Chapter 1 Catching the Winter Wilderness (below)

Wood cut down in the forest, in the spring when the water grows, will use the river to tie the wood into a raft washed downstream, the river downstream there is a railroad, there is a small locomotive, is specially used to transport wood, the situation here is very much like the famous novel “forest and sea snow plains” in the depiction of the “clip skin ditch”, “” in the northeast is indeed a place, the forest of the Tuan Shanzi also has a similar name, called “yellow skin grave”, the name of the place is “yellow skin grave”, the forest of the Tuan Shanzi also has a similar name. Clip skin ditch” in the Northeast is indeed its place, Tuan Shanzi’s forest also has a similar name, called “yellow skin graves”, the name sounds mysterious, but even swallow her father kind of old hunters, can not tell the ins and outs of this name, just say that this neighborhood is a lot of yellow skins, a long time ago! Yellow Fairy is quite fierce, and now no one mentioned, yellow skin is the local people on the weasel a common name.

Tuan Shanzi forest is simple and remote, but socialist construction can not be separated from it, so we have to brave the wind and snow to come here on duty, but to be honest, there is nothing serious to do in the forest in the winter, the only thing that needs to be taken care of is to go to the lower reaches of the river after a few hours to help send the last small train transporting wood only.

Before we arrived, the forest was looked after by the old man who knocked on the mountain and his granddaughter, a girl called “Painted Eyebrows”, and according to the arrangement of the village branch secretary, we were supposed to replace them, but when we arrived, we found that there was something very wrong in the forest, and that the forest-keeper’s hut was empty, and that there was not a trace of heat or ashes in the hearth, nor was there any sign of the forest. a trace of heat, and there was no sign of the grandfather and grandson.

I can not help but worry for them, hastily and my two companions split up in the woodland to find a circle, but still did not see the trail, my heart is more and more uneasy, to the fat man and swallows said: “this year’s weather is too cold too quickly, and no sign beforehand, I am afraid of beasts in the mountains to catch the winter famine, knocking the mountain master and his granddaughter will not be lynx and other vicious beasts to take? ”

Tuenzi hunting dogs are hunters brought into the mountain roundup, so we did not bring hunting dogs, now the wind and snow, the group of mountains near the ridge high forests, complex terrain, flying snow cover the traces of people and animals, even if we have a hundred or ten people to find, may not be able to find them, not to mention that at the moment we are only three people. Fatty and I immediately thought to go back to Tuen Mun to move help, but suddenly thought of Tuen Mun has no one to look for, then we are still young, a moment of surprisingly helpless.

Or swallow heart fine, she looked carefully in the cabin, the house of food and dried meat is still left some, knocking on the old man’s shotgun and loaded with fire yao iron sand horn pots are not, hunters are the most good observation to check for clues, no animal traces in the cabin, things are neatly arranged, they seem to play a large number of sticky cake, it should not be happening what happened to the bad, maybe knocking on the old man with her granddaughter to go hunting rabbits, but also Maybe he was worried about the snow closed the mountain, did not wait for us to replace, then go back to Tunzi in advance, full of mountains old man has been hunting for decades, very experienced, although an old man, his hands are not as dexterous as in the old days, but since he has a hunting rifle, as long as in the middle of the road does not run into the mother of the bear who has just given birth to cubs, there will not be any accidents.

See the forest in no different, we three people feel a little bit of peace of mind, all the way to hunger and cold, it is bitter, this time what important things to throw aside, the most urgent task is to warm and fill the stomach, so we will hastily burn the fire kang, the frozen tied to the hard paste cake in the fireplace wall casually grilled, ate to fill up the hunger. Three people ate enough sky is also dark, as usual, began to gossip to relieve boredom, according to the customary turn to blow, the fat man first Kan paragraph before the liberation of the Northeast in the anecdotes of the bandits, he is listening to his father said, I’ve heard him speak no less than ten times, and Swallow is still the first time to listen to this story, so listen to a very fascinated.

