Chapter 81: Shoulong Village under the Cold Dragon Ridge, the Dragon Keeper in Shoulong Village
In the Qilian Mountains on an August day, the rape flowers on the mountain col are in full bloom, the Gesang flowers on the mountainside are colorful, and the snow on the top of the mountain is melting, and the three colors form a sharp contrast, which is just like the Qilian Mountains themselves, which is very mysterious. The white of the yellow reflection snow, the white lining of the colorful glow, is really the scene is all strange, and the mountains are all spiritual.
At this moment, we have driven out of the desolate Gobi Desert under the guidance of children, which will already be among the mountains, this path looks desolate for a long time, and the surrounding area is overgrown with weeds, barely enough to pass by a horse.
The three of us are in the middle of this beautiful scenery surrounded by green mountains and green waters.
According to the child, to reach Shoulong Village must climb over the Lenglong Ridge of thousands of ravines, although the Lenglong Ridge is called the ridge, but the mountain is high, the forest is deep, the difficulty of the road is obviously not described by "ridge", when I stand on the mountainside of Lenglongling at the moment, the scenery in front of me is refreshing: the barley cauliflower is yellow and green, the towering snow-capped mountains are towering among the clouds, like the oil paint rendering, forming a unique plateau scenery. The clouds are like fluttering fairies, flickering west and east, bushes of wild flowers blooming on the gentle slopes, and unnamed red fruits hang on the branches.
It's just that there is always a strange atmosphere behind this out-of-this-world beauty.
"Children, when will you be able to get to the Shoulong Village you said? There's not even a single figure here, let alone any village! The beggar said boredly.
This Ye silently looked at the beggar, didn't say anything, and still sat on my horse staring intently at the deep mountains in front of him. Strange to say, this little kid has not said anything since he rode on my horse, and when he encountered a fork in the road or something, he just pointed his finger in the direction and never moved again.
It stands to reason that a seven or eight-year-old child is innocent, lively and active, and it is really rare to have a withdrawn character like this Ye Wusheng, or it may be that his parents died when he was a child, and he has lived a life of street begging all the year round, and he is used to seeing the cynicism of the world!
"Sister-in-law Qingyi, what do you think of coming out with us?"
After the beggar and the child had no result in a conversation, they came to Qingyi's side and began to chatter.
"What are you screaming about, stinky beggar? Watch out for me tearing your mouth! β
Qingyi said this, but her face was full of redness, and the girl's shy thoughts were undoubtedly revealed at this moment.
"It's good to come out! You see such a beautiful view, you can't see it in a lifetime in that noisy city! Sister Qingyi then said.
"You're getting carried away in the sweetness of love, aren't you? Why do I feel so tired?" laughed the beggar.
"You ......"
Sister Qingyi was speechless angrily, but this was not a portrayal of Sister Qingyi's heart, so she didn't want to defend anything, but this sentence made me feel even more guilty.
"Who isn't tired? As far as where you are calling, you are still a manly husband, compared with my woman's family! Qingyi said sarcastically to the beggar.
The beggar was speechless by Sister Qingyi's words, so he had to sit on the horse and sweep some branches and weeds on the side of the road with his hands sullenly.
My heart is also uncharacteristically stuffy at the moment, in addition to between us, more from the increasingly weird atmosphere.
We have traveled all the way, it has been nearly three hours, at this moment the sky is slightly darkened, according to the hour of the inference is almost sunset, the depths of this mountain must have been dark earlier, but now I have found nothing, I inevitably worry in my heart, this barren mountain unconsciously exudes a murderous aura.
"Engong, don't be anxious, although this mountain road is difficult, there is no danger, and we must enter our Shoulong Village in the dark, and it is absolutely impossible to put it in the daytime!" The little one muttered in front of me.
"Why is that ......," I exclaimed.
In fact, what shocked me at this moment was not that this kid said when he entered the village, but that he actually knew what was going on in my heart, isn't it scary?
