In autumn, the wind and rain outside the window were continuous, and the young Shi Sen looked out the window attentively.

Bursts of wisps of green smoke drifting in the wind, a small breeze blew, blowing the green smoke into the house, and Shi Senqing did not wake up from the choking smell of smoke.

Instead, I quietly listened to the rain on the earth, the subtle sound of the wind blowing in the hut, and the soft sound of my father's dry cigarette.

The rain falls on the earth, the breeze floats, and the green smoke follows. There is quite a picture of you chasing me.

"Come here and get ready to eat, Tongtang, don't be idle, the roof of our house's east house has just broken a big hole, and the grain stored in it has also been wet, don't sell it at that time, you go and take a look", Shi Senqing's mother shouted.

Shi Senqing's father's name is Shi Tongtang, who is only in his thirties, and he is in the prime of life, and his spirit is bubbling out. But in the past few years, his family background has not been very good, and it can even be said that he is worse than worse, and Shi Tongtang has aged a lot in advance, just like a fifty-year-old person.

Originally, there was a cow, a few chickens and a few acres of land at home, and the family had a good life.

However, there was a sudden change in the village, and the family also suffered, not only did the family save all the savings be exhausted, but also borrowed a lot of silver taels from the Li family, the landlord of the town, and had to repay some every year, a total of ten years.

Now that it has been seven years, Shi Tong Tang has been doing a lot of chores, going to bed late and getting up early every day, and often getting up before the rooster crows.

Shi Senqing's mother was overworked and contracted a cold, and now she needs to take some tonic medicine every day to nourish her body, which makes the family even worse.

Shi Tongtang listened, spit out the dirt in his mouth, lowered his head and knocked the dry tobacco into the soles of his straw shoes, put away his pipe, raised his feet and walked out of the bedroom, and stepped on the mud to walk to the east room.

At this time, a voice came from the door: "Stone Smoke Ghost, how much of your family's food is still borrowing from me, I promise to pay you back this time."

The voice sounded pitiful, but there was a sly smell of it. Shi Tongtang listened to the voice of the visitor, and frowned: "No, not a single grain is gone, don't think about coming to my house to borrow food anymore!" The voice sounded vicissitudes and majesty, and he was a little tired.

"Stone smoke ghost, you can do it and give me some more, you also know the situation of my family, three children, a mother-in-law, four mouths are waiting for me to feed and eat, this time I really don't lie to you, I will really pay you back." ”

"Forget it, Cheng Xin, to tell you the truth, I really can't lend it to you this time, it's almost winter, and the debt I owe in the Li family should be repaid again, and you can think of what will happen if you don't repay me."

"I really don't lie to you this time, I found a doorway, I can connect the previous few times, and when the time comes, I will pay you back, we don't owe each other!"

The clever and thin chai named Cheng Xin changed his previous appearance, and suddenly became extremely serious, even Shi Tongtang, who had dealt with him for five years, was stunned, although Cheng Xin was usually cunning and dishonest, but it was all for his own family, and his character was quite upright, I don't know what kind of way to find to make him so confident.

Everyone in the nearby village knows that this thin firewood used to be a little fat man, and at that time he was even more honest and honest, and he greeted everyone with a smile.

Three years ago, Cheng Xin went out to hunt some pheasants near the mountains to make up for his pregnant mother-in-law, but he didn't return home for three days, and on the fourth day, when someone in the village got up early to work, he found Cheng Xin lying on his stomach in front of the big stone at the village gate.

The man was stunned, I don't know whose family this is, the village has never seen it, and then dragged it to the village and lay on the ground, so that people can recognize it, and finally Cheng Xin's mother-in-law came over with a big belly.

After Cheng Xin came back, he lay down for a month before reappearing in front of people.

His temperament has changed greatly, his face is sallow, his bones are as thin as firewood, and his body is still a little trembling when he sees people spinning around.

Cheng Xin chatted with people, and people asked him what happened to him in the mountains in the past three days, Cheng Xin just kept his mouth shut, and everyone couldn't ask a reason so they could only ask something else.

Talking about how his mother-in-law was, he said that the weak mother-in-law gave birth to three cubs in a row, two boys and one girl, and told him happily and everyone how cute his cubs were, and said that a big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and he was finally relieved. Then he stopped chatting with everyone, got up and walked in the direction of his house.

Everyone in the village knew that Cheng Xin's mother-in-law was indeed weak, and many experienced midwives in the village at that time said that it was difficult to give birth, and the big and small ones had to be put into the ground.

I don't know what happened to Cheng Xin when he went to the mountain, not only did his mother-in-law give birth smoothly, but she was still healthy after giving birth, and she didn't even sit for three days before she got out of bed and walked normally.

It is difficult for everyone to imagine how a fat man can come down after three days on the mountain.

