Chapter 13 There is a law in walking the mountains
After the little brother surnamed Bai complied, he saw the sixth master with his hands folded, first bowed three times to the corpse of the digging ginseng, and muttered: "Ninety thousand miles of the Yellow River in the east, 14 passes in Jiayu in the west, Sanmao Road in the south, and Longxing in the north." There is a law in the mountains, all those who go into the mountains are brothers, there are horses on land, boats on water, into the mountains and soil, set up the same fire and the same pole, eat and sleep together, one heart and one mind, now the brothers stop here, vainly use the flesh to help me move forward, flesh and blood to dust, return to the day when the whole brother heroic soul returns, early to the bliss ......"
The sixth master recited the law of walking the mountain, and the people who dug ginseng under Changbai Mountain used to recite it, and even before the digging team entered the mountain, they had to hold a ceremony in front of the mountain ghost temple to chant the law and burn incense, until the mountain ghost temple was destroyed by lightning, this old rule was gradually abolished, and no one kept it anymore.
After reciting the law of walking the mountain and sacrificing the lonely soul, the sixth master made a move that no one expected, took off his pants and began to pee on the corpse's face.
I was startled when I saw this, and hurriedly stopped: "Sixth Master, what are you doing here?" Did he rob your daughter-in-law or occupy your daughter-in-law, are you really afraid that he will get up in the middle of the night to seek revenge on you? ”
"Master, you don't understand," the sixth master said respectfully: "The blind bear likes to smell and sweat, but the dead don't sweat, so they can use urine instead, I use this corpse as a bait, so as to keep us safe at night." ”
What the sixth master said was the Tao, and I couldn't stop it, so I could only continue to do my own work.
That night, when we set up three shacks, it was already more than eight o'clock, and everyone went back to the shacks to rest after dinner, saying that they were resting, but it is estimated that no one slept well, after all, who knows if a blind bear will suddenly appear to lick us?
Fortunately, the whole night was peaceful, and everyone was relieved to see the sunrise in the east in the early morning.
When he packed his bags and continued to set off, the sixth master actually asked the little brother surnamed Bai to continue to carry the corpse, this time the little brother was a little hesitant, because he endured it just by carrying the corpse, and the corpse was also urinated by the sixth master.
But the little brother didn't bother to argue after all, so he washed the urine stains with the stream water, carried it and continued to walk.
After all, the mountainous terrain in the ridge is becoming more and more precipitous, and a poisonous snake sprang out of a crack in a stone, a poisonous insect nest in the wild grass, or even a loose mountain rock is enough to bring fatal danger.
After all, the sixth master is old, the blindfold is not effective, he will not be safe in front, and the reason why Lan Lantern Zhao has the nickname of 'Blue Light' is because the blindfold is sharper than others, and it is even rumored that he has night vision, he is in front, everyone is at ease.
We walked another whole day of difficult trekking, when the night slept in an empty cave under the cliff, the sixth master concocted the same method, after the mountain pheasants and hares hunted on the road were arranged one by one, and began to pee on the face of the corpse placed in front, this time even bothered to memorize the mountain law.
As a result, except for a few wild boars that broke in and came to arch the fire, it was still safe and sound.
On the third day, we continued to walk, still with the blue light Zhao in front, the sixth master responded sideways, and the little brother continued to carry the corpse with two bubbles of urine with a black face, and the fishy smell had seeped into the flesh and blood of the corpse, so that everyone did not dare to get too close to him.
On the fourth and fifth days, everything was as usual, the sixth master urinated when he camped at night, and the little brother carried it when he was in a hurry during the day.
On the night of the sixth day, the sixth master picked up his pants and was about to pee on the corpse as usual, and the little brother finally couldn't help it, and said coldly beside him: "Sixth master, you can take it easy, you are not tired when you go to the mountain, don't exhaust your bladder again......"
The sixth master gave him a blank look and continued to urinate.
After a few days of tossing, although tired and tired, everyone has relaxed a lot mentally, but they know that danger always comes unexpectedly.
This time, the sixth master took us to camp on a cliff, one side is a towering rock wall, the other side is a steep hillside, the front and back two narrow mountain roads bend like two ends, the sixth master said that this place is safe, there is no wild grass and bushes to hide insects and snakes, and there are no wild beasts that can climb up the hillside, so they didn't even build a shack, only sprinkled some sulfur lime around, and everyone wrapped in sleeping bags and began to sleep.
After a few days of tossing, everyone was already exhausted, so they didn't wait until the night before they all snored, and even sank a little too much.
So much so that when the little brother surnamed Bai, who slept next to me the night, secretly dragged me, I dragged me several times before I woke up in a daze.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that the little brother was lying on his side, staring at me with a nervous expression, so frightened that I hurriedly pulled the quilt on my body and asked in a panic, "What are you going to do?" ”
"Shh The little brother motioned for me not to make a sound, and said in a low voice: "We have been recruited......"
"Huh? What's the trick? ”
I was stunned for a moment, and then I saw the little brother glaring at my back, and said, "Look for yourself, don't make a sound, don't move." ”
The little brother shrank down as he spoke, and the open space seven or eight steps away behind him was the place where the sixth master had placed the bait of the corpse before, and at this time, the corpse was still lying on the ground in a big shape, but there was a huge black shadow pressing above the corpse, and he was leaning down and licking the corpse's already unrecognizable face one by one.
The silhouette of the black shadow resembles a bear, but it is larger than a bear, and its lower limbs are two thick bear claws, and it is grasping the corpse with two arms to support the upper limbs of the body, but it is two human hands covered with black hair. Turning his face as the shadow licked the corpse, I looked at it carefully by the moonlight, and the face was full of wrinkles, and its fangs were wide but its eyes could not be seen.
I looked panicked for a while, and glanced at the little brother next to me and said, "This, could this be ......?"
"That's right, blind bear." The little brother replied.
I swallowed my saliva and forced my composure, and said, "I thought that the blind bear was a bear, why is this kind of monster?" ”
The little brother said again: "It's not wrong to say that it's a bear, but it's not an ordinary bear, it's a unique alien species in the bear clan of Changbai Mountain, this thing has no eyesight, but its sense of smell is very good, while it hasn't found us yet, you quickly call a few of them up, and find a chance to run......"
"Is it okay to play dead?" I hurriedly asked, "They all say that it works to pretend to be dead when you meet a bear, you look at this cliff, we have nowhere to run if we want to!" ”
"You have to run if you don't have a place to run, it's easy to just meet a blind bear, you take a closer look......"
After the little brother finished speaking, I looked up and looked at the open space where the corpse was placed.
The little brother said again: "You are looking at the wrong place, don't look at the blind bear, look under the blind bear......"
I followed the guidance of the little brother and looked again, under the huge black shadow, the corpse of the digger who was carried by us all the way was pressed, at first glance it was nothing, the corpse was lying on the ground in all directions, motionless, but if I looked closely, a few fingers of the corpse were trembling slightly......