Big Bodhi [The Great Enlightenment] - Chapter 14

[Chapter 14 The God of Rockery]

Noon.

There was a rustling sound under the dilapidated wooden bed, and there was a harsh “creak” sound from time to time.

Mrs Wang lowered her body and rolled up the worn sleeves of the cloth on her arms, making her more hunched over.

“Go! Go!” With a sparse broom in her hand, she patted the mice at the bottom of the bed.

“Squeak!” After

finally driving the mouse out of the house, Mr. Wang breathed a sigh of relief, put down the broom, but suddenly smelled a burning smell in his nose.

She frowned slightly, her already wrinkled face wrinkled even more, and said anxiously, “Just look at them and forget about the meal!”

Then she walked into the room in three steps and two steps. The lid of the wok was lifted.

In the small corner of the wooden house, the few bottles of salt and pickles were neatly placed, and there was a low stove next to it, and the smell of burning wafted from the iron pot on it.

Wang hurriedly took a rag and put it on his hand, and took the iron pot off the stove. Then he was free and blew his already red fingers a few times.

She poured out a large bowl of rice, and when she saw that only a small part of the bottom of the pot was mushy, her brows relaxed slightly.

“Mother, I’m back,” a boy about eight or nine years old walked into the wooden house with a happy face, holding a small piece of raw meat tied with a rope in his hand, “Today I’ll go hunting with Uncle Zhang and the others, and help them We fought, and finally got a small piece of deer meat!”

Wang shi glanced at the boy affectionately, put a large bowl of rice in his hand on the wooden table, and said with a smile: “Follow out hunting, are you tired? Yes? Not injured? Although you and Uncle Zhang are taking care of them, you must be careful and drink this bowl of rice. You are growing up now, so eat more.” The

boy’s eyes were sharp, and he saw Wang Shi. The red fingers were a little anxious at the moment, and said: “Mother, what’s wrong with your hand?”

Wang Shi shook his head and said, “It’s just hot, it’s fine, you have to eat quickly, eat more rice to grow strong.” The

big bowl is almost full of clear soup, only six or seven pieces of vegetable leaves floating on it, the leaves of the vegetable There are two extravagant pieces of meat mixed with fat and thin, and the boy almost drooled down when he smelled the aroma of the meat.   Just as he picked up the big bowl and was about to eat it, the

boy seemed to have thought of something. He blinked and said, “Mother, eat these two pieces of meat. I won’t eat it.”

He scraped it clean and put it into his own bowl, shook his head and said with a smile: “Mother just ate it, I ate a few pieces of meat, the rest is a little mushy, I make do and eat some more, but it’s a little bit lost. Waste.” The

boy glanced at Mrs. Wang, lowered his head, raised the bowl, and began to eat silently.

Wang was a hard-working orphan. After giving birth to a boy Xiaofu, her husband-in-law died in the mountains while hunting.

In this small village at the corner of the Qingluan Mountains, the absence of men means that there is no food source. After all, this small area is barren and barren, and nothing can be grown. The food source of the whole village is only a small mountain at the edge of the village. Just an ordinary beast.

Strange to say, there are many mountains around the Qingluan Mountains. This small peak on the edge has been eaten by the village for so many years, and all kinds of beasts have never been reduced, but more and more.

People think that it is the blessing of the mountain god, but this small mountain is also an unnamed mountain, so every household in the village has a mountain god statue, which is called the nameless mountain god, and it is extremely revered and pious.

By doing laundry for other people’s homes and serving as servants for slightly wealthier families, Wang managed to drag Xiao Fu to nine years old. Although he was not yet forty years old, due to the devastation of these years, it seemed that he had already An old woman in general.

Xiaofu is also a sensible child. Since he was a child, he knew how to help his hard-working mother to share the housework. When he was a little older, he clamored to follow the village’s hunter team into the mountains to hunt.

Wang couldn’t, so he could only lead Brother Zhang next door to lead him. Xiaofu was also very good, very discerning. Every time he went out, he was the most diligent one, and everyone in the village was full of praise for him.

Therefore, although Xiao Fu is only nine years old, he can bring back a piece or two of animal meat from time to time to improve his meals.

After he finished eating, there was a slightly larger piece of meat left at the bottom of the bowl, and he shouted: “Mother, I’m full.”

Looking at the piece of meat at the bottom of the bowl, Mr. Wang shook his head slightly, and said with a smile: ” Good.”

Silently packed up the tableware and put the remaining piece of meat in the dilapidated cupboard.

“It’s time to worship the statue of the mountain god.”

After cleaning up, Mrs. Wang took Xiaofu and knelt down in front of the statue of Wuming Mountain, and kowtowed a few times respectfully.

