Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 31 Endurance

Seeing Mr. Zhu shaking his head, Zhu Badger got angry and said bitterly: "Are you used to being submissive?"

"Do you know the origin of the idiom [submit to circumstances]? Do you know the method of [submit to circumstances]?" Mr. Zhu waved his folding fan.

Zhu Badger became even more angry, kicked the firewood and said: "Don't always argue with me, the results are the most important."

"Chunhua Qiushi, of course the results are the most important, but without the process, where will the results come from? Sit down and listen carefully as I tell you how to accept and accept the consequences." Mr. Zhu asked Zhu Badger to sit down, and Zhu Badger had no choice but to sit down.

Mr. Zhu said that the idiom "submit to the situation" comes from the play "Zhang Xie Zhuangyuan" written by an unknown person in the Song Dynasty. The original sentence is "To submit to the situation, there must be time." The meaning is similar to Zeng Guofan's "The method of accepting the situation". "There must be time to accept adversity." It does not just mean to endure harsh situations without resistance. The key point lies in the word "tong", which means it doesn't hurt. While you accept the situation, you must come up with alternative ways in time to solve the current difficulties. Zeng Guofan said, "When there are many adversities, the only way is to accept them." If we ordinary people can understand the meaning, we can calmly resolve adversity.

Badger Zhu felt irritated and asked Mr. Zhu to speak simply and clearly.

Mr. Zhu said: "When we encounter a bad situation, it is definitely not enough to just accept it. The key is to find a solution to successfully resist."

Zhu Badger said: "Wouldn't it be over if you just said this? What I just meant is that sooner or later, I will be able to subdue Tian Lezi and make him apologize to you."

Mr. Zhu shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter whether Tian Leizi apologizes or not. The key is to find out why he suddenly straightened up his back? Why did he think of stealing the bronze mirror on the stage with his two sons?"

"Isn't this simple? Isn't it the woman Zhu Hu brought back who is behind this? I want her to look good after the Chinese New Year." Zhu Badger kicked the firewood again, almost knocking down Da Zao. Mr. Zhu still shook his head and asked Badger Zhu: "Are you so sure that she is the culprit behind this?"

"Of course!" Zhu Badger answered with certainty. Mr. Zhu asked again: "Then are you sure who posted the demolition notice? Are you sure what happened to the twelve zodiac animals that saw blood? What happened in the twelve hours of the twelve zodiac animals that saw blood? Why did it start? Who instigated or instigated it?"

"This?" Zhu Badger couldn't answer. Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "That's great. Not only will you not be able to solve the problem if you do it blindly, it might even worsen the situation, causing the treasures of the old house to be lost or even directly destroyed."

"Then what do you think I should do? I'll listen to you." Zhu Badger sat upright. Mr. Zhu looked at Zhu Badger, smiling like a child, even happier than Lu Huan and Dan'er who were playing beside him, and said: "Haha, do you all obey me? Aren't you worried that the old man will just accept the situation?"

"Still, be careful, I'll pluck out your beard!" Zhu Badger stretched out his hand, and Mr. Zhu quickly covered his chin with a folding fan, and said in a low voice: "A little impatience will mess up a big plan. You should have a good New Year. In the meantime, you But observe Zhu Hu and that woman quietly. Also, who wrote the demolition notice? Who was responsible for the serial murders? You must also investigate during this period. "

"Serial murder? It's a bit exaggerated, isn't it? A few chickens and mice just died?" Zhu Badger disagreed and spoke a little loudly. Mr. Zhu pursed his lips to signal Badger Zhu to speak softly, and lowered his voice and said, "Don't all the twelve zodiac animals see blood? There is no guarantee that a real murder will happen after the New Year."

"Really a murder? Is it possible that someone is going to die?" Zhu Badger's eyes widened, and Mr. Zhu said: "Why are you always so surprised? I have a premonition that sooner or later there will be a murder in the old house, a real murder."

"You were just shocked. What premonition? What kind of murder? I must prevent a murder from happening in the old house." How could Zhu Badger let a murder happen in the old house? Mr. Zhu sighed: "What is going to happen will happen. No one can stop it. What you have to do is to expose the truth and prevent evil people from taking the opportunity to cause trouble in order to achieve their ulterior motives."

