Chapter 12: The Ghost Rock
Mr. Wu continued: "You are still young, you still have a long way to go, and the difficulties and dangers you will encounter in the future are even ten times more fierce than bandits, robbers, demons and monsters. I'm going into the valley now, would you like to go in with me?" After listening to Mr. Wu's words, the students immediately became more confident, no longer fearful, and replied in unison: "Yes!" After that, they followed Mr. Wu majestically and walked towards the valley with high spirits.
As soon as I walked into the valley, everything in front of me was beyond everyone's expectations, as if I was in another world.
The song of birds fills the valley, awakening the lush trees, and the wind blows, rustling the leaves, rippling with irrepressible joy and satisfaction. The springs on both sides of the mountains flow down and merge into a meandering stream, like a flowing silver-white jade belt. On both sides of the stream, flowers are all over the ground, green grass is like grass, and the air is filled with a refreshing fragrance. As I continued to walk, I suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing on my body, and I could faintly hear the sound of water, which was much stronger than the sound of the stream flowing, as if it was hiding infinite energy. Mr. Wu and they followed the sound of the water, gradually the sound of the water became more and more noisy, and then bypassed a few bends, through a flower path, only to see Qiao pine and bamboo, green and covered the sky, layers of mountains and strange Xiu, quiet and deep.
Mr. Wu secretly appreciated, I really didn't expect that there was such a different cave in this ghost valley, although he has been in Xingluobar Village for a long time, close to the mountains and rivers, and is considered to be half of the mountains and forests, but when he comes here, he still has the feeling of "being in the cage for a long time and returning to nature".
Repeat a few zhang, go around a rock, only to see a piece of silver waterfall inlaid between the green mountains, the silver light is shining, dazzling and eye-catching. As I approached it, the sound of the water became louder and louder, as if there were thousands of horses. When we came to the bottom of the waterfall, we were shrouded in this vast mist, cool and silky, and immediately felt refreshed.
Everyone lingered in the beautiful scenery of the valley, and before they knew it, they had walked most of the entire ghost valley. Seeing that it was getting late, Mr. Wu hurriedly told everyone to speed up their pace and cross the Ghost Valley as soon as possible. The students did not dare to stop and followed Mr. Wu's footsteps closely, but their curious eyes were still uncontrollably attracted by the beautiful scenery on both sides of the narrow valley.
Just as Mr. Wu was glad to have successfully passed through the Valley of Ghosts, something unfortunate happened. I saw a mountain protruding from each side of the narrow road not far ahead, which was only three zhang apart, forming a narrow passage tens of meters long. There is only a section of passage that is too narrow, which is fortunate, but a boulder placed in the middle is even more incredible.
I saw that the boulder was about three zhang wide and dozens of zhang high, just embedded between the protruding mountains on both sides, like a small peak. The surface of the boulder is as smooth as a mirror, and there are countless thick vines on both sides, winding and coiling, like a cyan coiled dragon. Mr. Wu looked up at the huge rock, and couldn't help but marvel at the wonder of the creation, and said in his heart: "No wonder this valley is so quiet and comfortable, all thanks to this boulder blocking the vent of the ghost valley, greatly weakening the wind in the valley, otherwise, everything in the valley will be destroyed by this rapid and abnormal valley wind, and the ghost valley must not be the scene it is now, I am afraid that the sky is really dark and the ghosts are alive!"
Mr. Wu was stunned for a while, approached the boulder, carefully looked at every corner of the boulder, couldn't help but feel sad, and muttered to himself: "Although this boulder has created the great creation of the Ghost Valley, it has also blocked the passage, and the Huacheng Student Friendship Conference is about to be held, how should we pass it?"
Mr. Wu pondered and meditated for a long time, but still couldn't think of a way, and he was anxious for a while, which can really be described as a "dilemma".
Seeing that Mr. Wu was uneasy and had an anxious look on his face, the ghost party walked over and asked in a whisper, "Mr. Wu, can't we get through?" Mr. Wu came back to his senses, smiled reluctantly, and said: "The roads in the world are all made by people, as long as we calm down and think about it, we will definitely be able to find a way to pass here." β
After a long time, Mr. Wu still had nothing to do, but seeing the anxious look on the students' faces, he had a plan, and said with a smile: "Hahahaha! I just told you about the 'difficulties and dangers' of life in Taniguchi, I didn't expect it to come to us so soon, you are students in Tiangongyuan, and you will be the best craftsmen in our country in the future, don't be discouraged, we should take this huge rock as one of our topics, let's use our brains together to see which of you can come up with a way to get through first." β
When everyone heard Mr. Wu say this, everyone's spirits were lifted, and they began to scratch their ears and cheeks to think about it, and their faces no longer had the anxious look just now. Seeing that the students were gradually quieting down, Mr. Wu's anxious mood calmed down a little, but he fell into deep thought again.
