Chapter 9 Lives Matter

When he finally went home, he went into the yard in a state of anxiety, unloaded the donkey from the cart, led him to the donkey pen, and added fodder to him. The donkey devoured it first, and he had to wait a while.

The second stunned man came out of the donkey pen, pushed the donkey cart to the corner, and covered it with a large plastic sheet. He patted the dirt on his body with a towel, and when he entered the house, tired and hungry, he opened the box, took out half a pack of cigarettes, took out one, took a box of matches, and sat down on a small wooden stool on the ground, and without saying a word, he began to smoke.

The second stunned wife's name is Magpie. He was white and clean, with a round face and thick black hair, which was long and scattered on his back. He is neither tall nor low, chubby, and chatters. If you put on a black dress again, you can get rid of a magpie alive.

The magpie asked with a smile while cooking: "Second stunned, it's selling well today, looking at the bare car, there is no one left, all of them are sold?"

The second stunned man didn't speak, just smoked "horn".

The magpie asked again, "Why don't you keep quiet?"

The two were stunned and still didn't say anything.

The magpie looked at the two stunned and looked wrong, sullen, and didn't say a word when he entered the door, so he sat down and smoked. So he asked, "What's the matter?"

The second stunned man was stunned and said, "Don't ask anything, let's talk about it after eating." ”

When the magpie heard this, his heart "clucked" and hung up, just like the construction site built a high-rise building, and the big crane hoisted a stack of bricks to the high air, and his heart was lifted high!

She heard some clues from the words of the second stunned man, because these two stunned people would never play tricks with her, deceive her, and deceive her by telling lies. She had been with him for eight or nine years, and she could count all the intestines he had in his stomach. And these two stunned people can't pretend, what they look like in their hearts is immediately clearly written on their faces. The face of the hairy scum and the hairy eggs was as happy as a gorilla, laughing and dancing with felt pieces and hands, and the heart was unhappy, like a black bear, with black sideburns and black hair, and the hair stood upside down, and at a glance he knew that something was wrong.

And the magpie is a hot temper, he is in a hurry, he can't hide half a rice in his heart, and he can't hold his breath when he encounters something. As soon as she saw that something was wrong, she immediately wanted to find out what was wrong. What's more, he took her father's life-saving money......

Magpie's father has been sick for more than a month. Now he is lying on the kang at home, and his condition is getting worse and worse. The family was so anxious that they waited for the money to go to the hospital for treatment!

The Magpie's family lives in a small village with dozens of families. This Zhuangzi is called Magpie Village. And this magpie village is a little legendary little place, and the origin of the name of this village has historical allusions.

According to the legend of the ancestors of Magpie Village, a long, long time ago, about the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In a flat place at the foot of Taihang Mountain, there are several families who have fled from the desert living on a small hillside at their back. Together, they fled the wilderness, and hundreds of families came out. But the people were dwindling on the road, some dying of illness and starvation, and when they fled to the area, they left a few families behind.

These families cultivated land in this area, repaired houses and built houses to live. These people have fled the famine and suffered. The arduous wandering life makes them cherish and love all the animals and plants around them. Later, after living for a long time, magpies continued to fly to build nests in the trees in front of and behind their houses, and lived with them as neighbors.

The people were glad to see the magpie coming, and it was the first time they had encountered a magpie in their place of residence since they had fled. Make them feel like they're back home. So they treat the magpies as if they were their relatives, feeding them food and drinking. Never drive them away or spoil them. So there were more and more of these magpies. They often fly on their eaves, windows, and even into their homes, standing on the ground and bouncing on the ground, shaking their small and delicate heads as if no one was pewing at home, not afraid of people at all.

One evening, the smoke curled from the cooking in every house, and the dinner was fragrant. People who had been working in the fields all day had already gone home with farm tools. Families were preparing to eat dinner with their oil lamps in their hands, when suddenly, thousands of magpies flew in droves, and the sound of chirping drowned out all sounds. They are surrounded by the windows of houses, and the eaves and yards are densely packed and overwhelming. Shouted eagerly at the people in the room. When people don't come out, they just stand there and don't go, and they call in a stack.

People were curious, so they ran out of the house, and when they saw "Wow!" the sky and the earth were all black and oppressive. People have never seen so many magpies, what is the matter? While people were watching in amazement, the magpies flew up together, and they could not see anything from the sky. The magpies circled over the heads of the people for a while, watching as the houses came out, and then they flew together in one direction and at the same time, and flew a long distance, and when they saw that the people did not go with them, they came back and chirped at the people together.

Then one of them said, "You see that these magpies are telling us to go with them, and let's try to go with them!" So they went together in the direction that the magpie had guided, and the magpies flew in the sky, and the people followed on the earth, and after a short time the magpies began to fly up the mountains, and the people followed them up the mountains.

At this time, the moon rose and hung high above the clear blue sky, like a large silver-white round mirror, reflecting the sky and the earth as white as snow. The villages, houses, surrounding trees, weeds, and wildflowers are clearly visible below, and they also illuminate the path up the mountain.

