Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty Seven

(...Lantou finished speaking, raised his head and spat in the air a few times, and made me spit too, "Don't let the ghosts find words to attach to us!") After all, what happened in Shahezi was located far away and the time was early, but the shouts in the mountains and the neighing of horns of chariots and horses aroused my great interest, so I encouraged my uncle and Lan Tou to see where the noises occurred.At this time, the sky was already dark, and we walked up the ridge to the east, which was covered with trees. The ridge was divided into two slopes, and the slopes on both sides slowly spread down like two straight legs of a person, and the slope At the fork, that is, at the bottom of the mountain ridge, there is a stone bag. There are trees and vines growing around the stone bag, but there is an open space in the middle, and a mountain spring springs out of the open space. The stream is like a thread, and the white flowers are shining.The shouting did not appear again, so I took a few photos to earn money. Although I knew the lighting effect was poor, I still had to take it. "Look at this mountain, isn't it a good cave?" Uncle said.I can't see the peculiarity of the mountain ridge.Lantou said, "Does it look like a woman's genitals?" Such a pointer, the more it looks like it. "Do you also read Fengshui?" "Looking at Fengshui is to look at mountains, rivers and rivers as human bodies, and the shape of a woman's genitals is the most particular good point in Fengshui." The bad head said how to look at it, you two Listen, when I die just bury me here!The uncle suddenly covered Rotten's mouth and said: "Wolf!"

Sure enough, there was a wolf sitting by the water spring on the stone bag.The wolf was crying, his breath was long and short, and his sobs were so sad.We all held our breath and kicked our bodies lightly. I finally saw clearly that the sitting wolf was not surrounded by a stone, but another wolf lying flat.The wolf cried for a while, and beat the lying wolf with its paws, but the lying wolf did not move, and the sitting wolf cried again. "The wolf is dead," said the uncle. Immediately afterwards, another wolf appeared by the water spring, lowered its head, circled back and forth, raised its head and howled, and two more wolves came.The two wolves came almost side by side, staggering and about to fall.The four wolves cried around the dead wolf.

"Don't shoot!" I quickly reminded in a low voice. "I didn't bring a gun," said my uncle. "See the wolf on the left? That's the big wolf that came last night. The last wolf on the left and the right is the wolf in this area. It's numbered three, seven, eight. No. Last night, the big wolf was No. 9, and the other was No. 10. They were originally in Longwang Mountain, so why are they here? Xiao Qing, the wolf cub is gone.” I knelt on the ground and pointed the camera lens at the wolves. The light was blurry. I pressed it, but the camera malfunctioned again. My camera was originally a brand-name product. Why is it the key to taking pictures of wolves every time? Something goes wrong all the time!I shook it hard a few times, and when I tried again, it was fine again, and I pressed the shutter a dozen times in a row.I knew it was a dead wolf. Could the dead wolf be the wolf that the old man said he had been treated for? Anyway, it was dead, and the living wolves were mourning it and holding a funeral.I only said that wolves would use their claws to dig a hole on the ground like a human, and then bury the dead wolf, but the four wolves suddenly jumped up together and began to tear the dead wolf with their mouths and claws. The dead wolf was like a piece of tofu, almost Unable to withstand the tearing, it was divided into several pieces, and then the wolves devoured it shaking their bodies, perhaps choking, and twisting their necks from side to side.During the whole process, I took almost one film, but my uncle and the bad guy couldn't bear it anymore. Just as I was about to change another film and continue to take pictures, my uncle shouted loudly: "Wolf--!"

The shouts shook the valley, like rolling thunderstorms, and a sound wave was also hitting back: wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf. I said don't do this, don't do this, but they have already run down from the woods. There is no road in the dark woods, and there is a sound of breaking branches and rolling stones.And the wolves suddenly stopped devouring, and they all sat there with their heads stunned, that is to say, their heads swung from side to side, and suddenly disappeared. When I ran and rolled to the stone bag, my uncle and the rotten head checked the scene there. The wolf devoured by the water spring had no meat, not even a piece of fur, except for a few wolf bones and a pile of dung. .

