Chapter 318 Washing Three

Huahua couldn't understand what Sheng Xiping said, so she just stood next to Sheng Xiping, rubbing her big head against his legs, and making a purring sound. It felt like she was acting coquettishly with Sheng Xiping.

"Little guy, you haven't seen me for a long time. Do you miss me? Come on, let's go inside first."

Sheng Xiping smiled when he saw Huahua like this, reached out and patted Huahua's head, and smoothed the tiger hair down the back of her neck.

Not to mention, the feel is comparable to fine silk and satin, smooth, smooth and warm.

Sheng Xiping wanted Huahua to enter the house, but at this time Huahua made a mistake and refused to go in. She lowered her head and bit Sheng Xiping's trouser leg and pulled hard out of the door.

When Sheng Xiping saw this, he felt strange, what was Huahua doing?

"No, what are you going to do? I've already gone home. If I don't hurry into the house to warm up, why are you dragging me out? Where will we go when we get out?"

The movement in the outer room alerted Zhang Shuzhen who was sleeping in the east room. She came out with her clothes on, just in time to see Huahua biting Sheng Xiping's trouser leg and insisted on dragging Sheng Xiping out.

"What's going on with Huahua today? Does it still want to go into the mountain?"

Zhang Shuzhen reminded Sheng Xiping with one sentence, and Sheng Xiping quickly patted Huahua on the head.

"Then wait a moment. I'll go back, change my clothes, and put my gun on my back."

It was strange. When Sheng Xiping said this, Huahua relaxed and just purred towards Sheng Xiping and Zhang Shuzhen.

Sheng Xiping quickly went back to the west room to put on his clothes, put on his leg straps, put on his torn sheepskin jacket, took off the gun and shoulder bag on the wall, and then went out.

When Huahua saw Sheng Xiping come out dressed neatly, she turned around and left.

This time it did not jump out from the garden stick, but came to the gate and waited for Sheng Xiping to open the gate.

Then, one person and one tiger came out of Sheng's house and headed straight to Beishan.

At the beginning of the twelfth twelfth lunar month, the weather is the coldest, especially this early morning, when it is 30 or 40 degrees below zero.

Huahua's floral fur coat is thick and warm, and she is not afraid of the cold weather.

Fortunately for Sheng Xiping, he wore thick clothes and covered himself tightly.

Even so, after a while, the leather hat, eyebrows, and eyelashes were all covered with a layer of white frost.

One man and one tiger walked in the heavy snow for an hour and a half, climbing over several hills, and finally arrived at a small mountain nest leeward.

From a distance, I heard some birds chirping. When I got closer, I discovered that there were two wild boars, one large and one small, lying on the ground.

The big one weighs two hundred pounds for a sow, and the small one weighs less than one hundred pounds for a yellow-haired pig.

The stomachs of both pigs were ripped open, and their internal organs were not known to be eaten by Huahua or other animals. Anyway, the ground was covered with blood and internal organs fragments.

It was dawn now, and Sheng Xiping could clearly see that the bloody holes on the wild boar's neck were caused by Huahua's sharp teeth.

In other words, both pigs were bitten to death by Huahua, and most of their internal organs were eaten by it.

Probably Huahua thought it was too heavy to carry, so she didn't take it back. Instead, she threw it here, planning to go back and fetch reinforcements.

As for the roe deer, Huahua might have encountered it on her way home, bit it to death and then took it away.

"You are so powerful now. You can bite a sow to death?" Sheng Xiping looked at Huahua with surprise. This little guy is growing up so fast.

Can a tiger cub growing in the wild have such great abilities?

Sheng Xiping wasn't sure, but Huahua was indeed very capable.

Motherless children become independent early, and it seems that this applies to wild animals as well.

Although the two pigs were not big, it was quite difficult for Sheng Xiping to drag them back alone.

There's nothing you can do about it. Huahua managed to bite him to death, so he can't just throw it in the mountains and it won't go in vain.

