Although it is Inner Mongolia, it is actually not far from Heilongjiang, and it is almost to the border of Outer Mongolia. The inhabitants are also mainly Han Chinese, with only a few Manchu and Mongolian ethnic groups. There are a total of six of our educated youth, four men and two women, and they are dumbfounded as soon as they arrive at the place, surrounded by rolling mountains and endless primeval forests, and they can't see half a figure when they walk a hundred or ten miles out of Tunzi.

There is no road at all, let alone electricity, and lighting an oil lamp in this place is a cadre treatment, making the flashlight equivalent to living in the presidential suite now, which is completely unimaginable in the city. At that time, we thought that all parts of the motherland were upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones.

But at that time, I also felt fresh, I had never seen such a big mountain, and it was the first time I had eaten many things produced in the mountains. The mountains near here are relatively rich, there are a lot of mountain goods, and you can also catch fish in the river, but you don't have to worry about not having enough to eat. Later, after returning to the city, I heard them go to Shaanxi to cut the queue and say that they were really bitter, and they had never seen a decent grain of grain in a few years.

The work of educated youths is not too heavy, because this place relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, and there are not many crops. In the summer evenings, we took turns going to the fields to look at the crops, because we were afraid of being eaten by wild animals, so one or two people had to spend the night in the fields.

The crops in the mountains are not like the Qianli green gauze tent like the North China Plain, but one in the east and one in the west, and a field is opened wherever the ground is flat, so you have to go out and walk around often at night. That night I was in the company of the fat man, who was sleeping in the hut, and I went out for a walk, and when I saw that nothing was wrong, I went back to sleep.

When I was about to reach the hut, I saw a large round white shadow not far away, I rubbed my eyes and looked carefully, it was indeed not dazzling, but it was too dark to see what it was. I didn't believe in ghosts at the time, I thought it was some kind of animal, so I picked up a stick and tried to drive it away.

A white flower in the darkness, still shaking slightly, what is this? It doesn't look like an animal, but if it's not an animal, why would it move?

Although I am not afraid of ghosts, but in the face of unknown things, I still have some fear, and I dare not pick a stick to fight directly. The stick in my hand is actually a thick branch that I picked up from the ground. I gently poked the pile of white things with a twig, and it was soft...... Suddenly, in the darkness, I heard the fat man shouting, "Ah...... Do? Hu Bayi! What are you doing with a twig stabbing me in the ass? ”

A false alarm, it turned out that the fat man ate unclean fruits during the day, had stomach trouble at night, squatted there to put thatch, and his big white ass was conspicuous in the night.

The next morning, the fat man insisted that I compensate him, claiming that he had been scared to death of more than a million brain cells last night. I said, "Can you have so many brain cells in your brain?" You and I are both poor and single, and I have received the supreme instructions to come to the countryside to receive the necessary re-education of the poor and middle peasants, what do you want me to compensate you? I can tell you in advance, as your close revolutionary comrade-in-arms, all I have is the last pair of pants I am wearing now, and you will never ask me to compensate you with these pants, right? ”

The fat man said with a wicked smile on his face: "That's not necessary, I saw a very big honeycomb in the old forest of Tuanshanzi yesterday, you go with me to poke the honeycomb, let's get some honey to drink water, and you can also use honey to exchange rabbit meat with Yanzi and her father to eat." ”

Yanzi is a girl's name, her father is a well-known old hunter in the village, and the fat man and I both live in the Zhiqing Point of her house. The father and daughter often went into the mountains to hunt, and from time to time invited us to eat wild game, and we always felt that it was a bit too bad to always eat other people's good things, but we were too poor to have anything to use to invite the swallow father and daughter.

So we decided to get some honey and give it back to the swallows. Both of them are quick tempers and do what they say. In the past, in the city, the fat man and I were both well-known naughty kings in the whole military region, and it was nothing to poke a honeycomb, and it was often played ten times more powerful than this.

I was afraid of getting lost, so I asked Swallow to borrow her hound, which was a half-sized puppy, which Swallow had raised herself. Yanzi gave the puppy a name named Lizi Huang, and was reluctant to take it out hunting, and when he saw that we were going to Tuanshanzi to play, he lent the dog to us.

Tuanshanzi is not far from our village in a straight line, but because there is no road, we walked over the mountains and mountains for half a day to arrive. The forest is so large that the people in the village have warned us not to go in, saying that there are bears in it. We have seen a man in the village with only half of his face, who met a man-bear here when he was a child, but fortunately, Yanzi's father arrived in time and shot the man-bear away and saved him. But the face was still licked by the human-bear, and the man-bear's tongue was full of inverted flesh thorns, and a large piece of flesh was licked off when he licked it. He has no eyes and ears on the left side of his face, his nose and mouth are crooked, he is in his forties, and he can't get a wife, and the old people in the village will shed tears when they talk about him.

