Chapter 3: A Golden Bean
"Peace, what do you want? Come, bring this with you, you can ward off evil spirits. ”
After Ping Ye cleaned up the well of Ping Zhong, she returned to her loving appearance, and she took out a small red rope from her jacket pocket, on which hung a golden bean that was a little larger than a soybean.
It's sparkling, it's beautiful.
"Third sister, this is a golden bean? more than a gram, that's more than 100 yuan!" The second aunt was envious and jealous, her heart was sour, the old lady loved peace and could say that she liked her youngest grandson, but when the aunt didn't say that a bowl of water was flat, there were good things and always thought about peace, and the two boys in their own family didn't have this treatment since they were young.
This heart is too biased.
The eldest aunt tasted the same, looking at Ping'an's eyes, it was an envy, he had been married to the Ping family for decades, and he had never worn silver or gold, "Third sister, such a valuable thing, don't lose it to the child." ”
"Yes, sister, this is too precious, I can't help it!" Chen Xiaoyi was surprised, and couldn't believe that Ping Ye actually wanted to give Ping An Golden Beans. As the second aunt said, more than one gram of gold is more than 100 yuan.
What can you buy for more than 100 yuan in 97?
Being able to buy 200 catties of rice, buying half a head of pork, and 100 catties of vegetable oil is a lot of money for any family, which is enough for a family of four to spend two or three months, save a little, and use it for half a year.
Now, Ping Ye actually wants to give Ping An golden beans worth more than 100 yuan?
Of course Yuan Xiaoyi was surprised!
"What can't I do, peace is the meat of my heart, and nothing is precious to give. The aunt touched Ping'an's head and smiled, glanced at the two envious aunts, and said, "Besides, this thing can ward off evil spirits and keep a safe life." ”
In the countryside, many old people believe that gold and silver can ward off evil spirits, as long as they bring it, the gods and ghosts dare not get close, and they are not afraid to walk at night.
"Yes, bring peace with you, you should have brought some gold and silver to peace a long time ago. ”
The old lady loves her grandson with affection, so she doesn't care about the envy and jealousy of the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law.
She has been domineering all her life, and she has done many things that make her daughters-in-law resentful for a lifetime, so she immediately took the golden beans in Ping Ye's hand, brought them directly to Ping'an, and said lovingly: "Hey, if it weren't for my big gold bracelet, I would have given peace a long time ago." But peace and rest assured, sooner or later, this bracelet will be given to your daughter-in-law. ”
The eldest aunt and second aunt are also grandsons, why don't our families have this treatment?
Mo Fa, Ping An looked at the two aunts in the depression, and thought to himself, who called me grandma's youngest grandson, the heart and liver, baby, and life that she raised single-handedly.
Bang......
At the moment when the old lady put the red thread around Ping'an's neck and carefully put the golden beans into Ping'an's underwear, the golden gourd appeared in Ping'an's mind.
And the pair of small wings engraved on the gourd turned out to be ...... began to fan up gently, emitting a brilliant light, and then Ping An felt the red thread hanging on his neck light, and the golden bean on his chest disappeared at once, and then it appeared in Ping An's mind wonderfully, and flew in from the gourd mouth.
Then, as if touching some kind of magical power, a very wonderful and faint aura flowed from the golden gourd, pouring into Ping'an's body.
It's like a dying flower encounters rain and dew, and a person who is dying of thirst drinks a clear spring in the mountains...... No, it's cooler than that, ten times more refreshing.
Ping An can't describe that feeling now, it's comfortable, it's warm, as if it's soaked in warm water, it's very refreshing.
"This, this, what's going on?" Ping An was completely immersed in that kind of refreshment, excited and faintly expectant, feeling the mysterious aura emanating from the golden gourd.
This time, Ping An felt it clearly and caught it.
Ping An also felt that the golden bean that it had sucked away was constantly compressed in the gourd, becoming smaller and smaller, and then smaller......
Finally, it becomes the tip of a needle, imperceptible, but flashes with a quaint and sharp light......
"Calm, calm. I want to be calm. Ping An tried to calm himself down, but the clear and incomparably refreshing feeling was still ...... His whole body seemed to be filled with a feeling of strength in an instant, as if every muscle and cell in his body was cheering.
Ping'an, naturally laughed, this feeling is so cool!
"This kid is overjoyed. Grandma looked at him in a daze, patted Ping'an's head rarely, and touched it again, the baby is not good.
......
Aunt Pingye is a leader and a busy person, after confirming that her baby nephew is fine, she said goodbye to the old lady, and when she left, she carried Ping'an's two aunts on her back and quietly gave Yuan Xiaoyi 300 yuan.
The old lady was almost eighty years old, and she was guarding her grandson for a day and a night in fear, so she naturally couldn't bear it, and she also went back with Ping'an's two vinegary aunts.
Yuan Xiaoyi naturally wanted to send the old lady and the old man to the station, but Ping Zhongjing obviously went home first, so Ping An was the only one left in the ward.
"Now?"
Of course, he wanted to carefully feel the pleasure that the golden gourd brought him.
Ping An found that the breath flowing out of the mysterious gourd, in this short period of time, the two have undergone wonderful changes, the specific changes Ping An can't say, but he really feels that every part of his body is changing.
