Tales of Herding Gods

It’s dark, don’t go out.

This sentence has been circulating in the old village for many years, specifically when it was passed down, and it has not been verified. But this sentence is truth, no doubt.

The mother-in-law of the old village saw the sunset hiding behind the mountain, and her heart was tense. As the setting sun fell, the last glimmer of sunshine disappeared, and the heavens and the earth suddenly became silent and there was no sound. I saw the darkness slowly drowning from the west, swallowing the trees and trees along the river, and then went to the old village to drown the old village.

There are four ancient stone statues in the four corners of the old village. The stone statues are mottled and old. Even the mother-in-law does not know who the stone statues are, and when they are standing here.

As the darkness descended, the four stone statues radiated a faint glow in the darkness, and the stone statues remained bright, letting the mother-in-law and the old people in the village breathe a sigh of relief.

The darkness outside the village is more and more intense, but with the light of the stone statue, the old village is still safe.

Suddenly, the mother-in-law’s ear moved and stayed, and she lost her voice: “You listen, there is a cry outside the child!”

Next to Ma Lao shook his head and said: "Impossible, you got it wrong... Hey, there is a baby crying!"

The cry of the baby came from the darkness outside the village. The other old people in the village heard the crying except for the deafness. The old people looked at each other and the old village was lonely and desolate. How could a baby appear nearby?

"I went to see!"

The grandmother was excited and ran to the stone statue of the village with her feet. Ma Lao quickly went over: "The old woman, you are crazy? It is dark, and the village is dead!"

"Take this stone statue out of the village, the things in the dark are afraid of stone statues, I will die for a while!"

The mother-in-law bent over and wanted to lift the stone statue, but she was a hunchback and could not carry it back. Ma Lao shook his head: "I am coming. I am carrying a stone statue to accompany you!"

There was another old man who limped over and said: "Ma, you only have one arm, and the back stone can't last for a long time. I have both hands full, or I am coming back."

Ma Laojun glanced at him: "Dead scorpion, you broke your leg, can you go? I have only one arm, but this arm is very powerful!"

He lifted the stone statue with one arm and stabilized it. The stone statue was unimaginably heavy: "The old woman, let's go!"

"Don't call me dead old woman! Scorpion, dumb, all of you have to be careful, there is a stone statue in the village, don't get touched by things in the dark!"

......

Ma Laohe and his mother-in-law walked out of the old village. In the dark, I didn’t know that there were any weird things that wandered around the two, but when they were illuminated by the stone statues, they screamed back into the darkness.

The two followed the crying sound, walked out of the hundred steps, and came to a big river. The cry of the baby came from the river. The stone statues radiate a faint glow, and the photos are not too far away. The two carefully capture the direction of the sound, walk along the river to the upper reaches, and walk out dozens of steps. The crying is nearby, and Ma’s one-armed arm has been difficult to support. The mother-in-law's eyes lit up and saw a little bit of fluorescence. It was a basket parked on the bank of the river. Fluorescence came from the basket, and the cry came from the basket.

"There is a child!"

When the mother-in-law stepped forward and lifted the basket, she gave it a slight glimpse. She couldn’t lift it up. Under the basket was an arm that was so whitened by the river. It was this arm that lifted the basket and the children in the basket. shore.

"Do not worry, the child is safe." The mother-in-law whispered to the woman under the water.

The female body seemed to hear her words, and the palms were released, washed away by the river and disappeared into the darkness.

The mother-in-law brought up the basket. The basket was a baby in the shackles. There was a jade on the plaque. The light of this jade is very similar to the light of the stone statue, but it is much weaker. It is the jade that protects the children in the basket from the things in the dark.

It’s just that Yu Pei’s light is very weak and can only protect the child, but she can’t protect the woman.

"It's a boy."

Going back to the old village, the villagers in the village are all surrounded by old, weak and sick. The mother-in-law opened her eyes and glanced, grinning, and the broken teeth: "We have a healthy village, and finally have a healthy person!"

