Seeing that I followed step by step, the long-faced man looked at me, looked at Old Man Liu suspiciously, and asked, "Who is this child?"

"Zhang Xiaotian! This kid has an aura for cows, so I'll take him with me. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Old man Liu's introduction was quite formal, and the long-faced man said 'oh', looked at me carefully, and said, "Successor? It's too small! ”

"It's a little smaller, I'll take him for a few more years, this line, I have to practice my eyesight! ......, Da Liu, what price? ”

Hearing Old Man Liu's question, Da Liu put his thumb to the carriage, raised the middle-aged man who was holding the cow, and then stretched out his index finger and waved.

Then he pointed his thumb to himself, followed by his index finger and thumb at the same time.

It's like a dumb riddle, and it confuses me. Later, I learned the meaning of this series of gestures: If you want to do it, I will give eight hundred.

After Da Liu did this, he took out ten yuan and handed it to Old Man Liu, who took the money and said, "I'll look at the cow!"

Then we came to the cow, and the old man patted the cow on the back, and then opened the cow's mouth and looked at the teeth.

Seeing his action, I suddenly remembered the sentence I memorized yesterday: the incisors are square and the body is full, the triangle is standing to one percent, and the incisors are balls and the body is old, and they want to go to the harvest year and become three percent fat.

Then Old Man Liu touched the tendons of the cow's front legs, which reminded me of the words in the "Ox Master Sutra" - one foot of leg tendons is 300 catties, plus an inch and 80 catties!

"It turns out that Old Man Liu is teaching me to be a cow!" It dawned on me.

Then Old Man Liu stretched out a hook nine to Da Liu, and stretched out five fingers. Da Liu was stunned for a moment when he saw it, and pressed it down with one hand.

So, turning his head, Old Man Liu pulled the middle-aged man, walked to the side and said, "What do you think of this number?"

As he spoke, Old Man Liu stretched out a hook and stretched out a finger, and the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head.

"So what?" Old man Liu stretched out another finger, but the middle-aged man still shook his head.

The two grinded like this, until the old man Liu stretched out five fingers, and the middle-aged man still shook his head; In the end, Old Man Liu was stunned for a moment, stretched out a six, and the man still shook his head.

Seeing this, Old Man Liu also shook his head and said, "You take it away!" Let's see if there are any other traders who have more than this number, no, if you want to sell it, you will bring it back. ”

After speaking, Old Man Liu handed the ten yuan to Da Liu.

After a while, someone shouted Old Man Liu again, this time I had a heart, and the old man Liu's movements corresponded to the sentences on the "Niu Shi Jing", and seemed to understand a little.

But I don't understand what they're doing with those moves.

Later, I couldn't help but ask Old Man Liu, and Old Man Liu told me that there are two ways to make gestures, one is because the ancients said that the cow has spirituality, and they are afraid that it will hurt people when it hears something, so they use gestures; The second is that cattle are the basis of agriculture, many dynasties in ancient times forbade the killing of cattle, and private traders, afraid that people would hear the customs declaration, so they used gestures instead of speaking, and over time, it became a rule.

At noon, Old Man Liu talked about the sale of three cows: the second one belonged to the cattle dealer Da Liu, and the middle-aged man went around and brought the cow back! One end is between farmers.

Next, someone shouted that the old man Liu was a cow, and the old man Liu went to look around the cow before and after, pulled his tail, broke his teeth, and let people cut the grass, and let the cow slip around twice, which was beyond the scope of the knowledge I learned yesterday, and I had to look at it inexplicably.

The bazaars in the countryside are all bought and sold in the afternoon, but in the morning, Old Man Liu negotiated five transactions and fifty yuan! Obediently, my eldest brother worked in the construction team for a day, moved bricks for a day, and earned two dollars and six!

After the gathering, Old Man Liu took me into the mutton soup restaurant and asked for a catty and a half mutton ......, and from then on I preferred to be with Old Man Liu!

In this way, Old Man Liu crammed for words, taught by example, I memorized the book "Niu Shi Jing" for more than 30 days, and the reason why it was so fast was because I looked up the dictionary quickly; The second is because there are duplicate words, so I don't have to look it up.

After memorizing it, I learned that the "Ox Master Sutra" is divided into three parts, namely: tailor-made, dwarfed, and spirited.

The first part of the "Ox Master Sutra" has a sentence about the medicine cow and herbs, I can still understand it, but I can't understand it at all in the future.

And I see the spirit of the mountain fog cover, which is full of meaning, anger, and spirit, mysterious and mysterious, obscure. Fortunately, I got used to cramming and memorized it.

I didn't have to go to Old Man Liu's house after I finished memorizing, I originally felt a little lost - the aunt of the Liu family was very good to me, and gave me meat to eat! But Old Man Liu told me: When it's okay, if it's a fair, go to the bull market.

Do you need to tell this! I made up my mind that I would be fine at the fair!

In this way, I did what I decided, and even though I was in junior high school (the junior high school was in the town), I would run out for a while at noon whenever there was a fair.

