The little rabbit and the second animal found the foreman Hu Dezhai in a coal wagon that had fallen to the ground. By the time they found Hoo Dezhai, the oil in their oil lamps was almost finished, and most of the horse meat had been eaten. But the second animal was still very happy, he thought, one more living person will have more strength, and the hope of life will be relatively increased. He hurriedly pulled Hu Dezhai out of the coal wagon, and at the same time, re-lit the precious oil lamp.

Hu Dezhai only had a little skin on his head, and there were almost no injuries on his body, he was still so round, so fat, and his movements were not very dexterous.

After pulling Hu Dezhai out, the second animal asked:

"Foreman Hu, do you have a lamp?"

"Yes! Yes! ”

"Is there a lot of oil in the lamp?"

"Quite a few, and half a pot!"

"Good! That's good! We're running out of oil, and we're worried! Foreman Hu, shall we leave immediately? ”

"Sensei! Needy busy! Take a break! ”

Hu Dezhai took advantage of the light to see the horse meat of the second animal hanging from the buttocks with wire, and his eyes suddenly shone with extremely bright brilliance:

"Second brother, what's this...... Where does the meat come from? I'm hungry...... I'm hungry, let me eat first! ”

As soon as he heard this, the little rabbit pounced with quick movements, protected the black and wet horse meat with his body, and shouted again and again in his mouth:

"Nope! No! I won't give it to you! This is ours! ”

Little Rabbit didn't like this foreman surnamed Hu. He had been beaten twice by him for no reason. In fact, Hu Dezhai shouldn't have beaten him at all, he wasn't the head of the car, so he shouldn't have taken care of him, but he beat him. Once in the underground parking lot, the little rabbit blocked his way when he was riding his horse, and he kicked him twice in the buttocks, and he also punched a green bag on the head. Another time was next to the slide at the entrance of the well, a potter surnamed Tian and a potter surnamed Hu were fighting, he was just joining in the fun, and he didn't come forward to help at all, but Hu Dezhai came, indiscriminately, and slapped him in the face, until the corners of his mouth bleed...... The little rabbit hated this foreman, he must not give him horse meat to eat, and this dog foreman will beat people when he is full.

The little rabbit tightly guarded the piece of horse meat, and poked his shriveled little head from under the arms of the second animal to the chest of the second animal:

"Second brother, let's just have a little meat, let's not give him food, right?"

The little rabbit knew that he could not protect this piece of horse meat by his own strength, and he had to get the support of the second animal of the owner of the horse meat.

"Yikes! Yikes! Little thing, how can you be so disrespectful of people? What time is it? How can such a thing be said? Aren't you afraid of annoying the kiln god?! Hu Dezhai said indignantly, as he spoke, he glanced at the face of the second animal with the residual light of his eyes, "Second brother, do you say yes!" Now, let's share the blessings! There are difficulties! ”

Second, the cattle were silent. He looked at Hu Dezhai, and then gently touched the little rabbit's head with his big hand, turned his face, and pushed the little rabbit's body away from the horse's meat.

The little rabbit pounced again:

"Second brother! Can't give it to him, can't! You don't want to think about how bad the people of their Hu family are! How angry we were with them in the past! ”

Hu Dezhai's head shook:

"Alas! Alas! Child! You're such a fucking little kid! What time is it now, why are you mentioning the Hu family and the Tian family?! At this time, whether we are surnamed Hu or Tian, our lives are in the hands of the kiln god. Besides, even if the Hu family and the Tian family had some entanglements in the past! I, Hu Dezhai, have not treated you two badly! ”

"You hit me!"

Hu Dezhai was shocked—not pretending, but really shocked, he couldn't remember that he had beaten the kid in front of him:

"Are you mistaken?"

"I'm not mistaken, you pretend!"

The allure of the piece of horse meat was so great that Hu Dezhai's stomach was empty, and he really wanted to reach out and grab the meat into his mouth immediately. He couldn't wait, nodded again and again:

"Even if I beat you, I apologize to your little brother, and I will invite you to drink when you go to the kiln! That's all right, right? ”

The little rabbit is very stubborn:

"No! Not really! When you're done, my second brother and I won't have any meat to eat! ”

The little rabbit hugged the filthy piece of meat as if it were his own life, and he would never give a part of this life to the enemy in front of him.

