That year, I was interviewed in a mountain village in Chaoshan District, Guangdong Province. I was moved to tears when I listened to the old captain in his 70s smoking a hookah and telling the story of an old buffalo who saved the wife of a hero who was three times.
I stared at the buffalo head rack with curved horns hanging on the wall for a long time. This is a memorial left by the buffalo after he died of old age. My heart was surging, and a feeling surged in my heart: Don’t say that animals have no emotions, and you will see your true heart at the critical moment of life and death.
★The old woman rescued a sick buffalo to be slaughtered
1961, the last year of the worst period of three years of natural disasters. Chaoshan Mountain Area, which has never been arid, suffered severe drought, and the crops were almost out of reach, and the wild vegetables and beasts that could be eaten on the mountain were almost completely dug up.
At this time, a three-year-old buffalo in the production team fell ill. The hungry people immediately set their eyes on the buffalo with a listless expression, and everyone's eyes became greedy.
Four out of five members of the team committee asked to slaughter the buffalo to save the whole village. The reason is to prevent the disease from spreading to more than a dozen other buffaloes. This is a very legitimate reason to help villagers. Because it is illegal to slaughter and plow livestock at will.
The sick buffalo was tied under a big tree to prepare for slaughtering. Hundreds of people in the village gathered in the yard of the team to watch the slaughtering cows. Hunger made people look at the buffalo's eyes and reflected a series of greedy lights like wolves.
The buffalo seemed to know that it was about to be slaughtered, and mooed sadly. The member holding the bull's knife suddenly shouted loudly: The bull is crying, the buffalo is crying!
The masses rushed forward and looked forward, and saw the buffalo's tears rolling down like soybeans.
Captain couldn't bear to look at it, so he quickly turned around, but looked at the yellow-faced and thin villagers, with a ruthless heart and said to the butcher: Take the knife!
and so on! This cow cannot be killed. An aunt in her 50s hurried to stop her. She is the widow of a martyr. Her husband, who is already the leader of the regiment, died on the Korean battlefield when he resisted U.S. aggression and aided Korea. The whole village respects her.
If anyone else dared to stop the cattle from killing, he would definitely be beaten to death by the hungry villagers on the spot. However, no one dares to ignore Auntie.
The breeder also wanted to eat beef and shouted: Aunt, this cow is suffering from an infectious disease, and I will not be able to feed it if I don’t kill it.
Aunt said: I'll come and hello. The captain couldn't bear to kill the buffalo, so he went down to the dowry: OK. This cow should not be killed, so it will be fed by Aunt from now on.
★Aunt became a cowherd woman since then
Aunt has no children and is a martyr, and has always enjoyed the treatment of a five-guarantee household in the production team. But Aunt never eats idle food and always does things within her ability in the team. She is always the first to help anyone who has difficulties.
At this time, she came forward to stop the killing of the buffalo. Only she dared to do it, and only she could do it. But the hungry people always focus their resentful eyes on her backbone. But she pretended not to know.
When the buffalo saw Aunt unbuttoning its reins himself, it knew it was rescued. The bull's eyes were hazy, tears rolled down, and his head kept rubbing against Aunt's body. Finally, he lowered his head and arched at Aunt's bend. Aunt couldn't stand steadily and was sitting on NiuTou .
Buffalo raised his head and sent Aunt home in front of everyone, and refused to leave Aunt's small yard again.
Aunt has become a breeder who specializes in feeding this sick cow. The buffalo is like a dog. Wherever Aunt goes, it follows it, forming a unique landscape in the mountain village. Auntie's name has also become "Auntie Buffalo".
After consulting with the veterinarian, Aunt knew that the buffalo was not very sick, so she collected herbs with her own hands, boiled them into soup, and drank them into a buffalo. In less than 10 days, the buffalo was cured.
★Aunt slid into the pond, and the buffalo rescued her and
The buffalo finally recovered under the careful feeding of her aunt, and became stronger and stronger. Except for the plowing and harrowing fields that normally participate in the production team, the buffalo is still grazed by Aunt when she is off work.
From then on, I often saw my aunt tired figure in the fields and ridges and ditches, and behind it was the agile big buffalo.
One day, Aunt was cutting weeds by the pond. When her feet slipped, she fell into the pond. The pond is very deep and the edge of the pond is very steep. There is only one outlet with a relatively low and gentle water outlet, like a dustpan entrance. The place where Aunt slipped was the steepest slope and the deepest water.
The pond is very "greedy". Several people have lost their lives in the pond after taking a bath, and the bodies of two people have not been salvaged at all.
The aunt who fell into the water couldn't swim and she was so scared that she called out loud when she fell into the pond.
exclaimed alarmed the people working on the hillside, but the distance was too far and people had not yet run halfway, and Aunt was already struggling half-floating in the water and exhausted.
At this time, the buffalo eating grass in the distance heard it. It seemed that it knew that Aunt had fallen into the water and immediately ran over. At this time, the aunt floating on the pond was already dying.
