This woman still has a small burden on her arm, the burden is bulging, at this time she is bowing her head to untie the burden, listening to her grandmother ask her, she hurriedly raised her head and nodded at grandma, and then, turned her face to look at the mountain people around her, and said: "Yes, we have also moved here a long time ago, I, I am still my man's cousin......"

    Hearing the woman say this, Grandma nodded. It is also said that hundreds of people come to the side of the mountain, and they don't interact with people outside, and over time, they can only marry their cousins, I'm afraid, their whole village is now more or less related by blood. Writing this, it reminds me of the time I went to Shanxi a few years ago, there was a local town, the people in the town were all Catholics, I don't know other places, I know where they have a very canon of Catholicism, the canon stipulates that people in the Church cannot marry people outside the church, and there are not many local Catholic believers, as a result, they can only marry people from their own town, and at that time, all the people in their town are already related, what kind of relatives are this and that, and what kind of relatives are that and what kind of relatives are this. A few people who traveled with me laughed at them and said that in a few decades their town would be over, and all of them would be married by close relatives, not to mention, we really met a few children with dementia in that town, but whether it was caused by the marriage of close relatives, this is not easy to conclude. I don't have any aversion to joining the church or anything, but I just resenting this kind of coercive and restrictive canon dogma, which is disgusting, just like I am disgusted with the rule in front of me that does not allow outsiders to enter the village.

    Grandma asked the woman, "When did this child of yours become like this?" ”

    The woman was just about to answer, but the mountain man preemptively said, "That is, the day before yesterday." ”

    Grandma turned her face to look at the mountain people and asked, "How did he become like this?" ”

    Grandma asked, and I saw that the mountain man and the woman looked at each other, as if they were a little hesitant. Of course, their expressions couldn't hide my grandmother's eyes, and my grandmother looked at the two of them side by side and said with a smile: "You don't have anything else to tell me." "When I heard it, my grandmother said it quite tactfully, which actually means that you don't want to hide anything from me.

    Women are honest and kind, obviously they have never walked out of the mountains, to put it bluntly, they have never seen the world, and there are not so many fancy intestines. The woman opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but the mountain people did not wait for her to say it, and said first: "There is a cave in the east of our village, and the hole is not allowed for the child to enter. ”

    After listening, the grandmother thought about it and asked, "Then why can't the children enter the cave?" ”

    The mountain man looked at the women around him, his eyes flashed, and said: "I don't know, this is the rule set by our ancestors, right? ”

    The woman was stunned when she heard this, and when she came back to her senses, she hurriedly nodded, but I looked at her like that, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't dare to say it because of the mountain people.

    Of course, the abnormality of women did not escape my grandmother's eyes, and my grandmother smiled at the woman and said, "Big sister, do you have anything to say, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

    The woman hurriedly shook her head, "I, what do I say......"

    Is there really nothing to say? What are you trying to hide? Don't look at me when I was young, I watched and listened to it, and the fire came up. There is a way that if you are sick, you can't give a happy word? Do you want to save your son anymore? Simply my grandmother has a good temper, if she wants to leave it alone, she will turn her head and leave, she loves to talk or not, your son lives or dies to care about us, and he has no time to beg grandpa to tell grandma to squeeze words from your mouth.

    The woman said, her eyes looked at the mountain people, and the mountain people secretly gave her a look, the two of them looked sneaky, and the mountain people gave the women a look, and they looked at my grandmother as if they were thieves.

    Grandma's, I really couldn't stand it, so I walked up to grandma, shook one of my grandmother's arms and said, "Grandma, I want to go home, let's go home." ”

    The two people in the mountains heard my words, immediately seemed a little panicked, the woman went to untie the burden on her arm, three times and two times, the burden was untied, a smell of fried oil came out of the burden, I looked, there was an oily straw paper roll in it, and it was steaming, the woman quickly opened the straw paper roll again, I looked at it again, wow, it was fried oil lumps, golden gold, I was hungry for a long time, this gluttony.

    Before I could swallow, the woman came over and stuffed me with a roll of oiled paper and said, "Eat it, child, this is my aunt's freshly fried rabbit, and it's still hot." ”

    Oil rabbit? It's clearly an oil bump, but it's probably called differently.

    Seeing the food, I finally comforted my young and wounded heart, took it with both hands, turned her face to look at my grandmother, and grandma smiled and said, "Eat when you're hungry." ”

    I lowered my head and swallowed my saliva, held the straw paper roll and found a stone to sit down and eat, it was indeed an oil bump, it was indeed called differently. Of course, don't say that I have milk and I am a mother, I forgot what I ate, I was eating, I was still paying attention to the two people in the mountains, just a little bit of food, but I couldn't coax me, a cunning child.

    The two people in the mountains were relieved to see that I was eating very fragrantly, and the people in the mountains said to their grandmother: "Bai Xiangu, do you think this child in my family is saved?" ”

    Grandma looked at the people in the mountains, and then at the women, and said, "I think this child has hooked the soul of something, and that thing may be hiding in the cave, or you can take me to the cave to see." ”

    When the mountain people heard this, they immediately hesitated, and the woman grabbed his arm violently at this time, and shook it vigorously, although the woman did not speak, but I could still see that the woman was begging the mountain people to agree.

    After a long pause, the mountain man sighed and said, "Enter the cave...... Okay, but we'll have to wait until the evening. ”

When I heard this, I hurriedly took out the oil bump that had been stuffed into my mouth and said, "Will the wolves come at night?" ”

    The mountain man looked at me and said, "Don't worry, little brother, the wolves don't dare to come to our village." ”

    "Why? I asked again.

