It has only been three months since Cao Baohua brought home the black piglet without a tail last time. His wife Meihua, who was already pregnant and had a big belly, gave birth to a baby boy. The strange thing is that this baby boy has other The parts are all normal, except that there are no long ears, and there are only ear holes next to the left and right temples of the small head.
Cao Baohua was a little unhappy. He didn't know what caused this. He often asked his wife, did you violate any taboos when you were pregnant with your child?
The answer is mostly no! My wife also said that if you drive nails into the walls of your home during pregnancy, your child will always have nails growing out of his left and right ears, so I pay special attention and never do anything in the house. Move or not?
Cao Baohua said, although the situation you mentioned is very mysterious and cannot be explained, I believe it. Since I believe that, during your pregnancy, I never knocked in the house because I was afraid of violating taboos. But we paid special attention to it. Even after the child was born, he was born with disfigurement. I really don’t understand how this happened.
Since the child did not have ears, Cao Bhuahua was worried that it would be difficult to raise him and that he would not live long, so he gave him a name that means longevity: Nanshan. Add another surname and call him Cao Nanshan.
The word "Nanshan" comes from the sentence "live as long as the immortal pine in Nanshan". It goes without saying that Cao Baohua not only hopes that his son will be raised well, but also that he will live a long life after he is raised.
At this moment, Mei Hua was sitting in front of the house basking in the sun, while Cao Nanshan was sucking milk in her arms. She stared blankly at the black piglet eating from the food bowl in front of the house.
Cao Biaohua stood nearby with a food bucket, occasionally feeding the black piglet with a spoon. Suddenly, he glared at Meihua and asked, "Why are you looking at the black piggy stupidly?"
Meihua said, I feel strange. Strange things happen in our family. Look, this black piglet doesn’t have a tail, and the child I gave birth to doesn’t have ears. I really can’t figure it out. Could it be that you shouldn’t have caught this black piglet to raise, which is why the baby I gave birth to doesn’t have ears.
Cao Baohua scolded him, "What do you mean, this black piglet doesn't have a tail, and our children don't have ears?"
Mei Hua was speechless and couldn't answer, so she gently stroked the part of the child that didn't have ears but only had a small ear hole.
At this moment, the family god also came to the house. He heard the conversation between Cao Bohua and his wife, and saw that their child did not have ears. He opened his eyes and carefully looked at the origin of the child and even its previous life. He quickly He understood, smiled slightly, then approached the door god and said, do you know why this child doesn't have ears?
The door god shook his head and said, I am not as good as you, how could I know? Tell me! what is the reason?
The family god raised his voice and said that in his previous life, this child was a villain named Xiang Laizao. He kidnapped, tore up tickets, and killed fellow villager Cao Mengchun. When he killed Cao Mengchun, he also cut off a pair of ears, so even if he becomes a human in the next life, his ears will There is no more.
The door god chuckled, and then sighed, this is really hurting others and ultimately hurting yourself. I cut off other people's ears in my previous life, but I will no longer have ears in this life.
There were thick clouds in the sky that day, and a sense of depression arose spontaneously.
Luo Zixin came home very late from plowing on the hillside. His wife Wu Qiongzi had already prepared lunch. After waiting for a long time, he did not come home. The food was hot and cold, hot and cold; when it was hot again, he went home with a gloomy look on his face.
Wu Qiongzi asked, why did you come back so late today? You still look unhappy, as if someone owes you Chen Damai for three years.
Luo Zixin didn't answer. He just took water from the water tank, poured it into the basin, washed his hands for a while, and then sat at the table to eat. It took him a long time to hold back a sentence, "I almost couldn't come back today."
Wu Qiongzi asked in surprise: What's the matter?
Luo Zixin took two mouthfuls of rice and took out the plate about what happened to him when he was plowing on the hillside today.
Wu Qiongzi said, shouldn't you be lying on the hillside sleeping, having a dream, and then talking in your sleep? I do not believe.
