Autumn and winter came, every household in the village was preparing to do New Year's goods, and my grandfather happily said that I would soon grow up a year older, and in two or three years, I would be able to inherit the family with Sister Lan Qing.

I bowed my head and said nothing, but Sister Lan Qing was crimson.

Grandma hurriedly diverted the topic and asked me to go to the small shop at the entrance of the village to buy firecrackers for the New Year, and I took the money and went out, but the firecrackers in the firecracker shop at the head of the village had been sold out, and when I was grabbing the money and wanted to go back, I heard someone calling me.

"Xiao Jiu, we're going to the mountains to blow up the long worms, are you going?"

As soon as I turned around, I saw Shui Sheng and the other two boys in the village wearing half-used jackets, holding a cannon in their hands and calling me.

Shui Sheng is my iron brother, his grandfather was a long-term worker in my family a long time ago, and now their family is polite to our family, and our family also sends some things to their family during the New Year's holidays, so my relationship with Shui Sheng is also very iron.

"Don't take him with you, what if you're afraid of crying? Do you want to go back? "Those two male babies are aquatic cousins, the eldest is called Liu Changyou, and the younger one is called Liu Changgui, they looked at me and were a little disgusted.

Who in the village doesn't know my "gold is expensive", my grandmother boils soup at every turn, and even bathes are soaked in traditional Chinese medicine, just because I am weak.

"I won't go to Shuisheng, and my dad should scold me if I go back late." But their words didn't stimulate me, all these years have been listened to by the little father-in-law, just this is light, besides, the grandparents of the mountain will not let me go, if I go, I have to be broken leg.

"Xiao Jiu, go ahead, it's fun." The aquatic looked at me with pleading eyes in his eyes.

Thinking that it was true that I hadn't played with the aquatic life for a long time, but I couldn't go to the mountain, and my heart was entangled.

"Ah Jiu, why are you still here, go back quickly." Sister Lan Qing should have seen me too late and didn't go back, so she came out to look for me.

"Hehe, Shui Sheng left him alone, let him play with his little daughter-in-law, my dad said, it's not her sister but his mother-in-law." The two little boys looked at Sister Lan Qing and me with mockery in their eyes.

"What daughter-in-law, she's my sister, isn't she just going up the mountain to blow up a long worm? Walk! I said in an angry voice, and stuffed the money to Sister Lan Qing and asked her to go home first.

"Ah Jiu, you?" Sister Lan Qing has been in this village for half a year, and she also knew that the long worm we were talking about was a snake, so she immediately became nervous.

"I'll go back before dinner, don't tell my family!" I told Sister Lan Qing very seriously.

She hesitated, but nodded in agreement, and I followed the aquatic people in the direction of the boar ditch.

This mountain can be said to be our hunting mountain, and the people in the mountain like to hunt or something, and my grandfather often runs into the ravine.

"Xiao Jiu, don't be afraid, we'll go down the mountain soon if it's okay." Shui Sheng said, and took my elbow.

The other two boys had already rushed away in the direction of the mountain with burlap bags, and I was reluctant to do so, and I regretted it even more when I walked to the foot of the mountain.

Aquatic they are very experienced, fried long worms are not once or twice, the skin of the long worms can be sold after being peeled off and dried, the aquatic family is poor, and they will definitely go up the mountain to catch the long worms in winter.

"Hurry up, you're too slow." The two boys in front of us have already distanced themselves a long way.

"Xiao Jiu, we have to hurry." The aquatic opened his mouth to me.

"Good!" I staggered on the dirt road covered with thin ice, and finally halfway up the mountain, I was stopped.

"What? A few little rabbits, didn't your parents say that you can't go up this mountain? If you don't have hair on your mouth, you dare to go up the hunting mountain, get out! "Stopping us is the old three heads in the village, these three old heads are the third in the family, the family is poor but still lazy, so they are almost five zhang and have not married their mother-in-law.

Now that I see me in the crowd, I am even more angry, saying that my baby is blind and such a good mother-in-law.

"Let's ignore him." Shui Sheng ignored the old three heads and wanted to bypass him and continue to walk forward, but the three heads stood still.

"I've got all the front, you can't go over!" The third man is an old man, and we can't reason with him.

So, I tugged at the sleeve of Shui Sheng's coat and wanted him to go down the mountain with me, but who knew that Shui Sheng was not happy, so I tore it up with the other two boys and the old three.

You know, although we are young, we are not small, and Shui Sheng is half a head behind the old three, and finally the old three heads are in a hurry, and he directly raised his shotgun and aimed it at a few of us, which made us all confused.

"Get out!" He yelled in exasperation.

I hurriedly grabbed Shui Sheng and turned down the mountain, but Shui Sheng's fist clenched, but I also knew that no matter how hard the fist was, it was not as hard as the barrel of the gun.

