It is a quiet village with mountains on the north, east and west, and the small bridge in front of the village is the only way to enter and exit the village. The water of the river is clear and clear, and the sweetness is unusually sweet.

At the entrance of the village, there is a stone stele, which is carved from a huge cyan mountain stone, and the stele has three big characters that can be vaguely recognized.

With a population of just over 200, Xiaoniu Village basically lives a traditional self-sufficient, male farmer and female weaver life. The villagers said that they came out and worked, and they said that they rested.

"Zhang Yun, go home and beat pigweed, otherwise your stepmother will beat you again. An urge, from a half-sized boy, about twelve or thirteen years old, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes. He was sitting on the ground, next to six or seven children, about ten years old. Gathered together, they are fighting crickets.

"Brother Niu Zhi, he's just a faceless bear, a hateful fart. We follow everywhere we go. A chubby boy among the children said.

"Brother Niu Zhi, I'll be watching for a while and then leave." The thin black boy named Zhang Yun outside the circle begged. I saw him holding a girl, tiptoeing, stretching his neck to watch the boys fighting crickets. Zhang Yun woke up his nose and threw it away, but threw it on the chubby boy's face.

The fat boy was furious, got up and pushed Zhang Yun with a stumbling stumble! Zhang Yun dodged left and right, firmly protecting the girl in the crook of his arm.

The boys said, "A dog mongrel is a dog mongrel." ”

"It's not good to wake up with snot. ”

"This wild boy is just begging for a beating, and he can't remember every time he beats him. Broke his dog's leg this time. ”

And all the children gathered around them. Punches and kicks add up.

The girl in Zhang Yun's arm cried, Zhang Yun saw that it was wrong, pushed the fat man away, took the girl, and ran away.

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and when he saw Zhang Yun running away, he hurriedly shook his chubby body and followed, and a group of children also hurriedly followed. The chubby boy picked up the rocks on the ground as he ran and threw them at Zhang Yun.

Zhang Yun dragged a crying child, and wanted to turn around to avoid the flying stones, not paying attention to when an old beggar appeared in front of him. In order not to step on the old beggar. Zhang Yun came to a sudden brake, and the huge habitual surname made Zhang Yun fall a dog and eat. The boys in the back, seeing this, applauded one after another. They gathered around together.

Zhang Yun secretly shouted, "Not good", and slowly crawled back.

The old beggar's eyes were cloudy, his lips were chapped, and he was holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, and he looked coldly at the sky. There was a broken bamboo stick next to it. Ragged and hung on the body. There was an old dog lying next to them, looking at them weakly.

Seeing that the old beggar looked yellow and thin, Zhang Yun hurriedly got up, not caring about the girl who was crying on the side. Helped the old beggar up. said again and again, "Grandpa, I didn't step on you, I didn't see you." ”

The old beggar's eyes flashed, and he nodded secretly in his heart, looking at Zhang Yun, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When the boys saw the beggar and the dog, they all showed surprised looks.

Beggars often come to the village, but this is the first time they have seen beggars who bite the dog's tail and lie down to sleep without begging.

Zhang Yun picked up his clothes and wiped the sweat on his face, picked up the girl sitting on the ground, stepped forward and said, "Master, grandfather, grandpa, I'll take you home and ask my mother for a nest to eat." ”

When they heard this, all the children began to shout

"Zhang Yun, this is the first time you have called Hanako at home, don't you remember the first few times you called Hanako to take away all your bowls?"

"This cloud just doesn't have a brain. ”

"Zhang Yun, this is your long-lost grandfather, take it home. ”

"Zhang Yun, if you go home again, your stepmother will beat you to death. ”

"Zhang Yun, you should change your name to Zhang Dashanren. This group of dolls seemed to be bullying Zhang Yun for fun, ridiculing and sarcastic.

"Brother, forget it, this grandfather stinks. The mother will be unhappy. The little girl tugged at the corner of Zhang Yun's clothes and said reluctantly.

"Look, Jia'er doesn't want to get it at home, what kind of good person are you pretending. The friends shouted again.

When Jia'er heard her friends taunting her brother again, she stomped her feet in a hurry, and two lines of tears hung on her round little face. Zhang Yun saw Jia'er's little face with teardrops, stretched out his hand to wipe Jia'er's tears, stretched out his hand halfway, retracted it again, and rubbed the dust on his hand his clothes, before he went to wipe Jia'er's tears.

Zhang Yun said, "Sister, my father doesn't often talk to us, those who are good are also good. Although I don't understand much, but what my father said, "Do a good deed, have you forgotten?"

Jia'er didn't speak, just lowered her head and sobbed.

