Chapter Seventy-Nine: Rooster Mountain
Uncle Yang has always liked to talk about idleness, and he rarely has a serious time. At this moment, he looked directly at me, and my heart couldn't help but tighten when he looked like this.
"If you don't do anything, how... What's wrong? "I was so stumbling that I didn't know what to say.
Uncle Yang frowned, looked out the window with a solemn expression, I felt that I had a lot to say in my heart, but I didn't know how to speak.
After a while, Uncle Yang withdrew his gaze and looked at me, "I pondered, what you just said should be Rooster Mountain..."
"Oh? Is there such a place? ”
Uncle Yang nodded, "Taihang Mountain is so big, there are no strange-shaped mountains." ”
"Then, Uncle Yang will talk about it."
"When we entered the mountain last year, the eldest brother who left us to stay in Stone Village, do you remember?"
"Ahh
"That's what the big brother told me about Rooster Mountain..."
Uncle Yang said that at that time, he often went into the mountains to look for his uncle Yang Niansheng, and every time he went, he would stay at the man's house in Stone Village. Uncle Yang is very talkative, and after getting acquainted with that person, Haikan God chatted, and listened to him tell a lot of legends about Taihang Mountain, most of which were absurd, falsely rumored or made up by the ancients. Among them, there is a legend about Rooster Mountain. It is said that in the mountains 100 miles south of Ishiko, there is a mountain that resembles a large rooster, standing alone on one leg and standing tall among the mountains. No one has ever seen this rooster mountain, and it is said that no one who sees it will want to come back alive...
We usually see some ghost movies, the protagonist is chased by a ghost, and when life and death are at stake, the rooster suddenly crows, and then the ghost runs away... Legend has it that the rooster mountain is in charge of all the lonely souls and wild ghosts in the Taihang Mountain, and there is a cave in the 'chest' of the rooster, and every day at night, those lonely souls and wild ghosts run out along the cave and wander in the deep mountains and old forests. And when it was almost dawn, the mountain shook like an earthquake, and with it, a sound similar to that of a rooster crowed came from the belly of the mountain. When the ghosts sensed it, they all ran back and went back to the cave...
"So bizarre?" I asked.
"yes, legend, of course bizarre." Uncle Yang said, "I was dozing off when I heard it, and I didn't take it seriously at all." However, the words of the eldest brother made me feel energetic all of a sudden..."
"Oh?"
Uncle Yang shook his head twice, picked up the teapot and poured water unhurriedly.
"What did he say next?" I was so anxious that I scratched my ears and cheeks, as if Uncle Yang didn't see it.
"Don't be busy, don't be busy, uncle, I'll drink saliva first..."
I exhaled helplessly, and it was easy to wait for Uncle Yang to finish drinking a cup of tea, and then he said, "He said that in their village, someone had seen that mountain. ”
"Oh?" I also came to the spirit all of a sudden.
In the old society, there was no such thing as going out to work, and the people in the mountains basically never went out of the mountains from birth to old age. Relying on intermarriage between villages to continue the incense, when encountering an unbalanced ratio of men and women, such as more men and girls, then the mountain girls can only marry far away, and marry hundreds of miles away.
In the year of the Republic of China, a girl in Stone Village married to a mountain village hundreds of miles away. Due to the lack of transportation, the bride's parents are older, so only the bride's brother is the only one who goes to see off her relatives. Although the mountains are poor, but for the happy event of marriage, the banquet that should be set is still placed, which is nothing more than the kind of thin seat, even if the thin seat, for the mountain people who usually eat bran vegetables, it is already a mountain delicacy. The bride's brother had a bad stomach, and he didn't know where to run to relieve himself in the middle of the night, and he disappeared. The next day, while everyone was anxiously searching, he staggered back to the village, his clothes scraped like strips of rags. The whole person is like having hysteria, and when others ask something, they will only shake their heads. The bride's in-laws arranged for two strong men to send him back to Stone Village. On the third day, the man suddenly woke up, jumped out of bed, ran around the village, and said that he had seen Rooster Mountain... Then the next day, the man died, and those who believed his words thought that he had been taken away by the 'big rooster', and legend has it that anyone who saw the rooster mountain would not live. People who don't believe him think that he has madness, and the so-called sobriety is just a reflection before he dies...
"Is this true or false?" I asked.
"The eldest brother told me that it was true, and he also took me to the back of the village to see it, and pointed to a grave and told me that it was the person who was buried in it..."
I thought about it in my heart, and Uncle Yang said, "As soon as you came, you grabbed me and asked me about Rooster Mountain, which scared me, I thought you went to that place..."
"Huh?" I came back to my senses, "I haven't been there now, but I'll go..."
Uncle Yang stared at me.
"Master, I think there really is such a mountain." After repeating Uncle Yang's words, I said.
Master was silent in thought.
