Grandpa knew that Tian Mimei was Tian Limai's second uncle Tian Shuizhuang's family, and several times when my grandfather went to Tian Limai's house, Tian Mimei played with Tian Liyu, he saw Tian Mimei call him grandpa, and said with a smile: "Tian Mimei, you can't follow your sister Tian Liyu to call me grandpa, you have to call me my father-in-law!"

Tian Yimei looked up at her grandfather and said, "My father, there are so many people in the courtyard, what are you watching, my sister and I want to go and see it!" Tian Qimei corrected her title.

"Sister Tian, there are sheep being slaughtered there, you and your sister can't go and see it!" Grandpa said.

I heard that it was killing sheep, although Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei were held by their grandfather with one hand, they both turned their heads and looked at the courtyard dam, Tian Liyu asked: "Grandpa, we killed the New Year's pig, my mother said I can't go to see it, grandpa, why can't we see this killing sheep!?"

Tian Limai walked behind, and heard his grandfather say that so many people around the dam in the courtyard were watching the killing of sheep, and killing sheep surrounded so many people watching, what kind of sheep were being killed?

Tian Limai wanted to go and see, but he knew that if he went, the two sisters would definitely follow, and there was no way, so Tian Limai had to follow silently.

"This killing of sheep is the butcher's business, the butcher's knife is stained with a lot of blood, you girls and babies can't go to see it, you will have nightmares when you see it!" Grandpa explained.

"My dear, I'm not afraid, I'm bold, I won't have nightmares when I see it! Let me go and see the sheep killed!" Tian Yimei said again.

"Sister Tian, this killing sheep, you girls and babies really can't look at it, after seeing it, the killed sheep is going to lick your face in the middle of the night, think about it, you have fallen asleep, it is dark in the middle of the night, and suddenly there is a fluffy sheep's mouth on your face to lick it, you wake up, touch it with your hands, but you can't touch the fluffy sheep's mouth, how scary it should be!" Grandpa thought about it and made it up.

In fact, the girl can't see the same legend as killing the sheep and the pig, but the grandfather can't tell the legend, because Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei are still young and don't understand, so the grandfather can only make up stories to scare Tian Yimei!

Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei were pulled by their grandfather, Tian Limai followed, they bypassed the stilted building on the left side of their grandfather's house and entered the house through the back door on the left!

Tian Limai entered the house in the back and saw that her grandmother and aunt, aunt and sister-in-law Yang Tingting, who was studying in college, were sitting around the fire pit to bake the fire.

Grandma and others saw that grandpa pulled Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei, as well as Tian Limai walked in, they all stood up, and my sister Yang Tingting pulled Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei, and said excitedly: "I am worried that no one will accompany me when I go back to my hometown, and I can't imagine that there are two little sisters to accompany me!"

Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei were pulled by her sister Yang Tingting to sit next to her, and Tian Liyu and Tian Qimei's actions made Tian Liyu and Tian Qimei unable to spare time to say hello to their grandmother and two aunts!

Tian Limai stepped forward and affectionately called "grandma", "auntie", and "uncle", and grandma and two aunts also asked for warmth affectionately!

Grandma asked Tian Limai to sit on the edge of the fire pit to roast the fire, and grandpa said: "Grandson, he didn't bake the fire just now, I'll take him out to have a look, you take care of the grandchild and her sister, don't let them go out!"

At this time, the cheers in the courtyard outside the house rang out again, and Tian Limai followed his grandfather out of the hall to take a look, and that scene made Tian Limai stunned:

A black goat weighing about seventy or eighty pounds, dripping with blood from the thread around its neck, "Baa...... Baa...... Bah!" The cry was terrible, and the black goat was running in circles around the yard dam while barking, which seemed helpless and painful, but he still had to run around the yard and run in circles, and the blood on his neck was constantly flowing!

The blood of the place where the black goat ran was red.

In the middle of the courtyard dam stood a man in an old long shirt, the face of the man with horizontal meat, especially the cheekbones of the two pieces of flesh are a little red, his mouth is biting a bright sharp knife, although today's sky is dark, there is no sunshine, but the bright sharp knife is still cold and shining, you can imagine how the owner of the sharp knife sharpened last night!

The man was biting a sharp knife in his mouth, his hands were dancing in the air, and his mouth seemed to be still chanting, looking like a Taoist priest and mage in ancient times!

Tian Limai didn't know what trick he was playing, he glanced at his grandfather standing beside him, and saw that his grandfather was smiling slightly, and seemed to be nodding his head gently.

Tian Limai glanced into the courtyard dam again, except for the empty land where the black goat ran around, the other places were almost full of people, and it was obvious that these people were all here to see Xiqi!

Tian Limai didn't know what he was doing, he asked his grandfather, "Grandpa, what are they doing here?"

"Grandson, this is killing 'running sheep'!" Grandpa replied, but his eyes were always looking at the center of the yard in the courtyard.

