Chapter 147: Disaster strikes

In the spring of 1985, the disaster did not favor the people of Daliangshan because of their diligence and kindness, but came back like a raging tide.

The second catastrophe occurred half a month after the road construction team went up the mountain, when the wheat grew to the height of a teacups.

No one knew that this catastrophe would bring another catastrophe to the people of Daliangshan.

was said by Wang Qingxiang's cheap mouth, the people in Daliang Mountain cannot be full of thousands, and once they are full of thousands, natural disasters will inevitably fall, and the population of Daliang Mountain will be beaten back to its original shape.

From the mouth of the older generation, Wang Qingxiang has heard the legend about the past of Daliang Mountain, which has undergone four catastrophes for thousands of years.

The first time was a fire falling from the sky, hundreds of years ago, suddenly one day was covered with black clouds, the sky was shrouded in a layer of black smoke, not far away came a rumbling thunder, the thunder was getting louder and louder, bigger and bigger, and the dark clouds in the sky were getting heavier and heavier.

The black clouds carried the burnt smell of plants being grilled, and at once wrapped the entire Daliang Mountain in the middle.

At that time, the sky began to fall stones, it was a fiery red stone, and at the beginning the stones were very small, and they crackled on the ground, and they smashed on the rocks, and the rocks were cracked, and they fell on the grass houses, and the grass houses were collapsed.

Later, the stones grew in shape, no longer small round stones, but clusters of huge fireballs.

The fireball, like hail, fell all over the corners of Daliang Mountain, and fell into the grass, and the grass immediately ignited a fire and smashed on the grass house, and the whole grass house was smashed into the ground, and the people in the room were also smashed into the ground.

The fire fell in the primeval forest, and the trunks and leaves in the forest also began to burn one after another, and the eight-hundred-mile Daliang Mountain was suddenly engulfed by a fierce fire, turning into a huge fire.

The fire not only burned down the dense forest, roasted the mountains, burned to death a single animal in the mountain forest, destroyed a single qiē plant, and many people in the village were also burned to death, and less than 500 people were left in a day and two nights.

This catastrophe is still recorded on a stone tablet in the village, about 800 years ago.

The people of the village have never been able to understand what was going on. Later, Wang Hailiang used scientific principles to explain this qiē.

Because there is an active volcano in Daliang Mountain, 800 years ago, that volcano erupted and caused a major earthquake.

Billowing ash and magma erupted, and the ash covered the earth, and the gushing magma turned into huge fireballs, instantly smashing the entire village to pieces, burning to the ground.

It was an unpredictable and uncontrollable natural disaster, and no one could control it.

The second catastrophe was the great earthquake, about 500 years ago, and that time, the whole earth shook, Daliang Mountain was like a big dustpan, and the villagers in the mountain, all the animals and plants seemed to be the food in the dustpan.

The dustpan kept shaking, jolting all the living creatures to the height, and the sound was also earth-shattering, many mountain peaks began to crack, cracking from the middle, many mountain rocks began to slide, filling the valley, rolling landslides and rocks flowed straight down, and in less than an hour, the people of several villages in Daliang Mountain were completely buried.

At that time, the number of people in Daliang Mountain had already exceeded 3,000, and the number of people who escaped was less than 300.

The third catastrophe was 200 years ago, and it was a great flood.

The heavy rain in summer fell for eight days and eight nights, covering the sky like a straw curtain, covering the earth, and the heavy rain and water caught Daliang Mountain off guard, and also caught the villagers in the mountain off guard.

The flash flood soon broke out, and all the valleys became a sea of oceans.

The flood washed away people's houses, washed away people and animals, drowned people and animals, and fell to death tens of thousands of people and animals.

Daliang Mountain, with a population of more than 1,500 people, took less than half a month, and there were less than 300 left.

The fourth catastrophe was last year, when a great dark disease struck, and many people began to have a fever and red bumps on their bodies.

Those watery bumps spread all over the body, and festered little by little, eroding the flesh and skin of the person, and torturing the human will. At least more than 200 people died of the disease, and there were 200 more new graves on the slopes of Daliang Mountain in three months. Everywhere there are white sails fluttering, everywhere there are cries of grief.

Xiaoyan and Sun Shangxiang all died in this great dark disease, and Zhang Damao almost died.

According to Wang Qingxiang's words, the number of people in Daliang Mountain has exceeded 1,000, and the gods are about to send disaster to the mountain again.

Sure enough, not long after the Great Dark Disease swept through Daliang Mountain for half a year, a new disaster struck again. once again pulled the mountain people to the brink of extinction.

This time the disaster was a major earthquake.

There were signs before the earthquake, but the people in the village did not pay attention.

In the first two days, the villagers in the mountains were still building roads on the mountain, and the people of the transport team were constantly transporting willow weaving and medicinal materials out of the mountain little by little. The rumbling of cannon fire continues,

The women and old people in the village were still hoeing in the fields, and the sound of Lang Lang reading was heard in the elementary school.

The weather is already abnormal, very hot, the early spring has not passed, the sun is shining in the sky, and the temperature has risen to more than 30 degrees, as if summer is coming in advance.

People sweated like rain, people who took off their cotton clothes and pants were still unbearable and hot, some people even played a fan, and the young men of the road repair team in the mountains were already shirtless, and everyone was in full swing.