"Haha, Zhang Yun, you and your father who teaches are really the same surname!" Niu Zhi said with a smile, "If you talk about some big truths, they are all set in one set." ”

Zhang Yun lowered his head, took Jia'er's hand, walked to the old beggar, and said in a low voice, "Old man, come with me." ”

The old beggar tickled, and the old dog limped on one leg and drooped his head. Follow behind Zhang Yun.

Walking to the bridge, the old dog sniffed at the river and barked a few times. At the barking of the old dog, a whirlpool rolled up on the surface of the water, and then slowly dissipated, and a huge black shadow slipped through the water.

The old beggar flashed, squatted down and touched the old dog's head, signaling it to be quiet, and the old dog meekly licked the old beggar's palm.

When the children saw this man and dog, they all thought it was funny. Two naughty boys, following behind the old beggar, one learned to walk lame, and the other learned to catch lice, the naughty boy bared his teeth and exaggerated expressions, which made the children laugh.

The old dog suddenly turned around and barked at the child a few times, revealing his gloomy teeth, and the bluffing naughty boy was stunned. The old beggar kicked the old dog, and the old dog whined a few times and stopped barking.

Niu Zhi hooked his hands at the two naughty boys who were learning to walk, and shouted, "Dog, Huzi, don't make trouble, come back." ”

"Obey Niu Zhige's decree!" the two urchins grimaced at the old beggar and ran back.

When the old beggar heard this, he raised his head and looked at the doll called "Brother Zhi" by the children with cloudy eyes. The four looked at each other, and saw that Niu Zhi's brows were not angry and arrogant, and he was outstanding! I saw that the old beggar was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.

Before he got home, Zhang Yun shouted, "Dad, mother, we're back." ”

It happened that Zhang Yun's mother Cuizhi was carrying a chicken food basin and was about to go to the backyard to feed the chickens, followed by a leper dog. When the leper dog saw the lame old dog, he whined and fled.

Cuizhi saw Zhang Yun leading a man called Huazi home, rolled her eyes, and began to mumble, "I raised a second ancestor who eats white food, not to mention eating white food myself, but also leading Huazi back to eat, do you see if the lice on the body of the person who asks for rice can jump into your bowl! Tell me how many times you have been, why do you keep teaching and not changing?"

Zhang Yun's face turned red, he walked up to his mother, took the chicken food bowl, and said, "Mother, I'll come, don't say it, I think this grandfather is pitiful, otherwise I won't eat tonight, save it for that grandfather." ”

Cuizhi still refused to give up, chattering to herself, "I don't know what the old immortal picked you up, you are idle all day long, you are crazy and take Jia'er crazy with you." ”

Jia'er couldn't help but bump into it, "It's that I want to go out with my brother to play, besides, where does my brother eat white food, hunt pigweed, go to the field, cook, he does a lot of work." ”

"Oh, you rabbit, you know how to talk back, I haven't said you yet. A good girl, crazy with a group of wild boys all day long, your father taught you homework, you don't care at all! ”

Cui Zhi turned around and walked into the house and took out two corn flour tortillas still in front of the old beggar, pinched her waist, and shouted at the old beggar, "You take it and get out of here, the old man of the province will come back and see you, and he will take you to the house again, and he will be upset when he looks at it." ”

The old beggar was still drooling and giggling.

Zhang Yun silently put down the chicken food bowl, walked to the old beggar, picked up the cake, put it in the old beggar's hand, and said in a low voice, "Grandpa, let's go, let you be wronged." ”

At this moment, Zhang Yun's father came back from the path with a book in his pocket and said to his daughter-in-law, "I heard you yelling from afar, can you learn from a person?"

When Cuizhi heard this, she was furious, jumped high, and scolded: "The surname is Niu, I make cattle and horses for you, and I work hard, so my feelings are not personal? Niu Wenlong, why didn't you say that when you married me? Now you dislike me? The old lady is really blind! ”

Niu Wenlong walked forward, saw this beggar and a dog, saw Yunyun's face with shame, instantly understood what was going on, and said to the old beggar, "Old man, I am a guest here, I am ignorant of this cheap, let you laugh." Come in and eat with me. He turned around and touched Zhang Yun's head and said, "Good job, Dad didn't teach in vain, Dad will make you a slingshot reward tomorrow." ”

Niu Wenlong saw Cuizhi throwing it aside and chattering, and scolded, "You can do it, it's over." You impudent shrew, you know how to sprinkle in front of people. If it weren't for that bullshit doll, I would have wanted you? Do you know that I, a teacher, have been poked in the backbone by your neighbors in the back because of how many bones you have been poked in the back! If you don't hurry up to clean up the table to eat, and you are not ashamed, take out the sweet potato wine brewed at home, and I apologize to this old gentleman. ”

