Chapter 12 twelve

The cow is getting sicker and sicker, and can hardly eat or drink anymore.Cai Cainiang also became anxious, and invited Lao Qin to be treated. Lao Qin checked a thick medicine book, and suddenly shouted: "Xiaoyue, you deserve your family to get rich!" Xiaoyue frowned and said: "Others are so worried, old uncle Qin is still telling jokes!" Lao Qin said: "Nizi, when did uncle make fun of you as juniors? There is bezoar in the tripe." "Bezoar?" "A tael of bezoar is two hundred and forty yuan. Judging by the appearance of the cow, the bezoar is not small. The price will be worth the two cows themselves. Isn't that a joy?"

Xiaoyue hurriedly sent a letter to her father asking him to come back.As soon as Monk Wang got home, he heard Xiaoyue talking about the bezoar with a smile on his face, but the old man hugged his head and cried.Xiaoyue was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Old Qin uncle said, this is a good thing, let us kill the cattle early, the bezoar and beef can be sold for a lot of money." Monk Wang scolded: "His surname is Qin, he is a man who has lost his life because of money. Is my monk Wang so eager to make a fortune from a cow? This cow has been with us for two years, and I treat it as a family. Who would have thought that it would have a bezoar? The bezoar is A cow has stone disease, alas, I fed it carefully, but it got this disease, do I have the heart to kill it?"

Seeing her father's sad look, Xiaoyue was also moved, and also wondered that things in the world are so contradictory: you often really want things to happen, but things just don't happen.Father cared about the cow day and night, but the cow was skinny and skinny in his hands, and it was going to die early! Monk Wang resolutely refused to slaughter the cow, and took the cow to the veterinary station of the commune ten miles away to seek medical treatment. The cow doctor complained why he didn't show the cow earlier. life.As a result, on the fifth night, the cow suddenly fell to the ground and died.

As soon as the cow died, Monk Wang cried aloud for a whole night and a day, sitting beside the cow and couldn't pull it up.Only then did he rush back after hearing the news, so as to persuade Monk Wang, he and the villagers carried the cow out to strip it.There are really a lot of bezoars, a total of one or two or six dollars.But there is very little beef, only sixty catties of meat were cut.Monk Wang nailed the cowhide to the gable wall in tears, but did not allow his family to eat a bite of the beef.He kept beating his chest and stamping his feet: I killed this cow, I killed this cow!

Caicai and Xiaoyue took the beef to Jingziguan Street and sold it until the last ten catties. The buyer happened to be their old teacher Lu, who heard about their engagement.He said a lot of auspicious words, and dragged them to the school for a sit-down. In Teacher Lu's room, both of them felt very hot, so they both took off their coats. Xiaoyue looked slim in that high-necked white nylon coat.Teacher Lu said: "Xiaoyuechu looks more and more handsome! This nylon shirt deserves to be made for you. Is this the one that Menmen bought for you in Danjiangkou City?" Xiaoyue had been laughing all the time, but suddenly blushed, and her mouth became dull; only then was she dumbfounded, and said:

"Bought from door to door?" Teacher Lu didn't see their facial expressions, so he just said: "When I bought it, I complained that it was too fashionable. I was afraid that you wouldn't know how to wear it. I didn't expect it to look so good. People are like clothes and saddles. Outsiders can't believe that you are Locals!" Xiaoyue hated Teacher Lu for talking too much, too much! She didn't dare to look at Caicai's black face, so she hurriedly turned aside Teacher Lu's words, said a few things about the school, and bid farewell to the teacher in a hurry.

