The coming drought
The heavy rain fogged up in the air, so that the distance from the door to the gate could not be seen clearly, and the sound of "meow, is anyone there" was only vaguely heard outside the door, and the petite size of the cat made the people in the house not see them, maybe the cat no longer had the strength to make any words, and the 'meow ~ meow' in the mouth was more like the moaning of the disease, and the pain of the body's weakness.
All the life in the room heard the low moan, and the feeble moan made all the life feel deep sympathy, and no one moved, and all the animals in the room reached a balance here.
At that time, there was no big machine, people were still equal friends with animals, sharing the toil of labor and enjoying the fruits of labor, all the food was just for the sake of food, the increased life at home made Zhou Rao them, every day they already needed to increase the workload several times, they were not willing to increase the life and food they needed, even if they sounded almost dying, they were still stinging their hearts, still standing still.
Huang Wen's wife, Wang Wen, rushed out, the weak cry seemed to make her heart uncomfortable, her whole heart was like being grabbed by someone, and her sympathy for the weak made her have no hesitation.
The cat leaned against the doorpost, the warmth of the corner made it feel comfortable and reassured, the rain was so great that hitting the cat's body was like attacking a person with a stone, and whipping the back of a cow with a whip, and its limbs were covered with mud spots, and it was not difficult to imagine that he had run for a long time to see such a house, which seemed to be the home of her relatives.
Wang Wen put on his coat and rushed out of the door, the other lives did not stop them, the empathy in their hearts was preventing them from doing so, but the fear of unknown species and the burden of food were also preventing them from being like Wang Wen, Wang Wen also participated in labor, but only when the farm was busy, during the harvest time, more often she was at home preparing food for the three families, for her, one more life was still such a petite life did not add much to her work, maybe it just came to avoid the rain for a while, and left after a while.
Wang Wen didn't expect that saving this delicate life would have that kind of change for the whole family, but no one knew what she really thought in her heart, but she could see her distress on her face.
Through the heavy rain and fog, Wang Wen saw a new species, a species that he had never seen before, its appearance like a tiger, but it was much smaller, the mud on its limbs and the water droplets on its body were still dripping, it was not difficult to think of its weakness and powerlessness.
Wang Wen took it to the house.
As a result of the rain there was a fire lit in the center of the house, around which all the life of the family stood and sit. Watching Wang Wen walk in with the cat, the scalper left his place.
"Sit down. ”
The bull left his position first and gave way to Wang Wen, not only because he always felt indebted to Zhou Rao's family, but also because of the statement of a weighty figure in a big family.
At that time, the ox was the main labor force of a family, and all the families in the human race were proud to have a partner of the 'ox', and the ox was naturally proud of its own strength.
When Huang Wen pursued Wang Wen, Wang Wen's father and his partner Hei Niu were very happy, because they knew that Huang Wen's sister held the work of collecting clouds and rain in the sky, and they were willing to let Huang Wen and Wang Wen fall in love freely, and even secretly promote it.
Huang Wen's partner scalper is naturally quite concerned about Huang Wen's love, and when it comes to advice, Huang Wen always takes the excuse of taking the scalper for a walk to see Wang Wen, Wang Wen also takes a heifer at home to the meeting, and often meets the cow and the cow directly have unspeakable feelings, when Wang Wen and the cow mentioned this matter to their respective fathers, there was no beauty of marrying together as they imagined, but encountered unprecedented resistance.
When the heifer's mother gave birth to it, she died in childbirth, and the old cow was already old, because of the long-term reliance on the "cow", the cow was all the hope of Wang Wen's family, and it was also all the hope of the old cow.
Huang Wen also persuaded the scalper to let him give up, but the animals in love are also irrational, the two scalpers thought about eloping, but this idea was opposed by everyone and animals, their bodies can not make fire, and they have no ability to survive, they will be attacked by wolves when they go outside, Huang Wen also let his sister come forward to help intercede, and also let Wang Wen help make peace, and finally Zhou Rao almost gave up all his own food, and promised himself and the cattle that he could help plow the land later, and the children of the cattle lived in the cow's father's house, only to understand the marriage of this family。
When they got married, Zhou Rao dressed very festively, took out his best clothes from the box, and gave the scalper a big red flower.
Before getting married, Huang Wen and the ox brought thatch to the roof again, dug the soil and bricks in the yard, and patched the broken walls, making the house more thick and reliable.