Having no idea, Sheng Xiping found a rope from his pocket, tied the two pigs together, left one end of the rope, wrapped it around Sheng Xiping's shoulder, and dragged it back.

Fortunately, it was winter and there was snow all over the ground. Moreover, by this time, the snow on the mountain had turned into snow particles and was very frozen. The pigs would not get stuck in it, so it would save a lot of effort to drag them around.

Before five o'clock, one person and one tiger came out of the house. It took a while to get to the bundle of pigs. When they walked back, Sheng Xiping was tired and hungry and could not walk so fast. By the time they came out of the woods, it was almost nine o'clock.

Just after leaving the forest and before entering the forest farm, the little tiger Huahua turned around and ran away.

Sheng Xiping didn't even react. Huahua jumped into the forest and disappeared after a few ups and downs.

Sheng Xiping was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed. Huahua grew bigger and bigger, and became more and more wild. It seemed that it didn't want to go back to the Sheng family anymore.

Also, it was supposed to be the king of beasts in the Xiaoao Mountain Forest, so how could it be possible for it to live under a human and become someone else's pet?

Everything in the world has its fate. Perhaps, the fate between the Sheng family and Huahua ends here.

"Huahua, please take care of yourself."

Sheng Xiping turned around, muttered something to the big forest behind him, then turned around and dragged the two pigs back.

At this time, there were many people coming and going in the forest farm, and someone saw Sheng Xiping dragging the pig back.

"Hey, Xiping, when did you hunt the pig? Did you go into the mountains last night and didn't come back?" Someone asked out of curiosity.

"Oh, I went into the forest yesterday and laid a few traps. Didn't I trap two wild boars?

I didn't know what it was, so I took the opportunity to harm the pigs. I ripped open the pig's belly and ate all the food.

When I went into the woods this morning, I saw that he had become such a virtuous man. He should be dragged back quickly. "

Sheng Xiping didn't say it was the pig killed by Huahua. Even though everyone in the forest farm knew that the Sheng family had a little tiger, he didn't want others to pay too much attention to Huahua.

"Let's just ask around the forest farm. How many young men are there who can do it better than you? That's great." Others couldn't help but praise.

"Auntie, I have to go home first. My mother is busy at home today because the child has her third bath."

Sheng Xiping nodded towards them and quickly dragged the two pigs back.

Sheng Xiping dragged the pig into the house and quickly called Sheng Xikang to come out to help. The two brothers got the pig into the house.

This pig had been frozen in the mountains for who knows how long. It was so frozen that it was impossible to pick out the meat without slowing down.

"Oh, you dragged back two pigs? Huahua bit them to death, right?"

Zhang Shuzhen has already had experience in handling the prey brought back by Huahua. One look at the wound revealed that Huahua had bitten her to death.

"Where's Huahua? Didn't he come back with you?"

Zhang Shuzhen walked into the yard and saw no shadow of Hua Hua. She stretched her head and looked out the door, but there was no one there, so she asked curiously.

"Well, it sent me to the edge of the forest, then turned around and went back.

I don’t think it can come back to our house anymore. It is a wild animal after all. How can it lie in our house all day long and let Lao Liu and Xiaofeng rub it? "

Sheng Xiping sighed, after raising him for so long, he really couldn't bear to part with him.

"Oh, he's still so young. Is it okay to just live in the forest by himself? If he encounters a ferocious beast, he won't suffer a loss."

When Zhang Shuzhen heard this, she couldn't help but worry. After raising it for so long, what if another wild beast harmed it?

"No, it can kill even this sow, and ordinary animals are no match for it.

At this time, both the black blind man and the brown bear are squatting in the warehouse. When they come out next spring, the flowers will have grown up, so they should not suffer any losses. "

Tigers are at the top of the food chain in the mountains and forests, and not many can hurt them.

"Oh, I hope Huahua will be safe in the mountains and grow up smoothly.

