The dwarf sixth went to snatch the chicken in the arms of the crazy woman, and the crazy woman shook her arms and struggled, kicked her legs and feet, making the mud splash, and bit her husband's shoulder, so painful that the short sixth could only let go of his hand.

The crazy woman repeated something to the short sixth, her voice was indistinct, but she could vaguely understand the words 'son wants to eat'.

The short old six, who had nothing to do with his daughter-in-law, sat paralyzed in the mud and cried loudly.

"No, right, see if I don't kill you today!"

Seeing this, the man with the wooden stick stepped forward and was about to swing the stick again, but the dwarf sixth hurriedly jumped up and hugged his wife and used his back to protect her.

And at this moment, Cao Xiaoning stopped in front of the wooden stick man, handed out a piece of silver, and said, "Uncle, I bought this chicken for her, forget it." ”

The man with the wooden stick said, "Who are you?"

Cao Xiaoning patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter who I am, a chicken and a silver ingot, you should always choose, right?"

The daughter-in-law of the wooden stick man snatched the silver, pulled the wooden stick man's clothes, and told him to hurry up, in case the other party regretted it, but he missed a big bargain.

The wooden stick man glanced at Cao Xiaoning suspiciously, followed his daughter-in-law away, and pointed at the crazy woman with a wooden stick before leaving, warning sharply, but unfortunately the crazy woman didn't understand at all, just looked at the hen in her arms and smirked.

The dwarf old six helped up the crazy woman, and the crazy woman faced him sideways, stroking the hen in her arms, as if she was afraid of the dwarf old six snatching. After the dwarf old six sighed, he said to Cao Xiaoning: "Young man...... Thank you ......."

"You're welcome, sir. Cao Xiaoning smiled: "If you really want to thank me, the three of us want to spend the night here, you can take us in for one night." ”

......

After arriving home, he first locked his wife in an ear room, locked it, and then cleaned up three rooms for Cao Xiaoning and his party, and also made a dinner for Cao Xiaoning and the three of them, simple thin rice porridge, with a plate of pickled cabbage. After that, the three of them went to bed early.

Spring rain helps you sleep, and there is nothing to do all night.

The next morning, Cao Xiaoning woke up early and walked out of the house, the rain had stopped, the sun was shining brightly, the sky was blue and white, and the air was full of the unique earthy fragrance of the countryside.

Cao Xiaoning stretched and saw a rocking chair set up in the courtyard, the wife of the dwarf sixth was lying on the rocking chair, basking in the sun, and the dwarf sixth was standing behind her, combing her freshly washed hair. The movement is very gentle, and occasionally the comb is stuck in the hair, and it will not be combed hard, but will be loosened out, and the stuck hair will be broken by hand before combing.

The man is short and old, and the woman is mentally deficient and demented, but it forms a quiet and beautiful picture, which is unbearable.

The dwarf sixth noticed Cao Xiaoning standing not far away looking at him, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Take advantage of the good sun today, wash the old woman's hair, it won't wake you up, right?"

"No, I woke up on my own. ”

Cao Xiaoning stepped forward and looked at the wife of the short sixth man, she was quiet at the moment, looking at the sky stupidly, looking much better than yesterday.

The dwarf old man said: "By the way, son, I went to Li Baogen's house this morning after wiping off yesterday's hens, and wanted to exchange your silver back, but unfortunately he refused, let him make up the difference in the price of the chicken, and he didn't want to, and drove me out." Well, how can this man be like this, how many chickens can be bought with a single ingot...... he can take it so peacefully."

He looked at Cao Xiaoning and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, Childe, I may not be able to repay your silver for the time being, I will pay it back little by little in the future......"

"I didn't let you pay it back. Cao Xiaoning smiled.

"That's not going to work. The short old six, who had a slight hunchback, straightened up at this moment and said: "Although I am poor, I never owe people anything, I can't accept such a great favor from you in vain, otherwise my heart will not be steady!"

Looking at the honest appearance of the short sixth man, Cao Xiaoning smiled: "I really don't need it, this bit of silver is nothing to me, not to mention that you took us in for one night last night, and you took care of dinner, which is enough to pay for silver." ”

"But......" The short old man frowned, and Cao Xiaoning hurriedly said: "Don't do it, let's help my aunt comb her hair!"

