Chapter 5 Reminiscing about childhood, aunt and grandmother mountain suspicions, turning ghosts into ghosts, and connecting masters and apprentices
My hometown is a small village called Qingyao, there are less than 100 households in the village, not big or small, there is a Gumu Mountain to the south of the village, and under the mountain is the fruit forest and cultivated land in the village. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
We are not far from Yuntong City, every year when it comes to the assembly, the flow of people to the market is Wuyang Wuyang beat us there, there are donkey carts, and drive three-wheeled, some ride motorcycles, bicycles, and some walk, all the way is not lively.
At this time, some villagers will also put some things on the roadside to sell, all of which are self-produced melons, fruits, peaches, plums, rice, flour and oil, which can be regarded as a small gathering before entering the city.
My mother is skillful and likes to do some handicrafts, and on this day, my parents will also set up a small stall on the side of the road, placing self-embroidered sachets, insoles and other small objects, although I don't earn much money, after each assembly, my mother will buy some candy for me, which is also the happiest time for me.
The children in the village are playing wild, usually digging birds' nests in the trees, fishing in the river, catching snakes in the fields, there is no dare to play, and Guma Mountain is a place where a few of us tricksters often go.
Gu's mountain is not high, the mountain is full of cypresses, sometimes we can catch hares, pheasants or something on the mountain, the right to give us a few small tooth sacrifices, every time the old people in the village see us carrying the prey down from the mountain, they will let us kneel at the entrance of the village and kowtow to the Gumu Mountain, saying that it is thank you for the gift of the old fairy.
There is a legend in our village that there is an old immortal tomb in this aunt's mountain, and everything in the mountain belongs to this old immortal, and everything we get in the mountain is given to me by the old immortal, so we should be grateful and awe-inspiring.
There are two versions of the legend of the old fairy, which is true and which is false has long been irrefutable, but both are very legendary, the first version is that a long, long time ago, our ancestors just moved here to live, and suddenly one day there was a terrible mountain demon in the mountain of Gu, this mountain demon looks like a human, the difference is that it has long fangs and a tail like a steel whip, and runs on all fours.
The mountain demon is bloodthirsty, and every night will run down the mountain to attack the ****, the ancestors are miserable, ready to move the village again, at this time an old woman walked into the village with a cane, and asked the villagers not to move away, saying that they have a way to kill the mountain demon.
Just settled down the ancestors did not want to trek and migrate again, with the mentality of trying to temporarily believe the old woman's words, that night the villagers heard the sound of fighting, the old woman's scolding and the roar of the mountain demon, but no one dared to come out to take a look, and after dawn, the frightened villagers dared to go out of the house, the old woman who was unconscious at the entrance of the village carried home for treatment, and when the old woman woke up, she told the villagers that the mountain demon had been injured by her, and would not come out to harm people again in a short time.
Although the villagers were happy, they were still very afraid, after all, they were only injured, and when they recovered, they would come out to harm people, and begged the old woman to help them kill the mountain demon, but the old woman shook her head and told the villagers, saying that she was originally a cultivator of the immortal family, and now she is old and old, and she is not the opponent of the mountain demon.
She was already seriously injured in this fight with the demon, and she was going to die in a few days, and the only feasible way was to bury her alive on the mountain while she was still alive, and suppress the demon forever.
She had already chosen a cemetery, and if the villagers needed to do it, they would go up the mountain and build a mausoleum for her, bury her in the tomb, and then seal the tomb so that no one would ever know where her bones were buried.
For the friendship of the old woman sacrificing her life to save each other, the villagers were very moved, according to the old woman's instructions to dig the tomb, with tears in the old woman who had not yet died of the old woman to bury it into the mountain, since then the devil has never appeared, some villagers who enter the mountain will also inexplicably turn the danger into safety when they encounter danger, everyone said that the old woman has cultivated into an immortal, and bless them on the mountain, the villagers do not know where the old woman comes from, and they don't know what the old woman is called, they all call her the old fairy.
The second version says that there was no harvest in the drought here that year, and strange things happened frequently in the village during the disaster year, and there was always a rumbling sound on the aunt's mountain, like thunder, and the people who went into the mountains to collect medicine and hunt were often missing in the mountains, and the wild beasts on the mountains also seemed to be driven away by something, and they ran to the village every once in a while to cause trouble.
The villagers panicked, prayed to the heavens, prayed to the gods, but day after day, nothing changed, the earth was still dry, the Gumu Mountain was still roaring, and the wild beasts would still run to the village to plague.
Just as the villagers were disheartened and ready to leave their homes, an old woman entered the lifeless village with a team of men, brought food, dug water from the well, and helped the villagers drive away wild beasts every night.
