The little rabbit sleepwalked through the dark alleyways, stumbling and walking very slowly. His drowsy head, with its torn wicker hat, struck the legs of the sheds on both sides of the alleyway several times, and he didn't feel much pain, as if the head on his neck no longer belonged to him, and his soul had been separated from his body.

Again and again he was left far behind by the second animal and the third mule, and as he slowly caught up with them, they began to move on again. For a long time, he didn't get a chance to rest. He became sluggish and numb, and his almost blank mind was left with only one simple thought: go forward, live! He didn't want to talk anymore, no matter what vicious language the second animal used to scold him, he was silent, he was not willing to put a little more effort into it.

After the jujube red horse was killed, the three of them were also half tired to death; They slept in a daze, and then began to pull out the horse. They feasted on the dead horses, and then cut the horse's flesh into many small pieces and led them on the road. After only a short walk, they couldn't walk. Hunger impressed them too deeply, and they brought too much horse meat, which became a heavy burden, and they had to throw away some of it—a third of the second animal, and almost half of the three mules, but the little rabbit did not throw away at all, and he sometimes held a piece of horse meat of more than twenty pounds in his arms, sometimes on his back, and did not let go, so that the second animal and the third mule had no choice.

After throwing away the excess horse meat, the second animal and the third mule came up with a way, they used axes to cut the horse meat into small strips, and took off all their clothes and pants, tore them into strips of cloth, and tied the horse meat to the naked body with strips of cloth.

The little rabbit has the most horse meat tied to it, not only with a circle around its entire waist, but also with wet strips of meat on its neck and arms. At first, he didn't feel heavy, but he couldn't hold it anymore as he walked, he was dripping with sweat, and the flesh hanging from his waist fell straight down; No matter how you tie it, the strips of cloth can't be tied tightly, and a few pieces are dropped along the way. When he dropped it, he picked it up and put it on his shoulder, never thinking of throwing it away. At this time, the rough scolding and scolding of the two animals came from the darkness ahead; The second animal scolded him for being too greedy, and forced him to throw away some meat several times, but he just didn't listen.

He became lonely, he no longer trusted the second animal as much as he used to, he didn't even want to walk up close with him, he hated his scolding! He is happy to walk the path he wants to walk silently alone. Now he is not afraid, he is not afraid of anything, he has so much horse meat tied to his body, enough to eat for ten days!

However, the second animal waited for him again and again, scolded him at first, and then didn't bother to scold, just waited for him to come to his side, and continued to walk forward silently.

Now, he is far behind, he can't hear the footsteps of the second animal and the third mule, he can't hear their wheezing, coughing and **, he only hears the weak heart in his chest pounding, he can only hear his ** feet stepping on the muddy road and making a "flutter, flutter" sound, this sound seems to be very far away, as if it comes from the depths of unfathomable hell. He walked awkwardly, groping his hands mechanically forward, and with every three steps he touched a shed leg; His heart jumped at every touch of a shed leg - once he touched the arm of a man who had been blown away behind a shed leg; On another occasion, he touched a corpse crooked on top of the coal gang. He was no longer afraid, and his hands felt the same when he touched a human corpse as he did on a horse. He even thought that if the horse meat was eaten, the human corpse would be eaten as well!

The road under his feet was difficult to walk, and it was full of water and mud, and in some places the muddy water almost sank into his feet and neck. He is passing through a section of weathered shale. The tunnels had become low due to the accumulation of layers of sedimented rock powder in the ground, and for a long stretch of the tunnels was only half a man high, and he was forced to bend down and hang his head and rub forward, and just like that, his head and back still touched the roof from time to time. The torn wicker hat on his head was knocked off several times, and his back was burned in several places. He was so dazed that he had to lie down and crawl on the muddy ground. When his aching knees pressed against the ground covered with rock powder, he felt an indescribable pleasure, and for a moment he didn't even want to leave, he wanted to sink his whole sweaty body into the soft and cool muddy water, lie on the ground like a dog and gasp for a while, take a nap, have a dream, a dream about the sun, about the land, about his mother......

