Chapter 15 The Beginning of the Mountain
A large dinner for thousands of people –
The entire Wanshan County is adjacent to four towns and one city, and only a rich man like Wan Shichang has such courage and strength. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The chef alone invited fifty or sixty people, and there were no less than two or three hundred helpers around, who bought almost all the chickens, fish, meat, eggs, and noodles in the entire county, and borrowed all the tables, chairs and benches from all the houses in the town.
Of course, the whole wedding banquet, whether it is the main banquet during the day or the flower night at night, the people who eat are divided into hierarchical levels. People with heads, faces, and statuses are, of course, in the living room lobby, and ordinary civilians without identity are scattered inside and outside the compound, and even at street crossings;
The food is not the same, those high-quality chickens, fish, and meat must be prepared for the big people with status. Ordinary civilians like Lingwa only have coarse grains, and it's good to be full of vegetarian dishes.
Where is there any chicken and fish, soju for you to eat and drink?
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Lingwa touched her bulging belly, and quietly slipped into the yard, mixed in the crowd in the dark, and looked around along the tall courtyard wall, but didn't find where the kitchen was?
There were only a dozen or so people around a dozen large pots for washing dishes, and a large pot of water was steaming with dry firewood burning in the makeshift stove.
He figured that the kitchen should be in the big room in the backyard, so he walked into the hall and wanted to sneak into the backyard to have a look. In the midst of the crowds, his small figure flashed through the hall, and no one paid attention to him.
Sure enough, there were some big people in the backyard, wearing robes and shirts, inlaid with gold and silver, silk and satin, all of them had big bellies and round waists, and their faces were full of red light under the red lanterns, and they were full of wealth.
Dozens of Eight Immortal Tables are placed in every corner of the backyard, men, women and children talk and laugh freely, and the atmosphere is no worse than outside.
Look at the table where people are full of plates, saucers, and rarely see big bowls;
Lingwa slipped along the wall, watching others eat so well, so Sven, not like you fight for me outside, a little regret that you didn't eat in the backyard early. Even though my stomach is very full, I still have a great appetite, and I really want to eat it!
He was walking along the wall to the back room, and faintly heard the sound of stir-frying in the back room, and he knew in his heart that it was probably to the kitchen. My heart was pounding, thinking that there must be chicken and soju in it, there must be a lot of it-
But how do I take it? How do I take it out of the backyard and the front yard with so many people? What should I do?
I was worried, and suddenly I accidentally touched a pot of flowers under the root of the wall, and the flowers were placed on a stone bench, and they fell down with a bang, and the sound was loud and loud, alarming the people who were eating next to them!
Everyone stopped talking and laughing, a few lanterns stretched out, and the spirit baby was exposed in its original form under the light, and she was stunned and at a loss?
A man walked out of the crowd, stepped forward and grabbed his short clothes, and scolded fiercely,
"Bunny, who let you in?" he scolded and pulled outside.
"What's that, you deserve to go into the backyard too?
After saying that, he flew up and kicked Lingwa's back again-
Lingwa ran forward a few steps along the force of her foot, and almost knocked people down. Then, without saying a word, he hurried out along the root of the wall. Behind there was the sound of people talking, and someone was saying:
"Isn't this the wild boy of the cold old man in town?
"It's dirty, it's disgusting!"
Lingwa was driven out of the front yard by the man all the way and rushed out into the street, and the man warned him again,
"Run into the backyard again and break your legs!"
Lingwa didn't say anything, but she was not convinced, thinking that this is not your house, what does it matter to you? I don't want to leave, I don't go into the hospital, I just go around outside the hospital, I don't believe that the people in you don't come out?
It was dark outside, and there was no one there, and I could clearly hear the commotion inside. Fortunately, with the light in the courtyard of the high wall, you can still faintly see a little hazy thing, and you can still feel the road.
He walked around the exterior wall in the direction of the kitchen in the backyard. The old rich man's yard was big, and he went around a big circle, and he felt a long way in the dark, and all day long he touched the kitchen in the backyard with the sound of stir-frying. Walking further back, suddenly a bright light was reflected at the corner of the wall—
He quietly touched it, picked up the corner and looked to the side, and this sight made him ecstatic!
I saw a few women killing ducks at the back door, cleaning up, burning firewood, and roasting the fine feathers on the ducks. The burnt duck is placed on the table next to it, and when you look at it by the light, the oil shines brightly, and the bursts of oil fragrance come to your face, which makes people hungry!