What secrecy is there for a man who hides a secret!
"Engong, our Shoulong Village has lived at the foot of Lenglongling Mountain for generations, and rarely interacts with the outside world, if strangers come rashly during the day, they will definitely be caught by our guards protecting the village, and then thrown into the Shule River and taken out of the mountain by the big water!" The child continued to talk to himself.
"What is the reason for this?" I asked again in shock.
"I can't say it, but for hundreds of years, it's always been like this, and no one can say the truth, just strictly follow the rules of the village!" The child looked back at me and said.
I just wanted to open my mouth to continue asking, but suddenly there was a loud sound of "boom boom" in my ears, and the sound of water shook the sky. I raised my eyes, and sure enough, at the foot of the mountain in front of me, there was a big river, the river was very turbulent, but it was hidden under the branches and vines, and I couldn't see it very clearly, it seemed that we were almost at the so-called Shoulong Village of Lenglongling.
"My hometown is behind that mountain, and we crossed it after dark!" The child then pointed to the mountain in front of him.
I looked back at Qingyi, and then at the beggar, and the two of them also looked very surprised!
Now that the destination is in sight, we hurry up, and while the sky is still a little bright, we rush to the top of the mountain, and then take advantage of the night to enter the village, and then look at the situation!
Under the guidance of the children, the three of us easily touched the dense high mountain, and at this moment we are moving forward little by little.
"Engong, do you have night clothes?" The little child asked suddenly.
The three of us were all shocked, what kind of night clothes did we want in such a deserted place, and we couldn't even see our five fingers when we stretched out our hands! But looking at the child's determined eyes, the three of us did bring night clothes on our bodies.
Isn't this kid a villager from Shoulong Village? Why did he take us in so secretly? My heart gradually became uneasy.
At this time, the child had taken out a black cloth from his waist and covered his face.
We had no choice but to change into night clothes as he said, and only two eyes were left in the tightly wrapped.
What the hell is this kid trying to do? I thought about it over and over again.
At this time, the child was getting more and more anxious, and the three of us saw that the situation was not right, so we all used light skills to follow this little child named Ye Wusheng.
Suddenly, I only heard Sister Qingyi's "ah" cry, I looked back, Sister Qingyi's body staggered and was about to fall into a hole in the ground, I didn't care much, a lightning flash, rushed over and hugged Qingyi, but the ground under my feet collapsed quickly, and the beggar pulled my clothes down the hole by gravity, and a fishy and unpleasant smell came to my nose in front of me.
I just wanted to use the gecko to climb up the wall, but suddenly the fire outside the cave was soaring, many people held torches to surround the mouth, a spider silk giant web has pounced on us, I "swooped" out of the dragon scales, a few knives flashed cold, the spider web has been scattered all over the ground.
At this time, the masked child just now came to the entrance of the cave, took off the black cloth, and then said respectfully to a person: "Patriarch, they have been captured, what should we do?" β
I was about to curse, but I heard a woman's voice say, "How many people are this?" β
"The eleventh!" The child said seriously.
"Well, it's coming! Bring them back first! β
The woman's voice rang out again.
The beggar was about to jump out of the hole, but I hurriedly grabbed him and whispered to him: Don't move at this moment, we just take this opportunity to enter the village, and when we get to the village, we will find a way to escape, which will save us the trouble of entering the village ourselves.
Sister Qingyi nodded and agreed with my idea, and the beggar forcibly held back the martial arts.
But I thought, how naΓ―ve it turned out to be in hindsight!
Before we could react, a strange fragrance wafted into the cave, and in an instant I felt dizzy, and in an instant the beggar and Qingyi lay on the ground unconscious, and I held on for a while to no avail, and finally fell down heavily.
The remaining memories in my mind told myself that the three of us had been poisoned.
When we woke up again, we were already in a fire-lit lobby, the water was flowing down, and a stocky young man was looking at me viciously with a poke of water in his hand.
