jumped out.

Grandpa said, "You two must not tell what happened today. Your true husband will never come back, so you don't have to worry about someone coming to demolish you. ”

The woman and the bowl tinker were grateful to Daddy and Luo Buzhai.

"In that case, I might as well follow him to Xianning." The woman said.

Grandpa said: "You make your own decisions. ”

When Grandpa and Luo Buzhai left, the bowlmaker and the woman came out to see them off.

When the woman's family saw the dishmaker, they didn't know what the difference was between him and the person who had just transformed into a weasel, so they didn't ask.

A few days later, the tinker took the woman to Xianning.

About half a year later, the tinker took the woman back to the bridge of the eyes to save her family. The bowl tinker took the opportunity to come to Thrush Village, found his father, and talked about the situation after they returned to Xianning.

The bowl tinker said that Xianning's wife and the woman of Shuangyanqiao were in harmony, and there was no distinction between host and guest, nor between size and size, and they lived together in the same room and enjoyed each other. The only misfortune was that his mother died of illness.

Grandpa was glad at their harmony, and said, "The first time I saw your cheekbones towering, I said that you are a blessed man, and you see, I am not wrong!"

The tinker asked, but I still had a question in my mind, why did I look so much like the man? Why is it the same even the place of the black mole on the body?

Grandpa smiled, I have been thinking about this question for a long time, I think maybe you and that person used to be twins, maybe for some reason, the two of you were separated. Of course, this is my personal guess. There is another situation, maybe even if it is not a twin, there may be another person in this world who looks exactly like you, but it is difficult for these two identical people to meet. Other than these two guesses, I can't think of any definite answers.

After the bowl mending worker returned to Xianning, he still did his bowl mending work and supported their family. When he left Thrush Village again, he gave his father a few bowls.

He knew that there was no shortage of rice bowls at his grandfather's house, so the bowls he gave were not used to hold meals, but only for decoration. Those bowls are as thin as eggshells, and they are very light and delicate.

Not long after this time, another person caught the attention of my grandfather.

It was a marriage in a family in Thrush Village, and a man married a woman from a neighboring county. Many people came to the woman's maiden family, and because of the long distance, the mother's family stayed in Thrush Village for a few days.

The mother's family probably heard some things about Ma Xiucai from Thrush Village, so a thirty-year-old woman came to her father's house and asked her father to calculate his marriage.

In those days, it was rare for a woman to be thirty years old and not yet married.

When she came to her father's house, her father happened to take a large family to Zhao Xianyun's mother's house.

Zhao Xianyun's father wrote to say that he wanted to see his grandson, so his father decided to go with his family.

After Grandpa came back from Zhao Xianyun's house, the new daughter-in-law's family has not left.

Grandpa went to sit in that house and saw the thirty-year-old woman at a glance.

The woman heard that the person who came was Ma Xiucai, who she was looking for a few days ago, so she hurriedly moved a chair and sat next to her grandfather, and said happily: "You are Ma Xiucai, my name is Shang Ruoran, I went to your house a few days ago, but unfortunately you are not here." ”

Grandpa asked, "Are you looking for me to get married?" ”

Shang Ruoran was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Sure enough, it's a living immortal!" I haven't asked yet, and you know what I'm going to ask. It seems that the rumors are true! Excuse me, how did you know that I was going to be married? Physiognomy or something else? ”

Grandpa saw that there were more people sitting in the house, so he said, "It's inconvenient to talk, you can go to my house later, and I'll tell you later." ”

Shang Ruoran saw that his grandfather was talking mysteriously, and suddenly became a little nervous, and asked in a low voice: "I'm just calculating when I will meet the person I like, when I can get married, and I'm not asking Jiji, what's inconvenient to speak?" ”

Grandpa shook his head and said, "I'll tell you when I get to my house." ”

After dinner, Zhao Xianyun took the child and millet to the family where he got married, and Yu Youyang cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and prepared to wash the dishes. Luo Buzhai brought the account book and took a pen to write and scratch on the account book. Mr. Bai and Zhu Chuzi chased after each other, and finally ran into the grass behind the house.

Grandpa sat next to Luo Buzhai and put an abacus in front of him to help Luo Buzhai settle the accounts.

My mother often told me that my father's planning skills were very good, and he could close his eyes and dial the abacus without making any mistakes. It was precisely because of his specialty that although he was later kicked out of the Ma family's old house, he got a job guarding the warehouse. Because of this work, my grandfather's family will not starve to death.

Luo Buzhai flipped through a few pages of the ledger, and Shang Ruoran came to visit.

Luo Buzhai saw that Shang Ruoran was about to enter the door, so he hurriedly put down the account book, opened his hands to stop her, and did not let her in.

Shang Ruoran said: "It was Ma Xiu who asked me to come." ”

Luo Buzhai glanced back at his father and asked, "You let her in?" ”

Grandpa smiled and said, "You put three sticks of incense at the door, and tell her to bow to the three sticks of incense before coming in." ”

Luo Buzhai then got three sticks of incense and asked Shang Ruoran to bow to him.

Shang Ruoran bowed, Luo Buzhai breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go in." ”

Shang Ruoran did so, but he didn't understand what they meant. She asked, "Is there such a rule for everyone to come in?" ”

Luo Buzhai shook his head and said, "No. If you hadn't carried a lot of ghosts on your back, we wouldn't have let you do that. ”

Shang Ruoran's face darkened, trembled slightly, and asked, "I have a ghost on my back?" ”

Luo Buzhai corrected: "It's not one, it's a lot." We have children at home, and we can't let these little ghosts enter the door, so let you bow to the three incense sticks of heaven, earth and people. As you bow, they come down from your back. ”

Shang Ruoran looked around and asked in horror, "Don't scare me!" Where are they? How can I not see? ”

"They're standing right next to the incense, and of course you can't see them. They'll be waiting for you, and they'll crawl on your back when you walk later. Luo Buzhai said.

Shang Ruoran took three steps and made two steps, hurriedly stepped into the door, and looked back frequently, for fear that those invisible imps would follow her.

Daddy laughed, "They won't follow." You can rest assured. However, they will not harm you in the first place, but they will affect your marriage. So when I saw you, I knew that you came to my house to ask about marriage. ”

Shang Ruoran panicked: "I always feel that something is behind me, it turns out to be them?" After speaking, she looked down at the high threshold of her grandfather's house, and added, "The threshold of your house is too high, and it almost tripped my feet." ”

Grandpa said, "You often press the bed, right?" ”

Shang Ruoran nodded and said, "Yes, as long as you sleep, you will be pressed." ”