On the first day, during the meal, Po asked Mengzi to find an excuse to postpone eating alone, so as not to scare everyone.

The next day, during the meal, Ah Bao secretly dragged Mengzi aside, he said: "Mengzi, I can't destroy the tranquility of this village, it seems that here, the plan to let you eat a full meal will not work for the time being, and you will have to adapt to it, don't get too excited after eating, so as not to scare others." ”

Mengzi was stunned for a moment, then swallowed his saliva, and muttered in a low voice: "Or...... Shall I go and eat?"

Ah Bao said solemnly: "No, you have to slowly adapt to the life of everyone together, you have to integrate into all of us, always hide aside to eat, everyone will feel that you are a monster, will pay more attention to you, let's eat together, okay?"

Mengzi thought for a while, and then said, "I control myself hard, I don't go crazy." ”

Ah Bao looked at him silently and said seriously: "It's not that you don't go crazy, you have to restrain your expression, because even if you can restrain yourself from going crazy, but your appearance will scare strangers who don't know you, can you do it?"

Mengzi looked at Ah Bao in amazement, and listened to him smile casually: "You have extremely powerful energy, in fact, as long as you are willing, use this kind of strength to restrain your emotions, I believe you can do this." Brother, I believe in you!"

Mengzi nodded vigorously, stood up from the ground, and said seriously: "I promise you Brother Bao!"

Ah Bao patted him on the shoulder, and then smiled: "You remember, you will be a world-famous warrior in the future, and you must learn restraint and forbearance now." Otherwise, when everyone knows you and remembers your current situation, even if they respect you in person, they will definitely laugh at you later, such as behind your back. ”

Mengzi smiled, because there was something to eat, he nodded happily.

Ah Bao was still a little uneasy, and he instructed again: "You remember, you really can't control yourself, don't scare others, secretly eat a pill I gave you!"

Mengzi nodded, so he went to the village cafeteria with Bao.

Before this, Ah Bao had already told Xiucai that Mengzi had a great appetite, so Xiucai specially instructed the master who cooked rice to cook a big pot of rice. But he, a guy who can calculate any secrets, didn't bother too much to calculate how much food this foodie could swallow, so it wasn't surprising that he was startled later.

The cook went home after cooking, he never ate in the village cafeteria, and it is said that he preferred to go to the house to drink a little wine, so only the four of them ate at the village committee.

The dishes are not rich, just ordinary four dishes and one soup: one fried bamboo shoots with bacon, one fried dried fish with chili, one fried pickled fern, one cabbage and one egg soup.

Ah Bao and Wan'er knew that Mengzi had too much appetite, and in order to save him more, they ate a little to show that they were full, and the couple looked worriedly at Mengzi who was trying to restrain himself and swallowed a bowl of rice in stages several times.

Xiucai was a little surprised, he found that Mengzi basically didn't want vegetables to eat, if Ah Bao gave him a piece of fat meat, he would swallow it immediately, and then quickly picked up the rice in the bowl into his mouth as if he was filling food.

The bowls in the village are quite large, and the average person will be full immediately after eating one bowl, even if he is tired from work, he will have two bowls at most. But this big guy at the dinner table, the most he does is serve the rice! And very fast, the exact opposite of the silence and honesty of the past!

When Mengzi went to serve dinner, Xiucai finally expressed his surprise, and he whispered to Ah Bao: "I know that he has a big appetite and is often hungry, but I didn't expect him to eat so much!"

Ah Bao sighed and said, "I won't tell you, he hasn't eaten a full meal since he was a child, and I don't know how much he can eat." ”

Xiucai was stunned, and then a wisp of sympathy floated. In this era, he thinks that there are very few hungry people, but this poor baby is still struggling with food and clothing, how difficult it is!

So he said to Mengzi: "Brother, we have all eaten, you are welcome, eat slowly, you have to eat enough!"

Xiucai didn't know what the concept of "full" was for Mengzi, and this guy was happy to hear Xiucai say this: "Hehe, you have all eaten?"

Xiucai nodded with a smile and burped. Seeing this, Mengzi said happily: "Then I'll eat them all?"

Xiucai nodded again and said diligently: "Eat, eat, I specially asked the master who cooks to cook more rice, eat!"

Mengzi was happy, he opened his mouth and swallowed all the rice in the bowl into his big mouth, and then approached the stove, and used the bowl to dig the rice directly, and then poured it directly into his mouth, and quickly swallowed it into his stomach!

Xiucai was frightened at this time, he knew very well that the rice in the pot was still piping hot, and this guy didn't even have anything to do, and swallowed the hot rice directly...... How does he feel?

Po looked at Xiucai embarrassedly.

His terrible fierce performance affected his impression of Wan'er, and when the time came, they would not dare to let them come to live in the village because of food problems. He smiled and said: "Hehe Xiucai, this kid is quite able to eat, but he has a lot of strength, tomorrow there is no heavy work in your village, even if he is allowed to do it!"

Xiucai turned his head in a daze, then smiled and nodded to him, but he didn't know what to say.

In order to prevent the image of Mengzi eating from giving him a greater impact, Ah Bao hurriedly pestered him and said: "Isn't there such rough work as cutting down trees, plowing fields, and moving stones in your village? According to his grandmother, he broke a lot of sturdy plows when he was young, so that his father didn't dare to let him plow the fields, and it is said that it is more cost-effective to raise a cow!"

