One of the big boys

Huang Laoyao looked quite old, his face was wrinkled together, and his front teeth were gone.He touched Baisui's hand, "Scared. Nothing else. Peach wood to ward off evil spirits, find some peach tree branches to put on the bedside. Help him call his soul at night."

In the afternoon of the centenary, it was burned twice again.Zhang Bao and Da Zhuang sat by the bed and watched, wishing to suffer this crime for Bai Sui.

It was finally late at night, so Zhang Bao wiped Bai Sui and let him sleep.Da Zhuang opened the yard door and the house door, and stood outside the yard and shouted loudly, "Hai Sui, I'm home."

Da Zhuang and Zhang Bao have been afraid to sleep, for fear of burning up on the eve of the centenary.In the middle of the night, Baisui was basically gone, and the two were relieved.Da Zhuang asked Zhang Bao to sleep first, "Bao'er, you sleep first, I will watch."

"Go to sleep, I'll watch. It shouldn't be burned. I won't go to town tomorrow, and I'll catch up on sleep at home tomorrow. Go to sleep first."

Waking up the next morning, seeing Zhang Bao and Baisui sleeping soundly, Da Zhuang hugged Wu Zhuang who had opened his eyes.I tried my hand on the forehead of the hundred-year-old, but fortunately it didn't burn.Early in the morning, I took Wu Zhuang out to find Peach Tree.There is a peach tree behind Dashi’s house. It’s late autumn, and there are still a few peaches hanging on it.Ama Dashi heard someone talking and came over to have a look, "There are familiar ones in the room. I'll bring them for you."

"Don't, we don't pick peaches." Da Zhuang told the story of Bai Sui being frightened.Dashi Ahma nodded, "It's okay if the child is scared, it will be fine once the soul returns."

As soon as Zhang Bao woke up, he saw Baisui lying beside him with a smile on his face, and he stretched out his hand to feel his fever, and sure enough, he didn't have a fever. "Little darling is so energetic. Let's get up and play."

Da Zhuang was worried, and went home at noon, "I'm going to pick peach branches today, so Dashi thinks I'm going to pick peaches."

It's late autumn now, Zhang Bao was surprised, "Are there still peaches on the tree?"

"Yes. Dashi's peaches ripen late."

Speaking of peaches, Zhang Bao recalled that many babies in modern times wear little baskets with small locks carved in peach pits.It happened that there were still some peaches at home, so he kept the peach pits, and he wanted to carve something for each of the children in the family.

At dinner in the evening, Zhang Bao announced that the peach pits should be kept after eating the peaches.

After saving for two days, I saved five peach pits.Put the peach pits in the sun for a day, and the meat sticking to the peach pits will dry up.Zhang Bao made a tool for carving peach pits by himself, and when he had nothing to do, he carved peach pits with a knife.It was also the first time for Zhang Bao to carve a peach pit, and it took a day to carve the first small lock.I showed it to my family, and everyone said it looked good.Especially Da Zhuang, holding a small lock with a peach pit, said, "This little lock is like Bao'er, so handsome." Zhang Bao was happy in his heart, but said, "What a bad metaphor. Peach pits can be compared with me. Compare."

Seeing that Zhang Bao was holding a small knife at that moment every day when he was free, Da Zhuang was also curious, so he followed him when he was free.When the husband and wife are free, they will be together every moment.After the engraving is finished, put on the red string and put it on the neck of the children in the family.

Seeing that the couple are doing nothing at this moment, the customers in the store can't help but ask curiously, "What are you engraving?"

Zhang Bao raised his head and replied with a smile, "Carve a small basket out of peach pits for my baby to wear."

Li Yuhan came in shaking his fan, "The engraving is not bad, it's small and delicate."

"Come to eat?" Zhang Bao saw a lot of people behind Li Yuhan.

"I'm here for dinner. I also booked the afternoon seat. My father-in-law's family came from Xicheng to listen to the lecture."

