"Uncle Wang, Uncle Jiu, are you leaving, aren't you going to eat here today?" Niu Sanbao knew that his family was poor and couldn't bring out any good dishes to entertain, so he still greeted him warmly.

Uncle Wang, who looked like a door god, smiled: "I won't eat it today, and when you catch two hundred catties of wild boar, I will eat your pig-killing dishes again." ”

Niu Sanbao smiled.

Ma Jiu'er said to Niu Laoqi: "Okay, these three treasures can help share the housework at a young age, and they will definitely have a chance when they grow up." ”

"Hey, the children of poor families are in charge of the house early, and I didn't plan to let him do it, but he had to rush to do it. Niu Laoqi also felt that the child was very sensible, and he decided to settle the matters discussed today.

As he spoke, he arrived outside the courtyard gate, and Uncle Niu Wang stepped his leg into the car, thought about it, got out of the car again, and took out two coins in his pocket. "Come, Sambo, these two dollars will buy you candy to eat. ”

As he spoke, he stuffed it into Niu Sanbao's hand. Niu Sanbao hurriedly excused himself.

Uncle Wang said, "Take it." ”

Ma Jiu'er also advised: "Yes, take it, and it will be used as the fixed money for wild boar." ”

Niu Sanbao postponed it again before accepting it, and hurriedly thanked Uncle Wang.

Uncle Wang pedaled twice, turned over and rode away on a bicycle, and Ma Jiu'er also said goodbye and walked to his house.

Niu Laoqi looked at Niu Sanbao staring at the direction of Uncle Wang, "Sanbao, go back, wait for two days for Dad to buy a bicycle." ”

"Oh, there's porridge still boiling on the stove. Niu Sanbao came back to his senses and hurriedly ran to the kitchen.

Fortunately, the porridge was fine, I took a spoon and put two bowls, beat an egg in the pot, simmered for a while before extinguishing the fire and serving another bowl.

"Grandma is weak, add an egg to make up for her. Then the medicine was also decocted, and he lined his hands with a piece of cloth, and took the medicine jar and poured it into a cloth lined with homespun cloth. Gently lifted the homespun cloth, took out the medicine residue, and then walked to the bedroom with the medicine.

After dinner, Niu Sanbao helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and talked to his mother in the bedroom for a while, and it was already completely dark.

Niu Sanbao's grandmother couldn't help but talk about it for breaking his pants for a while. "Sanbao, you must pay attention to safety when you go out in the future, it's not okay to be frizzy all the time. ”

Niu Sanbao said "um", and Grandma wanted to speak again, but saw Niu Sanbao, who was already lying on the bed in a daze. Grandma helped Niu Sanbao pull the quilt corners, picked up the torn pants and mended them against the dim oil lamp.

Niu Laoqi inspected the yard inside and outside before inserting the wooden door and returning to the house.

"Xiuling, if you are not feeling well, just rest more, I'll sew it. "Sanbao's mother's name is Liu Xiuling. Seeing his daughter-in-law leaning the side of the bed, Niu Lao said pityingly.

"What kind of work do you men do with this sewing and mending?" he had already collected the needles as he spoke, took the needles, folded his pants neatly, and put them on the wooden bench next to the bed, "I will go to the village chief's house in two days to find out if there are any clothes that the three treasures can wear." ”

"The second brother of the king in the town is here today, and he came when he got married, with a big black face. Niu Laoqi pondered for a moment before he said, "He wants me to go down to the mine with him." ”

"Oops. Liu Xiuling was putting needles in the sewing box and accidentally pricked her hand, but she didn't care about the pain, and looked at Niu Laoqi again, only to see Niu Laoyi's serious face. "When you go to the mine, you're exchanging your life for money. ”

"It's okay, my life is hard, Lord Yama can't take it away, besides, the child is about to go to school, I can't let him stay in the mountains for the rest of his life, and when I earn money, I will lead you and the child to Beijing to see the Forbidden City, and also be the emperor's chair." Niu Lao's mouth was full of indifference.

