What Li Yiling said is really evil, it happened in a small mountain village on Jingqing Mountain, Jingqing is a little-known mountain in the Taihang Mountains, more than 100 kilometers away from the city, it has been a poor place since ancient times, there is a village on the mountain called Niutou Village, I don't know why it got its name, it has always been the object of poverty alleviation.

How poor is it? In the past few years, there are a few sentences that are particularly appropriate: transportation basically depends on walking, communication basically depends on roaring, public security basically depends on dogs, heating basically depends on shaking, digging basically relies on hands, cultivated land basically depends on cattle, entertainment basically does not exist, and lighting basically relies on oil......

Mountain village, arable land is not much, the ancestors of the village live in this place, it is good to be full, the younger ones go out to work, and the old and young are left to guard the village, but in recent years, the poor village has turned over, the reason is that the iron ore was found nearby, which immediately attracted investment, and some people's farmland was sold.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft, the people in the village who have been poor for eight lifetimes finally see the hope of getting rich, and the young people who go out to work also go home to mine and get rich, but the iron ore content is not high, digging for two years, the iron ore is gone, the cultivated land is destroyed, and the funds are withdrawn, so Niutou Village returned to the pre-liberation overnight, as the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, how can the village be rich for two years, and then you can't stand it if you are poor.

The young people in the village were unwilling, they were digging everywhere, and there was no detection machine, they just dug blindly, tossed for two or three years, and did not dig the mine, the cultivated land was almost destroyed, and there was no income, and the people in the village were almost unable to survive, just when the young people had no choice but to go out to work in the mountains, a new turning point came. Many people came to the village with money to buy wood......

What kind of wood? What is the cypress, what is the cypress? In fact, it is a cypress tree that grows on a cliff. Grow in the area above 1,500 meters above sea level, and the most valuable is the dead cypress roots and trunks in the rock crevices of some mountain ranges, because the cypress grows in an extremely harsh environment, absorbs the essence of heaven and earth, and experiences the strong blowing of the cliff wind, so that it forms a peculiar elegant, curved, flexible shape, high wood density, oily, and has a mellow cypress fragrance, and becomes the best material for root carving and root art.

Roots of trees that grow on cliffs for thousands of years. In the past, no one asked for nothing, but in the past two years, it has been very hot, and it is normal for a string of better Yabai bracelets to sell for more than 10,000 yuan. With the popularity of Yabai, there are more and more people doing Yabai business. In the log wholesale distribution market, there was a scene of snatching cypress logs. Originally, there were very few merchants selling cypress in the antique market, but now as long as they sell beads, they are basically selling cypress. Even the people who used to sell traditional and precious timber have also sold cypress.

Why has the cypress that grows on the cliff not been on fire for thousands of years, but it has been on fire in recent years? It's because the precious timber has been almost destroyed by the Chinese people. There is a saying that is very good, what things are not remembered by the Chinese people, it is not good, our Chinese people are very good at playing, and everything can be played. Jade, porcelain, walnut. Wood......

Especially the precious wood, Hainan Huanghuali is basically extinct. Rosewood microphylla was also acquired from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even India began to ban the export of Rosewood. But the market demand is too large, coupled with the improvement of people's living standards, more and more people play cultural games, somehow they are eyeing Yabai, and even shouted the slogan of agarwood to save lives and Yabai to raise lives.

The cypress that no one cared about before is now a hot item, a good cypress root, it is not a problem to buy tens of thousands of yuan, bracelets, ornaments, root carvings...... began to flow to the market, and under the speculation of timber merchants, it became more and more popular, so popular that countless people pretended to be money and came to the mountain village to buy Yabai.

So Niutou Village became lively, and at first the people in the village didn't understand, and there were still people collecting broken tree roots? I thought that the people in the city were really stupid, so they sold it for a few hundred yuan, and sold it for dozens of dollars, but later as more and more people came, the people in the village found that the rotten tree roots they used to sell and the things they used to sell for fire were old and valuable.

To put it mildly, the roots they sold dozens or hundreds of in the past can be worth at least 18,000, but they can't catch it back if they sell it, and the roots of the previous trees are almost sold, what should I do? Dig it, there are a lot of things on the mountain, and suddenly every household is like beating chicken blood, and adults and children go to dig the cypress.

The mighty formation of a large army of digging cypress, you can dig, others can also dig, for this Niutou Village also fought a few times with other villages, delineated their respective ranges to forget the matter, so by cutting down trees, digging cypress, the village ushered in a new round of rich climax.

And the fastest to get rich, used to be the poorest family in the village surnamed Niu, this family has three brothers, all of them are thick and strong, in order to provide for these three brothers, Daddy Niu almost died of exhaustion, three young men eat, in the mountain village does not have a few acres of land, how much burden does it have to be? It's not too much to say, in order to support his three sons, Daddy Niu has worked hard.

