Chapter 11: Serendipity

The magpie's father's body was like a log, rolling down from the top of the mountain covered with honeysuckle to the cliff, and it seemed that it was about to roll to the edge of the cliff, and once it rolled to the edge ......of the cliff, it would fall from the cliff hundreds of feet high, and it would be broken to pieces.

And this thing is strange, there is such a coincidence in the world. The second stunned man of Shilianzi Village drove a large group of sheep and went up the mountain early in the morning. On this day, the two stunned people got up very early. That morning, while he was still snoring under the covers, he heard a chirping of birds outside the house, which woke him up.

He opened the curtains and looked, it was dark, but he had been woken up by the sound of birds, and he couldn't sleep anymore. He thought, "Let's just get up, let's go out early and finish work early today." So he got up with a grunt, got dressed, took his rations, took an umbrella, a shovel, and a whip behind the door, and went out to the sheepfold.

There were a few sheepdogs, looking at his shadow, and they all followed. He opened the door of the sheepfold, let the sheep out, and drove a large flock of sheep and led some of the sheepdogs up the mountain.

At this time, the sky gradually brightened, and when we reached the top of the mountain, the red morning glow had already turned the mountains in a fiery red. A short time after climbing to the top of the mountain, I heard several shepherd dogs barking in one direction in unison. According to his many years of experience in herding cattle in the mountains, if the shepherd dog barks in unison continuously, it means that there must be an animal in the vicinity that is either a wolf, a wild boar or a goat.

So he ran with a stick to the place where the dog barked. When he approached, he saw neither a wolf, nor a boar or a goat, but a snow-white fox.

He had heard that the fox's fur was very precious, and that if he caught the fox and peeled off the skin, he would be able to sell it for a lot of money! The shepherd dogs watched their owners chase after them, and they also scrambled to chase after the wild fox, so the people also ran, and the dogs also chased, and ran several mountains in a row.

However, the wild fox looked not far away, but could not catch up, and disappeared for a while, and then reappeared, until it chased in front of a high mountain peak, and saw that the wild fox was halfway up the mountainside, and they chased it halfway up the mountain, and when they chased it halfway up the mountainside, the wild fox disappeared again.

When the second stunned man was puzzled, he suddenly heard a scream from above, and then he saw something rolling straight down towards him, he thought it was a stone rolling down, and when he was about to dodge, he suddenly found that it was a person who rolled down.

Before he could think about it, the man had already rolled over, so he grabbed the man tightly with his two large hands, and then slowly pulled him up.

And the magpie's father was rolling down the hill in terror, thinking that he would surely roll to the bottom of the cliff when this was over, and he closed his eyes and waited for death. Suddenly he felt two big hands grab him like two big shovels, and he stopped rolling. Then I felt like I was slowly pulling him up.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was a person, a big man with a black face, holding him tightly. He immediately understood that this man had saved him! He suddenly thought, "Is he a human or a ghost?" How could it be so coincidental?

Looking at the man's face with black hair, he could barely see his face, except for the eyes, nose, and mouth where he was bulging, the rest was covered with black hair. Look at the body again, five big and three thick, big man, big head, big eyes, big face, big hands and feet. That hand stretched out was almost the size of the palm of two people's hands, so it was no wonder that he was caught at once, the man who had fallen from the high mountain."

At this time, he watched the big black man turn around and was about to go down, and the magpie father immediately grabbed the big black man and said, "The young man doesn't dare to go down, there is a cliff under you!"

The second stunned man turned around and looked under him, and immediately exclaimed. Hurriedly grabbed the bushes beside him. He thought, "How dangerous! If you fall, you'll be a pile of rotten tiles!"

The two men were halfway up the back of the mountain, and he didn't know the terrain on this side of the mountain. The magpie's father grabbed the stunned hand and said, "Young man, thank you for saving my life, if it weren't for you, my old bones would have gone to Hades." Young man, dare you ask, what is your name, where are you from, and how did you come here?......

The second stunned man was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a dog barking again, and saw that the white fox appeared on the east side of the mountain again. The second stunned didn't bother to talk to the old man again, and ran to the east mountain with his legs.

The second stunned man took the shepherd dog to chase on the east mountain for a long time, but still did not catch the wild fox, took a look, this barren mountain and wild mountains, the road is not familiar, and the wild fox is too cunning to give up and chase the wild fox again, whistled, recalled the sheepdog, and walked over the mountains and towards his sheep.

After growing up in the shepherding wind and rain, he reached the age of talking about marriage, and he asked someone to tell him several objects, and people disliked him as a sheepherd and were unwilling to marry him. So he simply quit his job and went back to the village to start farming with a hoe. When I meet the market in the slack season, I go to the market to sell a few sheepskins, exchange some pocket money, replenish the family's oil, salt, sauce and vinegar money, and exchange some cigarette money.

