Later, when autumn was about to pass, a big family in the village got married, and Afu was called to help. After Fu Lan washed the clothes wetted by the puppy, he went to the field to pick up dried cow dung. This was his daily chore. Dry cow dung can be used to burn fire, and he doesn't need to chop wood when he has enough. Every noon, Fulan leads the dog and the black cat out to pick up cow dung. Under the sky, there were two little boys, one big and one small, and a black cat, as if they had come out of the depths of time, and they have been walking towards the end of the ridge.
"Hey, little fool!" Someone called Fu Lan, Fu Lan turned her head away, and it was a Tian Jiahan calling him. Some of these peasants called him Mengjia Daer, while others called him a fool, because he was always silent, like a fool who couldn't speak.
"Your godmother is about to get married, I don't want you." Tian Jiahan smiled.
After he finished speaking, other men and women also gathered around and joked, "Yeah, little fool, what about you and your brother? Come to my house and be my son, okay?"
Fu Lan asked suspiciously, "Married?"
"No, did your godmother go to work at the big family's house today?" A dark-faced woman covered her mouth and smiled.
"Zhang Dahu wants her to be a concubine. Poor child, it's just a puppy. After all, it's his own life. If you think about it, you'll take it with you to enjoy it. What can you do?"
Someone laughed, "It's not easy. Look at how quick this kid is in his work. He raised the puppy to be white and plump, and he will definitely bring him into the house as a servant. If you marry one, it's not a loss for Master Zhang!"
For the first time in history, the dog was not naughty, and timidly snuggled up to Fu Lan, raised his head and stretched out his hand towards him, "Brother hugs."
Fu Lan picked up the basket and bent over to pick up the puppy.
The child's soft body leaned against his arms, and the dog buried his head and said, "I miss my mother."
The men and women in the field muttered behind them, and some people jokingly called "little fool". Gossip is like a warm little fire, boiling the fields. Fu Lan didn't look back, and the two walked home with one cat deep and one shallow foot.
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Aunt Shen led Afu into Zhang Mansion. Today, there is a wedding in the mansion. There are lanterns and lanterns everywhere, and the beams are covered with red silk.
Aunt Shen led Afu inside with a beaming look on her face. She was one of the few people Afu had good friends with in the village. She didn't take good care of the puppy before. To do the work, to help the bride dress up, the work is easy and the money is rich.
The more people go inside, the fewer people there are. The courtyard with blue tiles and white walls is covered with blue and white slates, and wet moss grows in the cracks, and it slips under the feet. Afu looked down at her toes, like small bamboo shoots, showing her head from the bottom of her skirt.
Unconsciously, he has entered the inner courtyard. Aunt Shen pushed open the Tonghua door and pulled her over the threshold. The old woman was very strong, and her hand gripping her wrist was rough and strong, like a pair of iron pliers. Afu felt something was wrong, Aunt Shen had already lifted the bead curtain, and several maids in pink and white stood in front of the black lacquer dresser. Turning his head to look, the drum stool is empty, as if waiting for its bride.
Afu asked Aunt Shen, "Where's the bride?"
Aunt Shen grinned and said, "You are the bride!"
A Fu was startled, and several maids rushed forward, pressed her shoulders, and pressed her in front of the dressing mirror.
"Auntie, what are you doing!?" Afu asked.
Aunt Shen put her head beside her face, and the faces of two women, one old and one young, were reflected in the dressing mirror. Aunt Shen stroked her shoulder and said, "Madam calm down, my wife, I'm doing this for your own good. You see, Mr. Zhang's family is rich, and he is one of the richest in our Wujiang. If you follow him, the dog will be good in the future. Days passed."
Afu sneered, "Aunt Shen, is that how you treat your friends?"
Aunt Shen was about to persuade again, when a man in a round neck uniform opened the curtain and entered.
"Madam, why are you doing this?" The person came with fair skin, raised his eyes, and looked suave, "It's better to follow me than to be a widow. I have admired you for a long time, and I will regard your children as my own. Out. In the future, the puppy will be my son Zhang Luohuai, he has to go to school, and he has to go to Beijing to take the exam, and I will pay the fees."
