Gao Laozhuang Chapter 4

Jia Ping was concave

When Cai Laohei returned with a stone on his back, there were already many people sitting in the house drinking. Four hall houses, one in the east and west with a boundary wall as a bedroom, the middle two are all courts, the furniture is not much, except for the lacquered eight immortals table, four benches, against the north wall of a slip on three large long plate cabinets, there is the spirit seat of Zi Lu Dad, incense burners burning incense, on both sides of the paper tied gold mountain silver mountain. When the deceased is buried, most of the offerings received are burned at the head of the grave, but a small part is still left until the third anniversary of the death day, and then it is burned together with the filial piety clothes and filial piety hat straw shoes worn by the filial piety and grandchildren, and the deceased will henceforth live in the hearts of his relatives in the Yang world and there will be no more festivals, and it is time to become a god or a little ghost or reincarnate. For three years, this house was empty and cold, from the back beam to the spiritual seat behind the hanging sticker of the "Heaven and Earth King", there was a big web, the round and fat spider often drooped monofilamentally, the old lady did not take the broom to pick it up, looking at the black color of the spider and the short legs, she remembered her wife, sitting on the grass futon in front of the cabinet and crying. After crying, I couldn't help but curse the old dead ghost again, saying that death would die, leaving her halfway on the road, and not caring about her son's marriage, and then sitting on the grass futon in front of the cabinet and crying again. Now, a hundred-watt light bulb hangs on the beam, illuminating the four walls white, under the bulb, seven or eight people drinking around the eight immortal tables, the bustle has returned to the bustle of three years ago, the old lady likes to go upside down, for the drinkers fried a plate of pepper horn potato shreds, a plate of leek eggs, a plate of lotus stir-fried meat slices, and a plate of spiced pig's trotters brought back by Zilu. Cai Laohei carried a stone into the door, and the old lady hugged her grandson and shouted: "ZiluZilu, The baby is back!" Zilu came from the wine table, and Xixia, who was adding wine to everyone, also followed Zilu to the courtyard, and the stone only said one, "Daddy! "No words. Zilu said, "This is your aunt, called auntie!" Xixia looked at the child, she had to wait for an "aunt" to exit, she was going to go over and hug the child and kiss it, but the stone did not bark. Xi Xia was embarrassed and a little overwhelmed, but still said, "I'll take clothes for the stone!" He ran back to the bedroom and hugged a pile of clothes, gave a yellow jacket to the stone, gave a blue hat to the stone, and gave a sweater to the stone, than painting the style and color, and asked "Like it?" The stone was still stiff in the face. Stone's face was very flat, his ears were surprisingly high, Xixia touched his head, but he pulled his head away, and Xixia's self-esteem was broken. The old lady said busily, "You all go to greet the guests, and the stone is handed to me." Xixia you go to lay out the kang for me! Xi Xia responded for a moment, went to the mother's bedroom to lay kang, and sat on the edge of the kang, and her body was soft and weak.

Zi Luhui sat at the wine table to persuade everyone to drink, in order to bake the field, it was proposed that he first be a general official, and then take turns to be a general official, and the crowd said: "As long as you are willing to drink!" Zilu's general officer lost more and won less, Cai Laohei said: "Zilu was Gao Laozhuang's first punch when he was at home, and when he became a professor, he retreated!" Zi Lu knew why he had lost so many punches tonight, and said, "The punches have retreated, but the amount of alcohol has increased, and I have taken the big cup!" He got up and went to his mother's bedroom to get a large wine cup, but whispered to Xixia, "Are you angry?" XiXia said, "I'm hot face for cold ass, weird!" Zi Lu said: "This child is a cold face by nature, didn't you see that he also called out to me a father and didn't have any heat?" Xixia said, "... It must have been instigated by his mother beforehand! Zilu said, "Juwa has no opinion on me, and she won't do that." If you take the initiative, he is a child after all! Xixia pouted and said, "I'm a child too!" Zilu blushed her face and said, "Are you a child in front of me and a harem in front of a stone?" ”

Xi Xia smiled and his anger dissipated, saying, "Somehow, I'm a little afraid of him." ”

Zilu said, "You'll take care of everything." Kissing Xixia on the face, Xixia said, "You go, you drink your wine!" ”

