Mysteries of the Great Zhou Dynasty

Chapter 75: Yin Tian Yin Yue (3)

The fat woman was furious and pulled Dabao's ear: "Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eating! Are you a starving ghost reincarnated?"

"Ahhhh..." Dabao yelled, "Mom, be gentle, be gentle!"

The fat woman let go of her hands, turned around and saw the bowl of noodles that was an eyesore. She raised her hands and knocked the two bowls of noodles to the ground, angrily saying, "You guys can eat! Let's go!"

The fat woman was also feeling guilty, so after doing all this, she dragged Dabao away in a hurry.

"Hey, get out of here quickly! Be careful or I'll hit you on the back of the head with my slingshot!" Xiaoyue pulled the slingshot to its full extent and shot out two stones. The stones hit the loess road, raising a layer of yellow smoke. The fat woman was so scared that she jumped up and quickly left with the child, cursing.

"Mom!" When Xiaotian saw the fat woman leave, he looked at the noodles spilled on the ground and burst into tears. He squatted on the ground with heartache and looked up at his mother again.

Xiaoyue no longer had the bluff she had just shown. She stood aside with her lips pursed stubbornly, but tears kept falling one by one.

A-niang patted the two children's heads, picked up Xiaotian, and comforted them with a gentle smile: "It's no big deal, just two bowls of noodles. Aren't we all fine? The more they want to make us unhappy, the happier we should be! Otherwise, they will succeed, right? It's okay to encounter problems. Cry if you want to. After you're done crying, we can work together to find a solution."

The two children had tears on their faces, but they calmed down and forced a smile: "Mom, can we eat the noodles after washing them? The bowl is broken, what should we do?"

A Niang smiled and said, "You guys go play for a while, I'll figure out a solution."

The two children then ran to the side to play.

A'niang thought about the empty cupboard, looking embarrassed. She hardened her heart, took a large basin, squatted down, and picked up the noodles and eggs bit by bit. She squatted there with her back to the children so that they could not see her face. The more she picked up, the more sad she became, and tears could not stop falling.

"Mom, look, my sister cut a paper-cut for me!" Xiaotian happily raised the paper-cut in his hand and shouted to his mother.

While the two children were not paying attention, A'niang quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, calmed down, then stood up, turned around and responded with a smile.

Seeing the two children having fun, A'niang finally felt relieved. She washed the noodles carefully with clean water, boiled some hot water, and scalded the noodles before putting them back in a large basin and bringing them up.

"There are no bowls at home, so just eat for now. I'll sell my embroidery tomorrow and buy you two bowls and some food." A'niang said with a light smile, but when she turned around to pick up the chopsticks, her eyes became red again.

"Mom, let's eat together!" Xiaoyue looked at her mother's red eyes and understood what she meant, but she didn't say it out loud. She secretly made up her mind to carry more firewood to sell tomorrow to help her mother reduce the burden.
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Under candlelight, the two children slept soundly. A Niang quietly took out the wooden box and gently brushed her fingers along the puppy's furry back. She sighed softly, thinking: It's just a dog, no one should notice! A Niang turned a white porcelain bottle in her hand... After a long time, the sky gradually turned white, and the dog actually opened its eyes, but there was no light in them. A Niang smiled slightly, packed her things, went out to check that the door was locked, and then lay down to rest. But what she didn't know was that everything that had just happened was seen clearly by a pair of eyes hiding in the quilt, and remembered it clearly.

My mother can actually revive a puppy! This is too shocking!
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In a corner of a small tea stall beside the official road, a young girl and a boy of similar age sat opposite each other. The breeze blew up the veil, revealing the girl's delicate face. The boy had a similar face to the girl, but his appearance was a little rougher.

The girl, wearing a veiled hat, sat at the tea table, occasionally raising her teacup to take a sip. However, if someone carefully observed, they would find that the girl's movements were a bit stiff, and the tea was not less than usual. The girl was just making such a gesture, not really drinking the tea. After all, she couldn't drink it.

The handsome young man looked tired, with dark circles under his eyes, and was wolfing down a bowl of soup noodles.

However, no one in the tea stall paid attention to them. Everyone pricked up their ears to listen to the tea stall owner talk about the fire that fell from the sky in Yinjia Village the night before.

"I heard that the fire burned all night long, and Yinjia Village was burned clean." The boss said excitedly.

"Are all the villagers dead?" asked a fat and big-eared man.

"Some died, some escaped, there are no people left!" The boss shook his head.

"I heard that it was the witch's revenge! My aunt works as a helper in the home of the village chief of Yinjia Village. These days, she asked for leave to come back to help her daughter with her confinement, and that's how she escaped. I heard that there was a witch in the village who could resurrect the dead. One of the witch's two children fell off a cliff while collecting firewood on a rainy day and died. He was obviously badly injured, but three or five days later, the two children were found hiding at home and they were fine! The village chief and the villagers tied up the witch, poured kerosene on her, and burned her to death. When they were about to burn the two children, they found that the person locked in the woodshed had disappeared." A middle-aged woman said proudly, as if she had become the center of the entire tea stall.

"Are there really witches in this world?" asked the big man.

"I don't know if she's a witch or not, but my aunt said that the witch's husband died a few years ago, but she owns a lot of land in the village, and the deeds and property rights are still in the hands of the witch. My aunt said that the woman was so beautiful! She was usually very polite and treated everyone well, even to a stranger like her. I guess, instead of calling her a witch or not, maybe the villagers were jealous of the land! That's why they accused her of such a crime."

"Tsk tsk..." The boss tsk'd twice and nodded in agreement, "These days, in this world, people's hearts are really hard to predict!"

"Auntie, what do you think about the witch's revenge?" the big man asked curiously.

"Hey, in my opinion, it was God's will, burning those heartless people to death! I heard that fire wasn't just any fire, it was heavenly fire! The witch was burned to death, and her daughter disappeared. But, late that night, the whole village was on fire. What do you think...if this isn't the witch's revenge?"

Everyone was in an uproar and talking about it.

The young man sitting in the corner was none other than Yin Tian. A mouthful of soup noodles stuck in his throat, unable to swallow. Tears welled up in his eyes. He listened to these increasingly outrageous rumors, feeling a bit dazed. After a moment, he wiped the tears from his eyes with his sleeve, picked up the bowl, gulped down the soup, and silently took his sister's hand before leaving.