Cuizhi jumped high and scolded, "The surname is Niu, you explain clearly to my mother, why did you get poked in the back? Did the old lady steal a man, or did she go out to steal? Didn't I just give you a son? Why do you have to find trouble every day." When Jia'er heard her mother, she repeated this set of scolding, and hurriedly pushed her mother into the house to pick up food. At the dinner table, Niu Wenlong poured a bowl of sweet potato wine for the old beggar and said, "The old gentleman tastes it, this is the red sweet potato in his own home, brewed, not inferior to the monkey wine in the mountains." ”

The wine is fragrant, and the old beggar seems to be attracted by this mellow sweet potato wine. Nodding slightly, he thanked him. I took the bowl, squinted my eyes, and tasted it, the entrance was a little sweet, like a belly and a hot ball, the mouth was fragrant, endless, and people couldn't help but have a long aftertaste.

Unable to resist Niu Wenlong's enthusiasm, the old beggar accompanied Niu Wenlong to drink a few cups, and Niu Wenlong's tongue also grew bigger. He chatted to the old beggar about some short things in the village.

The old beggar saw that there was a sad look between his eyebrows, and asked, "Mr. Niu, I came to your village." Except for the naïve and unscrupulous naughty boys, all the way to see the villagers have sad faces, but why?"

Hearing the old beggar's words, Niu Wenlong couldn't help but glance at the old beggar. I found that the old beggar's eyes were bright, and they were not cloudy and powerless when they first met.

Niu Wenlong was stunned for a moment and sighed, "Hey, it's not because of the Xiaoniu River at the head of the village, this Xiaoniu River will flood a lot in the summer."

When I was younger, I felt that our Little Cow Village was a paradise on earth, with good weather all year round. Flooding has begun in recent decades.

When the rainy season comes, the river water is not clear and transparent, and the river water becomes dark and heavy, which makes people's scalp tingle when they look at it.

Whenever there is a flood, the river floods the bridges, floods the fields, and sometimes even the villages.

When a Taoist priest from the traveling side passed by and saw this scene, he said that this was the river god who was angry and begged for sacrifices. To appease the wrath of the river god, it was necessary to sacrifice pigs and sheep.

After the villagers slaughtered a few cattle and sheep and threw them into the calf river, a waterspout was born on the surface of the water and swept the cattle and sheep into the water. After the cattle and sheep are involved, the river will slowly recede. But in recent years, the appetite of the river god has become bigger and bigger, and the villagers have tears in their eyes every time they slaughter cattle and sheep, because the appetite of the river god is so great that some calves and lambs that have not grown up have to be slaughtered to fill the number.

One year, the villagers were ruthless and did not pay tribute to the river god, and the river never receded. And it kept rising, submerging the whole village. It's like an ocean, black and oppressive, approaching Maverick Mountain, making the scalp of the villagers numb. In the end, the villagers slaughtered a large number of cattle and sheep to calm the anger of the river god. However, in recent years, the cattle and sheep in the village have almost been slaughtered, and the villagers are now pooling money to buy cattle and sheep from other places.

The villagers are now disheartened and want to leave, but they are reluctant to let go of this village that has been passed down for I don't know how many generations. It's not so easy to talk about the old and weak in the village, so now the whole village is not a little angry. Hey, I don't know what happened to this little cow village. ”

The old beggar touched his beard and said thoughtfully, "Have the villagers ever thought that the people living in this river are not good?"

Niu Wenlong woke up half of his wine in an instant, and made a "shhh" gesture to the old beggar. got up and looked outside the door, and closed them casually, "Hey, the people in the village know it, and the village has also raised money many times, and invited some Taoist priests from the tour side to come over and do it." But these Taoist priests all made blind gestures to the river, and when the flood came, they ran faster than anyone else. I've seen it for a few years, and this little cow village has been cut off. ”

Niu Wenlong paused for a moment, and then said, "Old man, let Mrs. bake you a few cakes tonight, and leave quickly tomorrow morning, it's not that my old cow won't keep you, it's about two days, this evil obstacle should make trouble again." ”

The old beggar smiled, "Mr. Niu, don't be in a hurry, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge." I think your village has good feng shui, not like a place where children and grandchildren are gone. ”

"The old man still looks at feng shui? Yes, the ancestors who built the village recorded in the village genealogy, 'Xiaoniu Village has been under the village for 10,000 years, a catastrophe, however, the descendants are domineering, help me in Niu Village!' I am a teacher in the village, and I can probably understand the meaning of these words, but this 10,000-year catastrophe makes me wonder. How can these 10,000 years not yet come! Could it be that the disaster has struck ahead of time? Moreover, the ancestors left a book saying that there will be descendants of the Niu clan to help us escape this hardship. But if you look at our whole village, we have to fight a beast with the cooperation of several people. Not to mention pointing to the descendants of our cattle clan. We invited so many Taoist priests, but they all returned in vain, and we couldn't even see what this evil obstacle was, and we all died. Niu Wenlong said dejectedly.

