Grandpa didn't expect someone to overhear him talking to Huai Niu, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Xiaomi. She stood in the shadows, only a faint shadow, but that didn't stop her from her father recognizing her at a glance.

"What are you doing here?" Daddy asked. Xiaomi's shadow is like a soul traveling in the middle of the night.

Xiaomi said: "Ma Xiucai, you are a hornless cow, I am your horn." ”

Grandpa was dumbfounded.

The cow silently chewed the straw out of the cyan juice.

Daddy pulls Millet out of the shadows, closes the cowshed, and drags her back into the house.

"You're too angry right now." Daddy said. Grandpa knows that anger is one of the habits of sentient beings, and it is closely related to the six reincarnations of life and life. Just as a person who dies unjustly will have resentment, if a person is frustrated in samsara, he will become angry. Although Daddy is happy that Xiaomi did not become a resentful ghost after the failure of his first reincarnation, he has always been worried that too much resentment after death will turn into anger after reincarnation.

Xiaomi's performance tonight is an ominous sign.

"Your kindness is too heavy!" Millet pouted, "You also said just now, kindness needs the power to protect itself, and if you don't have this power, kindness will also be expelled." You can't be ruthless, I'll help you be ruthless. What you can't do, I'll do it for you. ”

"The most I need from you is for you to do nothing."

"If you tell people to do nothing, are you going to watch all the tragedies happen?" Millet shouted at her father, and her eyes instantly turned red.

Xiaomi has never spoken to her father like this.

Grandpa seems to be as calm as a mirror, and the sudden wind of millet did not stir up a trace of waves on the lake.

"If you go to stop one tragedy, you can only bring another, bigger tragedy." Daddy said.

"Then you're going to sit on the sidelines?" Millet shouted.

Grandpa said indifferently: "You are too young to know how to ......"

"I'm not small! I'm not small anymore! Don't underestimate me, I know more than you do! Millet shook his hand and shouted.

"You know more than I do? What do you know? ”

Xiaomi stared at her father, calmed down a little, and said, "You don't know who is behind the trouble, right?" ”

"Do you mean that the people in the village were injured by cows?" Daddy asked, "Do you know?" "With the first two incidents, Grandpa felt that it was not impossible. For a while, Dad really couldn't figure out the depth of millet.

"What else could be the matter?"

"Then tell me, who made us carry the black cauldron?"

A smile tugged at the corner of Xiaomi's mouth and said, "Of course it's the monkey trickster and his monkey!" ”

Grandpa shook his head and said, "Impossible." Bamboo slippers are watching from the shore. If someone and a monkey come out of the water, it will definitely report to me! ”

Xiaomi shook her head lightly and said with a wry smile: "Would you rather believe that mouse than believe me?" ”

Grandpa reproached, "What are you talking about? Even if I believe what you say, it doesn't make sense. Everyone else was knocked down, and the vegetable garden was trampled by the feet of the cows, and it was not the monkey that scratched them, nor the monkey that damaged the vegetable garden! ”

"Of course it's the cow that hurts people! Of course, the cow is the one who destroys the vegetable garden! Xiaomi's voice rose again.

"Isn't that a contradiction?" Daddy lowered his voice a few points.

Xiaomi said: "He is a monkey show, walking through the rivers and lakes, he will do a few tricks!" It's not hard for him to fool Zhu Yuzi's eyes! Bumping into someone and trampling on a vegetable garden or something, he just needs to lead someone else's cow casually. He can fool the eyes of the bamboo slipper, and naturally he can also fool the person who was hit. ”

"But didn't the thief claim to have seen our cow?" Grandpa heard Xiaomi say these words and knew what Xiaomi had discovered. He hadn't actually believed the thief's words from beginning to end, but it was also an important question in his mind. Although Grandpa doesn't know how Xiaomi knows this, whether it is a master's guidance or her own understanding, but since she already knows, she might as well solve this question by the way.

Millet said: "How could he possibly see the cow that hit him? He was never moved! ”

Grandpa was overjoyed when he heard her say this, but he also put on a posture to defend her and said, "He hasn't been moved, why should he run and say that he was moved?" ”

Millet said in an old-fashioned manner: "That's what he wants to make the people in the village think that it was our cow that hit them." Those people have been guessing this for a long time, but no one sees the shadow of the cow and doesn't dare to talk nonsense. As long as one person says that he saw that the cow was from our family, it was confirmed that everything before was touched by our family. His move is a dead move, so we can't refute it! ”

"I don't care about him on weekdays, I've helped him a few times, and I've lent him money a few times, and although Luo Buzhai didn't lend him money again, he won't force me to get to this point, right?"

