Chapter 12 Scenery of the North Mountain
When it comes to Beishan, all the people in Wanlai Town are very in awe! The meaning of awe is to respect Beishan as a god, and at the same time to be as feared as a devil.
In addition to the steep slopes of the mountains and the treacherous terrain, because there are few people who go in, and there are often no returns, there have been various magical legends for many years. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Some say that it is full of jackals, tigers and leopards, and that no thirty or fifty people want to come back alive; some say that it is peaceful, there is no cave, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and it is a place where the gods live; all those who want to go up the mountain must first freshen up at the bottom of the mountain, be neat and tidy, and after three bows and nine knocks, they will be convinced and convinced, and the six roots will be quiet, and then they can enter;
Otherwise, anger the gods, and return home for generations without peace.
Of course, Leng Banxian and Boss Wan know the scene of Beishan, in the past few decades, they themselves have not gone up a few times, each time they only go up a mountain, and they hurry down, the mountains are high and dense, there is no way to go, people often fall to death under the mountain, there are many legends of ghosts and ghosts, so the place of right and wrong, can not stay for a long time.
Lingwa child, I don't know how thick the sky is, I want to go to Beishan to try, Leng Banxian is also worried, and reminded him, saying that Beishan is very dangerous, and I will go when I grow up, right?
But Lingwa still insisted on going, the more mysterious the place for him, the more attractive it was, and the suction was super strong, so he had to go.
The old man also thought that this kid was born extraordinary, and he could catch poisonous snakes before he was even one year old, with a calm face, and his extraordinary actions in the past few years had made him aware of how this kid would develop in the future?
So although he was worried, he still agreed with him to try, just said, don't go too far inside, just pick up firewood and make peace on the side of the mountain.
The boss of Nawan saw that Lingwa was going to Beishan to pick up firewood, but Xishan couldn't pick it up, I don't have any opinion on you cold old man, what opinion can I have as an outsider, whatever you want! Anyway, the money owed to me will have to be repaid sooner or later, help me work, is there any work? Is it worth it? You also see it yourself, what can I say?
So I didn't stop you too much, wherever you go, as long as you have firewood and come back!
I went the next day, and the road to Beishan is much easier than going to Xishan, and it is all avenues.
Although it is the same muddy, the road surface is very wide, both sides are flat, overgrown with weeds, standing on a high place and looking at it, you can look all the way to the foot of the East Mountain, the field of vision is very wide!
It was precisely because it was inconvenient to enter and exit, so Leng Banxian chose Xishan as a place of seclusion.
However, because of the difficulty of going up and down the north mountain, there are generally not many people entering and leaving, and some villagers live in the surrounding areas not far from the town. The wide road was full of horseshoe prints, and the wheels of horse-drawn carts and ox-carts, deep and shallow, and potholes, and in spite of the summer sun, the pits were still full of stagnant water, and no one was to manage them.
Walking on the road, Lingwa saw so many horseshoe prints, carriage prints, and so many pits, and wondered in her heart, where did the carriage come from, where did the ox cart come from? Leng Banxian pointed to the horizontal dirt slope in front of him and said to him,
"You see it when you go up that slope!"
Lingwa carried the bag and ran uphill quickly, and the eyes were suddenly bright, there were wide meadows on both sides, the middle avenue led directly to the foot of the mountain, and the grass on both sides did not have a field except for a few swamp depressions that did not know the depth, and it was quite flat;
Occasionally, there was the sound of cows and horses tearing in the air. I have never seen a fairy baby in the pasture, and my blood is boiling when I see it, thinking how good it would be if I could go and let the horses go, and I could ride on the horses every day and run back and forth.
The meadow on the east side is different from the west side, and on top of the swamp in the distance, it is surrounded by a wooden fence, thick and high, and it has always enclosed most of the entire eastern area. There are a lot of piles of haystacks inside, and at the foot of the farthest East Mountain, there is a big flag, which is faintly appearing?
Leng Banxian told him that there was a military camp over there. Don't go near the wooden fence, if you are found by the soldiers, your life will be lost. Remember, in addition to the soldiers, there are also horse farms -- what we see now is a hay field!
"There must be a lot of horses! too many to count?" Lingwa couldn't help but ask.
"Nonsense, there must be too many for you to count!" Leng Banxian said sharply!
Suddenly, the sound of horses in the depths of the haystack was like a thousand military trombones, resounding all over the earth!
Immediately after that, the horse's hooves rolled, and the horses and the mountains and seas pressed towards this side, and the frightened Lingwa retreated again and again, trying to find a place to hide?
