During the summer vacation, I came to the countryside at the invitation of my grandfather.
Having lived in a big city for a long time, I came to the countryside to feel fresh everywhere, the crystal clear pond lotus flowers, the reeds swaying, and the shore willows dressing.
The sheep in the fields rejoice. The grass is green and the wildflowers are colorful. Butterflies dance.
Thousands of acres of orchards, the fruit bent the branches.
The pomegranate in the farm yard grinned and smiled sweetly.
But these are not the real reasons why I came to my hometown in the countryside during the summer vacation. I came to my hometown because I liked to be with my grandfather.
My grandfather didn't go to school for a few years. The words can be spoken very philosophically, the stories told are easy to understand, the dragons are alive, and the twists and turns are moving.
In the countryside in the 1980s, most of the farming was still dependent on old cattle. Grandpa had a big yellow cow, which was very large and powerful.
When I got down to the ground, Grandpa asked me to take the reins of the cow in front. I was a little kid who watched the cows so tall and unfamiliar with me, a little timid. Worried that it would not listen to me and would not go with me.
Grandpa smiled and handed me the reins of the ox and said, "Don't be afraid, it won't go, as soon as you pull the reins in front of you it will follow you." ”
This is indeed the case. Although the old cow was reluctant, staring at me with wide eyes and hatred, the bull's head stretched out parallel to the earth, or followed me.
I'm curious. On closer inspection, it followed me because it wore an iron ring on its nose. The reins are tied to the iron ring, it does not follow me, as soon as I pull the reins, I hold its nose, it is afraid of pain, of course follow me.
I understood why it was following me, but I couldn't figure out why I had smashed the nose circles of such a large cow.
I asked Grandpa, and Grandpa smiled and said, "Gluttony." ”
Grandpa told me to first pick up a handful of tender grass, drive the cattle to one end of an iron railing like a double bar on a middle school playground, and hold the grass on the other end of the railing to attract the cattle. The gluttonous cow smelled the green fragrance of the tender grass and panicked and put his head into the railing. Seeing that the cattle were all in, they closed the railing doors on both sides. As soon as the cow's head was stuck, a thick iron awl was used to penetrate the partition between the two nostrils of the cow. Pull out the iron awl and replace it with a wooden awl. After ten days or so, pulling out the wooden awl leaves a hole, and then the nose circle is good. "This is the curse of a 'greedy' word. Let people hold their noses. Grandpa said with a smile.
One day, Grandpa came back from fishing, carrying a pocket of fish, and said to me happily: "Don't panic to do your homework, quickly press the basin of water to protect the fish, don't let it die, eat fresh." ”
I put down the workbook, grabbed the pressurized wellpot and pressed it.
"Whoops, whoops" pressed a dozen times and didn't come out of the water.
"Grandpa, the pressurized water well is broken, and it can't be pressed out."
"Did you add water?"
Grandpa, who was changing clothes in the house, asked.
"What's diverting water?" I don't understand.
Grandpa came over and scooped a scoop of water into the pressurized well. "Fast pressure." I quickly pressed a few times, and after the pressurized water well "huffed" and spewed out a few rough breaths, it spat out clear water.
The fish drank fresh water and swam happily in large basins with their tails.
Grandpa smiled and asked me, "Do you know why drinking a scoop of water from a pressurized well will spit a large basin of water for us?" Looking at my puzzled eyes, Grandpa continued: "Still ruined a word "greedy." It drinks a scoop of ours, and if you want it to spit, you have to spit as much as you want. As long as you keep pressing, it will have to spit on us, and if you don't spit it out, you can't do it. ”
Oh, my God! I understood: for a pressurized well, because of a 'greed' made a big loss of money.
Grandpa pointed to the fish in the basin and said to me, "In a moment this fish will enter our stomachs." Grandpa patted himself on the stomach and smiled at me and asked, "Do you know how they died?" ”
I thought about it and smiled and said, "It's on your hook, it's not as good as Grandpa." ”
Grandpa smiled and said, "They also died on a 'greedy' word." The light sees the earthworm can not see the hook, it does not die who dies? If you graduate from college in the future, if you become an official, don't be greedy, we should take what we should take, we must not take what we should not take, and we must take it with peace of mind. Only in this way can we be steadfast in our hearts. Eat well, sleep sweetly, the body is good, it is easy to live a long life. You see individual officials, as soon as they see money, they fish, they feel that they don't fish for nothing, they just put on handcuffs, cry daddy and mother, everything is too late. We can't learn from them, we can't embarrass our old Hu family and let the people scold us. ”
I've been working for years, and my grandfather has been dead for years. But Grandpa's instructions and dings still echoed in my ears like alarm bells.