Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 30 Mother

The man with the rich male voice was sitting on a colorful cloud, and all the handsome men and beautiful women knelt down towards him.

Zhu Badger raised his head and took a closer look, and saw that the man was wearing a golden crown and a yellow robe. He had a majestic body, a swallow-like jaw and a tiger neck, and extraordinary appearance. He looked like an emperor from the Tang Dynasty. The strange sound came from the mouth of a woman. This woman was dressed in white and covered with gold leaves. Although she was old, she was still beautiful and graceful. Zhu Badger couldn't figure out how such an old woman could make such a strange noise. Still staring at himself menacingly.

Eight pig badgers and eight thin dogs bent their knees and lowered their heads, their bodies trembling, as if they were afraid of the scene in front of them. How could Zhu Badger tolerate his beloved pet being wronged? She doesn't care who that man and that woman are? He turned around and wanted to take the badgers and dogs away.

"Humph, you are really uneducated. Is this a place where you can come and go as you please?" the woman said.

Zhu Badger did not turn his head, but turned his back to the woman and said coldly: "I didn't want to come on my own, so who cares?"

"Look, look, it's still the same virtue. A dog can't change its behavior." The woman seemed to be talking to the man.

The man answered: "It was your fault in the first place. It's generous of her not to bear your grudge."

"Generous? Do I want her to be generous? Are you nice to her and she kneels down on you?" The woman said in a contemptuous tone.

"Okay, okay, she has suffered in the world for so many years. It's not easy. Where is the hatred between mother and daughter?" The man comforted the woman and said to Zhu Badger: "Nine Immortals, let go of everything you should. Just ask, what are your requirements?"

The scene was silent for a while, then Zhu Badger turned his head and asked the man: "Are you asking me?"

The man nodded with a smile and a kind smile.

Zhu Badger said: "I only have one request, which is for her to apologize to my dogs and then we leave immediately."

Seeing Zhu Badger's hand pointing directly at the woman, the smile on the man's face disappeared. Just as he was about to speak, the woman took the lead and asked Zhu Badger: "Don't push yourself too far. Why should I apologize to these beasts of yours?"

"You just scolded a dog for eating shit, and now you're scolding an animal and spouting shit. You must apologize. Let me tell you, every life in the world deserves our respect, and every life is born to parents. Of course, people like you People are not worthy of anyone's respect at all, let alone being arrogant here. If there are big fish and meat to eat, do dogs need to eat shit? If there are parents' love, dogs need to follow By my side, a weak woman? Aren't you born to your parents? Don't you have any children? Oh, by the way, a woman like you who spits shit doesn't deserve parents or children. Even if you have parents, you must have given them to her. I'm so angry. Even if I have children, I definitely don't want to call you mother, because you don't deserve to be a mother." Zhu Badger scolded the woman.

The woman's fair and plump right hand pointed tremblingly at the red badger. Her jade-like lips moved for a while, but she was still speechless.

The man spoke: "Nine Immortals, she is your mother and she is the Queen Mother of Heaven. How can you scold her like this?"

"The Queen Mother? Is it possible? Isn't the Queen Mother supposed to be well-educated and respectful? My mother is Ma Yaksha, and she is kind to my badgers and dogs." Zhu Badger didn't believe that the woman in front of him was the legendary one. The Queen Mother.

The woman's hand pointed at Zhu Badger and dropped it tremblingly. She did not respond to Zhu Badger, did not wait for the man to speak again, and disappeared into the horizon in a blink of an eye.

"Nine Immortals, you have been cast into the mortal world for several generations, and you have indeed suffered too many grievances. However, as the Jade Emperor in Heaven, your father must follow the rules and act according to the rules. Back then, your mother also cruelly demoted you to the mortal world because of the solid evidence. , you should understand the painstaking efforts of being a father and a mother." The man looked sincere and extremely sincere.

