Tales of Herding Gods Chapter 1: Don’t go outside when it’s dark
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It's dark, don't go out.
This sentence has been circulating in Disabled Elderly Village for many years, when it was passed down, and it has not been verified. But this sentence is the truth, no doubt.
Disabled Elderly Village's Grandma Si was tense again when he saw the sunset behind the mountain. As the sun sets, the last ray of sunlight disappears, and suddenly Heaven and Earth suddenly becomes very silent, without any sound. I saw darkness slowly overwhelming from the west, engulfing the trees of mountains, rivers and roads along the way, and then came to Disabled Elderly Village to submerge Disabled Elderly Village.
The four corners of Disabled Elderly Village are erected with four ancient stone statues, and stone statue is mottled. They are very old. Even Grandma Si does not know who sculpted this stone statue and when it was erected here.
The arrival of darkness, four stone statue exudes a faint rays of light in darkness, stone statue is still on, which makes Grandma Si and village's elderly relieved.
darkness outside the village is getting richer, but with the light of stone statue, Disabled Elderly Village is still safe.
Suddenly, Grandma Si's ears moved, stupefied, and lost his voice: "Listen, there is a child's crying sound outside!"
The Old Ma next to him shook his head and said: "Impossible, you heard it wrong ... Hey, there are crying babies!"
The cry of the baby came from darkness outside the village. All the other old mans in the village heard this cry except Deaf. The old mans were remote and desolate, look at each other in dismay and Disabled Elderly Village. How could babies appear nearby?
"I ’ll check it out!"
Grandma Si got excited and ran to the stone statue side of the village on tiptoe. Old Ma quickly hurried over: "Old Woman Si, are you crazy? It's dark, it's death when I leave the village!"
"Out of the village carrying this stone statue, the things in darkness are afraid of stone statue, I will not die for a while!"
Grandma Si bent over and wanted to carry stone statue back, but she was a hunchback and could not carry it. Old Ma shook his head: "Let me come. I will accompany you with stone statue!"
Another elderly limping walked over and said, "Elderly Ma, you only have one arm, you can't hold stone statue for a long time, I have both hands, or I will come back."
Old Ma glared at him: "Dead Cripple, you broke your leg, can you go? Although I only have one arm, this arm is very powerful!"
He held stone statue in one arm, steady and steady, stone statue unimaginably heavy: "Old Woman Si, let's go!"
"Do n’t call me a dead old lady! Cripple, Mute, you all have to be careful, there is one less stone statue in the village, do n’t be touched by the stuff in darkness!"
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Old Ma and Grandma Si walked out of Disabled Elderly Village. Some strange things in darkness swam around the two, but after being photographed by rays of light of stone statue, they squeaked and returned to darkness.
The two followed the cry and walked a hundred or ten steps to a big river. The baby's cry came from the river. stone statue exudes a faint rays of light, the photos are not too far away, the two capture the sound direction carefully, walk along the river upstream, walk dozens of steps, crying is nearby, Old Ma one arm is already difficult to support. Grandma Si's eyes lit up and saw a little fluorescence. It was a basket stopped on the river bank. The fluorescence came from the basket, and the crying came from the basket.
"I really have a child!"
Grandma Si stepped forward and lifted the basket, but he was slightly startled and failed to lift it. Below the basket was an arm blanched by the river water. It was this arm that held the basket and the children in the basket. Trust to the shore.
"Relax, the child is safe." Grandma Si whispered to the woman underwater.
The female corpse seemed to hear her words, his palms were loosened, washed away by the river, and disappeared into darkness.
Grandma Si lifted the basket. In the basket was a baby in a swaddle. On the swaddle was placed a side of jade pendant, and jade pendant emitted fluorescence. This jade pendant rays of light is very similar to stone statue's rays of light, but it is much weaker. It is jade pendant that protects the children in the basket from the things in darkness.
It's just that jade pendant's rays of light is weak, and can only protect the child, but not the woman.
"It's a boy."
