After the black thing came out, it rushed at the two of us fiercely, and this pounced, the old man hurriedly scolded: "Black gun!" ”

With the old man's scolding, the black thing made a humbling sound and walked to his side with his tail between his legs.

It was a big black dog, and it was just here to bite us, and this dog is the kind of dog that really bites. Because it didn't bark when it saw us, but sneaked up to us and wanted to bite us, as the old saying goes, a dog that bites doesn't bark.

"I'm sorry to scare you!" The old man said with an embarrassed face.

Wu Fatzi said: "It's okay, it's okay!" Uncle, you dog is so powerful, you don't even bark. ”

The old man smiled and said, "No, I'm a dog, I've been a trafficker before." That guy came to our village to steal the child, and was directly bitten on the ground by my dog, and the trafficker was killed at that time. ”

After a few words, we found that the old man was very enthusiastic, and soon talked to us, and learned from the chat that the old man had been a soldier and had also been on the battlefield, so he had a sense of righteousness. He asked us where we were and what our relationship was with Chen Wei, and as he spoke, he sighed and felt that it was a pity that Chen Wei died. said how many years has it been in this village to produce such an official, who knew that such a thing happened, and the old man wiped a handful of tears as he spoke.

It can be seen that Chen Wei, the child they watched grow up, died, which is indeed quite distressing. Although I don't know Chen Wei, I have seen his eight characters, he is a very good person in all aspects, so his reputation in the village will definitely not be bad, and the old man's reaction is also in common sense.

Seeing the sad appearance of the old man, I couldn't help asking, "Uncle, are you alone in your family?" ”

When I was questioning, I looked up at the old man's house, his house was quite large, and it seemed to be able to accommodate a lot of people.

The old man stared at me, spit out a puff of smoke, and said with emotion: "I have three sons, the younger son was sick a few years ago and died, and it was my youngest son who was dug up yesterday." My other two sons are married, but they are usually outside, saying that the education outside is good, taking the children out to study, and they have a future in the future, I don't understand their theories, just go, just go home for the New Year. ”

It can be seen that the uncle wants his own house to be as lively as other people's homes, but he is very helpless......

Sometimes young people don't understand the elderly, who have worked hard to raise their children all their lives and put all their efforts on their children. But after the children get married, some of the children completely become the wife's, and he listens to whatever the wife says. In fact, parents don't expect their children to listen to themselves like when they were young, they want to be able to see their children more, bring more grandchildren, and have more personal company.

Of course, at this time, some people may say that the old man is not willing to go to the city to take the children, and the old man is not willing to go, and it is not that he is unwilling to accompany him. In fact, this kind of person often does not consider it from the perspective of the elderly, as the saying goes, the tree is thousands of feet high, and the leaves fall back to the roots.

At this age, when there are memories wherever you go, you will understand what the place you have lived in all your life means to you. You will also understand what it means that the soil is mixed with fragrance.

Therefore, when young people are earning money, don't forget that there is someone at home who is always concerned about you.

Of course, to get back to the point, I also saw the lonely old man and felt it, and following the topic of the uncle, I asked: "Uncle, there is something I want to ask you, that is, why are there many people living together in your village?" I saw that some people were forty or fifty years old, and they did not have separate families, is this a custom in the village? Or is it a rule handed down from our ancestors? ”

When the uncle heard me ask, he smiled and said, "Well, this is going to start from an experience in our village many years ago, it is said that many years ago, there were few families in our village. Later, after several generations, the number of people gradually increased, and our village also changed from a few households to dozens of households. But when they came to the hundredth household, bad things began to happen in the village, and the people in the village were infected with the plague one after another, and more than half of the people died at once. After the plague, everyone's life returned to peace, and the population gradually recovered! ”

"After a long time, the number of people in the village became more and more, and the number of households became more than 100 again. This time, it suddenly rained for nine days and nine nights, and it was just in time for the harvest of labor, and the harvest of the year was harvested by natural disasters. At that time, people were not like now, when there was no food, they could still spend money to buy it, and at that time, people lived by food, so ah, many people starved to death later. At this time, an old beggar came to the village, and after the old beggar came to the village, he went directly to the village chief's house and told the village chief that he had a way to solve the affairs of the village. ”

At that time, who believed the words of a beggar, and he wanted to drive the beggar away without even thinking about it, but the beggar said that if it was not solved, there would be a disaster when the village grew stronger in the future. And he also asked the village chief meaningfully, this is not the first time that this disaster has been, right, the beggar's accent is not local, but seems to have drifted from the north. In those days, it was not like now, there were cars and airplanes, and you had to walk to get there, and a beggar who came here must not have known what happened in the village before. When the village chief heard this, he asked the beggar how to solve it, and the beggar asked the village chief for nine steamed buns, nine catties of pig's head meat, and nine bowls of rice. ”

The village chief gave it to him, and after he finished eating, he did the ritual in the village for seven days and seven nights, and it was only after seeing the old beggar doing the ritual that everyone was convinced that the old beggar was a capable person. After the rituals were done, he told the village chief that in the future, there should be no more than ninety-nine households in the village, but only ninety-nine at most, and when it reached 100 households, something big would happen in the village. After getting his words, the village set a rule that there should be no more than ninety-nine households, no matter how large the population was. ”

In this way, there are no more than 100 households in the village, and it is strange to say that after the village does not exceed 100 households, there will be no disaster. After that, everyone did not dare to disobey this rule, and the kind with a large population repaired the house a little bigger. When there are fewer households, or there is no one left, everyone will be separated by lottery, and whoever is in line will be separated from each other. ”

"So, now there are ninety-nine families in the village?" Fat Wu looked at the old man and asked.