There was an auspicious village in Tongdao County, Hunan Province, where the Dong people lived together. The owner of the village was originally called Nie Gongxi. He had thousands of family wealth and thousands of acres of land, but he loved money as much as his life and did not pull out a dime. Therefore, everyone called him "Iron Rooster."

It was the month of the month of the Lunar New Year, and after picking the grain, Iron Rooster hired a dozen long-term workers to dig tea mountains. The long-term workers did the work of cattle and horses, but ate pig and dog food. They slept in the middle of the night, and the long-term workers were very angry, so they often slept on the mountains and neglected their work. There was a cowherd in Iron Rooster's house named Ah Yue, a ten-year-old orphan, who herded more than ten cattle for Iron Rooster. Although small, the people were very smart. They went up the mountain with the long-term workers during the day and slept with the long-term workers at night.

On this day, after the long-term workers went up the mountain and were ready to go to bed, Ah Pi volunteered and said, "Uncles and uncles, you can sleep in peace, I will watch out for you. If anyone comes, I will learn to chirp bamboo chickens, and when you hear it, get up quickly and pretend to be digging mountains." Everyone agreed that because Ah Pi stood guard, the long-term workers were more at ease, and they slept soundly!

Because the iron rooster only cares about personal wealth, it squeezes the long-term workers very hard, and they don't give enough food. The long-term workers are all skinny! This time on the mountain, everyone started talking again:

"If this continues for another month, we will all be dead!"

"How much I want to do a tooth sacrifice!"

"You can't even eat enough, and you still want to have a tooth sacrifice, don't daydream!"

At this time, Ah Pi also came up and asked in a childish voice: "Uncles and uncles, is it okay not to eat pork and beef for the tooth festival?"

Everyone laughed when they heard it, and some said, "Ah, you are really imaginative, not to mention the beef tooth sacrifice, you can't even think of a single hair. Don't you know that the iron rooster is not plucked?"

Ah Zi showed a serious and secret expression and whispered, "Uncles and uncles, as long as everyone is united, I promise we can have a beef tooth sacrifice." Then he said his idea like this, and as soon as the long-term workers agreed, and discussed it, they will start tomorrow.

The next day, Ah Che and the long-term workers went up the mountain very early. They brought an axe and an iron pot and slaughtered a large scalper in the deepest part of the mountain forest. Everyone had a delicious meal and a beef tooth sacrifice.

In order to cross the line in front of the iron rooster, they also made arrangements and followed their plan.

In the afternoon, when the sun was in the west, Ah Zi drove the cattle back and closed the cattle. He hurriedly ran to the iron rooster with a sad face to report:

"Boss, boss, it's not good, something happened!"

"What happened? speak up!" Iron Rooster asked hurriedly.

"A cow got into the cave and can't come back!"

Iron Rooster did not believe it and said skeptically, "Could such a strange thing happen?"

"Oh, boss! Can I lie about such a big thing?" Ah Zi resolved aggrieved: "If you don't believe me, I'll take you to see it!"

Iron Rooster saw that it was getting late and didn't want to go, but he couldn't bear to lose a cow, so he said, "Quick, take me there!"

Ah Pi took the iron rooster and ran deep into the mountains. In a steep canyon, he really saw a cow get into a natural stone cave. The bull's head emerged from another exit of the stone cave, and his body was no longer visible when he fell into the stone cave, but the bull's tail was still outside the cave. The big yellow bull saw Ah Pi and the iron rooster and called him "numb." Ah Pi continued to cry to the iron rooster: "In the afternoon, two big yellow bulls fought for some reason, and both sides were stunned. There was a big yellow ox chasing the big yellow ox so hard that it had no way to escape. When it saw this cave in this canyon, it tried its best to get into it. Who knew that the hole was too small, its head squeezed in, and its body also squeezed in, but it was stuck in the hole and couldn't move. It struggled, its head came out of the other exit of the hole, but its body couldn't get out. You see it is so anxious, its tail is constantly moving!

In fact, this time, the body of the big yellow ox had been sacrificed by them, leaving only the head and tail exposed outside the natural stone cave, and the long work-suited cattle hidden in the cave called. Due to the ingenuity of the stone cave, it did look like a cow got into the stone cave and left the head and tail outside the cave.

Iron Rooster listened to Ah Pi's cries and looked at the cow's head and tail, but he still didn't believe it, but when he approached the cow's head and reached out to touch its horns, the cow actually cried out "numbingly," and then he really believed that the cow really couldn't get out of the cave.

He saw that it was getting late. If he didn't save the cow quickly and let the cow spend the night in the mountain to serve the tiger as dinner, how could he save it? He made up his mind: anyway, there were more than ten long-term workers, and dragging the cow out of the cave! So he asked Ah Yue to run and call all the long-term workers.

Ah Ci called all the long-term workers, and the iron rooster shouted loudly: "You all saw it, the cow didn't come when it got into the cave. But since it can get in, it can get out, and it can't get out by itself, so we 're going to work hard to drag it out. You stand in order, one by one, listening to my orders. I call one, two or three, and you will drag it hard together, do you hear me?"

"I heard you!" Everyone answered in unison.

So on the edge of this dangerous canyon, a long snake formation was set up. The first long-term worker dragged the tail of the ox, one after another, and the iron rooster stood at the end, tightly dragging the belt of the last long-term worker. Ah Che was leading the reins of the ox in front. Iron Rooster shouted with all his strength:

"One,two,three!"

As soon as the shout fell, everyone worked hard together, only to hear a "gurgle" sound, the ox's tail was pulled off, and everyone fell on their backs to the sky. The iron rooster fell even more, and behind it was a cliff, an abyss.