Sleepy-eyed, I woke up and looked at the time of 7:38 a.m. on the ninth day of March 2012.

My name is Jiang Ye (Ye), I am 12 years old, and my grandfather and I live in a remote mountain village in Longyan City, Fujian Province.

My first memory was when I was five years old, and for some reason, the old people in the village regarded me as a disaster. I was like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouted at me, the adults in the village forbade their children to play with me, and the only person who loved me was my grandfather.

I was 12 years old that year, I went up the mountain with my grandfather to hunt, and when I walked with my grandfather on the path leading to the back mountain, I couldn't help but remember that when I went out of the village with my grandfather, the old people in the village looked at me, frowned and asked, "Grandpa, why do the people in the village hate me so much?"

Grandpa said: "The people in the village don't hate you, it's just that you are still too young, and there are some things that you don't understand yet, and you will understand them when you grow up." ”

Later, every time I asked about one of them, my grandfather would answer me like this, so much so that I never asked again.

Grandpa is a well-known capable person in the village, and the people in the village respect grandpa very much, and usually grandpa presides over funerals in the village. This lies down with my grandfather to hunt in the mountains, mainly to supplement the family, and there is always no shortage of hunting to sell all kinds of animal skins in neighboring villages.

We set off before dawn, and it was already noon when we arrived on the mountain, and if the sun shone on my face, my grandfather and I were going to find a shaded place to rest and eat some dry food to replenish our strength.

After eating the dry food, my grandfather took me and began to walk towards the dense jungle, where I met several rabbits and bobcats in my grandfather's wooden cage. After tossing and turning all the way, it was dusk, and my grandfather and I were going to go down the mountain.

There is always a saying in the village that is more superstitious, "When you enter the mountain at night, you lose three lives, and you return to the west after entering the deep mountain." It means that if you enter the front mountain at night, even if you have nine lives of a cat, you will lose three lives. If you enter the back mountain, all nine lives will have to be handed over to Lord Yama.

It's dusk now, because it's autumn, and it's getting dark early, plus it's on the mountain, and it's a little faster than the bottom of the mountain, and it's going to be dark in less than an hour, so my grandfather told me and him to hurry down the mountain.

When I arrived at Yamaguchi, Grandpa suddenly said, "Oh no, it seems that we can't go down the mountain this time." ”

Grandpa saw that I was a little puzzled and said: "The seven fox fairies in the mountain pass are in the way, if there are one or two, the fox fairies may just be eyeing our prey, then we still have the possibility of going down the mountain, these seven fox fairies blocking the way are really planning to let our two stay in the mountains." ”

I looked towards the mountain pass and said, "Isn't it just a few stinky foxes, how can they be so evil," and raised my hand and pulled up my bow and arrow and aimed it at one of the foxes.

Grandpa saw that the seven foxes showed their fierce fangs because of my actions, and immediately gave me a slap on the head, "You bastard, how can you and I provoke the fox fairy" and then sent all the hares in the wooden cage to the fox fairy, the rabbit seemed to feel scared, lying in front of the fox fairy and not daring to move, lowering his head and trembling.

took out a rune paper from his backpack and muttered in an orderly manner, all of which were a bunch of strange spells that I couldn't understand, and then made a polite gesture to the seven fox fairies, and in an instant, the rune paper in Grandpa's hand became transparent and bright, and it was slightly bright, and finally disappeared in pieces. Grandpa then raised his head, took my hand, and walked deeper into the jungle.

The sun is getting lower and lower, and the sky is getting darker, and it is estimated that in half an hour, it will be completely reduced to night.

Grandpa pulled me back, and took out the compass that he usually uses to measure feng shui.

Grandpa often presided over funerals in the village and the village next door, and the feng shui compass was also to find a more peaceful location for the mourners.

The compass is equal to grandpa's lifeline, and grandpa makes money from this, so as long as he travels, he will bring his lifeline, but he must not have thought that one day the use of this compass is to save his life and mine.

I followed the compass all the way, and at this time I came to a potholed section, and it gradually began to drizzle, which made the lord's brows tighten more and more, forming a Sichuan character. And because of my grandfather's more and more serious expression, I felt more and more eerie around me.

On the rainy mountain road, my feet splashed with broken raindrops as I walked on the road, and the soles of my shoes were slowly covered with mud. However, the rain did not last long, and it fell for less than ten minutes.

After the rain stopped, a small fog gradually began to rise in the mountain forest, which made me shudder, and the gloomy forest seemed to have countless ghosts and ghosts. The chirping of animals, the wailing of wolves, the shredded sound of a hare or an animal in the weeds, caught my attention and turned my gaze to the weeds.

I said, "Grandpa, wait for me", Grandpa looked back with a puzzled expression, Grandpa often goes up the mountain during the day, so he knows a lot more about this area than I do.

