3. White-eyed wolf
As the sun sets, the glow fills the sky, but the fiery afterglow, like something, never shines into Caojia Village, which is located deep in the mountains. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The woman who didn't see the true face of Lushan walked freely, leaving a graceful back, Cao Erniu squatted under the eaves and looked into the distance, holding the delicate little card tightly in his hand, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Uncle Erniu, you're not really going to work for that girl, are you?" The big man with missing front teeth with a homemade cigarette in his mouth asked with some concern.
Cao Erniu was immersed in his own world, and didn't seem to hear it, so he carefully took out the big red and bright tickets from his pocket after a long time, counted them, divided them into two, and stuffed half into the hands of the big man with missing front teeth.
"Huzi, don't you want to go to the outside world to see?"
"Why don't you want to!" The big man with missing front teeth was not hypocritical, and solemnly folded a stack of tickets in half several times, and easily hid them in the soles of his shoes, "I really want to!" I dream about it, but isn't it impossible to get out? The old immortal at home has long been hollowed out by alcohol, and it is no fun to work in the field, I want to go again, and I have to starve to death? β
Maybe the atmosphere is a little inexplicably melancholy, and because there are no outsiders on the side, the big man with missing front teeth said something very rarely, "Don't look at the old guy who always curses the old guy to die early and reincarnate early, but sometimes think about it, he is my father after all, and he is the one who brought my Sun Laifu to this world for a while, my mother died early, if the old guy really burps one day, won't I become a wild calf without a father and a mother?" Hehe...... I designate that you are not as smart as Uncle Niu, but even I don't think this deal is cost-effective, so now I am thinking about taking a few more beatings, and after a few more years, I can almost fulfill my filial piety. β
Cao Erniu opened his mouth, and stopped talking, he grew up with Huzi since childhood, and he also watched this stubborn guy like a calf being beaten by his father from childhood to adulthood, even if this calf can now walk sideways in Caojia Village, but his father still said that he would fight when he came up, and now that he thinks about it, this beating is not in vain.
"Uncle, if you really think about it, I will definitely support you, they all say that there are a lot of people in the city, as long as you don't get cheated by that beautiful girl." The big man with missing front teeth knows Cao Erniu well, and thinks that Uncle Erniu is afraid that he has moved his true mind this time.
Cao Erniu turned his head and glanced at him, "How do you know she's beautiful?" Maybe you look ugly and don't dare to see someone wearing a hat? β
"Pull it down! Didn't you see that little white face with miscellaneous hair looking at the eyes of that girl? It's like in the spring, my rhubarb stared at Widow Liu's little black and looked virtuous. β
The big man with missing front teeth spat at the mouth, and seemed to be very confident, "Why don't we make a bet, and the next time you see her again, if it's really beautiful, you'll have to find a way to get into bed, so you won't wear a hat every time, right?" β
The most outrageous thing about treating men and women since childhood was Cao Erniu, who had peeked at Widow Liu taking a bath a few times, shook his head, "Don't you dare to think about it!" β
"What don't you dare to think about?" As one of the only two men with foreign surnames in the village, the big man with missing front teeth has undoubtedly cultivated a good courage in the long-term battle of wits and courage with the villagers of Caojia Village.
"Uncle, I haven't read a book, and I don't know any big truths, some words that are easy to know are still taught by you and Xiaohua, to put it mildly, I think Caojia Village is sorry for you, just like many people in the village are sorry for my father, is it because you have a white-eyed wolf father, I have a mother who dares me to insert my father's surname in the door, these people dare to poke the backbone in death? They don't want to think about who has had a sudden illness in the village over the years, isn't it all you who drove this four-wheeled car to the town hospital? β
"Yes, you are kind, you didn't even think about asking them for gas money, but Cao Daqiang, who killed that day, dared to kill you in the car because of his old man, and almost didn't ask for half your life! It's been a few years since this happened, but your body bones haven't been better yet, uncle! β
"Humph! If you want me to say that this bird doesn't lay eggs, it doesn't stay in the place......"
Cao Erniu sighed, and waved his hand to interrupt the big man with missing front teeth who was getting more and more angry, "No matter how you say it, this is home after all." β
The big man with missing front teeth shrugged his shoulders, undeniable, and sat on the ground with his chest rising and falling for a long time before calming down, "Uncle, you can rest assured to go, Xiaohua doesn't come back often now, and you don't have to worry about it at school, the second grandmother has me to take care of her at home, and there will be no mistakes." β
Cao Erniu patted him on the shoulder, and did not express his position immediately, of course he can trust Huzi, even more than he believes in himself, stubborn people are not useless, most of these people admit death, and dare to go to the end of a black road, take this calf as an example, he definitely dares to do anything for this promise.
Huzi's words touched Cao Erniu a little, he had already completed his junior high school course and began to dabble in high school knowledge, he didn't understand the big truth that his parents were not far away, his mother who had just come out of the water and was trampled by a foreign animal, this life was too bitter, the beast patted his ass and walked freely, and he didn't even bother to whitewash that hateful face.
Sometimes Cao Erniu is thinking! If the thief really has eyes, he will have to let me meet him again in this life, rest assured, when the time comes, he will not be left alive, so that the animal will continue to do evil, so seeing that the mother has white hair on her head, Cao Erniu really wants to accompany her for a day more, but the life of this son of a bitch is very contradictory!
