There are many peaks in the southeast of Shangzhou, and XX Village is between Tianfeng, Difeng and Renfeng.Three peaks stand at the same time, with a white-flowered Zhuang River snaking between them. The Zhuang River twists and turns and plays tricks in every possible way, forcing one peak to go to Shaanxi, one to Henan, and one to Hubei.On the side of the river Guishan, there is a fourth peak in the middle of the third peak, known as the candlestick.It is said that day and night the wind blows, the trees and plants on the three peaks bow down, and the candlestick peak is as quiet as a room, the candle is bright, and the candle heart is alive like a chicken heart.

The surnames of the villagers are mixed, wild, and most of them live in slate houses, which are bright and sunny.The house is full of shoots, but it does not leak when it rains. The sound of rain is like fried beans. When the sky and the earth are filled, the peaks will be swept away by clouds and mist. There are eagles, wolves, rabbits, and foxes crying. So he worships the gods, and there are many death days every month: men on the first day of the new year do not travel far;It is said that he is unfamiliar with white barriers, and he is confused by little ghosts when he walks at night.Villagers say that children are the most precious, and they say that drinking children's urine can cure all diseases.So at noon in midsummer, the children would be thrown into the river bay pool to play in the water, and it was inevitable that they would not pee while playing.After playing enough, one by one was laid out on the slate to bask in the sun, and then hugged their feet to verify the provenance and ancestry.Strange to say, most of the outstretched feet and small toenails are not whole.Divide into two petals, one big and one small.This one said: "I am a native of Shangzhou!" The other said: "I am also a native of Shangzhou!" The half of the toenails were completely intact, so he felt ashamed and pointed to the old castle on the peak.He said forcefully: "I am not a native of Shangzhou, why is there an ancient castle with our surname on that peak?!"

The ancient castle is built high on the top of the peak, with two, four, and eight large stone slabs built straight up along the steep cliff corners.Some are in jeopardy, and when facing the wind, several people push them away, and they are greasy again.It has been a hundred years since the sun was dark and lacquered.Chicken bones and miscellaneous wood grow out of the cracks in the stone strips.On the dead branches and bare poles, hawks and hawks will flap and hiss on them, snatching the nests, and dropping hard feathers that look like they have been stained with glue, which are picked up by the villagers and inserted on both sides of the "heaven and earth gods" niche in their own halls.

It was the past years, when the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, the bandits in troubled times gathered at the junction of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi.Harassing the villagers, some rich and powerful households in the village fled to the top of the peak and opened stones to build castles.Gathering food to settle down: Nowadays, children are ignorant, but they are completely naive. They use the sinful relics of the past to boast of the prowess of their surnames and defend their ancestral home.Their respective parents came forward to protect them, hurt the peace, or pointed to the bright red sun in the sky to say that the conscience of heaven and earth.Or make a lot of noise and go under the Nine Immortals Tree on Candlestick Peak to bite off your middle finger and swear.

The Nine Immortals Tree is a thousand-year-old tree, and the inside has long been hollow and rotten. It is built with stones and supported by wooden piles: there are nine branches on the top, but the branches are of different qualities. Tree.There are strange trees on the strange peak, so there must be Taoism, but looking up from the bottom of the peak, there is no Taoist temple, and it is the most complete stone wall in a week.The wall is double-layered, extremely wide, with a female wall outside, with lookout holes and gun holes.Climbing the "Zigzag" stone path up the peak, lowering your head and entering the gate of the fort, you will find the courtyard of Hehe, with clouds surrounding the pavilion pillars and moss on the steps. It is very clean. There is an old Taoist in the temple. Gaseous ancient.During the "Cultural Revolution", this Taoist once returned to vulgarity and married a one-eyed wife. He abandoned his wife four years ago and entered the temple again.There are also three little Taoist priests under the old Taoist, all of whom are stupid. In addition to studying the scriptures, they grow vegetables, chop firewood, carry water, and clean the courtyard.They secretly scolded the old Taoist for being too vulgar and unclean, but the old Taoist lived in the temple for more than 30 years. I have to respect him as the elder.

