Poor children

Chapter 23: Being Beaten and Nearly Losing the Crested Bead String

一
"You damn girl are lazy here again. Why are you scratching on the ground if you don't work?" Mrs. Su came over from a distance and shouted at the top of her voice.

The poor boy was so frightened that he threw away the branch in his hand
Mrs. Su came closer and looked at the ground, "What is this ghost drawing on the talisman?"

"Return to Mother Su, that's the word," said the poorer
"Writing?" Mrs. Su looked carefully. "Can you write? What do girls do with reading? Why don't you go to work quickly?"

"Mother Su, I've already filled the water tank, I can hold the firewood, I've washed the dishes, and I don't need to start the stove before lunch..."

"Done? Then go wash the dishes again"

"Yes..." The pauper wiped the sweat from his head with the back of his hand, wiped his hands on the corners of his clothes, and immediately went to the kitchen.
"Wait!" Mrs. Su called her, and the pauper immediately stopped and stood in front of her.

"What is that bright red thing in your arms?" It turned out to be a string of horn beads given by the old god. The coral-topped beads were slightly exposed from her arms.

Hearing this, the poor boy hurriedly put the bead string into his arms, but Mrs. Su grabbed her. She stretched out her other hand to get it. The poor boy tried to grab it but failed to catch it.
"What is this?" Mrs. Su took the string of beads in her hand and looked at it carefully. Although she didn't recognize it, she thought it was a good thing.

"Give it back quickly." The poor boy wanted to snatch it away, but he was too short and couldn't reach it even with his feet.
"You stole this again?"

"This is mine. Grandpa gave it to me..."

"Grandpa? What kind of grandpa is yours? Could it be that after your grandma died, you found a grandpa for you?" Mrs. Su laughed loudly.
"You..." Pao'er became so angry that he bit Mrs. Su's thigh fiercely, causing her to scream in pain and hurriedly pulled her away. He didn't care about the string of beads in his hand, and threw the string of beads on the ground during the struggle. When the poor boy saw it, he quickly picked it up and protected it.
Mrs. Su's thighs were bleeding through her pants, and the bead string she just got was snatched away by the poor boy again. She was so angry that her eyes turned green. She walked up to the poor boy in two steps and gave him a big slap. knock down the pauper

"Wow! It's against you! You dare to hit me, you hand over the object quickly, or I will make you look good today"

The poor boy sat on the ground and held the string of beads tightly in his hands, his eyes widened, he bit his lips tightly and did not speak

Mrs. Su walked to the wall and picked up the broom used to sweep the courtyard. She spanked her head and buttocks, while the poor boy huddled on the ground and protected the string of beads in his hands without making a sound.

After a while, when she was tired from beating her, the old lady leaned on the broom and panted, "What a hoof, you are so tough! Do you mean to make me angry to death?" After saying that, she walked into the kitchen with a limp, took out a fire stick, came out, and covered her face again. a beating
After all, Pao'er was only a five-year-old child. After a few blows, she fainted. When Mrs. Su saw her fainting, she bent down, took the bracelet and left.

Mrs. Su originally wanted to go directly to the street to exchange the bracelet for a few dollars, but when she was tired from beating people, she went back to her house to rest.
The poor girl had been exposed to the sun during the hot weather, and no one knew her condition. It was not until ten o'clock during lunch that the cooks came over to see her in such a state. They took her to a shady place and saw her expression. Flushed lips and white lips, covered with wounds
Someone brought her mung bean soup and gave her some medicine, and applied some medicine to the severely injured areas. After resting for a long time, she was able to move around.

When the cook saw that she was feeling better, she went to cook, and she went to light the fire without saying a word. Others advised her to rest, but she ignored them and just immersed herself in her work...

two

After lunch, the busy people gradually dispersed, and the poor boy washed the last bowl, turned off the stove, and returned to his residence

Master Sanyang made an appointment at about the same time but didn't see the poor boy coming, so he began to worry vaguely in his heart, but she came a few times but didn't ask where she lived, and he didn't know where to go to find out.

The Taoist priest was making calculations in his mind when he saw a person walking out of the alley next to Zhong'an Hall. He was very fat and looked like a wall from a distance. It was none other than Mrs. Su. It turned out that she turned a few corners outside the corner gate of the palace's backyard where the servants lived. You can walk to the path next to the pharmacy

When the Taoist priest saw someone coming over, he was sighing at how strong this person was. Only when he got closer did he see clearly that she was a woman. Her face was like a full moon and connected directly to her shoulders. Her arms were actually thicker than the wooden stakes used to tie horses. After another look, she said A long moment of shooting
I saw that she was holding the poor boy's crested goat's horn beads in one hand.

"This blessed Lord!" the Taoist priest called her hurriedly
"Ah?" Mrs. Su didn't react for a while.
"This blessed Lord! Yes! Yes, he is calling you." "What does this master want from me?"

"I saw that your complexion is bright red. There must be a big happy event in the near future. Can you come over and talk about it in detail?"

"This is a good word from you, master! It's just that it's inconvenient for me to go over and say, this divination money..."

"It's rare to see such a face. If you don't accept the hexagram information, would you like to come and listen?"

"Of course that's good!" Mrs. Su immediately went over and sat down when she heard that she didn't want money.

three

"Don't you know the birthday of the blessed Lord?"

Mrs. Su hurriedly reported her horoscopes

"Oh! It's amazing! It's amazing. You are blessed with food from God! You will not have to worry about eating and drinking in your life, and you don't have to work around. It's very good, very good..."

The common tricks of Taoist divination are not necessarily obtained by looking at the horoscope, it is clearly based on the body shape
"That's what the master said"

"I see you will make a fortune these days."

"Really?" Mrs. Su was happy to hear this.
"I just don't know why, but I see a hint of black energy hiding in your face. If you don't handle it properly, I'm afraid there will be a bloody disaster."

The mother-in-law was beaming with joy one second, but her face turned pale with fright the next second, "This... this! Please give me a break."

Master Sanyang counted his fingers in a dignified manner, glancing at the string of beads from time to time. "Oh! What is this in your hand?" The Taoist priest pretended to be frightened.
"What is this! I don't know much about it. A lazy girl in my kitchen stole it."

"Then why is it in your hands?"

"When I saw how beautiful it was, I wanted to sell it for wine money."

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! You dare to take it without knowing what it is. Do you know that this thing is very dangerous!" The Taoist leader said, "I see that this thing has a lot of evil spirits, and it must absorb people's primordial spirit to refine it into a demon. Do you feel any discomfort right now?"

"I'm just a little dizzy." Mrs. Su was fat and poor, and she exhausted a lot of energy. She wanted to rest and was thinking about selling beads for money, but she didn't sleep well. The weather was hot and she must be dizzy.
"Look! Sure enough, your dizziness is caused by this object, and your soul has been sucked away by it. I think you will die in two days..."

Before Mrs. Su could finish her long words, she threw the string of beads on the table with a snap, got up and hid far away.
"Blessed Master! How could you do this?" The Taoist Master was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly. "I have good intentions to divine fortune for you. Why did you put this disaster star on my table? Please take it away quickly!"

"No no! No no no!" Mrs. Su said no repeatedly, turned around and ran back staggeringly.

Seeing her walking away, the Taoist priest picked up the beads and put them in his sleeves, thinking in his heart that he would return them to her when the poor boy came, but he didn't expect that the poor boy hadn't seen anyone for a few days...

(End of this chapter)