Chapter 12 Overnight in a mountain village
The leather bag scolded my ancestors and flipped it over. I didn't think that this kick was too hard, and before I was ready, the vine suddenly became hard, and I was carried down along with the large boulder at the end of the rope. And then there's -
"Poof!"
"Poof! Poof! ”
Although it is early summer, the water in the pond is still bitterly cold. I slapped my whole body flat on the surface of the water, and after the flesh collided with the water, there was a "pop" sound, and I felt that the ribs that had been broken were now completely shattered, and the severe pain in my entire chest almost made me faint.
I didn't have time to breathe, I began to sink as fast as I could, the biting pool of water filled my mouth and nose, and the blood vessels in my face suddenly contracted, and I opened my eyes suddenly. Then my body began to rise rapidly, and I finally got a breath of fresh air before being slapped into the water again. The undercurrent at the bottom of the pool began to push us far away, and I couldn't swim in one direction at the bottom of the turbulent river, so I had to try to control my balance and resign myself to fate.
I was swept away for a long distance, and then I felt the water start to warm up and the roar above me became weaker. I flapped twice with my feet, and then I saw the sun and blue sky that I hadn't seen for a long time, and I was alive again!
The vines had already been shattered by the violent impact, and I cried out, for I was close to dying with Leather Bag in the middle of nowhere.
I swam to shore with great difficulty, violently trying to cough up the water that had entered my lungs. Then down the tidal flats, less than a kilometer away I found a dying leather bag. Lucky enough, he was washed ashore by the rushing river, and now he is lying there motionless. The mouth and nose are wet with mud, and the chest is slightly undulating with a large mouth.
"Leather, leather?" I rushed over to rub his sludge-covered face.
"Ahem-poof!" Mud, sand and saliva splashed on my face, a living one. Then I started slapping him on the abdomen and back so hard that the river was mixed with bile, and the leather bag spat out several gulps.
Leather Bao'er scolded, "You don't do justice, dare, dare, wow- dare to kick me!" And lied to me, saying Newton, Newton, wow-"
"Don't dare, don't dare." I laughed teasingly.
We're alive again, and it's good to be alive.
We helped each other down the river, and as the sun was about to set to end, we finally arrived at an unknown village. We opened the door of a small farmhouse courtyard, and out of it came an old man with a white towel wrapped around his head and a dry smoking gun in his mouth.
"Uncle, how do you go to the city, where can I take the car?"
"That's not a good thing! It's such a late day, and there are no cars in the village! ”
Henan dialect! You must know that in the city, there are people from all over the world, and foreign accents are not uncommon. But in a rural area where birds don't poop, it's still very rare to have a non-local household.
"Big, uncle, please ask, where is this?"
"Xinyang!" The uncle at the door took two puffs of dry tobacco again, "What! Not hit? ”
"Medium! Middle! "Leather bag and I looked at each other.
"Why did you go to Henan! Didn't you say that the black skin drove you, and crossed two provinces in a few hours? Leather Bag looked at me with a puzzled look on her face.
"How the do I know!" I remembered what the Black Skin said about the ghost way, "Maybe I'm mistaken." ”
"It's all wrong." Leather Bag muttered quietly.
"What the hell are you here for?" The uncle had already taken two steps back vigilantly.
"String relatives, my uncle heard that he was the head of this village, and he didn't find it, so he thought about going back. Uncle, do you know how the village chief's house is leaving? "I'm making up a nonsense, I want to send this old guy back first, and I'll figure out a way with Leather Bag.
didn't want to hear me say this, the uncle looked me up and down several times, and then slowly spit out the words: "I am." ”
Gotcha, this time the muzzle of the gun. The words could not be said clearly, and the atmosphere was very awkward. "Oh, oh. You, you are. Hahaha, then it's possible to remember wrong, remember! It's not this village. ”
Uncle White Turban took two puffs of cigarette and glanced at me again, "To be honest, I can call the whole village to come!" ”
I couldn't hide it when I saw it, and I thought to myself that I had nothing to do here. told the truth, "Uncle, in fact, we were coerced to come here. Someone kidnapped us and drove us to a house on the hill. It was an old house, and then at night the house was haunted, and the Japanese were troubled, and then it rained, and then I ran out to get the cat's skin and thunder to smash me......"
Uncle White Turban took two puffs of dry cigarettes, and the white towel was tied to his head, "I said if you are sick!" The uncle took the copper cigarette stick and pointed to the peak like a knife, "There is no road at this mountain in front of our village, let alone driving, people can't climb it." I also built a house, and I made a goblin, little rabbit cub, you can leave here and tell me about fasting! ”
Bao Er hurriedly came up to play a round, "Uncle, don't pay attention to him, my buddy is sick here." He pointed to his head casually, "We are here for tourism, we are planning to climb the mountain, but when we reach the bottom of the mountain, we find that we can't climb at all as you said, and when we come back, we find that we have missed the shuttle back to the city." What's that, uncle. Bag took out my purse from her butt pocket and pulled out two wet red tickets from it, "This is a little bit of our heart, can we borrow it for a night?" ”
The uncle didn't see anything else, and saw that the two tickets were all wrinkled together. "Medium! Middle! I'm not too little, I'm not too little. Then he didn't care about the ticket and put the money in his pocket.
"Come in. But it's okay, you have to take care of the mental illness! Uncle dodged a crack, and I squeezed in with a smile on my face.