Although we were bold, we did not dare to rush into the primeval forest, and the beehive that the fat man was talking about was found at the edge of the forest when he went to collect pine seed oil with the villagers, on a large tree near a stream outside the forest.

But unexpectedly, the honeycomb was so large that it was bigger than the ones we had stabbed before, and from a distance, it looked like a limbless calf hanging from a tree, and the huge black stinging bees in it flew around, and the buzzing sound was deafening.

I said Chubby, you fucking pit me, is this a honeycomb? This is simply a big hornet atomic bomb, this is going to be stabbed and exploded? The fat man said yes, if ordinary honeycombs still need to find you? I'll solve it myself, how about it, do you dare to do it?

I said what is this, our team is invincible, we are not even afraid of US imperialist planes and tanks, can we be afraid of a few little bees? It's all his grandmother's paper tigers, fuck it, let's eat honey today.

That being said, you can't do it brutely, and the slightest mistake will be stung alive by a wasp, this kind of bee is so huge, it must be poisonous, you don't need more, you can take one or two hits like this. There happened to be a small river next to it, and this is called God Help Me. I first took out a piece of bread and broke it in two, fed the chestnut yellow to eat, and let it run away. Then each of them put on the military coat he had brought with him, and put on a dogskin

The hat was tied around the neck, gloves were put on, and a transparent scarf borrowed from the female intellectuals was covered in front of the hat, and after checking that there was no place on the whole body that showed any flesh and skin, the fat man found two hollow reeds, one for each person, and was ready to jump into the river to avoid the attack of the swarm to breathe.

When we were ready to stop, we came to the tree like two bloated bears, and I was ready to go with a ball of winter seed grass and matches in my hand, and the fat man took a long pole and counted: "One, two, three." "When I counted to three, I stabbed the part of the hive that connected the trunk with a long pole, and before I could poke it four or five times, the huge honeycomb horn clicked and fell under the tree, and the countless hornets inside immediately exploded and flew out, forming a large black mist in the sky, buzzing over our heads.

I prepared well in advance, regardless of the attack of the swarm, I lit the winter seed grass with a match, and placed it on the upwind of the honeycomb, and the giant bees flying out of it lost their sense of direction as soon as they smoked it, and flew everywhere, and the fat man and I used dirt to build a firewall around the burning dead grass to prevent the formation of a burning fire.

By this time, the hornets that had not been smoked had already recognized their target and pounced on us. I felt like hail on my head, and I didn't dare to stop any longer, so I hurried with the fat man to the brook beside me. The stream was not deep, less than a meter, one of us plunged to the bottom, and the wasps on our bodies were washed away by the stream, I held the dogskin hat on my head with one hand to prevent it from being washed away by the current, and took out the reed with the other hand to breathe.

After a long time, he showed his head and found that the bee colony had either drowned in the water or fainted from the smoke, and there was no danger. Although it was the height of summer, the stream in the mountains was cold, and I was shivering with cold, so I finally climbed ashore and lay on the rocks panting, and the sun on my head warmed my body, and it was indescribably comfortable.

After a while, the fat man couldn't hold it anymore, and crawled ashore slowly, and just halfway up, he suddenly sighed, and raised his arm suddenly, and his hand was pierced by something, and the blood flowed.

I hurried down to the stream to help him, and the fat man clutched the wound and said, "Be careful, there seems to be a broken bowl in this river, and it will fucking stab me." ”

There is no one living in this vicinity at all, how can there be a broken bowl, I was curious, took off a fine light, dived into the stream bare-chested and groped, in the place where the fat man was pierced, found out half of the broken porcelain bowl, look at the style of the bowl and the blue pattern, it is a bit like the blue and white porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty that my grandfather collected before.

My grandfather's antique calligraphy and paintings were smashed by the Red Guards when they were broken, and I didn't expect to see the fragments of this kind of antiques in the deep mountains and old forests, which is really a bit intimate. But it was of no use to me, and I raised my hand and threw the half of the broken bowl far into the woods.

The fat man also stripped off his soaked clothes, wrapped the wounds on his hands indiscriminately, and jumped into the stream again. The two of us took a shower, and then hung our clothes, shoes and socks on the pebbles by the stream, and I whistled and beckoned Chestnut Yellow to come back.

I saw Chestnut Yellow running back from a distance, with a fat gray hare in his mouth. I don't know how this unlucky rabbit did it, but he actually bumped into the mouth of Chestnut Yellow, a hunting dog who was still in the internship period. When I saw a hare, I was overjoyed and rolled on the ground with chestnut yellow in my arms, and it was such a good dog, and I broke a large piece of honey-stained hive from the hive to reward it.

