Chapter 10: The Mountain God
The moon still climbed the mountain in the end, Mo Xun tried several times unconvinced, but he never got out of this mountain temple.
"Don't toss, he won't let you go. This old man is very stubborn. Mr. Centenarian took out a piece of pastry from a delicate plate: "You try this!"
Mo Xun took the square yellow pastry from Mr. 100 years old, and when he put it in his mouth, it melted like yogurt, and a sweet aroma penetrated his heart.
"What is this?" Mo Xun had never eaten such a delicious thing, the food was not so abundant in the early years, and in the last few hundred years, he has eaten more and more varied things, even if he is rich in food and clothing around the old goddess, he has never seen such food.
"Hibiscus cake. My E-Niang went to the palace to eat when she was a child, and the emperor saw that my E-Niang liked it, so he gave the Huizhou cook who made hibiscus cake to the house. Mr. Centenarian's eyes flashed with a hint of loss, but they quickly disappeared. But it was captured by Mo Xun.
"Is Zhiya Gege still there?" Mo Xun asked tentatively.
"It's gone. You think everyone is like you!" Mr. Baisui looked at Mo Xun with disdain. Mo Xun smiled dumbly, not knowing what to say.
"Miss Mo Xun, don't come unharmed!" an old and deep voice sounded outside. A chubby old man on crutches walked in from outside. It's not a familiar face! Who is this person?
"Old man, who are you?" Mo Xun stood up and looked cautiously at the strange fat old man in front of him.
"Girl, do you remember that a thousand years ago, you came to Changbai Mountain, where you met a monk who gave a lecture and taught you a lot of Buddhism. Mo Xun thought hard before he remembered.
It was the time of the Five Hu Chaos, everywhere was riots, Mo Xun went all the way north and finally fled to Changbai Mountain, there was a lobbying monk on Changbai Mountain, who came from ancient India, all the way to spread Buddhism, never stayed, if it wasn't for her, Mo Xun thought that this monk was afraid that he would go all the way to the current Russia.
"Then you are the reincarnation of that old monk?" Mo Xun looked at it and asked, thinking about it carefully, it didn't look like the soul of the high monk was not a taste.
"Think again?" said the fat old man.
Mo Xun approached the old man, his eyes turned green again, and his mouth opened to gush out black gas.
"Sure enough, it's an old acquaintance!" After half an hour of effort, Mo Xun withdrew his black qi, and his eyes returned to their previous pure appearance.
"Does the girl recognize me?" said the old man's eyes.
"Recognized. Mo Xun nodded.
"What are you two playing dumb riddles?, old man, why are you acquaintances everywhere?" Mr. 100 looked at the two people who were testing each other.
"This is not just an acquaintance, it is simply half a benefactor. After hearing Mo Xun and the impure monks talk about Zen, I had an epiphany about Buddhism and finally achieved cultivation. The fat old man recalled.
"I'm just unintentionally inserting willows. You don't have to take it too seriously. Mo Xun was a little embarrassed by the fat old man. It was just that Mo Xun chased the impure monk for the answer to the immortality of life, and actually caused the old spruce tree to cultivate into refinement.
"Miss Mo Xun, I shouldn't have stopped you today. But I can't help it, the hundred-year-old man won't help me, I'm unwilling!" said the fat old man.
This old spruce has grown for thousands of years, and it is unreachable, until Mo Xun and the impure monks come here, they have just opened their minds, absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and survived the thunder tribulation for thousands of years before they cultivated the human body.
The old spruce that has just gained the human body is named Yunshan, and there are still many wild immortals in Changbai Mountain at that time, they support each other, practice together, and rise up to the day of immortality.
Spruce, the one with the highest Dharma epiphany among them, often took them to pretend to be wealthy merchants and go to the temple at the bottom of the mountain to borrow scriptures and copy scriptures.
One day, Yun Shan took the copied scriptures from the temple and was about to go up the mountain to read the scriptures with them. As a result, on the way up the mountain, I met a team of people who went up the mountain to dig ginseng.
At that time, digging ginseng was much more elaborate than now, and you needed to ask the mountain god before going up the mountain, and if the mountain god didn't let you, you would never be able to go up the mountain.
