Delicious Delicacy of the Demon Spirit

Azhu's house is on Shanshulin Street, east-west direction, whether it is close to the Wangfu, or far, it is not too far.But in this snowy day, people's hands and feet are shaking from the cold, and the road is not easy to walk, so the footsteps are inevitably slow.If we want to talk about the origin of this cedar forest street, it is because a straight cedar tree is planted at the door of every house on the street, and the cedar trees on this street will extend to the vast cedar forest in the west.It is the outskirts of Qingshui Town. Many candidates who live in this area go to Beijing to take the exam. This is the road they take, or they are yearning for it. Therefore, on this Shanshulin Street, the most carpenters, followed by scholars .

Azhu's father is a carpenter, surnamed Ying, everyone calls him Carpenter Ying, he is notoriously taciturn, and he doesn't make much excuses when he comes to customers.Li Ku'er and the others were led into A Zhu's mother's house for a long while, but no carpenter Ying came out of his workshop to show his face, only the sound of planing wood and knocking lingered in his ears.

A Zhu Niang is a warm-hearted person, and the melon seeds and tea are served attentively, probably taking out all the snacks for the Chinese New Year at home.Li Ku'er followed them to visit A ​​Zhu's house, and visited the neighbor's in-law's house.The in-laws seemed to be easy to get along with, and they kept calling them to lunch.

Of course they declined, it would be more comfortable to trouble Azhu's in-laws than to trouble her mother's family.It's just that Ah Liao and Xiao Qu like to make troubles, so they would forcefully call Ah Zhu's scholar husband out by the door to show them.

Ah Zhu's husband couldn't help it, so he came out of the study with a scroll in hand, stood at the door with a silly smile, and said, "It's snowing so hard, why don't you come in and sit down, the room is warm."

"No, no, we're going to eat at your mother-in-law's house today, and dinner will be served in a while." A group of little girls said and ran back.

Back at A Zhu's mother's house, Xiao Qu smiled from ear to ear, and asked A Zhu, "Is this the prettier one from your family or the third son from the Qi family?"

Azhu pouted and glanced at Li Kuer, sighed, "My family is not as elegant as Mr. Qi's family, Ku'er is so lucky."

Li Ku'er wanted to vomit blood: "Why did you say that it happened to me again, and besides, I have not settled on anything with the third son of the Qi family. You are right... how will I behave in the future?"

"Hey, Kuer, you are so thin-skinned." Ah Liao laughed at her: "When we meet later, behave well, speak well, serve tea and water more quickly, and you can still catch your hands?"

Li Kuer frowned and said, "You should come, I don't want it anymore."

Ah Liao kicked her: "I really want it, but I also need people to think highly of my family. In fact, my parents can't agree, after all, he still has to live here. I have my brother, and in the future I will have a baby and a couple." There will be no room for three of them to jump out. Your house will not have this problem, how suitable it is.”

"What's appropriate? I've made it clear to you here. I, I, will never marry. Don't tease me anymore."

"You're funny too. Don't get married? Are you looking for someone to break the door?" A Zhu obviously didn't take her words seriously.

Xiao Qu stroked her chin and said, "Back in the door... It's not that there is nothing to talk about, but it's a little difficult. I don't know if it's someone who is a dead student."

Li Kuer quickly interrupted them: "Don't think about me, really, I don't want to marry and marry."

"Don't make trouble? Will you live alone in the future?"

"Of course...not." Li Kuer smiled proudly, "I have a sister He."

"Hi!" The three of them waved their hands, all looking at the silly girl's expression: "Sister He can accompany you for the rest of my life? Maybe one day she will marry earlier than you."

"Don't talk nonsense! Sister He won't marry!" Li Kuer argued anxiously, but they guessed again:

"Huh? Speaking of which, a beautiful and virtuous woman like Sister He has never been married? No matter how I look at it, she doesn't look like her."

"Really? Who in our town knows about her past? I'm afraid only the prince knows."

"Perhaps a young widow might as well."

"It makes sense. Which woman has never been married at the age of Sister He? It's not a nun in the nunnery."

"But even if you have been married, Kuer, you can't live with the master for the rest of your life. What if you get married again? Can you go with me again? Besides, the point is still on you, you have never tried to marry It’s human taste to say that you are determined not to marry, this is not possible, it can’t be the natural Buddha’s relationship with the six senses, right? It doesn’t look like it.”

