The master glanced at the signature, recited it once, and then looked at Cai Zhongsheng and explained: According to the meaning of the signature, it is not good for you to live on the coast, so you have to move to the inland to live.
My mother-in-law said, our family has been living on the coast for generations and our roots are here. Why not move to the mainland?
The Master said that this lot was only for the person who drew the lot. He pointed at Cai Zhongsheng and said, that is, what he said to her. She can only represent herself, not the generations of your family.
Cai Zhongsheng thought about how things had not gone well for him since childhood. Is it really disadvantageous to live on the coast? She asked the mage, but couldn't find a way to save her. I was very depressed. After I left Huiji Temple and returned home, I have been silent.
Ye Huiqiong avoided her daughter-in-law and told her son Liu Sanjun about Cai Zhongsheng's lottery situation, saying that if Cai Zhongsheng did not move to the mainland, everything would not go well. He also advised, you are still young, it is best to divorce Cai Zhongsheng, leave the child to us, and find another girl to get married and start a family.
After hearing this, Liu Sanjun frowned and said, Mom, don't talk nonsense. It's not easy for Cai Zhongsheng and I to get to where we are today through ups and downs. I don't want to leave her. Even if her life on the coast is not going well and she wants to move to the mainland, I will accompany her. We might even get rich if we go to the mainland to do business together!
Ye Huiqiong said, then it’s up to you. She originally wanted to convince her son, but she didn't expect that her son had his own ideas and she couldn't control them.
When Liu Jiaju saw that his son insisted on accompanying or taking Cai Zhongsheng to the mainland to make a living, he did not stop him and gave his son several thousand yuan as support for him to go out to open up wasteland. But he kept his grandson Liu Haisheng and refused to let his parents take him away.
Liu Jiaju knew that it was difficult for the couple to make a living as they had just gone out, especially with young children.
At first Cai Zhongsheng was determined to take the child away, so Liu Jiaju called his in-law Cai Mao to convince his daughter. Although her daughter felt uncomfortable, she still obeyed her father-in-law.
Liu Sanjun is reasonable. He said, wouldn’t it be nice to leave the child to my parents? When we went to the mainland to settle down, we actually didn’t give up. To say that giving up was just a temporary one. If we become successful in the future, wouldn’t we still be able to take our children to live and work in the mainland? Besides, even if we are not so prosperous, we can still go home to visit our children more often.
On the way to send her son and daughter-in-law to the car, Ye Huiqiong, who was following behind with her grandson in her arms, felt at ease.
Suddenly, she had a strange idea, so she quickened her pace to catch up with Liu Jiaju, who was delivering her son's luggage, and tugged on his clothes.
Liu Jiaju stopped, turned around and was about to ask something, Ye Huiqiong whispered, what should we do if the in-laws' work is not completed and the daughter-in-law changes her mind and wants to take her grandson Haisheng away? Liu Jiaju said, how many injustices do you feel. Zhong Sheng wanted to take Hai Sheng away, but I didn't care. I didn't give them any money or see him off.
When he said this, he heard the three armies walking in front shout something bad, but saw the three armies stop and point to their sleeves.
Liu Jiaju and Ye Huiqiong came together to take a look. There was a bean-sized piece of bird droppings on his chin on his sleeve.
Liu Sanjun looked unconvinced at a little bird that had already flown far away in the sky and said resentfully, Damn it, if I had a shotgun, I would definitely "bang" you.
Cai Zhongsheng took out toilet paper and wiped the bird poop on his sleeve, and said, why bet with a bird? You are unlucky. When the bird droppings fall from the sky, they will fall on you instead of somewhere else.
Liu Sanjun took Cai Zhongsheng to a place called Liulin Village in Huguang. He initially worked in a quarry to the east of Liulin Village, where food and accommodation were included.
Since Liu Sanjun comes from the coast, unlike most people nearby who leave early and return late, this place needs someone to look after it. The director of the quarry arranged for the couple to be on duty day and night.
During the day, Liu Sanjun recorded the number of stone shipments, calculated prices, and assisted the cashier to settle accounts with customers; at night, the couple took turns or patrolled together in and around the quarry to prevent theft.
After working like this for three years, I had some savings and bought three private houses with civil structures in Liulin Village, including a sloping house connected to the main house as a kitchen. It was quite spacious for two people to live in, and there was a vast field in front of the door.
Before that, a farmer moved to the city, and his farmland in the countryside had been idle for a year or two. During this period, Liu Sanjun was cultivating it.
Liu Sanjun came from the coast. His parents were in business, so he didn't have the opportunity to learn how to farm.
