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Folk Tales and Legends of the Wandering Mountains - "Strange Talk of the Cloak"

author:Uncle was fragrant

In the summer of 2021, due to the summer vacation back to the hometown of Lailai Mountain to escape the summer, the summer night is cool and breezy, meet and visit the childhood friend's home to chat, the grandfather of the friend's family is 90 years old, the body is healthy, see the young post-student at home in a good mood, the same chat told a few strange small stories that he personally experienced when he was young, and after telling it, it was amazing and long-lasting.

The story happened at the foot of the 50s, Grandpa was more than 20 years old, adults soon learned carpentry skills outside the home of Laowen, the old man of the family Zhang Luo to build a new house and marry a new wife, one evening in the summer when the grandfather and brothers from the mountain to use the land to pull the new home to build a house with stones, the day is the sun is like fire, the heat is unbearable, did not expect to be at night but the dark clouds are closed and hot and humid, watching the heavy rain is coming, but the dark is too fast, it takes nearly 1 hour to get home if you walk away from home, you can only cut the path, Although the path is all the way through the wilderness, but because they have been playing in the nearby mountains since childhood, and there are brothers to accompany, although there is timidity but no fear, with the mountain rain coming, the cool breeze is also followed, after a day of work they pulled the stone although it is also very heavy, but the coolness of the evening wind also washed away a lot of the sweltering heat just now, the heart is also comfortable.

Folk Tales and Legends of the Wandering Mountains - "Strange Talk of the Cloak"

The two decided to push the ground row car to the path home to push the ground row car to a forest. Suddenly, a bird in the forest suddenly flew up, and then two gray things flew out of the forest and burrowed into the cornfield on the side of the road at the mouth of the village, and they suddenly stopped, thinking that the wild dogs in the forest were frightened, and they did not care. At this time, the wind was fierce, the raindrops of the beans fell down, looking at the darkness around them, they could not brave the rain to rush home, after all, people are not so delicate, they are all crop men, the rain will not get sick, but the path is too narrow, in case the rain is wet and slippery into the ditch next to it, the stone must be unloaded and then installed, the two people think about it, they push the car to the side of the forest, and avoid the rain under the trees. About an hour later, the rain in the sky decreased and the rainstorm became about moderate rain, and the two felt that the time was almost 8 o'clock at night and then waited for it was not the way, so they braved the rain to move forward.

Folk Tales and Legends of the Wandering Mountains - "Strange Talk of the Cloak"

On the road one foot deep and one foot shallow finally arrived at the mouth of the village, the sky is already very dark, can not see the light, the whole village only in the village entrance inside the commissary has electric lights, look at the electric lights on the heart of the steady, the two continue to go forward, from the village mouth to the home on the road through a narrow alley, barely have a road to the width of the car, the front still leaves barely walking empty, just as the two people push the cart to go inside, suddenly saw two people on the other side of the alley wearing cloaks from the mouth of the alley, it looks like it should be two hunchback old people, Grandpa pushed the car as far as possible staggered, Ask the two old men, "What time is it now for uncle, my brother and I just pulled the stone back to the rain and there is no table" The hunchback old man did not speak, grandpa thought about what is going on, did not speak, his brother pushed the car to continue to go forward, because the alley is very narrow just met, grandpa can only follow behind the car, after the alley and then two people push the cart side by side, just in the car state rubbing the two old people's coats past, rubbing the two people's coats together, Grandpa's eyes saw the legs under the coat, suddenly the eyes shrunk, the cold sweat on the body whistled outwards, Can only follow the car forward, just out of the alley mouth five or six meters later, Grandpa suddenly sat on the ground, his brother asked him, "Brother, why did you trip, did you stumble and didn't fall", Grandpa could not speak at this time, he could only tremble and point to the alley just now, pointing to the two people who could only see the background wearing a coat Rolling up and down the throat knot was unable to speak, and his brother could only do it in a hurry.

