My Weird Life

  Chapter 742 "Peach God" (12)

   "Zhang Wazi, Zhang Wazi...

  Home is at the side of the three peach trees at the west end..." The old man with yellow hair murmured, repeating Su Wu's words several times, he raised his eyes to look at Su Wu again.

  Su Wu's expression was calm, and after being stared at by him for a while, his expression remained the same.

  The old man paused a few times on the ground with his cane, and there was a smile on his face: "This old man remembered—in Zhang Hu’s house, there was indeed a child who got lost a few years ago—

   is called Zhang Wazi!

  You are actually Zhang Wazi? !

  Zhang Wazi looks handsome..."

  The old man seemed to be more pleasing to the eye as he looked at the 'Zhang Wazi' in front of him, and said to Su Wu with a smile on his face: "You fell into the water, and it is a great blessing for your family to be able to drift along the water and be rescued.

   After staying outside for so many years, what have you learned?

  Go to the old man's house later, the old man will entertain you well, and you should also tell the old man what you have learned outside, we haven't seen anyone come back from the village for many years..."

  The yellow-haired old man was talking, touched the heads of the two children beside him, bowed his head and said with a smile to the two children: "You go and inform Mrs. Han and ask her to prepare a table of good meals. This old man wants to entertain guests..."

  Before the old man finished speaking, Su Wu hurriedly saluted the old man, and said to the old man: "The boy has been away from home for a long time, and he is very homesick.

  Now I want to go home and see my parents,

  When the coming day comes, I will invite Mrs. Han and the rest of the village to come to my house together, so that I can tell you in detail what I have seen and heard outside in the past few years.

   Also, Mrs. Han please let me go home now, to meet my parents! "

   Zhongzu once told him that he must not stay in Taoyuan Village for more than seven days.

  Once it exceeds seven days, there is no possibility of returning to the human world.

  If he accepts the banquet invitation of "Old Master Han", tomorrow other villagers will come to invite Su Wu to the banquet. If Su Wu refuses to go, he will be hated by other villagers, and it will be difficult for him to move forward in the village.

  Even with the status of a ‘village person’,

  It is no different from not having this identity.

What Su Wu said was sincere and affectionate, and his reasons for refusing the banquet were reasonable, and Mrs. Han couldn't refuse, especially when he said that he would hold a banquet in the coming day and invite all the people in the village to his house , He will tell everyone what he has seen and heard from the outside world in recent years. In this way, Mrs. Han has no reason to refuse.

So he stroked his beard, nodded and said: "Indeed, you have just returned to the village. You should meet your parents first. They thought you had drowned and died. I don't know how happy you are to see you come home alive." !

   Forget it, other things will be discussed after you reunite with your parents and family members! "

  The old man gave Su Wu a look of approval,

Then he lowered his head and said to the children beside him: "Go to Uncle Zhang's house at the west end of the village, invite Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to come here, and tell them that Wazi Zhang is not dead, and now he is back to the village alive and well! "

  Several children responded noisily, holding kites, windmills and other toys, and ran away quickly.

  Grandpa Han and Su Wu stood at the entrance of the village.

  The old man frequently asked Su Wu questions, and Su Wu answered them fluently.

   Not long after, other villagers greeted Mrs. Han, and seeing Su Wu, a familiar face here, they also came over to talk, and they were all surprised when they learned that Su Wu was 'Zhang Wazi'.

  Taoyuan villagers talked in a hurry.

   Someone asked Su Wu what he had seen outside;

   Someone asked Su Wu if he still remembered who he was;

  Someone invited Su Wu to his house as a guest.

  The villagers here are indeed extremely simple and kind, and any outsider who enters here will be fascinated by the simplicity and cleanliness of the people here, and will linger here forever.

  Su Wu was surrounded by so many "simple villagers", but his thoughts were running at high frequency and his mind was highly concentrated.

   Trembling, like walking on thin ice.

  On the surface, he is casual, but in fact he takes every question raised by the surrounding villagers seriously.

  Based on the written records on many tombstones on both sides of the river under the "rubbing" of my own thoughts, combined with each other, to answer some questions from the villagers about the customs of Taoyuan Village,

  He couldn't answer some questions, so he prevaricated by saying that he was still young when he left and had no impression.

  When someone asked him about what he had seen and heard outside Taoyuan Village, he said that he would invite everyone to a banquet at his house in the future, and he would talk about his experiences outside in recent years.

  Such a variety of appropriate responses made him quickly accepted by the villagers of Taoyuan.

  Really regarded him as the 'Zhang Wazi' who fell into the water and disappeared.

   "My son, my son!"

   "My son!"

  At this time, there were bursts of shouts from outside the crowd.

The many villagers around Su Wu heard the shouts and turned their heads to look back. From the outside to the inside, the villagers made way for a couple layer by layer. Looking anxious, he rushed into the crowd and suddenly saw Su Wu whose face and height were far different from theirs, but they all burst into tears instantly.

