Chapter 8 chapter eight

(…The waiter at the hotel told me that the man from the mountain would go to the public toilet. He said he couldn’t poop while sitting on the toilet.) In the evening, my uncle came back. When I entered the room, he was urinating in the bathroom and looking down at his things. When he heard the door ring, he hurriedly covered his lower body with his hands and turned around, panicking like a shy woman. .I asked him where he was, and he said he went to Shahezi.Shahezi is 15 miles east of the state city, a gully rich in peanuts, where two members of the wolf hunting team lived. "Oh," I said, "It must be a pleasure to meet old friends!" But my uncle didn't look very good, and he rolled up his sleeves, shook his right wrist with his left hand, and shook his left wrist with his right hand, and came over to shake mine. Wrist, said: Yours is thicker than mine.In fact, my wrist is not as thick as his, and his wrist is very strong, but my uncle insists that my wrist is thicker than his.I have to say: Photography is not only mental work but also physical work. I have to carry the camera all day, and I have trained my wrists.

"I used to be unstoppable with my wrist..." he said. I was so stupid that I didn't understand what he meant, and I thought he was talking nonsense out of boredom and depression, so I told him about the meteor shower.This night we stayed on the platform at the top of Jiguan Mountain, my uncle and I were the only ones far and near, and there was wealth, no wind, no fog.Not far away is the TV insertion station in Zhoucheng. A light is on on the iron tower outside a small house. The light is long and short, making the night as dark as the bottom of a pot.Uncle didn't know what was going on with the meteor shower, so he just said "You can still see the sky" and suggested that he should find some firewood to light a bonfire, and said "Listen, listen, do you hear what it's called?"I didn't hear anything, he shook his head, and asked me what I smelled, he said that there are foxes and weasels on this mountain, can't you smell such a big fart smell?I just said that I have rhinitis.Suddenly to the northeast, thousands of meteors fanned over our heads and slid southwestward like a downpour.It was brilliant in an instant, but I couldn't see anything. I felt that the rain of stars was smashing towards me, making countless holes on the ground, and white smoke was coming out. Maybe that white light seemed to be rolled over. The tornado threatened to wrap me and fly away.I yelled and pressed the shutter of the camera, a stone tripped me under my feet, I fell down and sat on the ground and continued to take pictures, until the meteor shower was completely over and everything was plunged into darkness again, only then did I realize that my uncle didn’t snort, Fugui There was no Wang, and he sat on the ground completely paralyzed, as if in a daze.

"Uncle," I said, "haven't you seen the meteor shower?" "You brought me to see this?!" "This is a rare spectacle!" "Once in a thousand years?" He was trembling nervously. "If a star falls from the sky, a person will die on the earth. With so many stars falling, is this going to be a disaster?" "This is an astronomical phenomenon, what does it have to do with the disaster?" "How can it be okay? It's snowing, don't you feel cold?!" "Why do you have such an idea?" I wondered what happened to my uncle in Shahezi during the day.

On the way back to the hotel, the tall buildings in the city were full of people standing on top of them. They were all watching the meteor shower, and even looked forward to a new meteor shower. Some people brought beer while watching and drinking. Before I finished drinking, the bottle was smashed on the open space downstairs, and someone was starting to set off firecrackers, and the firecrackers radiated brilliant sparks and flickered repeatedly in the air.My uncle and I looked up at the building as we walked, for fear that empty bottles and firecrackers would fall on our heads.My uncle finally told me that something bad really happened during the day. One of the two teammates who lived in Shahezi suffered from a headache. When he got a headache, he had to beat his head with his fist, making a loud noise. I have seen many doctors, but I can’t figure out the cause of the disease. I just take Fenbid three times a day. Mr. Yin Yang said that this is a sinful disorder. He asked him to carve a head out of wood. When he got sick, he would use a hammer and a knife to smash the wooden head. , engrave, poke.What a strong and lively person, wept while hitting the wooden head with a hammer, and said: I have been tortured in hell, and I have suffered the crime of being hacked into pieces!One suffers from a more terrible disease. His joints are weak and his limbs are atrophied, but his appetite is still good. His waist and abdomen are getting thicker and rounder, shaped like a spider. Now his legs can no longer stand up.

"I found that my wrists are also thinner than before," my uncle murmured.A tall building in the distance fired a two-legged firecracker, and the sun and the earth fell in front of us across an arc from the air, and it exploded.Uncle shivered again. "It's thin, it's really thin..." Uncle looks very pitiful, and he is really nervous. I said the wrist is so thick, why is it so thin? !He was angry.When he got angry, I stopped talking and raised my camera to take pictures on the street, but he rushed to talk to me. "Zi Ming." "Hey." He stopped talking again.