Folk Tales and Legends of the Wandering Mountains - "Strange Talk of the Cloak"

At this moment, Grandpa's father was not at ease with the two of them, he used a flashlight to the side of the village to greet him, saw Grandpa sitting on the ground, and immediately ran over to wen "Son, what's wrong, is the stone smashed" Grandpa shook his head and gasped for breath, Grandpa's father held his chest for him to breathe, Grandpa could speak, shouting in the direction of his fingers, "Those two are not people just now", his brother was busy asking "Are the two wearing coats" Grandpa said, "Yes, just now Che Bangzi scraped their clothes past, I saw that under the two of them were not legs, but two hairy paws", the two were suddenly shocked, Grandpa said busily, "Let's go and see if they are out of the village" Then the three of them put the car on the side of the road, took the stick for lifting stones from the car, and chased after the village entrance, and when they reached the village entrance, they saw two coats thrown on the ground, and there was blood and chicken feathers on the top of the coat, and uncle Wang, the commissary owner at the mouth of the village, came over and said: "What are you doing with sticks, chasing the two wild dogs that have just passed?" I look at the mouth with something, is it biting your chicken", Grandpa took two pieces so he took it and lit up, saying, "His uncle, those two are not dogs, the boss he came to pull the stone back, met in the small alley, it is a wolf, will wear a cloak to dress as a wolf", suddenly several people back out of cold sweat, Grandpa and his brother soaked in the rain all night, and they were frightened and put up the pendulum, Grandpa and father saw the situation and said, "His uncle, I will talk about it later, the two children have not eaten for a day, I will go home first to make them some hot food" Uncle Wang said, "Okay, hurry back, the rain is too cold, don't freeze out a good villain, I will take the village chief to your house to talk about it."

Folk Tales and Legends of the Wandering Mountains - "Strange Talk of the Cloak"

The three of them then went to the house, and on the way they met the two mouths of Aunt Zhang who lived at the mouth of the hutong, and Aunt Zhang said, "Hearing the boss shouting, my uncle and I came out, and came out to see that the three chickens in the family lost two, and one was bitten to death by something, and the coat hanging on the gate was gone", Grandpa immediately said what he had just seen and heard again, Aunt Zhang's two mouths were also amazed, a group of five people went to Grandpa's house with what they said, they discussed this matter in the hall house, Grandpa and the two brothers ate noodles in the back house, When he came out, Uncle Wang of the village entrance shop led the village chief and the two elderly elders of the village to arrive, and Grandpa told the details of the matter again, including the two figures that were vaguely seen in the woods of the path, and they were afraid of playing with the pendulum. After Grandpa finished speaking, several people in the house were silent for a while, at this time a 70-year-old Uncle Zhao surnamed Zhao said, "This incident also happened once in the next village five or six years ago, it was cold in the mountains in winter, and at night two wolves went down to the village to find food, and after being found, three or five strong men chased all the way with a hoe, and finally killed one, and one could not find it, and finally the family lost a cloak and found it in the barren woods of the back mountain", the village chief said at this time, "This should be the original escaped she-wolf with the child and came back again." But the mountains are cold, the mountains have not eaten down to find, now in the summer rabbit pheasant what should be quite a lot of ah", Zhao surname Uncle answered: "That is not necessarily, when the spring to repair the river embankment on the mountain to put cannons to hit the stone, now the village four or five spring to repair the old house to build a new house, the cannon on the back of the mountain basically from the beginning of the spring has not been broken, the rabbit pheasant what is sure to be frightened away, so there is no food to eat and come down again, the old wolf is also more than ten years, smart, know that there are many people at night, waiting in the forest when it rains, and when it rains, there are few people in the village, Unexpectedly, you two were shocked by the rain, came in early, went out and ran into you again, afraid of exposure, stood still, and walked on two paws." Everyone looked at each other and felt that the wolf was a sperm, otherwise they would not have stood and walked, but if they thought about raising dogs at home, sometimes they would stand up straight and pull people. But from then on Grandpa said that he would always take a stick with him when he went to the back mountain in the future, and when it was dark, he always had to say hello when he met people wearing a coat, and subconsciously he would see whether he was wearing shoes on the exposed feet under the coat, and the understanding of wearing shoes would chat about two sentences, and those who did not know would not say much about turning their heads and leaving.

Conclusion: Ten years of trees, a hundred years of tree people, the fireworks in the world suck more, there will always be some Zhong Lingxiu sensitive objects, as the saying goes, dogs are only eight years old to learn language, chickens are not ten years into essence. Animals may also become "fine" as they get older, do you have people walking in cloaks at night when you were young, so have you ever said hello to them? Say hello if they can talk too!

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