Rebel

There was once a poem that said: "If you have a daughter, don't marry in Mangdang, nine out of ten families are poor."

But Gu Ao's mother was sold into Mangdang Mountain and became the concubine of the only named family in the valley - the Tian family.

So when Gu Ao was young, he could hear the children in Tian's Zhuangzi shouting to him: "You bastard!"

Or: "Your mother was originally the master's concubine, you are a bastard of unknown origin".

Whenever at this time, Gu Ao would always rush over in anger, using branches or stones as weapons to chase and beat the children who laughed at him.

"The wild bastard is beating people again! The wild bastard is beating people again!"

Gu Ao quickened his pace and ran away without saying a word, trying to injure those who insulted him severely.

Gu Ao's mother heard the sound and greeted Gu Ao: "Come back soon!"

When Gu Ao saw his mother calling him, the stone in his hand flew out and hit the son of Tian's housekeeper's second brother-in-law, breaking a big piece of skin.

The child was about the same age as Gu Ao, just now he was still cursing, but now he was beaten, he immediately started crying.

Mother Gu took advantage of this moment, grabbed Gu Ao and ran back.The children left in a rush, and the son of the second brother-in-law of Tian's housekeeper who had his head broken also went to find his father crying.

Gu Shi was dressed in the coarse Jingchu hairpin of a peasant woman, and her complexion was a little gloomy with anxiety.But if you look carefully, your appearance is extraordinary.Otherwise, she would not have been bought by the Tian family as a concubine.

At that time, she was not of the Gu family, she had no surname, and her only name was Zhu'er.

Mrs. Tian picked her out of thousands of choices from the old woman, and thought she was very good enough to win her husband's heart.So he bought her and trained her for another month before letting her serve Mr. Tian.

Mr. Tian was fresh for the first two months, and she was considered very favored, but later, for some reason, Mr. Tian stopped going to her room very often.Instead, Mrs. Tian told her quietly, let her wait, and she will find her own way in the future.Later she found out that in the Tian family's mansion, there was a woman named Mrs. Xin who kept her word. Although she was not the wife of Mr. Tian, ​​she was able to manage affairs. Now, she could not be tolerated.

Then she was dragged to the lobby in a daze. Mrs. Tian and Mrs. Xin were both sitting at the top. They didn't know what they were arguing about. It seemed that Mr. Tian was ill and drank her stewed soup before illness or something , I heard Mrs. Xin say: "... Zhuniang is so ignorant of the rules that she was bought by the lady. Since she made a mistake, I have to decide the right and wrong."

Mrs. Tian's face was ashen, and she didn't say a word.

Only then did she realize that something was wrong, so she looked at Mrs. Tian helplessly.

Mrs. Xin smiled slightly: "I am also a generous person. I will definitely not be able to do such things as sticking to death. Why don't I send it to Zhuangzi to match someone."

At this time, Mrs. Tian said with a shy voice: "How can there be anyone in Zhuangzi who is worthy?"

Mrs. Xin said: "I once heard the master say, isn't there an old blind man living in the village?"

Just like that, when she just turned 16 years old, she was assigned to Gu Ao's father.

At this moment, Gu Shi led Gu Ao into a remote courtyard, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.Gu Ao quickly ran into the door, and called the blind old man sitting on the bed, "Father, I'm back!"

His father, Gu Ben, nodded slightly, and turned his face towards the place where the door was opened: "I'm back!"

"The little bastard outside called my mother again, I didn't catch you last time, but this time I broke her head off!"

Gu Ben was over sixty years old, now he has white hair and deep wrinkles on his face. He was sitting cross-legged on the couch in a daze. Hearing what his son said, he slapped his thigh and called out "Okay!"

Gu Shi didn't say a word, entered the door and closed it, but covered his sleeves and began to cry.

Hearing the crying, the old man Gu Ben finally stopped his attention, and said: "...you are wronged by following me."

"Why am I wronged because of this..." Gu Shi shook her head and wiped her tears with her hand - she was kicked out of Tian's house when she was young for no reason, and since then she has become more careful, and now she is more concerned about the affairs of the village. , I couldn’t help asking a little more than when I was a concubine before. I was afraid that I would be confused, so I choked up when I spoke, “Just now Ao’er beat the son of the housekeeper’s second uncle. What happened! How can I not be in a hurry?!"

