[001] The laughing stock in the village
"Have you heard? The last ten pigs of the Shen family's baby are also dead. He is still a college student. He has been back for a year and has spent a total of 50,000 yuan on his family, but nothing has come out of it."
"Those ten pigs died too? The old Shen family is also unlucky. They gave birth to such a prodigal son. The university cost the family tens of thousands of dollars, and they are still struggling when they come back. What's the use of university? It's better to just grow some rice at home.
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"Oh... stop talking, Aunt Shen is here."
Qianyun Village is not very wealthy, but it cannot be called a poor village. It can only be said that each family can maintain their own life. There is also a cement road in the village leading to the county seat. Everyone is living a happy life.
New rural small buildings have been built a few years ago, but only one in the village is still an old-fashioned red brick house. It has long been faded and covered with moss. The ground in the courtyard is still yellow mud. When it rains,
, half a foot can sink in.
The wooden door of the brick house opened, and a middle-aged woman came out. There were already many white strands in her hair, her brows were slightly wrinkled, and the wrinkles on her face were revealed one by one, adding a touch of old age to her whole person.
She turned her head to the left and glanced lightly at the three women of Lao Zhang's family who were picking vegetables. The women obviously heard what they said, but she couldn't muster the energy to say anything. What they said was the truth.
Although there were words saying that her son was not good, at this time, she could only endure it!
The story about my son has already spread throughout the village. Four years ago, a house was built in the village, but my son was admitted to college and the money for building the house was used to pay tuition.
Four years later, my son came back from college. He used the 50,000 yuan he had spent frugally in the past four years to start a business for his son, raising pigs! He also bought an abandoned pig pen in the village for 10,000 yuan.
After five years, the remaining 40,000 naturally bought pig breeders and feed, a total of forty pigs! Everything seemed to be in full swing, and the villagers were envious of it. However, a year later, the piglets grew up and were ready to be sold.
, the bad news came, forty pigs were sick, first twenty died, then ten more, until yesterday, the last ten were gone. A year's time was wasted, and fifty thousand yuan was wasted.
, except for the five-year right to use a huge pig pen, nothing was left. In an instant, the Shen family became a joke to all the villagers in Qianyun Village.
"Oh...what are you still standing here for? Go and see where that brat has gone? If you haven't come back yet, isn't it embarrassing enough to be outside?" An old male voice came from inside the brick house. The woman didn't say anything and walked out.
The yard.
There was nothing left in the empty pigsty, except piles of feed.
"Oh, there is nothing left. Yes, college students are nothing!" The young man looked decadent and slovenly. His white shirt buttons were completely unbuttoned, and he was walking towards the mountain with a bottle of Erguotou in his hand. This man was not
The other person is none other than Shen Peng, the big joke in Qianyun Village, a bachelor's degree graduate from that university. What makes people laugh even more is that the graduation certificate of this undergraduate student says he majored in breeding! Everything is so ridiculous, a breeding
Professional college students can raise pigs to death. Now everyone in the village knows that Lao Wangtou in the east of the village can raise pigs better than this college student who returned from college and majored in breeding.
The taunts from the villagers kept echoing in Shen Peng's ears and could not be dissipated.
Shame, the shame of a college student, the shame of a college student majoring in breeding. Shen Peng couldn't figure it out anyway. Why did those forty pigs suddenly die? A total of forty pigs. What is the concept? Forty pigs, a total of Ten thousand catties, the purchase price of 8 yuan per catty, the 80,000 yuan that was already in front of you are just gone? You know, these forty pigs died of illness, so no one will buy them, and the only way to deal with them is to bury them Got it!
"Eighty thousand, eighty thousand, a total of eighty thousand..." The rain had fallen unknowingly, and the tears on Shen Peng's face were mixed with the rain. He walked up the path up the mountain in a daze. The road was very slippery. The man was very drunk. He rolled all the way up the mountain and was covered in yellow mud. He was in a miserable state.
After downing the last half of the bottle of Erguotou in one gulp, Shen Peng raised his head and looked at the sky full of anger, as if all his anger was returned to the sky.
"God, why are you doing this to me?" The painful roar actually overwhelmed the sound of the thunderstorm and echoed in the mountains. It lingered for a long time. Shen Peng felt weak all over and fell into the mud. He wanted to take a picture. He got up and dug his hands in the yellow mud several times, but always fell down due to drunkenness. Finally, he simply stopped moving and let the wind and rain blow, and gradually fell asleep with the wind and rain.
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The sky was already bright. After the wind and rain, the sky was very clean and cloudless. The sun's rays seemed a little unbridled, but the temperature was not very hot because the rain was still there, so the temperature was extremely suitable.
"Headache!" This is the first consciousness when he wakes up. This is how he feels after being drunk. His closed eyes are illuminated by the strong light, which is very uncomfortable. But Shen Peng also knows common sense. If he opens his eyes now, maybe it will be bad. To dazzle your eyes, raise your arms with restrained muscles, cover your eyes with both hands, slowly open your eyes, let your eyes adapt to the light coming through the gaps between your fingers, then slowly remove your palms and look at The sun shines in the sky.
"I didn't expect to sleep here all night, haha." Shen Peng's face was extremely pale, and he slowly sat up. His whole body was soaked. His white shirt had turned yellow mud color, and the yellow mud on his hair had dried. The yellow mud pulled Shen Peng's hair a little painful due to the gravity of the earth.
With his hands in the pulpy yellow mud, Shen Peng slowly sat down and took a deep breath. To be honest, he had no extra strength to support him to stand up now. He had no food to replenish his body energy for a whole day, and he went through a windy and rainy day. At night, my body was limp and I had no strength at all. Did I ask someone to come up with my cell phone? Even if he had brought it with him, it should have been scrapped due to water damage.
