Chapter 22 Tanuki Ditch
"Don't sell it, unless what?" Moda was very annoyed by Mo Yangqing's spitting appearance.
"Unless, you can find me an old Tu egg, then I will be able to match the rooster to scatter, and Mo Dian will be saved immediately."
"Okay, you can tell me what Lao Tu is, what it looks like, and how to find this Lao Tu. Our brother is looking for it! ”
Merton became impatient and interjected.
Mo Yangqing didn't answer, just held his head high, his eyes rolling wildly.
With a wave of his hand, he called Chun Yuyi over, took out an album from his backpack, turned to one of the pages, and said, "This Tu is the same sect as the fox, but the fox is smart and witty, and Tu is more capable of channeling." Tu is not as sensitive and cunning as a fox, but he can feel human feelings and language. God is really making people, if Tu and the fox can become one, they can be compared to the people of the spirit of all things. My master and apprentice have never seen a single Tu all over the famous mountains and rivers, let alone a century-old Tu. This is what Tu looks like. ”
With that, he pointed to a painting in the book with his hand.
Murda saw it, it was really similar to a fox, only much smaller, only the size of a palm, chubby like a small furball.
"The day before yesterday, my master and apprentice heard that someone in the back mountain of Shouyang Mountain had seen this Tu, and they were about to go into the mountain to look for it. I was called by you. Or for a fat man who wants to be bitten by a bug. Bad luck. ”
"That's it! Don't talk nonsense! If I find Lao Tu, will you dispense medicine! ”
Mo Dun couldn't hold back his temper anymore and yelled at Mo Yangqing.
Everyone knows the temper of Brother Lu Dao, and they are all a little worried about Yangqing.
But this roar didn't stop Mo Yangqing, he shook the mouse's head and said, "If you find it, of course I can dispense medicine." It's just that this old painting and smearing eggs must belong to me. Can? ”
After saying that, he raised his head, and two longing eyes shot out of the eyes of the two rats.
"Good! Deal! Just tell us where to find it, and we'll be there. ”
"That's fine, it's either in Huming Valley or in Fenzigou. I asked my apprentice to follow you so that I could identify Lao Tu. Well, it's only one day. After a day, I could only use acupuncture to help him stop his madness, but whether he could be saved or not was not my business. Hurry up. ”
With that, he waved his hand at everyone, escaped from his pocket, and smoked his cigarette pouch leisurely.
"Mozi, you and Modi stay to take care of Modi. Mo Da and Mo Han took the picture to Tanzigou, and Mo Xin and I took Chun Yuyi to Huming Valley. Mo Heng rode my horse to contact each other. Walk! ”
Everyone split up as Merton instructed.
Moda and Mohan rode the Tiger King all the way to a ravine.
At the mouth of the ditch stands a stone stele, the stone stele is already covered with moss, the bottom of the stele has been flooded with weeds, and many vines are wrapped around the stele and spiral to grow upward.
By the moonlight, Moda could only vaguely see that the stele had three ancient Yan characters written on it, 'Tanuki Gou'.
The moonlight sprinkled on the stone tablet with a strange feeling, and Meda couldn't help but feel a chill on their necks.
"Murda, this Tanuki Ditch has had a name since the Spring and Autumn Period. I heard Master say that few people dare to come to this place, especially at night. In the past, some people walked at night and wanted to get there faster, but they didn't want to go around the high ground on the edge of the ditch, so they went down to the ditch and pondered straight through, but no one came back after going in. Later, when the Warring States period came, the Yan State occupied this place, so they wanted to move some ordinary people to reclaim the wasteland, but more than 500 people who lived in it committed suicide as if they had fallen into the evil spirit. There was a child left behind who was stunned all day, and he didn't dare to talk to others, as if he was shocked by something. Later, when he came to the capital of Yan Kingdom, he invited a witch to do the law and told the story of the murder of the whole village. ”
Hearing Mo Han say this, Mo Da also felt that the ditch was gloomy, revealing an evil energy.
He asked, "What happened?" ”
The kid said they had cleared a lot of wasteland within a few days of moving in. I don't know what kind of land Lu Dao moved, causing many foxes to come out of the underground holes, and there were tens of thousands of them, and the whole village was surrounded at once. The people of the village fought the fox with all their might, and the result was that they beat more and more. Later, one night, a group of Tu came, and the leader of the old Tu actually spoke human words, telling the village chief that he had dug up the holy place where the fox worshiped the moon when he was reclaiming the land, and the foxes were sure to kill no one in the village. Now the foxes invited Lao Tu to tell the people of the village not to kill the foxes again. Then, he gave the skins of the foxes killed by the villagers, and asked the whole village to put on fox skins to give filial piety to the dead foxes. The village chief shouldn't have been, but later Lao Tu explained that it was very powerful, and the village chief also knew that if he continued like this, he would be exhausted by the fox sooner or later. So, he took the lead in putting the adult men of the village in dead fox skins. This time it was a trick, and the villagers in fox skins were no longer able to understand human language. These men returned home, killed all their wives and children, and then wandered to the place where the fox worshiped the moon. I cut my stomach and took out my intestines to feed the little fox, and the people in the village died like this. The boy escaped by jumping to the tree, and when he saw the whole thing, he was so frightened that he lost his soul. ”
When Moda heard this, he felt creepy, it turned out that there was such a weird and terrifying place in this Shouyang Mountain.