Gu Ben heard Gu's crying, and comforted him: "It's okay, don't worry!"

Hearing what his father said, Gu Ao immediately straightened his chest, sat on the table and reached out to eat melons and fruits.When Gu Shi heard her husband say this, she stopped crying.

She is very convinced of her husband.When she was first sent here, the human relationship was cold and warm, and even the maid who was assigned to her spat on her as "unlucky". She burst into tears and felt that her life was gloomy.But when she got to the place, although the yard was a bit dilapidated, the legendary 'old blind man' didn't have a blue face and fangs, so she was really relieved.

Mr. Tian is not young anymore, he is still fat.As soon as she got into bed, the fat meat seemed to roll on the bed, shaking uncontrollably, she could still bear it.

Now I look at the blind old man secretly, but I see that the meat is hidden in the clothes, and it doesn't show.The old man was just talking to her, without any intention of getting close, so she felt much more at ease.Xu Shi was too reserved at Tian's house, but the old man seemed kind and talkative, and within a few days, she began to talk about herself confidingly.

Later, when she had a menstrual event, the old man said to her, "The twenty-fifth day of this month is a good day." Before she could understand what it meant, the next day she saw the old man go to the butler with a cane and beg for red candles, lotus seeds, Peanuts and brand-new quilts, and I wrote the word "囍" by myself.

She was in a daze at the time, wondering if the old man was blind?How can you still draw symbols?She is illiterate, does not know.

Then she saw the old man say to her: "This is the word '囍'."

Immediately, her face turned red.

Seeing the old man sticking "囍" on the window by touching the edge, she felt as if it had been a lifetime ago.She thought, Mr. Tian was not so grand back then.Thinking again, it was just tea to his wife the next day, but there was no words.

Thinking about it, she cried.

Soon, she became pregnant, and the old man took good care of her. She didn't know why, but when she saw the back of the old man touching the door and going to the housekeeper with a cane to ask her for eggs, she suddenly felt that she had never been pregnant before. I lived in vain——Bai beat the granny for so many years, and served Mrs. Tian for so long in vain. If... I met Gu Ben, a blind old man, it would be fine.

Parents don't want me, my mother-in-law sold me, Tian's family drove me away, but Gu Ben cared about me.

Later, when she gave birth to a son, Gu Ben was so happy that he even lost his crutches. He wanted to come in to hold his son, but he bumped into the door and almost fell.She was dying at that time, seeing it in her eyes, she thought, it would be great if Gu Ben wasn't so old... In this way, she could accompany him for a few more years.

With a son, the family is complete.

She once asked Gu Ben who he was from the Tian family, and Gu Ben said: "The house of the Tian family is my acquaintance."

She didn't know what it meant, and she was afraid that if she asked again, it would be annoying, and she would appear ignorant and superficial, so she went to take care of her son.

Gu Ao grows up day by day, and Gu Ben seems to be very happy to get along with the children.

For example, in summer, Gu Ben would always lead Gu Ao to the courtyard, pointing to the sky, and teaching him to recognize where there is a bright spot in the southeast, northwest, what shape, what kind of star, and what story is inside it. It's just half a night... When there is more fog in winter, he taught Gu Ao to recite words such as "A, B, C, D, W, Ji, Geng, Xin, Rengui" and "Zichou Yin, a certain Chensi, noon", etc. Gu Shi sometimes listened to it in his ears. Confused.

Can't he see it?How do you know more than those who can see?

Thinking of this, Gu Shi felt reverence again.

"Gusou! How do you count if your evil son beats someone?!"

Gu Ao was lying on the table eating melons, when he heard footsteps outside, it seemed that a group of people had come, and the juice on his mouth had not been wiped off, so he jumped down on the bed and wanted to pick up the rake at the door and go out to beat it. After moving for a while, the rake was too heavy to move, so he had to rush out alone, shouting: "It's because you didn't discipline well! He called my mother!"

"Go away, kid, where do you have the right to speak? Let the blind old man speak out!"

