Text Chapter 116: The Legend of Niu Qiang (1)
Stilted House is a small place name, located in the southwest of Nanzhan Buzhou, where Niu Qiang was born. Since his mother gave birth to him by the river, his name is called Niu Shuisheng. And because he has been stubborn since he was a child, his family gave him the nickname 'Niu Qiang'. It is said that the more vulgar the name, the better it is to raise a child.
Niu Qiang is the only son in the family, his parents and grandparents both made a living from farming, and rented the land of the big tyrant Zhao Wanjin and Zhao Sanye.
On the ground of Fangshui County, as long as the word 'Zhao Sanye' is mentioned, it can really be said that everyone knows and everyone knows. Not only did he own most of the land on stilts, but even the surrounding towns were basically his family's property. So Zhao Sanye also has a nickname, called Zhao Bancheng.
As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind. When a person's money is too much to a certain extent, he can even buy off the government. It is said that Zhao Sanye's relationship with the county magistrate is very ironclad, and even his network is in the provincial capital.
It stands to reason that a peasant child who grew up in a small mountain village should not have anything to do with a big man like Zhao Sanye. It's a pity that the world is impermanent, and providence makes people involved, involving two characters who are not related.
The cause of the incident is also very simple. Niu Qian's family raised two earth dogs, one named Rhubarb and the other called Silver Bar, both of which Niu Qiang brought up from childhood.
Rhubarb and silver strips are not ordinary earth dogs, but the famous best hunting dogs in the area of stilted buildings, and the ox often takes them up the mountain to hunt hares, civets, and pheasants. The two dogs even worked together to bite a leopard to death.
They are both hunting dogs, but they have different personalities. When he was still very young, Rhubarb was lost once. A year later, the dog found its way back on its own, but no one knows what it had experienced during the year.
When it returned, it had sparse hair and overlapping scars, turning it into a full-fledged leper dog.
is such a leper dog with no appearance, but he has become a well-deserved dog king within a radius of dozens of miles. It has a dull personality and domineering momentum, and its eyes reveal a kind of indifference to all beings, even in the face of Niu Qiang, it will never shake its head and tail and beg for rewards.
The reason why the dog king is the king of dogs is really worthy of his name, no matter which dog sees it from afar, it will pick up its tail and run away. Of course, the silver bars that grew up with it are an exception.
The body of the Hound Silver Strip is streamlined, and the fur is black and white, smooth and shiny. Its personality is the opposite of rhubarb, it loves to run and scream, has an active temperament, and appears to be extremely alert.
And this dog has a unique job, even the strongest iron chain can't tie it. Whoever wants to tie it up, as soon as the person turns his back, it comes out of the chain and slips away.
Niu Qiang's mother often said that Rhubarb's life was bitter, and Niu Qiang wanted Niu Qiang to treat it well, and Niu Qiang also regarded these two dogs as relatives and loved them in every way.
When the farm is busy, the oxen work in the fields, the rhubarb guards the house, the silver bars jump up and down in the village, and sometimes they go to the fields to beg for rewards.
When the farm is flawed, Niu Jian will take two dogs into the mountains to hunt for prey. I can often pick up some hares, civets and other things to sell in the town for money to help the family, and if I can't sell them, I keep them for my own food.
Zhao Bancheng and Zhao Sanye of Fangshui County also like to hunt, of course, he is not as amateur as Niu Qiang when hunting.
Zhao Sanye likes to use a German-made shotgun, and his subordinates use all the same earthen guns. Not only guns, but also dogs. There are many types of hunting dogs raised by the Zhao family, and there are seven or eight foreign breed hunting dogs alone.
By chance, Zhao Sanye heard that Niu Qian's family had two hunting dogs that were extremely good, and even had bitten leopards to death, so he sent a housekeeper to buy rhubarb and silver bars.
The housekeeper came to Niu's house with two Zhao family slaves. He relied on the fact that he was Zhao Sanye's person, and the Niu family was renting the Zhao family's land, so he opened a very low price, three Yinyang to buy two dogs.
