At this moment, Hu Xiangcai was about to wake up. When he got up and went out to relieve himself, Cao Yang, the ghost, saw him and suddenly recalled that when the soybean boat on the Chibi River was robbed by a group of strongmen, there was a patch on the left side of his face. The black-scarred strongman Hu Xiangcai slapped him.
Yinhun Cao Yang was so angry that he slapped Hu Xiangcai who had just come out of the toilet. Seeing that Hu Xiangcai was in pain, he moved his hand that could not be lifted because his wrist was still swollen and sore, and could not reach the face that needed to be touched. Hu Xiangcai felt more and more uncomfortable, but the ghost Cao Yang was extremely happy.
The ghost Cao Yang said, I remember you slapped me when you put me to death, I slap you back now, finally the situation has come around, it has been leveled, no! You take my life, and I will take yours.
As far as Hu Xiangcai was concerned, he had no idea what was going on with the sudden pain and numbness on the left side of his face. He was a living person in the Yang world, so of course he couldn't see or hear his enemy standing right in front of him - the ghost Cao Yang slapped him in the face and said something to him. He just wanted to go back to the wing quickly and lie down on the bunk, watching. Not to feel better.
He also said to himself, "My wrists are not healed, and the left side of my face is hurting again. Do I need to go to the hospital again?"
The ghost Cao Yang could hear what Hu Xiangcai said, so he came closer and said, "No need, you can finish it right away!"
Hu Xiangcai couldn't feel the words and actions of the ghost Cao Yang at all. He walked forward step by step and passed through an aisle connected to the kitchen. On one side of the aisle was a water tank filled with water.
Hu Xiangcai casually approached the edge of the water tank when he suddenly heard a "crack" sound. The wooden lid that covered the mouth of the water tank was overturned for some reason and fell to the ground.
Obviously the ghost Cao Yang overturned it, but Hu Xiangcai couldn't see him. The ghost Cao Yang saw Hu Xiangcai clearly.
Hu Xiangcai felt that he could not pick up the wooden cover that fell to the ground, so he ignored it and stood there in a daze, looking around. And he whispered to himself, neither a cat nor a mouse was seen, so what could have caused such great force to overturn the wooden cover on the water tank? Huh, even if big cats and big mice work together, they may not be able to topple it. This wooden lid weighs at least seven or eight pounds. It's really strange, there must be a living ghost!
The ghost Cao Yang snickered for a while. When he saw Hu Xiangcai approaching and stretching his head to look at the water tank, he reached out and grabbed Hu Xiangcai's hair and pushed it into the water tank. A series of blisters popped up one after another.
The ghost Cao Yang fiercely pressed Hu Xiangcai's head and didn't let go. He even shouted angrily, "You pushed me, Cao Yang, into the river and drowned me. Today, I'm going to push you, Hu Xiangcai, into the tank and drown me. It counts as letting you drown in the water." Tit for tat. You owe me a life, and I will make you pay for it with a life.
Hu's father was still snoring in the bedroom, and Hu's mother, who was also lying down sleeping, was awakened by the sound of something falling to the ground in the corridor. She quickly pushed Hu's father who was lying on his side to wake up. Father Hu snorted, said nothing, and continued to sleep.
Mother Hu scolded, "You are such a dead pig, you can't even push it to wake it up."
She had no choice but to get up alone, put on her clothes, lighted the candle, walked out of the bedroom, and walked towards the corridor. She was almost stunned when she saw the second half of a person's body leaning on the edge of the water tank, with two legs. He was naked, only wearing his underpants, his head was not visible, and his head was buried in the water tank.
She took a closer look and recognized that this person was her son Hu Xiangcai, so she stretched out a hand and quickly pulled him up, but what was pulled up was a dead body. When she touched the nostrils, there was blood, and the person had passed. Of course, there was still a little bit of body temperature on his body, which meant that something had just happened.
Mother Hu suddenly shouted to the sky and the earth, Old Hu, it's not good, it's not good, something happened to Xiangcai... She repeated it many times, with a cry in her voice. At this time, the candle she was holding was shaking because her hands were shaking, causing the candlelight to sway and tears to fall down one after another.
I saw Father Hu coming over in his clothes and asking loudly, what happened?
Mother Hu pointed to Hu Xiangcai's body that she placed beside the water tank. The upper half of the body was wet, and said in a choked voice that Xiangcai drowned in the water tank either because he couldn't think of it or for other reasons.
Father Hu came closer to see his son's dead face. He was sad and angry. He roared and shouted, "What's wrong?" ...I know that if you want money, you can't find a short-circuit. He may be a ghost again...