The ancestors brought a blanket from the bedroom, dried the kitten, and let it roast it by the warm and comfortable fire, they were so kind to the kitten, but they didn't expect that he was a scourge.
When the cat woke up, the scalper asked him, "Where did you come from, and who are you?"
"I don't know, I've been wandering"
"Your Name"
"No relatives, no friends, no name"
Wang Wen and the cow felt very sympathetic and wanted to keep him, and naturally he needed to have a skill to stay, which was also agreed by everyone, and no one wanted to provide for a useless life at home.
"Do you want to stay?"
"Unclear"
"Well, you can stay, what skills do you have?"
"Is wandering counted? The Art of Survival"
The scalper shook his head and said to Wang Wen: "He can't do it, let him stay for one night" Wang Wen sighed, and had to agree with what the scalper said, looked at Zhou Rao, Zhou Rao looked at it and smiled bitterly, what the scalper said also has a lot of weight in this family.
The next morning, the cat was still sleeping, the family had already gone to work in the fields, and Wang Wen was also preparing food for everyone.
"You woke up and prepared food for you to eat. Wang Wen's weakness did not let him say the words to drive him away, the cat also helped Wang Wen prepare food at home, it was very humorous and long-term wandering allowed him to see a lot of Wang Wen had not seen here, often told jokes that made Wang Wen laugh for a long time, and the speed of preparing food was much slower than usual, but with the help of the cat, it was also in time to prepare food before the family came back.
"Can you let him stay. Before Huang Wen, who came back from the field, sat down, he was pulled aside by Wang Wen to speak
"It can help me prepare food, you usually go to the field, I am always left alone at home, it can help with it. ”
"If you don't leave us two boys behind, they won't be able to help you in the field and make a mess. ”
"Come on, they're 7 or 8 years old, let them run around the outside a lot, it's always with me what's the matter. ”
"It's hard to say, the scalper said yesterday that he would only stay for one day. ”
"You can help me talk about it, he still helped him get the grass that the scalper ate today, and pointed out a few herbs that can cure my injuries. ”
"Okay, I'll ask"
Huang Wen went to the scalper to talk about it.
"You want to stay?" asked the scalper to the cat
"Unclear"
"Did you help prepare food today?"
"Right"
"Well, you can stay, and if you stay, you have to have a name. ”
"Yes"
"What do you want to call it?"
"Either way,"
"Just call it a cat, there's nothing to call it. ”
"Yes. ”
The cat stayed, but it didn't rain in half a year after the cat stayed, they all said that an autumn rain and a cold, this year's autumn has been dry, maybe this place has the ability to rain all year round just when needed, there are not a few and it is not a big deal, it happens to be autumn and winter, crops do not need too much water, and the water from the river is enough.
Some people in the family also suspected that it was the cat's reason, but his sister was in charge of the clouds and rain. Could it be that the cat's ability is greater than that of his sister? No, it is estimated that there is something in the sky, and his sister also came over during the Spring Festival to ask in person.
"Write a letter to your sister and ask him to come over for the Spring Festival, there is no festival in the sky or anything. Wang Wen said to her husband
"Hey, yes, after the New Year, let my sister give us a few rains, and the crops will grow, Huang Xiong, bring me two pieces of yellow paper." ”
"Let, Huang Di go, I have something to do. ”
"Stop playing, hurry up. ”
After Huang Wen took the yellow paper and wrote the invitation, and drew the "herald rune" that her sister had taught her, the yellow paper began to spontaneously combust. After that, Huang Wen collected the ashes after spontaneous combustion in a basin with water, and if there was no major event, the reply would gather the ashes into words, and this time too, after half a day, the ashes condensed into a "good" word in the basin
When the Spring Festival came, my sister still came to Huang Wen's house as usual, dressed as a girl on the street that no one noticed, wearing very ordinary, earthy gray clothes, a pair of black cloth shoes, although many people here knew her appearance, but still did not recognize her.
Huang Wen's sister looked at the crops on both sides of the road, it seemed to be very dry, she has not been raining here this year, especially in the last two months, her little nephew likes snow, naturally it also rained before the Spring Festival, but there is still no sign of it here.
Walking to the door of Huang Wen's house with doubts, I saw a cat crawling at the gate of the courtyard, comfortably basking in the sun.
"Flaming cats?"