I glanced at the butcher and thought, since Uncle Quan asked me to come and learn some skills from you, you can't drive me away if you don't give me face, right?
I smiled and said: "Hey, uncle butcher, it's easy to ask for something, but you have to let me eat."
The butcher didn't say anything, and I walked in quickly.
As soon as I entered, I saw that the house was not big, but it was divided into two small independent rooms, and there was a small kitchen on the side. The remaining space was filled with various meat strips.
I took a quick look and found that the strips of meat hanging in the room seemed to be not only ordinary pigs, cattle and sheep, but also some that I couldn't recognize at all. I could only feel the smell, which seemed a little weird...
In the small kitchen, I saw the woman who had just staged a big movie in the cornfield, wearing a dirty apron and cooking in an orderly manner.
After a while, when the woman came over with two or three dishes in her hands, she also saw me.
"Why, are you here for a meal?" The woman raised her eyebrows, as if she didn't welcome me.
I was very thick-skinned and didn't care about this woman's gaze at all. I asked the butcher to sit down, and then opened a bottle of rice wine for him that I bought at a small grocery store in the village...
"Uncle butcher, I respect you. If you don't have a cup, how about we blow on one?"
When facing villagers like butchers, I know that I am definitely not too effeminate when it comes to drinking. It is best to eat meat in large chunks and drink from a large bowl of wine, which is the quickest way to get along with them.
Sure enough, when I offered a toast, the butcher's face was slightly moved.
This butcher didn't seem to have any resistance to wine. He took the wine I opened and drank it. Then he used his chopsticks to pick up a large piece of meat on the plate and chewed it with relish...
The best way to improve friendship between men is through two things, namely tobacco and alcohol.
After drinking and smoking, after a while, the butcher looked at me a little differently than before.
The woman on the side glanced at me and the butcher and said, "What are you two doing?"
"I'm here to learn my skills from the butcher uncle." I showed a row of white teeth to the woman, looking harmless.
The woman frowned, a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes, and then said: "Learn your skills? Do you want to learn your skills from this old man? I advise you to go back, otherwise you will lose your life if you don't learn your skills."
Listening to the woman's strange words, I couldn't help but feel surprised: Isn't this woman the butcher's daughter? Why did she speak so sourly?
Before I could ask again, the woman had already pointed to the table to one side.
I took a closer look and discovered that there were two rankings on the table...
"Did you see, those two are my husbands." The woman had already stood up, glanced at the silent butcher first, and continued: "One was married to me three years ago, and the result was that she had to
He learned his skills from him, but he died within half a year; the other one, who came as a son-in-law two years ago, was even faster, and within three months he didn't even have any bones left... Haha, old man, you think you dare to take another person with you?
Learn skills? Why is it not you who is dead? Why..."
By the end of the story, the woman was already a little hysterical, but the butcher, on the other hand, gradually became silent.
Looking at this scene, I was a little confused all of a sudden!
Sir, what's going on?
Didn't Uncle Quan say that this butcher was very good at eating? How could he cause his daughter to become a widow twice in a row?
I was stunned for a moment, but I quickly guessed that this woman had probably resented her father for a long time, so she did some immoral things to deliberately make her father angry.
But what puzzles me is how could the butcher whom Uncle Quan said was so awesome, let his daughter's two husbands die?
I looked at the butcher and saw him taking a swig of rice wine, suddenly standing up and walking out of the house.
As soon as the butcher left, the woman went into a rage.
"Old man, why aren't you the one with no bones left? You killed my mother and left me a widow, why don't you die..."
The woman's words were a bit unpleasant, so I had to comfort her for a few words, and then walked out of the house angrily.
Outside the house, the butcher who had been scolded by his daughter was sitting expressionlessly on the pork table, smoking a cigarette.
"Smoke this, I stole it from Uncle Quan..." I took out the cigarettes in my pocket and said to the butcher with a flattering look on my face.
The butcher glanced at me and took it without saying a word.
"Well, that uncle butcher, what's going on with your daughter?" I asked with a sneer. I thought I had to ask clearly. I didn't want to learn the same skills as his daughter's two husbands.
, and lost his life.
The butcher lit the cigarette, and the expression on his face changed somewhat.
He said: "Have you ever heard of a curse?"
"A curse?"
The butcher turned around and said calmly: "You don't even know what the curse is? It seems that old man Quan didn't teach you much... The curse is a vicious curse. I was struck by the curse many years ago.
Anyone around me will encounter bad luck one after another."
Listening to the butcher's words, I couldn't help but feel nervous. Damn it, is there really such an awesome curse? It can actually cause bad luck to a person's relatives.
I didn't quite believe it, but the butcher had no intention of keeping me alive.
The butcher said: "If nothing happens, just leave. Leave Liucun. Not everyone can stay here..."
"Uh, but Uncle Quan asked me to learn my skills from you." I hesitated.
It took so much hard work to get here, but I haven't learned any skills yet, and I've spent so much money. If I were scared away by just a few words, I guess Uncle Quan and Old Man Yin would laugh out loud!
And my consistent principle is that I won’t shed tears until I see the coffin. Butcher, the curse on you is your business. I just came here to learn some skills. No matter how awesome the curse is, it can’t be applied to me.
?
I gritted my teeth and said to the butcher: "Since you are all here, I have to stay and learn some skills. You don't have to drive me away. I just want to ask if you can teach me some skills. If you don't want to, then I will come back tomorrow."
ask!"
The butcher sighed and then shook his head.
"You will die!" said the butcher.
"Don't worry, I've always been blessed with good fortune, and I won't shed tears until I see the coffin!"
The butcher hesitated for a moment, then took a long drag on the cigarette, and finally turned his head and said calmly: "If you are not afraid of death, come over to my place after dark..."
After the butcher finished speaking, he dropped the cigarette in his hand and walked towards the center of the village.
I looked at his very vicissitudes of life, and my heart moved inexplicably: "I want to see what tricks you can come up with tonight..."
I quickly returned to the house where I was staying temporarily. When I returned, the house was empty. Uncle Liu, who went to town with Lao Zhangtou to buy daily necessities, had not returned yet.
I took one look at the impoverished house and couldn't help but smile bitterly. I then found the few snacks left in my backpack and treated them as today's lunch.
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After spending an afternoon, the sun came and went quickly in this mountain village. When I looked up and looked outside the house again, I found that it was already getting dark outside.
I quickly took out the spells that Old Man Yin taught me to draw from my backpack. Although I didn't know if they were useful, it would be good to have more equipment.
While preparing, I also found the small dagger I snatched from Han Yun last night.
The small dagger is quite sharp. When I saw this dagger, I immediately thought of the woman who hated me so much that she gritted her teeth...
"She must have been suppressed by me. This woman is just like a candy. She can't be killed, but..."
I shook my head and stopped thinking about it. After briefly preparing, I quickly walked out of the house and rushed to the butcher's house behind the village.
After a while, when I arrived at the door of the butcher's house, I saw the butcher waiting for me on the table.
When I saw this, I hurried over and asked, "Do you have any handy weapons? Give me one."
The butcher glanced at me, then pulled out two butcher knives from the table, and then threw the smaller one to me.
"Is it just a pig-killing knife?" I frowned, wondering if this equipment was a bit too primitive.
"A person's most powerful weapon is his or her own heart. As long as the heart is strong enough, one is invincible..."
As soon as the butcher finished speaking, before I could react, I had already walked towards the back of the village without raising my head.