Chapter 17: The Wolf Child's Suffering
I didn't expect such a wild and untamable wolf child, there were tears, I don't know why, the master was actually touched by the tears of the wolf child, he didn't pay attention to his hands, and was suddenly broken free by the wolf child, and before my grandfather came back to his senses, the wolf child struggled to run towards the courtyard on the top of the mountain.
Seeing this, the ghost monkey next to him reacted very quickly, and chased after him, and my grandfather hurriedly greeted it: "Forget the monkey, don't chase it, let him go." ”
The ghost monkey stopped suddenly, and my grandfather looked at the courtyard on the top of the mountain, and beckoned it again, "Go, follow me up and have a look." ”
After a while, the wolf child ran to the top of the mountain and got into the courtyard, and my grandfather took the little ghost monkey behind unhurriedly, and soon walked to the top of the mountain.
Coming to the courtyard, the master took a look at it, it was actually a temple, but it looked like it had been abandoned for a long time, and there was a broken plaque hanging on the top of the door, and there were three barely recognizable words on the plaque - Sanshan Temple.
There were two old wooden doors at the door, one had collapsed on the ground, and the other was half-hidden in the door frame, and through the collapsed wooden door looked into the courtyard, which was overgrown with weeds and barren.
Walking into the courtyard, the master looked left and right, the whole courtyard has a total of three houses, two wings on the left and right, and a main hall in front, however, the three houses are all dilapidated, the doors and windows have been damaged, judging from the shape of the damaged doors and windows, caused by man-made, it seems that a long time ago, someone fought in the temple, and there are some places on the wall, faintly you can still see the traces of knives and axes, however, the strange thing is that these traces are actually new and old, and they seem to have fought more than once in different time periods.
In the grass in the courtyard, there are traces of being trampled back and forth, which is very obvious, leading to the main hall in front. The master immediately instructed the little ghost monkey to go around the outside of the temple to see if there was any other way out, if not, to stay at the door, and not let the wolf child run away from the door.
The little ghost monkey turned to leave, my grandfather followed the traces into the hall, and saw that the inside of the hall was even more messy, the Buddha statue was upside down on the ground, the Buddha's head and body were separated, and the body was broken into several pieces, and the offering platform was also pressed under the overturned Buddha statue, broken and torn apart.
In the innermost part of the main hall, in the corner of the wall on the right-hand side, there is a small shack supported by a broken door board, my grandfather looked over at a glance, and saw a white hairy foot outside the shack, but before my grandfather could see it clearly, the hairy foot shrank back.
My grandfather immediately smiled, it seems that this should be the wolf child's den, walking into the shack, my grandfather did not rush to do it, and said to the shack, "Brother, don't be afraid, come out and follow me, I will take you to find your parents." ”
After waiting for a while, there was no movement in the shack, and my grandfather said, "If you don't come out, I'll do it." ”
After that, there was still no movement, my grandfather walked to the shack, opened the door panel to the side, looked into the shack, first a spirit, followed by a rage, and shouted: "You are a beast, you dare to eat people!" Suddenly flew up with a kick, and with a "bang", the whole shack was kicked away by my grandfather.
The wolf child somehow broke the rope off his hand, and at this time he was holding a human-headed skeleton in both hands, and was sitting in it licking it with his tongue, and around him, there were many fragments of human bones.
My grandfather stretched out his hand to pull him out of the nest, the wolf child did not resist at this time, and held the human head and skeleton in his arms, my grandfather was even more angry when he saw this, and raised his hand to slap him, at this time, the wolf child actually raised his head suddenly, looked at my grandfather, and there were still two lines of tears in his eyes, "Mother, mother......"
When my grandfather heard this, his hands trembled, and he stared at the wolf child in amazement, and he was a little incoherent, "You, you, what did you say?" You, you, you can actually speak? ”
"Mother...... Mother ...... "The wolf child has flowing eyes and holds the human head and skeleton towards my grandfather.
My grandfather paused, and after a while, my grandfather's lips trembled, and he reluctantly asked, "This, this is your mother?" ”
"Mother......" The wolf child nodded, and then took the human head skeleton into his arms and licked it with his tongue.
The muscles on my grandfather's face twitched a few times involuntarily, "Is this really your mother?" The wolf child was silent.
My grandfather asked again, "...... How did your mother die? As soon as these words came out, the wolf child suddenly raised his head again, looked at my grandfather, and there was a murderous aura like a beast in his tearful eyes......
My grandfather thoroughly inspected the wolf child's shack, in addition to the hay laid out, there was only a pair of human bones, plus the human head and skeleton in the wolf child's arms, just a person's skeleton, and, judging from the height of the skeleton and the thickness of the bones, it was indeed a woman, but he couldn't tell how long the woman had been dead.
