I looked at the sow of the Li family sleeping in the pigsty, everyone talked about it, they all said that it was the mountain beast that was bitten to death, I went to the pig, and looked carefully, under the pig's body, there was a torn wound, the wound was stained with blood, and the whole pig, except for this wound, there was no other wound, I looked at the wound and said, "Uncle Li, did you hear any sound last night?" ”

Uncle Li took out the cigarette pouch in his mouth, knocked it on the sole of his shoe, and then said: "There is no sound, there is no sound at all, I fed the pig this morning, only to find that the pig has died, you said that our family is counting on this pig, alas, life is not possible." ”

When Aunt Li heard this, she scolded there: "Li Lao Er, you are a wreck, I married you, it is considered to be eight lifetimes of mold, you said that you sleep like a dead pig, our pigs have been bitten to death, you still don't know at all, are you still a man?" ”

I hurriedly said, "Auntie, don't be in a hurry to scold, I'll ask you." What did you hear last night? ”

Aunt Li stared at the sow and thought for a while and said, "I didn't hear any movement, usually I sleep very spiritually, but I didn't hear any movement." ”

At this time, the chief of the security came, Aunt Li got up from the ground, cried and threw herself at the chief of the body, and said as she walked: "The chief of the body, you have to make the decision for the people's women, our pigs died unjustly." ”

As soon as the chief saw the muddy water on Aunt Li's body, and there was still pig feces on her body, he hurriedly stepped back in fright, and said as he retreated: "Old Li's family, you have something to say, don't come over, just stand there and say." ”

Aunt Li stood on her feet and said to the chief, "Chief, our sow died unjustly." ”

The chief of the security guard looked helpless when he heard this, and he said: "This, this, this is just your side of the story, wait for me to take a closer look." ”

The chief of the security department has no tricks at all for Aunt Li, a shrew, in fact, everyone understands that Uncle Li is a wreck, and Aunt Li and the chief security officer usually have eyebrows, but they secretly have a leg. The chief was told by Aunt Li like this, and he was so anxious that he even said the drama. When Aunt Li heard the chief say this, she said fiercely: "If the chief doesn't find out about our old sow today, I will ...... it."

The security chief's face changed color in fright when he heard this, and he hurriedly said, "Don't, don't, don't, I'll check, I'll check, I'll check." ”

As he spoke, the chief hurried to the pigsty, and when he saw me, he seemed to see a savior, and said to me, "Bold you are also here, do you see what kind of old sow is biting to death?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I haven't seen it yet, but this thing is a bit strange, the thing that bites the old sow to death, and does not eat the meat of the old sow, if it is a mountain animal, it should eat meat, otherwise it will come in, is it just to bite the sow to death?" ”

The chief of security heard this and said to me, "Bold, this is not clear from the outside, let's go in and take a closer look at the wound." ”

I think the chief has seen the world and knows how to check and look for clues, the Li family's pigsty is made of stones, there is a pig trough at the door of the pigsty, and behind the pigsty is a pigsty shed made of corn stalks, and in front of it is a place where pigs poop and pee, and the pig urine and pig feces form a muddy field similar to a swamp.

Make this look, the main thing is to accumulate fertilizer, as the saying goes, crops are a flower, all rely on fertilizer, at that time there is no chemical fertilizer such as chemical fertilizer diamine, can only accumulate fertilizer by themselves, it can be said that the villagers love the land as if they love their own children, do everything possible to think about the fertilizer, raise pigs to pad the soil in the pigsty, and the things and soil in the pigsty are fully fermented, becoming a good fertilizer on the ground. The old man, carrying a dung basket and a dung handle, picked up dung everywhere for farming.