The wheat seedlings in the field rose high overnight, and there were many cracks and bulges in the fields.

The crack was thin and long, cutting most of the Bagua fields into pieces along the slopes of the wheat fields.

The bulging buns in the field are very strange, the wheat field that was flat on the first day, and the next morning when I got up and ran into the field, I saw that there were countless graves, and those graves were as big as quilts, and small ones were like basins. Eject the dealer off the ground.

When I went to see it again on the third day, all the bulges were gone, and the wheat fields were back to the same as before.

The heat was breathless, the leaves were still, and the chirping of frogs and insects could not be heard.

A thin layer of mist rose in mid-air, and the mist was like dust and frost, and it did not fall, but spread and tumbled in mid-air.

The birds in the sky looked restless, quacking, flocks of flight, flocks of falling, flapping their wings as if a flock of goshawks were chasing.

Some birds couldn't find a place to hide, so they crashed headlong into the rocks, broke their necks, and then fluttered and fell to the ground.

Within a few days, people found a large number of bird carcasses in the villages, mountain roads, and fields, and many birds did not eat or drink, did not forage for food, starved to death and did not move the place, and the number of birds who died of suicide and starvation cannot be counted.

The abnormality of the birds did not cause excessive forking by the villagers of Daliangshan, who felt that it was a natural phenomenon.

Some careful people unexpectedly found that the family's mules, horses and livestock have also eaten sharply in recent days, and they have also stopped eating or drinking.

Not only that, but the mules, horses, cattle and sheep were also restless in the pen, scratching the ground with their paws, and the dust was flying.

When some mules and horses were led out of the circle by their owners, they couldn't pull them away, and their legs retreated vigorously.

The herdsmen drove the flock, and as soon as the sheep came out of the enclosure, they scattered and fled all over the mountains. The shepherds were so frightened that they swung their whips vigorously, but no matter how much they drove them, the sheep did not gather together.

The sheep were like a great enemy, they did not eat grass, they bleated, and the shepherds lost an incalculable number of sheep.

When he got up in the morning, Zhang Crutch carried a flat shoulder in one hand and a bucket in the other hand to fetch water for Xifeng's sister-in-law's water tank.

Because the water in the well was gone, the water level sank more than ten meters overnight.

Usually, a flat pole can be used to hook up a bucket to beat the water, but today's well water is stirred down by a wheel, and it is not enough.

Zhang was so bored that he hurried home, and brought another rope over, intending to catch it and get the water out.

But when he came with a rope, something strange happened again.

The water in the well suddenly burst out of the well, and the water level suddenly rose by more than ten feet. Not only did it come out of the wellhead, but it also flowed down the well. The entire well platform was submerged.

The well water is like the water in the pot, bubbling and bubbling, extremely turbid, and has a strange smell.

There are two wells in Daliang Mountain, one in the east of the village and one in the west of the village, the water of these two wells has been eaten by people for hundreds of years, it is dug by the ancestors of Daliang Mountain, it has always been sweet and refreshing, and it is the best water source for making wine.

The water here was more luscious than a mountain spring, and suddenly it became turbid, and Zhang Guizi had never encountered such a strange thing.

Fortunately, the water was full, and he took the water back to the village and poured it into the water tank of Xifeng's sister-in-law, who immediately covered her nose.

The woman said, "Brother kidnapper, the water you picked up there?" It's not going to be the swill that people are asking to go to, right? ”

Zhang Guizi smiled bitterly, speechless, he was worried that Xifeng's sister-in-law would misunderstand, so he hurriedly swore an oath: "Xifeng, even if I die, I won't pick someone else's swill for you to eat, God knows what's going on?" I got this water from a well? ”

Xifeng's sister-in-law knew that Zhang was honest and did not blame him. Later, Xifeng went to the next door to borrow water, and found that the water picked up by Aunt Da Shui was also extremely turbid and smelly, so she knew that Zhang Guizi didn't lie to her.

All in all, one strange thing after another appeared in the village, and many people were puzzled.

In the past two days, Wang Hailiang also felt something wrong on the mountain, because the weather was too hot and the temperature was too high, he was already shirtless, revealing his tendons and flesh, even so, the sweat on his head was still whirring.

Spring is only halfway through, and it's still early in midsummer, and the heat is almost scorching the crops.

What went wrong? Why is this happening? This is a strange phenomenon that has not been heard of for thousands of years.

On the first night, Wang Hailiang did not fall asleep, nor did the migrant workers who built the road on the mountain, because the weather was too hot, and the wild wolves in Daliang Mountain howled all day long, which was so miserable that they couldn't close their eyes at all.

In the past few days, the wild wolves in Daliang Mountain are also restless, on the eve of the earthquake, people are unconscious, but the animals have predicted in advance, and are making countermeasures.

Many adult wolves have begun to migrate, with their cubs in their mouths, scurrying back and forth in the valley, running and panicking, looking for new nests.

They call out to their children, screaming with all their might, and they are terrified all day long, as if the end of the world is coming.

The next night, the mountains were so quiet that no wolf howl could be heard, and the night disappeared without a trace.

The nightingale in mid-air stopped screaming, and the whole world was dull to death.

On this night, the real catastrophe finally came......