After the ambush, the weather became noticeably hotter. After noon, it rained a little, and after a while, the sun came out again, and although there were bursts of clouds moving slowly in the air, occasionally blocking out the scorching strong sun, it was still very hot.

The husband was drenched in sweat, and drove the panting old buffalo all morning, but still did not finish plowing the few fields by the small lake. He rested for an hour at noon, and when the thunderstorm stopped for a while, he continued to drive the old cow for a while.

The old cow had been with him for ten years, and he had been a companion in the land since he was able to work in the field. As the saying goes, "Good cow eighteen springs." "What kind of husband thinks that he is still in the prime of life, and this old cow has reached its twilight years, he also thinks in his heart to let it rest, but there is still no way, or let it play its last remaining strength.

He glanced at the powerless old cow, shook his head helplessly, and let out a long sigh. After he shouted, the old cow stopped.

The husband walked in front of the old buffalo, took the wheel off his shoulder, led it to the thick shade of a few big trees by the roadside, poured a basket of tender grass on the old buffalo's mouth, watched it chew unhurriedly, and then took out a bag of cigarettes from his purse and lit it, and sat on a stone by the roadside, looking at the mountains around him.

The stretching North Mountain is like a huge natural screen, separating the inside and outside of the mountain. For many years, people outside the mountains have lived the life of people outside the mountains, and people outside the mountains have lived the life of people outside the mountains, and the mountains and mountains have seemed to be two different worlds in the past. What kind of husband is at ease with such a life, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, carefree, like the mountain in front of him, no matter how the years change, he still guards a quiet party.

A newly built highway has shortened the distance between the mountains and the mountains and the mountains, allowing the people in the mountains to go out of the mountains and the people outside the mountains to enter the mountains. But not all mountain people will go out along this road, and most mountain people still live a leisurely life that is no different from the past. What kind of husband thinks that mountains are the source of human strength, looking at the towering mountains, he feels that his whole body has inexhaustible strength.

"Fellow, may I ask which way to go to Banshan Temple closer?" Ai Xiang rode for several hours and finally saw the mountain in front of him. He took out his mobile phone to search the map, but he still didn't understand, after all, not all roads are marked. Ai Xiang saw the husband squatting on the grass next to him smoking, so he put his mountain bike on the side of the road and walked over from the road to ask him for directions.

He looked up at the young man who was asking for directions, his heart suddenly sank, and he was subconsciously stunned. He silently took a big puff of cigarette, looked at the distance of the mountain in a trance, and silently took a long puff of cigarette, then turned around and asked suspiciously, "Are you going to Banshan Temple?" You can go by car. If you ride up a mountain like you, you probably won't be able to do it without the strength of an ox. If you take the car, you can sit at the foot of the North Mountain, where there is a station called Banshan Temple Station, and then climb up the mountain road, it is estimated that it will take half a day to arrive. You may not be able to go up the mountain today, after all, on this hot day, walking on the mountain road is also physically demanding. ”

Ai Xiang glanced at the mountains not far away and asked, "Is there no other way?" Do you know if there is a place to stay in the mountains? ”

Then he looked at the mountain in the distance and said, "There is a nearer road, but it should be half near." However, they are all difficult roads to walk, and they are rarely walked by people in the mountains, so you will definitely not be able to walk. If you don't want to take the bus, you can follow this road all the way to Banshanji Station. There is a small town in the middle of the mountain, which has been engaged in tourism in recent years, and it is very prosperous, and there are many places to live and eat in the town. From there, it's much easier to go up the mountain to Banshan Temple. Except for the wandering monks, the Banshan Temple generally does not leave pilgrims. ”

"I see, thank you." Ai Xiang got back on the road, stepped on the mountain bike, and continued his journey. This time, he set off from the city, and did not choose to take a car, but specially prepared a mountain bike. With the necessary rain gear and simple camping equipment in his bag, he wanted to get close to this strange mountain in another way.