Every time the priest saw someone in the village coming to swear an oath under the Nine Immortals tree, he would study his ink and wash his pen, and transcribe one of the "Historical Records, Biography of Shang Jun", lamenting this group of descendants of Shang Jun! Or he couldn't bear to look at them The old woman, the young woman, and the girl with yellow flowers read a paragraph of "********,********" with wooden expressions.This is a couplet carved in stone in front of the Taoist temple. Most of the villagers are illiterate, but those who can read are astonished.Seeing that the old Taoist was just chanting, he panicked and dispersed down the mountain without mentioning any grievances.And the children couldn't help being curious, they had reconciled long ago, and timidly leaned over to listen to the old Taoist talk about the past and the present.

This summer, the children seldom went to the river to play in the water, and they rarely had the opportunity to go to the Candlestick Peak Taoist Temple, because the adults all said that there was a new musk deer here, a surprisingly large white musk deer.There used to be this wild animal in the mountains, but it has been gone for many years, and there has never been a white one.The appearance of the white musk deer made people panic. From time to time, it was rumored that the musk deer became a spirit, could stand upright on its hind legs, and transformed into a woman, beckoning people by waving its hands in the wild grass and trails.Or a so-and-so daughter-in-law woke up at night and said that someone broke into the door in her dream and entered the rape and had sex. When she asked her name, she claimed that her surname was "Musk".The wind was very tight, and the children were puzzled. They often watched the mountain, the castle and the grass and trees quietly, looking for the monster to appear. go out.For a time, musk deer was called a bad omen.The children couldn't settle down, and they couldn't explore by themselves. When they asked their father, the answer was extremely impatient.

"Father, is there really a white musk deer?" "You watch out!" "Have you seen it?" "If I see you, I won't have a father!" "Then, is it really a bad omen?" "Carry your mine!" The children are back to the mine.The father bowed down in the hole like a horse shrimp, dug out a stone, threw it from his crotch, and the child picked it up in a pocket.He picked up half of the bag and pulled it out. As soon as he got out of the hole, the person and the bag fell to the ground together.His face is covered with sweat and mud, but his eyes are fixed on the high mountain peak: Will there be white musk deer suddenly appearing there?

The kids hated the mine.The mine consumes their joy, and they can't just go up the mountain to listen to the old and the modern, and they can't check the whereabouts of the white musk.I said in my heart: It would be best for the mine to collapse again. First, during the Great Leap Forward in 1958, steelmaking was required everywhere, and any broken pots and locks in the village were handed over, and the eyes were fixed on the ancient clock hanging on the Jiuxian tree on Candlestick Peak.The ancient clock was smashed, and the borders of the three provinces of Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi no longer heard the melody. The Taoist priests were dumbfounded. They stood on the ancient castle at dawn and dusk to watch the hawks and hawks come and go between the mountains.Later, some public officials came to explore the mine, saying that there was antimony here, and they dug pits and holes, and took out a kind of black stone.When the stone was taken out, it was suddenly announced that the reserves were not large, and the country would not invest in it, and the troops were withdrawn and returned to camp.The dug caves were buried by weeds, wolves and foxes lived in them, and there were piles of animal dung in autumn.One year, a child disappeared, and a pile of devoured bones and a collar of the child were found in the cave, and no one dared to enter again.In the past two years, the land has been subcontracted by private individuals, and farmers can grow grain and do business and work. The boss of the Zhang family has been mining antimony ore in the abandoned cave.He took out one sack and two sacks, hitchhiked and sold them to the county mining company, winning a lot of money in the competition.As soon as the boss of the Zhang family took the lead, many families followed. The more the mine was dug, it was like a chicken coop, and it collapsed at every turn.As a result, everyone dug holes and excavated again, digging as much as they could, and fathers let their children work as laborers.

Father called his son in the cave again, with a muffled voice. The child climbed in again. The cave was damp and the walls were criss-crossed with stones. The other end was touched and a big bag was formed.The father urged: "Hurry up! Hurry up!" But the child asked: "Daddy, has the white musk deer become a spirit?" Crack! Dad slapped me with a slap as usual.There was a golden light in front of the child's eyes, and he knew that there was a five-fingerprint of sweat and mud on his face.Dad still scolded: "I've become a sperm and ate you!" The child didn't say anything, and came out with his back on his back, cursing in a low voice: "Eat daddy!"