Zi Lu came back to drink, the mother held the stone but did not go to sleep on the kang, said, "Give me a seat for the stone, the small is also a man, can not drink wine can eat vegetables." The crowd said, "Right, right, right," and made a seat. The stone sat on the stool and only sandwiched vegetarian vegetables to eat, the people next to him let them eat meat, the old lady said that the stone never eats meat, some people said that the stone you do not eat meat how to grow up? Cai Laohei said, "The flea blood sucks only so small, but the cow eats grass but it is very big!" The crowd scolded Cai Laohei for raising the bar, and they all laughed, but the stone was still calm and only ate him. Eating and eating, the chopsticks stopped, the eyes were half open and half closed, and Zilu said: "Stone are you sleepy?" The stone said "sleepy." The eyelids snapped shut. When the milk came and carried the stone to the kang, Xixia laid out the futon and let go of the pillow, and the stone fell asleep. Saying that dozing off is dozing, can be so fast, to Xixia surprised, she helped the child undress, saw the pair of thin stalk-like legs, unconsciously also sour, said: "Mother, when did the stone get paralysis?" The mother said: "This child was born with twisted legs, this is all strange mile, that day The Umagawa Ditch bridge was built and cannoned, a stone fell from the roof of the building, and the stone fell into the grass." How far is the Udokawa Ditch from here, and if you don't splash a stone elsewhere, the stone will smash our house!? I'm afraid it's a stone falling from the sky! The stone fell down, Juwa was shocked that there was no milk in the moon, only to say that this baby could not be done, but survived, four years old did not speak, can talk, and did not bother to say, a few words a day. Xixia said, "This is like a sub-road!" The mother said: "Zilu is not strange to him, when Zilu is so big, he has a runny nose and wets the bed, and the stone does not speak, but he understands everything in his heart." You see, what a red mole on the back of his neck! Xi Xia looked at it in the past, and sure enough, there was a cinnabar mole, as if it was some kind of writing, but it was not a text. The two women chatted, the courtyard door creaked, and there was a chirping sound on the steps, and Xixia said, "Someone has come to drink again!" The mother said, "That's all mother-in-law's house." Someone knocked on the window on the steps and said, "Auntie, aunt, where is the daughter-in-law of Zilu, won't we see her?" The mother said to Xixia, "They want to see you!" Xixia was busy looking at her hair in the mirror.

The men of Gao Laozhuang often gather in the crowd to drink at night, drunk, not drunk is not good, the drinker's mother-in-law can not sleep in this night, they worry about their husbands drink too much, can not feel the dark road to come back, and then the men go out lively, the woman's family is too lonely in the house, and they all go to the home of the person who set up the banquet. Of course, the drinking man was disgusted with his mother-in-law standing at the wine table, and the women were all sitting in the dark shadow outside the door until they drank 80% or 90%, and they heard the men in the room repeatedly saying a word, and all their ears were ready to summon. So, so-and-so called the name of so-and-so's mother-in-law, and so-and-so's mother-in-law pushed the door in and stood behind her husband. I took the wine cup handed by my husband, took a deep sip, and turned the cup to the bottom. Women who do not drink alcohol will see the wine choking, once the cup is pushed, the amount of alcohol is amazing. But women who can drink again are not invited to the table, they are so that they can drink, do not drink and do not want to drink, called to come, wave and go. The mother pulled Xixia to open the door and came out, and the seven or eight young women sitting on the steps all stood up and slapped the dirt on their butts. In the darkness, he couldn't see Xixia clearly, but he was saying, "What a rarity!" Xixia said, "Rare people? They said, "The people in the city can't wake up to our words, and we also speak official language--you are beautiful, beautiful!" Xi Xia smiled and said, "Zilu can still find a great beauty?!" They said, "Zilu is looking for the Great Beauty!" One said: "When Zilu became a professor, I knew that the one he was going to divorce was me, and so was I, and the beauties in the city could be married by others, so why couldn't the people in the mountains marry?" They all say what's wrong with the sub-road, what's the matter, since ancient times, good men account for nine female miles! Then someone said, "What are you talking about?" For a moment, he was speechless and stunned. The mother said, "These are all your sister-in-law's sisters-in-law, you know each other, and they take care of me on weekdays." Xi Xia said, "Thank you very much, when will I go to the provincial city to do business, I will definitely go to my home!" They said, "We take this seriously, we don't take off our shoes when we enter the door, and we spit on them!" Xixia said, "Throw up!" They said, "Hello daughter-in-law!" If I were ten years younger, I would let Su Hong introduce me to the city to work, then I would go to your house! The man in the room shouted: "Double ring, come on behalf of the wine!" The talking mother-in-law pushed the door in, and his man scolded with a split face: "Your ass mouth is widowed, Ti Su Hong?!" You have to go to the city to work, Su Hong kidnapped you and you thought you had entered the palace! Drink this wine! The mother-in-law outside the door giggled. Xi Xia said, "Come into the house, there is no light here." They said, "Hurry up, sister, let's go in and be scolded by that murderous man?!" We're sitting here... You go busy, go for it. Xi Xia returned, brewed a pot of hot tea and went out, and the mother-in-law said, "Give us back tea, this must make your mother feel sad!" ”

