In the early summer in the south of the Yangtze River, a farmer drove a buffalo to plough the field, and a white paddy field slowly became turbid. This is Li Jiawan, the person who plows the fields is called Li Jieshi, he wears a straw hat, and the scorching sun also "bakes" his face into a copper brown through a brim. The wrinkles were bent like burnt sticks, but they weren't ugly, and when he smiled at something happy, they could overlap with his kind texture.

Li Xie Shi works diligently, and if he does not finish plowing an acre of land in the morning, he will not finish his work. Even if you are sweating and hungry, you will not stop. He was a bit brutal, and even the buffalo suffered. At noon, the buffalo, which had been working for several hours, also wanted to rest or graze on the fields, but this wish was difficult to fulfill, so it rebelled. It's a female buffalo, I don't know why it's so strong? Master Li really wanted to cure it, but it was not so easy.

Let's just say that the morning before yesterday ploughed the field, and it was also this buffalo, and at noon, the bell of the casual workers in the bay rang a few times, and when it heard it, it refused to work. If he didn't leave, Li Xie Shi waved the bamboo branch to urge him, but he blinked his eyes, but still did not take a step, but lay down, rolling in the mud in the paddy field, and Li Xie Shi couldn't beat it no matter how he beat it. Since it was time to go home for lunch, Master Li relented.

At this time, it was also noon, and the bell for the end of work in the bay had already sounded, and Li Xie Shi was still urging the buffalo to plough a few more laps, because there was still a little bit of land that had not been ploughed in place, but the buffalo refused to go, and even if it did, it would go very slowly; He shrugged his shoulders and planned to get rid of the yoke around his neck, but he couldn't, and he had to walk a few more steps and plough a few more plows. I really didn't want to do it, so I didn't want to leave. Li Xie Shi waved the bamboo tip in his hand vigorously, and the bamboo tip rained down on the back and tail of the buffalo.

Enraged, the buffalo turned its head, and a muddy mud splashed under its feet, staining its coarse gray and black hair that clung to its broad belly, as well as its crumpled trousers. Li Xie Shi did not pay attention to this, but found that the buffalo was arching its head sideways and attacking him, and the two curved horns approached him like two scimitars.

At this moment, the Li Xie Division, which was still waving the bamboo shoots, switched from strategic offensive to strategic defense, but it was too late, the buffalo blinked two eyes that spewed anger, and was not afraid of the Li Xie Division's whipping at all, and its nose was also very tough, and it did not listen to the call of how to pull the rope.

Li Xie Shi felt that the situation was not right, so he threw away the rope and turned to flee, and after not running a few steps in the paddy field, he was thrown down in the muddy water by the buffalo that caught up with an inclined corner, and the straw hat was also fallen, and he was about to get up and run for his life, and the buffalo took advantage of the situation to take advantage of the situation and took advantage of the horns and two horns...... Heavyly, the poor Li Xie Shi was actually trapped in the muddy water, and a trace of ghost was out of his body.

The buffalo did not seem to be able to understand his hatred, and picked out his corpse with a crooked horn, and saw that his face was soaked in mud and blood, and his teeth were biting his tongue and not moving, and he was sure that he was dead.

The buffalo struggled in the paddy field for a while, and finally withdrew from the yoke, and it wanted to escape far away, or the people of Lijiawan would find it dead and people would seek it for their lives.

At this moment, the buffalo was afraid to see people like a wanted criminal, and it fled frantically towards the wild lake outside the bay, and when it passed through the field, it was discovered by Li Jieshi, the younger brother of Li Jieshi, who was looking at the water with a hoe, and saw a buffalo running away with his legs, and recognized it as Li Jieshi's family, because this adult buffalo has an obvious feature, that is, there is no bell tied around the neck, and everyone else's family is tied.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Xie Shi first looked at the field where Li Xie Shi was plowing, but there was no human figure, he felt strange, and opened his voice to shout Senior Brother Xie, but there was no echo from Senior Brother Xie, only his own voice echoed on the empty and hot field.

His right eye was jumping, and he always felt that something was wrong, not just the buffalo running away, but the reason why he didn't see Master Li. When he finished plowing the field or finished his work, he would always lead the buffalo to graze grass on the field or tie it under a green willow tree by the pond in the bay. But now this is not the case, Li Xie Shi did not chase the buffalo, but returned to the bay to call Li Xie Shi, but he couldn't call out, only called Li Xie Shi's wife Gong Shuhua.

Gong Shuhua was still holding a spatula in his hand, and was cooking and stir-frying vegetables in the house, when he heard a hurried cry, he came out of the tiled house, saw Li Jieshi, and asked him what was the matter with his brother. Li Xie Shi said in a panic: Your buffalo ran away, but I didn't see my brother chasing me, did my brother come back?

No. Gong Shuhua replied in surprise, and suddenly became nervous: Isn't your brother plowing the fields? It's time to call it a day, why did the buffalo run away, and I didn't see him chasing, where did he go?

Gong Shuhua put the spatula back in the tile house, hurriedly put out the fireworks in the stove, buckled the lid of the stove to hold the vegetables, and then came out and said to Li Jieshi: I'm going to chase my buffalo, which direction did it go?

I ran in the direction of the barren lake outside the bay. Li Xie Shi said, also wondering, where has my brother gone? But he was worried about his family's affairs and went home first.

His house is also a row of tiled houses, and the main house leans against a sloped house with a chimney. He walked in and had lunch with his wife Li Lanchun, and suddenly heard a cry, a very sad cry, so he dropped his job and ran out of the door, and saw that the person who was crying on the field was not someone else, but his sister-in-law Gong Shuhua.

What's wrong? There was a stone hanging in his heart. Many villagers also rushed to Tian Ji to see, he hurried over, dumbfounded, his brother had somehow died, half of his body was planted in the muddy field, muddy and bloody, and there was a straw hat full of mud stars lying on his back.

When the villagers saw this, they all said one after another: the buffalo with curved horns must have died.

Suddenly, the scene of the buffalo fleeing frantically in the direction of the wild lake outside the bay came to his mind. He cried out: "The buffalo must have gone mad, or how could it have killed my brother?" Be sure to kill it.

yes, to kill it. The villagers shouted along.

Lai Xie Shi and two men went down to the field to carry his brother's body up the ridge and transfer it to the bay.

Gong Shuhua cried along the way, and when he put his brother's body on the front yard of his sister-in-law's house, he said angrily: I want to kill the buffalo and sacrifice my brother's soul to relieve the hatred in my heart. He thought that Ah Er next door to his house had a handful of earthen guns, so he ran to find him, and asked him to put a hammer in the barrel, fill it with medicine, find the buffalo, and kill it.

Ah Er was keen to do this kind of thing, and soon took up the earthen gun, put on a sunshade straw hat and set off, Li Xie Shi and the other three men followed him, through the field, in front of a jungle, on the other side of the jungle is a barren lake, they are all very familiar.

Where's that damn buffalo? Ah Er approached the jungle, took down the earthen gun he was carrying, held it in his hand, and was ready to shoot at any time, but now the job to do was to find the buffalo.

Finding the new hoof prints of the buffalo on the jungle path, Lai turned left in the direction marked by the hoof prints, and the other two men followed Ah Er, who walked up the mountain road to the right.