Of course Leng Banxian knew what was going on? Seeing that Lingwa was stunned and wanted to step back, he grabbed him, "What are you afraid of? This is letting the horse go, and you can't get out!
Lingwa stabilized her feet and put her mind at ease, it turned out that this was to let the horse out to eat?
At this time, the sun was old and the pole was high, and the person who was shining couldn't open his eyes, and Leng Banxian kept sending the spirit baby to the foot of the mountain.
When he walked to the bottom of the mountain, he realized that there was also a small river here!
It is a small branch of the Spirit River over there, which flows around the foot of the mountain and zigzags eastward. The water is not deep, the ruts are clear, and the river surface is narrow, in fact, it should be called its ditch. A zhang wide, there is a small stone arch bridge spanning both sides, and at the head of the bridge there is a small low house less than a meter, but it is dilapidated, and there is a squatting low stone statue inside.
There is a small stone tablet next to it, Lingwa recognizes the words on it, writing the words "mountain god", and there is a word below but it has been pasted and cannot be seen clearly. This little house reminds Lingwa of the house where the mother-in-law lives in the water tank.
After crossing the small stone bridge, Leng Banxian pointed to a sheep intestine path up the mountain, and repeatedly advised, "On the way back, don't get close to the wooden fence over there, the farther away from them, the better--after picking up firewood, go back obediently, don't go to dangerous places, pay attention to safety, don't have anything wrong?"
Lingwa agreed one by one, and finally made a grimace at the old man, telling him to go back, it's okay, he will come back soon after picking up firewood. Then he watched the old man turn and leave.
He has always been very excited, carrying a thick and old lotus bag made of coarse cloth, burying his head and desperately climbing up the mountain, he doesn't care what kind of sacred mountain you are or not, he just wants to go to the top of the mountain in one breath and see what kind of organizational structure is on your mountain?
The small figure disappeared in an instant among the barren grass and trees of the mountain, so that Leng Banxian left the foot of the mountain, and he couldn't find him just after crossing the stone bridge and turning back.
In front of Lingwa, there are only stones, shrubs, and a narrow mountain road that bends left and right, and when she looks up, it is a mountain that is not high, like a natural curtain wall, and the black pressure is blocked in front, and nothing can be seen.
He only has one thought, hurry, hurry, hurry, I want to conquer you, defeat you, I want to climb above your head and see what the world is like?
When he encountered a chaotic tree blocking the way, he took out a sickle, waved his arm, clicked, cut off, and sweat the size of a bean hung all over his forehead, and wet all over his body, but he didn't feel it at all.
After about two hours, I saw that the top of the mountain was getting closer and closer, but there was no road under my feet.
It was full of barren grass and rocks, so he sat on a big rock on the spot, looked back at the bottom of the mountain, and the whole Wanlai Town was in full view.
The houses are as small as the pigeon cages, and the figures in the streets are smaller than the ants, and they are almost invisible!
I was most interested in the horse farm, the pasture and the barracks with the big flags in the east. The big straw huts in the forage field occupy more than half of the square, and the round straw stacks and big elephant tents and small elephant graves are quietly scattered on the edge of the pasture; large groups of horses graze and run on the pasture, white, black, and dark red, I have never seen so many horses, let alone thousands of them, right?
The military camp in the distance is quiet, except for a few ant-like villains, walking around the square, there is only the lonely flag left, and now I see that the flag is also very small, and I looked at my palm, which is not as big as my palm?
He was very happy in his heart, and thought to himself, what is the great thing to see that grandpa said so secretly? I saw it all, but so-
Looking into the distance, there are mountains all around the world, one higher than the other, some towering into the clouds, no top can be seen, boundless, endless, as if the heaven and earth are all composed of mountains.
Lingwa understands a little bit, it turns out that this is how the world is made?
After resting for a while, he felt that he was not satisfied, and he thought that he must climb to the top of this mountain, or at least conquer this first mountain.
Otherwise, how will you come up in the future? How can you conquer other mountains?
So he began to wave his arms again, and opened the way up, and all the thorns and trees were cut down to one side, leaving a path in the middle that only allowed him to pass.
If you can drill through, you can drill through it with a cat's body, and it took a lot of effort to finally reach the top of the mountain as you wish!
He was so excited that he couldn't help waving his hands at the bottom of the mountain and yelling.
"Hey, I'm up to the top of the mountain-I'm at the top-I'm up-hey-I'm finally up!"
As soon as the words fell, suddenly from the grass behind him, a loud shout came out:
"Where's the rabbit cub?
This roar frightened him and almost fell from the top of the mountain.
My mind was blank, and I didn't dare to move! On a sunny day, standing on the top of an empty mountain, I was also trembling!
