Chapter 8 7. The Story of Women's Village

Cross the sea from the west side of the big island, and walk westward for twenty miles after landing on land. That is the real red wall and golden tiles, and the lively market.Go through the market, go out of the city, and then go west for two hundred miles, the rolling mountains.There is a mountain among them. For some reason, no matter what the day is, it always has a cloud on its head all year round. The locals call it "Women's Mountain".It is said that there are treasures under the floating clouds, but no one really dares to take them.All men who enter the mountain are in groups, armed with knives and swords. At the foot of the mountain, there is an inn. The owner of the inn is a woman. The idea of ​​​​going into the mountains to "get treasure".Entering the mountain, you can only see old trees shading the light, birds chirping, clear springs icy to the bone, and apes singing like mournful souls; if you dare to go high, you will not be full of tigers, leopards, wolves and bears.

The belly of the goshawk and the giant python, I thought luck was coming; when I walked higher, I saw cranes dancing in the air, and the fragrance of exotic flowers and herbs made me even more courageous; If you are in a fairyland, you push away the floating clouds and go in as if you were drunk, and then you go forward and bump into a cottage. In front of the gate of the village is a stone sculpture of half male and half female genitals. After playing with it, old and young girls couldn't come out alive. The women in the women's village have never forgotten the history of the village: In a fight with weapons, all the men in the tribe were beheaded by foreigners to sacrifice to the God of Wheat. Because they had yellow beards, the foreigners said that they were all transformed from yellow-haired leopards.Afterwards, the older generation of women told the descendants that the Han people instigated the foreigners at the foot of the mountain to do it, because the enemy used Han Chinese swords.If you want to hold grudges, remember them on the Han people.

They really don't know where their ancestors came from, they only know that they have been hiding on the top of the mountain for generations.The floating clouds that cover the hills never go away, and neither does the sun.In the past, when men were around, women couldn’t stop giving birth to children, but not many survived; later, when the men died, women couldn’t stop looking for men to have children, and the children who survived were too busy. not much.They don't believe in foreign men, and if they catch a foreign man, they will take turns using him and beheading him.Human heads are sacrificed to ancestors and heaven and earth, and human bodies are fed to wild animals.The first baby boys born were sent to far away for fear that foreigners would come and kill them. Their bodies were carefully tattooed with patterns by their biological mothers so that they could be claimed back when they grew up.It turned out that none of them ever found the boys again.A mother went looking for her son and found that her son had grown up to be raised by the Han people. She almost died when she went to claim it. On the way back to the village, the son escaped back to the Han people by accident. .It can be seen that raising a son is useless.If they stay in the stronghold, foreigners will be killed if they see it, and they will die; if they are sent to another country, they will help the Han to give birth to a son.They decided that they didn't want any men or boys.At that time, if anyone found an abandoned male baby on the side of the road next to the main road up and down the mountain, it must have been thrown out of the women's village.

People say that the women in the women's village are not women, but female beasts.Especially after the men are gone, the women in the village have to go out to hunt. From a distance, they look like a pack of wolves, tigers and leopards descending the mountain.The most beautiful woman in the village is the leader's daughter Hisama. She is seventeen years old and was born to a female leader and a foreign man.It is said that because of his good looks, the man was taken by the leader alone and slept with him for ten months. He was not fed to the leopard until Hisama was born.Afterwards, the female leader killed the leopard and brought the cub home to keep her daughter company.It is said that Hisama looks very much like her father, with gray eyes.But because she grew up with the leopard cub, she looks and moves like that leopard.When he was seventeen years old, except for rolling with leopards on the mountain and dancing with swords, he had no interest in the men he captured.On this day, Hisama and some women went down the mountain to play in the inn at the foot of the mountain, when they bumped into Jihe who had just escaped from the big island.Jihe sat there drinking soju, his little white face in green robes was dusty, seeing Hisama, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.Seeing Jihe, Hisama leaned over to smell him, and immediately wanted to capture him and lock him up with her leopard.Taking advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders in the store, he hurriedly ordered the woman under him to tie Jihe up and take him to the kitchen behind the store to look him up and down.

