The path in the mountains was only about one person wide, and it was mostly covered by weeds on both sides, and Edamame walked in front, walking cautiously while constantly tapping the grass on both sides with the mountain knife in his hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Be careful, at this time, the hibernating snake has just woken up, don't be bitten."

The two people behind him also looked stunned when they heard this, their eyes widened, and they carefully paid attention to their feet.

The mountain was covered with tall trees, and the spacing between the trees was very narrow, and the dense canopy shrouded the air, blocking the already dim light, and the forest seemed a little dark.

The further they went, the thicker the fog became, and the three of them walked along the forest path for about half an hour, and there was a white expanse in front of them, and the visibility became lower and lower.

Dongdong stopped the edamame in front of him and said, "Douzi, you see that the fog is so big now, don't accidentally get separated, or let's wait for the fog to clear before leaving." ”

Edamame looked around, shook his head, and said, "This is a mountain col, water vapor gathers, and this fog can't be dispersed for a while, let's walk slowly, and it should be better when we cross the mountainside." ”

The three of them continued to walk, walked for more than an hour, and finally walked through the mountainside, and the fog around them was really thinner, and they could already see about ten meters clearly.

"Ouch! I can't! Dongdong sat down on the ground and wailed against a tree behind him.

Edamame glared at him, "Why didn't you say you couldn't do it when you ate in the morning......"

However, he looked at Jiang Xiaoyan, who was also out of breath behind him, and had to say, "Okay, let's rest in place for twenty minutes first!" ”

The three of them stopped walking, the more up this mountain path became, the more difficult it became, there were many places where there were no traces of the road, but fortunately, the goal was very clear, whether there was a road or not, as long as you walked in the direction of the top of the mountain, you could always find the small temple.

After walking for almost three hours, the mountain became steeper and steeper, basically a steep slope greater than forty-five degrees, and the path from which he started had long been lost, surrounded by dense dwarf trees and shrubs.

Edamame could only use his hands and feet at the same time, and while climbing, he used the mountain opener to cut the branches in front of him, and the muscles of his whole body were so tired that he spasmed, he took a breath, held on to a tree beside him, and stretched his already sore waist.

Dongdong was also sweating profusely, his legs trembled, he grabbed the two thatches on the ground with both hands, lying on the ground panting like a broken bellows, and Jiang Xiaoyan, who was following him, was also drenched in sweat, holding the tree next to him so tired that he couldn't speak.

"Comrades! Hold on and persevere! We're almost at the top of the mountain! Edamame went back and encouraged them.

Dongdong raised his eyelids, glanced at him, and said weakly: "Pull it down, you said this an hour ago." ”

Edamame stretched out his hand to remove the branches and leaves in front of him, raised his hand and pointed forward, and said, "I really didn't lie to you this time, I don't believe you can see for yourself." ”

Dongdong and Jiang Xiaoyan raised their heads and looked in the direction of Edamame's finger. Sure enough, through the gaps in the branches and leaves in front of me, I could clearly see a few rocks protruding from the top of the mountain.

Half an hour later, the three of them finally reached the top of the mountain, and Dongdong's legs were weak, "Poof!" Lying on the ground, it seemed that even the strength of Dongdong's fingers was gone, and Jiang Xiaoyan also sat next to him, panting constantly.

Edamame also felt his legs trembling at this time, and his whole body was weak, so he sat on the ground and pounded his sore calves while squinting his eyes to look at the situation at the top of the mountain behind him.

The back mountain is named because it is located behind Shiqiaopu Village, and is connected with the mountains on the left and right sides of the village, among the three mountains, the back mountain is the highest, probably nearly 100 meters higher than the peaks on both sides, just forming a "mountain" shape, except for the direction of the village can barely climb, the rest of the cliffs are the same as the knife.

The whole summit was bare, covered with rocks of various sizes, and only in the center of the summit was a huge willow tree, whose trunk looked almost the thickness of a water tank, but when it reached the fork, it was all tilted to one side, and even though it was still early spring, the branches of the tree were still full of green.

From a distance, the willow tree looked like a woman with her head tilted, her long hair hanging down, casting a thick shade in which Edamame finally discovered the purpose of her trip, the low stone temple.

Edamame frowned and sighed, "This place is really a little weird! ”

"What's wrong?" Dongdong lay on the ground and rested for a while, and finally relieved his breath, and when he heard Edamame's words, he suddenly became a little nervous, and hurriedly got up and asked.

Edamame pointed to the willow tree in front of him and said: "As the saying goes, if you don't plant mulberry in front of you, you don't plant willows in the back, this willow tree is a yin tree, it is easy to attract ghosts and demons, and the yang house is very avoidant, let alone the yin house, and the foreign woman is dead, the resentment does not melt, and the yin qi gathers, and it is difficult to think of powerful ghosts in this place." ”

As soon as he heard that there was a ghost, Dongdong suddenly shuddered, first looked at the small temple, and then looked at the huge willow tree and scolded: "This tree is really, it doesn't grow well, but it has to grow on people's graves!" ”

Edamame glanced at him, shook his head and said: "The willow tree likes shade, it is generally born by the river, it is rare to grow on the top of the mountain, and the catkins can't float so high, this willow tree is obviously planted here on purpose, I believe that the villagers below will not be so boring, the person who did this must have his purpose, and it must have something to do with the foreign woman buried under the stone house." ”

Dongdong was a little surprised, thought for a while and asked, "That's not right!" Such a big tree, how to say that it must be hundreds of years, that woman has only been dead for more than 50 years, could it be that someone did not predict the prophet and planted a tree on the top of this mountain decades in advance? ”

Edamame didn't answer, raised his feet and walked towards the willow tree, Dongdong looked at it, so he had to turn around and help Jiang Xiaoyan, who was still sitting on the ground, and quickly followed.

Edamame walked to the willow tree, first looked at the low stone temple under the tree, and found that this small temple was about one person high, the mud tiles on the top were very broken, there were no windows on the wall, and the whole small temple was about three or four square meters.

Through the low doorway, you can also see that there is an offering table in the innermost, and on the table is a yellow clay statue that is so badly weathered that it can no longer be seen.

The mountain is steep, and it is not easy to build a house here, but fortunately, there are stones everywhere on the top of this mountain, and it is estimated that decades ago, the villagers also took local materials and smashed the stones on the top of the mountain to build such a low temple.

Edamame circled around the small temple, but didn't find anything special for the time being, so he walked to the willow tree again, took out a five-emperor coin from his pocket, and gently scratched it on the trunk.

The not sharp Five Emperor Qian slashed across the willow tree, but as if it was scratched on tofu, it directly cut through the tough bark outside, and opened a hole in the trunk, and a bright red liquid like blood seeped out in an instant, flowing down the trunk.