Dongzhang in the God Sculpture

At this time, there were three more firewood at the old man's feet, and there were five big firewood in total, and he was sitting on the ground panting to rest.

Dongzhang smiled and leaned over, pointed to the fire by the river, and said, "Old man, look, there is not enough firewood, how about some more firewood from you?"

Dongzhang originally thought that this time the old man would get angry at what he said, but in fact he slapped Dongzhang again. The old man still didn't fart, didn't even look at Dongzhang, and said with a normal expression:

"If you want to use it yourself."

"Hey, okay, thanks, old man."

Dong Zhang thanked him and took four of the five firewood, leaving only one fist-sized and some twigs for the old man.

But even so, when Dongzhang passed in front of him with the firewood in his arms, the old man still didn't lift his eyelids, and sat on the ground resting with his usual expression, without even glancing at Dongzhang.

On Dongzhang's side, after getting the firewood, he continued to increase the firepower and eat happily. Dongzhang thought that the old man would continue to cut down trees, but to his surprise, the old man started to pack up the firewood and go home.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the old man carrying firewood on his shoulders. He was walking out of the jungle tremblingly due to a huge loss of strength. Dongzhang stopped paying too much attention, and looked back at the grilled fish in his hand and began to eat it.

And the old man on the other side, facing the scorching sun at the moment, is walking on his way home. Occasionally, he will meet young men and women in twos and threes on the narrow path and among the straws beside the fields. When they see the old man who is walking hard and sweating, they can't help asking road:

"Uncle Ma, let's take it home for you. You can rest for a while."

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Facing the enthusiastic villagers in the same village, the old man walked past them without saying a word as if he was deaf, and still walked forward step by step stubbornly. He continued to do his own farm work, and he didn't care about the old man's attitude at all, as if he had already seen the strangeness.

The old man staggered all the way to a small well-kept yard, stacked the firewood neatly under the eaves next to the door, and then sat on the door couch to rest for a while without entering the door.

"You're back, have some hot tea."

A friendly voice sounded in the room, and then a well-maintained old woman came out with a cup of hot tea, handed it to the old man sitting at the door, and brought a towel for the old man by the way, but when she saw When there were only a few sticks of firewood beside him, his originally kind and kind face was instantly replaced by an angry look, and he cursed at the old man:

"I cut so much firewood in the morning when I went out. What do you want us to cook at night? Ah? You are getting more and more shameless. Are you listening to me?? What will we use to light the fire tonight? ?Say it!"

This old woman is obviously a typical impatient person. When nothing happens, she is amiable, but when something happens and something happens, she scolds without asking why. The old man seems to be used to her aggressiveness , was scolded and did not return the words, but got up and went back to the house without saying a word, and the old woman didn't seem to be satisfied with the scolding, so she followed the old man and turned back to the house to continue cursing angrily.

The more silent the old man was, the more fiercely the old woman scolded: "You have always been like this, you can't get a fart in a day, I just followed you because I was blind, you can't count on it, I will pull my face down in a while Go to the house next door to borrow firewood, and tomorrow you go out to chop firewood and give it back.”

When he said this, the old man seemed hesitant to speak, as if he didn't want the old woman to go out to borrow firewood from others, but in the end he didn't say anything, and the old woman didn't seem to really want to go out to borrow firewood. She seemed to know that the old man didn't want her to show her face to borrow firewood from others. It was more like provoking the old man. In the end, she still felt sorry for the embarrassed old man. The old woman took the remaining firewood into the house to light the old man's fire and boil water .

At the other end of this time, Dongzhang had already come to the field path, looked at the young and strong doing farm work in the field, stopped and asked: "Excuse me, is there an old man in your village who just came home from chopping firewood?"

A dark-skinned young man in the field looked up at Dongzhang in a daze for a moment, but he still responded in a harmonious voice: "Young gentleman is talking about Uncle Ma, he just came home."

Dongzhang was about to thank him, when the dark young man caught a glimpse of the long sword behind Dongzhang's waist, and immediately climbed up from the field quite nervously, and asked anxiously, "I don't know why the young master is looking for that uncle Ma?"

Seeing this young man with an obviously nervous expression, Dong Zhang was also quite curious, and said with a chuckle, "Why? This strange old man can't be found anymore?"

Seeing Dongzhang's attitude, the swarthy young man became even more anxious, and hurriedly explained: "No, sir, I misunderstood, this Uncle Ma is indeed from our Niujia Village, but he has a weird personality and is not good at words, so he might offend him unintentionally. Young Master, if this is the case, the young one can replace Uncle Ma here to apologize to Young Master."

After speaking, he was about to kneel down to Dongzhang with bare feet, but just as he bent his knees, Dongzhang grabbed his arm with one hand, no matter how hard the dark young man tried, he couldn't make any progress, and he couldn't help but secretly amazed: This young man has so much strength.

My heart became more and more flustered, I was afraid that Uncle Ma had offended him severely, but Zhang Dong became more and more curious, and asked with a smile: "Who are you from that strange old man?"

Seeing that he couldn't kneel down no matter what, the dark young man had no choice but to give up the act of apologizing, looked at Dong Zhang with a warm smile and said with a wry smile: "It's just a neighbor in the village, but Uncle Ma is a very good person in the village, why should you be angry?" I'm just peeing on me, don't go to his old man."

"Oh~"

"Tell me, how is he doing?"

Dongzhang became more and more interested. Looking at this young man with a smile on his lips, the dark young man said calmly: "Uncle Ma was not from our village, but he joined our village. But whoever has a big or small matter can always see his figure."

Looking at Dongzhang who was still listening, the dark young man paused and continued: "Last year, the roof of our house was washed away by the heavy rain, and many people in the village couldn't take care of themselves. Only Uncle Ma resisted the wooden plank and helped us overnight." My family repaired the house, even if he was too tired, he still insisted on helping our house to repair and settle down, and he left in the early morning. At that time, there was only one father who was sick in bed at home. It can be said that Uncle Ma saved my father's life."

"Of course I want to repay this kindness, but the next day I came to thank him with a gift, but he kicked me out. It was Aunt Zhang who quietly told us that Uncle Ma had caught a cold that day. He didn't want others to enter, but why should he be afraid of such a great kindness, and he still threw all the gifts out afterward."

"He is such an elder with a cold face and a warm heart. In fact, most of the families in our village have received more or less help from him, but he never said anything. Being kicked out by him is really hard to say..."

"If the son is really..."

Hearing this, Dongzhang probably understood what kind of person this old man was, and couldn't bear to embarrass this simple and honest young man. Dongzhang waved his hand to stop him, and said with a smile:

"I don't have any enmity with him, but I, like you, have also received his favor..."