How to say this place in Sichuan, it is really as its name suggests, it is full of mountains.

After getting off the train station, we got on a long-distance bus, four hours of winding mountain roads, my heart hung in my throat and never went down, the bus ran up on the edge of the cliff, and waited for the bus to take a small gold cup for two hours, and then a motorcycle.

When I got to the place and looked at the towering mountains, I swallowed and said, "It's time to fly?" ”

"Where!" Liu Laosan smiled, "Yujia Temple is in this mountain, and you will arrive after crossing this mountain." ”

I grew up on the edge of the Yellow River, where most of the plains and mountains, like the kind of mountains in front of me that can raise your head and neck can be sore is still rare, at that time the sky is getting late, the white mist of the mountain air is permeating the mountainside, the forest is dark, inexplicably some heart palpitations.

I looked at the following table: "It's past 6 o'clock now, and it won't be dawn until I get there." ”

"It's okay, those things in the mountains have become refined in a hundred years, and they have become spirits in a thousand years, if that thing is really a heavenly spirit, just wait for us to climb to the top of the mountain and look at the mountain and see what it is."

"What can you see in the middle of the night when you climb to the top of the mountain?" I was surprised.

Liu Laosan smiled and said: "Before the sun rises, when yin and yang meet, and the sheep must be at sunset, when the yin is gradually darkening, Yujiamiao does not accept outsiders at night, we just do things at night, and rest there during the day." ”

The mountain in front of you is steep, the dense forest is horizontal, the branches of the trees are staggered and stretched, the sky is covered tightly, the outside is not dark, the forest is like the middle of the night, the visibility of the naked eye is very limited, the thatch under the feet is also very luxuriant, it covers the ground tightly, and the thatch on it grows almost high, but when you step down, it is likely that the drop will suddenly decrease by dozens of centimeters, and if you are not careful, you will have to suffer a big loss.

Climbing this kind of mountain is very physically demanding, less than an hour I was already tired and panting, Liu Laosan was like a nobody, leisurely strolling with his own back garden, I really couldn't help but say: "Master Liu, can you turn on the flashlight, I really can't see it." ”

Liu Laosan patted his head when he heard the words and said, "Look at me, I forgot, you don't have the ability to have night eyes." ”

As he spoke, he took out a very honest long-handled flashlight from the deerskin bag, and I felt slightly better after turning it on and illuminating it, but the night eye in his mouth made me interested, so I asked him what was going on, and he didn't seem to have any effect on such a dark day.

Liu Laosan said with a smile: "There are four unique treasures, and there are five skills in the shepherd, although the two are not the same, but it is also a craft of eating." ”

I found a rock and sat on it, took off my shoes and rubbed my sore feet, curious about what these five techniques were.

Liu Laosan explained that these five techniques are called night eyes, ear clearing, qi separation, hand balancing, and long walking.

"Night Eye" refers to the ability to see things at night, and can see the scene in the dark with only a faint light;

"Clear ears" refers to the ability to hear, which can hear sounds and identify positions, accurately lock on to targets, whether it is tracking or avoiding danger, it is crucial;

"Qi separation" refers to the ability to smell, to be sensitive to all kinds of smells in the environment, to be able to distinguish the rustic smell of various plants and trees, as well as the body odor of various animals;

"Hengshou" refers to the flexibility of the hands, at least to be able to tie the sesame seeds with hair, so that you can control the strength of the hands as you like, so that you can send and receive freely;

"Long walk" is about physical strength and endurance, do this line, inevitably to climb the mountain and cross-country, must have a certain physical strength, endurance and weight-bearing capacity, if you can't practice these items, but also want to lead the sheep to hunt for treasure, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.

I was stunned when I heard it, it seems that this line of work is not as simple as I thought, it is difficult to achieve a small achievement without ten or eight years of bloody hard training in any of the five techniques, and the ability of the treasure holder is far above the shepherd, but I can imagine how difficult it is to cultivate the four uniques.