He decided to crawl over from the ground. But when he leaned down, all the strips of horse meat tied to his body were dragged to the ground, and he only climbed two steps, and his knees pressed a piece of horse meat that was dragging in the muddy water, and as soon as his body moved forward, the precious meat fell from his waist to the ground. He sat down in the muddy water and touched the meat again, held his breath and stuffed the strip of cloth around his waist, stuffed it and crawled forward again. After a few steps, another piece of meat fell......

He almost wanted to cry. He found that he really couldn't take away so much meat, he didn't know when he became so incompetent, he couldn't even take more than ten catties of meat! He's going to eat it first, and then throw some away.

He wiped two strips of meat weighing about three or four pounds that had fallen into the muddy water on his body, and ate them alone according to the coal gang. After only a few bites, he didn't want to eat it. He had enough horse meat in his belly to hold it anymore, so he reluctantly threw them down and continued to crawl forward. However, after not climbing five steps, he regretted it again, he could not forget the panic and despair that hunger had brought him, and he could not forget the slap he had received for stealing horse meat. He lay down in the muddy water and thought about it for a while, but finally decided to take the two horse meats with him.

He crawled back again, his hands groped in the muddy water, and when the two pieces of horse meat were touched, his eyes lit up, and in the haze, an illusion appeared in front of him, and he saw his kiln god again, the kiln god with a big head, small eyes, and a crooked nose! The kiln god squatted five steps away in front of him, looking at him coldly. His face was blue and the scar on his forehead was shining. He was not tall, short, thin and squatted there like a prawn, and the erect hair on his head and the beard on his chin resembled the whiskers of a prawn.

He was confused, and wept and crawled towards the blue-faced face, but as he crawled towards him, the illusion vanished, and the big-headed, small-eyed kiln god disappeared without a trace. The little rabbit cried in despair for a long, long time......

He took his horse's flesh on the road again, and after a dozen paces, he found a rusty wire in the silted powder, which he pulled out and pricked another one on himself, so that the horse's meat would not be dragged to the ground. In this way, it is much easier to climb forward.

I don't know how long it took for him to finally climb over the low, weathered shale section, and the roadway became high again, and he straightened up, leaned against the coal wall, and stood for breath. Only then did he remember the second animal and the third mule; Just as he thought of them, they appeared before him, and they had been lying here waiting for him for a long time.

The second animal and the third mule pounced on him, and without saying a word, they pressed him down, and he struggled desperately, but with so much horse meat tied to his body, he could not struggle with the second animal and the third mule.

He scolded:

"Grandma's cunt, what are you going to do?!"

The second animal and the third mule did not agree, but dragged him with his hands on the horse's meat, dragged it off, and threw it into the ditch beside him.

He understood what was going on, and cried and cried:

"Give me back my horse meat! I don't throw it, I just don't throw it! ”

In the darkness, the second animal raised his fist and punched him twice in the chest, scolding as he scolded:

"**Raised, bring so much horse meat, you have to eat it for a lifetime! Do you want to stay here for the rest of your life?! Stand up and come with us! ”

He didn't do it, he lay on the ground and didn't get up. When the three mules reached out to pull him, he grabbed the hands of the three mules and bit them, and the three mules were in a hurry, screamed in pain, and kicked him several times.

"Little bastard, you're fucking tired of life, and I'll strangle you if you go wild! Walk! ”

"Fuck your ancestors! I...... I'm not going with you! I...... I'll go on my own! ”

The second animal grabbed him by the hair and lifted his head into the air, and then, with the left and right bows, there were two fierce slaps:

"If you don't come with us, you can't do it! Walk! If you don't leave, I'll kill you! ”

"If you don't go, you just don't go!"

Syllable! Syllable! Two more strong slaps hit his shriveled little face:

"Do you want to go?"

