Chapter 68 temple mother

After turning over the top of the mountain, you are out of the county.Looking around here, taking a long breath, you can see the low sea of ​​clouds under Duanshan Mountain, and the thin and almost invisible ridge curve on the horizon where the three provinces meet.When the wind is downwind, a car whistle occasionally floats under the clouds, or a sentence of music from a tweeter, but it is not known which province the sound comes from. Distance becomes blurred here.The landscape that seems to be within reach, only suddenly recedes infinitely when the stones are thrown-no matter how hard you throw, the stones that are about to hit the distant view, the stones that have already broken the horizon, It fell back leisurely, fell back, fell back, and finally landed in the grass under the nose with a muffled thud.

In fact you can't touch the sky. There is a ruined temple here, and there is a family beside the temple.An old lady was drying grains on the ground. When she saw us, she was not particularly happy or panicked. She put down the sun palladium and went to the stove to make tea.Speaking of her family, she sighed, saying that she is a chicken, over ninety, and living a sinful life.Her son is dead, even her grandson is dead, and she is still alive without face or skin—this means that his horoscope is too strong, and he has killed countless juniors, and now he wants to die but can't. The eaves and grounds of her house are clean, the firewood and straw are neatly collected, and it seems that the days of living alone in the mountains are very careful.It is said that her old couple not only grow their own food, but also cut some miscellaneous trees every year, cut them into hoe handles, and send them down the mountain to exchange for some oil and salt money.

Teacher Long, who was traveling with me, told me that everyone called her "miao mother-in-law" because no one knew her name, but only knew that she had guarded the temple on the mountain, so she was called that. One day many years ago, she was sleeping at home alone, and when she heard a cow barking outside, followed by a tiger barking, she was so frightened that her whole body went limp.The tiger came to eat the cows, so he scrambled left and right, but failed to break into the cow house, and jumped onto the roof, making a loud noise on the roof.Unexpectedly, one foot missed, and a piece of fir bark collapsed, and a sunken tiger leg happened to be caught in the gap between the purlins, and it could not be pulled back for a while.Granny Miao was terrified at first, but when she saw this opportunity, she suddenly acted boldly, found a brown rope, wrapped it around the furry tiger's leg, and tied a stone mill to the other end of the rope to make the tiger move. no.

Next, she ran to the village and called for some young men.Everyone stepped forward with sticks, spears and iron guns, and finally killed the tiger. Grandma Miao also remembered this, sighed and said: "It's a sin, it's a sin. Even the old bugs are killed, so can they still not kill people? I don't know what crimes I did in my previous life, and I got such a poisonous horoscope! "