Lingwa thought to herself that it was okay to be a duck, right? Seeing that the oily duck is much fatter than the chicken, if he can get one and go, he will give it to the lame uncle tomorrow, he will be very happy!
But how do you get it? There are seven or eight middle-aged women, and they look so closely, how do you get it?
He quietly hid in the dark, looking at the duck on the table in front of him in a daze. I wonder if that duck could grow legs and come to me quietly?
At this moment, suddenly someone in the back room was shouting, "It's time to eat!"
As soon as the women outside heard that it was time to eat, they immediately put down their work and turned around and went into the house.
"We've been busy all afternoon, and we're all hungry and faint—everyone else has eaten up, so you called us?"
In the blink of an eye, they were all gone, and there was no one. There were only a few red lanterns left, a pile of burning wood, and a table full of cleaned and shiny ducks—
When the opportunity came, Lingwa didn't have to think about it anymore, the cat's body came out of the darkness, ran over quickly, grabbed a duck and ran, and the news was in the dark in an instant-
He hadn't run far before a man came out of the backyard, took a big bamboo basket and loaded up the cleaned ducks on the table, and carried them away with all his might.
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The duck weighed four or five pounds, and Lingwa twisted it and ran frantically for a long distance, and gradually lost hearing the noise of the Wanjia compound, so she slowed down. The arm that is twisted is sore.
He took off his outer clothes, wrapped his ducks, and walked bare-armed, looking for dark, no-man's places in town.
He thought it would be impossible for him to get it back to the noodle shop. If you are found out by your boss or grandfather, the consequences are unimaginable. It's better to hide on the way up the mountain tomorrow while it's not too late, and choose an absolutely safe place.
After another trot, he soon came to the north of the town, far around the bamboo yard of the little girl who fell into the water, afraid that her yellow dog would bark annoyingly.
Walking out of the town, I came to the dirt road leading to the North Mountain, and the sky was hazy, and I could faintly see a corn field on the side of the road in front of me, with corn seedlings half a human high. Lingwa quickly ran to the ground, dug a pit with her hands, and buried the clothes wrapped in ducks into it, so big that many corn seedlings were ruined next to it.
When he had finished burying it, he walked out of the cornfield, and as he was walking back, he felt really uneasy! Thinking that the cornfield was on the side of the road, and that so many seedlings had been dug up, and that such a pile of new soil had been made, it would be easy to be discovered at dawn tomorrow, and that the black rumbling dog, if any wild dog smelled it, would have been busy for it that night.
No, I had to hide it again, so I went back and dug up the ducks, thinking I had to reconsider a safer place.
Just thinking about it, there were a few crows in the distance, and Lingwa had an idea and hid in the tree?
But the roads in Beishan are all open and flat, only a few old trees are on the side of the road, thinking that it is not good, there are too few trees, thick branches and few leaves, can not hide things, and it is also unsafe on the side of the road.
After thinking about it for a long time, he saw the black bamboo forest at the entrance of the town, and thought that I should hide in the bamboo forest.
So he hurriedly walked back, walked to the bamboo forest, chose a forest where there were no people around, went to pull a bamboo in the dark, and then climbed up, and halfway through the climb the bamboo could not bear his weight and bent down, Lingwa pulled to the ground, he grabbed the bamboo with one hand, and tied the clothes wrapped with ducks to the bamboo pole with the other.
After tying it, as soon as the hand was released, the bamboo bounced back, and by the way, the duck was also hidden in the middle of the bamboo. This kind of game is a game that he usually plays, so it is easy to play.
After everything was done, I went home.
When I got home, the old man asked where the clothes were? He lied and said that others thought I was dirty, washed it, and left it in the yard of the neighbor's house, and I would definitely wear it back tomorrow.
The old man doubted, thinking that there were still such good Samaritans in this town in these years? Another thought that it was hot or cold in this season, and it was okay without clothes, and as long as the child could get by, he couldn't control him.
I was excited all night, and before dawn the next day, Lingwa got up by herself and said that she was going up the mountain. And told the old man to ask the boss to send the second brother of the shop to pick up at the foot of the North Mountain in the evening, and he must pick up a lot of firewood to ensure that the boss is happy.
The old man was skeptical, but he still promised him, thinking to himself, how much firewood can you pick up as a seven or eight-year-old child?
