The dust settles

Chapter 7

The father suddenly said: "Okay!" The father said to his lover: "In this case, I have to take you back to the official village, lest someone else come up with a plan to kill you."

In this way, Yangzong, whom his mother hated deeply, entered the gate of Maiqi's house logically.

Now, they slept on the same bed with great fanfare.Some people say that I, a fool, gave my father an excuse to let him bring the wild woman into the house.But I've forgotten about it.What's more, if the chieftain wants to ask a woman to come to his bed, does he need any excuses?Whoever said that is stupider than me.When a group of us went to Guanzhai, the dead man's head dragged backwards knocked and knocked on the road, making a series of dull and uncomfortable sounds.

Mrs. Tusi led a group of people: the lama, the housekeeper, and the maid appeared on the arcade platform.

Mrs. Toast was wearing a dazzling water-red dress with long white sleeves fluttering in the wind.Mother watched condescendingly as father led Xinhuan towards the gate of the village.My mother was bought by a rich man from a poor Han family and given to my father.Logically speaking, it is very rare for chieftain Maiqi to be able to fall in love with her for such a long time regardless of the concept of family status.Toast Maiqi always surprises people in his love life.At that time, Mrs. Tusi had just died, and there were many people from far and near who came to propose marriage, and Tusi Maiqi declined them all.People praised him for his deep affection for his ex-wife.At this time, the post about his marriage arrived again.He married my mother, an interracial woman of no origin.People say: "A Han woman, look, she will propose to a chieftain's daughter in a short time." Yes, the chieftain Wangbo, chieftain Lasheba, chieftain Ronggong and chieftain Jierwa around us , and the former chieftain Maiqi, you married my daughter, and when did I marry his sister.There are even more chieftains farther away. Only those who have been related by marriage to chieftain Maiqi include three chieftains on the Dadu River, two chieftains on Pingba in the mountains to the west and north of Cichong Pass, and others. A few chieftain households no longer have titles, and they are guarding under the county magistrate of the Kuomintang. Although their power is not as good as before, they still have their own land and households.These people are our distant relatives, although sometimes they are also our enemies, but on the issue of marriage, since ancient times, we would rather unite with our enemies than find an inferior person whose bones are lower than ours .My father broke this rule.Therefore, from the very beginning, people predicted that the good days of Maiqi Tusi and Han women would not last long. There are so many toasts and so many toasts in such a vast land, people are saying that Maiqi Tusi just feels fresh.As a result, there were no people from Chieftain Maiqi who came to ask for marriage on the border of any chieftain.

Toast and his new wife have me.Started to suspect after two years that there might be something wrong with me.It took three or four years to be sure that I was a fool.

This has brought hope to many people.But they were disappointed again.They just heard that Mrs. Toast's temper is not as docile as before.I also heard that the chieftain would occasionally mess around with inferior women.But the news doesn't give people much hope.In fact, the women who had been waiting for chieftain Maiqi to come to propose marriage were already married at this time.The reason why people still care so much about Toast Maiqi's emotional life is purely because the huge inertia will lead people to continue to care.Look at the stupidity of smart people.

Mother knew that day had finally come.For a woman, it's an inescapable day.She put on beautiful clothes to meet the day.This once poor woman has now become a graceful and noble woman.She watched the chieftain lead Xinhuan towards the official village step by step, which was equivalent to seeing the lonely second half of her life walking towards her.Dolma told me that she heard his wife keep saying, "I see it, I see it."

A group of people walked to the gate of Guanzhai while the mother was muttering to herself.

Many people looked up at the beautiful figure of Mrs. Toast.This kind of beauty is the beauty that overwhelms people, unlike the beauty of my father's new love that arouses people's desire to possess.Yang Zong was also overwhelmed by that beauty, and she kept saying to my father, "Please, let me go home."

The elder brother said: "Then you go, anyway, there are many people waiting to kill you on the road."

Yang Zong said: "No, how could they kill me?"

The elder brother smiled, and said to this beautiful woman who was about the same age as him, but wanted to be his mother's generation: "They will, and now everyone thinks that you are the chieftain's wife, so that the chief Cha Cha died."

