Iron Bull Legend

This Spring Festival has passed quickly, the thick snow has melted, the tender grass has emerged from the soil, just showing a touch of new green, the branches of the willow trees have opened their tender bags, revealing a little furry little head, the stream The river is flowing and everything is coming back to life.

Mr. Guo brought a willow basket woven with wicker and placed it in the stream. He used wooden poles to drive the fish in the stream from the top of the stream. For more than an hour, fish of different sizes were put directly into the bucket.

"Grandpa, it would be great if there were fish to eat." The three siblings clapped their hands and shouted after Mr. Guo.

"Haha, there are fish to eat." Mr. Guo responded maliciously. The feeling was accidentally seen by Little Tieniu, and he was shocked, and a bad feeling arose.

Four people, one large, three small, returned to the small courtyard, and Mr. Guo took out more than a dozen fish and put them in the basin.

"Everyone has one stick of incense, whoever can catch the fish in the basin, and whoever rests, will stand and burn the incense if he can't finish it." Mr. Guo chuckled and returned to the yard next door with his hands behind his back.

The sound of splashing water and the childish laughter of children came from the room. The three children were playing and playing in the room. They couldn't laugh anymore. Even within the prescribed time, they didn't. Catch the loach out of the water.

With sullen faces, they all stood in the cleared space in the small courtyard, with the sun above their heads, sweat coming out and dripping onto their clothes and the ground.

As a result, catching loaches was added to the lives of the three children. It started with a stick of incense, and the children were happy when they finished, but they were sad when they couldn't finish, and their faces were gloomy when they finished. The time they spent catching loaches was reduced to half. Incense stick.

What was left unfinished by the stick of incense was the joy of leaning back and forth. However, soon they stopped laughing. The stick of incense could not be completed, so they added another stick of incense to their stance. It was really extremely joyful and sad.

However, such a fun life makes them enjoy it every day, especially Jin Lan. She would rather stand still than study with Grandpa Ke. Jin Lan can do anything without being picky.

After catching two buckets of loaches, Mr. Guo went out again. Before leaving, he chatted with Mrs. Jin for a long time. No one except the two of them knew what they were talking about.

Days like this were spent non-stop catching loaches, standing on stakes, touching ceramic tiles, and learning about culture. The crops in the fields had already grown fruits, and the two red tassels on the corn stalks made the dark-faced farmers smile happily. .

Little Tieniu's time of catching loaches gradually turned into a pot of more than twenty loaches. In the blink of an eye, he caught them all and threw them into the bucket next to him. Little Jinlan was miserable because she was still stuck in half a stick of incense. , much worse than Jinzhu.

However, Jinlan kept his words and clearly refused to lose. The other two siblings had become accustomed to it and were defeated by little Jinlan's shamelessness.

Little Tieniu went to bed later and later at night. He read the professors' books one by one, like dry land in desperate need of rainwater irrigation. The knowledge in each book was crammed into him. The little head of a little over two years old.

To the surprise of the professors, when Xiao Tieniu returned the book, no matter what knowledge in the book was tested, he answered fluently without any pause. This further aroused the interest of more than a dozen elderly people and put the knowledge in their minds into practice. , when the little Taurus was standing still, he muttered it next to him.

"Hateful loach, stay where you are and be honest, and let your aunt catch you obediently. If you don't obey, I will catch you and feed you to the chickens, haha... I finally caught you, hahahaha." Jin Lan Finally, after the last red dot of the incense burnt out, I caught the last loach.

"Sister Lan, Sister Zhu was like this half a month ago, what can you be proud of?" Xiao Tieniu walked into the room at an inappropriate time, looking at the slightly crazy little Jin Lan, his mouth pursed.

"Hmph, I want you to take care of it. While you're gone, I have to feed the sheep." After saying that, little Jinlan proudly walked out of the house with her chest puffed out.

This also fully reflects the carefree character of little Jinlan. After all, he is a five-year-old child, and he has the kind of complacent expression when he has done something well.

Today, all the children's homework was over, leaving only the cultural class in the afternoon. Little Jinlan pulled up the corner of Little Tieniu's clothes and whispered mysteriously in his ear.

"Jinniu, I haven't told anyone about the bird's nest on the big tree at the west end of the village. Do you want to go and see if any birds have hatched?" Little Jinlan didn't dare to go up the tree, so she asked in confusion.

"No, I want to read a book." Xiao Tieniu shook his head and refused.

"No, it's just a matter of a while. What a beautiful thing it would be if we hatched a bird and watched the bird grow up with us. Please help me see. From now on, I promise not to share your embarrassment with anyone else." Especially Grandpa Guo." Xiao Jinlan squinted her cute big eyes and tempted Xiao Tieniu.

Little Tieniu stood there and kept thinking. In fact, he also liked to play, but there was a voice in his mind urging him that this was wrong.

"Please, little Tieniu..." At this time, little Jinzhu stood beside him, blinking his big eyes, with that expectant look in his eyes. He had never seen what a newly hatched bird looked like.

The two little girls were looking forward to it with great anticipation. Under the urging of endless temptation, Little Tieniu gave in and was completely submerged in the little girl's tenderness.

The three children were laughing, chasing each other, and playing, running towards the west of the village along the only dirt road in the village. The silver bell-like laughter made this peaceful small mountain village more warm.

In a poplar forest at the west end of the village, Little Jinlan pointed to a poplar tree more than ten meters tall above her head, and pointed to a black spot the size of an adult's fist on a thin branch. She gestured to the little golden bull with expectant eyes and encouraged her eyes. , he is a hero in his own eyes.

