Chapter 847 Anecdote of the cowhouse The Westing House is shocked by the burning feet

Author: Biantang Wushi

Chapter 847 Anecdote of the cowhouse The Westing House is shocked by the burning feet

As for how many cows there are, I don't remember very much, there should be at least a dozen or twenty. In addition, there are a few donkeys, but they are different from cows and do not have to work in the fields, because their main job is to pull the mill. If you want to say, this donkey is really a hardworking animal. After working hard for a day, he took off the donkey's ply and took off his head cover. It shouted a few times in a "hungry" manner, and then rolled a few on the ground, covered in grass clippings and dust.

After standing up and shaking for a few times, his fatigue immediately disappeared and he ran to eat grass. In the mid-1980s, the cowhouses in various production teams were still preserved. Many people with livestock were still willing to keep the livestock here. They asked an old man from the five-guarantee family in the team to watch it. People with livestock would give him some food every year. Until the 1990s, even the wheat farm became a field, and these cowhouses disappeared.

It’s not winter now, so I have the deepest memory of the winter cowhouse. At that time, we didn’t have any heating facilities here, so it was a very, very luxurious thing to keep warm at home. The wheat straw piled up outside is for cooking. So if you want to cook, you get the cowhouse of the production team. Why go there? Because this cow is most afraid of the cold. When it comes to winter, you have to keep warm. To be honest, it is not an exaggeration to let the cows who have worked for more than half a year enjoy this warmth. It is natural.

The villagers naturally got the glow of the cows, and it would be natural to go to the cowhouse to roast the fire. The cold wind was howling outside, the snow was flying, and the firewood in the cowhouse was red and warm as spring. Especially the elderly, they were frequent visitors to the cowhouse. In addition to going home to eat, they stayed in the cowhouse for a long time. Although the cowhouse was filled with smoke and dust, the elderly seemed to be able to withstand the smoke and fire. They were close to the fire, opened their clothes, and enjoyed the heat waves very much.

The evening, the more people come to the cowhouse. After drinking the soup, the villagers gathered in groups of people towards the cowhouse. If it was rainy and snowy weather, the weather was cold and the sound of the hairy nest became a rare scenery on the village road. Some people would bring a few sweet potatoes and put them in the fire to cover them. When they were hungry, they would take them out and eat them, which would smell fragrant.

If you are thirsty, it is simple. In my impression, few people here go to drink tea specifically because we usually cook porridge for three meals a day, just add a spoon of rice, corn stalks, or dried sweet potatoes to the water. Each person can drink several bowls of this meal, so they naturally don’t have to drink tea. When they bake in the cowhouse, they will naturally become thirsty. Under the eaves of the cowhouse, there are long and short ice crocks, as long as crutches and as long as the palms. They knock on one of them casually, and then chew them into their mouths, "creaking" and quenching like eating popsicles. At that time, people had a great resistance. When we worked outside, we would pick them up and drink them when we went to places with springs, and rarely had colds and diarrhea.

In addition, the cowhouse has become a free public hotel in the village. If someone has relatives, friends from Henan, cousins ​​from Shanbei, and there are not enough bedding at home, they will stay in the cowhouse. They will slowly encounter weddings and weddings. There are many people and the family cannot be crowded. They also come here to stay for one night. The cowhouse is full of wheat, which is slippery and comfortable to lie on. You can sleep well with a little thin blanket.

Finally, there is another most attractive thing in the cowhouse, which is the paradise of stories. Sometimes, if you don’t know where you borrow a book, it often has no book cover or rolled up, and the paper has turned yellow. There are also many traditional Chinese characters. Under a dim kerosene lamp, a literate person is reading hard and stutteringly. When he encounters rare words, he fools him. However, the audience doesn’t care and listens very seriously. Even the cows who eat full of grass, drink enough water, and rest under the bed seem to be ruminated while listening.

