Ma Dagui cooked wolf meat in Vulture Mountain. After eating, he went down the mountain. Before leaving, he took the wolf skin and said, I will take it down the mountain to find a skin processor to make a wolf skin coat to wear. Liu Zhen asked him to go up the mountain early after finishing his work. He turned back to Liu Zhen and said, I know. I'm not at home, so don't go out, especially don't cross the stone path.
What's the reason? Liu Zhen looked at him and he said, be careful there are traps on the road. Seeing that Liu Zhen wanted to talk to her, she said don't ask anymore.
Liu Zhen hugged the child and hummed a lullaby, walking around the hut, and the child fell asleep. When she woke up, she nursed as usual and sat and walked while being held.
The day passed quickly, and it was already sunset and the time when the birds returned to their nests. Ma Dagui still didn't come back. Liu Zhen was a little anxious and kept mumbling, "Why haven't you come back yet?" She carried the child out of the hut and looked eagerly at the rugged mountain road winding around the Vulture Mountain like a rope to see if anyone appeared. She also listened carefully to see if there were footsteps coming from that side.
No, as she approached the stone path, she suddenly remembered what Ma Dagui said: Be careful of traps on the road. Then she returned to the door of the hut and kept looking in the direction of the stone path until it was blurred by the night. Then she reluctantly returned to the hut and turned on the soybean oil lamp, which reflected her huge figure.
She was feeling uneasy. She had moved to Vulture Mountain for nearly half a month, but it was the first time that her husband hadn't come back so late. She didn't know if he would come back tonight. She was a little scared. It was pitch dark outside and the mountain wind was howling loudly. She bolted the door tightly in fear, and then breastfed the child. The child drank enough milk and fell asleep slowly, but she had no sleep all night.
Until early in the morning, Ma Dagui had not returned. She was really anxious, worried that something might happen to her husband outside. She wanted to take the child out of the hut and take a look at the stone path, but the child was sleeping deeply and had not woken up yet.
When he woke up and fed her, it was almost time, and her eyes were bloodshot and bright red. This was because she had not slept all night. She hastily ate breakfast, which was the leftover fresh rice from last night. She heated it up and filled her stomach.
Now she held the child in her arms and walked out of the hut. There was fog outside, as light as smoke floating in the Vulture Mountain. She felt a little windy, and fearing that the child would catch a cold, she returned to the hut, took a long towel, and put one end on her shoulders and the other on the child's head.
When she came out again, the sunshine dispelled all the fog, and Liu Zhen felt much warmer. She lifted the towel away from the child's head. The child's eyes were full of smiles, but she felt bitter in her heart because her husband had not returned all night and his safety was uncertain.
Holding the child in her arms, she walked towards the stone path to the sky, as if it could shorten the distance between her and her husband. She didn't care about the chirping birds on the mountain, and she had no intention of watching the colorful clouds hanging in the sky. She was walking closer to the sky step by step. Stone path.
Suddenly, a pair of hands stretched out from behind to wrap around her body, and then immediately let go. She saw that the palms were covered with dust and a little dirty, so she turned back in surprise. The person standing behind her was none other than Ma Dagui. This confused Liu Zhen. She stared at him and asked, why are you here?
It was the wolf's skin that caused the problem. I'll tell you later. Just like answering the question, Ma Dagui made Liu Zhen feel like she was in a fog. As if the child in her arms understood, the child's eyes as clear as spring water showed a slight smile. Ma Dagui looked at him quietly for a while, and his face with wrinkles like earthworms was also filled with joy. He said to Liu Zhen, be careful when walking with your child in your arms, so as not to fall.
Then he walked forward and passed a line of sky stone paths. He turned back and told Liu Zhen, follow the route I took, otherwise you will slip into the trap.
Where are the traps? Liu Zhen stopped nervously, looked around, and found that there was indeed a deep trap not far ahead. Asked what happened, a few days ago, you and I went up to the Vulture Mountain and didn't notice it.
Ma Dagui said that he had dug it. He approached the edge of the trap, looked up at the towering stone walls on both sides, and said calmly that this place had become a tomb for Japanese pirates.
