My Weird Life

Chapter 1199 Heavy Snow (22)

 In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign, it was the twelfth lunar month.

An edict came from the Forbidden City, and Shao Shoushan, the master of Tianwang Temple on Jingshi Mountain, came to the capital to meet the emperor.

There were all kinds of miraculous rumors about this "Shao Taoist" in the capital, and the noise was aroused for a while.

Outside the capital, a small village in Zhili Province ushered in its third heavy snowfall this year.

 Snowy night.

 In Chaimen Village.

In front of a courtyard with three large tile-roofed houses, which is also very conspicuous in Chaimen Village, a stooped old man with age spots on his face and a woman with silver hair are standing together at the door. Both of them are on crutches, supporting each other. , standing in front of the door threshold.

In front of them, a middle-aged woman was holding a five- or seven-year-old child, accompanying a fat middle-aged man.

Everyone was talking and laughing, looking at the young woman at the steps of the courtyard gate.

The woman had a cloth wrapped on her head, covering both cheeks, and only exposed a pair of dark eyes. She looked at the middle-aged couple in front of the steps, and then her eyes passed over the couple and towards the couple supporting each other behind the threshold. The old couple, a gentle voice came from her mouth: "Father, mother, I'm leaving now, you two should take care of your health."

 “Hey, hey!”

 The old man responded, smiling enthusiastically with the old woman, his eyes full of kindness.

"Your brother and sister-in-law will take you to the place. After you go there, don't forget to give more information to your family and go home during the holidays - this is your mother's home after all!" The old woman's eyes were slightly red. She lowered her head to wipe her tears with a handkerchief and spoke.

 The young woman nodded: "Don't worry, I will come back to see you more!"

Under the turban, those big eyes were gleaming.

If there are any bystanders here, even if they don't see the woman's whole face, they only see her eyes, and they know that she must be a beauty.

“Sister, just live a good life after you go back.

It’s really hard to find this family this time. It’s an honest and honest family. If you go to his home and give him a baby, don’t dislike anything in your heart - a woman like you can find a husband..." The young man touched his child's head and spoke to the young woman with a grin. Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the glare of the middle-aged woman next to him.

The middle-aged man had a stern look on his face. He probably realized that he had said something wrong, so he just rubbed his son's head, making his son's yin and yang head shine brighter and brighter.

The woman smiled and said: "Sister, your eldest brother can't speak, so don't take it to heart.

After you have a family, you will take good care of your health and give birth to a son for his family... Once you have a child, it is time for you to grow up. It is okay to be a child. If you feel uncomfortable, you will not be happy there. , just go home and stay for a few days! "

“Chuan Baoer, thank you brother and sister-in-law.” The young woman knelt down to give blessings to her brother and sister-in-law.

“Well!” The middle-aged man’s expression became more and more satisfied when he saw ‘Cai Bao’er’ like this, with a smile on his face, “Then let’s go now, Bao’er!”

Chai Baoer nodded slightly and said, "Okay."

The man turned his head to look at his wife beside him and said, "I will send Bao'er to the place and then come back. You and Hao'er are at home, don't worry about me - take good care of our parents!"

“It was still bright when we had dinner just now.

How long has it been, and it suddenly became dark..." The woman put the child in her arms, looked at the gloomy sky, and suddenly turned her head to look at her husband, her eyes twinkling, "I'd better go with you. Well, I introduced that family to a family in our village. If you are not familiar with it, I'm afraid you won't be able to find it. "

The middle-aged man did not dare to look at his wife. He shrank his neck and his eyes wandered: "What are you going to do?

You just stay at home, and you still have to take care of the elderly at home!

I haven’t been there for too long, and it’s just dark. When I arrive in your village, if I really can’t find a place, I can just knock on the door of a house and ask, and I’ll know where to go! "

"snort!"

The woman snorted softly, approached her husband who was evasive, and lowered her voice: "Don't think that I don't know what you want to do, that you want to take the opportunity to stay outside?

 Don’t even think about it!

 I just want to go! "

“Mom, I want to go too!

I am coming too! "The child in the woman's arms started shouting.

The three members of the family were noisy for a while, and finally the man compromised and said, "It's so cold and I have to go... Then you go and bring a quilt over. The wind and snow are blowing on the road. You're not cold, and I'm afraid of freezing the child." !”

The woman nodded, but did not move. Instead, she turned back and looked at the old couple on the threshold.

The old couple laughed along with the three people while they were arguing and did not dare to say anything. At this time, their son and daughter-in-law discussed the outcome, and they nodded in agreement and did not dare to express any opinions.

When he saw his daughter-in-law turning towards him, before the old man could react, the old woman said, "Xiuhua, stay here, I'll get the quilt for you!"

“Oh, mother, please take your time, I can just go get the quilt myself!”

 The snow is so heavy, don’t slip and fall again! "

The woman said this and wanted to stop the old woman, but she never really stopped her mother-in-law.

“How could such a little snow throw me down?

 Don’t worry! "The old woman waved her hands repeatedly, turned around tremblingly, and walked into the house. Seeing this, her husband finally reacted and hurriedly followed to help.

