5 Chapter 5
◎The children go home◎
Chapter 5
The first thing Ying Huai did after noticing something strange about the kitten was that he focused his spiritual sense on the kitten that was absorbing spiritual energy, wanting to see what was wrong.
"There's nothing wrong with my body, it's just that the degree of spiritual energy absorption has increased."
Ying Huai looked at the spiritual energy flowing in the kitten's body.
Because this kitten has not yet become a demon, it absorbs spiritual energy by instinct. But now, the spiritual energy it absorbs instinctively has increased.
"Can this happen even without the opportunity?"
Ying Huai was still confused, but the kitten had already absorbed all the spiritual energy, stretched comfortably, meowed sweetly at Ying Huai, and then jumped down from the tree.
The group of people under the tree had gotten used to hearing Ali barking so loudly at the locust tree every time.
Even people like them would unconsciously lower their voices when talking to the old Sophora japonica tree, so it's not surprising that the kitten would learn from it. It even seems normal.
After the kitten jumped down from the tree, it ran straight towards home. It seemed that it had tickled the stone before and felt that it had punished the cub, so it decided to go back.
Shi Tou's father was still watching Shi Tou mianshu reflect on his mistakes. When he saw the cat leave, he didn't follow it. Instead, he sat on the ground and started crying to Ying Huai about how naughty the little guy was.
"Godmother, did you give him too much energy back then? This child is so energetic every day. I envy him running around..."
Shi Tou is the first child of Shi Tou's father, and may also be the last. Shi Tou's mother seemed to be doing well when she was pregnant with him, but unfortunately, she suffered a disaster.
When they went to the hospital for a prenatal checkup at seven months old, they happened to encounter a family making a fuss and beating the doctor. Stone's father put his wife in a corner that looked very safe and went to help.
The doctor managed to save her, but the family was so difficult to deal with that one of them bumped into Shi Tou's mother when no one was paying attention, causing her to bleed immediately.
When little Shitou was born, he was a tiny ball and his organs had not yet fully developed. He stayed in an incubator in the hospital for more than a month before he felt a little better.
As for Shi Tou's mother, she suffered severe bleeding during childbirth and almost died. Although she saved her life in the end, she was injured and may only have Shi Tou as her child in the future.
When Shitou was a child, he was like a sick cat, even his cry was weak. It was not until he came home from the hospital and was old enough to be taken out to see the wind that he allowed the village elders to carry him to Ying Huai, burn incense and kowtow to him, and he recognized Ying Huai as his godmother. Only then did his health gradually recover.
It was also because Shitou suffered a lot when he was a child and was almost unable to be raised, so his family members were more or less indulgent towards him, which is why he looks like a naughty boy now. His physique is also very strong because of his mischief and he runs outside every day.
Ying Huai just listened to Shi Tou's father's chatter. If he had eyes, he would have wanted to roll his eyes.
This man was compared with his own son. When he was a child, he was not much quieter than the stone now. He even climbed up the tree branches to rob bird nests, and the consequence was that he was hung up and beaten.
The reason why my grandfather said not to wear out the bark of the locust tree was because when he was beaten as a child, he struggled so hard that he wore a mark on the bark of the locust tree. From that time on, the villagers stopped hanging their children on the locust tree after beating them, and tied them to the tree instead.
While Zuzu was still telling stories to the remaining children, Stone Dad squatted beside Stone and began to fill their ears with his magic music, mumbling non-stop.
When the third green leaf of the locust tree fell from the tree, it landed on Grandpa's palm intentionally or unintentionally with the back facing up. The old man knew that Ying Huai was unhappy.
"Little Boss, why don't you go home and clean up and cook dinner? It's almost evening, and it's time for everyone to go home for dinner."
The old lady looked up at Stone Dad, who was sitting next to the stone and muttering to the tree, and gave him some advice.
I don't know which of them is reflecting on their mistakes.
Judging from the surface, Stone Dad seems to be the one who made a mistake and is seriously reflecting on it.
At this time, Shi Tou, who was sitting next to Laozi and forced to listen to him muttering, had a look of despair on his face. After hearing what Zuzu said, his whole face brightened up.
"Yes, yes, Dad, go home and cook. My mom will be back from get off work soon."
Because Shi Tou's mother was weak after giving birth to Shi Tou, she could no longer run around to work like Shi Tou's father and go home to work in the fields from time to time. She couldn't sit idle, so she found a job as a cashier in town.
The supermarket was owned by the family of the doctor. They were usually very polite to her and didn't let her do any work like tidying up the shelves. She was only responsible for cleaning the cash register and checking out customers. Apart from having to go to work very early, her job was very easy.
She also knows what is right and wrong. She is usually very serious and meticulous in her work and has never made any mistakes.
"Alright, reflect on yourself seriously. I won't accompany you anymore. Seriously..."
Stone's father smacked his lips and stood up with a feeling of unsatisfied feeling. The urge to beat the child in his heart disappeared completely after venting his anger with his mouth. He stood up and walked home.
His wife is coming home and wants to eat!
Looking at Stone Dad walking away quickly, Zuzu felt a little amused.
"See? Only your aunt can stop your uncle from talking."
"Will we have something delicious to eat now that my aunt is home?"
Gangduan thought about his uncle's craftsmanship and felt a little greedy.
His uncle's cooking skills are very good, but he used to live with his parents in the city and had little to eat.
"Well, look at your little watch. If it moves a big number, your aunt will be back. You will be responsible for going to the field to call your grandparents to come home for dinner."
Zuzu pulled Xiao Ling'er's hand over and pointed at the small watch on her wrist.
This is a small electronic watch, but the elders felt that just showing the time was not enough, so they made a traditional dial so that the children can not only recognize numbers but also read the clock.
