Chapter Twenty-Three: The Edge of the Deep Mountains
Although Jiang Yao looked into the distance attentively, his stomach, which had not eaten for a day, rumbled and dragged him back from his thoughts, coupled with the fact that he was disgusted by the female ghost before and vomited out bitter gall, Jiang Yao was really not light.
"Uncle, you said conjuring?" Ginger Yao aftertaste.
"Well, yes, the Conjuring." Lao Liu said casually: "I have a lot of old man, since I have let you see some things, I don't need to hide it from you anymore." ”
Jiang Yao didn't answer again, but felt that this old man was a little immodest.
"Uncle, who did you learn from?" Jiang Yao asked.
"This ......" Lao Liu's face turned, obviously not wanting to mention it again, but said: "You haven't eaten all day, drink with the old man?" ”
"Drink? Drink a little, just drink a little. But first I said that I had to buy wine, save my life, and repay it with wine. Jiang Yao also said exquisitely.
"Then I'll prepare two dishes, stew the crucian carp given by the eldest sister of the dormitory manager next door last time, and make up for your kid." When Lao Liu heard that there was wine to drink, his heart blossomed.
In the blink of an eye, there were two bottles of Niulanshan, a plate of peanuts, cucumbers, shredded tofu and the well-cooked crucian carp on the small table in the kitchenette and storage room of the dormitory room.
"Alas, you kid is really, I haven't mentioned my master and my classmates to anyone for many years. Since you kid asked, I'll tell you about it. Lao Liu took a bite of fish meat for Jiang Yao and put it in the bowl, obviously satisfied with his cooking skills, and then took a mouthful of tofu shreds and put them in his mouth, and chewed and said.
"Uncle, you say, I love to listen to stories." Jiang Yao tasted the fish and meat really well, and he was about to listen to the story while praising Lao Liu's cooking skills.
This old and young, although they have not known each other for a long time, they are extremely close to each other, coupled with the relationship that is inexplicable for a while, the two have become mutually dependent in this strange environment.
"Back then." Lao Liu cleared his throat, made a storytelling look, and picked up the wine glass in his hand to signal Jiang Yao to toast, "Our northeast is in this mess, especially in remote places, there are many mountains, and all of them are black mountains as far as the eye can see. Rely on the water to eat the water, and rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. Our children from poor families have to be in charge of the family at an early age. It is said that at that time, there were no poor people. My brother, when I was six years old, followed my eldest brother, who was four years older than me, into the mountains to hunt pigweed. ”
Lao Liu paused for a moment, thinking that he was greedy for wine glasses, and after a small glass, he continued: "I went out in the middle of the afternoon, and only made a big basket of pig forage when the sun set, I walked and played in front of the eldest brother, and the eldest brother carried a heavy basket, and the already thin child was out of breath. ”
Lao Liu said that he didn't know if it was the uncomfortable redness of his eyes, or the strength of alcohol, and he stretched out his right hand and rubbed his reddened eyelids vigorously.
"Uncle, eat some food, don't just drink, let's talk while eating." Jiang Yao also gave Lao Liu a mouthful of fish and put it in a bowl, "From the snack fish, my mother just clamped the meat on the belly of the fish under the head of the fish for me, which is fat but not greasy and fragrant." ”
"You're a good boy, you're all catching up with the good times." After talking for a long time, Lao Liu ate the first bite of his own fish.
"Come, cucumber cold skin with white wine." Jiang Yao and Lao Liu had a drink, and then listened to Lao Liu.
"Don't look at the eldest brother in his teens, but he is completely more sensible than your current teens, he is completely a little adult, and he walks down the mountain with a basket on his back wholeheartedly. There was no place to put the machete, so I took it in my hand and played around with it, and the weeds and branches in the field were scattered, and I was jumping around, and I swung the machete out, and I ran forward to pick it up. But when I opened the grass, I would never forget it, and I didn't dare to cry at that time......"
"Uncle, what do you see?" Jiang Yao blinked and waited for Lao Liu to say, but Lao Liu wanted to order it like a storyteller, and then he continued satisfied.
"Passed down from generation to generation, in the deep mountains and old forests of the northeast, there are endless treasures and countless spiritual objects. Mountains nourish countless strange things. When I opened the grass, I found a white python staring at me, the python head had a lot of horns, and the whole python head was lying on the ground, even taller than the six-year-old me. Seeing that I was silent, the eldest brother in the back hurriedly rushed over, and when he saw such a divine object as he spoke, he spread his hands and fell all the baskets of hay to the ground.
But the eldest brother is the eldest brother after all, and even if his mind is immature, he is far better than me. The eldest brother put down the object in his hand, and he didn't even have any scruples about chopping wood, and he was about to run away with me.
But at this moment, the motionless mouth didn't open, but a voice came out: 'Child, I should have this calamity today, it was you who broke my Jackie Chan Ascension, although I am unwilling, I can't blame the two of you, but my limit is approaching, and the things that the five decay tools will come to guard under me will not know how, you two will keep it for me, and I will meet someone who is destined in the future, and I will take it away. ’
The two of us didn't dare to gasp, trembling our legs after listening to the words of the python spirit, and nodded again and again in agreement. In the blink of an eye, the white python let out a long roar, like a dragon's sorrow, and turned into a violent white light and disappeared into the air.
The two of us looked down, and sure enough, there was a meat dumpling the size of a human head. The two of us didn't dare to slack off, poured clean the basket, and carried the meat balls down the mountain. Lao Liu barely touched the dishes and wine on the table, and finished the story in one go.
"And what about later? What happened to you, uncle? Jiang Yao stopped when he saw the story and said while eating.
"Later, the two of us went down the mountain to bring home such a monster, the whole village was fried, countless people came to my house to see the excitement, and the slightly learned squire insisted that this was Tai Sui, saying that it was not good for Tai Sui. It also happened to be a drought in a large area of the Northeast at that time. The people of the village discussed to send Tai Sui. Leave this hoodoo away.
But at this time, a young Taoist priest who traveled all over the world happened to pass by my house and said to the villagers that Tai Sui could only be a scourge if he stayed, and he might as well hand it over to him. The family and the villagers all agreed to take the Taoist priest away. Before leaving, he learned that I had found this object, and that I was a rare genius with excellent talent, so he discussed with my family to accept me as a beginner, learn some Taoist skills from him, and make a living in the future.
Every poor family can't open the pot, and when I hear that there is less mouth to eat, not to mention that after ten years of study, I am still such a person. happily agreed to the Taoist priest's request.
Until one day ten years later, that is, when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, my master suddenly asked me to go down the mountain and go home, and the master's life was difficult, not to mention that since I left home since I was a child, I said goodbye to my master and returned to my hometown...... "Lao Liu's neck is already red, and in this long story, Lao Liu does not eat vegetables, only drinks. A bottle of Niulanshan, Lao Liu drank it by himself.
"You haven't learned this kung fu in vain, and you can still use it now." Jiang Yao listened with relish, and after learning about the white python that spoke and disappeared out of thin air, he firmly believed that this world was strange.
Jiang Yao opened another bottle of Niulanshan and poured it for Lao Liu, and he was hungry and panicked, and he ate the meal in a big gulp.