Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty-Three

(...He went back to sleep, and for the sake of comfort, he took off the top of his trousers under the quilt, threw it with his hand, and just hung it on a wooden peg on the opposite wall.) The next day, he happily took the letter to the post office in the town and sent it for me. He also bought me a pack of cigarettes, and we headed towards Beishan.But along the way, I felt like everything had changed. The flowers on the side of the road bloomed, and there were a lot of bees, especially when the birds on the tree sang, ten or eight birds immediately sang.Passers-by passed us by, always looking at me and smiling, I asked if my face was dark, and I said no, did I see you look beautiful? !

To go to Beishan, you have to go northward from a ditch at the 15th mile road in front. The bad guy boasted that there is a temple at the mouth of the ditch. The temple is full of incense. We can go to the temple to make a wish. He passed by there in the past to find a wife. The marriage broke down back then, did you also make a wish so that you could meet a good friend in Shangzhou this time?I just said, can you spit out ivory for us?He said, let me learn how a wolf howls for you. He sat down with his legs bent, put his hands on his mouth, first hooked his head to the ground, and then let out a whining sound, and then raised his head so that his face was covered. Facing the sky, the throat bone rolls up and down.He also said: Let me give you a wolf eye. When you open your eyes, almost all the pupils turn white, leaving only a little black in the upper left corner. "This is the gaze of a wolf when it's in heat. Have you seen it?" "I've never seen it." "The wolf is very fierce! But the wolf is very specific. If the male wolf and the female wolf have sex, the male wolf The wolf has been only with that wolf." "That's better than you!" "But the wolf is not big, unlike these donkeys." There are not many people on the road, except for passing cars, cyclists There are few, but there are donkeys pulling carts one after another.Lantou also introduced that this place is not far from the county town. The transportation of farmers in mountainous areas depends on this kind of donkey-drawn cart. If the donkey dies in the family, the meat will not be eaten. Only the donkey will be cut off and burnt paper for the donkey. funeral.The donkeys here are very interesting. They have long ears, short stature, and are as small as a big dog. They run happily with four hooves, and their rhythm is broken and crisp.At this time, a donkey-drawn cart came again. The owner of the cart was sleeping, and the donkey just walked with its head down. Whenever a car came, the donkey would automatically move aside, and the owner was still sleeping like mud.Rotten made a face for me, then went to block the donkey, led the donkey over the front of the car, patted the donkey's buttocks, and the donkey thumped and pulled the donkey in the direction it came from.Looking at the pranks of the rotten head, I thought of my uncle. If the uncle was there, the rotten head would not be so presumptuous.But where is uncle? "If you don't hurry up and turn the donkey around, you'll have to pull the cart back to the county town!"

"The old man always wakes up." The rotten head said, "One year when we were hunting in Erlong Mountain, a group of bears were chased by us. They rushed down one after another, just like the sun in the western sky, watching, thumping, falling! The musk deer is not like this, when you chase it, it also knows that you are pushing it for musk. When you were about to catch up, your front paws grabbed your own musk sac and smashed it to pieces. When a wolf becomes a spirit, it will deceive people like a fox. Your uncle and I chased a wolf once, and we came to a reed beach. You can walk to the shore in a few steps, but you are crazy, and you can't find your way for half an hour. When we land on the shore, the wolf is sitting on the rock on the other side and singing!" "Uncle, is it..." "Think Your uncle?"

