Grandpa lived in that most difficult era, must have seen a lot of dead people, I heard grandpa say before, there was not enough food at that time, people couldn't eat, let alone dogs, so many dogs became wild dogs at that time, plus at that time just came to this vicinity, there are still a lot of wandering jackals, tigers and leopards in the nearby mountains, these beasts because they are not enough to eat, they learn to be obedient, often staring at whose dead people, if they bury them, they will dig them out and eat dead human flesh, So at that time, there were often human bones that had been gnawed by wild beasts in the barren mountains and mountains.

Grandpa can recognize human bones, we can understand, but how did he know that the bones belonged to the mountain god?

Not only did my father and mother not understand, but I also didn't understand, so I asked my grandfather, "Grandpa, how do you know that this is the bone of the mountain god?" ”

Grandpa's swarthy face turned pale, and as if frightened, he stumbled to the side, lit his cigarette and smoked it, and told us something he had never heard of before.

Grandpa said: "When the commune came here to open the mountain, the mountain temple was here, because there were many jackals, tigers and leopards on the mountain at that time, so people had to go up the mountain to catch those jackals, tigers and leopards, but most of the time they went during the day, and they didn't dare to go at night." One day the doll of the old man Li's house has been crying at night, the old man Li scared the doll and said that if he cried again, he would throw him out of the door and let the leopard drag him away, the doll did not listen, but the old man Li really shut him out of the door in a fit of anger, and it was closed for less than ten minutes, the doll stopped crying, the old man Li thought that the doll was frightened, and opened the door to take him into the house, but where was there any trace of the doll, the old man Li knew that his doll was taken away by the jackal, tiger and leopard, and found us at that time, saying that he was going up the mountain to find the doll, At that time, the talented wolves, tigers and leopards on the mountain were wandering in groups at night, and where the living dared to go up the mountain, Old Man Li almost knelt down and begged us, and finally I, your grandfather, and Old Man Li and the three of us went up the mountain with torches. ”

We listened silently and didn't interrupt.

Grandpa smoked a few puffs of cigarette and then said, "The three of us were afraid of being surrounded by wild beasts, and we were afraid that the doll would be eaten by wild beasts, all the way to the edge of the cliff, and finally saw the doll in a cliff cave on the edge of the cliff, which had been bitten all over the body and couldn't cry, when we were about to save the doll, we found that we were surrounded by several spotted leopards on the edge of the cliff, a few hundred meters high cliff behind, and a leopard in front, at that time we thought that we were going to die here, but we saw a woman walking towards us. ”

Our village is built on the hillside, the other end of the hillside is a cliff, when I was just sensible, there was a young baby in the village who led the cow to the cliff to graze the cattle, usually be careful and there will be no problem, but the little baby just encountered the cow when she ran wildly, the little baby was thrown off the cliff with the cow rope, fell to death, and then the people in the village told their children not to go there, and the grandfather naturally told me.

"Is that woman the god of the mountains?" It was the first time Dad had heard Grandpa talk about this, so he was naturally curious.

Grandpa sighed, "At first, we didn't know that woman was the mountain god, but at that time, we just said that this woman was bold, and she dared to come over when she saw a leopard here." The woman was wearing a pair of small embroidered shoes, white and clean, and she looked very delicate, and she came over and said, 'It is not yet the time for dogs to watch their homes, cats to not catch mice, the world is not chaotic, and people can still be masters. Leopards don't have time to eat people', the leopards seemed to be able to understand her, so they turned around and grinned at her, one of the largest spotted leopards pounced on her, the woman was thrown directly to the ground, the three of us were holding torches over and wasted a lot of effort to tear the spotted leopard away, but the spotted leopard was too strong, we three big men were stunned by it to hit away, it didn't bite us, just aimed at the woman, we thought that we could die one less death, and urged the woman to run quickly, but then the woman said something again"No matter how strong you are, can you be as strong as me", she turned into a black wolf, my God, we drove away a lot of wolves when we were chasing wild beasts in the mountains, but it was the first time I saw such a big wolf, most of them were half a man tall. ”

"The three of us were stunned at the time, and said that we had met a monster, the leopard ate people, the wolf also ate people, the monster ate people even more, and they didn't dare to move, but the wolf that the woman became directly entangled with the leopard, and it didn't take long for the black wolf to drop the spotted leopard down the mountain, and the rest of the leopards ran away in a hurry, and we also hurried to the cliff cave to pick up the doll of the old man Li, but when it came out, the doll had already lost its breath and was not saved."

