Chapter 4 Ancient Tomb in the Mountains

Release Date: 2024-07-09 14:20:09
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Although it is Inner Mongolia, in fact, it is not far from Heilongjiang, it is almost to the border of Outer Mongolia. Residents are also predominantly Han Chinese, with only a small number of Manchu and Mongolian. If you have not been to Ganggang camp, you will never come up with that place how hard, we have a total of six young Zhiqing, four men and two women, a place to be dumbfounded, surrounded by all the rolling hills, and endless primeval forests, out of Tuen Mun up to a hundred miles to walk up to half a shadow of the people can not be seen.

There is no highway here, not to mention electricity, light an oil lamp belongs to the treatment of cadres, in this place to make the flashlight is equivalent to living in the presidential suite. In the city, it was totally unimaginable, we thought that all over the country were upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones.

But at that time also feel fresh, never seen such a big mountain, a lot of things produced in the mountains is also the first time to eat, the nearby mountains are relatively rich, a lot of mountain goods, the river can also fish, but not worried about not having enough to eat, and then back to the city to listen to them go to Shaanxi insertion said that they are really called bitter, these years on the pressure of not seeing a grain of decent food.

Youth work is not too heavy, because this place depends on the mountain, not many crops, summer night we take turns to go to the field to see the crops, for fear of being chewed by wild beasts, so every night there must be one or two people live in the crop field overnight.

Crops in the mountains are not like the North China Plain like thousands of miles of green, but the east side of a piece, the west side of a piece, where the ground is flat in which to open a field. So the night to often go out to walk around, this night just in time for me and Fatty companion, Fatty in the hayloft to sleep, I went out to turn around, see there is nothing to do, go back to sleep.

Fast to the hayloft, I saw from the hayloft not far away from the place there is a large group of round whirring white shadow, I rubbed my eyes and then look carefully, it is not a blurred vision, but the sky is too dark exactly what is a thing can not see clearly, I did not believe that there are ghosts, thought it was some kind of animal, so I picked up a stick want to drive it away.

In the middle of the darkness, there was a mass of white things, and also slightly shaking, what is this thing? It didn’t look like an animal, but if it wasn’t an animal, why was it moving? It was too dark and I had no kerosene lamp to light it, so I couldn’t tell what it was.

Although I am not afraid of ghosts and monsters, but in the face of unknown things, there is always still some fear of psychology, do not dare to swing a stick directly to fight, this stick in my hand, in fact, is a thick branch picked up casually from the ground, I used the branch to gently poke the pile of white things, very soft …… Suddenly in the darkness, I heard the fat man yelling: “Ah …… What are you doing? Hu Ba Yi! What are you poking my ass with a tree branch?”

A false alarm, it turned out to be the fat man ate unclean fruit during the day, the night upset stomach, squatting there to put maize, the dark night on his big white ass conspicuous.

The next morning, the fat man unforgivingly want me to compensate him, claiming that last night let me scared to death more than a million brain cells, I said on your brain, can have so many brain cells? You and I are both poor bachelors who have received the highest instructions to come to the countryside to receive the necessary re-education for the poor peasants, what do you want me to compensate you with? I can tell you in advance, as your close revolutionary comrade-in-arms, all I have left is this last pair of pants I’m wearing, you won’t want me to compensate you with these pants, right?

The fat man said with a bad smile on his face that it is not necessary, I saw a very large beehive in the old forest in the Tuan Shanzi yesterday, you and I will go to the beehive stabbed, we get some honey to drink, you can also use honey and Swallow her father to exchange for rabbit meat to eat.

Swallow is a girl’s name, her father is a famous old hunter in the village, Fatty and I live in her family youth point, their father and daughter often go into the mountains to hunt, from time to time have to invite us to eat game, we have always felt that we always eat people’s good things a little bit too much, but we are really poor, there is nothing that can be used to return to invite the swallows father and daughter.

Fatty found a large beehive, we decided to get some honey back to Yanzi, both are quick-tempered, said to do, before in the city, fat and I are the whole military region is known as the king of the naughty, poke a beehive is nothing more than that ten times more powerful than the hook is often play.

I was afraid of getting lost to find Yanzi borrowed his hunting dog, which is a half-grown puppy, it is Yanzi raised their own, Yanzi gave the puppy a name called Chestnut Yellow, has not been willing to take it out to hunt, to see us to go to TuanShanZi play, on the dog lent to us.

TuanShanZi from our village straight distance is not far, but because there is no road, over the mountains to go half a day to, this forest is very big, the village people had warned us not to go in, said that inside the human bear infestation, we have seen the village there is only half of the face of the man, when I was a child here encountered human bears, good in the swallows her father in time to catch up, shooting startled away from the human bears, to save him down. But the boy’s face was still licked by the human bear, whose tongue was full of inverted flesh spines, licking off a large piece of flesh in one lick, and the left side of his face had no eyes and ears, and his nose and mouth were crooked. He was over forty years old and still couldn’t get a wife. When the old people in the village talked about him, they all shed tears.

