Folk tale: The old cow knows the way

Wang Xiaodi

Niu Fu was old, and so was his cow. People are old and retired, and cattle are old? While Niu Fu was scratching his scalp, something unexpected happened...

Niu Fu is 58 years old this year, his son and daughter have been admitted to college and left home, leaving him and his wife in the family, plus an old scalper.

When the old cattle came to Niu Fu's house, they were still young, strong and strong, pulling carts and ploughing the ground in all directions, going in the wind and rain, and becoming a good helper for Niu Fu. More than ten years have passed, and now the cow is old, the teeth are lost, the strength is poor, and the legs and feet are not working, so someone advised Niu Fu to say: "Is such an old cow still raised?" It is better to sell it early, and it will not be worth it when you die! Some people also said: "People buy it and kill it, it is better to kill and sell meat themselves, you can sell it for a few more dollars." ”

Niu Fu knew that these people were telling the truth, but he couldn't make such a cruel heart. He thought: The old scalper has followed me for more than ten years, there is no merit and hard work, and now that it is old, how can it be sold to others to be slaughtered? I can't ask anyone to stab it in front of me. But what if you don't dispose of it? You have to feed it and live with it, and you have to serve it three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Niu Fu couldn't make up his mind for a moment.

On this day, Niu Fu loaded a cart of wheat, planning to transport it to sell, and send some money to his children who were going to college to let them study with peace of mind. He took the old scalper, set up the car, patted the cow's head, and said: "Dude, it is going to be hard for you again, although I know that your body is also very weak, but I can't replace this pulling car, only to drive you." Don't worry, walk slowly on the road, stop and rest for a while when you are tired, what do you think?" The old scalper lowered his head and squirted in his nostrils, meaning, "Whoever we talk to, don't be rude." Niu Fu then got into the car, "Then let's go." "The whip was raised and I was on the road.

Along the way, Niu Fu squinted his eyes, did not move the whip or shout, and let the old cattle walk unhurriedly.

The old cow pulled the cart, after all, slowly, until 12 noon, and then pulled a cart of wheat into the town's grain station. Unloading, acceptance, weighing, checkout, busy for more than half an hour to finish. Niu Fu stuffed 1,583 yuan into his bag and happily drove away from the grain station.

When passing by a restaurant, Niu Fu suddenly remembered that it was time to add something to his stomach, so he stopped the car and walked into the hotel. A group of people are drinking freely, which arouses Niu Fu's addiction to alcohol, he really wants to drink a few cups of pain and pleasure, drink him dizzy, lie down in the car, let the old cattle pull home, how beautiful it should be! But think about it for a moment: No, I have so much money with me today, if I lose my money when I get drunk, how do I explain it when I go back? Besides, I drank here and let the cows wait outside, and I didn't want to go. After thinking about it, he decided not to drink, but just asked for a bowl of noodles and filled his stomach with three times and five divisions. His mouth was about to leave, and he glanced at it and found that the pork head meat that had just come out of the pot was placed in the brine cabinet, shiny and hot. Niu Fu's saliva suddenly rushed to the mouth: This thing is drunk, interesting enough! Can't eat now, buy it back is the same? The idea was decided, he immediately bought two bottles of sixty degrees of "One River Spring" Daqu, also known as two pounds of pork head meat, with a food bag, all stuffed into the bag, and then satisfactorily picked up the bag and went out. After getting into the car, he said to the old scalper, "Man, there's nothing for you to eat here, go back and feed you well, let's go." ”

The old scalper seemed to understand his words, and set out on the way back with four hooves, still walking unhurriedly. The car ran slowly for more than an hour, and suddenly stopped, only to see the old scalper prick up his ears and raise his head, and his eyes stared dead ahead, as if he had discovered something. Niu Fu looked up, and in front of him was a forest that could not be seen at all. He remembered that there had been many incidents of roadblocks and robberies in this place, so when it was dark, people did not dare to walk on this road. But now that the sun has not yet set, are there also robbers? When he thought of the robbers, Niu Fu thought of the fifteen hundred yuan in his bag, the two bottles of wine and two pounds of pork head meat. He clutched his bag tightly, and in a hurry, he suddenly thought of the woven bag containing the wheat, and hurriedly stuffed the bag in his hand into the pile of woven bags. This kind of woven bag filled with wheat is dirty and old, and the robbers will not ask for it, right?

However, after waiting for a long time, he did not see the shadow of the robber, and Niu Fu felt funny: In the daytime, where are the robbers, is this not to scare yourself? So with a wave of the whip, he drove the cattle toward the forest.

