After eating and drinking, my grandfather thanked him a few more times, saying that he was too tired and wanted to borrow a night from the old man, and took out a string of money to give to the old man.

At night, my grandfather slept on the straw floor, and the old man was on a broken bed only a few steps away from him. Not bad, the old man found my grandfather a worn-out sheepskin jacket. to resist the cold of the mountains at night.

But for some reason, my grandfather still had some kind of uneasiness in his heart, and he repeatedly reminded himself not to sleep and to be vigilant. He wanted to get up and meditate instead of sleeping, but he was afraid that it would frighten the old man, so he had to lie down in his clothes and put the torn sheepskin jacket over himself.

But because I was so tired, as soon as I lay down, my eyelids still fought. However, my grandfather worked hard to adjust his breath and mobilize his meridians to reach a state of concentration.

He had been practicing with his master for many years, and for him, this state was sometimes more rejuvenating than sleeping, but on the surface it looked exactly the same as sleeping.

About after midnight, my grandfather suddenly heard the old man suddenly ask, "Have you slept?" Can you help me light the lights? The voice was as ugly as a night owl, and when ordinary people heard it, they were afraid that they would jump up in fright.

My grandfather was silent, he knew that this was the old man trying to see if he was asleep. After the old man finished shouting this, there was no movement for a long time, and the room was still silent. My grandfather rolled over and deliberately snored slightly.

The old man had been going on for a long time, and suddenly he seemed to have moved, and my grandfather could hear it, and it should be the old man getting out of bed. Although he couldn't see anything in the dark room, with his unique talent, my grandfather could fully feel the old man's every move, and he could even judge which foot he stepped on first, whether he was holding something in his hand or not.

He felt the old man in the dark, slowly walking towards him, and the muscles of his whole body immediately tensed, ready to fight back at any time. At this time, he felt the old man's hand and groped towards his waist, and my grandfather understood that the old man wanted to steal his money.

He suddenly turned over and sat up, grabbed the old man's hand violently, which frightened the old man and screamed, and squatted on the ground, my grandfather scolded the old man loudly, and pushed and shoved the old man to light the lamp.

When the oil lamp was lit, the darkness of the room, where the fingers could not be seen, saw the light again. The old man was so frightened that he lay down in front of my grandfather, kowtowing and begging for mercy, while crying.

In the dim light, my grandfather saw that the old man was full of white hair, his face was full of wrinkles, and his whole body was trembling because of fear, and his heart couldn't help but soften. Then he picked up the old man, slowed down and said, "You are also so old, you really want to ask for more money, so you just say it, why do you want to do such a sneaky thing?" ”

The old man saw that my grandfather was a good person, and he was quite generous, so he was a little more stable, wiped the old tears on his face, and sat on the broken kang, and then often sighed, as if to say to himself: "Hey, what kind of life did I lose my yin virtue, what a sin."

My grandfather felt that the old man had something to say, and his tone became gentler: "Old man, if you have any difficulties, just say it, I also had something wrong just now, I stayed with you, and there was a lot of disturbance, although you are a little wrong, but I shouldn't be so aggressive."

The old man relaxed completely, then took out the dry tobacco pouch tremblingly, lit it and smacked it twice, then spit out the smoke deeply, squinted and opened the chatterbox.

It turned out that the old man's wife died early, and his only daughter was also married, so he was left alone. When he was young, he hunted for a living, but now that he is old, he can only go around in close proximity, and if he is lucky, he will occasionally catch some prey. But it's very difficult to survive on these prey. So in addition, I have to rely on my daughter and son-in-law to help me live.

But not long ago, he stumbled upon something strange in the mountains.

In this generation, there are no big prey, let alone beasts, at most some foxes, pheasants, hares, and the like. At most, there are a few wild boars.

One day, because there was not much prey in this area near the village, he went a long way into the mountains, and in a wood, he found that there were many footprints of beasts, so he decided to lay a few traps there in order to catch more prey.

Just as he was about to turn around and walk back after he had done everything, he suddenly found that there seemed to be several very large beasts in the distance, he hurriedly hid behind a tree, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be seven or eight sheep! And the head was like a calf, he had never seen a sheep of such a size, and he had never heard of a sheep in the mountains, and this was the first time he had seen it. At first, the old man thought that someone had brought these sheep to the mountain, but he observed for a long time and did not see a single figure, and finally determined that these sheep had indeed run into the mountain by himself.

