Chapter 32: The Mountain God
Yang Kexing screwed the lid and put the pot in his backpack and carried it. We went down the mountain with trepidation. After going down the mountain, I went straight to the hot pot city. Told the hostess to open two rooms for us and asked if we had seen the two people who were with us. The hostess replied that she had not seen it. We told the proprietress that if we saw those two people, we would ask him to go to Cao Xu's jade shop to find us.
After the order, we ran to Cao Xu's store together.
After arriving at the store, Cao Xu and Huang Xu were in a daze in the store. When he saw us coming in, he hurriedly gave us a seat. After we sat down, Cao Xu asked us if Feng Laonong and Wan Bao had returned. We replied no.
Cao Xu said: "A few of you went down to the cave, didn't you shout at me yesterday?" I'd like to go down and have a look. "
Hearing Cao Xu say this, we knew that this kid had long known that there was such a hole in the mountain. We didn't answer Cao Xu, but asked Cao Xu if he knew yesterday that we might have gone down this hole?
After Cao Xu smoked the soft hair in a circle with us, he said, "That cave is the forbidden area of our Dushan Village!" Everyone in our village knew that there was such a cave, but no one had ever dared to go down it. I heard my grandfather say that there are gods in that cave, and the mountain gods of our Dushan Mountain live there. During the New Year's festival, the people in the village who go into the mountain to collect jade will throw some food into the cave and worship the mountain god, so that the mountain god can bless himself to be able to pick beautiful jade. "
When I heard this, I realized that the bones of the animals in the cave were yesterday.
"In that cave, people often encounter rare things, such as making offerings to the mountain gods, taking live chickens and ducks and throwing them in. It won't be long before you hear the sound of chickens and ducks squatting inside. If you look at it every once in a while, you will find that the chickens and ducks are gone, and there are a bunch of bones on the ground. There were people in the village who did not believe in the mountain gods, saying that there must be weasels or other wild beasts inside, and they said a lot of disrespectful things, and everyone complained about him. So he made a bet with the people, tied the rope to the tree, and went down into the hole with fire. All the people who went there stood outside the cave and waited for him, and when he went down, he turned around with torches and saw nothing. He scolded the mountain god in the cave. But as soon as the scolding stopped, I heard the man shouting for help. When the men standing above hurried down, the man who had gone down the cave was gone. The men did not dare to leave, nor did they dare to go down into the cave. They waited for a few days, but the man never showed up again. The people in the village even believed that the mountain god lived in it, and the person who dared to scold the mountain god must have angered the mountain god, and was taken away by the mountain god to watch the mountain for the mountain god. Since then, no one has dared to go down that hole again. "
"Later, my dad told me that the group of guests from 10 years ago must have gone down to that cave. Why? Because the treasures of the mountains are under the control of the mountain gods, the gang can only ask the mountain gods if they want to find Jasper. And the dozen or so people, after a few days into the mountain, really brought out the jasper from the mountain, but only a few people came back. The rest must have died in the cave. This may be the exchange condition of the mountain god, if you want to take away the most valuable treasure, you have to leave a few people to call the mountain god. Later, my brother told me. He studied in college and had a lot of atheist courses. It must be false to say that the mountain god must be false, and there must be a fierce beast in the cave that has eaten people. When my dad heard about it, he beat him up. Then he went to the entrance of the cave and threw more than a dozen chickens to beg the mountain god to save the ignorant children from talking wildly. When you come back, ask the guests if they have actually entered the cave. The guests did not deny it, but said that there was really a mountain god inside, and it was too dangerous. How many of them died before they came out! When my dad heard about it, he told our family about it, and he didn't dare to reveal it to anyone else. The last time you were in my shop, I didn't dare tell you these things. "
My God, the mountain god they speak of. Maybe it's the glossy face or the big leech we saw. This ignorant person, when he sees a man-eating monster, he will also offer them as gods.
After Cao Xu finished speaking, he asked us again about what he had seen in the cave. We saw that Cao Xu had said all these words, and we told him truthfully that we had indeed gone down the cave and turned around in a big circle. But nothing was found inside, except that there was a huge python trying to bite us. We ran away in time, and the snake didn't chase after us.
Cao Xu was skeptical, and asked us why we went down to that hole, whether it was also for the jasper.
We took the pot out of our backpack and showed it to him.
After he unscrewed the lid of the pot, he looked at the hole of the pot and was amazed! Immediately jumped up and pulled Huang Xu to watch. After looking at it for a long time, Cao Xu said: "Damn, you have made a fortune!" This seems to be jasper, but you put it in the pot yesterday? "
I said, "What jasper, this is the water that the serpent drinks." "
Cao Xu was puzzled, so he asked me what happened yesterday.
I said, "We really wanted to go into the mountain to find Jasper, but when we got down the cave, we found nothing." It's full of stones. Later, I walked along the path inside the cave to a cave and saw a large snake coiled there. It was the size of a cart, the size of a basin of water, and its eyes glowed green. When he saw us suddenly break in, he raised his head and bit us. We ran away in a hurry, and I ran slowly, and when I saw the snake move, there was a large pool of water under me. The green is lovely, and I think it must be jasper. When the big snake bit the big fat man in our gang, he filled a pot with a pot. Then he fled. But as soon as I filled the pot with the green water, the great snake turned its head and bit me. When they saw the snake biting me, they grabbed the snake by the tail from behind and cut it with their knives. When the snake hurts, it stops biting me and goes back to bite them. I just ran out of this space. However, I ran a little slower, and was swept by the snake's tail, which swept me down on the rock, and injured my leg. After speaking, he took out the wound and showed it to Cao Xu and them.
Cao Xu looked at my wound and smacked his tongue. He said, "Fortunately, I didn't go down, I'm afraid of snakes." When everyone heard this, they all laughed.