Chapter 55: Cows Have Five Colors

The millet is tasseled and raised, and the wheat crops on both sides of the road have begun to turn yellow, and the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Early in the morning, he untied the bricks to his wrists, shook his arms, and moved his numb legs again.

Jin'er looked at Xiao Zheng practicing calligraphy like this and said with a smile that he was a cheap billet, leading and going backwards, in the past, Aya was willing to work hard with a stick when he was alive, but now it's good, the master is no longer in charge of his own house, but he practices calligraphy every day rain or shine, and he doesn't know which crazy way to smoke.

I wiped my face with the handkerchief handed over by Jin'er, looked up at the hill where the master was sleeping in the distance, and told Jin'er with a smile that I practiced like this to let the master know that he was not blind when he accepted me as an apprentice. I thought in my heart that I didn't believe in fate before, but after this reincarnation, seeing Xiao Hai and the box of treasures that I had lost and recovered, I suddenly felt that God was innocent and not thin on me, and through this kind of practice, Xiao Zheng also slowly found that his hands were becoming more and more stable. Putting down the handkerchief, she saw Jin'er Qiushui looking at herself with a smile, and reached out to scrape her Qiong's nose, but was kicked.

After opening the door for a while, a group of little ones rushed in, and Lou Shide also brought the four babies of Zhang Shun's family over, although the children were dressed in adult clothes, they were also cleanly washed, and it could be seen that the children's families also took a lot of effort to go to school.

The two bold ones called Mr. timidly and didn't dare to move, and asked the names of the children, which were nothing more than down-to-earth names such as Goudan and Xiaobao, and asked the children's surnames and named each baby, and wrote them on paper for Lou Shide to bring back to the adults in each baby's family.

Now Lou Shide is no longer the soft bun who let others bully, his performance in grades and worship in Xiao Zheng's teacher, the growth of age has given him a lot of self-confidence, plus Xiao Zheng's words and deeds to these children, Lou Shide has become the class leader.

Xiao's mother and Jin'er saw that these babies had arrived, and took out the porridge bowl and a stack of small bowls, and now the babies have changed to three meals a day, Xiao Zheng has never been accustomed to two meals a day, and now there are conditions, and by the way, the children's meals are also made, but also to let Xiao's mother and Jin'er have something to do to pass the time, a bowl of millet porridge, a small plate of salted radish shreds, plus a few egg cakes, Xiao Zheng also eats with the babies, watching the little ones grab food like pigs, and he is also happy from the heart.

After eating, let the babies bring their own small tables and chairs to line up to the riverside meadow, the villagers are also enthusiastic, afraid that the weather will be hot to the baby, he built a pergola with bamboo on the grass where he reads, Xiao Zheng leads the team every day, Jin'er follows behind, quite a bit of a riverside goose feeling. Standing in front of the blackboard, the breeze in the pergola, the water by the creek slowly flowed, and the children read far away.

At noon, Xiao's mother took out the wrapped zongzi in advance, and Xiao's mother smiled and said to the babies that the dumplings were packed with puzzle kernels in the glutinous rice, which is called "puzzle dumplings", just to make the babies smarter and have a chance to read. The children were very happy to see the rice dumplings wrapped in five-color silk threads, one by one they were excited to wrap up, and everyone had a small plate in front of them to put the sugar that had been researched and opened, and the white rice dumplings were dipped up, and the little ones were screaming when they ate.

When the school is over, tell the children that they will not go to school during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday tomorrow, and before leaving, each baby will carry a few rice dumplings tied with silk threads and take them home, and tell everyone to supervise each other, and not to steal food on the road, otherwise come back and be careful with the stick.

Early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, when Jin'er went to feed the grass to the two cows, she found that Ah Hua was a little abnormal anyway, so she quickly called Xiao Zheng to go over and take a look. After the news spread, many people rushed over, and some villagers were not at ease, so they went to several villages to find the veterinarian Huang Cripple, which made Jin'er count Xiao Zheng again, and the doctor who treated the doctor couldn't see a livestock, so angry that Xiao Zheng didn't bother to reason with her.

From the morning to the evening, Ah Hua except for the occasional call one or two reactions are normal, fortunately, under the care of the veterinarian, the calf cub finally gave birth smoothly, seeing the two cows are fine, the villagers are smiling one by one, everyone says that this cow will also pick the day to be born, the fifth day of the fifth month of May, or to come back to eat, people are not necessarily born so coincidentally.

Everyone is to say that it is a happy word, as long as it is a livestock, no matter how it is born, it has to work, and everyone is happy with more than a head of work, and everyone saves a lot of effort when many cows come out in this era, and they are happier than having a baby at home. I took dozens of big coins and just wanted to hand them to the veterinarian, but I didn't expect the veterinarian to say to Xiao Zheng: "Mr. Xiao, this little calf is very strange, you can come and see."