When I walked fifteen miles, there was a monastery at the mouth of a ditch. In front of the monastery was a huge pond. I went in to burn incense and make a wish. I sat in front of the mountain gate and saw the pilgrims in twos and threes. He went to the main hall, and after a while, he went to the pond with his hands. It turned out that he was going to release the animals.He grabbed a liberator and asked why there were so many turtles?Answer There are many turtles selling on the slope to the left of the mountain gate.In the provincial capital, the soft-shelled turtle soup in restaurants is a famous dish. Most of the soft-shelled soft-shelled soft-shelled soft-shelled soft-shelled soft-shelled soft-shelled soft-shelled turtles in mountainous areas are of course wild, but where are there so many soft-shelled turtles for sale?From the mountain gate to the left, I went down a slow slope, and saw a group of grocery stalls, mostly selling incense and watches and small pendants engraved with Maitreya Buddha statues. Four of them specialize in selling soft-shelled turtles. "So many turtles!" I said. "Buy one, if you release it, you will prolong your life!" said a woman selling turtles. "Where did the turtles come from?" "Did you catch them?" "Where did you catch them?" "Pond." "Why are there so many turtles in the pond?" The woman looked at me with a bad look on her face: "Can you buy them?" Buy it, please don’t block the counter if you don’t buy it.” Someone next to me waved to me, and I passed by, and he said: “What pond, the pond for releasing animals! During the day, some turtles were bought to release them, and at night they were brought back again. Selling, that’s how you earn money!” I suddenly realized, but I didn’t understand that the monks in the temple didn’t care about such things. The old man said, “The monks have to eat too!” I sighed for a long time, and when I looked up, I saw the rotten head on the slow slope, sweating profusely. Looking over here, he saw me and complained: "Why did you come here?! What is this?" He hung a piece of jade with a very poor quality around his neck, and a Tathagata was engraved on the jade piece. "How much did you pay for it?" "It should say please." "Please." "Can we exchange it?" He was looking for the Jin Xiangyu my uncle left me, "You have a good idea!" I said, not to exchange it for him.

We walked north along the ditch, and the topic always revolved around Jin Xiangyu.I said that the concubine Xiang in ancient legends actually wore this kind of jade wherever there was fragrance.But the rotten head said that you still pay attention to being a city person, you don't understand, there are really people with incense.He has seen two strange women in his life, one has a scent on the bottom, and the other looks like a chrysanthemum petal, which is very tight.I scolded him: "You deserve to have a headache!" Not wanting to scold him, he really got a headache, so he quickly swallowed two tablets of "Fenbid", and let Cuihua comb his hair for a while.The ditch is getting deeper and there are fewer and fewer people. There is a kind of flying insects like cows flying around in front of and behind us. The strange thing is that the flying insects did not bite me. He plucked a pinch of grass and then beat it non-stop, saying that these flying insects never bite your uncle, why don't they bite you?I said flying insects are female flying insects!He just laughed and said that uncle can do anything, but he can't do anything with women. If he doesn't touch women, he doesn't even look at them.He put everything into it, but it didn't work out, and he was afraid of women when he saw a woman!Passing by a mountain pass, next to a pile of tombs and a dense forest are three and five families, low-walled thatched huts, and fenced yards. There are women and children eating big bowls of paste soup and boiled potatoes. The potatoes are not sliced. If the child punches, he will open his eyes wide when eating, and then choke his neck.Seeing us walking by, Quan knocked on the edge of the bowl with his chopsticks, and shouted, "Come and eat!" I waved, but the dog barked like a leopard, and pounced all the way. I regretted that my uncle had gone, and so had Fugui. , was bullied by these local dogs for no reason.After the rotten head broke behind me, I knocked over one with the barrel of a gun, but three or four were still chasing after me, and the child who was eating came over and scolded us. The dog in the lead was still saying: "Come to eat, why did you leave?" When we arrived in front of the ditch, there was only a saponin tree growing on the beam, but there were nine kinds of leaves on the tree. Strangely, there is a collapsed earthen temple in front of the tree, and a stele beside the wall is dilapidated, and it can be vaguely seen as "Chun□□□□□, □□□□□□ River", I don't understand its meaning.I sat down with Rotten and ate dry food, while Cuihua climbed up the saponins tree, picked a dried saponin and threw it down, hitting Rotten's head, picked another dried saponin and threw it down and hit me on the shoulder, I Said: Cuihua, Cuihua, I will kill you!