Endless temptation, Little Tieniu sighed in his heart, rubbed his hands, spat on it, hugged the tree trunk as thick as his waist, and climbed up.

When the little Tieniu climbed to the branch of the tree, the little Tieniu saw a one-meter-long snake above his head spitting out snakes and making a squeaking sound. The snake was on top of the bird's nest. Hidden under the cover of bird's nests and leaves, he had long been discovered by Little Tieniu.

While one person and one snake were confronting each other, a bird flew over, and the snake shot at the little iron cow. If the little iron cow avoided it, it would definitely fall to the bottom of the tree, because the snake's big mouth was biting towards the little iron cow. Little Tieniu hugged the back of the tree trunk.

At this time, the little bird shot over as fast as lightning, and smacked the snake's head with its sharp mouth. Taking advantage of this moment, the little Tieniu hugged the trunk with its other hand. The hand that was originally holding the tree suddenly moved like lightning. Zi pinched the snake's head.

At this time, the two sisters under the tree discovered the snake that suddenly appeared. They were so frightened that they screamed under the tree. The girl's piercing screams frightened the birds that were resting in the forest.

Just when the little iron cow pinched the snake's head, the bird's sharp beak had already pecked on the snake's skull. A thin line of blood burst out and sprayed on the tree trunk. The snake twisted its body and kept moving. Hovering and tightening on the tree trunk.

The little bird saw the little iron bull, but it did not fly away. It still pecked at the snake's head one by one until the snake's head was pecked to pieces, and its body rolled up on the tree trunk hung down softly. Completely dead.

The little bird flapped its wings, landed on the top of the nest, and chirped. The little iron cow also blew its little mouth again, making a faint whistle.

"Little Tieniu, come down quickly, come down quickly." Two sisters, Jinlan and Jinzhu, shouted with tears in their mouths.

"Well, come down right away. You guys stand back and I'll throw the snake down." Xiao Tieniu glanced down. The two little girls raised their heads right where the snake was hanging down.

Leaving the snake behind, Little Tieniu slid down the tree slowly, his whole body speed was extremely slow. Obviously, this was the first time for Little Tieniu to climb a tree and he had no experience at all.

The snake that was thrown to the ground had already made no sound. He reached down to the small iron pillar on the ground, picked up the snake's head, and showed it to the two sisters. The two little girls under it stepped back.

The little bird on the top of the branch was still singing, flapping its wings, and nodding its head.

Three people and a snake walked out to the village. As they walked, Little Jinlan and Little Jinzhu chirped like birds, praising Little Tieniu for his bravery. They did not notice that a group of children were already following behind them, with big runny noses and big snot bubbles blowing. Yelled Niu Niu Niu Niu.

When the adults saw this big snake that was more than one meter long, their faces turned pale with fear. They didn't expect that a child as young as Xiao Tieniu didn't look afraid at all. He happily talked to his friends about how he caught the snake. However, he did not mention the bird's nest.

A group of children are like heroes returning home in triumph. Little Jinlan and Little Jinzhu stand out with their proud little chests and raise their enviable little heads. They are as awesome as they want.

"My child, you are too courageous. You scared your aunt to death, so throw it away." Sister-in-law Jin felt cold sweat break out on her back when she saw Little Tieniu's tender little hands holding the torn snake head.

"Aunt, he's dead. It's okay. Grandpa Guo said snake meat is delicious." Xiao Tieniu didn't abandon the nearly two-meter snake at all, and laughed.

"Mom, can you do it?" When the two sisters Jinlan and Jinzhu heard that snake meat was delicious, their throats rolled and they kept swallowing.

"Well, your father has done this before, let me try it." Sister-in-law Jin said casually, not noticing how casual her words were.

The four of them returned home with the envious eyes of the children. Sister-in-law Jin quickly took out a knife and made a small incision on the snake's head. She pinched it with her fingernails and pulled the snake's skin, which was not yet stiff, to reveal White and tender snake meat.

Take out the internal organs, wash them with water, cut them into small pieces, heat them in a large iron pot, add oil and stir-fry the tender meat sections in the pot, and a fragrance will come out.

After a while, a large bowl was filled with the aroma of meat, dotted with green onions, which made people want to slander. When they watched the little iron cow pick up a small piece of snake meat, put it into its small mouth, and slowly tasted it. Chew.

"Does it smell good?" Xiao Jinlan and Xiao Jinzhu asked in unison. Knowing that it was snake meat, they were a little scared, but their greediness honestly betrayed their inner fears.

"Hmm..." Little Tieniu hummed, without saying anything else, he picked up another piece of snake meat and ate it deliciously. The feeling was very enjoyable.

Little Jinlan and Little Jinzhu didn't care that it was disgusting snake meat. They stretched out their little hands and picked up a piece of snake meat with their chopsticks. When they put it into their little mouths, they shouted, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, eat a piece," When picking up another piece, the little mouth clicked a few times.

Sister-in-law Jin looked at the children in front of her. Since Little Tieniu joined them, Mr. Guo has brought a lot of fine grains and rare food from time to time. Besides, those two sheep, the children's quality of life has improved, and they are happy. , thinking, tears fell from my eyes.

"Mom, I saw you weren't scared when you were making it. Why, you were scared when we were eating." Jinlan Jinzhu asked again in unison, putting down the chopsticks in his hands.

"It's okay, it's okay, mom is touched." After Mrs. Jin finished speaking, she waved her hand for the children to continue eating.