Chapter Forty-Three: The Horse Incident

Putting down the phone, Jing Zhiguo sat behind his desk and thought about it for a long time. A few days ago, before Jing Jifu's sixty-fifth birthday banquet, Jing Zhiyi also called, and he also said in such a stiff tone, saying that he had to go back. But as soon as I arrived in Jingjiagou that day, I had a banquet, and as soon as I ate at the table, I answered Luo Yong's call. Zhang Haochi recruited him to go back, thinking that it was an urgent and important matter, and he had to go back immediately! If you can finish Jing Jifu's birthday banquet, it's already very good! At that time, there were so many people and such a scene, Jing Jifu and Jing Zhiyi couldn't say anything! Looks like it's not going to work anymore!

If you want to go back to Jingjiagou, you have to take Chen Guo with you! It's an old rule. After Jing Zhiguo and Chen Guo got married, every time they went back to their hometown Jingjiagou, they went back with Chen Guo, and Chen Guo never fell once. Let's go, and I'll go back to my hometown tomorrow! I told Chen Guo on the phone, Chen Guo was happy and had some surprises, didn't he go back a few days ago! What's going on--。 Jing Zhiguo said, then if you have something to leave, let's go back by ourselves! Chen Guo said in a deep voice, I guess we can leave, wait for us to ask the principal for a leave!

The next day, I set off early, and arrived at Jingjiagou in the first half of the day. I have seen Jing Jifu, Jing Zhiyi's father and son. He sat down in the main room on the right hand side of the door. There were only four people in the room, and they stood up for a long time, and no one spoke. Jing Zhiguo glanced at Jing Jifu, and then at Jing Zhiyi, meaning, your grandfather is talking, what is the urgent and important matter that we have to come back? Don't keep being so bored! In the end, Jing Jifu said, let's talk about it!

What Jing Jifu said next really surprised Jing Zhiguo.

This year's year is okay, and when Jing Jifu is sixty-five years old, he wants to open a table, and he doesn't have the heart to get bigger this year, but it's not tidy at all, it's not that thing after all, every five and ten, that's a big birthday! If this was in previous years, Jing Jifu would have been in Qincheng's Hongbin Building, so why bother with this thought! If you do this in the countryside, you will be a killer pig. About three or four days before the birthday banquet, preparations began to be made, and if you want to say that you are ready, you have to kill the pig first.

On that day, it was a crisp autumn day, and the sun shone down from the clean sky, shining on Jingjiagou, shining on the long sandy road that stretched from the east end of the ditch to the west end of the ditch. People have just eaten lunch, fed chickens, pigs, cats and dogs, smoked bags of cigarettes, and after a while, they have to start their afternoon work again. In the autumn day, only at this noon, the sun is still a little scorching, and only at this noon, Jingjiagou will be so quiet.

The hoarse sound of the pig cries tore through the tranquility of Jingjiagou, and continued to spread around, some suddenly, some harsh.

There was the clatter of cars and horses on the dirt road, the rhythmic kind, which was very nice. It was Jing Jixian who came in a hurry with the cart.

Jing Jixian's family has a good life, and he has a trailer at home, which is also an old handlebar-style, serious car boss of 800! I look like I'm in my fifties, and I've been driving for about twenty or thirty years. Jing Jixian drove the cart well, and he also saw the cattle and horses, mules, and donkeys pulling the cart accurately, whether it was good or bad, circled around the animal, and then broke the mouth of the animal to look at the teeth, and saw a quasi! People who can afford to raise a cart must have a reasonable life, but this is not enough, the head has to be more or less active, because of this, the people who can afford the cart are not ordinary people in Jingjiagou! Jing Jixian's eyes are different from ordinary croppers, a little bright, and they turn lively. At this time, Jing Ji drove a rubber wheel carriage first, and only used a horse to drive it, and there was no horse with a lasso. This is usually due to the fact that the horse is strong, tall and strong, but it also has to take into account the weight of the goods carried in the car. A pony runs alongside it. Far ahead, Jing Jixing walked out of his yard leisurely, smoking a cigarette bag and pot as he walked.