Once on board, Caicai said: "Xiaoyue, is what Teacher Lu said true?" Satsuki said: "real." "Then why did you coax me, saying that you bought it." "Why should I tell you?" As soon as Xiaoyue turned around, she took the pole to the bow of the boat and plunged into the water with all her strength. The penny and her body formed a slanting angle of 30 degrees that was almost parallel to the wooden boat.Without saying a word, without breath, the boat gurgled forward.The body slowly stood upright, the penny was still inserted in the same place, began to stand upright, and then started to fall backwards, the angle was ninety degrees, sixty degrees, thirty degrees, the wooden boat seemed to be leaving, and the man and the penny were about to fall into the water It's inside; suddenly retracted, jumped to the bow of the boat, inserted the pole again, and then combined the oblique angle almost parallel to the wooden boat, repeated endlessly, and sculpted a series of images with great effort. "Why did I tell you?" Her tone was very hard, showing an unquestionable air, but she was so flustered in her heart! She was living the best period of youth in the eyes of young men She confidently dominates Caicai, her family, and the spirits of many young men, but this time she said this, and she didn't have the courage and strength to look into Caicai's eyes. "I am your fiancé husband!" As long as Cai Cai said this, her defense line would immediately collapse completely.She was afraid to attack her like this.At the same time, he once again hoped that Cai could attack her in this way, suddenly forcing out the heart of the weak, ashamed, and regretful daughter behind her tough aura.But just stood there, trembling all over, unable to answer her words of using offense as defense, but just shouted at the door that was not in front of her:

"Why did he give you clothes? Fuck you, rascal, rascal! You shameless rascal!" It seemed that Cai didn't dare to lose face to her.She straightened up, threw the penny on the wooden boat with a "wow", and said: "Don't scold him like that. Is a piece of clothing enough to qualify as a hooligan? It should be my fault. What's the use of scolding others?" "I'll scold you! Rogue! Rogue!" Xiaoyue sat at the stern and smiled coldly. Only then did he curse again, looking up at the river bank, there were three people walking far away on the beach, he immediately stopped his tongue.The wooden boat lost its support, stopped in the middle of the current, and quickly tilted its body and drifted down.The iron cable stretched taut on the river surface became a bow shape, and the boat was pinned down, like a fish struggling with a hook.he asked angrily;

"He gave you clothes, what did you give him?" "Give me a no." "No?" Cai Cai said, "I hope there is no, but he, a rascal, can he give you clothes for nothing?" "Are you interrogating me? Let me tell you, don't think about it, I, Xiaoyue, can't do anything. He treats me well, I told you that, I have no reason to refuse People treat me well." "Go on, go on..." "It's over." Cai Cai shook his head with a gloomy painful face. "Xiaoyue, I'm in such a mess right now. I really hope that the door is a hooligan from out of town, a gangster passing by, but he happens to be in our village, so why don't you look up and look down..."

"I, Xiaoyue, haven't betrayed you yet." "Then you listen to me, don't talk to him, never talk to him." "Do you want me to control everything? Let me ask you, did you listen to me? When did you listen to me?! Have you ever thought about why the door sent me clothes? Someone’s clothes? You are so angry now, who are you angry with? Who is it, huh?” As Xiaoyue said, the resentment that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time suddenly surfaced again, and she regained her previous ruler status.Cai Cai hugged his head, yelled "Hey", lay down in the cabin, and started to cry.

