On this day of the new year, Daddy Niu made a big fuss at home. The table was also lifted, and the cooking cauldron also told him to smash a big hole. Seeing that it is no longer possible to steam dry food and cook sweet potatoes to survive. Aunt Niu was very angry, and the little pity she had for Daddy Niu was gone. The pots are smashed into a bowl-sized hole. That clearly means a complete break with this family. Even if you are ruthless, don't blame me for being unjust. She announced loudly: "It is definitely not my son's father who smashed the pot." How can there be a father in the world who smashes the pot for his son? He must have known it himself. In that case, I'll send you old bastard up tomorrow morning. I will not pit you, but give you rations, and take away your bedding with you. This home is a small inlet that can't hold your big fish, it's really a temple demon with a big wind, and there is such a thing. A bed for decades, how can I sleep with a wolf in my arms and not be able to see it? Hong Xing's family fight is private, otherwise, we really can't recognize this wolf. ”

Daddy Niu also had a bull temper at that time, and he didn't accept it at all: "Drive Lao Tzu out, if you want to live a good life, you may not be able to do it, people are doing it, the sky is watching, God can't spare the two miscellaneous pieces and this old shameless scratcher!" ”

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, there was heavy snowfall, and the top and bottom of Sibao Mountain were covered in silver, and almost no one was seen on the avenue. Xing Er got up early in the morning to shovel snow, and the other three old comrades in the cattle farm felt that they had already cleared the road leading to the gate of the cattle farm. Because they were afraid of affecting Xing Er's rest, they didn't come to clean the snow outside the door of Niu Er's shack. Xing Er was a little embarrassed to see that everyone got up earlier than him, and just as he was about to praise everyone for a few words, he saw a person standing outside the wooden gate of the cattle farm, covered in snow, with a broken rope on his shoulder, half a bag of dried sweet potatoes tied to his head, and a cover tied to his back, holding a pig iron kettle in his left hand and a crutch in his right hand. Who came to the cattle farm before the end of the year? Xing Er was full of suspicion, walked to the door, and looked out through the wooden fence door, it was Daddy Niu. Xing Er asked him: "Old man Niu, which one do you sing on a snowy day?" should be happy on the hot kang at home, what is the matter with stepping on the ice and snow to come to the cattle farm? Lin Chongxue went to Liangshan at night, guarded the forage factory, and carried a wine gourd, you pour it, and it is not necessary to carry a pig iron kettle

Elephants. ”

Daddy Niu smiled bitterly and said: "Virtuous nephew, I really know how to joke, Daddy, I have worked hard for decades, sweating, and now my son has also married a daughter-in-law, and I have seen a good life in the last few days, but there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, this is not called the two miscellaneous gangs and the old shameless thief woman, the conspiracy succeeded, and I was taken away from power, not to mention, but also ruthlessly kicked me out of the house." Niu Er's father is obviously me, but the old shameless thief insists that it is the seed of the two miscellaneous pieces, what do you think I can do? Originally, two people and a daughter-in-law were peeing in the bathhouse, and they couldn't find it. I'm out of luck. I went to the old revolutionaries to uphold justice and wanted an explanation. But she was unfair, and favored her daughter's side, and sent me to live on the cattle farm. Hey, it's all bad fate. I came to the cattle farm, and the old revolutionary asked me to be responsible for feeding the two cows in our team, and to live in the shack that Niu Er built when he was renovated. ”

Xing Er comforted him and said: "Let's live first, spread some hay on the shack, spread more, see if the bunk you bring is not thick, it is not fun to freeze the bones of the body, Niu Er and Hong Xing have children in the future, you have to go home and hug your grandson, don't you?" ”

Daddy Niu scolded: "Hold him a cow ball." He scolded and walked to the side of the cow's second hut, threw the cover on his back and the half bag of dried sweet potatoes into the shack, and did not go to the hay to make the bunk, but went straight to the cow hut, and the two cows in the team were very familiar with him and were good friends. When they saw Daddy Niu coming, they wagged their tails happily, raised their heads and "mooed" twice, and licked Daddy Niu's hand with their tongues, Daddy Cow stroked the cow's head and murmured: "This real cow is much stronger than the fake cow in human skin, and the heart of the cow is stronger than the human heart." ”

At noon, Daddy Niu was embarrassed to eat in front of everyone, so he used two stones to prop up an iron kettle and boiled the dried sweet potatoes he brought to eat. Duo'er brought him a hot nest head, a bowl of cabbage cornmeal porridge, and a carrot pickle. His hand holding the head of the house trembled slightly, and two large teardrops "Badabada" fell into the porridge bowl in his hand. In the past, according to his conscience, he looked down on Xing Erduo's brothers and sisters in his heart. And until now, the sunset is difficult, and in the desperate situation of heavy snow, he went to the cattle farm. Not only did Duo'er not dislike him, but she didn't fall into the ground. But he was deeply touched by the warmth he had with his loved ones. After he finished eating with tears in his eyes, Duo'er came to take away the rice bowl, washed it and put it away, from that moment on, Daddy Niu was determined to work hard and regard the cattle farm as his real home.

