At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, due to the monopoly problem of capitalist shortcomings and the phenomenon of various extremes and pluralistic political systems, mankind eventually led to a cruel era of war, the world was chaotic, and the "people's livelihood" was a bottleneck.

1928 year. On 9 January, Chiang Kai-shek made a comeback and became commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, and on the same day Stalin expelled the oppositionists, including Trotsky, from the Soviet Union; By January 22, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the Southern Hunan Uprising; On February 2, Chiang Kai-shek once again monopolized the party, government, and military power of the Kuomintang; On February 9, the Comintern issued new instructions to the CCP, and on the same day, the revolutionary martyr Xia Minghan bravely took office; On March 30, Chairman *** strictly governed the army, and on April 28, he met with Zhu De in Jinggangshan, which was a key step, which led to the gradual strengthening of China's national strength from the grassroots to the high-level, and the way of encircling the city from the countryside; On April 16, Japan sent troops to Shandong again, and the wave of "breaking through the eastern part of the country" remained high, and the number of people exceeded one million for three consecutive years; On June 4, Zhang Zuolin was framed by the Japanese army and was killed in Huanggutun; On June 20, Norwegian polar explorer Amundsen was killed; On July 3, television sets began to become popular in the United States; On July 5, Sun Dianying stole and excavated Dongling.

I was born on July 5, 1928, and according to my mother's recollection, black clouds and hail fell wildly that day, and she almost died of dystocia due to the premature breakage of amniotic water. My father begged him to give me a name, but he didn't like it, he shouted like crazy that the end of the world was coming, and robbed me several times, trying to throw me to death!

Three days later, my grandfather Guo Dingtian brought a stupid hen and a basket of eggs to visit, and asked my father to go out, saying that he had thought of a name for me. Usually people would definitely not give their children such an unlucky name, but unexpectedly, my father was still beautiful, so he immediately ran out to buy wine for my grandfather.

My grandfather is very tall, and it's really not a loss to be called Guo Dingtian. I remember when I was about seven or eight years old when I was a child, according to the old man, in 1860, that is, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty gave up the "land of Longxing" that it had always coveted, and due to many factors such as difficulty in controlling the country's civil strife, the repeated strict orders were annulled, and the closed gate of "Shanhaiguan" began to be opened to the displaced people in Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi.

And my family, in my grandfather's generation, also from Shandong side with the family to the east of the country, the first stop is in Fengtian City, that place was very prosperous at that time, my grandfather took my grandfather, the second grandfather, the third grandfather to start a big car shop business, people come and go, accumulate over time, quite a few profits, earn a few small bags of silver dollars.

But it is expected that the wars in the three provinces of Northeast China are frequent, and then the intervention of the Japanese devils and the Oriental people are mixed indiscriminately, and the common people of Fengtian have a sad life, and they bear the basket, take many adventures, and begin to flow and hide in the deep mountains and grasslands in the northwest direction, and my grandfather is also in this migration trend, rushed into the depths of Inner Mongolia, and began to settle down in a sparsely populated town called "Sycamore Flower", mainly ploughing, selling tea and taking salt for a living, and worked hard for a few years. At that time, it was considered to have reached the level of well-off life, eating and drinking without worry, and living a life away from the hustle and bustle.

This sycamore flower is nominally a town, in fact, it is a village of forty or fifty households, surrounded by mountains on both sides of the north and south, and a big ditch in the middle of the flood divides the village into two parts: the south village and the north village, this ditch has been there for some years, when grandpa came here, this ditch already exists, but at night I love to attract some crows and owls to cry non-stop, the old village chief takes a shotgun and pokes gunpowder and makes a few sounds, so that he can sleep peacefully and brightly.

This village is hundreds of miles in radius, mainly in the northeast, there are many people, mainly in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang provinces, Mongolians are still in the north, generally rarely seen. There are many black donkeys, Mongolian horses, three hippos and shandan horses, of course, there are a lot of mules, so the villagers of Sycamore sell tea and salt in spring and winter, and are busy with crops in summer and autumn.

And I was born here in a blink of an eye, and I have become a seventeen-year-old young man, with a strong physique, and I am also very friendly with the villagers. It is said that at my age, I should be at the age of marrying a daughter-in-law, but many old people in the village are very taboo about my name, saying that the Kejia people are unlucky, and the eldest girls in ten miles and eight towns do not dare to move any spring heart against me, after all, this year is still the order of my parents cannot be violated, and the words of the matchmaker are secondary.

My father and mother are two big, the old Guo family's big family has a litter of daughters, and my brother is the only one who has a big family.

Find my old man theory, why give me such a name, he scolds me with a cigarette stick and kick every time, tells me to be busy with my work, memorize his old books, study experience, and have to write a post to him every time, his ten boxes of old books, I pinched my fingers and counted until now, and it has been ten years since I memorized, most of the people in our village are illiterate, and I am a talent in the mountains in troubled times.

This year is 1945, the drought is very serious, in previous years every year bumper harvest, just to July 5 this day, Ge Er Laizi's black donkey was sunburned alive, but when the donkey skinned, it was found that the donkey's internal organs were missing, and the donkey's body was checked, and no wounds were found, this strange incident exploded in our village.