The fat man said: "Let's find someone to raise a few puppies when we go back, and we will have rabbit meat to eat every day in the future." ”

I said, "You think beautifully, and no rabbit in the mountains can stop you from eating this big trough." Don't talk nonsense yet, I'm really a little hungry, you hurry up and pack up the rabbit, and I'll go collect firewood and make a fire. ”

The fat man washed and skinned the rabbits by the stream, and I took bundles of dried pine branches and lit a bonfire, and smeared the skinned hares with a thick layer of honey, and set them up on the fire to roast. After a while, the smell of honey-roasted rabbit meat wafted through the air, and I cut off the rabbit head and fed it to the dogs, and the rest of the rabbit meat was split in half and eaten by the fat man. I've never eaten anything so fragrant when I've grown up, and I almost swallowed it with my fingers, and although there is no oil or salt to flavor it, the hare meat smeared with wild honey and roasted with pine branches has a natural flavor, and I would never have imagined such a delicious thing in the world in my life in the city.

After eating, seeing that it was not early and that the clothes were almost dry, they pierced a huge honeycomb with thick branches, and the two of them carried them one after the other, singing revolutionary songs and returning to the village: "The sky and the earth are big, and it is not as great as the determination of all of us; Father and mother, not as good as ** affection. "This is really the whip of the golden stirrup, and the triumphant song is sung. The only thing that is not quite harmonious is that our loud revolutionary song is mixed with the excited cries of Chestnut Huang, which makes me feel a bit like the atmosphere of the devil entering the village in the movie.

When I returned to the tunzi, I saw that there were more than half of the people, so I asked Yanzi: "Yanzi, where have they all gone?" ”

While helping us carry the hive, the swallow replied, "The Chaganha River is flooded, and the wood in the forest farm is soaked, and at noon the people in the village have gone there to help carry the wood." The branch secretary asked me to tell you to take good care of the crops and don't cause trouble, they will not come back in seven or eight days. ”

I don't like to listen to people who don't let me get into trouble, as if I was born to be a troublemaker, so I said to Yanzi: "The branch secretary is drunk and confused, right? What can we do? We're all good boys. ”

The swallow smiled and said that you don't get into trouble yet, after beating these young people in your city, the hens in the village have made you so noisy that you can't lay eggs.

The other two male intellectuals we were with also went to the forest farm, leaving me and the fat man and two other female intellectuals, and we felt lucky that we were not sent to work in the forest farm because we went out to play. The honey was put into the jar, which was filled with more than ten large clay pots, and the swallow said that the rest of the beehive could be eaten as a whole vegetable, and the whole roe deer meat was fried in the beehive at night.

When it comes to eating, the fat man is happy, saying that today's small life is similar to the New Year, I just ate roast rabbit meat in the afternoon, and I ate roe deer meat fried beehive in the evening, and my saliva flowed out. The swallow asked us where we roasted the rabbit. I told you what had happened. The swallow said, "Oh, don't be foolish, roast the hare on the edge of the old forest, and the smell of meat will lure the man and bear out."

When we heard her say this, we remembered that it was really too dangerous, but fortunately the man-bear may have been sleeping today and did not smell the smell of barbecue. While helping the swallow to make a fire, I said that the fat man was pierced by a broken bowl in the stream, how could there be that kind of blue and white porcelain bowl in the Song Dynasty in the barren mountains and mountains?

Yanzi said that it was not new at all, and the girls in our village got married, and every family had a few bottles and jars for dowry, all of which were fished out of the river.

The more I listened, the more strange I felt, antiques could still be fished in the river?

The swallow also took out two porcelain vases from under the bed for me to see: "It's not from the river, it's all washed down from upstream." The source of these rivers near our village is in the Niuxin Mountain of Lama Ditch, and I heard the old people say that the mountain is buried in the tomb of the queen mother of the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, and the good things buried in it went to the old nose. Many people wanted to find the tomb, but either they didn't find it, or they couldn't get out after entering the lama ditch. The forest in the Lama Ditch is so dense that my father once saw that there were wild people in the ditch, and some people said that the Niuxin Mountain was haunted, anyway, no one dared to go there again all these years. ”

It was already night while talking, Yanzi had cooked the meal, and the fat man went to call the other two female intellectuals to dinner. As soon as I went, I ran back panting with one of them, Wang Juan, and I hurriedly asked them what was wrong.

Wang Juan gasped for a long time before she made it clear, and it turned out that the female intellectual, Tian Xiaomeng, who was with her, wrote from her home, saying that her mother was hospitalized with asthma, and she was quite sick. Tian Xiaomeng heard that the Bodhisattva fruit growing in the lama ditch had a miraculous effect on asthma, so he went to the lama ditch alone to pick the bodhisattva fruit. I went there in the morning, and I didn't come back until dark.

How high did my brain jump up, this Tian Xiaomeng was too reckless, that place was full of primeval forests, and even experienced hunters in the village didn't dare to go casually, why did she go alone?

