During the Anti-Japanese War of the Republic of China, people all over the world were panicked. This was especially true during the period when the Japanese began to send bombers to carry out large-scale bombing of the rear of the battlefield.

Ming officials and many wealthy and powerful people at that time went to the remote mountainous areas of Shudu to build villas and courtyards as temporary shelters after the defeat. This move caused great panic among the local people.

In the eyes of the people, since the soldiers are ready to flee, then they naturally have no one to care, and they must be the first to suffer. Left and right feel that being in the rear is not safe enough, and they must do something to protect themselves. How can the people who don't have guns protect themselves? Asking God is the way for many people to protect themselves.

In the eyes of many uneducated people in the area, the gods are sacrosanct, but anyone who blasphemes them will inevitably suffer the curse of heaven. As long as there is the blessing of the gods, the Japanese will inevitably throw a rat bogey.

So how can you get the blessing of the gods? Naturally, it is to worship, and a large number of humble temples have appeared. For the people, the well-known god in addition to the mountain god land, is Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Saving the suffering and saving Guanyin, although no one has ever seen his real body appear, after all, his reputation is outside. Among the many temples, there is the most Guanyin Niangniang Temple.

Although Guanyin Bodhisattva is compassionate, she may not be able to save it if there are too many people, and the common people have begun to think about other gods again.

Thinking about it, there are only a few gods who can help them, and it is always not safe enough. At this time, some people thought of the divine beast, the divine beast is different from the god man, the god man cannot be copied, but the divine beast is the entire race.

The most famous in China are the four divine beasts, the Green Dragon, the White Tiger, the Xuanwu, and the Vermilion Bird. Take the white tiger as an example, although one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, but fortunately, there will always be one tiger, which solves the problem of more monks and less porridge.

The thoughts of the common people are very simple, and the divine beasts they think of will naturally not be those fierce beasts in the mountains and forests. There is an essential difference between a divine beast and a beast.

The wild beasts roamed the mountains every day to hunt for food, and the divine beasts practiced in the caves for a long time, and the people in the mountains set their eyes on the caves.

And there is such a cave in Wu Miao's hometown, and there is a divine beast in it, which is the patron saint of the local people.

The village of my hometown is called Wujia Village, and the village is surrounded by mountains, among which the mountain in the west is the highest and most dangerous, and there are the most fierce beasts. Before the Ming Kingdom, that mountain had always been a forbidden place for the local people...

Later, in order to find the divine beast, all the men in the village carried knives and axes, and it took half a month to smooth a road to the top of the mountain. During this period, there was no shortage of wits and courage with ferocious beasts, but fortunately, although there were wounded, no one died.

When you reach the top of the mountain, you realize that the top of the mountain is just the foot of another mountain.

At the foot of another mountain, there is a cave with a small entrance, but there is something else in the cave. As soon as the people entered the cave, they heard the roaring sound incessantly, and when someone explained the reason and put down the prepared offerings, the roaring stopped. Everyone was overjoyed, believing that it was the divine beast that had agreed to shelter them, so they respectfully withdrew from the cave.

Later, every once in a while, people would send offerings into the cave, hoping that the divine beasts would come forward to punish them when the Japanese invaders. It wasn't until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War that people no longer had to commit crimes with their hearts, and the worship stopped.

Although later people learned the knowledge, they gradually learned that the gods were not scientific. However, the story of the existence of a divine beast in the cave has always been passed on by the older generation, and the children and grandchildren are warned to enter the cave with reverence and never offend the gods.

Wu Miao was very curious about the cave when he was a child, and after asking, he learned that the cave was called Qilin Cave, and the divine beast living in it was a water unicorn. It is said that it is precisely because of the soft personality of the water unicorn that the trespasser is not punished.

As a young man in the new era, Wu Miao naturally does not believe in gods and ghosts. I once quietly asked a few bear children in the village to go inside and find out. As a result, as soon as I reached the top of the mountain, I got lost, and it was not easy to find my way home.

Later, when I was older, I left the mountains to study in the city, and I didn't have the opportunity to go again, which was a small regret after all. This time, I just fulfilled my thoughts and went to the cave to find out.

After getting up early in the morning and having breakfast, my grandparents began to prepare.

Grandma was in charge of preparing food and deworming medicines...

It takes two or three hours to go up the mountain, plus the time in the cave, it will be dark once you come and go, and you must prepare enough food and water...

It's April, the weather is getting warmer, and mosquitoes are starting to move. Considering the delicate skin and tender meat of the two girls, the grandmother prepared flower water and some insect repellent powder.

Grandpa is in charge of preparing knives and axes...

The first is a flashlight, which is not possible without a flashlight in a dark hole. The second is the knife and axe, after decades of development, people cut down wood and open up wasteland. Coupled with the hunting of hunters later, there were very few large beasts in the mountains. Just in case, Grandpa was going to bring a knife and axe.

When she had prepared these, she took a piece of yellow silk cloth and cut out many pieces of it and wrapped it in a small satchel.

"Grandma, what is this for?"

Nangong Meng asked curiously.

"It's a road sign, the hole is very big, and there are many forks, so in order to avoid getting lost, you have to mark it. Yellow is the most conspicuous and is best used for road signs. ”

"Can't grandparents recognize the way in the cave?"

"Although we have all been there, I am afraid that no one in the whole village dares to say that we have walked through every corner of the Qilin Cave, or maybe not even a tenth. Besides, I haven't been there for so many years, so I still have to be prepared. ”

I have to admit that the elderly should be more thoughtful in all aspects when thinking about things.

Everything was ready, grandpa led the way in front with a wood knife, grandma and the two daughters walked in the middle, Wu Miao held the axe and broke it, and a group of people slowly set off towards the top of the mountain.

As soon as I got out of the village, I met a neighbor who went out, and the other party was the first to say hello...

"Yo, it's Erdan who is back! And brought two big girls, can't they be your daughters-in-law? Where is Uncle Wu taking them?"

"The child is thin-skinned, and he Aunt Liu doesn't want to laugh. The grandchildren wanted to go to the Kirin Cave for a walk, and we showed them the way. ”

The woman who greeted her was in her forties, surnamed Liu, and Wu Miao was just going to be called an aunt. When Liu heard that he was going to Qilin Cave, he didn't make fun of Wu Miao anymore, and said with a serious face:

"The child is not sensible, why should Uncle Wu accommodate him. The mountains are high and the road is far away, you two are old, and this body bone must not collapse if you go back and forth. If he really wants to go, I will ask his uncle to accompany him on a trip. Uncle Wu, Aunt Wu, don't mess with him. ”

The rural woman spoke directly, although she did not like to listen, but she was sincere.

"His aunt has a heart, but it's okay for my old couple to be idle, and I want to go for a walk again while I can still walk. Maybe you can still see the appearance of that divine beast, that is the future into the earth, and there is also the capital to boast. ”

Seeing that the two elders were resolute, Liu didn't say more. just reminded the second elder to pay attention to his body, and at the same time told Wu Miao to take care of the second elder.

Wu Miao naturally hurriedly agreed, if it weren't for the reward for the members after the task was completed, he would not have let his grandparents go like this.