Daddy gently wrapped the red cloth and waited for a while. The footsteps didn't sound again. It seems that the visitor was standing at the gate waiting.

Takeyoko was watching the monkey show and the monkeys in the big pond, and was not at home. If it's there, just tell it to go out and have a look.

Grandpa thought to himself that the person who came should not be a bad person, he did not knock on the door or make any other noise, it should be afraid of waking up the other people in the house.

So, Daddy went to the gate and opened the door.

When I opened the door, I saw that it was not a person, but a cow. This cow is the buffalo that my father let go just now.

Grandpa was surprised: "What are you doing here?" ”

The buffalo exhaled heavily and said, "I don't know where I'm going." ”

"This ......"

"You collected me from all over the place, and the grievances were scattered in all the mountains, valleys, deep forests, deserts, villages, and cities, all of which were my birthplace, so when I was just free, I felt that I could go anywhere. What did I think before I walked to the old river. But after some distance through the old river, the road ahead diverged, and I suddenly didn't know which way to go. After this fork in the road, there are many, many forks in the road, and I think I will get lost in so many forks. Buffalo said.

Grandpa sighed, "Yes." Sometimes there are too many ways to go, and you get lost. ”

The buffalo nodded, "So I changed my mind." This is where I converge, where I get my form. This is where I was born, and you are the one who reinvented me, and the one you can trust. I decided to stay here. So, I turned around and came back and decided to follow you. ”

"Have you really figured it out?" Daddy asked.

"I've figured it out."

"But your form will make the villagers afraid. I'll have to find you a suitable body to stood. Daddy said.

"It's all up to you." The buffalo bowed its head.

"Well, I'll go to the cattle market in a few days and buy a sick cow that is about to die. As soon as the sick cow dies, you immediately take possession of its shell. Daddy said.

The buffalo nodded.

"For the time being, there is no cowshed at home, I am sorry that you wait under that locust tree for a few days, and I will ask Luo Buzhai to make you a new cowshed."

The buffalo obediently walked towards a large locust tree in front of the old house of the Ma family, and halfway through, it turned back and said, "You better get me a rein, you can tie me under that tree." ”

Grandpa understood its thoughts and said, "Are you afraid that you will hurt others, so you deliberately want me to restrict you?" You have been refining for a hundred years, and good is greater than evil. ”

The buffalo pondered for a moment and said, "I thought about it when I was under the pond, and I used to have only grudges, all evil forces. And these evils are not innate. A lot of evil is actually good in the beginning. Good is harmed, or left unchecked, and gradually turns into evil. ”

"When good is harmed, or if it is left unchecked, it gradually becomes evil?"

"yes. My resentment comes from thousands of people, including memories of being hurt and rising in bad spirits, as well as memories of bad habits that were originally kind, but because there was no restraint or warning, they slowly breeded. The former is fast, the latter is slow, and I have to watch out for myself so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Buffalo said.

Grandpa nodded and said: "You have gathered thousands of grievances, but you have also gathered the life experience of thousands of people, and you must understand the world." I didn't want to bind you, but if you say so, I'll do what you want. ”

So Daddy took out another piece of silk and burned it, put it on the nose of the buffalo, and then walked towards the big locust tree.

Walking under the big locust tree, my father said to the locust tree: "The locust is also a ghost in the wood." I'm sorry for you to help watch this buffalo! ”

As soon as Daddy's words were finished, a gust of evening breeze swept by, and the branches and leaves of the locust tree were blown as if in response to Grandpa's request.

The buffalo was also surprised, and asked his father, "Could it be that this locust tree can understand you?" ”

Grandpa said: "Everything has a spirit, and the spirit is big and the spirit is small." The big ones often don't feel the small ones. People think that they are the elders, and they are high, so they often do not feel the existence of other tiny spiritual objects. ”

The buffalo admired, "That's true. When I was born as a human being, I didn't feel any aura in the world. Once I degenerate into an ethereal resentment, floating in the dark air, and become weak as a firefly of fireflies, I can feel that there are so many things like me in the world. ”

Grandpa smiled: "Your life journey is too much to unify, but I have to have a name for calling you in the future." Now you beg to be bound under the locust tree, and I will call you the locust cow from now on. ”

The locust tree is blown by the wind, and the moon shadow of the locust tree moves on the buffalo's body, adding a lot of beautiful markings to the buffalo, making it look like a mythical beast.

"Huai Niu, Kinoshita Ghost Cow. Exactly, exactly. The buffalo nodded.

Daddy tied the locust ox to the locust tree and went back to the house to sleep.

A few days later, Luo Buzhai asked the workers to repair the cowshed. Grandpa bought a sick cow from the bull market.

