Maid of a wealthy family

Chapter 43
After returning to Nine Layers Village, all the people put down Ran Longgui, pulled up his trousers, and saw that Ran Longgui's thigh was punched with a big hole like a teacup, and the profuse blood flowed out.Everyone hurriedly went to the shed to close the statue of the Great Emperor, took back a handful of incense ash, pressed it on the wound, and stopped the bleeding.Then, according to the past practice of treating gunshot wounds and knife wounds, I went to the mountain to pull herbs, smashed them, and applied them to the wounds.I thought that after applying the medicine, it would heal within a few days, but Ran Longgui's wound didn't heal after a few refills, but pus started to ooze instead.

The tiller had no choice but to secretly send someone down the mountain to search for medicine for Ran Longgui's wound.

This morning, Ran Longgui was lying in the shed, moaning constantly.His injured leg was swollen as thick as a bucket, and the sticky, thick and smelly pus flowed down the gun hole onto the mat, not only soaking the straw, but also forming a large puddle on the ground.The stench in the house attracted swarms of blowflies.Fly around the house.While he was humming, the "rudderman" suddenly took a bag of powder, walked in with a smile, and said happily: "Old Wu, this is right, I found the medicine to cure your injury!" He just sat down at the head of Ran Longgui's bed.

Ran Longgui wanted to sit up, but as soon as he moved, he grinned in pain.He gasped and said, "What medicine?"

The "rudder handle" held him down and said, "Golden rooster is scattered!"

Ran Longgui said, "I've never heard of this medicine."

"The Tiller" also said, "Yes, this is the first time I've heard of it."

As he spoke, he bent down and whispered to Ran Longgui: "This is Ye Shan. He went to another 'shed' in Mopan Village to beg for it. It is said to be efficacious! Guess what prescription is in this medicine? Youcao is addicted to death A skeleton of the firstborn boy, and a rooster at the age of three. The rooster should be fed with brass powder mixed with millet rice, and the brass must be the copper that has been used on saddles for many years. Then kill them with a bamboo knife. Then, dry the chicken bones and human bones with blue tiles, mix with traditional Chinese medicines such as Wangbuliu and Xuejie, put them on a stone mill, grind them with copper stirrups, put them into porcelain bottles, and seal them for storage. There should be no ventilation, open the bottle when you use it. This medicine is specially used to treat black and red wounds such as car pressure, horse riding, gunshots, and knives. After taking this medicine, the pain will be relieved in two days, the swelling will be reduced in three days, and the carrion will fall off on its own in seven days. Within half a month Fresh meat."

After hearing this, Ran Longgui exclaimed, "It's so amazing!"

"The helm" said: "Not only is the medicine miraculous, but the way to take it is also special. You can't use mountain spring water or boiled water for this medicine. You should use rootless water falling from the sky, followed by rut water. Ye Shan also took it by the way." The rut water." Then he called out to the outside: "Yao Liu, quickly bring the rut water to Lord Wu."

As soon as the "rudderman" finished speaking, Ye Shan came in with a crock of water from the outside, and said, "It's because the fifth master is so lucky. There was a thunderstorm in the mountains yesterday. Otherwise, the rut water would be hard to find." !"

As he spoke, he poured water into an earthen bowl, and the "rudder handle" made Ran Longgui open his mouth, and poured the medicine into Ran Longgui's mouth first.Then, Ye Shan picked up the water bowl and asked Ran Longgui to drink the water and take the medicine.Ran Longgui felt that this medicine, whether it is bitter or not, numb or numb, sour or not, or fishy or not, is like "Guanyin soil".After drinking, he wiped his lips and said to the "rudderman" angrily: "Brother, I lost money this time. The person was not saved, but he was injured instead. It's all Lan Hongen's shit It was caused by me. I must avenge this revenge."

Hearing this, the "rudderman" nodded his head in agreement and said, "Yes! After the injury is healed, I will go down the mountain with you, and I must rescue your friend!"

Ran Longgui said, "I want to avenge this shot."

The "rudderman" said in agreement: "Good job! You are not a gentleman if you are small, and you are not a husband if you are not poisonous. I have hated those rich people in my life, and I wish I could kill them all!"

Ran Longgui said: "I heard that elder brother also came from a poor family?"

