Chapter 54: The only warmth in my arms
In a remote village more than ten miles away from Chenghuang Temple, a thin young man was driven out by his brother and sister-in-law holding a pheasant in his arms! The young man's sister-in-law held a spoon and kept chasing out of the yard with a hideous face: "There is no longer enough to untie the pot at home, so how can you have one or two more boys? A pheasant will send you a lot of food! I want to accompany you to give you.
Get out with your chicken."
"Before my mother died, you promised my mother to support me." The boy was shaking coldly in his arms. In October, when winter began, he was wearing thin pants with patches and a rotten jacket with cotton. The cloth shoes on his feet were hugging his toes, which were frozen ashen.
The only warmth he gave was the pheasant in his arms! He got up at three in the morning and caught him in the woods, so that he could please his sister-in-law and let him live at home.
The young man's brother hung his head in the house and sighed! There was indeed no excess food at home. It was the time when my younger brother could eat. He gave him a bite of food and his two sons would go hungry.
"Why do I go and borrow some!? You might as well let Maodan come back." The young man's elder brother pleaded.
"Borrow grain, where do you go to borrow it? Apart from going to my parents' home, you have not had enough of this? Your family has already gotten back, and it is not rare for you to plant it in your family." Maodan's sister-in-law retorted.
The boy was the egg in the mouth of a woman. He held the pheasant in his arms and had some expectations! But his sister-in-law's words made his heart sink to the bottom.
"Sister-in-law, I can go and catch pheasants! Go and catch pheasants." Maodan said panickedly, and he was panicked in his heart when he was kicked out of the house without relatives.
"Get out! If you don't get out, let my stick drive you away? Don't blame me for being cruel. You can't raise more people at home." Maodan's sister-in-law said sternly.
Maodan still didn't want to leave, it was too cold outside! He still had hope, but when he saw his sister-in-law pulling up a stick to hit him, he hurriedly ran out with the pheasant in his arms.
Since his mother died, he has been having a meal a day for the past few months and still can't eat enough! The cold weather in winter makes it hard for him to bear this hunger. As the food becomes less and less, his sister-in-law began to hate him, and finally drove him out of the house today.
Maodan came out of the village aimlessly with a pheasant in his arms. He squatted down next to the straw pile in the wild to block the cold north wind! Let himself be warmer.
This straw pile is right next to the small road, and not far away is the last family in the village! The courtyard wall of this family is close to the straw pile.
There was a voice of dispute in the yard. The man yelled that he wanted to organize the food at home and went to the Chenghuang Temple to let his eldest son learn martial arts, while the woman asked his youngest son to learn martial arts.
Maodan also knew that Master Wu of Chenghuang Temple was accepting apprentices, but he couldn't take so many apprenticeships! Naturally, he squinted his eyes and thought a little, but when he heard the hostess say, "Why don't you let both sons go! Master Wu still accepts a personal disciple? If you are attracted by it, don't you want anything."
"As a personal disciple, you must also give a gift to the apprenticeship, and you won't give it a pass!" The male owner's voice also clearly reached Maodan's ears.
Maodan was excited when he heard this information! He hugged the pheasant and ran towards the Chenghuang Temple in the cold wind. He heard the personal message that his disciples should not be treated as a disciple, which was the best news he had heard.
Maodan wanted to try his luck, if he was valued, the pheasant in his arms was a gift to his master, which was also his most precious thing now.
In order to survive, he will keep this pheasant.
It's dawn, and there is no sun today! The cloudy day is getting colder and colder, and the sky is dark.
"It's going to snow!" Mr. Guo in the mule carriage looked at the weather and said.
"Dad, it's snowing! Next year is another bumper year." Guo Laoer responded, this was his most concerned issue.
"It will take a few more heavy snow this year, and there will be two heavy rains in spring! You will definitely earn two more oceans in summer." Boss Guo also said happily.
"It's very cold in winter!" Guo Xiaowu said, wrapping his cotton jacket.
"What do you know about a bad guy? We farmers rely on the weather to make a living. Good weather is the greatest gift to the people. Today is the first day of October. My father took advantage of this day to enjoy the incense and ask the City God for a good weather." Guo Lao Nai expressed his plans in his scolding.
"Finish, dad! We will live a good life and it will be better than this incense stick of money." Boss Guo responded.
Speaking of the weather, the father and son soon had no extra words! Then they were nagging about what made Guo Xiaowu compete for, and Guo Xiaowu hung his head and listened to the instructors of his father and two brothers again.
Soon the mule and horse carriage arrived at the entrance of Zhoujia Village, Chenghuang Temple, which was the only way to enter Chenghuang Temple.
"This Zhou Bapi asked for money again!" Mr. Guo gritted his teeth and said hatred. When he arrived at the entrance of Zhoujia Village, the father and son saw seven or eight men standing at the entrance of the village, and the rich man Zhou who was wearing a crutch and wrapped in a cotton robe.
On important days, it is time to burn incense and worship gods or to recruit disciples by Master Wu! This week, the rich man will set up a road card at the entrance of the village, and there is a money box next to the road card, if he wants to go over and spend a penny.
"Stop, stop!" The two men stopped the mule and horse carriage, and Boss Guo on the carriage grinned.
"What are you doing!" Boss Guo jumped out of the carriage and stared and yelled.
These two men looked at Boss Guo with a tiger-backed and bear-backed waist and took a step back in fear! Then one of the two men shouted in shame: "Brothers, come, some damn it's a problem."
Boss Guo was surrounded by seven or eight men without any fear. He clenched his fists and was about to start hitting him! He never talked nonsense about problems that could be solved with his fists.
He went up and grabbed the collar of the shouting man, then lifted it up and threw it on the ground, throwing him over and rolling him over.
The man was like a chicken in Boss Guo's hand, which really scared the man around him! He couldn't help but pause.
"In my Master Zhou's territory, there are still people who dare to act wildly! Are you tired of living, right?" Zhou Da Rich Man walked over with a dark face on his face.
When Zhou Dabao walked closer, he couldn't help but be stunned and then said, "Okay! It's you. I haven't settled the score with you for my concubine's affairs yet. You ran over here by yourself. Beat me and beat him hard."
Zhou Bapi's words made Mr. Guo stunned, and his face sank! He looked at Mr. Guo with an angry look.
Guo Laoer shook his head and said, "Dad! I don't know what's going on?"
"My elder brother has been Zhou Bapi's concubine!" Guo Xiaowu said blankly.
Chapter completed!