"I was too young at the time and didn't understand anything. Looking back now, I still feel scared!"
"There is a ghost in this valley, and it can eat people!"
As the old man told it, Chen Tao and Uncle Long finally understood what happened at that time!
The old man's original name was Li Gou Sheng, but later he thought it sounded unpleasant, so he changed his name to Li Guangsheng. He was a native of Liangzikou.
The story happened decades ago, when he was only a seven or eight-year-old child.
There has been a local rumor that there is a cannibal valley in the mountain, and there are ghosts in the valley that can eat people.
On this day, Li Guangsheng was wandering around outside with a group of children. He was bored and didn't know where to go. Suddenly, he saw that he had reached the foot of the mountain. So, a child suggested that he should go in and have a look.
After hearing this, a few timid people immediately refused to go. Their parents told them that there were ghosts there that could eat people.
The brave ones laughed at the cowardly ones who didn't dare to go. Finally, a group of children were divided into two groups, those who went and those who stayed, those who did not dare to go and went home amidst the ridicule of the others.
Li Guangsheng said that there were five of them entering at that time. The eldest one, named Wang Hu, is the child king of this group of children, and they all call him Brother Hu Zi.
The other two boys, one is named Agui and the other is named Tiedan. There was also a little girl named Erya who also went with her.
"Brother Huzi, do we really want to go in?" Agui asked.
"What, are you afraid?" Wang Hu asked.
"I...I'm not afraid!" Agui replied.
Several children burst into laughter. Wang Hu took the lead and entered the mountain in a swagger. The little girl named Erya pulled the corner of Li Guangsheng's clothes and whispered:
"Brother Gou Sheng, I'm afraid..."
Gou Sheng is Li Guangsheng’s nickname. He took Erya's little hand and whispered: "Don't be afraid, Brother Huzi is here, we will follow him."
Entering the forest at the foot of the mountain, all the way up, this is a wild mountain that is deserted all year round, covered with grass nearly half the height of a person. Several boys picked up dead branches and used each one as a weapon. They regarded tall and small weeds as enemies. They imagined themselves in the midst of thousands of troops, charging into battle.
Several people were walking and fighting, clearing the way, and shouting to kill, but they didn't feel tired. Erya followed behind, cautiously at first, but then he started to play with it too, holding a short stick, and followed suit, beating the grass and dead trees in a mess along the way.
I don’t know how long we walked. We were tired from playing and the excitement had passed. The children were walking listlessly like wilted persimmons in autumn, kicking up a few leaves from time to time.
Seeing a dead grass blocking the road ahead, Li Guangsheng raised his hand to hit the branch with his hand, but unexpectedly, there was a click and the branch broke.
He threw away the broken branch and looked around. He saw a small section under a big tree not far ahead, so he walked over to pick it up. When he walked over and saw, it turned out to be just a rotten branch. He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, so he kicked it over.
Li Guangsheng only felt a weight on his feet, which brought up a few rotten leaves. At the same time, something was kicked out and flew straight to the back of Tiedan's head.
"Ouch!"
Tiedan screamed, turned around and saw that it was Li Guangsheng. He raised his hand and threw the branch in his hand:
"What are you doing, Gou Sheng!"
Seeing this, Li Guangsheng hurriedly hid and said: "I was just careless, are you okay?"
Tiedan grinned and touched the back of his head, but at this moment, Erya's voice came.
"Hey? What is this?"
Erya squatted down and pulled away the rotten leaves, and picked up the thing that had just hit Tiedan's head. He saw that it was a jade plaque, but Erya didn't recognize it as a jade plaque and thought it was a stone.
"This stone is so beautiful!"
After hearing this, several children came over.
After all, Wang Hu was older than them all, so he recognized it as jade. He had seen his mother wearing a jade Buddha around her neck, and it was also the same color.
"This is jade, it's very valuable! If you take it back, you can exchange it with the bearer for sweets!"
The bearer man was a salesman walking in rural towns at that time. At that time, this was just a remote mountain village with few shops nearby. After a while, a pole man will come here carrying goods to sell. The villagers don't have much money, so most of the time they exchange things for things. Use some candies, ointments and other gadgets in exchange for some wild game in the hands of the villagers.
When the children heard that they could eat candy in exchange for candy, they all became interested. Li Guangsheng snatched the jade token from Wang Hu's hand and said, "I discovered this!"
"Li Goucheng, what do you mean?"
Tiedan and Agui couldn't help but feel jealous when they saw that the jade medal was snatched away by Li Guangsheng.
When Li Guangsheng saw this, he was so frightened that he hid behind Wang Hu. Erya did not dare to speak and just watched quietly from the side.
"I was the one who saw it first!" Li Guangsheng shouted.