After resting for a while, Shen Peng felt that his body had some strength, and then he tried to stand up.
"Hiss..." As soon as he stood up, Shen Peng felt a tearing pain in his knees, which made Shen Peng fall into the mud again. His trouser legs, which had been dried by the sun, became wet once. Slowly, a touch of bright red emerged from the mud. The blue jeans seeped out, and Shen Peng's trembling hands slowly rolled up the trouser legs, exposing his knees.
A sharp wound on his knee has festered. It was obviously caused by the wind and rain last night.
"Fuck, am I going to carry it like this?" Shen Pengzai couldn't help his anger and cursed loudly. The curse spread out into the distant valley and echoed for a long time before dissipating.
Shen Peng took a deep breath and touched the wound. The bursts of pain spread to his nerves, making Shen Peng's hair numb. His hands were stained with light blood. He gritted his teeth. Shen Peng was hard. I stood up again, slowly dragged my right leg, took two steps forward, and left the range of the mud. I was about to speed up, but my body became unsteady, leaning forward, and I was about to fall down. The right knee bent slightly due to the pain, and the whole person fell to the ground again. This time there was no soft mud as a point of strength, but the hard yellow mud that had been burned by the sun. The right knee The knee wound hit the yellow mud hard.
"Uh...ah..." The huge pain made Shen Peng feel dizzy, and he almost fainted from the pain.
"Grass, grass, grass!" Kneeling on the ground, Shen Peng angrily hit the ground with his right fist, tears dripping down his eyes: "Why? Why? I can't figure it out! Forty pigs, 80,000, 40 Pig, why, why did you suddenly get sick!" The physical pain was accompanied by the mental pain, and Shen Peng, who was always full of energy every day, had eyes full of despair.
Holding his hands on the ground, Shen Peng was breathing heavily, his eyesight was blurred, and the yellow earth in front of him was wet with tears. It took a while before he recovered again. Looking at Qianyun Village at the foot of the mountain, Shen Peng's heart moved. , he had nothing, but he still had his parents, and he didn't go home all night. Shen Peng knew that his parents must have gone crazy with worry, but he had no shame to face his parents anymore, because he was in college and there was no one at home. After building a new house, all the last 50,000 yuan was lost because of starting a business and raising pigs. All the money at home was lost because of him alone!
"I'm just a waste, a waste that can't do anything." Shen Peng tilted his body and slowly lay down. He no longer had the face to meet his parents. The despair in his heart gave rise to his thoughts of suicide, but now He seems to have no strength to commit suicide anymore!
"Well..." Just as he lay down, something clicked on his waist. Shen Peng straightened up his waist and smiled helplessly: "Even stones can't get past me now?" Shen Peng straightened his waist. Peng stretched out his left hand, trying to push away the rock, but when his left hand touched the sudden bump that touched his waist, a coolness spread throughout his body. His body unexpectedly regained its strength, and the pain in his knees disappeared. The pain disappeared at the same time, and Shen Peng was stunned with a weird posture.
"What? Why did I... suddenly feel strong? That burst of coolness... was my brain broken and I had an illusion?" Shen Peng couldn't help but think wildly. He immediately turned away from his lying body and turned around to look. He walked towards the place where he had been lying just now.
A small blue pebble appeared in front of Shen Peng's eyes. Shen Peng swallowed his saliva, stretched out his hand tremblingly, and touched the small blue pebble.
"Woo..." That cool feeling appeared again. Shen Peng's body felt comfortable for a while, and a moan came out of his throat unconsciously. Shen Peng withdrew his hand again, and the feeling disappeared again.
"How... how is this possible? What is this stone?" Shen Peng stared blankly at the small blue pebbles, his voice trembling, "Wait... there is something down there." After being stunned for a long time, Shen Peng was surprised to find that the pebbles seemed to be just part of an object, and there was something else hidden under the soil.
"No matter what it is, we must find out." Shen Peng looked at the green 'little pebbles' and mumbled something in his mouth. He ignored the wound on his knee and knelt directly on the ground. He scooped up a little muddy water in the mud pit with his hands and poured it on it. On the soil around the green 'pebbles', I kept digging the soil with my hands.
However, after digging for more than a dozen times, bursts of pain came from his fingertips, but Shen Peng ignored it, frowned, and continued digging hard!
Gradually, half of the face of 'Little Stone' was revealed, but it shouldn't be called Little Stone now. It was a tripod, a four-legged tripod made of blue stone, and the one that reached Shen Peng's waist was one of the four legs. Shen Peng swallowed, stretched out his hand and slowly grabbed the four-legged tripod, and slowly pulled it out of the soil. But at this time, an accident happened. The moment the four-legged tripod left the ground, his fingers The blood from the tip slowly seeped into the cauldron, and the stone cauldron slowly flickered with cyan light.
"Ah... ghost... ghost." Shen Peng slumped down and spoke incoherently. He tried hard to shake off the cyan stone tripod, but his hands seemed to be completely stuck to the stone tripod. No matter how he shook it, the stone tripod remained the same. It stuck to his hands, constantly sucking the blood from Shen Peng's fingertips. The light became brighter and brighter, and the frequency of flickering became higher and higher. Shen Peng kept struggling, but still to no avail.
"What's going on? Help, who will save me, help me, who will save me!" Shen Peng shouted desperately, and the trace of suicidal desire at the beginning disappeared. When he felt the real threat of death, Shen Peng was still wilting, he didn't want to die so early.
"What are you shouting for, old man, let me come in." A vigorous and powerful voice sounded from somewhere, and the light of the stone tripod suddenly reached its peak, completely covering Shen Peng's body. The next moment, the light went out, and Shen Peng's figure , and then disappeared on the top of the mountain!
Chapter completed!