"Okay." Zhang Baoyang shouted, "Mosquito, arrange a good seat for Li Yuhan to listen to the book."

Li Yuhan picked up the small basket engraved by Zhang Bao and looked at it, "Why do you engrave this?"

Da Zhuang said, "Give me a hundred-year-old wear to ward off evil spirits." Da Zhuang also specially rolled up the sleeves of the hundred-year-old, revealing the thin neck with the red string, "This is carved by Bao'er."

Li Yuhan then asked, "Isn't evil spirits to be warded off by putting mahogany branches in children's quilts?"

"Hanging peach pits can also ward off evil spirits."

Hearing this answer, Li Yuhan grabbed the small basket in his hand, "Then give this to me, my brother is going to give birth this winter. Alright, I'm going to sit down."

Without waiting for Zhang Bao and Da Zhuang to react, Li Yuhan took the small basket and left.

Zhang Bao muttered angrily, "Hey, bastard."

On the morning of the first day of the twelfth lunar month, when Li Zhou opened the store door, he saw a brother wrapped in an old cotton jacket with a child outside the house.

Look carefully at this brother, isn't it Zhang Jiaqin, Angkor's sister-in-law?Zhang Jiaqin cried twice and said that he came to find Angkor.Li Zhou hated this man and was unwilling to talk to him, "Angkor hasn't gotten up yet. Let's talk about something when he gets up."

"I can't wait for this matter." Zhang Jiaqin wiped the corners of his eyes pretentiously, "Angkor, he's gone. Tell Angkor to go and have a look."

Angkor's aunt was seriously ill two years ago, and Zhang Jiaqin also came to ask for money for this matter.After all, it was a matter of life and death, Li Zhou nodded, and called Li Dahe out to look at the store, and he walked into the back room. "Angkor, your sister-in-law said that your grandma is gone. Why don't you go and see today, it's not too cold today."

Hearing the news, Angkor was stunned, "Then let's do it today."

Li Zhou went out to set up a car, but Angkor's mind went blank.Ah Mo doesn't want him, it's one thing to push him to suffer, but now that Ah Mo is gone, he really becomes a brother without Ah Mo.I can't even cry, but my heart is stuffy, dull and uncomfortable.

Take Zhang Jiaqin back home together.Seeing Ah Mo lying on the bed with a pale face, at that moment, sadness burst out, and Angkor rushed forward and cried for a long time.The person next to him pulled, and Li Zhou hugged Angkor into his arms, "Don't cry, don't cry, be careful of the child in your stomach." Perhaps infected by Ah Mo's sadness, the child in his stomach trembled uneasily. twice.

Seeing Angkor crying so sadly, Zhang Jiaqin twisted his thighs, sat on the ground and began to cry, "Ah, why did you leave? Treat your illness, our family is poor. That's it We didn't keep you either. We are poor, we have no funeral expenses, and there is only a broken mat left at home. Oh, why don't you just open your eyes and see, why did you leave?"

Angkor and Li Zhou found out that they went to them early in the morning to ask for funeral expenses.I suddenly became disgusted in my heart, and the original sadness was washed away by this disgusting emotion.Look at the father and elder brother next to him, standing with their heads down, not saying a word.Angkor's heart suddenly felt worse than being pricked by a needle.He took out more than 500 copper coins he had saved from sewing dolls and put them on the bed, "This is the money I saved myself. You can take it and bury Ah Mo. My stomach feels a little uncomfortable, so I will go back first." The money was just paid off last month, and the more than 500 copper coins were saved by Li Zhou who loved him and asked him to buy some snacks.

Li Yiyi heard that Angkor's stomach was uncomfortable, so he quickly helped him into the carriage and went back to town. "Angkor, hold back, let's go directly to the medical clinic when we get to the town."

"Brother Zhou, I'm fine. I lied to them by saying my stomach hurts. I just don't want to stay there anymore."

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