On the small dining table in the kitchen of the middle courtyard, there were two fried seasonal vegetables and a plate of four hot steamed buns, Lan Yi served the mushroom soup and shouted at the hall: "Yu'er, Wenxuan, come out to eat." ”

"Here we are—" the two little ones lengthened their voices, and in a moment they staggered out of the hall.

As soon as he entered the kitchen, Wen Xuan stretched out his little nose and sniffed it a few times, "It's so fragrant!" ”

"Well, brother, come and wash your hands, and you can eat." Yu'er took Wenxuan to wash his hands, the two sat down at the dining table together, and the three of them began to eat.

"Mother, someone in our inn has been injured, and I've been screaming for a long time." While eating, Yu'er told Lan Yi about what happened in the inn today.

Lan Yi quickly put down her chopsticks when she heard this, "Who was injured, is it seriously injured?" ”

Yu'er shook her head, with a little puzzlement in her tone, "Yu'er didn't see it, but I heard someone screaming so loudly in the backyard, it hurts, after school, Yu'er ran to ask the shopkeeper Li, but he only said that someone was injured, but he refused to tell me who was injured." ”

Because now Yixue has moved to his own inn, Yu'er has straightened his small chest in and out of Yixue, quite a bit of the style of the small owner, Li Ying is also asking him again, but he didn't expect that something happened to the guests in the inn this time, but Li Ying refused to tell him.

Lan Yi suppressed her doubts and said with a smile, "Shopkeeper Li didn't tell you, because he was afraid of scaring you." ”

"Yu'er is not Sister Xiaohua and Xiaocao, so she is not a coward!" Yu'er muttered, holding the bowl and drinking mushroom soup.

Wen Xuan also nodded, "Brother is not a coward. Xuan'er is not, Sister Xiaohua Xiaocao is. ”

Lan Yi's face sank when she heard this, "Didn't my mother tell you." Can't you say that others are cowards, such is an impolite child. ”

Wen Xuan looked at his brother suspiciously, and then at his mother, "But, Sister Xiaohua Xiaocao is, didn't my mother say that you can't lie?" ”

"Xuan'er, who told you that the two of them are cowards?"

"My brother said it."

Lan Yi turned her head and asked Yu'er again. "Yu'er, why do you say that Sister Xiaohua Xiaocao is a coward?"

Yu'er put down the dishes and chopsticks and said with a smile. "Because the two of them are afraid of everything, they can't help but be scared, you go over and pat them from behind, and they are scared to scream?"

Lan Yi looked at Yu'er disapprovingly. "You scared them like that?"

Eyebrows cleared, Xiu Yu'er shook her head vigorously. "No, it was the cow egg that scared them, and they said that their two sisters didn't dare to go out as soon as it was dark, and they even had to go to the toilet together."

Niu Dan naturally can't scare his sister Lan Yi, but his children still have to be educated, "Yu'er, Wenxuan, the two of them are more timid." You can say that Sister Xiaohua Xiaocao is timid, but you can't say that she is a coward. You know what? ”

"Why?" Wen Xuan likes to ask why for everything lately, and it is the time when he is full of curiosity about the world.

Lan Yi patiently explained, "It's rude to add the word 'ghost'. For example, it is the same for others to be stingy, slammers, cowards, etc. You two have to remember to speak politely, otherwise you won't be a good boy for your mother. ”

The two little guys nodded, and Lan Yi then reasoned with Yu'er, "Yu'er, you are the elder brother, and you have to set an example for the younger brother." What you say and do, my brother will learn along, do you know? ”

Yu'er nodded vigorously, "Mother, Yu'er knows that she is wrong, so I won't say it in the future." ”

Wen Xuan immediately learned, "Mother, Xuan'er also knows that she is wrong, so she won't talk about it in the future." ”

Lan Yi touched their little heads encouragingly, "Good." ”

Seeing that the mother was happy, the two little ones began to eat happily. Although Lan Yi spoils them on weekdays, when they do something wrong, Yu'er and Wenxuan don't dare to make trouble.