"Alas, in the past few years, I have taken medicine every day, and I have emptied my family, dragging you and your children down!" Liu Xiuling said guiltily, tears flowed involuntarily.

"Look at you, why are you crying as you talk, how can you have such a sensible child, you can take care of the child at home, I know it in my heart, you just put your heart in your stomach." Niu Lao hurriedly stretched out his big hand and wiped it on Liu Xiuling's face.

Liu Xiuling explained uncomfortably for a long time before agreeing, at this time the night was already dark, and Niu Laoqi blew the oil lamp and fell asleep shallowly.

Early the next morning, Niu Laoqi made breakfast, packed up a few changes of clothes, saw that Niu Sanbao was still asleep, and did not disturb, and explained a few words to Liu Xiuling, and went to Ma Jiuer's house.

After Niu Sanbao got up early, he asked Abba, and when he heard that Niu Lao was gone, he didn't cry. It's just that when I go out to play, I come back a little earlier than usual.

In this way, another week passed, Liu Xiuling's illness improved somewhat, and she was able to get out of bed. Niu Sanbaocai ran like crazy again as in the past, bringing some wild fruits from the mountains from time to time, and catching some fish in the river to bring them back.

In this way, more than half a year passed, it was late autumn, the cypress trees on the mountain were dyed yellow, the wind blew down all over the mountain, and the water in the river was also green, and it was no longer suitable for fishing in the water.

Niu Sanbao and a few friends got together early today to discuss finding an interesting place to have some fun.

Zhu Erxiang said: "Why don't you go up the mountain to fight." As he spoke, he touched the red tassel gun behind him, this Zhu Erxiang is a typical thorn.

"Forget it, every time you and Sanbao chase me and Ma Daji to run on the mountain!" Ma Huahua heard about beating the cane, but she didn't want to play with this evil star, and I still remember that once Zhu Erxiang was happy to play, and dropped two wooden stakes the size of a grinding disc from the mountain, almost breaking his legs, and since then, Ma Huahua has a big head when she hears about the battle.

"Then why don't you and Sanbao be in a group today, and I will be in a group with Ma Daji. Zhu Erxiang continued to propose.

"You can pull it down, this horse is okay, he runs a little faster than me, Niu Sanbao runs, I can't catch up with either of them, and I'm not alone being chased and beaten by the two of you. As soon as she said it, Ma Huahua was even more depressed, she was the oldest in her life, but these three boys were more flexible than the other.

Zhu Erxiang's physical strength is very good, not to mention infinite strength, chasing himself for three or four hours, without taking a breath; Ma Huahua's most depressed thing is Ma Daji, as long as he starts fighting, this Ma Daji runs and disappears, and he waits until he is tortured by two living treasures and begs for mercy, and then he walks out of some unexpected places unhurriedly. Especially when he has one leg that is not convenient, he deliberately followed him a few times to run two intersections and lose it.

"Sanbao, you say, let's fight or what's going on?" Zhu Erxiang tried to get Niu Sanbao to agree with his idea.

Niu Sanbao looked at Ma Huahua's eyes for help, and persuaded: "Okay, okay, if Ma Huahua doesn't want to fight, don't fight, Daji, I heard that you and your father have been to the Crazy Demon Cave, do you remember how to go?"

"Sanbao, you're not going to go to the Demon Cave, are you? I've heard that this place is very evil, and the people in the village say that there are wild people who can eat people living in it. When Ma Huahua heard this, she hurriedly interrupted Niu Sanbao and looked at Ma Daji nervously.

Ma Daji nodded at Niu Sanbao at this time, meaning that he remembered. It's strange to say that this Ma Daji is almost four years old. He couldn't speak, but his father Ma Lao Wu took him to the town for a check-up, and the results were normal, and the doctor couldn't say why, so he prescribed some drugs such as Xiangsheng pills, and let him insist on taking them.