The buffalo recognized the straw hat on Aunt's head, mooed and roared quickly, jumped into the water. When swimming in front of Aunt, he picked up Aunt with his horns, swam quickly towards the dustpan mouth, and won the members who arrived cheered...
★Aunt lost her medicine and broke her legs. The buffalo asked the breeder to save Aunt's mountain village
A few years later, Aunt became a barefoot doctor in the production team. She often carried herbs on the mountain to pick herbs to treat herbs.
On this day, Aunt put the buffalo in a grassy beach and went into the mountain by herself. In the mountains, many plants and trees are useful medicinal materials in the eyes of Aunt. Soon she dug a basket of dozens of medicinal herbs.
She was thinking about driving the cow home early, but after all, she was almost sixty years old, and her legs were not as good as she went over. On the next steep slope, she slipped down the cliff and fell fainted.
When she woke up, she found that she could no longer get up. Her leg broke and she was about to struggle to find a branch to make a crutch, but she fainted from the pain again.
The sun sets. The buffalo eating grass alone in the grass beach did not wait until Aunt came to take it in time. It seemed to feel an accident happened to Aunt, and her temperament immediately became irritable.
It couldn't wait, raised its head, opened its nostrils and smelled it. It was familiar with the smell on Aunt's body, so it followed the smell like a dog and went to the mountain. Finally, it saw Aunt lying on the ground. It mooed happily and rushed to Aunt quickly.
However, Aunt didn't move. It used its horns to pick up Auntie back, but it was not safe to do it anyway. The buffalo rushed back to the production team and rushed back to the mountain with the breeder. The breeder took Auntie to the buffalo's back and said with emotion, Auntie, you are rewarded with kindness. This buffalo has saved you twice.
★ South China Tiger pounced on my aunt, the buffalo fights the tiger
In the blink of an eye, it was the late 1960s, the buffalo was 12 years old, and was in his prime, but the aunt was in his 60s. However, the buffalo still lives in her small yard. Auntie is still a barefoot doctor in the production team.
That spring, Aunt took the buffalo to the mountain to collect herbs. The buffalo was arranged to grazed in the grassy beach at the foot of the mountain. Auntie carried the medicine basket on her back and shoveled up the mountain with the medicine shovel.
The buffalo has a sensitive sense of smell. It smelled that this grass beach had been eaten by yellow cows, and the smell of yellow cows was everywhere, so it no longer ate it, so it slowly walked towards the mountain where Aunt was collecting herbs.
Suddenly, the buffalo smelled a strange smell. This smell made it a behemoth weighing more than a thousand pounds feel nervous from the bottom of his heart.
The buffalo doesn't know what the smell is, but it feels the oppression and threat of this smell on itself. This is the nature of a livestock.
When it was considering whether to leave this horror aura, it suddenly remembered Aunt. It remembered that Aunt walked into the woods with the strongest terrifying smell above.
Suddenly, the buffalo heard a roar, followed by a scream. It was Aunt’s scream! The buffalo is most familiar with Auntie's smell and sound. Instinct tells it that Aunt is in danger. This danger may be the smell of this scent and the roaring beast.
Aunt must not be in danger! Although the buffalo felt his whole body cherry and his heart was chilling, and there was something extremely terrifying and dangerous in the woods above, it had to reinforce Aunt.
The buffalo roared with a mooing sound, and opened its four hooves and rushed towards the mountain.
At this time, a South China tiger was roaring at Aunt more than 20 meters away, and then jumped over.
Aunt leaned against a big tree that several people hugged each other, screamed at the tiger showing off, and waved the medicine shovel in his hand.
The tiger was afraid that the shovel of the shovel in Aunt's hand did not pounce on it immediately, but fell three or five meters away in front of her, grinning and roaring like thunder.
The fear and the long-term confrontation made the elderly aunt less and less physically weak. The tiger saw that the time for attack was coming, and roared like thunder on the ground, jumped up and rushed towards Aunt.
At this time, the buffalo had just arrived. Seeing that Aunt was in danger, it rushed towards the tiger without hesitation. Bang! The fallen tiger could not dodge and was hit by the buffalo. Its two sharp claws actually scratched the buffalo's neck.
The buffalo did not give the tiger a chance to turn over, so he took the opportunity to rush forward and lowered his head and hit him. The tiger knew that it was hit and had to be crushed to pieces, so he hurriedly jumped to the buffalo, trying to take the opportunity to blow the buffalo.
Unexpectedly, the buffalo turned around and the big bent horn suddenly pricked the tiger's waist and ribs. He swung it with force, and the injured tiger was thrown three or four meters away.
The buffalo rushed to the fallen tiger again. Seeing that this black guy was really powerful, the tiger had to die when he hit him again, so he hurriedly got up and limped into the forest.
Aunt witnessed the whole process of the buffalo fighting the tiger. Now she saw the tiger being driven away by the buffalo and saved herself. She hurried over, holding the buffalo's neck, and shed tears of gratitude.
And the buffalo's head is also tightly pressed against Aunt's body, rubbing gently... ( Author Profile: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist, writer, published 42 monographs such as novels, wrote more than 200 episodes of TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and magazines, and published more than a thousand online articles.)
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