Although the young calf knew that a shocking locust plague was about to come, he could not stop it, he could not stop his father, and he could not stop the villagers, because no one would believe the words of a child and give up spring ploughing, you know, the plan of the year lies in spring, if spring does not sow hope, then the second half of the year can only be on the verge of starvation.

This kind of huge price is beyond the reach of anyone in the village, not to mention that the calf's prediction of this locust plague is just his words, the dreams of one person, without any evidence.

I hope all this is really a delusion of my own! With this confusion, with this helplessness, the child slowly began to forget this terrible nightmare in the following days.

Half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and the time has come to the scorching June sun, Zhang Laoer's wheat is about to mature, during this period of time, Zhang Lao Er is like a hard-working bee, every day to run several miles to the next village to see his wheat, in the eyes of the calf, for the first time to see his father for such a long time to keep a simple smile.

Compared with the northerners of the calf's family, the local southerners prefer to eat rice, so they planted rice sorghum, and the ripening season is estimated to be one or two months away, but this year the wind and rain are smooth, the crops are growing well, everyone has a smile on their faces, and the calf's family is also in this joy of ushering in a bumper harvest with some less neighbors' eyes.

It was another stormy night, and the calf awoke from his dream again, in which he saw locusts gnawing on everything in the earth, the ripening wheat in the house turned into a pile of straw, and even his father falling in despair in the field.

The last time I had this kind of dream was half a year ago, and now I started to do it again, and the little calf faintly felt a sense of urgency, so he shook his father again.

"Dad, let's go and harvest all the wheat tomorrow!"

In the dark night, Zhang Lao Er looked at his son with a smile, stroked his head again and said: "Little calf, don't be so anxious, the wheat is not fully ripe yet, if you wait for about half a month, then the wheat will be fuller, and there will be a more abundant harvest at that time, and you can eat white flour by then." ”

"But Dad, there are locusts, I saw it again, the locusts in the sky have eaten up all our crops, it's true, we have to harvest these crops before they do." The little cow shed tears when he said this, and in the night, Zhang Lao Er saw the bright tears in his son's eyes in the flash of lightning, so he softened, "Okay, dad listens to you, and I will go to harvest tomorrow." ”

Finally, in the midst of people's ridicule, Zhang Lao Er and the calf and the stupid mother harvested the wheat together, and sure enough, as his father imagined, after paying the rent, there was still some grain left, if it was paired with some fish, then it is estimated that he could eat tomorrow's spring, if he saved a little, or even longer.

The grain is in the warehouse, that Wang Xiucai did not make it as difficult as in advance for his father or make a fuss about the contract, and the locust plague he expected in his mind did not happen, except that every day people come to laugh at him for calling him locusts, everything in the world is peaceful, but the young calf doesn't care about this, he always feels that if he doesn't come, he hopes that his dream is wrong, because then the people in the village will have a good year and have a good life.

Maybe it's the kindness and mellowness of his parents, maybe it's the timidity of his parents, the young calf doesn't know what hatred is, when others bully him and scold him, he never hates them, but sometimes he takes into account the interests of others, this kind of character is born with it

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One day in mid-June, the calf and his mother were cleaning the yard in the yard, and his father was cleaning up the day's catch, when suddenly there was a loud buzzing sound between the heavens and the earth, which was a bit like the flickering wings of a bee, but the deafening sensation was far more deafening than that of the bees, and when I looked in the direction of the sound, I saw a large dark cloud on the horizon surging towards me.

The calf was standing in front of the fence of the yard at this time, and when he saw this scene, he immediately thought of the plague of locusts in his dream, and the black and oppressive clouds turned out to be large locusts. At this time, the calf rushed out without hesitation, he walked to the embankment, looked into the distance, and his father followed behind, and suddenly something smashed on the calf's head, he grabbed it, and found that it was a yellowed locust, and in an instant, his

His face was shocked.

He turned around and said to his father with a serious face: "Oh no, Dad, the locusts are really coming, it seems that the uncles and uncles have suffered their food, you quickly take the fishing nets at home and go to cover the field in the direction where the locusts are flying, and I will quickly inform them to harvest them." ”

The honest father, seeing that there were locusts and convinced of his five-year-old son, rushed home to get the nets for fishing, while the calf was already running downstream along the embankment.

Probably hearing the sound, the people of the village came out of the huts one after another, and came to the edge of the river embankment to watch the dark clouds that were gradually flying towards this side, and then only a panicked voice came, it was the calf, and he was out of breath.

"Oh no, uncles and uncles, locusts...... The locusts are coming, hurry to the field and harvest, hurry, if you don't reap again...... It's too late. ”

Perhaps because they had never seen a locust plague with their own eyes, the people of these villages did not even believe the facts in front of them, and they did not know the severity of the locust plague, so no one cared about the calf, and even now some people laugh at the calf as a locust.

And at this moment, a spectacular scene appeared, as the humming sound got closer and closer, closer and closer to the yellowed rice, the yellow-green disappeared in pieces, so fast that they smacked their tongues, until they reacted, and there were locusts in front of them, countless insects fell on them, on the ground, on their legs, and on the trees, all the green disappeared in an instant.

The villagers rushed into the house and re-entered their rice fields with sickles, however, it was too late, and when they arrived, everything else was in vain, except for the few acres of land that Zhang Lao Er barely covered with fishing nets.

The sound of crying, wailing, and despair resounded throughout the sky, walking on the ridge, watching the neighbors, uncles, uncles, sisters-in-law, and aunts fall between heaven and earth, the calf felt very uncomfortable in his heart, but he did not say words of comfort, because even if he said more words were useless, and then, when the stored grain was eaten, they would face a food crisis, and in the past, when the food was scarce, they could still find some wild vegetables and leaves to satisfy their hunger, and now, the calf looked at the branches covered with dense locusts, and his heart was in despair.