Xiao Zheng only noticed the little bull at this time, and stood up tremblingly after being born, two big black and shiny eyes looked at the people around him, Ah Hua and Rhubarb licked the hair on its body with their tongues, and the licking of the calf made people like it from the heart.

The calf was almost completely black, with a circle of white fur two or three inches wide on the top of its four hooves wrapped around its legs like a ring, a small piece of shield-shaped yellow hair in the middle of its forehead, and a brown mammoth more than an inch wide on its neck that circled like a necklace.

Xiao Zheng looked at it for a long time and didn't see any difference, turned his head and asked the veterinarian: "Lao Huang, I don't see anything different, you can just say anything you say." Huang Cripple pointed to the calf cub and said: "I have seen a lot of livestock, but I still see such a good-looking cow for the first time, this calf cub is black, four hooves are snow-white, and the body is four-colored, the master told me that this is called dark clouds and snow, and this calf was born at such a good time, this should be a sacred cow."

After hearing this, Xiao Zheng almost smashed the copper coin on his face, pointed at Lao Huang and said: "You are still a veterinarian, you first distinguish the horse and the cow clearly and then say yes or no, the horse ridden by the overlord is called the dark clouds and snow, you are a cow!" How do you know that Lao Huang looked at Xiao Zheng and said very seriously: "Who said that the cow can't be called a dark cloud and covered with snow?" ”。

I was too lazy to reason with Lao Huang, handed the money to Lao Huang and asked him to leave quickly, the cow and the horse couldn't tell the difference and named it randomly, this veterinarian should look angry. Lao Huang saw that the reward he got was a lot more than he thought, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face, and he didn't care about Xiao Zheng's face, and when he saw that there was nothing to do, he thanked the master's family, and hurriedly went home for the festival while it was not too dark.

After listening to the veterinarian's words, the villagers chatted excitedly for a while and went home, after all, no matter how good-looking they are, they are still animals. Jin'er is very fond of the calf, afraid that the newborn calf will catch a cold at night, so she ran to the house and took out a picture of the old felt to cover the calf, Xiao Zheng went to the pharmacy and boiled some medicinal soup to replenish qi and blood in the pot and poured it into the trough, Ah Hua knew by instinct that this herb was good for herself, and after drinking the medicinal soup, she ate all the dregs cleanly, and Xiao Mu and the rest of the people were amazed.

The next morning, a group of school-going children heard that there was a calf, and they ran to the backyard to see the calf without eating, and after a while, there was a noise, "I saw it, it was four colors", "No, it was obviously five", "Four kinds!" "Five!" , Hearing the children arguing in the backyard, Xiao Zheng and Jin'er also went to the edge of the cowshed.

Lou Shide and a few other babies were shouting, and when they saw the two of them coming in, they said to Xiao Zheng: "Master, this calf is very good-looking, I see that there are five colors, so they said that there are four, you come and take a look." Xiao Zheng said to Lou Shide: "I saw four colors yesterday, where did you see five?" ”。 Lou Shide pulled Xiao Zheng in front of the calf and said, "Master, look, there are four kinds on the top of the head, neck, body, and hooves, and you can look at its tail again."

"I watched it yesterday, and its tail is also black", "Look again! The little guy was a little anxious, Xiao Zheng and Jin'er looked at the calf's tail intently, only to see that the calf's tail kept swinging, and the red hair about a finger's width under the root of the tail ran straight through the tail, and they couldn't see it if they didn't look closely. I said it's five colors, and you don't believe it," said the little one triumphantly.

"Better than your master, your master is blind", Jin'er rubbed Lou Shide's little face and said, I don't know why Jin'er has always liked to see Xiao Zheng's angry appearance.

Stretched out his hand to the calf, only to see the calf slowly leaning his mouth to Jin'er's finger and licking it, amusing Jin'er giggled, turned to Xiao Zheng and said, "Let's give the calf a name, what do you call Rhubarb and Ah Hua...... good."

He looked up and thought for a while and said to the calf: "You have five colors on your body, I'll call you five flowers", Xiao Zheng almost laughed after hearing this, "Five flowers?!" Haha, haha, it's ...... pork belly", just wanted to laugh for a while but found that Jin'er's pink fist was dangling in front of him, and he wisely chose to shut up, which caused the children to laugh.

Jin'er crossed her waist and said to Xiao Zheng: "I'll call it five flowers, how dare you!" I have the final say in this family, hum! He turned to the group of children and asked, "What's the name of this calf?" "Five flowers!" The children replied in unison.

Alas, forget it, I don't care about you, anyway, no one eats pork now, as long as it is not called pork belly, and shouted that the children went to class.