Spring is the season of recovery of all things, the farmers who dig in the soil to eat in this season begin to sow hope, looking forward to the autumn harvest, which is indeed a painful season for the landless fisherman Zhang Laoer, because the spring flowers are blooming, the earth is warm, and some fish have just begun to spawn and give birth to new life.

In the evening, the sunset dyed the sky red, a lush peach blossom in the yard was shining a piece of golden, a gust of wind blew, the pink flowers fell in the air like a butterfly, a young hand stretched out, the flowers gently fell in his hand, and then the little hand slowly withdrew, the petals that still had a faint fragrance were gently put in front of the nose and sniffed, the brows stretched, under the sunset, a little boy about five years old combed the summary was running happily, came to the front of a middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman was wearing a coarse cloth skirt, her hair was not so neat, and even a little messy, looking at the child in front of her smiling stupidly, in addition to the child, there was another kind of silly sluggishness in her eyes, this woman is Zhang Laoer's wife Hui Ting, after five years, this woman has changed from the original introverted heart to the current stupid and stupid, the reason for this is estimated that in addition to the little boy himself, even his honest father knows nothing,

The little boy is five years old this year, but for various reasons, he was not married by his name until recently this year, and he was also married by a scholar who was rushing to take the exam, the big name Zhang Yi, and the little name Xiaoniu.

From the age of one year, the calf shows a different side of his peers, half a year old opens his mouth to speak, one year old will run his legs, and when he is two years old, he will come back from the village school and will recite the "Thousand Character Text" taught by Mr. to the child.

It stands to reason that in this era without war, life is stable, and children should be smart and should be a happy family, but this is not the case, the more the calf shows this smart side, the more jealous the village is, and then more difficult bullying follows.

Father is an honest person, except for fishing to help others do some farm work, when he encounters others to bully, even if the stick finger is knocked on the head, he is a smile, usually can avoid it, can not avoid it, in the eyes of the calf, the father is a coward.

In this way, the already introverted mother has become a stupid woman under the oppression, and has also become a crazy woman in the village, but only the calf knows that no matter how crazy this mother is, how she doesn't know people, how empty her eyes are, every time her eyes see the calf, they are warm and pity.

"Mother, look, another peach blossom has fallen, and there will be another peach missing in the fall." The calf holds a peach blossom and hands it to her mother.

The woman's dull eyes seemed to be suddenly stimulated, and she suddenly turned her head to look at the calf, and when she saw the calf, the calf seemed to feel the flash of light in her mother's eyes, like the bright meteor in the night.

She grinned and smiled silly, and then stretched out her hand to pick up the peach blossom in the calf's hand, but when her hand was about to touch the peach blossom, she stopped, because her fingers didn't know when they touched the dirt, the mud on her hand, and she couldn't let her dirty hand touch her son's flower.

So she rubbed her hand on her clothes a few times in a panic, looked at it and wiped it a few times, until she couldn't see a little mud on her hand anymore, she reached over and took the peach blossom in the calf's hand, then squinted her eyes and smiled, pointed the stamen at her mouth and sucked it suddenly, and then said a word with an intoxicated look: "Sweet!" ”

Then she handed a big pink flower to the calf and motioned for her to put it in her mouth like herself to suck, the calf smiled slightly, put the stamen of the flower at her mouth and sucked hard, a sweet smell instantly entered the mouth, he jumped up happily: "Mother, it's really sweet, I didn't expect that not only the peaches are sweet, but even the falling peach blossoms are so sweet." ”

Hui Ting smiled and nodded her head like a chicken eating rice, and then took the calf's chubby little hand to pick up the fallen flowers under the tree, and then put them in her mouth, sucking the nectar between heaven and earth, the gift of nature.

In such a cheerful atmosphere, Zhang Lao Er appeared in the afterglow of the setting sun, he appeared in the golden light with a chain bag on his back, his father was looking for a job, in the spring the fish were very small, in order to support the family he had to go out to make some zero

In the past, he may not have wanted it when he was alone, but now that he has a family of three, he has to do it, especially when the calf grows day by day and the body needs nutrition.

Zhang Lao Er's feelings for his somewhat crazy wife may not be very good, but he loves his son very much, after all, he is the heir of the Zhang family's incense, all his efforts, all his efforts, all his hard work is for the calf, as long as the calf grows up and starts a family, everything he does is not in vain, and the Zhang family's bloodline is passed on.

Zhang Lao Er saw that his son was very happy, and suddenly picked up the calf and put it on his neck and rode a big ocean horse, seeing his father so happy, the calf was naturally happy, he held his father's head and shouted loudly in the yard: "Drive!" At this time, Zhang Lao Er also followed the example of a horse, stepped back twice, and then ran away in the yard with a neighing chirp.

The sun slowly set into the col, and only a black silhouette was left between heaven and earth, and in the courtyard of a simple thatched hut by the river, the silhouette of a woman with a child on her back and a foolish smirk following behind was running.

How nice it would be if everything in the story was so cozy, so tranquil! Although there are bullies, life can go on, and there can be joy in suffering, but this is just the glimmer of light that shoots out of the dark clouds before the storm, and in the blink of an eye, it will be swallowed up by the dark clouds one after another, and the earth will become dark.

At dinner in the evening, the honest father told his son one thing, and although he knew that it was useless to say these things to a child who was only five years old, who could he tell him, he could not tell the crazy lady, and if he told her, whatever he said would only be answered with a silly smile.

