On the winter solstice of 1943, the goose-feathered winter snow had fallen above people's heads, and a ruined temple at the foot of a mountain drooped with a half-cut wooden door, and walked into the villagers holding torches one after another.

The ruined temple has no plaques, no incense, and even no courtyard walls, and there is only a weathered stone Buddha under the beams of the remaining temple roof, as if staring at a qiē that happened in the temple.

However, after a while, the villagers of Jiangjia Village had surrounded the ruined temple tightly, and a human-shaped courtyard wall spontaneously appeared. An old man with white hair and white beard walked out of the temple slowly with a cane, this is Jiang Shoushou, the old village chief of Jiangjia Village, and all the big and small things in the village are carried out under his orders, saying that no one dares to go west in the east.

When he reached the threshold, he coughed several times and touched his neck, and his face was bitter, as if he had been blocked by phlegm.

Seeing the situation, a young man with sinister eyebrows and rat eyes behind him immediately spread out his palms and stretched out in front of him, smiling and offering courtesy. This young man is Jiang Renshou's nephew Wu San, nicknamed Gouzi, a countryman who takes a cheap life to feed, and after a long time, he becomes Gousan, and he is as his name. Under the protection of Jiang Shoushou, Dog San acted mischief in the village. Jiang Renshou has no heirs, only such a nephew, so he turned a blind eye, thinking that after a hundred years, he would leave the position of village chief to him, and said so in front of others, but he had another plan in his heart.

The third boss of the dog is not small, but he is not right, and the village is complaining, for Jiang Ren's sake, he dares to be angry and dare not speak.

Looking at the appearance of the dog Sanxian, many villagers were already displeased, and they didn't pay attention to him, and could only squint at the open space in the temple. He didn't care, he looked arrogant when he saw everyone.

In the open space in the ruined temple were two stout wooden stakes, one on the left and one on the right and a man and a woman tied to the left, under the thin coat revealing cracked blood-red skin, and bare feet on the half-dry pyre.

"Mom, why don't you light the fire quickly, what are you waiting for?" After Gou San finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Renshou again, waiting for the final confirmation.

Jiang Shoushou did not make a sound, but walked up to the man and woman, and his dry throat sounded. "Are you all going to hand over that diary now?"

The man's head, which had been lowered, suddenly lifted, and everyone was startled because red blood flowed from his closed eyes. He snorted twice, avoiding answering.

Jiang Shoushou looked at the woman again and propped up her chin with a cane, but the woman spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, which happened to spit on his cheek. The dog immediately stepped forward and gave the woman a heavy slap, and the falling hair covered her face, leaving a rough pant sound.

"Stinky mother-in-law, shameless face, dare to be disrespectful to my uncle, you are tired of life!" As he spoke, Gou San tried to wipe the saliva off Jiang Shoushou's face with his sleeve, but was stopped by Jiang Shoushou.

"Phew, the dog who is indiscriminate, how much face do you think you have, and you are not the master of the dog who fights the power of the people, bullies the good and fears the evil."

The dog was angry and wanted to come forward to teach her a lesson, but was stopped by Jiang Shoushou, so he could only retreat, and he kept scolding in his mouth.

"Well, what's the trouble, this matter has little to do with your family, so why bother to be tough for a dead man. Your father entrusted you to me on his deathbed, and now for the sake of a Japanese, you have come to such a field, it's a pity, it's a pity! ”

Jiang Shoushou said kind words and kept shaking his head. "You still dare to mention my father, if he hadn't discovered your secret, he wouldn't have died, and I will sue you, even if you skin us alive, don't try to pull a word out of our mouths." Jiang Shoushou didn't speak for a while, when a crisp rooster crow came from outside the temple, and the snow was falling heavier. "Ignition!" Dog San couldn't wait any longer, and as soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed a torch from a villager and threw it into the pyre. But there was no fire, so more villagers were ordered to throw torches into the pyre. With the acquiescence of Jiang Shoushou, for a while, the pyre was full of torches, and the fire began to spread, and it was unconsciously uncontrollable. The man laughed, stopped laughing, and scolded Jiang Shoushou, then shook his body violently. After the dog looked at it, he picked up the torch from the ground and stuffed it into the man's mouth, and suddenly his mouth was full of sparks. "Let you scold again, let you scold again......" When the three dogs raised their hands and fell, the man and the woman had become fire men. At the end of the crowd, a beggar sitting on a stone bench had tears in his eyes and opened his mouth slightly: "I'm sorry, I don't want to ...... like this" The smoke and fog fused together, and everyone present couldn't open their eyes, covered their noses and eyes and fled outside the temple. Dog San also walked out with Jiang Renshou in his arms. Not long after leaving, two people ran in front of him, one tall and one short. "Village chief, village chief...... "The tall man was panting, and it seemed that he was running in a hurry." How's it going, have you found people and diaries? Jiang Shou asked eagerly. Not...... No, at home...... It's all gone, and even the kid is gone. The short one stammered, and pointed in the direction of the entrance of the village as he spoke. Dog San walked up to the two of them, and without saying a word, it was two slaps. The short man said aggrievedly: "Third Master Rao...... Spare your life, and ...... It's not that we didn't look for it, but the others are gone, and we ...... There's no way around it! "Mom, let you be smart, are you greedy for alcohol again, look at the smell of alcohol in your body." As he spoke, the dog kicked the short man to the ground again. "Forget it, San'er, I want to hear what they have to say." Jiang Shoushou sighed and whispered a few more words in the dog's ear. The three dogs seemed to have received the holy decree and galloped away into the smoke. Gao explained: "We have been squatting outside his house according to your instructions from the village chief, but there are lights inside, and we don't dare to rush in. But no one came out, and seeing that the sky was about to dawn, we were also very anxious, so we broke in, but except for the lights still on, there was not even a single figure, so we rushed back as soon as possible. The short man got up from the ground with his stomach in his hands and nodded repeatedly. Jiang Renshou thought for a moment and said, "You dispose of the corpse first, I have my own opinions." When the two walked to the temple, Jiang Shoushou's hand trembled unconsciously, and he said to himself: "The chess is a bad move, I hope San'er can gain something." "On the other side, Dog San led three or five people to catch up with the only river leading to the outside of the village, and after a while, he saw a human figure." The person in front of me stopped, Mom, give Lao Tzu some hard strokes! Dog San urged his men and warned the front. Twenty meters away from the direction of the third dog, a man carrying a package on his back, holding a two- or three-year-old child, was rowing the boat vigorously, saw someone following, put down the child, and used both hands, looking like he was about to be overtaken.

The child hid behind him in fear, sobbing and sobbing.