Zhang Tieniu took a big step, crossed a simple bridge, and walked towards his own home.

Gently lifting the fence gate, Zhang Tieniu shouted: "Mother, I'm back!"

There was no sound in the house, Zhang Tieniu felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly spread his legs and stepped to the door of the house in a few steps, pushed the door open, and it was dark inside.

After his eyes gradually adjusted to the dark light in the room, Zhang Tieniu found the white-haired old lady lying on the kang with her eyes closed.

Zhang Tieniu suddenly felt bad, and knelt in front of the kang as soon as he took a step, shaking his mother.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?"

When the old lady heard what people said, she slowly opened her eyes, and a faint voice floated out of her throat: "Water, water." ”

"Okay, good!" Zhang Tieniu finally relieved himself, and hurriedly got up and fetched a bowl of water for his mother.

He helped the old lady to sit up, and poured some water with the bowl.

The old lady breathed a sigh of relief.

"Son, you're back?"

"Mother, the Iron Bull is back. Mother, what's wrong with you?"

"Hey, a few days after you left, some passers-by passed by us, saying that there was no ration in the famine year, so I gave them some, who knew that in the middle of the night there was a thief, and all the urns of grain stored in our house were dumped away. Later, I learned that some people in the village were also stolen, and they were all well-wishers, and the thieves who stole the grain were those who borrowed food during the day. It was because they borrowed food during the day that they saw the place and took advantage of the second half of the night to enter the house and steal it. The people who were stolen that day were well-wishers. ”

"His grandmother's, someone dares to bully the old lady of the iron bull, see if I don't break their dog's legs!"

"Tie Niu, forget it, it's not easy for them, if they can help them live, we can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good. ”

"It can't be said that if they do something wrong, they will get sick and die if they eat it. ”

"You can't say it so ugly!" The old lady was in awe of the gods, and busily recited the scriptures, allowing Zhang Tieniu to spit a few mouthfuls and take back the words just now.

Zhang Tieniu complied.

"Mother, there is no food, how did you spend this time when Tie Niu was away?"

"I, there are still a few handfuls of rice in the porcelain jar on the stove, and I just pay attention to enough for me to live, eat a few bites a day, eat a few bites a day, and wait for my son to come back. Unexpectedly, after waiting for two moons, I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it, so I ate some bark and drank some water, and finally I was really weak, so I simply lay on the kang and didn't go to the ground. In the past few days, I feel so hungry that I am trembling, my old eyes are dizzy, and I feel that I am about to die. ”

"Mother, it's all to blame on the Iron Bull! The Iron Bull is not a thing!"

Zhang Tieniu slapped himself as he spoke, making a loud noise.

"Okay, okay, mother, isn't it okay?"

The old lady grabbed Zhang Tieniu's two wrists and persuaded.

"Son, where have you been all this time, have you gone to gamble again?"

Zhang Tieniu scratched his head embarrassedly, his face flushed.

"Hey, anyway, just come back. We can see each other again. This time, my mother always felt that she would never see me again. ”

As he spoke, he began to cry.

"Mother, don't cry, look at what this is?"

Zhang Tieniu handed the two ingots in his arms to his mother.

"This ...... Iron Bull, you can't steal people and rob people. ”

"Hey, mother, Tie Niu doesn't dare to do that kind of harmful thing. Tie Niu has been worried on the way back, met a younger brother surnamed Yao, he looked at me with a sad face, as soon as he heard that I still have to support my mother, he gave me two big ingots, I said I don't want anything, he gave it hard, said let me be a good person in the future, and honor my mother well. ”

"What a good man, I hope God bless him. ”

"Hey, yes, he's fine, but his brother doesn't look like a good guy. ”

"Oh, what's going on?"

Zhang Tieniu told the old lady everything about it.

After hearing this, the old lady nodded and said, "People are good and let others bully, that person is too kind, and it is easy to be framed by gangsters." Tie Niu, the next time you meet him, you must help your mother bring him a message, saying that our mother and mother thank him for his great kindness, and in addition, let him be more wary of his younger brother. ”

"Hey, Mother, Tie Niu remembers! I'll go out and buy some rice, Mother, you wait for me to come back at home to cook, let's eat enough." ”

Zhang Tieniu took the ingots in his arms, patted his chest, and said proudly.

Zhang Tieniu left the house, crossed the river, and walked towards the official road five miles away. Because there are often a large number of passers-by walking there, there are a lot of people who buy and sell, and over time, a relatively prosperous commercial street has been formed.

Zhang Tieniu shook his arms and arrived in a short time.

Coming to the street, Zhang Tieniu wandered around looking for a rice grain store.

After inquiry, I learned that there was a relatively large rice grain store in another alley, and it took a few turns to get there.

Zhang Tieniu walked towards the rice grain store.

As soon as he turned a corner, Zhang Tieniu saw a group of people gathered together, talking and laughing, with great excitement on his face.

Zhang Tieniu also leaned over to take a look at the excitement.

"Borrowed, borrowed. ”

Zhang Tieniu shook his arms and squeezed in.

When I got to the innermost layer, I saw two people pinching each other's ears, hunching their waists, putting their heads on their heads, and pushing their legs back, all struggling to fight.

There was a case next to it, and behind the case was a person who looked like a book, holding an oxtail pen in his hand, and stomped his feet in a hurry.

"What are these two people making trouble?" Zhang Tieniu asked the people watching the excitement next to him.

"They are both for the sake of the two sacks, do you look at the two sacks on the table? One is woven of fine twine, which the thin man brought and used to serve the noodles. One was made of thick hemp rope, which the fat man had brought and used to hold rice. As a result, the two of them put it here together, and they went to buy their own things, and when they came back, they found that the thick hemp rope bag was written as noodles, and the thin hemp rope bag was written as rice. The fat man likes to take advantage of small advantages, and says that the thin hemp rope bag is his, because he wants the scholar to write the word rice, and it just so happens that the thin hemp bag has the word rice written on it. In this way, the thin man will definitely not do it. If both bags are fine twine, it's okay to say. You said that you put flour in a bag of twine, and it will not all be spilled? ”

It's so long and easy to twist his mouth, and it's even more brain-twisting, which makes Zhang Tieniu dizzy.

"You are really verbose, and you directly said that the two bags were written backwards. ”

Zhang Tieniu glared at the bull's eyes, and the people around him were so frightened that they all leaned back.

"Wrong! Wrong! But I agree with you!"

The person who had been explaining for a long time just smiled and joked.

Zhang Tieniu looked at this interesting person, and was actually inspired by this, and a more interesting idea suddenly popped up: "Hey, good idea, didn't I just want to buy rice, let's buy noodles together, and I happen to be missing two bags." ”

Zhang Tieniu put everyone away, squeezed in front of the scholar, pinched his waist and said: "Hey, I said, you really can't do things as a scholar, if you hadn't made a mistake, would they have been able to fight?