Chapter 4 sick

The man with the red kerchief came and came to Ah Hei's house to fight ghosts for Ah Hei and cure Bo Ahei's illness. He had a fever for a month, his face was as red as a camellia, and he just wanted to drink cold water all day long.The weather was getting hotter, and the well water was afraid of being poisoned, so the old man walked three miles all day to buy red bayberry in the ten thousand mu field.The disease is that red bayberry can quench thirst.But Yangmei did not help Ah Hei's illness much.He has a fever and talks nonsense at noon. He may have wished for some god, and he has taken all kinds of medicine. Now it is his turn to invite the old wizard for the last time.The sorcerer came from Gaopotang ten miles away, and it was time to burn the night fire in the afternoon.The man in the red scarf who came to the door brought an apprentice with him, and all the tools for chasing souls and ghosts were carried on the apprentice's back.The old master stood in the dam of Ahei's house, put the bull's horn to his mouth, and blew out a long sad and high-pitched voice, which shocked the whole village, and also alarmed Wuming who was sitting on the stone in the oil workshop grinding the crossbar.He first knew that a master came to Ah Hei's house today, and now he heard the sound of ox horns. He expected the master to enter the house, so he hurriedly gave a drink, stopped the cow, ran down the crossbar, stepped over the milling trough, and ran out of the oil workshop. He rushed to Ah Hei's side of the mountain.

When Wu Ming arrived at Ah Hei's house, the old master was already sitting in the sitting room drinking honey water, so Wu Ming went over to ask the old master how he was.He called this old master his godfather, because he had worshiped this man as his godson three years ago.He squatted on the threshold to play with the master's horns.This is the master's magic weapon, made of buffalo horn, light yellow in color, smooth all over, with patterns and grimaces drawn with gold lacquer, silver whistle, and silver chain hanging. Wuming Huanxi is like Huanxi Ahei.At this time, I couldn't kiss Ah Hei, so I kissed Niujiao.

"Wu Ming child, do you wash your mouth or not? You like to eat dog meat and beef, which smells like garlic. You can't touch magic weapons!" "Where is it? Godfather, smell it." The godfather sniffed Wuming's mouth and kissed Wuming's cheek. Needless to say, even if he had eaten garlic just now, the kiss of a virtuous person this year would wash away the filth. The old master who drank honey water ate and smoked, and Wu Ming offered little courtesy to blow the ashes. The master didn't agree with his master about whether Ah Hei's illness had recovered, but said to Ah Hei's father, "Fourth Brother, Wu Ming will really be a good son-in-law in the future."

"Really, I don't know whose daughter is blessed." "Yes! Look at him! Although he is young, he is so well-behaved. Every time I see his father at the oil factory, I always ask me if my godson has someone in the house. The father always shakes his head, like I am a colleague." He was talking about Tongzi business, deliberately raising the price. Brother, you..." Ah Hei's father saw that the old master brought the matter up to Ah Hei's matter, looked at Wu Ming who was squatting on the side playing with horns, pursed his lips, and said nothing. Voice. The master said, "Wu Ming, did you hear what I said? Be nicer to me next time, and I'll help you find a wife."

"I don't understand." "You don't understand? You're telling the truth. I think you know more than your godfather!" Then Wu Ming blushed, and argued, "Godfather wronged someone." "I heard that you can sing more than a hundred songs, all of which are wild. Who did you learn from?" "It's also unfair." "I heard Xiao Jin tell me that you have done a lot of bold things." "Xiao Jin, this guy is bad! He's fooling around with Sister Bagu, everyone knows it, and no one hides it. Are you qualified to say someone else?"

"But have you ever done something bad?" Wu Ming said, "I don't understand your words." Having said this, Wu Ming blushed, looked at Sibo, put down his horns, stood up, went to the courtyard dam to hunt chickens. The old master smiled at the boy, and at Ah Hei's father.Ah Hei's father knew a little about Wu Ming's relationship with Ah Hei.However, in his heart, he was not as narrow-minded as a father in the city. He only smiled sadly. Children love to play, and when the weather is good, they go to the slopes to play. As long as they don't get cold, it's not a bad thing.When two people are together, fighting and fighting is not a big deal.Since people grow up together, understand things, and like each other, they must become one, and the father seems to have no objection.

To make people stubborn is false etiquette and empty education, neither of which had any influence on Ah Hei's father's mind, so at this time, Wu Ming, who was chasing chickens, heard Ah Hei's cry of thirst and was not afraid of jokes, so he immediately went back to him. The godfather ran past and went to Ah Hei's room. Ah Hei's house is an old tile-roofed house, a three-room building with the main room as the center, and Ah Hei lives in the room on the right.The old house is all old, the walls and floors have lost their original yellow color, and turned to light gray. The windows are made of iron bars, and white paper is used to paste wooden bars for the bars, and there are wooden boards to protect the windows. : Usually open the protective window to let light in.If you are afraid of the wind, put down the grid of pasted paper.It is usually closed at night.Now that Ah Hei has a fever, it is reasonable to avoid the wind and light, but Ah Hei has a bad temper and insists on opening the window, so it is difficult for the father to object, so he complied.

