"Great mountain...... There are many jackals in the mountains, and Brother walks with his heart hanging. After collecting dry firewood and selling wine, put it next to the door of Daddy's ......"

The crisp mountain song reverberates from time to time and reverberates from time to time to the sea of clouds rising on the mountainside.

The mountain is winding, stretching for dozens of miles, such as the Buddha lying horizontally, the green forest swaying, the birds that cross the sky, in the sunshine of the west, fall to an old pine on the single peak, comb the feathers, hear the song from far and near, blink the bird's eyes to look down.

As the mountain road winded, there was a faint sound of footsteps, and in a moment, the figure of a young man passed through the surging clouds.

"Jackal..... brother fetchs firewood for wine money, and filial piety to Daddy begging for pen and ink. Don't run out and harm my life, buy meat for two days to honor you......."

The boy who walked over, the outline became clear, the back was tied with two bundles of dry firewood, and there was a hanging mountain rabbit struggling around his waist, the boy sang a mountain song, his eyes looked around from time to time, and he saw the old pine that welcomed the guests, and slowly past, and bowed respectfully to the old tree, before continuing to move forward.

"The people in the village say that this old pine has a spirit, and those who go up the mountain must worship it...... I don't know if it's true or not. ”

The young man was fourteen or fifteen years old, with fine eyebrows, but his cheeks were covered with thin calluses blown by the wind, coarse cloth clothes, trousers that reached only to his calves, and there were several patches, and he carried two bundles of dry firewood, both of which were almost taller than him, and he struggled to go down the mountain.

When he walked through a certain section, his route took a sharp turn, and he walked to the trees with red lines nearby, and stretched all the way, so that there were many trees with red lines, until he came to a mountain wall, and the boy did not stop.

He took off the struggling rabbit on his waist and touched the rabbit fur: "You are so cute, just accompany my husband for me, he is full of wine and food, maybe he will be happy, and he will accept me as an apprentice." ”

As he spoke, he put the mountain rabbit in his hand under a large green rock in front of the mountain wall in front of him, bowed respectfully to the stone, and then left, along the way he came, returned to the previous road, and turned a corner, and the obscured vision unfolded in front of him, and the scene of a village appeared in front of him.

A stream flowing down the hill crossed the front of the village, like a white belt, and the muddy path under the boy's feet stretched straight through, flanked by fields and vegetable fields, and crossed the end of the wooden bridge, surrounded by a fence to guard against jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains.

"Liangsheng, you've been so diligent lately, your father promised to buy you a pen?"

"..... you want to be the champion. ”

Far away, before entering the village, the old man sitting on the stone over there, smoking a dry cigarette and greeting the young man who had just come out of the mountain, the old man is also surnamed Lu, most people in this village are surnamed this surname, and they are related to the old man, according to the generation, the young man named Lu Liangsheng wants to call the old man: "Taigong." ”

When it comes to buying a pen, Liangsheng has been looking forward to it in his heart, since he was sensible, he especially likes to write and paint, this year, the pen and ink are the things of the readers, even if the poor people buy it, the ink can not afford to consume, not to mention that the big characters are not illiterate, it is better to let go to the city, ask someone to write to be more practical.

The boy's home was in the middle of the village, and the courtyard wall of the fence was only as high as a person's waist, and when he walked into the yard, the woman who was hanging a few clothes over there turned her head and looked at the little girl who was feeding a hen, and called out, "Sister, go and help your brother." ”

"Howler. ”

Under the eaves, the girl with pigtails clapped her hands and stood up and ran over, grinning and said, "Brother, my mother said that you are saving money to marry your daughter-in-law, isn't it?"

The girl was about ten years old, her name was Lu Xiaoxian, and the people in the mountains were not so squeamish, she helped put two bundles of firewood on the ground, and the dark skin of her arms had two or three blood marks, and she didn't care.

"Hehe, brother, this is the money to save up to buy pens..... there are still a few pieces left. ”

Lu Liangsheng rubbed his sister's head, dragged the dry firewood on the ground to the pergola in the corner of the house and piled it up, and the girl who helped puffed out her cheeks, shook two small braids, and ran to the woman who was drying clothes over there.

"Mother, brother, he doesn't want to find a daughter-in-law, our family is going to break the seedlings. ”

"Girl's family, how can you talk like that. Li Jinhua beat the unfolded clothes with a wooden stick, and while his tone was stern, his eyes glared at Lu Liangsheng over there: "Your father knows, instead of breaking your legs, he is still thinking about buying a pen." ”

Liangsheng didn't refute, just looked at the woman and smiled, and it didn't take long for Lu Laoshi, who was working outside, to come back with a hoe, and when he saw his son, he also glared, presumably before he entered the house, he heard his wife's words from a distance.

