Chapter 8: Brother Justice
Time passed quickly, and at about 11 o'clock in the afternoon, the two had already driven to a village not far from Laojun Cave - Weijiazhuang.
Weijiazhuang is small, the smaller of the surrounding villages, and the villagers who have lived here for generations have run the village in a decent way. There are also a lot of scattered fields in the surrounding area, which can feed the 100 people in the village. If it weren't for the country's development policies, this small village would have become a symbol of history, just like other villages in the mountains.
A few years ago, in order to open up more land, under the leadership of the village party secretary, Weijiazhuang pioneered the mountain in the direction of Nanshan Mountain in a densely forested place, but accidentally opened a karst cave that had been sealed for many years, in which there were stone stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone flowers, stone platforms, stone corals, etc., and there was a stone stalactite in the center of the cave like a bust of an old man holding a wooden staff, under the illumination of the light, it was brilliant, and the villagers who opened the mountain were shocked speechless, and even worshiped directly. The mouth is called a fairy descending to earth. Later, in the words of the old people in the village, this is the cave where the gods live!
This matter is not big, it is not small, but in the eyes of the village party secretary and a group of villagers, this is a big deal, quickly reported to the superiors, after a level of reporting, this matter was transmitted to the Provincial Institute of Geology, after the unanimous identification of experts, and with reference to historical records, it was determined that this is Lao Tzu's hermitage, health place, and scripture transmission place, and the old man statue was determined to be the statue of Lao Jun's sermon.
Subsequently, after the accompanying reporter's big book, hype, this unknown small mountain village gradually became famous because of Laojun Cave, the investment company injected capital to increase advertising investment, tourists came to visit, such as weaving like a carp, all kinds of amusement facilities and farmhouse courtyards established to welcome foreign tourists also flourished. However, due to the large number of rocks, there are only a few places that can be developed.
With the rapid development of domestic tourism, Laojun Cave has brought rich income to Weijiazhuang and the villagers, and the villagers who do not worry about the source of income have also bred some idle, stealing chickens and dogs, doing nothing in the village all day long, pinching a handful of beans in the east, grabbing a handful of peanuts in the west, although there is no big incident, but some things are also very annoying.
The process of the development of things follows the law of development of nature, life and death, prosperity and decline, prosperity and decline. Tourists are more and more influenced and attracted by new things, and the development of local tourism has also ushered in an inevitable trough period. For the idle people in the village, their income has decreased, and their fun is becoming less and less, and they always have to find a way to make more money to satisfy their desire to eat, drink and be merry.
With the rapid development of tourism, more tourist attractions have been established around Laojun Cave, and there are also many mountain scenic spots suitable for hiking and off-roading, such as Erdaoling Forest Park, which naturally attracts many hiking and off-road enthusiasts.
And Weijiazhuang is on the main road of these scenic spots, and the group of ruffians in Weijiazhuang saw that the business in other places was getting better and better, and their eyes were red, and they were also forced to be anxious, so they simply began to do some things about setting up cards and charging on the way to pass. Tourists passing by have no choice but to turn around and go back when they encounter this situation, so they pay the money directly.
This gang of ruffians often takes turns to set up cards, and the methods are also full of tricks, making people want to cry without tears and pay the money obediently, among them, a person named Wei Er Mazi is the worst, Er Mazi is no one else, it is the youngest son of the current Weijiazhuang Village Party Secretary, who was spoiled when he was young. He looks thin and thin, with dark yellow skin, and has the same pockmarked face as his brother, so the people in the village call him Ermazi. What's even more interesting is that there is a black mole on the right side of his face with prominent cheekbones, no more, no less, just three hairs on it, and he is nicknamed "Brother Sanmao" by several good peers.
Under an elm tree next to the road, two tables were set up, Wei Er Mazi was leading a few followers in the village to fight the landlord around one of the tables under the shade of the elm tree, and more than 20 cigarette butts were thrown scattered on the ground. There is no place to stick a note on the face anymore.
On another table were four or five porcelain bowls and a pot of tea, and a layer of melon seed skin was sprinkled under the table, mixed with the floating soil on the roadside, and trampled in the dirt by scattered footprints. A young man named Erdan next to him had already filled each porcelain bowl with tea, picked up his mobile phone, looked at the end of the street in the distance, and after seeing the cars and pedestrians who did not come, he shifted his gaze to the mobile phone screen and started playing the mobile game.
It was noon, the sun was just right, and the cement road next to the table was paved with yellow corn, with grains of different sizes, mixed with fragments of corn cobs and chaff, exuding a charming color in the sunlight. Despite all the different messy rut marks on it, it is one of the most beautiful paintings in the world for the peasants with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky.
"Di~~, Di~~"
An off-road vehicle drove from the far corner of the street, and the sound of the car's horn frightened the two mountain dogs that were walking slowly on the road in front of the car and fled to both sides, out of the way, and the two horns also woke up Erdan, who was playing a game with his mobile phone.
Quickly glanced at the car that drove over, and Erdan hurriedly shouted to the back, "Brother Sanmao, the car is coming, the car is coming!" ”
"Test, Erdan, you turtle grandson, how many times have you told you, don't call me Sanmao! Don't call me Sanmao! Hit or not? Call me Brother Justice, call me Brother Justice, do you want to be in it? My name is Wei Zhengyi! I'm your righteous brother! ”
Wei Ermazi, who was playing cards, looked unhappy, and wiped off all the notes on his face as soon as he raised his hand, revealing his frowning brows, his angry eyes and flushed face lined those freckles like a pinch of sesame seeds that had just been sprinkled by the store on the baked baked cake, and his face was unhappy. Wei Er Mazi, no, Brother Justice shook his hand and threw the cards on the table, scolding Erdan with a pure local accent, while directing the rest of the people to hurry up and prepare to stop the car.
"Haha, here's the money. Hurry up, keep an eye on it, don't stop the cards, don't let people see that the problem is coming, wait to stop the car! ”
The ecstatic Er Mazi saw the incoming car, led a group of people to quickly turn around and sit upright, took a few cards from the table and pinched them, staring at the off-road pickup truck that drove here, smiling in his mouth, not paying attention to the saliva flowing from the corners of his mouth, holding the wrong card in his hand, and the three hairs that kept shaking.