Sending the kidnapped children back one by one, Afu hugged the puppy and led Fu Lan and the black cat back home.
Afu's thatched hut is at the entrance of the village. When he walks to the end of the stone road, he turns to the muddy road, and then turns over a crumbling and rotten dirt wall. It turned into a brick house, and then turned into a thatched shack. In the end, I stepped across the ridge in the dark, and a solitary little thatched hut stood at the bottom of the eastern hillside. A tallow tree grew beside the Chaimen. The dark leaves blocked a dark shadow. That was the home of Afu's mother and son.
As soon as he entered the door, Afu knelt down with the dog's head and said, "Thank you two masters for saving each other. The little woman can't repay it. I will serve live chickens and ducks tomorrow, and I hope the two masters will laugh at her."
The black cat is greedy, and can't move when it sees its fleshy legs. It was so fat later, and it was all provided by Afu. Hearing that there were chickens and ducks, the black cat hurriedly cleared his throat and said, "Where are you? It's just saving a baby. It's a big effort. But if you insist on repaying your kindness, we can't refuse it. So let's make the chicken white. The duck is chopped, the duck is made into a salted duck, the old man has a weak taste, 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 dog broke free from Afu and rushed towards Fu Lan, "Brother!" Fu Lan was taken aback by him and pushed him out by pressing his head. He pushed out, and the pup twisted into his arms.
The dog took out a packet of braised pork from his arms, opened it, touched it, and said, "It's cold. There is no meat at home today, so I went all over the village to find two pieces. I wanted to give it to you, but half I was caught by the strange grandpa on the way."
Fu Lan touched the top of his head.
Afu was stunned and smiled: "So you are the new friends that the dog said. Before this child goes to bed at night, he always says that he has met a little brother and a cat. He used to say that he met a little playmate, but the result is not The clay doll he squeezed was just a blind idea, and once he regarded his shadow as a friend. I thought it was the same this time." She stretched out her hand and touched the little body of the dog, saying, "This child Playing alone, I am too busy to take care of him, thank you two for being with me these few days, the little lady is very grateful."
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say," the black cat also smiled, "The old man is very happy when he sees this doll is cute."
"But, puppy," Afu turned her head and smiled, "Aren't you at Aunt Shen's house? How did you meet your brother Cat Master?"
Her smile was a bit sinister, but at that time, Fu Lan was pure-hearted and didn't know how to read words and expressions. It was only later that Fu Lan found out that Afu was a Yaksha woman. At that time, he was already Afu's godson. There was no oil at home, so he took the dog to the street to make soy sauce, and happened to see Afu fighting at the door of a family. It seems that the hostess of the house deceived Afu for her wages and slandered her for seducing men. Afu beat the couple with their hair disheveled and pissed. When she raised her head, she saw her two sons standing in the crowd.
Afu straightened her clothes, and she looked gentle and pleasant again. She smiled and said, "Come out to get oil?"
Fu Lan nodded dazedly.
Afu put two big money in his palm, patted his head, and said, "Go, buy some fruit to eat."
When a woman starts to go crazy, all the monsters and monsters will shy away. This is what Fu Lan learned at that time.
But Afu didn't get angry after knowing that the puppy was taken away by the black cat and that she stole the hen and braised pork from Aunt Shen's house. Probably because the black cat and Fu Lan were present, she just smiled, Wen Yan told the dog not to be an example, and went to the aunt's house tomorrow to apologize. The puppy knows his own mother's temperament, shaking like a sifter, and the black cat wonders how the child is playing.
Afu went to pour two cups of tea, took Fu Lan's hand and asked about his origin. Fu Lan answered all of them one by one. He came from the southern border, and the black cat picked him up. He was a cat demon, looking for miracles all the way, and arrived in Wujiang a few days ago. Under the lights, the woman's brows and eyes were mellow, and there was an indescribable tenderness. Fu Lan felt inexplicably that she looked like the statue of Nuwa in the Niangniang Temple. As long as she was under the dark eaves of the temple, she seemed to be returning home.
In the end she asked: "You have nowhere to go, do you want to stay at my house? Aunt Shen is not doing her best to take care of the puppy, I don't dare to bother her anymore. You help me take care of the puppy, as long as I can eat chicken ass , you must have chicken legs to eat."
Ask the two monsters to take care of their children, only Afu dares to do this in the world. She's a woman who's used to being bold, and it's not the most outrageous thing she's ever done in her life. For the sake of chicken, duck and pork, the black cat agreed all at once, although the job of taking care of the puppy actually fell on Fu Lan.
