Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Five

(...I remembered the dream I was still having just now. I couldn't tell what kind of fate this thief appeared. I said, I want to see my uncle, let's go to Hongyan Temple.) Rotten went to the toilet, but coughed in the yard, and the old lady's daughter went out. Others didn't pay attention to this scene, but I noticed it. Prevent the old lady's son-in-law from going to the courtyard.After a while, the rotten head came back first. He was telling me that if I want to go to Hongyan Temple, I have to go back to Sanchagou and enter the northern ditch. It will take two to three days. Even if my uncle is in Hongyan Temple, Will you stay there and ask me what to do.Then the old lady's daughter also came in, holding the hot water bottle from the kitchen in her hand, and asked us if we drank it, but she refused to drink it when she said no, and said, "Turn over the front of the brain and go to the water." Dong, it is still directly to Hongyan Temple, but the road is difficult." I looked at her, but found that the black rope around her neck was no longer black, but a yellow one.The yellow rope is the rope of the Maitreya Buddha pendant bought by a bad guy.I immediately confirmed that what she hung first was my Jin Xiangyu, which was stolen by the rotten head and given to her. He exchanged his own pendant in the yard just now.I was overjoyed and said, "That's good. The road is difficult but fast!" The rotten head kicked the thief again: "Do you know the way?" The thief said: "Yes, I came from this road Yes." Rotten said: "Then you lead the way!"

In this way, in an accidental theft, the thief became our guide.The old lady and her daughter hurriedly cooked the pot and made sure that we would finish our meal and go on our way early in the morning without getting cold.When I bent down to tie my shoes, I suddenly called out: "Secretary, what do you think that is?" Jin Xiangyu.Lan Tou said: "You must have unloaded it and put it on the lid of the cabinet when you were sleeping. If you didn't find it, I would be a major suspect!" The thief was a thin man, attentive and smart, and served us well along the way, so I slowly relaxed my vigilance against him and let him carry our dry food bags and guns.After passing through a forest, the rotten head suffered from a headache. I asked him to lean on a tree to pinch his head, which made me sweat, and the pain couldn’t stop. He took off his shoes and slapped the Tianling Gai, the pain subsided, but the person lay there collapsed like a puddle of mud, and didn't even bother to open his eyes.The disease of the rotten head is the most serious one in the whole process of wolf hunting. He said he had a sense of death, and I also felt the fear of his death. I told the thief to find some spring water in the woods. I was thinking ⊙When I found water, I could boil a jar of hot water for him to drink, but I was so stupid that I forgot that he was a thief for a while, and didn't let him put down the instant noodle pocket and the gun he was carrying.The thief went away for a long time and didn't come back. I was so angry that I only cursed, but there was no sound. When I walked out of the forest, there was a spring at the foot of a cliff outside the forest. There was a knee print of the thief kneeling down to drink water by the spring. There are guns hanging on the birch trees, but the thief is gone, and the bag of instant noodles is gone.

For a long time, I didn't eat a bite of food with the rotten head. I knelt in front of the rotten head and blamed myself, but the rotten head comforted me.He seemed to have changed completely, saying that as long as the gun was not lost, it would be fine, and what would be the point of skipping a meal or two?I asked him to rest for a while, and went to fetch water to boil for him to drink again, and went out to look for something to eat. He stood up against the tree and said that he didn't dare to rest for a long time, and he couldn't walk after a long rest. It must be dark to arrive at Hongyan Temple.It is conceivable how slowly we walked, until it was dark, before we came to a ditch with a house and slapped the door knocker to ask for lodging.

You can't imagine that there is such a complete courtyard house in the deep mountains. Although the main house, mansions, and walls of the firewood mill, cowshed and pigsty are all covered with stone thatch roofs, they are spacious and clean, without even a single piece of firewood.What's even more surprising is that there are six or seven people, big and small, all with clear facial features and bright clothes. You have to sigh that in the deep mountains, apart from dementia, bow legs and galls, there are still handsome people.When we entered, the family was having dinner. A bed was installed on such a stove. The buckwheat dough was put into the trough of the bed, and one person rode on the lever to press down. ,  will be shaped and boiled in the pot.They pressed a trough for one person to eat, and the room was filled with the strong sour smell of vinegar and the choking smell of mustard, and Cuihua sneezed several times.We explained our purpose, and the man who jumped down from the big kang said: "Hey, city people! You are right, I am the village head, and there is no one in this ditch cleaner than my house! Sit down, sit down , give the customer a slot first!"