As the saying goes, it's hard to get through the spring when the year is good. In order to collectively eat Qinglai, after last autumn, Duoer opened a vegetable field in the wasteland above the small pond, which has more than one acre. She planted cabbage, white radish, and spinach respectively. Lidong radish onion, everyone received all the cabbage and white radish to the cattle farm for storage, and the source of the Chinese cabbage eaten this winter is here. Spinach is not afraid of freezing, covered with grass, eaten at any time and broken at any time to rip the blue to rip, that is, fresh and do not need to be stored, saving some small troubles.

After the beginning of spring, Daddy Niu helped Duoer to open up a large new vegetable field, in addition to planting seasonal vegetables, but also planted two ditches of onions and three garlic, Daddy Niu also set up a big shack on the edge of the small pond, living on the edge of the vegetable field day and night, not to see the vegetable garden, but to drink cattle conveniently. In addition, Duo'er and Lu Xing also went down to the small pond, dug the original small pond and the other two ponds, tidied up the surroundings, and went to the abduction set to buy dozens of small grass carp and put them in the three ponds, and when they had time, they also took some grass and tender vegetables and threw them into the pond to feed the fish. Seeing the fish slowly growing up, they cheered and jumped happily. A satisfied smile always hangs on the face.

Mr. Xu Guangda didn't know how to farm, so he took the initiative to take on the task of feeding the four pigs, and Xing Er helped him build two small pigsty on the edge of the vegetable field, tied the neck of the largest pig with a rope, and led him to the edge of the railway trench to graze. The big pig is in front and the little pig is behind, setting up a long snake formation, leaving early and returning late. Old man Xu wears a straw hat and carries a military kettle on his shoulder. Regardless of wind or rain, insist on going out to herd pigs at least once a day. Due to the effective feeding, each pig grows to more than 100 catties after autumn.

Xing Er has not been idle for most of the year, first taking advantage of the spring rain and moisture, he planted spring corn and some sweet potatoes. The rest of the land is planted with peanuts. Wait until all these spring crops are harvested and the seedlings are held. He also led everyone to mud adobe, with long sleepers as beams, to build seven small houses, Wang Changchang is an expert carpenter, he taught Xing Er to be a carpenter, and the two also made all the doors and windows of the hut and installed them. I also used my own and Duo'er's subsidies to buy glass, put it on the doors and windows, and wipe it clean with a cloth. Although the house is not big, it is much brighter than the old-fashioned houses with window paper on the village. After the wheat was over, these huts were dry and no longer damp, so the blind man was asked to choose an auspicious day for the emperor, let off a long string of firecrackers, and then move into a new house. Xu Guangda, Mr. Ma, and Director Wang also moved into a new house, one room for each person, Duoer and Xing Er were also assigned to one, and there were two rooms left, one for Xing Er as an office and the other as a warehouse. Director Wang and Xing Er also worked day and night, building two desks and two chairs for the office. Subsequently, a long row of chairs was made for the audience to sit and study and other activities. Director Wang also specially nailed a wooden sign at the door and asked Mr. Xu Guangda to write the three words "office" by hand. These three words are vigorous and powerful, showing Xu Lao's love for the cattle farm. It also shows his old man's profound skills in calligraphy.

