In the hinterland of Yimeng Mountain, there is a village surrounded by mountains.

Probably because it is surrounded by mountains, this village does not know when it started, and I don't know who started to call it first, so it has a very vivid village name "Jingdi Village".

The story begins in this well-bottom village.

At the time node, the common people just knew that there was no emperor in the world, and the county issued a notice saying that it was a "republic", and even the county officials and county magistrates were renamed county magistrates.

At the age of 15, he used the money he had saved to buy a merchant's burden, and every day he carried the merchant's burden to the countryside and households, and the hand-cranked merchant's hand-held gongs and drums were sold.

When it is a little bigger, there are more and more categories of goods in hand, and they begin to carry the burden of the merchant to rush to the market to sell goods.

On this day, Xinglan packed up the burden of rushing to the market early in the morning, which was similar to the merchant picker we saw in the countryside when we were children in the countryside to sell goods.

A market is five days, until now, in places with markets, or every five days is a set, for example, if a place has a market on the first day, then the time of the next market is the sixth day of the first month, the second day of the first day, the next day is the seventh day of the first month, and so on, such as three corresponds to eight is three eight, four nine and so on.

The bazaar, now fashionable, is also called the "farmer's market"

Within a radius of 30 miles, there are four bazaars in different villages over a five-day period.

In these four markets, Xinglan needs to get up early in the morning and take this "buying and selling" to rush to the market to sell goods.

Rushing to sell goods and do business, so that the people who are engaged in farming and farming envy, it looks more glamorous and easy, but in fact, it is a hard work to carry the burden and catch the market, because the distance he sells goods is more than ten miles away, and the farthest is more than 30 miles.

Carrying a burden weighing a small hundred and ten pounds, but also to walk the mountain path, in order to hurry, are not dawn to start walking, when there is no moon or cloudy day, the dark mountain path, and the pine forests on both sides of the road, by the wind blowing, making a terrifying sound of whirring ears, a person to walk the feeling of panic.

On this day, I was going to catch up with a set that was the farthest away from Jingdi Village, more than 30 miles away.

At that time, there were no clocks to tell the time, and there were no alarm clocks and other things to wake people up, and the general time of day was generally judged by looking at the position of the sun.

At night, it is judged by listening to the rooster crowing a few times.

I remember learning a text when I was a child, and it was the same as that week when the rooster crowed in the middle of the night.

As long as it is the first night of the fair, his father wakes up Xinglan at night by listening to the rooster crow.

Usually the rooster crows three times and he wakes his son up, which is about three o'clock in the morning.

It was a cloudy day, and it was still drizzling, when Xinglan carried the burden and touched the black past the pine mountain, the breeze blew the pine trees on both sides of the road and screamed.

Unlike now, when you can have a big flashlight or something, people at that time walked at night and relied on memory to walk the road. Wherever there is a stone in the ripe place, there is a small pit and a small depression, you can remember it.

As he walked, he suddenly found a big dog-like thing squatting seven or eight steps in front of him, and two eyes that flashed with a faint green cold light stared at Xinglan.

Xinglan stopped suddenly, and her first reaction was that it was someone's dog, but she didn't think it was right, it was just after midnight at this hour, and it was impossible for a dog to come here. Suddenly, I shivered all over, and I felt that the ends of my hair were standing up, and my scalp was popping.

He suddenly reacted, my good boy, look at this size, it's not a dog that is in front of you, it's a wolf!

The wolf on the other side had already stood up, tilting its head forward slightly, pulling its broom-like tail, and its glowing green eyes looked directly at Xinglan, as if it was about to pounce.

Xinglan was shocked, and beads of cold sweat ran down her forehead. He quickly thought of a way to deal with it.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he slammed the flat pole to the ground, took out the flat pole, and with the sound of the burden falling to the ground, he had the courage to pull the long cavity and shouted loudly: Hi ......!

As the saying goes: dogs are afraid to bend over, wolves are afraid to hold knives!

This means that if you encounter a vicious dog, you can pretend to bend over, and the dog will think that you are bending down to pick up a stone and hit it, and it will retreat or dare not attack you for a while.

The wolf's courage is much stronger than that of the vicious dog, and he is not afraid at all in the face of human bending, but as long as he hears a metallic sound from a human body, he will feel an instinctive feeling --- fear, which is probably because the wolf clan has imprinted this sound into the genes during the evolutionary journey.

When Xinglan threw the burden on the ground, the bottles and cans in the merchant's box made a sparse sound mixed with the sound of some broken metal, and Xinglan held two pointed flat poles in his hand, which frightened the wolf and jumped out more than ten steps away.

Xinglan took advantage of this short space, held a flat pole in one hand, and quickly took out a box of foreign fires (matches) with the other hand, hung firecrackers, and threw firecrackers in the direction of the wolf.

The firecrackers then began to crackle, and the wolf was probably really scared and ran away with a howl.

Seeing that the wolf had run away, Xinglan couldn't care about being afraid, and took out a firecracker and hung it on the flat pole, holding a foreign fire in her hand, in case the evil wolf in the way came back.

In panic, he galloped along the rugged mountain road.

As soon as he went down to the halfway point of the mountain, there was a sound of fluttering from the woods on the right, Xinglan was shocked, thinking that it was the wolf who had just escaped, and threw down the burden, and wanted to quickly light the firecrackers hanging on the flat shoulders again, when he heard the coughing sound of hyper, hyperthermia, hyperactivity, and knew that this time it was not a wolf, but a person.

People who walk at night, in order to give themselves courage, generally cough loudly when they are afraid.

He hurriedly accosted loudly and shouted: Who is coming!

Answer: Catch up with the drops!

Hearing that it was a peer who rushed to the market, and then took a good look, he was also a burden bearer and still knew him, and his heart finally felt that it had really settled.

Only then did I feel that my clothes were soaked, and inside was sweat from fright, and outside was drenched with rain.

In addition to being more afraid of wolves, he is actually more afraid of the wicked who rob the road.

This pine mountain has always been rumored to be robbed.

Later, I heard that on the hill path where he met the wolf, there was already a person from another village who had been attacked by a vicious wolf, and he had bitten it so badly that he was barely alive with only one breath left.

When Xinglan went home for dinner in the evening, he said that the wolf passed by in the early morning, and the family was scared enough to hear it, thank God, fortunately, the person was fine, his father immediately went to the yard to set up the heaven and earth table, and sincerely knelt on the ground to burn incense and paper, and recited words in his mouth, thanking Guanyin Bodhisattva and God for their blessing.

From then on, when Xinglan went to the market again, his father would wake up one more son and accompany him to escort the pine mountain.