Hu Dezhai couldn't hold back any longer, and tore the little rabbit away, and pounced like a beast like a wild beast, and his chapped lips immediately touched the flesh. He bit down on the meat and tried to bite down on the next piece of meat, but the rabbit was hitting him with his fists and kicking him, and he hurriedly used his hands to resist the rabbit's tearing, and finally failed to bite the meat off.

Their scuffle caused a cloud of black smoke to rise from the coal alley, and the coal dust and dust under their feet flew up, almost extinguishing the bean-sized lamp.

"Stop fighting!" The second animal standing on the side shouted, first hit Hu Dezhai with an iron fist, and then dragged the crazy rabbit again, took the horse meat off his body, and handed it to Hu Dezhai and said:

"Foreman Hu, eat! After eating, we hit the road! ”

"II...... Second brother, you ...... You're so nice! Hu Dezhai had tears in his little eyes, and he blinked, and a few cloudy tears rolled down from his eyes, and two white furrows flowed on his soot-covered face.

He grabbed the meat violently and gnawed it so hard that the saliva ran down the corners of his mouth and down his neck......

The little rabbit was swallowing hatefully, and he wanted to eat it too. He knew that there was only so much meat left, and that there was still a long way to go, and that if he could eat more, his life would be longer. He has to eat! Since the foreman of the Hu family in front of him can eat, he naturally can eat and should eat!

"Second brother, I want to eat too!"

But the second animal held him tightly and did not let go.

"Second brother, let go of me, I want to eat!"

The second animal said coldly:

"Little bunny, you can't eat it! That's all we have, save a little bit, save a little ......"

The little rabbit can't move. He really hates it, hates the second brother, and hates the damn foreman of the Hu family even more! He divided his life and that of his second brother!

After Hu Dezhai took four big bites on the piece of horse meat that was less than three catties with his sharp teeth, the second animal did not allow him to eat it again. He snatched the meat and tied it back to his waist.

They hit the road together.

It was from this time that a despicable thought arose in the little rabbit's mind, and once this thought appeared in his mind, it had a strong force of attraction and incitement, so that he could not get rid of its entanglement no matter what.

He decided to steal. In the darkness, little by little, little by little, bit by bit, bite by bit, the piece of meat behind the buttocks of the second animal was stolen. It's no wonder he's going to blame it, it's Hu Dezhai, he wouldn't have come up with such a bad idea without this bastard! The bastard surnamed Hu shouldn't eat this piece of life-saving meat, this piece of meat belongs to him and his second brother, not to Hu Dezhai, he is not qualified to eat it at all, there is no reason to eat it, and he actually ate it in a big gulp!

Naturally, to do so, a little sorry for the two livestock; The meat was originally obtained by the second animal, he should have eaten more, but he was reluctant to eat it himself, but let the kid surnamed Hu eat it, and he deserved it! Who told him not to eat? At such a time, he did not think about himself, ignored his friends, but took care of the enemy first, which made the little rabbit unable to understand in any way.

Second, the animals are so stupid! A person who is too stupid is going to suffer a big loss!

Bunnies are not stupid. It was because he was not stupid that he decided to steal, steal the piece of meat that belonged to the two of them.

He followed closely behind the second animal, just as he had before he met Hu Dezhai, and his ** arm often touched the tempting piece of horse meat. One of his hands was held in the big hand of the second animal, and the other hand was held in the fat hand of Hu Dezhai behind him, and his movement was very inconvenient. On several occasions, when the second animal encountered obstacles and stopped, his mouth touched the piece of meat, but without the help of his hands, he could not quietly nibble down the piece of meat anyway.

He had to free one hand.

"Second brother, let Foreman Hu go ahead! He always grinds in the back, and it makes my hands hurt! The little rabbit suggested.

The second animal stopped in the darkness and turned his face to ask Hu Dezhai's opinion:

"Foreman Hu, why don't you switch places with the little rabbit, you walk in the middle, and let the rabbit be at the end?"

"Nope! No! Second brother, I want you to pull me! ”

"Then, Foreman Hu, you go to my head!"