Originally, I wanted to learn the skills of the treasure holder in the past five years, so as to avenge my grandfather, but in this way, just like Liu Laosan said, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Thinking of this, he sighed unconsciously, Liu Laosan sat next to me and patted me on the shoulder and comforted: "I know what you are thinking, you are the apprentice of the eighth master, can the eighth master do things according to ordinary people, you can't think of his means, don't worry, when the eighth master is idle to guide you, ensure that you step up to the sky, what heavenly and earthly treasures, they are all baby cabbage." ”

I nodded, put on my shoes and prepared to hurry, but at this moment, a black shadow flashed in front of me, so fast that I didn't even see what it looked like, and disappeared into the deep forest.

I was taken aback, and quickly stood up and shone the flashlight in the direction where it disappeared, but Liu Laosan pressed the light of the flashlight and made a silent gesture, his narrow eyes became a slit, and then sneered: "The heavenly spirit is about to be born, and these beasts are restless." ”

I asked him what he was, Liu Laosan said it was okay, maybe it was a rabbit lynx or something, I said no, what kind of rabbit lynx has a leg?

Old Liu San's body stiffened suddenly, and he looked at me incredulously, "Did you see that thing clearly?" ”

I shook my head and said no, but from the shadows it looked like there was only one leg.

I didn't lie to him, although the thing was too fast to see, but I clearly saw that it seemed to be jumping, not running, like an arrow that had been fired, and for a moment in the air, I seemed to see that the thing had only one leg hanging under me, and it looked like a human foot.

Originally, it was just a guess, but seeing Liu Laosan's reaction, did he really only have one leg?

Liu Laosan looked at me complicatedly, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he said, "It's the mountain spirit." ”

Mountain spirits?

I remember that a few days ago, Sister Yu seemed to tell me that the mountain spirit is a humanoid one-legged monster, with a human face like an old bustard, and its feet are backwards, only three or four feet long.

There is a saying in the mountains: I would rather listen to the crow than listen to the laughter of the mountain spirit, which means that if the mountain spirit laughs, there will be dead people in this place, and someone will go to the Lord of Yama to report.

I thought about it, I didn't seem to hear any laughter just now, so I asked Liu Laosan if he heard it, and he also shook his head and said he didn't hear it.

"Our luck won't be like this, it's not a good sign to meet this thing when we enter the mountain." I said.

Liu Laosan looked around and snorted coldly, "Don't worry about it, when we take the red sheep with us, whatever mountain spirits and dog spirits will be brought back to stew." ”

Having said that, Liu Laosan was obviously much more cautious on the next road, and his speed slowed down, and I kept following him closely, gritting my teeth and climbing to the top of the mountain in one breath, and it was already the second half of the night.

Before closing my eyes, I saw Liu Laosan sitting on the ground with his back to me, took out a long dry tobacco stick from the deerskin bag, gently wiped the match and lit it, and began to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog.

Yang Laosan's figure was originally somewhat similar to my grandfather, and at that moment I almost took him for a dead grandfather, his nose was a little sour, and he looked at his back and fell asleep.

That night I slept very unsteadily, I always felt as if there was a pair of eyes staring at me not far away, but my body was so weak that I couldn't open my eyes, and I was half-asleep until the sky gradually turned white, and I heard the sound of Liu Laosan getting up on the side, I suddenly opened my eyes, knowing that I was a nightmare last night.

The moment I woke up, I looked in the direction where the eyes came from last night, it was a dense forest, there were dense shrubs and weeds, and then I couldn't see it clearly, I didn't dare to rush over, so I was going to call Liu Sanshou a piece, but I found that Liu Sanshou was standing in the open field not far away, with his hands on the side of his chin, as if he was looking at things and was in a trance.

At this time, the sun has not risen, the night has dissipated, it is the time of the alternation of day and night, Liu Sanshou is like this, is he looking at qi?

I didn't dare to disturb him, tiptoed to his side, and found that his eyes were slightly open, his head was slightly tilted, and his eyes seemed to be looking straight ahead, but his attention seemed to be in the corner of his eye, and the whole person also entered a very silent state at this moment, like a sleeping baby, and he would wake up at a touch.

Liu Sanshou kept this way for less than 2 minutes, his eyes suddenly rolled, and he exhaled slightly, and then I asked, "How is it?" ”

"The red sheep turned black."