The light of the dark sun reached the dazzling moment of the day, and it was at noon that the group finally returned to the foot of the Black Mountain, where the mountains were relatively gentle, and the weeds and black trees on the ground had increased.

After climbing over a boulder, a large yellow canopy appeared in the eyes of the ugly.

"Oh, I'm back in the village. Liu Apu, who was walking with Ugly, let out a cheer.

The rough faces of the willow bones and others carrying the wooden frame in front also showed a heartfelt smile.

After a meal or so, they looked down, a huge willow tree surrounded by scattered stone houses, and a blue jade belt flowing along the mountain in the distance.

If you look closely, there are some black shadows as big as ants moving at the bottom of the mountain.

"The hunting party is back. ”

With a childish shout, four or five bare-bottomed children playing with slingshots at the entrance of the village ran over one after another. "Ah Niu, did you listen to your mother at home? ”

Running at the front was a five- or six-year-old boy with a dirty face, followed by an old yellow-haired dog.

Ah Bao picked up the little kid and put it around his neck.

This child is Agui's younger brother Liu Aniu.

"Abba, I'm going to lift myself high, too. A fart boy with the same small face and a dirty face ran in front of Liu Mu, tugging at his pants and saying in a milky voice.

"Good lift. The round-faced willow took one of the boy's arms with one free hand, and threw it firmly around his neck.

The rest of the children happily ran around the wooden frame of their prey, laughing and laughing along the way.

But these children were far away, and none of them came to talk to him.

Ugly fell at the back of the line, smiling faintly and looking at this warm scene.

"Lao Huang, are you okay at home?"

The big yellow dog, which had left a few ugly spots on its body due to its shedding, took a step and ran to the ugly after realizing that no one was paying attention to it.

He leaned down and looked at Lao Huang's somewhat dry and stiff head, looked at its cloudy eyes with black eye feces, and asked softly.

Lao Huang shook his head and let out a few inexplicable soft babas, and stuck out his rough tongue in reply, leaving a string of saliva on Ugly's hand.

A man and a dog look so small in the light of the sun.

Stepping on the slender dead leaves, the peaceful village soon boiled over.

The same tall and burly woman stood in front of the stone house, with a bright smile on her purple-black rough face, and a mouthful of white teeth was particularly obvious.

From time to time, the mischievous little warts were caught in the air by the women and slapped their buttocks a few times, making loud cries, and the men watched this scene with a smile.

On the road in the village, piglets, chickens, ducks, and even cows and sheep are running around, and they don't understand that everyone is happy and express their happiness in their own way.

Soon the women's gate stopped their chores and set up a black pot under the big willow tree in the center of the village. Long black wooden tables were brought out of the house. Porcelain bowls, stone bowls, and wooden bowls were placed on it.

This is a huge old willow tree that takes seven or eight people to close, I don't know if it's because of age or feng shui problems, it shades the canopy of half of the village, all the leaves are withered yellow, like the eternal sunset in the sky, and from time to time there will be slender dead leaves falling down.

After consulting with Liu Gu and others, the women took out a few wild wolves from the wooden frame and carried them out.

Then sharpen the knife and wave it to start the thin skin slaughter.

"Auntie, I'll help you. ”

Chou took out his copper knife and walked up to a woman who was skinning a rock sheep.

"Ugly, you go and rest for a while, and I'll ask you to cook this meat later." Auntie, I slaughter no less prey than you men. ”

The woman looked up, her rough face was covered with wrinkles, and her thick black hair was combed into a neat and thin twist whip. When she saw the person in front of her, her thick lips curled upwards to reveal her white teeth.

"Since my sister-in-law doesn't need to help, come over and help me clean up this wild wolf, how will I feel a little dizzy. ”

The slender eyes of a slightly younger woman next to her narrowed suddenly, and she stretched out a hand with a silver bracelet and said with a head.

Ah Chou looked to the side, and a wild wolf that had been skinned and disemboweled, was lying on the ground, revealing its colorful internal organs.

The knife in Liujin's hand paused: "Since your Aunt Yin is not feeling well, you can go and help her." ”

Ugly silently walked up to the wild wolf and stretched out his hand to put it into its stomach, taking out the smelly stomach one by one and putting it into the wooden basin.

After a while, a clean and intact wolf lay on the wolf's skin, and he drew his copper knife to dismember.

"Hey, why don't you get dizzy all of a sudden, ugly, thank you for the rest of the aunts. ”

Liu Yinshi suddenly put down the hand that rubbed his head, and his slender eyes were still squinting, and he could barely see the gray pupils inside. She pushed the ugly away, then took the thick kitchen knife and slashed at the wolf's limbs.

......

After an hourglass, all the meat was cut into palm-sized slices, and some ribs with lean meat, and put into large iron pots.

Ugly picked up an iron spoon that was almost as big as him and started to get busy.

From time to time, I saw that he put leaf-like spices, or pale cyan stone salt, into the pot and stirred freely. From time to time, scoop out a little soup and taste it, and then add some other spices.

Just when he was busy, there were more and more people under the willow tree, and men, women, young and young formed a circle of threes and threes and began to talk about the mountains.

