There used to be a family surnamed Zhang on the mountainside of Bear's Ears Peak, and a pair of old couples and their two sons and daughters-in-law lived in a small courtyard surrounded by two houses in front and back.

The people who live in the mountains rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and there is enough land on the mountains for the family to be self-sufficient, so they rarely go down the mountains.

But occasionally, they will come down and exchange the unique game and fruits in the mountains for some daily necessities such as kerosene, salt, and flour soda.

Among them, the soda can not only be used for cooking, but also used to wash hair at ordinary times, mixed with water to clean the dirt on the bowls and cups of tea, and even wipe the rust on the ironware, which is used in many households.

The family on the mountain had to buy a big jar every time, and the brothers carried it with a flat pole, and there were some other daily necessities hanging on the jar. Such a big jar, the brothers said that it was alkali.

Although it is said that this flour alkali can be eaten and washed back then, ordinary people will never buy as much as the family living in the mountains every time.

According to the size of the jar carried by the brothers, if it could be filled with alkali, it would last for at least several years. But every month or two, the brothers would always carry the big jar down the mountain to buy something, and carry it back to their home. Got the same reply as before, bought the alkali.

This thing is also strange, how can it be possible to use so much alkali, can it be boiled and eaten? This is definitely problematic.

Said that one day there happened to be a few villagers idle in the afternoon under the tree to enjoy the shade, but met the Zhang family brothers who came down the mountain to buy things to go back, because it was the most sunny time after noon, the mud road was sunburned and smoking, the soles of the people were thin, at this time on the road to walk is the same as walking on the pancake pot, the feet have to be quickly upside down, walk slowly the pain of the needle needle on the soles of the feet.

The villagers had nothing to do to enjoy the shade, and when they saw the brothers of the Zhang family carrying a heavy jar, their feet stomped straight by the scorching ground, they beckoned them to rest under the tree and don't bake them for a while.

The sweat on the head of the Zhang brothers flowed down their necks into their clothes, and their entire backs were wet, sitting in the shade under the tree with straw hats and constantly fanning themselves, and talking to those villagers who were in the shade.

Said that the villagers knew that the Zhang family on the mountain would come down every month to buy a jar of alkali and carry it back, and they always wanted to ask, but they never had the opportunity to speak, this time the Zhang brothers could chat for a while here and asked: "Hey, what do you carry a big jar every time?" It's not alkali, is it? I don't believe you can use so much, and besides, there aren't many of them, and I mean, there aren't many people telling us the truth, what's in that jar? Isn't it something delicious? We don't tell anyone else it's okay, you talk about it. ”

Back then, there was no one who could eat at all, God didn't deal with it, there was no food in the field, and the warlords were divided and warned, and every family had to hide some good things, and some delicious food had to be closed and eaten secretly, once the neighbors knew that gossip was a trivial matter, if it was robbed, it would be a loss.

Therefore, these people think that every time the Zhang family carries a big jar, they must not know where to get something that can be eaten, and they are afraid that people will know that they will say that they are buying salt and alkali as a cover, and others will not be interested when they hear that it is salt and alkali, and that thing is considered a condiment and cannot be eaten.

When the Zhang brothers heard those people ask what was in the jar and whether it was something delicious and edible, the two brothers were both nervous, and they were about to lift the jar and leave.

When the men saw that they were not going to run, they all got up and stopped to see what was in the jar, but the brothers didn't let them see it, and a few people pushed and shoved under the sun.

There was a person present who took advantage of the Zhang brothers to take advantage of the fact that they didn't pay attention to the lid to open it, and several people stopped and turned their heads to look at the things in the jar, but it turned out to be really white alkali, full of it was about to come out, this was boring, and several people were also a little embarrassed, and the old face was red and wanted to reach out and touch their heads and pretend to be stupid to explain.

The younger brother of the Zhang brothers picked up the lid and covered it back, turned around and said, "Do you see it?" It's all alkali, don't you still eat it? After speaking, without waiting for others to explain, the brothers lifted the jar and ran to the mountain and left.

said that since such an incident happened, the Zhang family has never gone down the mountain. After several years, Liu Xi heard that the Zhang family on the mountain had been deserted, but there were a lot of boxes in the house, which might contain valuable things.

As I said earlier, Liu Xi's brain is not very good, and he believed what others said, so he took advantage of the fact that no one paid attention in the afternoon and brought tools up the mountain to find the deserted house, and found several large boxes in the main hall, and it took a lot of effort to pry open the boxes, but there was nothing valuable in it at all, but a pile of Bai Sensen's bones, and a lot of skulls.

It was already dark when Liu Xi found the deserted house, and when he pried open the box, he really didn't see what was inside, he reached in and touched a round thing and took it out, and put it in the moonlight leaking from the sloping roof, which scared him when he saw it clearly, it was a small skull, which looked like an animal's head at first glance, but if you looked closely at the tooth sockets, you could know that this was at most a seven or eight-year-old child's skull.

Liu Xi looked back along the moonlight and saw that the broken box with the lid lifted was full of Bai Sensen's bones, which was shocking to look at, Liu Xiben had a bad brain, but it was not big, and he fainted on the spot.

But the interesting thing is that since Liu Xi was frightened by the bones in the box of the deserted house and woke up, he seems to be a different person, smart and clever, completely different from before, they all say that he was frightened once because of a blessing in disguise, and his brain suddenly became better, it is said that Liu Xi later went to the field and made some money, and lived a good life for a few years.

But at that time, Liu Xi found that there were a few large boxes containing children's bones in the Zhang family's house on the mountain, and this matter was rumored, and many people also went to see the excitement, and the local militia also sent people to investigate the matter, and finally came to a shocking result, the Zhang family ate children, and this was also the prelude to the sensational brother bandits who robbed money and killed people.

The Zhang family worked hard to build a house on the mountainside, and also sorted out a piece of land, and has been living here. This family has a very strange and withdrawn personality, and never likes to interact with others, and they all say that the two brothers of the Zhang family have married their daughters-in-law, but no one has seen what their daughter-in-law looks like, and they have never shown up at all.

When they were hungry in those years of the Republic of China, they had nothing to eat, and they had no choice but to get more things on the mountain to exchange food for kerosene, but life was not good and no one wanted things on the mountain.

In fact, there are many wild vegetables and fruits to eat in the mountains, but those wild vegetables are not nutritious and cannot be eaten, and they are not good without meat.

There are actually not many animals on the mountain, and after being caught by the Zhang brothers twice, they can hardly see it, they can't eat anything all day long, their stomachs are screaming and their mouths are bitter, not to mention how uncomfortable they are.

The two brothers were so hungry that they were forced to take the mountain goods to the village in exchange for some food, but they walked in several nearby villages for a whole day without getting any food, and they were about to go home in disgrace.

On the way home, I met a white child sitting on the side, the brothers stopped at the same time, frowned and looked at each other, and instantly understood each other's meaning, although there was some struggle in the heart, but the brain was already hungry, and the two brothers walked over and asked the child why he was sitting here? It's going to be dark, what about the family?

The child said that his father led him away and his relatives came back late, and when he arrived, his father was sick and went into the grove next to him to, so he waited here.

After the brothers understood, they first lied to the child that there was a wolf that specialized in eating children, and they wanted to take the child to find his father, and then took the child to the neighborhood and strangled him alive and put it in a back basket and returned home, picked up his clothes, washed and chopped off his head, hands and feet, and cooked them in a cauldron.

The two brothers chopped firewood and looked at the cauldron of cooking meat, both with gloomy faces, and replied: "You can eat it after a while, you don't have to ask what it is, just eat it after a while." ”

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