But he was defenseless, and when the car had just entered the woods, two masked men, armed with dangling knives, blocked the way. One of the urns said angrily, "Old fellow, get the money out, or you'll die!" Niu Fu looked at this situation, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, got out of the car in a hurry, took out more than a dozen yuan in his pocket and handed it up, saying: "Sir, I have just a little money, all for you, please raise your hands high, let me have a yard." The robber took a look at the money and scolded, "Just this little money?" It's not enough for Lao Tzu to buy a pack of cigarettes, you coax the child?" Niu Fuhuan said, "I really don't have any money, I don't believe you search." Another robber said, "Since there is no money, even the cattle and carts are driven away." ”

Upon hearing this, Niu Fu was so anxious that his whole body was on fire, and he didn't know where the strength came from, and an arrow stepped forward, grabbed the reins deadly, and pleaded bitterly: "You spare me, this cow is the root of my life!" But the robbers didn't care about this, the two of them went up and punched and kicked Niu Fu to the ground, and then they jumped on the car, waved their whips and beat the old yellow bull fiercely, and the car quickly disappeared in the depths of the dense forest.

I don't know how much time passed, Niu Fu finally woke up. He opened his eyes, it was already dark, got up and looked around, there were no cattle or cars, he knew that everything was finished, but what could he do? I had to endure the pain and go home in the dark.

When Niu Fu returned home, it was nearly midnight, but the lights at home were still on, and his wife was still waiting for him, and when his wife heard that he had been robbed on the way, he was really angry and anxious, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.

He was crying sadly when suddenly a cow cry of "Moo-Moo-Moo" came from outside the door. Niu Fu hurriedly opened the door to take a look, Oops, it is really God bless, the old cattle are back, the car is also back, happy to open his voice and shout: "Old woman, come and see, our cattle and cars are all here!" He rushed out in three steps and two steps, hugged the bull's head tightly, and said, "Old man, good looking, it's really an old cow who knows the way, and he rushed back overnight!" You're sweating and tired, aren't you?" Niu Fu said this, suddenly thinking of the fifteen hundred yuan of money, and quickly turned to the car to find the bag in the woven bag. When he reached out and touched it, he touched not a bag, but a human head, which frightened him into screaming and fled back into the house. Slowly settle down, get bold, take out a flashlight and take a picture, oops, there are two dead people lying on the car.

At this time, the two couples froze, three times in the middle of the night, pulled back two dead people, how to say it clearly in the future? After thinking about it, I finally decided to report to the village cadres immediately. When the village cadres got the news, they summoned some militiamen and went up to take a closer look, ah, not dead people, but two drunken drunkards.

Niu Fu only then made up his mind, so he went to the car to look for it again, and finally found his artificial leather bag, opened it, and saw that the money was not less, but the two bottles of high liquor and two pounds of pork head meat were gone. It seems that these two drunks must be the two robbers, who drank his two bottles of liquor and got drunk.

In order to find out the truth, two drunks were sent to the police station. When the drunkard wakes up, he has to be examined and confess the facts of the crime.

It turned out that after they beat Niu Fu, they waved their whips and frantically drove the ox cart and ran out of the land for more than a dozen miles in one breath, but the old cattle did not know why, suddenly stopped and did not go, let the whip how to whip, it just did not take a step. The two gangsters were sweating and exhausted, and to no avail, they had to stop and rest, trying to wait until dark to make plans. Later, they turned over seven times, and even turned out a bag in the woven bag, opened it, and saw that there was wine and meat. For them, it was really a Lin sister who fell from the sky, so the hungry dog pounced on a bottle of one person, grabbed it and drank it, and three times five divided by two swept away two bottles of wine and two pounds of marinated pork head meat. But they did not think that it was sixty degrees of strong wine, and then drank too much, so as soon as the wine was drunk, people also fell, and after a while they were drunk and unconscious.

In this way, the two gangsters were pulled back to their homes and sent to the police station.

The public security department took advantage of the victory to pursue, followed the vine to find the melon, dug out a gang that blocked the road and robbed, and came to a net.

At the commendation meeting, Niu Fu put on a large red flower and was rewarded. He hung the big red flower on the horn of the old yellow cow, patted it on the head, and said, "Old man, you are not old, let's do something for the villagers!" Since then, Niu Fu has been more protective of the old cattle, and if anyone says that his old cattle are old, or persuades him to sell cattle and kill cattle, he must stare at them.

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