Liu Zhen also followed. She looked down at the trap, screamed, and immediately stopped, fearing that the child in her arms would be frightened. The trap was about ten meters deep. Below it were stacked piles of dead people with broken heads and bleeding bodies, showing various states of pain. The bodies of the dead were covered with sharp rocks. It was obvious that they were all killed by the rocks. Some of them were killed by rocks. The stones were still soaked in blood.
Under a boulder, there is an iron chain exposed, and the other end of it is still in the hand of a dead man. Ma Dagui said that the dead man was Zuotian, the leader of the Japanese pirates, and that the chain was a wolf dog. It was pressed under the rocks and had died a long time ago.
How did the Japanese pirates get to Vulture Mountain? Liu Zhen asked with her eyes wide open in confusion. Ma Dagui told the whole story:
Yesterday he went down the mountain with a wolf skin. The scent was picked up by Zuotian's wolf dog patrolling 10 kilometers away. It followed the smell and rushed to Majiafan. Zuotian also followed. Someone came all the way. He found out and gave him a letter. He threw down the wolf's skin and hid in Vulture Mountain. He climbed up a tall tallow tree in the mountain to observe what was going on at the bottom of the mountain. He saw Zuo Tian leading a dozen or so Japs toward the Vulture. The mountain rushed towards him, and he was a little nervous. He immediately slipped down from the tree branch and ran quickly to the top of the mountain.
He thought that as long as the Japanese pirates chased them to the top of the mountain, they would have a way to deal with them. Because he dug a series of traps on the top of the mountain, covered them with a layer of grass mat, and applied a layer of fine soil on the grass mat, leaving no traces. As long as the Japanese pirates chased them to the top of the mountain, they might fall into the trap; as long as they fell into the trap, , you can deal with them. But it was getting late now, and the Japanese did not go up the mountain to catch up, but returned to the village to camp.
In the early morning of the next day, Zuo Tian took the wolf dog again and let it lead him up the Vulture Mountain. Ma Dagui stayed away all night. He added layers of rocks on the steep cliffs on both sides that were full of traps. When the chasing Japanese pirates stepped on them and fell into the trap, he took the opportunity to push down the piles of rocks. They The small ones weighed tens of kilograms, and the big ones weighed one or two hundred kilograms. They were pushed down one by one from such a high cliff. The force of the fall was as great as the landslide and the ground cracking. The Japanese pirates who fell into the trap were panicking. How could they not be smashed? dead?
Juma Dagui could no longer hear the croaking croaking sounds coming from the trap. He was convinced that all the dozen or so Japanese pirates were dead, so he quietly came down from the overlooking cliff and prepared to observe the loot in the trap.
At this time, the sun had risen so high that he unexpectedly met his wife and children on a stone path in the sky. This filled his heart with the joy of a winner.
At this moment, Ma Dagui held on to the edge and went down into the trap, removing the blood-soaked rocks piece by piece from the bodies of the Japanese pirates. Some of the Japanese pirates bared their teeth and held long-handled swords in their hands; some of them had their eyes wide open. , unwilling to give up their greedy desires; some put their hands on their heads, but their hands and heads were hit by stones and fell down; some raised their hands as a gesture of surrender, but the stones that rained down on them showed no mercy to the invaders. .
Ma Dagui opened the body of Zuo Tian, who was looking like a hippo, and saw that the pockets of his coat were bulging. He reached out and took out a bag of hard objects wrapped in silk. When he opened it, he saw that it was a handful of sparkling gold bars. , there are 10 roots. This must have been plundered from the wealthy people in Liaoning. Ma Dagui grabbed it, looked at it carefully for a while, and then stroked it fondly. Then he looked up at Liu Zhen, who was standing above and looking at him, and said: Gold bars, the Japanese pirate has gold bars in his pocket.
Ma Dagui was very excited. Liu Zhen said while nursing the child, if you touch the pockets of other dead Japanese pirates, there might be gold bars. Ma Dagui wrapped the gold bar in silk and threw it upward, landing right at Liu Zhen's feet.
Liu Zhen bowed and picked it up, opened it and looked at it. This was the first time she had touched a gold bar from close range. She excitedly said to the child sucking her breast in her arms, Ma Sheng, you have money. How can a baby understand what adults say? It will fall asleep after sucking enough milk. The two eyelids will fight and then slowly and peacefully stick together.