The pig, which had stopped howling for a moment, suddenly howled again, this time more violently. Just as Jing Jixian drove the cart to the gate of Jing Zhiyi's house, a tall black-haired pig roared out of the door and crashed into the front leg of the big jujube red horse that was both driving and pulling. The horse was a very docile horse, and although it had traveled many miles and pulled the cart for many years, this situation was still the first time it had been encountered. The horse was frightened, and his two front legs sprang up three or four feet high, and just as he was catching up with the empty cart he was pulling, he lifted up with the cart in front of him. Jing Jixian, who was sitting on the eaves in front of the car, shouted, huh! The right hand holding the whip had no time to pour the whip down to the left hand, and in the panic, both hands stretched out together to pull the brake on the eaves, and both hands slid on the brake at the same time, but did not hold it, and the whole person fell from the car with the strength of the front car gang up.

On that day, all the people present saw this scene and all let out an exclamation.

The horse had made the pig hit his leg, and was already frightened, when he found that the owner behind him had fallen out of the cart, and was completely confused, and pulled the empty cart and ran madly, and the pony who was following the cart saw that his mother was mad, and galloped away like madness.

If there is no one on the road, the horse will go crazy for a while, and when it is tired, it will pull it down, and it will stop. But at this time, it was the second half of the day when people went to work in the field, and the people on both sides of the road heard some strange sounds outside, and all the big and small ran out to look, and when they saw that the horses were startled, some young and strong, they wanted to stand up and stop them, but they didn't dare to come close, so they shouted in front and stopped from afar, and followed behind. Seeing this formation, the crazy horse became even more crazy, who can care about you, and rushed forward lifelessly. Jing Jixing, who was walking leisurely, saw the horse's hair, and the cigarette pouch in his hand didn't bother to knock, so he inserted it into the hemp rope tied around his waist, ran a few steps towards the galloping carriage, turned to the side, and reached out to pull the horse's halt, but he never thought that he grabbed the horse's halter in his hand, but his feet slipped, and as soon as his feet slipped, the whole person went to the bottom of the horse's neck. In normal times, the horse would never step on Jing Jixing, but at this time, he was already crazy, and the huge hooves suddenly stepped on one of Jing Jixing's feet, and the hooves were all hanging on the shoes! The severe pain violently stimulated Jing Jixing's nerves, his head was a little chaotic, his limbs no longer obeyed the call, as soon as his hand was loosened, he immediately lay down on the ground, and the wheel rolled over his two legs! Jing Jixing screamed and didn't move.

On that day, all the people present saw this scene and once again let out an exclamation!

At this time, the section of Jingjiagou Zhonggou was already full of people, the people in front of them were stopping, and the people behind were chasing, but they didn't dare to come closer. Shocked to pull the empty car, this time it was completely empty, there was nothing on the car except the board, and continued to move forward. This area is the most spacious land in Jingjiagou, and it is also the place where farmers live most intensively, and of course it is also the most densely populated place, and some people's houses are built on the side of the road. The startled horse has already injured two people in a row, and if it continues to collide like this, it will hurt someone again, how can it be good! The people on the street in Jingjiagou have no idea, so they can only be in a hurry there, shouting and shouting! At this time, the startled horse-drawn cart had already crossed the middle ditch, arrived at the upper ditch, and rushed to the west gable of a family in the street, and then forward! Just when the startled horse rushed to the east gable of the house, the people on the street almost fell silent at once, only to see a person suddenly rush out from behind the east gable. It's just flying! In short, many people said afterwards that they didn't see clearly how the person who rushed out was the startled horse. Some people say that they still use their legs, but the person moves extremely fast, which is a bit dazzling. The man took a few steps to the south side of the roadside gutter, and then, with his feet on the ground, he rose into the air, and his legs forward, and his whole body rushed out sideways, and the two feet together were kicking on the shoulder blades of the startled horse, and the people in front of him heard it very well, it was a bang. How tall the red horse is! Immediately he was kicked to the side, then staggered a few steps, and fell, the car hanging on his body twisted crookedly, and his head and neck were bent in the roadside drainage ditch on the north side. When people looked at it, the person who kicked down the startled horse was a tall and thin man with an iron blue face, not from Jingjiagou. The Jingjiagou people who were present that day were all stupid after a louder exclamation. After a while, people relieved themselves, hurried to see Jing Jixing, hurried to see Jing Jixian, hurried to see the startled horse that was still struggling in the roadside ditch, but no one thanked the person who kicked down the startled horse, not because he didn't thank him, but he didn't care.

No one present at the time noticed that Jing Zhiyi almost fell to the ground at the moment when the man kicked down the startled horse.