Chapter 3: Flowers and Dry Bones (3)
Fu Honglei hid under the locust tree outside Chen Laoshi's house.
It was a large locust tree, large enough to hide his immature young body.
He is still a child, even if he has just torn a black bear of more than 800 pounds, he is still a child.
Children are always reluctant to face adults.
Even the most honest Chen honestly likes to educate him if he has nothing to do.
He was reluctant to be educated.
He just had to listen to his father.
There are a lot of things that Daddy said that he didn't understand yet.
But if you listen to Daddy, you can't go wrong.
Until noon, he saw Chen Qianqing coming out of the house, holding a wooden basin, probably going to the river to wash clothes.
Fu Honglei followed and patted her on the shoulder.
She was startled, the tub fell from her hands, and her clothes were scattered all over the floor.
But she didn't get angry, but looked at Fu Honglei happily: "You're back!"
"I'm back. ”
"Does that mean you've won?"
"I won. ”
Hearing the news, Chen Qianqing jumped up happily, hugged Fu Honglei, and was about to kiss him.
Fu Honglei was so happy to see her, and he was also very happy, and he smiled in the face of her sudden attack.
She had promised him that if he saved her sister, she would make a personal promise.
She said that her mother was like that, too.
She must have liked her mom a lot.
Of course she liked her sister very much.
She must have liked her daddy very much.
Now, she still likes him.
One is eight years old, the other is ten years old, childlike and heartbeat.
Lang rode a bamboo horse and went around the bed to make green plums. Living together for a long time, the two have no suspicion.
Chen Laoshi, who returned with his wife, saw this scene and was about to come forward to stop it, but his wife covered his mouth.
"Hong Lei is a good boy. Chang Xiaoyun said.
Fu Honglei also saw Chen Laoshi and his wife, but Chen Qianqing's lips were soft and comfortable, and he was reluctant to leave.
I was reluctant to leave, but I still had to leave. He secretly took a step back, separated Chen Qianqing, and then greeted respectfully: "Fourth uncle, fourth aunt." ”
Chang Xiaoyun smiled and said to Chen honestly: "Look, Hong Lei is a good boy. ”
Chen Laoshi, who was about to lose his little daughter, did not become impetuous and violent, but became a little more open-minded. What happens to a person can change a person's personality, but it doesn't necessarily change him for the worse.
Those who become bad, even if they don't have so many pathetic experiences, will become bad.
Chen honestly touched Fu Honglei's head, his yellow hair hung down, and his round head was very cute.
Before he could speak, Chen Qianqing suddenly began to cry.
"Daddy......"
Chang Xiaoyun glanced at Fu Honglei meaningfully, Fu Honglei felt this gaze and scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Qing'er, what's wrong? Is it a stinky boy bullying you? Mother is in charge of you!" Chang Xiaoyun said with concern.
Chen Qianqing buried her head in Chen Laoshi's arms, and said intermittently with a crying voice: "Sister...... Sister ......"
Chen was honest and honest, quietly waiting for Chen Qianqing to finish speaking. Chang Xiaoyun was an anxious person, and her mind turned several times when she spoke, thinking that Fu Honglei had said that her youngest daughter was going to sacrifice, and complained in her heart, but she comforted her: "Qing'er, don't cry, don't let people laugh at us." Our family will never shirk its responsibilities. ”
Suddenly, the figure of the burly man sharpening his knife with his back to him appeared in his mind, and his heart was even more sour, and his tone was a little mean for a while.
"Never bother outsiders. ”
"Sister, sister doesn't have to sacrifice!" Chen Qianqing choked up and said, speaking quickly, snot scurrying in her nasal cavity, and making a pig cry.
So she cried even harder.
Chen was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask, but Chang Xiaoyun thought it was a willful crying among children, and said, "Mother knows that you are sad in your heart......"
"No, it's not sad...... Qing'er was happy in her heart. Chen Qianqing said, "Brother Hong Lei beat the bad bear to death. ”
"What!"
As night fell, only a few wealthy families were still lit with candles, and most of the villagers had already slept.
The men of the village gathered in the village chief's guest hall, their expressions solemn and terrifyingly silent.
"Chen Laoshi, can you explain to everyone, what the hell is going on?"
Chen was nervous, he knew what the news meant, but he cared more about his daughter.
There is a hope of living.
"Everyone knows that Fu Yuxue, who is in charge of the Fu family, is the best hunter in our village, the evil bear...... Well, it was the evil bear who went down the mountain and ate so many of our chickens and ducks, but he never touched the Fu family. When I returned home today, I heard that the boy from the Fu family went up to the mountains to hunt by himself and killed the evil bear. ”
The village chief said, "That's it?"