"Then it hit me, it's mine, you have to pay for it!" Tiedan was unconvinced. Seeing that he was being ignored, Agui also followed Tiedan and yelled at the side.
"Yes! It's Tiedan's!"
The three children were quarreling and about to start a fight. Wang Hu shouted:
"Okay, okay, why are you arguing!" Seeing Brother Huzi speak, the three of them stopped arguing and all looked at Wang Hu, waiting for him to speak. As the child king among several people, Wang Hu is still very responsible in their hearts.
"Why don't we look for it again? There might be some more. We can find them and exchange them for candy. Everyone can share!"
"Okay! Listen to Brother Huzi!" Several children listened and agreed. In their eyes, this jade token is like candy. As long as they have candy, they can eat it no matter what.
Just like that, Li Guangsheng put the jade tokens in his pocket, and several children excitedly took the branches and poked them around, trying to find more jade tokens. Who knew that this time, they got into big trouble.
Seeing a pile of hay in front of him, Wang Hu took a branch and inserted it directly. He felt a heavy weight on his hand, as if he had hit something, and heard a miserable howl, which sounded like the cry of a little piggy. .
Wang Hu hurriedly brought the branch beast back and saw blood dripping from the branch head. Wang Hu felt a chill on his back, thinking that he was afraid that the little wild boar cub had gotten stuck in the wild boar's nest!
Before he could recover, he heard an angry roar coming from behind him, and in an instant, a black and sturdy figure rushed towards him. Wang Hu couldn't dodge and felt a pain in his back, and was knocked away instantly.
I saw a huge black beast rushing into the haystack, and then with another roar, a huge wild boar rushed out of the haystack, staring at a few people with blood-red eyes, and its sharp and long fangs. There was an icy cold light under the sunlight.
On the other side, Wang Hu struggled to get up, touching his back painfully. When I looked at my hands, they were all covered in blood. The flesh on the back has been torn.
Seeing Wang Hu get up, the wild boar turned around and howled evilly at him before charging towards him. Before Wang Hu climbed up and stood still, he saw a huge black shadow rushing toward him. In a panic, he rolled on the spot to avoid the wild boar's attack.
Seeing that no one was hit after a pounce, the wild boar let out another angry roar and pounced directly towards Li Guangsheng and Erya.
At this time, Li Guangsheng and Erya were already frightened, and they didn't know how to escape. When Wang Hu saw this, he picked up a broken branch and hit the wild boar. Who would have thought that this wild boar had rough skin and thick flesh, and the branch was broken into two pieces.
But this time, it still had some effect. The wild boar was suddenly attacked by a branch. Although it failed to stop it from rushing towards Li Guangsheng, it also deflected it.
"Gou Sheng, run!" Wang Hu shouted anxiously from the side.
The broken branch hit Li Guangsheng, and he reacted, pulling Erya and running away. When Agui and Tiedan saw this, they ran towards the depths of the woods, crying and shouting, regardless of their direction.
Seeing that the attack missed again, the wild boar finally went crazy, roared and turned towards Wang Hu. Wang Hu knew that it was going to attack him, so he grabbed half a dead branch and threw it at the wild boar, and ran in the direction of Li Guangsheng and Erya. Hearing the crackling noise behind him, the wild boar frantically chased after him.
After all, Wang Hu was several years older than Li Guangsheng, and he caught up with them after running a few steps.
"Gou Sheng! Run! It's catching up!" Wang Hu shouted as he ran, running forward with all his strength, and soon surpassed Li Guangsheng and Erya.
After all, Erya was still a little girl. After experiencing something like this, she was so frightened that she ran forward crying and shouting. Seeing that the wild boar was about to catch up with the two of them. Li Guangsheng thought to himself,
It's over, I'm going to die!
But his feet didn't stop at all.
Unexpectedly, the wild boar did not attack the two of them, but swished past them, chasing Wang Hu. Li Guangsheng saw this and shouted:
"Brother Huzi, it's chasing you!"
After all, Wang Hu was still a child. He heard Li Guangsheng shouting from a distance, and turned around in a hurry to see the wild boar following him closely. His eyes were blood-red and crazy, and he was so scared that his legs were weak.
Seeing the wild boar getting closer and closer to him, he couldn't help crying.
"Run! Run! Ah! I don't want to die!!!"
He tried his best, but could only watch himself running slower and slower, and finally he accidentally tripped on his foot and fell to the ground.
At this moment, the fear of death spread instantly over the teenage boy.
When Li Guangsheng ran up with Erya, he only saw Wang Hu in front staggering to the ground, and the wild boar behind him immediately pounced on him.
"Brother Huzi!!! Brother Huzi!!!" Li Guangsheng shouted hysterically.