Mo Han didn't dare to talk about it, she looked around at this Tanzi ditch, and always felt that there was something hidden in the dark place.
Mo Han subconsciously followed Mo Da, and the two of them groped their way forward.
The deeper they went into the ditch, the deeper the grass became, and gradually they could no longer see the road, and they could only walk forward.
Mo Han let the Tiger King walk in front of him, so that he could use his massive body to clear the way.
After walking for about an hour, the Tiger King said that he would not move forward at all, and spun in place.
Mo Han leaned over and touched the tiger's head and spoke in secret words for a while, and the tiger occasionally grunted twice in his throat, as if he was talking to Mo Han.
Mo Han turned his head and said with a worried face, "The Tiger King feels very accurate, it knows that there is danger in front of the Dao, and he doesn't dare to go and won't let us go." ”
"I'll take a look, you and the Tiger King are waiting."
After saying that, Moda took a few steps forward, and saw a large patch of tall and dense grass more than a person tall in front of him.
The top of the grass looked like a fox's tail, and a bunch of long, long hairs stood on a yellow straw stalk that resembled a reed.
Murda was just about to step into the grass, but Mo Han grabbed him and said, "Murda, this is foxtail grass, its tail hair grows and smells of ecstasy at night, you have to cover your nose." The Tiger King couldn't cover his nose, so the two of us had to go in. ”
Murda answered, tearing two pieces of cloth from her body and seeing water flowing through the roots of the foxtail grass.
He bent down to dip some and handed Mo Han a piece, wrapping himself around his nose.
The two men held hands and parted the grass with difficulty.
Murda felt soft under his feet, probably because the roots of this foxtail grass were damp, and there was water flowing through, so it should be by the river or by the stream.
He knew that if it was mud or a swamp, he and Mo Han might fall.
So let Mo Han keep a certain distance from himself, slowly and tentatively walk with his feet, and turn back from time to time to remind Mo Han to be careful.
After groping for about an hour, there were still a lot of foxtail grass around me, and my feet were wet and soft, as if I was stepping on the tongue of something, which made people feel sticky and disgusting.
Mo Han suddenly grabbed Moda and exclaimed, "There are eyes on the ground!" ”
Murda was stunned and looked to the ground.
About half a step in front of him was a large, wet white eyeball.
Murda almost stepped on it, and hurriedly retracted his foot.
There was a black line in the middle of the huge eye, which was clearly a pupil.
Moda immediately took a step back and protected Mo Han behind him.
"What is this?"
Mo Han took advantage of the moonlight to carefully look at the big eyes in front of him, looked around again, squatted down, and carefully looked at the wet and soft ground.
He frowned, "Murda, I think the head of something we're standing on, this wet and sticky ground should be its skin." We've been walking on this thing. ”
Murda also felt justified when he heard Mo Han say this, raised his foot to look, and found that the soles of his feet were stained with a lot of mucus.
I couldn't help but feel nervous and my appetite surged.
"Mo Han, it seems that it should be a toad or a catfish or something, otherwise how could there be so much mucus on the skin."
Mo Han nodded, "It should be, but we walked for so long to get to his eyes, how big is this thing." ”
Murda was suspicious, and pulled Mo Han around his eyes to prepare to continue walking.
But he had a little more heart, and tore a strip of cloth from his body and wrapped it around the grass next to his eyes.
After walking for another half hour, the two men came to the eye again.
Meda understood, walking around in circles.
"I said it can't be that big. Could it be that there is a foxtail grass on our back to block our vision, making people unable to distinguish the direction, and then wrap us around here to die? ”
There was a hint of fear in Murda's heart, he didn't know what Lu Dao was on, and he didn't know if Lu Dao would go to this thing's mouth, or if he would never be able to get around.
"Don't worry, do you remember the little ink turtle born to the well turtle?"
Mo Han said, "Remember, what? ”
Murda didn't understand what she meant.
"Look."
Mo Han took out a small ink turtle from the small leather bag tied to his waist.
The little turtle was black all over, and it seemed to be asleep in a daze when it was taken out.
The little turtle looked up, saw Murda, and suddenly moved, and wanted to crawl to Murda.