When Xixia returned to his bedroom on the west side, he sat on the edge of the kang, and his mother also came in by the foot, asking if he was tired, if he was tired, he would rest, these people drank wine for a long time, you toasted them, the etiquette also arrived, and there was a sub-road to accompany it. But Xi Xia did not sleep, sat and talked to her mother, asked about her physical condition, and then asked if she was short of money to spend, and suddenly said: "Mother, the people who come to drink are so small, and the one named Cai Laohei looks tall?" The mother said, "Cai Laohei's surname is Cai Mo, that's a bandit!" ”

Xixia said, "Bandits? The mother said: "Temperament like a bandit, now it is still much better, when he was young, he could not afford to provoke, and he went to prison to get out..." Xixia said: "He has lived in prison?" The mother said, "Don't let him hear it." Xi Xia tilted his head, looked into the courtyard from the crack in the door leaf, Cai Laohei was holding a wine cup to respect the zizi road, the sub-road push was not afraid to drink again, Cai laohei was not ok, roaring the people in the full seat to toast you all drank, I toast you you can't drink? ZiLu said, then I drink half a cup, Cai Lao's black face was displeased, took the wine bottle to a glass and poured a cup, lifted up and leaned his neck to pour his stomach, and then sat down and said, you drink half a cup, you drink half a cup! Zi Lu smiled hard for a moment, and finally drank the full cup of wine. Xi Xia said, "Zi Lu and Cai Lao Hei are not hot? The mother only lowered her head and spread the futon, then laid out the list, and said: "Not hot? What's not hot?! "Take two pillows out of the box. Xi Xia casually put the pillows side by side at one end, but the mother put them down one by one, saying, "Take them again when you sleep, or come in to make a personal joke!" Xixia giggled, and niang also laughed, saying, "When you sleep, don't put your pants on the quilt." Xixia said, "Why?" The mother said: "Old rules, the mother-in-law's pants can't press the man..." As she was speaking, Zilu came in and asked in a low voice, "Mother, is there any other wine in the house?" I'm afraid I'll have to get two bottles at the table. The mother said, "There is no one in the house." Xi Xia said, "Aren't we bringing back three bottles of 'Wuliangye'?" Zi Lu said: "Those who have to stay for the third anniversary to greet the guests, these are idle people who can't drink so expensive." Mother, you go to Niu Kun and ask if his family has any, borrow two bottles. Xixia said, "Shipi! Zilu ignored her and said to her mother, "Borrow it, you will first quietly put it in your bedroom, and then I will pick it up." ”

The mother borrowed the wine to come back, and soon a bottle was drunk, shouting that Cai Laohei was not ok, the mother-in-law on the steps took the opportunity to enter the house, as a, Cai Laohei is massive, today the first drunk, is it too happy in the heart or not in the heart? Cai Lao's black eyes narrowed, but he could not speak with his mouth open, signaling to go to the toilet. Everyone giggled and helped them, and the mother-in-law sat down at the wine table and said, "It's our turn to sit at the table and taste the wonderful dishes of the daughter-in-law of zilu!" "Seven chopsticks and eight chopsticks will be leftovers, eat a fine light, even the vinegar soup has been drunk."

Cai Laohei was helped to the toilet, but a person who was leaning over the front retaining wall of the toilet to help him drew a match to illuminate the squat pit, and then took a picture of Cai Laohei, Cai Laohei's face was white and bloodless, and he had to vomit in his mouth, and he couldn't vomit. He shouted, "No, something is going to happen, call Uncle Bald!" Uncle Bald was also top-heavy, scooped a scoop of pulp water from the kitchen tank, listened to him, ran to the toilet, and shouted: "Old black, old black!" Cai Laohei said vaguely: "Have I drunk too much, I have an empty stomach..." Uncle Bald said: "It's okay, I can still talk, last time I drank at the Pisces family and couldn't even say anything!" Sure enough, Cai Laohei slashed his fingers in his throat and spat out a bunch of dirty things with a bang. The crowd dispersed and said, "Knock down one, drink enough, scatter the group, and let the road rest." A few people went out of the courtyard door unsteadily, and each person's mother-in-law immediately went to help. Zilu said, "How much wine have you drunk?" A few who still wanted to stay also said: "Late at night, scatter it, old black do you want us to send or not to send?" Niang and Xixia also came out to send guests, and Niang said: "Why don't you send it, he is far away from home, how can he go back without sending it?" Be sure to hand over the man to his wife before you go! Someone carried Cai Laohei, and Cai Laohei also said: "Dog day's du lai fist mile, count me out..." The mother patted him and said: "Old black, I didn't drink well today, your uncle has passed the third anniversary of the day, you want to come, you will drink well!" ”