In the afternoon, Aunt Zhang came to the courtyard early.
I found the deaf old lady and claimed that she was here to visit.
There happened to be no one around, and most people hadn't gotten off work yet.
Qin Jingru then came in and explained Xu Damao's situation in detail.
After hearing this, Aunt Zhang nodded and said: "It's just because I was scared. I'll be fine as soon as I show up. You bring a bowl first."
Qin Jingru hurried home and got a porcelain bowl.
Aunt Zhang took out a few talismans from her pocket, spit out some star seeds on her fingers, rubbed her fingers, and pinched out one.
He put the remaining talismans back together, held the picked yellow talisman and muttered something, and kept shouting for Xu Damao to come back.
Finally, I took out a match, lit the talisman, and collected the ashes in the bowl.
"Before dinner tonight, you make a bowl of medicinal soup for him alone. Remember to add seven soybeans, seven jujube thorns, and seven sections of peach branches. Add brown sugar. Finally, use the medicinal soup to make a bowl of talisman ash. Make sure your man drinks it.
Just do it.”
Qin Jingru firmly believed it and hurried to prepare things.
"Aunt Zhang, you have to wait before leaving, in case it takes effect slowly."
"Don't worry, I'll be guarding the old lady's house and I'll make sure your man recovers after drinking it."
After Xu Damao got off work, he proudly said to Qin Jingru: "The day after tomorrow I will pick up a new movie, the comedy film 'Big Li, Xiao Li and Old Li'. The steel rolling mill is showing a movie in the afternoon. Please help me get a few more seats for Lin Zhen."
Stay home."
Qin Jingru muttered: "I know, here, drink this bowl of brown sugar water first."
Xu Damao frowned and said, "I'm not in confinement, so why should I drink brown sugar water?"
"Oh, there's no harm in drinking it. Aren't I worried that you still have a headache?"
"That's not bad. I'm thirsty. That's the only good thing about you. You know you feel sorry for me."
Xu Damao said as he squinted his eyes and took a big sip.
"Uh... Bah! What does it smell like? Is the brown sugar moldy?"
Qin Jingru said with a smile: "How can brown sugar be moldy? Damao, drink it quickly!"
Xu Damao was a little suspicious, but he was really thirsty and finally drank it all.
After finishing the drink, Qin Jingru immediately asked: "Da Mao, how do you feel?"
Xu Damao frowned and said: "How about what? The aftertaste is a bit bitter, hurry up and cook!"
"Then when there is a movie the day after tomorrow, will Lin Zhen's family have a seat?"
"Of course. Have you forgotten what I just said?"
"Oh, I see..."
Qin Jingru was a little disappointed, thinking that the effect was not as obvious as Aunt Zhang said? She would have to ask her later.
After the meal was cooked and put on the table, Qin Jingru said: "Da Mao, you eat first, I'll go to the deaf old lady's house to borrow something."
Xu Damao said unhappily: "Go to her house to borrow something, she knows how to act stupid and favor Silly Zhu!"
"Oh, don't you bother me by talking back and forth? I'll go and be right back!"
Qin Jingru came to the deaf old lady's house and said: "Aunt Zhang, if your trick doesn't work, is it because we have entered a new era and you will no longer be able to do it?"
Aunt Zhang looked embarrassed and said: "It's impossible. Not long ago, a two-year-old child cried every day and night because of me praising him."
Qin Jingru said: "But Damao didn't react at all."
Aunt Zhang said: "It may be that adults are different from children. The souls of adults can travel far away and the medicine has not exerted its power. You wait a little longer. If it still doesn't work after eating, I will go to his bedside when your man falls asleep at night."
Call."
"Well, that's okay, I'll take a look."
While they were talking, Qin Huairu came over to check on the situation and said hello to Aunt Zhang.
Upon hearing what Qin Jingru said, Qin Huairu said with a smile: "Why are you so anxious? It will work just after drinking it? Go back and observe the situation first."