On this day, Xing Er was going to buy vegetable seeds. Because he was a layman, he was afraid that the seedlings of the old seeds would not be prosperous, so he asked Daddy Niu to go with him. He's old and he's a connoisseur of seeds. The two of them walked around the market, but they didn't see the old man selling vegetable seeds. I was a little discouraged. Daddy Niu proposed to buy dry tobacco leaves, although Xing Er did not smoke dry tobacco, because he had nothing to do, he followed Daddy Niu, walking towards the tobacco market, in the green vegetable area, the road to the house was narrow, and he met Father Niu and Aunt Niu were buying celery. Niu Er's father is choosing, Aunt Niu is a bamboo blue, there is more than a pound of pork that has just been cut, and there are more than two pounds of fried fruit in the blue, Niu Daddy saw that Niu Er bought such a good thing to fatten himself, but he swept himself out of the house and didn't give a penny. You must know that the money they spent cutting meat to buy vegetables and fried fruits was all saved by the whole family when Daddy Niu was at home. There is also the crystallization of Daddy Niu's years of hard work and sweat, as well as his share of money. Now drive him out, leaving the second father Niu and Aunt Niu to enjoy it, and Daddy Niu is very uncomfortable. In addition, the two of them talked and laughed, which aroused infinite resentment in Daddy Niu's heart, and he was jealous, so he took the bamboo blue in the past. Unexpectedly, he was kicked to the ground by Niu Er's father from behind, his hands were broken, and his teeth were bleeding. Aunt Niu not only did not criticize Niu Er's father, but instead turned into Bengali, adding fuel to the fire and arching the fire to Niu Er's father: "I grabbed it at the big set, and I touched my hand, what kind of system did it become?" This kind of person doesn't really educate him? Later, if it develops, it may cause some trouble. ”

Daddy Niu took off his coat and wanted to fight with Father Niu, Xing Er hurriedly pulled him back, picked up the coat from the ground and persuaded: "Hello, Daddy Niu." Such a trivial matter can't be done desperately. It's not worth playing with them. ”

Aunt Niu pouted: "Oh, the donkey ran out of the sheep pen, the tone is not small, I have been a sesame official in the cattle farm for a few days, and the wolf with a big tail is coming, I am not ashamed, I am sorry!" Lose it, lose it. ”

Xing Er was scolded, there were a lot of people in the set, he made a big red face at that time, and he wanted to be like Aunt Niu, showing that he did not respect the elderly, and suffered this loss, his heart was blocked. At that time, he swallowed this breath and pulled Daddy Niu away. Aunt Niu also gave him a ride behind his back: "A litter of foxes is not disgusting, the kid surnamed Xing can find his father this time, the old thing picks a son halfway, and your family is good to give birth to the past." Bah! ”

Xing Er suppressed his anger, pulled Daddy Niu to the meat market, cut two catties of pork belly, let Daddy carry it, and weighed ten catties of celery from the vegetable market and carried it on his shoulders. I didn't say hello to acquaintances, and walked back with my head down. When he returned to the cattle farm, he instructed everyone: "Today is out of production for a day, and everyone will come to make big buns." Improve your life. He told Lu Xing to go home and call her eldest sister Hong Xing to eat a piece of steamed buns. Of course, Lu Xing was happy, jumping and humming a little song and running towards the village.

That night, Aunt Niu also wrapped dumplings. She and the second father of Niu ate on the kang table, and Hong Xingniu and the second little two sat on the edge of the kang to eat. Halfway through the meal, Hong Xing stopped her mouth and stared at Aunt Niu with her eyes. couldn't take their eyes off it, and the old ladies who were staring at it were a little hairy in their hearts.

Hong Xing put down her rice bowl, did not squint, looked at Niu Er and his father a few times respectively, and said to herself: "It's not bad, it's true." She pulled the corner of Niu Er's clothes and continued: "Outsiders say that Niu Er's two fathers are not true, and I didn't believe it at first, but today's careful and auspicious situation is really true." Niu Er, you have a long face, your so-called father sitting on the kang is a garden face, the faces of the two are not matched at all, and they are not right, there must be a hidden secret in it. ”

Aunt Niu hurriedly explained: "The father and son have different faces, and some of them believe the nonsense of outsiders?" Don't they all say that nephews follow uncles? Your uncle has a long face, and his voice and appearance are very similar. ”

Hong Xing stared at her mother-in-law with her eyes and guessed: "The appearance is right, the sound and smile are also right, this Niu Er is afraid that it is not his uncle's species?" ”

Second Father Niu hurriedly said, "That's not right. Guess. Niu Er is my son, and outsiders don't want to fight for it. ”

Hong Xing ignored Niu's second father, but specialized in her mother-in-law, and she asked directly: "According to insiders, before you married the Niu family, did you ever marry your aunt's cousin?" ”

Aunt Niu was shocked, who introduced it to her so clearly about what happened decades ago? She lowered her head and was speechless.

Hong Xing continued: "Your cousin returned to his hometown, when we were liberated here, the People's Liberation Army was killed, and he was buried in the wasteland not far north of the cattle farm, is this true?" ”

Aunt Niu didn't speak, she just lowered her head and didn't speak, she didn't say whether it was true or not.