I opened my hazy eyes and looked around, the furnishings in the house were like a witch's lair, and strange totems were carved everywhere, a throne covered with the skin of a white tiger was placed in the middle of the house, and in a cage in one corner of the room, there were many fierce beasts, toads, centipedes, pythons, poisonous scorpions, etc., and dozens of masked guards in strange costumes were quietly guarding beside us.
The beggar and Sister Qingyi had also slowly woken up at this moment, and they were also very shocked when they looked at everything in front of them.
My envoy moved, but I didn't expect my hands to be tied strongly, and I couldn't use any internal force as if I had been poisoned, so it seemed that there was nothing I could do this time.
At this time, suddenly a rapid footstep came in from outside, and it seemed that someone was coming!
At this moment, a bewitching woman wearing a black veil and a black scarf walked in, followed by the child who deceived us yesterday, followed by more than a dozen guards in the same costume, and entered the house, the woman walked to the tiger skin throne and sat down, and those guards were also lined up.
I looked at the child angrily, but I didn't expect that we would fall for his bitter tricks.
The child had changed his miserable face from the past, and now he seemed to be much more sophisticated.
"Patriarch, plus these are three people, it should be enough!"
The child said respectfully to the woman above.
The woman didn't say anything, just stared at the three of us.
I was shocked, what kind of number are they making up? I've always heard that ethnic minorities have the habit of sacrificing people to the heavens, could it be that we were arrested for sacrifice?
At this moment, I couldn't go on in silence, plucked up the courage, and wanted to speak, but my throat somehow ached, and my voice became hoarse, I didn't care about this, and asked sharply, "Who are you?" Why did you trick the three of us into this deep mountain? What is the intention? β
"Hahaha......"
A wicked laugh came out of the child's mouth.
"Where, this is your hell, this is where your bones are buried!" The child stopped laughing and said fiercely.
"Why is that?" I asked, surprised.
"Anyone who wants to peek into Cold Dragon Ridge will disappear here!" The child said angrily.
This is even more strange for me, when did I say that I was going to Lenglongling, from the time I met this kid to now, I didn't say I wanted to come here at all, didn't he bring us here? What the hell is going on?
"Humph! Don't think about it, you are hiding deeply, but you clearly want to come to Lenglongling in your heart! When I was in Dunhuang Ancient Town, I already knew this! The child said in shock.
"Is that one of yours the one asking the way?" I asked in surprise.
At this time, it dawned on me that the three of us had been fooled when we were in the ancient town of Dunhuang.
"Anyone who dares to peep at my Cold Dragon Ridge will die without a place to be buried!" At this time, Ye Silent said again.
It turns out that this is the case, they actually collude inside and out, no wonder......
Before I could figure it out, suddenly three old witches staggered over.
"What are you going to do?" The beggar cried out in fear.
"What are you doing, we are going to dig out your hearts and livers and pay tribute to the heroic spirits of our ancestors!" This Ye said silently angrily.
At this moment, the three of us were panicked, and now our whole bodies were weak, and it was almost impossible to escape, and the three witches in front of us with various faces and red eyes were already approaching step by step.
At the moment of life and death, people will always struggle desperately, which is an instinctive struggle for the three of us who are in danger on weekdays.
We shook our heads desperately, not wanting to see the old witch's face, if we had taken the opportunity to escape last night, this would not have been so passive, it was me who hurt everyone, I hurt everyone! I mustered the last of my strength, but to no avail, the old witch had already pulled out a small, cold-lit dagger.
I don't know how many lives this dagger has resulted in, and it's terrifying to think about.
I had no choice but to look up to the sky and sigh.
My black viscarf fell off my face with the breath of anger.
The strange old witch raised the dagger in her hand, her eyes swollen and she smiled wickedly, and my heart was like ashes, and my eyes were closed, waiting quietly for the stab to pierce my heart.