Shi Tongtang saw that Cheng Xin was so serious, and then thought of the strange things that happened to Cheng Xin, plus the family had to sell all the food this time to repay the Li family's silver taels this year, and the food in the future winter was gone, and the family was really unhappy.

After thinking about it, he finally decided, his face was restrained from his tiredness, and only the majesty and vicissitudes of life remained: "Okay! It's not impossible to borrow you, but you have to tell me, how can you do it, you must know that the borrowed grain in the previous five years and the borrowed grain this time can be worth a year's silver taels for the Li family."

"Don't say a year's worth of silver, you can get ten, twenty, or thirty years of silver!"

As soon as Cheng Xin saw that there was a play, he returned to his previous shrewdness and cunning, looked left and right to see that there was no one, and said to Shi Tongtang when he entered the door: "Let's go to the east room and say." He pulled Shi Tongtang into the east room.

As soon as he entered the east room, Cheng Xin shouted: "Yo, this year's food in your family is indeed not as much as in previous years, what's going on?"

Shi Tongtang replied: "In the past, many landlords who had some land were not having a good time, they were not hiring, there was no place to do chores, there was no income, how to have so much food, okay, don't talk about this first, just help me repair the roof, and it's not too late to finish repairing." ”

After Cheng Xin heard this, he pouted and then helped Shi Tongtang repair the hole in the roof of the east house, and then hung some water-stained grain on the beam, and put the granular ones away in a large bamboo weave and spread them out.

Shi Tongtang went to the house and took two teacups to the east room, poured some tea in the cups, the two stood in the east room, one took a sip, Shi Tongtang signaled Cheng Xin to start.

Cheng Xin straightened his face and reorganized his language, beckoned Shi Tongtang to squat down, and whispered in his ear: "Didn't you always want to know what happened on the mountain when I went up the mountain for three days in a row and didn't come back? ”

After speaking, Shi Tongtang and he looked at him face to face, nodded, and turned his head sideways, Cheng Xin attached his ears and said: "I was thinking about finding a bird's nest on a taller branch, and I was pottery some bird's eggs, and I found that there was a big bird's nest on a tree, the size of a stone as big as a house at the entrance of our village, and I had never seen such a big bird's nest before." ”

looked at Shi Tongtang a little and said: " I climbed up to see what kind of bird's nest it was, after going up, the nest was empty, there was nothing, but there was an obvious smell of birds, I could see it at a glance inside, just when I wanted to go out, a big bird flew outside and grabbed me with a paw, flew into the sky and threw me down, or I fell into the river, and when I climbed ashore, I saw a broken cave in the ravine, and occasionally I could hear the cry of a baby, I settled down and walked out in the direction where the big bird grabbed me in my memory, and no matter how I walked, I would return to the same place, and slowly the sky was darkAt night, it was even more terrifying, and I had no choice but to go to the nearest cave, find a place to live, and leave as soon as I thought it would be dawn. ”

After taking a breath, I didn't know what the horror of the ravine and ravine was, looked up at the outside, and continued: "There was a smell of blood in the cave, so frightened that I didn't dare to go inside, so I found a shelter and lit a fire, and fell asleep in a hurry.

I didn't know that a gust of wind blew me up in the middle of the night, and the fire was extinguished, and vaguely I heard the sound of tearing, and it was cold, and I woke up without sleepiness at all, and I kept hearing the sound of constant tearing, not like a big worm, and not like a black blind man, I became curious, just like watching one or two, but I was afraid, and my heart was always fighting, after all, I wanted to watch, thinking that I couldn't run when I encountered danger.

I felt the black and courageously walked to the depths of the cave, and before I walked for a while, I saw several large ash boxes, on which was printed a fiery red lion, I looked at it and didn't pay attention to it, and when I was about to go inside, I suddenly found that something was wrong, and there was suddenly no sound in the depths of the cave, and the smell of blood was even more tangy, and the wind was not blowing. ”

Cheng Xin swallowed his saliva, and said fearfully, his voice trembling a little: "At that time, I was so scared that I didn't dare to move, and after a while, I heard a baby-like roar from the depths of the cave. I immediately ran outside, I felt that it was the fastest speed in my life, even when I got out of the hole, I still kept running, and the result was that no matter how I ran, I would run back to the same place, just sit down at the water's edge, rest for a while and then make plans. I just rested for a while, and as soon as I turned around, I saw two blood-red eyes, and the monster was silently behind me, and I saw through the faint moonlight, a bloody mouth, full of minced meat, and some scraps of cloth, bloody and angry, and then I fainted. ”

After Cheng Xin finished speaking, he paused, and said fearfully: "At that time, I thought I was finished like this, but who knew that I woke up again, and when I woke up, I opened my eyes and saw that I was actually standing on the way up the mountain before!"