At this time, Mrs. Xiao had already put the food on the table. When she saw Xiao Lizi, she frowned and said, "Lizi, you are so confused in the morning and dusk, how can you still fall asleep at night? Don't forget, you have to go to school tomorrow. Woolen cloth!"
Xiao Dizi smiled sheepishly and said, "Mom, some weird things have happened recently. I wanted to think about it carefully, but I accidentally fell asleep."
"What's weird? I think you're very weird!" Mrs. Xuan said while eating pancakes, "Look at you, I don't know who you learned it from, and you don't know what you did to make your skin smooth and tender." , You’re a noodle guy, how can you still look like a country boy? You’ve been a country boy for generations, but now you’ve become more capable. Your husband praised you a few times and invited you to your house for a meal. Do you think you’re going to be reborn?”
When Xiao Lizi heard this, he couldn't explain himself, so he could only giggle. He could not say anything about Hong Rui's possession, otherwise the Xiao family would definitely think that he was possessed by an evil spirit, and would have to ask a goddess to exorcise it.
"You tell me clearly about your hexagram god. What's going on?"
Ms. Xiao suddenly remembered what happened in the morning and asked with a straight eyebrow.
"Mom, that was all the trouble caused by Brother Xiaoyu and the others, and I was just taking the blame for them." Xiao Jizi hesitated, "They originally planned to tease me, but in the end they summoned the divination master from the city. Yes, I was confused at the time."
Ms. Xiao looked at him carefully, then rolled her eyes at him and did not ask any more questions.
Rural women live a hard life, are not very sensitive to some noisy things, and don't have much time to worry about it, so Xiao Lizi just fooled him with gourd ti.
After dinner, Xiao Ming and Xiao Hua worked under the oil lamp, while Xiao Jizi reviewed his homework in the back room, and when it was time to go to bed, he lay down to sleep.
Maybe it was because he slept too much during the day, but he still didn't fall asleep after tossing and turning in the second half of the night.
At this moment, he felt that the Tukang under him and the surrounding houses suddenly shook violently, shaking back and forth dozens of times.
In panic, he shouted loudly and jumped off the earthen bed in a panic. He didn't even have time to put on his clothes and crawled out prone.
When he looked up, he saw Xiaoshi and Xiaohua also crawling naked on the ground.
The three members of the family crawled outside the house in a hurry. They didn't realize for a moment that they were not wearing any clothes. They looked nervously at their house and then turned around to look around.
It was late at night and the moonlight was dim. They could not see clearly what was happening in the distance. They could only vaguely see some naked people like them and heard the sound of some houses collapsing.
The earthquake lasted for a cup of tea, and after it stopped for half an hour, they cautiously entered the house, put on their clothes, and then came out cautiously.
As the morning light faded, they could see clearly that no matter whether their homes had courtyard walls or those without courtyard walls, people from every household were staying outside. Those with courtyard walls have basically collapsed. Many houses have roofs missing or gables fallen down, and few are intact.
He turned around and looked at his house, but it was basically undamaged. There were no cracks in the walls and the roof had not collapsed.
"Thank you, Emperor, for taking care of our orphans and widows!"
When Mrs. Xiao saw this, she hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, with tears in her eyes.
When Xiaohua saw her mother like this, she kowtowed in the same way.
"Sir, why don't you kowtow?" Xiaohua kowtowed and turned to ask Xiao Sizi.
"Why should I kowtow?" Xiao Jizi said, "Our house has not been shaken by the earthquake, which means it is built solidly. What does it have to do with God? I want to thank you, and I also want to thank the person who built the house in the first place."
After kowtowing, Mrs. Xuan hurriedly went into the house to see what was damaged, but found that nothing was damaged. She couldn't help being surprised and happy. She choked with sobs and said to Xiao Laizi and Xiao Hua who followed them: "My child, these houses Your father hired someone to build them when he was still alive. Your father passed away not long after the construction was completed. Maybe your father cared about our three mothers under the nine springs and asked ghosts and gods to bless them, so that these houses can be so intact. I just knelt on the ground. Kowtow and thank not only God, but also your father!"
As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes, and he picked up his clothes and kept wiping them away.
Xiao Mizi had no impression of his father. When he heard the mention of him by the Xiao family, he had no choice but to try his best to imagine what he looked like when he was alive, but he couldn't imagine it anyway.
The joys and sorrows of their family are undoubtedly more joyful than sad, while the joys and sorrows of other families are basically all sad but not happy. This is because not only the houses of those families were damaged to varying degrees, but also the furniture in the house was also damaged. some destruction.
After some good people lamented and sighed, instead of busy repairing their own houses, they wandered around the village to see how other people's houses were doing. Along the way, I saw that everyone's situation was similar, and the sadness in my heart became lighter.
However, when they saw the situation at Xiao Mizi's house, those people immediately lost their composure and stood not far away, gesticulating and talking: "Hey, man, don't you think it's strange? Everyone else's houses collapsed. , How come this little Mizi’s house is so strong that not even a single blade of grass fell off the roof?”
"That's not what happened. Everyone's house was shaking during the earthquake. Could it be that his house didn't move at all? This is obviously very weird!"
"That little girl, I've noticed something weird about him a long time ago. Look, he suddenly became thin and tender. None of the girls in our village have as white skin as him. Is this weird? Like us, he is a young man who eats pancakes and pickles at exorbitant prices all day long. He doesn’t have the oil and water in his stomach that comes from rich families, so his skin suddenly became shiny and shiny. Do you think it’s normal?”
"Brother, you haven't told me everything yet. That little man has always been very mean and can't even do the accounting, but suddenly he can do it. Isn't it very strange? Let me tell you, he is causing trouble. It’s all done to heaven!”
"Well, it's true to the heavens. Maybe he was responsible for this earthquake. We have to find him to find out."
"Hey, brother, if you say he did other weird things, I can still believe it, but how could he make this earthquake happen? Could it be that he dug a hole in the ground and shook it with his hands? With his thin body His physique can be paralyzed by fatigue after just a few shakes.”
"Brother, no one said he had the ability to be so shaky. Don't interrupt. What I want to say is that he did so many strange things before, and maybe he offended some gods. Those gods got angry and attacked our area. When people have bad intentions, they are punished indiscriminately."
"Well, brother, what you say makes sense. According to this, Xiao Mizi is the god of plague on our side, causing everyone to suffer. If we ask him to compensate for the losses caused by this earthquake, he will definitely pay. We can't afford it, and we will be stiff and refuse to admit that it was all caused by him. We can't rob his property, so we can't do anything to him, so we can just drive him away, right? As long as he leaves, won't our side be safe? ?”
"Yes, yes, that's a good idea. Just do it like this. We need to get rid of this scourge as soon as possible!"
An earthquake actually caused these people to have such strange talks and ideas, but Xiao Mizi's family knew nothing about it.
After a day or two, they found out. Those meddlesome people wandered among the villagers, claiming with added embarrassment that Xiao Mizi was the culprit of the earthquake. Most of the villagers were skeptical, but a few villagers would rather believe it than not.
So, these people came to Xiao Dizi's house in a group and confidently launched an attack to investigate the crime.
After hearing these people's strange stories, Mrs. Xiao couldn't help but wonder: "Dear neighbors, do you think that my son is a god? How can he, an underage child, have such great abilities? If so, how can our family do it? So poor that you can’t even afford new clothes?”
Those people said: "Daniu family, don't argue with us! We have all seen Xiao Mizi's weird things. You are a mother, don't you see it at all?"
The name of Xuan's late husband was Zhang Daniu, so those people called her from the Daniu family.