Xiaomi snorted from his nose and said, "Good people can become bad, but bad people are born to be bad!" He was born to be the closest to money, and he used to be like that to his biological parents, and he will still miss this little favor from you? Even if you have helped him before and lent him money, as long as he asks for money and you don't give it once, he will forget all the previous favors and remember that you did not give favors this time, and thus hate you. ”

Grandpa listened to Xiaomi's words and felt that there should be someone behind Xiaomi. These words were not something that someone her age could say.

"And as long as someone else gives him a little favor at this time, he will help others to harm you!" Millet said.

Daddy stared at Xiaomi, silent.

Xiaomi said smoothly, and the words suddenly couldn't stop. She continued: "Ma Xiucai, you are too good to everyone! But you don't know that if you give grace to a person for a long time, and forgive it for a long time, that person will not thank you, and he will think that this is what you should give and should give! Once you stop being kind and forgiving, he will hate you and not feel that this is the normal state of life. ”

Daddy saw bursts of cyan smoke coming out of Xiaomi's head. That's the kind of anger that emanates. Daddy knew that what he feared had finally happened.

"You're saying that Ma Jin Thief won't be grateful to me because I have been kind to him, and that as long as someone gives him some money, he will help someone else frame me?" Grandpa quickly figured out what she wanted to express from Xiaomi's words.

Without waiting for Xiaomi to answer, Grandpa chased after him and asked, "Did the monkey trickster give him the money?" ”

Xiaomi sneered: "Your head is quite smart. The thief was not moved, but he took the money from the monkey tricksters and promised to help blame our cattle for what had happened before. ”

Grandpa went through Xiaomi's thoughts. The monkey puppeteers used the tricks on the rivers and lakes to avoid the bamboo slippers and secretly left the pond. Then he led someone else's grumpy ox to hurt the nocturnal walker, and used a blindfold to prevent the injured from seeing the cow. He can train monkeys well, and is likely to be familiar with the temperaments of other animals, so it is not difficult to anger a cow. After the monkey show did this, he used the money to buy the Ma thief, so that the Ma thief claimed to have seen the cow that caused the accident, and said that the cow belonged to Ma Xiucai. As a result, all the spearheads made in front were aimed at Ma Xiucai.

The monkey puppeteers did this to force their grandfather to slaughter or drive the cow away. He has done nothing for a hundred years under the pond, precisely because of this cow that has gathered thousands of resentments. He had expected the cow to leave Thrush Village after a hundred years, but he didn't expect it to come back soon. If he doesn't want to force Huai Niu away, he will never have a chance to take revenge on others, and he will never have a chance to vent his resentment back then.

Grandpa felt that this kind of speculation made sense, and it was simply impeccable.

"These stupid people don't know how to thank the Huai Niu who once helped them, but they want to be accomplices in their own killing." The anger on Xiaomi's head became heavier and heavier, as if the back of his head was on fire, and thick smoke was billowing out.

"Most of this is what the sailors told you, right? She's in the pond, and it can't escape her eyes. Daddy asked.

Xiaomi does not answer. That's the answer.

Daddy took a long breath and slowly exhaled. This sailor not only returned to Xiaomi, but also helped Xiaomi so much, why did she do this? Is she just trying to monopolize the whole pond? Apparently not.

"Thank you for telling me these things. But you better stay at home and don't go anywhere. You may not know it, but I've been waiting for more than 20 years to get to where I am today. Grandpa held Xiaomi's thin shoulders.

She eats much better here than before, but her body is still thin.

When Xiaomi heard her father's last words, her body stiffened, as if she was frozen. Her eyes were like a layer of thin ice, and she looked at her grandfather blankly, her eyes seemed to be blurred by the thin ice, and she had no focus, and she didn't know whether she was looking at her grandfather's face or nothing.

At this time, Zhao Xianyun, who was woken up by Xiaomi's shouting, came to the door. She looked at Xiaomi's strange expression, then at her grandfather, was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Daddy shook his head.

Zhao Xianyun walked to Xiaomi's side and hugged Xiaomi into his arms.

Xiaomi suddenly cried in Zhao Xianyun's arms as if she had been wronged. The thin ice in his eyes was suddenly melted away by tears and burst out of his eyes.

Zhao Xianyun waved his hand at his grandfather, motioned for him to go out, and asked her to comfort Xiaomi.

Grandpa sighed lightly and hung his head and left.

When Grandpa went out, Luo Buzhai and Yu Youyang also heard the sound and ran over. Daddy persuaded them both to go back.

The next night, Grandpa told Zhao Xianyun to go to bed first and leave him alone. He went to the cowshed for a while, untied the silk of the cow, and then paced to the front of the village.

Daddy walked through the alleys between the houses, pretending to be looking for something. Soon, a small black shadow appeared on the roof. At this time, Grandpa had already understood that it was a monkey. But Daddy pretended not to see it and continued to walk around as before.