Chapter 39: The Mysterious Old Woman
At nine o'clock in the morning, I came to the foot of Lotus Mountain. When I got out of the car, I specially asked the driver, but unfortunately, he didn't know where Qingyueguan was. It is estimated that since the Qingyue Taoist left, this Qingyue Temple has been abandoned.
I climbed halfway up Lotus Mountain with some tourists, thinking about standing four times higher to see if I could see the shadow of Qingyueguan.
As I was watching, an uncle who looked like a nearby farmer came out of the path on the side, and I hurriedly walked over: "Uncle, what are you doing in the mountains?" β
The uncle carried a basket and looked at me with a smile: "Add a grandson, get some wild vegetables and go back to stew a chicken!" β
"Oops, congratulations!" I smiled and hugged my fists: "By the way, uncle, do you know that there is a Qingyue Temple near here?" β
"What's the view?"
"Qingyue View!" I said it out loud: "A place to pretend to be a Taoist!" β
"Daoist?" The uncle smiled and shook his head: "Then you go to Longhu Mountain!" Where is it? Hey, no, come and see! β
As if he suddenly remembered something, the uncle pulled me to a boulder to the east, pointed to a forest below, and said, "Have you seen it?" There it is! There seems to be a ruined Taoist temple in that forest, as for the name of the child, I don't know, you can go and see it. β
Did you really find it?! I couldn't help but be overjoyed, hurriedly thanked my uncle, and then found a way to go down, all the way down the mountain, the heart was originally to try luck, I didn't expect to really be able to find it, I don't know if the Qingyue Taoist left any clues in the Qingyue Temple!
Nearly an hour later, sweating profusely, I finally stood in front of the Qingyue Temple.
Yes, this is indeed the Blue Moon View. Because on the broken door, there are three ugly traditional characters, although there are a few pieces missing, but you can still recognize the three words "Qingyueguan".
It's really a dilapidated Taoist temple...... I stood in front of this small Taoist temple and saw that one of the walls had fallen down for the most part, and I could see that the courtyard inside was overgrown with weeds, and I walked in, and I didn't know where the door of the front hall had gone, and there was a statue of a god inside, and I didn't know who it was.
Soon I looked around and found nothing worth looking at, or that there was nothing complete in this temple other than the statue.
I shrugged my shoulders and stood in front of the statue and bowed three times, which can be regarded as repaying my vows to Qingyue Daoist.
Walking out of Qingyueguan, I called my second uncle and told him that I had found Qingyueguan, and if there was nothing to do, I would go back in the next two days.
When I hung up my phone, it was already noon, and my stomach began to growl, remembering that I had eaten a lot of miscellaneous things in the past few days, and it was time to find a place to eat something I wanted to eat.
Since the direction I came from was the mountain, I looked left and right, determined the direction outside the mountain, and walked forward.
The woods seemed to be rarely visited, and it was overgrown with weeds, and I walked forward to pull the weeds that had lost my legs as I walked.
I didn't walk for a few minutes, and suddenly I felt a shake under my feet, and before I could react, I stepped on the air and fell!
"Ahh......h
I only had time to scream, and then I felt myself tumbling down the hillside, hitting the rocks so hard in the middle, I don't know how many turns, and finally stopped.
"...... Really back! "Luckily, the stone hit my leg, and if it had hit my head, I would have blossomed!
I covered my head and wanted to sit up, but I felt a pain in my left calf, my heart was not good, it should be a fracture, and it was too sad to break a bone in this barren mountain and wild place!
I pulled out my phone and prepared to call 120, and now it was the only one who could save me......
"Kid, what's wrong with you?"
Before I could dial the number, a voice suddenly came from the bushes on the side, startled me, and I hurriedly turned my head to look, only to see an old woman in her seventies and eighties, dressed in coarse cloth clothes and somewhat hunchbacked, standing a foot away on crutches, squinting at me.
