Chapter 210: Crazy Girl-Ah Jiumei
But all the women on the road of the horse gang have a miserable fate. Because as long as a woman who is involved with the horse gang, it is nothing more than these kinds of endings:
One is to wait for his relatives to come back all day long, and in the morning and evening, he runs to the village to look around while washing clothes, for fear that his husband and children will never come back if they are not careful.
That's good, at least my family is probably still alive. The rest of the husbands either go out of town and find a new love in a distant place, and they may not come back. Those who are knowledgeable may also pass on the book to inform them, and there are many people who simply say hello without saying a word after seeing different ideas.
And even worse, just like the one who suffered an accident on the zipline and died, if the caravan is still there, it can still bring the exact death news when he returns. But whether it is running away or encountering an unexpected horseman, what is left behind are widowed and sad women.
It stands to reason that there is nothing wrong with whether they remarry, observe festivals or martyrdom, but there are too many moral kidnappings in the world, and they bind the thinking of the world with frames and rules out of nothing, so that the ignorant and simple mortals think that only those who set up the archway of chastity and honor their in-laws for a lifetime are the orthodox women who keep women's ways. Others who do not conform to human feelings and sophistication are deviants.
According to this, Ah Jiu Mei is not a conservative woman at all.
If there is a fourth way for the women on the road to the caravan in addition to turning into wangfu stones, being widows who keep festivals, and risking the abuse of splitting their heads and covering their faces to remarry, Ah Jiu Mei has set an example for them.
Men can run horses and be horses, why can't women make achievements and become horse drivers written in legends?
It was after witnessing what happened to her cousin that she had such an unprecedented idea.
Ah Jiumei's cousin's husband is also a horse driver with great potential. On the day of her wedding, Ah Jiumei, who was only twenty-eight years old at the time, went to the cave room to eat and drink and be happy. When she grabbed candy to eat, she also fantasized that one day she could find a good man as handsome as her cousin-in-law as her husband.
Unbeknownst to him, the next day, my cousin's newlywed husband went out of the cave house and ran with the horse team. After all, if you ask for a daughter-in-law, you have to find a way to make money to support your family. And the horse merchant is undoubtedly a relatively fast way to get rich.
It's just that after another two days, my cousin-in-law came back. It's just that he was carried back. The man was already dead, and the one who came back was, to be exact, a corpse.
The cause of death Ah Jiumei can't remember clearly, drowned? Fell to your death? It was hacked to death by the bandits, and it didn't take long for her to forget. But her cousin's heart-rending cry and depressed expression filled her memories in the hours that followed.
Three years later, my cousin committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. Ah Jiu Mei also had a bold idea: she wants to become a horse driver! Instead of waiting for fate to decide the direction of her life, she should take the initiative to choose the path she wants to take.
Her father, a weathered old horseman, did not take her words to heart, thinking that she was merely stimulated by the death of a cousin close to her since childhood. So, after Ah Jiumei finished the housework of the female worker, he ran to the horse to help load and unload the goods, and when he trained the old spicy horse foot to steal the teacher, he did not show too much rejection.
When it was time to ship, the horse team still went out to the publisher as usual, thinking about the million-dollar mountain in front of the destination. On the day of departure, Dad unexpectedly didn't see Ah Jiumei coming to see her off, just thinking that she was angry because he didn't agree to her request to go out with the team, and he didn't take it seriously.
If you don't come, you won't come, the time to set off has arrived, and the team will not wait for anyone, but can only leave. Sometimes, looking at the courage of a horse pot head, and seeing whether he is stepping on the time and whether the idea is accurate, you can see one or two. After all, walking a horse seems to be a physical job, but in fact it is a technical job that does not tolerate the slightest fork, and the best way to improve the fault tolerance rate is to be as accurate as possible.
That's what Daddy thinks, and that's what he does. He's been like this all his life, and this time will be no exception. No, the horse team walked fifty miles, and sure enough, they came to the expected canyon.
At this moment, a cool breeze blew from the mountain stream, and thick dark clouds rolled out of nowhere, covering the entire mountain in a short time. When the father saw that the mountain rain was coming, he did not panic, he grabbed the chew of the head horse with one hand, and turned his head to direct the team to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
This series of shouting actions was completed smoothly, exactly like his previous dozens of walks, and he was not picky. And Dad also thinks from experience that this is just another ordinary mountain rain. After all, in the Hengduan Mountains on these ten miles of different days, this kind of rain clouds come and go from time to time, and the horsemen are accustomed to it.
It's just that, pulling the horse, looking up at the black clouds pressing down on the city, around the dark sky, Daddy's brows are furrowed more and more tightly. It stands to reason that there are often mountain rains on this road, and there is nothing strange about it, but the problem is that this time, it seems to have come too violently and too quickly.
"Boom!"
Without waiting for the caravan to turn through the narrow mountain road that could only accommodate one man and one horse side by side, and came to the shelter at the bottom of the relatively spacious valley, an earth-shattering thunder followed without warning and instantly thundered down like lightning in the day.
It would be fine if the thunder fell in the distance, in that case, the experienced mules and horses would not be affected too much, but this sudden explosion of thunder fell impartially less than a hundred meters in front of Daddy, splitting a century-old giant pine that rose straight into the sky like a sword.
With the low and deep deafening thunder, the broken old green pine, only brushed the horse gang road, which was almost crowded with men and horses, and it was impossible to avoid it, and fell into the abyss on the edge of the cliff without danger.
Just when Daddy and the others were glad to have escaped, the head horse, who was frightened by this scene, had already "whooped" and neighed a few times, suddenly broke free from the reins in Daddy's hand, went crazy, and ran forward lifelessly.