Liu Laoshi didn't know what he was talking about, and muttered, "Well, that's it." ”
The village chief said: "How did I hear that it was your daughter Chen Qianqing who asked him to go to the mountains to bully our Bear King Daxian." ”
Liu honestly said: "I don't know about this, but the death of the evil bear is not a good thing for our village?"
"Fart!" said a Taoist priest in a yellow robe. At the beginning, he said that this evil bear was the bear king and the great immortal descended to earth, and he wanted the villagers to live and serve. But now that Daxian was beaten to death by a doll, isn't this a slap in the face, "This bear king Daxian is the mount of the supreme true monarch of the fairy world, and this time he has come down to investigate the people." If you act like this, how can the Bear King Daxian really be killed, but it is just a clone, and at this moment, the body must report this matter in the heavenly court, I think your Chenjia Village should disperse as soon as possible. The Emperor of Heaven reprimands, where can mortals afford it. ”
Hearing this, everyone was talking, Liu Laoshi was at a loss, and the village chief asked, "Dao Chief, how is this matter good!"
The Taoist priest was disgraced because of this incident, and hated the little boy of the Fu family and the young daughter of Chen Laoshi, and said viciously: "For today's plan, the only way to do this is to send the culprit up the mountain to apologize to the great immortal." In addition, the original offering is indispensable. ”
The village chief said: "Everyone has heard that this matter is related to the life and death of hundreds of families in the village, and I can only sacrifice my poor four nephews." As he spoke, he looked at Chen Laoshi intentionally or unintentionally.
Chen Laoshi didn't expect that he had just come out of Longtan and entered the tiger's den again, he hurt Chang Xiaoyun's heart once, and he couldn't hurt her a second time. He couldn't forget that the joy on Chang Xiaoyun's face when he knew that Fu Honglei had killed the evil bear seemed to melt the cold snow, making him feel an unprecedented warm current in his heart.
"The evil bear hurts people, and the crime is monstrous! How can it be that a god descends to earth! How can a god descend to earth, how can a god harm people! It must be ...... It must be this demonic nonsense!" Chen Laoshi has always been honest, and his blood surged into his heart in a hurry, and he actually stammered a little when he said this.
Originally, everyone still wanted to see him laugh, who let the same person from Chenjia Village, I can only ask for a village girl with big feet, thick hands, yellow muscles, and thin muscles, but you can marry a beautiful lady like a flower. Since everyone is not doing well, then we must let this look like a good life suffer. I can die, but you must die before me.
Is Chen Laoshi wrong?
Of course there is, everyone eats grass and you eat meat, so don't blame you for picking up your skin and stew.
Everyone thought so, so there was no objection to sacrifice at first.
But now, with the bear returning to the west, the need for this sacrifice is not so urgent, and the threat has not fallen on the horizon, and these villagers do not believe it.
"The fourth brother is right, a monster that children can kill, how can it be a great immortal!"
Some people in the crowd began to respond to Chen's honest words, they were not righteous, but they also did not want their children to die in vain.
Whose children are not the flesh that falls from their bodies. Who really wants to?
If someone dares to speak, someone will dare to act. Everyone gossiped, and in a moment they denied the "Bear King Great Immortal Theory" naked. The Taoist priest saw that it was no longer profitable, and he was afraid that he would hurt himself if he continued to entangle, so he pretended to snort coldly: "The mountain villager, it is easy to be foolish, and the poor road is kind to solve the siege, you are so ignorant of lifting, in the future, when the thunder and drought and flood disaster come, don't complain about the poor road and the iron and stone heart and watch coldly." ”
After that, he brushed his sleeves and left.
Chen Laoshi looked at the uncles and brothers in disbelief, he had received support from others for the first time in his life, and he was confident in his heart, and said to the village chief: "Second uncle, that blind bear has harmed us for so many years, and no one has ever suffered from it." Now Xiao Honglei has saved many good children in the whole village for our village in addition to this big harm, which is a good thing. ”
The village chief doesn't care how many children are sacrificed, and the sacrificial children will not be his turn anyway. But if he loses his prestige and loses the support of the people, whether his son can inherit the position of his village chief will have to be re-weighed.
Thinking of this, seeing the excitement of the crowd, he didn't dare to say anything against the whole village, so he hurriedly put on a kind smiling face and a gentle old man's attitude.
"The fourth is right, we are all confused by the spells of this demon road, and believe these nonsense, now that the demon road has run away, except for the evil bear, we can live a good life again. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so let's go back to our respective homes first. ”
In three or two sentences, the responsibility was put on the Taoist priest, and the villagers also felt justified, their previous actions were all because of the demonic Taoism, and they had nothing to do with themselves. Even Chen Laoshi, didn't he agree without saying a word when he said that he wanted to sacrifice his child at the beginning? Thinking of this, the only guilt in everyone's hearts was lost, and they went home happily to prepare for the New Year.