Chapter 18 of Country Girl: Two bachelors in the village-Niu Yaolao

Speaking of cows and cowboys, the girl in yellow remembered that year. The village was in the busiest farming period of the vernal equinox, and the fields full of rain were shining, waiting for people to cultivate and sow. At that time, agricultural technology was not developed enough to use cultivators, and it was usually with the help of manpower or hard work on hard-working cows. Miss Huang's paddy field is very close to the bachelor's house. Every spring, Miss Huang always hopes to have one or two cows at home, so that all the farmland can be plowed in half a day. The fatigue of spring ploughing is nothing. The most terrible thing for Miss Huang is leeches hidden in muddy water. Every time she goes out of town, she is always worried and afraid. Once adsorbed on her leg, forced pulling is not feasible, and salt water or white vinegar is needed.

The girl in yellow stood on the ridge of the field and dared not go down for a long time. Not far away, a cow man walked slowly with his black cow. I saw the black cow wagging its tail to drive away the flies around it and gnawing at the tender grass on the road. The cow was gray-blue, wearing a straw hat, and the big brim covered her eyes, leaving only a crooked mouth with grass roots. He held a long grass whip in one hand and dragged an iron plow in the other to drive the black cow. From time to time, Grandma Shantou heard Cleisthenes Cleisthenes, a black cow, calling and stopped farm work: "Cowboys are really rare these days. You have never plowed your own field during the busy farming season. " The girl's grandmother was half joking and half surprised.

"Aunt Huang, don't laugh at me. How can your own fields not be cultivated?" Niu Guan always urges the black cow to work in the fields.

The girl stood by the ridge and watched, trying to sneak away from work. At this time, the cowherd, who was driving the black cow across the field, passed by the girl, suddenly let out a cry and severely beat the black cow's hind legs. I saw the tired and slow old Niu Yi running wildly with an iron plow in surprise. At the same time, she was surprised that the girl fell into the paddy field instantly. The ox man raised his whip and cursed, "I really want to be lazy!" " "I don't know if he said it to the black cow or to himself, but I always think this cow is crazy.

Scared, the girl in yellow rushed to grandma's side and lifted her feet to help grandma step on the plowed rice roots and clods evenly and spread them out, so that it was convenient to insert the seedlings one by one in the paddy field, commonly known as "transplanting".

Gossip about Niu Guan Lao, you only need to stay by the well at the head of the village for a while, and you can eat a lot of melons. The ox crown ranks second in the family, with an elder brother above and an elder sister behind. My brother and sister have been married for a long time, but he is still alone with Black Bull. In recent years, Niu's parents have left, and he and his eldest brother's family have also separated. His eldest brother pitied him and gave up a few more plots of land, hoping that he could live up to expectations and marry a daughter-in-law. After all, it is not a poor problem that Niu Cuo can't get a wife. Everyone in the village knows that he is a notorious miser.

Before parting, he never helped his family farm in the busy spring farming season. He just took the black cattle to other people's homes to farm and wanted to earn more money. Now that he has divided the field, he is actively ploughing his share. Everyone in the village despises his selfishness and meanness and laughs at his deserved loneliness all his life. Speaking of his blind date story, it has become a joke of the villagers after dinner. Once, a cowherd was finally attracted by a girl, but missed his life because of a piece of pork. The thing is this: that day, Sister Niu always took two pieces of pork, a fish, some noodles and a bag of fruit to visit the girl's second wife. During the conversation, the girl's parents were very satisfied with him, and the marriage was settled. Who knows that when Niu Guanlao was preparing to go home, people casually said a kind word: "Hey, two pieces of pork! We still have two pieces hanging in our house. How can we eat so much at once! "

"Then I'll take one back!" Thinking it was one of her own, Niu Niu reached for the biggest piece. Anyway, parents can't finish eating so much.

He walked out of the gate happily with pork, and the girl's parents watched him go away blankly. There are indeed two pieces of diced bacon hanging on the beams.

Later, the marriage broke down, and the matchmaker arranged for him said to everyone: I have never seen such a person, and my girl has never been married before, so she began to make small plans.

The yellow girl wants to be such a selfish and stingy person. No wonder she is too old to marry a wife. This is one of two bachelors in the village. As for the other one, Miss Huang doesn't have to think about it, but also knows that it is a man who lives in a broken thatched cottage-Yaoyaogong. As for why his name is Gong and why he has been single all his life, this is another story.