Only one leg of the scorpion was shocked: "The old woman, you are going to raise him? We can't even support ourselves! I think I still send it out..."

My grandmother was furious: "Why do you want to give away a child who is married to the old lady?"

A group of villagers are unassuming, they dare not refute her. The village chief is sitting on a stretcher. He is more miserable than others. Others have good hands and feet, but they are less than normal people, and he has no hands and feet. However, everyone is very respectful to him, even the fierce brother-in-law is not afraid to let go.

"If you want to raise him, should you give him a name?"

The head of the village said: "Old woman, do you have anything else in the basket?"

The mother-in-law turned over and shook her head. "Only this piece of jade, there is no other note. There is a word on the jade, it is a Qin word. This piece of jade has no impurities, there is strange power inside, not a product, it should be From a big family?"

"Is it Qin, or is it Qin?"

The village chief thought, said: "Let him surname Qin, the name is called shepherd, Qin Mu. When he grows up, he is told to go to graze, so that he can live."

"Qin Mu." The mother-in-law looked at the baby in the middle of the baby. The baby was not afraid of her, and she even laughed.

......

On the riverside, the flute came, and the shepherd boy sat on the back of a cow and played the flute, and the flute sounded crisp and melodious. This shepherd boy is eleven years old and looks very beautiful. His lips are red and white, his clothes are half-open, and there is a jade on his chest.

This boy is the baby that the mother-in-law brought from the riverside 11 years ago. In the past few years, the old man in the village has worked hard to raise the child. The mother-in-law didn’t know where to get a cow, and the baby’s Qin Mu’s milk every day. I have passed through a period that is easy to marry.

Although the villagers of the old village are fierce and sorrowful, they are very good to him. The mother-in-law is a tailor. On weekdays, Qin Mu learns to dress with the mother-in-law, and follows the pharmacist to learn medicine and medicine, followed by the grandfather to learn the leg, followed by the scorpion. Grandpa learns to listen to the sound, and the village chief who has no hands and feet learns to breathe, and the days go very fast.

This cow was his childhood nurse, and the mother-in-law originally planned to sell it, but Qin Mu did not give up, so the task of releasing the cow was also given to him.

He often grazes on the riverside, and the green mountains are like mountains and blue clouds. It is very pleasant.

"Qin Mu, Qin Mu, save me!"

Suddenly, the cow under him spoke, and Qin Mu was shocked. He quickly jumped from the back of the cow. He saw tears in the eyes of the cow, spit out people and said to him: "Qin Mu, you I grew up eating my milk, I am half a mother, you have to save me!"

Qin Mu eyes blinked and tried to say: "How can I save you?"

The cow said: "You have a sickle at your waist, and you can save me from getting out of trouble."

Qin Mu hesitated, the cow said: "Do you forget the favor of feeding?"

Qin Mu raised his sickle and carefully cut the cowhide. It was also said that the cowhide was peeled off. There was no trace of blood flowing out, and the cowhide inside was empty, without flesh and bones.

When the cowhide was peeled off halfway, a woman of 20 or 30 years old was rolled out from the inside. The two legs were still wrapped in the legs of the cow. The flesh was connected to the cowhide, but the upper limbs had been removed from the cowhide.

The woman's hair was scattered, and she grabbed the sickle in the hands of Qin Mu, who had already been scared. She cut the cowhide on her legs and legs, and looked at Qin Mu, and the evil was born to the gallbladder. The sickle was placed on the neck of Qin Mu, sneer. "Little wicked, because you and I have been turned into a cow. I have been grazing for 11 years, and I have to feed you milk! Poor, I just gave birth to a child before I became a cow, and I was counted by the enchantress. Turn me into a cow to feed you! Today I finally got out of trouble, killing you first and then washing the wicked people in this village!"

