Make a long-term worker as an old attack

"Mother!" Niu Geng roared, and several old crows staying on the dead tree behind the house were startled by the sound, flapping their big wings and flying away.Niu Zhuang, who was burning paper money beside the coffin, looked up and saw Niu Geng kneeling at the gate of the courtyard, and rushed over in a hurry.

"Gengzi, why did you come back?" Niu Zhuang was angry and anxious, he didn't take the pipe and pan, and kept stamping his feet several times in fear of hitting the white clothes on his body.

"Uncle..., in this coffin..." Niu Geng raised his head, his round eyes filled with tears, he looked straight at Niu Zhuang, as if he still wanted to grasp the only sliver of hope.

Seeing him like this, Niu Zhuang couldn't bear it. He raised his head and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "The one parked in the coffin is your mother. Go and have a look again. The coffin is not closed yet. Your aunt and I didn't dare to close the coffin." Close it, I'm afraid you won't see this one last time, your mother won't feel at ease when she leaves."

Speaking of helping Niu Geng to stand up, the hen that Niu Geng held in his arms also fell off, dragging its bound feet and jumping around on the ground, but Niu Geng ignored it and walked into the yard In the coffin, one side of the coffin was not closed yet, and before she left, the mother who was joking and joking with him about saving money for him to marry a wife was already wearing a shroud, with her hands folded in front of her belly, and she was lying in the coffin with her eyes closed.

Mother's face was extremely pale, her lips were bloodless, and Niu Geng couldn't help but want to reach out and touch Mother's face to see if she was fast asleep or really gone.But before he touched his hand, he asked Niu Zhuang on the side to stop him.

"Gengzi, don't touch it, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it..." Niu Geng's dull expression was completely different from that of normal people, and there was no other emotion in his eyes except two lines of tears rolling down.Seeing that his hand was blocked, Niu Geng struggled slightly and said, "Let me touch, uncle, I will touch my mother's face."

Niu Zhuang didn't insist anymore, let go, Niu Geng slightly touched his mother's face with his trembling fingertips, and a small pit was sunk in that gray skin, but it was not like this before, when he was a child When he naughtily poked his mother's face, the skin would bounce back quickly, why this time, the small hole didn't move at all.

It was only then that Niu Geng seemed to suddenly realize what had happened. His whole body was trembling uncontrollably, his blood was churning unbearably in his chest. With a hoarse voice, she cried out with all her strength: "Mother!" Two lines of hot tears fell down, dripping onto Niu Gengniang's temperatureless face.

Niu Zhuang held on to Niu Geng, persuading him, "Gengzi, let's make a coffin together, don't let your mother feel uneasy about leaving."

"Uncle, what's the matter?! My mother, when I left, she was fine, fine!" Niu Geng wailed, staggered and knelt on the side of the coffin. Fist, pounding the ground hard.

"A few days before you left, your aunt and I seemed to be fine, but we didn't want to take medicine because we thought it was expensive. There was a rain in the middle, and in order to protect the firewood you cut, she braved the rain to cover it with oil paper. After I came back, I felt bad. I felt hot all over. I asked a doctor to see her. She was afraid that she would spend the medical fee and drive the doctor away, so she had to carry it on her own. Your aunt and I tried to persuade her not to do it. I have tried all kinds of methods, your aunt even smashed the herbal medicine that can cure the disease and put it in the noodles for her to eat, but it didn’t work. After more than ten days, she vomited blood twice. Two days ago , I didn’t resist, so I left.” After Niu Zhuang finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

"Your mother, life is hard!"

"Ah!!!" Niu Geng beat the ground like crazy, her mother is not in a bad life, but if he, as a son, can earn more money, his mother will not feel sorry for that little firewood, will not I feel sorry for the money spent on doctor visits, let alone dying of illness.

In the final analysis, his mother is forced to die of poverty!

Niu Geng covered his chest and cried loudly, crying for his mother, crying for himself, crying for this chaotic world that cannibalize people.

No matter how many tears shed, my mother would never come back. I have cried enough, and I have to go on with the funeral.Niu Geng took the thin coffin where his mother lay down, and after guarding the spirit for seven days for his mother, he dragged the coffin to the edge of Lao Niu's cemetery and buried it.

When his father died, he was buried in Sanyuan County in a hurry. Niu Geng planned to go back in the future and move his father's tomb with his mother's.

Niu Geng's mother's funeral was so simple that it was out of place, there were no mages and monks, no funeral procession, no paper horses and cows, and Niu Geng was alone in a daze at the newly erected small grave.Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang worked hard these days, but Niu Geng sent them back long ago.Accompanied by the gloomy wind, the dark clouds blowing in the field full of graves made one's hair stand on end unbearably.

The paper money in his hand was burned down, Niu Geng looked at the brazier that was gradually going out in front of him, and wiped away the last tear that fell from his eyes with the cuff of his rough linen filial piety.

"Mother, my son has no skills, and I didn't let you enjoy the blessings during your lifetime. You can rest assured that your son will be successful in the future. When the time comes, your son will find a master with the best workmanship, build a big house for you, and burn the cattle and horses. Please take good care of yourself." Bless your son, and he will be famous in the future!" After finishing speaking, Niu Geng knelt on the ground and kowtowed nine heads on his mother's grave.

From Xue's house to Chengcheng, Niu Geng finally figured out a truth, poverty is the ultimate source of all evils in this world.He doesn't want to live like this again, don't want to live in such an aggrieved way again!

Although he made an oath at his mother's grave, he still had to live his life, and he still had to do the job at the post station. Niu Geng has been paying attention to other ways to make money other than the post station these days, but half a month has passed. Still no progress.

