Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

The sky was gloomy. The wind blew last night, and a dark cloud blew in from somewhere. Pei Xiaohai woke up early and saw that the weather was bad, so he quickly put the cat into the basket and prepared to take it back quickly, but Jinghui decided to stay for another day.

Little Pei stood in front of her without moving.

Jinghui: "Let's go when the clouds disperse. It's not fun to travel on such a cloudy day if it rains. You'll get sick and need medicine."

Pei Xiaohai muttered: "Just drink it."

Jinghui: "But Master doesn't want to drink."

The master and the disciple stared at each other for a long time. Pei Xiaohai lost his temper and stuffed the pumpkin back into the mother cat's arms. Then he sat on the small stool under the eaves and stared at the sky.

The cool breeze blew away the summer heat, making me feel quite comfortable.

Pei Zhu saw where she was sitting, took a small stool and sat down next to her with a squeak.

"What is the child looking at?"

Pei Xiaohai: "Look at the clouds."

When the clouds disperse, she can go back. She doesn't like staying in other people's homes.

Pei Zhu had completely different thoughts from hers. She said with great interest, "Look at the clouds. My godmother also loved looking at clouds when she was a child. What does that cloud look like?"

“Like a cloud.”

Pei Zhu's arm was around her shoulders, pressing down, feeling a little heavy. Little Pei was a little shorter and answered with squinted eyes.

Pei Zhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She stretched out her hand and traced the outline in the air: "It looks like a rabbit. Look, those are the ears, and this is the head."

Pei Xiaohai: "It doesn't even have a body."

Pei Zhu said: "Hiding in the clouds requires a bit of fantasy."

Since she said that, Pei Xiaohai started to imagine: "I think it might be a roasted rabbit head. It was overcooked and was thrown away. The body is still in good condition. The oil is being heated in the pan and ready to be put into the wok."

"Uh..." Pei Zhu grinned with mixed feelings, glanced at Jinghui in the room, and whispered in the child's ear, "Do you want to eat fried rabbit meat? It smells delicious."

Pei Xiaohai sat up straight, his lazy look gone, and nodded solemnly: "I want to!"

Pei Zhu was delighted when she heard this and whispered, "Come with me, I'll take you there quietly."

Pei Xiaohai: "No, I have to tell my master. Wait for me, I'll be back soon."

"Hey...!" Pei Zhu didn't catch her, and saw her jumping into the house like a rabbit. Her heart instantly rose to her throat.

Did she just... kidnap the little nun to eat meat?

If she said she was joking, would people believe her?

When Pei Xiaohai went begging from her biological mother, she would often get meat, and the monk in the nunnery would also cook eggs for her to eat, but in other places, everyone treated her as a proper little nun and never fed her anything random. These godfathers and godmothers were not familiar with her true nature, so naturally they treated her the same as other people.

So when Pei Xiaohai finished talking to his master and walked with her to the rabbit cage, Pei Zhu was still a little dazed.

"So... you just shaved your head and wore monk's robes, but you didn't become a monk?"

"Yes, I can still eat meat now, but after I take the vows and become a real nun, I won't be able to do that anymore."

Pei Xiaohai didn't like being a nun, but she had been preparing to become a nun since she was a child. She had accepted this arrangement a long time ago, but she cherished every time she ate meat.

Pei Zhu asked her if she wanted to become a nun, and she told the truth.

Pei Zhu originally wanted to adopt her, and now when she heard her say in person that she didn't want to be a nun, she was half moved and now she was seventy percent moved.

She knew that this was her child. She should have snatched the child away, jumped into the car and ran away. If that dead man hadn't stopped her, she and her daughter wouldn't have been separated for so many years!

Pei Zhu's eager gaze was glued to Pei Xiaohai, which made her a little nervous. She gritted her teeth and nibbled a few more pieces of meat before reluctantly putting down her chopsticks.

Pei Zhu pinched her throat and said softly, "Are you full?"

Pei Xiaohai: "I'm full."

"It's good that you're full. Look at your dirty little face. Come here, mother...godmother will help you wipe it."

Pei Zhu swallowed the word "mother" and warned herself not to be impatient. She wet the handkerchief and carefully and gently wiped the sauce off Pei Xiao's face, thinking:

Wow, so clean, I am really suitable to be her mother, she is so well-behaved, so well-behaved that my temper has improved.

Pei Xiaohai: I didn’t wash it myself, it feels weird, it’s wet. Did she draw a turtle on my face?

Anyway, if Pei Xiaohai had such a good opportunity, she would not be able to resist.

After finishing the meat, Pei Xiaohai wanted to leave and even wanted to pour a bowl of water to look at her face, but Pei Zhu was just trying to get close to her and was unwilling to let her go. She racked her brains and came up with a good idea:

"Can you teach me how to weave bunny rabbits?"

Puluo Village, Puluo means a basket woven with cattail. There is a reason why this place is named after it. One is that there are many cattails, and the other is that it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with a concave shape in the middle like a Puluo.

Many people in this area can weave things out of straw, which they can use to entertain their children and sell to supplement their family income.

Every year, the Liu family would collect a batch of rice after the autumn harvest and take it to the provincial capital and county town to sell together with the grain. They didn't make much money, but they did it for the sake of their fellow villagers. Sometimes they couldn't sell it and had to lose some money, which was quite annoying.

When Pei Zhu was looking at the account book recently, she found that the toys for entertaining children seemed to sell better than the baskets. She thought of trying to weave some at home this year. If they sold well, she would collect fewer baskets and more toys to sell next year.

Little Pei had no interest in the grass rabbit that couldn't jump and couldn't be eaten, but he had just eaten its meat, so he couldn't refuse and had to play with her.

Pei Zhu was teaching her how to weave rabbit ears when it started to thunder and rain.

By the time she finished weaving the whole rabbit, it was raining heavily outside, as if someone was pouring water down from the sky. The mountains in the distance were turned white by the rain, becoming vague shadows.

The Liu family's house is very sturdy, and the roof tiles are very tight, blocking the rain outside the windows, but the windows inevitably leak some water, and the rain is frighteningly heavy.

The room was dark so she had to light a lamp. Pei Xiaohai was not afraid of lightning and thunder. As long as she stayed in the room, the thunder would not strike her. But she was afraid of the dark, especially since she knew that there were ghosts in the world.

Once the room got dark, she couldn't stay any longer and started to make a fuss about going back to find her master.

Pei Zhu tried to comfort her: "Wait until the rain is lighter, then I will take you to see the master, okay? It's raining too hard now, you'll catch a cold if you go out. I will stay with you, and you can sleep well and see the master when you wake up."

There is a saying: Rainy days are good days to sleep on.

The sky was gloomy and the rain was pouring, which made people sleepy. Pei Xiaoxiao would naturally feel sleepy too, but she didn't want to sleep with Pei Zhu.

"I don't want it. I want my master." Little Pei broke free from her arms, slid to the ground, grabbed his shoes and ran out.

He bumped into the wet Liu Renben, a master who could not stop working in the fields no matter how much he liked to pretend. Pei fell to the ground as if he had hit a wall. His shoes fell off and his hands that were supporting himself were scraped.

It hurts so much. She looked at her hand, then at Liu Renben, who looked ugly. Tears gathered in her eyes and her mouth turned down...

“Oooooh…”

She said she wanted to go back! She had said she wanted to go back a long time ago! But the master refused to let her go, and now, he gave her a beating!