Although we are bold, we do not dare to venture into the primitive forest, the fat man said that the beehive is he and the village people came to pick pine seed oil, in the edge of the forest found, the beehive in the forest outside near a small stream on a large tree.

But unexpectedly, this hive is too big, bigger than the ones we’ve poked before combined, from a distance, it looks like a small calf with no limbs hanging from the tree, inside the huge stinging bees flying around in the blackness, the buzzing sound is deafening.

I said, “Fatty, you’re fucking kidding me, is this a beehive? This is simply a large hornet atomic bomb ah, this is going to be poked and blown up still have to go? Fatty said that’s right, if it is a normal honeycomb, why do I need to find you? I’ll take care of it myself. How’s that? Do you still dare to do it?

I said this is nothing, our team is invincible, even the U.S. imperialist airplanes and tanks we are not afraid of, can be afraid of a few small bees? They’re all paper tigers. Fuck them, we’re going to eat honey today.

That said, we can not do it, the slightest mistake will be stung to death by the hornet, this bee is so huge, it must be poisonous, no need for more, get so one or two on the end. Just next to a small river, this is called God help me, I first took out a piece of cake broke two pieces, fed the chestnut yellow ate, let it run away far away. Then each brought the military coat on, wearing a dog skin hat tied scarf, put on gloves, hat in front of the cover a find female youths borrowed transparent sand scarf, check the whole body are not half a point to reveal the skin after the place, let the fat man looking for two branches of hollow reeds, one person, ready to jump into the river later to avoid the swarm of bees attack used to breathe.

After the preparation, we two like two bloated bear, step by step to the tree, I hold a ball of winter seed grass and matches ready to go, fat man with a long pole counting: “one, two, three.” When I counted to three, I poked the part connecting the hive and the tree trunk with a long pole, and didn’t poke it to four or five times, the huge hive fell under the tree, and countless large wasps inside immediately flew out like an explosive camp, forming a large black fog in the sky, which buzzed and covered our heads.

I prepared more fully in advance, regardless of the swarm of bees attack, with matches lit the winter seed grass, placed in the downwind next to the honeycomb, the giant wasps flying out from inside were smoked and lost their sense of direction, flying everywhere, Fatty and I and the soil piled a firewall around the burning dead grass to prevent the formation of the Burning Mountain Fire.

At this time those who have not been smoked by the hornets have recognized the target, have pounced on us, I feel like hail on my head like popping mess, do not dare to make a stop, hurried and fat man ran to the side of the creek, the creek is not deep, only less than a meter deep, we have a jerk to the bottom of the body of the hornets were washed away by the creek, I have one hand to hold down my head of the dog skin hat to prevent being washed away by the water flow, the other hand took out a reed to breathe.

After a long time to reveal his head, found that the swarm of bees are either drowned, or fainted by the smoke, there is no danger, although it is the height of summer, the stream in the mountains but cold, my whole body has been frozen by the stream all over the body shivering, and it was not easy to climb up the bank, lying on a rock panting, the head of the sunshine warms the whole body, indescribable comfort.

Not long after the fat man can not hold out, wobbling climbed ashore, just climbed half, he suddenly ouch, violently raised his arm, hand, I do not know what was stabbed a big mouth, blood flowed straight.

I hurriedly swam down to the stream to help him, the fat man while holding the wound said: “you be careful, this river seems to have a broken bowl, fucking stabbed me to death.”

There is no one living in the neighborhood, how can there be broken bowls, I curiosity, take off a net light, bare bladder dive into the creek to feel, in the fat man was stabbed place, touched half of the broken ceramic bowls, look at the style of the bowls and blue pattern, there are a few points like before my grandfather collected the kind of Northern Song dynasty blue and white porcelain.

My grandfather’s antiques and paintings were smashed by the Red Guards when the Four Olds was broken, and I can’t imagine that I can see the fragments of these antiques in this deep forest, but it’s really a little bit of affection, but this thing is not useful to me at all, and I lifted my hand and threw this half of the broken bowl far into the woods.

Fatty also put the soaked clothes stripped naked, haphazardly wrapped the mouth of the hand, and jumped into the stream, we both took a bath, and then the clothes and shoes and socks one by one drying on the pebbles near the stream, I whistled, greeted Chestnut Yellow back.

I saw Chestnut Yellow running back from a distance, with a fat gray hare in his mouth, I don’t know what happened to this unlucky rabbit, but it ran into the mouth of Chestnut Yellow, which is still in the internship period of the hound, I saw a hare, and I was so happy to see a hare, I hugged Chestnut Yellow and rolled on the ground a few times, it was a really good dog, and I rewarded it with a large piece of honey-stained honeycomb I broke off from the beehive.

Fatty said, “Go back and let’s find someone to ask for a few puppies to keep, and then we’ll have rabbit meat to eat every day.”

