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Chapter 373 Hairless Undergarment
"Bed jacket."

When Gong Shuji said these two words, I couldn't figure out which words they were.

Until he repeated:

"The bird."

A bedding bird?
I thought for a moment and finally understood what the other person was talking about.

The so-called '褦襶', when it first appeared, just referred to clothes that were thick, heavy, and wide, and neither fit the body nor were out of season.

Later, people gradually used this word to describe ignorance, incompetence and uselessness.

As you can imagine, if clothes don’t fit or go out of style, aren’t they useless?
Therefore, throughout the long history, this word has actually been used to curse people in an elegant way.

The literal meaning of the three words "褦襶鸟" mentioned by Gong Shuji is the bird that was scolded as "褦襶".

In other words, 'weird'.

As we all know, "monster" creatures are not only the lowest among the eight genealogies of immortals, Buddhas, gods, demons, fairies and ghosts.
Moreover, there are more or less places that can be related to the word "weird".
Some have weird looks and hobbies, some have weird personalities, and some are simply weird with abnormal brain circuits.

And this strange thing that was first recorded in "Night Stories" is one of the first two cases. Not only does it look strange, but its hobbies are also quite strange.

【Where to start?

Why not, let's start with a small official who was an official in Shengyang.

A small official finally spent his life's wealth to buy an official position as a bookkeeper. On the first day he came to Shengyang in Shengyang, he felt something was wrong.

Because he walked around, no matter where he went, he could hear people talking——

There are monsters in the city! ! !
The junior official was shocked when he first heard about it, but he was very courageous and would have to live in Shengyang permanently in the future. When he heard such strange news, he would definitely continue to inquire.

So, the junior official asked the restaurant owner who was chatting with the young man:
"What kind of monster is it? Why don't the store come and hear it?"

The restaurant was born in the North and has been in Shengyang for many years. He has always been a person who pursues generosity and generosity. When someone asked, the conversation started:

"Oh, it's a black monster with no limbs, but two snow-white eyes and a bird's beak."

"The monster is in the city. It is said that it comes out after dark. Many people have seen it. Many people were frightened to death when they saw it in the middle of the night."

"You don't look like you are from Shengyang. If you have just arrived in Shengyang, you should be more careful when you get up at night."

"Oh, yes, the doors and windows should be closed as tightly as possible."

The junior official listened carefully for a long time, trying hard to piece together the appearance of the monster mentioned by the restaurant, but found nothing.

What does it mean to have no limbs and a beak?
What is that?
bird?
But a bird can't fly without wings.
No, let alone birds, even other animals without limbs can't scare people everywhere, right?
Insects can crawl, but how can they be called 'scary everywhere'?

After all, climbing is not very fast.
The junior official was confused and asked the liquor store owner. The store owner wanted to tell him the reason, but he had never seen it before and didn't know what the situation was.

After a few words, the little official, who was full of doubts, returned to his small house and prepared to pack up and rest.

Of course, his doubts did not last long.

That night, he saw the monster who was talked about by the whole city.

It was a coincidence that the little official was lying at home soundly asleep when the window was suddenly banged and banged. The little official thought it was the wind blowing and the bamboo hangings were blowing against the window.
But the next second, something hit.

The petty officials were startled, quickly put on their clothes, stood up, and lit the candlestick.

He searched around and finally found a big, fat bird about the size of a man's fist on the table in the room.

Moreover, this big fat bird was still happily pecking at a small piece of cake on the table that the junior official had not finished before going to bed. That's right, except for the fact that it has no feathers, no wings, and white eyes, it does look like a big fat bird in other parts. In other words, its body shape is more like a dugong. When it is not flying, it crawls forward like a pupa. .
It looks a bit clumsy indeed.

The little official was a little scared at first, but this fear was completely dissipated when the big fat bird was full of food and was still trying to fly away with the cakes while cooing.

The petty official stretched out his hand to support the big fat bird, which was flying low and slow because it was holding a large bag of cakes. He felt helpless:
"Well, why don't you just eat it here? I'll put it on the table for you and you can eat it slowly. It's okay."

As if the big fat bird understood the little official's words, it stopped flying in an instant and landed quietly on the little official's hand, letting him rub it into a round shape.

At first it was difficult for the petty officials to believe that the big fat bird in their house was the monster everyone said, but...
That seems to be the case.

Since the big fat bird stayed at home all day long, fewer and fewer people in the city talked about monsters. People who couldn't see monsters were busy with their own work and soon forgot about monsters.

The little official seems to have a strange little pet. He usually feeds him cakes and water.

At the beginning, the little official expected the big fat bird to be able to speak a few words like a parrot, but after teaching him for more than half a month without success, the little official gave up completely.

Nothing special, just a bird that can fly without wings for some reason.

On that day, my mother from afar sent me some new clothes sewn by a small official. Perhaps because my mother was a bit dim and had not seen her for many years, the clothes she sent did not fit well.

If the clothes are not suitable, the bird has not yet learned to speak. It will only look at itself wearing ill-fitting clothes and seem to be laughing at it.
Therefore, the bird was laughed at and scolded by the angry petty official:
"Bed jacket."

He didn't understand it, but he had a name from then on.

So, I was very happy.

The quilts flew around the house happily. The petty officials and their wives' young sons watched the quilts colliding everywhere and rolling forward and backward with laughter.

This is a happy family.

However, changes always come so quickly.

A minor official brought his wife and son to a place far away from his hometown to serve as an official. He could not understand the local accent, and he had bought an official position. His ability was not outstanding, so he was inevitably ostracized.

That day, the government office was supposed to distribute rice, but when it was time to distribute the rice, when the warehouse door opened, the petty officials tried to count the quantity, but found that the original twenty shi of grain was missing.

Lumi is calculated by the main bookkeeper and is extracted from annual taxes. The amount is fixed.

Twenty stones less is not a small amount.

You know, the county magistrate's annual salary is actually only seventy stones.

And the unlucky guy who got the quantity wrong is a small official.

The junior official was extremely anxious. He knew that although his abilities were not outstanding, he was definitely not so far behind, and such outrageous things existed.

Now, if you tell people that you are short of rice, you will be looked down upon and lose your hat, it is all a trivial matter.
If someone from above were to blame, wouldn't that be the end of it?

Fortunately, Lumi can’t be used up in one day.

When I returned home that day, when the small official told his family, the family became anxious.

The wife said that she could no longer raise so much money to buy food, and the petty official was so haggard that he became extremely drunk.

When he was drunk, the petty official saw the quilt coming to him and asked casually:
"Hey, I've lost my food and I have no money. This family is going to break up."

"Can you get food?"]

At the end of writing this, I realized that this person who could barely be regarded as Liu Bai’s half-brother is still bleeding (hiss)

However, this kind of thought is only a momentary thing, and it shouldn’t cause a lot of bloodshed (guilty.jpg)