Returning to Disabled Elderly Village, the villagers in the village are all around, all old and weak. Grandma Si lifted up the swaddle and glanced, grinning, and the residual teeth were scattered: "We Disabled Elderly Village, we finally have a sound person!"
The one-legged Cripple said in surprise: "Old Woman Si, are you going to feed him? We are even hard to feed ourselves! I think it ’s still sent out ..."
Grandma Si furious: "Why should the old lady pick up the child with her own ability?"
The villagers were only promised and did not dare to refute her. Village Chief came over on a stretcher. He was more miserable than others. Others also had hands and feet, but they were less than normal people, and he was without hands and feet. However, everyone is very respectful of him, even the fierce Grandma Si is not arrogant.
"Since you want to raise him, should you give him a name?"
Village Chief said: "Old lady, do you see anything else in the basket?"
Grandma Si rolled over and shook his head: "Only this piece of jade pendant, there is no other note or something. There is a word on the jade pendant, it is a Qin word. This piece of jade pendant has no impurities, and there are strange powers in it. Should it be from a big family? "
"Is he called Qin or his surname Qin?"
Village Chief pondered and said: "Let him be named Qin, the name is Mu, Qin Mu. When he grows up, he is asked to go to herd, so that he can live anyway."
"Qin Mu." Grandma Si looked at the baby in her baby, and the baby wasn't afraid of her, and even babbled and laughed.
......
On the riverside, the sound of the flute came, and Herding Boy sat on the back of a cow and played the flute, the sound of the flute was crisp and melodious. This Herding Boy is eleven or twelve years old, has a beautiful eyebrow, white lips and red teeth, half-open shirt, and a jade pendant hanging on his chest.
This boy is the baby that Grandma Si picked up from the riverside eleven years ago. Over the years, village's old man has worked hard to raise this child. Grandma Si did not know where to get a cow. Let the Qin Mu of the baby drink milk every day and boil it. After a period of easy premature death.
Although the villagers of Disabled Elderly Village are fierce and evil, they are very good to him. Grandma Si is a tailor. On weekdays, Qin Mu learns tailoring with Grandma Si, learns medicine refining medicine with Apothecary, learns leg art with Grandpa Cripple, learns hearing sound to discern position with Grandpa Blind, does not follow The hands and feet of Village Chief learn to breathe, and the days pass quickly.
This cow was his mother ’s milkman. Grandma Si was originally intended to be sold, but Qin Mu was not willing to let it go, so the task of herding cattle was also given to him.
He often grazes on the riverside, the mountains are like Dai, and the blue waves and white clouds are very comfortable.
"Qin Mu, Qin Mu, save me!"
Suddenly, the cow under him started talking, Qin Mu was startled, and quickly jumped off the back of the cow. I saw the cow with tears in his eyes, and he said something to him, "Qin Mu, You grew up eating my milk, I ’m your half-woman, you have to save me! "
Qin Mu blinked and tried: "How can I save you?"
The cow said: "You have a scythe around your waist. You can pull me out of my skin to help me get out of trouble."
Qin Mu hesitated, cow said: "Did you forget the grace of nurturing?"
Qin Mu raised a sickle and carefully cut through cowhide. It is strange that cowhide was peeled off, and there was no trace of blood flowing out, and the inside of cowhide was empty, without flesh and skeleton.
When cowhide was peeled in half, a 20-30 years old woman rolled out from the inside. Both legs were still wrapped in cattle legs. The skin was connected to cowhide, but the upper limbs had been detached from cowhide.
The woman disheveled her hair, grabbed a sickle in the hands of Qin Mu who had been scared, cut the cowhide on the legs and feet in two or three times, looked at Qin Mu, and became guilty, the sickle rested on the neck of Qin Mu, sneered: "Little Wicked, because you and me was turned into a cow. For eleven years, I could only eat grass and feed you milk! Poor, I had a baby just before I became a cow, and I was counted by the temptress, turning me into A cow feeds you! I finally got out of trouble today, kill you first, and then come and wash this village's wicked! "
Qin Mu's head screamed, not knowing what the woman who had drilled out of cowhide was talking about.