"That's right, that's right," Aunt Shen helped, "Afu, don't be confused, your sword immortal husband has long wanted you. Women, you still have to marry a man."
Afu sneered at Zhang Luohuai, "Looking at you look like a dog, I didn't expect to come up with such a cunning plan to lure me into the mansion. I bah, I won't take a piss to take care of your oblivious virtue, old lady. Even if I marry a pig, I won't marry you!"
Zhang Luohuai made a gesture, and everyone came up to press her shoulders. Unexpectedly, Afu looked thin and weak, but she was very strong. A few people couldn't hold her down, Afu knocked away the maid and wanted to rush out, but Zhang Luohuai took a step to block the bead curtain behind her. Afu picked up a candlestick and scare him away. But that Luo Huai didn't move, and poured his hand to grab the candlestick.
"Go away!" Afu screamed. During the fight, Afu waved in a panic, and the candlestick slammed firmly into Zhang Luohuai's face, knocking his head to the right.
Everyone was shocked, and Afu was also very frightened. She is very powerful when she is small. If she kills someone, she will go to jail. Seeing that he was standing firmly, as if his life was safe, Afu tentatively said: "I will pay you money, you let me out!"
Aunt Shen stomped her feet and said, "Look at you, what are you doing! How can you hurt your face? Master Zhang, how are you? I'll find a doctor for you?"
Zhang Luohuai turned his face back inch by inch, and Aunt Shen and Afu slowly changed their faces. His whole face was crooked, his nose and mouth were twisted to the left, his right face was sunken into a hole, and his left eye was squeezed into the forehead and pressed into a slit. He squirmed his mouth that was beaten crookedly, and his voice became sharp and thin, "Ma'am, you hurt me so much."
This voice, Afu, was very familiar, and she suddenly remembered that this was the bald old man!
Everyone was pale and speechless, and a few maids in the back screamed and fainted. Aunt Shen clenched Afu's arm tightly, so that she could not faint. Zhang Luohuai saw that their faces were wrong, glanced at them, and happened to see their crooked face in the mirror.
His face was twisted and twisted, and he couldn't see any expression. He only heard his tone sink a little and said, "You broke my face."
Afu said with difficulty: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Aunt Shen said with trembling legs: "Master Zhang, this... I have nothing to do here, I'll go first... "
Zhang Luohuai's five fingers turned into claws, and stretched out towards Aunt Shen's face. Aunt Shen was stunned like a puppet, her flesh and blood evaporated like steam, and the skin quickly withered, revealing the dry facial bones. Afu watched helplessly as Zhang Luohuai sucked up her flesh and blood, leaving only a withered skeleton.
He looked at Afu with a crooked mouth, and said coldly, "Pinch the old man's face, or you will be just like her."
Afu's heart is beating wildly, but she has to walk forward with Xiaoxiao, "Okay, okay, I'll help you squeeze it."
When his hand touched his face, it was cold and wet, not like a human face, but like a lump of mud soaked in water, sticky and disgusting. Afu twisted his nose, moved his fingers to his squinted eyes, his heart slammed, stretched out two fingers and slammed into it, Zhang Luohuai screamed, Afu pushed him away with force, turned around and ran out .
An erratic bell rang behind her, and her legs suddenly lost strength. Afu was surprised to find that she couldn't move. The soul-suppressing bell rang three times in a row, her body froze, she turned around stiffly, and walked towards Zhang Luohuai step by step. The man stood beside the floor hood, his face was smashed and blurred, Afu shouted in his heart not to go over, but still couldn't control himself and walked up to him.
"Didn't Fu Lan tell you?" Zhang Luohuai stretched out his face in front of her, the distance between the two was only a slap, and the cold breath fell on Afu's face, "Monsters have consciousness, but they have no eyes. Can 'see'. Just stay here, and at night, we can be reunited as a family."