Li Zi 媳妇

In the village, a long time ago, there was already a stone mill, the people in the village used a few big stones to support the mill, on the top of the mill, press things, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, the village households, can not say that every day to use it, but have to use the mill every month, at that time, in a small village not far from the mountain, there is a young man, newly married a daughter-in-law, not long after the door, there is no child, next door lives he has an uncle and brother, the elder brother's family has two children. One day, before going uphill, the young man helped his daughter-in-law to bring the grain to the mill, put it on the cattle, and then took the sickle and went into the slope. At noon, he came back from the slope, his stomach was hungry and thirsty, and when he saw that the door was still locked, he stood stunned for a moment, thinking: That little grain should have been milled a long time ago, why didn't you come back to cook after it was dark? He pondered as he walked towards the mill. When he got there, the young man was amazed, the stone grinder was creaking, the little black donkey was also walking on the ground, the dustpan was thrown on the ground, and the rice on it was crushed, but when he looked around, he saw no trace of his daughter-in-law, where did she go? The young man couldn't guess it, he knew that his daughter-in-law was not the one who only cared about playfulness, and would never throw away the livestock and rice to visit the door, and if she wanted to go back to her mother's house, she couldn't help but tell herself; If you want to say that you ran away secretly, since you got married, you have been very good, and you have never fought and quarreled. The more the young man thought about it, the more confused he became, the more anxious he became, and he couldn't wait for the left and the right, so he started to unload the livestock, and the cattle were unloaded, and the crushed rice was swept down, but he still didn't see his daughter-in-law return. The young man was so anxious that he didn't have the heart to do it, and he searched all over the neighborhood, the eldest aunt's house, but he still couldn't ask about the whereabouts of his daughter-in-law, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this thing was strange, so he found a grinding stone, sharpened the sickle and took it quickly, and went to the mill again. Like the woman when he was crushing, he circled around the crush, and turned more than ten times, only to see the crushing plate move, and saw that from the big stone crack under the crushing pan, a black scorpion (scorpion) belly stretched out, and on the top of the crooked belly, there was a poisonous needle more than a foot long. The young man Xiaochang, the one who hurt his daughter-in-law, must be this thing, the young man was immediately so angry that the top of his head seemed to be on fire, and the poisonous needle stabbed at him quickly, the young man dodged, flicked his arm, and the sound of the sickle swished and slashed, hey! The young man practiced the scythe's martial arts like a hunter's knife, and half of the scorpion's belly was cut off along with the poisonous needle. The scorpion essence under the grinding pan turned over in pain, and the grinding pan was thrown more than ten steps away, and the grinding pan was not visible. He was about to cut at it, but half of the scorpion's body turned into a black wind, which rose in mid-air, and from the wind he withdrew a thunderous sound: "Good young man, in three years' time, I will ask you to give me your life." The young man threw his sickle at the black wind again, and the black wind blew away to the northwest, and when the young man looked down again, there was a deep black hole in the center of the stone, and sure enough, from which he found the bones, clothes, and jewelry of his daughter-in-law, and the young man wept for a while, and gathered up and buried a grave. It has always been a sad day, but a lonely day is hard, and since the young man has gone uphill and returned from his daughter-in-law's death, there is no one to cook for him; When the lamp was lit, no one spoke to him, and the young man was sad all day, and he became more kind and soft-eyed than before, and he was secretly sad when he saw others melancholy, and when he heard others crying, he also quietly wiped his tears, and in spite of this, the young man did not forget to sharpen the sickle brightly, and always carried it with him. After more than half a year, one evening, the young man came back from the slope and saw a girl sitting on the well platform crying. He stopped unconsciously, and thought to himself: How many people in the world, there are sad and sad, and this girl doesn't know what disaster has suffered, so sad. He really felt sorry for her, and walked over and asked, "Why are you still sitting here crying at such a late hour?" The girl still cried with a handful of snot and tears: "Big brother, you still go your way, I am a person who has fled the wilderness, and my father and mother died on the road. What am I doing in the world as a hard-working person? When the girl had finished speaking, she began to cry again, and the young man's eyes were wet unconsciously, and he looked around, and there was no one around, how could he be indifferent? The young man didn't ask anything more, but said, "Don't cry anymore, come back with me." The girl wiped her tears and really went with the young man. The young man took his daughter back to the house, and he was in a difficult situation: how inconvenient it is for a man and a woman to live in the same room, if others talk about it, how can they distinguish between it and the innocent at that time? The young man thought about it, and then went to his uncle and brother's house next door, the house has been lit with lights, his sister-in-law is under the lamp, making hats for her two children, his sister-in-law is not skillful, holding a piece of cloth, horizontal and vertical measurements, just can't cut a hat, the young man how to meet the girl on the road, how to bring her back, all from beginning to end, his brother and sister-in-law are also beautiful people, the more he said, the more miserable he felt, the young man said: "Brother! Come up to my house tonight and sleep with me, and call that girl to your house and sleep with my sister-in-law. My brother and sister-in-law agreed. When the young man brought his daughter to his brother's house, the two children were asleep, and the sister-in-law was still making a hat under the lamp, holding a piece of cloth, measuring horizontally and vertically, but she couldn't cut a hat. After the young man and his brother left, the girl said, "Sister-in-law, if you don't like it, I'll do it for you." After speaking, I picked up the cloth, cut it three times and cut it twice, cut off a hat, and pulled out the silk thread, pointed fingers, embroidered the flowers, the girl did it so fast, it was really a flying needle, and after a while, the hat was done, and the top of the hat was embroidered with a phoenix play peony, and on both sides of the hat, embroidered with bangs and golden toad, my sister-in-law held it in her hand, the more I looked at it, the more I looked at it, the more handsome I looked, and said happily: "You eldest sister, do it so well, so fast, you can make another one for my second child!" The girl happily agreed, and before midnight, she started to make another one, and the sister-in-law looked at the two hats, and then looked at the girl, and she was so happy that she didn't know how to be good, she thought to herself: This girl is very good, and her hands are skillful, if anyone marries such a daughter-in-law, she will be content. She thought of the young man again, and said with a smile: "What do you think of that brother?" Tell me to say, you two should also be husband and wife, otherwise, how can they meet halfway, you have no family and no owner, and my brother has no daughter-in-law, I will tell you how good it is to be a family. The girl lowered her head in shame, and said wryly: "I'm so ugly, I'm afraid that people don't want it!" Listening to her tone, the sister-in-law had already agreed, and happily took her hand and said, "Don't worry, I'll do it as soon as I go to the insurance." At dawn the next day, my sister-in-law didn't care about cooking, so she went to the young man and said, "Brother, I'll tell you a daughter-in-law!" The young man also knew seven or eight things in his heart, and asked half-convinced: "Where is the daughter-in-law?" The sister-in-law said happily: "It's the girl you brought back, smart and capable, it's really good!" The young man was silent, his brother was a careful person, he frowned and said: "I don't know where she is, and I don't know where she comes from, I met such a woman in the slopes, how can I want her to be my daughter-in-law!" But the sister-in-law said unconvinced: "What do you do, isn't it obvious that she is a good girl, our brother is using such a person, making clothes and cooking, you don't know the difficulty of living alone!" As soon as my sister-in-law said this, my brother didn't mean to say anything more, and the young man agreed so-so.