At the junction of April and May, it is the middle of spring, when the flowers and butterflies dance, the sun is abundant on Cuiping Mountain, all kinds of trees and vines, wild plants are full of vitality, and they are growing with great interest. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and the bright spring is not commensurate with the suffering of the peasants, now the weather is fine, the warm wind is comfortable, but they are very worried, a whole winter, the family is frugal to survive this year, a spring, the family is out of grain, now the grain is not long after the field, only to see the tender green rice seedlings grow to a foot high, has not yet set ears. There is a peasant family at the foot of Cuiping Mountain who is particularly poor, and the family can't open the pot before April, the mother at home gave birth to a little brother, the adult has no stomach to eat, and the little doll has no milk to eat, crying all day long, crying so much that the throat is almost hoarse, seeing that the little brother can't live, the older brother and sister simply don't even drink the gruel, run up the mountain to hunt wild vegetables, dig wild potatoes and go home with their parents to boil with water to eat to satisfy hunger, let the little bit of food left for the little brother to boil rice paste to eat, and finally survived another month. The two brothers and sisters made an appointment to go up the mountain to hunt wild vegetables that day, and the foot of the mountain was basically dug up by the nearby villagers, so the two brothers and sisters went to the mountain, digging while walking, and the more they went up the mountain, the more things they could dig, the two brothers and sisters did not pay attention to the time, buried their heads in digging hard, and unconsciously went lost. Seeing that it was getting dark, my brother looked up and saw that the two had already walked to the depths of the dense forest, and suddenly panicked, pulled my sister over and asked, "Ya'er, where do you see this?" Have you been here? ”

The girl named Ya'er has a yellow face and thin muscles, wearing a thin jacket with a few holes, the cotton jacket is shiny and shiny, and she can't see the original color, she is less than three feet and has two pigtails on her head at random, and she raised her face full of mud to look around, and she was also scared: "Brother, I haven't been here, let's go back, it's getting dark, I heard Lao Wow calling!" She whispered timidly, leaning hard against the boy. There is a local legend that when Lao Wa (also known as the crow) saw the child outside after dark and did not come home, he would fly to the top of the mountain and take the child who had not yet returned home to the top of the mountain and eat his meat. In fact, the adults in the countryside made up to scare the children in order to make them remember that they had to go home immediately after dark.

Hearing his sister say this, the boy also panicked, and pulled his sister and wanted to go down the mountain, but the mountains were densely forested, the horizontal trees were surrounded by vines, there seemed to be no roads everywhere, the fallen leaves were all over the ground, and the dead branches were crisp, which was particularly frightening in this silent and empty mountain. The two siblings couldn't get out after going around for a long time, and they couldn't find the way, and they couldn't even figure out which direction was going up the mountain and which direction was going down. Walking around indiscriminately, carrying a basket full of digging things on their backs, the two of them were so tired that they collapsed to the ground.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and there was no starlight tonight, only a lonely moon, and the twenty moon was not round, but hung lazily on the edge of the sky like a baked cake that someone had gnawed on. The silent night was lively, all kinds of mosquitoes flew around in the dense forest, vying to get close to the two humans who had finally arrived, tasting their sweet and delicious blood, and the fireflies were dragging a small lamp on their tails through the woods. The two brothers and sisters kept slapping the insects that fell on their bodies, listening to all kinds of strange sounds coming from the woods, a squirrel who had just picked up a pine cone from the ground and put it in its mouth quickly climbed a lesson on the chestnut tree, and looked condescendingly at the two jumping and jumping humans under the tree, as if they didn't understand that they were still interested in dancing at this time, because it had thick fur, and of course they didn't understand the itching, numbness and pain of mosquitoes biting people. An old wah croaked twice, as if practicing singing, and after a while, raised his voice and called two more times. Suddenly, there was a wolf howl in the distance, and then, one after another, I remembered countless wolf howls, which made people's ears numb and cold, as long as people who had heard the story of the wolf would be even more frightened, and it was good not to be scared to pee their pants.

The two brothers and sisters no longer jumped to shoot mosquitoes at this time, and quickly hid under a big tree and hugged each other tightly, so frightened that their bodies couldn't stop shaking, and the brother wanted to say a word to comfort his sister who was already frightened, but he found that his upper and lower teeth couldn't stop chattering, and he couldn't speak at all, and now his mind was blank, and his whole body was cold.