Spicy  is a very good thing. I ate two bowls and rotten head ate three bowls. I was sweating all over, and my headache was obviously much better.After eating, the man sat with us and talked in the building where we rested, while Cuihua was hugged and played by the children.The man asked if the head still had a headache, and the head said that it was an old problem and it was okay, the man said I would treat it for you, patted the head of the head, poured a bowl of clear water on the wall, and poured a With the big iron nail in the corner of his mouth, he picked up a hammer and asked, "What's your name?"The rotten head said: Murray.The man said: I will call you later, and you should answer.The rotten head said: Yes.The man lowered his head and murmured for a while, then slammed the nail on the wet wall, smashed it, and said: Murray!The rotten head said: Hey!The hammer hit again, said three times in a row, the rotten head responded three times, and hit the hammer three times. The man said: Does it still hurt?I saw the rotten head looking for a feeling in the porcelain, and finally said: It's much better.Did the man say it was better or better?Lantou said: I know how I got this disease.The man said: Although I am not a doctor, I know there are three types of illnesses. One is internal injury, the other is external infection, and the other is previous karma.The rotten head said, do you have a gourd at home?The man said yes, and the rotten head said you find one, I have to drive the nail into the gourd head!Sure enough, the man found a gourd, and he nailed three long nails to the gourd, saying, "You are nailing to the wall. The old man in my hometown asked me to nail the gourd. The gourd is mine." Head, if others suffer crimes and go to the underworld to be punished, I am the retribution of this world!The man laughed hehehe.

"If you have a headache, nail it, and if your wrist becomes thin and weak, how can you cure it?" I thought of my uncle and asked the man. "Who has this disease?" the man said, "If you were not tied up with a rope in your previous life, you must have tied someone up with a rope in this life, right?" I don't know how to answer. There was a cry of pigs in the yard, and the man yelled towards the yard from the window: "Steam some potatoes to eat. It's a good amount if you are full! Clean up the shelf!" The yard said: "You have to kidnap Hey!" The man turned his head and said to us: "Tomorrow we have to carry the pigs to the purchase station at the bottom of the mountain, and we have to clean up the shelf for carrying the pigs in the evening. We don't have a road here, so we have to carry everything down the mountain!" We hurriedly said , you busy, the man left.But the rotten head blinked at me, and said, "Aren't you going to stop it?" I said, "Why should I stop it?" The rotten head said, "The purpose of handing over the pigs to the buying station is to kill them and eat them! You always I object to eating meat, but I don’t eat meat anymore. What are the people at the buying station doing? I don’t think so, it’s for the good of all living beings, but I insist that the soul comes into the world with the form of things. Although human beings are the essence of all things, in terms of the meaning of life, any animal, plant and human are equal coexistence Yes, preying on the weak may be the way to adjust the balance of life, and wolves are also a link in the chain of life. Wolves have been slaughtered to the point of extinction. If uncle's illness and rotten head disease are a kind of punishment, then the greater Punishment may not be limited to hunters!I glared at him resentfully: "Then you will have a headache slowly!"

"I deserve it," he said, "but you say plants are alive, so why do you still eat grains and vegetables?" "If you don't eat food and vegetables, the whole world will be full of crops and grass!" "But now people eat so much that all the land that can grow crops has been reclaimed into fields, what do you say?!" "Won't there be wars, famines, and family planning?" "You are a cultural person, I can't say enough about you." Rotten waved his hand, cleared the bed and went to bed.We often argue about such issues, but the debate has never come to fruition. I also hate myself for not having a higher level of education, and I convinced him all at once.But every time the debate is over, I'm amazed how I'm quite enlightened now, and I'm no longer the gray and disheveled me in Xijing City before?In the main room, the landlord's daughter turned on the radio and was playing some music. With the music, I felt countless sharp knives flying.Then I thought about what my wife was doing in Xijing City, and what the cultural people in that small circle were doing. They must all be wondering: Where is Ziming, where has Ziming gone?And now I am lying in a farmer's house in the deep mountains of Shangzhou, birds are chirping outside the window, crickets are shouting under the bed, and the dustpan insect that has been lying on the east wall is also crawling now, making a rattling noise. It broke.Lantou spread the bedding, squatted down and looked under the bed, he slept on a bed with papaya once, was bitten by a snake once, and was afraid of straw ropes for three years, so he scolded the old man of Shenglongzhai again.

"That's someone trying to fix you on purpose," I said. "Where are papayas everywhere under the bed?" Rotten closed the door, suddenly smiled for a while, and said in a low voice, "I'll tell you now, that woman is a good woman, she's full of water." "You really got it?" I said. "Outsiders, which hunter doesn't have that problem?" He said, "You haven't been out for a long time, so you don't want your wife?" I ignored him. "I've been thinking about it for a while." He sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed with his arms crossed, pinched his eyebrows on the mat and picked out his ears. "Once you take out your ears, your attention will be on the ears, and the ones below will be fine. This is what your uncle taught me."

"Just think about it when your head doesn't hurt!" I touched my chest, it was hard through my shirt, and Jin Xiangyu was still there. "Go to sleep, go to sleep, this is a decent family, don't let them hear us and look down upon us." "Hey, I haven't seen you for a few days, is your hemorrhoid healed?" I started to pull the light switch rope, but at the same time, I found a mouse crawling upside down from the window sill to the clothes hanging wire on the opposite wall, hanging on all fours, just like a person who used both hands and feet to hang on the stream. iron chain.I groaned, and the mouse had already passed the wire, slipped down the window quickly and disappeared.Badou and I immediately closed the doors and windows and looked around, but there was no sign of a mouse in such a room.There is a straw hat in the corner. I kicked the straw hat, but there is no straw hat under it.Lantou and I felt strange, sitting on the head of the bed to watch the movement, Cuihua scratched the corner of the bed for a while, planed the pillow for a while, and finally lay there in a daze.

