185 days of thunder
After the panicked Eight Kings ran back to the village, they began to knock on the door from door to door, and then said as if crazy: "Everyone come with me, this place is about to be affected by the thunder!" β
The people in the village didn't know what was going on, so they asked him, "What's wrong with you, Eighth King?" Why are you going with me? β
The Eight Kings panted and said, "Don't ask, quick, come with me, if it's too late, you'll die!" β
The Eight Kings have always been steady, and few people saw him so anxious, and one of the old men asked the Eight Kings: "Why are you dead?" It's going to rain soon, aren't you waiting for the rain to get wet? β
"Don't talk nonsense, I just went up the mountain and saw the golden carp, and it is the golden carp that is about to cross the catastrophe, you see, the clouds at this time are so low, and only the thunder is heard but there is no raindrops, this kind of cloud is the cloud of robbery written in the book, and the thunder is the thunder that the golden carp is going to cross. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
"Eight kings, don't just bluff us because you read too many books, it's not the first time I've seen this cloud, I don't believe what you said."
The Eight Kings immediately became anxious, grabbed the back of the neck of the man who spoke, pointed to the top of the mountain that he ran down and shouted, "I don't believe it, you can see for yourself! β
As soon as the words of the Eight Kings fell, there was a sudden loud rumbling bang on the top of the mountain, and then after that loud noise, a thick cloud of smoke and dust rose up.
In an instant, a bolt of lightning struck in the dark clouds directly above the top of the mountain, and the lightning landed in the same cave where the Eight Kings had just seen the golden carp.
A deafening thunder sound suddenly resounded in all directions, and all the villagers who saw this scene suddenly trembled, and many of the children who came out with it were immediately frightened by the thunder and cried.
"Oh no, the Thunderstorm has begun! Everyone, run with me. When the eight kings saw this lightning, they immediately shuddered, and then directly picked up a doll closest to him and beckoned everyone to run in the opposite direction of the mountain, and at the same time, he shouted in his voice, trying to call out some people who did not go out of the house.
When the Eight Kings started running, all the villagers present realized that something was wrong, and regardless of whether what the Eight Kings said was true or not, it was definitely right to follow him.
The lightning on the top of the mountain slashed down again and again, and a series of rumbling thunder shocked everyone's hearts, no matter what happened behind them, anyway, everyone was desperately trying to stay away from here, for fear that they would be struck by the lightning in the clouds if they ran one step slower.
As people fled, there were some elderly people who fell behind the group, and there were even stampedes after falling, in short, when Hachiwang stopped to catch his breath with a child in his arms, there were less than two hundred villagers left behind him.
You must know that there were more than 300 people in this village at that time, although there were some old people who were about to sink into the ground, but when the eight kings saw the rest of the group, there was still sadness and lamentation in their hearts.
These people ran out for more than ten miles, and when they looked back into the distance, they found that the top of the mountain that had been struck by lightning was actually bursting with layers of fire, and not only the mountain, but even the village where they lived was emitting thick black smoke.
Many of the people who survived began to cry, some were crying for their relatives who didn't keep up, some were crying about the house they had worked hard to build for half a lifetime, and some even cried for their daughter-in-law who didn't pass the door.
The Eight Kings put the child who had been crying in his arms into the ground, looked at the dark clouds in the sky in the distance and said to the rest of the people: "Please follow me for a while, this is the edge of the thunderclouds, and it may not be a safe place, and it is not too late for us to cry when we leave this area." β
Everyone was very grateful for the reminder of the Eight Kings, and at this time they all regarded him as their backbone, and when they saw that he said that they wanted to continue walking, everyone nodded silently and followed the Eight Kings along the dirt road all the way out.
To put it simply, after the catastrophe had passed, the Eight Kings returned to the village with the rest of the people that had been burned to the ground.
At this time, it is not too much to say that the village is a wasteland, not only the corpses of the stragglers cannot be found, but even the original village cannot be seen, and the survivors can't tell what is a corpse and what is black ash.
The Eight Kings couldn't stop crying as they looked around him, and when he regained his spirits, he left with a sighing crowd.
At this end of the story, Cuihua picked up the teacup in the house and poured herself a glass of water and said to us, "That's it, the Eight Kings brought the rest of the people to the present place, and the surviving people formed a new village, and named this village after the Eight Kings and called the Eight Kings Village. β
The fat man found a toothpick and picked his teeth and said, "Has the surviving person ever been to the mountain that was struck by the thunder?" β
"I don't know, this story is a matter of the Qing Dynasty, and there are many people from generation to generation, I don't know if this story is true."
I asked Cuihua, "Do you believe this is true?" β
Cuihua drank and shook her head: "I don't believe it, if it's true, when the eighth king dies, at least he must be set up a statue, and a house must be built near the stone statue to write down what good things he has done, so that people can remember this benefactor!" β
"Hey, Sister Cuihua knows so much! Is there such a place as an ancestral hall in our village? β
"No, there is only one land temple in our village, and few people go there to burn incense."
I frowned and pondered the story told by Cuihua, and said in my heart that this situation was not necessarily false, maybe something happened later, and it was not necessary that the people who knew about it died.
Cuihua saw that we were almost finished, so she put away the leftover soup on the table, and then said to us: "By the way, if you want to go to Liu Banxian's house, hurry up, it's getting dark, don't really have a ghost calling for your soul to take away at night!" β
The fat man patted his fat belly and said, "Sister Cuihua looked down on it, didn't you see my belly, if there is a ghost, I can push it back with a stomach." β
"Hehe, you're not Maitreya Buddha!" Cuihua made a joke and walked out with a plate and bowl open.
I asked the fat man to call Xu Lu over, and then closed the door and whispered to discuss what to do.
The fat man pondered for a while: "Hmm~ I think let's go to Liu Banxian first, after all, the first word written on the note is him, I suggest that we go in order." β
I nodded, then stuffed a few yellow talismans into my pocket, found a compass and said to the fat man, "Don't bring anything with you, this village is full of yang, even if there are ghosts, I can deal with it alone." β
The fat man looked at the snake-thorned short sword covered under my waist and said, "Can you lend me that little knife or something, and I don't know the bottom of my heart!" β
I thought about it for a moment, and then resolutely shook my head and rejected the fat man.
It was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, so I simply listened to Cuihua and took advantage of the dawn to find Liu Banxian'er.
But when the three of us were walking on the road, we found that there was no one on the street in the village, not even the old man and the old lady sitting under the wall to enjoy the shade.
The fat man shrunk his neck, and then asked me, "Xiaobai, is this the virtue you are talking about?" Why is there no one? β
Xu Lu said: "Will you work in the field?" It's October now, so I might as well go to the field to break sticks! β
The fat man pointed to the stick skin under the wall and said, "Isn't this all broken!" β
I shushed and said, "Shhh β
(To be continued.) οΌ