The "rudderman" said: "That's not true! I have been helping others as a boy since I was seven or eight years old. When I was 19 years old, I became Qiu Er, the head of Huang Da Jin Ya's family, the rich man in this field. One day, I took a group of cattle from Huang Da Jin Ya When I rushed to the mountain to release it, I accidentally lost a yellow sand cow. Huang Dajinya insisted that I had stolen and sold the cow. I argued with Huang Dajinya, a bastard, and was escorted to the county police station by Huang Dajinya. The people in the police station spoke for Huang Dajinya, tied his thumbs together, hung him from the ceiling, and beat him relentlessly. No matter how hard the police beat him, he always said, "If you didn't steal, you didn't steal. Beat me to death." I didn’t steal either.” The police saw that the torture was ineffective, so they had to lock me up. Later, my father sold all the young crops in the field, and sold half of the dilapidated house in the kiln, and paid Huang Dajinya’s cattle money. I was released. A few days after I went home, the lost yellow sand cow suddenly ran away
came back.After hearing this, I went to ask for the cattle money for compensation, but Huang Dajinya didn't want to lose face, so he quietly sold the Huangsha cattle, insisting that he never came back, and refused to refund my cattle money.I lost money and was beaten again, I really couldn't swallow this breath.On a dark and windy night, I took two kitchen knives and sneaked into Huang Dajinya's house, chopped up the bastard with one knife, and avenged him.Then, without telling his father, he went to Jiulouzhai to gather this group of poor brothers and set up a shed. " After finishing speaking, "Helmsman" opened his clothes, revealing the scar on his chest, and then said: "Look, this is what those police bastards left behind in the police station."Seeing this, I wish to kill those rich people. "

After hearing this, Ran Longgui said, "No wonder the big brother is fighting against the big family. We are doing the right thing."

The "rudderman" said: "That's right, don't worry, if you don't take revenge, your elder brother will not be your elder brother." After speaking, he comforted Ran Longgui for a while before going out.

After Ran Longgui took the medicine, as the "rudderman" said, the pain soon disappeared, and then the swelling disappeared, the carrion and pus gradually cleared up, and a layer of tender muscle appeared in the gun hole.The muscles grew slowly, and after half a month, Ran Longgui was like an ordinary person, not only able to stand up, but also walking like flying.When he walked out of the shed and saw the mountains of Haosen and the bright red sky, he couldn't help thinking about chrysanthemums.And when I think of chrysanthemum, the thought of revenge is also very strong in my heart.So, he hurriedly found Ye Shan to discuss sending "eyeliner" around the Lan Mansion.After hearing this, Ye Shan quickly said, "Don't worry, Fifth Master, he has already been dispatched."

Ran Longgui said, "Really?"

Ye Shan said: "The 'rudder' knew that you were eager for revenge, so he asked me to send people down before you recovered from your injuries. Don't worry, they will come back to report once they step on the water. Fifth Lord, you just wait Revenge."

After hearing this, Ran Longgui didn't say anything more.

Sure enough, not long after, the "eyeliner" at the foot of the mountain brought back a message: on the second day of October, the old lady of the Lan Mansion had her [-]th birthday and was going to have a big banquet for guests. Hearing this, the "rudderman" immediately shouted with joy: "Old Wu, God-given opportunity, your chance for revenge has come." After hearing this, Ran Longgui asked incomprehensibly, "How did you get here?"

"The tiller" said, "Come here, I'll tell you."

Sure enough, Ran Longgui put his ears close to him, and after hearing the "rudderman" whispered, he immediately became happy, and said loudly in his heart: "Yes, yes, it's really a good opportunity for revenge! Chrysanthemum, just wait, this time It's time to save you."

On the second day of October, Lan Mansion was decorated with lanterns and festoons, creating a festive atmosphere.In the afternoon of the previous day, the head housekeeper ordered some servants and handymen to clean up the inside and outside of the Lan Mansion.The half of the stable that was set on fire by Wang Ma was also repaired as it was before the old lady's birthday.After cleaning up, the head steward personally led people to hang the [-] longevity lamps custom-made in the city on the eaves and courtyards of various places.The longevity lamp uses six pieces of glass pictures painted with pictures of the sea, rocks and bats to form a lamp shape. The outside is covered with a layer of pure white wax, and the inside is equipped with candle holders and silver candles.This lamp is called "Shoushan Fuhai" lamp, which means to encourage good fortune to be like the East China Sea, and longevity is better than the South Mountain". After hanging up the lamp, a pair of bright red couplets were pasted on both sides of the Chaomen gate. The couplet reads:

Jingui Shenghui old health

Dong Cao's Changchun Celebration
Then, the birthday hall was set up in the upper living room and the middle living room.There is a picture of Fu Lu Shou hanging in the middle hall of the upper living room.The picture depicts an old man who is a birthday star holding a peach to accompany a deer, and there are flying banners on it.Behind the old man named Shou Xing, there was another day when a really cute child looked up at the flying bats above his head.This is called "Looking Forward to the Gospel".Another screen was set up under the "Fu Lu Shou Picture".In the middle of the screen is still a banner painting of a birthday old man, with couplets on both sides.writes:

October is a small spring to see the plum blossoms on the mountain
Dong Cao Changrong in front of the One Star Xuanbao Wuzhu Hall

In front of the longevity screen, there is a longevity table.There is also a birthday plate on the birthday table, in which there are birthday noodles, birthday wine, birthday peaches, birthday wax and so on.The birthday noodles are no different from the noodles you usually eat, and the housekeeper invited someone to come to the house to make them according to the old lady and Lan Hongen's instructions a few days ago.At this time, the longevity noodles displayed on the birthday plate were more than three feet long, each bunch of one hundred pieces, as white as vermicelli, and plated into a tower shape. ".The way of birthday peach is also very particular.

