Chapter 5: Ghost Flags

Sucking wolf milk, Lei Zhen grew up day by day, and by the time he was thirteen years old, Lei Zhen had grown to a full 170 centimeters tall, and the prey that the wolf mother sent to the door every once in a while gave his body enough nutrients to make him look stronger than any child in the village. When he stood there, many people would unconsciously treat him as an adult, but at the same time, everyone thought that Lei Zhen was the most useless of all the children in the entire village!

has lost her son once, and brought him back to him again, after such a big twist and turn, Lei Zhen's mother's care for her son has reached a level of doting.

Other children, at the age of six or seven, will follow their parents to work in the fields, and by the age of eleven or twelve, they can support half the strong labor of the family, but Lei Zhen did not even know how to use a sickle and a hoe until he was thirteen years old.

Lei Zhen's mother raised a few hens that lay eggs, and the eggs raised by chickens in the mountains would not be willing to eat unless they were sick, had a holiday, or were confined to a woman. Save these eggs, and when the merchant who walks the streets and alleys with his burden on his back comes to this small mountain village, the villagers here can use the eggs at home to exchange some needles, threads, brain oil, salt, sauce and vinegar from the merchant.

In the entire small mountain village, only Lei Zhen can eat eggs every day. Lei Zhen's mother can always find a way to get a little oil, fry a poached egg for Lei Zhen every day, and then sprinkle a little soy sauce for seasoning on it, which is definitely a delicacy that people in the small mountain village may not be able to taste even if they are in the New Year.

So every night, when Lei Zhen was having dinner, there would always be a group of children lying on their stomachs in front of the window of their house snorting hard and looking at the rice bowl in Lei Zhen's hand. Sometimes Lei Zhen would pick up a small piece of poached egg with chopsticks and throw it out of the window, and there would be a sound of scrambling and even scuffling outside the window. At this time, Lei Zhen would laugh proudly, and then make a grimace at the eldest sister and second sister who were sitting at the dinner table, also snorting lightly, but never eating poached eggs.

In Lei Zhen's heart, poached eggs are of course his exclusive power, as for whether he eats it himself, or makes those guys lying at the window spin around like a monkey artist, that is his own choice. Otherwise, why did the second sister secretly take a few eggs and exchange a few rolls of colored silk thread with the merchant, and was slapped by his mother?

Such a guy who is really spoiled by his mother, and is clearly a second-rate guy, who is willing to marry his daughter and let her suffer from poverty for the rest of her life?

Even if it is the most commonly used exchange of relatives by mountain people, no one is willing, it is because of Lei Zhen's relationship, Lei Zhen's eldest sister is eighteen years old, she can be called Tingting Yuli, and her surname is gentle and lovely, but she still hasn't found her in-laws. Lei Zhen, who has always been half-ignorant of this kind of thing, once said to his eldest sister: "Eldest sister, as long as you keep being good to me, I will marry you in the future." ”

After listening to Lei Zhen's words, Lei Zhen's eldest sister could only shake her head and smile bitterly, and after a long time, she stretched out her finger and lightly touched Lei Zhen's forehead, and sighed: "You, you are really spoiled by your mother!" ”

Lei Zhen just smiled, he is his mother's only son, and his mother will rely on him to support his old age in the future, who does his mother spoil him?

Of course, Lei Zhen is not idle all day long, Lei Zhen's mother found a master for Lei Zhen. This master can use guns, although a set of marksmanship is commonplace, and even the level of performance is not enough, but at the insistence of his mother, Lei Zhen still worships this master.

The reason is very simple, Lei Zhen grabbed a "gun" when he was over the full moon, since he is destined to be with guns in his life, then it is much better to let him learn red tassel guns and spears than to be a soldier and take a musket to be cannon fodder for the rich on the battlefield, right?

Master's marksmanship is not very good, but his temper is very strange, and he actually lives in a mountain nest a few miles away from the village, in other words, every time Lei Zhen goes to learn art, he has to walk several miles of mountain roads. For people who practice martial arts, this kind of passive training is also a good choice.

