Da Suining

Chapter 105 Butcher
It's a pity that people can't predict the future, so some things are destined to be irreversible.

In Baxi's mind, this is the version of the story.

When he was young, when he was about five or six years old, he still had a complete family. His father loved to butcher pigs, so he decided to be a butcher and was responsible for slaughtering pigs in several nearby villages. It is enough to make a living and support the family.When other people eat green vegetable leaves, his family already eats stewed pork ribs and braised pork. The oil hanging on the side of his pot is enough for others to cook a dish.

Moreover, his family's ancestors still have some family property left. Although some calligraphy and painting antiques are not very expensive, they can be exchanged for hundreds of taels of silver.So within a radius of ten miles, his family lived a very happy life.

Ever since his mother hired Xu Jun, a man in the pawn shop, everything has changed.

His mother despises his father, a butcher, as a rough man who doesn't know how to speak sweet words, and lives a lukewarm life as tasteless as boiled water, so in a dark night, she picked him up, packed the cage, They were stuffed into the carriage together, and then went to the house that Xu Jun rented in Qingcheng.

The two hooked up and became an adulterer. From then on, they were popular and hot, and sold some Shi family's calligraphy and paintings, as well as bottles and jars. The money they got was used for squandering. It's a pity that if you sit and eat, the mountains of gold and silver will disappear. In a few years, the life of Yueniang and Xu Jun will not be able to survive.

Poor and lowly couples mourn everything, without money, it is not good to sleep with their arms around each other.

Yueniang and Xu Jun don't like each other, you dislike me for not being able to support my wife and children, and I dislike you for being short-tempered and unfeminine.

Later, the rice tank at home was bottomed out, and the whole family was so hungry that their chests were sticking to their backs. What kind of stewed pork ribs and braised pork could only be imagined in their dreams.Baxi fell ill at that time, lying on the broken bed, listening to the quarrels in the next room and the sound of throwing bowls and basins, wishing to cover her ears.

He hated his mother, who had a good life, but followed Xu Jun, and the two of them would fall apart again, leaving him a child, living under the eaves of others since he was a child, talking a few words or eating bowls If it wasn't for them, Baxi would also be the serious master and young master of the Shi family. After marrying a wife and having children, relying on the shade of his ancestors, his life would not be too bad.

More hateful things are to come.

A drought caused many people to starve to death, and the price of food was ridiculously expensive. At first, a sesame cake cost four yuan, but later it rose to ten yuan.Baxi's illness was not good all the time, and later she simply had no money to hire a doctor. On a dark and stormy night, Yueniang and Xu Jun got an old man with a sharp voice from nowhere, and the old man was lying in the dark. The candlelight fumbled and scratched Xu Jun, looked at Baxi's face, finally nodded, gave Yueniang and the others ten taels of silver, and sent someone to carry Baxi away that night.

Ba Xi thought that he was sold by his mother, it would be good if he sold, out of sight and out of mind, so as not to live a precarious life with them, maybe change to a rich and noble family, he can still have some way of life.

The people who change are rich enough.Xuanguo Palace.

It's a pity that he became a eunuch.

After the old man took Baxi back home, he invited a doctor to take care of him for more than two months. Baxi's illness gradually improved, his complexion returned to normal, and when there was some flesh on his body, the old man took him to eat a hearty meal. For meals, there are cured duck, stewed tomba, fresh sheep and fish soup, pheasant, and round-grained rice porridge, small snacks, and grape liqueur.

I remember that the old man invited a few girls to accompany him at the banquet. Baxi later found out that this kind of banquet was called drinking flower wine.Baxi remembered that those girls were very fragrant and their waists were very soft. Sitting next to him, they kept scratching his face with feather fans, making him want to sneeze.

I still remember that the old man said to him at that time: "It's not that he is reluctant to spend money. The girls are all invited. Unfortunately, you are too young to use it. Just leave it at that, and you don't have any regrets."

If he had known what was going to happen earlier, Baxi must have never touched a drop of alcohol.

That night, Baxi drank five cups of grape liqueur, so drunk, I felt that the girl's body was soft, the feather fan was soft, and the food was delicious. The wine was really sweet. I had never drunk anything so sweet since I was a child. .

After waking up, Baxi found himself tied to the bed with his legs spread out, his whole body forming a "big" character, the clothes on his upper body were still there, but the trousers on his lower body were gone, and he was naked, just lying there, he felt very shy , tried to cover it up, but he didn’t even have the strength to raise his head, his whole body felt like being scratched by a knife, and he vaguely felt the wind between his legs, and when the wind blew, he felt a burning pain, that kind of heart-rending feeling, he never forgot for many years .

