Jia Mo

Sending the abducted children back one by one, Afu hugged the cubs and led Fulan and the black cat back home.

Afu's thatched hut is at the entrance of the village. Walk to the end of the gravel road, turn onto the dirt road, and then turn around a crumbling rotten earth wall. The houses in the village with horse-headed walls and diamond windows are getting farther and farther away from them. It turned into a tile house and an earthen house, and then into a thatched shed.Finally, I stepped across the field in the dark, and found a lonely small hut standing at the bottom of the eastern hillside. There was a tallow tree growing beside the chaimen, and the dark leaves blocked a dark shadow. That was the home of Afu's mother and son.

As soon as she entered the door, Afu knelt down holding the pup's head, and said: "Thank you two masters for saving your life. The little lady has nothing to repay. Tomorrow, I will definitely offer you raw chickens and live ducks. I hope you two masters will accept it with a smile."

The black cat was so greedy that it couldn't even move when it saw the meaty legs.It was so fat later on, it was all raised by Afu.Hearing that there are chickens and ducks, the black cat quickly cleared its throat and said, "Where is it? It's just a matter of saving a little doll. But you insist on repaying your favor, and we can't refuse. So let's do it, the chicken will be white." Chopped, the duck is turned into salted duck, the taste of the old man is bland, remember to add more green onions.”

"So you are monsters who eat cooked food, what about this young master?"

The black cat said: "He eats the wind and drinks the dew, and only drinks the northwest wind. Don't worry about him, you just need to serve the old man well."

The pup broke free from Afu and rushed towards Fulan, "Brother!" Fulan was startled by him, pushed his head and pushed him out, the pup was stubborn and stuck to him again, and Fulan pushed him away again. He pushed out, and the pup twisted into his arms.

The puppy took out a pack of braised pork from his arms, opened it, touched it, and said, "It's cold. There is no meat at home today. I ran all over the village to find two yuan. I wanted to give it to you, but it was half-baked." On the way, he was caught by the strange grandpa."

Fu Lan touched the top of his head.

Afu was stunned, and smiled: "So you are the new friends that the dog said. Before going to bed at night, this child always said that he met a little brother and a cat. He used to say that he met a little playmate, but it turned out not The clay doll he made by himself was just out of his imagination, and once he regarded his own shadow as a friend. I thought it was the same this time." She stretched out her hand, touched the pup's small body, and said, "This child Playing alone, I am too busy to take care of him, thank you for your company these few days, the little lady is very grateful."

"It's easy to say, easy to say," the black cat also laughed, "I am very happy to see this doll is cute."

"But, pup," Afu turned her head and said with a smile, "Aren't you at Mrs. Shen's house? How did you meet my brother, Master Cat?"

Her smile was a little menacing, but Fulan was innocent at that time and didn't know how to read words and expressions, so she let the puppy tremble and explain everything.It was not until later that Fulan found out that this woman, Afu, belonged to Yasha, and he was already Afu's godson at that time.There was no oil at home, so he took the puppy to the street to make soy sauce, and happened to see Afu fighting in front of a house.It seemed that the hostess had cheated Afu of her wages and accused her of seducing a man. Afu beat the couple so disheveled and fucked up. When she raised her head, she saw her two sons standing in the crowd.

Afu straightened her clothes and looked gentle and pleasant again, and said with a smile, "Come out to help?"

Fu Lan nodded in a daze.

Afu put two big coins in his palm, patted his head, and said, "Go, buy fruit and eat."

When a woman goes crazy, demons and goblins will stay away.This is the truth that Fulan learned at that time.

But Afu didn't get angry after knowing that the pup was taken away by the black cat and stole the hen and braised pork from Mrs. Shen's house.Probably because of the presence of Black Cat and Fulan, she just smiled, and Wen Yan told Gou Zaixia not to be an example, and will go to the aunt's house tomorrow to make amends and apologize.The pup knew his own mother's temperament, so he was shaking like a sieve, and the black cat wondered why the kid was so flabbergasted.

Afu went to pour two cups of tea, took Fulan's hand and asked him where he came from.Fu Lan answered all of them. He came from southern Xinjiang, and the black cat picked him up. He is a cat demon who was looking for miracles all the way. He arrived in Wujiang a few days ago.Under the lamplight, the woman's brows and eyes melt together, with an indescribable tenderness. Fu Lan inexplicably feels that she looks like the statue of Nuwa in the Empress Temple, as long as she is under the dark eaves of the temple, she seems to be home.

Finally she asked: "You have no place to go, do you want to stay at my house? Aunt Shen is not dedicated to taking care of the pups, I dare not bother her anymore. You help me take care of the pups, as long as my Afu can eat chicken butts , you must have chicken legs to eat."