"Slow ......"
A sentence pulled me back into reality, and when I opened my eyes, the woman who had been sitting on the throne had stood up and looked at my face in horror.
The phrase "Wait" just now is exactly what this woman shouted.
After being surprised for a moment, the woman waved her hand, and the three hideous-looking old witches just now instantly retreated, and then the woman waved her hand again, and the guards in the room also left in a hurry.
Then, the woman looked at Ye Wusheng.
Ye Wusheng's face was full of doubts, and he also turned around and left the house step by step.
What exactly does this woman with a black veil want to do? Did she think of me differently by taking away all the people in the house? Even if I die, I won't lose my temperance! At this moment I was already looking at her coldly.
The woman in the black scarf came to me and stroked my face up and down a few times with her hand, then gently removed her scarf.
"Ah......h
All three of me screamed at the same time.
The face in front of me turned out to be the face that was deeply imprinted in my heart and could not be forgotten in this life and in this life.
This face appeared in Yaozhou County, in my first ignorant love, on the fragrant meadow.
At this moment, the person standing in front of me is none other than the Ten Thousand Flowers Fairy!
"You...... How...... Over here...... What the hell is going on? I was so frightened that I asked intermittently.
The fairy didn't say anything, and a stream of tears flowed from her watery eyes.
The fairy leaned over desperately, her head pressed against my chest, and an intoxicating fragrance of flowers came to my nose, and the impulse in the man's heart rose suddenly.
"Ahem...... Ahem......"
Two coughs broke the endless silence.
It was the sister Qingyi next to her who was coughing.
The fairy got up in embarrassment, then took out a dagger from his sleeve and cut the rope that bound us with two "swishs", and the three of us immediately broke free.
Then the fairy handed me a small red bottle, I opened the lid, poured out three red pills, and then the three of us took it one after another, and after a while, I felt that my body was slowly regaining its strength.
At this time, there were only four of us left in the room, and we should have been looking forward to seeing our friends for a long time, and we must have been happy from the bottom of our hearts, but at this moment it was surprisingly quiet, and no one was willing to stand up and say this sentence that pierced the window paper.
Since I came back from the Northeast, I have been haunted by those mundane things, and when I accidentally asked my father about the Wanhua Fairy, my father also shook his head helplessly and said that he didn't know.
And my heart is even more clouded, I don't know where the Ten Thousand Flowers Fairy has gone?
Since this is all because of me, let me stand up and face it!
"Fairy, why are you here? Or is it the patriarch here? I asked suddenly.
At this time, the Ten Thousand Flowers Fairy had already walked to the throne of tiger skin, and when I suddenly asked this, the fairy was a little surprised.
"Have you ever asked me about my background?" The fairy asked rhetorically.
"I ......"
I hesitated, but I didn't know how to answer.
Yes, since I have known the fairy, I only know that he has a master, and he found me for the sake of the Wanhua incense burner, but I was so stupid that I didn't ask about the fairy's life experience at all, I am really ashamed!
Maybe it has a lot to do with my principles!
I think that with two people who are really together, whether it is making friends, or falling in love, the most important thing is to make friends, as for what this person's background is, where he comes from, and what he does, everything is not important, but this has become more obstacles to me and the fairy.
"Fairy, it's all my fault, can you tell me why you suddenly left Wenbaozhai and came here?" I then asked.
"This is my home, I've lived here since I was a child!" The fairy said.
The fairy's words made all three of us stunned.
The fairy looked at us in surprise, smiled slightly, then stood up and said as she walked, "I grew up here, and here is everything from my childhood!" Our village is called Shoulong Village, and we have lived here for hundreds of years, and the clan rules in the village are extremely strict, and no one can go out at will, otherwise they will be executed.
Such rules, such ways of living have continued from generation to generation, and people are slowly becoming unclear about what they are doing this for?