"Don't go! Fuck me, shit! ”

The second animal was mad, panting like an old bear. The little rabbit felt a stinky, disgusting heat hit his face. He kept twisting his head, trying to dodge it, but he couldn't dodge, his hair was still firmly in the big hands of the second animal, his legs were pressed by the knees of the second animal, and the whole body couldn't move, he only had the share of being beaten, and he had no strength to fight back.

Like a vicious devil, the second animal struck him with all his might, and his slaps fell on his face, neck, and head from time to time. He really couldn't understand why the second animal was so cruel to him. He was silent, silently enduring the beating of the two animals, he didn't even feel much pain, he seemed to have become a piece of unconscious log, as if it was another person who was beaten, not him. But then his soul began to rebel, and countless spinning Venus rose before his eyes, and in this spinning Venus, he seemed to see a powerful self, an energetic wolf, fiercely pounced on the two animals. Yes, he is not willing to give in, he wants to resist. He became a wolf, and he was a wolf. People will become wolves! Suddenly, he bit the second animal with his sharp teeth, and the second animal screamed; All of a sudden, the two animals also became like wolves, they pounced together, desperately biting each other's bodies, they peeped at each other, tore, howled, rolled, extinguished pieces of Venus......

The spinning Venus suddenly disappeared in front of him, and he stepped into another dark world in the pleasure of biting.

He fainted.

He never begged for mercy, never said a word of weakness. When he awoke from his coma, he heard the heavy sighs of the second animal and the muttering of the third mule:

"Let's ...... What's wrong with us? Why should we ...... And how will you beat him like this? ”

"Alas! Alas! My Tian dick bastard! Cough! Cough! I'm not a thing! I...... Cough! Cough! I......! ”

He heard the two animals whining, and the cry was like a muffled thunder in the valley, with a resonance from deep in his chest. He couldn't help but think of the old cow in tears, and he thought that the crying of the two animals must look like the old cow.

"If we continue like this, we'll all go crazy!"

It was the second animal talking, and he could hear it.

"I ...... I didn't want to hit him, really, but I didn't know why, so I did it! I'm afraid he'll ...... if he's left behind."

He felt a large, rough, dry hand caressing his head, which trembled with infinite remorse and guilt; But he could not forgive him, he felt that the hand was like a wolf's claw, and he really wanted to grab it to his mouth at once and bite it hard.

He didn't bite. He knew that now was not the time, now, he did not have the strength to deal with this wolf stronger than him, he had to wait for the opportunity, he had to attack when he was hungry, thin, exhausted, and unable to support him, he must bite him to death!

He struggled to sit up, shook off the hands of the second animal, and crawled around looking for the horse meat that belonged to him, and the second animal and the third mule babbled so much, but he did not bother to listen, let alone answer. He had only one thought, to get all the horse meat that belonged to him back, and he couldn't throw any of it! He will eat to their heart's content, and he will clean them up when they are hungry! He found the meat in the ditch a few paces away, and he began to tie it to his body again, and two animals and three mules came to his aid, and helped him to tie the strips of meat with wire and strips of cloth.

He won. With the will of a true man, he earned the respect of two other men. From this moment on, he felt that he had grown up all at once, not sixteen, but twenty-six, thirty-six. He has the dignity of a man! From this moment on, he was on an equal footing with them, he no longer needed anyone's mercy and care, he was who he was, and no one could rule for him anymore! He has his own choices and opinions!

He will take care of himself.

He will live well for himself.

They went on their way again in silence.

