the last priest

The wild children in the countryside don't have much entertainment. Rivers, rice fields, hillsides and those abandoned houses are the places where we can have fun most.

Some people may say, why these strange things always appear in the countryside, it is because the city has a large population and strong yang energy.The city is brightly lit at night, as if it were daytime, and those dirty things can stay in some special places, such as hospitals, cemeteries, crematoriums, etc., other places can't stay at all.

It's the exact opposite in the countryside. There are a few families in the east and a few families in the west. The population distribution is scattered. If the popularity cannot gather, it is easy for those things to survive here.Most nights, when it gets dark, I watch two episodes of TV series and go to bed immediately, because the next morning I have to go up and down the mountain to do farm work, so most adults don’t let their children go out at night, and some timid women are honest. Close the yard door early.

My dad had a shotgun at that time. He said it was a shotgun, but it was actually a soil gun. It was filled with black powder and fired steel balls. Except that the accuracy was not very high, it could be as small as a hare and as big as a wild boar. So when I was a child, I really ate these wild game. Quite a few.

Abba's favorite hunting object is the yellow muntjac. This is a relatively small deer. The male has a pair of horns on his head. The big one weighs about [-] jin. It tastes very delicious.But this thing has a characteristic, that is, it is timid and very delicate. It will never appear in places where people are active. It has a very sensitive sense of smell, so it is difficult to hit.

At that time, there were many hunters in the village. People from the mountains, eight out of ten families had guns. Everyone knew that there was a place where there was a yellow deer, but no one shot it. That place was behind the ancestral hall. On the hillside.

Why not fight?Because everyone said that this is a fine yellow deer, and the yellow deer seldom barks, because when it barks, it exposes its position, and it is easy for hunters with dogs to track it down.Similarly, this yellow deer seldom calls, but when it calls, something will happen in the village.

What happened?dead!

It is really effective, as long as there is a yellow deer call on that hillside, someone in the village will hold a funeral in a few days, so often when the yellow deer call on the small hill, some elderly people in the village will definitely not listen to it. Those who go out are afraid that they will be the next to die.

Although some people also want to destroy it, but there is really no one who dares to do it. Which woman would like her man to mess with such a wicked thing for a meal of yellow deer meat.

Because my father owed someone a favor that year, that person loved to eat yellow deer. My father thought about getting some to give to others, but he couldn't find one after searching for a long time. It happened that the yellow deer on the small hillside is calling.

Confused, he stuffed an extra gunpowder into the gun.We use a small bamboo tube to measure the amount of gunpowder. One tube is a tube, which can basically be used to shoot pheasants and hares. , usually used to fight wild boars.

Dad used three sticks of gunpowder that day, pressed it firmly with cloth strips, and went there.

Not long after going up the mountain, he really saw it. The eyes of this beast reflect light under the headlight at night. Hunters usually see two red eyeballs. They call this "fire".Dad saw two fires in the bushes behind the ancestral hall from a long distance, and he touched them quietly with some excitement.

If you want to hit the gun accurately, you must get close. The accuracy of this thing is really not flattering. The basic effective range is best controlled within 30 meters.

Strange to say, this yellow deer, which has always been known for being shrewd and timid, just stood there grazing like a stake today, without noticing Dad's arrival at all.When Dad was about 20 meters away from the muntjac, Dad raised the gun, took aim, and pulled the trigger. After a slight "pop", Dad knew it was a misfire.

The firing principle of this earthen gun is somewhat different from that of modern guns. It relies on the most primitive firing pin to fire a fuse, and then the fuse triggers the black powder in the barrel, and then the projectile is thrown out by the power of the black powder.

The problem is the lead wire. This thing is basically made by hand. It uses a mixture of sulfur and nitrate and puts it in a small iron sheet to press it firmly and dry it. When the firing pin hits the iron sheet fiercely, it will emit sparks and detonate the barrel of the gun. gunpowder.If this thing doesn't detonate, there will be a misfire.

Seeing that the yellow deer was still there, Dad replaced it with a new lead.

Aim, fire, "snap", and misfire again.Ah, Dad was a little anxious, so he changed it quickly, but until the dozen or so lead wires on his body were all played out, none of them caught.

