dognovel Chapter 119 Cow
Chapter 119 Cow
After Hong explained for a long time, grandma finally understood the whole story. She held Qin Yangming's hand with tears in her eyes and was reluctant to let go, saying gratefully:
"Sir, you are our benefactor..."
Qin Yangming kept saying "no" and it took him a long time to calm down the emotional old man.
At this moment, Qin Yangming suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside the house, which seemed to be mixed with the crying of a woman.
Grandma was mending clothes with the needle and thread that Hong had just bought. Feeling Qin Yangming's doubtful eyes, she didn't even raise her eyes, still concentrating on the needlework in her hands, and just said lightly:
“Those people are back…”
Those people? Qin Yangming was puzzled. He walked to the door and looked out. He saw a group of people walking on the street in this slum area, and both sides were crowded with ordinary people who came to watch the excitement.
Hong explained to Qin Yangming:
“These are [cows].”
"They are all from the inferior breed of cattle."
Awesome? Qin Yangming was puzzled. Grandma was still busy with her needlework. She said distractedly:
"It's Kudali, the one in charge of mining."
"The coal we usually use is all mined by them."
"They also have another mission, which is to try to find an exit while digging for coal."
"Exit?" Qin Yangming asked.
Grandma raised her head, a faint light flashed in her cloudy eyes, and she said earnestly:
"People who have lived underground for many years certainly hope to come to the surface one day..."
"Legend has it that there is the sun, the moon, the wind, the rain, and the clouds..."
Grandma's voice was hoarse, as if she was expressing the long-cherished wish of everyone in Egg City.
"So...did they find the exit?"
Qin Yangming asked.
Grandma shook her head and sighed:
"No, I never found the exit."
"During this long period of time, the [cows] began to dig continuously in all directions from the Egg City. No matter how deep they dug or how far they dug, they never found any exit."
"What we dig up is always the coal that has been buried deep underground for who knows how many years, but we can never see the light of day."
Grandma's words were so moving that Qin Yangming was also infected by them. He had already imagined those dark-skinned men wearing fragile miners' hats, carrying hammers and hammering at the hard layers again and again, with the splashing sparks illuminating their wrinkled faces.
Grandma looked out the window, tears flashed across her cloudy eyes, and she said to herself:
"Every mining operation is an adventure. Facing unknown areas, I don't know how many people will die..."
Listening to the noise outside the window, grandma sighed and said:
"I just don't know how many people died this time. How are the families whose men died going to live?"
"Hong, please take your benefactor to have a look..."
Hong nodded and took Qin Yangming to the street.
At this time, the streets of this slum were already extremely congested, with residents who came to watch the excitement crowding on both sides of the road, leaving a passable path for the returning convoy of cattle.
Qin Yangming and Hong were squeezed in. Qin Yangming was tall, and it was the first time he saw those [cows].
In that long convoy, almost all of them were men, and every man's face was filled with fatigue and vicissitudes. There were even elderly people who looked older, with hunched backs carrying hammers and wrinkles on their faces.
The light in the eyes of some young people had gone dull and they looked wooden and sluggish, just walking along with the convoy as if they were about to die.
"Squeaky..."
There are many flatbed trucks in the convoy, all covered with white cloth. Judging from the bulging shapes of the white cloth, what is underneath is definitely not the mined coal.
The coal that the [cows] had collected was handed over to the nobles as soon as they entered the city.
The convoy was very long. At this time, the strong-looking man at the head of the convoy stopped and raised his hand. Seeing the signal, the people behind him also stopped.
There was a little boy behind Qin Yangming and Hong, who was being pulled by his mother to watch. Because the little boy was too short, his mother simply picked him up.
When the little boy saw the leader of the team giving orders, his big black and white eyes lit up with excitement. He said excitedly to his mother who was holding him:
"Mom, I want to be a cow in the future! Be like dad!"
"I must find a passage to the world above ground!"
“This is my dream!”
His mother held him in her arms, her face filled with a wry smile filled with worry.
The leader of the convoy just shouted to the crowd around him, and the people around him immediately quieted down.
The noisy place suddenly became quiet. It seemed that everyone was nervously waiting for this moment to come.
The leader turned around and made another gesture to everyone in the convoy.
At the same time, the people in the convoy simultaneously pulled off the white cloth covering the flatbed truck they were pulling.
What was hidden under the white cloth was now clearly revealed.
Suddenly, the crowded yet quiet street seemed to become even quieter, as if everyone held their breath, and all eyes were focused on the long line of flatbed trucks.
After a few breaths, the silence was broken by a woman's loud cry.
"Ah!!! How did you become like this?!"
Qin Yangming was startled and looked back. It was the woman holding the child standing behind him.
Qin Yangming saw that the woman put down the little boy who had made such a confident promise just now and rushed towards a flatbed truck regardless of everything.
Qin Yangming's eyes followed the woman's running path and fell on the flatbed truck. He saw a body, a man's body.
The corpse was deformed and rotten after being hit by a heavy object.
"what!!!"
"You just left like that, what are you going to do for us?"
The woman wailed and threw herself on her dead husband.
The little boy he left there seemed very bewildered. He stood there staring at everything, not knowing what to do.
This tragic scene brought a great shock to his young mind.
Hong turned around and hugged the little boy in her arms.
"Sister...Mom...what happened to her?"
Hong didn't know how to answer this question and could only remain silent.
The little boy's head was buried in Hong's arms. He asked doubtfully:
"Why is mom crying? Where is dad? Didn't dad come back?"
"By the way, sister, my dad is awesome, very powerful!"
"He told me that sooner or later he would find an exit to the outside world. My dad is a great hero!"
“I want to be like my dad in the future.”
"But sister, what happened to mom? Why is she crying..."
The little boy kept chattering. He seemed to have realized something, but he was unwilling to accept it in his heart.
Hong couldn't think of any words of comfort, she could only gently stroke the little boy's hair.
She couldn't say that your heroic father was dead...
It wasn't just that woman, other people were wailing here one after another.
The people lying on the flatbed were claimed one by one and taken home.
Some people did not find their husbands or fathers in the convoy, nor did they find them on the flatbed truck. They just asked the leader of the convoy:
"What about him?"
The leader of the convoy lowered his head guiltily, he was speechless.
Because those who did not return had no remains left.
Qin Yangming watched this scene and a feeling of compassion arose in his heart.
The people are prosperous and suffer.
If they die, the people will suffer.