On this day, when Niu Geng and Chang Qi teamed up to deliver a box of goods to the next post station, the delivery car broke down on the road and had to be repaired for a while, which delayed the journey back.The road that could have been reached in the evening, the two of them dragged on until midnight and just reached the gate of the city.

But it doesn’t count if you enter the gate of the city. According to the rules of the station, the postmen who have delivered the goods must go back to the station to fill out the report and return the ticket number. Chang Qi was anxious to go home and sleep, but Niu Geng didn’t force him, he took it by himself. The ticket number returned to the station.

To him, there was a big difference between spending one night in that old house in disrepair and making do with one night in this inn. They were both desolate and deserted places.

There was only one old man on night duty in the post station dozing off on the table where the ticket numbers were sorted out. Niu Geng woke him up and handed in the ticket numbers, and then walked to the stable behind the post station. There was a woodshed there. Warm and liveable.

Niu Geng was lying in the woodshed, squinting his eyes and going to sleep, when he suddenly heard footsteps outside the woodshed, he thought it was some other postmen coming back to deliver the horses, so he didn't care, and fell asleep on his own.

"Last time I told you to walk faster, but you insisted on staying in the Fireworks and Willow Lane, how can this be good?!" The voice of the visitor was extremely low, as if he was afraid of being discovered.

"You still say me, are you playing crazy too?"

"Okay, okay, what's the use of talking about it now? That's the tangerines that were delivered to Master Central. It's broken so much. Master Central is very annoyed. How can we make a deal!"

Niu Geng heard it clearly in the woodshed, and he also recognized the voices of these two people. They were the post officers who led them when they delivered goods to the border between the two provinces last time.It turned out that the last time I sent tangerines, no wonder the fragrance is so strong.

"Even if we had to pay for that box of oranges, we couldn't afford it."

"If it's really possible to pay for it, that's great! Master Central is extremely annoyed, and wants to severely punish our delivery people."

"So, brother, pick a good horse and run quickly." As he said that, Niu Geng heard the sound of a horse's hooves kicking through the door, as if someone was leading the horse.

"But I'm gone, what about the whole family? My child is only three years old."

"I still care so much until now, if you die, your family will still not be able to survive!"

"No, brother, running like this is not the way to go, we have to find a way to shirk responsibility for this matter, or will we really hide in the ravine as a fugitive in the future?"

"Push it away? How do you push it? The postmen who went together saw us visiting the brothel, how can we control their mouths?"

"Hmph." The other person sneered and said, "Since I can't control their mouths, I will send them out, saying that they only know how to play and have fun on the way, which delayed the trip."

"This...is a good idea! Unless it is passed on, those postmen will have no chance to see the people above. As long as we kill the two of us, let them say what they say, it's useless if the higher-ups don't hear it!"

Niu Geng heard it clearly from the firewood room, these two clearly wanted the six postmen they went with to take their lives for them!Normally, it would be fine to just deduct subsidies and monthly payments, but he thought of harming the lives of the six innocent people. Niu Geng was anxious, kicked open the door of the firewood house, picked up a wooden stick in the firewood house and rushed out. go out.

The two post officials were startled when they saw someone in the stable in the middle of the night. Seeing the figure of the person rushing towards him, they recognized it as Niu Geng at a glance.The two murmured inwardly that the person who was hiding was actually one of the postmen who went to deliver the goods together last time.In the moment of stupefaction, Niu Geng rushed over with a stick, no matter what Sanqi 21 greeted the two of them.

They are used to being post officials, and they have long been used to yelling at postmen. When they have suffered such a crime, when they reacted, they immediately picked up the whip hanging from the beam of the stable to guard against it. He was physically strong, but the post officer also had some martial arts skills, and after a while, he took a whip and tightly strangled Niu Geng's neck, pushing him to the ground.

The post officer who strangled Niu Geng's neck had already had murderous intentions in his heart. The more force he used, the harder Niu Geng was strangled. , The round eyes stare out the boss.

Seeing this, the other postman became timid and hurriedly said, "Are you trying to strangle him to death?!"

"If he doesn't die, then both of us will die. If you don't come to help, what are you doing standing aside?!"

As he said that, the strength in his hands increased again, Niu Geng's eyes turned white, and he couldn't see everything in front of him clearly. He kept struggling with his feet, and pressed his hands tightly on the rope, but he still couldn't stop him. He caught a glimpse of a sharp boulder on the side of his left hand, and his life was hanging by a thread. Niu Geng struggled to pick up the big boulder, slapped it on the back of the postman's head.

A sticky hot liquid splashed all over his face, and the horsewhip around his neck was instantly loosened. Niu Geng was reborn after the catastrophe, panting heavily, and the things in front of him gradually became clear.

The post officer lay on his back with his eyes wide open, a white and red mixture dripped from the back of his head, and his fingers twisted deformedly as if he had just tightened his whip.

"Kill...Kill!!!" A piercing scream came from the right side, and Niu Geng looked in horror at the timid postman standing aside, and then at the man lying on the ground with his chest motionless , realizing what happened.

"Come on, kill people!" The post officer was still screaming, pointing at Niu Geng with trembling hands, but he didn't dare to take half a step closer. When Niu Geng heard the movement in the front hall, he panicked and raised his head. At first glance, there was already a good horse with a good saddle in the stable, and there was a package hanging on the saddle, which must have been prepared when the two of them were just planning to escape. He didn't care about anything, only one thought in his mind, escape!In an instant, he got on his horse and disappeared into the night in just a gust of wind.