The team of ginseng diggers also kowtow and burn incense before going up the mountain according to the tradition, the boss of the digging team called the ginseng leader, and the things about the sacrifice to the mountain god are also controlled by the god with one hand, he put the lit incense on the ground, took the lead in kowtowing a head, and when he got up, the ginseng stared at the incense and tightened his brows. These three incense sticks were all extinguished, this is because the mountain god does not let them go up the mountain.
The ginseng head conveyed the meaning of the mountain god to the gold lord, and the gold lord's face was even more ugly than the ginseng head: "Really can't you go up the mountain? This ginseng is wanted by the queen mother, our buddy is already half a person, if you can't get the ginseng back, you will die!"
Only then did the head of the ginseng know that these two gold owners were actually the father-in-law in the palace, and they came to Changbai Mountain for the thousand-year-old ginseng that the Queen Mother wanted. The ginseng head is also afraid, the people in this palace are all masters who eat meat and don't spit out bones, how can the queen mother give up if she can't get ginseng? Not to mention whether the anger will burn to them!
"Then ask again, if we don't do it, we really won't be able to go up the mountain!" Sam thought for a long time, but finally relented.
Sam brought a roast pig from the bottom of the mountain temporarily, hoping that such a big gift would open the mountain god's net. Ginseng skillfully lit his head with incense, plugged it in, and then led the young men beside him to kneel down and kowtow, and with his head closed, he muttered some prayers in his mouth, got up, knelt down again, and slammed his head on the ground.
After three prostrations, the forehead of the head of the staff was already red. He settled his mind and looked at the incense that had just been lit, and the middle one had been broken from the middle.
"I can't go up the mountain, I'll go home now! If I annoy the mountain god brothers, I have to go in!" "The head of the ginseng is more than 50 years old, and he has more than 30 years of experience in digging ginseng, but this is the first time he has seen such a battle.
"No, you have to take us up the mountain, you dig a hundred taels of gold lumps, and if you can't dig them, you will wait to be buried with our brothers!" He listened for a while, and probably knew why.
In fact, there are no mountain gods on this mountain, there have always been some wild immortals guarding the mountain, and the ginseng diggers give them a little worship, and they also give the ginseng diggers a little return.
The people who dig ginseng are never greedy and follow the will of their predecessors, so the two parties have been getting along harmoniously for so many years.
"Two masters, this is really not like we people in the mountains who can't save them when they see death. But what happened on this mountain is really not up to people. Yun Shan came out to speak for the head of the staff, trying to persuade them.
Who knew that the two fathers-in-law were even more angry, and even took out a small dagger from their clothes. How else to say that the people in the palace are different from the wild people in the mountain village, the people in the palace think that a small dagger soaked in poison can kill so many people, but they don't know that the wild people in the mountain village have been hunting since they were children, and even the blind bears with a high head have the courage to fight, how can they be afraid of thin and weak eunuchs like them.
Although the head of the staff was old, he was nimble with his hands and feet, and he snatched the knife from the eunuch's hand and scratched the man's arm with his backhand. Seeing this, the other immediately fled, but there were many people on the side of the leader, and several young men caught up with him in a few steps, and they could not stand the eunuch's yin and yang strange tone for a long time.
What are they waiting for? It is still some young man, and he will be beaten down in three or two strokes.
"What dogs dare to bark at the gentlemen!" said Ginseng, spitting his head at the fallen eunuch. The eunuch's face turned blue and purple, and after a few convulsions, he passed out.
"A few are real men, my old Yun respects you, this person ordered me Yunshan to carry it for you. Yun Shan was also very moved when he saw that they were not moved by money, listened to the training of the group, and maintained the mountains and forests. If you want to say that this person is gone, the court must track it down, but who is he Yunshan, and it is not a trivial matter to solve this?
After sending them back, Yunshan summoned the wild immortals to discuss the matter, and they decided to go out of the mountain and play a troubled water.
The people here have long complained about the people's fat and ointment, and they didn't do it before, because Mazhi County had not lost their conscience at that time, but in recent years, Mazhi County has become more and more excessive. It's not too much to lead the matter of those two dog eunuchs to Ma Zhixian.