two There was indeed a pregnant white musk musk on the mountain.He escaped from the foothills of Hubei.Its husband was burned to death when a hunter burned the mountain to hunt.So, the white musk deer came here through mountains and rivers. The white musk gave birth soon.It rolled, howled, and hit the stone with its head in Tianfeng Castle, and then blood gushed out from its lower body, staining the stone and the moraza in the crevices of the stone red.The little musk deer finally gave birth to a pair of twins: one male and one female. This pair of young musk deer grows fast.Wild with their parents, well built and never sick.They like the sun in the sky, the stars in the night, the grass, the breeze, and the dew.Led by the white musk deer, they jumped over rocky ridges, climbed tree branches, and preyed on the gray-haired rabbit galloping like a shadow. One day, they were looking for food at the bottom of the mountain. Suddenly, a yellow wave flashed in the grass, and a fat dog rushed out, and threw the male musk deer down quickly.The male musk deer shivered on the ground, the white musk deer and the female musk deer were stunned, and the dog was also stunned.The four beasts stared at each other for a long while, and rushed to bite at the same time, the male musk deer rolled to the ground two feet away.The white musk roared.Ling Kong went over and pressed on the dog's body, and the two immediately intertwined, yellow and white flashing, neither made a sound, panting heavily, and each heard the hissing sound of biting and plucking the fluff.Suddenly, the white musk bite the dog's back, and the dog let out a scream and was thrown about ten feet away.He turned over and ran down the mountain desperately. three This dog is called Ah Huang, and it is the pet of the second child of the Zhang family. There are dogs in every family in the ×× village, and they all have their tails cut off, so that they can run quickly in the mountains, forests and grass. Only the second dog keeps his tail, and he looks heroic.It is as fierce as a wolf, but it is also courteous and tame. It can understand the words of the second child, and can act according to the eyes of the second child.It followed the second child, chased the hare and the pigeon, and never failed: one day it accidentally found a musk deer, and it only said that it could suddenly appear in front of the owner with a prey in its mouth to buy it, but it failed. With blood running down the spine, he ran down the Tianfeng Peak to a field full of wild alfalfa beside Candlestick Peak. Ri's dick woke up. The second child was sleeping soundly, when suddenly the dog lifted the straw hat covering his face, and scolded: "Dog, what are you arguing about?" When he opened his eyes again, he saw blood dripping from Ah Huang's back.One fish straightened up and sat up. Ah Huang barked wildly, and turned his head towards Tianfeng Mountain. The second child stood up suspiciously, but Ah Huang ran forward; after running for a while, looking back, the second child knew what the dog had found, so he followed the dog and walked straight up Tianfeng Mountain = Huang Maijian grass , the second child saw the traces of being overwhelmed, and lowered his body, there were musk hairs hanging in the grass.Immediately, his eyes brightened, he hugged Ah Huang and shouted: "Musk! The musk deer has appeared! Ah Huang, where is the musk deer? Where is it?" Ah Huang was barking in a daze.The second child looked around, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's.But, he found nothing! He turned around and ran down the peak, panting, passed the wild alfalfa field where he was sleeping, and arrived at the entrance of a mine over there, shouting: "Brother, brother, Ah Huang bit the musk deer!" There was a buzzing sound in the mine, and a man crawled out, covered in mud, his brows were blurred, stimulated by the strong sunlight, his eyes were narrowed like slits, but he was asking, "Second brother, what are you talking about?" The second child said: "Look, this is the hair of a musk deer. Ah Huang found it. They bit it once. This musk deer is indeed in our area!" Boss Zhang was not overly excited, and walked towards Yihong Spring on the other side of the grass with an "ohhh" in his mouth.The spring is not big, surrounded by a circle of pig's ear grass, the sun makes the water surface warm, and bubbles come out from the roots of the grass from time to time.A frog raised countless tadpoles in it. He poked the water, moved his mouth close, and drank lifelessly for a while. The second child chewed the grate sprouts in his mouth, chewed it until it was pulpy, and applied it on the wound on Ah Huang's back, and looked straight at his brother. Parents died early, brother took over at the age of twelve, he and his sister's father and mother.The three brothers and sisters depend on each other for their lives. Although the family is broken, life is tight.In winter, a single jacket with a cover is cotton; in summer, a cotton jacket with a cover is a single.When they grow up and have strength, they can afford the land contract and coolies all over.The land is not indebted to them. The three urns in the house