Therefore, the men in the village taught him how to hold a plow and drive cattle, and soon he became familiar with farming techniques. But farming is not something that happens every day, so I haven’t quit my job in the quarry, but I am no longer on duty day and night as before.
Liu Sanjun and his wife only work the day shift and go home at night. They feel much more relaxed because they have shied away from their safety responsibilities of patrolling the quarry at night.
But Liu Sanjun couldn't sit still, so he bought a shotgun while avoiding his wife, and went hunting in the dark forest behind the house at night.
The forest is connected to the winding mountains, with overlapping peaks and mountains, deep valleys and steep cliffs. Except for the man-eating beasts, all kinds of animals are hiding in it. Hunting at night usually yields a harvest.
One early morning, Cai Zhongsheng woke up from his dream and heard a noise at home. The lights in the next door room also turned on. It turned out that his husband had returned home so late.
She didn't say anything, just put on her clothes and got up to relieve herself. She smelled a smell of blood, so she asked her husband, why did the house smell like that?
Liu Sanjun was cooking noodles for a midnight snack and casually replied, "I didn't smell anything."
Cai Zhongsheng came out of the toilet behind the sloping house and walked to the middle room of the main house. He found a dead hare in the wooden basin. Its fur was gray and black, and its eyes were like two red beads squeezed out of the flesh. They were bloodshot. Just as dim and motionless.
She felt compassion, remembering that she once bought a turtle and released it in the sea. She felt that the hare was a living creature and should not be hunted. However, she did not know whether it was hunted by her husband. She saw that there was a shotgun hanging on the wall. Just understand.
She asked her husband, "Army, did you kill this hare?" I thought you were working the night shift in the quarry, but who knew you went hunting in the mountains with a shotgun after get off work? Did you know? This is sin. Do you still remember that you went to Guangzhou to buy back the turtle that gave you dreams and released it?
Liu Sanjun wanted to retort, but when he heard this, he felt as if someone had caught his weak point. He remained silent and stopped chewing the noodles that he stuffed into his mouth. He secretly reflected on whether he was wrong?
The tortoise he bought back from Guangzhou and released was a dream for him. Could the hare he was hunting now be a dream for him? Will it take revenge on the family and make the family uneasy? The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he suddenly said to his wife, "I plead guilty!"
You've beaten the rabbit to death, so what's the use of pleading guilty? Cai Zhongsheng said a few words and went back to bed.
After midnight snack, Liu Sanjun also got up and went to bed. The pillow was stuffed high, but he couldn't fall asleep.
Early in the morning, he carried the hare with blood in its mouth to the back hillside, dug a hole with a hoe, and buried it. He also built a small grave and put the incense candles he brought with him on it. Then he kowtowed a few times, expressed his inner repentance, and left. As he walked, he said, Hare, I will admit your mistake to you, but you can't blame me or take revenge on me.
Liu Sanjun's behavior was spied by Qiu Decai, a neighbor who was grazing cattle in the back mountain. As soon as he left, Qiu Decai took a hoe, pushed away the mound of soil, dug the hole, and took out the hare. Take it back, cut the skin and meat, and stew it together with wild rice noodles and mushrooms to make a pot of fresh soup.
He didn't enjoy it alone, but he bought a bottle of wine, put peanuts, bamboo shoots, braised lotus root and other side dishes on the table, and in the evening when Liu Sanjun was off work, he asked him to have a drink with a smile.
When toasting, Qiu Decai kept thanking Liu Sanjun. Liu Sanjun took a sip of wine and said, I should thank you! Why is it upside down? Qiu Decai scooped a few pieces of rabbit meat with a spoon and put it in his bowl. He still said with a smile on his face, "I should thank you for not messing up."
Liu Sanjun smelled the fragrant rabbit meat. Of course, he didn't know it was rabbit meat. He just picked up a piece of rabbit meat with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. He ate it with relish and asked, "Why do you want to thank me?"
Qiu Decai did not answer immediately, but stood up and took out the flashlight from his body, shined its beam into the courtyard in front of the hall, and asked him if he saw anything.
Liu Sanjun also stood up. Following the beam of light from the flashlight, he found a piece of bloody fur spread out on the stone slab of the patio. He asked, "Isn't this rabbit skin?" I hunted a rabbit last night, but my mother-in-law refused to eat it. I got up early in the morning and buried it on the back mountain.
Qiu Decai sat down and told him that the rabbit meat he is eating now is the rabbit meat you buried.
Liu Sanjun stopped his chopsticks and asked in surprise, "Did you dig out the rabbit I buried from the soil?"
Qiu Decai nodded, took a sip of wine and said, am I wrong to do this?
Liu Sanjun said, it’s not wrong for you to do this, it’s just beyond my expectation.
