"Immortals?"

"Will they bless us only if they kneel?"

"But Ah Xiu's family believes in gods so much, every year the food is not enough to eat themselves, and they take out most of it to worship the Buddha statues in the temple, but even so, why was Ah Xiu's father still bitten to death by wild beasts while hunting?"

"Doesn't it mean that as long as you make offerings, you can get a good life? Why is there so many pilgrims coming and going in that temple, but all of them are in tattered clothes?"

A child was sitting on the threshold of his house with his little face looking at a shallow river not far away, his eight-year-old face was a little baby fat, and he wore a tiger head hat on his head.

He also looked at the mountains not far away from time to time, only to see that the green smoke rose among the tall and short mountains, and it was vaguely seen that under the green smoke was a temple, Jinshan Temple.

It is said that there was once a god and Buddha there, and it seems that Jin Chanzi, a disciple of Rulai, came, and there was also a Bodhi ancestor, who was also a disciple of Rulai.

"Tiezhu, why are you in a daze again?"

A woman came out of the house, carrying a lunch box with some simple food, and rubbed the child's face with pity.

"Ah Xiu's father left early, it's not easy at home, let's take it. ”

Although the woman is not a lady, she is also gentle and virtuous.

"Also, it's okay to bring Ah Xiu over, her mother, alas. ”

The woman said a few more words, but finally sighed when she talked about Ah Xiu's mother.

"It's better than my food. ”

The iron pillar stood up, and dusted himself off with his two small hands.

"What are you muttering, that's your little daughter-in-law in the future. ”

The woman was amused when she saw this.

The surrounding mountains reflect the greenery, the birds chirp softly, occasionally a few wisps of smoke are revealed in the mountains, like a paradise isolated from the world, most of the people here are hunting and farming for a living, although they can not enjoy the prosperity of the outside world, but they do not have to experience any war, and it is a place to escape from the world.

"It would be better if there were no temples. ”

Tie Zhu looked at this piece of heaven and earth with a happy heart, but then saw the Jinshan Temple in the distance, but there was a trace of disgust in his eyes.

He walked neither fast nor slow, but after all, he was inevitably suffering from climbing the mountain, and after a while he got out of breath, and after walking almost a meal, he saw a low house at the foot of the mountain.

"Ah Xiu?"

Iron Pillar shouted as he stretched out his little head to look inside the room and walked inside.

"Brother Tiezhu. ”

Suddenly, a faint shout sounded, and the sound was like a mosquito's chirping, as if it would be cut off at any moment.

Then Tie Zhu saw a scene that he would never forget.

I saw that a hungry skinny woman was lying on the ground without any life, and so was another little girl of six or seven years old.

He hurriedly put down the lunch box and ran to the little girl to help her up.

"How so?"

Tie Zhu's tone trembled slightly.

Looking at the woman who had long been lifeless, the iron pillar picked up the little girl and ran home.

"Mother, mother, take a look, what's wrong with Ah Xiu?"

Far away from his own house, Tie Zhu shouted, and his violent wheezing could not suppress his panicked look.

The woman in the house had also heard the sound and walked out, and she couldn't help but be surprised to see the little girl behind the iron pillar.

The hunters in the mountains are so simple, and almost all of the family has something to do.

"I'm hungry. ”

Tiezhu's mother frowned slightly.

"We went to see it just now, Ah Xiu's mother is no longer saved, is it ...... It was starved to death. ”

A big sturdy man said slowly.

"Although Ah Xiu's father left early, we usually help them and their mothers, how can we ......?"

The other old man's eyes darkened a little, and finally shook his head.

"I'm afraid she has brought the family's food to the temple again. ”

"Ah Xiu and her mother, you don't know, since Ah Xiu's father died, he has to go to the temple every day, and he is hopeless. ”

Manned interface.

"She doesn't eat, Ah Xiu has to eat too, she thinks that she can have a good life by worshiping those Buddha statues every day, there is such an easy thing in this world. ”

Another shorter middle-aged man suddenly said angrily, but halfway through speaking, he was covered by the person next to him.

Tiezhu knew why they were like this, because, although the worship did not get the so-called good life, the criticism of the gods, even if it was just a Buddha statue, might be punished.

At the beginning, Ah Xiu's father complained inadvertently, so he went into the mountains and never came back, but everyone knew that how a hunter who had been hunting all his life could die so unclear.

"Pity Ah Xiu. ”

Tiezhu's mother also sighed, and then fed him soup.

"I saw something flying in the sky on the other side of the mountain, and it seemed to be killing demons. ”

Someone hesitated for a moment and spoke slowly.

"I've met a few mountain demons in the mountains before, and although they are ugly, they are kind to people, but now they ...... It's all dying. ”

Tie Zhu was stunned when he heard this.

"The way of the world. ”

In the end, I don't know who sighed.

Everyone who has experienced this seems to have a little gloomy eyes and faces, as if the happiness and happiness in the past are just born to cover up.

They slowly dispersed.

Twilight.

"Tiezhu, why are you sitting here in a daze?"