Fu Lan became Wujiang's most competent mother. He learned to make rice paste, stir-fry green vegetables, make dumplings with oil residue, make mugwort fruit, help the puppy wash the wet sheets, and wash the puppy's jacket and trousers that are all muddy. Sometimes the courtyard is cleaned. The house is not big. One thatched hut is used as the main room, the other is the bedroom, and half of the house with collapsed walls is used as the stove.
After Fulan came, Afu slept in the main room, and Fulan's dog and black cat slept in the same room. In order to save money, the lights are not often lit at home. In the main room, there are only two dimly lit lamps on the god’s case, and red candles with tears are dedicated to the tablet of one party. It was neither Fuxi nor Nuwa, but the man of Afu, who wrote "Yuanwei real person ascended to the rank of immortal Taoism".
"This is my man," Afu wiped the tablet with a damp cloth, the dim light reflected on her face, with a gloomy smile, "When I was pregnant in October, he went south to Xianshan, and he never left. Go back, there is no news so far. I think that it is about becoming a fairy. You see, I set up a tablet, I hope he will bless our mother and son with peace and longevity. "
The black cat felt a little chilly and said, "It's not good. Over the years, this old man has never heard of anyone who has mastered the Dao and became an immortal. Didn't you curse him to death like this?"
"Oh," Afu didn't change her smile, her brows curved, "If you don't want my man, I'll treat him dead."
Black Cat: "… "
There are times when things go wrong at home. The pup is naughty, and once while the black cat was sleeping, he cut off the black cat's beard. When the black cat woke up and looked in the mirror, he felt shameless and hid under the cupboard and refused to come out. When Afu came back, he was furious, and with a razor, cut the puppy into a bald head.
The puppy cried out, "I have no hair!"
"You don't have any hair anymore, and Master Cat doesn't have a beard anymore," Afu scolded his ears. "What are you doing with your hands? It's just a mess! I'll chop your hands off tomorrow."
"I don't want a mother anymore!" The dog wiped away tears, ran into the house, wrapped Liang Liang's head with a blue cloth shawl, packed a small bag, and took Fu Lan's hand to leave.
Fu Lan was at a loss, and Aphra pulled him and said, "What are you doing? You can leave if you want, why are you holding your brother?"
"Brother come with me!" the puppy yelled.
Afu dragged Fu Lan over, "Little bastard, it's crazy! You go alone! Go away, the farther you go, the better, you shouldn't have been born in the first place!"
The dog really ran away from home, and Fu Lan stayed for a while, but went out anyway. The puppy walked around with a small burden on his back, and Fu Lan silently followed behind him. His head was wrapped in a floral cloth, and he was carrying a burden, looking like an angry little daughter-in-law. Later, the dog's stomach growled, and Fu Lan took out two copper plates and bought him steamed buns. Two male dolls, one big and one small, squatted on the side of the road, watching people come and go. Some passers-by saw them and threw a few copper plates on the soles of their feet.
In the evening, the puppy caught the wind outside and had a high fever. When Fu Lan carried him home, Master Cat had come out from under the cabinet and came over to rub the sleeping dog. Afu untied the puppy's burden and saw that there was only one of his father's spirit cards in it. This little baby ran away from home with nothing but his father, whom he had never met.
That was the first time Fu Lan saw Afu cry.
Afu once said that people have traveled far and wide in this life, thousands of miles, and sometimes, it is just to meet and reunite with someone. Afu didn't say who it was, but the black cat secretly told Fu Lan that it was Qi Shenwei. Sometimes Afu would stand under the eaves in a daze, and Fu Lan later learned that they were there to worship the heaven and earth and become husband and wife.
"Marriage is a promise, Fu Lan," said Afu, who was sitting under the eaves drinking like a flying butterfly, "promise that you will always treat her well in this life, and always take her in your heart. ."
Fu Lan's heart was quiet, like smoke and water, boundless. But at that time, he suddenly had waves in his heart, as if he had longing.
"Can I marry my younger brother?" Fu Lan said, "I will treat him well all my life, and I will take care of him for the rest of my life." He thought about it and said, "Afu, I have climbed many mountains from the southern Xinjiang to the Wujiang River. It took a lot of water to meet him, just like you said. Is that the one I want to meet, puppy?"
Afu was stunned for a long time, staring blankly at the black-haired and black-eyed boy. His eyes were quiet, and every word was serious.
"Okay," Afu drank too much and felt a little dizzy. She held her face and smiled, "When you grow up and don't regret it, I'll marry you the puppy."