When the villagers were grateful to Dade, the old woman told everyone that the reason why there is a drought here and strange things happen frequently is because there are drought spirits in the mountains, and if you want the village to be safe and secure, from now on, you will have to invite a fairy to live in the mountains to manage these spirits.
And she is a fairy who is about to attain enlightenment, passing by here and seeing that the villagers live so miserably, she is willing to be the fairy spirit of the mountain for the villagers, to manage the spirits in the mountain, what the villagers have to do is to build a big tomb in the mountain as soon as possible, and she wants to bury herself and the spirits in the mountain in the tomb together.
According to the old woman's instructions, the villagers built a big tomb in the mountain, and after the big tomb was repaired, the villagers were gathered together and told everyone not to leak the matter of the big tomb.
In the middle of the night, the villagers who were sleeping soundly heard a loud bang from the mountain, and when they went up the mountain again the next day, the entrance to the tomb had been buried by the collapsed earth and rocks.
One night a few days later, the villagers all saw an old woman in colorful clothes standing on the mountain with a dragon head cane in her hand, and said to the villagers below the mountain: "From today on, I am the fairy in this mountain, and the spirits in the mountain have been subdued by me, you can live here with peace of mind, and there will be no strange things happening again." ”
During the day, the villagers talked to each other about this night dream, they were all shocked, but they didn't expect this old woman to really become a fairy, and wanted to set up a monument for her, but they didn't know where her name came from, so they had to obey the old fairy.
These two legends have been passed down to the present people have very few believers, except for some old people still believe in the old immortals, young people are as stories to listen to, one day in the summer when I was eight years old, I ran up the aunt mountain with a few playmates to play, and I remember that it was a warm afternoon, I and Xiaosheng, Dongzi, Xishun and Meiya chased a muntjac all over the mountain.
This muntjac is also a kind of deer, smaller than the deer, we are chasing this is still a small muntjac that has just left the nest, with two meat buns on the head, it is estimated that it is sneaking out to play, and I have fallen into blood mold when I meet a few little children, and I have been chasing from the root of the mountain to the top of the mountain.
The two-legged man chases the four-legged animal, like an alternative rally, running a few of us gasping for breath, and the lower one is almost unable to catch up, but the little thing in front is not much better, and the wheering and panting we can hear behind it, that is, the axial nature of children, if it were an adult, what should have been done a long time ago, who has the leisure to chase it and play.
The top of Gumu Mountain is quite barren, looking up from the foot of the mountain, there are green trees everywhere, only this top is bare, only a towering old tree grows, under the tree is a flat big stone, the old people call this stone the fairy plate, say that this is the place where the gods drink tea and play chess.
I don't know if we are lucky, or this little muntjac ran confused, and when we caught up with the top of the mountain, the little thing crashed into the boulder, it was really Huang Tian who lived up to the painstaking people, and finally fell into our hands, this is probably the biggest harvest I can remember from my aunt's mountain.
In order to prevent this little thing from suddenly waking up and running away, Xishun and I held back a few steps and ran over, and tied the four legs of the little muntjac with our jackets.
Although I was tired enough to chase all the way, now I can't even say a whole sentence in one breath, but my heart is beautiful, a few people sat on the ground and giggled, Xiao Sheng kept Ha Lazi and said: "I haven't caught prey in this mountain for a long time, and I will let my dad pick it up and throw it into the pot when I go back tonight, and there will be fragrant muntjac meat to eat tomorrow morning." ”
Xiaosheng and his father's craft of making game in our village is a must, it makes people drool when they think about it, we boys are all raising their hands in favor of Xiaosheng's statement, only Mei Ya alone disagrees, saying that we are too cruel, too unloving, it is still so small, it is not enough for us to eat, we carry it back and raise it, and then eat it when it is raised, it will be more meaty than now, and at the same time a drop of crystal liquid slipped from the corner of her mouth.
Suddenly, Mei Ya's image grew taller in our young hearts, and they all raised their thumbs and said: "Mei Ya is still smart, carry it back to fatten, and when the New Year comes, you can cook a big pot." ”
When we have rested enough, the sun is about to set, Xishun found a thicker stick, and my four boys took turns to carry it down the mountain, because I was afraid that the little muntjac would flutter and bite, Xiaodong also deliberately tied the mouth of the little muntjac with his clothes, and when I went down the mountain, I didn't know why, the god made a ghost look back at the top of the mountain, and saw an old lady standing on a big rock with a cane and smiling at me, the smile was a little scary, obviously there was no one on it when we just came down.
I asked a few of them to look back, they all said that they didn't see anyone, I rubbed my eyes and looked again, the sky above the boulder was empty, there was no one at all, I also thought it was dazzling, a few people carried a small muntjac, singing all the way down the mountain on the golden mountain in Beijing.
