I arrived at Eighty-two Village to investigate this matter in the summer, and it was surprisingly hot in Xiangxi. The saying of the eighty-two villages has long been gone, and the toast has long disappeared, but the villages that stretch in the mountains are still there.

I found a lot of local folklore scholars, some of whom also wrote reportage on the theme of Xiangxi, but none of them told the story of the blind old man in Eighty-two Village, which is almost a top secret among the local Miao people. However, when you visit centenarians among the people, you will find that there are some old people who remember that there is such a person in Miao Village. Later, I changed direction and explored in the direction of religion and mythology, and found that a large part of the 82 villages were in Guizhou. This area is a lot bigger than I thought.

In the Guizhou part, there is a very clear legend that some religious leaders in the black village secretly worship the monsters in the mountains to gain a longer lifespan. And every time he gets the promise of a monster, he needs to offer something from the religious leader, usually an eye, a finger, or a piece of flesh.

In February of that year, Red escorted the Great Toast into the Valley of the Dead, which is said to be a ritual to give a child who died to the mountain god. Children are also a kind of flesh and blood. It shows that this legend has a broad basis.

So did the leader of the eighty-two villages also exchange with the mountain gods and monsters in the mountains, and what sacrifices did he bring with him when he let Zhang Qishan enter the mountains? What did you exchange for?

Combining all the backgrounds, I picked out a story from "Notes on Tomb Robbery" that I liked to read very much when I was a child, and this story was told to me by my grandfather as a fable. The protagonist of this story, whose name is Ye Fuda, is an officer. Because there are many details in this story, which are too similar to the eighty-two villages I investigated, I have always suspected that this story is related to Zhang Qishan, and then later, the fat man said to me, Ye Fuda turned upside down, isn't it the big Buddha? It dawned on me that this was almost certainly a story.

In this story, the great Tusi of Miao Village, that is, the supreme leader in reality, really hopes that Ye Fu will bring one of the children in the village into the mountains and hand it over to the mountain god in the mountains, in exchange for the safety of Miao Village for another fifty years.

Legend has it that 600 years ago, a young girl came out of the mountains and experienced love in the world as a young girl, but that girl was not actually human, and when she was in her forties, she gradually grew into another creature. Before leaving, she asked the people who lived with her to provide her with human flesh and blood every year, so that she could live in the mountains. Otherwise, they will go out of the mountains and start preying on the villagers. At the same time, she promised that if she could receive an annual offering, she would give the ruler of the stockade a longer life. Otherwise, there will be catastrophic infanticide such as a year without a male baby, or a year without a female baby.

It is said that in history, there have been leaders who rebelled, and in those years, almost all newborn babies were hunted by monsters. So much so that everyone didn't even dare to mention it in the end.

Six hundred years later, Zhang Qishan entered the village and heard about it, and he heard the leader of the village tell him about the horror of the monster. This kind of story of the cannibal mountain god made Zhang Qishan think that it was too ancient to eat, so he agreed with the leader that the blessings of immortality in the future would be provided by Zhang Qishan. And the cannibalistic mountain god in the mountains should also change the dynasty.

So Zhang Qishan took people into the mountain and began to hunt this mountain god.

The story of Zhang Da Buddha hunting gods is simply refreshing for people like me, who have been rebellious since childhood and think that people should not follow the rules.

When I was a child, I often imagined myself riding into the mountains to hunt a mountain god. It also made me understand that there is nothing in the world that cannot be challenged.

I'm sorry to spend some pen and ink to explain the ins and outs, and now the next thing is for me to transcribe the entire story of Zhang Da Buddha's hunting god. Grandpa will spend about two nights each time to finish, whether it is long or short, there are some details in it, which is very exciting, and it is a rare bedtime pastime.