I said, “You think so, even if there are many rabbits in the mountains, you can’t afford to eat them as hard as you do. Let’s not talk nonsense, I’m really hungry, you hurry up and clean up the rabbits, I’ll go and collect firewood to make a fire.”

Fatty washed and stripped the rabbits by the stream, I held a bundle of dry pine branches and lit a bonfire, smeared the skinned rabbits with a thick layer of honey and set them on the fire to barbecue. In a short while, the smell of honey roasted rabbit in the air, I cut off the head of the rabbit and feed it to the dog, the rest of the rabbit meat was split in half and the fat man ate a lot of fun. I’ve never eaten anything so fragrant in my life, and I almost swallowed my own fingers. Although it was not seasoned with oil or salt, the roasted rabbit meat was smeared with wild honey and then roasted with pine branches, and it had a unique natural flavor, which I could never have imagined that there would be this kind of delicious food in the world in my life in the city. The life of intellectual youth is so bitter and happy, we were driven by society to the remote mountainous areas, lost some things at the same time, but also gained some things in the city can not get, it seems that some things in life, I am afraid that can not be measured by gain and loss.

After eating, see the day is not early, the clothes are almost dry, with a thick branch to wear a huge beehive, two people one after the other carried, singing a revolutionary song back to the village: “the sky and the earth is not as big as we are determined to be big ~ father pro mother pro ~ not as good as the Communist Party’s kindness pro.” This is really a whip cracking golden stirrups ringing, singing a song of triumph. The only thing that is not quite coordinated is that in our loud and clear revolutionary song is also mixed with chestnut yellow excited dog barking, which makes me feel a little bit like the atmosphere of the ghosts in the movie into the village.

When we returned to the village, we saw that half of the people were gone, so I asked Swallow, “Swallow, where did your father and the others go?”

Swallow while helping us lift the hive while answering: “Chaganha River flooding, the wood of the forest are soaked, at noon most of the village went there to help move the wood, the branch told me to tell you, look after the crops, don’t get into trouble, they will take seven or eight days before they can come back.”

I hated to hear people not letting me get into trouble, as if I was born to get into trouble everywhere, so I said to Yanzi, “The branch book is drunk and confused, right? What trouble can we get into? We are all Chairman Mao’s good children.”

Yanzi laughed and said, “Don’t you get into trouble? Since you city youths arrived, all the hens in the village have stopped laying eggs because of you.

We together with the other two male youths also went to the forest, leaving me and Fatty and the other two female youths, we did not get sent to work in the forest because we went out to play, we feel very lucky, the honey control into the jar, filled more than a dozen large tiles, Swallow said that the rest of the beehives can be eaten as a whole dish, the night to give you the whole roe deer meat fried beehives.

When it comes to eating fat people are happy, said today we have a small life with the New Year almost, just ate roasted rabbit meat in the afternoon, and then at night eat roe deer meat fried beehives, my mouth is flowing out. Swallow asked where we roasted the rabbit. I told the story. Swallow said ah, you can not blindly, in the old forest side of the roasted rabbit, the aroma of meat to the human bears to attract out how to deal with ah.

We heard her say that before we remembered, it is really dangerous, fortunately, today the bear may be sleeping and did not smell the aroma of roasted meat. I helped Swallow to build a fire while talking about the fat man in the stream by the broken bowl pierced the hand of the matter, how can there be that kind of Sung Dynasty porcelain bowl in the wilderness of the mountains?

Swallow said that is not new, our village girls get married, which family has a few bottles and jars as a dowry, are fished out of the river.

The more I hear, the more strange I feel, the river can also fish antiques? Swallow also turned out two porcelain bottles from under the bed for me to see: “Not the river grows, are washed down from the upper reaches of our village near the source of these rivers are in the Lama gully of the Oxheart Mountain, listen to the old people say that the mountain is buried in the Liao State Jin State which queen of the tomb, which accompanied the burial of the old nose to go, a lot of people would like to go to look for that tomb, but either not looking for it or into the Lama gully can not come out. Lama ditch can not come out, Lama ditch that forest old dense, my father had seen the ditch there are savages, but also some people say that the ox heart mountain is haunted, anyway, no one dares to go again these years.”

Speaking already nightfall, Yanzi to do the meal, Fatty went to call the other two female youths to eat, the results just went and one of them called Wang Juan together with the gasping ran back, I asked what happened to them busy?

Wang Juan gasped for half a day before saying clearly that the original and her together with the female Zhiqing Tian Xiaomeng family letter, said that her mother had asthma hospitalized, the disease is quite serious. Tian Xiaomeng heard people say that the bodhisattva fruit growing in Lama Gully has a miraculous effect on asthma, so she went to Lama Gully alone to pick bodhisattva fruit, and she went there in the morning, and hasn’t come back until now when it’s dark.

My brain veins are jumping up and down, this Tian Xiaomeng is too adventurous, that place is full of primitive forests, even the experienced hunters in the village do not dare to go there casually, how did she go there by herself?

Wang Juan cried and said, “I can’t stop her, let’s go and find her, what if something happens to her?

