Chapter 1 Monsters in the Mountains
It also snowed this year.
Although it is southern, Huaiqing is a mountain town with a high altitude, so it will snow.
A little boy of six or seven years old was dressed like a rice dumpling, and the clothes were the clothes of his two cousins when they were children, bulging, shabby but warm.
Snowflakes drifted on his head, and he was still sitting stupidly under the locust tree at the entrance of the village.
He could sit at the entrance of the village all day.
When he first came to my uncle's house, there was an old sister-in-law in the village who was idle and grabbed melon seeds to tease him a few words, but the old sister-in-law didn't reply to them when her mouth was smoking.
"Can crows talk?"
Finally, one time, Feng spoke unreasonably, and still asked very seriously.
Several old sisters-in-law laughed and said where the crow could talk.
"But the crows in the trees keep talking, more than you do."
The little boy's innocent face said inexplicable words, and several old sisters-in-law were frightened.
Later, however, the village always found the boy under the locust tree, not knowing what to talk to, as if someone was sitting next to him.
Scary and excited.
Now the villagers passing by are not surprised, and they all say that Su Xiaoxin gave birth to a fool outside and asked her brother to bring it back to the village.
Su Xiaoxin is his mother.
The three crows came again, and crowed on the branches above his head.
"There's such a powerful person from the north, and Lord Shengqing probably can't beat her."
"Nonsense! How could Lord Shengqing not be able to defeat a human being? I'm going to peck the hair off your head! ”
"Quack! You bald crow! You have done a lot of evil! ”
The Ravens have a rally.
The crows can't speak, and the three crows don't seem to know this fact, and they keep chattering there.
He listened quietly for a while, when a villager with a bucket cart passed by, stopped and looked at the treetops suspiciously.
"Why do these crows always come to the old locust tree, can't they be nesting? It's unlucky. ”
Feng Wuli waited for the man to walk away, then got up and ran back into the house, running too quickly and stumbling.
Because the clothes were too thick, I rolled around twice before stopping.
got up and patted his body, and when he came out again after entering the house, he was holding a handful of peanuts in his hand, because his hands were not big, there were only seven or eight peanuts.
He came to the locust tree, opened the peanut in his hand, and three crows flew down, one on the crook of the arm, one on the shoulder, and one on the head.
He's already familiar with them.
"This falling flower really doesn't poke."
"Don't rob, don't rob!"
"Forehead drops, all forehead drops!"
The peanut in Feng Wuli's hand disappeared visibly, and he asked, "Do you know that there is a villain in the mountain?" ”
The crow that had landed on his head croaked and said, "Villain? ”
"It's floating dust, right?" The crow on his shoulder said.
The wind was unreasonably puzzled: "What is floating dust?" Are you a youkai like you? ”
"It's different! They are the weakest youkai. ”
The crow on the crook of the arm heard it and was anxious: "You don't want to die, you will be eaten by the Lord Yishan!" ”
The crow suddenly lost one of its feathers, and only croaked meaninglessly.
"Can you take me to them?"
"It's been rare to see them lately, but there should be one in the mountains, so we have to look for them first."
Hearing this, Feng nodded unreasonably, his eyes were smart, and he obviously didn't look like a fool.
The crow on his head said again: "I have been counting just now, Ah Huan ate four Luohua beans, Jin ate three, I only ate two......"
"Forehead drops, all forehead drops!"
"Don't rob it!"
At this time, a girl came out of the yard and was startled when she saw the three crows on Feng Wuli's body, and went back to the house to pick up the broom and ran out:
"Go away, go away! Don't bully my brother! ”
The three crows flipped on their backs for a while, and the last peanut didn't have time to eat, leaving Feng Wuli and the girl to listen to the quack.
I was wearing too many clothes, and my cousin rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to check that she was not hurt before she breathed a sigh of relief, and then put them on and slapped the bird feathers left on his clothes.
"These crows are too bold, they directly grab people to eat!"
If it was before, Feng Wuli would have said that they were his friends, but that would scare his cousin, and he knew that some of his friends were going to hide, so he couldn't press it.
"It's snowing and it's cold outside, so go back to the house."
The cousin took his hand, shivered with cold, and entered the house with the wind without reason.
……
The snow fell intermittently for four days before stopping.
Sunlight shines through the thick clouds, and bundles fall in the mountain villages, and the scattered village houses seem like fragmented forgotten places, with the occasional smoke reaching straight into the sky.
After the snow, the mountains and mountains are like silver snakes dancing wildly, and there are a series of small footprints in the forest.
The two crows led the way in front, talking all the way, and often quarreling, and then let the wind unreasonably judge them.
The boy dressed like Fuwa walked alone on the snow, his nose turned into white mist as soon as he breathed the hot air, and his little face was pink.
Listening to the crows arguing, he squinted his eyes and smiled, like a child stealing candy.
Feng Wuli knew that it was the city where his parents were located when he walked out of these mountains, so he was stunned, lowered his head and continued to hurry.