Father said: "You are afraid of the man upstairs. Don't be afraid of her. I will not ask her to do anything to you."

At this time, the dead man had been hanged upside down on the execution post by the executioner father and son.

After a few ox horns sounded, people from far and near began to gather in the official village, and soon filled the square, listening to the chieftain announce how this guy killed the loyal Chacha headman, he was about to succeed in the plot, and was about to When he obtained the position of headman, he was found out by the chieftain and brought to justice.

People also know that the territory of another headman has become the direct jurisdiction of the Tusi family.But what does this have to do with the people?They lined up in front of the bewildered dead body.Everyone spit on the dead man's face according to the rules.In this way, he will fall into hell forever.People spit so profusely that many flies were drowned on the slowly swollen dead faces.

Mother stood on a high ground overlooking all this.

Father is very proud.The things carefully planned by his mother, and guided by him along the way, formed a very favorable situation for him.The father took an inch and told the little slave Suo Lang Zelang: "Go, ask your wife how she cursed this criminal who fired a black gun."

The wife did not speak, she untied a piece of jade from the silk belt around her waist, and spat on it.The little house slave ran down from upstairs and threw the top-grade green jade on the corpse.The crowd marveled at how she treated a piece of jade.

She turned around and walked into her own room.

Everyone looked up and watched her disappear from the wide platform on the third floor.Everyone heard her shrill voice echoing in the shadows of those corridors.She was calling her personal maid, my teacher: "Dolma! Sangye Drolma!"

Then, Dolma in a water-green gown also disappeared from our eyes.

Father took Yang Zong into the east end of the third floor, facing the south room.Now, they can live together and sleep in the same bed all the time.Although before this, any Maiqi chieftain would never sleep in the same room with a woman, let alone on the same bed.

Let's take a look at Chuangtoast's bed.The chieftain's bed is actually a huge cabinet attached to the wall, which looks very deep because of the dim light.I once asked my father, "Are there no monsters in it?"

He didn't answer directly, but just smiled like the most unscheming father and said: "You stupid fellow!"

I'm sure there must be something scary in there.

In the middle of the night, there were mournful cries outside Guanzhai.Chieftain Maiqi put on his clothes, and Yang Zong rolled out of the bed. The thick shadow inside made her very scared.The chieftain coughed loudly in front of the bed, and the lanterns were immediately lit in the official village, and the torches were immediately lit outside the official village.

When the chieftain reached the platform on the third floor, someone immediately stretched out a lantern to illuminate his face.The chieftain shouted to the people in the shadow below: "I am Mai Qi, you have to look carefully!"

Below, three figures of people kneeling on the ground appeared in the haze.It was Dorje Tsering's wife and two sons who were killed by us. Behind them was the body hanging upside down, shaking gently on the wooden stake.

The father said loudly: "I should have killed you all, but you should run for your lives.

If you're still in my territory three days later, don't blame me for being ruthless. "The chieftain's rough voice shook the official village and reverberated everywhere.

From the shadow below came a childish voice of a little boy: "Toast, let them shine on your face again, I want to remember your appearance!"

"Are you afraid of killing the wrong person in the future? Well, let's take a good look!"

"Thank you, I've seen it clearly!"

The father stood on a high place and laughed: "Son, if you haven't come, I want to die, can I not wait for you?"

There are no answers below.The mother and son disappeared from the darkness.

When my father turned back, he saw his mother looking down at him from her secluded perch.

The mother was quite satisfied with the effect that the father looked up to her.She leaned on the smooth and cool wooden railing and said, "Why don't you kill them."

My father could have asked my mother, would I be so narrow-minded?

But he just whispered, "My God, I'm sleepy."

The mother said again, "I heard they cursed you."

At this moment, the father has become calm: "Don't you think the enemy can sing?"

Mother said: "Why are you so nervous? You are a chieftain, and one woman calls you like this. What if there are ten women?"

The tone was so confiding that my father was speechless at once.The torches were gradually extinguished, and Guanzhai immediately turned into a huge black hole.Mother's crisp laughter sounded in the darkness.The mother's voice was very pleasant in the darkness: "Master, please go back, the little wife will be afraid in the big bed."

