Grandma looked at the two of us at this time without saying a word, and the people in the mountains heard Qiang Shun say that he wanted to leave the cave, and hurriedly said: "We can't go yet, these wolves are cunning, they haven't gone far, hide and wait for us to get out of the cave." ”

    The wolves are hiding and waiting for us to go out, this is very likely, if my dad is here, he will probably say the same, I glanced at the mountain people, and asked, "Then what are we going to do?" ”

    The mountain man looked at the dead vine branches in the cave and said, "Let's wait until dawn before leaving, don't worry, the firewood is enough to burn until dawn." ”

    Grandma beckoned to me at this time, I hurriedly got up and walked over, grandma stood up and motioned for me to sit at the entrance of the cave, it seemed that she wanted to rest in it for a while.

    I guarded the entrance of the cave with the mountain people again, grandma walked to Qiangshun and sat down, I looked back at grandma, and saw grandma take a closer look at Qiangshun's face, and then signaled Qiangshun not to move, raised his hand and touched his forehead, Qiangshun was very honest at this time, sitting there motionless, grandma opened his eyelids and looked at it, and frowned after reading.

    Grandma, what is this doing? Why do you have to frown? I wanted to ask, but I didn't because I didn't think it was appropriate to ask.

    The people in the mountains didn't notice Grandma's actions at this time, looked out of the cave, and grabbed the dead vine branches around them and added them to the fire.

    Grandma frowned and looked at the mountain people, then at me, but didn't speak, leaned back, leaned against the stone wall and closed her eyes, looking like she was going to take a nap, but I thought she was thinking about something.

    Qiang Shun curled up beside his grandmother at this time, as if he was very tired and cold, I stood up and walked towards him at the entrance of the hole, I wanted to call him up to the entrance of the cave to roast the fire, but when I walked to his side, Qiang Shun's eyes were closed, as if he was asleep again, I bent down and stretched out a hand to push him awake, the hand did not touch him, grandma suddenly opened her eyes, at the same time, raised a hand and grabbed my wrist fiercely, grandma whispered: "Don't touch him." ”

    I asked, "Grandma, what's wrong with Qiangshun?" ”

    Grandma looked at me and said, "Don't ask so much, go back to the entrance of the cave and continue to guard." With that, Grandma let go and closed my eyes again.

    I was confused, looked at Qiang Shun and looked at grandma, wondering in my heart, what the hell is wrong with Qiang Shun, grandma doesn't say it, forget it, why is it mysterious.

    When I returned to the entrance of the cave, the people in the mountains no longer added firewood to the fire, but their eyes were still looking out of the cave, as if he hadn't heard anything about my conversation with my grandmother just now, so I sat down again.

    The fire is still burning, occasionally there is a "pop" sound, I am like the mountain people at this time, holding the fire and looking out of the cave, the hole is quiet, it seems very quiet.

     That's it, quietly, quietly, time, little by little, watching the valley from dark to light, from light to bright, from bright to bright, unconsciously, the sky is completely bright.

    The mountain people stayed at the entrance of the cave all night and didn't sleep, he stood up at this time and stretched a long waist, I also yawned and stood up, holding the stone wall and sticking out my head to look out of the cave, the outside is no different from yesterday, except for the snow is the withered vine, the whole valley seems empty, those wolves who are afraid of people have long disappeared, except for the plum blossom-shaped wolf footprints they left on the snow.

    "Alright, it's time for us to go." Grandma's voice came from the cave, and Grandma said, "Big nephew, come and carry this child on your back." ”

    I listened, grandma said "child" should be Qiang Shun, hurriedly turned back to look in the hole, I saw grandma standing next to Qiang Shun, Qiang Shun lying on the ground, I lowered my eyes, looked at Qiang Shun, and suddenly took a breath of cool air, Qiang Shun's face was white at this time as if he was smeared with flour, but the white lips on his face were red, as if he drank blood, the most terrifying thing was his eye sockets, the eye sockets were black and black, and his flour face was together, It looks like a giant panda.

    I looked at Qiangshun's face and was stupid, and asked grandma: "Grandma, what's wrong with Qiangshun?" ”

    Grandma looked at me, shook her head gently, I blinked my eyes twice, I felt that grandma was shaking her head at this time not to say "I don't know", and telling me not to ask so much, and then, grandma looked at the mountain people, I also turned my head to look at the mountain people, and I saw that the eyes of the mountain people were staring at Qiang Shun's face, and his own face became very pale, it seemed that I felt that he was about to break out in a cold sweat.

    The mountain people stood still in a daze, and the grandmother said calmly: "Big nephew, come and carry this child, it's okay." ”

    The people in the mountains suddenly came back to their senses, as if they had just woken up from a big dream, and spoke, with a trilling voice: "Bai Xiangu, this child's face, this face...... Now it's exactly the same as my child......"

    Grandma still looked calm, nodded slightly, and said, "I know, let's get out of the cave." ”

    The mountain people cowered and walked into the hole, apparently relying on their courage to pick up Qiang Shun and put it on their backs. Grandma walked to the entrance of the cave in a few steps, took the crutch that the mountain people were standing at the entrance of the cave in her hand, turned back to the mountain people and said, "Let's go, let's talk about what we have to say on the road." After saying that, my grandmother grabbed me and walked out of the cave first.

     came outside, and after walking a few steps, I asked my grandmother in a low voice: "Grandma, is the child of this mountain man the same as Qiang Shun at this time?" ”

    When the mountain people came to our house to talk to my grandmother, Qiang Shun Mingjun and I were hiding in the east house and covering the sparrows with a big sieve, I didn't know why the mountain people came to find grandma.

