Suddenly, there was a voice from outside the door, "Good wine, good wine!" I saw Liang Yaofu arrive and strode in from outside the gate.

Liang Yaofu's shout suddenly woke Liang Er from the time tunnel of the ancient barbarian era and returned to reality.

Liang Er stood up and said loudly: "Brother Yaofu, it's better to meet by chance, come, it's rare to be happy today, sit down and drink." ”

It was originally a rare family banquet, a rare time to drink while listening to Liang Er talk about the stories and legends he had heard his grandfather tell in the local area since he was a child, but he didn't expect Liang Erzheng to speak eloquently, and Liang Shirong was listening to them when they were fascinated by Liang Yaofu, a reckless man, and they were a little excited.

Liang Shirong also stood up and gave up his seat and toasted Liang Er.

Liang Er was not polite, picked up the wine glass, and drank it all: "Such a good wine, let's drink it happily today, and we will rest as soon as we get drunk!" ”

Liang Er drank and ran away before leaving.

At this time, Liang Shirong and Liang Jianxing were already a little drunk, got up and went back to the room to rest.

Early the next morning, Liang Shirong came to the small room where Liang Jianxing lived and said, "Yaxing, there are so many people in Liang Er's family, if we live here for too long, it will be too troublesome." ”

Liang Jianxing nodded: "I also have this idea." At the beginning, I heard from my second uncle that he had a small grass hut in the Shimen Tea Farm in the mountain col, so why didn't we move there? ”

Liang Shirong: "Okay. ”

After lunch, Liang Shirong expressed his thoughts to Liang Er.

"Do you want to move outside," Liang Er raised his long bamboo pipe, inhaled vigorously, and thought for a while, "Brother Yarong, since you brought it up, then I'll take you there to have a look." ”

Liang Shirong and Liang Jianxing, under the leadership of Liang Er, walked from Mawangzhai to the mountain col, the rugged path was winding, dense trees were intermingled, and vines were entwined on it. In the roadside stream, fish chase freely on pebbles of different sizes.

After walking for about a cup of tea, Liang Shirong suddenly felt that his eyes lit up: there was a natural stone wall on each side of the path standing symmetrically.

Liang Shirong shouted: "It's so majestic! ”

This gray stone wall looks as if it has been cut out by the Heavenly Princess's giant axe. The stone wall is more than ten zhang high, three zhang wide, and several small miscellaneous trees and yellow wildflowers grow in the cracks in the stone wall.

There is a wide bar of stone across the ground between the two stone walls, which is truly a creation of nature.

Liang Shirong looked at it for a while and said, "The stone walls on both sides look like a door!" ”

Liang Jianxing pointed to the stone bar on the ground and said, "The stone wall on both sides really looks like a door. Also, if you look at the stone on the ground, it looks like a threshold. ”

Liang Eryang pointed to the upright stone walls on both sides: "You are right, we mountain people call this place Shimen. ”

Liang Shirong: "That's too realistic. ”

Crossing the stone gate and going inside, the shrubs on both sides became more dense, but there was a different scene: the hillside had become slightly flat, and rows of green tea trees were planted on it.

There is a grass hut next to the tea field. The walls are made of bamboo and wood, thatched and pasted with mud, and the roof is made of cedar bark. The mud on the walls and the cedar bark on the roof have turned dark brown due to the wind and rain.

A small stream more than a foot wide flows next to the grass hut, and the stream is murmuring, clear and recognizable.

Liang Er pointed: "These tea trees are planted by my family, and what you drink in my house is the tea produced here." ”

Liang Shirong felt and said: "The fog on the mountain is sealed by clouds, as if it has been moistened by the nectar in the sky, no one has set foot here, it is not stained with dust, no wonder those tea leaves taste so pure and fragrant." ”

Liang Jianxing said: "With such good water and soil, of course it will be delicious to grow this tea sample." ”

Liang Er took Liang Shirong and them to the front of the grass shed, gently pushed open the door of the grass shed, and the place inside was relatively spacious, and there was a small kitchen next to it, with pots, dishes, chopsticks and other things: "This grass shed was built by me a few years ago. We are tired from working in the tea plantation, so we rest here. ”

The hut was built deep in the col, and the occasional call of partridges made the already silent col even more tranquil.