The most glorious moment of the second animal's life was when he stripped off a woman's pants in the field outside Dongdagou. More than 20 years have passed, and he has not forgotten the twilight scene of early spring: it was a very cold day, and the field was still covered with a thin layer of snow, and the ground was not wet, the snow was patchy, and the land without snow was dry and soft. A reddish and yellow sunset fell far into the sky, like a lantern that was about to run out of oil. He and the woman looked at each other silently, and suddenly, for some reason, he knelt down, wrapped his arms around the woman's feet and neck, his head against the woman's soft abdomen, and he felt an unusually strong possessiveness in his heart. It was such a cold day, but he didn't feel cold, he picked the woman's pants and did that kind of thing. The woman didn't struggle, she didn't resist, she had long been in love with him. So, he experienced the infinite pleasure of life in the woman, and for the pleasure of that moment, he felt that it was worthwhile for a man to go into the world once; He took possession of the woman, and he possessed a world.

From then on, that world belonged to him, and everything in that world was arranged by him. That world was all the fun of his life. Whenever he went down to the kiln with a coal pickaxe and an oil lamp, he thought that he had a woman, and he wanted to live well, for that woman, and for himself. When he came up to the kiln, ate and finished eating, and slept on the broken kang with his woman in his arms, he was so satisfied that he couldn't be satisfied anymore. Think about it, with food, clothes, and women to sleep with, what else do you need in life? However, these happy days did not last long, new lives were born one after another, and the burden on his shoulders became heavier and heavier. When the first two children came into this world, he didn't feel much of a crisis, and he felt that he could support them on his own. But when the third and fourth children came to the world again, he was a little frightened, and he didn't even dare to sleep, but in this way, the fifth and sixth children still rushed into the world with their front feet and back feet. There's really no way around it.

There were more children, and his pitiful pleasure was deprived, and there was only one room in all. At the beginning, he also hoped that the children would go to bed early, but often he would go to sleep himself before the children could fall asleep. Later, he and his wife had to go to the wheat field again, as they had done the first time......

It's a shame, he doesn't dare to think about it, when he and his woman lie in the wheat field, he no longer has the feeling of happiness that he had the first time, he feels that life is difficult and terrible, he feels that he is really like an animal, let the burden of life be weighed down.

Now that he and his women are old, he knows very well that they have both come to the end of their lives; Even if he survives, life won't be much fun. Sometimes he really wants to die, and when he dies, he can be irresponsible for everything. Really, why should he be responsible for them? The eldest and second are not young, and the main responsibility of this family should be borne by them, he is old, old, old......

He didn't know how long he had been in this deep underground until now, he just felt that it was a long, long time. This long period of immersion in darkness was like an invisible demon, taking away most of his remaining life, and his heart suddenly aged for more than ten years. As he crawled through the weathered shale sections, he suddenly found that his legs and feet were not so dexterous, the joints on his knees and arms "gurgled", his palms and knee bones were numb and numb when pressed against the ground, and there was a dull pain in his bones. His revered muscles were gone, his arms were as thin as sticks, and the flesh of his thighs was loose. He crawled forward step by step, he felt that he was becoming an animal little by little, he imagined himself as a scrawny old horse, and at another he imagined himself as an exhausted old cow, his stiff arms and numb palms seemed to be turning into the front hooves of a cow and horse, and his knees and feet dragged on the ground seemed to be turning into the hind legs of a cow and horse. He is no longer any different from the cows and horses, he is as naked as them, he walks on all fours like them, he has lost the autonomy of life like them, and the reins of life are no longer in his own hands.

He also recalled more than once the good times of his youth. He is a dignified person, and like every man, he has had his own proud years and experiences. More than 20 years ago, on the grass in front of the house of the Qingquan County Official Kiln Bureau, he and many villagers from various counties went to the official kiln bureau to draw the kiln - that year there was a great drought in Ningyang, and there was no harvest, and many people went to the Qingquan official kiln bureau to go to the kiln. The general office of the official kiln bureau, the assistant old man set up a shelf, to carry out a force test on the kiln, the official kiln bureau in front of the grass placed a stone stone weighing about 200 catties, as long as you can lift the stone stone, it is qualified. It didn't take much effort for him to move the stone stone off the ground, and with a "ha-hey", he actually lifted the stone stone over his head!

At that time, how strong he was! He felt that he could stomp out of a hole in the ground by stomping his feet!

How nice!