My father also said: "You go back too, the wind is upstairs, you are weak, you can't stand it!"

Of course, mother heard the ambush in these words.I can't help thinking that if I don't pretend to be sick like humming and complaining on weekdays, the situation will not be like this.She mistakenly thought that everyone would like the beauty appreciated by the Han people.But he was still reluctant: "It's fine if I die. No matter how much Maiqi Tusi's family lacks, there will be no lack of a wife.

It is very easy to buy with money and grab with guns. "

Father said, "I won't tell you anymore."

Then why don't you come in quickly, I want to see what's going on this evening.

Father went into the house.Sleeping on the bed, I suddenly saw the cold face like a silver basin condescending, so I gritted my teeth and said, "I really became a witch."

Yang Zong rolled into the chieftain's arms: "I'm scared, hold me tight!"

"You are the third wife of Toast Maggie, so you don't need to be afraid."

The warm woman's body calmed the toast's mood.He talked about what a grand wedding he was going to hold, but he couldn't help thinking in his heart that all the family property of Chief Chacha belonged to his own warehouse.Chacha is the most loyal of all the chiefs.Moreover, this is not a matter of one or two generations.He just shouldn't have such a beautiful wife, and at the same time, he shouldn't have so much money that the chieftain can't sleep at night.If we had automatically asked the toast to share all of this, we wouldn't be where we are today.Thinking of this, my father couldn't help sighing at the seldom-satisfied greed in human nature.

The woman in his arms fell asleep.The round breasts shone with a faint light in the dark.She is such a stupid woman.Otherwise, with so many things happening in so many days, anyone with a little brain would not be able to sleep at night.

But as soon as she turned over, she dived deeply into sleep.In the steady and long breath, the sultry beast-like aura on her body diffused around, constantly stimulating the man's desire.The chieftain knew that as a man, after this period of madness passed, there would be nothing left.Of course he will seize this last moment.He's going to wake women up and go adrift in the craziest valleys.

At this moment, the second wife clapped her hands upstairs.She cried joyfully: "It's burning! It's burning!"

Chief Maiqi sighed again for the narrow-minded woman, thinking that tomorrow he would ask the lamas to recite scriptures to drive away evil spirits, otherwise, this woman might go crazy.But more people shouted, and many people ran in the dark.The tall stone building swayed in the darkness.

This shaking can make people uneasy about many things.

Toast Maiqi opened his eyes, only to see a red light in front of the window.He thought it was someone who set the palace on fire.Although it soon proved to be nothing more than a false alarm, he still clearly felt the hidden hatred.

Not long after the people in the palace fell asleep, they all woke up again.During this time, only my mother was standing upstairs in the faint starlight, and did not go to sleep.Now, everyone in Guanzhai is up.On the top are the Tusi family and their lamas and housekeepers.Below are numerous servants and slaves.Only the new third wife covered her head with a quilt and rolled into the deep part of the big bed.When they left here just now, the three people who publicly declared that they would take revenge set fire to the headman's village, which was already the private property of chieftain Maiqi.At this time, the fire is burning brightly under the bright stars in the cool autumn night.The light of the fire crossed the dark poppy field, and the large empty space illuminated the majestic stockade of chieftain Maiqi.Our family stood on a high ground, watching with serious expressions everything that was actually our property was reduced to ashes in the raging fire.

Behind him, the chill from the river grew stronger and stronger.

The fire in front of you and the chill behind you will make people think about something.

When another window of the stockade in the distance sprayed a fire dragon, the servants cheered.I heard the voice of the nurse, the voice of the maid, the voice of the silversmith, and the voice of the little house slave Solange Lang.Maid Zhuoma, usually, lives with us because of our special favor, but whenever she has a chance, she still goes among the servants.

When the fire went down, it was dawn.

The fire was set by Dorje Tsering's woman.Instead of fleeing with her two young sons, she threw herself into the fire.The appearance of death was very brutal.The woman exploded in the fire with her curse, and the wound on her belly was like a pretty flower.She cursed a seemingly unshakable family with the most poisonous curse.

The father knew that the boy's childish claims of vengeance would surely be carried out.So he ordered to send out pursuers.The elder brother said: "You let them go in front of so many people, I think you should take more precautions."