"Soldiers come to cover up the water and the earth. Isn't this what you taught me? Don't worry, I am not the old house fairy for nothing." Zhu Badger clenched his fists. Mr. Zhu smiled happily and said: "Old house fairy, okay, This is a good title. Grandma Taizu will definitely protect you, and the spirit of the old house will definitely protect you."

"Old house elf? What old house elf? Is it possible for you to imitate that pouty-mouthed woman?" Zhu Badger's eyes unconsciously looked at the pouty-mouthed woman who was making stuffing. Today she was wearing a navy blue double-breasted cotton jacket and cotton trousers. , looks like a typical old lady from a mountain village, with a somewhat kind face on her wrinkled face. Mr. Zhu's folding fan blocked Zhu Badger's sight and said: "Don't just focus on a few fixed people. Sometimes you can't evaluate a person based on his usual likes and dislikes. People are fickle animals."

"I know, you should talk about the Elf of the Old House. Who is the Elf of the Old House among so many people?" Zhu Badger opened Mr. Zhu's folding fan and glanced at all the people busy and playing in the yard. Mr. Zhu pointed his folding fan at the stone carvings on the wall and said solemnly: "Every brick, every tile, every window, every door, every tenon, and every joint in this old house is filled with spirits. We must cherish them and treat them well. In turn, these spirits will protect you and me." , to keep you and me safe and healthy, do you understand?"

"I understand a little bit, but not quite yet." Zhu Badger nodded and shook his head. Mr. Zhu still looked solemn and said to Zhu Badger in a caring tone: "It's not easy for you to understand something at your age. As long as you keep this heart, I will definitely have a great enlightenment in the future, sooner or later."

"God? Why do you say I go to heaven?" Zhu Badger stared at Mr. Zhu in surprise. Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "The Nine Immortals are originally in heaven. Isn't it right that heaven will come sooner or later?"

"What the hell? What if I can't hang on and fall to pieces? I still like the old house, down-to-earth and steady, how good it is." Zhu Badger pouted, Mr. Zhu laughed: "What a Nine Immortals, being an old house Fairies are indeed good, it’s so happy to have so many elves accompanying me.”

"What are you two laughing at? Are you eating the rice dumplings secretly?" Ma Yasha came over and opened the lid of the pot. He saw that the rice dumplings in three pots had been cooked, so he put in three new pots and started cooking again.

Mr. Zhu sniffed, shook his head and said, "It smells good. It smells really good. It tastes even better if you eat it secretly."

"Don't make random jokes like this, be careful someone takes advantage of you." Ma Yasha peeled off two rice dumplings and handed them to Mr. Zhu and Zhu Badger respectively.

Mr. Zhu took a bite of the rice dumplings and said with a smile: "The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. The old man wants to make some people interested, so that our old house fairy can eat the rice dumplings wholeheartedly, protect the old house without any distractions, and be happy with the old man." The elves in the house are knowledgeable about the past and present."

"Your refined and sour heart makes my heart beat fast. I still concentrate on brushing the rice dumpling leaves. Xiaoliu, a city man, is really not bad at work." Yaksha added a few firewood to the stove and turned to leave. Zhu Badger grabbed Ma Yaksha and asked, "Mom, her name is Xiaoliu?" "Yes, she said her surname is Lan and her name is Yuliu." Ma Yaksha answered and left. Mr. Zhu leaned over and looked at the woman brushing rice dumpling leaves not far away and murmured to herself: "Last name is Lan? Lan Yuliu? Surname is Lan? Lan Yuliu?"

"The name is just a symbol, won't it be a problem?" Zhu Badger stared at Lan Yuliu intently.

Mr. Zhu did not respond to Zhu Badger, his eyes were also fixed on Lan Yuliu, and he kept mumbling: "Last name is Lan? Lan Yuliu? Surname is Lan? Lan Yuliu?"

"Hey, can you stop nagging like this? Is there something wrong with her name?" Zhu Badger was a little impatient.

Mr. Zhu murmured: "People are just like their names, and their names are well-deserved. Gains and losses lead to prosperity and decline, and withered poplars give birth to wild beasts..."

"What kind of book bag are you throwing away? Are you still playing idiom solitaire? Let me ask you if there is something wrong with her name?" Zhu Badger interrupted Mr. Zhu's murmur.