Liang Er: "In this place, no outsiders come in on weekdays. Brother Arron, now is the perfect time for you to take refuge and retreat. ”

Liang Shirong high-fived and exclaimed, "This place is so good!" That's great! ”

"There are also a few small vegetable patches behind this hut where you can grow vegetables or other things." Liang Er took Liang Shirong and Liang Jianxing out of the grass shed and came to the back of the grass shed.

Liang Jianxing: "There is clear running water next to the house, and there is a vegetable patch behind the house, this is indeed a good place. ”

"The water of the stream here is very sweet, and you can drink it directly," Liang Er said, pointing to the stream, "and there is firewood everywhere in this col, so you can make a fire and cook rice." In the afternoon, I will bring you some rice, oil and salt. ”

Liang Jianxing: "Second uncle, you are really thoughtful. ”

Liang Shirong: "Yaxing, we met a noble person when we entered Shuangshi Mountain this time. ”

"Noble?" Liang Er was nodded by Liang Shirong's words and said, "If I hadn't met you two nobles that day, I would have died in the barren grass at the foot of the mountain." ”

"This is your destiny," Liang Shirong said, looked up at the mountain, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Yo, I see that the shape of this mountain above looks like a tiger." ”

"Ha, ha! Brother Aaron, your vision is so sharp. This mountain is called Lao Luoding, also called White Tiger Mountain," Liang Er laughed, stretched out his finger and pointed, "You see, the shape of the mountain is like a tiger's head here, and the body and tail of a tiger are like a tiger coming down the mountain." ”

After Liang Shirong looked at it, he said: "The shape of this mountain does look like a tiger coming down the mountain."

Liang Er continued: "Plus the rocks of this mountain are grayish-white, so we call this mountain Baihu Mountain. ”

"White Tiger Mountain?" Liang Shirong pointed to the depths of the mountain col and said to Liang Er, "Listening to you say this, the more I look at this mountain, the more I feel that it looks like a white tiger." ”

Liang Er pointed to a forked path in the distance, and the mountain stream diverged down the two paths, and said: "The place where the stream on the right leads is called Chaxi Valley, and the place where the stream on the left leads to the depths of the col is called Tiger Pit." ”

Liang Shirong: "Tiger pit? Could it be that there is a tiger hidden in that col? ”

Liang Er: "There are indeed tigers hidden in the tiger pit, so we rarely go inside."

Liang Jianxing's face suddenly changed: "Ah, there is really a tiger hidden in it?!" ”

Liang Er raised his hand and pressed down: "However, you can rest assured." Over the years, the tiger has searched the mountains for what it should eat, but it has never bitten a human, let alone eaten a human. ”

Liang Jianxing's fear did not fade completely: "No, the tigers in this mountain have not eaten people?"

Liang Er said: "There is a saying that people are afraid of tigers for three points, and tigers are afraid of people for seven points." ”

Liang Er expressed his opinion: "If you don't provoke the tiger, it won't attack you." We never provoke it, so I don't have any scruples about growing tea here to rest. ”

Liang Jianxing was puzzled: "The tiger is not a bodhisattva of great compassion, it always eats if it wants to live." ”

Liang Er's face showed a look of disgust: "The cattle, sheep and livestock on the mountain and under the mountain were bitten to death by it and dragged away a lot. ”

Liang Jianxing: "The tiger bit the cattle, sheep and livestock, and the villagers must have hated it to death." ”

Liang Er spit out the sullen breath in his heart: "Yes, we mountain people saw the tiger from a distance when we were hunting, and we didn't dare to rush to hunt it, so we had to install a trap in the grass. That tiger elf is very good, we have tried many ways, but we always pretend that it can't be found, and we are really helpless about it. ”

Liang Shirong's eyes were stunned, thinking about something: "It seems that the tiger is very spiritual." ”

Liang Er nodded: "Recently, I and several hunters in the village are studying how to modify these animal traps so that they can effectively clamp the tigers to get rid of the scourge in our mountains." ”

Liang Jianxing: "That's good. ”

Liang Er: "Brother Yarong, you will stay here for the time being, and Chi Bin and I will often come to visit you." And you are not polite, but come to my house when you have time. ”

Liang Shirong: "Okay, second brother, we will make arrangements." ”

From this day on, Liang Shirong and Liang Jianxing lived in a small grass hut behind the stone gate of Mawangzhai and lived in seclusion.

In this quiet mountain wilderness, Liang Shirong thinks back to the road he has traveled from time to time, quietly comprehends the true meaning of life, and understands the Zen machine inside, and gradually gains in his heart.

