Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 4 Sheep

For the first time, Ma Yasha treated Zhu Badger with such enthusiasm as fire, and spoke as gently as the spring breeze blowing on her face. On the contrary, Zhu Badger shivered with cold. She looked down and saw that she had just taken off her cotton-padded jacket to wrap up the puppy, but now she was still naked.

"Tell me, why is this dog so special? Why is this bed so special?" Zhu Badger jumped on the bed, and the eight puppies quickly gathered around her and kept nudging her.

Ma Yasha grinned and moved a bamboo chair to sit in front of the bed. He stared at the eight puppies with his eyes wide open and seemed not to hear Zhu Badger's question.

Seeing Mayasha's appearance, Zhu Badger stopped paying attention to her, fell down and fell asleep.

"You kid, didn't you see that the puppy isn't full yet?"

"Not full yet? Then I have to get them again."

Zhu Badger jumped up from the bed, picked up the porcelain basin, rushed out of the room and went straight to the sheepfold.

The squinty-eyed woman was closing the fence after squeezing the goat. After closing the barrel, she turned around and lost sight of the wooden bucket under her feet. She yelled to the sky and the earth: "There is a ghost, there is a ghost!"

Those common people who had not gone far gathered back together, and their speed was no less than a charge.

"Ghost? Where? Where?" The limping man finally swayed over and tried to squeeze in front of the sheep pen, but was pushed by Tian Laizi and fell heavily to the snow.

"Three-leggers arrived, the market was gone, where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?" The one-armed Luo knocked down Tian Lezi with his shoulder and went over to help him up. The stiletto man patted the snow on his body and asked the one-armed Luo: "What is her nickname?"

"It's said that the squeezed goat milk disappears in the blink of an eye. Come on, it's better to go back and drink old wine in such a cold weather." One-armed Luo walked back with his head held high and his chest high. He was as tall as an iron tower, with a body of 1.88 meters and a weight of 200 kilograms. There is a big hole when you step into the snow.

The stiltsman's curiosity was not fully satisfied yet, so he continued to walk into the crowd. The two people in front of him dodged, and the man behind him got up and pushed, hitting the cross-eyed woman without any bias.

The squinty-eyed woman just kept shouting and yelling. The cross-legged man bumped into the sheepfold and threw his fat body towards the sheepfold, overwhelming the fence. The two dairy goats inside thought they were being let out to graze, so they jumped out of the sheepfold and rushed out of the sheepfold. The old house was covered with snow foam and disappeared...

"My sheep! My sheep! My sheep!" On the road in the front yard, only the squinty woman was sitting beside the sheepfold crying, and soon she became a snowman.

The man on the stilts can run faster than anyone else. His legs and feet are weak because he suffered from polio, but once he swings, even the one-armed man can't run away from him.

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man are brothers in need. When they were young, they reached out to touch birds in a tree hole and were bitten by a poisonous snake, so one of their hands had to be amputated.

The stilt-legged man swung into the one-armed house. The one-armed Luo heated up a jar of rice wine. The stilted-legged man took out a pack of fennel beans from his arms, and the two old bachelors drank from one cup and the other.

"Hee hee, don't look at the cross-eyed woman who is already half a century old. She is so plump and comfortable. If those two milk goats hadn't rushed out, I really wanted to press on her for a while."

"She usually eats well. Her man who works out of town never fails to send money back every month, and all the new pastries from the village grocery store go into her stomach."

"Hey, why don't you think her man has come back after so many years? Isn't it because he has someone outside?"

"Do you still need to ask this? If I can get out, will I still suffer in this deep mountain and old forest?"

"Do you think we can really demolish the village if our donkeys don't have it? If we can really demolish it, then good times will come."

"Demolition? Haven't you heard it on the loudspeaker? Demolition is a matter for the villages next to the county seat. Why can't we demolish it if we can't even get a donkey here?"

"Yes, then who do you think posted the demolition notice?"

"Who else besides Zhu Fanzi can write such words? Who can be so divine?"

"The Eight Badger Immortals, the Eight Badger Immortals."

"Badger Immortals? Why didn't I think about her?"

"Do you think that the chicken, the mouse, the dog, including today's dairy goat, are all related to her?"

"If the Badger Fairy posted the notice, then she is deliberately pretending to drive us all out of the old house."

"Kick us out of our old house? Why? Is it possible?"

"This old house was originally owned by her ancestors. Thanks to the blessings from above, we were able to move in after removing the scars from her ancestors."

