Volume 1 Folk Thoughts Chapter 9 Dodge
The Dongfang family house in the Kuanmen compound is preparing for a feast and moving the house, and there is an offering table in the main room, the oil lamp is flickering, and the table top is covered with all kinds of pastries, fruits, and dishes to offer to the god of the house. This is the custom of moving and relocating in Gu'anzhai Village, which requires the use of a stove to warm the new house, and then move into the belongings and softness, which means to get rid of filth and bake by fire.
Dongfang is a rare rich family in the village, with 100 acres of fertile land and many doors. Decades ago, after the Dongfang family gave birth to three girls in a row, they were happy to have twin sons and scenery in and out of the village.
Moving a house is a trivial matter compared to marrying a wife, birthday, funeral, and Dengke, however, the Dongfang family's move this time is too much, and the scene is comparable to the county lord who donated the official back then.
The feasts were arranged in the courtyard, with six horizontal and six vertical tables and thirty-six tables. During the opening of the banquet, a crackling firecracker exploded. The sound of firecrackers has always been accustomed to relocation, birthdays, and weddings. However, after the sound of firecrackers, there was the sound of string allegro singing harmony.
"One move and two enter, three miles and four constants, far and near are relatives, four roads and eight friends, six roads open the road, nine five to the ......"
Singing and harmonizing, with a foreign accent and harmony, the figure appeared in the sight of the group, and it was actually a sixty-year-old couple.
Gu'anzhai village is not large, with a large population and few cultural people. Lao Chitose is an antique old benchmark among cultural people, he savored the couple and the tongue, thinking that this is the relocation of auspicious lyrics, is the meaning of the prosperity of the people, the meaning of the guests and friends, but the last sentence of "Ninety-five supremacy" did not dare to ponder, secretly scolded such not being polite, not being systematic, and left the table angrily. Dongfang Bo, the owner of the Dongfang family, was confident, and led his wife to find this funny-looking old couple.
It is said that this Gu'anzhai Village is not a poor village, but a remote place, like a lump of ash sewn by the tail of an ox, hidden in the dark and not attracting attention. There are few outsiders in the village, and the understanding of the outside world is closed, and they only listen to a legend left by the previous generation in the village - that was once upon a time, and a Confucian decorator came to the village, and the village was surprised, but no one was willing to take care of it. The Confucian decorator insisted on staying overnight for three nights on the pile of reed hemp stalks in Zhu Sanbo's pot house, and Zhu Sanbo's family was poor and couldn't afford to raise children, so he begged him to take away the youngest child, Xiao Qilang, so as not to suffer his life.
Xiao Qilang has been gone for thirty years, and after thirty years, the former Zhu Sanbo has become an old man, and when he is dying, he wants to see him. One day, on a hot day, a person dressed as a young Confucian university walked into the house, stood in front of the old man, and used a pill to let the old man live for another ten years. It turned out that after this Shichiro left his hometown, he followed the cultivator to Confucianism, learned the Tao, pinched his fingers and counted his father's birthday, and on the day of the limit, he fulfilled the grace of nurturing.
Qilang is a disciple brought out by the Confucian decorator, and the Confucian decorator has become a master in the eyes of the villagers, and Qilang has also become a beacon of self-cultivation in the village.
The twin children of Dongfang Bo are dignified and intelligent, as if they have already discovered that they are not the material for studying and entering the university, so they are concerned about knowledge and appreciation, thinking that the couple from the village must be masters, and the couple who have come to the guest must be "the first to get the moon near the water".
Dongfang Bohe and his wife invited the couple into the room, and when they waited for the guests to leave, Haosheng made arrangements.
In the evening, Dongfang Bo was cautious, deliberately did not let the lady sit down, personally drank wine to entertain the old couple, and arranged the twin dogs to stand outside the door, waiting for orders at any time.
After three glasses of wine, Dongfang Bo said: "I don't know where the two of you came from, why did you come to this small village?"
The old couple was silent, and even looked up at him superfluously.
Dongfang Bo felt that the master was deep and eccentric, not an ordinary master, and he must have martial arts and strengths.