He was a gentle man, he couldn't get up, he went to the house, and put the hoe away: "Liangsheng, we are just bitter haha, if you want to buy a pen, then you have to be literate first." ”

"I know. ”

"You know a fart!" The woman over there said in a loud voice: "Save more money, prepare a bride price, find a matchmaker, and leave your family affairs behind, this is the important thing!"

Seeing his brother being yelled at, Lu Xiaoxian covered his mouth and snickered beside him, and then went over and patted his brother's arm, feeling a kind of "Brother, you can't fulfill your wish." "Schadenfreude.

Such a scene basically happens every day, Lu Liangsheng is almost used to it, and he has never given up on his pursuit, if he can read and write, he really wants to study.

What's more, a few days ago, when I went up the mountain to collect firewood, I saw a cloud of purple gas descending from the sky into the mountains from a distance.

I heard the cousin of the second dog next door said, "In this world, there are high-ranking people, and the things they do are bigger than the official family." "He's the only person in the village who has ever been in a big city like Riverdale.

Although he didn't know whether it was true or not, Lu Liangsheng followed the direction of the purple qi descending at that time, and found the boulder where the rabbit was put down today.

"If you can take me as an apprentice and learn to write, you can set up a stall in the city in the future, and you will have the ability to make a living." ”

With such thoughts, Lu Liangsheng went up the mountain to collect firewood, sometimes he caught prey and brought it there, and if he didn't, he saved his own food, without exception, the food that was put there as a worship ceremony disappeared, and there were no traces left by any wild beasts around.

This strengthened the idea that there is a cave house and apprenticeship in it.

After dinner, it was already dark, and the cold moonlight shone down, Lu Liangsheng folded a wooden branch and wrote and drew on the ground, and his sister was on the side, holding her chin and looking at the moon in a daze, occasionally looking at what her brother wrote.

"Brother, what did you write?"

"I don't know ..... according to the ruined temple outside the village, the words on the broken door plaque, read the temple, or what...... I don't know. ”

"But it's beautiful, it's exactly like the words on the door plaque. ”

"What's the use of looking good, and I don't know it. ”

The word drawn on the ground is actually a 'god' word, Lu Liangsheng rubbed his foot a few times, swept it flat, and drew a little tiger with teeth and claws in the original position, the forehead of the king character is mighty, but the big eyes are naïve, which provokes the sister on the side to clap excitedly.

"Brother is so good, draw another one, draw another one, okay......."

"Okay, I'll draw you another bird, look at it!"

The brother and sister sat under the eaves, writing and painting on the ground by the moonlight, Li Jinhua was sitting on the stool at the door weaving a basket, and in the house, Lu Laoshi, who had worked all day, had already snored, and the sound of frolicking and laughing with the brothers and sisters melted into the warmth of the night.

As the night deepened, a few dogs barked occasionally in the village, and when the wind rose, the black clouds wandering in the sky gradually obscured half of the clear moon.

Shadows fell in the shadows, and the chirping of insects became silent for a moment.

Lu Liangsheng, who was alone in the room, let out a dream on the bed, and his body trembled suddenly at the moment when the clear moon covered him, his consciousness gradually disappeared, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and the dream appeared.

As if hallucinating, faintly, a thin palm stretched out in the air and grabbed him, and the voices of men, women, old people, and children sounded repeatedly.

Lu ......

Good......

Raw ......"

In the darkness, Lu Liangsheng shouted "ah-", sat up suddenly, his face was covered with sweat, he turned his face, the window lattice was open, and the eastern sky was white.

His mother had gotten up early and was busy in the stove, and the movement made him feel at ease.

"What's going on..... I remember the windows were closed. ”

I got out of bed, put on my shoes that showed my toes, pushed open the door and went out, and checked inside and outside the window, but found nothing.

"Maybe it's when my mother gets up, help me open it....."

Lu Liangsheng glanced at the smoke wafting from the stove, and was thinking, the moment he turned his eyes away and swept over the ground, his body suddenly stiffened in place, on the ground, where he painted his sister yesterday, were human footprints, to be precise, men's footprints, because women's footprints would not be so big.

Someone has been here.....

..... the direction it is facing, and it's still my room...... My window is still open.....

.....That is, someone is staring at me at night??

..... that last night's dream.

Thinking about it, Lu Liangsheng's back was like an ant crawling over, secreting a layer of cold sweat, he couldn't bear the uneasiness, and when he stepped forward to identify the footprints again, he suddenly found that the location below the footprints was not far away, and the soil outlined a picture - large stones were piled up on the mountain wall, and a mountain rabbit was placed there.

"It's the boulder......"

He muttered softly.