Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 3 Dog

In the stillness of the night, Zhu Badger crept out of the old house with a bucket of skinned mice in his arms. As soon as I crossed the threshold, my feet slipped and I got into the helicopter.

The snow was still falling, and it was falling very violently. The snow was falling down one after another, so densely packed that it was difficult to open one's eyes and make it difficult to walk.

Zhu Badger slid under the big camphor tree based on her feeling. Before she could stand still, her fairy friends came out of the tree hole and surrounded her feet.

"Don't worry, there are plenty. I'll skin them all for you." Zhu Badger put the bucket on the ground and leaned against the tree trunk leeward to look up at the old house in the heavy snow.

The old house was as dark as an old woman who was tired of climbing the mountain and squatting beside a white pool to catch her breath. She might run out of breath at any time and fall into the pool and disappear.

Zhu Badger was not born in the old house. Her mother gave birth to her in the wild. It was her father, whom she had no memory of, who picked her up from the pig badger's den. Her father died that night.

My mother wanted to throw her away, thinking that she was a lone star in the sky and would defeat her parents. But the people in the old house unanimously requested to raise her, because from the moment Zhu Badger entered the old house, the sun shone brightly in the village despite the rainy days, and the old house was illuminated by the stars and the moon every night. .

These are what Mr. Zhu told Zhu Badger. Zhu Badger has been following Mr. Zhu since he was five years old to read and write, practice calligraphy well, and became the first high school student in Lvbuo Village.

"The wind is miserable at the end of the year, and the snow is shining all the time." Except for a few ancient poems and verses from time to time, Zhu Badger is now useless. He has become one of the many lazy and lazy men and women in Lvbuo Village. They just bask in the sun during the day and sleep at night. She sleeps mostly during the day and comes out to be active at night.

The melancholy Zhu Badger looked away from the old house. The fairy friends were in a whirlwind. The bucket quickly bottomed out and gathered at Zhu Badger's feet. Zhu Badger's somewhat frozen body was as warm as spring.

"Zhu badger, pig badger, daddy picked me up from the pig badger's den, so in my previous life, I was also a pig badger like these immortals?" Zhu badger slid down the trunk of the tree and sat at the entrance of the tree hole to accept the eight pig badgers. of intimacy.

The eight pig badgers are generally fat, about thirty pounds, with a big head and thick neck, small eyes, short nose, short limbs, short round ear shells, and a cute and naive appearance.

When she was eight years old, Xiao Zhu Badger was angry with her mother one night and ran to the big camphor tree in the middle of the night to cry alone. She was shivering and felt a faint feeling of heat on her buttocks, thinking she had farted. After a while, the heat was still there. I touched my butt with my little hand and touched a soft and warm object. I moved to see what it was? Two black figures sprang out from the tree hole where she had been squatting just now. They looked like two pig badgers.

Little Zhu Badger didn't panic. Instead, he felt like he had not seen his relatives for a long time. The two pig badgers were leaning on the little Zhu Badger, one on the left and the other on the right. The Little Zhu Badger felt the infinite warmth coming from them.

From then on, the red badger would go to the tree hole under the big camphor tree to meet the pig badger at midnight every night.

Now these eight pig badgers are the descendants of the first two pig badgers. Zhu Badger calls them the "Eight Immortals" and himself the "Nine Immortals". They are close immortal friends with each other.

"Humph, common people, you call me the Eight Badger Immortals. The real Eight Badger Immortals are here, and I am the Nine Immortals." Zhu Badger gently stroked the eight pig badgers lying on her body, and soon fell asleep. , she barely slept a wink yesterday and today.

The common people were horrified by the chicken whose head was twisted off a bamboo pole and the skinned rats on every stove. What Zhu Badger was obsessed with was the "demolition" notice posted by Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu deliberately avoided everything, but Badger Zhu was sure that the notice must have been written by Mr. Zhu. She had to find a way to get Mr. Zhu to admit it and ask him to tell him what it meant?
Zhu Badger calls the neighbors living in the old house vulgar people, and calls the people in the village outside the old house slang people. She and Mr. Zhu are the only two elegant people in the village.

An elegant person is definitely not as knowledgeable as a vulgar person. A few dead chickens and a few rats are nothing. Demolition is the big deal.

"My child, you must take good care of the old house. Every brick, tile, window and door must be spared."

"Don't worry, Grandma Taizu. As long as I'm here, no one can try to take advantage of the old house."

"My child, the world is in trouble and people's hearts are evil. Please discuss anything with Mr. Zhu."