It doesn't matter if it's an ordinary mule or horse, if it doesn't listen to the command, forget it, it's a big deal to let the horse's feet in charge of it catch up and chop the head and cover the face with a few whips, and it will be honest at once; But the problem this time is that the head horse is frightened out of control, and all the horses behind it are looking at the horse's head, and now the life has changed, and it affects the whole horse team.
Sure enough, the long line of horses saw that the first horse began to gallop, and thought that some accident had happened, but despite the exclamations of the horsemen, they all spread their hooves and ran as if they were dead.
Seeing this scene, the horses and feet thought of something for a while, and quickly stood sideways against the stone wall on the side of the cliff, and at the same time opened a pair of tricks, for fear that if they were not careful, they would be taken off the cliff by the tired horses and die without a place to be buried.
Even so, under the gallop of the horses, there were still two horsemen who could not avoid it, and they were hooked by the mules and horses that rushed over with them, and the men and horses rolled down to the bottom of the cliff, and before they could let out a terrible howl, the people fell to the bottom of the valley with the miserable cry that gradually faded away.
Daddy had only one thought in his heart at this time: it's over!
It's all over! If the frightened head horse cannot be stabilized at the turn of the next mountain road, it is still attacked by it on the narrow road that is getting more and more dangerous, and it is only a matter of time before the horse driver falls into the abyss without a horse driver.
He felt sorry for the goods on his horse's back that were worth a year's or two of the village's expenses, and even more pity for the horses that had been with him since he was young.
Just when the old man, who had nothing to do, watched the horses rushing forward in a hurry, a white light flashed in front of him, and there was a figure on the back of a horse in front of him.
The man's legs were clasped around the horse's belly, and his body was almost close to the horse's neck, and he followed the galloping horse, rising and falling slightly with the horse's hooves. It's vague, but Daddy is sure it's a person.
It's just that, at first glance, the figure is a little familiar. I saw that the man was slender, superb riding, and in the gallop, the big black braid that was smooth and smooth was violently bumped in the back of his head.
"Sister Ajiu?" Daddy was stunned, and an electrocution-like thought flashed through his mind. Immediately, the panicked old man rushed past him without caring about the galloping horse, and hurriedly leaned over to the galloping back and shouted, "Crazy girl, come back!" Come back! ”
It's just that the hoarse voice is exchanged for only the chaotic sound of horses' hooves and the back that fades away without hesitation.
At this time, the regretful father remembered why Ah Jiumei did not appear in the female family team to see her off before leaving. At that time, she had simply lowered the brim of her hat, blended into the middle of the traveling horse team, and was ready to go.
Who would have thought that the girl's rookie trip would encounter such an unreliable danger. If it is other experienced horses, they naturally know how to choose between goods and human lives, and the crazy girl who is not afraid of tigers in the newborn calf still does not know how to advance or retreat in the face of the current crisis.
However, at this moment, complaining has long been useless. After realizing this, the old father and a group of experienced horse drivers, after passing the galloping horse team, hurriedly came to the corner of the cliff, stood in a row one by one, and looked condescendingly at the bottom of the winding mountain road, trying to find the Ah Jiu Mei who was trying to catch up with the crazy head horse.
I saw that on the narrow mountain road, she saw that there was an occasional gap where two horses could pass side by side, and she slammed the horse's belly, and urged the horse to sit down and raise her hooves, and passed by the horses that were blocking the way, and little by little overtook the panting galloping horse, and rushed forward.
Looking at it, not only the father of the horse pot, but even the faces of other horses' feet, involuntarily oozing beads of sweat the size of soybeans - this Ah Jiu Mei is too messy, in order to catch up with the head horse, she almost does everything, there is no way to go, sometimes there is no chance to grab the side of the cliff, in order not to let go of the opportunity to overtake the front horse, simply squeezed from the outside of the dangerous cliff.
Once, the horse under her seat was squeezed by the frightened horse inside, and even half of the horse's hooves were stepped into the air.
In this exciting speed of life and death, seeing that there were still two mules and horses away from the head horse, and the fork in front was also close at hand, Na Jiu Mei made a crazy move - I saw that she actually let go of the reins and stood up tremblingly on the horse's back.
"Apu Sanduo bless!" At this point, the sweaty father had no time to scold the crazy girl in his palm, and all he could do was pray that the true god would take care of his unresponsive female feet.
As for the word that came to his mind when he saw the heroic back in the distance, the first word that came to mind was "horse's foot" instead of "daughter", he also felt very strange. But all this did not prevent him from sweating a lot for her playful movements as the white figure stepped on the horse's back one after another.
The moment Ah Jiu Mei stepped out, her original mount happened to be squeezed off the cliff by the startled horses next to her. Startled, the old man and the onlookers screamed instinctively.
When they saw that her figure was not affected too much, but stumbled over the backs of the two horses, and landed on the shoulders of the head horse, the big stone in everyone's hearts that had been raised to the throat fell to the ground with a bang.
Seeing the reins of the head horse, after tightly stopping the out-of-control horse team in front of the fork in the road, Ah Jiu Mei turned her head and looked proudly across the circling mountain road, and the eyes of the horse pot head father were already full of tears.
She is a natural horse-footed, and her courage, skill and judgment are top-notch. The most important thing is that the enthusiasm and yearning for the ancient way of the caravan exuded by her never-say-die heart is stronger and deeper than anyone he has ever seen.
At this time, meeting Ah Jiumei's hot eyes, Daddy already had the answer in his heart. Tomb Hunter East White