Chapter 23: The Strange First Mountain

The Zhuang dialect of "the first day of the first month", literally translated, is "the first mountain." ”

Chuyi Mountain is located in the west of Clam Tun, about 20 miles away from the village center.

It is a small mountain in the mountain range on the border between China and Vietnam, with overlapping peaks and peaks, innumerable points, and is called "100,000 mountains and mountains" by the world.

At the foot of the mountain on the east side of the first mountain, there is a huge mountain pond. Usually the waves are sparkling, the fish are wandering, and the water birds are flying. The surrounding black green hills and verdant forests are reflected in the water, and the whole pond is like a beautiful landscape painting.

But this mountain pond, every time it reaches the first day of the lunar calendar, terrifying and strange things will happen to it.

The quiet mountain pond, on the first day of the new year, I can't tell when, will suddenly let out a terrifying cry like a dragon and a tiger, with this cry, the water in the mountain pond was almost instantly sucked into the lava cave at the foot of the mountain, just now the mountain pond was still reflected in the green mountains and green trees, instantly exposed the craggy bottom of the pond.

Some bold people rushed to the pond when they saw this, and there were thousands of fish at the bottom of the pond that had not had time to escape into the lava hole. Among these fish are many strange prehistoric fish.

Those bold people desperately catch fish, and soon they will catch a lot of fish,

But in an instant, there was another roar at the foot of the mountain, and many huge springs of water gushed out of the lava cave at the foot of the mountain, and the pond was soon filled with water and returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

If they are too greedy, they are still nostalgic for the big fish when the spring water gushes out, and they are often drowned in the pond.

Because this phenomenon occurs on the first day of the lunar calendar, the locals call this mountain "Chuyi Mountain". ”

Some locals say that this area is caused by the ebb and flow of karst terrain and criss-crossing underground rivers.

Some people believe that there are monsters such as dinosaurs in the water, and they come out on the first day of the lunar calendar to make waves.

There is a certain pattern to follow in the tide of the sea. However, although this strange phenomenon also occurred on the first day of the lunar calendar, no one has ever been able to grasp when the water rises, when it falls, and what is the time difference between the rise and fall of the water?

Because of this weirdness, coupled with the fact that people often go to the bottom of the pond to catch fish and drown, some are drowned, are sucked into the molten cave, and even the corpse is gone, and the people nearby think that this is a terrifying and weird place, and very few people usually come here, saying that they want to go into the water to fish and fish, it is even more unheard of.

Ah Ba also said that the strangeness of the first mountain is that the lava cave at the foot of the mountain is cloudy all year round, and the water flowing out of the lava cave is cold to the bone.

From the clam tun to the first mountain, you have to cross a small river, the river surface is not wide, about 30 meters, the water is not very deep, when the water rises, it is chest deep, and when it falls into the water, it is waist deep.

The river has a very strange name, "The River of Broken Desire." ”

Aba told us that the name of the river came from an ancient legend.

It is said that one day of the Spring Festival one year, there was a newlywed daughter-in-law who wanted to go back to her parents' house, and her mother-in-law gave her a lot of gifts to take back to her father.

She walked to the river, only to find that there was no one to ferry, and there was no bridge over the river.

She just got married, and she didn't know the nearby road very well, so she just took a shortcut, and now she encountered this river, she was worried, how did I cross the river this time?

At this time, there happened to be a man grazing cattle by the river. He saw from afar a woman with a graceful and ruddy face walking towards the river, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

The woman thought, it is important for me to cross the river and go back to my mother's house, so I can't care about the man's fascinate eyes.

She walked in front of the man, blushed and asked the man, "Brother, can you carry me across the river?" ”

The man said: "Sister, it's not that I don't want to carry you over, it's just that it's freezing and the river is as cold as a bone, how can I carry you over?" ”

"You carry me over, and I'll give you two dumplings."

The man shook his head.

The woman thought for a moment and said, "Give you a chicken or a duck." ”

The man shook his head again.

The woman gritted her teeth and said, "Give you a jar of wine." ”

The man still shook his head.