How good is it all!

However, the good times were over at once, and before he could even chew on the taste of the good times, the good times blew past him like a gust of wind, leaving behind only some dead grass and leaves......

Is this called life?

Life can really deceive people!

He didn't know how long he would be under the mine, and as he groped in the dark, he thought of death from time to time. Death is an extremely easy thing for him, not to mention starvation, suffocation, and thirst, every rise in the alleyway may kill him. At times, he simply saw the huge mine as a giant tomb, imagining that he was dead, but that his spirit was wandering around. Didn't people say, "A thousand roads are exhausted, come and dig out the black charcoal". In fact, from the moment he lifted the big stone in front of the bureau of the official kiln bureau, he was destined to be swallowed up and buried by the mine, and it is not surprising that he died here today.

But he took pity on the little rabbit. He has enjoyed all the tastes of life, but the little rabbit has not, he is still a child, he should live with confidence! He felt that at the end of his life, the little rabbit was like a lamp that had just emitted the light of life, and this lamp should not be extinguished no matter what. He didn't hate the little rabbit, really, not at all, even when he found out that the little rabbit was stealing that piece of horse meat, he didn't hate him, he hit him completely unconscious impulse, and after the beating, he regretted it. But regret is regret, but fight is still beaten. It seems that it is one person who hits someone, and it is another person who regrets it. Just now he and the three mules were too heavy, and the little rabbit was beaten badly, he thought, this can't be completely blamed on him, he is kind, he is responsible for the life of the little rabbit, if the little rabbit is left behind and has an accident, what kind of face does he have to go to see the father and brother of the Tian family? The little rabbit is also too strong, and he doesn't ask for mercy when he is beaten, and if he does, he may come to his senses.

He won't hit him anymore, never again. If he wants to beat the rabbit again, let him rot his hands and paws, rotten stomach and intestines, and let him die badly! He wants to treat the bunny like a real brother......

The roadway in front of him was completely blocked, he touched it with his hands, but he didn't find any gaps, the collapsed gangue and coal blocks blocked the ditch, and the water under his feet accumulated more than a foot deep in the roadway, and when he groped around, he came across some wooden wedges floating on the water, and the wooden wedges touched his legs from time to time.

The three mules and the little rabbit who walked behind him also followed, and they couldn't tell where they were, and they didn't know whether they should do their best to get through the blockage in the alley ahead.

While he was hesitating, the second animal cried out:

"It's windy!"

Sure enough, there was wind. The three of them felt a cool wind blowing from somewhere at the same time. If there is wind, it means that the alley is not completely blocked, maybe there is no place to block, they did not touch it.

They touched it with their hands, but they still didn't find a gap that could penetrate through people, and they didn't find the wind in front of the blockage.

This shows that on the other side of the alley they touched, there was a ventilated alley!

They searched back along the other side of the alley, and after less than twenty steps back, they found an uphill alley. This unexpected discovery lifted their spirits, and they thought they had found their way to the inclined shaft, and they desperately climbed upward......

Three mules climbed on top.

Since killing the red horse, drinking the horse's blood, and eating the horse's liver, the three mules' energy has gradually recovered, and he first let the second animal carry it away, and then, he can make do with the second animal himself. When he passed through that weathered shale section, he climbed extremely well, and he himself did not expect that his hands and feet were more dexterous than those of two animals! This is of course thanks to the two animals. After killing the horse, he pounced on it like a wolf, and he wanted to bite off the horse's leg alive, and the two animals beat him, so that the corners of his mouth bleed. The second animal didn't let him eat enough at once, only let him drink some horse blood and eat a little horse liver, if there was no second animal to stop him at that time, his life might have been given away. Naturally, he was also grateful to his distant fourth uncle Hu Dezhai, although when he fell to the ground hungry, Hu Dezhai was unwilling to carry him, he had gritted his teeth and hated him, but he still felt sad for Hu Dezhai's death, he felt that he died for them, even for him. When he left him, he had cut off a small piece of the best meat from a dead horse and put it in his mouth, and he did not want him to be a starving ghost in the underworld.