Li Ku'er was so pissed off by their words, she couldn't help but folded her arms and said angrily: "Look at you one or two being respectful and affectionate to Sister He, so you think about her like that in secret. Don't talk nonsense, she won't either Married..." Rolling his eyes, he continued: "Also, I want to follow her as the second best cook in the world, how can I have a long-term love for my son and daughter."

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

"Ouch, I laughed so hard that I couldn't straighten my waist!"

"I really thought you couldn't figure it out. I was joking. I almost didn't panic us to death!"

Li Ku'er made a bitter face, and sighed in his heart: Oh no!And when I was joking!

After lunch at Ah Zhu's house, the snow outside is a little lighter.Everyone said they wanted to go out for a walk, A Zhu Niang persuaded them not to stay, so she gave each of them a roasted sweet potato, and said: "Just take a walk on the street, but don't go into the fir forest. There has been a lot of trouble these two days." Woolen cloth."

The four set off with sweet potatoes in their arms.His face was red with cold and the tip of his nose was red, but his body was warm.After walking all the way, Ah Liao also asked: "Are there wild boars in your cedar forest?"

A Zhu sniffed, shook his head and said, "There are only a few wild rabbits and foxes out of the woods, so where are the wild boars?"

"Then what did your mother just say?"

"My mother said..." Ah Zhu suddenly stopped, turned to face the three of them, rolled his eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "It's~~ghost~~ah~~"

"Hey, I don't believe it."

The three of them ignored it, but Ah Zhu was the most serious: "I'm not lying to you, in fact, it's not just these two days. Someone said a few months ago that there were a few times when I came back late from chopping firewood. When it was half dark, I heard a woman crying in the woods. But they looked around, and they didn’t see anyone. You said, what is it if it’s not a female ghost? People on the street said that the girl who hanged herself in the woods before came out to cause trouble. "

Xiaoqu snorted and laughed: "Don't tell me, is it half dark? How can you see clearly? Some girl must have something sad and go to the woods to cry and be heard. The girl is ashamed, how can she want to be seen , it’s too late to run.”

"It seems reasonable..." Ah Zhu couldn't come up with a reason to refute for a while, so he said: "In short, I'd rather believe it or not, let's not go to the woods for a while, and don't go there when you go home Shake there."

Li Kuer secretly decided that it would be better to go home earlier, in case something happened to her, and Sister He was not around, and Ah Kui couldn't count on her, and she didn't know if Sister Plum Blossom could be relied on.

"Where are we going now?" She blinked and asked.

A Zhu, Xiao Qu, and A Liao looked at each other ambiguously, and A Zhu pointed to the west and said, "There are twenty or so houses ahead, and there is a pastry shop, let's go and buy some pastries to eat."

Li Ku'er frowned and vaguely felt that the three of them were secretly pregnant, he hesitated and couldn't move.

"Why do I think there is something wrong with your appearance? What are you going to do?"

"Look at you, it's quite strange, go buy some cakes." Xiao Qu blinked, full of doubts.

A Zhu shook his purse, said: "I ask, I ask, I don't want you to spend money."

Li Kuer's chin closed: "It's not that I'm reluctant to spend money, it's just that the three of you seem to have colluded with something."

"No, no, you really think about it. Hurry up and go! I want to buy... Yunpian Cake!"

Seeing this, Li Ku'er had no choice but to continue to follow them. She had a vague guess, but there was no other way, and she couldn't run home halfway.

The four of them stepped on the thick snow and came to a pastry shop.The pastry shop is dilapidated and small, with scattered pastries. There are many types, such as red bean cakes, green tea cakes, crabapple cakes, butterfly cakes, pretzel cakes, and plum vegetable cakes...but there are not many of them, isn't it? It is estimated that only the neighbors here will come to patronize such a big business shop.

The person in charge of the shop was an old woman in her 60s or [-]s. Li Kuer didn't know her, so she only heard Azhu calling her Aunt Deng.

The four of them chose their favorite food, and A Zhu wanted to have a chat with Aunt Deng.I just don't know why, this Mrs. Deng looked so preoccupied, and asked her why she didn't want to talk about it, so the conversation couldn't continue.

The four of them continued to walk forward, and Ah Zhu was still muttering: "In the past, if I brought you here, Mrs. Deng would definitely ask all kinds of questions about your family. I don't know what's wrong now, really. really weird."