Xiaofu, as always, after kowtowing, when he raised his head, he subconsciously glanced at the pitch-black statue of the mountain god.

The statue of the mountain god was made by everyone in the village a long time ago. It was carved from ebony and simply painted.

Xiaofu suddenly trembled fiercely in his heart, his scalp was numb, and an extremely frightening feeling hit, but this feeling came and went quickly.

He took a closer look at the mountain god statue that he worshipped every day, and found nothing out of the ordinary. Xiaofu couldn’t help but feel a little dazed.

“Xiao Fu? What’s wrong?” Wang Shi’s wrinkled face was full of concern.

Xiaofu felt a pain in his heart, his mother is not yet forty years old!

I only eat two meals a day, except for green vegetables, which are wild vegetables, and I have to do so much hard work, and my aging is too fast.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but blurt out what he was thinking: “Mother, I want to grow up quickly, I can hunt by myself, and use animal skins to make clothes for you, so that you can eat meat every day! I have to go out of the village and go to rumors. Build a house in the ancient city of Taichu, and take your mother to enjoy the happiness!”

The mountain road here is extremely difficult, and for this small and closed village, the magnificent ancient city of Taichu, which is only a few hundred kilometers away, is as far away as legends. .

Gently touching Xiaofu’s head, Mrs. Wang just smiled, but she muttered in her heart, Xiaofu, when you grow up, your mother will be old.

When it was ugly late at night, the village was extraordinarily quiet.

Occasionally, a few dog barks came, disturbing the dream.

When Xiao Fu was half asleep and half awake, his eyes were wet, and his heart ached unknowingly.   Shaking

his head, he sat up, wiped the corners of his eyes, looked around by the moonlight, and asked himself in confusion, “Where’s your mother?”   The night in the late autumn was freezing to the bone, and the Wang family always let Xiaofu sleep inside, while he slept outside, so as to make Xiaofu a little warmer.   Xiaofu looked at the almost soaked pillow, and couldn’t help but wonder: “Why did I shed so many tears in my dreams? Mother, where are you?”   Putting on a worn cotton-padded coat, he opened the wooden door, and a cold wind from the cold night felt like a The ice water is usually poured right on the head.   Xiaofu shuddered fiercely, but did not close the door, but stuck his head out of the door and whispered, “Mother?” In the middle of the   night, where can Mother go? Even if you go to the toilet, after going for so long, should you come back?   Standing dumbfounded at the door, the bone-piercing cold wind was blowing, Xiaofu shivered, but he was even more worried in his heart.   The nine-year-old child, because his family is poor, has already understood many things early.   Suddenly aware of a sense of peeping behind him, Xiaofu turned his head sharply, but what he saw was still the dilapidated wooden bed on the four walls of the family and the iron pot and cupboard in the corner.   On the edge of the broken wooden bed was a pair of cloth shoes that were more than half sewn. The stitches were dense and extremely tight. They were the two thick cloths and soles that Wang had saved for a long time to sew winter cloth shoes for Xiaofu.   The sense of peeping is getting stronger!   Xiaofu’s scalp exploded and he felt numb, but he couldn’t find the source of his sense of peeping at all!   Sweeping through the wooden house again, the simple decoration is still the same as usual, only the mountain god statue…   Wait! Mountain statue!

On that pitch-black face, two red and green painted eyes seemed to come alive, and they were staring at him fiercely with resentful eyes!

“Ah!”

Xiaofu Tianling trembled, and the urge to urinate poured out of his body, ignoring the deep cold of the night, he rushed out of the door!

For a while in a trance, the scene was still vaguely familiar.

Didn’t he run out of the door and onto the street in the village? Why are you back in the house?

After all, Xiao Fu is only nine years old. No matter how sensible he is, after being scared, his sanity has a little sign of collapse.

He stayed on the spot in a daze, just staring at the ferocious mountain god statue with a look of resentment on his face.

Suddenly, the big mouth of the mountain god statue opened between twists.

clap clap.

Spit out a pile of snow-white bones.

Xiaofu looked at the pile of bones, his eyes still blank, until he saw a gap in one of the bones of his hand.

The little finger of his mother’s left hand was missing a small piece of bone.

It was a small finger that was accidentally broken by Niang when she was washing clothes at the village chief’s house the year before last, leaving an old wound.

There was gradually a focus in his eyes, and a heart-piercing cry resounded through the silent night sky.

“Mother!”

After a while, the voice in the wooden house stopped abruptly.

After a while, the sound of chewing gradually came from the wooden house, which was extremely terrifying.

The strange thing is that the whole village is like a dead village, and there is no sound.

(End of this chapter)