Wang Juan cried and said I can't stop her, let's go find her quickly, what if something happens.

But now the laborers in the village have gone to the forest farm, and the rest of the people are old and young, and if they want to find someone, they can only go with me and the fat man, and Yanzi also brought chestnut yellow and shotguns with us, leaving Wang Juan to watch the crops in the village.

If there is a dog in the mountain, we are not afraid of getting lost, so we dare not delay, and we light a torch and lead the chestnut yellow into the mountain overnight. There is no road to go in the deep mountains and old forests, I really can't understand how Tian Xiaomeng, a girl, dares to break into the deepest part of the mountain alone, the fat man said that she may be in a hurry, whose mother is sick and not in a hurry.

Because it was dark, let the dog track the smell, Chestnut Yellow has not received professional tracking training, and often loses it, and has to turn back to find it again. So we walked very slowly, four or five hours before, and walked all night. There was a dawn in the east, the morning breeze in the great forest gave goosebumps to the people, and the fresh air lifted people's spirits, and the swallow pointed to us to the west: "You see, that big mountain is the Ox Heart Mountain." ”

The fat man and I looked to the west, and in the mountains covered by the vast forest sea, there was a huge mountain with a strange appearance, the whole mountain was like the shape of a cow's heart, and nine large waterfalls like white jade dragons rushed down from the mountain, and the porcelain that the villagers picked up was washed out of these waterfalls, and it seemed that the mausoleum of the legendary Empress Dowager of Liao might be in the mountain, but no one had been able to find the entrance for so many years.

I saw this magnificent mountain and suddenly had a feeling that I had seen such a mountain somewhere. After a while, I finally remembered a passage I had seen when I was idly looking through the broken book left by my grandfather. This landscape pattern is an excellent feng shui treasure hole, the front is hopeful, the back has to rely on, the nine waterfalls are like nine dragons to take water, the hill is divided into a blooming lotus, by the way, it seems to be called what "nine dragon cover jade lotus".

The nine waterfalls on the mountain, one more and one less, or there is no such large water flow, they are not enough to reach the pattern of the Nine Dragons Cover Yulian. Nine is the largest in the single digit and has the implication of supreme; The pronunciation is also the same for a long time, with the meaning of eternity, and has always been regarded as the most auspicious number. In addition, if the water flow of the waterfall is small, then it is not called a dragon, it is a snake.

According to the book, the most suitable thing is to bury women in this kind of place, if a man is buried, his family will be unlucky.

At this time, I had a vague feeling in my heart that my grandfather's "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" was not a mess of the four olds, and the content of the book was indeed substantial, and I would read it again after I went back.

However, I don't think this kind of feng shui has any practical value, there have been so many emperors and generals in China since ancient times, which one of them is just to find a place to bury after death? The historical torrent of dynasty change, prosperity and decline, how can it be influenced by whether the ancestral grave is buried well or not?

The swallow pointed to the valley in front of Niuxin Mountain and said, "This is the famous lama ditch, and legend has it that there are wild people in it, and it is haunted at night." ”

The fat man looked at the primeval forest in the valley, frowned and said: "Tian Xiaomeng will definitely get lost if she enters Lama Ditch, there are only three of us and a dog, and it is really not easy to find her." ”

I saw that the two of them were a little discouraged, so I cheered them up and said: "Communist materialists should not believe that there are any ghosts in the world, whether they are ghosts or wild people, even if I meet them, even if they are unlucky, I will capture a few of them alive and take them to Beijing to give them to **, **I must be very surprised to see them." ”

The fat man, like me, was born in a military family, and there was a genetic factor in his blood that he was not afraid of heaven and earth.

Only Yanzi is worried, as a local, she has heard countless terrible legends about this lama ditch since she was a child, and naturally has a congenital fear. But now it's important to save people, and you can only leave those behind.

The three of them sat down first and ate some dry food, and the whole equipment, we had a total of two shotguns, these two guns were used by Yanzi and her father when hunting, one was three sleeves, and the other was a commonly used tooth lifting by the Oroqen people, both of these guns were very backward, all of them were breech-loading gunpowder guns, which were very lethal at close range, but it was difficult to guarantee the power and accuracy of shooting at targets thirty-five meters away, and it was good to shoot a hare roe deer or something like that.

I was taken to the shooting range by my father to play with guns since I was six years old, and I am very familiar with the PLA's standard guns, but I am not sure that I can control this breech flintlock shotgun. The fat man and I had about the same experience, and we discussed it, and I and the swallow each took a shotgun, and the fat man took a machete for chopping wood. Ready to stop, the three of them plunged headlong into the dense forest of Lama Ditch.