After eating, Yu'er helped her mother clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Wenxuan teased the little squirrel beside her.

"Let's go play, just come here." Lan Yi looked at him softly and said.

After all, Yu'er is a few years older, and her interest in the little squirrel is not as great as Wenxuan, "I'll help my mother boil water." ”

To remove the oil stains on the dishes and chopsticks, Lan Yi used to add alkali with hot water first.

"Okay," Lan Yi asked casually, "What did you learn today, but what's the fun?" ”

Yu'er raised her eyes and looked at her mother, "I am still learning the eleventh of the Analects, Yan Yuan is dead, and the people want to bury him." Zi said: "No." "The doorman buried it thickly. The son said: "Hui also regards the father of the Jews, but does not regard the son of the Jews." If it's not me, my husband's second and third sons are also ......"

Yu'er shook her little head and recited skillfully.

Lan Yi nodded while taking a bath, it turned out that she was talking about this chapter, no wonder they would discuss ghosts.

Waiting for Yu'er to recite, "How did the uncle tell you the sentence 'If you can't help people, how can you do ghosts'?" ”

"Uncle hasn't talked about it yet, he just talked about the carp dead and there is a coffin without a coffin." Yu'er said, "Mother, do people have to have a coffin before they can be buried?" ”

Lan Yi explained in detail, "It should be according to the funeral, but there are exceptions. For example, if you have some infectious diseases and die, you must be cremated first. There are also some soldiers who died in a foreign land or died on the battlefield when the bones cannot be brought back, so they can only be cremated first and then take the ashes back. ”

At that time, when she returned to Beigou Village from Meixian County, she came back with Wang Linshan's "ashes", and when she remembered the past, Lan Yi suddenly realized that she had been here for so long!

"Oh." Yu'er's bright big eyes flickered a few times, and she whispered, "Mother, Erzhuzi said that his house is haunted, and his grandmother doesn't sleep well at night, so she always shouts 'don't pester me'......"

Lan Yi was stunned, "Erzhuzi is the son of Uncle Shou's family in the south of the village?" ”

"Yes," Yu'er's eyes flashed with fear, "Erzhuzi heard from his grandmother that it was his third aunt who refused to leave. Mother, the third aunt of the second pillar was hanged, and they all said that if she wanted to be reincarnated, she had to find someone to hang her first......"

Lan Yi moved over the small stool and sat next to Yu'er, and said softly, "Don't listen to their nonsense, there is no such thing." ”

Yu'er frowned, "But that's what the old people in the village say." ”

No matter how sensible Yu'er is, she is also a child. Besides, under the influence of the humanistic atmosphere of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is difficult to eliminate the fear of these unknown ghosts and gods, Lan Yi thought about it and reached out to hold him in his arms, "Yu'er, there is a saying called 'Don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door', let's be upright and do things, naturally have a righteous spirit, and evil ghosts and crooked gods can't get close to us." Moreover, you have the protection of your father and mother in heaven, and the father and mother around you to protect you, so you don't have to be afraid. ”

Yu'er was in her mother's arms, and her breath was full of the smell that made him feel at ease, "Mother, Yu'er knows, Yu'er is not afraid!" Yu'er will also protect her mother and brother! ”

"Well, my mother knows that Yu'er is my mother's good son." The heart is full of warm warmth, and being a mother is strong, Lan Yi can more and more deeply understand the meaning of this sentence, "Let's go, let's go back to the house to sleep for a while, and we have to go to study later." ”

"Yu'er wants to sleep with her mother and brother, okay?" Yu'er is greedy for the warmth brought by her mother.

"Of course!" Lan Yi squeezed his little face with the palm of her hand, "My mother thought that Yu'er had grown up, so I didn't want to sleep with my mother anymore." (To be continued.) )