Although it is made of rice flour.But it dyed the peach mouth with bright red pigment.Legend has it that when the Queen Mother of the West celebrated her birthday in Yaochi, she entertained the immortals with flat peaches, and the world followed suit.Today, there are nine plates of longevity peaches displayed by the housekeeper on the birthday table in the upper living room, and each plate is stacked in nine rows.This is called "Longevity and Longevity".The longevity wine is not ordinary wine, but made of sweet-scented osmanthus.Shou wax is made more elegantly, the whole body is red, about one foot long and weighs about one catty.On the front of the wax, there is a golden word "longevity" printed on it, and on the other side, the auspicious words "blessing is like the East China Sea, longevity is better than Nanshan".The housekeeper finished displaying the things on the birthday case, and placed some futons on the ground—prepared for the younger generation of the old lady who kowtowed.Then, he brought some people to the middle living room.

In the middle living room, the butler arranged things a little differently.First, a picture was hung in the middle hall, but it was not "Fu Lu Shou Picture".I saw a peony in full bloom in the picture, and two colorful butterflies were dancing on the flower.Under the peony flowers, there are two naughty kittens, as if they are about to catch butterflies.Most people can't see the deep meaning of this painting, but it is called "Fugui Maokui Picture".Why is it called "the picture of the rich and the old"?Because the folks call the age of 70 "Mao" and the age of 80 "Mao", both of which mean longevity.Cat homophonic "mao", butterfly homophonic "mao", peony flower is the king of flowers, commonly known as the flower of wealth, the three form a picture, so it is called "the picture of wealth and honor".After the pictures were hung, the butler still erected a longevity screen underneath.This screen is different from the screen in the upper living room. Instead, it consists of six banners arranged in groups. The screens are all made of high-quality silk, and there are two sentences written on them.Because it is wild grass, most people can't recognize it, but it is actually a couplet, only a little longer.

The three screens on the left read:

How many times do seventy-two
Magu fairy grass appears in the scenery
The three screens on the right read:

To guide samadhi there should be only three thousand
Years form the queen mother and sow peaches
Then, birthday noodles, birthday wine, birthday wax, and two plates of birthday cakes were also displayed on the birthday table.There are no futons in the middle living room, because this is for birthday celebrations of the old lady's peers.People of the same generation only need to bow to each other instead of kowtow to celebrate their birthdays, so futons are omitted.

After everything was arranged, the housekeeper asked the old lady and Lan Hongen to check it out, and then locked the doors of the two living rooms respectively.On this day, no matter how important the guests come, they will never come to the living room to greet them.

In the evening, the silver candles in the hundred longevity lamps were lit, and I saw Lan Mansion in the night, with lights and shadows, reflecting each other with the stars in the sky, the scene was like a fairyland.

On the second day, Lan Mansion was full of hitchhikers and guests.At noon, the old lady was wearing a robe, a blouse, silver jewelry on her head, and flowered shoes on her feet. First, she received bows from relatives, friends and gentry of the same generation in the middle living room.Then came to the upper living room.Longevity candles were already lit in the upper living room, and the cigarettes were lingering.The hall was decorated with birthday colors again, and the birthday lanterns were lit, which was brilliantly lit.The old lady was supported by Lan Hongen and Ning Shi, and sat on the Taishi chair.First, Lan Hongen and Ning Shi knelt on the futon and bowed four times.Then, from nephews to grandchildren, from in-laws to out-in-laws, they all went to kowtow four times in front of the old lady.Then, each person brought a birthday plate with half a bowl of jujube soup in a small bowl, knelt down in front of the old lady and said, "I wish the old lady a blessing like the East China Sea, a longer life than Nanshan, good luck in old age!"

After hearing this, the old lady was very happy to send out the reward, and took half a bowl of red date soup to drink.

While prostrating, a loud noise came from outside the door.When the old lady heard this, she became a little unhappy, and asked with a sullen face, "What's the noise outside?"

As soon as the words were finished, the butler came in and reported: "Old Madam, Master, a group of jugglers passing by outside saw the longevity lamp hanging outside the door and the birthday couplets pasted on it. They knew there was a happy event in the house, so they clamored for Come in and wish the old lady a birthday."

After hearing this, the old lady cast a sideways glance at Lan Hongen, and said happily, "Wow! As the saying goes, people increase their lifespan, please invite them in!"

After hearing this, the butler immediately agreed with "yes", turned around and left.

Sure enough, after a while, the head steward led six or seven men into the birthday hall.Except for a thin man with a knife in a long gown who looks gentle, the rest of the men are all wearing short clothes and look tough and strong. They all hold knives, halberds, swords, and sticks in their hands. , clasped fists together, bowed to the old lady, and shouted neither humble nor overbearing: "May the old birthday star Crane live a thousand years, and the pines and cypresses grow green!"

After hearing this, the old lady hurriedly said: "Okay, okay! Where are you from, what is your class number? Who is the class leader?"

(End of this chapter)