Quick Wear: With the cub in hand, the world is mine

"The great general who guards the country attaches so much importance to that relative. Is he the general's sweetheart?"

"No way? Don't make wild guesses. The general is not good at Long Yang. I heard that the relative is a man, older than the general, so he should be the elder."

When the noodle shop owner heard them talking about the great general, her girlish heart was revived. She sat at the table next to them, holding her chin with her hand and talking infatuatedly, "To be honest, the great general and the emperor had noodles in our noodle shop more than ten years ago. At that time, the emperor was still the third prince, and the great general was only sixteen years old. He had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, was handsome and unrestrained, and had a graceful appearance. He was both talented and beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring, and handsome and incomparable..."

"Li Dalian! Come back here!" The noodle shop owner's eyes were about to spit fire. "No matter how outstanding she is, she is not what we want. We are out of chopped green onions. Come and cut them quickly."

The proprietress grumbled, "You jealous Wang Mazi, you are not even as good as a finger of the general."

"Li Dalian, what are you complaining about again? Speak louder if you can."

Hua Ke almost spit out the noodles in her mouth. This couple is so funny.

"A-Zu, I want to eat another bun."

"I want, too."

Hua Ke ordered a few buns for them, and after they finished eating, she took them for a walk in the market.

I bought two styles of headbands for each of my two granddaughters. They chose the styles themselves, and each cost a few cents. I also bought spinning tops and slingshots for the boys. Every child was very satisfied.

Children have simple minds. They don’t care about the price of gifts. They are satisfied just to go out for a walk, see rare things, and eat food they can’t eat on weekdays.

After strolling around the town for a few hours, dusk was approaching. Hua Ke bought things needed for the family and dragged the Calabash Brothers, who had so much fun and were reluctant to go home, out of the city gate.

……

When they got home, Liu pulled Sanniang back to her room and asked, "Sanniang, what did your grandfather buy for you?"

"I bought date cakes, steamed buns, bean curd water, lychee paste water, and hair flowers!"

"Just a hair flower?"

"No, A-Zu bought two for me, Mom, I'll give you one."

"You wear it yourself. I don't want yours. Your grandma has bought so many things for you. Do you know how much silver she still has?"

"...Mom, I don't know how much money Grandpa has. Mom, can I go out to play with Baoya?" She wanted to show Baoya her new hair ornament. Last time, the village head bought Baoya a hair ornament, but Baoya refused to touch it.

"go Go."

This old woman, where did you put the money? I looked for it several times but couldn't find it.

Hua Ke had no idea that someone had been coveting her property, and she had no idea how many times someone had entered her house to search. She sat under the apricot tree in front of her house and watched Da Niu teach his younger brothers to read.

"At the beginning of man's life, his nature is good..."

Second and third cows followed their elder brother and shook their heads: "When people are born, their nature is good."

Si Niu didn't make a sound, but his head was moving. The family's puppy urinated to mark its territory, then squatted at Si Niu's feet and wagged its tail.

Hua Ke: “…”

Time passes slowly, the busy farming season ends, and the fields are temporarily idle until crops are planted again in September.

July was extremely hot. Wen Fugui and Wen Fugui would light mosquito coils and sleep on straw mats outside in the yard at night because it was too stuffy in the house to sleep.

On the night of the Ghost Festival, Wen Fugui and his brother went back to the house to sleep, but they did not close the door.

Hua Ke held the Nightmare Tail Feather Fan and stealthily waved it towards the faces of Wen Fugui and Wen Fugui, calling softly, "Wen Fugui, come into my dream" and "Wen Fugui, come into my dream". A white light flashed between their brows. Hua Ke left with satisfaction, waiting for them to wake up from their nightmares.

After a short nap for an hour, Hua Ke heard two wails and opened her eyes with a smile.

"Ah - Dad! I don't want to die now, don't take me away~"

"Ah - Dad, I am your most precious little son, why did you scare me in my dreams?"

Liu and Li were both awakened by the person beside them. They sat up hugging the thin sheets and said, "Husband, why are you crying so late at night? It's so scary."

Several children were also frightened by the adults. They ran to their parents' room crying, holding their little pillows. Si Niu woke up when he heard the noise and looked at Hua Ke anxiously. The puppy was calling to him softly under his bed.

"It's okay. Your father and uncle are having nightmares. Go back to sleep. I'll go see what's going on."

Hua Ke got up, put on her straw sandals and walked out. Unexpectedly, Si Niu also got out of bed and followed her.

"Why are you making so much noise so late at night? Can't you let me sleep?"

Wen Fugui and his brother stood in the middle of the hall, their faces pale, their bangs wet with sweat, "Mom! Dad came to us in a dream! He said next year will be a disaster year, there will be no harvest! We will all starve to death! I can still see the scene he projected to us, many people in our village starved to death because of the drought."

"Yes! Mom, Dad told me the same thing! I also saw a lot of horrific scenes. Tiechui boiled his little girl who had just starved to death. This scared me awake. It was so scary!"

Wen Fugui patted his brother's shoulder with lingering fear, "I saw it too. I didn't expect Tiechui to be that kind of person. You can't judge a person by his appearance."

"Do you still remember what your father looked like? When he died, you were three years old and one was just one year old. You have a pretty good memory."

"Mom, please stop making sarcastic remarks. Dad specifically appeared in our dreams during the Ghost Festival, so this must be true!"

"Yes, I still remember clearly what he looked like in my dream. Later, the two masters, Black and White Impermanence, came and called Dad back, saying that he had revealed too many secrets."

"Oh, yes, yes! It was the same in my dream! Dad really has become a ghost messenger down there!"

"Wow, mother, you really didn't lie. It turns out that father is quite prestigious down there. I didn't expect that he couldn't serve as an official for the emperor, but ended up working for the judge. How awesome."

Hua Ke: "...Weren't you quite scared just now?"

Wen Fugui touched his back, sweating all over, "I'm not so scared now. Dad is a good ghost. He knows how hard our lives are, so he told us the secret. Mom, let's burn more paper money for Dad on the Double Ninth Festival."

"Fugui is right, Mom, our dad is so good!"

Liu listened for a long time. Her husband and her brother-in-law were both visited by their dead father-in-law in their dreams. The contents of the dreams were exactly the same, and they happened on the Ghost Festival. It was strange. She was scared as she listened. Could there really be such a thing in the world? Then she couldn't bully her mother-in-law, because her father-in-law was protecting her.

I was so scared. On the day my mother-in-law drowned, I guess she really had a brief reunion with my father-in-law. No wonder she woke up again. It turned out that my father-in-law really showed her the way to the afterlife. She thought my mother-in-law was just making it up. Considering that my father-in-law had told her in her dream that the money was in that corner and she had been looking for it for several days but couldn't find it, could it be that the money was kept by my father-in-law? Otherwise, how could the money disappear out of thin air?

Wouldn't her father-in-law be watching her all the time? If she had known this, she would have been nicer to her mother-in-law.