Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Story of Zawang
Although we are full of doubts, Zawang is the master here after all, and we have to do whatever he says about the host.
Zha Wang himself didn't have a decent bed, let alone us, except for Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er, two girls who were inconvenient and set up a small tent in the corner of the house, the rest of the men each picked up a spacious place on the ground and spread out their sleeping bags. The fire in the house was burning so hard that there was no need to drill into it, and a bunch of people were staggering on top of their sleeping bags.
Everyone was really tired, and suddenly there was a sound of snoring in the room. I originally wanted to retrace the events of the past two days, but after lying down, my mind was chaotic, and my eyelids seemed to be pressed against two mountains, and I fell asleep after opening my eyes twice in a trance.
Everyone is around, and the place is safe. I slept soundly as if I was dead, let alone dreaming, and I didn't even turn over. When I woke up, it was still the same position before going to bed, but I just rested, and as soon as my muscles relaxed, there was no place in my body that didn't hurt.
Halfway up, I saw a bright daylight shining through the cracks in the rocks on the roof of the house, I thought I had seen badly, and rubbing my eyes vigorously, it was indeed a ray of sunlight squeezing in through the cracks and throwing it on the ground in a fan shape, so startled that I almost jumped up from my sleeping bag.
Immediately attracted the attention of a room of people. It turned out that they had gotten up early and were eating around the fire.
Lu Dachuan looked at me with round eyes: "Is it wrong for you kid, you just slept like a pig, so you are happier than a deer!" ”
I ignored him, walked straight to the gap between the two boulders, which was supposed to be the door of the house, and bowed my head out, and my eyes were immediately blinded by the red sun in the sky.
Aren't we in an underground canyon, how can there be a sun in the sky? My mind felt like I was being held up by a bamboo pole, and I couldn't turn around.
At this time, Lu Keqin patted me on the shoulder from behind: "I didn't expect it to be bright!?" ”
I looked back at her and nodded like a chicken.
"We didn't expect it, but it just lit up, it's amazing!" Lu Keqin sighed and walked outside from me.
I followed behind his ass: "Sister Keqin, don't be patronizing and sighing, tell me what's going on!" ”
Lu Keqin pointed to the red sun in the middle of the lake: "Look at the difference between that sun and the sun we usually see." ”
"The sun is the sun, what else is there not ......" Seeing the sun in the sky clearly, I was stunned, it is indeed different, not only is it only the size of a baked cake, but the light is not as strong as the real sun.
Seeing my surprised look, Lu Keqin looked at me with a smile: "Zawang said that the sun was made by the village. ”
Sun fucking and copycats!? My chin fell into my crotch again.
"Don't be stunned, go back and eat." Lu Keqin pulled me, "Zawang is telling a story!" ”
I went into the house, didn't wash my face or brush my teeth, and joined them. I still ate the same barbecue as last night. Zawang had already told the second half of the story, and I couldn't understand many places, so I couldn't help but ask questions, and Zawang had to stop again and again to explain to me, and as a result, they all got annoyed and told me to shut up.
For a moment I sat on the side like a child without a mother, watching them talk passionately. Lu Keqin picked a large piece of meat and stuffed it in my hand: "Don't cry your nose, eat obediently, and my sister will tell you again from the beginning in a while." ”
By the time I had finished eating a large piece of meat, Zawang had finished speaking. They discussed how to get out, and Lu Keqin and I walked out of the boulder house, sat down by the lake, looked at the vast lake, basking in the copycat version of the sun, and she retold me the story of Zha Wang in a sweet voice like a lark.
The man I accidentally found at the small hotel was Phuntsok, and he was Zha Wang's second uncle. The reason why Zawang was involved in this strange incident that made people almost collapse was precisely because of his second uncle.
Pingcuo was originally an ordinary herdsman in Suohurima Township, and made a fortune more than ten years ago because of the upside-down Cordyceps, so he sold his cattle and sheep and went to Jiuzhi County to buy a house and start a Cordyceps business. Later, as the sky-high price of Cordyceps rose, the output was not as good as year after year, and the business became more and more difficult.
A few years ago, he didn't know where to get the news, saying that there was a place in the township where a large number of cordyceps grew, but it was the devil's territory, and the people who went there disappeared inexplicably. Although Phuntsok is still a devout Tibetan, after all, he has dealt with merchants from the north and south for many years, and he no longer believes that there is really a devil in this world.
So Phuntsok inquired about the exact location, and the next year, when the snow melted, he returned to his hometown to find his nephew Zha Wang, and went into the mountains with him to dig Cordyceps.
Zawang had heard a little about the strangeness on that mountain, but the person looking for him was his own uncle after all, and he couldn't refuse, so he followed him to the canyon we broke into. Not to mention that there are really a lot of cordyceps on the mountains on both sides of this canyon, which are big and full, and the uncle and nephew were immediately carried away by the dream of making a fortune.
Zawang is an excellent hunter with a lot of skills, so he naturally didn't take it seriously, just thinking about finding a safe place to spend the night, and then finding his way home when it was dawn the next day.