Gu Ben sat on the couch, listening to the noises outside calmly, thinking: My son is really unusual, he is only four years old now, and he can talk people with reason; he is a filial son who protects his mother.

Gu Shi said anxiously at the side: "Old man, what should we do?"

Gu Ben fell down with his crutches, and walked out the door with Gu's support. The housekeeper's second brother-in-law looked at Gu Ben and asked again: "Your evil son beat my son, the skin was broken, and the blood flowed." A lot of blood, tell me, how do you count it?!"

Gu Ben closed his eyes and said leisurely: "... Tell me, what should I do?"

"You eat and drink for free in Zhuangzi every day, and you beat people. It's really terrible! My nephew said, since you don't appreciate your kindness, you might as well move out of Zhuangzi. Where do you need you?" The second brother-in-law of the housekeeper's eyes round Stare, arrogantly said.

Gu Ben stroked his white beard, nodded and said: "...In that case...then we will move out tonight."

Gu Shi supported Gu Ben, heard that his feet were soft, and he almost didn't fall.When she raised her eyes, she saw that her husband seemed calm and calm, and seemed to understand what she said; when she looked again, she saw that the sun was about to set, and the moon was already half white in the sky, so she tremblingly said: "...I... I'm going to pack my things."

But Gu Ben grabbed his wife's hand: "Don't accept it, we'll leave now."

Gu Ao stood aside, looked at the housekeeper's second brother-in-law, then at his father, and added a sentence like a little adult: "Father, mother, let's go!" His tone was filled with righteous indignation.

The housekeeper's second brother-in-law was a little dumbfounded. He originally planned to threaten, for example, to scare the blind old man into begging him, and then it would be best to spank the little bastard Gu Ao, but he didn't expect that the Gu family would really leave.There was no expected quarrel or begging for mercy, and so many people were white belts. Although the housekeeper's second brother-in-law felt a little uncomfortable for a moment, he was immediately overwhelmed by his majesty.

He thought that he was not so capable, he thought that he would make trouble with his nephew and let his nephew punish him.

He came to Tian's house late, and he was surprised to see such an old blind man raised by Zhuangzi before, and he didn't know the reason; now, it must be a servant. Master, why are you still bullying him?Don't you know that his nephew is the relative of Mrs. Xin's third uncle's cousin?

After leaving Zhuangzi and walking to the field, Gu couldn't help asking: "This...old man, what should we do in the future?"

"It doesn't matter." Gu Ben said, he stopped on the side of the path, sat down on a big rock, waved his hand, and let Gu Ao pass by, and Gu Ao happily sat in his father's arms.Gu Ben touched his head, inch by inch, then touched the bridge of the nose, jaw... very slowly... When Gu Ben did this before, she still thought, he wanted to know what his son looked like, right?But later, Gu Ben said that it was a compliment to Gu Ao.

"—Okay!" On Gu Ben's old face, which was as old as a knife carved with deep lines, a smile gradually appeared, and he said to Gu Ao: "... Wang Junzhong, the king made me feel the bones, but it's just me, you can expect wealth !"

"Father, you have said this many times!" Gu Ao just saw his mother Gu Shi's face was sad, and he was thinking on the way, if he really did something wrong, now seeing his father smiling easily, he He also became happy, and laughed, "Great rewards are at your fingertips!" Gu Ao imitated his father's tone and said in a cadence.

Gu Ben stroked his beard leisurely, as if he was very satisfied with the result of the reexamination: "Well, but it's not enough for outsiders."

Seeing the father and son like this, Gu couldn't help smiling wryly.Under the gradually rising moonlight, she secretly looked at her son and said to herself: He is so handsome.

She didn't know if children were so handsome in the eyes of all mothers, but she had seen many children from Tian's house to Zhuangzi, and she had seen more children from people's mother-in-law before, and they were indeed not more handsome than her son Yes, thinking of this, she temporarily let go of the anxiety of being expelled from Zhuangzi, took out a taste of satisfaction, and enjoyed it.

She didn't know the origin of Gu Ben. His original surname was Gu, he was a "magic fortune teller" under the command of King Cheng, and he was also known as Junlian Gong. How could his son not be handsome?