In the Lama ditch, compared with the legendary wild man and mountain ghost, the most real and direct threat comes from the man-bear, although the man-bear and the black blind man are the same bears, but the man-bear likes to walk on people's feet, hence the name. Man-bears are large in size, rough in skin and thick in flesh, and hunters only dare to attack them when they are in groups with a large number of hunting dogs. If a person encounters a man and a bear in the primeval forest with a broken gun, it is almost equivalent to a death sentence.

After walking in the forest for most of the day, the sound of the water of the nine waterfalls on Niuxin Mountain rumbled louder and louder, and I saw that the lama ditch had come to an end, and I was almost at the foot of Niuxin Mountain.

The man, bear, and savage didn't touch it, let alone see Tian Xiaomeng, and the fat man was so tired that he sat on the ground: "No...... Really...... I can't walk anymore. ”

Yanzi said then let's rest for a while, Chestnut Huang doesn't seem to be able to find Tian Xiaomeng's smell, alas, what a problem, if you can't find her, the branch secretary and my father will not scold me to death when they come back.

I was also tired enough, so I picked up the kettle and poured a few sips, and said to the two of them: "Tian Xiaomeng Xu is not going to let people eat bears?" Otherwise, it is possible that she was captured by the savages and became the lady of the village. ”

We were resting and chattering when we heard Chestnut Yellow barking at the depths of the forest, the hounds are good dogs with good bloodlines, and they would never bark so wildly unless they were in extremely dangerous situations.

I asked Swallow, "What's wrong with the dog?" Did you find any beasts? ”

The swallow's face turned pale: "Hurry up the tree, it's a man bear." ”

As soon as I heard that it was a man-bear, I hurriedly climbed up a big tree, and when I looked down, I saw that the swallow was holding the fat man's buttocks, and the fat man could not climb the tree, so he struggled to hold the trunk and rub it up little by little. I quickly slipped down from the tree again, and with the swallow I held the fat man's buttocks, and the fat man finally climbed up to the lowest branch, and lay on it sweating profusely and said, "I...... This Tree Fuck ...... It's too high! ”

The cry of the chestnut yellow became more and more urgent, and before the swallow and I could climb the tree, we saw a black-haired man-bear emerge from the bushes, and when it saw a living person, it immediately became excited, and the man stood and roared like thunder.

Yanzi has been hunting in the mountains with her father for many years, and she has extremely rich experience, so she didn't have time to think about it, so she raised her shotgun and fired a shot at the man-bear, and there was a splash of fire, and the projectile hit the man-bear's stomach.

Due to the close proximity and the softest belly of the man-bear, the shot opened a large hole in its stomach, and blood and intestines flowed out at the same time. The man-bear was injured and angry, and stuffed his intestines back with the bear's paws, and then pounced furiously at the swallow, whose shotgun could not be fired continuously, and there were trees and thorns behind him, and there was nowhere to escape, so he could only close his eyes and wait for death.

Saving people is important, I don't think much about it, hurriedly raise the gun to aim at the head of the man-bear, if this shot misses, the swallow will be over, thinking of this, the hand trembled a little, gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger, boom, the huge recoil of the shotgun almost lifted my head, sat on the ground with a butt, I don't know whether the musket was not lethal enough or I shot it off, although it hit the head of the man-bear, but only blinded one of its eyes.

Although this shot was not fatal, it saved the swallow, and the man and bear were blind in one eye, and his face was covered with blood, and there was still half an eyeball hanging on his eye socket, and he became even more crazy, and left the swallow alone, and pounced on me.

At this time, Chestnut Huang bit the hind legs of the man-bear from behind, and the man-bear turned his head to grab the chestnut yellow, and the chestnut yellow was very alert, and when he saw the man-bear turn around, he ran away and bared his teeth at the man-bear to provoke.

Just like that, Swallow and I both seized the time-saving ten seconds and climbed the big tree respectively.

The injury of the man and bear is not light, even the tiger is afraid of it in the mountains, which has suffered such a big loss, and wants to catch the chestnut yellow, but there is no hound to run fast, want to bite, we all climbed the big tree. It turned around under the tree a few times, although it had an evil fire in its belly, and for a moment it did not know what to do, and it jumped like thunder, and roared wildly in the sky, and the sound shook the valley.

I was lying on the big tree and saw the people and bears below turning in a circle, forgetting that I was in danger, I felt funny, and shouted to the fat man on the other tree: "Little fatty, why don't you leave your second uncle?" What are you wandering around? You persuade it, don't think about it. ”

The fat man is not afraid of people and bears but afraid of heights, in modern terms he may be a little afraid of heights, lying on the branch of the tree and trembling with fright, but he listened to me squeezing him, and refused to suffer, and scolded me: "Hu Bayi, you are fucking lacking in virtue, you, who is my second uncle below, you can see it clearly, isn't that your daughter-in-law?" ”

I laughed, pointed to the man below and said to the fat man, "Oh, I'm wrong, it turns out that this is your aunt, I won't be your uncle." ”

The fat man was so angry that he wanted to throw me the pine cones from the tree, but he clung to the branches with both hands, for fear that he would fall down as soon as he let go, so he didn't dare to make much movement, so he could only stare at me.