When we returned to the entrance of the village, a few old people stopped us and let us enter the village after kowtowing a few times to Grandma Mountain, and we carried the little muntjac to Mei Ya's house, and she was responsible for raising the little muntjac, and then the big guys were all scattered.
I had a dream at night, the dream was the old lady on crutches on the top of the mountain, the old lady didn't say anything, just smiled at me, laughed all night, the next morning after waking up, I felt weak, always unable to lift the spirit, from time to time in a daze, doing everything in a daze and slow half a beat, please ask the doctor to see and say that you can't see what is wrong, give some medicine and leave, or how to say that the country Langzhong is bold, you can't even see what disease dare to prescribe medicine, the spirit of the first to eat and try it.
The medicine has been taken for several days, there is no effect at all, the old people in the village said that the child may have lost his soul, the mother and the soul is called, holding a basket, carrying a broom, outside the village, the mountain and the mountain to call the soul back, the place to go, the middle also went up the mountain to worship the old fairy, ask the old fairy to bless, but I just don't see good, my father and mother are anxious to turn around, and carry me to the big hospital in the city to see the disease, the doctor said that it may be heat stroke, there is no big problem, to prescribe some Huoxiang Zhengqi water, and sent us home.
Speaking of which, it should be said that my master who abducted the population, that day was the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and it was not a good day, I was also sick for almost a month, the sun was not bad on this day, my father got a chair, and carried me out of the hospital to bask in the sun, and the old thing directly pushed open the door of my house and came in, and the first thing he said was: "The seven ghosts of the seventh month of the seventh month are coming, can this good man turn into a ghost with the poor Tao, and be blessed with immeasurable longevity." ”
Look at the words of the people? If my mother hadn't run out of the house to stop me, the old thing would probably have been beaten out of.
My mother was a gentle woman who rarely lost her temper with people, and when she asked the reason for the incident, she counted my father down, and went back to the house and took out a small bag of white noodles and handed it to my master, saying that it was for me to make a good marriage.
This old thing and my mother politely said a few words, threw the white noodles on the ground, and ran to me to see the endless, my father just got up and didn't disappear, now look at this old thing is even more angry, I want to beat him with a flat shoulder, but I was dragged by my mother, so I can only say in a thick voice with Zou eyebrows: "Look at what, don't hurry up after taking something, and be careful that I will whip you." ”
The old man didn't care about my father's attitude, he lifted my eyelids and looked at me, and only said, "I can cure this disease." Let my father lose his temper, politely invited the old thing into the house to apologize, begged him to treat me, the old thing is quite good, did not embarrass my father, and said that this child is afraid that he has seen something that should not be seen recently to get this strange disease, and it is not a difficult disease, as long as the old Tao uses some means, it will soon be better.
Even if the old thing for my treatment is wrapped, I rubbed a meal at my house at noon, and when I left, I let my parents rest assured, as long as tonight passes, my illness will be better, my parents are honest, and they sent him out of the door with a thousand thanks, and it is also a true spirit, and I slept well that night, and I didn't dream of the old lady, and the next morning I came together with my strange illness.
I thought this thing was over, but I didn't expect that after three days this thing came again, of course my parents were warm hospitality, and the old thing wanted to talk several times during the conversation, and after satisfying people's appetites, he sighed and said: "Two good people, the old Taoist doll was destined to commit a robbery, although this time I avoided it, there will be disasters in the future, and there will be a day when the disaster will be robbed." ”
Since my strange illness was cured without medicine, in the eyes of my parents, I have regarded the old thing as a fairy-like figure, in a word, I am frightened, and as a parent, I don't know how to treat the doctor is unkind, and I immediately asked the master for a solution to the catastrophe.
Seeing that the fire had arrived, the old man said with a deep smile: "There is a solution, but it is just going to embarrass you and your wife." ”
When my mother heard this, she thought she was waiting for money, so she ran back to the house and took out all the money in the house, just to solve my calamity, the old man laughed, pushed the money back and said: "Lao Dao doesn't want your money, but I'm afraid that you won't be able to stand the pain of separation, and Poor Dao plans to take him as a disciple and take him up the mountain to learn the Tao with me. ”
My parents struggled for a night, and finally decided to let me go up the mountain to learn the Tao, discussed with my master, and let me stay at home for three more days, my father killed a pig raised at home, and picked the best meat for me to eat every day.
At that time, the family was poor, although my father had to raise four or five pigs every year, but pork was not often eaten, and only during the New Year was willing to eat a little.
Three days later, I followed the master out of the village, looked back at the tearful figure of my parents, I silently embarked on the road of learning, this walk is the vicissitudes of life, the world is more moorous, and the memory of the aunt mountain is not drowned in the hurried years, the master said that there is still an unfinished relationship in the mountain, waiting for me to resolve it myself.