Dead people don't lie, so since Xiao Nan overheard Wan Jinshan and the mage mentioning Gao Qien, and then mentioned that mountain, then I think there must be some kind of relationship between Gao Qien and that mountain... We've always been very strange, we found two 'nests' in Wanjin Mountain, and we also met with Wanjin Mountain once, but we've never seen that Gao Qien... Where is this mysterious figure hiding? … Now it seems that he is very likely to be hiding in the rooster mountain in Taihang Mountain, and he doesn't know what he is doing in secret... Suddenly, I thought of the nameless mountain village in the Taihang Mountains, the sudden disappearance of the village, I don't know if it has something to do with this mysterious person... Then, I thought of Wanjin Mountain, and many of the previous mysteries had to fall on this person...
"Master, shall we go and find the mountain?" I asked.
The master thought for a while, and finally nodded slowly.
I immediately took a tourist map and ran to find Uncle Yang.
"Uncle, uncle."
"What are you doing, what's wrong with the dog?"
"Can you point out on this map the general location of the village you just mentioned?"
Uncle Yang was stunned for a moment, his eyes flashed with a thief's light, he looked at the map, and then looked at me.
"What do you kid want to do, let Uncle I take you to find that Rooster Mountain?"
"It's not just me, but also Master..."After a pause, I said, "What, Uncle Yang is afraid?" ”
"His grandmother's, uncle, what have I been afraid of?" Uncle Yang's neck stiffened, "Uncle, I'm not even afraid of **, will I be afraid of a legendary mountain?" ”
"That is, your 'living map' of Taihang Mountain is just bragging and blowing, and the uncle in Shicun told you so much that you don't know where that village is..."
"Who said I don't know!" Uncle Yang spat and stared, "Give me the map!" ”
I was secretly amusing in my heart.
Uncle Yang grabbed the map, turned to a page about Taihang Mountain, pointed to one of the locations and said, it was roughly at this location. Then he said, his grandmother's, it's just been a few days since I got out of the mountain, and my uncle's feet haven't been covered yet, and I'm about to become a collector of mountain goods...
We're not going to travel, and having more people will only add to the trouble. In the evening, everyone sat together to discuss, and finally decided that only Master, me, Uncle Yang, and the three of us would go. Ah Feng stays behind to watch the house, and also protects Yuxin and Morning Star's safety. After knowing that Yuxin's father was not her biological father, I remembered from time to time that time last year, when I met Yuxin's father, he said to me, 'You will regret it'... However, for so long, he has not done anything to me that I 'regret', the more this is the case, the more uneasy I am in my heart, this person is very deep in the city, and it is even more terrible than Xiaoshan back then. Faintly, I seem to feel that there is a huge wind and wave waiting for me not far ahead, and everyone around me...
Pinch your fingers and calculate, the man who has hit the evil in the city, the 'ten-day period' is coming. Because he had to go into the mountain, the master would not be able to go to the city to remove the evil qi for him, so the master taught Xiang Feng the method, and when the time came, Xiang Feng would go.
The next day, prepare all the food and things you need to bring into the mountain. On the morning of the third day, under the concerned gaze of Xiang Feng, Yu Xin, and Morning Star, I drove Master and Uncle Yang out of the courtyard slowly.
Less than 20 meters along the road, something suddenly jumped in front of the car, I hurriedly clicked on the brakes, and when I took a look, it was actually a little fox.
"Master, take the little fox with you, the little fox has spirituality, maybe it can help us a lot!" I said hurriedly.
"Okay." Master smiled slightly.
As soon as the door opened, the fox threw himself into my arms, humming and rubbing his hot mouth against my face...
It's late spring, a little later than last year when we entered the mountains. This time, we are not taking the same route as last year. There were many dirt roads, ravines and ravines along the way, and there was dust. When we arrived at an old town at the foot of the mountain, it was already evening.
Had dinner at a farmhouse in that town, and found a hotel for the night. The next day, my car was left in the large courtyard of the hotel, and the three of us packed up their bags and took the fox and hiked into the mountains.
The scenery along the way is still quite beautiful. Although I didn't encounter the big waterfall that I saw when I entered the mountain last year, there are a lot of small waterfalls, the waterfall water is sweet and cool, it flows into the clear stream, the comprehensive flow flows, the sound of the water is dingdong dong, as if the guzheng is playing, it is quite wonderful and pleasant. From time to time, passing by a forest, the sun shines through the branches and leaves of the forest and sprinkles in the forest, each ray of light is wrapped in light smoke and mist, do not breathe through the nose, just look at it, it feels relaxed and happy, like a fairyland on earth...
In the beginning, we met several groups of fellow travelers and exchanged some food with each other. Those people, especially the girls, were particularly interested in the beautiful foxes around me, asking long and short questions, and their faces were full of envy. Everyone has to touch it with their hands, and usually, the little fox is not allowed to be touched by outsiders, and when I nodded, it didn't move.
As I went deeper, I never met a traveler again, and the scenery in front of me was sometimes beautiful, sometimes vast. After a whole day, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening, and we came to a village deep in the mountains...