On the twelfth day, he couldn't walk anymore, and his wound had deteriorated severely, and it hurt when he strained.

I carried him with the middle-aged man and carried him to the hunting house in the woods, left behind by an unknown hunter.

Splashy said to us, you go first, I will rest for a day, and I will catch up with you tomorrow.

We looked at each other, and neither of us knew what to do.

In the end, Xu Laohan left all the wild vegetables and wild fruits we found to Splash Pi, and for this, his daughter quarreled with him.

In this way, we continued on the road, because we all know that staying here and waiting for death, and there is no way to live if we don't go.

At the end of the day, we didn't find much to eat, and when night fell, everyone was hungry.

In the evening, his daughter quarreled with Xu Laohan very much, saying that his head was rusty, and he actually left the food for a dead man.

It is rare for Xu Laohan, who is extremely doting on his daughter, to slap his daughter and say a few cruel words.

The daughter cried and yelled on the ground, saying that Xu Laohan should have strangled her a long time ago, and she was born to suffer.

Mrs. Xu protects her daughter, and it is not that Mrs. Xu is counted.

Xu Laohan sat on the ground, and when he was angry, he said: "Spoil, you can spoil it, she looks like this, what should I do if I see you and I die." ”

"What else can I do, I'm going to die, okay?" The daughter yelled, her sickly face full of hideousness.

I felt very scared, Xu Laohan's daughter was so thin and weak, I could knock her down with one punch, but looking at her crazy look, I was just afraid of her.

On the fifteenth day, it was getting closer and closer to the boundary of Yangzhou.

That night, I had a nightmare, dreaming that we really couldn't find anything to eat, and Xu Laohan's daughter was going to eat me.

I ran, ran, but I couldn't get out, and then I woke up.

When I woke up, I found that the genius was bright, the middle-aged man was not there, and I didn't know where I had gone.

Before I could go look for him, the middle-aged man came back shouting: "Wake up, wake up, guess what I found!" ”

Everyone woke up one by one and looked at the middle-aged man intently.

The middle-aged man slapped his thigh excitedly and said loudly: "I found a litter of weasels, just in the crack of the stone over there." ”

Hearing this, Xu Laohan had palpitations, the countrymen dealt with demons and monsters a lot, and they were convinced that some weasels had the right way.

This Tao is an allusion to becoming a spirit, so few people eat weasels and think that it will be infected with bad luck.

However, when people are hungry, they will eat the bark of trees, let alone weasels.

Soon, we followed, and sure enough, in the crack in the stone, we saw two large and seven small, nine weasels.

Looking at the weasel hiding in the crack of the stone, we secretly swallowed our saliva, and our hungry eyes glowed green.

The big weasel, when he saw us coming, jumped up to the mouth of the cave and begged us not to eat them.

The embroidery girl couldn't bear it, Xu Laohan was frightened, and even I was a little overwhelmed.

The middle-aged man didn't care, he carried a wooden stick in his hand and said to us: "Everyone has been hungry for the past two days, there is no oil and water in the stomach, if you don't eat them today, we will die tomorrow." ”

After saying this, the middle-aged man beat him with a wooden stick.

The big weasel, slid into the crack in the stone, picked up the cub and ran out.

After running a few steps, his feet were crooked, and the cub in his mouth fell to the ground.

Seeing that the child had fallen, the weasel couldn't care about running, lowered his head and wanted to take it, but was hit on the head by a middle-aged man with a stick, and his legs didn't move.

The middle-aged man laughed, put a stick on the head of the big weasel, and then killed the cub.

In the crack of the stone, the female weasel did not run, and looked at the middle-aged man with resentful eyes, and the scalp of the person who watched it was numb.

The middle-aged man didn't care about this, one by one, and killed several weasels in the hole, muttering in his mouth: "There is food, there is food, there is no need to starve to death." ”

Peel the skin, make a fire, cook.

Weasels are small, even if they are two large, they are just like domestic cats.

This meal, we ate very deliciously, two big and seven small, nine weasels fell on the stomachs of six people, and everyone ate seven or eight points full.

After eating, we continued on our way.

On the way, we found some wild fruits, and Xu Laohan also found some wild vegetables.

The middle-aged man said happily that with the contents of the stomach as the base, plus these wild vegetables and wild fruits, we can last a few days.