I remember listening to "The Fire King Kong", "The Yang Family General", "The Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", "The Biography of Tong Lin" in a cowhouse. I read many of the books later, but many of them were intermittent, not full. There were also those who came to the village to sing drums and sing tales and perform tricks. They also took advantage of this slack farm to earn some extra money to support their families, so they naturally had to live in the cowhouse. Those who sing drums could talk about them for more than a month, and those who played tricks for at least seven or eight days. However, they didn't have money and cooked their own food. After that, they would carry their pockets from the west of the village to ask for food, wheat, corn, and even dried sweet potatoes. The family only had a bowl. Generally speaking, whether they had heard of them or hadn't heard of them, they would give them.

In addition to these programs, there are also the elderly people from our East and West Villages. Some of them have worked as Kuomintang soldiers, some have worked as guerrillas, some have worked as horse bandits, some have worked as long-term workers for landlords, some have often traveled around the streets and alleys to do small business, some have escaped from famine and have to eat, some have been studying in private schools for a few days, some have wandered around and performing operas, etc. What they saw and heard when they were young, they experienced were strange and different. At this age, they all like to recall their own stories, and at the same time they did not forget to add some eye-catching seasonings to it.

To be honest, there are some stories that they have told countless times, and we don’t know how many times they have heard, but every time everyone still listens with relish, smacks their tongues, and enjoys it. The most exciting thing is ghost stories, and I don’t know where the adults heard them. Anyway, they say that they have noses and eyes, which makes people stunned, their hair stands up, and they have goose bumps all over their bodies.

This means that a big daughter died in Huangzhuang, the back mountain. She used a belt hanging on her belt. When she arrived in the underworld, she had no belt, so she kept her pants all day long, and was shy, so she wanted to find a belt. The ghost wandered around the grave all day long, stopping passers-by to ask for belts. If she passed by there at night and heard crying, she would quickly untie the belt and leave and leave. The ghost would not chase you.

The one who said that the children in Hebei were buried in the forests of children who died. They carried lanterns together to play cards at night. I really believe this because I once saw a fire in the field in the evening, and later I realized that it was a phosphorus fire.

Some people also said that a new wife in Nanzhuang lit the light and put the soles of her shoes. In the middle of the night, a cold wind suddenly blew open the door and the light was blown out. The door was closed again, and the light was turned on again, and it turned on again. The new wife was a little angry and scolded, "What's going on, is it going to die?" Before she finished speaking, a hanging rope fell from the beam of the room and fell in front of her eyes.

Some people also began to tell the story of Cheng Yaojin's fortune-telling

The most uncomfortable thing about listening to ghost stories is that they want to pee. They don’t come early or late. But they feel like they are urinating at a critical moment, but they have to relieve themselves. They are afraid of delaying listening to the story, and they dare not go outside alone. They often hold on until the story is over and it’s time to go home. Such a group of people hurried out of the cowhouse, lined up next to the fields outside, and released them to the fullest. In the spring of the next year, I found that the wheat in front of the cowhouse was always lush and lush.

When I arrived at the west room, I poured hot water, washed my face with Zitong first, and then sat on the sofa and started soaking my feet. She said, Brother Zheng, I found something when I went to take a shower yesterday.

Ah? I discovered something? When I heard this, my heart suddenly thrust. I really thought she discovered the good thing I did yesterday. I asked with a guilty heart, what's the matter?

Anyway, I was shocked and a little at a loss. Then I turned my head quickly and looked at her. I could tell from her eyes that it was not about me. I hurriedly asked, "What the hell is it?" I also scared me."

Hahaha, that's right. Yesterday, as soon as I entered the bathhouse, my god, all of them were naked and white, which made me stunned at that time. You may not know that I grew up so old, but I have never been to a public bathhouse, mainly because we don't have one.

My god, it turns out that this is the matter. Zitong, Zitong, you are going to scare people. I felt relieved in my heart and immediately laughed with her. Hahahaha, that person went in to take a shower. Are you still wearing clothes to wash?

I know, but I'm not used to it. Not only these, but also, there are some.

(End of this chapter)
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