Zhu Badger was stunned for a moment, and after carefully looking at the man in front of him, he suddenly realized: "Oh, so you are the legendary Jade Emperor? No wonder there is such a big battle. I'm sorry, the little girl was born in a remote place in the deep mountains and old forests, and usually lives there In the old house, at most I worked in the provincial capital. I was either making glue on the assembly line or collapsed in a pigsty-like dormitory. I had no time or money to see the world. So please forgive me, old man, and forgive this little girl. You're talking nonsense. However, I want to correct you. My father has gone to meet the King of Hell a long time ago. Also, it has nothing to do with me what rules or regulations you follow. If you want to act according to the rules, then act according to the rules. You can't You won’t even let me go back to my old house, won’t you let me live in it?”

"Nine Immortals, I didn't expect that you are still the same as when you were in heaven. You are sharp-tongued and small-mouthed. It can be said that you are filled with joy and sorrow as a father. So, don't worry about the past anymore and come back to heaven." The Jade Emperor told Zhu Badger A very generous hand.

Zhu Badger smiled and said: "Come back to Heaven? What's so good about Heaven? I still live in my old house. You won't be like Zhu Hu and the woman Zhu Hu brought back, thinking of ways to drive me out of the old house. , you want to steal the treasure from my old house?"

"Nine Immortals, what are you talking about? My father is the Jade Emperor in heaven. Do you care about the treasure in your old house? When you return to heaven, whatever treasure you want, my father will have the heavenly soldiers and generals to find it for you. "The Jade Emperor smiled kindly again.

Zhu Badger smiled even more happily and said: "I just like the old house. Every brick, tile, door and window in the old house are real treasures. Do you have any in heaven?"

"Hahaha, what kind of treasure is there in heaven? Don't you like old houses? Come, my father will give you an exactly the same old house." The Jade Emperor pointed his big hand in the air, and the old house in Donkeybu Village appeared in Zhu Badger in front of my eyes.

Zhu Badger was so happy that he ran to his old house and reached out to touch the familiar screen wall, but he couldn't touch it. He reached out to touch the door of his house, but couldn't touch it... Zhu Badger was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. No matter how he tried to touch it, he couldn't touch it. , just couldn't touch the real objects, and finally burst into tears in a hurry, and while crying, he scolded the Jade Emperor: "You are a lying emperor, give me back my old house, give back my old house..." "

"Fairy, are you having a nightmare?" Ma Yasha's shout interrupted Zhu Badger's dream. Zhu Badger woke up from his dream with sweating profusely and tears on his face. He hurriedly reached out to touch: the bed board was still there, and the bed frame was still there. Yes, the whole bed is still there... Zhu Badger took a breath of relief and opened his eyes to see that everything is still there, everything is as usual. The eight pig badgers and eight fine dogs were lying quietly beside the bed and answered loudly. Dominatrix: “Mom, I’m fine.”

"That's good. If you wake up, get up early. We are wrapping rice dumplings today. Everyone is here to help." Ma Yasha stood at the door of Zhu Badger's room and shouted. She knew that Zhu Badger called her "mother", which meant that she was in a good mood. As an old lady, she is "mother" in her heart. If you call "Mom", the implication is "Are you still my mother?" You are in a bad mood, have opinions about her, or even feel resentful towards her. You must not offend her at this time, otherwise you will light a dynamite barrel yourself. It will blow you up to a pulp.

Zhu Badger has been like this since she was a child. Everything she thinks comes out of her mouth and she never hides it. She is also most annoyed by those riddlers who only talk three points and let you guess. Both Ma Yasha and Mr. Zhu have reminded Zhu Badger many times: "When you meet someone, you can't just say a few words, but don't give up everything." Zhu Badger just can't change, and he doesn't want to change. He needs to be a real and thorough person. Is it not good? Do you have to think that others are so bad? However, some people are just bad and are born bad, such as Zhu Hu, Tian Lezi, Tian Lezi’s three sons, and the flat-mouthed woman, and so on.

Hey, will Zongyan Po, Zhu Hu and that woman come over today? Dare you come here? Thinking of this, Zhu Badger got up from the bed, jumped out of bed, put on her clothes and left the room. She wanted to wait for Zhu Hu and the woman to appear.

When Zhu Hu finished washing up, had some breakfast and opened the door, she was dumbfounded. She never thought that not only Zhu Hu and that man and woman were there, but also Tian Laizi's family.

What does it mean to be in prison?
"Twenty-four and twenty-five are wrapped in rice dumplings, twenty-six and twenty-seven are frozen, and twenty-eight and twenty-nine are fried." This is the prelude to the village's preparations for the New Year, and it is also the official start of the New Year time.