Everyone was so happy that even the resentful gaze of the she-weasel was diluted.

At night, in my sleep, I heard the screams of middle-aged people.

After waking up, I found that the middle-aged man was rolling on the ground, crying and shouting in pain.

Everyone got up, united to restrain the middle-aged man, and asked him what was wrong.

The middle-aged man closed his eyes and resisted like convulsions, and Xu Laohan slapped him seven or eight times in a row, and his face was swollen before waking him up.

When you wake up, ask him what happened.

The middle-aged man said that he dreamed that weasels had come to him for revenge, and many weasels hung on him, bitten him, grabbed him, and demanded his life.

After saying this, the middle-aged man took off his clothes, and his eyes were covered with tooth marks and scratches, and the old man Xu who looked at it had words: "Retribution, retribution!" ”

The embroidery girl was also very scared, so frightened that she hid in Mrs. Xu's arms.

The middle-aged man didn't care, or the jar was broken, and said angrily: "Eat everything, dare to be a demon, and take Lao Tzu away if there is a kind, I'm really afraid of you!" ”

Everyone didn't speak, and the middle-aged man's fierce appearance was not hiding the fear in his heart.

It's a pity that everyone is helpless, and the kind of thing that is the spirit is something that can only be dealt with by literature, Taoism, and Buddhism, how dare ordinary people provoke it.

Keep on your way...

From that day on, the middle-aged man stopped eating, vomited when he ate, vomited badly, and made trouble at night, always saying that a weasel bit him.

After three days, the middle-aged man became thin into skin and bones, and when he was in a hurry, he was always chanting something.

I went close to listen, and heard the middle-aged man seem to say: "Death is death, I am not afraid of you, death is death, I am not afraid of you..."

On the twentieth day, the middle-aged man's nightmare became more and more serious, and he couldn't sleep every night, and he had to wake up after a while.

Woke up from the nightmare again, the middle-aged man took my hand and said, "I'm afraid I can't do it, you must go to Yangzhou, otherwise I won't be reconciled." ”

I said, "Don't think about it, you're fine, it's just that the pressure has been too much these days, have you thought about what will happen in the future, after you arrive in Yangzhou?" ”

"Yangzhou?"

The middle-aged man's eyes glowed with a new brilliance, and he whispered: "Actually, I am not a beggar, I am from Yangzhou, and I live in Jinshan Mansion, Liyang County, Jiuquan Town. If you go to Yangzhou and have nowhere else to go, go to Jiuquan Town in Liyang County, you just say that you are Ning Daluo's son, look for Ning Dachuan! ”

It turned out that the middle-aged man's name was Ning Daluo, and he was a member of the Ning family in Jiuquan Town, Liyang County.

There were three brothers in the Ning family, and when he was twenty years old, the middle-aged man took his younger brother to bathe in the river to see who had been diving for the longest time, and the younger brother drowned in the river.

I couldn't get over this hurdle in my heart, and I felt sorry for my parents, so I ran away from home alone.

After turning and turning, I came to Daokou Village, Tongshan County, and saw that the people here were simple, so I stayed.

That night, we talked for a long time, and the middle-aged man said that the thing he regretted the most was running away from home and failing to fulfill his filial piety in front of his parents.

At that time, I didn't know why, so I was blinded by lard, and I felt that I had no face to stay, so I chose to leave.

I didn't expect that the old couple who had lost their second son would not be able to survive if they caught up with the eldest son and ran away from home.

I asked, have you been back all these years?

The middle-aged man shook his head and said that he had no face to go back, and he couldn't go back.

The middle-aged man's eyes dimmed, and he said sleep, lying to the side and not talking.

That night, before dawn, the middle-aged man had nightmares again.

After waking up once in the night, he rushed into the woods with a stick, never to come out.

We went to the woods to look for a long time, the woods are very big, and people are like a drop of water when they go in, and how can we find them.

The next day, we didn't rush, intending to wait for the middle-aged man to return.

We waited until the afternoon, and there was no trace of the middle-aged man, and we knew that the middle-aged man would not come back.

Is he dead?

Thinking of that possibility, for some reason, I don't feel any sadness.

Perhaps, it's good to be dead, and if you die, you don't have to suffer and don't have to carry burdens anymore.