folk legend

Chapter 17 Preparation
After a long time, blind man Han slowly opened his eyes, and after regaining his playful smile, he smiled at Jiang Decai and his wife who were sitting on the stool, and then looked at himself Zhang Huang said.

"I said theater lunatic, what would you like me to tell you? You are such an old man and don't understand anything? Look at what time it is, why don't you go to the opera? There are a lot of people in the team eating What should I drink?"

Zhang Huang, who had been sitting beside Xiazi Han, waiting for the result of his pulse signal, was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood Xiazi Han's intentions. With that, Zhang Huang twisted his upper body and pressed firmly on Han Xiazi's body.

At the same time, he said loudly: "My lord, you are a magic stick. I haven't seen you for a few days. You have grown a lot. Dare you dare to play big brother? You have something to do with whether I sing or not. Hurry up and get down to business, and then grind Chichi, I'll strangle you to death blind."

In fact, the emperor didn't really pinch Han Xiazi, but just wrapped his arms around Han Xiazi's neck.If you want to say that these two old brothers are really sloppy, people with a combined age of more than 100 years old, they are always bickering and teasing like this.Really answered the words of the old child, the little child.

Xiazi Han was pressed by the emperor, and he was not in a hurry to resist. He laughed loudly. After tugging and watching the clothes stretch, I went to the edge of the kang again.It's just that he was sitting on the edge of the kang, remembering how Zhang Huang was stunned by himself just now, he couldn't hold back for a moment, and then he laughed again.

Jiang Liu didn't want to see this blind Han at first, but just now when blind Han was playing with Zhang Huang, he wanted to talk to block Zhang Huang.But some people feel that it is not appropriate for a child to intervene.Seeing Xia Xiazi Han still laughing at this moment, when he rolled his eyes, bad water came out.Pulling Han Xiazi's arm in the kang and said.

"Uncle Han, are you used to being bullied by my Uncle Zhang? You have taken such a small advantage by talking about it. Look at how beautiful you are."

Blind Han never dreamed that Jiang Liu could talk at this time, and the thorns inside and outside the words were quite hard, which made him speechless for a while, and he was unwilling to let a child use words to block him, so he had to roll his eyes. He stared, pretending to be a villain, trying to frighten Jiang Liu, a brat.

Who is Jiang Liu?He grew up under Lao Jiang's big shoe soles, fire sticks, and feather dusters for a long time. Who cares who stares at him?Not only was he not frightened by Blind Han, but seeing that Blind Han was so angry with him, he bared his teeth at him shamelessly.

Blind Han couldn't subdue Jiang Liu, but there were people in this room who made Jiang Liu afraid. Jiang Decai, who couldn't stand it anymore, stood up from the stool, picked up the feather duster on the cabinet, and ran towards Jiang Liu, cursing with.

"You brat, why are you talking to you, Uncle Han? It's not big or small! I haven't hit you for the past few days, and I think your skin is tight again. I just give you Shu Shupizi."

Zhang Huang, who had already put on his shoes, saw Lao Jiang coming, and knew that Jiang Decai would really hit him, so he quickly grabbed him.

"Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, what are you doing? Just kidding, look at you, you are serious. Xiazi Han is like everyone else, old and unscrupulous."

Holding Lao Jiang back, the emperor laughed again.But obviously, he laughed at the wrong time. How could the always sophisticated Zhang Huang not care about these details.

"I said blind man, it's good this time, I choked on a big roasted chicken neck. Hahahaha...you have lived such a big age for nothing." It turns out that Zhang Huang saw Jiang Liu speechless Han Xiazi So, how could he let go of this great opportunity to ridicule.

As thick-skinned as Blind Han, Zhang Huang glanced blankly, stretched out his hand and walked over to Jiang Liu, and said jokingly, "Can you take care of our father and son's affairs?"

When he was speaking, that eye still poked Jiang Liu a few times, as if he was asking for Jiang Liu's opinion and asked, "Boy, do you think so?"

Jiang Liu turned his head straight away, looked out the window, and decided not to talk to this old guy with a thousand-layered birch skin face who couldn't penetrate with a small steel cannon.

Blind Han didn't take Jiang Liu's silent resistance seriously at all, he got down from the edge of the kang, stood on the floor and stretched.

"Hey! Stop talking nonsense and get down to business!"

Then he stretched out his hand and took the feather duster he was holding from Jiang Decai's hand, and while tapping his palm lightly, he said, "Brother Jiang, it's no big deal to keep a child, but you have to spend some money. Get ready to prepare something." .”

When Jiang Decai heard this, he was immediately elated. He found out a pen and paper, and wrote down what he needed on the paper one by one as Blind Han said.

