Nine idlers

The old iron man put the prey he had shot on the side stones, then moved a slightly raised stone in the cave, took out a jar of self-brewed fruit wine that was pressed under the stone, and carefully took out the empty jar of fruit wine. Fill the gourd full, then pour the cleaned wild fruits and water into the jar, and stop until it is eighty percent full, then seal the jar again, put it back far away, and cover it with stones.After everything returned to the original state, he sat down on a slightly flat stone, took a sip of wine, and enjoyed this rare and peaceful time.

For the old man Tie, the life he is living now is unimaginable before. Although there is still some chaos outside the mountain, and the movement is noisy every day, but a poor and lower-middle peasant like him is not affected at all. It is enough to have food to eat, not to go hungry, and to be treated as a human being.

Old Man Tie is not an old villager in Xiafu Village. He escaped here before liberation. His ancestral home is Laizhou, Shandong. Because he was weak and sick since childhood, his family was afraid that they would not be able to support them, so they did not give him an official name. Just call him Iron Dog.

Although the warlords in various parts of the country were turbulent at that time, Shandong was still a little calm. Old Man Tie and his family had a little land passed down from their ancestors.Because the old iron man was weak and sick, so when he was young, his family sent him to a martial arts gym in Laizhou City to learn martial arts. The old iron man can be regarded as a good man, but after a few years of hard work, the whole person has become as strong as a cow. He is very skilled, and there are not many people in the entire martial arts gym who can beat him.Even if it is a victory, it will only be a miserable victory.In addition, he also passed the martial arts relationship.I got a rifle and some bullets from the garrison in Laizhou City.He often went to the nearby mountains to hunt some game to replenish his body. Over time, he practiced good marksmanship, and was even appreciated by the local garrison officers, who planned to recruit him into the army.

If there is no accident, the old iron man may join the army, and with his skill and marksmanship, he will either make military exploits repeatedly, get promoted and make a fortune.Or die in some unknown battle.However, news suddenly came from his family that the land in his family was seized by a local bully landlord, and his father was beaten to death on the spot by the landlord's henchmen. His mother, younger brother and several sisters were also coming to Laizhou City On the road, he met a group of bandits and was taken away. His life and death are unknown. It can be said that his family was ruined.

Faced with such a big enmity, the bloody old man Tie naturally would not let it go. Before the landlord sent someone to deal with him, he sneaked back to his hometown to inquire about the situation, and sneaked into the landlord's house that night.The landlord's family was slaughtered.Originally, he did things very cleanly, without leaving any clues.Even if someone knows, but firstly, the victim is gone, and secondly, there is no evidence, and with the appreciation of Laizhou city garrison chief, he is unlikely to be in trouble, but after the event, he may only go to the road of joining the army.But what he never expected was that not only the landlord's family lived in that landlord's family at that time, but the youngest son of a big warlord in Shandong also lived in the landlord's house, and was slaughtered by him as a family member of the landlord's family.

Because the old iron man had some relationship with the local garrison, he knew in advance that he had caused a catastrophe, so he packed up some things and fled all the way south, while the warlord whose son died sent people to hunt him down and offered a reward.The old iron man was also considered lucky. He could not escape all the way from Shandong to Guangdong, and he was always safe and sound.The most dangerous time was when he met a group of killers from the Brother Pao Society. If he hadn't jumped into the river to escape in time, he might have fallen into the hands of those people. However, the injury he received this time also made him cultivate for half a year. It was only after the above was recovered, but most of his abilities were lost.

After fleeing outside for about five years, until he fled to the vicinity of Danxia Mountain, the continuous pursuit stopped suddenly. The old man Tie was also very puzzled by this. He could only guess that the warlord who offered a reward for chasing him had stepped down. All the warlords on the earth will appear on the stage after you sing and I will go up and down, which is already a common thing.However, even so, he did not dare to return to Shandong, and finally settled down in Xiafu Village near Danxia Mountain, where he lived for decades.

In the beginning, Xiafu Village was very xenophobic, and it was difficult for Tie Laohan to integrate into the village.It’s just that the old iron man is a very good hunter. He often leads the young and strong in the village to hunt in the mountains and forests. Moreover, he has learned a lot of traumatic medicine after years of escape. After the death of the only old doctor in the village, he became the only one in the village who can The person who treats the villagers' illnesses, as time goes by, the village will still be like him.

