Chapter 4: Strange Things in the Woods
In the following days, Li Hongyi did not go out of the door, except for eating, drinking, and reading the ancient book of Meihuayi in the house all day long, and felt that the content in it could produce sound, direction, time, movement, geography, time, people, colors, animals and plants, and other perceived things in nature or human society, as a way to predict its development trend. In this way, we can gain insight into its opportunities and achieve the effect of knowing ourselves and our opponents. It was amazing to feel like it was subverting what I knew in school. I am really grateful to my grandfather for passing on this strange book to me.
A few days later, at noon, I took out a small jar of rice wine made by my father in the cellar, and walked to the Xishan woodland with it, to thank my grandfather, whom I had never met. May Grandpa have a spirit underground, and bless himself to embark on this easy-to-learn path that he likes.
It's summer now, and if you don't listen to the barking in the trees, you feel like the sun is about to bake your skin before you can walk two steps. Humming a little song along the shade of the trees all the way, "Hongyi, where are you going to take a wine jar?" My watermelon is sweet, come and exchange it for your wine." The speaker is Li Erzhuang from the village, a large melon field at home, also sold at a roadside stall, Li Hongyi walked to the watermelon stall and took the cut watermelon and ate it, "It's not sweet, wait for me to come back and get my jar for you to change, I have something to do with Xishan." Holding the wine jar in one hand and the watermelon in the other, he continued to walk. They are all fellow villagers in the township, and they generally don't need money to eat watermelon here, which is the love of the villagers. Li Erzhuang saw Li Hongyi leaving, and shouted behind him: "Come back early, they all say that the Xishan Forest is not peaceful this time." "Got it. "Li Hongyi has only been watching plum blossoms at home for a while, where do you know this, I feel that what is rumored in the village must be those old women who chew their tongues and talk nonsense.
Coming to his grandfather's grave, Li Hongyi knelt down and looked at the tombstone is three rings, "Grandpa, you passed on the plum blossom to my father, I really like this, you can rest assured that I will study hard, you are in the spirit of heaven and bless me to learn as soon as possible, and like you, I can see things for others to become a celebrity in this circle, and make money so that my family can live a good life." Today I brought you wine, and our grandparents have two sips. Unplugged the wine and poured some in front of the grandfather's grave, and drank it himself, this rice wine tasted smooth and smooth, and the degree was low, but the stamina was great, where did Li Hongyi, who didn't often drink, know this, and respected the grandfather in heaven to drink, drink it himself, and poured out the words that he usually didn't tell outsiders when he liked his classmates and didn't dare to open his mouth to let his parents live a good life.
There was still a little wind on the mountain, and a hot wind was blowing, and Li Hongyi didn't know whether he was drunk or sleepy, so he leaned against the pine tree next to the grave and snored. The sun is setting, and the sky is gradually getting dark. Li Hongyi felt a little chill on his body, and opened his eyes with difficulty. As soon as he saw that it was dark, he got up from the ground, patted the soil on his body, and walked down the mountain in a leisurely manner.
The black sky on the mountain only relies on the moonlight in the sky to illuminate the road, Li Hongyi walked in the direction of home with the memory of when he came, but the more he walked, the more strange it became, and the feeling was that he couldn't go to the end, and then he felt a little weak and looked around, yes, this is the way he came, and he picked up a few stones from the side of the road and stacked them together as a mark. I continued to walk forward, and after walking for a long time, I saw a pile of stones that seemed to be stacked by myself on the side of the road in the distance, and hurriedly ran over to see that this was indeed a stone that I had placed. Suddenly he was surrounded in place, pinched his face, and felt pain, it was not a dream, was it a coincidence? Li Hongyi inserted another branch from the pile of stones, and then continued to walk down the mountain. This time the sky was already shrouded in black cloth, and the anxious Li Hongyi was sweating profusely, trotting up, coupled with the fear and weakness in his heart, he felt that he could hear the sound of his heartbeat.
After a while, there seemed to be the shadow of the stone pile of the branch he had inserted in the distance on the side of the road, Li Hongyi couldn't believe his eyes, took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, and then put on his glasses, a heart was about to mention his throat, and slowly walked in to see, this is indeed the pile of stones of the branches he just inserted, this time Li Hongyi panicked, and slapped on the ground, accompanied by his own only rapid heartbeat. At this time, I wanted to cry but I was too scared to cry, and this feeling of helplessness could only be shouted loudly, "Is there anyone, is there anyone?" but no matter how many shouts, only the echo of his own voice echoed in the distance. Could it be that this is the trick written in the novel? that I actually ran into it? Could it be that I'm going to die here at a young age?