After all, it is wild, and it is not good just to stay in our house. It must learn to live in the wild on its own. "Zhang Shuzhen shook her head and sighed.

Huahua has been in the Sheng family for half a year and has a deep relationship with the Sheng family. When it left, Zhang Shuzhen felt a little panicked and worried about it.

But today is my grandson’s bath. There may be guests coming later, and he still has a lot of things to do. He doesn’t have much time to be sad, so it’s important to pack things quickly.

"There is rice in the pot. You should take it out and eat it quickly. After the meal, pick off these two pigs.

Didn't your wife and the others say they were coming today? We have to make something delicious for lunch. "

After Zhang Shuzhen finished speaking, she went to the West Room to see her daughter-in-law and grandson.

Sheng Xiping brought out the rice and ate it on the edge of the pot.

After dinner, I sharpened my knife and boiled a pot of water. Then he first peeled off the skin and flesh of the roe deer that Huahua brought back. The two wild boars happened to have melted, and then continued to clean up the wild boars.

Sheng Xiping was busy when he heard footsteps outside, and then Qin Qiuyan led his two daughters-in-law in.

"Hey, when did you go hunting wild boars?" Qin Qiuyan asked as she walked in.

"Master's wife and sister-in-law are here? Come on, go into the inner room to warm up."

Sheng Xiping raised his head to look at the person, quickly threw down the knife, and smiled as he invited them to sit in the east room.

"Our little tiger Huahua, the pig killed in the mountains yesterday, had to drag me back this morning.

Wife, sister-in-law, please sit down first while I go call my mother. "

Zhang Shuzhen heard the noise in the west room and came over from the west room, "Oh, my sister-in-law and niece-in-law are here.

Why didn't you call your eldest brother, Yujiang Yuhe and the others? Come over and have fun together. "

"Why are you asking them to come here to see the children? Those old men are big and thick, they talk and make noises, and the children are still small, so they can't stand it.

Wait until the child is one month old and no longer has to worry about right and wrong, and then let them come to see you. "When Qin Qiuyan heard this, she waved her hands and smiled.

When Zhang Shuzhen heard this, she also laughed, "Then wait until the full moon comes. Then I will definitely ask my eldest brother and Yujiang Yuhe to come."

Birth and death are the two most important events in life.

If this had been done before, the little baby would have been properly taken care of for three days. A midwife would have been invited to preside over the ceremony, and the incense table would have been placed for more than a dozen gods, including the Goddess who observed the world, the Goddess who sent birth, and the man who facilitated the birth.

The children's maternal grandmother's family, relatives and friends' family members all got it, and they had to add basins for them. The whole process of bathing the child was very cumbersome.

At this time, people are not allowed to burn incense or paper, and worshiping gods is not even mentioned.

Those old rules have been omitted, and not many people pay attention to the third day of washing anymore. Most people hold banquets on the full moon to entertain relatives and friends.

The Sheng family has few relatives in the Northeast. As Sheng Xiping's master and wife, Liu Changde and his wife are not much different from their biological father and mother.

At this time, Qin Qiuyan will definitely bring the female family members over to help with the arrangements.

Water was boiling on the stove in the outer room. Zhang Shuzhen asked her daughter to make a pot of tea while she chatted with Qin Qiuyan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

I had to wait until the chill from the visitors had dissipated before I could go to the West Room to see the children.

At this time, Qin Qiuyan took out a cloth bag from her arms and opened it.

"Brothers and sisters, I didn't bring anything else for my child's shower today.

These are the bellybands and two small clothes I embroidered for my children when I had free time.

My craftsmanship is not that good. I have thick needles and big threads. Don’t be dissatisfied, brothers and sisters. "Qin Qiuyan took out the contents of the cloth bag and handed them to Zhang Shuzhen.

“Oh, sister-in-law, look at this, what can you tell me to say?

