I looked at the empty shack, looked at the kerosene lantern in the shack, and suddenly two words came to my heart - ghost fire. In an instant, a cool air surged upwards from the soles of the feet, and then the scalp tingled.

The moment he turned to run, he bumped into a person.

"Baby, don't panic. When a man is in trouble, be calm. The ghosts in the eyes are not scary, but the demons in the heart are scary. ”

In fear, when I heard this, I suddenly felt a lot relieved. The voice is so familiar. When I looked up, my father was turning around and walking slowly towards the ridge on the outside of the terraces. There is an earthen cliff with terraces one level below. The old man sat down on the edge of the earthen cliff, picked up the smoke pot and made the dry tobacco.

I followed and sat down on the edge of the cliff.

As far as the eye can see, the terraces under your feet descend layer by layer until you reach the foot of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain is the black valley plain, the only river in the county, which stretches across the mother river that flows from east to west, and goes straight to the ground of the steep North Mountain, like a black carpet between the two mountains. In the front right of the carpet is the county town with sporadic electric lights. The West Gate Tower, standing alone in the night, looks like a monster looking at the West. The first place where the monster could see a faint light was our village. It's right in front of me right now.

This small village with only a few hundred households, I have traveled to every corner. But tonight it felt so unfamiliar. The dark and dreary land hidden under a few kerosene lamps has buried the joys and sorrows of many ancestors, and how many bizarre past events that cannot be recalled. Today, it continues to unravel the mysteries of the world. And these mysteries deeply tug at the heart of the teenager who is looking down on it.

There was a spirit in heaven, and an old man disappeared and reappeared, and then sat next to me again. For me, who was hell-bent on finding the truth, this was the beginning of hope, but I didn't know what would happen next.

"Old enemy, I haven't seen you for a while. "This is my master's voice, and he has laid out the futon and followed.

"Out of the door. Daddy replied succinctly, and then deliberately diverted the topic, "I just looked around a little, and the beans are growing very well this year, and if there is less rain in the next few months, there will be a good harvest." ”

"Who says no, God raises people, but people want to harm people. The people on the mountain are getting more and more out of order this year, and my beans were crushed by the head a few days ago, and they have just been lifted up and tied with grass in the past two days. I don't think there will be a few. ”

The two old men chatted about crops, rice prices, today's autumn harvest and next year's spring sowing, and ....... I was looking forward to them talking about the past, looking at the two smoking pots, knocking and pretending, and gradually losing hope.

"Xiao Yuan, it's time to sleep, let's go. "I don't know how many times the smoke pot has been filled, my father stood up and said.

"Go back to bed, you have to go to school tomorrow! Come early tomorrow night, Daddy will tell you a story." Looking at me, Daddy said with a smile.

That night, I quickly fell asleep. I dreamed that the sailor's grandmother turned into a fox and jumped into the yard of my father's house.

The next evening, just after dinner, I couldn't wait to run up the mountain. Daddy sat on the edge of the cliff and smoked a dry cigarette.

"Baby, come here. Daddy knows that you are careful, and you have taken everything that has happened in the village to heart. From today on, I will tell you a long story, don't ask whether it's true or false, don't think too much, many things in this world can't be simply said to be false, but nothing is true, who can tell if it's true or false. "Today's opening remarks are different from the past.

The old man smoked his last puff of dry tobacco, knocked the ash into the grass, got up and walked to the door of the shack, reached out and took out a kerosene lantern from it, and hung it on the herringbone shelf at the door of the shack. I saw a brazier in front of the door of the hut, and there was a red charcoal fire burning in it.

"The dew is heavy at night, come and sit by the fire. So saying, he sat down on a stone slab by the brazier.

I sat down on another stone slab across from him.

Today's kerosene lamp, the rice is turned very long, and the light is very bright. As the flame flickered, two long shadows danced on the grassy slope.

"Do you see the top of the hill above? From there, over a mountain, there is an avenue, and along that avenue goes west, a day and a night, and there is another world. The old man raised his head and pointed to the lonely poplar trees above the heads of the villagers in the spring. That's the highest point of the mountain.

"It is the land that people have forgotten since Pangu Ye opened the sky. Mountains, lakes, canyons, waterfalls, meadows, and ice fields all exude an air of holiness beyond the world.