Well, my birthday has also passed, they are all villagers, why do you have to go to make a basket of eggs to condole and condolences, our village is not large, and there are very few surnames, only a handful, our old Guo family is a single household, and the remaining batch of some did not come over in Shandong, some are in Mukden, and a few families are in the next village, that is the second grandfather and the third grandfather, there used to be some correspondence, and now World War II is imminent, and there is no news slowly.

Others, such as the Lao Li family, the Lao Gao family, the Lao Ma family and the old Shi family, this single family of the old Ge family is the poorest household in the whole village, only Ge Erlaizi and his old mother and mother depend on each other, his father was collapsed by mountain bandits when he was a child, and his mother did not let him go out to follow the group to do business, so he guarded the black donkey at home to farm, but who would have thought that the pillar of the whole family, the largest labor, the black donkey died inexplicably!

When my grandfather and I went, the big courtyard in the open air was crowded with all the old and young of the village, and Ge Erlaizi was crying heartbreakingly, shouting that the days were over, and the villagers were all on the side.

My grandfather usually knows some feng shui and traditional Chinese medicine skills, and he has chosen a cemetery and a fixed house for other people's families to see a doctor, so he is named Guo Daxian'er, everyone saw that my grandfather was coming, and they all hula left and right to separate a road, and the old village elder Gao Tou hurriedly came over to support my grandfather, "Ouch! Old man Guo, you can come, we are waiting for you to be the master, you open your eyes, this black donkey I see death is not ordinary, you give me a word, I can give the second Laizi and his mother an explanation. ”

My grandfather fanned the wind with his cool hat, and looked at the dead donkey for a while, this donkey was very fat, and although the crops were not covered with nectar, our wells were not dry, and it was clear that the black donkey was not dying of thirst.

I knew I was going to make a move, so I handed the egg to Ge Er Laizi. Sure enough, my grandfather beckoned to me and said, "Baby, come here, you and Er Laizi will open the donkey's chest, and I'll see what's going on." ”

I sighed, rolled up my sleeves and went to open the black donkey's chest with Erlaizi, and the villagers didn't all look at it, and a few young and strong buddies with strong eyes started to help, and the black donkey's belly was opened, and suddenly a tricky stench pounced out, and everyone took several steps back. It stands to reason that this donkey has just died, and even if the weather is so hot and vicious, it is impossible to have this smell.

Li Laohan, who is known as Tie Guan Li, pointed to the black donkey's stomach in shock and shouted: "Guo Daxian'er, I am too familiar with this taste, this ...... It's like the smell of the dead! ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a cool breeze behind me, and the faces of the villagers were a little purple, and they were all talking about it, and the village elder Gao Tou snorted, and scolded Tie Guan Li: "Okay, you old Li Tou, don't want Hu Qiba to say, there is a little baby in this yard, what is the good thing to be frightened, the old man and I can't let you go first." ”

As soon as the words fell, Ge Erlaizi and his mother, with white hair, picked up a hoe and staggered over, wiped away tears, pointed at the iron crutch Li and scolded: "Brother Li, my second Laizi is sometimes ignorant, but he has never provoked your Brother Li, what do you mean by this vicious thing!" You paved the way for my mother and son through your father and fellow villagers (said, spoken. Come clearly! ”

The scene suddenly became tense, and my grandfather felt that there was a lot of trouble here, so he made a round and said, "Old village chief! Ge family's nephew and daughter-in-law! Speak well, there is an old man here, and the cow is in the sky! Don't call it anything! I'm in charge of you, I'm still afraid! ”

Then the grandfather asked Tie Guan Li again: "Brother Li, what is the smell of the dead?" My old man is also curious, you can give everyone an explanation! ”

As soon as Tie Guan Li heard this, his face suddenly turned purple, he limped forward two steps, and said in a whisper: "The great fairy is above, and my old Li Ke can say everything, the important thing is to believe that I will succeed." Everyone knows that when you didn't come here to settle down, our family was the old landlord of the sycamore flowers here, and it was clear to me that the old Li family was within a radius of 100 miles! I remember that the old man of my family told me when I was a child, don't go to the black dog gang forty miles west to play, saying that there are monsters there! Timid when I was a kid! The old man's words were frightened, and when I was sixteen years old, I should marry a daughter-in-law, go to Zhuangtou Village to ride a Shandan horse, wearing a saffron to pick up the child, but when passing by the black dog gang, I and the child and his mother smelled this smell, and after a while, the big deep ditch leading to our village actually spewed out a flood with mud, which scared Shandan and the horses to run away! Then many dead bodies came out of the ditch, and their bellies were shriveled and shriveled like those of the donkey! When I was stunned with the child, I don't know where a black dog with two heads jumped out of nowhere, and bit my leg, and then I and the child and his mother were so frightened that they ran home, only to find that the dog's mouth was poisonous! I'm ...... This leg is ...... It's all about scrapping! Speaking of this, Tie Guan Li patted his thigh and let out a long sigh.

My grandfather hissed after hearing this, and said with a torch in his eyes: "Could it be that the 'two-headed black' is here?!" ”