After a few rounds of pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Dongfang Bo was a little drunk, snapped his fingers, and walked into Dongfang Mubai and Dongfang Qingluo in the door.
"The two of you have a good amount of alcohol and good food, blame me for being hospitable to guests every day, and I drank a few more glasses, and now my mind is dizzy. My generation doesn't drink as much, how about inviting a dog to accompany the two seniors to renew the wine?" Dongfang Bo said drunkly.
Dongfang Mubai and Dongfang Qingluo walked to the table and gave a salute. The couple looked at each other and smiled, and resumed their wine, until in the middle of the night, when the wine was dry and the food was clean, and all five of them were drunk and lay on the ground.
The next day, the sun passed over the mountain, and the couple was leaving, and Dongfang Bo stayed hard.
Dongfang Bo has a pair of discerning eyes, sees people uniquely, and thinks that this old couple is a superior person, if they can teach dogs, it is really a godsend. It's just that Dongfang Bo Mingli secretly observed and found that the couple didn't have any affection for the dog. Dongfang Bo asked for advice several times, but the old couple still drank wine and ate meat to ask for money, and did not mention anything else. Later, Dongfang Bo really couldn't bear the muttering of the bed lady, and sent the old couple away after the fifth day of warm hospitality.
The couple walked out of the Dongfang family's house, but did not leave the village, and the next day, sat down on the bank of the stream.
The old man had a funny face, like a short and thin rough strip, and when he opened his mouth to yawn or lick his mouth to speak, he could always show his big concave teeth like a drain of garlic; The old man pinned the allegro, and the old woman carried an erhu on her back, which looked like a pair of storytellers and rappers.
The children of the village crowded their heads to see the strange man, and one after another, the hurried adults saw the abnormal old couple and took the children, leaving only the older or lawless and unsupervised young and wild children.
These adults took the child away in an instant, not for no reason, it turned out that in their hearts they all longed for their children to be able to walk out of the village and be as productive as Shichiro, so they often looked forward to another Confucian decorator-like figure in the village...... However, many years later, an outsider did come to the village, and to be exact, this was also a strange person.
This strange man in the village is full of strangeness, there are inkstones, wolf tooth pendants, tooth bones, incense casting and other playthings fragments, the ears can take out the white jade, the nostrils hide the chicken heart stone, by the previous car experience, this Mr. Gu by the ancient village people warm treatment, adults pull the children and grandchildren, hope to get Mr. Gu love, accept as a disciple, out of the village, ten years later, return with the capture, return to the hometown. There are even families with backgrounds, secretly holding bronze, porcelain and antiquities to the back door.
Unconsciously, Mr. Shugu disappeared in the village the next day, and there were two children who disappeared together...... However, it is a pity that these two families have not been able to wait for the return of the child, how the father wanted to see the child before he died, but he was dying but did not breathe, and died into a stiff body, but the body temperature was not cold, but in the end, he still could not wait for the child...... Until the father died, and was buried in the earth, and the mound was overgrown with weeds, and the weeds withered and abundant, and abundant and withered, and could no longer hope for children...... Every evening, before the sun went down, she leaned against the door, looked up to the west, her eyes went from dark to yellow, and she held on for five years, and finally looked up and died in front of the door of the courtyard.
The villagers have been looking forward to the children learning the craft, and after learning the arts, they will glorify their hometown, or become a cultivator like Shichiro, and when the two children's families are dying, the villagers no longer have expectations, they don't think that the two children will be taken away by Mr. Gu to become apprentices...... They thought, maybe the child died, maybe the child was not accepted as a disciple by Mr. Shugu, maybe the child was lost at the beginning, maybe it was not Mr. Shugu, but a wicked person who abducted and sold children......
The people of the small village no longer expect foreign masters, nor do they expect their children and grandchildren to go out of the village to become talents, as long as they are safe and sound, they will be natural and at ease.
Therefore, in addition to the respect and attention of this old foreign couple in Dongfang Bo, who knows the hero with a discerning eye, not many people are willing to deal with it, or even reject and dodge.