"Yes, but he wasn't lame before, that day we bumped together, he told me that he saw a big bird's nest on the big crooked neck tree on the east mountain, there must be bird eggs, and asked me to dig it with him, I said that my father said that Dongshan was a mass grave and didn't let me go, he said it's okay, let's leave after digging, and then give you two more bird eggs. ”

"Hey," the old man sighed, "you don't know, young man, no matter what, the white-flour buns are eaten, and the chickens raised at home lay eggs, and we don't eat less." It used to be different, then whoever raised a hen or two would lay an egg, it would be reluctant to eat, and it would have to be kept to go to the market for salt and rice, who would be willing to give it to the child to eat, besides, the chicken, who still has something to feed, all let it shave some wild food, lay that egg, half of it is empty, now think about it, the chicken will really suffer."

This old man is either a chicken or a sheep, and that's going to be the time, but this time I wasn't too embarrassed to interrupt him. Listen patiently to his nagging

Later, he blamed himself for being gluttonous, so he drove the sheep with him, and at that time, there was a mass grave on the east mountain, and whoever died, and threw the mat away, and there were many dogs waiting to eat the flesh of the dead, and the eyes of the food were red.

Hey, don't talk about the dogs, it's pathetic. At that time, people couldn't eat enough, and who had something to feed the dogs, and the dogs were hungry and swayed when they walked. Some of them are hungry and can't do it, lying on the root of the wall, and they can't run with them, and they wagging their tails at people, but what's the use of wagging their tails, who has something to eat for them. The old man sighed heavily.

This time I was sad to hear it, and I didn't know how to comfort him. I could only hand over another cigarette.

The old lady smiled and said to the two of us, "Say it quickly, smoke less, and look at the room where your grandfather smokes." The old man took two puffs of cigarette smoke, and before he reached the crooked neck tree, he met several dogs, all of whom had red eyes, and they looked like they had eaten the flesh of dead people, and they came at the two of us. I can't go up the tree, and I'm still driving sheep, and if this sheep is eaten by dogs, my father will have to skin me when I go back!

The old man's eyes were a little hazy, "Suddenly, I saw the dog running at the front was familiar, very much like the "blessing" of the old Bi's family in the west of the village, the old Bi died of illness in the spring, and no one cared about it. I'll call it "Blessing". It stopped, tilted its head to look at me, and it remembered me."

"But the dogs in the back didn't care, they came up and wanted to bite my sheep, and I beat them with sticks, and they came at me. Suddenly, Laifu barked twice, turned around and went to the dogs, and bit with the dogs. I know it's protecting me. I was scared stupid at the time, watching the dogs bite Laifu, and then Laifu's intestines were dragged out, and they still protected me and refused to run. Until the end, I couldn't stand anymore and bit a dog's neck and didn't let go, and the blood flowed all over the ground."

"Uncle, why is it protecting you?" I couldn't help but ask.

"Hey, I think it may be that it still remembers the half bowl of sheep***."

"What sheep?" I asked.

The old man snuffed out the cigarette butt with his long nails. "When I was herding sheep in the spring of that year, I met Laifu lying under the haystack by the well, and I couldn't get up, I was hungry, I secretly squeezed half a bowl of sheep *** for it to drink, and it remembered. Half a bowl of sheep *** It still remembers it. What a good dog. Saved my life at a critical time. This dog is sometimes more affectionate than humans, and if you treat it well, it will never forget it. ”

"And then, how happened to Laifu?" By now, I no longer care about the "dragon". began to care about the fate of the righteous dog.

"What else, dead, those dogs bit Rifle to death, grinning at me, and then suddenly all of them ran away with their tails between their legs, I was wondering, I only felt a gust of wind around me, a black shadow rushed towards my sheep and went, I fixed my mind, and saw the dragon, and there was one of my sheep in his mouth. The pillar fell from the tree with a frightened "wow". My sheep were stunned, and they all knelt motionless. ”

"What does a dragon look like?" I asked.

"It's about the same as a worm. But it's big, it's really big, it was coiled at the time, I don't know how long, it can be so thick," the old man drew with his hand, "the thickness is thicker than the bucket, it's green, it's shining, I don't know how old I lived, and I still have a big red crown on my head." ”

"Do you have claws?" I asked for details

"I didn't see any claws, they were coiled, but there wasn't any of them on the top half anyway. The old man started to roll his cigarette with his own hands, and I took out the cigarette case, and when I saw that it was empty, I flattened it and threw it away.

"What happened, did it bite you?"