"Look how distinctive that row of houses is. Are they from the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty?" "You don't laugh at uncle, do you?" "How could I laugh at you?" "Then let me tell you. Ziming, my paralyzed teammate told me that he had read a medicine book, which said that he was suffering from strange diseases caused by excessive masturbation or some unknown reasons. Illness. The condition of that illness is very similar to his illness. Uncle is not afraid of your ridicule. Uncle also masturbated when he was hunting. Hunters masturbated in the wild. Uncle has a bad mind. I am afraid that he masturbated too much. Uncle also masturbated. got this disease."

His words made me feel the seriousness of the problem, and I no longer made blunt accusations or joking words, and solemnly comforted me: "Where can such a disease come from, your teammate must be the same as all hunters, Ever since I couldn’t hunt, there were no wolves, and I lost my opponent, I’ve been thinking about it and got sick. There’s a kind of illness that comes out of my mind. I think I’m going to get sick, and if I get sick, maybe I’m really sick. My uncle is in such good health, why? Can you suffer from that kind of disease? Let’s talk about masturbation. Which man has never experienced masturbation in his life? From a scientific point of view, masturbation itself is not harmful to the body. .”

Uncle looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Is that so?" "That's true." "You are an intellectual, you dare not coax uncle." "How could I coax uncle?!" Uncle finally gave me a smile.He smiled timidly, which I haven't seen in so many days. Back at the hotel, my uncle fell asleep. Maybe he was tired from running all day, or maybe he believed my words. He sat on the head of the bed and fell into a deep sleep. His chest was wet with saliva.But I can't fall asleep, I have the habit of listening to the sound when I wake up in the middle of the night and at dawn, I worship the sounds of the world, and always use the first sound I hear every day to predict the good or bad luck of the day, but now No sound at all.Hunters generally suffer from soft feet, and they think that disasters will come without wolves. Wolves correspond to them. If there are wolves, there will be them. If there are wolves, there will be wolves. The symbol of human fear, but humans have survived and multiplied in the fear of generations. Now the wolf that has been fighting with humans for thousands of years will suddenly become extinct. What about disaster?The hunters first felt greater fear because of the decrease of wolves, but most of us, including me, when the meteor shower happened, we just thought we had encountered a spectacle and cheered. Is it because uncles and them are nervous or our body and mind? numbness? !

I respected my uncle, and felt that meeting him this time must have been arranged long ago in the dark.In this world, what kind of occupation a person has, what kind of conduct and skills he has, all come according to definite numbers. For example, if there is a table in the house, there needs to be a teapot on the table, so we go to the store on the street to buy a teapot. I needed tea bowls, so I went to the store to buy tea bowls.After meeting my uncle, I will not only become famous for taking photos of fifteen wolves, but also write a report on human disaster induction based on my uncle's story.

At dawn, I went out for a walk, and many people were running in a panic on the street. A woman with disheveled hair cried while running, "Xiaoman, Manman, my child!" The people in front turned back and pulled her, but they couldn't pull her. Several people crossed their arms to lift her and ran forward again, and one of the woman's shoes fell off.I picked up the shoe and asked the person next to me: What's the matter, what's the matter?He replied: Terrible, people died, twelve female students died!I picked up my shoes and went to chase them away. In the alley in front of me, twelve rack carts were pulled out in a row. On the carts were corpses. The corpses were covered with white cloth, but the white cloth was too small and covered the head. , but the feet below were exposed, surrounded by the family members of the deceased who were clamoring for the ground.There were more and more people on the street, it was working time, all the people stopped, and the traffic was chaotic for a while.I have been following the woman who lost her shoe, and I squeezed to the side of the shelf car. I didn't see all the twelve corpses, but the woman uncovered the white cloth on the third car, and she passed out.It was indeed a young girl in the car, with long hair, combed into a ponytail shape, and a white butterfly card pinned to the sea. Her face was intact, but her lower body was covered in blood, so that her socks and shoes were all covered in plasma. live.I heard people around me saying that these children met last night to watch the meteor shower on a lawn at the root of Jiguan Mountain. The meteor shower made them very excited. After the meteor shower was over, they were still singing and playing on the grass.The whole night, the children did not come home, and their parents became anxious and searched everywhere. At dawn, they found that they were all dead on the grass. There were no blunt force wounds or strangulation marks on their bodies, but their lower bodies were all rotten, even There is no meat on the butt. "They were raped," people were discussing, "but rape doesn't mean that the lower body is dug out?" Someone yelled: "It's strange, could it be that they were destroyed by wolves?!" My mind Immediately flashed a long-ago story that grandma once told. It said that a man in the old city was walking alone at night, and a wolf followed him all the time. He knew that he dared not stop to fight the wolf. Keep going.But the wolf scratched at his buttocks, grabbed a piece of meat, and grabbed another piece of meat.The man gritted his teeth and walked on. When he reached the crossroads outside the city, there was a voice in front of him. The wolf ran away, but he fell to the ground and touched his buttocks. There was no flesh left on half of his buttocks. .However, how could there be wolves in Zhoucheng? Even if there were wolves, why did so many wolves come all of a sudden, grabbing the asses of twelve girls until they lost all flesh?People doubt this statement, but people are spreading the word that this is the work of wolves. Who else but wolves?And someone suddenly said: "A few days ago, I saw a wolf carried into the city. The person carrying the wolf may be a wolf in disguise. What will happen in the world now?!" I was so frightened Sweating cold, I hurriedly withdrew from the crowd and ran back to the hotel, but I stayed in front of the hotel for a long time, and I dare not tell my uncle what happened on the street, nor let him see my strange expression.