Hu Dezhai agreed, touched the body of the little rabbit and the second animal, and walked to the top. Within two steps, Hu Dezhai stepped into the ditch and almost knocked down the second livestock.

Crawling out of the ditch, Hu Dezhai proposed:

"Second brother, shall we light the lamp?"

The second animal categorically vetoed:

"No! We have to save this lamp oil for a critical time. This alleyway is not on the roof, we can touch it! ”

This is exactly what the rabbit wants. Now the lamp cannot be lit in any case, and with a light it will not be possible to implement his plan:

"That's right! If you can't light the lamp, let's touch it forward! ”

They touched forward for a long, long time, one foot deep and one shallow. Later, a few coal wagons flattened by the explosion blocked their way, and Hu Dezhai was reluctant to leave and wanted to rest.

The two animals agreed.

So, the three of them leaned on the coal gang and sat down in the dark......

The little rabbit was secretly glad that this brief break had finally given him the opportunity to steal. Holding his breath, he quietly moved to the side of the second animal, and slowly touched the bottom of the coal gang behind the second animal with his hand, and he finally touched the lovely piece of meat—the meat had long since lost its skin, and Ding Ding was hanging. He tried to pinch it with his fingernails, but without much effort, he pinched a small piece of the flesh. The small piece of flesh was the size of a thumb, and he held it firmly in his hand, and slowly retracted it against the coal.

His heart was pounding, almost jumping out of his chest, and he didn't know if it was because of overtension or the excitement of the successful theft, his thin body trembled for a while.

He shoved the long, irregular, illegible shape of the meat into his mouth, rolled it in his mouth a few times, rinsed the meat with the saliva in his mouth, spit out the dirty water, and then began to bite the piece of meat with his big teeth at the base of his cheek, chewing slowly but forcefully. His parched tongue immediately felt the delicious, sour juice of the horse's flesh, which he felt rushing down his throat. He didn't dare to chew on the sound, he was afraid that his actions would be discovered by the second animal. He was a little nervous, he was really worried that the second animal would talk to him at this time; As soon as he opened his mouth, the flesh in his mouth could be exposed.

The second animal is tired, maybe taking a nap.

No one spoke.

He decided to chew a little longer, so that the delicious taste of the horse meat would linger in his mouth a little longer. However, he didn't know why, he accidentally swallowed that piece of horse meat into the deep throat, and there was not even a bit of scum left!

He was so sad that he almost wanted to cry.

The taste of this horse meat is so good, it is so good! It's so gluttonous! He really wanted to taste that delicious taste again, and he really wanted to chew it again......

Can you steal it again? Steal it only once! Yes, steal again, he thought, he only steals one piece, only a small one. This time, he had to keep the little piece of horse meat in his mouth for a long time, chew it slowly—and not swallow it in his stomach, let the juice roll around in his mouth and overflow everywhere, what a beautiful thing it must be!

He mustered up the courage to steal again, and silently touched his dirty hand down the coal gang behind the second animal—but at this moment, his hand suddenly touched something, as if it were another man's hand! He shuddered in his heart and retracted his hand halfway.

He thought about it for a moment and thought it was an illusion, a sensory hallucination caused by his own excessive nervousness.

He reached out again......

This time he did touch that hand!

The hand was pinching the soft horse's flesh so hard that he paid no attention to the hand he stretched out; The reason for this is obvious, the same dirty hand seems to be saying to him: Come on, let's do it together, anyway, the two animals don't know......

The hand was reached out by Hu Dezhai from the other direction.

At this time, the little rabbit suddenly had an irrepressible sense of disgust, he felt ashamed, he felt pain, he felt that he was simply sinning! What's wrong with you? How did you do such a despicable deed?! How did he calculate the second brother of his family with the bastard surnamed Hu?! He suddenly realized: In this despicable hook, the only one who suffers is not him, nor Hu Dezhai, but the second animal, the honest, kind, and six children!

He can't watch the two animals suffer! He can't count two animals with the bastard surnamed Hu! If he wants to steal, he can only steal it alone, and he must not let the bastard surnamed Hu take advantage! Besides, in order to wash himself away, in order to make the second animal hate this bastard surnamed Hu, he can't let him do it anymore no matter what!