With the wind of Yabai, the old Niu family made a fortune, because the three brothers are thick and strong, with great strength, and it is natural to work hard, and others dare not climb the cliff, the third brother dares to go, and he dares to go down with the rope, and it didn't take long for the old Niu family to get rich, because the more dangerous the place, the better the Yabai grows.

Soon the old Niu family built a tile house, a yard, the days are more and more moist, but the old lady of the three brothers of the Niu family is a thin life, not long after the house was built, the old lady who has worked hard all her life will die, the family is very sad, the three brothers are a total, the old lady did not live a good life before her death, and now she has money, and the funeral has to be done.

The country has long implemented cremation, but that is said to people who live in towns, such as Niutou Village, a mountain village, there are few people, and it is not easy to pull out the corpse, basically it is still to find a place to bury, and no one cares, the same is true of Lao Niu's family, but before the burial, you have to do it first, buy a coffin, add a longevity clothes, set up a mourning hall, invite the town's troupe, and operate it for three days, the first two days are safe, and on the third day, the whole village comes to eat the funeral feast, but the water in the steamed bun pot can't be boiled.

No matter how to add firewood to the firewood, it is not even a little hot, the funeral banquet of the Niu family is to steam the steamed buns first, and then stir-fry the vegetables, the steamed buns are not cooked, the dishes can not be copied, the whole village is sitting in the courtyard waiting for the feast, Niu Da and so on impatiently, lifted the lid of the pot, as soon as he lifted the lid of the pot, he saw a white old man sitting in the pot of steamed steamed buns, the size of a box of cigarettes, wearing a white robe, and looking at him with open eyes.

Niu Da belongs to the thief who has no heart, he is bold, he doesn't feel afraid, he picks up the stick next to the stove and smashes it, the old man flashed, and ran round and round on the steamed buns placed on the drawer.

Tossed for a while, Niu shouted that his brother came to help, Niu Er came in to see, and suddenly sighed in his heart, the old man is so strange, it must not be an ordinary thing, plus he suddenly appeared at the time of his mother's funeral, it was a big bad luck, Niu Er hurriedly went to pull Niu Da.

Taking advantage of such a kung fu, the old man swooped out of the pot, jumped out of the door, not only did not hide and escape, but through the yard, ran out of the main gate, and went to the mountain, the courtyard of the Niu family was full of people from the same village waiting to eat, the banquet was not eaten, but saw a strange old man in white clothes appeared in the Niu family, they all felt afraid, no one dared to stay to eat the banquet, and walked cleanly.

Soon the rumors spread everywhere, saying that there were all kinds of things, some said that the three sons of the Niu family were not filial, and the old lady sued them in front of the Lord of Yama, which was a ghost to punish them, and some people said that the three sons of the Niu family dug the cliff and cypress too hard, offended the mountain god, and sent a mountain ghost to scare his family, and some said that the old Niu family started a house and occupied someone else's homestead, and there were dead people buried underneath, and they came to trouble his family......

In short, there are all kinds of sayings, but no one knows what the origin of the old man in white is, the old Niu family did not dare to delay, the next day they invited someone to help, blowing and blowing to bury the old lady to the funeral, buried in the east hillside of a cemetery that was found in advance, in order to eliminate the disaster, but also spent money to invite a few monks and Taoists to help chant the scriptures.

After burying the old lady, the father and son of the Niu family were very worried for a few days, half a month passed, nothing happened, the dead were gone, the life of the living had to continue, the three brothers of the Niu family began to look for Yabai again, after all, the daughter-in-law has not yet married, according to their speed, it will not be long before the three brothers marry the daughter-in-law, as long as Yabai digs enough.

After a few days, the three brothers dug a huge cliff cypress more than two meters high and one person thick in a particularly treacherous place on the cliff, with high density, oily feet, and strong aroma.

The three brothers took turns to fight, and it took three days to dig up Yabai and transport it back home, but in the middle of the night when Yabai was brought home, Niu Er always heard it in his sleep...... He thought that the brothers got up all night and didn't take it seriously, but after more than ten minutes, the sound of sparse flowing water still didn't stop.

Niu Er thinks it's wrong, can you sprinkle it for more than ten minutes after a bubble? I couldn't help but get up and put on my clothes and go to the yard to take a look, and vaguely saw a person facing away from the wall at home, and I couldn't see clearly when it was dark, thinking that it was either the eldest or the third, and asked: "Who, the eldest or the third?" If you don't sleep at night, what are you doing standing under the wall? ”

As soon as he spoke, the person under the root of the wall slowly turned around, Niu Er took a few steps closer, squinting his eyes to look, but when he saw clearly who this person was, suddenly the three souls were frightened, hiccup! 's back is gone. (To be continued......)