"Kill the 'running sheep'? grandfather, this is ——!?" Tian Limai still didn't understand.

Grandpa retracted his gaze, looked at Tian Limai and said: "Grandson, you don't know what this killing 'running sheep' is all about, killing 'running sheep' is killing sheep, killing 'running sheep' This sheep killing stunt has almost been lost, this time your uncle heard that there is a stunt of killing 'running sheep' when he was working in Shi Nanchun Liquor, so he specially brought a letter to me to buy a few sheep and waited for him to come back, so he specially went to invite Fu Yushi, the sheep killing master of Houya Mountain, to kill the 'running sheep' and show his killer skills." This killer stunt is on the verge of being lost, I have lived for more than 70 years, and I still saw people kill 'running sheep' when I was a child, and today is only the second time!"

"Grandpa, this stunt of killing 'running sheep' has been lost, it's too bloody!" Tian Limai said.

"Grandson, you are still studying, you should know that this is also a culture, a slaughtering culture! Grandpa said.

Tian Limai didn't answer his grandfather, he always felt that this was too bloody in his heart, and it seemed that this way of killing sheep was too cruel!

Tian Limai finally found his uncle Yang Baijun and his uncle Yang Bairong in the crowd in the courtyard, and it can be seen from the faces of the uncle and uncle that the two seem to be very satisfied and happy about killing the "running sheep"!

The eldest uncle and the younger uncle also saw it, but neither of the two uncles came, and seemed to signal Tian Limai not to go over, which means that they were very busy!

Tian Limai really didn't go over to say hello to his uncle and uncle, and at this time, the black goat running in circles in the courtyard dam "Baa...... Baa ......" cry, gradually weakened, the eyes revealed despair and nostalgia for the world, what a poor goat, come to this world to be slaughtered by the black goat, even so nostalgic, the black goat "boom" fell to the ground, and finally "baa...... Baa ...... screamed twice, and his whole body convulsed twice and died!

The eldest uncle and the second uncle walked into the courtyard dam and assisted the sheep killer to carry the dead black goat into the tidal basin that was originally used to kill pigs, and then, the uncle went to the stove house with a bucket and brought two buckets of boiling water and poured it into the tidal basin!

The sheep was not skinned, but plucked the wool like a pig's hair, and it seems that it was lamb with skin!

The people in the courtyard gradually dispersed, and sure enough, those who watched the excitement were all men, old and young, all men!

Fu Yushi, the sheep slaughterer in a long robe, looked at the departing people and said, "I will kill the third one later!"

Fu Yushi, the master of killing sheep, seems to kill sheep, the more people who watch, the better, maybe for him, the more people watch, the better his love, and the higher the fighting spirit of killing sheep!

However, the people still slowly dispersed, no one watched the show three times, and the sheep killer had already killed two sheep and killed the third sheep, and the people who watched it before didn't want to watch it anymore!

"Grandson, they were going to Mao just now, there is nothing to see, let's go, let's go into the house to roast the fire, and when Master Fu kills the third one, we will come out and see!" Grandpa said to Tian Limai.

Tian Limai didn't say anything, followed her grandfather to the fire pit house, and her sister Tian Limai saw it and said to Tian Limai: "Brother, pick up grandpa, grandmother, uncle and aunt to eat 'soup', did you tell grandpa?"

"Not yet, sister, did you tell your grandmother and aunt?" Tian Limai asked rhetorically.

"Grandma and aunt are very busy, making lunch in the stove room, I told my aunt and sister, and my aunt and sister agreed to go tomorrow!" Sister Tian Liyu said.

"Grandson, you three brothers and sisters came to us to pick us up and eat 'soup', but, you see, we are killing sheep!" said my grandfather.

"Grandpa, when my two sisters and I set off, my father and mother repeatedly explained that they would invite your grandfather to you this year no matter what, otherwise, my parents said that they would not want me and my sister to enter the house!" Tian Limai said.

While they were talking, my grandmother and my aunt came to the fire pit house, and the eldest aunt said: "It's almost one o'clock, Ann bench for lunch, Tian Limai, you go and call your two uncles and the master who killed the sheep, invite them to eat lunch, eat lunch and then kill!"

"Okay, aunt!" Tian Limai agreed, and hurriedly went from the hall to the courtyard.

At this time, the sheep was basically cleaned up, Tian Limai walked to the side of his uncle Yang Baijun and his uncle Yang Bairong, and said, "Uncle, uncle, it's time for lunch!"

Uncle Yang Baijun said: "It's time to eat lunch!" Then, the eldest uncle Yang Baijun asked Tian Limai: "Waiwai, is there something you have to do when you come to our house?"

Uncle Yang Baijun, uncle Yang Bairong and the sheep killer were all washing their hands and preparing to go into the house to eat, Tian Limai listened to the words of his uncle Yang Baijun and said: "Uncle, my sister and I are here to invite your family to our house to eat 'soup'!"