I was even amused when I saw the fat man, but immediately my smile froze, and the man and bear under the tree were climbing up my big tree without hesitation.

Although it was bulky, it was extremely powerful, and it was seriously injured, and the pain had made it completely lose its mind, and in its eyes there were only three of us and a dog, staring at a blood-red bear eye, the flesh thorns on the big bear's paws firmly grasped the trunk of the tree, and the huge body climbed up more than a meter high every time it jumped. I scolded in my heart: "Who the hell sues me that a bear can't climb a tree?" Isn't that a pit for me? ”

There is an old hunter in the mountains who tells young hunters: It is better to fight a tiger than a mad bear. The injured and completely insane human-bear, its destructive and explosive power is amazing. I was shocked, where did I still have the heart to joke with the fat man, and I kept thinking about how to get out.

At this time, the swallow reminded me: "Hurry up...... Quickly load the iron sand and hit it in the other eye! ”

Then I remembered the shotgun I carried behind me, scolded myself for being useless, climbed to the top of the tree for a while, untied the belt of arms for my trousers, tied the belt to a branch of a large tree that could bear my weight, grabbed the shotgun with one hand and hung the center of gravity, and with the other hand I loaded the shotgun with gunpowder, and put most of the remaining gunpowder in the horn barrel into the barrel of the tooth.

The man-bear crawled very fast, getting closer and closer to me, and both the swallow and the fat man pinched a cold sweat for me. I tried to focus only on the action of loading the shotgun in my hand and not on the man-bear crawling up below.

After the gunpowder is loaded, the iron sand is pressed, and the gunpowder and iron sand are pestled with an iron tongzi. My nose and sideburns are covered in sweat, and this shotgun is a nuisance. In the great forests of the northeast, how many hunters have lost their precious lives because they don't have a quick gun, and at this time, if I can have a five-six semi-automatic rifle, even if it has two or three more human bears, even if there is a pistol.

At the moment when I finished filling the iron sand gunpowder and replacing the flint, the man-bear's claws reached my feet. I quickly retracted my feet, turned the muzzle of the gun downward, and fired a shot right in the head of the man-bear. This shot was fired from too much gunpowder, and the smoke rose and blackened my face.

The musket is excited by the power of gunpowder jetting, but the angle is too low to loosen the iron sand pressed in the barrel, and it does not exert its due power, and it is a one-handed close shot, and there is no support point behind, so the distance is still missed, and it does not hit its head, but only beats the shoulder of the man-bear. The man-bear fell from a tree more than ten meters high and hit the ground heavily, the ground was full of extremely deep dead branches and leaves, coupled with its thick skin and flesh, falling from a height did not cause much damage to it.

The man-bear climbed up, this time no longer climbing the tree, and like a heavy tank, screamed and slammed its fat body into the tree, causing the pine leaves and pine cones on the tree to rain down one after another.

Luckily, I hung my arms with an armed belt so that I wouldn't be shaken down. I was a little worried that this big tree was not strong enough, and that it would break off after a few hits by a human bear, and I didn't think that I would die in the mountains and forests today. When death is on the verge of death, you can't lose face, you have to show some righteous and awe-inspiring strength of revolutionaries, and let the fat man take a good look at my old Hu is by no means a bad seed. So he tore his throat and shouted to the swallow and the fat man: "It seems that I am going to see Marx, I can't help my comrades-in-arms, I will go first and take a seat for you over there, if you have anything to say to the revolutionary mentor, I will definitely convey it for you." ”

The fat man shouted to me on another big tree more than ten meters away: "Comrade Lao Hu, you can go with confidence, the revolutionary cause does not have many of you, not many of you, you go to Lao Ma's side to study revolutionary theory, I heard that they always eat potato and beef stew, are you used to eating?" ”

I replied, "When did we do revolutionaries?" Comrade Chubby, if the revolutionary cart doesn't fall, you just have to push it forward! The red flag rolls up the serf halberd, the black hand hangs the whip of the overlord, and the remaining two-thirds of the suffering masses in the world will depend on you to liberate, so I will eat potatoes and roast beef every day. ”

Yanzi was so anxious that she cried: "What time is this, you two still have the leisure to talk about calves, hurry up and think of a way." ”

Just when we couldn't do anything, the man-bear stopped hitting the tree with its body, and it stopped, sat on the ground, and gasped. It turned out that the man-bear shed a lot of blood, and kept tossing, although the brute strength was amazing, but it was also used to the end, this time it calmed down from the rage, learned to be obedient, waited for work, and sat under the tree with us.