Luo Zixin reached out and patted the edge of the table gently, emphasizing that it was definitely not a dream! It's a pity that the buffalo I am driving to plow the fields cannot speak. If it could speak, I would definitely let it testify that what I said was not a dream, it was true.
I didn’t believe it at first, so I said to Niu Tou and Ma Mian, “Could it be that someone is pretending to be like you to scare people? In what era are you now, do you still engage in feudal superstition?”
But Niu Tou and Ma Mian told me politely that 120 years ago, I joined a group of strongmen who robbed a ship of soybeans on the Chibi River and killed all seven members of the family who were escorting the cargo on the ship. They also said that there were seven people in the group of strongmen. The other 6 people were arrested and put to death in previous lives. I am the only one who has not been caught by them and has always been at large. It was so hard to find them! Now that I have been found today, no matter what, I will be taken to the Underworld to be judged and sentenced in the Ghost Sentence Hall.
I argued that I couldn’t remember what happened in my previous life. If this really happened, I should be arrested and sentenced if I should be arrested and sentenced! I also asked Niutou Horse Noodles to give me some time to wait until I have planted wheat this autumn and harvested it around the Dragon Boat Festival next year and can eat new wheat steamed buns before arresting me, but they refused. They refused to offer wheat steamed buns as a sacrifice and insisted on arresting me today.
I repeatedly asked if they could let me wait until this year before arresting me, but they still refused, and even told me that the laws of the underworld do not allow favoritism, but they finally relented and only gave me a few months' grace. Take away my soul and return to the underworld within this year. In the end, I had no choice but to make an agreement with the Bull-Head-Horse Mask to let them catch me on the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month this year.
At this point, his eyelids became slightly hot, tears slowly flowed out, and his voice became choked, Qiongzi, my beloved wife, I am leaving you and this home.
Wu Qiongzi pondered for a long time, then sat at the dinner table, holding the bowl and chopsticks to chop the rice slowly. Suddenly she smiled slightly and said loudly, "Don't be afraid, it may be your hallucination. This kind of thing can't happen."
Luo Zixin still insisted that this happened and was not an illusion.
Wu Qiongzi said, if you go to Wanzi and tell you that you saw the bull-headed horse face that wanted to seduce you in the fields on the hillside at noon today, no one will believe it, and they will say that you are a superstitious leader.
Luo Zixin raised the back of his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes and said calmly, "If others don't believe it, you don't believe it either?" Others don’t understand me, and you don’t understand me either? Do I need to make up some nonsense to trick people?
I didn’t believe in the bull heads and horse faces before, thinking they were legends. But today I did see them, and I talked so much with them.
The buffalo I led to plow the land was frightened. When it saw the two monsters with the bull's head and the horse's face, it was also frightened and stamped its feet in the field to be brave. The bull's head and the horse's face turned into a fat shepherd boy and then a thin shepherd boy, and then the buffalo calmed down.
Qiongzi, what should I do? On the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month this year, bull-headed and horse-faced people will come to me and demand my life. If they really come, there will be no place for me to hide! It's easy for me to hide when people catch me, but it's hard to hide when ghosts catch me, and I can't escape. I once heard old people say that most ghosts and gods have magical powers, and they will know no matter where they are hiding. I'm really in a state of panic.
Wu Qiongzi shook his hand and said, don't be anxious. I have a way for you to hide.
Luo Zixin's eyes lit up, as if he saw hope, and he asked eagerly, where are you hiding?
Wu Qiongzi replied, there is no need to hide anywhere. On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month this year, you will stay indoors and not go out. If it is like what you said, the bull head and the horse face are coming to seduce you, do it according to my method. It is expected that even if the bull head and horse face are coming to seduce you, We arrived at the door of our house,
Luo Zixin's eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to ask, tell me what method it is.
Wu Qiongzi leaned close to his ear and murmured for a while. Luo Zixin kept nodding his head, and then looked at each other and smiled. The couple returned to their usual calm state, sitting at the table and continuing to eat.
Luo Zixin exhaled easily as if a burden had been lifted off him, and no longer thought about this horrific incident that he had encountered for the first time in his life.
