Night 106 Ancient Tree Village
I am a ghost maniac, and I will start our story "Ancient Tree Village" immediately!
Taiping Village is a small village surrounded by mountains with beautiful scenery, due to its relatively closed geographical location and relatively little communication with the outside world, everyone lived a poor life many years ago.
Most of the people in the village make a living from farming and raising livestock, and almost every household has one or two old cattle for farming.
This old scalper is the most precious and valuable thing in the family, so he takes care of it very carefully.
The children in the village did not have much entertainment, and the happiest thing was to ride the old ox up the hill to herd the cattle.
Gather the cattle together and let them graze on their own, and then a few friends who are herding the cattle together get together and take out the pickled tortillas they brought from home or some wild fruits picked along the way and share them with everyone.
The children set up a lot of traps on the mountain to catch small animals, and if you are lucky, you can catch some small animals such as hares for tooth sacrifice.
On this day, after everyone finished eating a little hare, they sat together to eat wild fruits and chat, and a naughty teenager put the remaining carbon fire into the hole in the dead tree behind him.
In the past, everyone often did this, generally only the ancient tree with a relatively long age, its trunk will wither and rot, forming such a tree hole, there will be a lot of damp sawdust left in the tree hole, it is not easy to ignite, but after ignition, there will be a unique fragrance of the tree, after being smoked by this smell, not only the more fragrant the body, but also has a good effect of repelling mosquitoes and relieving itching.
The residual temperature on the charcoal soon ignited the sawdust in the tree hole, and a burst of smoke was emitted from it, and the smell of smoke turned out to be smelly, and with the burning of the sawdust inside, the original gray smoke turned black in an instant, and everyone was smoked away by the disgusting stench.
I ran until I ran to the bottom of the windy mountain, and I felt that the smell was not very strong, so I dared to take a big breath, and finally breathed a few breaths of fresh air, and a teenager's words made everyone nervous immediately: "Oh no, our cattle are still on the mountain, this smell is so stinky that the cattle will not be smoked to death!"
Although the young man's words are somewhat exaggerated in it, but it scared the little friends a lot, as I said earlier, the cow is the treasure of every family in the village, and the old cow should be used to plough the land in the spring, and the old cow should be used to transport grain to the family during the autumn harvest, even if you want to go to the market outside the mountain, you have to take the ox cart to go, if you lose it, it is not a fight that can be solved.
Thinking of this, everyone didn't care about the unpleasant smell, and ran back to the mountain, where they had just grazed, but fortunately those old cattle were not affected by this stinky smoke, and they were still grazing there leisurely with their tails flicked.
At this time, the smoke in the tree hole has dissipated, and the smell has completely disappeared, but these teenagers are not in the mood to continue to play with the cattle, and they have driven their cattle down the mountain.
"Oh no, oh bad!" a teenager named Zhang Xiaokai suddenly shouted.
The friends immediately knew what was going on, it turned out that everyone's cattle were still there, but Xiao Kai's cow was missing a large piece of meat on the neck, and the blood kept flowing down, Xiao Kai looked at the bleeding cow, and was at a loss for a while, and would only stand in place, looking at everyone for help.
The panic stabilized temporarily, and an older teenager took the lead in reacting and said: "Xiao Kai, don't worry, this cow is just injured in the neck, it can still walk, let's drive it home quickly and see what the adults do?" Xiao Kai hesitated a little when he heard this, because he was worried about being beaten, but now this is the only way.
Xiao Kai drove the injured old scalper back home, and the adults in the family were also very anxious to see the old scalper injured, but fortunately, the older people were more experienced, and Xiao Kai's father used some rags and cotton wool to stop the blood flowing on the neck of the old scalper, and then let Xiao Kai go to find Uncle Zhao in the same village.
Uncle Zhao is the person who knows the most in the village, whether it is a person or a livestock in the village, if there is a serious illness or a small injury or something, he will find Uncle Zhao to diagnose and treat it.
Xiao Kai responded and hurriedly ran to Uncle Zhao's house, the two families were not very far apart, and soon Uncle Zhao came with Xiao Kai with the medicine box on his back.
When he arrived at Xiaokai's house, Uncle Zhao first checked the wound on the old scalper's neck, and did not immediately rush to treat it, but frowned and fell into deep thought.
Xiao Kai's father saw that Uncle Zhao was delaying the treatment of the old scalper, and immediately asked anxiously: "Uncle Zhao, is this injury of my cow very serious?"
Uncle Zhao waved his hand and said, "Xiao Kai and his father, your cow is so strangely injured! Don't be afraid to say it, judging from the wound, your cow is actually dead!"
"It's dead, it's so possible! You see it's still with its eyes open, how can it be a dead cow!" said Xiao Kai's father in disbelief.
"Xiao Kai's father, I didn't lie to you, I don't believe you can smell the smell of blood" Xiao Kai's father heard this, dipped his finger in some blood from the scalper's neck, put it under his nose and smelled it, and suddenly a disgusting stench entered his nostrils.
"The blood of a living person or animal will not smell so bad, and from the mountain down here, this cow has been bleeding all the time, even if a cow is strong, it is impossible to have so much blood!"
After Uncle Zhao said this, everyone believed that the cow was indeed dead, but the cow's eyes were not closed, and it was still able to move freely, so it was not a dead cow at all!
Uncle Zhao also felt strange, so he asked Xiao Kai if they had experienced anything strange on the mountain, and how the cow was injured, Xiao Kai told Uncle Zhao what happened, and after listening to Uncle Zhao, he said affirmatively: "This matter must be related to the tree, let's hurry to the mountain to take a look, all the young and middle-aged people in the village go, bring hoes and torches, it's almost too late, it's estimated that it's too late!"
Uncle Zhao is the most prestigious person in the village, everyone listens to him, and soon dozens of young adults in the village go up the mountain with hoes and torches according to Uncle Zhao's requirements.
Under the leadership of Xiao Kai, everyone soon came to the ancient tree, which made everyone feel strange that this was not the season for new leaves, but the ancient tree was covered in green, and it looked a little out of place with the surrounding trees.
"It seems that this tree has become a climate, and after it becomes angry, it may keep one party safe, or it may harm one party, this matter has something to do with all of us, do you tell me whether this tree will stay or not?"
Everyone began to hesitate for a long time before a voice pleaded bitterly: "I am willing to protect the safety of Taiping Village, I hope everyone will see that my cultivation is not easy, let me go this time!"
Since then, Taiping Village has been renamed Gushu Village, everyone's life is ordinary, but it is also safe, whether it is the people in the village, or the livestock are all healthy and healthy, and finally died without illness.
In order to thank the tree god for taking care of the village, there will be a day every year on the "Fire Prohibition Day", when the whole village will not make a fire, saying that it is afraid of scaring away the tree god!