There is a window in this room, facing west, letting in a ray of greenish sunlight.In the bamboo garden outside the window, the bamboo is blown by the breeze, and the bamboo leaves are rustling.It really seems to form an extremely harmonious painting with the patient Ah Hei.With a ray of green sunlight, a string of dust was reflected on the floor dancing with the crystal light, but Ah Hei was lying on the bed, turning his head to one side. A vase of calamus and Chinese roses was inserted in a large bamboo tube. It was originally sent by Wu Ming and placed beside the bed. At this time, I saw a kind of blue wild chrysanthemum in the bamboo tube.There are a few rough wooden utensils in the room, as well as some small bowls and pots, and a pair of flower shoes under the bed.Ah Hei, who was lying on the bed with red arms, had his black hair scattered on the edge of the bed. Wu Ming was so moved for some reason that he wanted to cry.

Ah Hei, who was unconscious, seemed to hear that someone had entered the room, and he didn't raise his head, only crying out for thirst. "Give me water, give me water..." "Sister, there is still water in this pot!" He still seemed to understand Wu Ming's words, so he took a pot and drank. "not enough." Wuming then poured out half a pot of water in order to take down the big gourd hanging on the wall. This water was Wuming's best effort. The spring in the cave flowed out of a hole on the road two or three miles away. Shake is almost half drunk.

The second time she got water and drank it again. After drinking for a while, she regained consciousness a little bit. When Wu Ming put his palm on her forehead, Ah Hei stared at Wu Ming beside the bed. "Sister, are you feeling better?" "Ok." "Do you know me?" Ah Hei didn't answer immediately, as if to pay attention to the person beside the bed.But it wasn't that she was so dizzy that she couldn't recognize people clearly, she was looking for a change in Wu Ming's face. "Wu Ming, why have you lost so much weight?" "Where, I'm fatter, fourth uncle only said that!"