"Okay, Xiao Ling'er will go to the field with her brother to call grandpa and grandma."
The little girl nodded obediently, her two smoothly combed braids swaying back and forth, looking very cute.
"Grandpa, my sister seems to be eating poop..."
Just when the old lady was talking seriously to Xiao Ling'er and Gangbi, Momo, who had just returned from the toilet, came up to them and spoke quietly.
"???What?"
Before Zuzu could react, the coin next to him jumped up.
"What!!!"
After shouting, he started running towards where his two sisters were playing.
Their two sisters are twins, only four years old. They are still young and can hardly understand the stories told by their grandfather, so they run to the side to play by themselves when they hear half of them.
Seeing that there were no rocks or anything over there, just dry mud, there wouldn't be any danger, so they didn't pay much attention to it, only glancing at it from time to time.
Who would have thought!
Gangduan walked to the two sisters and looked at their current state. He felt a little overwhelmed.
"It's over, it's over, Zuzu, my mother will beat me if she finds out!"
Looking at the two sisters each holding a ball of mud in one hand, with a few balls scattered on the ground, Gangbi wailed.
It hasn't rained for a while, and there was no water here when the two sisters came over before. How did these two mud balls become made now?
The ones his sisters play with are no ordinary poop! !
"Oh no! Don't worry, Gangbian. I won't tell my uncle and aunt. They won't know and won't come back to beat you up."
Momo also squatted next to the two sisters, and his "Oh wow" fully demonstrated his gloating.
"Come on, sister, add some leaves to make it look better~"
As he spoke, Momo placed a handful of grass leaves he had just picked up next to his two sisters.
"You're still encouraging me. I'll tell my uncle and aunt later that you encouraged my sister to play with urine and mud!"
When Gangduan saw Momo like this, his face turned red with anger, but he couldn't hit his sister, so he could only shout at Momo angrily.
"Hey hey hey, Mom, don't bully your brother~"
Grandpa was happy to see this, but when he saw the two kids were about to get angry, he quickly stepped in to mediate.
Momo is a very cunning kid. He looks well-behaved on the surface, but when you open his mouth, you will see black stuffing inside. Fortunately, he doesn't show his cunning to his family. Now he is just teasing his younger siblings.
Gangduan is a child similar to his nickname, with a straightforward personality. Most of the time, he has his own logic for doing things and is a child with very upright values.
"Okay, it really wasn't me who instigated this. I just saw it when I got back."
After being reminded by Zuzu, Momo touched the tip of his nose and explained.
"Oh... when did you pee..."
Gangduan didn't know how to start washing his two sisters.
He wasn't like this when he was a child.
Mud and stuff are not as good as books and interesting stories.
Thinking of this, Gangduan found the dry grass with some disgust and went forward to wipe the mud off the hands of the two sisters.
Seeing the boy's visible disgust, Momo wanted to laugh.
"Come on, by the time you finish cleaning them up, you won't be able to make it in time for dinner."
Momo said this, walked forward, picked up one of the sisters by the armpit and took her away.
"Come on, Xiao Shu'er, brother will take you to play in the water~"
The sister he was holding dropped the mud ball in her hand without noticing. She wanted to make a fuss, but when she heard him say that they were going to play in the water, she immediately became happy and was happily carried away with a mouth full of small teeth.
"Manman, do you want to go with your sister?"
Seeing that Momo was holding the girl so easily, Gangduan also stepped forward and wanted to take his sister away, but she refused.
"No, no! I want to pinch Little Axe! ...Brother, let me down..."
The little one is difficult to deal with. She doesn’t like to work and prefers mud to play. She doesn’t like water.
Gangduan looked down at the lump of mud in the little girl's hand, which seemed to be emitting a smell. He was sure that he didn't see anything, it was just a lump of mud. He didn't know how the little girl saw it, she really thought it was Little Old Axe.
"Okay, okay, this is Little Axe. Let's take Little Axe to take a bath."
There's nothing I can do about it, I can only say this.
As for whether the so-called little old axe was still there after washing, and whether the little girl would make a fuss, it was not within his current consideration. He just wanted to quickly wash his sister who was playing in the mud.
"You two, be careful, go slower, don't let your sister fall!"
Zuzu called out from behind, then slowly sat up from the recliner.
"Let's go, let's go home."
After the old lady stood up, she walked to the stone and slowly untied the rope tied to the stone.
"Little Stone, remember this time. Playing is fun, but it's important to be able to judge the danger. You can't do this again."
Grandpa explained the problem while giving instructions.
"Yeah, yeah, I know, it was just my fault this time~"
Little Shitou had been tied up so much that he had lost his temper. He listened to his grandfather's lecture and nodded obediently.
"Go and return the rope to the owner, and then we can go home and have dinner."
As Zuzu said this, she handed the rope to Shitou and asked him to return it himself, while she took Xiaoling'er, who had been following her, and prepared to walk towards home.
Shi Tou's father didn't tie him up tightly. Even Zu Zu, who was already old and had poor eyesight, could easily untie him. It was obvious that he didn't intend to keep Shi Tou tied up for long from the beginning. The purpose of tying him up was just to let him know that he was wrong and not make the same mistake again. Punishment was secondary.
Before leaving, Zuzu glanced in the direction of Ying Huai and said goodbye.
"Godmother, I'm going back now. I'll come to accompany you tomorrow."
After saying this, she walked away with the two remaining children.
Ying Huai's surroundings became deserted, and his branches moved and murmured.
"The weather is so nice. It will be sunny again tomorrow."
As the sun sets, the village gradually becomes lively. People who had been working in the fields have returned home, and curls of smoke rise from all over the village.
Ying Huai, who was standing there and looking at the sky, didn't notice that one of the mud balls that the two little girls had played with but couldn't take away moved slightly.
【Author’s words】
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