"Son, we don't have to be so sad this spring, because I rented five acres of land in the next village to plant, and we will plant some wheat on it when we go back, and this year it looks like a good year, as long as the rain is sufficient, we still have a lot left after paying the rent, and then we will have a long time to eat white flour."

The little cow was startled, and immediately showed a seriousness on his childish smiling face that did not match this age, he looked at his father with a cerebellum and asked: "Dad, who will rent land to us in this year, even the people in this village are unwilling, and it is even more impossible in other villages, isn't it that they coax you!" ”

Zhang Lao Er touched the inside of his clothes and then took out a crumpled paper from his arms and handed it to the calf, but when he handed it halfway through, he took it back, he patted his head and smiled: "Hey, I treat you as an adult, you are still a child, you have not yet learned, how can you read and write, I still know a few of them, I have verified the above contract, except for the rent is more than two percent of the locals, the rest is no longer abnormal, the most important point is that I can owe food to them on credit in advance, When the time comes, you only need to deduct it at the time of harvest, so I said that we don't have to worry about it this spring! ”

The little cow still took the contract and took it and looked at it, he already knew a lot of words, but his father didn't know, and looked at the content of the content without the meaning of the pit, it was more than others by two percent of the rent, and the other pits that were not hidden were all in the open and acceptable.

"No, Dad, then why does he want to rent such a good land to you, I think this land is still Wang Xiucai's family, he has a lot of family, and he needs more food!"

"Son, you don't know something, not long ago this year, Wang Xiucai was raised, their family is going to the provincial capital, so in the village after leasing some of his family's fields, of course, these are also the best, Wang Xiucai's housekeeper proposed that the five acres of land should be rented more than 20%, so no one took it, I immediately responded down, rest assured, son, although my father is a fisherman, but for so many years he has been helping others to do farm work, he will definitely serve the crops well, and he will never lose money."

Looking at his father's happy face, the calf didn't want to say more, for fear of affecting his mood at the moment, not to mention that this matter is not necessarily a bad thing, the father's skills in farm work Calf knows that the food grown will only be more than others, not less than others, which is also the reason why he has endless farm work in the spring over the years.

The villagers in the mountains have no entertainment at night, so the family of three goes to bed early after dinner, so that they can also save some butter for lighting.

But when the calf just lay down, he saw a bright light outside the window, and then a rumbling thunder rolled overhead, and at that moment, a strange picture came to the calf's mind.

The black clouds in the sky flew towards him, and as the group flew closer and closer, there was a deafening buzzing sound in the sky, and then he saw clearly that it was a group of locusts with hideous faces, and where these locusts passed, all the crops and trees were turned into bare branches and stalks, and there was a dead silence between heaven and earth, and the earth was full of locusts jumping back and forth, and they ate everything, and they devoured everything, and devoured everything on the earth.

In the locusts flying, scrawny people are running, some people are falling to the ground, they are frantically eating stalks and roots, and even begin to cast evil eyes on the weaker people around them.

Another bolt of lightning pierced the night sky, and the calf suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness of the night, and he sat up all at once, sweating all over, and his stupid mother sat up at once, and took her into her arms, and then a squeaky and incomprehensible song rang out.

"No, Dad, no, you can't rent those land, because this year there will be no harvest, there will be no grain, there will be many, many locusts, and all the food, including the trees, will be eaten by those locusts, Dad, we have to avoid these locusts, and we can't grow food." The calf almost cried and broke free from his mother's arms, and he kept pushing and shoving his sleeping father and saying things like that.

Zhang Lao Er woke up in a trance, he saw his son saying strange things, saying that locusts eat crops, locusts he has usually seen, and he also knows that locusts can eat some crops, but to say that thousands of locusts are attacking together, then he has never seen it, he knows that children are talking nonsense in their dreams, so he stroked his head and smiled: "Don't worry, these are all adult things, children don't behave, don't worry, dad can handle it." ”

"Dad, you can't handle it well, it's not one locust or two, it's a piece that covers the entire sky, like a locust like a dark cloud, and everywhere they go, the green color immediately turns into a black one, which is very terrifying." The little boy gestured as he spoke, his big eyes shining in the lightning, and beside him, his father touched his head lovefully and smiled, and on the other side, his silly mother was smiling stupidly.

"Then how do you know about these locusts, did you know about them in a dream?"

"Yes, but Daddy..."

"Okay, Maverick, Dad knows that you are very sensible, very considerate of Daddy, and very worried about Daddy, but don't worry, Daddy will take care of you."

In the image of the calf in the past five years, he had never seen his father talk so eloquently, and he could see that it was very organized, so he thought that this might really be just a dream, and there was nothing left when he woke up.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and on this bright spring day, the calf gradually forgot about the terrible nightmare, and he never had that dream again, but one day when he passed by the ridge by the river, he saw a locust leaping up, the calf was still young, but he had learned that the locust should not come out when it was not completely warm. But now that he had come out, he remembered the scene of that dream again, and at that moment he really saw a picture before his eyes, of a desperate crowd of people, deafening locusts, and everywhere they passed was desolate.

In the next few days, the calf often saw that scene in his eyes, but it always flashed away, and then the things in front of him returned to the original state, but then this scene appeared more and more frequently, and it felt more and more real.

In the spring planting season, although the people of the village were not very happy to associate with them, the calf was very sensible when they saw the uncles and uncles, although they may not necessarily pay attention to him.

His young mind finally broke down, and he ran to the village to stop every uncle and uncle, telling them not to grow food, because there would be a locust plague this year, but because of his young age, his words would only be ridiculed and ridiculed by others, and even cursed at the end.

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