Early this morning, Liang Shirong got up and went out for a walk, and suddenly on a whim, he unconsciously walked to the tiger pit in the deep area of the mountain col on the left side of the chaxi valley.

Suddenly, there was a deafening whistling sound and a stumble of footsteps ahead.

"What's going on up ahead?" Liang Shirong looked forward vigilantly, only to see the bushes in the distance shaking constantly, and then two animals appeared. There was a sika deer desperately running towards it, and a colorful tiger was chasing after it with its legs.

Seeing that the sika deer was almost caught by the tiger several times, fortunately its body was flexible, twisted its body when the tiger's claws were about to be caught, and changed its escape route in time, so it was fortunate to escape. However, it can be seen from the running condition of the sika deer that it is tired at this time.

Seeing this, Liang Shirong knew that if this chase continued, the sika deer would definitely not be able to escape from the tiger's mouth, and a bloody disaster would soon happen in front of him.

How can you see death and not save it?! "But how do you go to the rescue?" Liang Shirong, who has always had the idea of great compassion, stood there, his thoughts swirling like lightning: now that he is bare-handed, he rushes forward to fight the tiger, and he will definitely suffer a big loss. Looking at the surrounding terrain, a large rock wall is high and steep, not far to the left. A bright light flew in front of him, and he immediately bent down and picked up a fist-sized stone.

The sika deer is getting closer and closer, and the colorful tiger is getting closer and closer. When it tried to wade through the stream, its front hooves stepped on a pebble in the stream, and it slipped forward, causing it to do a somersault forward, and fell into the stream, with its feet facing the sky.

When the tiger saw its prey fall into the stream, he chased it to the side of the stream, stopped his steps, pressed his body forward, lay on the ground with his two front legs, kicked his hind legs, roared, and was about to rise into the air, and pounced on the sika deer that had fallen in the stream.

At this moment, Liang Shirong rushed forward against the tiger suddenly, and his right hand holding the stone slammed it. The stone shot at the tiger like a cannonball.

Liang Shirong has been going up the mountain to collect firewood and cut grass since he was a child, his arms are strong, and the strength of throwing stones is certainly not small. The stone was like a divine help, impartial, and with a "snap", it hit the nose of the colorful tiger hard.

The stone was angular and angular, and the tiger's nose was bleeding, and it roared so hard that it could not restrain its momentum, and after it pounced, it fell into the stream with a "bang", and was choked by the stream several times. The water of the stream was less than a foot deep, and the tiger struggled so hard that he managed to climb up to the shore of the stream, and shook his head vigorously to shake off the water that flowed from his eyes. After such a toss, the tiger with an injured nose was dizzy for a while.

The sika deer that fell in the stream took advantage of the fact that the tiger was dizzy, struggled to roll over in the stream, ran ashore, and ran desperately with his legs, and soon disappeared into the dense forest over there.

The colorful tiger was about to capture its prey, but it was hit hard, and when it climbed up to the shore from the stream, and then calmed down, the sika deer planted in the stream had long been gone. There was a person standing not far away, and that was Liang Shirong.

Seeing that the delicious prey was about to arrive, it escaped. The colorful tiger vented all his anger on Liang Shirong, roared, and pounced towards Liang Shirong.

Liang Shirong had already taken precautions, kicked with both feet, and with an arrow step, he jumped behind a large vertebral tree, and the tiger pounced.

Although the tiger is ferocious, its neck is extremely thick, and it cannot turn back in time when it is in place. When it moved, it turned around and found that the tree behind it was empty.

It turned out that Liang Shirong had already looked at the terrain and knew that he could escape from the big rock wall on the left, so after the tiger pounced in the air, he sprinted towards the stone wall over there from behind the big vertebral tree like a rabbit, jumped up under the stone wall, grabbed the protruding rock with both hands, and climbed up quickly.

The gray-white stone wall of Baihu Mountain is dozens of zhang high, very steep, and the ground is almost at a right angle of 90 degrees, and Liang Shirong has been accustomed to climbing high and low on the big trees or stone walls in the mountain since he was a child.

The colorful tiger chased under the stone wall, unwilling to let Liang Shirong escape, running and trying to pounce on the heights, but its claws were hard, unable to grasp the protruding rocks and fall to the ground.

The colorful tiger pounced several times, not only could not catch Liang Shirong, but made its claws hurt, and fell from a high place and made its body hurt, so it had to watch Liang Shirong climb higher and higher under the stone wall, and finally it left helplessly wagging its tail.