Xiucai smiled and nodded, indicating understanding. He was worried that Mengzi would be burned by the rice, so he quickly turned his head around at this time, and heard a "coo-dong" sound, and Mengzi staggered forward, and suddenly fell to the side of the stove, motionless.

Xiucai was startled, and quickly jumped up and shouted, "Oh no! He must have choked or burned!"

As he spoke, he jumped to the stove and found that the rice in the pot had long been clean, and even the pot was gone...... I was about to drag the fierce son, but I heard Ah Bao still smile cautiously: "It's okay, it's okay, there's nothing to do!"

Xiucai glared at him in amazement and said, "Will you faint if you don't have enough to eat?" you say...... He's not full?"

"Almost, almost. In order not to be kicked out of here by the village chief in the future, Ah Bao said with a conscience: "I guess it's about the same, but I still fainted, I must be almost not full!"

In fact, his heart was bright, this kid must have eaten to the point where he really hooked his hunger, and he really couldn't control it, so he could only swallow the pill he gave him, and fainted to death so as not to be embarrassed.

Xiucai stared blankly at the fierce man who fell motionless by the stove, looking helpless. Ah Bao hurriedly dragged him to the table and sat down, and continued to explain with a smile: "Don't pay attention to him, he is such a person, he will be so excited to faint after eating a meal It's really a joke hehe, let's sit and leave him alone, and we'll get up after a while!"

Where did Xiucai believe it, he quickly turned his head again, probably wanting to help Mengzi, but saw that the guy suddenly pulled his mouth, snorted very dissatisfied, and continued to pull his mouth.

Ah Bao hurriedly said: "It's really nothing, it's really nothing, do you see that he doesn't slow down, it's really embarrassing!"

As he was talking, he saw the fierce man humming and getting up from the ground, and at this time, he reluctantly picked up the rice grains that were still on the rice bowl in his hand, and ate them one by one.

"But this kid is sensible. Ah Bao was ashamed and ashamed, and quickly explained to Xiucai: "You see that he doesn't waste a grain of food, he also understands the preciousness of food, and he never wastes food!"

At this moment, I saw a peasant woman walk in outside the door, and after entering the door, she smiled at everyone, and then explained: "That dead ghost in my house is drinking, I'm afraid that I won't be able to clean up after a while, and let me clean up the kitchen for him, you don't have to hurry up!"

It is estimated that he found that everyone had eaten, so he walked to the stove, looked at the pot and was stunned, and immediately became embarrassed: "The village chief! Look at you! Why did you eat so quickly, and you washed all the pots! These things are waiting for me to do it, you see that this thing is neat! Hehe, this kid washed it, right? He's really diligent! Hey? This bowl has also been cleaned? Why is he so diligent, what a sensible offspring baby!"

Ah Bao and Wan'er were so ashamed that their faces were flushed, and they looked at the woman blankly, and saw that the village chief was also ashamed......

Mengzi got up from the stove at this time, ignored the warm praise of others, and simply found out of the canteen. Anyway, I don't have anything to eat, don't have associations in this ghost place, and be broken by this crime that can't live if you can't die.

The last Hou Xiucai led Ah Bao and his wife to flee the scene, they are not easy to explain! Who is embarrassed to say that the rice pot has not been washed, and they have all been eaten by Mengzi? It seems that no one has cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, so they have washed the pot first, right?

Seeing that this matter was neat, the last three of them took Ah Bao and fled to the village under the banyan tree in a daze.

Mengzi had already recovered at that time, silent and speechless as usual, looking innocent and quiet. It's as if the thing that made everyone so embarrassed just now has nothing to do with him at all.

When everyone was speechless and silent, they saw the shouting and scolding of the villagers in the village, and then Ah Bao and Wan'er found that it was the animals that had been imprisoned by the villagers in the morning who were crazy and collided in circles.

Gradually, many animals ran out, including pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, etc., as long as they were not caught by their owners, they all flew forward with their necks straight, and they all ran towards the back mountain, as if someone was feeding them at a fixed point, which became a conditioned reflex.

Only then did they find that all the cattle and sheep in the pen were also in a commotion, screaming with their necks straight, and they began to bang on the door, as if they wanted to follow these animals who were free outside, and take advantage of the excitement to go to the back mountain together.

Many of the animals ran in sturdy circles and rushed out and ran away with the animals.

Xiucai was nothing, but this situation made Ah Bao and Wan'er curious, the two looked at each other for a while, and then they couldn't help it, so they asked Xiucai, who was estimating how much food Mengzi could eat: "Hey, what's wrong with these animals, where have they gone?"

Xiucai came to his senses, he looked at his watch and said, "Today is the 15th day of the third month of the lunar calendar, right? Well, yes, today is the day of the animal pilgrimage...... It's okay, it's been like this in previous years, the cattle in the village have gone to the black wind ditch in the back mountain, and everyone will tie or lock up the animals on this day, but they can't be closed, they will break free and run away like crazy. Some of them come back in the afternoon, and those who run early get lost. The villagers are used to it, and nothing has happened. ”

This return Ah Bao and Wan'er were surprised, and the two stared at Xiucai speechless in amazement.

Why are these animals hurrying to the Black Wind Gully for a while? Some of them were lost, and some of them returned to the village en masse in the afternoon? Could it be that you can manage the whole village, and even these animals are so at your disposal?

What does Hajj mean? Could it be that these animals have such sacred beliefs, so what do they believe?