And my father is the previous patriarch of this Shoulong Village! β
After listening to the fairy's words, we were once again shocked in the hall, and at this moment we could no longer express the surprise in our hearts in words.
The fairy looked at us, and then continued: "I have been more playful since I was a child, and I am also a rebellious child, although it is a daughter's family, but I am always treated as a boy, and I always quietly violate the rules of the clan, quietly climb over the mountains to play, and slowly grow up, I actually figured out the way out, so at the age of eighteen I quietly ran to the outside world, over the mountains, and saw another world outside for the first time!"
I was curious about the outside world, so I relied on my martial arts to wander outside, and slowly became known as "Shih Tzu Beauty", and I also made some famous names in the rivers and lakes. Somehow this reached my father's ears, and my father was so angry that he searched for me several times, but in the face of the harsh clan rules, my father was always helpless against me, so he could only turn a blind eye, so many people in the village began to oppose my father's protection.
Three months ago, I ran out again, I didn't expect to meet you in Yaozhou County, but the good times didn't last long, one day I was in Wenbaozhai, received a secret letter, saying that my father died suddenly, I panicked, hurriedly left Xi'an, all the way west back to Shoulong Village. β
"That's what happened!"
My muttering interrupted the fairy's words.
After a pause, the fairy continued: "When I returned to the village, my father was already lying quietly in the coffin, I was filled with grief and indignation, I didn't expect to see my father for the last time, my father left like this, I fainted at that time, in this world, my dearest father is gone!" β
Speaking of this, the corners of my eyes have begun to moisten, I didn't expect that the fairy is like me, and the only living relatives are my father, I can understand this feeling.
Then I comforted the fairy with a determined look.
After a while, the fairy continued: "Seeing my father's death, I find it hard to believe that my father died of old age, because when I left, my father was still very healthy, and it was impossible for me to die so quickly!" β
At this time, there was turmoil in the village, some people who were loyal to his father quarreled to find out the real murderer for his father, and some people who had long been restless began to sow discord, saying that they would elect a patriarch in time, so that everyone would not be left without a leader and slaughtered. The two sides quarreled for three days and three nights, but to no avail.
According to the clan rules, after the death of the patriarch, it will be inherited by the patriarch's own son, but my father has only one daughter in his life, and there is no other son, for a time many people in the village thought that I was not qualified to be the patriarch, so many people recommended the child that my father rescued in the ravine many years ago as the patriarch. β
"Child, what child?" I asked, surprised.
"It's the kid who brought you in and captured you!" The fairy said with a sigh.
"What? Is that him, who is your father's son, your brother? β
Again, I was shocked in place.
The Ten Thousand Flowers Fairy nodded heavily.
"But why did he trick us from Dunhuang and capture us?" I asked, puzzled.
"You don't know, the clan rules in our village are extremely strict, although that child is the adopted son of my father since he was a child, but according to the clan rules, if he is not a member of the village and his clan, he must not be the patriarch. But there is also an ancient method in the clan, called the "Thirteen Reincarnation Crossing Method", which is to dig out the human heart, and then devour it alive, and then use the witch's spell to sleep with the thirteen corpses in a cave for 7749 days, as long as they can survive, they can be regarded as joining the clan, so they are the people of the clan.
In order to be able to achieve this method, this child, with the support of many people, has already begun to prepare the ancient method, and you are the eleventh person he deceived back from outside, as long as you are gathering two, then it is very likely that you will be able to activate the ancient method.
During this time, I will temporarily serve as the patriarch, and once the first son of the team leader becomes a member of the village, then I can only have no choice but to give way. β
After listening to what the fairy said, I had goosebumps all over my body, what kind of ancient method is this, and what kind of ability can survive forty-nine days in a cave without water and food, this is too cruel, and too absurd, I feel frightened when I think of this, and it is the child we rescued in Dunhuang who has not eaten or drunk to do all this.
I was filled with infinite fear for that child!
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