The locust plague lasted for a few days, and after more than ten days, all the original green mountain crops became bare, and the rest of the heavens and the earth were wailing except for some birds who were excited.

In this environment, the calf in the yard thinking about how to help the villagers through this disaster, the family food is enough to eat, with the consent of the father, this honest father is willing to save half of the food to the villagers, and then work the catch, thinking of some other methods, should be able to ensure that the villagers survive this winter!

Just when the calf family gathered around the table and thought about how to help the villagers survive the food crisis, a large group of people came over with hoes and sticks.

The door was kicked open with a bang, led by the patriarch of the village, who stood tremblingly in front of the door with a cane, his eyes full of bloodshots.

The child didn't feel the crisis, but he rushed over and grabbed the patriarch's hand under the obstruction of his stupid mother, and said cordially: "Patriarch Grandpa, why are you here, my father and I are thinking about how to help the villagers through the food crisis this year. As he spoke, the calf took a stool very obediently and put it in front of the old man.

And at this moment, an unexpected scene appeared, the old man who looked full of kindness suddenly changed his face at the calf, and then grabbed the calf's arm and waved it hard, the calf's petite body drew a circle in the air, and then fell heavily on the corner of the wall.

Zhang Lao Er and his wife Hui Ting rushed over, then picked up their son and checked it, and after finding that there were no major injuries, they asked: "Patriarch, why are you like this, what did my calf do wrong?" ”

This is the first time that Zhang Lao Er asked the patriarch loudly, in normal times, he didn't talk about the patriarch, but he saw that the villagers were difficult to say a word many times, and the stupid mother was even more angry for the first time in her life, he stood in front of the calf, and screamed strangely while dancing and screaming, as if to scare off their attack.

Some people say that a madman is actually just more than we know and anticipate, so we normal people think that he is not social

Called a madman, here, perhaps, there is only the mother of the calf, this madman for the first time sensed that the comer was not good, and secretly killed him.

"What are you going to do, what do you say we are going to do, Zhang Lao Er, you come and tell me, the Mu clan in our village, since you came to the village, we have bullied you, we have treated you badly, we have driven you away."

It was the patriarch who spoke, and some villagers next to him also stuck in their waists and kept helping the patriarch shout the same words, in fact, Zhang Lao Er knew very well in his heart that he had been in the eyes of the villagers over the years since he came to this village, and bullying was even more commonplace, if it weren't for his father who had joined the army and made meritorious contributions and was licensed by the government to have a local household registration, otherwise he would have been driven away by them, but Zhang Lao Er is not a fool, how can he contradict him in the face of so many people who are not good today, he can only follow their meaning.

"Patriarch, my father and I have been here for decades, and the patriarch and the villagers have always treated me like a clansman, loving and caring for me, and have never bullied me." Speaking of this, Zhang Lao Er also bowed deeply to the villagers in front of him to express his gratitude.

The old patriarch's body trembled, he knocked his cane on the ground with a loud bang, and then gritted his teeth and said: "In that case, why do you curse at the time of spring sowing, and let the heavens send down such a great disaster punishment, so that all the food of our village will be eaten by locusts, and there will be no harvest. ”

When he said this, the old man was already crying, and the crowd caused a commotion, and even from time to time a stone flew over and landed on Zhang Laoer's head, Zhang Laoer waved his hands to block the front, while approaching the children and his wife, and used his body to help them avoid the rocks.

"Patriarch, you must have misunderstood, we don't have a curse!"

"No, Mu Debiao, did you hear his calf say that there would be a locust plague at the beginning of this year?"

"Yes, he said all over the village, telling us not to grow rice."

"Mu Yi, have you heard of it?"

"I have heard the words of the Hui patriarch, and I still remember that one morning, the calf ran to my house and said that there was a locust plague this year."

"I've heard it too, it was a noon at the beginning of this year...

In an instant, the scene poured down like a flood that opened the floodgates, and all the villagers rushed to recount what they heard about the locusts that the calf said at the beginning of the year, and everyone agreed that there was a locust plague this year because the calf was talking nonsense in this spring, offended the heavens, and sent down such a curse, in short, all this is the sin of the calf.

Zhang Lao Er is an honest man, although he believes in himself, but he can't explain clearly that the calf has nothing to do with this matter, because this matter is indeed a little strange, the calf said at the beginning of the year that there were locusts, and then there was really a locust plague in the middle of the year, is this five-year-old child really have a different ability, but his son is his son after all, no matter what mistakes he makes, he has to defend him, otherwise it will be difficult to end today's menacing appearance.

"Patriarch, the words of a child's playfulness don't count."

"Presumptuous, it's unreasonable, if it's a playful word, why is the grain in the entire village not harvested, but you grab it in advance."

"That's right, patriarch grandpa, I now not only suspect that this little guy is cursed, but I also think that he is the reincarnation of a natural evil spirit, you remember, on the day of this little guy's accident, the sky was as white as day, I think, it should be the reincarnation of the evil demon to destroy our village." It was Mu Debiao's wife who spoke, he put his hands on his waist, counted down his eyebrows, and looked at the trembling calf hiding in his mother's arms with a fierce and vicious look.

Naturally, this woman's words resonated, and everyone thought of that night as if they had suddenly realized it, and then compared it with their peers, and then everyone realized more clearly that the child who had taken a step before this incident turned out to be the reincarnation of an evil demon in the sky, and he had come to live with cholera.

For a time a deafening voice sounded,

"Arrest that demon."

"Kill this wickedly." With the shouting, people kept rushing to the front to catch the calf, Zhang Lao Er knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, and the stupid mother had already picked up the bench next to him and kept waving it in front of him, stopping everyone who was advancing.

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