[Wrapping Zongzi on the 24th and 25th of the twelfth lunar month] refers to the two days when every household wraps Zongzi on the 24th and 25th of the twelfth lunar month. Unlike other places, donkeys only eat rice dumplings during the Chinese New Year when they are not in the village. Firstly, because zongzi tastes good during the Chinese New Year and symbolizes good luck. "Zong" and "Zhong" have the same pronunciation in the dialect of Donkey Bu Cun. During the Chinese New Year, if you eat a rice dumpling and find out a coin wrapped in it, you will win a prize, and you will have lots of money in the new year; If you eat a red date in a rice dumpling, the new year will be prosperous; if you eat a peanut wrapped in a rice dumpling, the new year will be prosperous... Anyway, there are many blessings. Another reason is that the weather is cold during the Chinese New Year, so the rice dumplings can be wrapped and stored until after the Lantern Festival. When guests come, there is no need to rush to fry and fry. You can just take a few strings of rice dumplings off the bamboo poles and cook them in the pot. Serve guests as snacks.

There is an agreement in Lvbu Village that every household helps each other during the rice dumpling wrapping time on the 24th and 25th of the twelfth lunar month. Everyone comes to help your family wrap the rice dumplings. After wrapping, they go to my house to wrap the rice dumplings, and we are happy and lively together. When making rice dumplings, especially in old houses, the rules passed down for hundreds of years have never been broken. For children, the joy of the New Year begins with wrapping rice dumplings in every household.

According to tradition, the rice dumpling wrapping in the old house starts with Zhu Badger's family, because Zhu Badger's family is the authentic owner of the old house and lives in the main house.

Zhu Badger opened the door, and the yard in front of his house had already become a joyful place for making rice dumplings. Lu Huan shuttled among the rice dumpling wrapping neighbors, with a smile on his face like a flower. Dan'er and all the children in Donkeybu Village were also smiling like flowers.

"Fairy, are you up? See how my rice dumplings are wrapped?" Xianyan Po held up a freshly wrapped rice dumpling and asked Zhu Badger happily.

Zhu Badger smiled and replied: "It's well wrapped, but you have to tilt your mouth a little when eating."

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed, including Zhu Hu and the woman, including Tian Leizi, Tian Dalei, and Tian Erlei.

Nao Xi, why didn't Tian Leizi, Tian Da Lei, and Tian Er Lei react when they saw Lu Huan? Could it be that Lu Huan fell into my room and his face changed, so they didn’t recognize him? They don’t know each other, but Tian Xiaolei should know him? After all, Lu Huan's face just became smoother. Zhu Badger saw that Lu Huan ran past Tian Xiaolei several times, but Tian Xiaolei didn't respond, so he decided to go over and test it out.

Today's Tian Xiaolei was wrapped like a rice dumpling. Not only was his head wrapped in layers of floral cotton cloth, but he also wore a melon skin hat. do not know why? Why do the Tian family like to wear melon-pipe hats so much? When the winter is cold, villagers usually wear khaki cotton hats with ear protection on both sides, which are also commonly known as "thunder hats". Villagers buy one when going to the market, and they can wear it for more than ten years, and some even wear it until they are old.

Zhu Badger thought it was funny, so he walked up to Tian Xiaolei and pretended to have slipped, staggered, and knocked Tian Xiaolei down.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was watching your father make rice dumplings and I didn't see you." "It's okay, it's okay, I wore thick clothes today."

"It's thick enough. I'm afraid these cotton-padded clothes and pants were worn by your father when he was a militia captain, right?"

"A fairy is a fairy, you can tell by looking at it."

"Oh, it's different after working in a provincial capital. You become civilized and polite when you speak."

"Just average, third in the world. Fairy, you are so beautiful today."

"I'm the most beautiful, but I'm not as beautiful as you. Didn't your mother spend a sheet to cover this for you?"

"A fairy is a fairy, and you can even guess this. There is no health center in our village, and it's too far to go to town, so my mother wrapped it up for me with a bed sheet."

"The rice dumplings are wrapped very well. No wonder today's rice dumplings are wrapped so well."

