Make a long-term worker as an old attack

The name Niu Geng actually has some origins. When he was born that year, his first cry resounded loudly and powerfully throughout Sanyuan County. His father, who could not read a single word, felt that the child seemed promising. In this way, he used the three hens raised at home to ask a famous fortune teller in the county to make a fortune teller. The gentleman said that his son had ups and downs in his life, but he would be loyal to only one person, so he gave it to him. He named him Niu Geng, but since he grew up, the long-term workers who worked with him often said that he was stupid and awkward, so they called him Niu Er. After a long time, the name that cost a lot of money was forgotten. clean.

Niu Geng is not at ease these days. Ever since the young master of the Xue family came back, his left eyelid has been twitching. At first Niu Geng didn't pay attention to it, but after the young master came to the field to see it in the afternoon, his eyelid twitched even more up.

In a thatched hut not far from the stable, Niu Geng huh la la ate the oil-splashed noodles made by his mother, and then poked his eyes at the small kerosene lamp in the house.

"Gengzi, what's the matter with you?" Niu Lishi finished washing the dishes on a pair of small feet, sat tremblingly on the kang to clean her unfinished pair of soles, and watched her son squeeze his shining pair of shoes in front of the oil lamp. There are big eyeballs of God.

"Mother, my eyelids have been twitching for the past two days, I don't know what's going on."

"Left eyelid or right eyelid?"

"Is it the left eye?"

"As the old saying goes, the left eye jumps for money, and the right eye jumps for disaster. Gengzi, you are going to be rich."

"Why do you have money? Give me a hard time."

"Okay, don't rub it, your eyes will be ruined later, go to bed early at night, you are getting angry in autumn, just rest and drink more water."

"Okay, mother."

"By the way, Geng Zi, I heard that the young master went to the field today?"

"Yes, Uncle Zhong brought him with him, took a look at us from a distance, and then went to the field to see the crops."

"I haven't seen the young master for a long time. The last time I saw him was when his wife passed away. The young master was only in his teens at that time, but he was so stubborn that he didn't shed a single tear."

"That's in front of people." Niu Geng muttered in a low voice, his eye-picking hands calmed down, and his mind was full of the first time he saw him that year.

When Mrs. Xue's family died, according to the rules, the coffin had to be parked outside Xue's ancestral hall for seven days. During these seven days, eight boys dug the grave to ensure that the tomb where the deceased woman was buried would not be contaminated by other married men. Only in this way can he continue to observe festivals for his husband's family underground.At that time, Niu Geng was only eighteen or nineteen years old, and because he was not yet married, he was sent by Uncle Zhong to do the work of digging the ground.It's just that after working for two days, he often heard crying in the Xue family's graveyard, and the crying became louder in the evening. The other boys who worked were younger than him, less courageous and temperamental. He didn't hesitate, he found various excuses to sneak out every evening, leaving him alone to guard the unfinished cemetery.

One day Niu Geng couldn't bear it any longer, so he bravely took a hammer and followed the sound of crying to find it. What he could see was a lonely ghost, and it was clearly a half-grown child who was not a few years younger than him. .

The child was squatting behind an old banyan tree, wearing sackcloth and filial piety, with a white and tender face crying with pear blossoms in the rain, out of breath, and his snow-white cuffs were dirty with snot and tears.Seeing someone coming, he immediately stopped crying, stood up at once, and stared up and down at Niu Geng with a pair of red and slender phoenix eyes.

"Who are you? What are you doing in my Xue family's cemetery?" The small vermilion mouth opened, and the momentum was not small.

"I, my name is Niu Geng. Uncle Zhong asked me to dig my wife's grave here."

Although the child was not tall and looked fragile, he seemed to have a very violent temper. Niu Geng was taken aback by him, and he didn't dare to speak out.

When Xue Zhaoqing heard that it was his mother's grave, no matter how aggressive he was at that moment, his nose began to turn sour again, and tears kept falling from his eyes.His father taught him that a man should not shed tears easily since he was a child, and he dared not shed a single tear in front of others, and only dared to come to this cemetery where no one would set foot to cry at dusk.

Seeing that the child who was so fierce just now was crying like a wronged little rabbit, Niu Geng panicked a little, except for a few clumsy and dry "Don't cry", he half I can't even say a nice word.In desperation, he remembered that when he was bullied and cried as a child, his mother hugged him tightly, and when his mother hugged him, he stopped crying, and he didn't know whether this method would work for others.

Thinking, no matter what, Niu Geng pulled Xue Zhaoqing into his arms. He was a full head taller than Xue Zhaoqing, and his body bones were a circle wider than him. This hug immediately hugged Xue Zhaoqing tightly.

