Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Misty Pine Forest
Although one less is in the lonely mountain for ninety-nine eighty-one days, there are one hundred days on the mountain and one day on the earth.
For Dayanhe Village, after the comparison of the sword pavilion, the harvesting of tail rice, and the pleasure of tea fighting. At this time, the West Mountain is just beginning to enter late autumn.
The morning breeze is accompanied by a bit of bleakness, and the upper reaches of Ganhua Creek go all the way down with the turbulent water.
Geng Ding stood alone on the bank of Ganhua Creek, looking at the smaller and smaller backs of Shaoyi and Gugu walking towards the lonely mountain, and now, he was the only one left in the family.
But once people are free and uncontrolled, they are a little empty.
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When the sun was shining on the southern slope of the lonely mountain at noon, Shaoyi and Goo had come to the edge of the misty pine forest.
Following Geng Ding's arrangement, the two did not take the route they had taken last time, but crossed the Ganhua River and took the southern slope, so as to avoid the strong wind on the northern slope of the mountain pass.
Out of the desire to save physical strength, or to be a natural habit of living together all year round, along the way, Shaoyi and Goo barely spoke, and when they met the need, they understood each other with a look.
One less blindly buried his head in his feet, but cooed, and looked at the different scenery around him from time to time.
Under the pine forest, the two of them put down their bags almost at the same time, and then, each performing their duties, one less firewood, and cooing to build a stove......
Gugu, who squatted down to wash rice, suddenly remembered something, raised his bulging face, and asked, "In the canyon rainforest on the east side of Gushan Mountain, you seem to have said that you have encountered forest frogs?"
Shaoyi was already thinking: "Well, you must know that the forest frog has the fattest flesh in autumn, sprinkle salt, wrap lotus leaves, and smoke cattail grass." ”
"I'm so hungry that I'm panicking!" Shaoyi smiled awkwardly at his lack of interest.
"This is easy to do, go pick up some pine towers and come back. I'll roast you a pheasant. Gugu took out the pheasant, which had been plucked, gutted, and cleaned, from the basket, and began to feed the pheasant the same spice.
Goo said that you can do without anything along the way, and you can't bring spices without it.
The cold wind swept through the pine forest, making a long whistling sound, as described in the lyric poems of the ancients singing about the lonely mountain: wild and vast......
The misty pine forest is welcoming the arrival of Shaoyi and Gugu with the sound of the wind and autumn colors.
The misty pine forest has no name, and at a glance, except for the dull trunks of different thicknesses, they are all bare and dry, without the slightest dampness of the word "fog".
Under the feet, there are old, thick pine needles and pine branches, and when you step on them, they make a "crunching sound".
A shriveled pine tower that had been hanging on a branch for an unknown number of years may have been shaken, and suddenly rolled down and smashed to the ground with a muffled grunt.
This voice, on the contrary, increased the loneliness around him.
Immediately after one, two ...... In a matter of moments, Shaoyi and Goo were shrouded in more and more white mist released from the Song Tower.
Through the bursts of white pine waves, Shaoyi seemed to hear shouts, roars, and hits one after another......
He wanted to figure out where the sound was coming from, and his curiosity was together, and he didn't care about muttering about paying attention to safety, so he plunged headlong into the fog one by one.
A cloud of white mist opened before my eyes.
Shaoyi couldn't wait to reach out and push away the layers of mist, which was a scene he had never seen before:
In front of him, a large group of people were roaring wantonly around a circular "big pool".
In the middle of the big pool, there are two people who are moving.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a gorgeously dressed and handsome boy appeared, and he was two heads taller than the one less.
Brother Gongzi patted Shaoyi's brain melon with great interest, and said: "Nine pigs, you also have one, since ancient times, the bear has come out of the youth......"
Shaoyi stiffened his neck, squeezed to the edge of the "big pool" with Brother Gongzi, followed everyone's gaze, he leaned over and looked down, only to see that this "big pool" was the size of the courtyard of the four village chiefs' houses, it was a round stand, surrounded by high walls.
Above the high wall was a fence, and outside the fence, there were layers of circular stands, and the stands were higher than one circle, and they were filled with black spectators. The spectators all seem to be well-dressed and well-fed, but unfortunately what they do and shout is very vulgar......
However, instead of being disgusted with these people, Shaoyi was curious because they were different from himself, perhaps because he had stayed in Dayanhe Village for five years, and Shaoyi had never seen any living people.
In the big pool, there is a wrestling match going on at the moment-
Shaoyi heard Brother Gongzi say: "Look at the card that says 'Black Whirlwind' vs. 'Wild Pepper'."
"Since you are an asset in my name, I have registered your name today, and I have secretly placed a bet. In the next game, it's your turn, 'Nine Pigs'!"
