Chapter 47: The Annunciation
The shepherd boy rode the ox, and the song vibrated the forest.
Intending to catch the cicada, he suddenly closed his mouth.
……
A little girl with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, her face was red by the noon sun, her eyes were big and bright, her two small short feet were straddling the back of the ox, holding a bull rope, and she looked leisurely.
This big yellow cow is very obedient, but there is an old injury on the hind legs, and the uphill slope seems to be slow, and sometimes it makes a mooing sound, long and far-reaching, as if there is an unknown story.
There were a few soybean fields on the slope, and a couple were hoeing there, and when the sturdy woman saw the tiger girl, she stopped her hoe and tilted her head and asked, "Tiger girl, are you going to wait for your brother again?" ”
"That's right! I think my brother will be back soon, and I dreamed last night that he was back! The tiger girl responded sweetly, with a hint of anticipation and excitement on her face.
"You said the same thing last month! As a result, you waited at the intersection for several days to find out that your unconscionable brother ran directly to Gaozhou Mansion! The woman waved her hoe and continued to weed, complaining.
"That's ...... I don't know! My brother had to go to the Kaofu test again, and he asked Sister Yunzhu to bring you delicious pastries! Hu Niu immediately helped to excuse herself, and then said a little proudly.
"Okay! Yes! Auntie is troubled, you know towards your brother! The woman was a tofu heart, and said earnestly to the tiger girl: "But you should be careful at the intersection alone, and shout loudly if there is anything, I and your uncle can hear it here!" ”
"Got it!" The tiger girl replied crisply, knowing that Aunt Cuihua really cared about her.
Behind the small trees on the hillside, a dirt road leads to Aoba Town on the left and Gangchon on the right, from which it is said that it can reach Yeonju.
The tiger girl tethered the cow to the roadside grass to graze, and she ran up to the big rock and sat down, while pulling out a beautiful flute from her bosom. This was bought for her by her brother on that trip to the market, and she usually took it with her to herd cattle.
Airplanes......
She puffed up her cheeks and blew a few times, and her little short legs hanging from the stone couldn't help but shake a few times.
She loves the days now, she has an older brother to rely on, she no longer has to worry about her stomach, and she has beautiful clothes and shoes to wear, everything is like a dream.
Especially after my brother passed the county exam, those people in the village seemed to be really afraid that my brother would be admitted to Tongsheng and let the county uncle beat them, and now no one dares to bully her, and they don't have to be bullied anymore even with mice.
It's just that she misses her brother very much at this time, and she wants to go home to sleep in that bed, and she has a lot of things to say to her brother. For example, one day I caught a big fat rabbit, one day I picked up a wild duck egg, and a lot of things happened in the village......
An ox cart came from far and near, but it was the Stone family who returned from the market.
The stone saw her from afar, and when the ox-cart passed by, he took out a meat bun from the basket, and raised it triumphantly at her, and stuck out his tongue defiantly.
Hum!
Hu Niu snorted coldly and twisted her face, she didn't like the stone family, she knew how to show and play right and wrong all day long. And it's just a meat bun, and it's definitely not as delicious as the pastries that my brother asked Sister Yunzhu to bring her.
"Your brother hasn't been admitted to the Tongsheng so much, if he is admitted to the Tongsheng, he will still be able to do it?" The mother of the stone said in a strange way, and at the end she raised her voice and said: "People have said that the government test is a hundred times more difficult than the county test, and your brother is afraid that he will not be able to pass the test!" ”
My brother must have passed the exam, so you just wait for the board from the county master!
Hu Niu glanced at the stone family in the distance, and said secretly in her heart.
The lazy sunlight cut through the leaves and fell on the little girl sitting on the big stone, the white specks occasionally swaying in the wind and dancing like elves. A big yellow cow was crawling on the grass, its belly was already round, and it was squinting and resting.
The road was more lively than usual today, and two carriages passed by at noon, and in the afternoon a fortune teller and a merchant passed by, but they both headed towards Jiangcun.
Waiting is a boring thing, but the tiger girl holds her chin in her hands and stares seriously into the distance. She felt that as long as she could wait for her brother to come back, she would be willing to sit here for half a month.
The sound of horses' hooves broke the silence, and two fast horses galloped in from a distance.
She felt a wave of anticipation, but soon turned to a sigh. Because it was the official in red who rode the horse, not his brother, and she also knew that his brother would not come back on horseback.
The two officials came from the direction of Aoba Town, and they didn't seem to be very familiar with this area, so they stopped at this fork in the road.
A thin official turned over and dismounted, and sighed slightly at his obese companion: "It's also a strange thing! For the second year in a row, there have been wizards here in Aoba Town! ”
"Jiang Gongzi is a rare genius in a hundred years, that Lin Haoran is just a nerd, and the two are not comparable at all!" The fat official dismounted, grabbed the horse and said disdainfully.
"That's true!" The thin official nodded, and then pretended to be mysterious: "I heard that Zheng Gongzi say, although that nerd is even in the middle of the binary, there is actually something greasy in this!" ”
"Naturally, it's greasy! But the funny thing is that some people say that the nerd can compete with Jiang Gongzi for the little three yuan! The fat official pulled Ma Zhuang to observe the two roads, and said mockingly at the same time.
Lin Haoran is the head of this year's county and government examinations, and Jiang Yuebai is the head of last year's county and government examinations, so whoever can win the first case in this year's hospital examination is Xiao Sanyuan.
"It's really a stupid person, what kind of person is Jiang Gongzi, that is a rare genius in a hundred years, is it comparable to that kind of nerd?" The thin official gave a thumbs up, and then taunted.
The two officials chatted gossip together, not caring at all that there was a little girl sitting on the big stone next to them, and the fat official couldn't identify the direction, so he turned his head to the little girl and asked, "Little girl, which way is Changlin Village going?" ”
Hum!
Hu Niu snorted coldly and turned her face away, she didn't like these two officials who said bad things about his brother, so naturally she wouldn't tell them the truth.
"Don't say it, believe it or not, I'll beat you!" The thin official immediately straightened his face and raised his fist to threaten her.
The tiger girl's eyes rolled and she pointed her hand, but the direction was Jiangcun.
"Just your tattered clothes, you know at a glance that it is a poor and sour baby from Changlin Village? Let's go! The fat official sneered and proudly exposed the tiger girl's little tricks.
Villain!
Hu Niu looked at the two officials who rode away, and immediately spat at them, and couldn't help but make a grimace.