A few days later, Ma Dagui moved his family to two thatched sheds on the back of Vulture Mountain. He repaired them and added batamao roofs to the roofs. The original entrances to the thatched sheds were empty and had no doors, and now doors have been installed. Ma Dagui goes down the mountain almost every day and returns to the village to take care of his old house.
There was a rumor among the villagers that the Japanese pirate Zuotian raised a wolfdog with a very sensitive sense of smell and could smell smells dozens of kilometers away. Moreover, it is very understanding of human nature. It knows that the unscrupulous Zuotian likes to eat roasted baby meat, so it wanders around and smells babies wherever it is. Then it barks and leads its master to search for babies. Whoever has less ideas about the baby will be killed. Bad luck.
This rumor made Ma Dagui nervous. Zuotian's wolfdog was so powerful. What should he do if he smelled something fishy when he passed by? He thought about it, and when he looked at the Vulture Mountain, he felt particularly heavy, as if he was being pressed by something and it was difficult to break free. He wished that the Vulture Mountain was just a boulder that would hit Zuotian and the wolfdog, but no, this emotion had always troubled him.
After reaching the top of the mountain and walking on the lawn sandwiched between cliffs several feet high on both sides, he had a sudden idea and screamed with joy. There was a way, there was a way to deal with the stubborn Japanese pirates. He quickly crossed a line of sky stone paths and came to the place where he temporarily settled his family in the hut. He glanced at Ma Sheng who was holding his wife in his arms, touched his pink face with his fingers and said, "Son, I have a way." Protect you and your mother! Liu Zhen looked at him puzzled and asked, why do you say such things?
I have a way to deal with the Japanese pirates.
Don't talk nonsense, you have neither a gun nor a cannon, how can you deal with it?
Liu Zhen provoked him with some pessimistic words. He said he couldn't say it. Only after I conquered the Japanese pirates did you understand how powerful I, Ma Dagui, was. I, Ma Dagui, had to be a hero once and let the people of Liaobei see. With that said, he picked up a hoe and shovel and went out.
Can this kind of iron lump be able to deal with the Japanese guns and cannons? I don’t know if Ma Dagui heard what Liu Zhen said, but she believed that Ma Dagui was a capable man. She wanted to follow the man to see what he was doing, but at this moment, the baby started to cry.
Ah, my dear, why are you crying? Liu Zhen picked up the baby from the cradle, quickly lifted up her bra, revealing a pair of snow-white breasts, and stuffed the left one into his mouth, and the baby stopped crying.
Liu Zhen only heard the sound of ba-ba-ba-ba. She sat down and let the baby suck as much as she could. Her milk was abundant and thick. After feeding for a while, the baby fell asleep. She slowly removed the breast from his mouth. Pulling him out, he put him on the bed again, and saw that his pants were covered with sporadic milk. Liu Zhen repeated this kind of breastfeeding and housework every day. She didn't feel tired, but her thoughts were a little tired, because every time she saw the man come back, she was sweating profusely, and asked him what he was doing, but he didn't say anything.
That time she took the child and went out to see it, but the man climbed up a very steep cliff and was busy doing some work. She couldn't go up and couldn't see, so she had to go back to the hut.
At noon, Ma Dagui came back and was sweating again, which was a common thing. Ma Dagui silently took a towel and soap and went out. Liu Zhen knew that he was going to the spring at the foot of the hillside to take a bath, so she asked him to bring a bucket of water back, and Ma Dagui complied.
Their family usually carries water in buckets or loads. About half an hour later, Ma Dagui came back and poured a bucket of water into the jar. When pouring water, Liu Zhen saw that Ma Dagui's hands were covered with blood blisters and asked what happened. Ma Dagui said that he dug a hole and moved rocks.
Why are you digging holes and moving rocks? Liu Zhen stared at him and asked.
Can't I tell you now? Ma Dagui rubbed his hands covered with blood blisters and thought about it, it was not to protect you and your children.
At this time, the child was sleeping in bed, Liu Zhen lowered her voice, can you dig holes and move rocks to protect us two? Joke, joke.