Murda quickly dragged it over with both hands, and the ink turtle looked very affectionate.
"Ha Luha, my turtle grandson, my grandfather still said where are you. It turned out to be at Sister Mohan's. ”
The little ink turtle began to spin in circles when it reached Moda's hand.
After a while, the turtle retracted its head and four legs, leaving only the turtle's tail exposed.
"Murda, I didn't expect this little ink turtle to really have the ability to discern direction. I've tried it in the grassland for a long time, but it seems that it still recognizes its owner, and it shows its talent in your hands. According to the book of Ancient Things, only one ink turtle can be born out of a thousand well turtles, and the turtle naturally recognizes the direction, and the tail of the turtle always points to the south. However, the ink turtle is extremely recognizable, only recognizing his own family, and only showing his nature in front of his family. Hehe, it seems that this ink turtle really treats you as a grandfather. ”
"Okay, my little baby, grandpa takes you with him everywhere. Now with the Ink Turtle, we can get out of it. We have just come from the north, and we must be right in the direction of Gumi finger. ”
Mo Da dragged the ink turtle with one hand and Mo Han with the other hand to continue walking.
It didn't take long for them to get out of the foxtail grass, and when their feet stepped on the solid ground again, the two of them let out a long breath.
Moda asked Mo Han, "What kind of big guy is this, we walked out and estimated that we walked half a mile"
As soon as he said this, there was a commotion in the foxtail grass in front of the meeting, and suddenly opened a mouth from the ground.
It was like a fish's mouth, and it was as tall as a man.
Then a muffled sound came out of his mouth.
They didn't dare approach the fish's mouth, as they felt as if the huge fish was about to talk to them.
Mo Han calmed down, stretched his ear to the fish's mouth, and read the mantra in his mouth.
The big fish was no longer in a commotion, and the foxtail grass regained its calm.
Murda didn't know what Mo Han was listening to, or what the mantra she was reciting meant.
Seeing that Mo Han gradually left tears, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, "This big fish is the kun mentioned in "Zhuangzi Getaway". The so-called fish in the North Underworld is called Kun. Kun is this big fish. ”
Murda had read Zhuangzi in the book, and he knew that these two sentences of Mohan were from "Zhuangzi, the inner chapter, the first of the free journey".
"There is a fish in the North Underworld, its name is Kun, and Kun is only thousands of miles old."
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He didn't expect that there really was such a fish as Kun.
Although it is not as big as the thousands of miles that Zhuangzi said, this head is much bigger than a whale.
This Yangshan is really a gathering of rare birds and beasts, and the Kun and Dapeng birds mentioned in Zhuangzi actually let him encounter them.
"Mo Han, then why are you crying for Lu?"
"Hey, it's a little kun. When the Yan people planned to reclaim the wasteland of Tanzigou, they swam here. When the fox king led the foxes to kill the villagers, he saw them all, and the kun was frightened and hid in the pond. How did the fox king find it, planted fox tail grass on its back, and used the ecstasy powder emitted by fox tail grass to make Xiao Kun unable to move. After so many years, the little kun has grown up and filled the pond. ”
"Then what did the fox king do when he caught the kun?"
"Hey, this kun can grow to be very big, the old fox wants to sit on the back of the kun and go to Penglai Immortal Island to ask for the elixir of immortality."
Moda thought to himself that this old fox still wanted to learn from Qin Shi Huang.
After so many years, this old fox must have become a spirit if he hadn't died.
Mo Han continued, "This fox king has a kun, but the pond is too small, and it has been squeezed to the point that it can't move. ”
Moda took pity on the Kun and said to the Kun, "Don't worry, we will definitely save you when we return." ”
Mo Han replied, "Kun said that the pond under it is actually a sea eye, and the bottom leads directly to the sea. As long as he plucked the foxtail grass from his body, he could swim back to the sea. ”
"Good! Now let's go find the hundred-year-old Tu first, and when we return, we will definitely come to save Kun. ”
Mo Han nodded, she also knew that now was not the time to save the fish, and Mo Dian couldn't save his life after three days.
"Yes, Mo Han, you ask this Kun, have you ever seen a hundred-year-old Tu. If you have one, show me the way. ”
Mo Han hurriedly talked to Kun for a while.
After speaking, he turned around and told Moda, "Kun said that the foxes in the mountains want to worship the moon tonight, and they will definitely call all the animals in the valley to come over, and choose sacrifices from them to sacrifice to the moon." Let's go and see, maybe we can meet Tu. Walking towards the moon will lead you to the moon-worshipping slope of the foxes. ”
Hearing this, Moda bowed his hand to Kunyi and thanked him, pulling Mo Han up and walking in the direction of the moon.
The moon tonight is exceptionally large, exceptionally round, and exceptionally cold.