Xiaoyue watched quietly, but her heart was filled with contempt for a moment, regretting what she had said to him just now.Standing up, he pulled the boat to the shore very quickly, tied the rope, and said: "Hmph, what a talent! You cry here, fight, what a great man!" Walked away. It was already dark, and the moon climbed out of the mountain. It was not bright, but it was as red as the face of a sick man with a cold.Cai Cai Niang finished the dinner and filled it up in a big sea bowl. It had already cooled down on the pot, and Cai Cai hadn't come back yet.She went to feed the pigs again, nagging and talking to the pigs while mixing the food, but her ears caught the footsteps outside the yard, and for some reason, she felt panicked. When Xiaoyue arrived home, Monk Wang had already finished eating and told Xiaoyue to eat quickly, but Xiaoyue went into her small room without saying a word.He didn't bother to yell anymore, so he went out with his hands.Once the cow died, he suddenly aged a lot, and he didn't want to go out, but he couldn't close his eyes while sleeping on the kang, and the shadow of the cow kept shaking in front of his eyes.It was getting dark, so let's go to a place outside the village where no one was around, but before I knew it, I went to the cowshed of Lao Mao's house.The elephant-like tall cattle were still tied to the dirt field, standing or lying down, so he couldn't help but sprint to them, grabbed a handful of grass and fed them. The sound of the cattle chewing grass was such a pleasant music. ! The hot air from the thick nostrils has already wet his arms, and the cow's tongue is licking the palm of his hand, and an extremely comfortable itching has reached his heart.All of a sudden, the old tears fell down. It wasn't until Lao Mao's daughter-in-law opened the door loudly, yelling that the cows were going to be brought into the pen, that he quickly got up and slipped away from under the low wall over there. With his shoes on, he walked to the gate of Cai Cai's courtyard. Cai Cai's mother seemed to have lost her soul, and she was leaning on the door and looking out.She hurriedly called her in-laws in and said to pour tea, but she took out the tea bowl, but forgot to pick up the kettle, and when the water fell down, she realized that there was no tea left. "What's the matter with you?" Monk Wang said. "Uncle, why hasn't he come back yet? Why am I in such a panic?" "Xiaoyue went back a long time ago, he must have gone to the field again, that's why, once he got there, he lost his soul." Just as he was talking, Caicai came back. No one paid any attention, and got into the kang without saying a word.The two old men looked puzzled, and Cai Cainiang went in and touched his forehead with her hand, thinking that he was sick, but she shed tears, hugged her son and asked what's the matter? Only then did she cry "wow".Monk Wang also ran in, and the more he pressed the question, the more he cried, and Monk Wang became angry: "Why are you crying? Don't you have a long mouth? Do you want us to kneel down for you?!" Cai Cai told what happened, Cai Cai Niang leaned against the boundary wall and stopped moving.Monk Wang staggered, his face burned and hurt like someone slapped him.He opened the door and left, walked into the yard, bumped into a peach tree, dropped his shoe, picked it up, and ran back staggeringly.Caicai and his mother came out to call him, and he seemed deaf. There was a light on in Xiaoyue's small room.The door was already closed, Monk Wang yelled three times, but there was no response, he kicked open the door of the small room, pointed at Xiaoyue who was sitting on the edge of the kang with her coat off, and cursed: "You thief did such a good job! Where do you tell me to put my old face? The house is so uneasy, it turns out that you are a shameless person with evil spirits! You want to wear clothes so much, don't you have any?" ? You are such a loss to your ancestors!" Xiaoyue looked at her father, but said nothing. "Tell me! Tell me what scandal you have done!" Xiaoyue slid down from the edge of the kang, her chest heaved and she said: "Since you know everything, why do you ask me? I can't tell. What do you think?" "Okay you shameless!" Monk Wang grabbed Xiaoyue by the high collar of her nylon jacket and shoved her violently. Xiaoyue staggered and fell on the back wall, and her nylon jacket was torn. Only then did he and his mother rush over, and someone was already listening to the movement at the door, and hurriedly closed the courtyard door with a "bang".Cai Cainiang pushed Monk Wang out of the small room with her head.Xiaoyue cried "wow" and her mother who died early came. Crying together in the room, more and more people gathered outside the courtyard gate, lying on the wall in twos and threes to look in.Monk Wang felt a pain in his heart, and after copying it, he wanted to rush in to beat him again, so he knelt down in front of Yue Zhang and said: "Uncle, don't hit her, I beg you, you feel bad, don't be angry!" Monk Wang pulled Caicai, weeping, clapping his hands and walked into the courtyard, suddenly threw himself on the old cowhide nailed to the gable wall, scratching the cowhide with his veined and withered hands, crying loudly. "Ah, why am I so miserable! I killed a cow. I couldn't straighten my waist in front of people. I killed the cow. How could a good cow die in my hands? It got stones, and I It is only said that cows will grow fat after eating grass, how can they think that cows can still form stones after eating grass? "Ah, Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue, come and kill your father! I was a widow and dragged you up, are you going to repay me like this? Enemy, enemy, you made me also have stones, come and kill me The old skin on this face has been peeled off, let’s nail it to this wall too, how can I see people, what face do I have to go in front of people?!” He bumped his head against the cowhide vigorously, convulsed all over, cried for a while, scolded Xiaoyue and scolded himself, and finally fell down clutching the cowhide, hugged into a ball, and screamed.Caicai rushed over again and touched his chest for him. Monk Wang cried incoherently again: "Caicai, hit your incompetent uncle, it's the uncle who harmed my baby, ah, I'm not human, I'm sorry, I didn't raise the cow well, I didn't teach her well, hey hey hey , It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault!” Cai Cai also shed tears and said: "It's my fault, uncle, my fault!"