I am a snake, so it makes sense to teach a group of demons, right?

The Chinese New Year’s Eve Festival is approaching, and the town market has many stalls selling door gods, spring couplings, window flowers, lanterns and other festive objects.

Xiao Budian, wearing a tiger hat, pulled his eyes out of a cannon booth with difficulty and trotted all the way to Fireworks Alley.

“Knock knock knock~”

After a blaze of incense kung fu, in the fireworks alley, Xiao Budian gently knocked on the courtyard door of a house.

“Ah Fei, come in.”

In the courtyard, a majestic voice sounded.

“Crunch~”

Xiao Budian slowly pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

……

Inside the main house.

A man dressed in sheepskin and a beard, about the age of Mo Yan, gathered a dozen letters and put them in his baggage.

After handing the burden to Xiao Budian, the man said while untying the money bag on his waist: “Ah Fei, a total of nineteen letters, this is nineteen copper plates, take it, don’t lose it.”

Xiao Budian stretched out his hands, took nineteen copper plates, carefully stuffed them into his waist purse one by one.

“Uncle Guo, rest assured, if you are there, you will believe.”

The man rolled his eyes and said, “I mean the copper plate.” If something happens to your boy, your mother will not be allowed to pick me up and cramp?

“Boy, don’t you always have a smiling face on weekdays? Today’s pulls are longer than the donkey of the Niu Maran family! Xiao

Bu was a little old-fashioned and sighed.

“Uncle Guo, my mother always coughs non-stop these days, and after drinking a few doses of medicine, she is not good.”

“I go to the Shenmu Forest every day to bow down to the gods, but unfortunately it is useless.”

The man pulled out the brass dry cigarette stick inserted in his waist, lit it, and took two puffs, exhaling choking smoke.

“Boy, the reason why it’s useless is because you’re dishonest.”

Xiao Budian blinked his big eyes, “Uncle Guo, I feel that I am very sincere, quite sincere.” ”

Honest fart.”

Two pillars of smoke erupted from the man’s nostrils and said, “As the old saying goes, there are gods when you raise your head.”

“What the man of the world has said and done, the gods of heaven, see it clearly.”

“Boy, don’t hide from you, uncle, I have an ancient method to make it knock on the gods, and it is very effective.”

Xiao Bu nodded like a copper bell, “Please uncle teach me!” ”

……

Wherever there are people, there are rich and poor.

That’s what the town is.

Like the fireworks alley where Uncle Guo lives, and the Wuyi alley where Xiao Budian is located, they represent the poverty of the town.

Muddy loess roads when it rains, crumbling loess walls.

The loess courtyard that squints when the wind blows, and there are broken tile houses that are still breathing.

The alleys located in the northeast boundary represent the wealth of the town.

Deep house courtyard, green bricks and green tiles.

On the cobbled laneways crisscrossed, you can’t find even a bunch of.

Simply not too clean.

If it is not for the delivery of letters, even if Xiao Budian has lived in a small town for a lifetime, it will be difficult to set foot in this place.

“Arrived~”

At this moment, Xiao Budian was standing in front of the gate of a mansion in Wolong Lane.

A gilded plaque hanging high on the mansion reads the word ‘Zhao Mansion’.

At the door stand two majestic stone lions.

Xiao Budian stepped forward and knocked lightly.

“Knock knock~”

After a while, the vermilion gate creaked and opened a slit.

The face of an expressionless young man looked down at Xiao Budian condescendingly.

With an indifferent expression, his voice was not mixed with the slightest emotion, “What happened?” ”

There is a letter from Zhao’s mansion.”

Xiao Budian stretched out his hands and handed the envelope over.

From behind the gate, the young man leaned out a rough hand covered with calluses and gently pinched the corner of the envelope.

Bang.

The door is closed.

Xiao Bu nodded and looked down at his little hands, which were not much better than the youth.

I looked over and over for a while.

Little not sure, own hands, very clean.

……

The thick cloud of lead ash is very low.

The branches of the courtyard pear tree blown by the north wind shook violently.

Inside the cottage.

On wooden bed.

The woman sat up with difficulty and took the copper mirror on the windowsill.

Look at your own dry and ugly face in the mirror.

The woman whispered: “Fortunately, I have never gone out in all these years, and I haven’t scared the children.” ”

The young generation in the town knows that in the depths of Wuyi Lane, there are orphans and widows.

It was rumored that the woman was covered in flesh and blood and rotting and covered with maggots.

Only the older generation knows that when a woman is young, the man who kisses almost smashes the threshold of the woman’s house.

Mr. Qi, who lives in front of the Shenmu Forest and on the bank of the Taiping River, sitting in the only school in the town, once said that a woman’s shoulders carry the spiritual energy of Qingping Town for three hundred years.

Skinny and bone-covered dry hands.

Remove the wooden comb from the windowsill.