Chestnut Huang also saw the power of the man-bear, did not dare to get close to the man-bear and hissed, squatted far away, it was also very hungry, but out of loyalty to the master, it refused to find food by itself. Yanzi felt sorry for his dog, and whistled to let Chestnut Huang go find something to eat by himself, and Chestnut Huang left.

The three of them lay on the tree to discuss countermeasures, but after thinking about it, there was really no feasible way, and now they are fighting hard under the tree, only the old-fashioned musket in their hands, undoubtedly killing themselves, most of the people in the village are not there, and don't expect someone to come to the rescue. In order not to fall off the tree, they had to tie their bodies firmly to the trunk of the tree with their trouser belts, and see who could beat who in the end.

In this way, a stalemate was formed, and this situation was most unfavorable to the three people in the tree, and the thrilling man-bear fight just now had exhausted our strength, and now it was almost evening, and the three of us had not closed our eyes for two days and one night, and had only eaten a few stick pastries during the day, and we were hungry and sleepy, and I was afraid that we would not be able to pass out of hunger and fall off the tree until tomorrow morning.

This situation reminds me of a poem by the chairman: The enemy army is besieged by thousands of people, and I will not move. However, there are no flags in sight at the foot of the mountain, only people and bears waiting.

I was so cranky, and before I knew it, I fell asleep on the trunk of a tree. I don't know how long it took, I felt unbearable hunger in my stomach, and I woke up after a while, only to see that the sky was full of stars, and the waning moon was like a hook, and it was late at night. The whole forest was silent, and by the moonlight, the man and bear under the trees were gone, and I don't know when it left. The branches were so thick that I couldn't see clearly whether the swallow and the fat man were still in the tree, so I let go of my throat and shouted, "Swallow! Chubby! Are you still in the trees? ”

They asked several times, and the shouts echoed through the valley of the night, but the two of them did not respond. I was bold, but the thought of being alone in the primeval forest made me shudder. I thought that these two guys were too uninteresting, why did they forget me, and they didn't even call me when they left.

I shouted twice more in the tree, but there was no movement, and I became restless and looked around, and found a place not far ahead of me where the lights were flickering, and I did not expect that such a place would be inhabited. Did the two of them also see the light and go over there to find someone?

In the dark night, I couldn't distinguish the southeast and northwest, only heard the roar of the water, raised my head to find the direction of the North Star, it seems that the light should be from the direction of Niuxin Mountain. I slipped down from the tree and walked one foot deep and one foot shallow towards the light.

I began to fantasize that the owner of the light was an old hunter who lived in the mountains, with a white beard, very kind, warm and hospitable, and that when he saw such an intellectual youth like me, who had lost his way in the forest, he would have made me a cup of hot tea and roasted a deer leg for me to eat...... The more I thought about it, the hungrier I became, so I wiped the saliva from the corner of my mouth with my sleeve.

While trying to eat, I walked and soon came to a huge cave, the lights in the depths of the cave were brilliant, very strange, just now I looked at those lights not far away, but now it became in the depths of the cave, I was so hungry that I was dazzled.

I walked into the cave with the great temptation of the imaginary roast venison, and walked in two steps to the end of the long, dark and dark cave, and found that the space in the belly of the mountain was vast, and the eyes were suddenly opened. Suddenly, I saw five or six young girls walking side by side talking and laughing on the opposite side, it was clearly summer, but they were wearing luxurious furs, classical style, it didn't seem to be today's clothing, only one of them was wearing a seasonal blue khaki costume, she had two twisted braids on her head, and a military green canvas satchel printed with the words "Serving the People" on her shoulder, hey, wasn't that Tian Xiaomeng?

That's right, it's definitely Tian Xiaomeng, she is an educated youth from Suzhou, and the fat man and I are from Fujian, although we are all southerners, but we don't know each other too well. Mainly because I am too naughty with the fat man, we always get into trouble, and the ordinary honest and quiet girls don't dare to get close to the two of us.

However, when I saw an acquaintance in this strange cave, I had more or less a bottom in my heart. I took two steps and shouted to Tian Xiaomeng, "Xiao Tian, why did you come here?" Is there something to eat? ”

Tian Xiaomeng turned her head to see that it was me, so she beckoned to me and motioned for me to come closer. I went over to her and said, "You're having a good time here, we almost let the bears eat you just to find you." What kind of place is this? Do you have anything to eat? I'm so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back. ”

Tian Xiaomeng said: "I'm so sorry, it's all my fault, I went into the lama ditch to collect medicine and got lost, and I was rescued by these kind-hearted sisters, they are going to act in shadow puppets for a while, you came just in time, let's watch it together and then go back." Then she introduced me to some young women beside her, who spoke with a local accent and spoke politely, and brought me some venison jerky to eat, and beckoned me to go to the play with me.

I followed them inside, and saw a city in the middle of the vast cave, with magnificent pavilions and bright lights, and all kinds of antiques and jade piled up all around.

