Chapter 115: Little Monkey
The voice was very low, but I still heard the words "ghost", "evil", and "biting" in pieces.
It's a big night in this small mountain village, and just by piecing together the random associations of these words, I have already arranged a few horror and thriller plots in my mind.
The alcohol I had just slept on had almost dissipated, so I got out of bed and went to the door to hear a little clearer.
I could tell through the door that it was the boss and the lady talking.
They should be in Ah Jin's room, chatting while cleaning.
I eavesdropped on the door like a thief for a long time, and it wasn't until they were gone that I finally figured out what was going on with what they were talking about.
The proprietress said that there is a family of five in the south of the village, and it is an old couple with a young couple and a little granddaughter.
The family has always had a good relationship in the village, and the typical people are kind and kind, and the neighbors are willing to help if they have anything.
On the contrary, everyone is willing to help them.
But just a month ago, the old man of their family suddenly seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, and the whole person suddenly became rickety, and he liked to lie in the soil, and no one could pull it out.
A few days later, the situation became more serious, and one night the old man ran into the woods by himself while his son was relieved.
When the son came back and found that his father was gone, he hurriedly went out to look for him, and it took two days to see the old man in the woods.
I don't know how to get it, the old man has already buried his lower body in the soil, and as long as his son digs the soil with his hands, the old man will go crazy and bite.
There was really no way for his son to use an ox cart to set it, but he didn't dare, for fear of tearing the old man in half.
In the end, there was really no way, and the family could only get some food and drink every day to maintain the old man from starving and thirsty, and by the way, he wanted to think about whether he could get the old man out.
But to me, this old man looks like he's under a spell.
Just like the pigman who was once cursed by my grandmother, but that's just my guess.
I washed my face and wiped my body with hot water and went downstairs, the boss and the boss lady were playing with the turtle again, the boss brother won another handful in high spirits, it seems that his luck is quite good.
"Big brother has good luck." I smiled and handed over a cigarette.
The boss took the cigarette and put it on his ear, "I'm sorry, my wife stipulates that you can only smoke five cigarettes a day, and today it's time to count." ”
"I want to ask you about something, is there a place called Jiulong Mountain in this area of Lijiang? Just nine dragons, that nine dragons. ”
The boss pouted, "Which Kowloon are you looking for?" There is a hill outside our village, but it is just a cage for drinking wine. ”
"That's the case, I also heard from others, and they didn't tell me how to write these two words, I always thought it was the nine dragons and the nine dragons."
The boss nodded, put his arm around my shoulder, gave me a look, and walked out with his arms around me.
We walked to the road outside the village, the boss sneakily looked back, quickly took off the cigarette on his ear and lit it, "I haven't heard of other Jiulong Mountain, but I know that there is a Jiulong Waterfall." ”
Jiulong Waterfall actually I also know, but Chen Donghan was talking about Jiulong Mountain at the beginning, so I didn't think about it in this direction.
Now that the boss has mentioned it, I also asked, "I know that Jiulong Waterfall seems to be a very famous scenic spot." Do you know any legends about Jiulong Mountain or Jiulong Waterfall? ”
The boss pulled me directly to sit on the steps at the door of the guest house, smoking a cigarette in my mouth, and looking like I was organizing language.
After a while, the owner gave me a strange story.
It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the imperial examination system, which had lasted for more than 1,300 years, was abolished, and an unambitious old show sang about the injustice of heaven and earth, drinking wine and hurrying on the road.
Due to old age and drunkenness, Lao Xiucai rolled down the hillside with a crooked foot.
This road rolled straight into the ravine before stopping, and broke his right leg and left ankle, at this time Lao Xiucai was only left with a half-full wine jug in addition to a tattered clothes, which can be said to be called heaven and earth.
That night, Lao Xiucai survived by eating sticky moss in the cracks of the stones.
The next day, Lao Xiucai broke two sticks and tied his broken legs, but he definitely couldn't stand up, so Lao Xiucai spent another night on sticky moss that day.
Early in the morning of the third day, a person appeared on the ravine, Lao Xiucai sat on the ground and desperately begged for help, and the man followed the sound and came down.
Who knew that it turned out to be a fugitive gangster, fortunately, he didn't ask for Lao Xiucai's life, but just blinded him and then stripped off his clothes and pants, because the wine jug was put under the tree on the side by Lao Xiucai, but he was spared.
At this time, Lao Xiucai was covered with hair all over his body, and only the small half pot of wine remained.
On the fifth day, a monkey came to the ravine.
The monkey wanted to rob Lao Xiucai's wine jug, but he was beaten, and it was repeated several times, and Lao Xiucai was now left with the wine jug and a rotten life, so one person and one monkey fought all night without a result.
At noon on the sixth day, the monkey brought Lao Xiucai a handful of sour fruits.
Lao Xiucai held the wine jug in three or two bites to eat the sour fruit cleanly, and there was no core left, and after eating, the monkey wanted to touch the wine jug again, but he was still beaten away by Lao Xiucai.
On the seventh day, the monkey brought a leg of mutton.
Lao Xiucai's family was already poor, and he hadn't seen meat for a long time since he fell into the ravine, and this leg of mutton almost starved him to death.
But the monkey just put the leg of mutton at a distance of Lao Xiucai's arm, and Lao Xiucai only had to climb forward a little bit, and the little monkey dragged the leg of mutton back for three points, so after tossing for a long time, Lao Xiucai didn't even touch the blood of the sheep.
Lao Xiu's talented hair was faint, and he was hungry and was about to faint.
At this time, the little monkey squatted on the leg of mutton and stretched out his finger to the wine jug in Lao Xiucai's arms.
Only then did Lao Xiucai understand that this leg of mutton was not given for free.
The little monkey's saliva flowed, the monkey hair on his neck was sticky into pieces, and Lao Xiu couldn't care about his baby wine jug compared to his life, so he pulled the plug and beckoned the little monkey to come over.
At this time, the little monkey was not afraid of being beaten, so he ran over and took a sip of the wine jug, but just as he wanted to take a second sip, Lao Xiucai stuffed the spout of the wine jug and hugged it into his arms.
In this way, one person and one monkey finally negotiated a deal
- That is, every day the little monkey has to bring enough food to Lao Xiucai to eat, as a reward, he can drink a small sip of the sake in the old Xiucai wine jug.