Chapter 12: Atonement
One person, two people... Many villagers are reminiscing about those days.
The fourth master walked in front of the crowd, looked at the bones in front of him, and slowly knelt in front of the bones and kowtowed.
Slowly got up and looked at the villagers, at this time, the fourth master picked up the identity of the highest elder in his village, "Xinghua Village, kneel down!" From today on, all the people of Xinghua Village eat fast every year to make amends for their sins on the day before sacrificing to the mountain god. Anyone who does not obey will be expelled from Xinghua Village, who has any objections!ah~"
"Kneel!" the villagers did not dare to be different at this time, and many people had participated.
"One Prostration"
"Prostrate Again"
"Three Prostrations"
Li Qing knocked on the ground and kept knocking like this.
Coax...... With a bang, the roof of the mountain temple collapsed, and a wooden board smashed in front of Li Qing.
Li Qing knelt on the ground and straightened up to pick up the plank. Lost in thought. There are calligraphy and paintings on the wooden panels, which are engraved with the method of sake brewing and some words.
The heaven-given god stone radiates the earth, and the apricot blossoms bloom all over the mountain in the following year.
Apricot beauties among the apricot blossoms, beauties give wine apricot blossom spring.
My village has this apricot blossom tree, and the apricot blossom wine is begging for a hundred miles.
The wine should be divided into three parts, one for the gods, two for oneself, and three for sharing.
The aroma of wine needs three things, one is to be awe-inspiring, two is to be diligent, and three is kind-hearted.
Only those who are happy can produce good wine, and only those who are good can be intoxicating.
The reason why the sake of Xinghua Village became famous hundreds of years ago is that the apricot trees that suddenly bloom for decades attract outsiders. In Xinghua Village, I made friends with outsiders, learned to make wine from outsiders, and through a little improvement, I got the Xinghua wine hundreds of years ago.
There is no ancient method of apricot blossom wine, but the villagers have transformed it bit by bit. One person makes wine with one taste, so almost every person in Xinghua Village made wine at that time, and each family's wine made outsiders forget to return.
Hundreds of years ago, the wine in Xinghua Village was almost rarely available from the outside world, and the villagers never made much wine or sold much. Villagers returning from farming in the fields are particularly comfortable to drink a glass of home-brewed wine.
After Li Qing finished reading the calligraphy and paintings on the wooden board, he bowed to Chen Na's bones again.
Stood up and handed the plank to the fourth master.
"Li Qing, you ......" The fourth master didn't take the plank, just looked at Li Qing.
"Fourth master, I'm fine, it's okay. Li Qing looked at the fourth master and smiled
"Fourth master, on the wooden board is the winemaking method passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors in the village. It's ridiculous that we've always regretted losing the sake brewing method so easily. We are to blame ourselves for all this, guarding Baoshan but always wanting to eat the old books of our ancestors!" Li Qing looked at every villager one by one.
Li Qing walked in front of his mother, "Mother, it was our fault ten years ago, we complained that our son was unfilial, and I can't leave the Li family behind in the future, I want to live under this mountain and worship every day." ”
This night, everyone except the children did not sleep, and what happened overnight made everyone unforgettable.
At five o'clock in the morning, the water level had dropped by half, and it was dropping a little bit every hour.
Chen Na's bones have been buried by the villagers in the middle of an apricot blossom tree in front of the temple.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, a large number of policemen led by Zhang Lu walked towards Xinghua Village.
On the second hill, "it, come here, look." ”
"Oh my mother, hurry up and notify the bureau, let the forensic doctor come over, don't touch him I don't know how long he has been dead, be careful to protect the scene!"
Zhang Lu also saw the corpse and shouted, "Ah~ It's him!"
"Who? do you know who he is?" the captain looked at Zhang Lu
"Know... Know. He is the one who abducted and sold me, I remember his clothes," Zhang Lu said weakly.
"Damn, he's cheap, leave a few people to watch the scene, and the rest will come with me. The captain commanded.
An hour later, Zhang Lu and some of the team leaders arrived at the descent of the mountain, stopped, and there was no way to walk. See the wooden planks of furniture floating on the water.
"My God, are you sure this is a village?" the team members couldn't believe what they saw. But there is no way to explain the clothes and furniture floating everywhere.
"That's right, it's here, how can this be!" Zhang Lu didn't know what to say, and the village was flooded overnight.
"Look, is that a person?" a teammate saw a body lying on a wooden plank dozens of meters away.
"What are you doing in a daze, go down to save people!" the captain told his subordinates to go down and get people.
"The notification bureau called the rescue team, and there must be a lot of people in the village. ”
"And gas!"