However, the village labor force had gone to the forest, and the remaining people were old and young, so only Fatty and I could go to look for her, and Swallow brought her chestnut and shotgun with us, leaving Wang Juan behind to look after the crops in the village.

In the mountains there are dogs are not afraid to get lost, we do not dare to delay, lit torches holding chestnut yellow night into the mountains, deep forests there is no road to go, I really do not understand how Tian Xiaomeng own a girl dared to break into the deepest part of the mountains alone, Fatty said she may be confused, who’s mother is sick is not anxious ah.

Because of the dark, and to let the dog track the smell, chestnut yellow did not have professional tracking training, often lost, but also turn back to go back to find. So we walk very slowly, before four or five hours of road, walked the whole night, the east appeared dawn, the morning wind in the big forest blew goosebumps on the body, the fresh air makes people’s spirit revitalized, Swallow pointed out to us to the west: “Look, that big mountain is the ox heart mountain.”

Fatty and I looked to the west, among the mountains covered by a vast sea of forest. Towering a strange huge peak, the whole mountain is like the shape of the bull’s heart, nine white practice jade dragon like big waterfalls running down from the mountain, the villagers picked up those porcelain is from these waterfalls rushed out, it seems that the legendary Liao dowager queen’s mausoleum may be in the mountain, but so many years no one has always been able to find the entrance.

I saw this spectacular peak suddenly had a feeling, to assure Chairman Mao such a mountain I seem to have seen where. Thoughts, finally remembered the usual idle look through my grandfather left the broken book when I saw a record, this landscape pattern is a piece of excellent feng shui treasure point, the front is hopeful, the back has to rely on, nine waterfalls seem to be nine dragons to take the water, to the hill divided like a blooming lotus, right, seems to be called what “nine dragons cover the Jade Lotus”.

The nine waterfalls on the hill, more than one less than one, or not so big water flow, are not enough to nine dragons cover the pattern of the Jade Lotus. Nine in the largest single-digit number, there is the hidden meaning of the supreme, pronounced with the long, there is the meaning of eternity, has always been regarded as one of the most auspicious number. Also if the water flow of the waterfall is small, it’s not called a dragon anymore, it’s a snake.

This kind of feng shui treasure point, there is another name called “Luoshen carriage”, according to the book, the most suitable is in this kind of place to bury women, if buried men, the family will be bad luck.

At this time I have a vague feeling in my heart, my grandfather’s book “sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret art” is not a mess of four old, the contents of the book is really something, go back to read again.

But I don’t think this kind of Feng Shui has any practical value, China has so many emperors and generals since ancient times, which one is just looking for a place to bury after death? Dynastic changes, the rise and fall of the historical flood, is not buried in the ancestral tomb good or bad can be swayed.

Swallow pointed to the valley in front of Oxheart Mountain and said, “This is the famous Lama Gully, which is rumored to be haunted by savages and ghosts at night.”

Fatty looked at the primitive forest that covered the sky in the valley and frowned, “Tian Xiaomeng will definitely get lost if she enters Lama Gully, we only have three people and one dog, it’s really not very easy to find her.”

I saw them both a bit discouraged, so I cheered them up and said, “Communist materialists should not believe that there are any ghosts in the world, no matter if it is a ghost or a savage, let me run into it even if it is unlucky, I want to catch it alive a few, and bring it to Beijing to send to Chairman Mao, who must be very surprised to see it.”

Fatty and I are the same military family origin, blood born with a kind of fear of heaven and earth, he heard me say so, also came to the spirit, ready to enter the ditch with fists and palms.

Only Yanzi is worried, she as a local, since childhood, heard countless terrible legends about this lama ditch, naturally there is an innate fear of psychology. However, now that saving people is important, they can only put those behind them.

Three people first sat down to eat some dry food, the whole point of equipment, we have a total of two shotguns, these two guns are swallow and her father when hunting, one is a triple socket, the other is commonly used by the Oroqen people to lift the rod, these two guns are very backward, all the front loading of the fire yao gun, close-range lethality is very big, but shooting thirty-five meters away from the target, the power and accuracy will be difficult to ensure that it will be a hare and roe deer and so on. The only thing I can do is to shoot a rabbit or roe deer.

Since I was six years old, my father was brought to the shooting range to play guns, the PLA’s standard long and short firearms I am very familiar with, but this kind of front flintlock shotgun, I am not sure I can control, fat man and my experience is similar to that we discussed, the shotgun I and Yanzi each take a, fat man took a machete chopping wood. Ready to stop well, three people head into the dense forest of Lama ditch.

In Lama ditch, compared to the legend of the savage and mountain ghosts, the most real and direct threat from the human bears, human bears, although the black blind man and the same are bears, but the human bears like to walk on the human stand, so the name, the human bears are huge and thick skin, hunters only in groups and with a large number of hunting dogs when they dare to attack the human bears. If a person with a broken gun in the primitive forest and the human bear encounter, almost like a death sentence.