At this time, two extremely strong men in sackcloth walked over with a wrinkled, stacked, trembling old man holding a black wooden staff.

"Ah Gong is here. ”

The crowd chatting around suddenly fell silent for a moment, and then they all gathered around to greet the old man.

The old man narrowed his sparse eyebrows, cloudy eyes, nodded softly to everyone, and then sat down at the wooden table supported by two big men.

Someone hurriedly brought tea and served it.

"This harvest is not small, I can have six or seven thousand catties of meat, which is enough to maintain the village's expenses for more than ten days. ”

One of the sturdy men in sackcloth looked at the prey on the wooden shelf and spoke.

He wore a necklace of bone teeth around his neck, exuding a majestic power of qi and blood. Even if you are tens of meters away, you can feel it.

This person is the head hunter of Deciduous Village, Liu Huang, who has the strength of the Bloody Six Heavens, and is one of the most powerful Pluto warriors in this small village of less than 100 people (Pluto warriors are uniformly called Hades in the back, otherwise it feels very awkward.) ）

And another big man in sackcloth with a copper ring on his nose who came with him was called Liu Hu, the village chief of Withered Leaf Village.

It is naturally the grandfather of each village who can make the most powerful underworld in these two villages support and make all the villagers respect and love.

Ah Gong, like the village chief, is a title and a position.

The grandfather of each village has only one identity, and that is the underworld, which is rumored to hold the mysterious power of the underworld.

Every sacrifice is revered and looked up to by all men, women, and children, wherever they go.

After two hourglasses, a few cauldrons began to roar, and a rich aroma of meat came out.

The cauldron was already surrounded by a dozen saliva children, they were staring at the tumbling slices of meat in the pot, milky white broth, and a few young people had already put their thumbs in their mouths and sucked hard.

After another half an hourglass, Ah Chou finally spat out a sentence: "It's cooked." ”

The boys cheered for joy. But no one dared to move.

Liu Hu walked over, took the iron spoon from Ah Chou's hand, and took out a few pieces of the most tender and fattest lamb loin and respectfully brought them to Ah Gong.

Ah Gong put a piece of mutton in his mouth with a wooden chopstick, chewed it slowly for a while, and swallowed it.

"Fear heaven and earth, fear of Black Mountain, immortal!"

He slammed the wooden staff in his hand on the ground, making a low, old voice.

The voice rang out in everyone's ears, far and near.

Everyone shouted: "Revere heaven and earth, revere the black mountain, immortal!"

The women who had been resting next to them went into battle at the same time, holding large spoons and began to scoop out pieces of meat and distribute them to everyone.

The first to get meat were the village chief, the head hunter, and several members of the hunting party, and their bowls were filled with the best pieces of meat for the back, neck, limbs, and other parts, and at the same time, the bowl also contained the most meat.

At this time, it was the turn of the little children who had been waiting for a long time, and some teenagers who had entered the blood-burning period.

"No, I want this piece of meat. ”

Ah Chou looked up, and an eleven or twelve-year-old boy with slender eyes wearing a linen dress and a copper collar around his neck was pointing to a piece of rock lamb rib meat and said.

"Little Atonga, I heard that you will be going to the Winter Wolf Department in a few days, congratulations. ”

Ah Chou took out the piece of meat designated by the young man, and then said sincerely.

"Yes," the boy shrugged his nose and replied softly. Then he continued to point out in the pot, "Keep these pieces of meat for me." Then he shook his head and walked away.

Ugly looked at the boy who was slightly shorter than himself and shook his head, he was his savior after all. When all the young and strong laborers in the village had eaten up, there were only some soup and bones left in the pot.

At this time, the women scooped out the broth with their chopsticks and soaked the barley cakes in the bowls and ate them.

Ah Chou also received three thick and heavy flatbreads.

He tore the cakes open, soaked them in a bowl and began to devour them.

The coarse barley cake is full of rich broth, which is also a delicacy.

"Woohoo"

A scream interrupted his eating.

"Lao Huang, you are old, and you can't compete for other 'prime' dogs. ”

Ah Chou looked at Lao Huang Sifei's fluttering dog hair and said softly.

After thinking about it for a while, I picked out some of the soaked soft soup cakes in the bowl and put them on the ground.

touched the dog head that happily ate Lao Huang, and then ate it.

Every time the hunting team returns, the whole village eats together, which is an ancient rule handed down from the Deciduous Village. Soon this 'grand ceremony' will be over. Left the women to clean up the mess.

......

"Senior brother, remember my words and keep walking and don't look back. ”

"Nanshan Heavenly Evil, this is the Nanshan Ring. ”

"Ah......h

Ah Chou opened his eyes with a scream, let out a long breath, and when he touched his back, it was already a sweat stain.

He took out the fire fold and lit the butter lamp, and the dim light of the fire illuminated the narrow and simple stone house.

Pushing open the door, the dim dark sun hung high over the night for a long time.

He touched his chest, feeling the slightly convex texture, and remembered the two vague figures in his dream, and fell into deep thought.