So he stayed in bed for another month. During this period, he could hardly eat, and the pain of urination was so painful that he died. He had a fever, fainted, sweated all over his body, and went back and forth. But from then on, something was missing from the crotch, and I couldn't find it again.

Baxi once wanted to resist, but the old man's words made him die: "You are like this, even if you run away, where can you go? Who would want you as an eunuch? You can't live. Wouldn't it be in vain to suffer all these sufferings when you die? You This child who has no mother’s love, your mother will not sell it to me if she loves you a little, so fight for yourself, I will send you to the palace, the palace is full of errands, serving the royal family, the winner in the future If you appreciate it, it is also possible to honor your ancestors."

Without the root of descendants, unable to have children, in Qingcheng, people will only be looked down upon. Anyway, people who have died once, it is better to enter the palace.

After entering the palace, because of his young age, he was bullied by the older eunuchs.

After flushing the toilet, pouring the urinal, and other eunuchs stepped on his head.

Every time at this time, Baxi's hatred for Yueniang increases.

If it wasn't for her, how could he live like this?
The blood in Baxi's mouth was like a red earthworm, winding down the corner of his mouth, flowing into his neck, and wet his collar.

He held Lu Yu's wrist, and the brilliance in his eyes faded: "She treated me like that back then, and I couldn't let her end well. I have inquired many times over the years, and found out where she lives, and secretly investigated her. I happened to meet Bai Er and Bai Si murdering Eunuch Chang that night, so I...so...helped them, thinking that they killed people with a knife, and I happened to kill people with a knife. Only when they lose their heads can I relieve my hatred."

"Xu Jun, if you seduce my mother, you deserve to die, you all deserve to die." Ba Xi almost broke Lu Yu's wrist, God knows where he got the strength.

Perhaps he has come back to life.

Maybe he's lost his mind.

He lowered his head to bite Lu Yu's arm.

Lu Yu pulled out his arm with great difficulty: "Elder-in-law, you bit the wrong person."

"What about Xu Jun—Xu Jun—I'm not reconciled if you didn't kill you." Baxi's eyes were bloodshot.

Xu Jun listened quietly to Baxi's talk about the past, but after listening, he shook his head bitterly.

There was another word in his mouth.

In his opinion, Baxi said that his father was a butcher, and the family had surplus grain, and some antique calligraphy and paintings, so it was true that his ancestors had a good life.

In the beginning, Baxi's father was quite upbeat. Although his ancestors had a house and fields, he didn't lie down at home. Instead, he made a living that ordinary people couldn't do, and became a butcher.When slaughtering pigs, he would get up in the middle of the night to chop and chop. A piece of pork weighed a hundred catties, and he carried it all by himself, and he never said he was tired.

The pork was packed at home, and it had to be transported to the market for sale. One stop lasted for a long time, the sky was cloudy and rainy, winter went to spring, and I never got lazy.

In those few years, the Shi family had a prosperous life, and Yueniang gave birth to Baxi again. Seeing that the days as sweet as glutinous rice cakes are beckoning to them, it is a pity that Shi's butcher's family business was spotted by a gambling house, and he deliberately found a few The little gangster approached him, called him brother and brother, ate wine and played fists with him every day, and took him to the gambling house to watch the excitement. It didn't take long for Butcher Shi to fall.

Not to mention being carried home after eating and drinking every day, he didn't want to do the business of butchering pigs. Instead, he got up before dawn and went to the gambling house, and came back in the middle of the night wearing stars and moons.

At the beginning, Yueniang also persuaded him, and the butcher Shi shook the money in his purse: "I only earn a few dollars by killing a pig so hard, and I won six taels in a day at the gambling house, which is comparable to killing pigs." Pigs have a better future."

Yueniang told him that the gambler did not end well, but Butcher Shi couldn't listen to it, and there was that group of gangsters who hooked up every day, and then they drank until they vomited, and they didn't go home all night long.

If Yueniang dared to persuade her again, he would pick up a stick with a thick wrist and beat her up. Sometimes he felt upset when he lost money, so he wanted to beat Yueniang, mother and child. When the washing machine made a little noise, he said that it disturbed him to rest, and that Yueniang's face was miserable, and she beat him so that he couldn't make a fortune, so he beat him again.