From the moment he walked up this uphill road, he came to the front, he thought that from now on, he should not drag the second animal anymore, he could not drag the second animal anymore, he could not let the second animal explore the road in front of him, it was very dangerous, he had to take this responsibility. The second animal saved his life, and he must sincerely treat the second animal as his second brother and his own second brother!

In the past, he looked down on the two animals, and the fight between the Hu and Tian families was not to mention for the time being, as far as his appearance was concerned, he did not like it. In August of the previous year, when he took the lead in a strike over the "injection incident", two-thirds of the workers in the mine did not go to the kiln, but the two cattle still worked for the company's bastards; In order to sabotage the strike, the company gave the wages of the third shift to those who went to the kiln, and this guy actually did not go to the kiln for three whole days underground, and he earned the wages of twenty-seven shifts! When he heard about it, he vowed to break his leg. Later, when the strike was won, he forgot about it.

He was thankful that he hadn't broken his leg.

He was a little strange, when the second animal beat Hu Dezhai violently and forced Hu Dezhai to carry him, he found an overwhelming majesty in the second animal. Because in his impression, the second animal had never beaten anyone except for being beaten, and he almost couldn't believe that the person in front of him was the second animal in a nest! How many precious things in people are hidden by mediocrity! For a while, he felt a little guilty, and he felt that no matter how much he was in the past, he was actually not as good as the second animal.

He recognized the special order established by the two animals with their fists, recognized the absolute authority of the two animals, he was not unconvinced, he firmly believed that he was inferior to him.

That's what people are like, all kinds of people have the environment to which they are adapted, and all kinds of people have special authority of all kinds of people.

The slope under his feet was steep and slippery, and from time to time there were cold drips of water on his head, which fell on his sweaty face, on his back, and on his thighs, and above the steep slope there was a trickle of water, and the sound of the water was like a cheerful stream on the ground, and he listened to it and felt very pleasant, as if he were already in a light on the ground.

He climbs very slowly. He kept waiting for the second animal and the little rabbit, and he didn't feel too tired. Every three or five steps he climbed, he rested on his legs. Before he knew it, he had climbed to the top and touched a wooden damper, and when he touched it, he shouted happily:

"Second brother, rabbit, climb quickly! Fast! We're at the top! ”

After shouting, he regretted it again, he suddenly thought that the uphill road he had just climbed over did not seem to be the shaft of the inclined shaft, it was too short, no more than half a mile long in total, and the side of the wind gate was by no means a charming sunshine, so he didn't need to be so happy!

All of a sudden, like a deflated ball, he sat limply on the damp ground along the frame of the damper, and he didn't even want to push the damper.

After the second animal climbed up, it waited for a long time before the little rabbit staggered to catch up.

The two animals carried the damper hard, and the three of them passed through the damper and walked into another alley.

The air in the alley is not good, the wind in the alley is warm, mixed with the smell of soot, one end of the alley is a dead hole, they can only touch the other end forward, and they have been touching for a long time before touching another damper. Inside the damper is a downhill alley, and there is no other passable alley other than this downhill alley. They had to go down the downhill roadway again. When touching down, the second animal and the third mule had some ominous premonitions, and experience told them that going up meant sunshine and survival; Going down means darkness and death. The exit of the inclined shaft can only be above, and it can never be below.

But they have to go down.

They had nowhere to go but to retreat.

This downhill alley was longer than the uphill alley, and they took a break on the way before going down to the end. When they went down to the end, their mood was very melancholy and heavy, and the three mules even wanted to cry, and he suddenly felt that he could not support it anymore......

The second animal forced him forward. After walking a short distance, they found the jujube red horse that had been cut to pieces!

After touching it for a few days, they touched it back to where they were!

The three mules threw themselves on the foul pile of horse skins and horse meat, and howled like cows......