The magpie was still flying up, and the people continued to climb to the top of the mountain, when they had just climbed to the top of the mountain, they suddenly heard the whistling sound of the sky falling and the earth cracking, and the people looked down the mountain in astonishment, only to see the vast rushing flood, roaring and roaring towards the village, and in an instant, the whole village was gone, and turned into a yellow ocean, and the water was still rising until it spread to the halfway up the mountainside.

People stood on the top of the hill and screamed in terror, beating their chests and lamenting their homeland. When they suddenly reacted from their panic, they realized that it was this large group of magpies that had saved them, or they would have been swallowed up by the flood tonight like the houses. When they turned to look at the group of magpies again, they were gone, not even one, and flew away without a trace.

Since then, they have lived on this high mountain, and they have begun to rebuild their houses and rebuild their homes. In order to commemorate the magpie saving the lives of the whole village, the newly built village was named Magpie Village. Since then, people have regarded this magpie as their savior and mascot. Every house has to be clay sculpture, two magpies are smelted out by burning tiles, and built on both sides of the highest end of the roof, so as to avoid evil.

The carpenter also carved two magpies on the window frames of each house to make the house sticky and festive. After giving birth to a girl, the family generally takes the name magpie. Let the magpies bring them good luck in their lives. In the village, there are many names for girls called magpies, so in order to distinguish them, people usually call them together with their surnames. Therefore, the name of the wife of this stunned man is Kong Magpie. This is the name given by magpie parents following ancient precepts to pray for their daughters.

Magpie's parents are the most simple farmers in Magpie Farm. Magpie's father is kind, frugal, honest and honest. I only know that I am diligent, hard-working, and work hard, and I don't ask for anything else. Everything is done by the magpie's mother at home, and the magpie's mother eats whatever she does, never picking and choosing, and she is sour and resentful.

The clothes worn by the magpie's father were also sewn from head to toe by the magpie's mother. I bought a piece of coarse cloth and cut it in two, cut it into jackets and trousers, especially the shoes, which were the soles of the magpie's mother using coarse hemp rope and stitches one by one, and then bought the fabric to make shoe bags, and then sewed together with coarse hemp rope, like a small boat. The soles are hard, the front is slightly upturned, and the shoe bag is back from the top up, and the inside is empty. When people in the village go out to the market to watch a play, they like to put their money in the empty shoe guy.

Once, one sunny morning, the weather was hot, and there was not a trace of clouds in the sky, the magpie's father carried a wooden plough and led the ploughing oxen to plow the field, to see that the sun was in the west, and his stomach was so hungry that he kept calling "cooing", but he just couldn't wait for his wife to come and deliver food. He looked to the ground every once in a while, but he was still nowhere to be seen, and looked several times, and finally looked at the figure of his wife, who was carrying a crockpot and hurried to the ground with small steps.

It is estimated that the wife also knew that the old man was hungry, so she trotted all the way to the ground. The magpie's father watched his wife bring the food, and unloaded the cow and tied it to a big tree on the edge of the field. He walked over to his wife, and the old couple sat down on the ground with their legs bent. The magpie's mother prepares a meal for the magpie's father. As soon as I opened the crockpot, I realized that I had forgotten to bring the dishes and chopsticks.

Because the magpie's mother had been busy all morning, she didn't pay attention to the fact that it was already lunch, and then she realized that she hadn't cooked for the old man! When I got to the ground, I realized that I didn't bring the dishes and chopsticks.

What can I do about this? I went back to get the dishes and chopsticks, which was a long distance, and the food was frozen after running back and forth. But if you don't bring the dishes and chopsticks, where the rice is not served, the crockpot is so deep that your mouth can't reach the rice inside, what should you do?

When he was in a dilemma, the father of the magpie took off one of the boat-like shoes that his wife had made for him, turned them over and knocked the soil in the shoes on the stones on the ground, and then stretched out to his wife's crockpot and said with a smile, "Come, let it be here!"

So the wife overturned the clay pot, poured the steaming hot rice from the clay pot into the old man's loess-stained shoemaker, and poured a full shoe. The old man took the steaming shoeman with trembling hands, picked up two twigs on the edge of the ground with one free hand, squatted down, grinned and hugged the shoemaker, and ate the ...... with relish.

My wife covered her mouth and laughed as she gobbled up the delicious lunch she had made for the shoemaker.

This time, the magpie's father was ploughing in a storm. After breakfast, he carried a wooden plough and led the ploughing oxen, and when he walked into the field, the weather was clear, windless and cloudless. So I didn't bring any shelter from the rain. Unexpectedly, near noon, the weather suddenly changed, the storm suddenly rose, the rain poured down, and in an instant the whole body was drenched by rain, like a chicken in the soup flowing from head to toe with rain.

The rain in the sky had stopped, and the raindrops were still dripping from his body. Because the internal organs are hot and the external wind is cold, he can't afford to get sick after returning home, and he can't get better after taking medicine and injections, so anxious that the family is like ants on a hot pot, fidgeting, waiting for the magpie girl to send this money back and hurry to the hospital to see a doctor, and if he goes late, he is afraid that his life will not be guaranteed.