After walking in the forest for half a day, the sound of the nine big waterfalls on the Oxheart Mountain was rumbling louder and louder, and the Lama Gully had come to an end, and was almost at the foot of the Oxheart Mountain.

Human bears and savages have not encountered, not to mention the sight of Tian Xiaomeng, the fat man tired to sit on the ground with a butt: “I can not …… really …… can not walk.”

Swallow said that we will rest for a while, chestnut yellow seems to be unable to find the odor of Tian Xiaomeng, alas, how can this be done? If you can’t find her, the branch secretary and my father and they will not come back to scold me to death.

I am also tired enough, picked up the kettle gulped a few mouthfuls, said to the two of them: “Tian Xiaomeng may not have been eaten by bears? Or else it could have been captured by the savages and made into a suppressed wife.”

We were resting and gossiping at the same time, when we suddenly heard Chestnut Yellow barking furiously at the depths of the dense forest, hounds are good dogs with excellent pedigree, they will never bark so furiously unless they are in extreme danger.

I asked Yanzi: “What’s wrong with the dog? Did they find some wild beast?”

Yanzi’s face turned pale: “Quickly go up the tree, it’s a human bear.”

As soon as I heard it was a human bear, I hurriedly climbed a big tree in three clicks, and looked down, Swallow was holding Fatty’s buttocks hard, and Fatty couldn’t climb a tree, and strained to hold the trunk of the tree a little bit and rubbed it upwards. I hurriedly slipped down from the tree again, and swallows together to support the fat man’s butt, the fat man was not easy to climb up the lowest a large tree fork, sweating and lying on top of it, said: “I …… this tree is fucking …… too high! ”

Chestnut yellow screams more and more urgent, not waiting for me and Swallow to climb the tree, see the bushes drilled out a black fur covered human bear, it saw a living person, immediately excited, stood up and growled like thunder.

Swallow long years with her father in the mountains hunting, extremely experienced, can not think too much, raised the shotgun at the human bear on the release of a shot, bang bang fire splash, pellets hit the human bear’s stomach.

Because the distance is very close, and the human bear’s abdomen is the most soft, this shot in its stomach opened a big hole, blood and intestines at the same time flowed out. The human bear was wounded, annoyed beyond measure, with a big bear paw to stuff his intestines back, and then furiously pounced on Swallow, Swallow’s shotgun can not be fired continuously, behind the trees and thorns have no escape, can only close their eyes and wait for death.

Saving people is important, I can not think too much, hastily raised the gun aimed at the head of the bear, this shot if you do not hit, swallow will be finished, think of this hand a little shaky, clenched his teeth and pulled the trigger, boom, lifting the teeth of the shotgun’s huge recoil almost lifted me off my head, sitting on the ground, I do not know if it is not enough lethality of the musket or I shot a biased, although it hit the head of the human bear, but only blinded it! One eye.

This shot is not fatal, but the swallow saved, the bear blinded an eye, face is full of blood, eye socket is still hanging half of the eyeball, it became more crazy, leaving the swallow regardless, straight toward me pouncing.

At this time, chestnut yellow from the back to bite the hind legs of the human bear, the human bear twisted his head to catch chestnut yellow, chestnut yellow is very alert, see the human bear turned around, then ran far away, to the human bear bared his teeth provocation.

Just so slow to slow down, swallow and I have seized this life-saving ten seconds of time, respectively, climbed up the tree.

The human bear is not lightly injured, belly and intestines were pierced, flowed out a large section, but also blinded an eye, it is in the mountains, even the tiger is afraid of it three times, which has suffered such a big loss, want to go to catch chestnut yellow, but not as fast as the hounds, want to go to bite the three people, those guys climbed up the big tree again. Under the tree for a few rounds, although there is a belly of evil fire, and a moment actually do not know what to do, stormy, up to the sky wild roar, sound shocked the valley.

I lie on the tree to see the following people bear anxious to turn around, forgetting that they are in danger, feel funny, in another tree on the fat man shouted: “small fat, you two big masters how not to go ah? What are you doing down there? You persuade it, don’t think about it.”

Fatty is not afraid of human bears but afraid of heights, take the modern word he may be a bit afraid of heights, lying on the fork of the tree trembling with fear, but he listened to me to squeeze him, also refused to suffer, and I scolded up: “Hu Bayi, you fucking lack of virtue it you, the bottom of this is which is my second grandpa ah, you see clearly and then say, that is not your daughter-in-law?

I laughed loudly, pointing to the people below the bear said to the fat man: “Oh, see wrong, so this is your old aunt, I do not give you as an aunt husband.”

The fat man was furious and wanted to use the pine cones on the tree to throw me, but both hands are tightly holding the branches of the tree, for fear of falling down as soon as I let go, not daring to have too much action, can only punch me dry eyes.

I saw the fat man’s appearance even more amused, but immediately my smile froze, the human bear under the tree is defiantly climbing up this big tree where I am.