Yu Youyang circled around the embryo that his father bought, and said in surprise: "Ma Xiucai, what kind of cow are you buying?" It looks like he is sick, he has no strength at all, he definitely can't go down to the paddy field, and he can't pull the stone mill. ”

Grandpa smiled: "This cow is not ploughing the field and grinding. ”

Yu Youyang glared and said, "If you don't plough the field and grind, did you buy it out of kindness to support the elderly?" ”

Grandpa laughed and said, "Yes, it was bought for retirement!" ”

Yu Youyang hurriedly called Luo Buzhai and Zhao Xianyun over, saying that his father didn't care about family work and spent money to buy sick cows, saying that he couldn't spend it like this if he had money. It wasn't a good time for a while. The fields have been in arrears one after another, and it is difficult to collect the accounts. The balance of the family is getting tighter and tighter. Luo Buzhai invested a little money outside, but the world was chaotic, and some of the partners disappeared at every turn.

Zhao Xianyun wanted to use the property brought by his mother's family, but his grandfather refused.

Luo Buzhai and Zhao Xianyun pretended to say a few words to their grandfather and didn't care, but Yu Youyang was so angry that he snorted.

Although Yu Youyang chattered, his father was not angry at all. Yu Youyang and Luo Buzhai worked hard for the Ma family, and they never showed their merits, nor did they covet a penny. But my father, who wanders around every day, consumes a lot of money at every turn. Grandpa knew that Yu Youyang was doing it for his own good.

The sick cow died within a few days of being bought. Daddy quickly led the cow into the cowshed and let the cow occupy the body of the sick cow.

Before long, the sick cow grew stronger and stronger, and its strength was amazing.

Yu Youyang didn't know the inside story, thinking that his grandfather had long known that this cow would become like this, and praised his father's wisdom and wisdom and ability to distinguish cows.

Huai Niu asked his father to let him go out to work. Daddy lent it to other farmers.

The people who rented the cow were pleasantly surprised, this cow ploughed the same amount of land as two or three cows in a day, and did not need the farmer's shouting to drive it away.

Many cattle breeders thought that their grandfather had picked up a treasure cow and asked about the origin of the cow. Grandpa said that no one wanted it in the bull market, and he bought it when he saw that the price was very low, but he didn't expect it to become like this.

The cattle breeders brought their cows to Thrush Village, begging their grandfather to let them breed with their cows so that they could give birth to good calves. For a time, Thrush Village was almost replacing the original bull market.

Grandpa had no choice but to expand the cowshed and let Huai Niu be locked in a cowshed with more than 30 young cows. The cow keeper looked out of the window at night and looked into the cowshed, wishing to come forward and lift the cow to his cow.

For several nights, the cow was indifferent to the many cows.

The cattle breeders came to Thrush Village full of hope and left dejectedly.

Later, according to the elders in the village who were older than my grandfather, when my grandfather first started raising acacia cows, the avenue in front of Thrush Village was trampled by the feet of cows coming and going, and when it rained, it was full of mud, and children could not even pull out their feet when they stepped on it. Piles of cow dung can be seen everywhere in the village. At that time, however, people did not think that Daddy had brought a foul smell to the village, because cow dung could be used to coat the ground so that the dried grains would not sink into the soil. Cow dung can also be patted on mud walls and dried for fire. Of course, cow manure is also a good farm fertilizer. At that time, there were people who went out to collect cow dung, and even grabbed cow dung from others. Some people see cow dung but don't have hoes, baskets and other tools, so they draw a circle around the cow dung to indicate that the cow dung has an owner.

When I stepped onto the avenue in front of Thrush Village, I noticed that when the rain washed down, many large and small stones would emerge from under the dirt. The old people in the village said that it was the stone laid by the people in the village when your grandfather raised Huai cows, because the road was trampled by other cows at that time, and it was impossible to go out without paving stones.

Every time I go to my grandfather's house, I take the path behind the mountain, and I don't have to take the avenue in front, but every time I grow up, I have to walk the avenue every time I go to Thrush Village, thinking about the time when my grandfather was still living in the old house of the Ma family. Although the Ma family's old house has been burned down now, and my grandfather is gone, at least these stones are still there. These stones are the mark of those years.

It has been said that a person's memory is like a dream, unfounded; The memory of two people is the memory, because someone verified that it really existed.

Daddy's memories are still here, but Daddy is no longer there, and only these stones verify that what once happened really existed.

The people of Thrush Village felt that the locust cow had brought them good news when they were paving the stones, but they quickly changed their minds after the road was paved.

There have been a series of incidents in the village of night walkers being suddenly attacked by cattle. Several people were injured by cattle and could not get up from their beds. The people who were injured claimed that the cow was rushing from behind, and before they could see the shadow of the cow clearly, they lay on the ground and could not move.

Then there were many cases where the vegetable gardens of many families were trampled by cows' hooves, and some mud houses were damaged by cows' horns.

They don't think the average cow would be so violent, and they wouldn't have that much strength.

Except for the locust cow.