Asking two monsters to take care of her child, only Afu dared to do so.She was a woman who was used to recklessness, and this wasn't the most outrageous thing she'd ever done in her life.For the chicken, duck and pork, the black cat agreed wholeheartedly, although the job of taking care of the puppies actually fell on Fulan.

Fulan became Wujiang's most competent mother.He learned how to make rice paste, stir-fry green vegetables, make dumplings with oil residue, make mugwort fruit, help the pups wash the sheets wet with urine, and wash the pups' muddy and dusty jacket and trousers.Sometimes I have to clean the house, the family is not big, one thatched hut is used as the main room, the other is used as the bedroom, and half of the room with collapsed walls is used as the stove.

After Fulan came, Afu slept in the main room, and Fulan's cub slept in the same room as the black cat.In order to save money, the house does not often light up lights, the main room is dark, only two dimly lit ever-burning lamps on the divine table, and a tearful red candle enshrines a memorial tablet.It was not Fuxi or Nuwa who was enshrined, but Afu's man, and it was written "Yuanwei real person ascends to immortality".

"This is my man," Afu wiped the tablet carefully with a damp cloth. The dim light reflected on her face, and she had a sinister smile. "When I was pregnant in October, he went south to Xianshan. Back, there is no news so far. I think he has attained enlightenment and became a fairy. You see, I set up a tablet, hoping that he will keep our mother and child safe and have a long life."

The black cat felt a little chilled, and said: "This is not good. Over the years, the old man has never heard of anyone who has attained great success in Taoism and attained immortality. Aren't you cursing him to death like this?"

"Oh," Afu's smile remained unchanged, her brows and eyes curved, "If you don't want my man, I'll treat him as dead."

Black Cat: "..."

Sometimes things go wrong at home.The pup was naughty, once while the black cat was sleeping, he cut the black cat's beard.When the black cat woke up and looked in the mirror, he immediately felt ashamed, and hid under the cabinet and refused to come out.When Afu came back, she was furious, and with a razor, she shaved the pup into a bald head.

The pup cried faintly, "I have no hair!"

"You have no hair, Master Cat has no beard yet," Afu held his ear and scolded, "What are you doing with your hands? You're just making trouble for others! I'll chop off your hands tomorrow."

"I don't want a mother anymore!" The puppy wiped away tears, and rushed into the house, wrapped his shiny head with a green cloth and floral handkerchief, packed a small bundle and came out, holding Fulan's hand to leave.

Fu Lan was at a loss, Afu pulled him and said, "What are you doing? You can leave as soon as you want, why are you holding your brother?"

"Brother, come with me!" the pup yelled.

Afu pulled Fu Lan over, "Little bastard, it's the wrong way! You go alone! Get out, get out as far as possible, you shouldn't have been born in the first place!"

The cub really ran away from home, Fu Lan stayed for a while, but followed him out.The pup walked around with a small burden on his back, and Fu Lan silently followed behind him.With a floral kerchief wrapped around his head and a bundle on his back, he looked like an angry little daughter-in-law.Later, the pup's stomach growled, and Fu Lan took out two copper coins and bought him steamed buns.Two male dolls, one big and one small, squatted on the side of the road together, watching the people coming and going on the street.Some passers-by saw them and threw a few copper plates on the soles of their feet.

At night, the pup caught wind outside and developed a high fever.Fu Lan carried him home, Master Cat had already come out from under the cabinet, and came over to rub the sleeping pup.Afu unwrapped the pup's bag and saw that there was only one of his father's spirit cards inside.This little baby ran away from home with nothing but his father whom he had never met.

That was the first time Fulan saw Afu cry.

Afu once said that a person has traveled through mountains and rivers in his life, thousands of miles, and sometimes, just to meet someone and reunite with someone.Afu didn't say who it was, and the black cat secretly told Fulan that that person was Qi Shenwei.Sometimes Afu would stand under the eaves in a daze, and Fulan later found out that they were kneeling down there to worship heaven and earth and became husband and wife.

"Marriage is a kind of promise, Fulan," said Afu, who was sitting under the eaves drinking and shaking his legs, "promise that you will always treat her well in this life, and always keep her in your heart." .”

Fulan's heart was quiet, like smoke and water, a vast expanse.But at that time, there was a sudden wave in his heart, as if he had a wish.

"Can I marry my younger brother?" Fu Lan said, "I will treat him well and put him at ease for the rest of my life." He thought for a while and said, "Afu, I have climbed many mountains from Nanjiang to Wujiang, I met him after crossing a lot of water, just like you said. Dog, is that the one I want to meet?"

Afu was stunned for a long time, staring blankly at the boy with black hair and black eyes.His eyes are quiet, and every word is serious.

"Okay," Afu drank too much wine and felt a little dizzy. She smiled with her face propped up, "I will marry you the pup when you grow up and don't regret it."