"Grandma Taizu, he is very pedantic and cannot be discussed."

"My child, Mr. Zhu is not a mortal, he has attained enlightenment."

"Grandma Taizu, is it possible?"

Before the old man could answer, a scream and a burst of noise woke up Zhu Badger.

The pig badgers returned to the tree hole, and the red badger returned to the old house.

The snow was still falling, and it was still so heavy that my calves were missing.

"I see blood every day, is that ghost coming out to cause trouble again?"

"It's possible. Haven't you seen that the Eight Badger Immortals are more spiritual than before?" "We must invite the flat-mouthed woman to do the ritual today, otherwise we will all become this dog."

"..."

Zhu Badger ignored the strange looks and shady comments cast towards her by the neighbors. When she crossed the tall threshold of the old house, she glanced at a female dog lying on her back.

The female dog was disembowelled, steaming blood was still gurgling out, and several puppies were clearly visible in the dissected belly.

Zhu Badger walked a few steps across the threshold and turned back. He leaned over and touched the puppy in the bitch's belly with his hands. The puppy squirmed slightly.

Zhu Badger took off his cotton-padded jacket and spread it on the ground. He put the bloody puppies from the bitch's belly onto the cotton-padded jacket, eight of them in total, and wrapped them up in his arms.

The bitch turned over and jumped up with a sound of "Ouch", lying on the threshold with her two front paws curled up, and cast a grateful look at the red badger with tearful eyes.

Zhu Badger tightened the cotton-padded jacket in his arms and nodded towards the bitch. The bitch rolled on the spot, rolled down the threshold, rolled down the old house, and galloped away, leaving a dazzling red streak on the white snow.

While everyone was stunned, Zhu Badger walked straight into the old house and into his room. Spread out the quilt, put the puppy on the quilt, and cover the puppy with the cotton jacket.

Zhu Badger left the room and went to the kitchen to get a porcelain basin. Taking the porcelain basin in hand, he went to a corner of the yard, where two dairy goats were kept.

"Hey, what are you doing?" The cross-eyed woman came over and asked Zhu Badger. Her family raised two dairy goats.

Zhu Badger ignored the cross-eyed woman, opened the fence, put the porcelain basin under the goat, stretched out his hands to milk the goat.

"You, you, what are you doing, what are you doing?" the cross-eyed woman stuttered angrily, circling back and forth around the sheepfold.

Zhu Badger quickly filled a porcelain basin with goat's milk and carried it back to the house.

"Ma Yasha, take care of your daughter!" The slant-eyed woman had no choice but to turn to Zhu Badger's wife.

Yasha is the nickname of Zhu Badger's wife, whose surname is Ma. She married into Lvbui Village from the mountain ao next door. She is tall and tall, and has an extremely fierce personality. No matter whether she is doing physical work or quarreling, she says she is the second best among the women in Lvbui Village. No one dares to compete for first place.

Unusually for Ma Yaksha today, he was neither angry with his daughter nor bothered with the cross-eyed woman. He turned back to his home and knocked on the door of Zhu Badger's room. Normally, if anyone calls her Ma Yasha in front of her face, she will tear that person's mouth to pieces.

Seeing this, the squinty-eyed Ma Yaksha looked back for a while before she hurried home to get a wooden bucket and go to the sheep pen to milk the goats.

"Open the door, please open the door." Ma Yasha stood at the door of Zhu Badger's room and called, his tone softer than ever.

Zhu Badger didn't respond. He held the porcelain basin in his hand and stared at the bed for a long time.

Eight puppies actually got out of their cotton-padded jackets and waddled on the bed, sniffing around.

"My fairy, this is no ordinary dog. You must raise it well."

"How should I raise it? Can I drink milk at such a young age?"

Zhu Badger likes Ma Yasha to call her fairy, put the porcelain basin on the bed, turn around and open the door.

Ma Yasha smiled brightly, ran to the bed where Zhu Badger was sleeping in two or three steps, and said with a click of his tongue: "Look, look, I think this dog is extraordinary, right?"

Zhu Badger closed the door and turned around to see that not a drop of goat's milk was left in the porcelain basin, and the puppy's little tongue was still sucking moisture from the porcelain basin.

"You didn't drink it, did you?"

"How is that possible? Let me tell you, this dog is extraordinary, and this bed is even more extraordinary. This extraordinary dog ​​will naturally become an extraordinary fairy dog ​​when it gets on an extraordinary bed."

"What are you talking about? Why is this dog so special? Why is this bed so special?"

(End of this chapter)