So they went around the hill and found the entrance of a cave, and when Zawang went in to see that it was dry and warm, and it was not a cave of wild beasts, except that there were a few Nima piles on the ground that were different from what he had seen since he was a child, and looked a little strange, it was the best place to hide.
The uncle and nephew went into the cave to spend the night satisfied. The fly in the ointment was that they wanted to light a bonfire, but Zawang searched for a long time in the mountains and found neither dead branches nor cow dung.
After a day of walking, both of them were tired, so they filled their stomachs with glutinous rice and barley wine in the dark, untied their Tibetan robes and spread them on the ground as bedding, and the two slept in turns all night.
The next day, when they found their way back with a full load, they were confronted by wolves. Thanks to Zha Wang's rich experience, the two uncles and nephews barely kept their names, but they didn't bring out any Cordyceps that they dug up.
When he returned home, Phuntsok had a serious illness, and after he recovered, his body became like that, and after falling asleep at night, he woke up to find that he was actually in the heavenly burial ground, and his back had been stabbed......
When this happened, others said that he was possessed by the devil, but Zawang thought that there was something strange in the cave where they spent the night, and in order to find out the truth behind the strange thing, he came to this canyon again alone.
After searching all the hills, Zawang could not find the cave where they had spent the night, but he was trapped by a lake, unable to get out no matter how he walked, until he ran out of ammunition and passed out......
When he opened his eyes again, he saw himself lying on a large, comfortable bed, beside which stood several dwarfs with their heads disproportionate to their bodies, and thought he had ascended to heaven.
When he learned that he was not dead, but had been rescued by the dwarfs and returned to their village, Zawang was completely shocked, and the legend of the aliens came to his mind.
After his body recovered, he tried to find out if his affair with his uncle had something to do with them, but the dwarfs were very guarded, and usually spoke in their own language, and only spoke Tibetan when they spoke something inconsequential to Zhawang. Seeing that he couldn't inquire about anything, Zawang tried every means to delay his departure.
Before I knew it, I had lived in the village for more than a month, and after getting to know them well, I finally learned some things one after another (which is what he told us). But he still didn't know anything about himself, until one day when he was chatting with them, someone accidentally mentioned the holy stone, and the matter became a little brow-raising.
Of course, the man only spoke a few words, and then Zawang asked for a long time, and finally realized that what happened to him and his uncle was related to the ancestors of the dwarf race, and to know what was going on, they had to go to the place where their ancestors lived to find the answer, and the entrance there was an ancient gate that had to be opened with a holy stone.
"In other words, the sacred stone is not a stone saucer, but a key to open the door." I couldn't help but interrupt Lu Keqin's narration.
"Hmm."
"The key is the key, and the holy stone is returned, which makes me curious for a long time."
Lu Keqin gave me a blank look: "You pig's head!" The door key more than 10,000 years ago, of course, was called that when there was no land. ”
"Oh! So that's what happened! I pretended to be surprised.
Lu Keqin clenched his little fist and hit me: "I hate it, I won't tell you if I don't listen to it." ”
I took the opportunity to grab her hand, but she didn't move anymore, just let me hold it.
After some time, Zawang heard that there were three sacred stones, one of which had been taken away by another group of dwarfs; A piece was buried a long time ago in the tomb of the ancestors who led them to open up the present village (the one that the dwarf told us had been stolen); The last piece was now in the custody of the most powerful man in their village. -- For the sake of convenience, the most powerful person in the following villages will be replaced by the village chief.
Knowing this, Zawang secretly inquired about the specific location of the ancient gate, while looking for an opportunity to steal the holy stone.
Finally, one day the sun in the village was broken, and in the sudden darkness the whole village was in chaos, and Zawang thought that the opportunity had come, so he took advantage of the chaos to touch the village chief's house, but he didn't expect that their sun was not bad at all, everything was just a trap set up to make Zawang's original form exposed.
After capturing Zawang, they changed their past gentleness and kindness, and without saying a word, trapped Zawang with Dunjia and sent him to the big stone slab on the mountain.
It was daytime, and when Zawang saw the white bones at the bottom of the valley and understood what was going on, he prepared in advance, and when the slope of the big stone slab was not enough to control his body, he looked at a raised rock on the opposite side of the mountainside, and jumped up in a sprint. Then climb the ridge with bare hands and all the way to this lake in the canyon.
He almost went crazy for a few days when he was trapped in the canyon, and then the shocking turtle came to the shore, and he was so bored that he dared to play with it from afar, and slowly discovered that it was very spiritual, and after a long time he established a deep friendship with the turtle and survived.
In the past few years, in addition to eating and sleeping, he spent all the remaining time looking for a way out, and with the help of the Turtle, he really found it, but unfortunately he couldn't do it alone.
At this moment, all of them came out of the house. Lu Dachuan threw my backpack to me and said proudly, "Let's go!" ”
I asked stupidly, "Where are you going?" ”
"Go out, it's hard for you kid to stay here for the rest of your life!"
"Where do you get out from?"
Lu Dachuan waved his hand, I thought he had made the mistake of hitting my head again, so I hurriedly jumped to the side, but he pointed straight into the lake.