"The endless ancient forests in the mountains are a fairyland on earth. The ancient pines on the slopes, the birch forests that are full of ditches, the fir and spruce trees that almost pierce the blue sky, the antelopes, roe deer, wild deer, snow leopards and bears that are blind all over the mountains, and the morels, coral mushrooms, bracken, and cordyceps that can be picked up at any time. They are all treasures sprinkled by heaven on earth.

"At that time, I was very young and a mountain walker. Your master and your sixth master are too. ”

"Mountain walkers?" I heard for the first time.

"Mountain walkers are people who go into the mountains to beg for a living, sometimes cutting wood and cutting firewood, sometimes hunting deer and catching deer, sometimes picking mountain treasures and looking for medicinal materials, and the things in the mountains are inexhaustible. ”

"Is there a house to live in the mountains?" I have always been haunted by the elopement between him and the sailor's grandmother, and I have never been able to figure out how they spent so many days in the mountains, where they lived, and what they ate.

The old man laughed when he heard this, and then said: "People who walk on the mountains never have houses, as long as they can shelter from the wind and rain, they are the places where people who walk in the mountains sleep." Caves, cliff bottoms, and tree nests are all good places to live. Sometimes they don't even have that, so they just sleep in the open. ”

"Isn't that cold?"

"Who said it's not cold, the north wind in winter can blow people through. One winter, more than a dozen people and your grandfather went into the mountains, slept in the wild in the cold wind at night, only oilcloth was spread on the ground, and everyone wrapped their whole bodies in quilts, like silkworm chrysalis without silk.

"The next morning I woke up with the heat and was covered in sweat. Guess what, when the quilt was lifted, it was more than a foot of snow falling during the night, and everyone was buried in the snow. Since then, everyone has gone to the mountains in winter to pick up snowy days, dig pits in the snow at night, and sleep in the snow pits to keep out the wind and keep warm. ”

"Was it winter when you and the sailor's grandmother entered the mountains?" As soon as the words came out, I felt that I should not ask, but I could not take it back.

Daddy's peaceful smile vanished, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Two seconds later, he wiped his face with his hand, and while picking up the pot rod placed on the brazier, he said, "Your sixth master is still the same as when he was young, his mouth has no door, and he says everything." ”

I asked curiously, "How do you know that my sixth master said it?" ”

The old father laughed again and said: "He and I have been the best partners since we were children, and the good thing is to wear a pair of pants, and when we were teenagers, we went to Shouyang Mountain together to apprentice, and we learned kung fu together for two years there." Speaking of which, he's still my junior brother. So I know him best, he is the most unrighteous man, and his mouth is like the cave of the city of Simon, and there is no gatekeeper. Now that he's old, he's still an old naughty boy. In this village, only he will tell the younger generations about these things. ”

"No wonder he said there was nothing he didn't know about you. ”

"Not necessarily. As he spoke, he picked up a piece of red coals with his tongs and placed it in the pot of dry tobacco that had just been filled. Green smoke came out of the corners of the mouth of the old man on the cigarette pot and the cigarette pot rod at the same time.

"Sometimes I don't even know about myself. Daddy let out a long sigh of relief, and then said, "Xiao Yuan, Daddy has too many secrets hidden in his heart, and they are too heavy. I'm too old to take these secrets to the coffin. I will slowly tell you everything, at least everything I know, and you have to keep these secrets deep in your heart for me, only in your own heart. Maybe one day, you will become a hero who will prevent the collapse of the world. It may be too hard for you, but I don't have any other choice. You can't choose, everything is predestined. ”

I was at a loss for a moment. These inexplicable words had never been heard in Daddy's previous stories. In a trance, it was impossible to tell whether these words were addressed to me or whether there was a small element in the story, it was just a conversation between the characters.

I watched as the kerosene lamps flickered from one to two, two to an infinite number, and then overlapping and converging into one. There is a strong air flowing through the whole body in the bottom of the heart, dispelling the cowardice and weakness hidden in every cell. In order to avoid the night, he curled up under a kerosene lamp and drowned in front of others, and was crushed into pieces by the pride that kept growing.

Today, I feel like I've grown up and my heart has become stronger.

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