The woman was about to hack him with a knife. Suddenly, her heart was cold and she looked down, and a knife came out of her chest.
"Mu'er, you Grandpa Apothecary told you to go back to take the medicine." The woman's body fell, standing behind it was village's Grandpa Cripple, kind-eyed and good-looking, with a thick face, carrying a **** knife in his hand and laughing at Qin Mu.
"Grandpa Cripple ..." Qin Mu's body was soft, and he looked at the cowhide and the woman's body on the ground, but he never recovered.
"Go back, go back." Cripple patted his shoulder and chuckled.
Qin Mu walked high and low to the village, looked back, but saw that Cripple threw the woman's body into the river.
The impact of this scene on him was so great that he did not know when he returned to the village.
"Qin Mu! damned brat, how to tell you? Don’t go outside when it’s dark!"
When night fell, stone statue in the four corners of Disabled Elderly Village automatically turned on again. Grandma Si summoned that he was planning to slip out of the village to go to the riverside to check the Qin Mu of cowhide, and dragged him back.
"Mother-in-law, why can't you go out in the dark?" Qin Mu asked, looking up.
"When it is dark, there will be some terrible things moving in darkness, and going out is death."
Grandma Si solemnly said: "village's stone statue will protect us, things in darkness will not dare to enter the village."
"Do other villages have this kind of stone statue?" Qin Mu wondered.
Grandma Si nodded, but looked worried. He looked out of the village and whispered: "Cripple should be back ... I really shouldn't let Cripple go out, this guy has only one leg ..."
"Grandma, something strange happened today ..."
Qin Mu hesitated and said about the woman who got out of the cow's belly. Grandma Si said casually: "You mean that woman? Cripple told me that he handled it well. As early as you were four years old When weaning, I said I sold the cow, but you were reluctant, so I let you feed. You see, something is wrong now? I said that eating milk to four years old will affect the cow. "
Qin Mu blushed. Weaning at the age of four is indeed too long, but it seems that the key is not weaning at the age of four?
"Mother-in-law, that woman was killed by Grandpa Cripple ..."
"Good kill."
Grandma Si laughed: "That was cheaper for her. She should have died eleven years ago. If it wasn't for you, would she live to the present?"
Qin Mu is unknown.
Grandma Si glanced at him and said, "This woman is Mrs. Border Dragon City City Lord, thousands of miles away from here. Border Dragon City Lord is lascivious, and she is jealous. Border Dragon City Lord likes to get flowers and grass outside, and robs good women. And every time Border Dragon City Lord breaks The woman's innocence, this lady City Lord will send someone to kill the woman alive. I sneaked into Border Dragon City, originally planned to kill her, saw that she had just given birth to a child, the child was only three months old, and I thought you had no milk to drink, And she has milk, so she turned her into a cow and came back to feed you. I just didn't expect this woman to get rid of the seal and be able to speak, almost hurting you. "
Qin Mu dumbfounded and lost his voice: "Mother-in-law, how can a person become a cow?"
Grandma Si hēi hēi smiled, revealing half-mouthed teeth: "Do you want to learn? I teach you ... Cripple is back!"
Qin Mu looked around and saw that Cripple was holding a cane in one hand and clutching the prey on his back in one hand, and limping was approaching. darkness rushed into the village like a tide, Grandma Si hurriedly shouted: "Dead Cripple, hurry up, hurry up!"
"What is urgent?"
Cripple still walked slowly to the village. When he walked into the village, the strong darkness flooded the village. The prey on his back is a gorgeous Fierce Tiger, not yet dead, tail was swept by darkness, suddenly Fierce Tiger issued a cry, Qin Mu quickly looked, I saw that Fierce Tiger's tail only had a few bones, on tail fur/superficial knowledge and flesh and blood are all gone, as if they were eaten by something.
He looked curiously at darkness outside the village, where it was dark and he could see nothing.
"What is there in the dark?" He wondered.