    The people in the mountains smiled at me unnaturally, didn't say why, turned their faces to grandma and said: "Just wronged Bai Xiangu to wait on this mountain beam for a day, I will take you over at night, it is inconvenient to go over at this time." ”

    Grandma nodded.

     Subsequently, the mountain people carried the children and women on their backs, and went back, I ate more than half of the oil lumps they stuffed, and gave the rest to grandma, grandma sat down and ate slowly, I sat next to grandma, coldly looked at the back of the family of three under the mountain beam, you went home to warm up, and hung me and grandma here again, what kind of hospitality is this, and the people who sent the food were not so striking, although the stomach was full, but this heart was not happy, Coming from afar, what are we trying to do?

    What is the picture? I still haven't figured out what's going on? I can't laugh by nature, but I can laugh and smile bitterly.

    When it was dark, the mountain people came alone, and there was a burden on the arm, which was much bigger than the one at noon, and so the mountain people opened the baggage, I looked, the burden was wrapped in an altar, and there was a lid on the altar, after the lid was uncovered, the smell of meat was fragrant, and there was a big rabbit stewed in the soup and meat.

    At this time, my young, wounded heart was comforted again, although I didn't call it into the house, it was not bad.

    The book says it is short. After eating rabbit meat, and waited for more than an hour, the sky was completely dark, at this time, the mountain people actually carried Qiang Shun up, the mountain people said, afraid of being seen during the day, did not dare to call us into the village, at this time the village people were asleep, no one could see.

    After the mountain people finished speaking, they picked up Qiangshun and left, grandma pulled me, I held the empty jar in one hand, and followed him.

    Soon, we came down from the mountain beam. As soon as I stepped on the land, I felt a lot more steady, and when I looked at it, this place was indeed big, and I saw the houses in their village one by one on the mountain beam, at this time, it seemed that the families were very scattered, each family was separated by a long distance, and from the feeling of it, many houses were lifeless, maybe it was really like what the mountain people said, seven or eight of the ten houses were empty.

    The mountain people's homes are on the edge of the mountain beam, and the first household down the mountain beam is their home, which is very close to the waterfall. The mountain people said that in the past, this was not his family's house, because the family was empty and it was relatively close to the water source, so they moved here.

    When I came to the door of the mountain people's house, I took a look, a pure stone house, no yard, the roof was still a wooden structure, and it was paved with artemisia grass or something.

    At this time the oil lamp in the house was on, and when she entered the house, the woman sat on a bed in the outer room, and the quilt on the bed was brand new, as if it had just been laid. The mountain man beckoned me to sit down with my grandmother, and he carried Qiang Shun to the side of the bed and put Qiang Shun on the bed.

    We didn't say much between us, the mountain people then walked into the back room and took out a flashlight, I saw him push the switch, the flashlight was not lit, "pop" slapped twice before it lit, it seems that the people in their village are really the same as the mountain people say, as soon as it gets dark, they don't go out.

    The mountain man turned off the flashlight again and said to grandma: "Bai Xiangu, let's go to the cave and have a look." ”

    Grandma got up from the stool and nodded, I also followed my grandmother to stand up from the stool, the mountain man turned his head to look at me, and said to grandma: "Bai Xiangu, don't call this child, you can't enter the child in the cave." ”

    I tilted my head, looked at the mountain people and blinked twice, and grandma said, "It's okay, this child is different from other children, if something happens, he will have an accident a long time ago." ”

    Hearing my grandmother say this, I immediately bared my teeth at the mountain people, don't think I'm laughing, the mountain people looked at me like a monster, and didn't say anything.

      went out, and the mountain people took me and my grandmother all the way north, and the mountain people said that the cave was in the northeast corner of their village. We were cautious along the way because we had to walk through their whole village, and the mountain people didn't even turn on their flashlights, but one thing was very strange, I didn't hear a dog bark, as if there were no dogs in their village at all.

    Soon we passed through the village safely and came to the cave that the mountain people said.

    I stood at the entrance of the cave at this time and took a look, the entrance of the cave has adult height, adult width, it is dark inside, it seems that there is wind, and I feel cool on my face. There was wind at the entrance of the cave, which meant that there was air inside, which meant that there should be more than one entrance to the cave, but I was too young to understand this.

    The mountain people first went into the cave and lit the flashlight, and my grandmother pulled me and followed me. After walking into the cave, I looked around by the light of the flashlight, and it was a gourd-shaped, the mouth was small and the inside was big, the outside looked more than one person high, the inside was three meters high, two meters wide, the strange rocks on the left and right stone walls were craggy, very irregular, now think about it, it should be a naturally formed cave.

     Follow the mountain people in it for several minutes, but it is not the end, it seems that this hole is quite deep, I can't help but ask the mountain people, "Uncle, how far is it?" "It doesn't matter if you don't speak, I was startled when I spoke, and there was an echo in the hole, and it was very loud, and the urn rattled.

    The people in the mountains seemed to be used to it, and turned back to me and said: "I'll be there in a while, where the forbidden land of our village is, if you don't go there to see, you can't see anything just by looking at this." As the mountain man spoke, he suddenly turned a corner, and it was only then that I realized that the hole was not only deep, but also not straight. After walking a short distance, I found a fork in the road, which made me look over my head and think, this mountain will not be empty, it will not collapse and crush us inside.

    I don't know how long I walked, and when I was almost dizzy, the mountain people suddenly stopped, turned back to us and said, "Arrive, there is the forbidden land in our village in front." ”

     As he spoke, the mountain man raised his flashlight and shone it forward, and I tilted my head to look ahead by the light, and suddenly gasped.

    Isn't this the high-walled compound of my dreams!

    (Thanks to the crown of "arhua" for the tip, thank you!) ）