Later, he started pawning calligraphy and painting pots at home. He saw all the valuable things left by his ancestors. He even wanted to carry the mahogany canopy bed where he slept.Fortunately, several elders in the clan couldn't see it, so they went to the pawnshop and told them not to accept his pawned things, so he stopped.

Then he asked Yueniang to pawn things. If Yueniang didn't go out, she would be beaten when she came back. Even if Yueniang's jewelry was good clothes, it was almost enough. He left a few things from his ancestors and put them in cages, hoping to give them to future generations. Just think about it, you still have to live, you can't let him squander it all.

There was no money in the house, and Butcher Shi was restless. He picked on Yueniang, mother and child all day long. Once he came back drunk, and Baxi was so hungry that he cried. Butcher Shi took his butcher's knife and wanted to cut his neck. Back, Yueniang slept until midnight, and seeing the butcher Shi rummaging at home, but couldn't find any money, she asked her to sell meat, but Yueniang refused, and the butcher Shi almost cut off her little finger with one knife.

For the sake of the child, Yueniang planned to run away.

A woman was helpless, but luckily Xu Jun took her in.

Xu Jun was still young at that time, working as a clerk in a pawn shop, doing calculations on the cabinet every day, and learning to appreciate antique calligraphy and paintings. If there is no accident, he will do better and better in the pawn shop in the future. At that time, the shopkeeper of the pawn shop had a daughter , also has a good impression of him, and is willing to sneak a look at him at the pawn shop all day long, or deliver a bowl of soup, or pour a cup of tea. son raised.

Yueniang was beaten all day long, and there was no good place on her body. Sometimes she pawned things in a pawn shop with blood on her hand. Every time she received her, Xu Jun was very conflicted. He felt sorry for her, but he was helpless.

Perhaps because of his care, Yueniang was also willing to talk to him a few more words.

It was only on the night of escaping that Xu Jun's residence was found.

Xu Jun has nothing to do with Butcher Shi, and Butcher Shi won't find him easily.

It's a safe haven.

Unfortunately, the shopkeeper's daughter took the maid to deliver beef soup to Xu Jun early in the morning. When she saw Yueniang coming out of Xu Jun's room, she spilled the beef soup and ran away crying.

When the news spread, people in Qingcheng said that Yueniang had cheated on her family style and hooked up with a pawnbroker.

How could the shopkeeper of the pawnshop let his daughter suffer such humiliation, so he opened Xu Jun from the cabinet that day.

For Yueniang's mother and son, Xu Jun lost his job, lost his marriage, and his future dimmed all of a sudden.

When Butcher Shi received the news, he threatened him several times with a knife. Yueniang refused to go back, and Xu Jun was guarding the door, so Butcher Shi didn't succeed.

Later, Butcher Shi owed a large amount of money to the gambling house, and the people in the gambling shop pursued it every day. First, they sealed up the property, and then sold all the usable things. If there is no silver, he will chop off his hands.

One day, the husband and wife were kind for a hundred days, and Yueniang exchanged all the little things that Baxi kept for Baxi into silver and sent them to the gambling house.

From then on, the commoner clothes and skirts really have no money at all.

On an autumn night of lightning and thunder, the butcher Shi crawled to the gambling house and bet with a little copper coin he had begged for in his hand. He was wounded, and that night, he died, on the deserted street.

When it was discovered the next day, it had already been soaked white by the rain, its eyeballs had been hollowed out by some nocturnal animal, and none of its ten fingers were left.

Xu Jun pooled money to bury him.

From then on, Yueniang followed Xu Jun with Baxi.

In order to support the mother and son, Xu Jun pasted paper lanterns, sold vegetables, and worked as a night watchman. Because the family's expenses were high and the monthly schedule was small, life was tight.

Although the days were tight, the family was full of joy and laughter during that time.

It's a pity that the weather was unpredictable, and Baxi fell ill before autumn passed.

At first he thought it was a minor ailment, but most of the money Xu Jun earned was used to buy medicine for him.

But after drinking a lot of medicine, it didn't help. A lively child gradually couldn't get out of bed, so he could only lie there and look out of the window. The autumn rain fell one after another, and the leaves of the sycamore trees fell so much that the cobblestone road was covered. They were all covered with a thick layer, and the north wind was blowing gradually, like someone blowing a whistle on the windows. Gradually, the wind became stronger and stronger, and winter in Qingcheng was coming soon. Baxi's The disease is still not improving.

(End of this chapter)