Hong Xing said: "It doesn't matter if you don't confess, the man's surname is Ma, and he was shot and died." At the private criticism meeting, you were full of truth, and only talked about some trivial things about picking sticks, in a vain attempt to get by. It was originally a second-hand product, but she pretended to be a yellow flower girl, and her tail couldn't be hidden, so it was finally revealed. ”

Niu Er woke up like a dream, jumped up with a "poof", pointed to Niu Er's father on the kang and shouted: "Get down, don't pretend to be your own on it, and if you don't admit your guilt, I'll kick you to death an old thing." Pretending to be a prince, I will punish you for the crime of pretending to be your father. He turned and ran out, and Aunt Niu chased him out of the house behind him, and asked him eagerly, "Son, where are you going?" Niu Er replied: "I'll go find my father." ”

When it was dark, the people in the cattle farm were tired from their work, so they all went back to their huts early to sleep. Only the lantern hanging in front of Xing Er's office was shining. The gate was locked, the pigsty by the small pond had long been closed, and four cows were tied side by side to a stake in front of the cow's father's door, each eating the fodder in the trough, and waging their tails a few times to ward off mosquitoes and flies. There is also a horse lantern hanging in front of the cow's father, which is set up by the cow's father to get up in the middle of the night to feed the cows. Daddy Niu divided four steamed buns at noon today, ate two at that time, and ate the remaining two tonight, he carried the red tassel gun that Duo'er gave him, and went to the vegetable field and the pigsty and the cowshed to take a look, and it was normal. He returned to the hut, smoked a bag of cigarettes, and rested on the kang. Suddenly, a man's cry came from not far from the north of the small pond, and if you listen carefully, it is the voice of his cow. He wanted to persuade him a few words, but he was afraid of being confronted. So after thinking about it again, I still gave up. That is, the family ruthlessly cleared him out of the house, proving that the brothers had made up their minds. Coupled with today's fight in the abduction set, it has long been famous. They don't treat themselves as family members, so why should I go up to the pole and pretend to be a dead bear?

The second father of Niu and the old aunt of Niu played the lantern of "angry wind", one foot deep and one foot shallow, stumbling and crying and shouting, and came to the small pond. When he heard Niu Er's cry from afar, he followed the sound to find Niu Er, only to see Niu Er's hair scattered, lying in the wild grass, holding a grave in both hands and crying: "Dad, your old man used to be here, so that his son is easy to find, I have not been filial to you for decades, I have never come to burn a piece of paper for you, and I have never been to your grave once." On the morning of the first day of the new year, I will give you a big offering and burn incense to repay you for your fertility. Don't worry, Dad, you will be here for a few days, and I will go to the blind man to choose an auspicious day for the emperor, and move your grave to my own land for burial. In that case, it will be convenient for you to make offerings on the fifteenth day of the new year. ”

Niu Er's father whispered: "I don't know if it's my father, but I worshiped it first." It's ridiculous. If you want to call Dad, it's not too late to understand it. Your mother entered the Niu family for a year and a half before giving birth to you, and at that time, your mother and his cousin had been killed by the People's Liberation Army for more than two years, and it was not his turn to be a dead ghost when he was a father. ”

Aunt Niu was so talkative, and after persuading her for more than half the night, she persuaded Niu Er to go home. Niu Er had a tendon, got into the horns of the cow and didn't look back, and recognized that it was his father who was buried in the lonely grave. When others said that the sky was falling, he admitted death and did not listen. I insisted that the grave would be moved. As soon as the second father of Niu objected, he stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar, and swept the second father Niu to the ground with a sweeping leg, regardless of 3721, he went up to punch and kick. Straight to the second father of the cow with a blue nose and swollen face, in addition to punching and kicking, his mouth was not scolding indiscriminately: "Okay, you old Wang Balamb, I have called you father for so many years, and now I will settle accounts with you, slap me a year, and slap my father back." Let's see if you dare to pretend to be someone else's father in the future. ”

Niu's second father shouted: "My father is real, in the future, you will understand that beating your father is a violation of heaven, and God will condemn you and reduce your longevity." ”

