Volume 1 Memoirs Chapter 11 Grandma's Story
This picture contains a lot of information, and it is not at all explained by a few sentences or articles. I also admire the person who invented it, and I also admire the place where it is hidden.
That's the cave behind my shack!
I'm sure everything that happened in that cave was man-made. The cave is indeed a natural existence, and so are the water and tunnels in the cave. But some people deliberately opened up many holes, creating a maze and making people who enter dizzy.
And the cave with lights is probably the beginning of the secret.
Unfortunately, I was too young to get in by mistake, and I couldn't remember the route at all. If you want to find it again, it's impossible. And I didn't dare to go later, even if I had a lot of modern technology products, I didn't dare to go down.
The passages inside are definitely not the only ones I walked on at that time. Whether I can find the big passage with the waterhole, whether I can find the big waterfall is the question. Even if I did, I don't know how I got to the lighted room, because I was unconscious.
Of course, that's all for later. Before that, in the days after I escaped from the cave, I had experienced a few things. Compared to the experience of the cave, it is not much to give.
After that, I should have been eight years old. Grandma suddenly came to Pingxiang and lived in her uncle's house.
My grandmother loves me very much, so I like to be with my grandmother very much, and I often go to my uncle's house to accompany my grandmother. On the contrary, the cousins did not like to stay at home with their grandmother.
At that time, I was also growing my body, and I was hungry easily. When the main meal is over, there is usually nothing to eat, so my grandmother will give me a few cents to buy some to fill my stomach.
At that time, I liked to buy a kind of triangular bread, which was cheap and filling, and it tasted very good, fragrant and soft. Interestingly, my grandmother also liked to eat this kind of bread very much.
Grandma didn't have any teeth, and the bread was so soft that it was just right for the taste. As a result, I often get to eat this bread.
It was a sunny summer, and it seemed like everything that happened when I was a kid was summer.
That morning, after the holiday, I went to my uncle's house to see my grandmother.
My grandmother's room was the innermost one, and it was leaning against a mountain. Open her back door and you'll see the mountain.
This mountain is not on the rock against which my shack rests, this one has dirt and trees on the surface.
My aunt raised a few chickens, ducks and rabbits on a small platform on this back gate mountain, and I sometimes liked to go to it with my cousin to catch rabbits and play, but every time I was scolded by my aunt.
We were scolded not because we caught rabbits, but because we climbed that half of the steep slope and got to the platform. It's actually very unsafe to do that.
And that day, my uncle's family went out to eat shou noodles, leaving my grandmother alone at home. My grandmother was very happy to see me, and she told me about the past.
Because it was hot in the room, my grandmother asked me to open the back door, sit in the doorway, and tell stories to the mountains.
Her stories were all about my grandfather, whom I had never met, and I was fascinated by them, and I felt as if I had gone back to my grandfather's era.
My grandfather inherited the property of his ancestors, was a landlord, a rich peasant, and owned a lot of land. You know, at that time, there were many mountains and rocks, and there were very few fields. A landlord who owns a lot of land, how powerful it is.
In the eyes of ordinary people, landlords should be very fierce, very domineering, and very unkind. But on the contrary, he likes to work in the fields, like to go up to the mountains to collect medicine, like to hunt in the woods, like to go into the water to fish, and is a very kind person with a wide range of friends.
I heard my grandmother say that once my grandfather heard someone say that a cow fell from a mountain, and the leg of the cow was broken in three, and it was useless, and it was thrown down the mountain, and no one cared about it.
It is worth mentioning that in my grandfather's time, no one ate beef there. One is that they dare not kill cattle, and the other is that the Zhuang people there have no precedent for eating beef. And many of the fields over there are on the mountainside, and when the cattle go up the mountain, some of them roll down and fall to their deaths and injuries. These cows, which are killed and injured by falls, are usually left there and left to rot.
Don't be a pity, there are so many cows in the mountains that you can doubt the world. Dead a few cows, no one will be sad.
As for my grandfather, he happened to have eaten beef with some friends from other places, and he also learned how to cook beef. Therefore, these cattle that were injured and killed by falls were generally asked to get them, which also happened to be cheap for him.
When my grandfather heard about it, he immediately brought someone and ran over with tools. The injured cow was slaughtered and the cow was relieved on the spot.
At that time, there were many people coming down the mountain to watch the excitement, and after the cow was slaughtered, my grandfather was embarrassed to take it home alone to enjoy, so he set up a bonfire and roasted beef for the onlookers.
At that time, it was almost evening, and by the time the meat was cooked and everyone had eaten beef for the first time, it was already night.
The location is still in the mountains, and the mountains were not as safe at night as they are now. But fortunately, there are many people, so there is no need to be afraid.
Everyone tasted the taste of beef for the first time, and it was so delicious that the whole cow was stunned and only the skeleton remained.