When the old man said this, my grandfather's heart shook violently, and he suddenly thought, are these sheep the same sheep that the blind man has let go for decades? Is this place not far from the mountain where the blind man lived, and from the town?

Thinking of this, his heart suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly told the old man the name of the mountain where the blind man lived, and the town full of sheep under the mountain, and asked the old man if these two places were not far from here, and the old man said that he knew these two places, but the mountain and the town were two or three hundred miles away from here, and separated by two mountains, and he had only heard of these two places, because the transportation was very inconvenient, and almost no one in this area had ever been there. He also heard that there seemed to be a wildfire in the mountains in that area recently.

After hearing this, my grandfather was a little relieved, two or three hundred miles, and separated by two mountains, and the mountain where the blind man lived was almost completely cut off by the distance and the steep terrain. Even if the blind man had extraordinary skills, he would not be able to find this place lightly. And there was a wildfire there, I wonder if the blind man was burned to death? But with his skills, it's hard to get burned to death so easily. And these sheep may also have run to this side of the mountain because of the wildfire.

Later, when I told Yang Hui about this story, Yang Hui said thoughtfully: "In fact, these sheep are not all the ewes released by the blind, but many of them may be sheep born after the blind man and the sheep are crossbred, and these sheep are the 'strange sheep' we used to say, and there are males and females, and there will be a considerable number of these sheep after repeated breeding."

Of course, the old man didn't know the ins and outs of this, but he was very excited when he saw these sheep. Because he thinks every sheep is so big and so fat. As long as he catches one, it will be enough for him to eat for a long time.

In the next few days, he secretly stalked and looked for these sheep, carefully observed their living habits and the general location of their activities, and after repeated thinking, he specially designed several covers to catch these sheep. And placed it in the place where the sheep often haunted, but after two days, he found that none of the sheep had been caught in those sets, and not only that, but the buckles of the two sets had been unfastened. Could it be that someone helped them untie them?

In order to uncover this secret, he still re-set up a few very hidden covers in other places where the sheep were infested, and took dry food and water with him, and quietly hid near the covers to see what was going on.

The old man kept watch all day, and did not see a sheep coming. It was already evening, and when the old man was about to go home, he suddenly felt a movement.

He hurriedly lay down in the place where he was hiding and looked in the direction where the sleeve was set. Sure enough, the sheep slowly approached and graze. And the cover was set there, because the old man had observed for a few days that the sheep liked to eat the grass the most, so he set it there.

Sure enough, a sheep accidentally touched the mechanism, and heard a snap, and the noose was just around the sheep's neck. To the old man's surprise, the sound of the sheep did not seem to be the ordinary kind of sheep cry, but it seemed to be a human voice. This frightened the old man, and he felt that he must have heard it wrong.

Something even more surprising happened to him.

Several other sheep hurriedly gathered around, and cried loudly and lowly, some of the sheep's cries were more like sheep, but some of the sheep crowed very similar to human voices.

One of the sheep had a most human-like cry, and he leaned over to look at the noose for a while, and then began to deftly untie the knot with his mouth, which was how the noose was untied.

The old man looked at this scene, and for some reason, he had goosebumps, thinking, these sheep are too smart and weird, ordinary sheep are like this, maybe they are the gods of the world?

But seeing that his hard work for many days was about to be in vain again, he hurriedly shouted, got up from the ground with a knife, and ran towards the flock.

When the sheep suddenly found that someone was rushing over with a knife next to them, they immediately scattered in all directions. Only the leashed sheep remained, unable to escape, and was so anxious that it shook its head and tail in a hoarse howl that did not look like a sheep. After many days of tracking and trapping, the old man finally caught one, and it was not in vain.

The sleeve was very strong, and the sheep that was caught in it broke free and howled for a while, but to no avail, and indeed had no strength, so it slowly became honest.

The old man waited unhurriedly for the sheep to toss, and when he looked closely, the appearance of this sheep was much larger than that of ordinary sheep, and it was really similar to a calf. And the wool is very white and smooth, and this sheepskin alone is probably worth a lot of money. However, the old man found that the eyes of this sheep were very special, compared with ordinary sheep, the eyes of this sheep were not so big and round, but a little Mimi, and the eyeballs were not the usual yellow of sheep, but a little brown.

In addition to the eyes, the sheep's hooves are also very distinctive, not divided into two petals, but like human toes, there are five.