If it is an ordinary earth dog, three silver oceans can buy a lot of them, but rhubarb and silver bars are not ordinary dogs, but the best hunting dogs.
According to the market in the hunting circle, let alone three silver oceans, even if it is thirty silver oceans, the price is not high. No matter how bad it is, if you sell it cheaply in the market, you can sell it for at least ten silver oceans. What's more, for Niu Qiang, these two dogs are like his relatives, not just two hunting dogs.
Niu Qian's father and mother are also reluctant to sell the dog, first, they naturally have feelings after raising them for a long time, and secondly, they can help supplement the family by playing some game during the slack time.
But the housekeeper spoke, if he didn't sell the dog, the Zhao family would take back the land.
Niu Qiang's father Niu Shunyi was helpless, so he could only persuade Niu Qiang: "Qiang'er, we can't afford to offend the people of the Zhao family, let's sell this dog to them, and we will raise two more in the future." ”
Niu Qiang looked at his two dogs, his heart was full of reluctance, but in the end he agreed to Niu Shunyi's request.
Yes, he's a tough temper, but he's not the kind of fool who doesn't know anything. The most important thing is that he is still a filial son and does not want to disobey his parents' decisions.
An unequal deal was reached, but the two dogs refused to leave. Niu Shunyi instructed his son to follow the housekeeper and send the dog to Zhao's house.
However, the story doesn't end there. Because that same night, the silver bar did its trick again, broke free from the chain, and bit off the collar around the rhubarb's neck, and the two dogs fled back to the cow's house together.
The moment Niu Qiang saw the rhubarb and silver bars, he even thought about taking the two dogs and flying away. But when he thought of his father, he gave up on this decision.
The next day, Zhao Sanye's housekeeper came to the door with someone. Under Zhao Shunyi's persuasion, Niu Qiang once again sent the two dogs back to Zhao's house.
Zhao Sanye is a dog lover, but he has never treated rhubarb and silver bars badly, but just ordered people to put the dogs in a big iron cage, eat and drink well, and only hope to tame them slowly.
After this incident, Niu Qian's family continued to live a hard farming life, and Niu Qian's father really bought two puppies to feed. But Niu Qiang was not interested in the two puppies in the slightest.
It seems like it's all back on track, and it's time for the story to end. A week later, Niu Qiang went to the mountains to chop firewood, but happened to meet Zhao Sanye and his party on the way who were about to go into the mountains to hunt.
The road is a small road, the kind that can accommodate two people passing by at most. Zhao Sanye set up an eagle and stood in front of the team with another gentry-like person, pointing and laughing happily.
Behind them, a dozen slaves blocked a mountain road, and four of them each led a hound. Those hunting dogs didn't have rhubarb and silver bars in them, so they didn't bring them out because they weren't raised in the Zhao family.
As soon as he thought of the two dogs he had raised, Niu Qiang's mood was extremely irritable, and that Zhao Sanye was dangling and dangling in front of him.
But despite the fire, Niu Qiang did not want to cause trouble. He just stood quietly behind the pedestrians, hoping that they would go up the hill early and get out of his way. Because he knew that the famous Zhao Bancheng was not something that a miserable green boy in the countryside like him could afford to provoke.
Zhao Sanye didn't know Niu Qiang, even if he accidentally glanced at Niu Qiang, he only regarded him as a poor ** silk passing by. A countryman like Niu Qiang, Zhao Sanye never takes it seriously.
Niu Qiang waited like this, but Zhao Sanye didn't have the slightest intention of leaving immediately, and only cared about chatting with the person beside him.
At this time, the housekeeper who had gone to Niu Qian's house to buy a dog found Niu Qian. The butler, who had a big smoker, looked sick, was sitting on the ground at the back of the line to rest his breath.
The place where the housekeeper sat was not far from Niu Qian, and when he saw Niu Qian, he was also bored, so he stood up and accosted Niu Qian.
