Chapter 1: First Encounter with the Bee God (1)

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My name is Tianliang. Before I was born, my father gave me a name, and I don't know why, my father had to give me such a name. However, when I was almost a year old, my father called me to the bedside, took my hand, and insisted on taking candy out of my coat pocket for me to eat. I looked at my grandfather's increasingly blue face, and I was so frightened that I cried, and it didn't take long for my grandfather to die.

My father's grave is buried in my ancestral grave on the old ditch. There are not many graves there, and after my father's grave is piled up, there is my lord, my grandfather and my grandfather's three zigzag graves, I don't know if others can see it, anyway, when I grow up, every time I come back to my father's grave, I think this shape is particularly weird.

Our Zhuangzi, in fact, has a small population, but the shape of Zhuangzi is special, sparse and long. From south to north and then to east, if you walk, you have to walk from one side to the other for a long time.

My father has four sisters, my father is the eldest, and there are my uncle, second aunt and sister-in-law below. Since I was a child, my father separated from my uncle, my father lived in the old house, and my uncle moved to Nanzhuang to live. My second aunt married to Dongzhuang soon after, and my sister-in-law married to Yangguan Temple in Gongzhupo, Northeast Zhuang after I was five years old.

I don't know why, but when I was very young, I liked to follow adults to relatives. I go to relatives, not just to have fun, but also for an important reason, there is a lot of good food. At that time, life was extremely scarce, and being able to eat a hearty meal with meat and vegetables could only be achieved during the Chinese New Year.

It's different when you go to relatives, no matter which relatives you go to, no matter how good or bad the other party's home conditions are, at least there are at least four dishes on the table, including meat, eggs, and even fish and chicken. Every time I see such a good thing that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year, before the meal is served, I will secretly swallow saliva in my mouth......

I remember one time, I went with my grandmother to visit my aunt's house on the ridge to visit relatives. It should be the spring weather, and I remember that my grandmother was still wearing a really cool shirt, and she was wearing her own white and black cloth shoes. There was an egg basket on her arm, and the basket contained most of the basket of eggs, as well as a large piece of meat, and a few jujube buns. These things are covered with a clean towel, and the milk is protected and rolled out, along the path at the north end of the village, across the small stone bridge, the yard of Ji Shuhua's house, the Zhonghua baby's house, and then along the path in the middle of the north slope, over the East River, over Huzhuang, and then along the ridge road on the edge of Huzhuang, until you go to the ridge of the village.

From afar, I saw my aunt come out to greet me. My aunt calls me the second aunt, because the aunt is the eldest daughter of the uncle, my father is the second child, and the aunt calls me the second uncle. My aunt's age is only a few years younger than my grandfather, so my grandmother and my aunt can talk very well, even if my aunt is married, my grandmother and my aunt still have kinship, and there are always a few times a year back and forth between you and my relatives. My aunt is also a skinny old lady, in my memory, my aunt and my grandmother are both short old women, and my grandmother is a little taller and more energetic than them.

My aunt came over and took my grandmother's arm, took the egg basket with the other hand, and greeted my grandmother while pretending to blame my grandmother. My grandmother just smiled and said that the hens at home had just begun to lay eggs, so she brought a few over and gave them to Zhao Wa to eat. My cousin is called Xiaofei, and my eldest uncle's surname is Zhao. When I arrived at my aunt's house, it wasn't far, and I arrived in a while.

The blue brick house that the aunt's family has just built, the newly repaired brick courtyard wall, the courtyard is paved with floor bricks on the road, and on both sides of the road, a small flower bed on the left and right is also enclosed with bricks, and the moon flowers inside are budding to be released. My aunt has a four-eyed wolf dog at home, very strange, the first time I went to my aunt's house, the big wolf dog that looked quite fierce didn't even bark at me, and seemed to wag its tail at me very friendly. I appreciated its friendliness and threw a few extra bones for it to eat during the meal.

The aunt arranged for the uncle to go to the stove to cook the dishes, so she quickly brought the teapot over, and brought the canned bottle of honey in the house and put it on the table, took the spoon and dug up two large pieces of honey in the honey bottle, put a spoon in a bowl, and then washed it with hot water, brought it to the milk and me, and let us drink. After a while, it was almost cold, and the adults were cordially pulling the homely cooking, and I sat on the wooden chair painted with red lacquer, my arms propped on the table, and kept trying to see if the tea bowl was cold. After a while, my aunt said that I could drink it, so I held the tea bowl in both hands and reached out to take a sip. I didn't expect that the honey tea was as sweet, the same light, and the same slippery as the honeycomb honey of the third uncle's family. I didn't stop, hugged the bowl, and drank the tea in one go.

