Chapter 5 Returning Home
The high-speed train was speeding in my extremely gloomy mood, and it soon arrived at the station. I got out of the car and took a long-distance bus for nearly five hours, then a van, a tricycle......
We kept changing the means of transportation, and the roads became more and more remote, and gradually lost people. When I arrived at the nearest town, the road was so difficult that I didn't want to go in on a tricycle.
The village where my hometown is located is extremely remote, and the location of the town is at the gateway of the 100,000 mountains, and my hometown village has to go deeper. No one wanted to go in, but the town was still more than a dozen kilometers away from the village, and it was all deserted mountain roads, so it was not practical to walk in on two feet, so we spent a lot of money to rent a motorcycle in the town.
It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and according to past experience, it took about an hour to ride a motorcycle, and we could have arrived at the village before dark.
The mountain road is difficult, there are potholes and a lot of gravel all the way, and if it is not a motorcycle but a car, I am afraid that it will be difficult to walk an inch. But even the motorcycle is still very upside down, and every time I go back to my hometown, I will bring a lot of snacks, toys and some gadgets to give to my neighbors, and this time is no exception.
The big bags and small bags contained three whole backpacks, and the weight was definitely more than eighty kilograms. These things are all held by the Taoist priest, I am responsible for riding, the Taoist priest was uncomfortable, scolded all the way, saying that this broken place is too poor, I knew that this was the case, even if the immeasurable Tianzun was inside, he would not go back to join in the fun.
In the end, he didn't even have the strength to scold, and I saw that he was about to vomit, so I said to him, "Bear with me, it's coming soon." ”
The Taoist priest's face turned pale, he opened his mouth, and said weakly: "You have said this more than 20 fucking times along the way, if the Taoist master believes you again, you will really be a fool." ”
As he spoke, he threw up sideways. I stopped, let him slow down, and joked that I didn't expect that the Taoist master, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, couldn't even stand such a little bump, this is really a strange news in the world!
After vomiting, the Taoist priest sat down on the ground, his face pale, unable to argue with me, looked around, and asked me how far I was. I looked around, recalled the memories of my childhood, and said that I didn't lie to you this time, it was really almost there, and less than a kilometer further there would be a huge river valley, and after crossing the river, you could see the village after a few hundred meters.
The Taoist priest took a deep breath, stood up, and said that since this is the case, let's go quickly, the long pain is better than the short pain, and the sooner he arrives, the sooner he will get out of this sea of suffering.
After saying that, he urged me to go quickly, and as soon as I saw that it was not early, the two of them continued on their way. Soon, the wide river valley that separates the old village from the outside world in our memory appeared in front of us.
It was a deep valley flanked by knife-sharp rock walls about thirty meters high, with rushing whitewater rapids below and sharp reefs at the bottom. The valley is 100 meters wide, and nine steel cables are pulled on it, connecting the two banks. More than a decade ago, villagers from more than a dozen villages on the other side of the river had to use these ropeways running above the valley to slide to the opposite side of the market, and if they were not careful, they would fall to the bottom of the valley, either washed away by the rushing water or disemboweled by the reef in the water, risking their lives every time they entered or exited.
However, it is precisely because of the existence of this moat that more than a dozen ethnic minority villages located in the hinterland of the 100,000 mountains have been able to retain their most primitive features to the greatest extent. Until recent years, with the support of national policies, a winding mountain road was built from the other side of the river valley, and since then the risk factor between these villages has been greatly reduced, and some tourists who advocate primitive style have begun to run into the mountains, which has stimulated the development of local tourism.
However, if you enter the village from the repaired road, you will have to walk more than 200 kilometers of unjust road, and what I am most afraid of is the bumpy journey, so I chose this little-traveled but extremely time-saving shortcut.