Although it is bulky, but the strength of the strange, and was seriously injured, the pain has made it completely lost its mind, in its eyes there are only three of us and a dog, staring at a bloodshot bear eyes, big bear paws on the flesh of the thorns firmly grasped the tree trunk, huge body every leap up to climb up the distance of more than a meter high. I cursed in my heart, “Who the hell told me that bears don’t climb trees? This is not a pit for me.”

There is a saying in the mountains that old hunters advise young hunters: it is better to fight a fierce tiger than a crazy bear. Because of the injury and completely crazy human bears, its destructive force and explosive power is amazing, I was shocked, where there is still the heart to joke with the fat man, the heart kept calculating how to get away.

At this time, Swallow gave me a wake up call, “Quickly …… load the iron sand and hit its other eye!”

I just thought up behind the back of the shotgun, even cursed himself useless, and climbed to the top of the tree for a period of time, unzipped pants with the armed belt, the armed belt bolted to a branch of a tree that can withstand the weight of the large branches, with one hand grasping the shotgun to hang on to the center of gravity, freeing up the other hand to the shotgun to fill the gun with fire yao, I’ll be the bullhorn tube of more than half a cylinder of fire yao left in the tube are loaded into the barrel of the lifting teeth.

The human bear was crawling fast, getting closer and closer to me, Yanzi and Fatty were both in a cold sweat for me. I tried to focus only on the action of loading the shotgun in my hands, not thinking about the human bear climbing up from below.

After loading the fire yao is the pressure of iron sand, with the iron Tongzi fire yao and iron sand mortar and pestle, my nose pits sideburns are full of sweat, this kind of shotgun is really troublesome, the broken gun is really killing, in the northeast of the forest, how many hunters because there is not a fast gun and lost their precious lives, at this time, if I can have a five-six type semiautomatic rifles, even if it is again two or three human bears are also in the matter of this kind of situation, even if there is a pistol, it’s a good idea to have a gun, so it’s not a problem for me. In this case, even a pistol is good.

At the moment I finished loading the iron sand fire yao, and replaced the flint flint, the bear’s claws have reached my feet, I hastily shrunk my feet, and turned the muzzle of the gun downward, and fired a shot right at the bear’s head, which was too much because of the fire yao, the smoke and fire rose up, and smoked my face with a pitch-black color.

Musket is by virtue of the power of the fire yao jet to stimulate the iron sand, but the angle is too low so that the pressure in the barrel of the iron sand loosened, did not play out the proper power, in addition, due to the one-handed close to the shot, no support behind, so close to the distance or hit a bias, did not hit it in the head, but only to the human bear’s shoulders beaten bloody, the human bear fell from more than a dozen meters high in a tree, a heavy hit on the ground, the ground is extremely deep dead branches, the human bear is a very deep, the human bear, the human bear, the human bear is a very deep, the human bear is a very deep and deadly. The ground was full of extremely deep dead branches and leaves, coupled with its thick skin and flesh, the fall from the height didn’t cause much damage to it.

The human bear climbed up, this time it no longer climb trees, like a heavy tank, wailing and screaming with a fat body slammed into the tree, vibration of the tree on the pine leaves and pine cones raining down one after another.

Luckily, I use the armed belt to hang on to the arm, so as not to be shocked down, I’m a little worried that the tree is not strong enough, and then bears hit a few times will be broken, I can not imagine that today I’m going to die in the mountains in the old forests, dead to the end, can not lose face, have to come up with a little revolutionary righteousness, let the fat Yanzi take a good look at me, old Hu by no means a coward. So rip throat to swallow fat two people shouted: “It seems that I have to go to see Marx, sorry comrades, I go first, to you over there to occupy a seat to go, you have nothing to say to the revolutionary mentor, I will certainly convey for you.”

Fatty shouted to me from another big tree more than ten meters away, “Comrade Old Hu, don’t worry about going, the revolutionary cause is not much with you, not much without you, you go over to Old Ma’s side to study the revolutionary theory properly ah, I heard they always eat potato beef stew, are you used to eating it?”

I replied, “When have we ever been picky about what we eat as revolutionaries? Comrade Fatty, the revolutionary cart does not fall down you just push forward ah, the red flag rolled over the serf’s halberd, the black hand hanging high overlord whip, the remaining two thirds of the world’s suffering masses, all rely on you to liberate, I’ll eat potatoes stewed beef every day to go.”

Swallow cried out in a hurry: “What time is it, you two still have the leisure to pull the calf, quickly think of some way ah.”

Just when we are at our wits’ end, the human bears no longer use their bodies to hit the tree, stopped, sitting on the ground breathing heavily. It turned out that the bear flowed a lot of blood, and non-stop tossing, although it is amazing brute force, but also have exhausted the time, this time it calmed down from the frenzy, learned a good behavior, to wait for labor, sitting under the tree with us to spend on.