At this time, Xiao Chujiu's honest voice came from outside, "Liu Daxia, are you inside?" ”
It seems that Xiao Chujiu also arrived, and my grandfather hurriedly responded: "I'm inside, you can come in and take a look." ”
After a while, Xiao Chujiu came in, and when Xiao Chujiu saw the broken shack and the human bones on the ground, he was stunned, "This, where did this come from?" ”
My grandfather pointed to the wolf child next to him with his chin, "It should be the child's mother." ”
Xiao Chujiu looked at the bones on the ground again, and said, "Look at this set of bones, it should be more than ten years since people died." ”
My grandfather immediately looked at him and asked, "How do you know?" ”
Xiao Chujiu smiled innocently, "Look, see more and you will know, our master is more powerful, and you can see from the bones how people died." ”
"Really?" My grandfather's eyes lit up, and then he instructed Xiao Chujiu, "You and the monkey are waiting here, I'll go to the bottom of the mountain to find your master......" Then he looked at the wolf child holding the human head and skeleton huddled in the corner, "This kid is still a little human, I know that we have no ill will towards him, don't tie him up anymore, don't let him leave, wait until I find your master." ”
The master was about to leave after speaking, but was pulled by Xiao Chujiu, "Liu Daxia, it's still ...... Let me look for it, you, you may not know, as long as our master and apprentice are separated, they will make marks on the road, and when we came over just now, I saw a mark on the side of the road, so let me go and find it. ”
My grandfather glanced at Xiao Chujiu very unexpectedly, and said in his heart, this Xiao Lao Dao is really leaky and comprehensive in everything. Later, my grandfather learned that people who do their business are often blacked out, once they encounter this situation, especially in the case of being outnumbered, the three masters and apprentices will run separately, especially Xiao Shiyi, who often runs away alone with priceless things, and in an unfamiliar area, it is very difficult to run away and want to reunite, and they rely on making marks along the way.
Xiao Chujiu simply packed up a small bag and left the monastery.
After Xiao Chujiu left, my grandfather was idle, led the three horses into the courtyard, unloaded the luggage and saddles on them, and finally, led the little ghost monkey to sit at the gate of the temple and wait.
Writing here, some people may ask, why didn't Xiao Chujiu ride a horse to find Xiao Laodao, can't you ride a horse faster? When Xiao Laodao left with Xiao Shiyi before, why didn't he ride a horse? Because they ride plain horses, they are not suitable for mountain roads, and they are not as fast as anyone walking.
The hill on which the temple is located is closely connected to the mountain next to it, and it is embraced by the mountain, as if a son and a mother are held, and the son is held in the arms of the mother.
Sitting at the dilapidated temple gate to the bottom of the mountain to see, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, can not help but make people calm and refreshed, forget the troubles of the world for a while, even the serpentine road under the mountain, has become a part of the scenery, is unobstructed. My grandfather said in his heart that the people who built the temple here really knew how to pick a place, but they didn't know why the temple was abandoned.
Soon, an hour passed, not only Xiao Laodao and Xiao Shiyi did not return, but even Xiao Chujiu was gone, my grandfather was a little unbreathable, at this time, a group of people came down from the mountain along the road, the grandfather looked at it, it was the cripple group, and the others he couldn't see clearly, but the one who walked at the back walked with a limp, which made people recognize it at a glance.
My grandfather looked at the group of people who returned in vain at the bottom of the mountain, and smiled faintly, but the smile on his face quickly disappeared, and his expression became solemn. However, the wolf child has been with several of his people for so long, and he has never seen him take the initiative to attack anyone, there must be something else in this.
My grandfather turned around and went back to the main hall, and the wolf child was still holding the human head and skeleton in the corner of the wall, and my grandfather walked up to him and asked, "Can you understand what I said?" ”
The wolf child looked up at my grandfather, nodded and shook his head, my grandfather looked at it, what did this mean, and asked: "Can you understand, if you can understand, nod your head." ”
The wolf child nodded, followed by shaking his head again, my grandfather frowned slightly, maybe the wolf child can understand some words, my grandfather slowed down his tone and asked: "Town, down the mountain, the town under the mountain, you have been injured...... The people of the town? ”
The wolf child looked at my grandfather and blinked, stopped for more than ten seconds, and shook his head slightly.
"You haven't been hurt?"
The wolf child shook his head again.
"You've been hurt?"
The wolf child shook his head anyway.
My grandfather looked a little helpless, "You don't understand, do you?" ”
The wolf boy still shook his head, and my grandfather suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, feeling that he was playing the piano to the cow. Turning around and coming out of the main hall, he returned to the temple gate, and at this time, the people on the main road happened to walk to the foot of the hill, but none of them looked at the temple.
The cripple still walked at the back of this group of people, because his legs and feet were not good and he walked slowly, and he opened a distance from these people, and my grandfather saw this, and his heart moved, and he ordered the little ghost monkey around him, "You wait in front of the mountain gate and don't move, and don't go into the main hall to provoke the wolf child, I will go down the mountain." Hearing this, the little ghost monkey nodded obediently.
By the time my grandfather had followed the path to the bottom of the mountain, the group of people on the main road had already walked a long way, leaving only the cripple limping behind and moving with difficulty. My grandfather can see that the cripple is a dispensable and despicable character in this group of people, no one cares about him, and no one will help him or wait for him because of his bad legs.
The master quietly chased after him from behind, and when he came behind the cripple, he found that the cripple was still in a hurry, and seemed to want to catch up with the group in front, my grandfather said in his heart, even if you catch up, in the eyes of those people, you are just a dog.
The master raised his hand and slapped the cripple on the shoulder, "Hey, where are you going?" ”
The cripple suddenly became excited, and when he looked back, he saw that it was his grandfather, and he almost didn't cry......