These things include three feet of red cloth, three feet of white cloth, thirteen pieces of yellow coins, three burners of incense, three taels of silver, one piece of apricot wood, one piece of peach wood, and one each of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, and Jiaqing Tongbao.

Han Xiazi said, and Lao Jiang wrote it down.After finishing the work, I was afraid of remembering it wrong, so I handed the paper to Han Xiazi again and asked him to read it again.After confirming that it was correct, Jiang Decai was relieved.

When preparing things, Jiang Decai discovered the problem.It turned out that the red cloth and white cloth were easier to find, so I bought them at the supply and marketing agency with the cloth ticket.Although it is a bit expensive, but at least you can get it all together, not to mention apricot wood and peach wood, and Wang Carpenter's house in the village has it.

As for the silver, it was a little difficult, because after searching around, I couldn't find it. In the end, Zhang Huangshang took off two hairpins from the troupe's phoenix crown to barely make up enough.

Only this incense is the same as yellow money and big money, but it took a lot of effort.

It turned out that that year coincided with the period of the Communist Party of China.The slogan at that time was to get rid of the four olds and beat all demons and ghosts.But anything related to these is a feudal remnant, and these things are not sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives.Not even for sale, you have to go where to buy it.

But it can't be said that, the old lady Song's house in the village has it, but just now I have made a note of Jiang Decai with the old lady Song, and I will definitely not beg her any more.

Therefore, Jiang Decai went from house to house and went all over the village, but the people he asked all shook their heads like a rattle drum and said that they didn't have these things.

Jiang Decai, who really had no choice but to make up his mind to beg old Mrs. Song again, happened to meet Mr. Wang, who was walking around with that tiger-headed Liu Degui, and secretly dragged Jiang Decai to a place where no one was around. Tell him quietly that the old yellow woman at the head of the village may have these things, but when you go to her house, be careful, that old yellow woman is a very timid person.

Jiang Decai, who was overjoyed, returned home, walked from the east room to the west room, and from the west room to the east room. After walking for several hours, it was dark and he didn't bother to eat dinner. He explained to his wife that he If you have something to do, you have to eat first and then leave the house in a hurry.

He didn't dare to go straight, but went around the village in a big circle, and when he was sure no one saw him, he quietly came to the old lady's house.

Even so, when the light-handed Jiang Decai quietly pushed open the door of the old lady's room, the old lady who was eating was startled.

Jiang Decai hurriedly put the snack box he brought on the kang, and then tentatively explained to the old woman why he came.As a result, the old lady faltered for a long time, and then said that there are no such things, but when she said this, her two eyes kept staring at the snack box on the kang.

Hearing the old lady Huang's uncertain answer, and looking at her greedy eyes, Jiang Decai seemed to be inadvertent, and pushed the snack box into the kang again, swearing that he would never let this matter go. Let's talk out.

There was a whole ox cart full of good things about Che Jilu, and finally the old lady searched and searched, took out the things from the bottom of the cabinet, and kept telling Jiang Decai not to say that she gave it to her.

Lao Jiang readily agreed, stretched out his hand to take the things, stuffed them carefully into his bosom, took out another dollar from his pocket, threw it on the snack box, turned and went back regardless of whether she wanted it or not.

When they got home, Xia Xiazi Han and the others hadn't eaten yet. Although Jiang Decai's wife had urged him several times, Xia Xiazi Han insisted on waiting for Jiang Decai, the master, to come back to eat together.

After dinner, Jiang Decai took out all the things he had prepared and gave them to Xiazi Han to see if they were all right.

Blind Han carefully looked at each one of them one by one, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, he took out the white cloth and silver slips, put the others on the top of the kang, and covered them with a piece of yellow paper.

Calling Lao Jiang's wife, Han Xiazi solemnly explained: "My brother and sister, I will leave this job to you. You sew a doll with white cloth, stuff it with cotton, and put this piece of silver in the doll's heart. You But you must always remember that when you sew, you must not stitch backwards, and you must sew along the stitches!"

In fact, if Xia Xiazi Han didn't give such a special explanation, Jiang Decai's daughter-in-law might be able to sew it up. Liu stayed on the side talking with her, the nervousness was relatively relieved, and he started sewing slowly.

Zhang Huang, who came back from the opera, had already had dinner in the kitchen, but he didn't know where he got two appetizers, and at the same time, he brought back a big bottle of sorghum wine, and wanted to ask Xia Xia Han to have a drink together.As a result, Han Xiazi said that he had something to do at night and could not drink, so he blocked him back.

Drink wine to your confidantes, and sing poems to congregational people. Seeing that blind man Han doesn't drink, it doesn't make much sense to drink it by himself, so he and the east room found a stool, sat next to the lying cabinet, and thought about it for a while. If something happens, I might be able to help.

(End of this chapter)