Shao Yi tilted his head and thought for a while: "That's right, I am the 'Nine Pigs', this name doesn't sound inconsistent at all." Yes, I am the "Nine Pigs", this person is my master. ”
In the big pool, the "wild pepper" was red and shiny, and as soon as he came out, he took off the black feather cloak of the "black whirlwind" and kicked it to the stands in the back row.
"Rise up, rise up!" The spectators chopped their feet together, shaking the field loudly, urging the two to fight each other with real guns as soon as possible...
"Black Whirlwind" saw that "Wild Pepper" was distracted by enjoying the applause in the stands, so he took advantage of his unpreparedness, put his hand into his coarse cloth coat, took out a handful of what the hell, approached closely, and made a surprise attack, rubbing the thing directly into the eyes of "Wild Pepper".
"Wild Pepper" was hit before he had time to be alert, he screamed, ran all over the field, and stumbled.
"Black Whirlwind" took the opportunity to kick him again, kicked him down, jumped up, smashed his butt down again, sat on the back of "Wild Sanjiao", and pressed him to take turns with a left and right fist.
In the midst of the coaxing shouts of the spectators, the "black whirlwind" ostentatiously punched the "wild pepper" under his buttocks, which made the spectators addicted......
Then, the "Black Whirlwind" got up triumphantly and slapped his chest and waved at the roaring spectators in the stands around him......
At this time, no matter how you look at it, Shaoyi feels that "Black Whirlwind" doesn't look like it's really fighting, but like trying his best to interact with the field and off the field to please the viewers.
The silver coins thrown into the center of the large pool jingle non-stop, and it seems that the "Black Whirlwind" is very popular, and his trick is very effective.
Shao Yizheng was thinking about it while watching, and suddenly he was pulled by the son's ears and carried to a narrow door next to the stands, and the two of them crapped into the room with the narrow door one foot deep and one foot shallow.
It was a dimly lit little black room, and there was a window above the black room where you could watch the game, and there was a corridor on the floor of the black room, which led to the gladiatorial arena on the large pool, and was the entrance for the gladiators to enter the gladiatorial arena.
Brother Gongzi took out a piece of oily flatbread, smiled contemptuously at Shaoyi, and then said something. However, the shouting outside was too loud for Shaoyi to hear him clearly.
Brother Gongzi leaned his head to Shaoyi's ear, and when he was so close that he could almost bite off Shaoyi's ear with his teeth, he shouted: "'Nine Pigs', this is your first gladiatorial competition, you must lose to me! Listen: if you lose, you will have a big pie to eat; if you win, I will throw you into a cage and feed the wolves......"
When I looked at this golden scone with chopped walnuts, I immediately felt as if I had been sucked into the soul, and my internal organs suddenly turned over and overturned, and there was only one thought in my mind, I desperately wanted to eat this piece...... Even if it's just licking the crumbs off the cake!
For a piece of walnut flatbread, he is the "nine pigs"! When he goes to the soup and fire, he has to climb to this piece of flatbread......
In front of him, Brother Gongzi raised this unattainable piece of bread, and pointed in one direction with the other hand, that is, the low, long corridor that opened on the ground in the room leading to the gladiatorial arena......
Shaoyi crawled out of the corridor and stood in the middle of the big pool with a little weakness, ushering in a thunderous applause from the spectators in the stands.
The "Black Whirlwind", which had just won, was in full swing at this time, and he saw that his opponent "Nine Pigs" was thinner and shorter than the "Wild Mountain Pepper" that he had just lost to him, and he couldn't help but underestimate it and relaxed his mood in the battle.
As a result, "Black Whirlwind" walked around the field with his arms in his arms, frequently greeting the people in the stands, and turning his head from time to time, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and looked at his new opponent with satisfaction......
As soon as the whistle blew, the white-haired and black-bearded referee nodded solemnly at the "Nine Pigs" and shouted into the horn: "I ask the players to not only have wonderful skills in the next competition, but also to abide by the rules - no gouging eyes, no hitting any part below the belt, and no ghost tricks such as biting ears, poking eyes, and eating mushrooms!"
"Nine Pigs" nodded obediently, and as a result, the spectators booed:
"Get out of here, you little pig!"
"You'd better clamp your tail and slip away!"
"What kind of Zhong pig of the Ouyang family, which tendon is not right for me to listen to people, I bet on you, but I really hit the mold!"
"Cowardice, I misjudged you. ”
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It seems that the obedience of "Nine Pigs" annoyed the spectators, and this is the rhythm of driving him down.
Brother Gongzi shouted in the coach's seat: "Nine pigs, what kind of good grandson to pretend, give it to me!"
Should you listen to the referee, or listen to the spectators? Or, listen to your own son-in-law?
"Nine Pigs" was suddenly blindfolded......
Seeing this, the "Black Whirlwind" showed his strong arm with one bone joint and one bone joint like an oil gourd in a daze, and made a hard twisting motion at the "Nine Pigs", causing a cheer in the stands......