Chapter 21: The Ghost Story of the Cowherd Baby

"Grandpa, you go back first, I persuade him, and the three of us will go back by ourselves in a while. The remaining three, Zhou Xiaoxian is the biggest, she saw her grandfather kicking and dragging Zhou Peng, opened her mouth and said, and then looked at Grandpa Zhou motionless with her eyes open. Zhou Xiaoliu walked over silently, took her hand, and stood beside her.

Grandpa Zhou let go of Zhou Peng, confessed "come back as soon as possible" and went back first. Zhou Xiaoxian took Zhou Xiaoliu by the hand and stood beside Zhou Peng, who was still sitting on the ground and answering questions, without saying a word.

After a long time, Zhou Peng stood up, wiped the tears on his face, lowered his head and slowly walked in the direction of home, occasionally twitching his shoulders. Zhou Xiaoxian took Zhou Xiaoliu and silently followed behind Zhou Peng.

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Zhou's mother in the car was also crying, Zhou's father held her shoulder and comforted her softly, probably too tired these days, Zhou's mother cried for a while and fell asleep in the constant shaking of the car. At night, the car went out of the city, parked in front of a small restaurant, and shrank in the back of the car from the time she got into the car, trying to let the eldest sister and second sister of Zhou Xiaoliu, who was blocking the front seat, walked timidly to Zhou's father and Zhou's mother, and almost shocked Zhou's father and Zhou's mother's jaw. In desperation, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother had no choice but to take them along.

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At lunch at noon the next day, Zhou Peng just grabbed a piece of rice noodle steamed pork when he was knocked on his hand by the eighteen-year-old fourth uncle with chopsticks, and his hand hurt and retracted.

After eating, sister-in-law Zhou Xue pointed at Zhou Xiaoxian and asked her to wash the dishes and chopsticks before going to school.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Xue, who was holding the cow, beckoned to Zhou Xiaoliu, and then handed the cow rope to Zhou Xiaoliu's hand, and said: "Our family doesn't raise white rice, and today the cow will eat grass, drink water, and go to the stream to bathe in the river." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu took the cow rope, nodded, and went to the back mountain familiarly.

Zhou Xue was about to open her mouth and explain a few more words, but as soon as she thought that "Plum Blossom Three Alleys: Plum Blossom Branding" was about to start, she couldn't wait to go to the second uncle's house with a TV, she liked Princess Lan and Haozhen, she hated Bai Yinshuang's soft and weak appearance the most, and liked to watch Princess Lan punish Bai Yinshuang's plot the most.

Zhou Xue thought that now that there are a few more people working at home, she can watch TV all day long.

Zhou Xiaoliu led the ox to the most lush position of the wild grass on the slope of the back mountain, found stones and thicker branches, drove a pile on the ground, tied the ox rope to the pile, and lay on the ground with a grass stalk, looking at the sky with his head on the pillow, thinking about nothing, emptying his head.

It feels like there's been a lot going on lately, and her not-so-smart head is overloaded.

A cowherd baby passed by Zhou Xiaoliu and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything and left.

The second cowherd passed by Zhou Xiaoliu's side, looked at her in surprise, and then pulled the cow rope vigorously and left.

The third cowherd baby passed by Zhou Xiaoliu's side, looked at her adoringly, and said, "How dare you herd cattle here, aren't you afraid?

Zhou Xiaoliu, who became inexplicably powerful, sat up and looked at the cattle herding baby in front of him inexplicably, what do you mean?

"I'm your brother gold. The cowherd baby named Jin saw that Zhou Xiaoliu was puzzled, thinking that she didn't know herself, too, the ancestral house couldn't live, and her family moved to the east of the village, and Zhou Xiaoliu didn't come out to play every day like her brother Zhou Peng, and it was normal if he didn't know him, so he introduced himself.

"Brother Jinzi, hello!" Zhou Xiaoliu was a little impressed, so he waved his hand.

When the children in the village meet, they just call each other's names, and the adults greet each other by asking, "Have you eaten?"

When Jin Zi saw Zhou Xiaoliu's greeting method, he suddenly felt a little awkward, did he have to wave his hand and say "hello", how embarrassed, Xiaoliu must have learned from that Jin family monster child.

Zhou Xiaoliu saw that Jin Zi suddenly stood there blushing and didn't speak, so he took the initiative to ask: "Why dare you herd cattle here?"

Jin Zi boldly walked to Zhou Xiaoliu's side, and pointed to Zhou Xiaoliu's opposite side when he wanted to see it but didn't dare to look at it: "Look at the bamboo bushes under the slope, my grandfather told me that when he was a child, he herded cattle here and saw the corpse of a bride dressed in red lying in this bamboo bush......"

"My grandfather has seen it too!" the second cowherd didn't know when he let go of the cow rope in his hand, and gathered over, he interjected.

"Yes, my grandfather said he did. Zhou Xiaoliu, who was listening carefully, and Jinzi, who was talking seriously, heard the voice, looked up, and found that the first cowherd baby was also nodding.

"For a long time no one dared to herd cattle here because they found dead people, but one day two children did not know what was going on and put their cattle here, and the two cows suddenly became furious, and almost stepped on the two children who were holding the cows in the past. Kaneko continued.

Although the two children were not trampled on, they were frightened, they were sick all day, and it was useless to go to the barefoot doctor to see them. ”

Lao Daoist Li wiped the cow's tears on his eyes, looked around at the place, took out a sword and waved it for a while, sang for a while, and then said to the child's parents that the child had encountered dirty things, but he discussed with the other party, as long as he burned some paper money, he would not come to disturb her in the future, and the child's illness would naturally be cured. ”

After the two families did so, the next day the child was alive and kicking, so the cow could see ghosts, and I heard that the cow hated red the most, and when it saw red, it would rush and rush angrily, and it must have been the cow who saw the ghost of the bride in red. The second cowherd interjected again.

Now he dares to stand here, and it is also based on how bold people are, and when he turns around, he can tell others that he dares to play here today in this place that everyone is afraid of. He put his hand on his left chest, pressed the heart that was beating at the extreme speed of "plop, plop", and thought, stay for a while, the time will not show that he is awesome.

The children of Zhoujiawu also like to compare and go. For example, who has the most beautiful candy paper, and who turns the most flower rope styles. Another example is millet: whoever smokes the wooden top spins the longest, and whose hoop rolls the farthest. Well, there are so many corns that you can't hold them up!

One of the things that boys like to compare the most is guts. Zhou Xiaoliu still remembers that in his previous life, Zhou Peng jumped from a tree nearly three meters high in order to compare his courage with others, and swam around the stream two meters away from the water snake, and gained countless admiration from his friends and a chase from Zhou Xiaoxian, who was holding a stick.

After telling the story, the four cowherd babies didn't make a sound, they all looked up at the sky, as if they were thinking about their own hearts, at this time, the second cow herding baby without a bolt and the cow of the gold family suddenly jumped up.

The three cowherd babies ......let out a long scream, and they didn't care about the cows, and ran down the mountain.

Zhou Xiaoliu, who was sitting in place and did not move, looked at the three cows in front of him, and his ears seemed to sound the voice of Lao Zhao in "Animal World": "This is the mating season, the cow is grazing, and a bull is coming... Another bull came over ......"