Chapter 8: Uncle Cow Dung

The world is surrounded by towering mountains, the morning sky is a sea of clouds, and thatched huts are sparsely scattered among the woods and on the banks of rivers. When the flowers are in bloom, the light seeds of the flowers will be carried to the clouds in the sky when the wind is strong, and then the seeds will sprout in the sea of clouds, the clouds are not white, and the roots of various plants turn the sea of clouds yellow. The cow eats the grass in the sea of clouds, and then the cow dung reflecting the golden sunlight falls gracefully from the sky. Water from mountain streams mixed with cow dung accumulates in the depressions to form a verdant daughter lake with frogs with dragonfly wings catching fireflies in the humid air. Fish swim in the water and in the air, eating the algae that fall from the clouds. Snakes poke their heads out of the thick mist, waiting for an opportunity to feed.

This is a strange world, the miraculous daughter lake water even made the man conceive his own child, and the thick fog in the air eroded the bones of the men, so the men who lived on the shore of the lake were hunched over. The entrance to their thick house was like a cave, and they had to climb in and out of their house. Only in the morning, noon, and dusk will the voices of men calling for their children be heard, and the people in the outer villages call these men who live by the lake and greet their children home for dinner every day as those who are tender as water. The village where they live is called Milk Village. Uncle Cow Dung is the head of Milk Village.

Anyone who is hit by cow dung falling from the sky will be unlucky.

More than 20 years ago, a young man named Hua Meinan in the village would get into a foul smell every day. At one point, he also tried to change his fate, holding an umbrella above his head, or not leaving the house for a day, but to no avail. Even then, the cow dung would come to him or appear suddenly, and in the morning the villagers would say hello to him: "Have you eaten?" and the fresh cow dung will fall. Hua Meinan picked up the cow dung stuck in his hair and took a bite, and then responded, "Just eat." ”

None of the women in the village would like a man who grew up eating cow dung, although the beautiful man has a soft spot for cow dung. I also had to think about my marriage, he fell in love with a woman named Atom, his first encounter with Atom, a puddle of cow dung hit him in the face, he took a bite in his hand, Atom came, she watched from afar, Hua Meinan was embarrassed, pointed to the cow dung in his right hand with his left hand and said: "This thing is as delicious as stinky tofu." Do you eat it?" the atom walked away: "You eat, go to the side." ”

Love eventually made him decide to break away from eating cow dung. When Hua Meinan walks, he always has to look up at the sky, and when the cow dung falls, he runs far away, but the cow dung will still fall and hit him, and no villager with a keen sense of smell will believe that a person who has eaten cow dung for more than 20 years will starve himself to death. Later Atom married the son of the village chief.

So the sad flower boy moved to live in Daughter Lake, and he was the first man to live there. There he drank the water of his daughter's lake and gave birth to a daughter, Cauliflower. Since then, most of the world's singles have moved to the lake. Gradually, a new village was formed there. Twenty years later, the villagers called him Uncle Cow Dung and his dirty daughter Cauliflower.

In the village, Uncle Cow Dung is a carpenter, a blacksmith and the village chief. For this, he earned the respect of all the villagers. He's good at making strange things, but it's very practical, like when he invented something called the steam engine, and the snail used it to make a moving house, so that the houses in the valley could get out of the fog and enjoy more sunlight. For example, he invented a simple new symbol engraved on the wood chip, so that people can easily remember and tell, I am the beneficiary of this invention, for this reason, I made up the story in the form of symbols carved a large number of bamboo slips, and then sold at the price of 20 banknotes, I did not expect to be warmly welcomed, people in this world call me home, which probably means envy that I can support myself by sitting at home every day. Uncle Cow Dung is not only great because he also invented a large number of firecracker bombs to protect himself from wild beasts and other people, which can raze a small hill to the ground. In honor of the woman he once loved, he named the firecracker the atomic bomb. He also invented chemical weapons, mixed cow dung and biogas in a large jar, so that the villagers guarding the village carried a large jar on their backs, and any wild beast that broke into the village would be driven away by chemical weapons, and we used chemical weapons when several barbarian tribesmen attacked the village over a small bag of beans, and it is said that those tribesmen returned home and went on hunger strike for days because of nausea. Uncle Cow Dung has also opened a free trade zone in an open space outside his toilet, so that everyone can rush to him to exchange the items they need, and now Uncle Cow Dung is working on a flying device, which he calls a flying machine, and he said that when it is successful, let me test fly first. I have a lot in common with Uncle Cow Dung, and a lot of the stories I tell are related to Uncle Cow Dung's conjectures, such as saying that the world we live in is round because the sun and the moon are round. For example, he said that there are people like us who live in the wider world, in heaven. Because there are cows in the sky, there must be people who are right.

Uncle Cow Dung cherishes the village as if it were his home, and he takes great pains to replan the houses and build the roads with a group of tender men. For his next plan, he planned to carve a stream out of a mountain stream for the villagers to eat. Because the men who have been drinking the water of their daughter's lake for a long time are not only becoming more and more like women, but too many have given birth to seven or eight children, and in this way, this narrow world will not be able to feed these children.

It's hard to be a man, it's even harder to be a man who is as tender as water, since giving birth to a daughter, Uncle Cow Dung is destined to be a person who worries about being tired. In order to ensure his daughter's innocence, he forbade his daughter to drink water from the lake, and went to the mountain stream to fetch water. He had planned to find his daughter a wealthy in-law (with at least five sows) who lived in the sunzone. But something unexpected happened, Cauliflower was actually pregnant, so he lay in bed for days without eating or drinking. At night, I was distraught to listen to the two spring wild cats in the village barking.

The next day there was no thick fog, and the weather was rare and sunny. Uncle Cow Dung got up from the bed and dragged his somewhat heavy head to go outside for a walk. What made Uncle Cow Dung strange was that he climbed out, and no cow dung fell on his head, and after a long time, there was still no cow dung falling, and Uncle smelled his clothes that smelled of cow dung and was surprised. For more than fifty years, there has never been a day like this, and then, just like that, a day has passed, two days have passed, three days have passed, and no cow dung has fallen, and Uncle Cow Dung began to feel a little uneasy when he slept at night. The cat's barking also made his heart furious. After a night of suffering, on the morning of the fifth day, a cow suddenly fell from the sky, and to the surprise of Uncle Cow Dung, the cow actually spoke......

That morning, Cauliflower's father, Uncle Cow Dung, disappeared, and Cauliflower began to wait at home for his father's return, from morning to night, from night to dawn, but his father was nowhere to be seen. Eventually, Cauliflower called the men of the village.

The men of the village heard the news of the disappearance of the patriarch and caused quite a commotion. Gangs went to search, in the mountains, in the villages, and in the lakes by boat. Even the manure tank in the public toilet has been seen, and I can't find the shadow of Uncle Cow Dung.

The following month after the disappearance, the men began to calculate the election of a new village chief. No one noticed that Cauliflower had left the village. After everyone's decision, the new village chief will be a snail.