After living in Hongyan Temple for the fourth day, I noticed that the old Taoist's complexion became more and more yellowish, and later his whole body was as yellow as yellow mounting paper, almost bright.He couldn't sit there anymore, because his stomach was swollen like a drum, and when he knocked it made a hollow sound.My uncle dragged me outside the temple, saying that the master was so angry that his illness was serious.I feel that the old Taoist has always been suffering from liver disease. Is he in the late stage of liver failure and ascites?My neighbor's old lady in the provincial capital looked like this when she was dying. She cried for three days and three nights that her stomach was going to explode, her stomach was going to explode.After hearing what I said, my uncle became a little scared, and was about to carry the old Taoist priest to the foot of the mountain to see a doctor, but the bad guy suggested that we see a doctor.I don't understand what corpse lice are. The rotten head said that before death, a small white worm grows on the clothes of a person, which looks like a lice but is not a lice.If the old man is really suffering from liver disease, we have lived with him for so many days, and we can't keep getting infected. Even if he is not infected, he will die suddenly. Shall we stay and be dutiful sons?The bad guy said something ugly, so his uncle slapped him across the face and cursed: Get lost!Uncle's hands were heavy, and five fingerprints swelled up on Lan Tou's face, and Lan Tou was also anxious, and really went down the mountain in a fit of anger.I chased him to the platform of the red stone layer, and the rotten head still said angrily: "I called him the captain, did he think he was really the captain?! I followed him on the saddle, and he beat me up? Hit me in front of you?!" He refused to turn his head no matter what.

When I went back to the temple, my uncle was sitting there eating cigarettes. When he saw me, he came up alone and said, "I said that I would fight wolves when I saw them, but now I can't fight them when I meet so many wolves. Not all bad things have happened. He gone?" "Let's go." I said. "Is he really going away?!" Uncle said, "Let's go, his heart is as hard as a wolf's!" But my uncle also went down the mountain this afternoon. He was looking for a doctor down the mountain to treat the old Taoist priest.The old Taoist lay on the kang, his face disfigured in pain, but he didn’t make a sound. I asked him what he wanted to eat, and he said that his stomach was going to be bloated to death. Let me poke a hole with a knife. passed out.I was so frightened that I called him loudly and pinched him hard. He finally opened his eyes again and stared at me blankly with his lips twitching.I knew he was going to talk, but the voice was as small as a mosquito, and I lay next to his mouth and listened with my ears, and what I heard was: "I'm going, who are they looking for when they come!" I said: "Master, master Who are they?" The old Taoist suddenly coughed violently and jumped up from the kang <, I hurriedly beat his back, and a rotten head walked in through the door.

"Bad boy, are you really back?" I like to say, "I can't bear to part with the captain!" "I didn't come back for him." Lan Tou said, stretched out his hand in front of me, spread out his palm, revealing Jin Xiangyu. "When did you take Jin Xiangyu away again?" "You know I have taken it?" "How could I not know that it was hanging around that woman's neck, and how did you hold it this time? I didn't notice it at all?" "Don't say it, secretary, don't say it." The old Taoist let out a wow, a stream of blood sprayed out from his mouth, followed by another stream, and another stream, like a water gun, the blood was sprayed on the wall, which was a bright red fan.I hurriedly called Master, and the old Taoist closed his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.

"We are destined to be filial sons to the old Taoist priests." The rotten head mumbled to keep me from crying, but he had experience after all, and burned all the incense and paper in the temple, saying that it was because the person turned his head down and asked for help. If you go to the road to the underworld, you have to have money to get rid of the little ghosts on the road.He also took clear water as a drink offering, and then rubbed the old Taoist's body with his hands to straighten the bent arms and legs, and then rummaged through the box to find a worn but clean Taoist robe and put it on for him. He said: "Master It’s a blue dragon.” I didn’t understand what he meant, and he said, “A woman who has no hair is a white tiger, and a man with hair that goes beyond the groin and grows to his chest and back is a blue dragon. Unfortunately, the master is a blue dragon, but he became a monk. " I snorted angrily, Chia stopped talking, and began to wash and comb the old Taoist priest's hair.Just after the end, my uncle came here with a village doctor sweating profusely. Seeing this, he shed a tear and sent the village doctor down the mountain to inform the people down the mountain to deal with the funeral of the old Taoist priest.

