Liuhe Village is not far from our village, less than 20 miles away, because there is an old river in front of the village, and the river is full of wild willows. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Early in the morning, I rode my eldest brother's Long March bicycle and went to Liuhe Village with two bottles of Yanghe Daqu prepared by my father. The reason why I went so early was because the summer vacation was hot, and I was panicked when I went late.

Over the years, I have been to Old Man Liu's house many times, and I am already familiar with the road. Old man Liu's family lived in three brick houses, with large windows and bright interiors, which could only be lived in by the richest households in the countryside at that time.

When I arrived at Old Man Liu's house, Old Man Liu and Aunt Liu were sitting under the locust tree in the courtyard to eat, Aunt Liu could not have children, but people were unusually clean and clean.

Seeing that I was coming, the aunt of the Liu family hurriedly greeted me: "Xiaotian is here, have you eaten, and if you haven't eaten, you will eat some more!"

I said that I didn't eat my aunt, but in fact, I really didn't eat when I got up so early!

"Come on, come on, my aunt will serve you dinner, this child is honest and sincere, what a good boy!" Saying that, the aunt of the Liu family smiled at Old Man Liu.

Old man Liu also smiled, beckoned to me and said, "Xiaotian, what kind of wine did you bring?" Bring it to me and try it! ”

I was so happy to see him that I hurriedly plugged in the car and took the wine. Old man Liu took the wine bottle, bit the cap of the bottle with his teeth, poured a wine glass full of it, raised it and took a sip, slapped his mouth, and said, "Good wine!"

At this time, the aunt of the Liu family had already filled me with noodles, and I ate them in two bites.

Old man Liu drank very slowly, took a sip, threw a peanut into his mouth, and then sandwiched a pickle strip, chewing slowly, a glass of wine actually drank for more than an hour, until the sun shone on the wooden pier where he was sitting, he drank all the residual wine, and then wiped his mouth with his hand at will, and ate a bowl of noodles.

Then the aunt of the Liu family cleaned up the table, he asked me to wait, and he entered the house by himself, and after a while, he took out two thick books from the house, and asked me to move the table to the shade, and then put the two books on the table, and said: "Carry it yourself, memorize it!"

"Mom! When will I be able to memorize such a thickness? "Looking at two books thicker than a porcelain bowl, I was a little dumbfounded!

But Old Man Liu sat down on the wooden pier, leaned his back on the locust tree, twisted the radio, turned on the stage, and then shook the pu fan in his hand and listened to "Xue Gang Anti-Tang"

Seeing this, I had to look at the book, and at a glance, I didn't even know any of the two big characters on the letter, it turned out to be traditional characters!

Fortunately, I know the two small characters below, the small characters are Cihai, and there is also a line of words at the bottom, marking the words of traditional and simplified comparison.

"It turned out to be a dictionary, and it scared me!"

I wiped the sweat from my forehead, and took out a thinner one below, the book cover has been yellowed and old, and there are three words written vertically on it, but these three words are also in traditional Chinese, I only know one and a half, and the reason why I say half is because the word in the middle is my guess.

The first word is cow, the second seems to be a teacher, and the third one I don't know.

Only then did I understand the intention of Old Man Guo to bring the dictionary, so I looked it up according to the radical search method.

I checked a word, thought about it, and asked the aunt of the Liu family to find a pen and paper. The aunt of the Liu family looked for it, but there was only a pencil head, but no paper! I saw that there was a cigarette case thrown by Old Man Liu under the table, so I carefully tore it open, and then one word at a time, neatly written on the cigarette paper, and the three words on the paper together are "Niu Shi Jing"

When I turned the page, it was full of traditional characters, and I did the same, and it took me an hour to translate the first page.

It turns out that the first page is the general outline, and the opening chapter is written in classical Chinese: The ox; The head of the five animals, the one on whom man depends, must not be overlooked; The needs of the three sacrifices and the changes of gods and ghosts cannot be understood; The five elements are in the body, the hope and the will, and the turn of fortune and misfortune are indispensable......

Looking at these, I didn't understand at all, and wanted to ask Old Man Liu, but who knew that Old Man Liu had already snored.

I flipped through the "Ox Master Sutra", which was about seventy or eighty pages long. Old man Liu asked me to memorize it, I memorized two pages a day, and it took forty or fifty days, and the summer vacation was only two months in total, so I wouldn't have to play!

Thinking of this, I continued to look up, and in the middle, the aunt of the Liu family cut a watermelon for me.

Further down is written: Tailor-made, but below are some sentences that seem to be poems and not poems, and proverbial generals, such as: Xiang Niu first frames, and then Xiang Xiang skulls; 300 catties of one foot of leg tendons, plus 1 inch and 80 catties; The front blade is like a saddle, the hind leg arch, and after the drought, it is difficult to move like the wind, and so on'.

After checking two pages, Old Man Liu woke up, glanced at me, saw the cigarette box paper, nodded, and asked with a smile, "How much have you checked?"

"It's two pages!"

"Okay, don't look it up, I'm familiar with these two pages here."

As he spoke, he bent over and put away the "Niu Shi Jing" and "Ci Hai", and kicked his slippers into the house.

When I came back, I pointed to the cigarette box paper and said to me with a smile: "This is the guy you will eat in the future, don't tell anyone, understand?"