In such a big place, where can mice go?Rotten head kicked the straw hat again, the straw hat was still the same straw hat, and kicked it to the door.I said the straw hat belonged to someone else. If you kicked it to the door and accidentally stepped on it when you opened the door at night, you will have to pay for it. You went to pick up the straw hat and hung it on the wall, but the straw hat was heavy. When you turned it over, the mouse clenched its legs tightly. Lying in the straw hat shell, I was startled and stood up abruptly, the corner of the table was hitting my forehead, blood was streaming down, and the mouse jumped up the door frame and escaped through the cracks in the rafters.The exclamation alarmed the village head who was busy in the yard, and he came in and burned some hair ashes for me to cover the wound, and said, "That's fine, once your head rots, your comrade's head won't hurt∷." After falling back into sleep, Cuihua came up to my bed, still curled up under the pillow, I pushed it away, and said with a smile, Cuihua Cuihua, come here, you can’t catch a real mouse, Don't treat my stuff like a mouse!

Before dawn, there was a lot of noise in the yard. It was the village chief and some children who tied the pig on a stretcher and were about to carry it down the mountain. Ass is hot.There was only the village head and his wife at home. At the breakfast table, I asked about the direction of Hongyan Temple, and the village head immediately asked: Are you going to get Jin Xiangyu?He also knew that the old Taoist of Hongyan Temple had Jin Xiangyu in his hands? ! "Who doesn't know this?" He said, "In the past six months, so many people have been looking for Jinxiangyu, and the old Taoist has already run out of stock!" Didn't the old Taoist pick up a whole piece of Jinxiangyu?Who took it away, can I get it again?I said: "This comrade of mine just wants to get a piece of #." The rotten head looked at me, a little embarrassed. "Do you really want it?" the village chief said, "I can find a way for you, and only I can do it, but the price is a bit expensive." What kind of price does the rotten head ask?What the village chief said made the rotten head feel cold, and so did I: three hundred and sixty-six yuan a gram, if he really wants it, he can go to a person, I heard that this person bought all of it from the old Taoist Jin Xiangyu. "Can it be a little less?" "The price is too low!" At this point, the business can no longer be done, and we left.When going out, the village chief was still smiling and said: Should we still go to Hongyan Temple?We said there was someone waiting for us there.He said, you have to believe what I say, even if you go to Hongyan Temple to find an old Taoist priest, you still can't get a one-gram Jinxiangyu.We said that someone was really waiting for us there, and he said okay, go up the slope in front of us from here, walk eastward for two or three miles on the slope beam, go downhill along a fork road, walk along the ditch, and then turn a cliff foot , Go straight west and you will reach Hongyan Temple.Passing by the foot of the cliff, there is a family there, you send a message, let them go up the mountain to repair the terraced fields, just say that I said it, and I will go to check it in five days, if the terraced fields are not repaired, the government relief money in the spring will be completely Gone. We walked in the designated direction, and the sparse houses we saw were all thatched huts, and the people were dressed in rags, withered or unkempt. We lamented that this area is poor, and we have never seen such a wealthy family as the village chief.After lunch, we sneaked into a house to buy some food, and as soon as we entered, we hurried out. The whole room was in a mess. A man with a gaping lip and three children were eating glutinous rice glutinous rice noodle soup. Shovel a pimple, and then put it in the three small holes dug by the log. The three children sit in front of the log and gobble it up.I wonder why I didn't bring a bowl to eat?Lantou said, I'm afraid there is no bowl, look at these days, all the belongings are not worth a few hundred yuan.But there was a thistle bowl on the window sill, half a bowl of cooked meat that was cut into cubes and glowing pale. I said, "Is there any more meat to eat?" The man said, "Let someone hoe the ground today." The three children immediately They all ran over, mouthfuls of glutinous rice grits, and said: "You can't eat our meat!" After leaving this family, I complained about the hard life, but still gave birth to a bunch of children. Long, what did you ask them to do?Things in the world are so strange. A good family either cannot give birth to babies or only gives birth to girls. The poorer you are, the more you can give birth. At the foot of the cliff, there were two earthen houses slanted. The earthen house was built on a half slope. The front wall was high, while the back wall was low. The rafters were almost touching the cliff stone. Cuihua suddenly became excited and shouted, Suddenly a dog jumped out of the dark doorway.I started to run back, and the dog also kicked down to grab the stone, but the dog stood up on its hind legs, shaking its front paws vigorously, and the dog barked: "Fugui? Is it rich!?" When I heard it called Fugui, I looked closely. Isn't it just wealth!And at that moment, uncle was standing at the door, covered in sunlight, squinting at us.