So in the end I gave up, but I didn't go down the mountain, but, after walking down the mountain for less than six minutes, I walked towards the fork in the road on the left, where there was no road, and the trees were so dense that I had to pull them apart by hand.

"Brother Shuisheng, where are you going?" I asked him.

"There is a long worm nest here, and some people in the village were bitten to death by long worms here, so no one dared to go." As soon as Shui Sheng's words came out, not only me, but even the brothers of the Liu family, who were originally majestic and high-spirited, also stopped in unison.

"Don't be afraid, didn't we bring artillery and firewood knives? It's fine. Shui Sheng patted the wood knife tied to his waist, and the cannon battle that was drumming in his pocket.

In retrospect, it was really ignorant and fearless, and at that time, a few of us were actually stabilized by such a sentence.

However, Shui Sheng himself was obviously unfamiliar with this road, and took us around for a long time, and finally the sky gradually darkened, and Shui Sheng seemed to have lost his way.

Liu Changyou saw that the sky was completely dark, and he began to be a little uncalm, and shouted at Shui Sheng: "Brother Shui Sheng, if you don't go down the mountain, you won't be able to see the road." ”

Liu Chang said this, and his brother was also anxious, but I was not as afraid as them, because my eyes were different from ordinary people in the night, and they could see more clearly than during the day.

"There seems to be light ahead? Is there anybody? I pointed to the back of the aquatic.

The forest behind it was faint, as if there was a touch of red light.

The rest of the people looked at me suspiciously, but they couldn't find the way for a while, so they could only follow the direction I pointed, but after passing over, they found that there was no one at all, but a small dirt bag, which had been raining heavily a few days ago, and was washed away by most of it, and a big hole appeared.

"This must be a worm nest." Aquatic is excited.

"How big should a worm be in such a large nest?" I looked at the aquatic life, "Let's get down the mountain quickly." ”

I knew that I was going to be beaten up today, so I was a little anxious.

"It's all here, let's catch the long worm and then say, Xiao Jiu, you go aside and wait for a while." After Shui Sheng finished speaking, he motioned for me to step back.

I'm very afraid of this long worm, the pit is so big, I guess it's a big guy, since I can't help, I retreated to the side.

Watching the aquatic they blew up with firecrackers for a long time, there was no movement in the pit at all.

"Shuisheng, let's go, it's getting dark, it's time to worry about the family." I said loudly to the aquatic.

"Eh, there's something down here!" The water screamed, excited, and then I saw that they had dug up the already bombed mess.

The three of them were very quick, and after a few clicks, they dug up a "big wooden box" with red stripes.

"Is it a treasure?" The youngest Liu Changgui said and reached out to touch the big box, but it seemed to be pricked and cried out in pain.

Then his brother also reached out to touch it, and Shui Sheng was also curious, and was about to open the wooden box, when I heard footsteps behind me.

I looked back and saw that the person who came was the third man, and I guess he heard the sound of the cannon and came with him.

"What are a few little bunnies doing? Don't go down the mountain quickly, be careful of being dragged away by this mountain ghost. "The old three heads are scaring us.

The adults in the village said this in order not to let their children go up the mountain, and after a long time, we were really afraid of "mountain ghosts".

"Let's go." After the third head finished speaking, he went over and dragged them over, pushed them in my direction, and drove us down the mountain.

He led us all the way to the mountain road where we had just come up, telling us to get out of here, and under his intimidation, the aquatic life could only lead us down the mountain.

But in my heart, I thought about the wooden box I had just dug up, and I was a little unwilling.

After walking half the way, he turned around and saw that the old three did not follow, so he wanted to go back to see, he asked the three of us to go back first, and he turned back alone.

We couldn't stop him, watching his back run into the trees, we could only sigh helplessly, and followed the two brothers of the Liu family down the mountain.

After returning home, I was indeed severely repaired, and even Sister Lan Qing was punished and knelt in the ancestral hall, which made me feel very guilty.

Because my grandfather felt sorry for me, he just beat me on the board, but Sister Lan Qing knelt all night.

The next day, I went to school, Sister Lan Qing went back to the house to rest, as soon as I left the house, I found that there seemed to be something wrong in the village, the long-tongued women and aunts in the village were all walking in one direction, it seemed that there was something lively to see.

I followed and listened to a few words, as if the third head was going to marry his mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law was still very handsome.

It's just that the old three who were still scurrying around in the village yesterday suddenly found a handsome daughter-in-law? Which woman would follow him?

"Xiao Jiu'er, that mother-in-law is more handsome than your mother-in-law, do you want to go and see it too?" A few aunts teased me when they saw that I was listening seriously.

I frowned and turned away, not taking it to heart, until three days later, the third head festered and died, and the rumored beautiful mother-in-law disappeared!