Grandpa said that the adults and officers and soldiers in the city were not allowed to keep dogs. They would beat the big yellow dogs to death and eat their meat.
Later, he met Uncle Beard on the road. In Shi Dan's heart, Uncle Beard was much better than the big yellow dog. He never bared his teeth at him and never got angry no matter how much trouble he made. But his beard was too irritating.
This was Shi Dan's own little thought, but he had never told Uncle Huzi or his grandfather. I wonder what the down-and-out man would feel if one day he knew that he was slightly better than a dog.
The old man looked up at the sky, his eyes a little cloudy, and he secretly cursed his short-lived son and his equally ill-fated daughter-in-law, leaving the stone eggs alone in this world.
Two carriages, two skinny horses, and three people, young and old, this picture has a strange sense of peace in the midst of poverty.
Soon, this peace was broken by a sudden sound of horse hooves.
Three fast horses, let's call them fast horses. Anyway, they are much faster than the two old horses pulling the cart, but they are far from a horse. Their coats are mottled and messy, with patches here and there, thick hips and waist, probably
It's okay to just kill and eat meat.
There were three people on horseback. Their faces were hard to see from a distance, but their riding skills were barely discernible.
The old man sat up, looking a little nervous, fearing that he was a bandit cutting the path. Shi Dan also looked like he was facing an enemy. He was holding a thin wooden stick in his hand and looked nervously at the distance from the carriage getting closer and closer.
The three people close by look really cute.
The down-and-out man yawned with a lazy look on his face. Shi Dan was unhappy and shouted in a soft voice: "Uncle Beard, be careful, be careful they are bad people!"
The down-and-out man nodded repeatedly, indicating that he understood, and Shi Dan felt relieved and stared at the knight who was approaching on horseback.
The man didn't care much. This place was very close to Tucheng. If he still encountered thieves who cut the path, entering the city would be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth. The old man and the young man would probably not even have their bones left.
However, even if the person coming is not necessarily a robber or horse thief, he is not necessarily a good person.
The old man got out of the way and respectfully asked the knight to go first. When he got close, while the old man was praying a lot, the leading knight stopped and took a look at the down-and-out man with no strange expression. The frightened old man and his little face were red.
The nervous girl raised her riding whip, pointed at the down-and-out man and shouted, "Where did you come from?"
Without waiting for the man to answer, the old man hurriedly replied: "We are from Hutu and go to Burqin City to sell millet."
"Millet?" The leading knight's eyes lit up and he pointed at the carriage and asked, "Is it all filled with millet?"
The old man was stunned and opened his mouth not knowing what to say. The knight laughed and looked very happy. He forgot to ask about the origins of the three young and old people again. He pointed at the carriage and said: "Two carts of millet, a little less.
, but it can be used for a few days, old man, keep the millet."
The old man's expression changed, he tightly grasped the mouth of a sack behind him, and looked at the knight in front of him warily.
The knight was startled, and his face darkened. This mud-legged guy from Hutu really had no eyesight at all. Not only could he not recognize his clothes, he actually dared to show such an expression. If he wasn't destined to die, he would have to call him this.
The old guy is good-looking, and then he said with a cold face: "What are you afraid of? I won't steal your grain. See clearly, we are the guards of the Lord's Palace of Burqin City. We have official positions and will not covet your two cars.
Millet.”
"Chief Sha, what kind of knowledge can a person from that shabby place like Hutu have? Let's get down to business and don't waste time with this old man." Another knight said loudly.
Hutu, the poor man murmured in a low voice, not knowing what he was thinking of. On the way, he heard an old man mention the meaning of the name Hutu. Where there are ghosts, this ghost is not the ghost after death, but the unkindness of heaven and earth.
ghost.
The exact location of Hutu was unclear at the moment. Just looking at the direction of Burqin City, it happened to be due north. The old and thin horses were exhausted and walked slowly. The old man and Shi Dan walked away from Hutu for ten minutes.
It took three days to meet the down-and-out man, and the three of them walked together for another twenty days before arriving at Burqin City. They were still nearly ten miles away.
The road was not smooth. The old man and Shi Dan were very lucky. They didn't meet any bad people in the past thirteen days. In the following days, they seemed to have better luck after working with this down-and-out man. They walked safely all the way until today.
, arrived in front of Burqin City.
"Our city lord's palace bought these two carts of millet." The leading knight waved his hand and shouted arrogantly.
The old man had a grimace on his face and felt ten thousand reluctances in his heart, but the people did not fight against the officials, and this was true everywhere.
Seeing that the old man was silent, the leading knight shouted impatiently: "Old man, are you deaf? Didn't you hear what I said?"
"You are so unreasonable. The millet belongs to us. We can sell it if we want to. If we don't want to sell it, we can't. Why are you scolding my grandpa?" Shidan asked in a loud voice with an angry look on his face.
The knight's face turned cold, and he was very annoyed. He was snatched away by a boss boy and couldn't explain anything at all. It was really embarrassing.
The knight said sadly: "Why are you scolding this old guy? If you say more, believe it or not, I will beat him to death."
Shi Dan was startled, his face turned pale, and tears welled up in his eyes. When had he ever seen such a ferocious person? In his memory, the big yellow dog that he couldn't deal with was the most ferocious, but he didn't.
This person in front of me is so scary.
"Stone egg..." The old man shouted quickly, fearing that the leading knight would hit the stone egg, so he jumped down from the carriage, staggered, slipped his leg, and was so painful that he knelt on the ground for a long time and could not get up.
Shi Dan screamed and climbed down from the carriage. Although Shi Dan was already seven years old and had maturity and courage that other children of the same age did not have, his body was still very thin and thin. He was holding the shaft of the carriage with his hands and kicking his calves wildly.
, very anxious, but unable to reach the ground.
The down-and-out man watched quietly, but didn't even come forward to help. He didn't know if he was also afraid of the city lord's guards in front of him.
Shi Dan kicked off one of his straw sandals, but still couldn't reach the ground, so he burst into tears. Suddenly, Shi Dan let go of his hand and fell from the shaft of the cart. He fell down and squatted, not caring about the pain.
He got up and staggered to the old man's side, stretched out his young hands and patted the old man's arm, and called anxiously: "Grandpa, grandpa, what's wrong with you?"
The old man endured the pain, forced a smile, stretched out his hand to wipe the tears on Shi Dan's face, and awkwardly comforted him: "It's okay, grandpa is okay."
The situation in front of me would probably make a living person feel compassionate.