In Japan's poor mountain villages, there is a bad habit that 70-year-old people will be carried on the mountain by their children to die, called "visiting the god of the mountain".
Ah Lingbo is 69 years old this year, before going up the mountain, she has three things to rest assured: First, the 45-year-old eldest son became a widower last year, and she wants to get another wife for him; Second, the 20-year-old young son is still a virgin because of his body odor, and she wants to try to persuade other women in the village to realize their wish to be a real man; The third is that the eldest grandson made up a song for her, mocking her as an "old immortal", and the whole village was watching Ah Lingbo's jokes.
The story begins in a barbaric mountain village with a shortage of food, where there is no concept of benevolence and filial piety, and there is a cruel competitive relationship between people, which can be summed up in a sentence of Darwin: natural selection, survival of the fittest. In the fields, discarded baby boys, half-submerged in the dirt, are often sold to other people's homes in exchange for food and money.
Ah Ling po's body is tough and her teeth are neat, which is a joke in the eyes of the villagers.
In order not to make the family face and save the scarce rations due to Theoding imports, Ah Ling Po took the initiative to crush her white and neat teeth with stones, and while showing it to the villagers, she assured her eldest daughter-in-law that when she married, she would let her son carry himself up the mountain this winter.
The eldest son is a good gambler but good-natured, even if he loses the family's winter rations, he has never thought of sending the old mother to the mountain. Hearing the villagers singing and laughing at his mother, he took up a stick and beat the villagers to scatter, and taught the initiators a harsh lesson.
Unfortunately, his wife fell to her death while picking fruit last year, leaving only her infant daughter, and under her mother's arrangement, he married Ayu, a widow from Shimomura.
There is also a strange custom in the village, only the eldest son is eligible to marry and have children, and the other children are only worthy of work.
The youngest son, hungry and thirsty at night, ran out to solve his physical needs, but overheard a conversation in which the man begged his wife to spend a night with all the bare sticks in the village after his death, and their family had violated the gods and needed to atone for their sins.
What makes people cry and laugh is that this new widow hates her young son for having a physical odor and refuses to let him succeed. Ah Lingbo had to ask the old neighbor with rhinitis to help...
The eldest grandson led the woman to the house to eat, but this granddaughter-in-law was delicious and lazy, and her mother's family was a habitual grain stealer in the village, and Ah Ling po thought of having another idle meal.
Not surprisingly, within a few days, the granddaughter-in-law began to steal the family's corn and potatoes, and sent them back to her mother's house.
Ah Lingbo asked the eldest son to catch up with him and kill him, where he expected that the granddaughter-in-law was pregnant at this time, and the eldest son was soft and did not do it again.
There are families in the village who often steal other people's food, because of their large population, they have to do it as a last resort.
One night, the villagers found the grain thieves and started to inform the whole village. Everyone took up sticks and hurried to punish the habitual offender. Strangely, Ah Lingbo stopped her granddaughter-in-law and said to her: Don't go, it's your family.
In the darkness of the night, the villagers looted and robbed the family of food, burying all seven members of the family alive, including their daughter, who was already married.
The eldest grandson was furious and ran to question Ah Lingbo: Is it the secret you told? Ah Ling Po did not say a word, silently doing the work in her hand.
Fifteen years ago, Ah Lingbo's husband was reluctant to send her old mother up the mountain and ran away from home. As a result, their family has become the laughing stock of the nearby village. Shamed by yixue, Ah Ling Po vowed to send her son up the mountain early.
Before dawn, Ah Ling Po put on white clothes early, rolled up the straw mat, sat on the back chair, and the mother and son walked out of the village in silence.
They climb steep hills and rush through rushing rivers until they reach the top of the mountain, and as far as the eye can see, they are full of white bones.
The eldest son, at the behest of Ah Lingbo, placed her on a paved straw mat.
On the way down the mountain, he saw someone tie up his old father, no matter how much his father cried and begged for forgiveness, and finally was ruthlessly pushed off the cliff.
The sky drifted snow, covering the sensen white bones. The eldest son turned back, and he thought that his mother was also afraid of fear in her heart.
However, he was dumbfounded again, and his mother, like a sculpture, sat there steadily, beckoning him to go back.
In the heavy snow, Ah Lingbo folded her hands together, like a god.
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