are too full to cover the slate cover, and a special five-grid cabinet is made to hold the grain.When people are poor, they think more, and when they have food, they are strong. My brother said to them: "There are so many lands in the mountains. We have exhausted our strength, and the land has exhausted our strength. If the grain is more than one hundred and two hundred, that is It’s hard to count on. But the money can only be paid out, no one else, we have to find a way to get money!” My brother went to dig in the abandoned cave.There was phosphorous fire in the abandoned cave, and when the sky was dark and blue, there was no one in the village who didn't scare him.After the mine was dug out, I carried it on the road with a basket on my back, fished turtles from the river and caught crabs under the rocks, gave them to the drivers of passing cars, and then took their cars to the county mining company to sell them, and sold them for 100 yuan a month. , So someone jointly filed a complaint with the county government eighty miles away, saying that this was the private exploitation of national minerals.The wise county government sent people to understand and agreed to private mining. As a result, everyone in the village went to dig, and the mine was dug and collapsed in a short time.If you can't dig it out, no one will dig it out.However, their mines are still good, and seeing their family demolish the slate houses that have been used for several generations, and build green halls and tile houses, the villagers feel dissatisfied again.Later, there was a rumor that the white musk deer came, and there was a bad omen, and there would be disasters and disasters in the village. Alas, the elder brother didn’t say anything, but the second child was puzzled and even a little angry! The elder brother was really a coward, and only knew how to dig mines, or did he not understand the reason for the musk deer’s rumor in the village? He said, “Brother, how can you Now that there is a musk deer, let’s find a way to kill it, and now everyone is talking about this musk deer, and the intention is all for our family!" The boss said: "I know this better than you! In the end, our place is poor. If you are so poor, you can't see the thick rice soup in anyone's bowl; if other people's rice soup is thick, you don't want to make it as thick as others, but you have to be careful. Others are as rare as yourself. Blindness is here." The second child said: "Brother, what you said is right! Anyway, our tile-roofed house has been built, and if we don't dig mines, we won't dig. When the time comes, Yunyun's sister-in-law will marry back, and the family will live a happy life. It will not be better than others. How much worse. If you want to mine again, then our popularity will be even worse!" The eldest was speechless, his head seemed heavy.Looking at the pool, the ink-spotted tadpoles floated on the water again. One frog croaked, and all seven and eight frogs croaked, boring and monotonous.The second child was impatient, he threw a stone over, the sound of frogs stopped, but immediately there was another piece, and he wanted to pick up another big stone to smash, the eldest stood up and waved his hand, saying: "Okay, okay, don't dig Come on, go home!" He walked away. The second child carried Ah Huang on his back and went with his elder brother. Ah Huang licked his neck with his tongue. He was still talking about the white musk deer on the mountain, his teeth were clenched, and he foamed at the mouth: "Brother, I will take it later." The explosives blew up the mine, and tomorrow morning, let’s go to Guangda and borrow his shotgun. I don’t believe we can’t kill that musk deer!” But the eldest said fiercely: "Hu Chengjing! Later, you go to the ancestral grave, cut down the dozen or so pine trees, and carry them here!" The second child said, "Carry them here? What are they for?" said the eldest "All the holes are collapsed, only our hole is okay, if we expand this hole and put a bracket on it, the whole village can come and dig it." The second child choked for a long time and said, "You are crazy." ?Those people hate you so much that your gums bleed, so you want to strengthen the hole and let others dig it?" The boss said: "Others are poor, and you are a rich man, do you feel safe in your heart? Others can make you a rich man The fort on the top of Tianfeng belongs to the landlord of the Li family, and the family has a lot of money, but what happened later?" The second child shouted, "I'm not a rich man, I mean, blow up the mine, and if you want to be poor, you will be poor. Who would say that we don’t know anything?” The eldest said: “Why bother? Go begging with a gold basin and silver bowl?” The second child can’t say no to elder brother.The younger brother is a wild horse, the older brother is a biter, the younger brother is a tiger, and the older brother is Wu Song. The boss of this family is the shopkeeper.The second child threw Ah Huang off his back and said, "Hmph, you're a good thinker, why don't you see that the Sun family married Sister-in-law Yunyun to you for nothing?!" At the end of the sentence, the second child stuck out his tongue