The chieftain still sent out his pursuers.Within three days, two future enemies were not caught.Three days later, they must have escaped from the Maiqi family's jurisdiction.Three days is the fastest time to pass through Maiqi territory from the center.

Since then, the burned woman and the two children have become my father's nightmare.

Things have come to this point, to make people feel more at ease, only large-scale rituals are needed.

The lamas in the sutra hall and the lamas in Minzhuning Temple all got together.The lamas made so many face sculptures of animals and people, and they had to cast spells to direct all kinds of curses and hidden hatred towards the chieftain to those face sculptures.Finally, those face sculptures and dead bodies were cremated in front of the mountain with a grand guard of honor.The material for cremation is the seabuckthorn tree with the strongest firepower.It is said that any solid thing in the world will be destroyed by the fire of this powerful wood.Those ashes are thrown around, and no force can make them gather again.

The poppies in the field have begun to mature, and the field is full of intoxicating breath.

The living Buddha Jiga in the temple was proud for a few days, and then he forgot the pain of being neglected in the past few years, and sincerely said to the chieftain: "I think this series of things will not happen if we don't plant these flowers. This is chaos." A human thing!"

The Living Buddha actually grabbed the chieftain's hand, and the chieftain withdrew his hand, put the sleeve in his robe, and then asked coldly: "What's wrong with this flower?
Not beautiful enough? "

When the living Buddha heard this, he knew that he had committed the fault of a learned person again and couldn't control his tongue, so he put his palms together as a gesture of resignation.But the chieftain took his hand and said: "Come on, let's go and see how those flowers are doing." The living Buddha had no choice but to follow the chieftain to the disturbing field.

The field is now a different scene.

The bright flowers are all withered, and on top of the green leaves, there are green balls like monks' heads.The chieftain laughed and said, "It really looks like the heads of your little monks."

As he spoke, he waved his saber, and the green fruit rolled all over the ground.

The living Buddha took a deep breath, and watched the white whey flow out from the place cut off by the knife.

The chieftain asked: "I heard that the blood of a lama with powerful mana is different from that of ordinary people. Could it be the same color as this milk?"

The Living Buddha felt that he had nothing to say.In a panic, he stepped on a round poppy fruit on the ground.The fruit exploded like a head.The Living Buddha could only look up at the sky.

The sky was clear and cloudless.A white-shouldered eagle patrols the sky, its flat wings let the air flow in the valley make it go up and down, and the sunlight magnifies its vigorous figure and projects it on the ground.The white-shouldered eagle flew and screamed sharply.

The living Buddha said: "It is calling the wind and calling the rain."

This is also a fault of learned people.Explain everything that is in front of you.Chieftain Maiqi smiled, feeling that there was no need to remind him of his current situation, and just said: "Yes, the eagle is the king of the sky. As soon as the king appears, the snakes and mice on the ground will all go into their holes.

Chief Maiqi later told people that he taught the living Buddha that day not to be so self-righteous.

Those who have good things to ask the Living Buddha if this is true.The living Buddha said: "Amitabha, we monks have the right to interpret everything we see."

7. The ground shakes
In my education, the earth is the most stable thing in the world.Secondly, it is the chieftain king-like power on the earth.

But the year when Toast Maiqi planted poppies for the first time on a large area, the ground really shook.At that time, Living Buddha Jiga was in his prime, and the chieftain's threats could not make him shut up.It's not that he's not afraid of chieftains, but it's because of the habit of educated people to talk about everything.Living Buddha Jiga sat in the temple, seeing all kinds of omens and not speaking made him feel restless.He sat upright on the throne embedded with five catties of gold, calmly holding his breath.

He just calmed down a little, and the deity Buddha appeared to him shining with golden light.At this moment, the thick eyelids throbbed violently.He withdrew from meditation and dabbed a little saliva with his finger on his eyelids.The eyelids were still throbbing, so he asked the little monk to hang a piece of gold flakes on his eyes, and the eyelids jumped again, shaking the gold flakes off.

The Living Buddha asked what happened outside again.

He replied that all the snakes that entered the cave came out again.

"What else? I don't think it's just snakes."

(End of this chapter)