"Well, I think Zhang Yun is a good kid," the old beggar didn't continue to talk about the river demon, and diverted the topic.

"I've always wanted a son, and I'm destined for Yunyun. I remember vividly,

On one occasion, when I was out to my home, I encountered a thunderstorm and lightning, which was the most irritable weather I have ever seen in my life, passing by a dilapidated mountain temple. When I ran in to rest, I heard a baby, whoa, crying, and the voice was loud. Later, I followed the sound to find the baby. When the baby saw me, she stopped crying and stared at me with her dark eyes.

I saw a chain next to him that he was carrying with him. It is engraved with the name, as well as the eight characters of the birthday. I picked him up and stood there until dark, without waiting for his parents. When the rain stopped, they brought him back. ”

Niu Wenlong was overjoyed when he mentioned Yunyun.

"This kid is sensible for a long time, and now at this age when he is naughty, he knows how to help the family, but this kid doesn't seem to fit in, and sometimes I let him hang out with other children, and he is reluctant. I know that those children are bullying Yunyun and I brought them back. Alas, the children are not sensible, what can I do. I'm afraid that this child is too withdrawn and won't be able to deal with people when he grows up. Niu Wenlong showed a worried look.

"I think Yunyun, this kid, is not a thing in the pool, he says he must be a dragon. The old beggar said with a smile.

Hearing this, Niu Wenlong immediately got up, clasped his hands into fists, bowed down, and made a long gesture, "Old Immortal Master, you must have a deep meaning when you say this." Please give your children some guidance. ”

"Haha, I also like this child very much, I think that the matter of solving this river demon still has to fall on this child. ”

"Ah, sir, are you joking? If I kill a chicken during the New Year, Yunyun will be sad for a long time, let him go to fight the river demon, this is absolutely not good. Niu Wenlong said in surprise.

"This is the advantage of Yunyun, who knows that it is also a fatal shortcoming, if Yunyun wants to become a big thing, this level must be overcome. Is there an ancestral hall or an old temple in the village? I'll stay for a few days. The old beggar asked.

"There is an old temple in the back mountain, and every year when the Xiaoniu River floods, the villagers gather there, and there are not many people who usually go. Immortal Master, you see that the road is slippery in the dark, and the mountain road is not easy to walk. If you don't dislike it, you might as well stay at my house today. I'll make a bunk with Uchiko, and you sleep in the bed. Niu Wenlong persuaded.

"The old man is used to being at ease alone. So I still don't bother. The old man thanked Mr. Niu for his hospitality. After speaking, he kicked up the old dog who was squatting under the dining table and was napping, and said with a smile, "You brute will enjoy it, I think you are getting lazier and lazier, hurry up." ”

The old dog reluctantly got up, shook his fur, and limped to the door. Niu Wenlong hurriedly got up and pulled out the latch. The old beggar seemed to be a little drunk, and like the old dog, he staggered when he walked. Niu Wenlong couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw this. But then he repented, how could he laugh at others. Just when I lost my mind, I found that the dog and beggar who walked out of the door just now had disappeared.

Niu Wenlong thought he was dazzled. Hurriedly rubbed his eyes, and looked again, he was indeed gone.

Niu Wenlong woke up in an instant, and then he knew that this time he really met a master! And this master seems to have a good impression of Yunyun, maybe this is Yunyun's creation.

In the inner room, hearing that the old beggar was gone, Cuizhi led Zhang Yunjiaer to the dining table. Cuizhi took the old beggar's dishes and chopsticks in disgust.

Niu Wenlong couldn't wait to tell Yunyun Jia'er about the old beggar just now. When Cui Zhi heard this, she looked disdainful, "Master, hmph, maybe I'm here to eat and drink again, and I'm just trying to deceive you by a few tricks." ”

"What a woman's opinion. Niu Wenlong snorted coldly, turned his head to Yunyun and said, "This grandfather is in the temple in the back mountain, get up early tomorrow morning and go and bring him some food." ”

"Hmm. Zhang Yun's eyes flashed and he replied happily.

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