He grabbed Hu Dezhai's hand and screamed:

"Second brother! Foreman Hu steals our meat and eats it! ”

The second animal became alert, and the big hand holding in front of his chest pressed to the ground behind him, and at once pressed two hands: one from Hu Dezhai and the other from the little rabbit.

The second animal was on fire, let go of the little rabbit's hand, twisted Hu Dezhai, dragged Hu Dezhai up from the ground, and shook his fists and feet to be beaten, he scolded while beating:

"**Raise something! If I knew this, I wouldn't give you a bite of meat! ”

Hu Dezhai shouted:

"Second brother! I don't dare! Spare me! ”

The second animal fought for a while, stopped his hand, and said angrily:

"If you dare to fucking steal again, I'll strangle you! Eat your meat! ”

"I'll change! I changed! Hu Dezhai snorted. After a while, he raised his head again and said unwillingly: "Second brother, steal ...... There are also rabbits who steal meat! ”

The little rabbit was extremely nervous, but he yelled and said:

"You talk nonsense! I didn't steal! Didn't steal! ”

The second animal kicked Hu Dezhai again:

"Shut your foul mouth! If the rabbit steals, will he shout at me to catch you? Bunny! Don't shout! The second brother doesn't believe it! ”

The little rabbit threw himself into the arms of the second animal and cried very sadly, emotionally, and painfully. He thought, this is the first and last time, he will never steal again, even if he starves to death, he will not steal!

He can't calculate the life of the second brother, because his life is closely linked to the life of the second brother; If the second brother fell, he believed that even if he didn't starve to death, he would be eaten by the bastard surnamed Hu in front of him!

He believed that the man surnamed Hu would eat people when he was hungry and crazy!

When they met this surnamed Hu, it was not their blessing, but their disaster, and the hope of their lives did not increase, but quietly approached death.

The little rabbit thought viciously that for himself and his second brother, he had to try to create some trouble for Hu Dezhai and let him get out of the house earlier! He had succeeded in getting Hu Dezhai to beat his second brother, and he had to let his second brother beat him a second and third time until he was beaten away; Anyway, we'll have to get him out of the way – or, just let him die under the kiln!

Hu Fuxiang, the third mule, tried to push the two corpses that pressed on him away, but it took a lot of effort and failed to push them. His arms were limp, as if they weren't his own. He had to turn over with all his might, trying to turn over and crawl out from under the two corpses.

It was also difficult to turn over, he was stuck in two overturned coal cars, one of which had wheels hanging above his head, and he touched the coal wheel when he pushed the body with his hand.

The two overturned coal carts and the bodies of the two potters who pressed on him saved his life, he was neither killed by the blast of the explosion thrown on the coal gang nor burned to death by the fire that followed the explosion, and after an unknown amount of time, he woke up and returned to his mind.

He was amazed – for his bravery. He felt that he was very great, and he was simply a hero who stood up to the sky! He is not the destined sufferers under the kiln, but the savior of these victims, he came to save these victims on behalf of Hu Gongye and the workers on behalf of the kiln! How bold he is! He took a group of brothers from the kiln to the bottom of the kiln in desperation, and jumped so far down the main alley in one breath! There is also a fire alley about ten meters long! How did he get here? When did this second explosion occur?

He couldn't remember. Now, all he knew was that he was alive and that he had to get out of the middle of the two wagons, from under the two corpses.

It was dark and silent, except for the wind in the alley mixed with the strong smell of smoke, which was blowing in a tight and slow manner, and the two coal cars formed a narrow air duct, and the wind in the air duct was so strong that he could barely breathe against the wind.

He touched the position above his head with his hand, judged the position of the space around him, and then, from left to right, he suddenly turned over and changed from lying on his back to his stomach. He crouched on the damp ground and gasped for a moment, then slowly and carefully crawled forward along the gap between the two coal carts. When he first began to crawl, the two corpses on his body also moved slowly, and only then did he be able to get out from under the two corpses when the wagons blocked the two corpses.

He sat down leaning against the coal cart's gang.

He felt thirsty, as if there was fire and smoke in his throat, he licked his lips with his tongue, and immediately found that his lips were also chapped, and the moist saliva on his tongue dried up as soon as it stuck to his lips, and those two lips were like two dry lands!

