Chapter 24: The Strange Affair of the Plum God

For a long time, I would rather indulge in books and remember the monuments, rather stare at a photo in a daze for a long time, and resolutely not go to any so-called scenic spots, this feeling of appreciating through a medium often brings me greater satisfaction.

Of course, not to mention going to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha, although my mother wanted to take me with me more than once, but thinking of those aunts who sell incense have a face of "you don't buy incense and the whole family will suffer", as well as their levelless and even cursed sales model......

Go burn incense and worship the Buddha! If you have time, you might as well do more good deeds, even if you don't do anything, it's better than these!

But......

I still know what these gods in the temple look like, and I am even interested in these Chinese gods, and I have collected a lot of information and studied them carefully!

However......

The bronze statue in front of him is a "mountain god...... What the hell!

……

I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't describe it as a ghost, but you're dressed like ...... It's too national!

It is a bronze statue more than two meters high, cast with a man and a horse.

Strangely, most of the usual idols are human figures on mounts, and this idol has a tall horse standing horizontally behind it, and in front of the horse, a humanoid statue is half crouching and half sitting.

The humanoid figure is a rugged giant man with long shoulder-length hair and a frog mask, with his feet together and his eyes looking ahead.

In one hand, he holds a peculiar bronze straight-edged short sword, the head of the sword is engraved with a two-headed python, the snake's eyes are hollow grooves, as if it was once embedded with gemstones, and the other hand holds a dog's head talisman, the dog's head is carved lifelike.

This giant man is dressed with distinctive ethnic characteristics, wearing earrings on both ears, wearing a plaque on the chest, a large animal skin placket, open to the left, the length of the dress is over the knee, the jacket has no collar and no sleeves, and the waist is worn with a waist chain and hook made of bronze ornaments.

The bottoms are around the waist like a skirt, long trousers, cloth lining, leather boots, simple and rough.

He carried a large bow and quiver behind him, perhaps because of his age, the large bow was broken in half, and only the upward part remained.

The entire bronze statue is majestic and solemn, exuding a primitive mystery.

"Huh! Fellow, what age are you mountain gods? Master Dao, I've seen a lot of gods, and they look so evil, it's really the first time I've seen them! McDonald's asked, pointing to the idol.

Yang Dazhui looked frightened when he heard this, looked around, and said in a low voice: "This Dao Master, you can be quiet, this statue is really unspeakable!" ”

"Why! Could it be that you can jump down and eat a few of us? ”

"It's not as exaggerated as you say, but the statue of the plum god in Dagou Village is notoriously weird in our mountain."

"Eccentric? What's a weird idea? I asked curiously.

Yang Dazhui didn't answer me immediately, first respectfully worshiped the statue, and whispered in his mouth: "There is no green in the country, and the table in front of the boat is scattered...... There is no emerald in the country, and there is ...... in front of the boat."

He repeated the strange verse several times, and I listened to it with my ears pricked up for a long time, but I didn't understand the meaning.

What is the emerald and table...... Could this be the local language in the mountains?

"Hey! I can't see that you can still recite poetry! What does the poem say? What is the Cuicui table, let me tell you about it? "McDonald's asked my question first.

Yang Dazhui thought about it, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at the portrait, and said in a low voice: "If you want to talk about this mountain god, we all call him Mei Shen......"

When McDonald's heard this, he interrupted, "Yo! Mildew! Haha, that's an unlucky fairy, could it be that every one of you in this mountain is unlucky? ”

"Don't make a fuss! Listen to him! I glared at McDonald's, who shrank their necks and grinned apologetically at Sledgehammer Yang.

Yang Dazhui's face was a little frightened, he looked at the image again, and continued: "According to legend, this plum god, but the gods who are in the mountains and rivers near us are even recorded in our ancestral books, saying that before our ancestors moved here, this Meta and the plum god were already here. ”

McDonald's let out an "ah" and wanted to say something, but looked at me and swallowed the words that came to his lips.

"There are many sayings about the story of this plum god in the mountains, and you can tell it for two days if you catch a mountain person and ask it...... It is rumored that Mei Shen was originally a general, and this radius of hundreds of miles is his territory, and then was conspired by several neighboring countries to join forces, and finally defeated, Mei Shen retreated into the mountains with the remnants of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the coalition forces of several countries chasing after him entered the mountains to search and arrest, but found that Mei Shen even led hundreds of thousands of defeated troops under his command all disappeared strangely overnight!

"Hundreds of thousands, that's equivalent to the number of people in a military region!" King Kong smiled: "This rumor is a bit exaggerated. ”

"It may not be ......," Zhang Lin on the side suddenly said quietly.

King Kong and McDonald's glanced at each other and nodded thoughtfully, as if Zhang Lin's words reminded them of something.

However, I was intrigued by this story and asked, "Are there any other legends about this plum god?" ”

"There are too many rumors, it is said that this Meta will release a divine light every sixty years, straight to the sky, my father said that he saw it back then, or in a few miles away we can see it in Yang Jiaqi, the villagers of this Dagou Village also said that they often see the gods flying in the sky here, my cousin said that she has seen it once, and she is still a fairy! …… Well...... There are also larger events, so I'll just talk about one thing that happened when I was just liberated. ”

Yang Dazhui also talked about his interest, not as afraid of angering the gods as he was at the beginning, and continued: "When I was just liberated, wasn't there a dilapidated saying, but later a group of young people came to the mountains and wanted to demolish Meta and smash the statue, and many villagers were watching at the scene, and some villagers stepped forward to stop them, but they were stopped. I heard that the young people were enchanted and shouted slogans, so they went to pull the statues...... Behold, the great bow that was on the back of this idol was broken at that time. ”

"Huh! Tell me what's going on...... McDonald's urged.

"Later......" Yang Dazhui had a look of horror on his face, and he recited the two strange verses just now a few more times in his mouth, and continued: "Later, the idol was thrown into the ravine by them, and Meta was also burned by a fire!" ”

McDonald's face changed: "Ah! Was this special thing rebuilt later? ”

"Don't interrupt all the time, listen to him!" I frowned.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm sorry, you go on."

"This ...... This is really not rebuilt later, although there are well-meaning villagers here to repair and repair on weekdays, but at that time the tower was indeed completely destroyed, my grandfather was at the scene, he saw with his own eyes that the statue of Mei was pushed into the ravine, and Meita was also burned clean, but strangely, the next day, Mehta and Mei were restored! Except for the broken bow, it's almost exactly the same as before it was destroyed! ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask, "What about ...... What about the young people who are broken? They didn't destroy it again? ”

Yang Dazhui glanced at me and said tremblingly: "They ...... They ......"