This sheepskin was accumulated by him for more than ten years of herding sheep. Once, when I went to the market to sell sheepskins, and after a short time I had squatted down, a young girl came, with fair skin, handsome eyebrows and eyes, and long black hair draped over her back. He carried a basket behind him. I saw her look left and right, and stopped in a clearing next to him.

The girl took the basket off her back, then took out a piece of plastic sheeting from the basket, spread it flat on the ground with both hands, and then pulled out something black and yellow from the basket with both hands. The second stunned looked at the girl curiously.

The girl was very skillful at arranging these things in small piles and small piles. Then he took out a small folding stool from the basket and sat down. When he saw someone coming, he shouted, "Sell medicinal herbs!" There are ginseng, codonopsis, rehman, raw land, honeysuckle, ...... , are all high-quality products picked in the deep mountains, they are all wild, not artificially cultivated. ”

The second stunned person felt that it was very fresh, so he came over to take a look. The girl immediately said, "Look, it's all good." ”

The second stunned saw that the girl was selling very loudly, he used to squat quietly somewhere, embarrassed to call. This time, not a single girl felt embarrassed, and she shouted one after another, what was she afraid of as a big man?

I was embarrassed to say it, so I tried it in a low voice, and when I saw that no one was paying attention, I gradually raised my voice. In a short time several old men came to look through and question his sheepskin. These old men said that this sheepskin is not bad, and it is warm and soft when it is spread on the kang in winter, and it is comfortable to sleep on. Then two old men bought one each.

At this time, the girl listened to the discussion of the old men just now, and thought to herself: "This sheepskin is so good, how good it would be to buy one for my father and spread it on that earthen kang." My dad goes up the mountain to collect medicine all the year round, and his leg is a little rheumatism, and he can warm his legs when he comes back at night and sleeps on it. I wonder if this sheepskin can be made into trousers, and if so, wouldn't it be better to wrap it around your legs in the winter?"

So she got up and looked at the sheepskin, and then asked the second stunned man, "Can this sheepskin be made into pants and wrapped around the legs?" ”

When the girl heard this, she was moved. Then the girl asked, "How many sheepskins do you need to make a pair of woolen trousers?" and the second stunned said, "A bigger one, one is enough." ”

The girl asked again, "Then I can buy two of yours, one for a mattress shop and the other for leather trousers?"

The second stunned man said, "It's okay, it's a thing for nothing." ”

The girl said, "That's not going to work, I have to give you money." ”

The second stunned smiled, looked at the girl's serious face, and said, "Why don't I get some of your medicine?"

The girl said, "That's fine, then take whatever you want." After speaking, he walked to her medicine stall and pointed out a large pile of medicine to the second stunned. The second stunned grabbed a handful of honeysuckle and said, "I'll grab some of this and go back to make tea and drink it!"

So the second stunned man gave the girl two sheepskins. In this way, they meet in the market every three or five days, greet each other when they meet, sometimes show each other the stalls when they want to be next to each other, and even help each other sell goods or something, and they are more familiar with each other.

The two stunned looked at this beautiful girl, and often secretly thought in their hearts, how good it would be to marry such a girl as a daughter-in-law! Just remembering this pretty face. When they meet and say hello, their hearts "bang bang" for a while, and help each other, they are just ordinary acquaintances.

And the girl didn't ask much about the second stunned, but remembered that one distinguishing feature, a gorilla face.

After a while, the second stunned man once gave two cigarettes to others, and asked them to tell him that an old man of his daughter-in-law was here. This old man Li, who was once known as the "old man under the moon", is often enthusiastic about matching marriage-age men and women, and helps many local young men and women enter the palace of marriage. But Old Man Li introduced several objects to the second stunned man, but the negotiation was not completed.

This time, Old Man Li twisted his pale beard in his hand and said with a smile and a second stunned: "This time the object you are looking for is a beautiful girl, the girl is not only beautiful, but also very dignified and virtuous, a girl from a good family." It depends on your creation. ”

The second stunned man asked, "Which village is it from?" Old man Li said, "It's from Magpie Village." The second stunned man asked again, "Do people agree with me?" Old man Li said: "People agree to meet first." I told people that if people can see it, they will continue to say it, and if they can't see it, stop it, let's talk about it separately. The people also agreed, so the date of the meeting was also set. ”

The second stunned man asked, "When will we meet?" Old man Li said: "The morning after tomorrow, I will come and ask you to go together...... But you have to shave your hairy beard, or you will scare the girl! People still think I brought a gorilla!"

The day of meeting has arrived. The two were stunned and rode a bicycle, and Old Man Li also rode a bicycle, and the two followed each other to Magpie Village.

When he arrived at Magpie Village, the second stunned man asked the old man Li to push the cart in front, and he pushed the cart to follow behind, and before he arrived at the woman's house, the second stunned man was nervous and nervous.