Ma Huahua saw Ma Daji nodding, and immediately wilted, it is really a lot of legends of the crazy demon cave of the generation in Niumagou Village, which has the effect of stopping the baby's cry at night, but these people seem to have made up their minds to go there to play.

Zhu Erxiang was also interested when he heard it: he hugged Ma Huahua: "It's okay, with me Zhu Erxiang here, all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods have to take a detour, I will protect you." ”

The four of them set off, and Ma Daji led them to a road with few people, Ma Huahua trembled all the way, only to feel that the sky was dark, and walked forward in a daze, and felt that he was leaving, and he must have lost face, afraid of being laughed at. I had to follow from a distance, and I felt that there was something staring at me behind me.

"Ah~ah~," a cuckoo bird made a few bird calls from the trees behind him, which frightened Ma Huahua into a strange cry, hurriedly caught up with the three people in front, followed Zhu Erxiang's side, and caused the three of them to laugh again.

About an hour to walk, along the mountain to the distance, see at the foot of the mountain there is a winding river, the autumn water level is a little sinking, exposing half of the river bottom of the stone beach, in the far side of the river, you can see a vertical steamed bun like a protruding big soil bag, there is not a tree on the top, in this mountain in a green and yellow, a black stone is particularly conspicuous.

Ma Daji said "ah, ah" twice, pointed to a few inconspicuous grasses beside the mountain road, and made a gesture of grabbing.

"Are you saying that the last time I came, I was here with your father to pull herbs?" Niu Sanbao said knowingly, this Ma Daji couldn't speak, but Niu Sanbao could always understand what he meant.

Ma Daji nodded, and pointed to the protruding big dirt bag under the mountain, this time everyone understands, the protruding mountain bag is probably the crazy demon cave.

As soon as Zhu Erxiang heard the place, he was very excited, took out the red tassel gun in his hand, kept the big dirt bag, and shouted in his mouth: "Children, rush with me, catch Tang Sanzang, give you a drink, and rush forward first." ”

Niu Sanbao and the three hurriedly followed, the four of them ran for ten minutes to come to the front of the big soil slope, and found that the protruding large soil slope was much larger than their own distance, only to see a bare stone cave, the stone was engraved with three words, the words could not be distinguished, it can be seen that the age of this hole is very old, and the four people only Ma Huahua recognized a few simple words, and the other three were illiterate, and there was no way to distinguish, an autumn wind blew, and there was a loud whining sound in the hole. On the contrary, it is a little scary.

At this moment, there was a sound of "ahh Niu Sanbao looked for prestige, but saw more than a dozen spirit monkeys climbing the branches to rush here, and after a while, they formed a semicircle, blocking the position of the cave entrance.

The group of monkeys stopped two or three meters in front of the four people, and out of them came a white-eyed spirit monkey holding a rattan wooden stick in his hand.

Niu Sanbao looked very interesting, and moved left and right with the four of them, and the monkeys also followed left and right, and there were even monkeys in the monkey group who let out a few demonstrative roars.

"Erxiang, you go and try it, see what these monkeys want to do?" Niu Sanbao saw that those monkeys did not take the initiative to attack, but just blocked everyone, thinking that the animals in this mountain have a sense of territory, but I am afraid that this group of monkeys is active in this generation.

When Zhu Erxiang heard this, he took the red tassel gun from behind him, stabbed it on the ground, strode on the open space in the middle, and shouted: "Come on, let me see your skills." ”

The white-eyed spirit monkey is very spiritual, pointing to a sturdy monkey in the monkey group, the monkey walked in front of the white-eyed spirit monkey, bowed like a human, and then walked to Zhu Erxiang's side, "Oh oh ah" A few times, and the monkeys behind him also shouted, it seemed to be cheering, very imposing.

Niu Sanbao saw that the sturdy monkey was very popular, and couldn't help but remind: "Erxiang be careful, this monkey is estimated to be the newly selected monkey king of the monkey group." ”