There is a sparse village road covered with green grass outside the forest. Because there are few people walking on it, the village road is also a bit deserted. There are piles of animal dung at such a distance, and of course the most common ones are cattle. The village road goes around the top of Kuba, and there is a mountain ridge. There are two tile houses on the mountain ridge, which are Hu Qian's home. Hu Qian led the cow and thought it was going too slowly, so he walked around behind the cow, casually broke off a yellow wattle branch on the side of the road, raised it up, and made a show. The cow was a little scared, so he quickened his pace.
When he arrived at the house, Hu Qian tied the cow to a big stone with eyes. Then he went into the house and took out a ramie seed and a short square stool. He sat down and pulled up his right trouser leg, exposing his bent knees. He arranged the strands of ramie, spread his hands in front of his chest, spit a few drops of saliva into his palms, rubbed them, and then started rubbing the hemp rope on his knees.
The cow looked at him, as if she was waiting for him to deliver fodder, but when he didn't deliver, she looked away in frustration, and walked around the stone with eyes a few times, but kept her eyes on the ivy that was temporarily used as a rope. , even though it is ivy, it is quite strong. Feeling hopeless, the female ox stomped her hoof and stood there in a daze.
The rain stopped, and the ground was still a little wet. Soon Hu Qian twisted out a hemp rope several meters long, came to the cow, took the green vine off the wooden stick from the cow's nostril, and tied the rope around the cow. On that big stone with eyes, he felt at ease.
At this time, Hu Qian returned to the forest to look for the bull. There were water stains along the way, and his trousers were wet. He didn't feel uncomfortable, but felt cool, but he was still unhappy because the bull had not been found yet. He walked into the depths of the forest and looked around, but still no trace of him.
On the other side of the forest was a crop field, and suddenly he saw his bull walking towards a field where the seedlings were green. He was very nervous. The beast was invading the crops. He quickened his pace and ran over. The bull spotted him. He understood that he had made a mistake and would be punished. He became crazy in panic, held his tail high, and ran forward for a while. We turned a sharp corner and headed back into the woods.
Hu Qian looked at the seedlings. Dozens of them had been eaten by bull oxen. The seedlings looked like they had been cut along the waist by a sickle. They were much shorter than the uninjured seedlings. Fortunately, the seedlings were not pulled up by the roots and eaten, otherwise they would have been eaten. , these short seedlings will never grow. How will the owners of these crops resent the harmful animals and their guardians?
Hu Qian did not catch up with the bull and was a little scared. He chased to the west end of the forest and saw a locust tree with a crooked neck. The tree was three meters above the ground and had a few forks. He sighed that a few years ago, domestic cattle had also invaded other people's crops. He didn't have the courage. Although he admitted it, others suspected that he was a scalper in his family, and this suspicion slowly turned into resentment.
Not long after, his hut caught fire on a starless night. He discovered it too late and had no way to put it out, so he and his children had to snatch some household items out. He didn't know who set the fire. What a cruel move! He suspected that it was the person who hated his family, but he had not caught him and had no evidence of setting fire to him. Even his suspicion was in vain.
That night, he stayed up until dawn. He was so worried that his family didn't know where to stay. He wanted to borrow a room in the village. When he passed by the west end of the mountain forest and saw the crooked-neck tree, he was startled. Considering that he had to pay rent to rent a house in the village, how could he afford the rent?
Seeing that he was too poor, his wife ran away with him for more than a year. The three children in the family, the eldest is only 9 years old, the second is only 7, and the third is only 5, all rely on him to take care of them.
So he came up with the idea that instead of renting a house in the village, he could just build a shed on this forked locust tree. Wouldn't it be easy? Soon he turned this idea into reality and spent a day building a straw shed leaning against this tree. After that, I lived here.
After living in a thatched hut for a long time, he fired bricks and tiles from the kiln, built a house, and moved out of the hut supported by a crooked locust tree.
Hu Qian chased the male scalper in a panic, and finally chased him out of the forest and ran toward his home. However, he felt uneasy because he was afraid that because his scalper had infringed on other people's crops, others would settle the score with him or harm him secretly.
At this moment, his consciousness disappeared like air. That was because the male ox ran behind the female ox and licked the reproductive area under its long tail very affectionately. The male ox may have been smelled by the smell. When it gets wet, it raises its mouth high and raises its nostrils to the sky, as if to reject a taste. Then it repeated this action, as if a person who likes spicy food is afraid of spicy food and can't live without it. The expression was upright and funny.
Of course the female ox knew what it was going to do, as if it had finally arrived after waiting for a long time. The female ox stood with its buttocks tilted back, in a gesture of reception.
The male ox, who was in tune with each other, made a leap and landed on the back of the female ox. As a result, this pair of beasts were so rough and majestic in carrying out their vocation to breed.
Seeing this scene, Hu Qian was both lonely and happy. He was lonely because his wife ran away, and he was not as lonely as the couple of oxen. He was happy because the male oxen was mated, which meant that the female oxen was going to give birth to a calf. Come, that's his harvest. The more children he has, the better, and the greater the harvest will be. When the time comes, the three children will have no money to go to school. Will selling the calves to make some money solve the problem?
He was carrying out his immature dream, and the male and female oxen had completed a round. He immediately caught up and grabbed the rope that tied the bull's nose. The other end of the rope was on the horn, and he grabbed it. The bull didn't move. He untied the rope from the horn, pulled it away, and tied it to a wooden stake beside the house. He kept a few meters away from the female cow. To prevent this scalper couple from disturbing each other restlessly together.
Soon Hu Qian's wish came true. The cow gave birth to a calf. It was a female. The fur on its body was filled with moisture and had not yet dried. The cow licked the calf's body lovingly.
From a human perspective, the calf is somewhat miraculous. It can stand up right after it is born. After standing for a while, it knows how to bump into the belly of its mother. Under the belly is a row of bulging pink breasts, which are sucking and bumping every once in a while, very rhythmic and funny.
There was a folk singer who sang night songs, and he was moved by the scene. He described the appearance and behavior of the calf in this way: it makes a jingling sound when walking, and its head bangs when sucking milk. I am confused and ignorant, and I am afraid that the grass will swell.
Of course Hu Qian was happy when he saw the calf, but there was always a barrier in his heart that was difficult to remove. That was the last time his bull ox invaded other people's crops. They didn't know where the animal was from, but they just shouted and yelled at the sky and the ground that they had no conscience. The cattle breeder, why did he raise the cattle and ignore them... Hearing the curse, Hu Qian did not have the courage to admit it, but he was afraid that people would suspect that his cattle were responsible for the crime and secretly harm him or his livestock.