Jihe smelled a beast from Hisama.When the smell mixed with the wine in his belly, he was dazed, thinking that death would be without regret. Hisama asked Jihe where he came from, and Jihe said, Big Island.Hisama asked where the big island was, and the female shopkeeper who came into the kitchen interrupted and said: "When the sun rises from the East China Sea, half of it rains and half of it is sunny. You can see a small black shadow under the sun. The half-truth is Oshima. If a child is naughty, the adults will scare him and say that he will be sent to that little shadow, and he will never come back."

Hisama laughed. Jihe could tell that this kind of laughter was the kind of laughter people from big places laugh at people from small places.Since he was a child, he was used to hearing exiled literati from the capital laugh at them like that, but now even this savage woman in the barren hills laughed at him like that, which was a bit rare.He wanted to belittle this woman a few words, but when he saw her smiling face again, he endured it.Jihe listened to the woman's laughter in a trance and was tied up the mountain by the women.When they arrived at Nuvzhai, Jihe was led into her thatched building by Hisama. When he went upstairs, he could see the leopard sleeping downstairs through the sparse wooden boards.

Hisama asked Jihe what he did, and Jihe thought for a while and said, I can compose poetry.Hisama asked what a poem was? He made up a nonsense one.Hisama asked again, can these crazy words make the land grow food? Jihe thinks it makes sense.Later, he wrote for her with a stick dipped in ashes, and told her about the things in the book.Hisama laughed while listening, and the two spent the night lying on the wooden floor talking and laughing.Hisama said: "I originally wanted to let you sleep with my leopard, and the three of us would play together during the day." Jihe hurriedly said: "I can't do it. It would be a blessing if I could be with you day and night .” Hisama felt comfortable after hearing this.The next day, I asked someone to go down the mountain to get a pen and paper, and watched Jihe write.

The female leader was furious, called her daughter and asked her what to do with this man.Hisama said, "He is mine for the rest of his life." Her mother said, "You can't want this man! He smells like a Chinese, and he also writes Chinese characters and composes Chinese poems. There is a pair of smiling eyes, all revealing the sinister appearance trained by the Han people! This kind of person must be killed. If you kill it, you can’t feed it to tigers and leopards, you can only feed it to wild boars. We have to grow crops." Hisama said: "His ancestors were not Han Chinese, but they learned the Han people's work for generations and married with Han people." They are all those bastards who are frightened by the Han people. It is they who make the Han people more and more. Second, because his ancestors married with the Han people, they became such nondescript people. If you follow him, no Have to give birth to a group of nondescript children and grandchildren? Didn’t I become the grandmother of the Han people? Didn’t you hear your grandma say that once he became a Han Chinese, he was especially able to bear children. Thousands of years ago, the Han people were just a few monsters. Now the whole world is full of their people."

Hisama said: "I just watched him compose poems these days, so why did he talk about giving birth? Besides, don't just say that the Han people are monsters. You haven't heard that people outside say that we are mountain monsters and beasts." ?People hide even more tightly when they see us, I think everyone in the world regards each other as monsters." Her mother was furious and said, "I shouldn't have slept with that ghostly man. I gave birth to you. I didn't expect that I raised a daughter-in-law for the Han people. If you plan to be with this man, get out of the village and go away." Stay far away, don't let me see you again. I can tell you, you are my daughter in the village, but you are just a leopard outside of the village. If you follow a man, you will reveal your original shape. People will be poisoned if they know Die you, it will be too late when you know you miss your mother."

Hisama said: "I will not turn into a leopard or be poisoned to death. If you don't want me, I will still be your daughter." Hisama took Jihe away and walked all the way to the beach.He got on the fishing boat and said he was heading south, but the fisherman lost his way. When the wind blew, the boat went eastward. After two days, he saw an island.He stopped the boat nearby and went ashore. After looking at it together, he was back on the big island again.