The tea was so sweet, it was sweet to my heart when I took a sip, I held the bowl in both hands, stuck out my tongue to lick the unmelted honey at the bottom of the bowl, and my grandmother saw a slap on my arm, and the tea bowl fell on the table. I looked at the milk timidly, not daring to touch the tea bowl again. At this time, I felt that there was a stinging pain in my throat, and I couldn't help but cry loudly, and my aunt, my grandmother, and my uncle, who was cooking on the stove house, all rushed over when they heard the news, and took my hand and asked me what was wrong. I tried to reach out to my throat, but I couldn't reach it, I was so anxious that I was sweating profusely, and the pain was so terrible that I cried snot and tears.

My aunt saw that the situation was wrong, so she came to me and said, Xiaoliang asked my aunt to see, what did you eat in your mouth, I cried and opened my mouth to ask my aunt to see. Unexpectedly, Xiao Liang would eat a hornet. The aunt screamed. Xiaoliang, don't cry, my aunt will cure you immediately. My aunt hurried to the west, and after a while, she took out a large tweezer and told me to open my mouth and not move, so I put the tweezers into my mouth and took out the hornet pile and the sting that had pierced my tongue. I cried in pain, and my head was sweating. My aunt kept muttering to herself, this honey was bought a long time ago, and there were no wasps in it, so why did Xiaoliang eat the hornets. Dead hornets are piled up, even if the bee stings are dead, as long as people touch them, they will still sting.

Why am I so unlucky, drinking honey water, I can still be stung by a wasp, even if you sting me in the face, arm, body, you can still accept it, why just stung my tongue all at once. I was also tired, and the crying slowly turned into a small hum, and after a while, my eyelids sank, and I fell asleep on my. My aunt carried me to the west room, covered me with a small quilt, and saw that I was sleeping very deeply, so my aunt came out to greet my grandmother and start eating.

I don't know how long I slept, when suddenly a dog barked and woke me up. After waking up, I looked at the thick wooden beams on the big tiled house of my aunt's house, tied with strings of coins, and I was in a daze. After I slept for a while, I didn't remember what was going on, my tongue didn't hurt anymore, I was lying on the bed alone, and I smelled a special smell in my aunt's house, which was neither bad nor good, anyway, it was different from the smell in our house. I looked at the strings of coins on the beam, I don't know why the aunt wanted to string these coins and tie them to the beam, I looked at the coins, by the size, I could clearly see which one was five, which was two, and which was one. I looked at all of these strings of coins, and the result was that the proportion of coins in half was the largest. After a while, I was tired of counting the coins, my eyelids sank, and I fell asleep again.

In my sleep, I saw an old man with a white beard and white eyebrows, standing in the courtyard of my aunt's house with a crooked cane, waving gently to me. I slipped out of bed, ran outside, and asked Uncle what are you doing. The old man smiled and did not speak, but took the wide sleeve of his right hand and brushed it against my face. Suddenly, I heard a tidal wave of thousands of bees rushing towards me, buzzing against my cheeks and flying past. And these bees seemed to have all kinds of pollen stuck to their bodies, and those pollen were shaken by the bees into circles of smoke of various colors, which churned in front of me and gradually disappeared. When the sleeves of the robe were brushed, I couldn't find the old man, and my eyes were foggy as if it was going to rain. I walked around the yard several times but didn't find the old man.

I walked back in a wilt, passing by the hall, my aunt and my grandmother were no longer in the house, there were still a few dishes on the square table in the house, and in an incense burner on the altar, the incense had been burned. I saw that my aunt and my grandmother were not in the house, and I panicked for a while, dancing and shouting, and my milk heard my shout, so she hurried from the hall and asked Xiaoliang Xiaoliang what is wrong with you, I saw that the milk was still there, I was still lying on the bed, and turned to look at the aunt on the side, and the peripheral vision of my eyes seemed to see how the red rope of the coin string on the wooden beam above my head was scattered and hung there.

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