Uncle has already woken up. He is sitting on the bed, scratching his body vigorously. He seems to be in a good mood, and while humming a little tune, he untied his arms to catch lice in front of me. "Do you think people came first or lice came first?" "Lice. Lice are the oldest bugs." "People are bugs too." "Ok?" "People are worms." "..." "Tell me, what about wolves, did the wolves come first or the dogs?" "Wolf, wolf is also an ancient bug." "But the wolf calls the dog uncle." I helped him take off his clothes. "Uncle, today I will go to the administrative office to see Shi De and the others. We can go on the road tomorrow morning. You can brush your teeth and take a hot shower in the hotel." "I don't take a hot bath. Why brush my teeth? You brush your teeth. You have ulcers in your mouth. If a wolf doesn't brush its teeth for a lifetime, it will eat meat every day!" I smiled and said, "Then you stay in the room, don't go anywhere, and wait for me." "I have to go to Shahezi." "Still going to Shahezi?" Uncle nodded to me. Although I understood him, I couldn't help being surprised that he was going to Shahezi.The uncle was bare-chested, his back and shoulders were covered with scars, and there was still a small stone hanging around his neck.These scars, no need to ask, are his historical records as a hunter, but the small stones he wears make me curious.I have heard that people who go hunting are as superstitious as people who go out to sea. They never say unlucky words in the mountains and forests, and they even taboo the words "get lost" and "it's over". If they kicked their toes or staggered when they crossed the threshold, they would stop their actions for the day, and they would often wear amulets written in yellow frames, or red ticked pieces of paper on the notices of shooting people. , or the menstrual blood belt of a young woman, it must be a virgin.But what my uncle was wearing was actually a stone.I leaned over and grabbed the small stone to play with, the stone turned black, smooth and moist, "Oh, uncle is going to be Jia Baoyu!" "This is a piece of precious jade, how could it be fake?" He obviously hadn't read it. "You smell your hand, what does it smell like?" I have a faint smell of chocolate on my hands.I lived with my uncle, and I smelled this smell occasionally. I thought it was living in a hotel. Some kind of fragrance was sprayed in the room. It turned out that the smell came from this stone. "This is Jin Xiangyu." Jin Xiangyu, is it Jin Xiangyu from the idiom "Have eyes but don't know Jin Xiangyu"?Uncle said yes, and I took the small stone off his neck and put it in front of his nose, and the fragrance became stronger.I suddenly thought that there was a woman named Xiangfei in history who said that she had a strange fragrance on her body. How can people emit fragrance? Could it be that she was wearing such a fragrant stone? !However, women wear Jin Xiangyu. Uncle, a rough and smelly man, what kind of Jin Xiangyu is he wearing?This is simply a distant and mysterious fairy tale!But my uncle is by no means a literati, and he doesn't add salt and vinegar to his imagination. He told me that the stone was given to him by an old Taoist priest of Hongyan Temple.The old Taoist was the only disciple of Heguanli who accidentally discovered this stone in a cave deep in the mountain. They packed the stone in a sack and carried it down the mountain, and took a local tractor to pull wood into the mountain.Halfway through the journey, the old Taoist felt sick and stopped the tractor. He went down and vomited. After vomiting for a long time, he still felt uncomfortable. The driver of the tractor got impatient and drove the tractor away.The old Taoist was still a little angry at that time, and cursed, but who would have expected that the tractor that drove away overturned and fell to the bottom of a 20-meter-high cliff about 2,000 meters away, and none of the people on the tractor survived. The apprentice had his head crushed.The old Taoist chose a life. He firmly believed that this strange stone saved him, so he took the stone back to the temple and enshrined it on the desk.This stone has a peculiarity, and everyone in the surrounding mountains knows it, but no one can tell what kind of stone it is.Two years ago, the state held a province-wide geological conference. The old Taoist priest brought the stone to the scientists for identification, and finally determined that it was Jinxiangyu.Of course, the birth of Jinxiangyu caused a sensation in the geological world, but when asked where the stone came from, the old Taoist didn't say anything, he understood that it was a fate bestowed by God, "I'll give you a copy", so the stone was divided into two, half Contributed to the geological department, took half of it back to Guanli, and quietly entered the mountain in a snowy day, trying to block the entrance of the cave with rocks, but the strange thing is that a cliff collapsed at the entrance of the