"The Eight Badger Immortals are careless masters, so they are difficult to deal with."

"You can't do it in secret. Two fists can't beat four hands. A tiger can't stop a pack of wolves. We have to unite everyone." "I don't want to unite with Tian Leizi. I have the heart to beat him to death."

"A small impatience will lead to a big plan. First unite everyone and beat the Eight Badger Immortals to death, and then beat to death the person you want to beat to death."

"Tall, really tall. With one arm, you are almost as good as Zhu Fanzi."

Zhu Fanzi is Mr. Zhu, and his nickname is Zhu Hongru, taken from the "Inscription on the Humble Room", "There are no white men when coming and going, but there are Hongru people when talking and laughing." No matter it is cold or hot, he always holds a fan. Most people call him Zhu Fanzi behind his back, but he can only call him in person. Say Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu is over 80 years old, eighty-eight years old. He has lived in Donkey Village for generations, and has been a teacher for generations. He is a pure surname of Zhu in Donkey Village.

Today, Mr. Zhu went to the top of the Dongshan Mountain to stand as usual. It is not a problem for people in the mountains to take the mountain road, but it is still not easy to go to the top of the Dongshan Mountain in heavy snow.

Mr. Zhu's white hair, white beard, white robe and pure white snow completely blended into one. He climbed up to the top of the East Mountain in a hurry, talked about old things and adopted new ones, and experienced thousands of things. His forehead was sweating, and then he went back down the mountain.

Walking to the foot of the mountain, I saw two snowballs coming leisurely. I stood still and looked carefully, but I couldn't see any clues. I was puzzled and heard two "bleeps" before I realized they were two dairy goats.

Mr. Zhu must drink a cup of goat's milk every day, and buys it from the cross-eye woman all year round. After the cross-eye woman squeezes it every morning, it is delivered to Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu stands on the pile on the top of the east mountain and goes back to warm it up before drinking.

Seeing two dairy goats standing in front of him, Mr. Zhu first thought about whether he could drink goat milk when he went back today.
"Bah baa", the two dairy goats followed Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu quickened his pace and made an exception to enter the old house through the front door.

Mr. Zhu usually never enters through the front door. According to ancestral rules, only the owner can enter the front door.

"My sheep! My sheep!"

The cries of the cross-eyed woman made Mr. Zhu quickly retract his right foot as he stepped into the bluestone threshold of the front door of the old house. He ignored the two dairy goats following him and turned around and ran along the outer wall of the old house to the back door, almost slipping several times. fall.

I ran home in a panic and saw a glass of goat's milk on the table. I picked it up suspiciously. It was slightly warm and was just right to calm my shock.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhu, I'm sorry, Mr. Zhu."

The cross-eyed woman stumbled into the house, frightened Mr. Zhu and let go of his hands. The cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Fortunately, the slightly warm goat milk had already entered his mouth.

"Slow, slow down, sit down, please sit down." Mr. Zhu was at a loss.

The slant-eyed woman smiled brightly, approached Mr. Zhu and said affectionately: "Damn it, why did you think of asking me to sit down today?"

"No, no, no, don't sit down, don't sit down." Mr. Zhu fled to the road.

Regardless of Mr. Zhu's reaction, the cross-eyed woman picked up the broom and bucket to sweep up the broken cups on the floor. While sweeping, she said, "The two dairy goats were taken away by the ghost. What will you do if you don't have goat milk to drink in the future?"

"You, you, are, are." Mr. Zhu murmured while standing in the street.

The squinting Potato walked out of the house with a dustpan and smiled angrily as he passed Mr. Zhu: "Of course I'm here, so why don't you go as a ghost?"

Mr. Zhu warned: "Don't talk about ghosts, there are no ghosts in this world."

"No ghosts? The Eight Immortals are ghosts!"

"The Eight Immortals are immortals, how can they be ghosts?"

"I mean Mayasha's wild girl, the Eight Badger Immortals."

"She is a real fairy, a real fairy!"

"Fairy? Is she really a fairy? No wonder she just stepped on the white clouds and made no sound at all."

"What happened to her just now?"

"I was crying about my two dairy goats in front of my sheepfold. Suddenly I heard the cry of 'baa baa'. I thought that my two dairy goats were really crying because of me. But when I turned around and saw it, it was that The Eight Immortals of the Badger stepped on two white clouds and returned to the house with a playful smile."

"Why did you say she stepped on two white clouds?"

"She walked high on the snow without making any sound, and two white masses at her feet followed her closely."

(End of this chapter)