Of course, this can't help but be thunderous, every time he goes to learn art, he will call the second sister and let her carry herself. If it weren't for the fact that the second sister put a "gun" made of corn stalks on the kang when he grabbed the gift in the full moon, and coincidentally let him catch it in his hand, how could he run this kind of mountain road and learn what bullshit marksmanship with a fundamentally flashy master?!

Seeing Lei Zhen, a half-sized boy who has grown taller and stronger than an adult, lying on his second sister, who is relatively too thin, proudly passing through the street, sometimes like a general sitting on a tall horse, patting the second sister's shoulder, and making a sound of "driving, driving, driving" in his mouth, everyone in the village secretly shook their heads.

"Appeal ......"

Lei Zhen suddenly reached out and grabbed the second sister's hair, signaled her to "stop the horse", and then jumped off the second sister's back. In the only place in the village that can be used as a meeting place, there are already several circles of people, and you don't need to ask to know that it is the merchant who comes to Watun Village every few months with a load of goods.

Lei Zhen was far away at the merchant who was surrounded by a group of people, fanning the wind with a straw hat, and talking about something, and shouted, "Brother Zhang, did you bring any good stories this time?" ”

Everyone in the village knows that this merchant's surname is Zhang, and every time he comes to Watun Village with a shelf, he will ask the villagers for a bowl of water to drink after doing business, and by the way, tell everyone what is happening in the outside world. In this small mountain village, which is almost isolated from the rest of the world, such a merchant who only visits once a few months has become the most direct channel for mountain residents to understand the outside world.

Relying on his height and strength and often throwing small pieces of poached eggs out of the window, Lei Zhen pushed away the children gathered together with a big grin and squeezed them directly into the innermost. After Brother Zhang nodded slightly to Lei Zhen, he continued his topic, and Lei Zhen listened for a long time before he understood that a group of robbers known as Orientals had come in!

"They all look so tall...... Brother Zhang stretched out his hand to make an exaggerated height, and then he pinched his hands again to form a circle the size of a pancake at most, "Orientals look like they all have green fangs and a bloody mouth. But the iron pot that each of them carried behind them was only that big. ”

Looking at the shape of the iron pot drawn by Brother Zhang, Lei Zhen couldn't help but widen his eyes, "Isn't it, the iron pot used by these Orientals is too small, right?" Even if I don't have enough to eat, besides, they don't have to carry a pot on everyone's back, right?! ”

"Hey, you've got the point!"

Brother Zhang glared and said, "If those Orientals can really afford to use the cauldron and eat their stomachs every day, will they come to us?" Everywhere they went, they burned and robbed, each carrying a pot on their backs, why? Isn't it just to grab something to eat, and it's convenient to cook?! ”

Everyone around Brother Zhang nodded again and again, accepting Brother Zhang's seemingly reasonable explanation.

"I also heard a secret," Speaking of this, Brother Zhang showed a mysterious expression on his face, he first looked left and right, until everyone's curiosity was aroused, he bent down, covered his mouth with a straw hat, lowered his voice, and said: "It is said that these Oriental people are human during the day and ghosts at night, so many people call them devils." In order to facilitate the command of these ghosts at night, those corpse chasers also specially made some sun flags, as long as these flags were raised at night, those ghosts saw the sun flags, thinking that it was still daytime, they would be honest and obedient, and let them go wherever they went. Remember, if you see such a ghost flag in the future, how far will you have to go, how far will you run! ”

Lei Zhen stared at his big eyes and asked cautiously, "But there are always some smart ghosts, what if they don't be fooled?" ”

"This is easy to do, do you think people didn't think of this kind of thing?!"

Brother Zhang slapped his face hard, and stretched out his hand to draw a rather terrifying length, and said: "Those corpse chasers not only have guns on their bodies, but also specially brought such a long knife, and it is said that they also invite the emperor and other things in some shrine, alas, I can't tell this either, it is estimated that it is a character like Zhang Tianshi, a Taoist priest of Maoshan Mountain, who has specially opened a spell under the light." If they saw a ghost who didn't obey the order, they pulled out the knife and 'clicked' it, and they would cut the disobedient ghost in two. Killing chickens and monkeys like this, the more times they have become, those ghosts will be honest. ”

(Demon Shao: Hehe, the above content is purely a personal opinion, if there are similarities, it is an honor!) )

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