Of course, as I grew older, Old Man Liu also explained to me the meaning of some sentences, but only to the content of the tailor-made article!

In the second year of junior high school, I have been studying with Old Man Liu for three years, I feel that I am a little hot about the tailor-made article, so I asked Old Man Liu when I can be a cow, these three years, I have been familiar with Old Man Liu, and I have nothing to say!

Who knew that Old Man Liu was not interested in my eager eyes, and he said lightly Although everyone in this line knows you, Xiangniu is not looking for someone, but someone looking for you, you still need an opportunity.

When I heard this, my heart was so cold that I was looking for some opportunity! I'm so young!

But I didn't expect that the opportunity would come shortly after I finished talking to Old Man Liu, and it happened in my own home.

It was the end of May '97, when I was already fourteen, and when I came home from school on Saturday morning (at that time I had five and a half days a week), I saw my father out of cow dung and my mother cleaning the house.

"Cleaning? What kind of wind is this blowing? "I'm a little weird.

In the past 97 years, the economy has developed, the peasants have some money in their hands, and the stone houses and thatched houses in our village have been rebuilt into tiled houses one after another.

But my family didn't, because of the marriage of my three older brothers and two sisters, the family was already empty! I have been living in a dark and narrow thatched house, and I am the only one in the whole village!

And the furniture is also paint off the paint, broken holes, lame lame, tattered antiques, there is no value to clean up, usually a guest is to my three brothers' house!

"Mother, what are you doing?" I asked, confused.

"Calf, tomorrow your little brother will bring his daughter-in-law to ......, and you will go back and shave your head and clean up!" Mother replied happily.

"I see! No wonder you have to clean up, this ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, and similarly, her in-laws also want to see her daughter-in-law, which is really not good to let the three brothers' houses go! ”

I understood, but I had never heard that my little brother had found his daughter-in-law, so I asked my mother, "Who told my little brother about his daughter-in-law, why haven't I heard about it?"

"Your little brother talked about himself!" Mother replied happily.

Listening to my mother say this, I fully understood, my little brother has a smart brain, was admitted to the primary secondary school, and was assigned to the town; It's good, and if you can speak well, you naturally like it.

Of course, I was also happy in my heart, after all, it was my brother who found a daughter-in-law, and he talked about it - it was a very good thing to be able to talk about a daughter-in-law at that time!

This brother has the ability, and the younger brother is not glorious! So I ran out into town and got my chicken-coop hair clean.

Early the next morning, my mother took out my white shirt and suit pants again, and my mother was reluctant to let me wear them, and only took them out when relatives had happy events.

And my three sisters-in-law are also dressed neatly, their heads are dry and quiet, and their nine nephews and nieces are also neat, and the whole family is like a New Year!

The reason why my three sisters-in-law are like this is because according to our rules here, the new daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door will visit the three of them as usual, and they will give a meeting gift as usual!

In this way, the whole family gathered together, as if waiting for the president to review it, excited and expectant. But the first- and second-class ones have not yet come, and my little nephew and soldier (the child of the third sister-in-law's family) are in a hurry to go out and see it several times!

Looking at the quartz clock on the wall, it was almost ten o'clock, I was also anxious, and at the same time I felt the urgency of urinating, so I ran out and solved it in a small alley outside, and the reason why I ran out was because there were many people at home, and it was inconvenient.

After solving the problem, when I went home again, I listened to the scumbags of the little nephews and nieces in the yard from outside the wall, as well as the chuckles of the sisters-in-law.

I thought it must be my little brother who brought his daughter-in-law here, so I hurried two steps into the courtyard and saw that my three sisters-in-law, my mother, and then Da Yu'er (my eldest niece), Great Wall (my eldest nephew), and Da Bing were surrounding my third brother and a girl into the house.

From behind, the girl is slender and tall, with long ponytail hair, a white butterfly shirt on her upper body, and fashionable white bell pants on her lower body, which looks like a green onion from a distance!

"What does my sister-in-law look like?"

I took two quick steps, rushed up, squeezed away a few children, looked sideways, and was startled - I grass! Isn't this my homeroom teacher Bai Tingting!

Bai Tingting is not only my homeroom teacher, but also my Chinese teacher, she has two nicknames in the class, one is called 'Jade Face Guanyin', and the other is called 'Duanpen'er'.

The jade-faced Guanyin is easy to understand; And 'Duanpen'er is an infinite fear of her, whenever the student is naughty or distracted in class, she will not beat you, but just let you stand in the corner by the podium, and if you make a mistake, she will let you stand in the corner with the basin.

I used to sneak out to have a good time with Old Man Liu every time I was in the market, so I suffered a lot! And she also asked me to call my parents to talk, but fortunately I was clever and went to town to call my little brother, which was kind of fooling.

It was only later that I learned that they had actually started talking about that date, and I was stunned!

"No wonder they didn't let me serve the pot recently, it turned out that they had settled down!"

It dawned on me why she had given me a boost recently!

It's just that I feel that Bai Tingting's face is wrong, and there is no trace of shame in that face, let alone a smile!