Yesterday, Xiping went over and you brought eggs, millet, and sticks. I told him when he came back. Look, you also prepared clothes for the child. "

Someone extended his hand and handed it over. Zhang Shuzhen had no choice but to accept it, so she could only say politely.

"Why are you still talking about our two families?

Then when our two wives gave birth to a baby, you saved the white flour from your mouth and gave us more than ten kilograms at once.

It’s all the same thing, so no one should be polite to us. "Qin Qiuyan laughed when she heard it.

This is the relationship between the Sheng family and the Liu family. When the Liu family's daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, Zhang Shuzhen also gave a lot of things as gifts.

What this person pays for when getting along with others is reciprocity. If you are good to me, I will be better to you. The closer we get together, the closer we get.

While talking, there was another movement outside. Zhang Shuzhen went out and saw that Xu Xiuxiang was leading Zhao Juan, and she quickly called people into the house.

Xu Xiuxiang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law here just entered the room and sat down. They chatted with Qin Qiuyan and the others, Chen Xiuzhi, Li Xue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Zhao Chunlan, Li Yuqin, Tang Fengying, Pan Fusheng's mother Liu Yuee, Zhang Zhijun's mother Zhao Fuzhi, and Wang Jiachuan His daughter-in-law, Tao Chunhong, also arrived one after another.

Now, the Sheng family was lively, everyone was laughing and chatting.

After everyone had warmed up, they went to the west room to see the children and Zhou Qinglan.

Tang Fengying made a set of single clothes and a set of cotton-padded clothes for the little baby.

It is said that it is the aunt's skirt and the aunt's coat. Although Tang Fengying is a cousin, this rule has not been followed. The clothes are made very finely, and the stitches are hidden very well.

People with whom the Sheng family had good relations at Qianchuan Forestry Farm were all here. Zhang Shuzhen saw that it was not too early, so she hurriedly washed the child.

Sheng Yunfang scooped out half a basin of moxa leaves and sophora japonica water from the pot, mixed it with a ladle of cold water, put her hand in and tried it. The temperature was just right, so she took it directly into the west room.

If this happened in the past, the incense table would be placed in the outer room to display tributes, and the third day of washing would also be in the outer room.

Nowadays, these old rules are no longer in use, so we simply wash in the West Room.

The kang in the west room was burning very hot, and the fire wall never ceased, so the room was quite warm.

Sheng Yunfang brought the basin to the kang, and Qin Qiuyan and Zhang Shuzhen took off their shoes and got on the kang.

Zhang Shuzhen took the child out of the bed, unbuttoned the little guy's clothes, held his head in one hand and his buttocks in the other, and carefully placed him in the basin.

As for Qin Qiuyan, she dipped half of a towel in water and gently washed the baby's body. While washing, he was still mumbling something.

"First wash your hair, and you will become a prince. Then wash your waist, and each generation will be taller than the next. Wash your eggs, and you will become a county magistrate. Wash your ditches, and you will become a state magistrate."

These are all old words. That is to say, older people still use this kind of narcotics. Younger people, like Tang Fengying and others, have never even heard of it.

The little baby hadn't had a bath since he was born. At most, Zhang Shuzhen wiped the baby's face, neck and hair with a wet towel.

When Leng Buding saw the water, the little kid couldn't adapt to it, so he opened his mouth and cried.

When he cried, the elders all laughed and said in unison, "It's ringing, it's ringing."

Ouch, listen, this little boy is very powerful and his cry is powerful. "

The child is small and cannot be washed for too long, so the meaning is more or less the same.

Zhang Shuzhen took the child out of the water, wrapped it in a dry cloth, and quickly wiped its head gently with a dry towel, being careful to avoid the baby's head fontanelle.

After drying the baby, Qin Qiuyan took a new comb and gently combed the baby's hair.

"Three combs, two combs, and a red hat when you grow up. Comb your hair on the left side, and do your sideburns on the right side. Find a wife from the fourth village."