  The woman caressed Su Wu's face with her hand, and stared at Su Wu with her eyes, as if she wanted to imprint Su Wu's facial features into the depths of her mind.

  She murmured: "Really, really my son...

   is my Zhang Wazi!

  My son! "

   "Bless the ancestors, bless the ancestors!

  Our old Zhang family will never be extinct. There are some successors in the old Zhang family! "The half-hundred old man next to him was also wailing.

  The three people from the "Old Zhang Family" hugged each other and cried,

  The onlookers were all happy for them when they saw this,

  Some women even quietly blushed their eyes.

  Su Wu also had a mixed look of sadness and joy when he finally saw his parents, but saw that his parents had gray hair. With red circles, he hugged the two half-centenarians tightly, and wept silently.

  His sincere expression moved the onlookers the most.

  A woman who has not left the cabinet felt pity for her when she saw her, and handed her handkerchief to her to wipe away her tears.

  After crying for a while, the three members of the old Zhang’s family finally calmed down under the comfort of the surrounding villagers. The three walked together to their own house with three peach trees at the west end of the village.

  The villagers were deeply moved when they saw the backs of the three walking together.

Following behind Lao Zhang and his wife, Su Wu gradually stopped the mixed expressions of sadness and joy, and dealt with the nagging of Zhang's mother next to him - he was very different from Zhang's mother and Zhang's father in appearance, but the other party recognized him as the second child at a glance. son of man,

   There is a reason for this.

  The reason is that his greetings with the onlookers at the head of the village have already convinced many villagers to accept him and recognize him as a "Taoyuan Villager".

  In this way, a certain law of circulation under the "Taoyuan Village" was quietly triggered,

  It made Zhang's father and Zhang's mother recognize him as his son without any doubt!

   This is already a kind of convenience brought to me by being a "village person"!

  Follow the Zhang couple back to 'home',

  Parents ordered him to sit at home. The two said that they wanted to prepare a good meal for their son. After they left the main room, they did not go to the woodshed, but went out of the yard together.

  Su Wu was sitting in the main room, and when he saw the two walking out of the courtyard, with a swipe of his palm, a piece of yellow talisman paper appeared in his palm.

  He wrote the word 'eye' on the yellow talisman paper, then stood up, looked at the furnishings in the main room,

   walked to a loess wall,

  Paste the yellow talisman on that wall.

The word 'eye' on the yellow talisman paper instantly turned into the 'Eye of the Six Heavenly Ghost' with three double pupils. The pupils of the eyes converged, penetrated the wall, and saw the scene behind the main room outside the wall.

  Outside the hall, three peach trees were planted.

Zhang and his wife walked to the third peach tree from the left, knelt down in front of the peach tree and kowtowed a few times, then groped under the peach tree for a while, and took out from under the peach tree a depilated, burnt skin and water A half-cooked chicken, a pig's head that was also half-cooked, and a few hard, scorched steamed buns.

  Half-cooked chickens, half-cooked pig heads, and burnt steamed buns are all sacrifices that often appear at the graves of the dead.

  Su Wu wrote down the location of the peach tree that Zhang and his wife knelt down to worship.

  At this time, Zhang's mother opened and closed her lips, as if saying something to Zhang's father.

  Father Zhang also moved his lips and said a few words.

  Su Wu, who was observing secretly, then read out the 'lips' of the two.

  The mother looked puzzled, and first said: "My son has already returned home, why didn't the 'Peach God' give him the clothes and food he deserved?"

Zhang's father looked under the peach tree, but he did not see his son's clothes and food appearing under the peach tree. He hesitated for a while, and replied: "It should be early, our son just came back, so Peach God was not prepared.

  Come back tomorrow morning, come back tomorrow morning. "

   "Is it just because the son came back too early?" Mother Zhang frowned, "I just bowed down sincerely and thanked the Peach God for sending my son back. The Peach God should respond.

   But it doesn't respond at all..."

   "Then what do you think is the reason?" Zhang's father was a little anxious, and stared at him, "Do you think our son is not our son?!"

   He lowered his voice for the second half of the sentence, and spoke with his back to Peach Tree.

  His words can be heard in the ears of others, and may be difficult for others to understand.

  But Mother Zhang reacted instantly when she heard the words, and shook her head again and again: "How is it possible?

   That child looks exactly like you did when you were young!

   That is our son! "

   "Then what are you worried about?!

   Go go go!

   Today is such a happy day, don't say those spoiling things, and look at it tomorrow, tomorrow the peach **** should send his son's clothes and food! Zhang's father dragged Zhang's mother, carrying all kinds of food around the back wall of the main room, and walked towards the main courtyard gate.

  Su Wu took one last 'look' at the peach tree that provided food and clothing for Zhang's family, removed the spell on the wall of the main room, and walked around in the main room, still looking at the various furnishings in his own house.

  Father Zhang and mother Zhang also came back from the back of the house with pig's head, fat chicken, and steamed buns. After greeting the "son" in the main room, they went to the firewood room to prepare meals, talking and laughing.

  (end of this chapter)