Seeing that I was looking at a weed pile next to the stone, he smiled and said, "Maybe it's just a wild animal, there are very few wild beasts in this area, most of the wild beasts are deep in the jungle, let's hurry up and find a place where we can spend tonight safely, if you don't hurry up, it will be dark." ”

I looked back at my grandfather, only to see him holding the compass in his hand and looking at me kindly, suddenly I didn't seem to be so scared, so I looked up and saw that it was a little darker, and walked to my grandfather's side, and my grandfather smiled and touched my head and continued to drive the compass to hurry.

Looking back at the weeds, there was no longer Xixi's broken voice, which made me feel at ease, so I followed my grandfather and continued to hurry, but as soon as I took a few steps, I felt a little cold, as if there was a gaze staring at my back, which suddenly made me creepy. Frightened, I quickly turned around, but I didn't see anything, but my action alarmed my grandfather.

Grandpa turned around and walked over to me and asked suspiciously, "Ye'er, what's wrong with you?"

I looked at my grandfather with a frightened face, still thinking that my grandfather said that there were no wild beasts in this area, but the feeling of being targeted just now was not so simple and pure, and I couldn't help but have a lot of jealousy about the mountains at night.

Although I thought so in my heart, I still smiled and said based on my trust in what my grandfather said: "It's nothing, I was startled by a pheasant just now, and I thought it was something, but when I turned around, it was a chicken, hahaha, I'm really cowardly." ”

Grandpa seemed to be amused by me, so I touched my hand and smiled awkwardly at my grandfather: "Okay, grandpa, hurry up and find a place, we can't delay any longer." Grandpa took my hand and followed the compass's instructions.

But who would have known that at this moment, in the dark, there was a pair of blood-red eyes staring at my grandfather and me.

The fog in the mountains is getting bigger and bigger, and now I can only see the distance of less than ten meters in front of me, grandpa took me all the way to follow the direction of the compass, because of the previous rain, although it was not very heavy, but it was enough to make the road on the mountain wet and slippery.

Along the way, because the fog is getting bigger and bigger, I can't see the road under my feet and fell several times, and my body is full of the smell of dirt, originally because my grandfather pulled me big, it was not easy, and there were few clothes on my body.

I looked at the hole in my clothes and looked at my grandfather, and although the fog was very thick, I could see people up close.

Grandpa's face was kind, but he still showed a trace of distress and said, "It's okay, it's okay if people are okay." ”

In fact, I don't know that my grandfather has worked hard for me over the years, and the monthly income of a few hundred people in a small mountain village like ours is very good, and the firewood, rice, oil and salt are calculated, which is only enough to make a living, where is the money to buy cloth and make clothes.

Grandpa said it's okay, it's okay if people are okay, although grandpa is a miracle in the village, but how can so many supernatural things happen every day for my grandfather to solve? So hunting and going to the neighboring village to sell furs has also become something that grandpa does every day for the family's livelihood. But how could I not know how much more he would hunt for my clothes and sell them in neighboring villages.

Suddenly I felt sad and tears fell from my eyes.

Secretly wiped away the tears, grandpa and I came to a wood, grandpa frowned and said: "This place for so many years, I don't seem to have been here, Ye'er, you must follow me." ”

I nodded, and followed behind my grandfather's buttocks, in fact, I already had a great fear of the mountain at night, although I had followed my grandfather up the mountain since I was a child, but the many wonders that happened on the mountain this time made me afraid.

Continuing to walk forward, a small river appeared in front of him, and Grandpa looked at the compass, and the pointer pointed to the other side of the river. Grandpa fell into deep thought, so many years of experience in the mountains made him cautious, but in the face of the sky that was about to darken, Grandpa gritted his teeth and chose to cross the other side of the river.

When I got to the other side of the river, I didn't care about my soaked shoes, and continued to walk forward, suddenly my feet slipped, because of the fog I didn't see clearly that there was a three-meter-high broken slope next to it, and fell down directly, I shouted loudly Grandpa, Grandpa was also panicked and afraid that something would happen to me, so he quickly climbed down slowly to find me.

I had a deep cut in my calf, and I was bleeding profusely, and I was busy tearing my clothes to help me bandage them.

After helping me bandage it, I looked around, my face was pale, I didn't look around because of the pain, and I was curious by my grandfather's pale face, so I slowly turned my head and swept around.

This turned out to be a cemetery, and a stone next to it was engraved with four big characters in blood-red "Forbidden to enter the back mountain." ”

At this time, my heart was already scared to the extreme, and I remembered the saying that circulated in the village, "When you enter the mountain at night, you lose three lives, and when you enter the deep mountain, you return to the west" I looked up at the sky with a pale face, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and the sky was completely dark.