On the other hand, the yellow muntjac just doesn't leave, just wandering in front of you, he hurried down the mountain quietly, ready to go home to get a new lead wire, when he happened to come down, he met my neighbor on the side of the road.

"What are you doing?" the neighbor asked my dad.

My dad said truthfully: "There is a muntjac on the mountain. It has been shot for a dozen times and none of them have fired. It will not go to get the lead wire."

The man opened his mouth wide when he heard this, thinking that my dad is crazy, everyone in this place knows that they can't be beaten, so he said: "Didn't you say that this is a fine muntjac, so you can't beat it? "

My dad has a good face, and when people say that, he won't leave, afraid that people will laugh at him for being timid, so he said: "It's a joke, I have eight if not ten deer. If you can become refined, go to my house to eat meat tomorrow."

This neighbor is a greedy guy, when he heard that there was game to eat, he immediately said: "Well, you wait on the mountain, don't let it escape, I'll go back and ask Xiao Yi's mother to bring you a lead wire."

My dad made sense after thinking about it, so he went up to guard the deer again, and saw that this guy was still in place and hadn't passed by.

Soon, my mother received the news. She was worried about leaving me alone at home in the middle of the night, so she found a box of lead wires, hugged me and went together with a flashlight.

The hillside behind the ancestral hall is not very easy to walk, it is full of thorns, and it is more and more inconvenient to take me.My mother explained to me, let me wait for her by the side of the road, and she will come down after she goes up to deliver something.

At that time, there were no street lights on both sides of the road, and there was no one within 400 meters of this place. I was also good, so I squatted on the ground and watched my mother go up.

I was standing at the gate of the ancestral hall. The gate of the yard was taken home and burned as firewood some years ago. I am familiar with this area. The moonlight was also bright that night, and the ground was snow-white. Almost like daytime.

My mother went up for a while, but the order did not come down. In fact, I heard that even my mother was sweating from fear that night, because none of the re-brought lead wires were hit. It was like seeing a ghost. On the ground, the yellow deer just stood there, and my father almost shot it on the forehead with a gun, but the gun just wouldn't fire.

This old ancestral hall is like a playground to me. Seeing that my mother didn't come down, I went in. Why?Because when we were playing marbles here a while ago, we lost several marbles and couldn't find them. I thought about going in and looking for them. At that time, I could only buy three marbles for ten cents. It's a treasure.

After searching around, there was no clue, and my mother didn't come down, so I simply played with myself.He took out two marbles from his pocket, and played them in the huge yard, talking to himself while playing, children like to entertain themselves like that.

I threw one of the marbles vigorously, and Gululu got in through one of the closed doors.

This is my baby, how can I be willing?

This door is in the west wing. The door is tightly closed and locked on the top. There is a gap about two fingers wide below, through which the marbles rolled in.

After pushing hard a few times, the door didn't budge, so I kicked it with my foot.A child's strength is too limited, and it is useless except to shake off some dust. I was a little out of breath, so I found a few fist-sized stones in the yard and smashed the window.

This window is also made of wood. Although the wood is also high-quality, it has been in disrepair for a long time. After three stones passed, I really smashed a hole the size of a leather ball.

I really wanted to know where my marbles were, so I found some broken boards in the yard to raise them up, and then I climbed up and put my feet on them to look in through the hole.

It was pitch black inside, and I couldn't see anything. When I was about to give up, I heard the laughter of a child inside.

I thought to myself that someone must have taken my marbles inside, and instead of returning them to me, even locked the door, so I said in a childish voice, "Who stole my marbles?"

Obviously, there will be no one here at all, because the lock is retracted outside, so naturally no one will answer my question.

But my ears clearly heard a child laughing happily inside, and there were one or two women's sneers, and more importantly, I heard the sound of my glass marbles rolling on the ground.

I thought I was being bullied, and my precious marbles were taken away, so I cried and cursed on the spot: "You thieves, shameless, you stole my things, I want to tell my dad!"

While crying, I walked outside the ancestral hall.

Before I went outside, I heard a "bang" gunshot on the hill above, and I immediately trembled in my heart: I told you to rob me, my dad has a gun in his hand!

After a while, the two of them went down the mountain. They didn't carry the prey in their hands, but the father looked depressed, and kept repeating to my mother: "Tonight is really a hell, really a hell... . . ”