In front of the city gate, a paper lamp and white cloth were set up, and there were more than a dozen musicians who were in charge of gongs, drums and suona sitting behind, and there was an antique long table in front of it, and the tea utensils and tea cups on the table were all very exquisite, and there was a large red agate tray full of melons and fruits.

There are three chairs in front of the table, and the women wearing mink furs invited me and Tian Xiaomeng to sit on the left and right respectively, and the chairs in the center are empty, and it seems that there is still an important person coming.

Tian Xiaomeng saw that there were only three seats, and the rest of the people were standing behind, so she felt a little reluctant and wanted to excuse herself. I was tired and hungry, and I couldn't care about being polite, anyway, the people of the country and the people sitting, since there is a seat, who sits differently, so I sit with a grin, grab the food in front of me and eat.

It may be that I am very hungry, although the food is exquisite, but it does not taste like half of it, it is like chewing wax, and after eating a few bites, the more I think about it, the more strange I feel.

At this moment, two young girls walked out of the gate with a richly dressed white-haired old lady and sat down in the central seat.

Tian Xiaomeng and I both stood up to say hello to the master, and when I saw the old lady's appearance, I felt even more weird in my heart, what years are these now, how can there still be a landlord's wife?

The old lady nodded at the two of us, sat down in the center, and waited without saying a word to watch the play.

The young woman standing behind her clapped her hands, and the musicians and puppeteers in the troupe heard the order and performed together. Shadow puppetry originated in the Han and Tang dynasties, also known as "lantern shadow play", is a very popular art in the folk, with donkey skin carved out of the characters and animals in the play, by the artist behind the white curtain with gongs, drums and instrumental music ideas singing and manipulation, the development of no less than hundreds of complete sets of plays.

However, this art form was naturally affected during the Cultural Revolution, and was criticized as a poisonous weed that promoted talented and beautiful people, emperors and generals, and where would anyone dare to interpret it again. I never imagined that I would be able to see it here today, and it was so fascinating in an era when cultural life was zero. I patronized the theater and completely forgot about other things.

The shadow puppet plays are all very wonderful plays, first performed a play "Taizong Sleepwalking in Guanghan Palace", and then began to play "Di Qing Night Captures Kunlun Pass".

The swords and swords on the stage, the soldiers coming and going, were wonderful, and the drum music was urging, which made the audience cheer continuously. I saw that my heart was shaking, and my mouth was thirsty, so I reached out to take the teacup on the table and drank water, and inadvertently glanced at the old lady beside me, only to see that she was also looking at herself and smiling, while looking at the preserved fruit snacks on the table to eat, chewing the food was very strange, and the cheeks were agitated like an old ape, one by one.

My grandmother has no teeth when she is old, but eating is never like this, is this old lady a human or a monkey? In a mess, the teacup in her hand fell to the ground and shattered, it didn't matter if the teacup broke, the old lady's head also fell to the ground, and her head was still staring at the shadow puppet show, chewing endlessly.

The old lady's maid hurried to the front and respectfully lifted her head, and put her on her body.

I was frightened in my heart, as soon as I picked up Tian Xiaomeng and ran outside the cave, I stumbled out of the cave in the darkness, I heard a loud bang in my ears, the earth kept shaking, and the cave behind me closed into a huge stone wall, if I came out half a minute late, I would inevitably be caught alive in the mountain wall.

It was already bright outside, I pulled Tian Xiaomeng and ran to the stream below the mountain, and suddenly felt a strange pain in my stomach, so painful that cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and I couldn't help squatting down. I remember listening to my grandfather tell the story of ghosts inviting people to eat, and the ghosts used stones, frogs, and maggots to deceive people into eating and drinking, and I don't know what kind of ghost bird I just ate, and the more I thought about it, the more disgusting I became, and I couldn't help but vomit.

In the pain, I vaguely saw two people walking in front of me, the girl in front of me was a little familiar, it turned out to be a swallow, I felt relieved when I saw her, and fainted in front of me.

By the time I woke up, it was three days later, and the swallow and the fat man had been in the tree until dawn, and the man and bear under the tree had died of blood loss. It's just that I couldn't be found anywhere, and finally I was found unconscious and Tian Xiaomeng by the river.

I have been in a coma for the past three days, with a fever of more than 40 degrees, and the fat man has traveled 100 miles of mountain roads to invite the county doctor to treat me. I was physically fit and finally woke up, but Tian Xiaomeng was still unconscious, so I had to inform her relatives to take her home for treatment, as for what happened to her later, we don't know very well.

I told Yanzi's father what happened to me, and he told me that there is a legend in the mountains that when the queen mother died, she buried many folk jugglers alive for funerals.

However, these things are vague in my memory, and sometimes I am not sure that it actually happened, probably just a dream.

In 1969, when it was my turn to go home to visit my relatives, my fate took a huge turn.