Cuihua proudly washed her face on the branch, but Rotten shouted: "Secretary, look!" On the beams, you can see the left, right, left, and right ditches in front of the beams and behind the beams. There are winding roads in the ditches. The roads are hidden and sometimes hidden by the woods. At the bottom of the road, there are some earthen huts here and there, and I heard someone's chicken crowing, which is the kind of bragging that just lays eggs.On the plateau on Donggoucha, the terraced fields are surrounded by layers, and the plateau is like an isolated island with a house on the isolated island.This is often the case in mountainous areas. After the wheat is harvested, a piece of land is crushed and used as a threshing field. After the wheat is threshed, the wheat field is plowed to plant crops. Therefore, there is a small stack of wheat straw in the corner of the field not far from the earthen house.What the bad guy wanted me to see was two gazelles with huge horns fighting against each other on the land in front of the straw stack.This was a heart-pounding battle. The two sheep neither growled nor howled, and each stood ten meters away from each other. Suddenly they ran towards each other, with their heads lowered, their spines arched, bang, the sound was muffled, and their heads It collided with the head, and the corners of the disc twisted together.Then they turned around and ran away with extremely fast movements, returned to ten meters away, and then rushed away suddenly, there was another heavy and muffled collision sound.So separated, collided, collided, separated, just like the generals fighting on the battlefield in ancient times, coming and going for four or five rounds, the last time they collided, they were not separated again, but pushed each other, one by one. Pushed to the left for five or six meters, and then that one pushed this one to the right for five or six meters. The eight legs were barely bent, and they were supported by iron sticks, and a deep ditch was plowed on the ground. .Finally, the one on the left pushed the one on the right forward, forward, and forward, and went through the straw stack, and emerged from the other side of the straw stack, still pushing, the straw The stack collapsed.I have never seen such a scene, even when watching a movie, there is no such scene in Spanish bullfighting. I took out the camera to take pictures, and the bad guy said that there are all kinds of wild animals in this place, most of which are wolves and gazelle. The horns of gazelle are thick. Powerful, when there are many wolves, they are afraid of wolves, and wolves are also afraid of them. Wolves have tofu waists with copper heads, hemp stalks and legs. Gazelles are specially designed to reach the waist of wolves. When they bump into them, wolves collapse there. Now there are fewer wolves. Gazelles are kings and overlords. They love to fight in the nest, and they dare not get close to them when they fight. They often kill each other, and the number is getting smaller and smaller.

"Oh." I responded and took three photos. "Do you eat mutton?" Rotten said suddenly. "You can't hit casually!" "Fire a shot and I'll hit a high place." Bang! The sound of gunfire made the two gazelles freeze in place, and they both turned their heads to look, and suddenly they disappeared.But the gunshots drew out a wolf, dragging a long tail, and quickly jumped into the earthen house. I really didn't expect that this wolf could show up so easily. Where was it hiding just now? Was it hiding from the gazelle or watching the gazelle fight, waiting for the gazelle to run out of energy before making a surprise attack?When I was capturing a gazelle, a wolf suddenly appeared in the lens. When I realized that it was a wolf, the wolf had disappeared into the earthen house, but I believe I took a picture of the wolf.This makes me very excited.In order to take a clear picture of this wolf, I held the camera and ran down the beam. The rotten head shouted danger and chased me with a gun. The thorns on the mountain road tore my clothes, and my feet The neck and hands were torn several times by something, and the dark red blood was crawling on the feet and the back of the hands like earthworms.

He ran close to the earthen house, but the earthen house was unoccupied. Obviously, the wolf had got into the house, because the door with the knocker tied with a wooden stick was open, and the broken wooden stick fell on the steps.Entering the house, there is a pot table in the house, three strings of bacon are hanging greasy on the pot table, and a large porcelain jar next to the pot table may contain sauerkraut, or it may be filled with water, and a sieve is placed on the pot.Then there is a large kang made of stone slabs. There are wooden prongs on the wall at the top of the kang, and wooden boards are placed on the prongs, and bags and clay pots are piled up.Next to the kang is a small stone mill. The handle of the small stone mill is covered with a long rocker. One end of the rocker is tied with a rope and hung on the roof beam.The equipment in the earthen house is so simple, where are the wolves?Could it be that I was blinded just now, or that the wolf really ran in and then out the door as we ran down the beam, or escaped through that little window in the back wall? Although the small window is just a hole, the hole is extremely small. Can the wolf escape? "If you are in a hurry, you can get into even a hole that is too big," said Rotten. "Wolves are even better at shrinking bones."

I sat down on the edge of the Kang in frustration. "Why is there no one here?" I said. "Ghost knows." "Even if you go out, can the firewood stick be used as a lock?" "Ghost knows." Cuihua only ran in from the door at this time. It must have noticed us leaving suddenly and jumped down from the tree to chase after it. We called, and suddenly turned around the porcelain vat, scratching the vat with our claws. "Cuihua, Cuihua, look at you," Lantou said, "a woman is also a useless woman!" The sieve on the vat jumped up and hit the edge of the kang where I was sitting with Lan Tou. We were startled, and we were still in shock. A fat wolf suddenly jumped out of the vat, and rushed out of the door like a gust of wind. , gone.

"Wolf! Wolf!" Rotten head yelled sharply.