and remained silent.The eldest said: "Say it, why don't you say it?" The second muttered: "She's here!" He took his mouth to the bank of the Nunu River, and a flock of sheep came up from the river, and Yunyun stood among the flock.Yunyun was wearing a light flowered Dacron shirt, her breasts were raised, and she was looking out with a smile; a sheep with bent horns was clamped between her legs, and the more the sheep tried to break free, the tighter the legs were clamped.The second child quickly turned around and walked up the mountain again.Yun Yun yelled from below: "Second, second, I picked Jingang Steel for you!" The second did not say a word, pretended to be deaf, and fell down on the far slope, entangled with Ah Huang and rolling. The boss hesitated for a while, but went on until he reached the flock of sheep, and the sheep surrounded them.The boss said: "What Jinganggang, let me eat it!" Yunyun said: "You are greedy, like a fishy cat, take your mouth to a stone and grind it off!" Fruit, stuffed in the boss's mouth.Yunyun said: "The second ghost, he won't come!" The boss said: "He is in his early twenties, what's the matter? It's time to eat, and you still drive the sheep to the mountains?" Yunyun said: " I’m here to look for you!” The boss said, “Didn’t I tell you that in broad daylight, we don’t want to look for anyone, the villagers’ eyes are like hooks!” Yun Yun pouted and said, “It’s me Daddy came to find you!" The boss panicked: "Your daddy, did your daddy know? Did you tell me?" Yunyun said, "Dad asked where did you get this really good shirt?" The boss complained: "You too Shaobao, you can put on the shirt as soon as you buy it!" Yunyun said: "You can wear it after you buy it, can't you keep it and have a son?" After finishing speaking, her face turned red.The boss looked back at the second child in the distance, and the second child disappeared in the grass, so he said, "It's good to know, does the old man agree?" Yunyun said: "My father has no objection. Ask whose matchmaker? I said there is no matchmaker. Dad slapped me in the face." The boss's face turned pale, and he shouted: "He is angry, what about your mother, you didn't tell your mother?!" Yunyun said: "I was angry. I went out by the door. I didn't eat and didn't come back all day. My grandma cried on the kang and knelt there to burn incense and kowtow. When Tianhe came back, he scolded me again. He also complained about the milk, saying that he spoiled me, but at the end he said: "I have found the matchmaker, let Ji Linniang be the matchmaker!" He was looking for a matchmaker. I paid ten yuan, saying it was a hush money, and let her be a matchmaker, but I can't talk nonsense. You should also bring four-color gifts to beg Ji Linniang to let her play in the village. My father and my grandmother will be proud Mile!" The boss's face was full of life, his eyes stared at Yun Yun's light, and his hands tentatively passed by, like a snake, biting Yun Yun's hand.Yun Yun said: "No, no!" He hurriedly looked up the slope in the distance, but his hand was softly held by the boss.Then the two suddenly disappeared.The flock exploded, and there was a bleating sound. The second child on the slope, and Ah Huang, rolled their heads full of grass, and then lay there motionless, with one eye on the dog and the other on the flock of sheep.He suddenly put his arms around the dog, so that Ah Huang couldn't bear it. "Oh oh" to call. On the mountainside, Niu Mozi's youngest son also came down with a flock of sheep, with a snotty nose, and called his second son, "Second brother, what do you think this is?" There were three cliff eggs in his hand.The second child said: "Where did you get it? Let's start a fire and eat it. I can use stone flakes as a pot!" The boy said: "I don't, I will eat it at night. There are people at home at night!" The second child asked: " Ghosts are coming to your house!" But the boy said: "All the Niu family members have gone, my father continued the genealogy, and my father said that my life is the name of 'Kang', I have a big name, I want to be called 'Kang Zhang'! "The second child scolded: "'Resist Zhang', fight against our Zhang family? Go against your mother's feet!" The boy said, "You are cursing?" The second child said, "I still want to fight!" With a fierce grin, The boy was so frightened that he hurriedly drove the sheep to go down, but the second child stopped him and refused to let him go. The boy asked why he was not allowed to go, but the second child couldn't speak, so he punched him on the ground.But the sheep didn't listen to the second child. When they saw the sheep below, the sheep of the two teams rushed over, hating each other for a long time, and at the same time retreated a few feet, and suddenly lowered their heads and bumped into a loud "bang", like two pairs of sheep. The wood cracked and its corners snapped to the ground. In that clump of red-eyed cat bushes, the leaves trembled without wind, and there was a lonely sheep whip sticking out beside it.The second child thought: That should be the guard of brother and sister-in-law, right? (Jia Pingwa · Gubao, Mengyuan is selected from "Shangzhou: Untold Stories"