The housekeeper said, "I remember that your name is Niu Qiang, right?"
Niu Qiang didn't bother to pay attention to him and didn't say a word. The butler grinned and took out a pack of cigarettes, smoked one and handed it to Niu Qiang, and asked, "Boy, don't keep a face on your face, come and smoke a cigarette?"
As the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person when you reach out, although Niu Qiang hates the housekeeper, he has never thought of going against the people of the Zhao family. Besides, he grew up in the countryside, so how did he know the sinister nature of the human heart in this world? So out of a young man's curiosity, he naturally stretched out his hand.
Seeing that Niu Qiang's hand was stretched out in front of him, the housekeeper shrank his hand, still holding the cigarette, and maintained the posture of handing the cigarette. Niu Qiang continued to reach for his hand, and the butler retracted his hand again.
Niu Qiang glared at the butler and said nothing. He waited for the butler to give him an explanation.
The butler did not disappoint Niu Qiang and quickly gave an answer. He scoffed, "Do hillbillies like you deserve to smoke cigarettes?"
For a while, Niu Qiang recalled the hatred of snatching the dog, and he couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore!
I saw him raise the firewood knife in his hand and slash it at the butler's neck.
The butler screamed and fell backwards, blood spurting from his neck, splashing Niu Qiang's head and face.
This terrible and short scream alarmed the people above the mountain road, and Zhao Sanye and the others looked at Niu Qiang in unison. At this time, Niu Qiang was holding a firewood knife, angry and majestic, as if killing a god.
Zhao Sanye shouted angrily: "Beat me! Fight to death!"
Some of the house slaves hurriedly turned their earthen guns and prepared to shoot, and those who were closer took out the daggers they carried with them and pounced on Niu Qiang.
When Niu Qiang saw the blood, not only was he not timid, but he attracted the monstrous killing intent in his heart.
He dragged away and strode into the crowd, slashing with a swing of his knife, and for a while ghosts cried wolves and blood rained. Instead of rushing forward, the four pampered hounds grabbed their tails and slipped away.
rushed all the way to kill, leaving behind a house slave who was screaming and screaming, Niu Qiang had already rushed to Zhao Sanye.
Zhao Sanye's shotgun was carried by a house slave and was not around. When he saw Niu Qiang rushing in front of him, he couldn't help but be shocked and retreated. As he stepped back, he pulled a pistol out of his bosom and was about to shoot the bull.
Niu Qiang shouted, threw the knife in his hand, and pierced it deeply into Zhao Sanye's chest, Zhao Sanye covered his chest and knelt on the ground, coughing up blood incessantly. Niu Qiang stepped forward and pulled out the firewood knife and slashed again, slashing down one after another, until the flesh and blood were blurred and the stumps were all over the ground.
killed Zhao Sanye, and he turned around to kill the house slaves who fell to the ground and wailed.
This time, I turned around and found a shivering guest standing on the sidelines. The guest said in a trembling voice: "It's none of my business! It's none of my business! I don't know anything!"
Niu Qiang asked in a deep voice, "What is your relationship with Zhao Bancheng?"
The guest blurted out: "I have nothing to do with him, just a little business dealing!" He didn't care if his answer was inconsistent at this time, and he only hoped that the relationship would be cleared up as soon as possible, and Niu Qiang would let him go.
Niu Qiang said: "Since you are not from the Zhao family, then flash aside." ”
With this word, if the guest is pardoned, the girl will run away, and he will escape with his life. Niu Qiang ignored him anymore and turned back to kill a group of house slaves.
Ancient heroes, killing people in a fit of rage, nothing like that!
ps: To make it clear, this is not a hot-blooded text, but a joyful spoof that integrates a variety of elements. The reason why I bring it up here is because I know that there are some readers who only like to read the hot blood article. Let's make it clear first, in order to prevent this part of my friends from being misled by the content of this chapter and scolding me in the future.