First of all, when that breath entered his body and limbs, Ping An immediately felt full of energy, and there was a kind of strength in his arms that was so strong that there was nowhere to vent, and the urge to tear the tiger and leopard welled up in his heart.
Secondly, when that breath stayed in his brain, peace and mind cleared, what he couldn't figure out before seemed to be understood in an instant.
Some vague things in memory emerge one by one, clear and vivid, as if they were the picture of a movie.
Even more mysterious are Ping'an's eyes, he can see things very clearly, his eyes can see through the window in the hospital room to see the facial features of a person two hundred meters away, as well as their various subtle expressions.
His ears could hear sounds far away, the conversation of the patients next door, the whispers of doctors and nurses, and even the sound of birds in the grass and branches of the trees below the building.
His nose has also become unusually sensitive, avoiding the strong smell of disinfectant water in the hospital and smelling the aroma of stir-fried food in restaurants outside the hospital.
There are also tactile sensations, all of which have been enhanced.
In short, Ping An feels like the world around him as if it has taken on a new look. And this wonder makes him feel good, very good, very good.
Faintly, Ping An guessed that all these changes were related to the golden gourd in his body, and what turned this relationship into this mysterious feeling must be the golden bean given to him by his aunt.
"A grain of gold the size of a soybean will bring me this kind of change, if it is grandma's gold bracelet, if it is a pound of gold, I don't know what kind of change it will bring me?"
The peaceful mind, nourished by the mysterious aura, like an adult, began to ponder this question...... Because, he feels the mystery in his body, and this change seems to be reborn.
Although Ping An didn't know how the golden gourd got into his body, he didn't know where it was hiding in his head.
But now, as long as Ping An closes his eyes and thinks about it, the golden gourd can appear in his mind.
It's wonderful and mysterious, but Ping An likes it.
Naturally, he had a strong desire for gold.
And if you want gold, you have to have money first.
Money! money! money!
For a time, Ping An's head was full of money.
Especially when Ping An saw Yuan Xiaoyi who walked into the ward, saw her long black hair, with traces of white hair sandwiched between them, saw her kind face, engraved with wrinkles one by one, saw her smile, her haggard face, everything about her, Ping An's desire for money for the first time reached a peak.
Because, with the help of the mysterious aura, he finally knew how much this dear mother had suffered in these twelve years?
Although Ping An still can't understand how a young woman in her twenties, who suddenly lost her husband's pillar, raised him, a bastard who had no heart, no liver and no lungs, with hard work?
How much sin has she suffered, how much she has suffered?
Tears of peace flowed out.
He really grew up suddenly at this moment, and with the help of the mysterious aura, he understood a lot of things that only adults could understand.
"Mom. ”
Ping An suddenly shouted, and tears flowed out.
"What's the matter?"
Ping'an's mother answered, but lowered her head to clean up the garbage he had just eaten and left behind, and didn't raise her eyes to look at Ping'an.
"Mom, when I grow up, I will earn you a lot of money, buy you a lot of delicious food, let you live in a big house, teach you, provide for you, and I will not let you suffer again. ”
Ping An said affectionately, from the heart, but it made the mother who cleaned up her things stiff.
Yuan Xiaoyi probably couldn't believe that Ping'an, a bastard boy, could say such filial words, she turned her head and saw a face full of tears.
In that moment, Ping An saw a bright smile, a smile of joy.
"What nonsense, as long as you don't make me and your father angry, it is the greatest filial piety. ”
Saying that, Yuan Xiaoyi hesitated, sat on the edge of the bed, and said with a rare hug: "When you grow up in the future, you just need to marry me a beautiful daughter-in-law." ”
"Good. I'll marry you a bunch of daughters-in-law, all of them beautiful and filial, and let them bring you tea and water to wash your feet. Ping'an, who didn't have much concept of his daughter-in-law, replied cheerfully, lying in his mother's arms, he liked this feeling so much.
Chen Xiaoyi smiled, touched his face, and said with a smile: "A daughter-in-law can't marry indiscriminately, she can only marry one in her life and go home." ”
"I only need one in the family, and a few more outside, so that they can take turns to honor you. ”
"Embarrassment"
In this way, Ping An leaned on Chen Xiaoyi's arms, chatting with his mother and talking about his heart. Because of the change in his mood brought by the golden gourd, coupled with Ping'an's clear and quick mind, he remembered a lot of things when he was a child, and then used them to make his mother happy.
Listening to her voice, her laughter, Ping An felt that if this was happiness, he wanted it to go on forever.
What happened this afternoon changed Ping'an's life, and he seemed to have grown up at this moment, with the help of the mysterious atmosphere, and was no longer the tiger-headed calf boy in Xima Town.
Probably the only thing that hasn't changed is Ping An's desire for money, but it has become stronger.
While chatting with his mother, Ping An was using his brains to come up with one after another unrealistic money-making plans, and all kinds of whimsical ideas.
In short, Ping An wants to make money, and he wants to change his life and his mother's life, so that she doesn't want to work too hard.
If it weren't for the hospital, Ping An would want to take action with these childish ideas to make money.