Ma Yasha said that the woman Zhu Hu brought back was called Lan Yuliu. Zhu Badger was excited for no reason. Seeing that Mr. Zhu kept chanting the name "Lanyu Liu", he quickly started his brain and searched for "Lan Yuliu" in the warehouse of memory. All the information related to "Jade Willow", but only the three keywords "Lancaihe" are remembered. After searching and searching, he couldn't find anything else. Zhu Badger pressed Mr. Zhu, is there something wrong with the name "Lanyu Liu"?

Mr. Zhu murmured for a while and then said: "I can't tell you if there is something wrong with the name 'Lanyu Liu', but there seems to be something wrong with the surname Lan and the name Yuliu."

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Isn't Lan Yuliu her name? What's the problem?" Zhu Badger was a little impatient.

Mr. Zhu did not answer Zhu Badger's words and continued to mutter: "Jade Willow?" The jasper made up a tree as high as a tree, with thousands of green silk ribbons hanging down. I don't know who cut out the thin leaves. The spring breeze in February is like scissors. "A woman still chooses this name. It's quite poetic, especially the name given to the woman Zhu Hu brought back is so appropriate and vivid. With skin as delicate as jade and a waist like a willow, she is a real person who lives up to her name and lives up to her name."

"De Xing, how old are you and still care about her skin and waist? Huh, it seems that the cross-eyed woman did not wrong you." Zhu Badger rolled his eyes at Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu was not angry, and still muttered to himself: "Is there something wrong with the surname? We don't see many people with the surname Lan here. I only remember that there were many famous people in history. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous doctor in Chu State named Lan Yinqian. During the Warring States Period, During that period, the prime minister of the Zhongshan Kingdom was called Lan Zhujun. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were Lan Jizong, the observer of Yongzhou, and Lan Kui, the Jinshi. In the Ming Dynasty, there was the general Liang Guogong Lan Yu... Lan Yu? Lan Yu? Lan Yu?"

"There is also Lan Caihe." Zhu Badger didn't understand why Mr. Zhu couldn't stop reading "Lanyu"? "Yes, there is also Lan Caihe, one of the 'Eight Immortals'." Mr. Zhu stood up from the bench with a slap on his thigh. After walking around the three earthen stoves for a few times, he looked at Lan Yuliu intently for a while. , Raju Badger sat down again and whispered: "There must be something wrong with this Lan Yuliu."

"Do you still want to talk about this? She came to our village for no reason, entered the old house for no reason, and wanted to be a member of the village for no reason. She wanted to be a person in the old house. There must be something wrong." Zhu Badger responded loudly to Mr. Zhu , Mr. Zhu hurriedly pulled the corner of Badger Zhu’s clothes and said, “It’s not good for her to hear her in a lower voice. I mean there must be something wrong with her name.”

"There must be something wrong with her name? Tell me quickly, what's the problem?" Zhu Badger approached Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu did not answer directly and asked Zhu Badger: "Do you know when the old house was built? Who built it for whom?"

"The old house was built in the Ming Dynasty. It was built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, for Grandma Taizu. Who doesn't know this? Tell me quickly what's wrong with her name?" Zhu Badger urged Mr. Zhu, but Mr. Zhu was not in a hurry. , asked Zhu Badger slowly: "Do you know Lan Yu?"

"Lanyu? Her name is Lan Yuliu, not Lan Yu." Zhu Badger corrected him, thinking that Mr. Zhu had remembered the wrong name because he was old.

Mr. Zhu responded word for word: "Yes, her name is Lan Yuliu. But there was a general in the Ming Dynasty named Lan Yu. He was ranked sixth among the ten famous generals in the founding of the Ming Dynasty. He was famous for his courage, bravery and combat skills. He was the Duke of Liang. Later, he was skinned by Zhu Yuanzhang for treason. The 'Blue Jade Case' became one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty."

"What do you mean by this? Do you want to say that Lan Yuliu is a descendant of Lan Yu? And Lan Yu has something to do with our old house? Is this Lan Yuliu coming to collect debts?" Zhu Badger seemed to recognize some of Mr. Zhu's words. What he meant, so he opened his mind and made bold assumptions. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhu nodded and replied: "I am sure that this beautiful woman Lan Yuliu must be the descendant of Liang Guogong Lan Yu, and Liang Guogong Lan Yu is the descendant of Liang Guogong." At that time, he was the chief engineer of our old house. As for whether this beautiful woman Lan Yuliu came to collect debts or hunt for treasures, it remains to be verified and observed. "

"Research and observation? Aren't you afraid that the day lily will get cold? You only think about beautiful women all day long." Zhu Badger hated that Mr. Zhu called Lan Jade Willow a beauty. Mr. Zhu didn't care about Zhu Badger's attitude and said with a smile: "Day lily is not Are you wrapping the rice dumplings well? Let me tell you, maybe we have to ask Daylily and her father Weasel to help."