On this day, Ma Hongce from Majiazhuang had just fed a black pig woman in the house, and now he was tickling it again. Slowly, the black pig woman felt comfortable and lay down. This is under the wall of the main room near the pig pen, with some straw underneath. A black piglet without a tail happily bent down on the belly of the black pig woman and sucked milk with relish.
Ma Hongce looked at the slurping black piglet and grinned.
His wife Shu Guihua looked at him and asked, "Why are you laughing?"
Ma Hongce replied that he thought it was very funny. This black piglet had no tail when it was born and could not be sold.
Shu Guihua said, of course, customers will feel uncomfortable seeing it. You see, this sow gave birth to 7 piglets, and only this piglet without a tail was sold. I think we should sell it at a reduced price.
Ma Hongce said, someone came to see the piglets a few days ago, so I let him know. Generally, good piglets are sold at a gross weight of 8 cents per catty. This piglet without a tail is sold at a gross weight of 5 cents per catty or even a little less. You can sell it, but no one wants it.
Shu Guihua said, "People don't want it, so we can keep it at home. In fact, except for the shortcoming of not having a tail, this black piglet is in good shape. It is fat and strong."
Ma Hongce agreed, that's the only way.
Ma Hongce only talked and stopped tickling the black pig woman. It then got up and screamed "hehe". The piglet without a tail still moved with it, holding the breast in its mouth and not letting it go, but it had to stand on tiptoe to follow it, which made it uncomfortable, so it had to give up.
At this moment, a young man appeared outside the gate, carrying an empty basket with the mouth open in his hand. As soon as Ma Hongce looked familiar, he waved to welcome him into the house. Then he asked, are you Cao Bianhua from Caojiazhuang? !
Cao Biaohua said with a slight smile on his face, "Yes!" I came to your house to catch a piglet and raise it.
Ma Hongce said awkwardly, there are no piglets.
Cao Biaohua turned around and looked at the tailless black piglet that was playing with the black pig woman in the main room, and raised his hand.
Ma Hongce then said, do you want it? To tell you the truth, there's something wrong with that piggy.
Shu Guihua came over to help, and there was nothing wrong with her.
Cao Baohua said, I know, you mean that piglet was born without a long tail, right?
Ma Hongce and Shu Guihua nodded at the same time.
Cao Baohua said, "That doesn't matter. I heard someone said that your pig woman gave birth to a piglet without a tail and planned to sell it at a low price." I just came here for it, how much cheaper can it be?
Ma Hongce said that the price will of course be lower. A normal piglet costs 8 cents per catty of gross weight. This piglet actually has no big problem, just that it has no tail, and costs 5 cents per catty of gross weight. If you want it, I will immediately capture it, weigh it with a clamp, and sell it to you.
Cao Baohua said with a smile on his face, "Can it be cheaper?"
Ma Hongce pondered for a long time before responding, would it be okay to pay one pound less per catty?
Cao Baohua said, "Of course you can. According to you, it is sold at 4 pounds per catty of gross weight, right?" But I think the number 4 is unlucky. Can I calculate the price at 3 cents per catty? As I talked, I made associations and reasoned out the truth very realistically. The number 3 is very auspicious. There is a sentence in the Book of Changes, which I don’t remember completely. It probably goes like this: Two and two give birth to three in one life, and three gives birth to all things. Look how nice this is! The 4 count is not so good. While bargaining, he looked at Ma Hongce and advised, "Think about it."
Ma Hongce didn't answer, and Shu Guihua frowned. It was obvious that the couple was not happy about haggling so much.
Cao Baohua asked again, is it okay? He put the empty basket in front of him and said, if possible, the empty basket would be weighed first to see how heavy the nest was, and then the black piglet without a tail would be caught and weighed in the basket. , with the total weight, then subtract the weight of the nest to get the net gross weight of the piglets, and I pay based on the net gross weight.
Ma Hongce smiled bitterly but still did not speak.
Shu Guihua raised her hand and pointed toward the door and said, "You go, you go, the price is too low, we don't think it's worth it."
Cao Baohua picked up the empty basket and turned around and walked to the door of the hall. One of his front legs just crossed the threshold, and Ma Hongce called him to slow down again.
Cao Baohua did not stop, but walked out of the threshold, turned around and looked at him and asked, have you made up your mind? According to the selling price I mentioned, based on gross weight, it’s 3 cents per catty.
Ma Hongce said, can this be done? Your empty basket is not too heavy anyway. Even if it is weighed together with the gross weight of the piglets, that is, weighed together with the piglets, the price will be calculated based on how many kilograms it is.
Cao Bao rolled his eyes and said, OK! Crossed the threshold again.
