“……”

Dahua didn't say anything, and then looked up at the statue in the courtyard, his expression a little complicated.

"I don't know, I just know that this mountain is blessed by the gods, but even if it is blessed by the gods, there are these people who will throw their daughters into the mountain to be devoured by wild beasts or simply used as sacrifices, this mountain will not last long......"

"When you came, you may have heard that this North Mountain is very aura, and the villagers in a hundred miles below the mountain also live very well, right?"

Changsheng nodded.

It is precisely for this reason that Changsheng did not investigate too much when she chose to go up the mountain, because she was originally to relax, and when the previous turmoil about her gradually subsided, and the Buddhist cultivators in the Western Buddhist countries no longer thought about taking her away as a disciple, she could go back. I really didn't expect so many things to happen.

Looking at the statue in the courtyard with an expressionless face, Dahua seemed to be looking at it, and as if he was looking at some life that he didn't want to think about.

"Actually, before, this mountain was not rich, and it did not have this kind of aura. Once upon a time, it was just a barren mountain. Not to mention the prey, at that time, there was a sparse forest on the mountain that was already blessed by God. Little girl, you probably don't know that at that time, there were no girls in our poor countryside who wanted to marry her. There is no way, there are fewer and fewer people, there is not enough food and drink, and I can't afford to raise so many children, but in order to continue the incense and feed the family, most of the remaining female dolls were thrown away by the family. At that time, in the mountain col, the baby girl's bones were full of bones and resentment. It's a pity that they are still complaining that no woman is willing to marry in, and they want to cut off the incense. Just like my uncle, the family is sick and stupid, and they can't even take care of their own family, but they still have to marry their son and have children, and they can't support them after giving birth to children, and they have to throw female dolls, which is called the continuation of incense. ”

"Sometimes I really don't understand, is there any need for this kind of incense to continue?"

"That child was born in such a family, not to mention whether there will be disabilities of his parents and grandparents, even if he is lucky enough to be an all-human in the future, there are old and sick grandfathers and grandmothers in the family, a six-year-old father and a sick and dumb mother who are not mentally complete, so many people are dragging down, and the family does not have tens of thousands of silver, nor is it a prominent family, so it is naturally impossible to send the child to study and practice martial arts, and in the end it is not to dig in the soil?"

"A farmer, he is tired of working in the field, can he support this large family of sick or disabled people who need medicine? Was it that he was born so that he might be born to suffer? When he grows up, how will he feel when he knows that in order to support himself, his siblings have been abandoned in the mountains to fend for themselves? ”

Such a child will only have two outcomes in the future. Either he becomes as numb as his ancestors and thinks these are normal, or he will only regret it for the rest of his life. ”

"I really don't understand that if you want to have a child, shouldn't you be prepared for everything before you give birth to them? Could it be that giving birth to them is just to simply continue the incense for the elderly? ”

The more Dahua talked, the more angry he became, and in the end, he almost angrily questioned him. She didn't know who she was questioning, maybe it was the ignorant people who threw their children into the mountains, or maybe it was the social reality that was painful and helpless but could not be changed.

Her voice was a little loud, and the startled baby girl trembled, but soon quieted down again under the old woman's comfort, and fell asleep with her little mouth shut. The old woman glared at her daughter disapprenantly, then shook the child in her arms.

Dahua reacted at this time, she smiled bitterly, apologized embarrassedly, and then continued.

"That's the way it is, at that time, there were almost no female dolls in the homes of people within a hundred miles of Beishan, and only more and more men were left, heh! Boys! There are no women, but they are born of their own? The poorer you are, the poorer you are, the poorer you are, that's probably the case. ”

"But maybe it's the protection of God, one day, this mountain, 'lived'."

"Alive?"

Changsheng couldn't help but interject.

"Indeed."

Because the time is too long, Dahua can't remember it clearly, and now he can only vaguely recall what his mother told him before.

"My mother said that when she was a child, she knew that the mountain was like coming to life, not only did it start to grow all kinds of flowers and trees, but more and more plants were attracted to it. Immediately after that, the people here saw that life was better. It's not that you're rich, at least you won't eat your last meal or not eat like you used to. The days are better, there are more children, there are more and more children for more than ten years, everyone says that it is the mountain god of this mountain who heard people's prayers, so he responded to everyone, and said that everyone will have a much better life in the future. Since then, many people have gone up to the mountain every day to pray to the mountain god. ”

Speaking of this, Dahua's expression was a little complicated and he looked at his mother.

"My mother, I've probably lived a good life for a few years. When she was a teenager, the villagers around Beishan were suddenly surprised to find that many of the children born had physical disabilities of one kind or another. In the beginning, there were only one or two out of ten, but then there were more and more of them, and five or six out of ten were disabled. As you know, the villagers here used to throw away their daughters. When it was found that many of the children had problems, the first ones to be abandoned were those female dolls. ”

"And then, the vitality of the mountain gradually weakened?"

Dahua looked at Changsheng in surprise and nodded silently.

In the old woman's kind nursery rhyme, Dahua continued to tell the story that had been held in his heart for a long time.

"My mother was a stubborn person, and no matter how many children she had, whether male or female, she would not allow them to be thrown away. Unfortunately, my mother's first five children were all girls, and my sisters were all disabled to a greater or lesser extent. Because she has to take care of my sisters, my mother refuses to have any more children, but how can my elders allow it? So while my mother was out working, they took all five of my sisters up the mountain and threw them away. ”

When he said this, there was a faint fire in Dahua's eyes, it was the flame of hatred!

"My mother knelt down and begged for them, their heads were broken, blood flowed, and no one was willing to tell the whereabouts of my sisters, and then my mother went into the mountains alone many times, but she couldn't find anyone, and when she was finally forcibly brought back, people were already burned and confused. Since then, my mother's spirit has been a little problematic. ”