cave, and even he could not find the location of the entrance of the cave .The old Taoist never mentioned this matter again, but the news that the old Taoist still had half of the golden incense jade in his hands spread. Rich people from the provinces and states came one after another, and they wanted to buy it at six times the price of gold. The old Taoist insisted Donated all of it to the country, but privately sawed the half of Jinxiangyu into small slices and distributed it to those who had done things for Guanli.My uncle had been to that mountain during the last census of wolves, and he lived in the temple at night. He told about the fear that hunters would not be able to hunt wolves, so the old Taoist gave him this piece of golden incense jade as a talisman. "Is the old Taoist still there?" Of course I can't ask for my uncle's amulet, but I like such stones so much. "Stay alive," said the uncle. "If we can really take pictures of wolves, I can take you to the Red Rock Temple. Whether I can take you with me or not depends on fate." I believe I have this fate.I have already figured it out, once I can get a piece of Jinxiangyu, I will not give it to my wife, but I will give it to my girlfriend and let her become my Xiangfei.However, my uncle went to Shahezi again, but did not return that day, and there was no one there even for three days.Country people have a poor sense of time, which is the most troublesome thing for me, but what can I do if he doesn't come back for a long time?The next morning, I went to the Zhoucheng Library to borrow some information about wolves. Unfortunately, there are too few books on wolves. In the limited time, I learned about the habits of wolves, their living environment, and their expectations for estrus, mating, and childbirth. To no avail, I just took home a bunch of novels with wolf stories.So, I re-read some chapters, read Lu Xun's "Xianglin Wife", read Jack.Loving Life in London.I read while sitting, lying on the sofa, and then lying on my uncle's bed. Uncle’s bed was covered with wolf fur, and I forgot about the fact that the wolf’s fur would stand up for a moment. At about ten o’clock in the evening, I suddenly felt itchy all over my body. As soon as my eyes slipped onto the wolf’s fur, I found that the wolf’s fur was standing up , I was so frightened that my heart would jump out of my chest, and I jumped from my uncle's bed to my bed like a fire.Sitting on my bed, I stared at the wolf fur one by one. There was silence in the hotel, and the electric lights shone brightly on the walls of the room. I always felt that the wolf fur was moving. I told myself: This is impossible, this is impossible, take I continued reading through the book, trying to distract me from my fears.But if you don’t look at it, how can you not look at it again?I stood up holding my breath, and peeled off the wolf skin with a clatter, it was a piece of wolf skin after all.I said: What am I afraid of you, do you still have a soul? !I opened the window very quickly. I was going to throw away the wolf skin, but thinking that it belonged to my uncle after all, I hung the wolf skin outside the window, closed the window, and continued to read my book.The book says that the shepherd boy in the mountain village shouted: The wolf is coming!The wolf is coming!I haven’t read that the people in the mountain village ran up the mountain with a knife and stick, and there was a strange cry outside the window, which was dull and muffled, but very penetrating, like I heard someone blowing it in the provincial capital. Xun sounds, followed by dog ​​bites, three to five, then seven to eight, more and more mixed, barking all over.The waiter knocked on my door and asked, "Did you hear a wolf howling?" I said, "A wolf howling?" The waiter said, "I heard a wolf howling. A few days ago, twelve female students were raped by wolves. , is this wolf still in the city?" I said loudly, "You are talking nonsense, you must have been raped by a wolf? There are no wolves in the city, you should be responsible for the rumors!" The waiter was a With a puzzled face, he walked away.As soon as he left, I panicked. Could it be that the cry came from the wolf fur I hung out?He hurriedly opened the window to get the wolf skin back, it was just a piece of soft wolf skin, but the barking of the dogs outside the window gradually subsided.This time, I was really scared, knowing that the wolf's soul was attached to this wolf skin.My wife once said that every butterfly is the ghost of a dead beautiful woman looking for the past. Then, the soul and fur are separated after the death of a wolf. Did the wolf soul wandering tonight miss his clothes? Coming to meet someone who's going to take pictures of a living wolf?I didn't dare to fall asleep anymore, and stared at the wolf skin with my eyes wide open until dawn.But there was no strange movement from the wolf skin. At nine o'clock, I asked the direction of Shahezi, and I must find my uncle.