A white mist rose from the ground in the forest not far away, and Li Hongyi felt that something was wrong, why was there no lake over there? There was more and more white mist, and there was a sound of "da-da-da~" from the mist. Li Hongyi's scalp tingled, what kind of sound is this, but when fear and curiosity exist at the same time, curiosity often dominates. The slow "da, da, da" sound seemed to be torturing my nerves, and I felt like I was about to go crazy. A vague figure vaguely appeared in the mist, getting closer and closer, as if coming from the fog. The figure gradually appeared from blur to gradually appeared, Li Hongyi finally saw the appearance of the person who came, and was so frightened that he couldn't stand up on his legs, so he could only breathe saliva from the ground as if he was nailed to the ground. This feeling of horror has never been experienced since birth.
The old lady with a bent waist, her skin was dark and shriveled, her gray hair was tied with a wooden vine, her blue-gray cotton jacket did not match this season, her feet were still wrapped in three-inch golden lotus, and the most frightening thing was that there were only black eyeballs in a pair of shiny eyes on her shriveled face, not white. There were white beards on both sides of his mouth, and the sound was the sound of the dragon's head crutch in his hand hitting the stone on the ground. The old lady walked towards Li Hongyi step by step. But his whole body couldn't move, he couldn't shout, and tears were swirling in his eyes in fright.
At this moment, a gray hare in the forest rushed out, the old lady pointed with a cane, the rabbit was like an evil one, the head against the stones around it hit hard, once, twice, the rabbit's head was a bloodstain, but it was still bumping, a white with a clatter, and the blood ** collapsed, and the body crawled on the ground, and the legs kicked to death. Seeing this scene in front of him, Li Hongyi finally couldn't bear the fear in his heart, felt the crotch of his pants hot, and was frightened and incontinent. The old lady is still approaching this step by step, and Li Hongyi only has "I don't want to die, I don't want to die" in his mind now.
The old lady finally walked up to Li Hongyi, sniffed with her nose, stared at Li Hongyi with her dark eyes, and then picked up the dragon's head and was about to pierce Li Hongyi's heart. Li Hongyi had already closed his eyes and began to wait for death to come. At this critical moment, there was a sound of Xiao, the old lady heard Xiao Sheng take a few steps back, Li Hongyi also opened his eyes, and Xiao Sheng entered from a distance, becoming clearer and clearer. The old lady looked at Xiao Sheng's position, and said that it was too late, and then quickly, a figure appeared in front of Li Hongyi's eyes, pinned Xiao into his waist, and his hands kept changing and cutting each style, and he used the dantian qi to urge the voice to send out "Lin, soldiers, fights, people, all, arrays, columns, in, front" and finally pointed to the old lady, and the magical scene made Li Hongyi's mouth grow up, and his jaw was about to fall off. This finger seemed to have a group of warriors from the ancient battlefield wearing silver armor and holding spears and riding high-headed war horses behind the master to rush towards the old lady, and the old lady immediately appeared from the body after a burst of white gas appeared from the battle, turned into a gray mouse bigger than a human face, and disappeared with a puff of smoke. These cavalrymen, who were as mighty as the ancient battlefield, let their spears run away before they touched the giant rat. The cavalry vanished as if they had entered another dimension.
Li Hongyi's body suddenly moved, and he lay on the ground panting, "I'm not dead, I'm not dead, I'm not dead" The whole body was soaked with sweat, and there was a smell coming out of the crotch. As if he had just recovered from a serious illness, Li Hongyi felt that he had never been relaxed, and his spirit had not yet recovered from the panic, and the scene just now had completely changed his outlook on life from birth to the present.
Turning his head, he looked at the master who had saved his life with admiration in great excitement. This person was wearing a pair of cloth shoes and a Taoist style. The Taoist priest helped Li Hongyi up and said, "This little brother, the night is dark and the wind is high, and the road meets the gray demon, this demon has been practicing for five hundred years." Let's go home quickly, there will be a date later!" Li Hongyi hurriedly asked: "Benefactor, your surname?" "If there is fate, we will definitely meet in the future, and we will tell you on the day of goodbye." As the voice faded away, there was no longer the figure of a Taoist.