Chapter 9: Water Refining
His arms couldn't reach his thighs, and Zhang Zhaohua was screwed ashore by his father with a collar. Jin Hu also followed ashore. The loaches in the bamboo basket did not increase again. In just this time, there were one or two catties of loaches in it. It's a pity that if the loaches are put in the town and sold, they are only a few cents a pound.
People in the countryside don't have the awareness to sell things. Zhang Youping was carrying a bamboo basket of loaches, but he was thinking about where to exchange for a few taels of sesame oil. Sesame oil is rapeseed oil, which has a strong fragrance, but many people don't like the overly rich fragrance of rapeseed oil. But this aroma is best used to fry loaches, which have a fishy smell.
Because the paddy field needs to be planted for two crops, if you plant rapeseed, it is easy to miss the agricultural time. Because of the rapeseed planting, the paddy fields cannot be ploughed in advance. Moreover, once there is a shortage of water after harvesting rapeseed, it is very likely that there is no way to plant rice in time. The yield of rape is not high, mainly to solve its own oil. People in the countryside don't usually like to eat rapeseed oil, so they don't grow much rapeseed every year.
Zhang Zhaohua's sesame oil has long been used up, and now that he has made so many loaches back, he can eat several meals. But every time he wants to use sesame oil, it makes Zhang Youping a little difficult.
After Zhang Zhaohua was brought out of the ditch by his father, he looked like he was wilted, and he looked listless along the way. No matter how much his father teased him, he didn't show a smile. Obviously, I was still angry with my father.
Zhang Zhaohua was not happy, and the golden tigers were not happy, one by one they learned from Zhang Zhaohua, pouting, drooping their heads, and walking weakly.
Hearing the movement in the yard, Liu Qiaoye greeted him from the house, "Bao cub, how is it? Oh, let me see, why are you unhappy today? Don't you usually like to catch loaches with your father? Is your father beating you and scolding you? Tell my mother, and my mother will clean him up. ”
Liu Qiaoye looked at the man again, "He finally lived a little more today, why did you scold him?"
"Alas, you don't understand. Zhang Youping didn't want to mention what happened just now, he didn't want his mother-in-law to worry too much. There are some things that can be taken care of by a man like him.
"Why don't I understand? It's not right for you to scold the cub. The people in the village are talking about our treasure cub behind their backs. What's wrong with our cubs? We don't eat them, we don't wear them, we don't steal them. It's in their way. If you don't care about the cubs, it's okay. You are still adding fuel to the fire, what kind of father are you going to be?" Liu Qiaoye immediately showed her lifeless pungency like an old hen guarding her cubs.
Zhang Zhaohua, who was just unhappy, immediately felt very wronged, and if she didn't cry, she couldn't pass, so she cried happily. The crying point of the little kid is really low, as long as the emotions are brewed a little, he can cry a lot.
As soon as Zhang called Hua to cry, her mother immediately panicked, and hurriedly hugged the treasure cub in her arms, teasing and comforting. By the way, he scolded his father happily.
I don't know why, when my mother was scolding my father, Zhang Zhaohua's mood suddenly improved a lot. Then I was made to smile by a hard candy that my mother didn't know where to take it out.
When Zhang Zhaohua ate candy, Jin Hu and the five of them stared at the candy in Zhang Zhaohua's hand with their eyes, and kept swallowing their saliva. The ass kid didn't have the idea of having fun.
At lunchtime, my mother got a small clay pot of sesame oil from somewhere, fried the loach until it was browned on both sides, and then grabbed a few bright red sour chili peppers from the jar and fried them fragrantly. Eat a lot of flowers, sweating profusely.
"Bao cub, is the loach delicious?" Liu Qiaoye asked with a smile as she watched Zhang Zhaohua eat so deliciously.
"It's delicious, much better than pickles. Zhang Zhaohua gulped down the rice, and his mouth was slurred.
After lunch, I took out the bell and played with it for a while, then put the bell on my wrist.
Zhang Zhaohua sat on the threshold and leaned diagonally against the door, and the Golden Tigers also sat on the threshold next to Zhang Zhaohua.
Sitting and sitting, everything in front of him spun around, and Zhang Zhaohua suddenly fell asleep again.
The old Taoist elder stood in front of Zhang Zhaohua again, "The first spring thunder sounded before the beginning of spring today, and it was just right to start practicing water refining." From now on, practice three times a day at midnight (5 or 6 o'clock in the morning). It is necessary to practice for seven seven and forty-nine days in a row. I'll take you to practice for seven days. Then you practice it yourself every day. Remember. Wash your hands and face before refining water. During the water refining period, it is necessary to abstain from female sex, even husband and wife cannot have sex together, and they cannot spit on the toilet when they go to the toilet. From the first day of water refining, it is necessary to abstain from the three evils for life, otherwise, the water will be disgusted and will no longer work. To refine water, we must refine virtue, we must always have a kind heart, we must respect our teachers and ancestors, help the needy, and do not deceive teachers and destroy ancestors, bully the weak with the strong, give birth to evil thoughts in vain, and harm others with the law. Do you understand?"
Zhang Zhaohua naturally didn't understand, what is the meaning of "quitting women", what is the meaning of "husband and wife having sex together"? What is the meaning of "three hates"?
But Zhang Zhaohua was like a puppet being manipulated at this time, and he couldn't say what was in his heart at all. But to Zhang Zhaohua's surprise, he himself actually spoke in an uncontrolled situation: "Master, what are the three disgusts?"
The old Taoist nodded, "The three anxieties refer to the fact that the sky is tired of pigeons, the water is tired of fish (soft-shelled turtles), and the earth is tired of dogs." You just can't eat pigeons, fish and dog meat. ”
Zhang Zhaohua was very frightened, who was talking just now? Obviously, he was talking, but what he was saying was not what he wanted to say. What's going on? It's just that Zhang Zhaohua didn't have time to think about this problem clearly, and his body had already started to move uncontrollably.
Zhang Zhaohua holds a blue and white ceramic bowl in her left hand, her middle finger and ring finger are bent inward and clasped into the palm of her hand, and her thumb, index finger and little finger are erected in the shape of three tripods and feet holding the bowl. The thumb of the right hand clasps the ring finger and little finger. Stretch out your index finger and middle finger into a sword finger shape that seems to be straight but not straight but not bent, and then recite a mantra while scratching, starting from the rampant soldiers in the Meishan courtyard ordered by Hua Tuo, until the end, refining all the magic water. Take a bowl and draw the water.
Although during the whole process, Zhang Zhaohua involuntarily did every action, but these actions were naturally remembered in my heart one by one. It feels like the Taoist priest on TV, but every action done here seems to be more subtle than the Taoist priest on TV.
Every time there is a mistake, the old Taoist will not let Zhang Zhaohua have a good time. Obviously, I can't help myself, but when I am beaten, it is really painful.
The first time I refined water, I was beaten countless times, and when I was about to end, I was beaten three times by the old Taoist. It hurts. Zhang Zhaohua woke up in pain suddenly, and the back of her head hit the door frame, making a bang.
Zhang Zhaohua didn't touch his head, but rubbed his hand, obviously in a dream, why did he feel that his hand still hurt so much?