"A Niu" has an official name called "Kun Lai", but because he has not been to school, most of the villagers do not know his "big name", only know that his name is "Ah Niu", called for a lifetime.
He has a history of calling him "A Niu", he has been mentally retarded since he was a child, his temperament is as docile as a cow, and he is a cowherd, and he is destined to be born with cows in the dark, and he cannot live without cattle for a lifetime. From a young age, he grew up herding cattle, and when he was old, he still herded cattle, because he would only herd cattle and nothing else. In the eyes of people, he is a cow, and he is also a cowherd who does not grow up.
It seems that he does not belong to the world of man, but is a member of the cattle, and no one usually remembers him, at most he will say that a person is stupid and says "true like a cow". Only when the cow needs to work, call out: "A cow, go and lead the cow!" ”
In the past, cattle herding was to earn work points, a cow alone looked at a few cows, the work points should earn a lot, now herding cattle is to make money, a cow can sell a thousand yuan, on the contribution is still not small, but that is their brother theirs.
He is the eldest in line, there are three younger brothers, two younger sisters, the younger brothers are smart and capable, they all have a family to buy a house, and the sisters are beautiful and clever, and they are all married. Sometimes people say how you are different from them, and he is very proud to say, I am a great uncle! People ask, what about eating? He said, I eat the head (take turns eating). Later, "big uncle eats the head" became a common phrase used by the villagers to ridicule those old bachelors.
Although he is known as the "head of the food", his family always forgets to call him when he eats, so there is often a meal without a meal, and his meal is particularly large, and it is very normal to be hungry. I heard that he never went to the table when he ate, and he casually found a place to squat down and fill his stomach with things, raising him was like raising a cat and a dog, it was easy to send, and no one would feel strange. But there are two times of the year when ah niu's "festival", one is when the peanuts are ripe, he digs peanuts in the field while herding the cows to fill his stomach; and the other is that when the sugar cane is ripe, he often hides in the cane forest and nibbles. During these two seasons, he often returned from the ground satisfied, and the man also gained a circle of fat.
In the past, the older generation of men did not wear pants with belts, and wore a kind of "hood pants", the top of the pants was very wide, and it was easy to tie a knot on it, which was very convenient to work. Now the whole village is also wearing this kind of pants, like an ancient. It's not that he doesn't have pants to wear, mainly because he is used to "hood pants", other pants will not be worn, and it is not like him when he really wears them. Usually I am barefoot, I have never worn socks, and when it is very cold in winter, I am at most wearing slippers, and there are several cracks in the two foot plates.
Two planks were set up in one corner of the bullpen, where he slept. Because he has been with cattle for many years, he will always have a smell of cattle on him. What others are doing, he does not dare to go near, knows that people do not like him, whether it is watching a big drama or watching the hilarity, he can only watch alone from a distance, walk too close to the child to scare him, drive him, even the dog has to bark him, so generally he is with the elderly women, because they will not dislike him too much, and occasionally can give him some fruit of worship.
In Ah Niu's body, there are no poisons and no diseases. Because he often did not have enough to eat, he ate what people discarded, whether it was to worship abandoned fruits or dead chickens and ducks thrown in the latrine, he was a beautiful meal, and the "cow lice" (cow lice) that hunted cattle became his daily meal. Because there will always be this parasite in the cow, it will become his continuous snack. When he "dines", others dare not look at it, and for him, I don't know what kind of delicious it is. Snakes are often encountered in the mountains, no matter what kind of snake, as long as he spits a mouthful, the snake will be frightened and flee quickly, even if he is bitten by the snake, he will only use the saliva to disinfect it. The sun was very poisonous in the summer, and he never had to wear anything, allowing the sun to be exposed. In the cold winter months, his clothes are always so thin, but there are cattle to keep warm, and after one winter and one winter. Therefore, he became a famous "stone cow" who did not die of hunger, poison did not die, froze and did not die, and could not die.
Man and cattle have not found a common language for thousands of years, and the cow seems to be born with it, and man does not speak to him, but the cow speaks to him, and man rejects him, and the cow does not reject him. When someone passes by the bullpen, he is often heard mumbling with the cow. Cows may also need to talk, especially old cows, how many ups and downs it has experienced, how much right and wrong it has seen, what words are said to people, and A cows also have a lot of words to speak out to cattle. The human-cow dialogue believes that there is such a existence, but who understands the mysteries inside? The mysterious things that cannot be explained in the human world will be revealed through a specific medium, and ah niu's unrivaled self-understanding stems from his integration with the cow, and the life of the cow is also his life.
He lived like this year after year, like an old tree, and could not see any change except the rings. Everyone else was walking east and west, running south and north, and he never went out of the village, and the farthest was the two mountains at the east end and the west end of the village. More than ten years ago, he had a brother who was running a business outside and was very active, but he died in a car accident and was only in his thirties. Recently, another brother, who was also a strong elephant cow, was also very shrewd, suffered from liver cancer, saying that he would die when he died, and a very beautiful sister also had throat cancer, and he died after several months of suffering. Therefore, many people lament that they should not die, how can they not die? Fortunately, in the new society, if it is the old society, it may take Ah Niu to the river, because he should not live too well, and numerologically speaking, his younger brothers and sisters were killed by him.
Life is very puzzling, people think that it is easy to die if they should not die, and they think that they should die well. This is a very common and common phenomenon, and there is no way to say it clearly. But this is fate, and no one can blame anyone.
God is very fair, did not give Ah Niu the intelligence of a normal person, but gave him a different body; did not give him a normal life, but gave him the happiness that normal people cannot get. In the face of fragile life, Ah Niu is very enviable, and when he hears who is sick and about to die, he will sigh, how good it would be to have a body like Ah Niu! But if you ask, would you like to live like a cow? No one wants to. This is the difference between people, and desire cannot replace anything.
On the day of his brother's death, he squatted in the corner of the wall and cried like an old cow, a handful of tears and a handful of snot, and passers-by saw it and said that this dead cow also knew how to be sad, if it was replaced by his death. A little girl was crying at him with her food, and he said to the girl, "My sister I'm hungry." It turned out that he had not eaten for two days, and the little girl's mother quickly brought a large pot of rice and said, What a sin, you should not go, who will take care of you in the future.
This is really a problem, people will always have three disasters and six diseases, but Ah Niu will not even be sick, and he does not know how long he will live. His parents are long gone, his brothers have gone two, the remaining one is difficult to guarantee that he will go before him, there is no welfare home in the village, A Niu is too old to herd cattle, rely on whom? Maybe you can only starve to death. He is more than half a hundred years old, although he still eats the parasites on the cow, or goes up the mountain every day to herd cattle, but the years are not sparing, sometimes he can't keep up with the footsteps of the cow, the wrinkles on his face are more and more, the eyes are as cloudy as the old cow, the action is also a little sluggish, obviously old. Well-meaning people imagined to him that he must not get sick, and it is best to die without illness, just like the kind of sudden death, falling down and leaving, less annoying trouble.
While people are worried about him, Ah Niu is chewing on his unique "delicacy" with taste, and the entanglement of the outside world has nothing to do with him.