"No, I just looked at it straight, it bit the sheep and didn't look at me, the eyes were white, about the color of stone eggs. I don't know how long it took, but I left as soon as I "whew", and you just saw the crackling trees in the distance and divided them on both sides. That's not ordinary.

"And then?" I felt like I couldn't get enough of it

"Then I came back to my senses and went to hold the pillar, and he broke his leg and peed his pants, and I peed too. I helped him, and went back to the village with those sheep, and we said that we had met a dragon, and the adults didn't believe it, and my father called several adults in the village to go up the mountain to find the sheep together, and I didn't let them go, and they thought we were lying and had to go, so I couldn't help but tell them to bury it when they saw the blessing, and my father gave me a slap and said that he would bury me when he came back. The old lady and I both laughed. "And then?"

"Later, there was nothing, my father came back after dark, and he didn't find the sheep, but he found Laifu and buried it, and he didn't beat me when he came back, but he just said with a gloomy face that I should never go to Dongshan again in the future. ”

"When isn't your father's face gloomy?" said the old lady from the side. It is estimated that the relationship between the father-in-law and daughter-in-law was not very good when he was young.

"Your father wasn't gloomy when he died. "The old man is not good at stubble.

Seeing that the situation was not good, I had nothing to say and asked, "What else?"

The old man thought for a long time, "It's nothing, it's just that the root of the disease began to fall, the old urine kang, and it wasn't until she passed the door that it slowly got better." It's scary, it's scary. ”

"Will any of you ever see it again?" I would like to know a little more about it.

"No, I haven't heard of anyone seeing it, and then the Japanese devils came and sealed the mountain. **Beat the devil away, and then it was you**Beat away**. ”

I'm not embarrassed to correct his "**" name, whatever he calls it, anyway, I know it's the Kuomintang.

At this time, the old lady who had not spoken much opened her mouth, "Haven't you seen it?

"Who is Hu Sanwang?" I asked.

The old man rolled a dry cigarette for me, pinched out his mouth, handed it to me, and I lit it and smoked it, choking to death, and it was really strong.

"Hu Sanwang is a fisher in my village, and he is my family. "Oh, I didn't know the old man's surname was Hu until now.

The old man then rolled another one for himself, and then began to say: "Hu Sanwang's real name is Hu Kunshan, he is very good at fishing, and he will definitely be able to catch fish by casting the net three times a day, and after a long time, no one calls him by name, they all call him Hu Sanwang."

In the past six years, people have been starving. The three nets can't see others starving, and they still have six children to feed, so they go down to the river every day to cast nets, and after catching fish, they keep some, most of which are distributed to the people in the village, and the first few years are OK, but then I really can't catch anything, so I remembered that there is a small lake in Dongshan, and no one has gone for so many years, and there must be a lot of fish. So I jumped over the wall and entered your unit, and there was no electricity at that time. ”

I smiled and didn't say anything, but I could see that our troops had fenced off the mountain, and the local masses still had some opinions.

"He didn't dare to go during the day, for fear of being caught and shot, so he went at night"

I shook my head with a wry smile, jumped over the wall and came in to catch a fish and shoot it, which was more exaggerated than stealing a cabbage and shelling it.

As a result, in the middle of the night, he cried wolf and called back to the village, and when we came out to see, he was naked, and he didn't know where to take off his clothes, and he was still holding half of the net in his hand. knelt at the entrance of the village and kowtowed to the piece of Dongshan, saying that he had caught too many fish and caused evil, and the dragon king wanted the master to punish him, and he would never dare to do anything in the future. We sent him home, and the next day he went crazy, and as soon as he heard someone say fish or dragon, he became ill. Although he is crazy, everyone still thinks of him, and he has a bowl of east and west, and besides, life has been better than in previous years. So he didn't starve his family to death.

I was just about to speak, when I suddenly heard a familiar trumpet.

"Young man, your troops have blown the horn of sleep" The old man is so old, and his ears are very smart.

When I heard it again, it was really a lights-out signal, so I hurriedly said goodbye to the old man, asked them to take care of my dog again, and ran back in a hurry.

I lay on the bed and read the words I had with the two old men at night, and found that there were three relatively large gains.

One, I can now almost be sure that the one I encountered in the tomb in Dongshan a few days ago was a "dragon", even if it is not a dragon, it should be a serpentine that has lived for some years, but it is not a python, first, the northern climate is not suitable for pythons to survive, and second, pythons will not have crowns!

Second, kindness is rewarded, whether it is for people or animals!

Third, marriage can cure urine!