Li Guangsheng didn't know where he got the courage. He rushed up, grabbed the broken branches on the ground and threw them at the wild boar.
"Let go of Brother Huzi! Let him go!" Li Guangsheng cried, but it was of no use. The boy in front and the wild boar rolled and twisted together. The ground was covered with bright red blood, which was Wang Hu's blood.
One person and one pig were rolling and wrestling, and suddenly their bodies were empty and they fell.
Li Guangsheng and Erya from behind caught up and took a look. A large hole appeared under the pile of leaves in front of them. Li Guangsheng saw the scene under the hole through the light from the hole. He was so frightened that he sat on the ground.
It was a large deep pit of four to five meters, pitch black. Through the sunlight passing through the entrance of the hole, Li Guangsheng could only see a patch of white flowers at the bottom of the hole.
There were bones all over the ground!
I don’t know if it’s human or animal. Wang Hu and the big wild boar fell hard on a pile of bones, and the broken bones were scattered in all directions.
The wild boar had a broken bone pierced through its belly and lay twitching on the ground, wailing. Wang Hu fell on the wild boar, but fortunately he was not broken into a sieve by the broken bones.
His body was covered in blood, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
Li Guangsheng and Erya lay at the entrance of the cave and shouted: "Brother Huzi! Brother Huzi!"
The young man in the cave moved his hands and managed to squeeze out a few words: "Quick...run!"
"Brother Huzi! Brother Huzi, don't move. I'll go back and call Dad to save you!"
"Take...take Erya...quick...run!"
Wang Hu coughed violently, his internal organs were severely shocked, and he lay weakly on the wild boar's body, breathing heavily.
Li Guangsheng shouted at the entrance of the cave, and with a sudden glance, he saw a black shadow at the edge of the light slowly flying towards the king tiger and wild boar at the bottom of the cave.
"Brother Huzi! Brother Huzi! Huzi..." Li Guangsheng shouted towards the bottom of the cave as if he was desperately trying.
Before Brother Huzi shouted the last word, he saw the black shadow crawling onto Wang Hu and the wild boar. The whole person and the wild boar were wrapped in the black shadow, and they heard the painful screams of one person and one pig. Screaming, Wang Hu rolled underneath, and the half-dead wild boar flopped violently.
Before the miserable screams stopped, Li Guangsheng saw another mass of something crawling out from the dark depths against the ground. It was so dark that he didn't know what it was, and it instantly covered Wang Hu and the wild boar. whole body.
"ah!!!"
The heart-rending screams of Wang Hu and the wild boar came from below. Blood spread along the white bones on the ground. Li Guangsheng stared, watching helplessly as the king tiger and wild boar in the cave were wrapped by the two black shadows, turning into two bloody skeletons.
At that last moment, he only heard Wang Hu's feeble voice coming from below the cave: "Gou Sheng, run...run! Run..."
The two black shadows at the bottom of the cave were still squirming. At this time, Li Guangsheng was completely frightened. He was trembling all over and looked at the bones in the pool of blood at the bottom of the cave, unable to say a word.
Erya finally collapsed. At such a young age, there was no way he could withstand such stimulation. He yelled and ran behind him crying.
The shouting woke up the stunned Li Guangsheng. When he turned around, he saw that Erya beside him had disappeared.
"Erya!"
Li Guangsheng yelled, his voice echoing in the empty woods. He couldn't stand it anymore. He yelled and stumbled in the direction he came from, losing his shoes.
It must have been his luck. After running for a while, he found the wild boar's den and ran out of the man-eating valley along the twisted withered grass road that had been beaten along the way.
When he saw the familiar country road again, he rushed out like crazy and collapsed to the ground, unable to even stand up. After all, he is just a child.
Things couldn't be hidden, and later he found out that he was the only one out that day. Brother Huzi, Tiedan, Erya, and Agui all stayed in it forever.
When Li Guangsheng's father found out what happened, he beat him severely. The families without their children endured the pain and moved away from this terrible place, but Li Guangsheng never dared to step into the valley again, not even to approach the mountains.
The jade token was still in his pocket. When he came out, he didn't dare to tell anyone, nor did he take it to the pole man in exchange for sweets. It has been kept like this until now.
Every time he saw the jade plaque, he couldn't help but think of that incident, an incident that he would never forget.
"Alas...Brother Huzi, Erya, Agui, Tiedan, they will never come back. I often have nightmares, and I dream of him standing on the mouth of the valley waving to me, with his whole body covered with white bones. !
Every year during the Qingming Festival, I would go far towards that mountain and the Valley of the Dead, burn paper and kowtow to them, hoping that they would not live in such a terrible place again in the next life..."