    Grandma listened to me ask her, looked down at me, and said, "There are strange things in this mountain, grandma estimates that the children in the cave here can't enter, and if they go in, something will happen." ”

    "What's this about, grandma?" I asked.

    "Because of what......" Grandma sighed and said: "Grandma heard your grandfather say one thing when she was a child, saying that some people take children as sacrifices and trick children into the hole, those children will have strange diseases, or those children will die in a few days." ”

    Hearing my grandmother say this, I was afraid for a while, and I didn't dare to look back at the cave again, and asked my grandmother, "Grandma, what's in that cave?" ”

    "What? Grandma shook her head, "It's hard to say, your grandfather broke into a cave because of tomb robbery, and after you got to the cave, your eleventh master will be like Qiang Shun......"

    "What happened later? I asked.

    " later...... Later, grandma didn't know, your grandfather didn't say it, I guess what happened later was definitely not a good thing. Grandma said, frowning.

    At this time, there was a sound at the entrance of the cave, and as soon as I turned around at the same time as my grandmother, I saw the mountain people coming out of the cave with strong obedience on their backs.

    Grandma said to me again: "Later, grandma will ask this mountain man to see if he knows something, remember, when grandma asks him, you are not allowed to interject, it is better not to say a word from now on." ”

    I pursed my lips and nodded.

    The faces of the people in the mountains were very unsightly at this time, and they looked shocked and frightened. My grandmother pulled me to stop, turned back to him and asked, "Eldest nephew, isn't your house far from here?" ”

    The mountain man hurriedly nodded and replied, "Out of this ravine, you will go over a mountain beam." ”

    Grandma said to him again: "Okay, you still lead the way, if you feel tired, put the child down and rest......"

    The people in the mountains said "hey" very honestly.

     We walked along the valley for more than an hour, and we finally walked out of the valley.

    Outside the valley, the line of sight is much broader, and looking up at the sky is no longer a depressing line of sky, the sky is high and wide, but it is still a mountain in all directions, and the mountains are steep and undulating.

    We are a winding path under our feet, Mr. Lu Xun said, there is no road in the world, there are more people walking, and it has become a road. This path under our feet, obviously in response to Mr. Lu Xun's words, is equivalent to life to live in the mountains of these people a hundred turns and thousands of times to step out, at this time, the surrounding mountains are full of white snow, only this path slightly shows a little bit of the primary color of the mountain, from a distance, the whole path is a little darker than other places, just like a small black snake like a winding and rugged coil between the white mountains and mountains.

     The place where the eye is at the end of the trail seems to be the end of the path, a mountain beam that is not too high, blocking the path at the waist, it seems that there is no broken valley in the middle of this mountain beam, we must climb the mountain if we want to go over.

    At this time, the mountain people stopped in front of Qiangshun on their backs, turned back to me and said to my grandmother: "Walking through the mountain beam in front of me is my family, let's rest here first." ”

    I glanced up at the mountain man, his forehead was sweating, obviously tired from walking.

    Grandma said, "Okay, I'm tired too, I'm really old, I'm really not as young as I was when I was younger." ”

    The mountain people put Qiang Shun off his back, leaning on a big stone on the side of the road, I glanced at Qiang Shun, Qiang Shun was exactly the same as when he was in the cave, flour face, panda eyes, bloody lips, the whole person looked like he was unconscious, and he looked like he had lost his soul, grandma walked over and opened his eyelids to look at it, and didn't say anything. Then all three of us sat down beside the big rock and rested.

    After resting for a while, grandma turned her head and asked the mountain people: "Big nephew, let me ask you something, why do you people live in such a remote mountain, do you live here for generations, or are you brought in from outside?" ”

    The mountain people looked at the mountain beam in front of them, turned their heads to my grandmother and said: "I was born in the mountains when I was a child, and I heard my grandfather say when I was a child, and our whole village was brought in from outside during the Qing Dynasty." ”

    Grandma nodded, and then asked, "Why do you want to bring it in, isn't it good outside?" ”

    The mountain people replied: "My grandfather said that our ancestors were from the White Lotus Sect, and we couldn't hide in the mountains because we couldn't help the Qing soldiers, and then we lived in the mountains." ”

    "White Lotus? ”

    Grandma repeated the word "White Lotus Sect", her eyes slowly turned to the distant mountain beam, and she looked at the white mountain beam for a moment, and the whole person was motionless, as if she was trying her best to search for all the information about the White Lotus Sect in her head.

    I heard the word "White Lotus Sect" at this time, I felt very familiar, and immediately remembered that there was a fragment of a comic book at home at this time, with a head and no tail, which I took from the Ming army's house. The comic strip tells the story of the White Lotus Sect, and there are "Wang Cong'er" and "White Emperor City" in it, they fought against the Qing army. However, at this time, I don't think the people in this mountain look like the descendants of the White Lotus Sect.

    Later, I really figured it out, the ancestors of the people in the mountains were indeed not the "White Lotus Sect", but the "Immortal Worship Sect", these descendants passed it around, passed the name of the church to the mouth, and pronounced the "Immortal Worship Sect" as the "White Lotus Sect".

    My grandmother was inadvertently misled by this mountain man at this time......