He needs water! He had to find a source of water immediately. He knew that as long as there were drainage ditches in the alleys where the carriages could walk, and there was water in the drainage ditches, he could drink enough. Now, he judged his position from memory - he was currently at most seven hundred meters from the mouth of the main shaft, and he was still in the main tunnel, and there was a drainage ditch on one side of the main tunnel!

He began to feel to the left side of his body, and before he could touch it twice, his hand touched the coal wall, and he followed the coal wall to the ground, but he didn't find the ditch. He touched his right again, but he didn't touch the gutter. In the process of touching, he strangely found that the roadway was very narrow and low, and there was no railway track for horse-drawn carriages in the roadway.

There are no gutters here at all!

It's not a main aisle at all!

His memories deceived him. He didn't know how he ended up in this strange place, something must be wrong! He remembered in a trance that when he rushed into the main aisle with his co-workers, he felt dizzy and nauseous, so was he carried into this coal hole by the co-workers after he fainted? How far is this coal cave from the main roadway of the big well? Will he still be alive to climb the well?

He suddenly felt a terrible fear, like a powerful electric current, that crushed his spirit in the blink of an eye. He forgot for a moment his thirst, forgot the urgency of finding a drain, and sat down on the coal gang, almost wanting to cry out loud.

He regrets it! Why did he let go of his stable life, but he wanted to be a good man and run to the kiln to save people?! How much ability and supernatural power does he have, and why does he have to compete with the Grim Reaper under the kiln?! As a single person, can you resist this kind of catastrophe?! He was fooled, Hu Gongye, his vanity, and that righteous atmosphere! He didn't have time to think about it at all, so he hurriedly went down the kiln and sent his life to the clutches of death! He also took so many brothers with him to his life!

Yes, one of his sons who watched the wind gate was buried in the ground, and he came down to save him, but could he save him? The son may have died in the explosion, died in the fire, died in the roof, and the fate of the son is not something that he, as an old man, can arrange!

He knew the power of death, and he also knew that he was personally powerless in front of death. He had to give up all non-dividing thoughts, rely on his own experience, his own strength, and climb the kiln. He couldn't control so much, he couldn't manage so much—even if he could lead thousands of fellow potters on strike, even if he could call the wind and rain on the ground—and deep underground, he could not dictate the fate of any man, even if that man was his son!

On the ground, he is indeed a big hero. In the seventh year of the Republic of China, cholera broke out in Tianjiapu Town, and the company was afraid that the potters would get sick and affect their production, so they got some preventive injections from foreign missionaries, and required all men, women and children in the kiln area to get vaccinated. Unexpectedly, this incident angered the majority of potters, who believed that this was a conspiracy of the company to harm people, so they elected a delegation of potters to negotiate with the company, and he was the general representative of the delegation at that time. The result of the negotiations was that the company stood its ground. He became angry, and on the same day, he led everyone to make a huge strike, which lasted for three days, forcing the company's injection plot to fail. In March of the eighth year of the Republic of China, due to the extension of the working hours of the company's major cabinets, he took the potter surnamed Hu to make a fuss, although due to the destruction of the potter surnamed Tian, the strike did not achieve any substantial victory, but his illustrious name was played.

Fame and obligation and responsibility are often linked, and it is precisely because of his reputation that he is obliged to lead the people to rescue the kiln when disasters occur; It is precisely because of his reputation that he has stepped into today's desperate situation!

Fame is a drag.

The anxiety intensified his thirst, and the thought of finding water stubbornly surfaced in his mind again. He had to find the water, find it immediately, or he would die of thirst—he thought of death from time to time, and sometimes he felt that he was dead, that his body no longer existed, that the darkness had melted, that only his soul and his mind were alive. He thought: It's fortunate that he didn't let the company's bastard get an injection two years ago, otherwise, his soul would have been lost long ago!

Once again, he regretted that he hadn't had time to avenge his personal vendetta! He should really take advantage of the chaos when the disaster happened, find Tian Dafu, and kill him quietly! Didn't he wait all night in the alley next to Boundary Street? Didn't he take the dagger into his arms? Didn't he swear to the ancestors of the Hu family? What forces drove him to give up on his plans so easily? Is it just the order of the Hu family Gongye, is it just his own impulse! No, there seems to be a superhuman power in there—maybe that's God's will.