Xue Zhaoqing, who was instantly wrapped into a rice dumpling, couldn't make up his mind. What kind of magical operation is this?Xue Zhaoqing struggled to get rid of that man's shackles, but this man's strength was too great, he couldn't move after struggling for a long time, Xue Zhaoqing didn't dare to call out loudly, if his family members saw him, he might be caught by a long-term worker What's the matter with being molested in your arms?Fortunately, he gave up struggling and let the man hold him.

But the man didn't seem to want to insult him. Seeing that he was no longer struggling, the man loosened his arms a little, stroked his hair with one hand, and said, "Stop crying, hugging is okay." Cried."

Xue Zhaoqing snickered, this guy, did you treat him like a three-year-old child?It's just that although this method of coaxing people is clumsy, the man's strong chest muscles and powerful arms make him feel at ease, and even the fishy smell oozing from the sweat on his body can't be smelled at the moment. Make him feel at ease.

Xue Zhaoqing slightly pushed Niu Geng away, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, looked at the man's worried face, and felt very useful for some reason, he took out a small paper bag from his filial piety belt, took out a small white square, and put it on the In the hands of Niu Geng.

"What is this?"

"You try it."

Niu Geng didn't even think about it, he put a small piece in his mouth, creaked it into pieces, and swallowed it instantly.

"Is it delicious?" Xue Zhaoqing asked

"Delicious, sweet, as sweet as the sugar in the kitchen. Any more?"

Xue Zhaoqing rolled his eyes: "This is much more expensive than the sugar gold in the kitchen. It takes a lot of sugar to be refined into this small piece."

"Then why are you doing such a waste of food? Is it okay to eat sugar?" Niu Geng scratched his scalp.

Xue Zhaoqing was speechless, ignored him, put the small bag back into his belt, and said, "Do you still want rock candy?"

Niu Geng immediately tapped the seeds on his round head.

"Then you come here to look for me at this time tomorrow. Listen to me, and I'll give it to you." As he said, Xue Zhaoqing straightened the hair that was loose when leaning on the tree, and did not look back at Niu Geng, just caring for himself gone.

"Hey, you haven't told me who you are yet?" Niu Geng shouted

"The grave you dug belongs to my mother."

Niu Geng thought to himself, Uncle Zhong said that this grave belonged to the eldest wife of the Dong family, and the eldest wife of the Dong family was the boy's mother, so wouldn't this boy be the young master of the Xue family?My future employer?No wonder there is such a precious food.

Only then did Niu Geng realize who this young man was, but looking around, in this uncovered cemetery, where is the shadow of the young master?

Niu Geng rubbed his forehead, smacked the sweet taste in his mouth, picked up the hammer and went back to the graveyard newly dug by the eldest lady, picked up the hammer, and dug the ground down one by one.

Regardless of his master and master, he is a long-term worker, as long as he works hard, master and master will not treat him badly.

For the next few days, every evening, as soon as the crying sounded, Niu Geng would run behind the old banyan tree and let Xue Zhaoqing hold him. Niu Geng felt that the young master might have regarded him as a human-shaped handkerchief, and often wiped his body with snot and tears. , After crying and crying enough, give him a piece of rock candy to eat, and talk to him a few words, until the grave is dug, the tomb is dug, the eldest wife is buried, and this delicate young master is gone.

It was later that Niu Geng learned from Uncle Zhong that the young master of the Xue family had passed the examination as a scholar and was invited to be a teacher by the largest academy in Xi'an Prefecture.

Since then, the young master of the Xue family has never appeared in front of him again. Although people come back during the holidays, which young master of the main family can come and see a small long-term worker alone.Gradually, Niu Geng stopped thinking about him, but occasionally dreamed at night, thinking about the smell of rock sugar in the past, and the halazi could flow down the bed.

"Geng Zi? Geng Zi?"

"...What?" Niu Geng, who was obsessed with thinking about the past, heard someone calling him.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you so dumbfounded?" Niu Geng's mother shook her hand in front of her son. The needle head pierced the burdock's leg and pierced it.

"Ouch! Mom, what are you doing?" Niu Geng hid far away, rubbing his legs, not understanding what the old lady was thinking.

"When you sat up there, you didn't move. If you didn't know, you thought it was some vixen who hooked your soul. Don't be stunned when you are full. Go to sleep quickly, and save yourself from igniting this all the time." Lamp, waste of oil." Niu Li put down the soles and needles in his hands, got up and lifted the curtain and went back to his small hut. When he left, he looked back at Niu Geng and sighed: her son is fine everywhere. It's just this stupid energy, when will it be better.

"Oh... got it, mother." Niu Geng responded, went to the yard to wipe his face with well water, went into the house and turned on the lamp, and went to bed!