Just see the fat man frothing at the mouth, even gesture with said: gathering to plunder the people’s wealth of the bandits, in the northeast region is also called “hu bandit” or “beard”, it is said that the hu bandits are different from the mainland ringing horse thieves and bandits, they are self-contained system, to worship the ancestor of the Pi Island General at the end of the Ming Dynasty, “Mao Wenlong”, the general of Pi Island. “After Yuan Chonghuan, the right deputy governor of the Ming Dynasty, designed to kill Mao Wenlong, a large number of officers and soldiers under Mao Wenlong were displaced to the islands off the coast of the Northeast China or deep in the mountains. At the beginning, these people regarded themselves as officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and did not engage in fights and robberies, but after a hundred years, with the increasing sophistication of the personnel structure, they have gradually evolved into bandits, who have done nothing but harm to one side. The Hu Bandits, however, still honored Mao Wenlong as their ancestor until the liberation of China.

These groups of “Hu bandits” were later called “sockets”, and the name of each sockets was different according to the “name” of the head of each group, for example “Iron Whip”, “Flying on the Grass”, “Sang Da Dao”, “Phoenix Double Warrior” and so on and so forth.

Before the liberation of the Northeast’s number one hu bandits, the leader is nicknamed “Shade the sky” bald, this person is a young temple monks, learned a copper practice Iron Cloth Shirt hard skills, but he “return to secularism” has never grown hair, “Shade the sky” is a person with a heart of hearts, “Iron Whip”, “Flying on the Grass”, “Sang Da Dao”, “Phoenix double warrior” and so on and so forth. The sky” is ruthless, both hands are stained with the blood of cadres and masses.

After the surrender of Japan, the Northeast carried out land reform, in order to safeguard the fruits of victory from being destroyed by bandits, the East General Administration set up a special anti-bandit detachment, and after a series of arduous and brutal battles, it finally eradicated the “four pillars and eight pillars” of the “Shade the sky” group of hu bandits, the “four pillars and eight pillars”. The “four pillars and eight pillars” is the name of an organization within the Hu Bandits. In addition to the head of the Hu Bandits, who is called the “Big Cabinet”, the rest of the so-called “Four Pillars”, respectively, are The so-called “four beams” are “top beam”, “corner beam”, “welcome beam”, “heartless beam”, and “eight pillars”. The “eight pillars” are “Kiki”, “Hanging Line”, “Knowing the Bureau”, “Passing the Signal”, “Passing the Signal”, “Passing the Signal”, “Passing the Signal”, “Passing the Signal” and “Passing the Signal”. The “Eight Pillars” are the general names of “Kiki”, “Hanging Line”, “Knowing the Bureau”, “Passing the Number”, “Chief Procurator”, “Water Phase”, “Horse Horn”, and “Accounts Office”. “The general term, these people are finished, the whole locks even if completely down.

And this “four beams and eight pillars” in the most critical figure is “corner beam”, commonly known in the Northeast as “Mr. Tong Calculation”, he is the entire locks of the division, specializing in the use of some of the superstitious arts to “Push eight doors”, to determine the whole group of bandits in and out of the movement, the master of a finished, “covered the sky” and he lost the main heart of the drum, became a veritable bare-knuckle commander, but this person is also really cunning to the extreme, the squad could not catch him, several times by him. He slipped away from under the noses several times. Some superstitious locals rumored that this bandit leader had saved the life of Wong Tai Sin when he was young, and that Wong Tai Sin would protect him for the rest of his life, and that he could escape from the earth, so even if the heavenly soldiers and generals were sent, they wouldn’t be able to catch him.

However, there are strange coincidences in the world. Hu bandits avoid mentioning the word “death”, but they can’t hide without mentioning it, and most of the bandits have no good ending. Maybe “Shade the sky” is full of evil, it is time for him to die, that year in the mountains just happened to have a rare “winter famine”, the people called such a year “dead years”, Wong Tai Sin Huang Da Xian finally could not cover him.