At this time, it was getting late, and when Da Kui returned home, his mother couldn't help but ask long and short questions. Da Kui took out three ingots from his arms, and his mother was startled: "Where did you get so much money?" Da Kui would not lie, and truthfully told his mother what had happened in the past two days.

Da Kui's mother was an authentic peasant woman, and when she was slack, she went to the city to make up for the big family's laundry and supplement the family. Da Kui's father was dragged by the government to repair the river embankment when Da Kui was three years old, and he never came back. Later, I heard that Da Kui's father was beaten to death by the overseer because he stood up for the people in the same village.

Now that the mother and son depend on each other, they are usually afraid that Da Kui will have three pieces and two shorts outside. Every time Da Kui went into the mountains to chop wood, she had to nag her for a long time, for fear that something would happen. At this time, I listened to what Da Kui said about going to the city with his bare hands, Tang and Ye stabbed corrupt officials, and the soldiers of the war in the city. The mother trembled in shock until Da Kui finished telling everything she had experienced. The mother took her son in her arms and said with tears in her eyes: "My son, your father died early. If you have any three and two short, how can you call your mother to live?"

Da Kui said in his mother's arms: "Mother, don't cry." Comforting his mother, Da Kui was thinking about something. It was inconvenient to tell my mother about this matter, so I had to keep it in my heart .......

In the days that followed, Da Kui was confined to his mother at home. said that he was afraid that Da Kui would go into the city to sell firewood again and be recognized by others and report to the official. It wasn't until one day that Da Kui saw something and made up his mind to tell his mother what was in his heart.

On this day, Dakui got up in the morning, washed up, and chopped the day's firewood as usual. My mother was busy with breakfast in the kitchen, and she said to Da Kui, "Da Kui, you have been bored at home for the past few days. Let's go out for a walk, but don't go far." Da Kui agreed. It's just boring, so it's good to go out for a walk.

When I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw the Zhang butcher in the village killing cattle. Zhang Butcher and Da Kui's family are relatives of their own family, and Da Kui should call him a second uncle. The cow Dakui killed by the Zhang butcher recognized that it was the cow of the neighbor Ge Ye's family. The cow was old and blind in one eye, and Da Kui and his friends threw it with a stone when he was a child, because the cow ate his own wheat straw. Afterwards, Ge Ye found Da Kui's mother's theory, and Da Kui was chased by his mother with a rolling pin and ran all over the village. Thinking of the naughtiness of his childhood, Da Kui smiled.

Zhang Butcher saw that Da Kui was smirking, and couldn't help but ask funny: "Silly, what are you smiling?"

Da Kui said: "I didn't laugh at anything, I just came out for a walk." After a while, when he saw Zhang Butcher's sharp knife stabbed into Lao Niu's heart, Da Kui suddenly felt his heart sink. As if thinking of something, I couldn't help but walk home with my head down.

At breakfast, Da Kui asked his mother, "Mother, what kind of person is my father?"

The mother was stunned, looked at Da Kui and said, "When your father didn't marry his mother, he was a famous mason in ten miles and eight towns. He is loyal, honest and very capable, and it is for this reason that my mother married your father. As she spoke, her mother's eyes were filled with tears.

Da Kui said angrily: "Mother, why was my father loyal and honest to be killed." Ge Ye's cattle have given Ge Ye so much force, and in the end they will kill and sell meat?"

The mother looked at Da Kui in surprise and asked, "Son, what's wrong with you?"

Da Kui stood up and said, "Since I met Brother Tang, I only knew. People have to stand up and live, otherwise they will be like my father, who will be slaughtered like the cattle of the Ge family!"

The mother looked at Da Kui in surprise, feeling so strange: "Son, we must keep our duties as people." Don't you dare to think about it. ”

Da Kui said angrily: "It is the duty of the overseer to be beaten to death if he is not satisfied?"

Looking at his mother's haggard face, Da Kui walked to the side with tears and knelt on the ground with a 'poof': "Mother, the child wants to go out to learn skills." I don't want to be like my father, I don't want to be a cow to the slaughter."

With tears in her eyes, the mother asked, "Son, where are you going?"

Da Kui said: "Tiantai Mountain, Feiyun View." When Brother Tang left, he wrote a letter to me, asking me to go to his uncle to learn the arts."

The mother asked, "How long will it take you to come back?"

Da Kui hesitated for a moment and said, "At least three years."

Seeing that Da Kui had made up her mind, her mother said in desperation: "Don't be in a hurry to leave, and stay with your mother for another day." Talk to your mother. The mother and son hugged their heads and cried.

At dawn the next day, Da Kui got up early. Chopped a lot of firewood for my mother, and the water tank was full. It's already three days a day to finish this. His mother prepared a bag for Da Kui, which contained a few clothes, two pairs of cloth shoes, and a bag of dry food. The mother tied Da Kui on his back with her own hands, and took a water hyacinth and hung it on Da Kui's waist. After doing this, he took out a cloth money bag from the house and stuffed it into Da Kui's arms, and kept admonishing: "Son, it's better to be outside than at home." Be careful everywhere, and don't argue with others in case of trouble. Didn't the gentleman of our village say that he endured the calm for a while and took a step back... Take a step back... What do you mean?"

Da Kui smiled and said, "Take a step back, take a step back, what do you say!" ”

The mother stretched out her hand to carefully sort out Da Kui's clothes and baggage, and pretended to be angry and said, "Look at you child, why don't you be so flirty? ”

Da Kui smiled: "Don't worry, mother, I'm not like that." I haven't caused trouble since I was a child!"

Mother repeatedly advised: "But remember, when it's cold, wear more clothes, eat when you're hungry, and don't be reluctant to spend money." The money you got back, my mother kept forty taels at home, and when you came back, I would marry you a daughter-in-law. You have to learn to take care of yourself outside?" the mother nagged as always, until she sent Da Kui to the entrance of the village.

At this moment, it is the warm sun, and the time is not enough. The poplar groves on the edge of the village blown by the autumn wind rustled, adding a few sorrows. Da Kui looked at his mother's half-white hair, and couldn't help shedding tears: "Mother, fool goes out this time, you must learn your skills hard." When the fool comes back, I will marry a daughter-in-law and serve you together. As he spoke, he knelt on the ground on his knees, and after three knocks, he couldn't cry.

With tears in her eyes, her mother reached out to help Da Kui, and choked up: "I'm there, my mother is waiting for you to come back at home." Get up, get up, it's cold on the ground!"

Da Kui got up and looked at his mother again, and then turned away ruthlessly. Behind him, his mother's advice came from afar: "Son, go early and come back early!" Da Kui didn't dare to turn back when he heard this, for fear that he would lose the courage to leave home once he turned around.

The autumn wind swept up a few fallen leaves and a few dead grasses, turning and drifting on the road at the entrance of the village into the ravine beside the road. The mother stood at the entrance of the village and watched Da Kui gradually move away, the tears on her face never stopped, and she reached out to pull the gray hair on her sideburns, and the mother sighed deeply. His own child hurts, Da Kui has been straightforward since he was a child, how can he ever go far away?

As the old saying goes: The mother of the child is worried, and Da Kui's departure from home seems to have taken away the backbone of the mother, and the mother did not stand at the entrance of the village until Da Kui's figure disappeared, and then turned around and walked home ...... in despair.