Chapter 28 Brumaire Bullpen (5)

That night, Baozhui made a fuss about going to live in the cattle house, saying that he couldn't live with other people.The stepfather thought that he was just confused for a day or two, and didn't take it too seriously, so he went to the cow house and built a temporary bed for him.From then on, the treasure pendant began to live with the cow.He insisted on not going back to the house where people lived.Later they found that Baozhu kept saying some specious things, and was greedy for food and sleep, and shed tears on foggy days.They knew that Bao Pendant lost part of his consciousness and became a mentally handicapped child.The woman cried and convulsed several times for this.At that time, she was pregnant and her fetus moved, so Cher was a premature baby.The stepfather was even more remorseful, he couldn't figure out that that punch would ruin his stepson's future.The birch fence seemed to him as abominable as a butcher's knife.He didn't dare to tell his wife the real scene, but silently decorated the cattle house and built a kang for Bao.He delivers food to Baozhui every day and talks to him, hoping to open the floodgate of his memory.Three or nine days when the north wind was howling, he would get up from the kang to the cow house to fill some firewood for Baozhui's kang almost every midnight, and also feed the cows by the way.Baozhui cannot go to school like other children, so he can only herd cattle every day.Baozhui also likes cows, and the names of the three cows are all given by Baozhui.Every year on New Year's Eve, he comes to the cow house early in the morning to change into new clothes for Baozhui, paste the word "Fu" on the windows, and give Baozhui a lantern made by himself.Baozhu likes golden jack-o-lanterns, so he gives him one every year.When eating dumplings and setting off firecrackers in the middle of the night, he also brought the treasure pendant to the yard to let him watch the sparks and listen to the sound.Baozhui was so happy that he could eat two large plates of dumplings.

The birth of Cher did not bring him any happiness as a father.Because he felt that Xue'er's birth had some subtle connection with Bao Pendant's illness.When Xueer was two years old, he lost the ability to make out with women.He didn't dare to think about the thing he had enjoyed so much.Guilt made him reticent, and his health was eroded by nuisance.Because of her husband's illness, Baocui's mother asked for numerous folk remedies, but he was still depressed in the end.Her temper became bad day by day, and her face was swollen all day long, without modification.When her husband was so thin that he lost his appearance, she tried to borrow money to go to the big city to see a doctor for him.But the doctor firmly disagreed.Said that the money in the future will be saved, and it will be left to Bao Chuan to rule the head.The woman wept and said that her husband was kind-hearted, and that he was so kind to Yuanfang's children, which was a blessing from Baozhui's previous life.

The mist made Bai Yemu's stables look thicker.He stared at the sinful cowshed, wishing he could chew it up like a bone, swallow it, and take it to hell.Four years ago, he spent all his money to rebuild the house, turning one house into two, and Xue'er had her own small kang.He knew that he would die soon, and he hoped that the treasure pendant could return to the house where people lived, so that his illness might gradually improve.But Baozhui's words last night prevented him from breathing out his last breath freely.He said that after the death of his stepfather, a living uncle would come, and there was still no place for the treasure pendant in the house where he lived.Why didn't he think of this simple truth?But he no longer had the energy to flip the house.

"Bao Pendant—" he called out to the pale cowshed. The cowpen occupies an extremely prominent position in the whole cow house, just above the cow trough, and it is the center of the cow house.Its white bark has been polished by the ropes used to tie the cattle, but the large and small black spots are still clearly visible.Except that the bullpen is uniquely placed horizontally, all other objects are vertical.Vertical pillars, vertical walls, and solid doors make the white bullpen supported in mid-air particularly eye-catching.Baozhui's stepfather had only heard of the long and sharp teeth of ferocious ghosts in legends. In his opinion, this bullpen was a tooth planted by someone in his house.

"I'm going to pull this tooth out," he said to himself. He looked around the cow house, and found a small ax for splitting pine trees from the tool box in the northwest corner, then turned back and walked to the cow trough, trying to climb up, but he felt that the strength in his body was already running for his life. He tried his best but couldn't stand on the cow trough, so he could only hold the ax up and look at the high cow pen.He stayed in this stalemate for less than two minutes, when suddenly he felt a thicker fog coming in, and the white cow pens were cunningly hidden in it, like a lightning behind a cloud that made people unpredictable.His vision gradually blurred, first it was boundless white, then it was powerful black, and then it was intense purple. He wobbled and called to the bullpen: "Bao Pendant—" and fell to the ground.He was still holding the ax in his hand when he died, and the ax was rusty because it had not been used for a long time.

It was already dinner time when Baozhui drove the three cows back to the village.Flat face and Di'er walked ahead, while he and Hua'er lagged behind.In the evening, the fog was thicker, Baozhui walked very slowly, he was afraid that Hua'er might miss something.He thought it over, if his uncle was still alive, he would ask him another question. Before he entered the courtyard, he heard the sound of sawing and cutting boards.He stopped and patted the flowers, and said, "Hey, listen, why is there any movement at home?" Hua'er was silent for a moment, then raised her head and let out a short cry, it always behaves like this when it confirms the little master's words.

Bao Chuan only felt that there were many figures swimming in the yard.The sound of planking planks sounded like harvesting wheat.He bumped into a person accidentally, and the person said, "Is the treasure pendant back?" The treasure pendant gave a "hmm" and asked, "What are you doing?" "Beat the coffin." The man said calmly, "Your uncle is dead." "Uncle is dead." Bao Zhui muttered, then turned his face to Hua'er and said, "I still want to ask him something." Baozhui suddenly felt aggrieved, and he wept bitterly.Crying was flowing through the mist, and almost everyone heard it, and people asked in unison, "Who is crying?"

"It's a treasure pendant." "Bao Peng cried for his uncle." "Baozhui doesn't want his uncle to leave." Everyone said the same things in one go, and then commented on the cry of the treasure pendant: "I cried more than my own son." "If you don't have such a deep relationship with his uncle, how can you cry like this."