 In the sky, snowflakes were falling. The four people standing at the door were relatively speechless.

Chai Baoer looked at his brother and sister-in-law with no emotion in his eyes.

The middle-aged woman turned her head and looked at the aisle behind the door, frowning, her eyes full of impatience. Until the old couple each hugged a quilt and approached tremblingly, the impatience on her face suddenly disappeared and turned into His face was full of joy: "It's really a trouble for my parents. You can have a good rest at home. Xiaoquan and I will come back as soon as we go!"

As she spoke, she took the quilt from the arms of her parents-in-law, went to the straw shed on the side behind the door, and spread it on the platoon cart pulled by a **** mule parked in the straw shed. After getting off the bed, he waved to 'Jin Xiaoquan' and his son 'Kim Zhengshan': "Come on, let's get in the car and go!"

 “Let’s go!” Jin Zhengshan ran over happily.

Jin Xiaoquan quickly followed: "Slow down, slow down!"

 Having walked halfway, he turned to look at Chua Bao'er again: "Bao'er, let's go!"

Chua Bao'er nodded, turned back to look at her gray-haired, old parents, her eyes were a little complicated, and she said softly: "Dad, Mom, Bao'er is leaving now... Do you have anything to say? Want to talk to me?"

Daddy opened his mouth, but in the end he just said with a smile on his face: "Have a good time at your husband's house, Bao'er."

"Yeah, live a good life..." Mother looked away, not looking at Chubao'er, but just echoing her husband.

"good.

Mom, dad, take care of your health too. "

Chua Bao'er's eyes suddenly lost their light, and they became even colder and more lonely than this snowy day.

She listened to the urging voice behind her. An elixir bottle that she had taken out from her sleeve pocket and held in her palm was crushed to pieces by her force. The broken porcelain fragments of the elixir bottle cut her palm. It also chopped up the two wax-sealed pills originally contained in the bottle.

 Baoer turned around and walked towards the carriage.

 The snowy night is cold and gloomy.

On the road she walked, black plum blossoms scattered.

If you get close to the black plum blossoms and smell them, you can still smell the smell of blood mixed with the smell of medicine - that is the blood and medicine that dripped down after Chuabaoer's blood dissolved into two pills.

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The cold wind howled, rolled up the snow dust, spread it on the ground, and covered the blooming plum blossoms.

Chai Baoer was sitting on the platoon car next to his sister-in-law, Yin Xiuhua, when he heard the sound of the backyard door locking behind him.

Yin Xiuhua, who was beside her, sniffed and said suspiciously: "What does it smell like? It smells like herbal medicine, and a bit irony..."

“Our mule has been suffering from diarrhea for the past two days. I gave it some herbs in the morning.” Jin Xiaoquan, who was sitting at the front of the car, replied casually. He raised his whip and cracked it.

The whip collided head to tail, making a crackling sound. Hearing the sound, the big mule pulled the cart and slowly walked out of the hayloft and headed towards the road.

"This mule and horse are really strong. Didn't they cost a lot of money to buy them?" Chubao'er asked his sister-in-law Yin Xiuhua next to him with a smile on his face.

Hearing this, Yin Xiuhua turned to look at her. There was also a big smile on her fat face, but the meaning was inexplicable: "It will cost a lot of money, but it's not that much... Your elder brother must take good care of these mules and horses." , if he hadn’t worried about it every day, he wouldn’t be so strong now. You see, it’s been seven or eight years since I bought this mule, and this mule is still so capable, which is why your elder brother worries so much..."

 “Seven or eight years…

I also left home seven or eight years ago..."

Yin Xiuhua heard Chua Baoer's somewhat melancholy words. Her eyes flashed but she said nothing.

Jin Xiaoquan, who was in the front, waved his whip even faster - he used to be reluctant to whip his mule and horse, but now he used some force and slapped the whip on the mule and horse's buttocks, urging it to speed up.

 The mules and horses were in pain and ran forward faster.

Four hooves fell into the snow dust, leaving hoofprints as big as the mouth of a bowl.

The carriage walked along the road for about an hour, but still did not reach the village that Jin Xiaoquan was talking about. Chubao'er looked at the increasingly dark sky and the dead trees on both sides of the road that were still showing their claws. She seemed a little scared and said in a trembling voice: "Brother, sister-in-law, this doesn't seem to be the way to Yuan Liu's house..."

 Are we going the wrong way? "

"You're right." Yin Xiuhua looked at Chua Bao'er with a smile, but her eyes were cold, "Don't worry, sister, we are walking this way closer now, so we can get to Yuan Liu's house earlier!"

"right!

closer! "Jin Xiaoquan waved his riding crop and briefly agreed.

 At this time, his voice sounded a little cold for some reason.

Hearing what her brother and sister-in-law said, Chua Bao'er seemed to feel relieved. She nodded and suddenly said: "The last time I went to visit Liu Yuanwai's house, the mule and cart didn't seem to take as long as they did tonight. …”

 (End of this chapter)