Before, the old man Li asked Liu Cheng, saying that now the dog doesn't watch the house, the cat doesn't catch the mouse, is the world going to change, and now I heard this sentence from my grandfather's mouth, and the co-author was said by the woman.

Dad used to be reluctant to listen to Grandpa talk about this, but now he has experienced some strange things before he begins to believe this, as if listening to a story, he becomes more and more curious, and asks, "Is that woman really a wolf?" ”

Grandpa glanced at his father, if he had been interested in his story before, grandpa might have been very happy, but now grandpa couldn't see any signs of happiness on his face, and he said with a cigarette gun in his mouth, "We were stupid and didn't dare to move, so we looked at the black wolf, and the black wolf turned back into a woman, and when I fought with the leopard before, I was bitten, and it happened to be bitten on the pelvic bone." Grandpa said and pointed to the pelvic bone on the bed, and we could see that there were really a few teeth marks on the pelvic bone, and Grandpa continued, "We were worried that she was not human, so we wanted to leave. She told us that she had saved us, and now let's save her, and we thought it would be unkind to walk away, so we asked how to save her, and she asked us to help her to the mountain temple, and she would be fine, and the three of us did so, and after helping her to the mountain temple, she didn't blead in a long time, just like no one else. We were also bold at that time, so we asked her whether she was a human or a wolf, and she said that she was the mountain god in the mountain temple, a human and not a wolf, because the three of us had not learned the ability, so we couldn't see through her true image, and the wolf she became was fake, it was to scare the leopard, because she was a female mountain god, and the jackals, tigers and leopards around here were not afraid of her, so she pretended to become a black wolf to scare other beasts, and now that people are coming, they have taken away the jackals, tigers and leopards, and she doesn't have to pretend to be beasts. ”

Obviously, there was something going on down here, but my grandfather didn't want to talk about it anymore, and I really wanted to hear it, so I said to my grandfather, "My master just wants to hear you tell him the truth, otherwise he won't save us, so you can tell me, and I'll tell my master again." ”

Grandpa hesitated for a while after hearing this, and then sighed, "I used to think that I had the protection of this female mountain god, but now that even the female mountain god is dead, I can only rely on Master Liu." Grandpa sighed and then said, "We have seen the mountain god in the whole commune, and she is not allowed to tell us to others, because if she tells others, she will come to us to settle accounts, and we have never mentioned it to others." Since then, we have been running to the mountain temple for three days, we can't see her during the day, and occasionally I can meet her when I go at night, I estimate that she is bored enough in the temple alone, after we go, she often takes some tributes for us to eat, and occasionally tells us some feng shui mysteries, and over time we also understand some doorways. ”

I listened puzzled and asked, "She's so good to you, why are you going to tear down her mountain temple?" ”

Grandpa smiled bitterly when he heard this, "At that time, the people in the village were reluctant to push, and we were even more unwilling, but she took the initiative to let us push it." In fact, for a long time before pushing the mountain temple, she told us that she might be in trouble, several times when we went to look for her at night, we could see her covered in blood, at that time she refused to tell us clearly, until the push the mountain temple, she found us, said that the mountain god system should be canceled, she will not be a mountain god in the future, just at that time in the commune also let the mountain temple be pushed, she let us knock down her temple before the documents came down, so that she could not receive the documents is still the mountain god, so we went to push, Otherwise, how could we be the ungrateful people. ”

"And then? What happened when she went into the village to beg for food? I continued to ask.

Grandpa said, "After the mountain temple was knocked down, she disappeared, and then one day she suddenly carried a dead female doll into the village, and went door to door to ask for a living meal for the female doll, and it was obvious that she was here to beg for her life, of course no one wanted to, and I didn't want to do it at the time, and then she knelt down and begged me, and I couldn't bear to agree to her." ”

"Is that female doll Chen Yingying?" I asked again.

Grandpa sighed, "It's her, at that time she handed over the girl doll to me, and then gave me the mountain god seal, let me use the skills she taught before to save the girl doll, the mountain god seal left me the right to be a talisman, at that time she told me that she was protecting our family in the dark, and now even she has become a bone, I don't know how many years she has been dead, I always thought she was still alive." ”