Chestnut yellow has also seen the power of the human bear, do not dare to get close to the human bear hissing and biting, squatting far away to the side, it is also very hungry, but out of loyalty to the master, refused to go to look for food by themselves. Swallow heartbroken his dog, whistled for Chestnut Yellow to find something to eat, Chestnut Yellow then left.

Three people lying on the tree to discuss countermeasures, but after thinking about it, there is really no feasible way, now down the tree hard fight, with the hands of the old-fashioned musket, undoubtedly asking for death, most of the people in the village are not, do not want to count on someone to come to the rescue. In order not to fall out of the tree, we have to use their respective pants belt to securely bind their bodies to the trunk, and see who can consume who in the end.

In this way the formation of a stalemate, this situation is most unfavorable to the three people in the tree, just now a thrilling human bear fight, has exhausted most of our strength, and now it is almost night, the three of us are two days and one night did not close their eyes, during the day only ate a few stick flour cake, and hungry and sleepy, I’m afraid not to tomorrow morning, you have to starve to faint and fall out of the tree.

This situation reminds me of a poem by the President: “The enemy is besieged by thousands of troops, but I am immovable. But there were no flags in sight at the bottom of the mountain, only human bears standing guard.

Just so thoughtless, unconsciously I fell asleep on the trunk of a tree, I do not know how long I felt hungry in the stomach, a burst of pain, I woke up, only to see the sky on the stars, the moon as a hook, it has come to the end of the night. The whole forest is quiet, through the moonlight to see, the tree under the human bear is no longer, I do not know when it left. The tree branches are thick, I can not see the swallow and fat is still in the tree, so I let go of my throat and shouted: “Swallow! Fatty! Are you guys still in the tree?”

Even asked a few times, shouting in the middle of the night between the valley echoes, that two people but not half a response. Although I am bold, but the thought of being left alone in the middle of the primitive forest, I can’t help but feel a little hairy. I thought to myself that these two guys are also too meaningless, how to forget me, when I left, even did not call me.

I shouted two more times in the tree, or no movement, I got anxious and looked around, found that not far in front of a piece of light flickering place, did not think that in this kind of place there are people living? They two are not also see the light, to that side to look for people went?

In the darkness of the night can not discern the south-east and north-west, only to hear the roar of the water current, raised his head to find the direction of the North Star, it seems that the piece of light should come from the direction of the Oxheart Mountain, I slipped down from the tree, deep and shallow feet toward that piece of light.

I began to fantasize that the owner of that piece of light is an old hunter living in the mountains, with a long white beard, very kind, warm and hospitable, see me such a lost in the forest of the intellectual youth, will certainly be warm hospitality, the first to give me a cup of hot tea, and then roasted a deer leg to give me to eat …… the more I think about the more hungry, with the sleeve of his shirt wiped the corners of the mouth out of the saliva.

Side want to eat side walk, soon arrived in front of a huge cave, the depths of the cave lights, very strange, just now obviously looked at those lights are not far away, this time but then become in the depths of the cave, is not I starved eyes blurred.

I in the fantasy of roast venison in the great temptation to drive into the cave, three steps and two steps line to the dark and dark and long end of the cave, found that the belly of the mountain in the space is vast, so that the person in front of the eyes of a wide range of open, and suddenly saw the opposite side of the five or six young girls are talking and laughing side by side walking, it is clearly summer, but they are wearing luxurious fur, classical style, does not seem to be the present day clothing, only one of them wearing a Only one of them was wearing a seasonal blue khaji cloth outfit, with two twisted braids on her head and a military green canvas satchel with the words “Serve the People” on her shoulder.

That’s right, absolutely Tian Xiaomeng, she is Suzhou to the youth, I and fat man is Fujian, although we are all southerners, but each other is not too familiar. The main reason is that Fatty and I are too naughty and always get into trouble, and generally honest and quiet girls don’t dare to get close to the two of us.

But in this strange cave to see familiar people, heart more or less have a bottom. I walked two steps closer and called out to Tian Xiaomeng, “Xiao Tian, why did you run here? Is there anything to eat?”

Tian Xiaomeng turned her head to see that it was me, so she waved at me, signaling for me to come closer. I walked over and said to her, “You’re having a good time here, we almost got eaten by a human bear trying to find you. What kind of place is this? Do you have anything to eat? I’m so hungry that my front and back are sticking to my back.”

Tian Xiaomeng said, “I’m so sorry, it’s all my fault, I went into Lama Gully to collect medicine and got lost, and was saved by these kind sisters, who will also perform a shadow puppet show in a while, you’ve come at the right time, let’s watch it together and then go back.” Then she introduced me to a few young women beside her, they spoke with local accents and were very polite in their speech, and also brought me some dried venison to eat, and greeted me to go and watch the theater together.

I followed them to the inside, only to see the vast cave in the middle of a city, magnificent buildings, brightly lit, surrounded by all kinds of antiques and jade piled up.

In front of the city door built a good paper lamp white cloth, sitting behind a dozen or so Division in charge of gongs and drums suona musicians, in front of a long table with an antique color, the table tea tea, all very fine, there is a large red onyx tray piled up with fruits and snacks.