The woman combed one by one, gently combing the dull yellow and sparse green silk.

After combing the green silk, the woman began to apply grease and powder again.

After a blaze of incense kung fu.

Xiao Budian is back.

The arms are full.

“Son, what did you buy?”

The woman smiled gently.

“Mom, you’re so beautiful today!”

Xiao Bu’s eyes are all straight.

The woman quipped: “Is it beautiful today?”

“My mother is more beautiful today than yesterday, and tomorrow is more beautiful than today.”

“My mother’s beauty is even worse every day.”

The woman’s eyes bent into two crescents in an instant.

“My son’s small mouth is so sweet, and he will definitely be very popular with girls in the future.”

Xiao Budian immediately blushed shyly.

“Mother, today I earned nineteen copper coins from Uncle Guo.”

“I bought the door god, spring coupling, and lantern in advance, but I didn’t buy window flowers.”

“The window flowers in the market are not as good as those cut by my mother.”

Xiao Budian said while showing.

“Son.”

“Mom, what’s up?”

“My mother has bitter mouths and wants to eat sugar gourds.”

“Mom, you wait, I’ll go buy it for you.”

“Buy two strings, let’s each string one.”

“Got it, girl.”

……

Half an hour later.

Xiao Budian is back.

“Mom, Grandpa Liu is sick in bed, and he won’t be able to eat sugar gourds until next year.”

“But I bought a few pieces of cane sugar.”

Xiao Bu Dian opened the oil paper, and there were several boxy, yellow cane sugar lying inside.

The woman pinched the first piece and looked at Xiao Budian.

“Son, open your mouth.”

Xiao Bu Dian obediently opened his mouth.

The woman put the cane sugar cube into her son’s mouth, looked at Xiao Bu’s happy look,

and then smiled and pinched the second piece and sent it to her own mouth.

“Mom, is it sweet?”

“Well, it’s sweet.”

“Mom, this year’s Chinese New Year’s Eve, I want to eat pork and green onion stuffed dumplings.”

“No problem, when the time comes, you roll the skin, and the mother will wrap it.”

“Mom, it looks like it’s going to snow.”

“Son, go outside for my mother to see the snow.”

……

The woman wrapped the oil paper, and the remaining three pieces of cane sugar were left for her son to eat later.

Through the window, I looked at my son standing in the courtyard with his little head on his back.

The woman whispered, “Son, after your mother leaves, you have to listen to your Cui’er sister and your master’s words.”

“In this life, my mother only allows you to owe you Sister Cui’er and your master’s kindness.”

“Although there is only corn and rice, you must eat enough for two meals a day.”

“Remember, take a shower once in three days and wash yourself clean.”

“Keep the habit of soaking your feet every day, because then the body will be warm and comfortable.”

“Son, ten to twenty years old cotton jacket cotton pants, and new shoes, my mother has handed over to your sister Cui’er.”

“Son, no matter how busy you are, don’t forget that you should eat hot food and drink more water.”

“Son, my mother likes peach blossoms.”

“Every year when the grass grows and the warblers fly, don’t forget to pick a peach blossom and put it on your mother’s grave.”

Looking at the tiger head hat, stretching out his little hand, and then the snowflakes are small.

The woman’s bright eyes gradually dimmed.

“How can there be such kind and lovely children in this world. How could it be my son of Nan Jinping.

“Son, my mother will turn into a star that is not so bright and not so dark, and in the sky, watching you forever.”

“Son, my mother is gone~”

……

Suddenly, like a spring breeze overnight, thousands of trees and pear blossoms.

Heavy snow is falling.

Heaven and earth are white.

Guo Ziru wore a gown, a cloak, smoked a dry cigarette, stepped on the snow, and walked in the direction of the tavern.

Snapping ~

A sound of hurried footsteps floated from behind.

Before Guo Ziru could take a closer look, a small figure had already passed by him.

Quickly rush to the depths of the wind and snow.

“Hey, Chen family boy, where are you going with such a big snow?!”

……

On the way to the Shenmu Forest, Xiao Budian first took off his shoes and socks.

Barefoot, stepping on a thick layer of salt.

Then there is the linen coat that is worn on the outermost part.

Finally, there are cotton pants.

Xiao Budian even took off his innermost shorts.

Soon, outside the town, the northwest boundary.

Xiao Budian ran to the Shenmu Forest.

Bowing without an inch, he gave his body and soul to the gods without reservation.

This was taught by Guo Ziru and Uncle Guo to Xiao Budian.

In the wind and snow.

Xiao Budian plopped down and knelt on the snow.

“God is on top, may my mother and mother come in a healthy life, happy and peaceful.”

In the wind and snow, the little head of the little one knocked down heavily and buried deep in the snow.

Suddenly, the snow melts into scalding water.

……

The first snow of the year.

The woman is gone.

Xiao Budian also grew from a boy to a teenager.