Qin Mu’s brain banged, not knowing what the woman who had drilled out of the cowhide was saying something.

The woman was about to slash him with a knife. Suddenly, after a cold heart, she looked down and took a knife out of her chest.

"Shepherd, your pharmacist grandfather let you go back to take medicine." The woman's body fell, standing behind the grandfather in the village, kindly and kindly, with a thick face, holding a **** knife in his hand, laughing at Qin Mu Road.

"Grandfather grandfather..." Qin Mu’s body was soft, and he looked at the cowhide and the woman’s body on the ground, but he still didn’t come back.

"Go back, go back." The blind man patted his shoulder, hehe smiled.

Qin Mu went down to the village with one foot high and looked back, but saw the scorpion throw the woman's body into the river.

The impact of this scene was so great that he did not know when he returned to the village.

"Qin Mu! Dead boy, how can I tell you? Don't go out in the dark!"

As night fell, the stone statues at the corners of the old village were automatically lit up. The mother-in-law called for Qin Mu, who was planning to slip out of the village to the river to check the cowhide, and dragged him back.

"Mother, why can't you go out in the dark?" Qin Mu asked, looking up.

"When it's dark, there are some terrible things to do in the dark, and going out is death."

The mother-in-law solemnly said: "The stone statues in the village will protect us, and the things in the dark will not dare to enter the village."

“Do other villages have such stone statues?” Qin Mu curiously said.

The mother-in-law nodded, but her face was a little worried. She couldn’t help but look outside the village. He whispered: "The scorpion should be back... I really shouldn’t let the scorpion go out. This guy has only one leg..."

"Mother, I’m going to have a strange thing today..."

Qin Mu hesitated, said the matter of drilling a woman in the belly of the cow. The mother-in-law said carelessly: "You mean the woman? The nephew told me that he handled it very well. I was weaned at the age of four. I said that I sold the cows, but you can't bear it, so I will let you feed. You see, is it an accident now? I said that when I was four years old, I would have feelings for the cows."

Qin Mu blushes, and the four-year-old weaning is indeed a bit too long, but it seems that the key is not to wean at the age of four?

"Mother, the woman was killed by my grandfather..."

"Kill it well."

The mother-in-law smiled and said: "That is cheaper. She should have died 11 years ago. If she is not going to milk you, can she live to the present?"

Qin Mu is not clear.

The mother-in-law gave him a glance and said: "This woman is the lady of the dragon city who is thousands of miles away from here. She is a good-looking lord of the dragon city, and she is kind, and the dragon-inspired owner likes to sneak outside and rob the woman. Every time the inlaid dragon city owner broke the innocence of a woman, the lady of the city will send someone to kill the woman alive. I sneaked into the dragon city, originally intended to kill her, saw that she had just given birth to a child, the child Three months, I thought that you still have no milk to drink, and she has milk, so she turned her into a cow and came back to you. I just didn't expect the woman to break free from the seal and be able to speak, almost killing you."

Qin Mu’s eyes are stunned and he lost his voice: “How can a mother-in-law become a cow?”

The grandmother smiled and showed her half-mouthed teeth: "You want to learn? I teach you... The donkey is back!"

Qin Mu looked at it and saw that the scorpion was holding a cane in one hand and holding the prey on his back with one hand, and was limping. The darkness rushed to the village like a tidal wave. The mother-in-law hurriedly shouted: "Dead scorpion, hurry, hurry!"

"No hurries?"

The blind man still walked slowly to the village. As he walked into the village, the strong darkness just drowned the village. The prey on his back was a tiger, but he was still dead. The tail was swept in the darkness. Suddenly, the tiger gave a mourning. Qin Mu quickly looked at it and saw that the tail of the tiger had only one bone, and the tail. The fur and flesh and blood are all gone, as if they were smashed by something.

He curiously looked at the darkness outside the village, where it was dark and nothing could be seen.

"What's in the dark?" he wondered.