Niu Er gave him another kick in the mouth: "If you dare to curse Lao Tzu to die early, I will call you nonsense." When he finished making trouble at home, he went to his father-in-law, County Magistrate Hong, to discuss the relocation of the grave. Seeing that he had made up his mind and couldn't stop him, the county magistrate Hong sighed, and thought to himself in his heart: If you don't let him mess around like this, life will not be good, let him wish, it's not decent outside. Outsiders will laugh at him for not being able to control his son-in-law. The two roads are not smooth, the people speak, and the two pans of kang are not hot. After thinking about it, in the end, he had to follow Niu Er's proposal and agreed to help him move the grave. On the bright side, after Niu Er moved his so-called father, he might be able to calm down and live. Besides, when this dead ghost moved in, he didn't eat or drink, at most he wasted some paper money, incense and other things. It's all small money. If it really doesn't work, I will divide the family, divide the old couple of in-laws and live alone, and at most allocate some pension workers to them. Save the old and young in a pot to pick the spoon, it is inevitable that there will be times when the spoon touches the edge of the pot. The daughter cried and cried for three days and came back to tell her mother-in-law, and it was difficult for her to choose between being a father, and she said to her own daughter, outsiders must say that this is a short protection, not to her daughter, and she turned her elbow outward, and it was better to cut the mess quickly if she was embarrassed. Even if there was some gossip at that time, after a long time, the gossip disappeared naturally. Thinking of this, County Magistrate Hong slapped his thigh and agreed to Niu Er's request. In addition, I also found a few idlers who usually specialize in moving graves, negotiated the price, found the blind man to take care of the auspicious day of the zodiac, and personally led the group of professionals who moved the grave, with special tools, went straight to the lonely grave in the north of the cattle farm.

Niu Er wore filial piety clothes, placed offerings in front of the grave, burned paper and lit incense, knelt down three times and bowed nine times, and then knelt beside him. The professionals started digging the graves. After a short time, someone whispered, "The head is out." ”

County Magistrate Hong looked over and felt that something was wrong, and he muttered to himself: "Why is your face so long?" ”

Niu Er lay down not far away and hurriedly said: "I have a long face, my father must have a long face." ”

County Magistrate Hong asked someone to hand the skull up from the earthen pit, held it in his hand for a moment, and then gestured his face with his hand, shook his head and said, "No, there is a gun hole in the middle of this head." ”

Niu Er cried: "Yes, my father was killed by a military gun." He slapped the ground with his palm, grabbed the tears and snot, and cried loudly: "Dad, you were shot, does it hurt?" ”

County Magistrate Hong ignored Niu Er's set, held the skull in front of him, repeatedly compared it with his own face shape, a bag of cigarettes, he came to a conclusion, and made a conclusion to himself: "This is the skull of a horse."

Niu Er lay on the ground and hurriedly echoed: "Yes, my father's surname is Ma, this time I can find my father." ”

The county magistrate Hong is a way of killing livestock, and the bones of cattle, horses, and donkeys are seen a lot. In the past, people were generally not paid for killing horses, and most of the time they were paid for a pair of intestines, and there were also those who generously thanked a horse's head and a donkey's head. So as soon as the skull was handed over, he felt familiar. For most of his life, he has cooked thirty or fifty horse heads and donkey heads. To confirm his judgment, he laid out the horse's skull on the ground, and laid out the bones that had been dug up one after another, and finally put on a complete skeleton of the horse. In the end, the gravediggers also found four embroidered horses. Everyone talked about this horse bone, and some said that it was changed by people, and it was the dragon horse who ascended to heaven. It is also said that the horse thief stole the horse and ate the meat, so he buried the horse's bones here for fear of being discovered. The county magistrate felt that these two statements were not correct, and the theory of Ryoma's ascension to heaven was pure and false. The two kinds are also full of suspicions, even if they are afraid that people will find out, why are there still graves? Isn't this a typical place where there are no three hundred taels of silver? Just when everyone was puzzled, the old revolutionary came over and told everyone about the horse grave.

It turned out that a few decades ago, General Feng Xiang, a famous anti-Japanese general, fought an encounter with the invading Japanese army behind this western mountain. At the beginning of the fierce battle, a Japanese soldier hiding behind the dirt slope suddenly stood up and raised his gun to shoot at General Feng Xiang who was riding on a horse. After the gunshot, General Feng was unharmed, but his war horse fell to the ground and never got up. After the war, General Feng Xiang made people dig a pit to bury his war horse, and personally wrote the three big characters of "Yima Mound" on the wooden card, personally inserted the wooden card on the grave, and also ordered all the soldiers to shoot at the sky to see off the righteous horse. Time has passed, time has passed, and the wind and rain have ruthlessly swallowed up the wooden card, and the righteous horse who has buried the savior underground for a long time has been tossed out by Niu Er and his gang by mistake today. In order to express their respect for Yima, everyone present reburied Yima. He also bowed to it three times as a sign of thanks. Niu Er himself also specially gave Yima three heads and asked Yima to be cool. In order to commemorate the feat of the Savior of Yima, the locals renamed the land where Yima was buried "Yima Land", and the production road next to it was called "Yima Road". And to this day, the names of Yimadi and Yimalo are still called.