Ai Xiang looked at the mountains in front of him and thought of the scene in his dream, where the towering mountains overlapped. The clouds and mist in the mountains and forests, full of blooming mountain flowers, seem to be another world, a world different from urban life.

The husband narrowed his eyes again, looked at the young man's back as he faded away, and fell into inexplicable contemplation. A well-dressed helmet and an oversized bag, this strangely dressed young man must have come from the city, and he had seen mountain bikes and knew that this was the equipment of a sporty young man.

He took another big puff of cigarette and accidentally choked on it, and he coughed violently a few times, and tears and snot also coughed up. He wiped it with the sweat towel around his neck, and squinted his eyes at the back that had become blurred in the distance. He felt even more incredulous, and he felt that he was caught in an inexplicable confusion.

What kind of husband felt that this young face seemed so familiar, and the moment he saw this young man just now, he seemed to have a feeling of being in a different world. But I just can't remember where I've seen it. And that melancholy look, as if there were always a lot of things on his mind, as if they were going to remind him of something. What kind of husband thought about it for a long time, but after all, he couldn't think of anything, and he only felt that there was a fog in his head.

He shook his head vigorously, as if to shake a memory awake, but it was still in vain to no avail. He rummaged through almost every corner of his mind like a cabinet and still found nothing. No matter how much he thought about it, he could never remember anything again. The husband looked at the back that had disappeared from his eyes again in confusion, and wondered very much: "I have never seen this young man, why do I have such an inexplicable feeling?" ”

He silently finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, feeling a little hungry, so he took out two steamed buns from the rice bag he brought in the morning, and ate them with pickles.

Aunt Liu Cao has to cook for the two children who go to school, because they are still young and there are few children on the same road, so she is a little worried, and she has to pick them up. When he went out in the morning, he said, "You just take care of the two babies, just leave me alone, I won't come back at noon, two steamed buns are enough." After eating two steamed buns, he drank half a pot of water from the plastic pot of water, and then slowly got up and walked towards the old buffalo.

The old buffalo had finally eaten the basket of fresh forage, and the man led it back to the field, and put a harp on it again, and the old buffalo looked at the husband obediently, and then walked forward with all his might, but at last it was a little overwhelmed, and it had to turn back after a few steps, and its eyes were full of confusion and melancholy. The husband was a little anxious, and waved the whip in his hand several times, but listening to the old buffalo's heavy and helpless sigh, the whip he picked up fell weakly into the dirt.

If he hadn't listened to the cow dealer's rhetoric and sold the two calves born to the old cow outside the mountain, he would have retired. After the road at the edge of the village was built, the husband thought about buying a tractor. In addition to plowing the land instead of this old cow, you can also pull some things to run and transport when you are usually free, and make some extra money. Now I still have some money in hand, and when the fruit trees in the garden bear fruit next year, I will be able to make up enough money to sell them when I have a harvest.

When the sun was setting in the west, a gust of mountain wind rose, and it was finally cooler. Xiao Kunu was still bending over to mow the grass on the grass beach by the small lake, and when the husband drove the old buffalo to plow closer, he glanced at her and said, "I'll call it a day later, I'll pick these grasses for you." ”

The old buffalo drove the old buffalo around the corner, and continued to bend forward with some difficulty with some difficulty, and there were still two fields left, and the old buffalo seemed to see hope, and couldn't help but "moo" twice. Xiao Kunu straightened her waist, looked back gratefully at the generous back of her husband, rubbed her somewhat red and swollen shoulders, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

Aunt Liu Cao took back the two children, made dinner again, went out to look, it was already dark, but there was still no shadow of her husband, so she watched the two children do their homework, and said to herself: "Just such a piece of land, from morning to afternoon, it is dark, where is the dead pig dead, when will it be done." After thinking about it again, I understood in my heart that there was no wonder about this matter, and the old buffalo was indeed too old to be useful, and maybe one day it would fall, so I was a little uneasy.