Daylily is the nickname of the butcher's wife, Weasel is the father of Daylily, the father-in-law of the butcher, and the bricklayer in the village. Because this man is two-faced and does one thing in front of others and another behind his back, he is called the weasel. But his skills as a bricklayer are very good, and there is no wall that cannot be built with his brick knife.

Mr. Zhu said that he wanted to ask Weasel for help. Zhu Badger curled his lips and sneered: "The old house is as stable as Mount Tai, there is no need for his brick knife."

"Have you forgotten that Daylily has a sister who is prosperous in the provincial capital?" Mr. Zhu's eyes moved from Daylily back to Lan Yuliu.

When Zhu Badger heard Mr. Zhu mention Day Lily's sister, Weasel's little daughter, he even vented his anger with disdain on his face, and responded: "She is Okra? Isn't she just a chicken?"

"Keep your voice down, and don't speak ill of others behind their backs. A gentleman should be aboveboard and open-minded. If you want to know who Lan Yuliu is, you can only go through Huang Qiukui." Mr. Zhu stared closely at Huang Qiukui. On Lan Yuliu.

Zhu Badger waved his hand in front of Mr. Zhu and said mockingly: "Skin as delicate as jasper, waist like willow, eyes dropped to the ground."

"Fairy, I'm not joking. There must be something wrong with the name of Lan Yuliu. You must find out." Mr. Zhu's white-haired and white-bearded head moved up and down with Zhu Badger's hand, but his eyes were still fixed on Lan Yuliu. on the body.

Zhu Badger simply stood up and stood in front of Mr. Zhu, but he had no choice but to jump up and only reach Mr. Zhu's shoulder. He turned around bitterly and said: "As long as she is fine, what do I care about her name?"

"There is a problem with the name, but of course there is an even bigger problem with the person. After careful inspection, I found that this girl must be the Queen of Lan Yu. She must have come to the old house to seek revenge and steal treasures." Mr. Zhu whispered softly to the back of Zhu Badger.

When Zhu Badger heard what Mr. Zhu said so resolutely, he turned around suddenly, stared at Mr. Zhu with his dark eyes, and asked word by word: "Just look at her jade-like skin and willow-like waist. ?”

"Women are narrow-minded, and it seems that you are not exempt from vulgarity. I have seen blue jade portraits and carefully studied the descriptions of women from the past generations of the Lan family. This blue jade Liu is probably a descendant of the Lan family. If you don't believe it, you can wait. Huang Qiukui came back to ask her. Of course, Huang Qiukui may not tell you the truth. But Yushu Linfeng must have seen the clues and I believe he will find out the truth." Mr. Zhu's eyes were still fixed on Lan Yuliu.

Zhu Badger actually just wanted to make sure Mr. Zhu was joking? Seeing how seriously he said it, he mentioned Yushu Linfeng again and understood that he was not joking. But he still had a nonchalant look and tone on his face and mouth, and asked: "Is the okra coming back?"

"My wife Weasel has been very happy these past two days. She said that her little daughter is coming back for the New Year, and she is fully prepared for the New Year." Mr. Zhu didn't pay attention to Zhu Badger's tone, let alone her expression. He just followed Lan Yuliu's every move.

Zhu Badger asked lightly: "Even if this Lan Yuliu belongs to the Lan family, how can you be sure that she is here to seek revenge and steal treasure?"

"Fairy, have you forgotten that Lan Yu is the chief engineer of the old house? The shocking Ming Dynasty Lan Jade case is inextricably linked to the old house." Mr. Zhu looked a little scared.

Zhu Badger didn't take it seriously. He picked up a piece of firewood on the ground, broke it in two, and said loudly: "The old house is the old house of my great-grandmother. No one can do anything wrong with the old house!"

All the people in the yard looked at Zhu Badger and were stunned for several minutes, including the blue jade willow, who didn't even notice the water from the rice dumpling leaves on her hands dripping onto her trouser legs.

(End of this chapter)