Erniu came back from drinking at a friend's house, and it was very late, but there was a moon in the sky, and the sky and the earth were shrouded in a hazy moonlight. Erniu walked crookedly on the path back. The path was flat, with grass growing in the middle and on both sides, and the grass growing in the middle divided the path in two, and the second ox walked on the right half, and he took a nap and woke up to find himself walking on the left half. It was awkward to walk on the left half, and he stepped over the grass in the middle and walked on the right side. He continued to nap as he walked. The house is still far away, and it is a very empty place all around, except for weeds and weeds, and there is no edge in sight in the vast meadow. There was a little wind, blowing straight to Erniu's Tianling Gai, he raised his head, and saw two shadows in front of him, under the moonlight, he couldn't see very clearly, one was darker, the other was very shallow, and the shallow one almost melted into the moonlight, it was two people wearing black and white clothes, walking on the left half and right half of the path respectively. Erniu didn't want to pay attention to them, so he copied his hands and took a nap. He didn't wonder how those two people appeared, did they overtake him when he was napping? He didn't want to think about it, he wasn't interested in anything other than wine. He walked with his head down and yawned, when he heard a voice, "Big brother, how to get to Xibozi Village?" Er Niu raised his head and found two people beside him, one on the left and one on the right, who seemed to be the two people in front of him just now.

"I'm from Xibozi Village." Erniu said with a snort of wine.

"Thank goodness for the right question." This time it was the man in white who spoke, and it was a woman.

"Do you know a family named Liu Er?" Black asked.

"Yes," said Erniu, burping a drink, "the head of the east of the village, I will walk through there, and I will arrive in a while, and I will point it to you." ”

"Thank you so much." White clothes said.

Erniu snorted twice in his throat, which was considered to be polite.

The three of them walked side by side on a straight and flat path, no one spoke, he and the black woman walked on the right half, and the woman in white walked on the left half. Along the way, only the footsteps of Erniu were heard.

"Huh? Who are you from Liu Er's family? Erniu asked, suddenly remembering his tone.

"Dear, relative." The black clothes said, very vaguely.

Erniu pondered, what relatives did the third watch go in the middle of the night, maybe there was something in a hurry, he was embarrassed to ask, so he simply shut up and went his own way.

The moon quietly moved to the western sky, and Erniu's shadow also turned, and he walked and fell sleepy, picked up his hands and lowered his head to continue to nap. In the fog, he heard some voices. First of all, the bird's cry, fluttering the wings and flying away, Er Niu knew that this was the place where he walked to the jujube tree, half of the jujube tree died, and the other half was stubbornly alive, listening to the older generation, this jujube tree was struck by lightning. The jujube tree is the habitat of birds, they go to the field to forage during the day, and return to this tree to sleep at night. After a messy fluttering of wings, there was silence again, Erniu lowered his head and walked with his eyes squinted, he felt empty in his heart, as if he had lost something, what was it? He thought about it, the sound, yes, it was the sound, the toad in the distance could not be heard, and the insects in the grass nearby, when did these sounds disappear? He couldn't remember. The silence made him even more sleepy, and he longed to lie down and sleep for a while, but he still had to lead the way, so he endured it for the time being. His consciousness began to blur again, he felt that he was the only one walking on the road at this time, those two people walked too lightly, he couldn't hear the sound of footsteps at all, he couldn't feel their presence with his eyes closed, but the sound of eating sounded next to his ears, proving that he was not alone. "Jumping", the two people next to him ate snacks, one seemed to be eating apples, and the other seemed to be gnawing bones. Erniu was a little unhappy, that is, he was a companion of the same company, why didn't he give him some food, it was so stingy, he had to continue to pretend to be asleep.

"Alas! It's so unpalatable, it's all maggots. ”

Erniu heard the man say.

"Let's make do with it, you have to eat enough, my apple is half rotten."

It was the woman's voice.

For some reason, Erniu remembered the food offered in the cemetery, which was placed next to the tombstone, and was sunburned and blown by the wind, rancid, and grew, attracting countless flies. Erniu estimated that they had already walked through the cemetery by this time. He was very familiar with the road, and there was a cemetery on the right side of the path, and after passing the cemetery, he was about to approach the entrance of the village.

"Well, let's eat, that's good, I'm going to have to eat grass later."

The man said again, with a crying in his voice.

Erniu pondered, these two people are really poor, poorer than themselves, and they have not fallen to the point of grazing. Come to think of it, these are two poor relatives of Liu Er's family, and they are here to fight the autumn breeze. In other words, Liu Er is really doing well, planting twenty acres of land and raising a flock of sheep.

"Big brother, is that right? I saw a village in front of me. ”

Er Niu listened to him talking, opened his eyes, and raised his head. "Yes, it's here." He said.

The three of them entered the village, and there stood a child at the entrance of the village, a small shadow motionless in the moonlight. Erniu knew that it was a fool pillar in the village, and that this child slept during the day and came out at night, wandering east and west, like a ghost. Er Niu saw him every time he came back from his drinking friend's house, and once, he gave him a few peanuts to drink, and from then on, the child pestered him and asked for peanuts to eat. Tonight, without waiting for the kid to speak, Er Niu said, come here, give you peanuts to eat, and jelly beans. However, the boy turned and ran, and in the blink of an eye there was no one.

The three of them were walking on the empty village road, Liu Er's house was the first household on the edge of the village, and Erniu stopped at the fork in the road, pointed to the two people, and said, that is, go.

The two men thanked them and went. Erniu stood there and watched them walk in, Liu Er didn't seem to close the door yet, Erniu saw the two people go straight in. Erniu burped and headed to the right of the fork.

When he got home, he first came to the kennel, took out a paper bag from his bosom, and called the dog: "Come, come, eat, I eat meat, and never forget to give you a little brute a bone." With that, he scattered the bones on the ground. As before, the dog had already "stabbed" and came out, but this time it lay on its stomach in the nest and did not move, and its mouth was still "whimpering", as if it was afraid of something. Erniu scolded, "Beast, you don't eat any bones, eat grass!" After scolding, he turned around and went back to the house, muttering straight in his mouth, what an empty night, and the dogs have become honest. On his way back, he didn't hear a single dog barking.

The next morning, Er Niu was wandering around the village, and unconsciously came to the fork in the road, he looked at Liu Er's house and walked over.

The gate of Liu Er's house was open, and in the courtyard, Liu Er was boiling gruel on the stove, and the smoke choked him so much that he coughed. Erniu leaned on the door of his house, kicked the threshold, and said to Liu Er: "What about cooking for two relatives?" ”

Liu Er raised his head from the stove and said, "What relative, Lao Niu, you are talking drunk again." I boiled porridge for the ewes to drink, and in the early hours of this morning, my ewes gave birth. ”

"Drunken talk? What do I drink early in the morning? I'm telling the truth, two people said last night that they were relatives of yours and didn't know your family, or did I bring them here? Erniu said.

Liu Er said: "It's really strange, what do they look like?" ”

Erniu said: "Whoever is blind in the black light can see clearly, only know that they are a man and a woman, wearing black and white clothes. I saw them enter your door. ”

Liu Er's eyes widened, and he suddenly became secret, and said, "My family didn't have any relatives who wore black and white clothes, but there were two sheep cubs with one black and one white. ”

They looked together into the sheepfold, where there were two lambs, one black and one white, nestled under the belly of the ewe.