The short sixth man no longer drilled the tip of the horns, and while helping his wife comb her hair, he sighed: "Childe is really a good person!"

"I'm not a good person. ”

Cao Xiaoning laughed at himself, and also sighed: "It's an honest person like you, and there are not many years left." ”

"To be a man, you should be honest. The dwarf sixth looked at his wife in front of him and said, "If I weren't an honest person, Cui Fen wouldn't have married me in the first place." ”

While gently combing his wife's hair, the dwarf Lao Liu said: "I think about it back then, Cuifen is a tweed in the village, there are more people who like her, there are so many people who go to her house to propose marriage, and the threshold of the family has to be changed three times a year, but she, hehe, just fell in love with me, and the eyes of those people in the village were so envious that they were straight." I, my father and mother died early, the family is poor, and the people are still ugly and short, what can she do to me? Isn't it just to try my down-to-earth duty, unlike Li Baogen, who likes to glance at women's breasts. ”

As he spoke, the short sixth man unconsciously showed a happy smile on his face, and he was a little proud and proud.

Every man should have the pride he adheres to in his heart, which can be big or small, but there is no distinction between high and low.

Dwarf Lao Liu is just the most ordinary peasant, and he will not be proud of making money every day like a businessman, and it is impossible for him to be proud of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea and crisscrossing the world like a cultivator. But being a man and doing things in a down-to-earth manner is the pride of the short old man's life.

The dwarf old six restrained his smile, sighed, and continued: "But Cui Fen married me, after all, she made the wrong choice, not to mention that she didn't have a good life, and then she went crazy again." Every time I see her now, I'm scared, not because she's going to make a mess of the house, or because she's going to cause trouble for me, but because I'm afraid that if I leave first, then she'll do it......"

Cao Xiaoning asked, "Why did the aunt become like this?"

"Five years ago, when her son was lost, she went crazy. ”

The short old man said: "That time, my son was eight years old, and he yelled to drink chicken soup, but unfortunately his family was poor, and the chickens and ducks he raised were all eaten until the New Year." If he didn't give him food, his son made a fuss, and ran out of the house in anger and didn't come back until the evening. I went into the mountains to look for it, and I found a body. ”

The dwarf old six paused, glanced at his wife, and said, "The moment Cui Fen saw her son's body, she went crazy. Since then, she was fine when she was not sick, but when she got sick, she would look for chickens everywhere and make chicken soup for her son to drink, because she felt that it was all her own fault, and if she had made chicken soup for her son that day, her son would not have run away from home, and he would not have been harmed by demons. ”

"Demons?" Cao Xiaoning asked.

The dwarf old man said: "My son's body is complete, but the blood is all gone, and the goddess in the next village said that he was killed by ghosts." ”

Cao Xiaoning thought of something, squinted his eyes, and asked, "Do you still remember the date of your son's birth?"

After the short sixth man reported the date, he asked, "Why did you suddenly ask this?" ”

Cao Xiaoning explained: "The years, months and days are all yin, the four pillars are pure yin, and your son is the body of pure yin, so the demons will find him and take the essence and blood." ”

The dwarf old six didn't seem to understand, but he let out a long sigh.

Cao Xiaoning looked in the direction of Lingyun Mountain.

The so-called demons are there.

There was silence in the courtyard for a while, except for the rocking chair under the wife of the short sixth wife, which made a creaking sound when it swayed.

The dwarf sixth suddenly asked, "Childe, do you have a wish?"

Cao Xiaoning nodded and said, "Yes, but it's difficult." ”

The dwarf old six smiled: "I have it too, but my wish is relatively simple." ”

Cao Xiaoning asked, "What is it?"

I thought that the dwarf sixth would say that he hoped that his wife would recover from illness, or that he hoped that his life would get better, but he saw the dwarf sixth looking at the distant scenery and said calmly: "This world is beautiful, but in the next life, I don't want to come again." ”

Cao Xiaoning was speechless.

At this time, He Yao and Song Jingrui walked out of the room one after another, and He Yao asked curiously, "Gongzi Cao, what are you talking about?"

"Oh, let's talk about it. ”

Cao Xiaoning smiled: "Since you guys are up, let's go, I can't wait to meet Master Pang." ”