I just had to give it a try. Ma Dagui said, I don’t have three heads and six arms, so I can only rely on my own methods to deal with the Japanese pirates. It may work, or it may not work. It depends on luck.
At this moment, Ma Dagui's wandering eyes fell on the corner of the door. He saw a group of black ants forming an iron chain and trapping a centipede, making it unable to resist and unable to move. Finally, a centipede that was hundreds of times smaller than it was trapped. An ant carries and devours it and dies. If the Japanese pirates broke into this place, they might be buried like that centipede. He thought, smiling muffledly.
That time, it was not too late, and Ma Dagui carried the hoe and spade into the hut from outside. Liu Zhen saw him and asked him how he brought all the tools back. She also said that a few days ago, when people came back after dark, they could not find the tools.
It’s done! It’s done! Ma Dagui didn't look relaxed when he said this. He walked around the hut, walked out again, and looked towards the exit of the stone path. Liu Zhen dusted him off and asked, "What's finished?" He still looked like he was still alive.
I want to go down the mountain and take a look at our house.
Going down the mountain so late?
Liu Zhen wanted to stop him and said that you were leaving. We, mother and son, were so scared in this uninhabited Vulture Mountain!
It is safe when there are no people around, and Japanese pirates will not come. Ma Dagui encouraged her. Liu Zhen said, I heard a wolf howling last night. Aren't you afraid that the wolf would break into the hut and endanger the lives of mother and son? Ma Dagui had nothing to say, so he returned to the hut, walked around to the sleeping child, gently held his red palm exposed outside the quilt, then stuffed it into the quilt, turned around and said to Liu Zhen, I won't leave. Stay and watch the kids.
Before going to bed at night, he bolted the door of the hut tightly, propped it with a spade, and placed the hoe at a convenient place beside the bed. Liu Zhen glared at him, and he understood the meaning and said, this is to prevent accidents. If a wolf comes into the house, I will use the hoe as a weapon to dig up one to death. Then I can eat game, here you go Add nutrients to milk, children need nutrition.
Ma Dagui is usually very tired and falls asleep as soon as he goes to bed. But he couldn't sleep tonight. He was tossing and turning. Liu Zhen asked him why he couldn't sleep? He said that I was worried that the wolf from Vulture Mountain had broken into the hut.
Late at night, he heard the howl of a wolf, which seemed to come from the stone path in the sky. Ma Dagui subconsciously reached out from the bed and grabbed the handle of the hoe, as if he was about to go into battle. But the wolf's howling became more and more distant, and he didn't let go of the hoe handle until it disappeared.
The next morning, Liu Zhen watched him go out. After a while, he dragged back a dead wolf. Its eyes were still rolled back, its fur was sticky with blood, and its fur was stained with blood. It looked like it had been hit by stones, and its body was covered with wounds. . This was a male wolf. Ma Dagui spread it out at the door of the hut, went in, took out a knife, and began to skin it. While doing this work, he said, maybe it was this wolf that was howling last night. If the Japanese pirate Zuotian dares to come to Vulture Mountain to run wild, his fate will be as miserable as this male wolf.
How did you kill the wolf? Liu Zhen was dressing her child when she suddenly asked.
Ma Dagui just smiled and said nothing. Liu Zhen brought the child over and asked this question again. He said guess what, but she continued to skin the male wolf. Gradually its bloody flesh was revealed, and a foul smell filled the air.
Did you stone this male wolf to death?
You're half right, I stoned it to death. Ma Dagui said, but the wolf has four legs and can run very fast. Can it be punished easily?
That's weird too. Liu Zhen muttered, still not understanding. She retreated to the hut again, not wanting to smell the smell or the child in her arms.
Maybe you will understand in a few days. Ma Dagui said casually, he tore open the wolf's internal organs, cut off a handful with a knife, and threw it towards a cedar on the left side of the hut, where it happened to hang on a branch of the cedar.
After a while, he was picked up by a flying vulture. Liu Zhen saw it and sighed to Ma Dagui, "We haven't eaten the male wolf meat yet, but the vultures have eaten it." Ma Dagui said with a smile that Vulture is the master of Vulture Mountain, so of course he should take the lead in trying new things.
