Dahua didn't say anything, then he looked up at the statue in the yard with a complicated expression.
"I don't know, I only know that this mountain is blessed by the gods, but even if it is blessed by the gods, there are people who would throw their daughters into the mountain to be eaten by wild beasts or simply use them as sacrifices. This mountain
Ah, I can't hold on much longer..."
"When you came here, you may have heard that this northern mountain is very spiritual, and the villagers hundreds of miles below the mountain are living very well, right?"
Changsheng nodded.
It is precisely for this reason that Changsheng did not investigate too much when she chose to go up the mountain, because she originally wanted to relax and wait until the previous controversy about her gradually subsided and the Buddhist cultivators in the Western Buddhist country no longer thought of abducting her as a disciple.
, you can go back. I really didn’t expect so many things to happen.
Looking at the statue in the courtyard with an expressionless face, Dahua seemed to be looking at it, and seemed to be looking at some life that he didn't want to recall.
"Actually, in the past, this mountain was not rich, and it did not have this aura. A long time ago, this was just a barren mountain. Let alone prey, God had blessed the mountain with sparse forests at that time.
Little girl, you probably don’t know that at that time, no girls were willing to marry in our poor and remote rural areas. There was no way, there were fewer and fewer people, not enough food and drink, and we couldn’t afford to raise so many children, but in order to continue the incense and support the family
, most of the remaining female dolls were thrown away by their families. At that time, the corpses of baby girls were piled high in the mountains, and resentment was overwhelming. It was a pity that they were still complaining that no women were willing to marry in, and their incest was about to be cut off. Just like
Like my uncle, the whole family is so sick and stupid that he can't even take care of his own family, but he still wants to marry and have children for his son. After the children are born, he can't feed them, and he also throws away female dolls in the name of continuing the incense.
.”
"Sometimes I really don't understand, is it necessary to continue this kind of incense?"
"If a child is born into such a family, let's not say whether he will have the disabilities of his parents and grandparents. Even if he is lucky enough to be a fully human being in the future, he will have elderly and sick grandparents at home, a mentally retarded father who is only six years old, and a sick and mute father.
My mother, with so many people dragging her down, and her family doesn’t have tens of thousands of dollars, and she’s not a prominent noble family, it’s natural that she can’t send her children to study and practice martial arts, and in the end they’ll have to dig in the dirt for food?”
"How can a farmer, who died from exhaustion in the fields, be able to support a large family that is sick or disabled and needs medicine to support him? Is he born just to make him suffer?
When he grows up, how will he feel when he learns that his siblings were abandoned on the mountain to fend for themselves in order to support him?"
"Such a child will only have two results in the future. Either he will become as numb as his ancestors and think that these are normal, or he will only regret it for the rest of his life."
"I really don't understand that if you want to have a child, shouldn't you make all the necessary preparations before you give birth to them? Is it just to continue your family life and provide for them in old age?"
The more Dahua talked, the angrier she became, and in the end she almost asked angrily. She didn’t know who she was questioning. Maybe it was the ignorant people who threw their children into the mountains, or maybe it was this painful and helpless person.
But it’s a social reality that cannot be changed, right?
Her voice was a bit loud, which made the baby girl tremble in shock, but she quickly calmed down under the comfort of the old woman, and fell asleep with her mouth closed. The old woman stared dissatisfied.
He glanced at his daughter, then hugged the child and rocked it to coax him.
Only then did Dahua react. She smiled bitterly, apologized sheepishly, and then continued her story.
"This is what happened. At that time, there were almost no female children in the homes of people within a hundred miles of Beishan. There were only more and more boys left. Ha! Boys! If there were no girls, would they be able to give birth to them on their own? The poorer they were, the more they had children.
The poorer you get as you live, this is probably the situation."
“But maybe it’s God’s protection, and one day, this mountain will ‘come alive’.”
"Alive?"
Changsheng couldn't help but interject.
"really."
Because it has been so long ago, Dahua has lost his memory a little bit. Now he can only vaguely recall things that his mother told him before.
"My mother said that when she was a child, she knew that this mountain seemed to come alive. Not only did it start to grow all kinds of flowers, plants and trees, but more and more plants were attracted to it. Then, the mountains here seemed to come alive.
People's lives are getting better. It doesn't mean they are very rich, at least they don't have as many meals as before. When life gets better, there are more children. For more than ten years, there are more and more children.
Everyone said that the mountain god of this mountain heard people's prayers, so he responded to everyone, and said that everyone's life would be much better in the future. From that time on, many people went to the mountain to offer sacrifices and pray to the mountain god every day.
"
Having said this, Dahua looked at his mother with a complicated expression.
"My mother probably only lived a few good years. When she was a teenager, the villagers around Beishan were suddenly surprised to find that many of the children born had physical disabilities of one kind or another.
At first, there were probably only one or two out of ten, but then there were more and more, and five or six out of ten were disabled. You also know that the villagers here used to have the habit of throwing away their daughters.
.When it is discovered that many children have problems, the first ones to be abandoned are those female dolls.”
"Then, the vitality of that mountain gradually weakened?"
Dahua looked at Changsheng in surprise and nodded silently.
As the old woman hummed kindly nursery rhymes, Dahua continued to tell this story that he had been holding in his heart for a long time.
"My mother is a stubborn person. No matter how many children she has, whether they are male or female, she will never throw them away. But unfortunately, my mother's first five children were all girls, and my sisters
, more or less disabled. Because she had to take care of my sisters, my mother refused to have another child. However, how could my elders allow it? So while my mother went out to work, they took away my five children.
Sister, I took them all up the mountain and threw them away."
When he said this, there was a faint fire in Dahua's eyes, which was the flame of hatred!
"My mother knelt down and begged for them. Her head was broken and her blood was flowing. No one was willing to tell the whereabouts of my sisters. Later, my mother went into the mountains alone many, many times, but she could not find them.
When she was finally brought back by force, she was already burned out. From that time on, my mother had some mental problems."
