Chapter 23: The Valley of Ghosts
When he saw that the bad Dan was gone, he went back and sat down in his ruined house, and listened to the wind howling outside the door, as if it were weeping.
When night fell in the mountain village, Sasa could not stay in the house anymore, and went down the river, alone, rowing a small boat, rowing into the distance.
It's summer, it's beautiful.
Yue'er hung on the top of the willow tree, smiling. The moonlight sponses down incessantly, sprinkled in the willow forest, mottled and scattered, broken like gold, and unbroken like silver.
The moonlight sprinkled on the boat, like flowing water, and gradually, the boat could not carry it, and almost sank.
A gust of wind blew from nowhere, blowing the fragrance of the flowers in the mountains and fields, and making the river sing happily.
The boat kept going, and in a short time it came to a place where no one was around. Saza cast the net from the boat, and in a moment it sank into the depths of the river.
After casting the nets, Sasa prepared to row the boat and returned.
By this time the night was quite deep, and the people on both sides of the creek were gone, nor the beautiful shadows of the birds that roost in the woods.
I heard the cry of an insect coming from nowhere, and this sound, heard in the night, was so desolate that it made people want to cry. But he didn't cry, he kept rowing the boat and rowed it to his house.
At this time, the moon was already hanging in the middle of the sky, and it kept sprinkling light, sprinkling it in the river, shining with golden light, dazzling people's eyes.
Saza rowed home with all his might, and for some reason it felt quite terrifying to stay alone in such a place. If it weren't for the abundance of fish, he would not have come to such a place. People say the place is not clean. Few people who walked into this place at night made it back alive, and even if they did, they would fall ill and die for no apparent reason. Therefore, few people in Stone Village dared to break into this place, even the brave strong men.
I don't know how many people broke into this place, and at first they admired the beautiful scenery of this place, but when they returned, they all died for no reason.
This place, people call it the Valley of Ghosts.
On both sides of this place are cliffs, and there are some characters painted on the cliffs, I don't know which generation they belong to, and they look very realistic in the moonlight, as if they are alive. On the high mountains, the snow of a thousand years shone incessantly in the moonlight, and the light rushed up to the clouds, and then it fell from the clouds and sprinkled it in the river, so that the fish danced in the light without ceasing.
In the depths of the Ghost Valley, the fish are very large, and the largest, according to eyewitnesses, weighs thousands of catties. However, the person who saw the fish soon passed away. Therefore, I don't know how big the fish really is.
On the top of that mountain, there is an old tree, thousands of years old, which is said to have been planted by Qin Shi Huang when he toured the world.
It's a dangerous place, but it's surprisingly rich in fish. Fishermen, after casting a net here, can harvest at least 500 catties of fish the next morning. That's why people risk their lives to walk into this place and cast a net and hope under the beautiful moonlight.
Although there are quite a lot of fish in this place, there are so many people who come that there are no more fish. Therefore, only one person can quietly enter the place, so that more large fish can be caught.
Sasa didn't want to go into this place, but for the sake of money, in order to be able to get Honghong's favor, he didn't care so much. No, he walked into this place, cast his net, and came back, estimating that he would harvest at least six hundred catties of fish tomorrow morning.
At this time, after paddling in the river for most of the day, for some reason, Sasa felt a little tired, so he parked the small one under the thousands of years old tree planted by Qin Shi Huang, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket and smoked it incessantly.