It seemed that after a long time, there was a rustling sound, as if something was walking in the woods, brushing aside the branches and leaves on both sides of the body, and walking towards them, the little girl was immediately frightened and sobbed quietly, closer, closer, closer and closer, listening to the sound almost to the front, the little boy who was the elder brother closed his eyes, mustered up courage, jumped out, opened his arms, and shouted loudly in a strange voice that was in the period of voice change: "If you want to eat, eat me, don't eat my sister." The voice in front of her stopped suddenly, and there was no movement for a long time, and the little girl behind the tree walked out timidly, saw the three adults in front of her, quietly moved to the side of her brother, pulled his sleeve, which was rotten to his elbows, and shouted: "Brother." And the elder brother looked at the three people opposite for two seconds, turned around and hugged the little girl, and said, "Sister, don't be afraid, brother protects you." ”

Qian Yuning and Ying Fang, who were on the other side, were also startled, and Grandma Sun frowned and said, "Why do you have two children?" ”

Ying Fang said to Qian Yuning: "Auntie, let's go quickly, we can't delay." Saying that, he picked up Qian Yuning's left hand, and motioned to Grandma Sun to help Qian Yuning's right hand, and the two of them helped Qian Yuning and continued to catch up on the road, because this path was hidden, Ying Fang specially made a mark, but the plants grow fast in spring, and all kinds of plants in the mountains have blocked the path between the half moon, and people have to walk very hard, and they have to move forward while pushing away the vines and thorns.

The two brothers and sisters said that they were not stupid, and they meant to go out, so the two little ones followed closely behind the three of them and silently walked all the way down the mountain. The three people in front of them glanced at each other and didn't say anything.

After walking for about an hour, the five of them arrived at a vacant lot on the mountainside, Qian Yuning said that she had back pain, Ying Fang and Grandma Sun helped her sit down on a big stone to rest, Qian Yuning because she was pregnant, she was very hungry on weekdays, and the amount of food was also large, she didn't eat dinner today, she brought some pastries with her when she left, and then she felt a little hungry in her stomach, so she took out the pastries and wanted to share them with Grandma Sun and Ying Fang, but she both refused, and said: "Don't be hungry, auntie, you eat!" Qian Yuning spread out the handkerchief wrapped in pastries, and the sweet smell of food wafted into the air, where did the little brother and sister on the side smell such a good smell, and couldn't help swallowing saliva, at this time, the stomachs of the two people probably also felt the tempting taste of food, and they all cooed in unison, no wonder, they stayed in the mountains for a day, except for drinking mountain stream water and eating some wild fruits, they had not eaten any cooked food, and they were already hungry.

Qian Yuning beckoned to them kindly: "Come, take it and eat it." "My brother is older, I'm sorry, don't look over, my sister glanced at the beautiful lady sitting on the stone, and then at the handkerchief with food in her hand, and ran forward quickly, grabbed the cool pastry and quickly ran back to my brother, and stretched out her hand to spread the pastry in front of my brother. The boy picked up a piece, the little girl smiled, ate the piece left on the palm of her hand in two or three bites, and licked all the dregs on her palm, and looked at the piece of pastry in her brother's hand with two bright eyes and said, "Brother, why don't you eat it?" It's delicious, it's sweet. As he spoke, he smashed his mouth a few times, as if he was reminiscing about the wonderful taste just now.

The boy's face turned red, and he said to Mrs. Mei who was sitting on the stone with some embarrassment, "Thank you, madam." Then he broke a piece of pastry in half, half for his sister and half for himself.

Qian Yuning stood up with a smile, walked over and put the remaining pastries in his hand into the little girl's hand along with the handkerchief, and said, "This is for you, eat slowly." Turning around and walking towards Ying Fang, Ying Fang was standing on the edge of the cliff and looking down the mountain from a safe place inside, and when she saw Qian Yuning coming, she pointed to a river under the mountain that loomed in the dark night and shimmered slightly in the light of the moonlight and said to her: "Auntie, look, you can see the Cuixi River under the mountain, and you can reach the bottom of the mountain in half an hour." ”

Qian Yuning glanced at it, said "um", a few people didn't speak again, simply cleaned up, and set off again. In fact, Mama Sun and Ying Fang not only had to carry the burden along the way, but also helped Qian Yuning one by one, and dealt with the thorns and vines while walking on this rugged mountain road, which was already very hard, Qian Yuning was pregnant for six months with a big belly, and along the way, her back hurt and her legs couldn't be strengthened, but everyone didn't shout tired, they were persevering, because they knew that there was still an hour to go down the mountain, and the hope and joy in their hearts made them forget the pain, and marched firmly in the direction they had in mind, indomitable.