I nodded vigorously, then took the cigarette case paper and asked, "What does this mean?"

"You're still young, what do you mean, don't care about it, just memorize it!"

I said yes, I felt like cramming! And after Old Man Liu told me, he went out humming a little song.

At noon, when I was familiar with my back, Old Man Liu also came back with his hands behind his back.

Then he asked me how I was memorizing, and I said that I was familiar with it, and when I said this, he took the cigarette box paper and asked me to recite it to him. Then beckoned me to dinner.

His family's lunch is much better than mine, although the dishes are home-grown beans, celery, loofahs and the like, but there is one thing in his family's dishes that my family absolutely does not usually have - meat!

At that time, the smell of the meat was so fragrant, fragrant and penetrating my brain, I devoured it, and my little heart suddenly became eager - it turned out that being a cattle master was so good, and I could still eat meat!

After eating, Old Man Liu said to me, you go back first! Come back tomorrow.

I didn't expect to have time to play in the afternoon! I happily agreed. Who knew that before going out, Old Man Liu told again: Don't patronize and play, memorize those tricks a few more times, but don't tell others!

Listen to him again! I nodded heavily and said, "Uncle, I know."

Seeing this, Old Man Liu smiled with satisfaction, waved his hand at me, and motioned for me to leave.

In this way, I went to Old Man Liu's house every once in a while, sometimes with a bottle of wine, sometimes with a fish.

The reason why it is every three or five days is mainly because we have four episodes in ten days, and every three, five, eight, and ten days of the lunar calendar, we have a set in Yulin Town. And when the market opens, Old Man Liu will go to the bull market to give a lecture.

But it's not like he's going to the bull market, I'm idle! Whenever there is a market the next day, the old man will say to me, don't come tomorrow, wait for me in the bull market.

How good it is to catch the market, there is delicious food, how can a child not like to catch the market!

The first time Old Man Liu told me, I went back and told my father that Old Man Liu told me to wait for him at the bull market—usually my father forbade me to run around alone.

When my father heard this, he knew that this was Old Man Liu passing on my skills, and of course he was very happy, so he gave me a dollar - at that time, a bowl of mutton soup was only one dollar, and a bowl of haggis soup was only three cents! My eldest brother worked in the construction team for a day to earn two dollars and six!

So, I took the money, and I couldn't sleep happily, and waited for the dawn with my eyes in my eyes.

Yulin Town is not far from our village, but it is only six or seven miles away, and the next day, when the sky is hazy, I ran to the town.

The cattle market is next to the veterinarian station in the east of the town, separated from the vegetable market and shops, and is a large open space, with only a few poplar trees, but there are many cow pegs for tethering cattle. Cow pegs and poplars are covered with cow hoof prints and cow dung prints.

Seeing that there was no one in the bull market, I went to the steamed bun shop and bought five steamed buns and a bowl of spicy soup to eat - this is the main purpose of my visit to the market!

After eating, I felt like a big deal, so I easily and leisurely turned back to the bull market, and at this time there were two or two bulls tied to the cow peg!

After that, the number of cattle gradually increased, and so many people came to see them, and even two blue cars with iron railings were welded.

At that time, there were very few cars, like a rarity, in the spring our village drove a tractor, I and the pillar chased to see the three-mile road, therefore, I couldn't help but run to a car, thought about addiction, who knew that the carriage was full of cow, and there was a strong smell of cow urine!

I hurriedly pinched my nose and ran to the side. At this time, I heard Old Man Liu shouting: "Xiaotian, Xiaotian, come here!"

I followed the sound and saw that Old Man Liu was standing alone under a poplar tree in the southeast corner of the bull market, waving to me.

I hurriedly ran over, and Old Man Liu touched my head and asked, "How big have you come, have you eaten?"

I said come a little later, and I'm done.

Old man Liu nodded, and then instructed me to follow him closely, just watch, just remember, don't ask, don't say.

I was young at the time, and I didn't have the heart to ask, I only knew how to obey the words of adults. Later, I learned that Old Man Liu had good intentions - the cattle master industry is the same as other professions, you need to boil up qualifications, the older the seniority, the more weight you speak, and the more you believe in the buyer and seller!

That's why I'm a little old man and asked me to come to the bull market.

And what I am asked of is the combination of learning and practice; The second is that I am afraid that I will say the wrong thing and ask the wrong thing, and leave a joke in this line of work, which will affect the credibility of the future public.

As time went by, in the bull market, there were more and more people and cattle, and the sound of bargaining gradually sounded, but Old Man Liu squatted under the tree and smoked unhurriedly.

"How do you say it? How did he squat? I wondered.

After a while, my leg hurt while standing, so I had to squat with it.

As soon as he squatted down, he heard someone shouting next to the car: "Uncle Liu, come and have a look."

Old man Liu heard the shouting and said to me, "Let's go over, remember, you only look and don't talk!" ‘

I hurriedly agreed, but I wondered how this 'line' was said.

When we came to the car, it turned out that a middle-aged man in front of the car was holding an old bull, and the person shouting Old Man Liu was a man in his thirties, with a dark and long face, and very thin eyes.

Seeing us coming, he pulled the old man Liu to the other side of the car, as if he was afraid of being seen.

I remembered Old Man Liu's words and hurriedly followed.