After a long while, I had the courage to slowly turn around and look-
Two meters away from the grass stood a middle-aged man, about forty years old, with long unkempt hair on his upper body, ragged clothes, short gray coarse cloth, tied at the waist, dirty and old, full of patches, the most obvious is a long scar on his face!
"What a big guts, who told you to come up, and what did you see?" the man asked fiercely.
Lingwa didn't seem to come back to her senses, and looked at the man blankly, he was already shocked by the scar on the man's face.
It's like seeing a fighting arena with swords and swords and blood splashing, and you don't dare to squeak!
"Do you know where this is? This is an important military place in the country, so how can ordinary people come up casually? Say, what have you seen? Who told you to come up?"
The man snapped and shook his hanging right hand again, as if if if you didn't say anything, I would kill you.
What words like "country" and "military powerhouse" that I have never heard before, Lingwa who asked was even more at a loss? I don't know what he was talking about? The four books he memorized before were not taught in the Five Classics?
"Hmph, don't you say it?"
I saw that the man began to move his body, approached the spirit baby, and repeated the sentence "Don't say it, do you?"
Slowly walked out of the grass, and then Lingwa saw clearly that he was a lame man, his right leg was short, and his right hand was a short crutch.
I miss you cripple, I ran much faster than you, where did you catch me?
Seeing that the man was about to approach, he couldn't help but retreat again and again, and was about to slip around and run down the mountain, when he heard the man say again:
"Don't run, warn you! Don't run - if you do, you'll die even worse!"
I wanted to run, but looking at the cliff and abyss in front of me, the idea of wanting to run was temporarily withdrawn. Coupled with the other party's warning threat, I wonder if the old man will have any peerless skills? As soon as I make a move, I will fall down and be crushed?
When he saw the man come out and stopped, he did not press on, but heard him say,
"Stand still! Don't move, huh!"
After speaking, suddenly a small bird flew in the grass next to him, and I saw the man stretch out his left hand, and the bird, which did not fly very high, fell to the ground with a scream.
"Want to run, it's not that easy!"
Lingwa was startled, thinking that this was a master! I don't know what he threw out of his hand?
I was surprised, and I didn't dare to move!
"Who told you to go up the mountain? Tell me or not? I'm asking this the third time?"
Lingwa saw that the other party was aggressive, and she couldn't pay if she didn't answer, so she asked it for the third time?
"Grandpa!"
As soon as I said it, I felt that it was wrong, it should be the boss? It was not right, it was impossible to affect others, so I changed my words,
"I came up on my own!"
"How old are you going up the mountain, what are you doing up the mountain?"
"Grandpa said I'm eight years old, I, I, I picked up dry firewood!" Lingwa waved the sickle and said boldly.
"What are you doing when you pick up dry firewood?"
"Send it back to the boss, the boss opened a noodle restaurant, and he needs to burn a lot of firewood!"
"Ah, open a noodle shop?"
When the man heard the noodle restaurant, he seemed a little excited, and suddenly changed his tone and asked:
"Do you have anything to eat?"
Seeing that the other party asked about this kind of topic, Lingwa was a little far away from the danger of life and death, and her heart was a little more settled, so she quickly put down the sickle and reached out to the bag, and soon took out a palm-sized cake and handed it to him.
"Yes, here you go!"
The man didn't speak, he walked slowly with a crutch, took the cake and put it in his mouth, and then took a big gulp, and it was gone in three or two bites, and his mouth was full of food, and he couldn't swallow it, as if he hadn't eaten such a delicious thing for a long time?
"Where's the water?"
stretched his neck and swallowed for a long time, and finally came through his breath and asked Lingwa loudly.
Lingwa didn't know what to do? I didn't bring water, I originally found a place with a mountain spring to eat, where did the water come from on the top of this mountain?
was asked by the other party, stupidly aside.
"Rabbit cub, make biscuits for Lao Tzu to eat, and don't bring any water?"
The man scolded and swallowed hard, and even the flour on the side of his mouth was scraped in his blackened palm, adding it clean!
"Anything else?"
After eating, the other party asked him loudly again.
"There's one more!"
Lingwa only brought two cakes, which were limited every day. I'm afraid not to say it, if I am searched out by this man, I will blame him for deceiving him, so I took it out without much thought.
When the guy saw it, he was overjoyed, and he grabbed it in his hand and gobbled it up. After eating, he scolded again,
"Why don't you even bring water? Why don't you bring water? Don't you know how you can pick up firewood on the North Mountain?"
A series of thunderous roars, the asking Lingwa didn't say a word, and stood on the top of the mountain in a daze for a long time, for a long time-