Chapter 33: Deep Mountains and Valleys

Xuanmeng tore off the strip of cloth from his body, bandaged it, held it in the palm of his hand, and was reluctant to put it down for a while. After watching it for a while, I couldn't help but think of the incident with Kexin that year to treat the bird's injury, my heart was sour, and I stroked the bird with my hand and said: "Bird, when you heal your injury, I will take you to see Kexin, Kexin will definitely like you very much, she loves the little bird the most." The little bird was also extremely spiritual, and actually buzzed twice, as if in response.

Xuan Meng was even more happy and said, "I don't know what your name is, and I can't understand your words, so I have to give you another name." What is a good name?" As he spoke, he knocked on his head, meditated, and thought of a name that Kexin liked, but he couldn't remember it for a while, so he said: "Brother Bird, I am shallow in my knowledge and can't give a good name, so I will call you Ke'er, Kexin." The bird seemed to be delighted, and buzzed twice. Xuanmeng was overjoyed, and called "Ke'er" to it again, and the bird buzzed twice in response.

Xuanmeng saw dead birds everywhere, some large and some small, so he inspected them one by one. But after searching for it again, he did not find anyone alive. The reason why the two sides did not know what was the reason for the enmity, and the resentment was so deep that they had to cause the other party to die, could it be that they were also like people in the martial arts, competing for the secret of the martial arts? The reason why Ke'er escaped the catastrophe was because of her short stature and hiding on the side of the stone.

Leaned over and gathered together the carcasses of all the birds, and there was a lot of them. He waved to the pile of birds and said: "Brother Bird, Uncle Bird, I have been martyred many times, and I am fortunate to be able to not die, and I am very content, but I have a great revenge that has not been avenged, in order to survive, I can only use it through your bodies, I hope you have a spirit in the sky, don't blame." After speaking, he lifted them one by one, plucked the feathers on his body, cut them open with a sharp stone, took out the five internal organs, washed them in the stream, and then put them on the boulder for air drying. He buried the feathers and internal organs of the bird in a pit, and piled some stones on it, counted them as graves, and worshipped them a few times.

It took a long day of work to get it done. In winter, the sun went fast, and it was getting dark, so I found a cave and took Kerr to lie down and rest.

The next day, I got up and touched my pocket, it was empty, and the two boxing books given by the abbot of Benxu did not know where they fell. When I came to the place where I jumped off the cliff, I couldn't find it all over, I looked up at the big tree, which was more than ten zhang high, and I couldn't climb it anyway, and I was sad.

One day when I was fine, I walked around in the valley. The bottom of the valley is very large, the width is more than 100 zhang, and a mountain stream in the middle is gurgling and flowing, and the stream water is clear and impressive. And he went round the valley, but he saw that the stone walls were bright and smooth, high and steep, and there was no place to go out. I was shocked in my heart, could it be that I would be trapped in the valley in this life? It was as steep as running to the place where the Shura Sect fell on the rope that day. Shura taught people how to find the rope in the valley, and even if he found the rope, how did he let people pull the rope up. The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, and I was stunned. After a while, he returned dejectedly.

Just after walking a few steps, I suddenly smelled a rancid smell coming, and walked along with the smell, only to see a person buried under a few big stones, which was not completely covered. Xuanmeng was very strange, covered his nose, lifted the stone, and revealed a black dress, it was the Shura Sect incense master who fell off the cliff for the first time and died, when he fainted, he didn't know about it. When Xuanmeng saw that it was Shura, he was furious, raised a stone and smashed the stinky corpse a few times to vent his resentment.

After smashing it a few times, he suddenly saw that the man's clothes were good, and his clothes had already been torn and tattered, and he was not covered by his clothes, so he endured the stench, took off his clothes, and did not bury his body, but came to the stream, washed his clothes, and found out of his clothes.

After wandering in the valley for a few days, he couldn't find a way out, and although he was irritable, he slowly accepted it. So just like when he was in the Yellow Mountain, he packed up the thatched trunks, set up a home in the valley, and picked up a large number of dried dates and dried fruits, and stored them in the cave. The bird meat has been dried and roasted on firewood and grass, and although there is no salt and oil, it is also tender and attractive.

The valley is not big, there are birds, there are beasts, but the birds are only some ordinary yellow finch mountain birds, but the strange birds and strange birds of that day have never seen a single again, and the small beasts are mostly roe deer wolves, hares, etc. Slowly, Xuanmeng became acquainted with them. These birds and beasts were not afraid of man, and often came to visit his house, and there were two yellow hares, who actually built a small nest by his house, and lived, and lived next to him, and often came and went.

A few months have passed, winter has turned to spring, and the valley is overgrown with flowers and weeds, like a fairyland. On this day, Xuanmeng took Ke'er to hang out. Walking along the stream, looking at the murmuring of the water, I came to the end of the stream on the south side of the valley, and saw that the mountain stream flowed into a flat rock crevice, and I did not know where it flowed. He had looked at the source and the end of the stream countless times, and it was all rock crevices, which were inaccessible to people, and it was impossible to get out of the valley from here.

He watched the stream flow and sighed to himself, how good it would be if he could turn into a stream, and be free to enter and leave the valley. I picked a wild flower and threw it in the stream, only to see it sink into the cracks of the rocks.

Just as he was looking at himself, he suddenly felt someone pat him on the back, and turned around in shock, but saw a big pale ape, who came behind him at some point, and his hind legs were erect, like a person standing, shoulder to shoulder with him. Xuanmeng was very strange, he had lived in the valley for so long, and no ape had ever come, where did this wild ape come from? He glanced at the ape twice, and the big ape also looked at him, as if friendly and begging, and shook his left forelimb. Xuanmeng said: "Big Brother Ape, where are you from, I have never seen you. Hey, what's wrong with your palm?"

But I saw a deep wound on the left palm of the great ape, and blood kept dripping. The big ape seemed to understand his words, and waved at him, patted his left palm with his right palm, and pointed to the rock wall in front of Xuanmeng's left. Xuanmeng suddenly realized that it had come to seek help from him for healing, and when he looked in the direction of his finger, it turned out that the rock wall over there was slightly sloping compared to the others, and it was not so smooth. Suddenly, the great ape can come down from there, and he can go up, can I also go up from there?

The thought of this makes my heart pound. Turning around, he pulled the left palm of the big ape and looked at it, it was actually broken, he tore off a strip of cloth from the tattered cuffs, bandaged it, and tied it with two thin branches to fix the joints, and then said to the big ape: "Brother Ape, come with me to the house to rest for a few days, and your injuries will be healed." The great ape nodded gratefully, shook it, and went with him.

The next day, Xuanmeng took the big ape to the bottom of the rock wall and looked up carefully. Seeing that he was motionless, the big ape stared blankly at the stone wall, jumped up, moved all three limbs, climbed a foot high, and finally couldn't go up again because of an injury to one limb, jumped down, pulled Xuanmeng's shirt with the palm of his hand, and motioned for him to try it too.