Xiaohua is smart when she is young, this is something that even fools in Caojia Village know, seeing that this is the second year of high school, Cao Erniu, who used to rely on car repair shops to barely cope with it, is really anxious, and it is a sure thing to be admitted to college with Xiaohua's ability, he Cao Erniu is a small farmer who has not finished elementary school, and when he dreams at night, he is tinkering with those arithmetic problems that seem very naΓ―ve now, so there is no reason to wronged his own sister.
Not to mention anything else, Caojia Village has long pointed to the fact that there is a college student on his own one-third of an acre, maybe he can brag to others when he occasionally goes to the town in the future, right? So Cao Erniu is really afraid of being poked in the backbone again!
"There's no rush in this matter, I'll talk about it when Xiaohua comes back in a few days."
"What?" The big man with missing front teeth who didn't react slapped his head violently and said, "Why is it going to be on vacation soon?" β
Cao Erniu knew what this calf was thinking about, and when Xiaohua came back last time, this calf patted his chest and said: Xiaohua, why have you lost weight again? When I come back next month, Brother Huzi will designate to go into the mountains to catch a fat roe deer for you to make up for it.
This calf is very clear about Xiaohua's thoughts Cao Erniu, but then again, which unmarried Xiong Wazi in Caojia Village doesn't mean that to Xiaohua? Cao Erniu is quite open in this matter, as long as Xiaohua likes it, he has no opinion, who stipulates that if you drink a little foreign ink, you have to find a cultural person in the city?
"It's over, the set on the mountain hasn't been set up yet!" The big man with missing front teeth was so anxious that he burned his buttocks, and after saying hello, he spread his feet and ran to the village, and it seemed that he had to go into the mountains tonight. You must know that there are not only roe deer jumping in the surrounding mountains, but also many big guys who like to go out at night.
Cao Erniu looked at his slightly funny back and shook his head with a wry smile, and didn't bother to persuade him, because persuasion would not have any effect, so he patted his ass and stood up, parked the old Jetta whose paint had begun to peel off into the thatched house, locked the door, and went home.
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Caojia Village is not big, it can be said to be very small, a total of sixty-four people, there were sixty-five last month, but the three masters who always shouted that they couldn't hold on to this natal year really couldn't hold on, and they were found lying on the bed on a sunny morning, dying hard.
Cao Erniu's home is located in the westernmost part of the village, three yellow mud houses, or the original house cracked a big gap, he himself knocked down and rebuilt, for this village that has not been electrified for a long time, the electric light is like the air conditioner hanging on the wall of a rental house in a big city, the significance of the decoration is far greater than the practical value, but regardless of whether there is a suspicion of extravagance and waste, as long as Cao Erniu does not come back before dark, the dim light bulb in front of his house will be lit.
"Mother, I'm back." Cao Erniu is used to shouting a sentence before he enters the door, which will make him feel a sense of happiness for no reason.
"Eh, go wash your hands, it's time to start eating soon." A woman's voice came from inside the house, not the high-pitched tone that is common at high altitudes, but somewhat similar to the soft whispers of Wu Nong in the south.
There is not much room for imagination for dinner in the mountains, a big bowl of boiled cabbage and a plate of dried beans fried old bacon, which is definitely hearty in Caojia Village, where the per capita annual income can exceed 1,000, so Cao Erniu has never felt sorry for him, a mother who has not met a good man, but he didn't feel bitter at all. In any case, guarding the broken car shop that only opens once in a few months, he can still get an income that is the envy of all the old and young masters in Caojia Village.
Cao Erniu is grateful to the bad old man who was buried on the hillside behind his house, the bad old man who claimed to be a hardcore donkey friend lived in Cao Erniu's house for ten years, and it seemed that he didn't plan to go back alive when he entered Tibet. Of course, the old man didn't dare to eat and live for nothing, otherwise Cao Erniu would have to let the dog bite people, and the fee should be given a lot, but he would never give more, and incidentally he also taught Cao Erniu a lot of car technology that the Cao family village masters never dared to hope for.
To be honest, Cao Erniu really didn't think he was deliberately teaching a few years ago, after all, a traveler from a foreign country must have a guide for wandering around in Tibetan areas, right? But in the next few years, the old man estimated that he had figured it out, and he didn't want to bring the little thing he had into the coffin, so he treated Cao Erniu as a character similar to the heir to the mantle.
"Mother, let me tell you something."
After Cao Erniu picked up a bowl of rice, he said what was in his heart, after all, his mother must agree to this matter.
"Child, I've really hurt you all these years, two brothers and sisters in one life, whoever gets better in the future can help one or two, my mother's body is very strong, don't worry about it."
This woman, who has never remarried all her life, seems to have expected such a day, nodded and agreed without saying a word, and also educated Cao Erniu a lot of superficial truths similar to "good men are ambitious in all directions", after all, you can't expect a rural woman in the depths of the mountains to tell her son "The Wisdom of Life" profoundly, right?
Cao Erniu has always felt that his mother is different from most women in the village, she is not pedantic, she is also very smart, and even some things that are not easy to say can always be expressed without leaving a trace. Cao Erniu can probably guess one or two of her thoughts, if there is really such a day, she will definitely help her mother fulfill this wish, but if she really meets that god-damn white-eyed wolf, it is not as simple as asking "why did you leave in the first place".