But he's going to kill him! For this reason, he must not die under the kiln! He was going to walk up, he was going to climb up, he was going to pounce on it, he was going to stab the short knife into Tian Dahao's chest with his own hands, and watch the boy's dirty blood gush out like a spring......

Stand up! Stand up! Stand up! You three mules aren't fucking pussies, you're a tough man, there's a lot more to do, you have to go, you have to grit your teeth and move forward! Thirsty? Thirst doesn't kill you! You still have hot blood in your body, you can hold on, you are not a dry fish yet!

He obeyed the stern command in his head and stood up slowly but forcefully. He judged the direction of the wind, and began to follow the wind forward, touching forward, he thought, following the wind, he would be able to go to the main roadway of the big well, and he could approach the mouth of the big well.

Thirsty. His lips were chapped and aching. He licked it with his tongue again, and licked a trace of salty blood on his chapped lips. This inspired him a lot, and he began to look for moist coal gangs, moist gangues on his way forward. He thought he could lick the drops of water from the coal gang and the gangue.

After walking forward for about a few dozen steps, he tripped over something soft under his feet, and when he touched it with his hand, it turned out to be a person. The man was not dead, but before he touched him, he either fell asleep or passed out. When his foot tripped over the man, the man first smacked, and then, weakly, asked:

"Who? You...... Who are you? ”

"I'm Hu Fuxiang!" He replied in surprise.

"Three...... Three mules! The man called out his nickname.

"Who are you?"

"I ...... I'm Cui ...... Cui Fuchun! ”

It turned out to be the guest potter Lao Cui in the same cabinet!

"Brother Cui!"

He bent down and groped Cui Fuchun's hand in the dark, touched it for a long time, and finally touched Cui Fuchun's hand, he held it tightly and didn't let go for a long time.

"Brother Cui, you, how are you?"

The old, feeble voice sounded again in the darkness:

"I ...... I'm afraid I can't do it, legs ...... Broken leg and ...... body I was also injured ......"

The three mules froze, he didn't know what to do!

"Three mules, you ...... Let's go! Don't...... Leave me alone, I'm ...... I can't get out! I can't even climb anymore! ”

The three mules were silent. He felt that he could not leave behind an injured worker, and that it was unjustifiable for benevolence, morality, and a sense of responsibility as a potter leader. But with such a crippled man, his own life will be in greater danger, and he may expend all his energy on this person, and he will not be able to climb the kiln himself.

"Three mules, you go...... Let's go! I...... I don't blame you, no...... I don't blame you! ”

The three mules gradually relaxed the two hands that held Cui Fuchun, and said softly and timidly like a thief:

"That'...... That...... I'll go first! After going to the kiln, I ...... I'll have someone to save you right away! ”

When they said this, both the three mules and Cui Fuchun knew in their hearts that this was a pitiful deception.

With a ruthless heart, the three mules stood up suddenly, stepped over Cui Fuchun's body, and touched forward with their eyes closed. I touched it more than a dozen steps away in one breath. At this time, the three mules heard Cui Fuchun's whining and crying behind him, which was like a knife, stabbing the hearts and lungs of the three mules at once.

The three mules stopped. He was suddenly shocked to find that he had lost the minimum morality of being a human being! His three mules can actually do something that cannot be saved from death! What did he do in the kiln? Isn't it just with a chivalrous heart and courage to save people? Isn't it because everyone embraces him and respects him because he is righteous and dares to draw a sword to help everyone in times of crisis?

Bastard! Bastard!

He opened his bow left and right, slapped himself twice, stumbled towards Cui Fuchun like crazy, pounced on Cui Fuchun's side, and helped him up:

"Let's go! Brother Cui, let's go together! ”

"Three mules! Three brothers, I ...... My surname Cui will never forget your Hongen in my life...... Big...... O great virtue! ”

"Say no more! Let's go! ”

He helped Cui Fuchun up, and then, he leaned down, let Cui Fuchun lie on his back, and carried Cui Fuchun up......

He carried an injured old potter on his back, just like carrying human dignity, of course, this dignity is extremely heavy, and even crushes the bearer, but even if he dies under the kiln, he cannot lose this precious dignity. Because—

He is Hu Fuxiang.