It was getting darker, and Liu Caogu ran out of the door and looked at the entrance of the village, and the white dog Ah Lang followed her with his tail wagging, and sniffed at her feet from time to time. After a while, Liu Caogu finally saw two black shadows, what kind of husband was carrying a load of grass, and the bent flat pole made a "squeak, squeak" sound, and Xiao Kunu led the old buffalo that couldn't run fast and fell behind step by step.

When the husband walked past Liu Caogu with two bundles of grass, he muttered: "This old cow really has no eggs, and if it doesn't die, I will be exhausted by it." He looked back at Aunt Liu Cao and asked, "Is there still wine at home?" ”

Liu Caogu snorted and said, "I still have two bottles hidden, if they were all in front of you, they would have been gone a long time ago, and I have never seen a man like you who can't live without wine." When the husband heard her say this, he laughed twice.

Waiting for Xiao Kunu to come over, Liu Caogu took the cow rope and said, "You don't want to go home to cook, Mu Nan hasn't come back yet, you can eat with us." Xiao Kunu said with a sad face: "I always eat it at your house, the rice that Mu Nan processed last time was only eaten three or four times, and the rice in the rice jar of the two of us is going to have worms." Liu Caogu said a little unhappily: "It's a family, you don't have to be so clear, don't say such things in the future, I'll be angry if I say it again." ”

As soon as Aunt Liu Cao put the dishes on the table, the two children who were already so hungry that their front bellies were close to their back bellies didn't have time to take their chopsticks, so they reached out to the table together, and first grabbed a piece of chicken in the bowl and stuffed it into their mouths and gnawed it. Liu Caogu stretched out her hand and slapped the boss on the buttocks, and scolded: "You thing that came to collect debts, you must have been a starving ghost in your previous life, and you didn't have a taste to eat." ”

The stone didn't know what his previous life meant, and he didn't think about what it was in his previous life, what he was thinking about now was that he was beaten and scolded for a piece of chicken, and he always felt a little resentful. Shi was very unhappy in his heart, angrily threw the chicken in his hand to the ground, and replied hatefully: "You are partial, you always scold me alone every time, no matter what, you scold me alone, why don't you scold Pomegranate at all." ”

Liu Caogu was even more angry when she saw that the stone dared to talk back, and she stretched out her hand to hit the stone again, Xiao Kunu hurriedly pulled the stone behind her and blocked the angry Liu Caogu in front. Liu Caogu pointed to the stone and scolded: "You little bastard, it's really getting more and more disagreeable." Are you a man, you don't know how to protect your sister, and you have to compare with her? And use her as your shield, which one do you fight if I don't hit you? ”

The stone felt that he had indeed made a mistake, and lowered his head, and lost his temper. The second pomegranate had finished eating the fat chicken, and seeing that the stone had completely lost his usual look, he covered his mouth and secretly looked at him and smiled, so angry that the stone pouted and gritted his teeth.

The white dog Ah Yang unexpectedly feasted on the chicken leg thrown by the stone on the ground, and his eyes continued to stare at the stone with some greed, as if hoping to find the unexpected harvest again. The stone saw through Ah Yan's mind and glared at it fiercely, and Ah Yang was a little weak, so he obediently hid behind Pomegranate.

Pomegranate seemed to remember something, leaned over to the stone ear and whispered, "Are there immortals in the mountains, my classmates told me today that there are many immortals living in the mountains." As soon as the stone was scolded, he said angrily: "That's why they lied to you, have you ever seen a fairy?" It's just you in the mountains, it's just me, and mom and dad, uncle and aunt. They like to lie to little fools like you, and you believe them too? ”

In order to relieve his anger, the stone frightened the pomegranate and said, "There are no gods in the mountains, only big bad wolves." If you don't believe it, listen to it at night, and you will definitely hear the sound of the big bad wolf, which is terrible. ”

The stone looked at the pomegranate with a frightened face and said proudly, "Are you afraid?" I've also heard that the big bad wolf likes to eat pomegranates the most. Pomegranate said angrily: "I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf likes to eat boys like you, especially chubby boys like you." ”

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