Three hours later, a large number of men and horses arrived. The person who died on the mountain was identified as having died more than thirty days ago, with a broken leg and a head puncture. Finding out who you have a criminal record. I don't have to go in now, it's all self-defeating.
An hour later, the rescue team found the villagers in front of the mountain temple, and three more people were salvaged from the water, two of whom were severely unconscious, and one died, and it was Zhu Fu who died.
A village is separated by two banks, and the rescue team went to deliver supplies at the mountain temple, while a large number of people were stationed on the other side to investigate the cause.
A day later, the rescue team blew up a boulder on the side of a mountain, and the water receded. At the same time, the reason was also investigated, and according to the villagers' understanding, the mountain was once hit by a meteorite to the top of the mountain, forming a super large reservoir.
For hundreds of years, the rocks of the mountain could not withstand the power of the water, and the rocks cracked and were missing, causing flooding.
As a result of the floods, three people were injured, one was killed and one was missing. It's just that Xiaokai is missing. According to the police, the flood hit and washed away the wooden house I don't know where it went, and it is still searching.
After knowing that Xiaokai was missing, Zhang Lu went crazy and saw the villagers rescue and beat him. Then he squatted on the ground and cried, "Why did you disappear before I took you to the cinema." Where are you going, is it good to come back!"
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A year later, the destroyed village was built again, and the official was going to arrange for them to evacuate here, although the flood would not happen again, but the fourth master said to them, "This is the place where we have lived for generations, this is the pride of our ancestors, and it is also our sin." ”
For another year, the villagers still do it every day at sunrise and return at sunset.
In the spring of the third year, at the foot of the mountain, Li Qing and his mother had breakfast and walked to the mountain temple together. Li Qing walked under the apricot blossom tree and began to worship day after day.
It's like a girl, it's cute, it's white as snow, it's fresh and elegant. This apricot blossom fell off the branch, as if it wanted to fall to the world.
Li Qing smelled a faint fragrance, looked up, and an apricot blossom fell on Chen Na's tombstone.
"Nana, are you right?" tears flowed uncontrollably, picking up the apricot blossom and feeling it on his face, as if he had gone back to ten years ago. At that time, Chen Na was like this apricot blossom.
Li Qing's mother also came out after cleaning, saw her son, and walked over lightly.
Li Qing felt that his mother was coming, and turned to look at his mother, "Mother, flowers... It's on. ”
When the two were about to leave, Li Qing put the apricot blossom on the tombstone.
The two people who returned to the bottom of the mountain were ready to tell the villagers the good news.
Five years later, Xinghua Village has changed dramatically, and the mountains are full of apricot blossoms every spring.
Ten years later, Xinghua Village has brewed its own wine, and they also understand the pride of their ancestors at that time, and the wine of Xinghua Village is yearning for the outside world.
This year, the fragrance of wine in Xinghua Village is fragrant, and countless people are eager for a jar of apricot blossom spring. It has been rumored in the outside world that the wine of Xinghua Village is brewed at home, and Baiwei is brewed at home.
Some rich people said that they wanted to build a road for wine, and the fourth master who was still alive in the village said, "The road is easy to repair, but the heart is not easy to repair." There is no need, the road that our ancestors have walked for generations is not convenient for future generations. The people of Xinghua Village are used to walking the mountain road, but they are not used to walking the other way. ”
On the mountain temple, Li Qing, forty-seven, sat under the apricot blossom tree, with two cups under the tree. Li Qing drank the wine he brewed, and was slightly drunk and poured out the changes in Xinghua Village sentence by sentence.
A figure walked to the mountain temple, "Wow! This is the mountain temple, this apricot blossom is so beautiful!"
"Hey, uncle, why are you drinking here? Are you drinking the apricot blossom wine that came from outside?" a crisp voice reached Li Qing's ears.
"Well~ yes, I brewed it myself. Li Qing replied.
The girl picked up a glass of apricot blossom wine and drank it. "Why does this wine have a strange feeling?"
Li Qing didn't go to see the girl, but just replied, "Xinghua Village's family brews Barilla, maybe my wine is not suitable for you." Let's go and drink it somewhere else. “
"Hmph, Uncle Blame. ”
At this time, Li Qing looked back, and saw where Li Qingleng, who had half of the girl's face, and the wine glass in his hand fell off, and Li Qing, who had returned to his senses, laughed at himself, how could it be you! Slowly Li Qing fell into a deep sleep, and he didn't know whether he was drunk or drunk.
An apricot blossom broke free from the branch and fell onto Li Qing's face, and the faint fragrance made Li Qing smile in his sleep.