"Thank you, Fairy, for praising my mother. I want to apologize to you, sincerely."

"You want to apologize to me? What apology?"

"Fairy, I really didn't know that Huanhuan is your good friend, good sister, and good bestie. If I knew that Huanhuan was your good friend, good sister, and good bestie, I would definitely share the same goals with her and respect each other as guests."

"Do you still want to grow old together? Stay together and fly together?"

"You don't dare, you don't dare. Your good friends are my good friends, your good sisters are my good sisters, and your good best friends are my good best friends."

"It's not your turn, and I don't need you. You'd better eat more rice dumplings. This year my glutinous rice is particularly fragrant and glutinous, and my mother has prepared more than a dozen kinds of fillings."

"Okay, okay, I'm just here to eat rice dumplings."

Zhu Badger left Tian Xiaolei. She felt sick and wanted to vomit. She turned around and spat on the ground. If it wasn't to test his attitude towards Lu Huan and avoid ruining the New Year atmosphere in front of her, she would not want to say another word to such a person.

Many people from the village came to the yard of Zhu Badger's house. Everyone was smiling and harmonious. They were brushing rice dumpling leaves, washing rice, making fillings, and making rice dumplings. Making rice dumplings, cooking rice dumplings, cooking rice dumplings, everything is so orderly, everything is so joyful and peaceful. The three large pots placed on the three large earthen stoves in the yard are steaming hot. The fragrance of rice dumpling leaves mixed with the fragrance of glutinous rice, meat, red dates, hawthorn and other fillings floats over the old house, giving this winter a perfect atmosphere. The mountain village brings endless fireworks and human warmth.

Zhu Badger saw that the woman who came to Zhu Hu's house was squatting next to his mother to help brush the rice dumpling leaves, so he went over and greeted her warmly: "Hello, beautiful sister."

"Okay, okay, hello, Badger Fairy."

"I'm happy to call me fairy, but not so happy to add the word badger."

"I'm worried that calling you fairy directly would be too abrupt. After all, I haven't really become a villager or a person in an old house."

"Beautiful sister wants to be a member of our village? Become a member of the old house?"

"Of course, otherwise what would I do?"

"That's it, then you are going to be Aunt Erhu."

"is it not OK?"

"Of course you can, it's just that I called sister wrong this time."

"Yes, it means I am young and happy."

"As long as my sister is happy, Mom, how can you let your sister brush the rice dumpling leaves? Look, look, her hands that look like lotus roots are as cold as carrots."

"What do you mean? Go to Mr. Zhu's place and help him look after the stove. Be careful that the leaves of the rice dumplings will break if they are cooked for too long."

What Zhu Hu wanted was what Ma Yasha said. She was just like approaching Tian Xiaolei, just to test the woman Zhu Hu brought back. Unexpectedly, this woman was really extraordinary. Not only did Zhu Badger not take advantage of her at all, but she was also used by her to take the opportunity to show everyone that she was Zhu Hu's love interest and was going to be the first wife.

Damn it, there are still such shameless women in the world, and they are still so confident even though they are young. No, I will never let her wish come true. If she really becomes a person who lives in the village and lives in an old house, how can she live in peace without being in the village? Can the old house still be peaceful?

Badger Zhu walked to Mr. Zhu, who was holding a folding fan in one hand and a book in the other, sitting by the stove and watching the fire.

When making rice dumplings, the luckiest ones are those who can watch the fire in the big stove. They can warm themselves up and taste the rice dumplings first. This lucky person has always been Zhu Badger and Mr. Zhu.

"No, the leaves of the rice dumpling are broken."

"Ah? Quickly unheat and change the pot!"

Badger Zhu shouted, and the folding fan and book in Mr. Zhu's hand fell to the ground, and he hurriedly opened the lid of the pot.

"I lied to you, yo, did you get a new fan?" Zhu Badger picked up the folding fan and book from the ground and handed them to Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu took the folding fan and the book and sat back in his chair, sighing and saying, "Oh, I can't bend down to pick it up myself, can I?"

"Don't worry, one day I will let him kneel in front of you and apologize." Zhu Badger looked at Tian Laizi's back and said softly to Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu shook his head.

(End of this chapter)