"Grandma, I fell off the mountain......" Seeing that the old woman should be a resident of this neighborhood, I smiled bitterly: "It seems that I broke my lower leg." β
"Oh, that's it, come, come home with me, and I'll treat you." The old woman's Mandarin turned out to be very standard, which made me suspicious, seeing her walking towards me from the bushes, I took a look, and was shocked, if it wasn't for my broken calf, I jumped up in fright!
"Grandma...... This?! I looked at the old woman's right leg with wide eyes, and subconsciously stretched out my hand and motioned for her not to come again.
The old woman was surprised when she saw me looking at her right leg, her brows furrowed slightly, and she opened her mouth and asked, "Child, can you see it?" β
I nodded, and swallowed a mouthful of salivaβon the old woman's right leg, there was a snow-white baby lying on it like a monkey, looking like a foot long, at most newborn, and when I looked at it, the baby winked at me and grinned at me with big eyes.
What's more, I may have been a little stunned by the fall just now, but now I feel a little chill in the back of my head!
"Don't be afraid, this, this is fate." The old woman said and sighed lightly: "It won't hurt you, and there is no malice, just rest assured." β
After that, the old woman threw the crutches in her hand to me: "Child, stand up by yourself and go home with me." β
I don't know whether to believe this old woman or not, she doesn't look like an ordinary person, she is probably a master, why is she here? But there was no other way at the moment, I wanted to refuse and wait here for the ambulance, but curiosity still prevailed over reason, I stood up with some difficulty with crutches, patted the dirt on my body, and jumped up and down after the old woman.
I didn't walk a few dozen meters, but I saw a clearing suddenly appear in a wood, a small wooden house appeared in front of me, and there was a shed outside the wooden house, and the stove and everything were under the shed.
"You sit down first when you enter the house." The old woman opened the door for me and motioned for me to go in first.
I nodded, thanked me, and slowly entered the room. The furnishings in the room are very simple, a bed, a cabinet and a wooden table, and there is nothing else. There seems to be another room on the east side, but the door is closed, so you can't see inside.
The door was open, the wind was a little cool, I sat on the stool and tightened my coat, and saw that the old woman was staggering in front of the stove and busy with something, and after a while a large bowl of stove soil came in.
I was stunned for a moment and asked, "Grandma, what is this for?" β
"This is rammed earth that has been burning in the stove for decades, and it can cure your broken bones." So the old woman put the bowl on the table, and went out with another bowl, and went into the woods not knowing what she was doing.
Can rammed earth in the stove cure my broken bones? This is a strange story, I have lived for more than 20 years and have never heard of such a remedy! Is there one in Chinese medicine?
If you come, you will be safe, anyway, it's all here, just wait. If you can't cure it, you can't cure it.
Ten minutes later, the old woman came back with a bowl carefully, I took a look at it, it was full of water, and asked, "Grandma, what kind of water is this?" β
"There is little snow here, but last night it went down a little bit in the mountains, and the snow in the bushes slowly melted and accumulated on the leaves or blades of grass, which is this water." The old woman said and poured the bowl of water into the rammed earth, and the strange thing was that the rammed earth, which had been burned for decades, melted away in an instant when it met this snow water, and soon became a large bowl of black and sticky mud.
"Give!" The old woman handed me a piece of wood: "You wipe the broken leg yourself, it's like a plaster, hurry up!" β
I hurriedly nodded and took it, lifted the pants of my left leg, and carefully applied the black mud to the broken calf with a piece of wood.
The mud was cold and biting, and the pain of the fracture was driven away in an instant, and as I applied it a little bit, my calf began to feel numb, although it was cold, but it was not painful. By the time I had finished applying it all, a feeling of coolness that I had never felt before filled my calf, and the pain I had felt before was gone.
"Grandma, it really works!" I shouted with a laugh.
The old woman was cooking at the stove outside, and after listening to my words, she came in and smiled at me: "That's natural, but the year and soil quality of the rammed earth, as well as the time when the snow melts are all corresponding, and the general rammed earth and snow water are useless." β
I smiled and nodded, "Then how long will it take for me to be fine?" β
The next sentence of the old woman almost made me bite my tongue: "By this time tomorrow, you will be able to jump and jump as before." β