After Qin Jingru left, Qin Huairu said to Aunt Zhang: "Aunt Zhang, my mother-in-law also wants to see you."
Aunt Zhang asked: "What happened to your mother-in-law?"
"Hey, speaking of it, it has something to do with Lin Zhen. Wasn't he taken away for a day and a night by the security department some time ago? After coming back now, I always feel that something is wrong, and I always feel scared."
"Hey! Let me put it this way, Comrade Lin Zhen in your courtyard is very good at what he does. If he deliberately made your mother-in-law and Xu Damao lose their souls, I'd just come and call him. That would be a kick in the ass. No, I'm not fighting with others.
Pass the law!"
Qin Huairu said with a smile: "You are overthinking it. Lin Zhen is a nice person, but he has a bad temper and can't control his anger. He is not like you, who can draw talismans and recite incantations."
Aunt Zhang nodded and said, "Okay, let's make arrangements for Xu Damao tonight, and then I'll go see your mother-in-law."
"Okay, I'll come back later."
After dinner, Qin Jingru took the opportunity to come to the deaf old lady's house again, shook her head and said, "No, Damao didn't react at all."
Aunt Zhang frowned and said: "I have been scaring others for most of my life. This is the first time I met someone who didn't respond at all. It seems that I have to go to the bedside to scream at night. Jingru, you go back and put the man to sleep first. 11
When it's midnight, I'll go to his bedside and wake up!"
Aunt Zhang touched her pocket and thought that today's thank you gift could not be returned to the host's family under any circumstances.
After a while, Qin Huairu came to the door again.
When I heard that Aunt Zhang would stay until 11 o'clock in the evening, I hurried home and called my mother-in-law, Jia Zhang.
Jia Zhang couldn't wait any longer after she found out that she had hired someone to scare Xu Damao.
She really believed that.
Qin Huairu was bothered to ask for help, but he was reluctant to give him a thank you gift.
While she was looking anxiously at the door, Qin Huairu ran over happily, "Come on, Mom, Aunt Zhang won't leave until 11 o'clock."
Mrs. Jia Zhang said happily: "Okay, please keep your voice down. Where is Sophora japonica?"
"Let Bangge and Xiaodang watch first."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the backyard, while Bangjian and Xiaodang were looking at the sophora flowers in the house.
In the summer, after dinner, the children in the courtyard all come out to run and play.
Four brothers, Lin Guo, and two siblings, Liu Yuanyuan and Liu Ka-shing, who lived in the penthouse in the front yard, came together to play with BangGeng.
When he got to the door and shouted, Banggeng came out and said: "Xiaodang and I are not going out to play tonight. We are looking at the locust flowers. You can play."
Lin Guo asked: "Where are your grandma and your mother?"
"Go to the back and scream at grandma to scare her."
"What do you call scary?"
"I don't know, don't ask me, I'm so annoying!"
If the stick doesn't come out, a few people won't have much fun, and they all go home after running around for a while.
Lin Guo told his parents about Jia Zhang's screams.
He asked curiously: "Dad, what is scaring?"
Lin Zhen said: "Just calling names is a feudal superstition. You can't do it randomly when playing house."
"Oh, I see."
Lou Xiao'e wondered: "Lin Zhen, who can scream in the backyard? It can't be the deaf old lady. I have never heard her say that she can do it before."
Lin Zhen smiled and said: "It doesn't matter which one does it."
"I'm just curious. Did you say that Aunt Jia was frightened because she was taken away by the security department?"
"It's possible, you deserve it!"
…………
It's past 11 o'clock in the middle of the night.
Most people in the courtyard have fallen asleep.
In the evening at the end of May, the weather gradually became hotter.
Most people open their windows for ventilation when sleeping at night.
In order to maintain her professional reputation for decades, Aunt Chen tugged on her sleeves and patted her pants.
Quietly, he opened the door of Xu Damao's house and nodded to Qin Jingru.
Without turning on the light, he walked directly to Xu Damao's bedside.
He pretended to recite a couple of spells, then leaned down and whispered into Xu Damao's face.