The pigsty is not very high, we easily jump into it, and stand in the dry part of the pigsty, although the pigs are not too smart, but they will never in their sleeping nests. We walked to the old sow and found that the old sow was sleeping there, there was no trace of struggle on the ground, as if she was bitten to death by something when she was asleep, a wound in the neck was a fatal wound, the wound was torn by something, with teeth, the wound was not big, there were blood stains on it, then Song Dahai came, went to the pigsty and said: "Bao Chang, what are you two bold?" ”

The chief squatted there and was watching, and when he heard Song Dahai's voice, he quickly turned around and said to Song Dahai: "Dahai, you came just in time, let's see what bit this wound?" ”

After Song Dahai listened, he agreed, and jumped in from outside the pigsty, and after jumping in, he squatted in front of the pig, looked at the wound carefully, and looked at the chief for a while and asked if it was an old sow that was bitten to death by a monkey, because the most talked about in our sneak is the monkey, and this monkey is our local dialect here, referring to the wolf. The wolf also has a nickname called Ma Huzi, this is because Uncle Ma seeks to eat people, like a flood beast, although after a thousand years, the folk still use it to scare children and say, don't cry, cry Ma Hu again, it specializes in eating crying children.

The place where the hemp beard and the monkey Sulu, Henan and Anhui provinces meet, the accent is heavy, the hemp beard is called the monkey, because there were many dead people in the past, the wolf disaster is heavy, all the wolves who have eaten human flesh will not forget the fragrance of human flesh, so they go to the village to eat people, who is the easiest to eat? That is the easiest for children, when we were in the village, several children were eaten by monkeys, and it was not uncommon for monkeys to eat people in that year.

As for the origin of Ma Shumou is a monkey, this matter was told by the second gentleman who taught us to know words, he said that Emperor Yang of Sui issued an edict to open the Bianqu, and Ma Shumou was appointed as the governor of the river. After arriving in Ningling, he fell ill and was bedridden and sought medical treatment. The doctor said that the fatty mutton must be steamed and then added to the medicine and taken together. Uncle Ma asked people to find a few lambs and steamed them with apricot cheese and schisandra, which was called crispy belly.

There were about thousands of people from the countryside who came to offer lambs, and Uncle Ma sought to collect the lambs and gave them a good reward. There is a man named Tao Lang'er in Xiama Village, Ningling County, who is rich but fierce, his family's ancestral grave is close to the river, and he is afraid that he will be excavated when digging the river, so he steals a three- or four-year-old boy from someone else's family, cuts off his head and feet after killing, and steam it into a food box to give to Ma Shumou. Uncle Ma was very satisfied with the meat that tasted different from the lamb's meat, so he ordered the river to make a bend when it passed the Tao family's cemetery.

The Tao Lang brothers thanked Ma Shumou for his kindness, and continued to steal the steamed baby and give it to Ma Shumou to ask for a reward. When the other people learned of the Tao brothers' actions, they followed their example and stole the country children in exchange for a reward. At that time, hundreds of children were lost in the nearby villages, and the cries of mothers who lost their children could be heard everywhere. Therefore, all the local families with children made a large wooden cabinet, wrapped in iron sheets, and hid the children in the cabinet at night, locked them with big locks, and the whole family lit candles on duty to guard. When the cabinet is opened at dawn, if the child is still there, the whole family celebrates one by one. Even so, incidents of losing children continue to occur. After the incident, Uncle Ma was denounced, the government and the opposition were shocked, and Emperor Yang of Sui sent the general to arrest him, and beheaded him on charges of cannibalism, receiving money, sending thieves to steal treasures, and hacking the river, and the Tao Langer brothers also corrected the law at the same time.

I later saw that there were really these records, and now I think about how well Mr. Er really read a lot of books and saw a wide range of things, and even knew these allusions. Then talking about the old sow, the chief asked Song Dahai, who knew that Song Dahai said categorically: "The wound of the chief is not left by the monkey, the monkey is ferocious, the mouth is big and the teeth are sharp, there is a strong bite, the fangs can easily tear open the throat of the animal, I see that the tooth mark of this wound is not big, and the wound is not very big, it seems that it just bites the blood vessel." ”

The chief said, "The sea, with your experience, what animal killed this old sow?" ”

Song Dahai shook his head and said: "It's really the first time I've seen this kind of wound, and I can't see it for a while, I'll take a closer look at it first." ”

As he spoke, he slowly turned the old sow's neck lightly with his hand, and suddenly seemed to find something wrong, he shook his head and said, "It's impossible, how can this be?" ”