Seeing that the woman was so anxious that she was about to cry, the man salivated and said, "Sister, I can carry you across the river, I don't want anything, just ...... After carrying you across the river, you did that with me for a ....... ”

The woman almost didn't scold, but she thought about it, I have to rush back to my mother's house, I can't wait by the river, I can't wait until the river dries up on the first day of the lunar calendar, right? Now when I return to my husband's house, it is already dark, and it is too late, and I will return the same way with the New Year's goods, and my husband's family still thinks that my mother's family will not let me enter the house!

There's no way, I'm wronged, promise him.

Alas, there is always a price to be paid for asking people to do things.

"Okay, I'll get you, let's go." The woman blushed.

The man came to the woman, quickly took off his clothes and pants, and after taking the burden from the woman's shoulders, he was about to squat down and carry the woman, but the woman said, "There are too many things, they are very heavy, you can carry them first, and then come back to carry me." ”

When the man heard that he could do that after crossing the river, he saw that the woman's breasts were high and her cheeks were red, and he was already anxious, and he wanted to run back and forth twice.

"No, I'll carry you and the New Year's goods across the river at once. You ride on my neck, and I carry the burden on my shoulders. ”

The woman did as he was told, and sat on the man's neck.

When the woman was steady, the man waded into the river.

At first, the woman rode on the man's neck, and her chest beat his neck one by one, and his whole body was as uncomfortable as fire, and then when he walked into the river, he found that the river was really colder than ice, and in an instant it was like thousands of sharp golden needles piercing his whole body, and he was so cold that his whole body shivered.

The man thought to himself, there is no way back at this time, bear with it, there will be great good things waiting for me when I cross the river! Man dies for money, birds die for food, and I die for that...... What if the body is cold once?

He endured the cold, slowly probed the stones in the river with his feet, staggered and waded through the water, and the riverbed of more than thirty meters was soon completed.

After coming ashore, the woman took the initiative to urge the man because she was in a hurry, saying, "Hurry up, I will leave when I am done." ”

But at this time, the man's lips were purple, his whole body was cold and stiff, his upper and lower teeth were fighting, he couldn't stand steadily, and he couldn't speak.

Hearing the woman tell him to hurry up, he felt that he didn't have any physical reaction at all.

He looked down at his pants, the thing had long since shrunk into his body and disappeared, and the fire of desire that burned all over his body before going down to the river just now had already been extinguished by the ice water.

The woman urged him several more times, but the man could not even stand up, and squatted on the ground with his hands on his shoulders and trembled. It wasn't so cold in the river just now, but after coming ashore this time, the wind blew, and it was even more cold and speechless.

He waved his hand to the woman helplessly and told her to leave.

The woman was already very angry at him for taking advantage of the fire, but now she saw that his limbs were stiff and shivering like a sieve, and his speech was difficult, and he thought that he would have to cross the river naked, because the clothes he had just taken off were placed on her on the other side of the river...... I couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him, so I gave him half a box of matches and asked him to hurry up and make a fire.

The woman took the New Year's goods and left.

The man trembled, found some dry wood and dry grass by the river, trembling his hands, holding the match dozens of times before finally lighting the fire.

After slowly roasting for a long time, the body gradually warmed up, and the thing on the lower body slowly returned to its current state.

Suddenly I remembered the woman, and suddenly I stood up and tried to chase her, but the woman was far away without a trace.

The man waded across the river naked in the winter, and when he got ashore, he had no desire.

After the news of this incident spread, the people in the vicinity called the river "Broken Desire River".

After Ah Ba finished telling this legend, everyone leaned forward and leaned back with laughter.

The flying fish boy asked Ah Ba, "Why is the water in that river so cold?" ”

Ah Ba said: The water of the river flows from the bottom of the mountain, and the lava cave at the foot of the mountain is cloudy all year round. It is said that the water in the lava cave should be cool in winter and cool in summer, but the water of that river is different, the water is very cold in winter and cold in summer. It's kind of weird.