However, that night, no one came from the foot of the mountain. We don't know whether the old Taoist priest's body was put into the coffin and buried in the ground like ordinary people or Taoism has Taoist rules and other burial methods, so we sat in the temple and waited.For several hours, I hummed the filial song that I heard on the way, and my uncle hummed along with me: "What's so good about being a human being? If you say you die, you die. My relatives and friends don't even know about it." The relatives and friends know that the deceased has arrived at the Naihe Bridge. The underworld is not the same as the Yangjian bridge. It is seven inches wide and ten thousand feet high. It is swaying in strong winds and small winds. The flower oil glue applied, the blessed dead pass on the bridge, and the unlucky dead lay down the bridge. The bridge in the morning is still there, but the bridge in the evening is smoked. The more desolate I felt when I sang, the tears flowed down.Lantou didn't sing, but Lantou never dared to say a word of disrespect.In the middle of the night, there was a noise outside the door. I thought someone came down from the mountain, but when I looked through the window, it was another wolf!I said: "Wolf!" Uncle and the bad guy were taken aback, lying on the window sill to watch, the uncle suddenly burst into tears, and said in a low voice: "The wolf has come to mourn the master!" This wolf had sores a few days ago The big wolf squatted at the door and whined for a while, and then whined very loudly, like a gust of wind. When I looked closely, there were five or six pairs of green cypresses flickering in the cypress bushes beside the dirt field. Fluorescent dots of light: That's a pack of wolves there.Why are there so many wolves hiding far away and refusing to come near? Before I thought about it, the big wolf outside the door scratched at the door, made a crackling sound, then turned its back and kicked the dirt with its hind legs, and the dirt hit the door. and windows.I didn't move, and at the same time pressed my uncle and the bad head hard.The wolf raised the soil twice again, the wolf turned around, raised its head high, then lowered its head, I saw it held a small stone in its mouth, put it at the door, turned and walked away.

Uncle opened the door, picked up the stone, and said, "It's Jin Xiangyu!" Lantou and I went over to look, and it really was Jin Xiangyu.I suddenly realized that the old Taoist had lied before his death. His Jin Xiangyu must have been given to him by a wolf, or the wolf had led him to pick it up, and the source of the Jin Xiangyu he told was completely fabricated; Now, the wolf came to thank and mourn him again, and brought him a small piece of Jinxiangyu. The wolf must know where the Jinxiangyu was.We chased the wolves out in a hurry, but we chased them all the way to the foot of the Red Rock Mountain, but we didn't catch them. In the silent night, there were only us and our shadows printed on the moon.

The next day, four people came up from the mountain, among them was the village chief.When the village chief saw Lantou and me, he immediately said, "Ha, you are still teasing me. I said you came here for Jin Xiangyu, and you said no, did you get Jin Xiangyu?" He is not pleasing to the eye, his head is a clapper's head, his nose is an eagle's beak, and the gaps between his teeth are full of corn grits.I said, "You've cheated all the gold and jade into your hands, where can we get them!?" He choked, avoided talking and ordered to pack up the old Taoist's belongings, and tremblingly looked at the rags in the temple one by one , piled them together and looked around the walls with their hands behind their backs, and even knocked to see if there was a mezzanine. "If you dig this underground again," said the uncle, "maybe there will be gold and jade buried there!" The village chief laughed and said, "It is fate to get Jin Xiangyu." But he still came to see the old Taoist's anus, and then slapped the old Taoist's mouth. With the villagers cooking, we left Hongyan Temple.I walked down the mountain for a long time, and I was wandering step by step. I am grateful to the old Taoist priest. He let me see the image of a kind old man who can protect the wolves, and also gave me the opportunity to take pictures of the five wolves. For the photo, he knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of Hongyan Temple.Uncle stood there until I finished kowtowing, and was about to return the piece of Jinxiangyu that he gave me, but he gave me the Jinxiangyu that the wolf had brought.Lantou was a little jealous, and he lowered his head and kicked the stone on the road. I said to him: "It's the next county town. Let the jade shop make holes in it separately. I will wear one, and you will wear another." After leaving Hongyan Temple, we had a lot of thought about where to go next. According to the situation obtained by my uncle during the census, Lijiazhai in Zhen'an County had No. 4 wolves, and Huangbaiya in Shanyang County had No. 10 wolves and wolves. Wolf No. 15, and Xiongerchuan has two wolves.Although wolves have a fixed area of ​​activity, they often migrate, especially in the old county where we saw wolves in the area of ​​Dashun Mountain, and in Hongyan Temple, we saw wolves in the area of ​​Erlong Mountain. Deeply surprised.Whether to go to Huangbaiya or Lijiazhai, whoever goes there may meet wolves, but Xiongerchuan is the closest of the three places, so you might as well go to Xiongerchuan first.