"You've lost weight. Show me your hand." Wu Ming was like his fate, and he fought Ah Hei, and Ah Hei brought it to his lips.She asked Wuming again if he had a severe fever. "Sister, you are at a disadvantage, I feel really sad." "Ghost, who wants you to be sad? What have you been playing these days? Tell me what you did just now? Tell me." "I was sitting in the ox cart, driving the ox and pushing the mill. I heard the horns of the ox in the village. I knew that the master was coming, so I came here quickly." "Is the master here? No wonder I seem to hear someone talking. I'm so burned that I'm so confused." Wu Ming looked at the bed frame in this room, and there were a lot of yellow paper charms pasted in various temples and nunneries. He thought that even if the master came to help, he might not be able to do it, so he remained silent.He thought that the cause of the fever, or when he was not careful, was mostly responsible for him, so he was always very uneasy, and he didn't dare to tell Ah Hei's father about it. He was afraid that Ah Hei had a villain on him.His knowledge only allowed him to be vague about the matter of sleeping and raising children. He was afraid that the little person was playing tricks in his stomach, so he felt that the old master was also in vain.However, he has not yet done what a husband should do, and even if he does, it is not considered serious. Wu Ming stayed in front of Ah Hei for a long time before speaking. "Sister Ah Hei, are you sad?" "And you?" This rhetorical question is an interesting saying in another season, another situation, and another place.At that time, Wu Ming was lying beside Ah Hei, asking Ah Hei, and Ah Hei asked him the same question.The same is pity, but it has been teased there, but here it has become resentment, and Wu Ming is jealous. "What are you doing?" Seeing that Ah Hei paid attention, Wu Ming was afraid of hurting Ah Hei's heart, so he hurriedly laughed back, saying that there was a thorn in his eye. "Little ghost, stop bleeding a little cat pee, don't take me for false mercy." "Sister, you are a patient, don't be too strong and make me sad!" "I make you sad! Do you make me happy at all? When do you say you make me happy?" "I can't make you happy, I know. I, the People's Association..." The words were interrupted by Ah Hei. Seeing that Wu Ming was really angry, Ah Hei pulled him down on the bed.Wu Ming touched Ah Hei's whole body like a furnace of charcoal, and all his anger disappeared. He remembered that Ah Hei was ill at this time, and he could not say anything in front of Ah Hei. Wu Ming soon knelt down beside Ah Hei's bed and helped Ah Hei take the mirror to let Ah Hei straighten his hair. Because the old master was blowing the horns outside, he was recruiting heavenly soldiers and generals. Because of the ox horns, Wu Ming remembered what the godfather who bragged about the ox horns said, and he sued Ah Hei.He told her, "Godfather said that I am a good son-in-law, but I hope I will be the son-in-law of this family. Who knows that the son-in-law has already done so." "What did dad say?" "Uncle Si laughed." "Be on guard against him. One day he will kill you, a bad bastard, with an oil hammer. If he finds out about your shortcomings." "Why am I bad? I don't steal anything." "You don't steal, but you steal..." "Say what?" "Say you should be beaten." So Ah Hei really slapped Wu Ming across the face, lightly, which made Wu Ming feel comfortable. Wu Minglun kept his eyes open, but was not angry, feeling a new hunger, and wanted to bite Ah Hei's tongue again.He forgot that Ah Hei was a patient at this time, and he forgot that he was at Ah Hei's house, the bull's horns were whistling outside, but Wu Ming kissed Ah Hei inside for a long time. When it was dark, the old master put on the red satin cassock, took the treasured knife and the chicken, blew the horns, and chanted mantras all the time, searching for ghosts all over the house, and Wu Ming followed his godfather everywhere.Because Wu Ming is a child, with clear eyes, he can see where ghosts are.At a certain place, the master turned his head to Wuming, and asked Wuming to point in any direction. Wuming pointed with his hand. The master looked fierce, stared at him, stopped with his foot, and threw the egg at the point Wuming pointed at. , So it seemed that the ghost was defeated and caught. A total of nine eggs were beaten, and Wu Ming just thought it was fun. When Wu Ming arrived, he asked his godfather if he had beaten all the ghosts, but the old liar said very seriously that he had already beaten all the ghosts. Wuming went back after the ceremony was finished. The godfather and master went to sleep in the oil workshop of his in-laws because it was inconvenient for him to stay overnight at the oiler's house, and he went with Wuming all the way.Wuming lit the torch in front, the master was in the middle, and the apprentice carrying the magic weapon was behind, and they walked to the oil workshop like this.On the way, the godfather asked Wuming again who girl he liked in the village, but Wuming refused.The old master said that he would be a matchmaker with Wu Ming's father in the future, and Miss Ahei, the oilsmith's family, is so beautiful. It seems that the Taoist master drove away another ghost, but picked up another ghost he didn't expect with his bull's horn, that is, Wuming.So at night, Ah Hei's fever continued unabated.If Ah Hei is good, it's really easy to drive away the entanglements in Ah Hei's heart and sweat!It's a pity that the oiler only looks at the quality of the oil, and knows nothing else. The ghost catcher asks the ghost to show the direction of another ghost, and spoils the eggs. Ah Hei's illness has to last for thirty days. . Why did Ah Hei's illness improve after he arrived?But Wuming wanted to go to Tongmu village to see his uncle meet and drink, and he went there for ten days.Ten days without seeing Wuming, Ah Hei didn't have a heartbeat or tiredness, so when he achieved the master's bragging ability, the ghost really left, and the illness gradually receded, and the person recovered slowly. Back in Yuan'ao, Wu Ming, who had gone to drink, was still wearing new clothes, so he hurried to see Ah Hei.It was almost dark, and the sky was full of clouds.Behind the house there was a weaver lady spinning a wheel, Ah Hei wrapped a flower handkerchief, sat on the stone bed in the courtyard dam, and scratched the little pig. Ah Hei was also wearing a freshly laundered flowered cotton dress, looking very beautiful.Wu Ming barely recognized Ah Hei at first sight, thinking that Ah Hei was a newlywed. "Sister, you are all right!" Ah Hei looked up at Wu Ming and saw Wu Ming wearing new clothes, hat, white socks and blue shoes, knowing that he had just returned from drinking in Tongmu village, he laughed and said, "Wu Ming, you are here as a groom." This is wrong, what Wu Ming heard was "come here to be a groom" instead of "have been a groom", so he hurried over and stood beside Ah Hei.He laughed when he thought of Ah Hei's words, and forgot to ask when Ah Hei recovered from his illness. In the purple-gold twilight scene, Wu Ming sat side by side with Ah Hei.He felt that Ah Hei could be called Ah Bai at this time, because he had been sick for a month and his face had turned pale. He saw Ah Hei's face was very thin, and he didn't know how to love this person.He touched Ah Hei's chin with his hand, and Ah Hei sucked Wu Ming's finger with his mouth, without making a sound. In normal times, Wu Ming often said that Ah Hei is Guanyin, but he just wanted to praise Ah Hei, but couldn't find a good sentence, and borrowed it to express his willingness to bow his head and surrender.At this time, Wu Ming really felt that Ah Hei was Guanyin!So merciful, so elegant, so gentle, imagine that Guanyin will never be more noble and humane than this person.In addition to the long-term illness and new illness, and the separation of ten days, Wu Ming felt that being a human being was as happy as being an emperor.