I punched my purse from behind, "I said, I can't find my wallet!" ”
The leather bag smiled, "Get used to it, get used to it." ”
The farmhouse is simple, and the entrance is a shadow wall with a golden rooster painted with tiles. Turning the shadow wall wall is a quite spacious farmhouse yard, the only large piece is that the tractor used for farming is parked at the west end of the wall, and the shovel, hoe, climbing plow and other farm tools are placed in the corner of the wall, and the two rooms in the east side room are used to burn the fire for cooking and putting sundries, and the west corner is a self-built toilet.
The courtyard is also clean, and there are no free-range chickens and geese like the northern farmers. To the north are four main houses, and a three-flowered cat lies lazily on the lime-milled balcony.
"Old woman, a guest has arrived." The white turban shouted at the East House.
After a while, a woman in a white apron came out of the east room.
"The old woman is here, so I'll add two more dishes today." Then the white turban happily took out a hundred dollars from his pocket and gave it to the woman, "The guest gave it." ”
I said in my heart that this old boy is still a strict wife.
The farmhouse in the evening was comfortable, and we were busy for a long time, and an authentic farmhouse meal was finally cooked. Uncle Bai Turban arranged the dining table in the courtyard, a plate of peanuts, a plate of scrambled eggs, a large pot of vinegared shredded potatoes, seasonal vegetables and a small bowl of old sauce.
That's it for the farmhouse meal, but it's plain but safe. The bun is enough, and I gobble it up with the leather bag. Seeing that we were eating so well, Uncle White Turban happily took out a bottle of wine from the east room, "Come, young man, try it." Home-brewed, good stuff. ”
We all poured a glass, picked up the wine glasses and drank them one after another. I only feel that this wine is bitter when I first taste it, and the entrance is extremely spicy, so that I really feel a chill in my heart, and it is extremely refreshing.
"Mint-flavored?" I smacked the taste in my mouth.
Uncle White Turban glanced at me again, and said to Leather Bao'er, "Your friend is sick, take care of it, what are you wandering around!" I am a serpent, and gall, and wine. Then he said word by word.
The leather bag sneered.
"No, uncle, don't talk about snake bile, I've drunk bear bile, it's not like this." I say.
The white turban proudly lit the cigarette gun and took two sips. "Special, right? That's right. Wine is the same wine, but the serpent's gall is to use our serpent of the mountain. After drinking our wine, it can not only invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis, but also strengthen the body and eliminate toxins from the body. After speaking, the goldfish looked at the sky and was complacent.
I took a bite of the green onion and looked at him, and said to myself, the more I listened, the more it looked like the fake medicine sold on TV. "Uncle, tell us about this mountain, what is the name of this mountain?"
The white turban took two puffs of cigarette, "This mountain is called Feilai Peak, it is a barren mountain and a wild mountain, there is nothing to say." If you want to play, go to Dabie Mountain, which is not far from here. Paddle a boat and see how good the water is, this poor country is undeveloped, there is no fun. ”
"Feilaifeng, why is it called such a name?"
"There's a saying for that." As the head of a village, there is a little ink in his stomach after all. The old village knocked the smoke pot on the ground, "Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor fought Chiyou in Zhuolu, and after Chiyou was defeated, he ran to Xinyang, Henan Province to bring in rescuers. Legend has it that at that time, there was an unfathomable bottomless pit here, which was the entrance between the two worlds of yin and yang. Chi You came here to invite the Yin soldiers to Linyang and break the Yanhuang Alliance. I didn't want this to be known to the Yellow Emperor, so I used my divine power to move this mountain from the heavenly realm to suppress the exit of the Netherworld, giving Chiyou the final blow, and the Chiyou army was defeated from then on, and no longer had the ability to compete with Yan Huang for the world. Since this mountain flew overnight, later generations called this place Feilai Peak in order to commemorate it. ”
After the old man finished speaking, he lit a pot of cigarettes, crossed Erlang's legs, and squinted at the night sky with unfinished eyes, as if waiting for us to appreciate his knowledge.
"You see?" My brain pumped.
The white turban choked on an old cigarette, coughing again and again, trembling and pointing at me, "I said that you have a brain disease, and you have told legends, legends!" With that, the old man snorted and went back to the house.
I just laughed in the yard and poked me in my bag. I said, "Who made him say I'm insane." ”
The eldest lady smiled and didn't speak, and began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks. We helped the eldest lady put away the dishes and chopsticks, smoked in the yard for a while, and then went back to sleep.
We were arranged in the westernmost room of the main house, the easternmost room where the old couple lived, the middle room was the living room, and the other room was reserved for the sons and daughters-in-law who went out to work.
Beds in the countryside are generally very large, and we both have more than enough to lie on our legs horizontally. I can finally sleep peacefully, and I have fallen apart after tossing and turning for the past two days. Don't say it, after drinking that snake gall wine, I feel less pain in my body,
What's even more amazing is that it feels like even the broken place is buying healing. I discussed with Leather Bao'er that we would go our separate ways tonight, never do this fucking business again, and find a job to earn a living.
The two of us chatted and fell asleep, we were so tired. I don't know how long it took, but I felt unusually thirsty in my mouth, and I knew it was a thirst from drinking too much liquor. I opened my eyes in a daze, and the bright moonlight sprinkled on the courtyard, making the whole courtyard as bright as day. I wanted to turn on the light and get some water to drink, and when I looked into the house, an old lady with silver hair was sitting at the head of the bed and looking at me with a smile.