The motorbike couldn't get through, but there was a pavilion built by the villagers on the bank of the river to rest, so I rode into it and locked it. The Taoist priest asked me if I was not afraid of being stolen, I smiled, and said who would steal the car here when it was full, the car was locked, not to mention whether it could be opened, even if it could be opened, it could not be fired, and I walked to the town by pushing, but I was afraid that the person who stole the car would lose half his life if he did not die.
The Taoist priest recalled the road we walked when we came, and suddenly shuddered, and said Don't ink, it will be dark if you delay any longer.
I glared at the Taoist priest and told him not to talk nonsense, these things are taboo in our place, and you can't talk about ghosts, monsters and other topics when walking on the mountain road at night, otherwise you may really encounter these things.
This cable has existed since I can remember, and after so many years, the cable is still lying here, with some vicissitudes, but it has not been rusted, but few people have used it.
I checked it and it was safe, so I took a backpack from the Taoist priest and put it on my back, climbed the cableway, grabbed the loops on the iron rope with both hands, kicked the river bank with both feet, and the whole person immediately slid to the opposite bank.
When I was a child, my friends in the village and I often came here to play on the zipline with adults on my back, so I was familiar with this and landed safely without any thrills.
I looked at the Taoist priest and asked him to come too, but the guy stared down the valley, his legs trembling, and I shouted a few times, but he didn't move.
"Damn, Dao Ye is not afraid of anything in his life, evil ghosts and zombies, mountain demons and wild monsters, these are all right, but this fear of heights will not be able to overcome it for a while."
"Damn, why didn't you say it earlier?"
"You didn't give me a chance to say it, did you?" The Taoist priest's face turned the color of pig liver, but he still didn't dare to move, at this time the sun had completely sunk, and it would be completely dark in ten minutes at most.
I was anxious and encouraged him for a long time, but this guy didn't move. I couldn't help it, I was just about to go back, but I heard this guy shout: "Don't move, watch the Taoist master show you what light gong is." Spelled ......"
The Taoist priest shouted, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and at the same time kicked the ground with his feet, and the whole person actually rose four or five meters high, and swept an extremely long arc in the air, and when the body fell, the person had already left the river bank for more than ten meters.
I said in my heart that it was terrible, I had to fall to death now, but I didn't expect this guy to kick the steel rope with extremely sensitive feet, and his body carrying forty or fifty kilograms of things actually floated up like a feather, and swept out more than ten meters, and so on, and so on, about seven or eight times, the Taoist priest landed steadily beside me.
I was so shocked that my jaw was about to drop, me, filming? That's awesome, isn't it?
The Taoist priest's body was still trembling, and he didn't know if it was because of the previous prostration or because of the fear of heights just now.
It was completely dark, we didn't have flashlights, I took out my phone and turned on the lighting, and the diffinating light reflected the road under my feet, and the path was lined with lush trees, hidden in the darkness. The shadows of the trees are heavy, and from a distance they look like people with their bodies on their backs, if it weren't for the Taoist priest around, I'm afraid I would have been scared to pee.
After walking for a while, I felt a little strange, it stands to reason that I should have seen the village a long time ago, how could there be no shadow at all? I looked at him, and just wanted to ask what was wrong, but when I saw that his face was wrong, my heart tightened, and I knew that something was wrong, and I immediately became vigilant.
Sou!
Suddenly, there was a sound of the air being cut through the dark forest, and the Taoist priest screamed badly and pushed me, and I stumbled and fell to the ground, and at the same time a dark chopstick-like thing was suddenly nailed to the dirt ground at my feet.
I looked at it, and the cold sweat broke out all over my body, and I saw that the thing nailed to the ground was an iron crossbow arrow, if it wasn't for the Taoist priest pushing me, I'm afraid I would have been pierced by that arrow.
"Who is it, which bastard, come out to Lao Tzu!" It was clear that it was a killer, and I was furious, shouting deep into the woods, and trying to rush in and catch the guy who was plotting against me.
The Taoist priest hurriedly grabbed me, and between the pulls, a figure came out of the woods.