It was Iron Pillar's father who had returned from hunting with a deer on his back.

"What's going on?"

He also saw Ah Xiu who was unconscious on the bed, and looked stunned.

Tiezhu's mother immediately explained the cause and effect clearly.

"I saw it today, too. ”

Tiezhu's father was silent for a long time.

"They all said that it was some kind of galactic water army, killing the demons of the world. ”

"Many of the beasts in the mountains that have been humanized have died, and their blood has stained the earth. ”

The iron pillar could be heard clearly outside the door.

It seems that he had seen some animals with human nature strayed into this place before, but they had a gentle temperament, which was different from the traditional beasts.

He didn't understand why the gods wanted to kill these animals, and what were the demons? He suddenly remembered the Buddha in the sky he had seen, and the unwilling roar and roar he had once had.

There seemed to be a thought in his mind.

It's an afternoon.

At night, the stars are dotted, and the insects in the mountains are gradually chirping.

"Iron pillar, it's time to go to sleep. ”

The woman in the room called.

"Got it, mother. ”

Tiezhu stood up and walked slowly back to his room.

......

"Tiezhu, are you bullying Ah Xiu again?"

Outside the courtyard, the woman was tugging at the small collar of the iron pillar, and beside her stood a little girl with tears in her eyes.

"Mother, I said today that I was going to set up rabbits, but Ah Xiu didn't let me. ”

Tie Zhu said and shook the gray rabbit in his right hand with a sneer.

"Wow, is it dead?"

When the little girl saw that the gray rabbit was hanging on all fours, she immediately burst into tears.

"Well, maybe I was pushing too hard. ”

The iron pillar was lifted in the air by the woman, who carried the rabbit.

"Hurry up, if you don't make Ah Xiu happy today, see if I don't beat your ass into eight petals. ”

The woman said with a smile, but the iron pillar with a smile subconsciously shuddered.

Tie Zhu didn't understand why his mother was no longer gentle since there was more Ah Xiu in the family, as if he was no longer biological.

Half an hour later.

"Why did you bury it, it must be delicious to eat it so fat. ”

Tie Zhu said depressedly while digging the soil depressedly, and then he stopped a little.

But then.

"Don't cry, I'll dig. ”

He looked at Ah Xiu, who was a little crying, and suddenly felt a thrill.

"Uncle Niu. ”

After Ah Xiu watched with satisfaction that the rabbit was buried, Tie Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, but then he saw a strong man like a cow walking over with a gloomy face, and immediately greeted him.

"Iron pillars. ”

The big man seemed to be a little absent-minded, smiled at him, and walked over.

"Uncle Niu, what's wrong?"

Tie Zhu was a little puzzled.

"Uncle Niu's father is sick, and he can't be cured. ”

Ah Xiu seemed to know something, and spoke next to him.

"Sick?"

Tie Zhu was stunned.

"It's going to die. ”

Ah Xiu seems to know more than him.

"Why did you die?"

Tie Zhu subconsciously asked this question, but then fell silent.

Everyone seems to know the answer to this question.

"Because it is prescribed by the gods, how many years you can live, and how you die, are all determined by the gods. ”

Sure enough, Ah Xiu answered this question.

Tie Zhu's face suddenly became gloomy, and he felt angry when he heard this answer for some reason.

"Why?"

His expression changed slightly, as if he were not like a child.

"What, why?"

Ah Xiu was a little puzzled.

"Why do they decide our lives and deaths, and why?"

His voice was a little muffled.

"Because we were created by God. ”

Ah Xiu didn't seem to feel the change in the iron pillar.

"What about the gods? How did the gods come into being? Will they get sick?"

The iron pillar seems to have a lot of problems at this moment.

Ah Xiu thought for a long time, as if he didn't know the answer.

"Just because we are human beings, not gods, we are to be in charge of life and death?"

Tiezhu said, then looked at the sky.

"Why are they so high?"

His eyes had become deep at this moment, and his body seemed to have a kind of rebellious aura born from his body, the aura that had already existed.

"Brother Tiezhu, we will all die, I will die, you will die, and uncles and aunts will all be born, old, sick and die. ”

Ah Xiu said this sentence in a natural tone.

"Dead?"

The iron pillar froze.

"Daddy will also die? Ah Xiu will also die?"

He saw people die, but he never thought about it, I don't know if he didn't think about it or didn't dare to think about it.

"No, you can't. ”

At this moment, his eyes were frightened.

"I don't want to lose. ”

His voice trembled.

"No...... Not ......"

Tiezhu turned his head abruptly to look into the distance, where the mountains were obscured, but he did not see the mountains, in that direction it was said that there was once a five-fingered mountain descending from the sky.

They all said that there was a demon there who did not obey the control of heaven and earth.

A thought in his heart was suddenly infinitely magnified.

"Demons?"

His eyes were a little distracted, he looked at the sky, and then in that direction.

"Ah Xiu, let's go home. ”

Finally, he withdrew his gaze and smiled at the little girl next to him.