Originally, he lived with his parents in Junsha, but his father was addicted to gambling and owed more than 10,000 yuan outside, and four or five middle-aged young people dressed as migrant workers drove motorcycles several times to find him, making a fuss about the family, and his mother is now clamoring for divorce.
Two young men and women don't seem to have too heavy a concept of parenthood, and the wind is unreasonable to play is very weird, always stupid and stupid, and don't like to talk when they are not demented, like emotional defects, or don't know who to chat with in the corner, others are stunned when they see it, and both of them have been avoiding talking about children's problems, although his mother wants to take it, but he can't do it.
In the end, the eldest uncle, who was smoking a dry cigarette on the side, didn't say a word, and took him back to Huaiqing's hometown.
The two thought that the child was lost.
He really didn't say a word.
His parents didn't like him, he knew it.
In the early years, as long as it snowed, jackals, tigers and leopards who could not find food in the mountains would go down the mountain from time to time, and after liberation, in order to protect people and animals, they were hunted and killed, but in recent years, they have not been seen.
He came to find the villain, and heard a mother-in-law in the village say that there are villains in the mountains.
The mother-in-law was very kind, and everyone else said that this child loved to lie, but she did not, and she said that she seemed to hear the crow talking occasionally, but she could not hear it clearly, and thought that her ears were not good; He also said that there were little people in the mountains, with big fingers, and they were very cute; There are also immortals, saying that there are immortals in the mountain, Feng Wuli asked her if she had ever seen an immortal, and the old grandmother seemed to reminisce at that time and gave him a positive answer.
"It's right ahead."
One crow landed on his shoulder, and the other was performing a crow flying southeast.
Suddenly, there was some movement in the woods, and the wind looked unreasonably at a pile of bushes behind him, and a fat, dog-like and leopard-like creature jumped out, leaving Harazi to look at him.
Feng Wuli took a step back, clenching his fleshy little hands, his body stiffening, while the big dog hunched over and made an attacking gesture.
It is said that tigers don't eat drunks, and this big dog shouldn't eat fools, right?
The crow on his shoulder flew.
fluttering his wings and flying in front of the big dog, his body quickly became larger, and he grew in the wind, and two arms with black feathers grew under the wings, and his feet became longer, turning into a crow man more than two meters high, like a huge body of a door, hunched back, looking at the big dog condescendingly.
"Quack ——!"
The snow fell from the tree, and the black dog trembled like chaff.
……
"It's just ahead!"
In the mountains and forests, a big black dog sat on the back of a human cub, and there were two crows standing on the head, one of them stretched out one wing to peck at the feathers, in fact, other birds pecked feathers are parasites, and there are no parasites on their monsters, but it said that other crows do this, and it can't be compared.
I don't know what to compare it to.
"Don't you really peel it off?"
The crow innocently asked: "This is a wooden dog, it is rare for a wooden dog to grow so big before, its skin can be made into a fur and a mattress, it is very warm." ”
Feng unreasonably held the dog's back to prevent himself from falling: "Is it a monster?" ”
"It's a natural creature, it's an animal, and animals don't turn into monsters."
It's like they look like crows, but they're not the same thing as crows.
Feng Wuli seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and asked, "You monsters, why don't you appear in front of humans?" ”
"Humans are too terrible and domineering, a few decades ago, a human came to dig up the spirit body of Lord Yishan, and Lord Yishan punished a few humans if he didn't agree, and then you humans almost blew up Lord Yishan."
"Who's the Moving Mountain?"
"The mountain south of your village is about to be hollowed out, and the Lord Yishan is about to die, and we are all very sad."
Feng Wuxian thought about it, as if he had heard the village gossip, saying that there was a mine in that mountain, and that there were several drill bits that were broken in mining, and many workers who excavated had nightmares, and then kept saying that there were unclean things and could not work, and then the paperwork was placed on it, and a few cannons were pulled and bombarded on the nearby hills, and nothing happened after mining.
People are afraid of monsters, and monsters are also afraid of people.
Occasionally, there would be a large shadow passing by in the woods, or the eyes hiding in the treetops, watching the dog and the two demons.
"New to the big youkai...... It's a human, another human has come in. ”
"The human to the north hasn't gone yet."
"I want to eat it."
"Why are the triplets with humans, and one is missing, was it eaten?"
Feng Wuli had no expression on his face, and he hurried silently and pretended not to hear.
At this moment, the surrounding monsters seemed to sense something and quickly moved away, and the two crows squatting on the dog's head also blew their hair, croaked and flew up, one crow in their mouths and unreasonable clothes.
However, it was too late.
Feng Wuli slowly looked back, the wind and snow behind him were fierce, pitch black as an abyss, I don't know when there was a standing one who couldn't see clearly, and could only see through the wind and snow, and saw that the specific outline was a woman more than three meters tall, wearing a bright red wedding dress.
People are less than three meters tall.
It can only be a youkai.