After liberation, when he registered for household registration, Tie Laohan gave himself a very popular name Tie Jianguo at that time. Because of his high prestige in the village and the strongest strength, he became the captain of the production team.Afterwards, the villagers found him another wife, and his life was considered happy.

It's a pity that the weather was unpredictable. When the daughter-in-law was giving birth ten years ago, she encountered dystocia. In the end, neither the adults nor the children could be kept. The old man Tie became disheartened and moved out of the village. In the wooden house, she lived in seclusion alone until now.

Although the old iron man lives on the mountain, his prestige in the village is still preserved. People will be sent to inform him of any affairs in the village, and most of the time he will not refuse to participate. help.

A few days ago, the old iron man was notified to hold a meeting in the village, saying that the country had launched some kind of egg, and that egg was so powerful that it could easily destroy a city, and thus the country became the most advanced country in the world. , the meaning of the most powerful country.The village thinks that this is a big event to be celebrated by the whole world, and they need to hold a big feast to celebrate. Since it is a banquet, wild game on the mountain is indispensable, and Old Man Tie is the best hunter in Xiafu Village, so the hunting of wild game is naturally entrusted to him. .

Although the old iron man didn't know what that egg was, becoming a world power was definitely a happy event. Naturally, he would not wait too long. After the meeting, he personally took a shotgun and squatted in the mountains for several days. , more than 20 game animals were hunted, which was enough for the villagers to spend a extravagant time. Today's trip is considered the last one. After taking these prey back, they went down the mountain to have a feast.

However, on the way back to the wooden house in the mountains, the old iron man took a long detour and went to the cave where he used to hide and brew wine, and filled the empty gourd.In his opinion, there must be wine for banquets, but due to natural disasters and other reasons these years, the grain produced in the village is only enough for food and clothing, and there is no surplus grain for wine making. He can only follow the instructions passed down by some old people in the village. The method is to find some wild fruits and brew some astringent fruit wine to relieve hunger.

It's just that this kind of thing can only be done secretly. If the village cadres find out, something may happen.In recent years, this doctrine and that doctrine of the government have been particularly violent. The old iron man does not know what this doctrine means. He just knows that doing the opposite of everyone is a violation of doctrine. Now everyone eats less food, but consumes food himself. Brewing wine privately, even if those are wild fruits, can be regarded as a kind of food if you insist. Intellectuals were also put on top hats and paraded in the streets to criticize them.Therefore, he did not plan to serve the newly filled gourd fruit wine at the banquet, but only had a few drinks with some trustworthy old buddies to satisfy his hunger.

After resting for a while and regaining his strength, the old iron man hung the gourd on his waist again, then carried the prey on his back, and walked back along a mountain path opened during the medicine gathering.

This herb-picking path was not opened by the old man Tie himself, but by the old doctor of Xiafu Village when he was collecting herbs. Before he died, the old doctor told him this path to him, the only outsider in the village who knew how to heal at that time.This trail passes through the area where several wild medicines are concentrated in the nearby Guanyin Mountain. Walking along this trail, people in the village can basically pick all the medicines they need to get sick.Over the past few decades, the old man has walked this path countless times, and he knows the surrounding environment so well that he can walk back and forth even with his eyes closed.

However, this time, the old iron man felt a little puzzled. He found that he had walked for more than an hour. It is reasonable to say that he should have walked out of Guanyin Mountain and returned to his residence, but now he is still circling in the mountain. The path under his feet seems to be walking. It seems endless.

"Oops! The ghost hit the wall!" The old iron man who noticed something was wrong immediately stopped, looked around, and a look of panic appeared on his face, because he found that the place he was now was just after he entered the path For the remedy, he walked in circles for more than an hour.

Although the current government has been propagating that things like gods, gods and ghosts are all feudal superstitions to fool the ignorant people, and they are monsters and monsters to be overthrown. He is very clear that these things cannot be explained simply by a feudal superstition.

At that time, the old iron man was seriously injured and was rescued by a strange man in the world. After half a year, he followed that strange man, firstly to heal his injuries, and secondly because that strange man really knew some magical techniques.Although that strange person did not accept him as a disciple or teach him anything in the end, but because he was always by his side, he also heard a lot of unheard of mysterious things from that strange person.

The old man Tie had never seen the ghost hitting the wall with his own eyes, but that strange man talked about it when he was drunk and chatting. The fuzzy memory also became a little clearer, and in his memory, the strange man said that the ghost hitting the wall is actually a kind of phantom array, and the best and easiest way to deal with it is to close your eyes and walk backwards. (to be continued..)