Go out and trot all the way, run to the bamboo forest in the north of the town, climb the bamboo pole to take off the clothes wrapped with the duck, open it to see, the oily duck is still there, but it has become a swishing smell. I was happy, hugged it in my arms, picked up my backpack and strode towards Beishan——
Speaking of coincidence, on the North Pass today, there are already a few hunters who have gone up the mountain.
Carrying machetes, ropes, and bows and arrows, three or five people were bending down and heading up the rugged mountain road. The locals have heard of the danger of Beishan for a long time, but there are so many bold young men who do not believe in evil, who are young and strong, and have great courage, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and prefer to go to Tiger Mountain-
Five young men climbed to the top of the mountain in one breath along the road where Lingwa went up the mountain yesterday, and when they reached the top of the mountain, they realized that there was no road, there was a higher mountain in front of them, and there were even higher mountains in the distance, and they couldn't see how high it was because of the clouds and mist.
They know that tigers, leopards and other beasts will not move on the side of the outer mountains, most of them are in the deep mountains and old forests, and the main activities outside are wild boars, hares and other small animals. I think that five people have little hearts today, and if they can catch two wild boars, even if they win a big victory, they will have a good harvest.
Thinking that the wild boars would sleep lazily in the morning, the five of them went to look for it separately, and after finding it, they surrounded and annihilated it.
There is a flat concave woodland on the top of the mountain, and yesterday Lingwa cut it for most of the day, cutting out a road more than two meters wide, extending more than ten meters away. The five of them saw that someone had come, and they were more bold to break forward.
I thought, this is obviously someone who has been here, where is it so terrible?
Pulling out the messy trees and trees, a large pile of lush thatch appeared in front of him, more than half a person tall, allowing five people to stop at the same time.
Because they heard snoring from inside at the same time? Intuitively, it was a pig! A wild boar was sleeping in it.
Thinking that on the top of this barren mountain range, such an early day, it will definitely not be a person!
The five men quietly closed around, the leader glanced left and right, three of the five men pulled out their machetes and held them tightly in their hands, and the other two pulled out the long arrows in their hands together, aiming at the center of the pile of thatch!
If you want to shoot an arrow first, the wild boar has thick skin, and the arrow can't hurt him deeply, mainly to look at the big knives of the other three people.
As the leading man released his left hand, two long arrows swished into the grass, and the rumbling snoring stopped abruptly!
But to everyone's surprise, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement? Everyone was so strange, could they have been shot to death?
Surprisingly quiet, so quiet that five people feel scared?
I couldn't help but take a few steps back, no one knew what kind of behemoth was in the haystack?
The leader was not at ease, he put down the big knife in his hand, and was about to make up for another arrow with his bow and arrows-
At this moment, a black shadow suddenly flew into the air from the grass, and before the arrow was released, a stick flew out of nowhere?
Everyone was startled, and before they could come back to their senses, another stick flew in, boom, and hit the head of another person with a knife, and the man fell to the ground in response, snapping, unable to move!
The remaining three were frightened and couldn't see anything, so they lay on the ground together, begged their father to tell milk, and talked to themselves.
Half an hour later, there was a haha, haha, haha, haha, a while, a woman, a man, a bewitching and ghostly laughter came from the woodland、、、、 for a while!
The laughter woke up the three of them, thinking that they had encountered a mountain ghost?, no wonder others said that there were ghosts in Beishan, I didn't believe it before, but today I finally saw it with my own eyes, and I don't doubt it anymore. The three of them trembled, and quickly helped up the two unconscious people who fell to the ground, and prepared to go down the mountain-
A few people lost their souls, and just walked to the side of the mountain, but they didn't expect the leader to wake up! When they heard that there were men laughing in the forest, they were fascinated by ghosts, and thought that I don't believe that there are ghosts in the mountains?
shook off the person who was helping him and said, "There must be someone, what the hell is there in broad daylight?"
Then, after taking someone else's machete, he wanted to go into the forest again to see what was going on? As soon as he turned around, he didn't want to face a gust of wind blowing, and everyone was frightened and lay down on the mountain road;
He was the only one who was independent, and he watched a big stone fly towards his head, and he didn't even hide? There was another click, his brain splattered, and his body fell back, like a bundle of firewood and planted into a cliff—
Everyone was even more frightened, lying on the ground and not daring to move, and after a long time, there was a cry from the top of the mountain.