Chapter 24 tear soup

The servants in the firewood room asked Binu to take off her mourning robe before entering Zhan's mansion. After taking off a blackened mourning robe for a long time, she finally took off. Binu stood in the firewood room crying with that robe.The servant came and said, don't cry now, we don't have a tear jar here, so many tears fall on the woodpile, you cry for nothing!They grabbed the robe from Binu's hand and threw it on the woodpile. Seeing Binu's tearful eyes staring at the robe on the woodpile, the servant guessed her thoughts and said, you woman, are you afraid that we will steal this Torn mourning robe?When our Zhan family held funerals, even the white robes worn by the stone lions were made of soft satin. Don't think that we are carrying firewood in the woodshed, just watching people through the door!Binu didn't say anything, her gaze was still fixed on the robe, and the servant's face showed a mocking expression. He went to pick up the mourning robe with a long wooden stick, and picked it up on the highest firewood pile. willing?We won't burn it if we don't want it, I'll keep it for you, and come to the firewood room to get it after you cry.

An old man with a long beard came to take Binu.They walked along a corridor and walked through the courtyard, where a lot of silk cotton, red dates and bacon were drying in the yard, and the maid was beating clothes by the well, and the three rows of drying racks were full of beauty, full of clothes of men and women , some have been washed, some are made of winter clothes in the sun, a blue fur gown with leopard sleeves hanging on the top, and a yellow silk face gown with phoenix birds and flowers, which makes people's eyes dazzle, Three crowns of skins, one of deerskin, one of bear, and one of leopard, stood on a stand, and it looked like the ghosts of those animals basking in the sun.Binu guessed that the owner of the robe should be Lord Zhan, but she couldn't tell whether the three leather crowns were worn on the head, on the feet, or on the hands?She stared at the three leather crowns, and the old servant turned around and shouted in dissatisfaction, don't look around, it's useless if you understand the things in Zhan's house, they are not for your use!

The old servant walked towards a strong smell of herbs and took Binu into a dark room.It is the place where Zhan's mansion boils medicine.The medicine stove was boiling, and it was steaming hot, filling the room with a pungent smell. The furnace worker focused on guarding the fire. Two medicine workers, one was cutting the medicinal materials at the table, and the other was busy by the stove with a stirring stick in his hand.And in the corner of the room, several women, boys, and girls were sitting in the dark, each holding an altar and weeping into it.The old servant yelled, and the new weeping man, give her the biggest jar!A fat woman flashed out from the darkness and brought a half-person-high pot to Binu. She said, I heard that your tears are many and good. I want to see how many tears you have. How nice!

Maybe it was because they heard that the tears of the newcomers were extraordinary, and the weeping people occasionally raised their heads from the jar to look at Bi Nu, their eyes were full of suspicion and hostility, but it was the medicine worker who cut the medicine who came over to give advice to Bi Nu. The slave's order also reveals some rare thoughtfulness, you cry slowly, aim at the jar, cry for a while and rest for a while.He said, don't cry too sadly, it's useless to be sad, we just need tears, weep half the jar and call me, and we have to taste it before putting it in the furnace!

Binu sat down with the jar in his arms, watching the teardrops pouring their tears into the jar with precision. There was a beep on one side, and a sound on the other side. The eyes of the teardrops were like the eaves after the rain. Up is a strange tear workshop.Binu looked around in bewilderment, she knew she should cry now, but when she should cry, she was still thinking about the purpose of the three leather crowns, thinking that Qiliang's winter clothes had not been found yet, she was so worried, but couldn't cry for a while. My tears are sweet!A boy suddenly stopped crying, stared at Binu and asked, what does your tears taste like?No matter how many tears you adults have, they are all bitter, astringent, salty, and you cannot shed sweet tears!

Before Binu had time to say anything, a woman next to her said with inexplicable jealousy that she would shed the best tears in Wugu City. What are sweet tears?People will shed tears with all kinds of flavors, and I don't know how much rewards they will get. Where does Wuweilei come from?The tears that flow from a pair of eyes have only one taste!I tasted it and knew it must be a lie.The boy leaned over to look at Binu's jar, he was about to poke his finger down, and when he saw that it was empty, he shouted, why are you still not crying?you won't cry?Haven't you ever been sad?

Binu said, child, I will cry, but I have encountered too many sad things, and once I sit here, I can't think of anything. If I can’t think about it, I have to think about it, and think about the saddest thing. I think about how my father threw me in the duck house. They came to pick up eggs, and then they took me out. My body was full of duck feathers and duck dung!People still call me Duck Feather, but when I think of my name, tears come to my eyes!The boy hurriedly turned his face to the tear altar, and put a few more tears in the altar. He said, the sweet tears of our children are the most rare, and it takes a long time to store half of the jar of tears. I don't understand, how to bring tears down, you can ask them.

The women who were busy crying were very reserved at first. After a while, they heard that Binu's jar hadn't moved, so they raised their heads and stared at Binu, hurry up, you can only get money when the jar is full of tears, and you are a miserable life Girl, how can there be nothing sad?Close your eyes and think about it and cry?The fat woman hugged the jar and squeezed to Binu's side, she said, I think you cried too much at the gate of the city, your tears were wasted on the ground, and now you can't get them back!What's wrong with the people at the gate of the city, I can guess without telling you, there are more bad people than good people.But when you get here, you can't expect anyone to make you cry. Mr. Zhan invited us here, so we can't get another master who bullies women to make you cry, right?Anyway, it's a pair of eyes, a jar, how many tears you cry, it all depends on your own ability!

Binu nodded, she put her face on the mouth of the altar, held back for a while and then raised her head, the tears still did not come out, Binu was a little flustered, and asked the fat woman, big sister, I cried too much along the way, would you Will you cry your tears dry? Don't cry for a woman's tears, don't worry, your eyes are blind from crying, and there are still tears!The fat woman pointed to her eyes and said, look at my eyes, they are all swollen into walnuts, aren't they still crying here?The few of us have been crying here for many days. The ladies and wives are not well, and we have to cry every day. How many people outside are jealous of us, saying that they exchange tears for knives and coins for food, the cheapest job for women in the world, Why don't you cry now?cry now!

The medicine worker came over again, he thought it was the other tear people who hindered Binu, so he drove them away from her, and then went to encourage Binu, waiting for your Wuweilei on the stove, maybe your jar of tears can It is worth five altars of tears, you have to cry hard