When it was completely solved and ready to break up, it was already the middle of the night. The nearby residents left in twos and threes, because my grandfather had to pack up his things, so they were left to the end. Fortunately, there is still one person he called for help who has not left.
The two gathered their knives and prepared to bury the skeleton and campfire in place, before leaving.
But when the helper was digging the soil and burying the bones, he actually threw out a golden thing against the backdrop of the bonfire.
He didn't even notice it at the time, but his grandfather found out. Grandpa quickly picked up the thing, and it was actually a small coffin made of gold and precious stones!
At that time, the ethnic minorities always believed in it, and when they dug up this thing, they were so frightened that my grandfather and the person who helped threw away the small golden coffin.
Then he hurriedly buried the bonfire and withdrew down the mountain.
But the weather was not very good that day, and there was no star and moon at night, so they got lost in the mountains. Walking around in the mountains, I don't know where I got to.
All the way, walking and walking, my grandfather suddenly tripped and fell, and his forehead was bloody.
It wasn't until he fell that my grandfather noticed his feet. In the dark night, there was something on the same dark ground that glowed with a golden pale light. That's what stumbled my grandfather.
Grandpa picked it up and saw that it was the little golden coffin he had thrown away.
At this time, my grandfather felt evil, thinking that it was his own disrespect and annoying something. So he hurriedly picked up the small coffin, prepared to take it out, and offered it to beg for forgiveness.
Strange to say, holding the small coffin, the two of them didn't turn a corner, and they actually walked out of the mountains and forests smoothly.
However, the place where they came out made the grandfather and the two dumbfounded. There, there is a huge basin surrounded by five mountains. There is no place for villages at all.
It was impossible to go back the way they came, so the two decided to find a place in the basin, and they would spend the night and talk about it tomorrow.
One night in the basin, neither of them could sleep, five mountains, the beast screamed all night, who dared to sleep?
The next day, when the grandfather and the two woke up, they were scared into a cold sweat. The two actually lay on a tombstone all night.
And just behind their heads, there was a large tomb that arched like a corn bud.
The words on the tombstone, my grandfather didn't recognize, didn't look like modern writing at all. As for the big tomb, there was a big hole in the side, and there were two animal bones lying at the mouth of the hole, and I don't know what kind of beast it was, because the bones were black.
Black bones, needless to say, have been attacked by drugs.
So, it's time for my grandfather's show. My grandfather will collect medicine and know some home remedies. He went back to the woods, got some herbs, and threw them into the cave. After a while, hang the herbs up again to see how the herbs change.
This is a kind of reagent herb, the earthwork of the aborigines in the old mountains, and outsiders don't know about it at all. My grandfather also went up to the mountain to slaughter cattle once, and he accidentally met these aborigines. After ordering beef from them, I taught my grandfather some home remedies, including this prescription for testing poison. This prescription reagent is called, Black Corpse Grass. There are six kinds of herbs, plus an ore powder that can be found in the mountains.
After the black corpse grass was fished up, the original turquoise color turned into black brown, which means that the bottom side is poisonous, and it is also very poisonous. The hole has been open for so long, and the poison is still so strong, which means that the poison is heavier than the air and sinks to the bottom.
Therefore, the grandfather and the two people who helped did not dare to go down. So they walked around the outside, looking for something representative and understanding who was buried in the grave.
But there was nothing but a tombstone outside, and even this tomb was bare, alone in the basin.
However, my grandfather found that there were several strange words engraved under the small golden coffin, which matched the words on the tombstone. So this little golden coffin should come from this tomb. But that's all there is to it.
Therefore, my grandfather had no choice but to write down the location of the tomb, and when he went out, he would find a way to come back to the tomb to see.
It is not easy to find a way out during the day, because there is no road in these five mountains, and I can't figure out how I got in last night or which direction.
Fortunately, my grandfather often went into the mountains, and he had some experience in finding directions in the wild. It took most of the day for my grandfather to find the place where the cattle were killed yesterday, and then successfully found a way out and went out of the mountain.
But later, my grandfather found someone and prepared to go into the mountains again to find the grave. But after a whole day of wandering around the mountains, I never found the five mountains and the tomb again.
Later, I thought it was the road of the golden coffin, so I went to invite the coffin again, and went into the mountain again for the second time.
But this time it was even worse than last time, and I couldn't even find the location where the cow was slaughtered, not only did my grandfather forget the location, but the family who lost the cow also forgot the location.
Later, I don't know how, but it spread. Some people say that the tomb buried an ancient prince, and there was a lot of treasure hidden in it, so the poison was released.
As soon as these words came out, many people went there to look for graves. However, since my grandfather came out, no one has ever found the tomb and the five mountains, and it has become the most mysterious place within a radius of dozens of kilometers.