Dunzi glanced at the boulder, snorted coldly, and said in a rough voice: "As the so-called soldiers come to block, water comes to cover the earth, and now the boulder is in the way, we use the thick vine to move it away!" Everyone shook their heads, laughing at Dunzi's innocence. Xiaohu smiled and said disapprenously: "Your method, for smaller stones is okay, this boulder is like a small mountain, although you look like you are very powerful, but for the boulder, it is like 'the breeze blows the hill, and the bright moon shines on the river'." Dunzi was curious: "What do you mean? What do you mean that I look like I am very powerful? I am so strong, can't I still move a broken stone?" Xiaohu covered his mouth, couldn't help laughing, and joked: "Fat!" Everyone laughed when they heard this. Dunzi was embarrassed and angry, and was about to reach out to beat Xiaohu, but was suddenly stopped by Mr. Wu and said: "Okay, let's stop making trouble, let's discuss it together, talk about our own thoughts, and see how we can get over." β
The students sat around Mr. Wu on the floor. Mr. Wu looked around and said, "Xiaohu, you said that the method of the dun is not good, so you can tell everyone what you think first." Xiaohu raised his head and looked at the sky, his eyes rolled and he said happily: "I think the best way is for us to grow a pair of wings, just like the birds in the sky, and fly past." Mr. Wu shook his head and shouted: "We are people, not birds, how can we grow a pair of wings? "You come up with an idea, I'll come up with an idea, and in a short time, the students have come up with dozens of ideas, but none of them are practical.
Mr. Wu frowned, and casually glanced at the ghost fang who had not yet spoken, only to see that he was motionless, thoughtful, and asked: "Ghost Fang, you haven't spoken all along, do you have anything to say?" The ghost fang pondered for a moment and said: "I don't have any specific ideas, but I think that the current boulder, although it blocks our passage, but precisely because of it, the ghost valley has blue sky and white clouds, small streams, flowers and trees, and warblers singing and dancing, and is happy to have a vibrant scene." If we remove this boulder recklessly, then all the good things here will come to naught, and as the name of the valley name suggests, it will become a real hell on earth. Therefore, it is better to pass through here, so that the boulder is not disturbed by the climate in the valley, and that a road is opened for pedestrians to pass through. β
Mr. Wu and all the students present listened attentively and couldn't help but secretly admire the vision of the ghost party.
As night fell, it was getting dark.
Mr. Wu glanced at the boulder in front of him, sighed, and said, "Alas, I'm afraid we're going to spend the night here tonight, the temperature has dropped sharply at night, and everyone is dressed thinly and tightly, so let's go pick up some dry firewood and make a fire to keep warm." β
The valley was overgrown with trees, and the students picked up a pile of dry firewood after a while. However, everyone suddenly looked at each other and was at a loss. Mr. Wu walked over and asked why. It turned out that everyone was in a hurry when they came out, and they forgot to bring flint and flint and fire folds for a while.
The clever little tiger's eyes rolled and said with a smile: "Then let's learn from the ancients and have a 'drill wood to make fire'!" The students' eyes lit up and they gathered around to see how the little tiger drilled out of the fire.
I saw Xiaohu take two dry branches of different thicknesses, and found some soft hay to put aside, first he dug a hole in the thicker branch, fixed it at his feet, and then picked up the thinner branch, inserted one end of it into the small hole of the thick branch, and then while foiling the thin branch, while putting the fine soft hay next to it into the fire hole, and kept blowing wind into the hole with his mouth, after a while, smoke began to appear at the fire hole, Xiaohu added some soft hay, and continued to blow the wind, about ten minutes later, the small flame slowly ignitedγ
When the students saw that Xiaohu really drilled out the fire, they couldn't help but be overjoyed and applauded.
Ghost Fang watched Xiaohu's entire process of drilling wood to make fire, pondered for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in front of him, and he was overjoyed: "I thought of it! I thought of it!" The classmates were curious: "What did you think of, you are so happy?" Ghost Fang pointed in the direction of the boulder, and said with a smile: "I found a way to pass through that boulder!" Mr. Wu saw that Ghost Fang had an idea, and said happily: "What can you do, tell everyone about it?" Ghost Fang walked up to Xiaohu, smiled, and said, "Actually, this method was thought up by Xiaohu." Xiaohu looked dazed and said with a wry smile: "Ghost Fang, don't make fun of me, the most I can do is drill wood to make fire." Ghost Fang smiled: "Yes, it was your drilling wood for fire that made me think of a way to get through." "Now it's not just Xiaohu, everyone present is a second monk who is confused, and doesn't understand the meaning of the ghost Fang's words. Oni Fang looked around and continued, "You think, a thin branch can drill fire into a thick branch, and if we compare that huge rock to this thick branch, if we can find a stick that is harder than a stone, sharpen the end, we will definitely be able to drill that huge rock out of a passage. "Everyone didn't think about it, but they always felt that what the ghost party said was very reasonable.