There are three chairs in front of the table, the previous women in sable please me and Tian Xiaomeng respectively do in the left and right, the center of the chair virtual, seems to have an important person to come.

Tian Xiaomeng saw that there were only three seats, the rest of the people were standing at the back, so she felt a little embarrassed and wanted to excuse herself. I was tired and hungry, but also can not care about polite, anyway, the people’s river and mountain people sit, since there are seats, who sits is not the same, so grumpily sat down, grabbed the front of the food to eat.

May be hungry hard, although the food is exquisite, but not half the flavor, are like chewing wax in general, eat a few mouths, the more I think the more odd.

At this time there are two young girls assisting a richly dressed white-haired old lady out of the door, sitting in the center of the seat.

Tian Xiaomeng and I stood up to greet the host, saw the old lady’s appearance, I feel even more strange in my heart, now what year is it, how can there be a landlady?

The old lady nodded at both of us and sat down in the center, not saying a word as she waited to watch the show.

Behind the young woman standing to serve a clap, the troupe of musicians puppeteers heard the order, all perform, shadow play originated in the Han and Tang dynasties, also known as the “light and shadow play” is a popular art in the folklore to donkey skin skeleton engraved with the characters in the play animal, by the artists in the white screen after the accompaniment of drums and gongs and instrumental music of the point of the lyrics of manipulation, the development to no less than hundreds of times. The art form has developed into no less than hundreds of full-length plays.

However, this art form was naturally affected by the *, was criticized as a big poisonous weed to promote the talent and beauty of emperors and generals, where there are still people who dare to interpret. I never thought that I would be able to see it here today, this kind of performance in that era of zero cultural life, it is really attractive, I just focus on watching the play, completely forget about other things.

Shadow play by the big plays are extremely exciting plays, first played a “Taizong dreaming to travel to Guanghan Palace”, and then began to play “Di Qing night to seize the Kunlun Pass”.

On the stage, swords and swords, soldiers to and fro, brilliant, coupled with the drums and music to urge up, so that the viewers can not help but applaud. I see the mind shaking, thirsty, reach for the tea cup on the table to drink water, inadvertently looked at the old lady next to me, only to see that she is also looking at the eye-opening smile, while watching the side of the table to take the preserved fruits and snacks to eat, chewing food is very strange, the two cheeks bulging as the old apes, a sip and a sip.

My grandmother after old age also no teeth, but eating is never like this ah, this old lady is a person is a monkey? Mind a mess, the hands of the teacup fell to the ground and shattered, the teacup this fall broken does not matter, the old lady’s head also fell to the ground, her head is still staring at the shadow play to watch, the mouth is still chewing endlessly.

The old lady under the maid rushed to the front of her head respectfully held up, and give her to the body.

I know in my heart that this is met with ghosts, a pull up Tian Xiaomeng on the outside of the cave to run, a darkness in the stumbling out of the cave, ears hear the rumbling sound incessantly, the earth kept shaking, behind the cave closed into a huge stone wall, if it is half a minute later out, it will not be inevitably be alive pinch death in the mountain wall.

Outside the sky is already bright, I pulled Tian Xiaomeng ran to the stream below the mountain, suddenly felt a strange pain in the belly, pain in my forehead straight cold sweat, can not help but crouch down, it seems that they give me something to eat there is a problem, I remember listening to my grandfather told the story of ghosts invite people to eat, ghosts and monsters with stones, frogs, maggots into food to cheat people to eat and, I do not know what I just ate what a ghost of birds, the more I think of the more nausea, can not help but vomit! The more I thought about it, the more disgusted I became, and I couldn’t help vomiting.

In the pain vaguely see the front walking two people, the girl in front of some familiar, it turned out to be Swallow, I see her to feel at ease, a black fainted.

When I woke up, it was already three days later, that day, swallow and fat man stayed in the tree until dawn, the tree under the human bear blood loss has died. I just couldn’t find me anywhere, and finally found the unconscious Tian Xiaomeng and I by the river.

I have been in a coma for the past three days, with a fever of more than forty degrees, the fat man ran a hundred and ten miles of mountain roads to invite the county doctor to treat me, I am fit and strong, finally woke up, and Tian Xiaomeng was never conscious, so I had to notify her relatives to pick her up and take her home for treatment, and as for what happened to her afterward, none of us are quite sure.

I told my encounter and swallow’s father, he told me that I encountered may be “ghost market”, also known as “ghost play”, there is a legend in the mountains, the Empress Dowager died, buried alive a lot of folk classes of jugglers to do the burial, in the old days, some people have been in Niuxin Mountain. I have seen the same thing in the Oxheart Mountain.

However, these things are so vague in my memory that sometimes I am not sure they really happened.

My life as a youth was only half a year, not very long, but the memories left behind will never be erased. In the Spring Festival of ’69, it was my turn to go home to visit my family, and my destiny took another great turn.

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