Chapter 246: The Third Way
Su Dingqin nodded abruptly in agreement, then walked to the campfire and sat down, took the dry food handed over by Ning Nanxi and ate it.
Several of us were immersed in the grief of Shen Nanxiao's death at the moment, so no one spoke, for fear of mentioning the pain.
After eating, a few of us lay down to rest, no words all night, the next morning we packed up and then set off to leave the seedlings, the wooden bridge has been broken when passing the eagle's beak stream, the rope is even more unstable, although we have one less person now, but to cross the eagle's beak stream through the wooden bridge is still very dangerous, after some thought we decided to leave the seedlings from the river, although it is now the rainy season, the flow is large and the water is turbulent, but no matter how it is better than the rope breaking and falling into the mountain stream hundreds of meters deep.
After making up our minds, we went all the way, after two days of crossing the mountains and mountains and finally arrived at the river, now as long as you cross the river to be able to leave the seedlings, but the river is wide, the water flow is extremely fast, only by manpower is difficult to do, just when we are at a loss, we suddenly found that there is an old man not far from the opposite bank is manipulating a dilapidated wooden boat, although the wooden boat is a little dilapidated, but can still float on the water, it seems that the problem is not big, after seeing the wooden boat, several of us are very happy, Immediately, Su Dingqin shouted to the old man on the other side of the riverbank: "Uncle, we want to cross the river by ferry, can you give us a ride and take us across the riverbank, I will reward you!" ”
Although the old man said that he was old, his hearing was good, even if he was separated by a hundred meters of the river, he still heard Su Dingqin's words clearly, and then he raised his hand and swung it vigorously, shouting loudly: "No, it is the rainy season now, the water in this river is too deep, and the water is turbulent, once the wooden boat is in the water, it will inevitably be washed away, otherwise you wait for the rainy season to pass and then cross the river, now there is really no way, if I go down, it is estimated that this old bone will be broken in this river!" ”
Previously, according to Chen Xiaohu, the rainy season in Miaojiang is at least one or two months long, although we can wait, but Qin Wenhua can't wait, he will get sick in less than a month, once the disease occurs, even if there is a day to eat the Yin Gu, it will not help, so we must rush back to Jiangning City as soon as possible, but what the old man said is not unreasonable, now the water in the river is too turbulent, and the wooden boat is relatively light, once it is launched, it will definitely be washed away by the river, and then not only we will not be able to go to the other side, Even the old man's life is estimated to be on the line.
"It looks like the ferry can't cross the river, why don't we go back to the eagle's beak stream and cross it from the wooden bridge?" Chen Xiaohu looked at Su Dingqin and asked, Su Dingqin was silent for a moment and then shook his head, saying that the wooden bridge of the eagle's beak stream has been damaged, and if it is crossed by the wooden bridge again, it is very likely to cause the wooden bridge to break directly, if there is no one on the bridge, it is good to say, but once there is someone on the bridge, then there is no doubt that he will die, and now that Shen Nanxiao is dead, we must not joke with other people's lives anymore.
"The wooden bridge is not good, and it is not possible to cross the river now, so how can we go over, is it true that we have to wait until after the rainy season to pass, by that time Senior Brother Qin's life will be gone!" Ning Nanxi looked at this Su Dingqin and said anxiously.
"Don't worry, I'll ask the old man again to see if there is any other way to leave Shengmiao." After speaking, Su Dingqin looked at the old man on the other side and continued to shout: "Uncle, is there any other way to leave Shengmiao besides crossing the river by boat and the wooden bridge of the eagle's beak stream, we have urgent matters and must leave quickly, you can help us think of a way!" ”
Hearing this, the old man stopped his movements, pointed to the upper reaches of the river, and said: "There is a bridge fifty kilometers away, called Akashi Bridge, along with Shengmiao and Mature Miao, there are relatively few Shengmiao tribes there, so there is no one to govern, you can leave Shengmiao through Akashi Bridge!" ”
Hearing this, several of us were overjoyed, although it meant that we would have to delay another day or two, and we would have to walk a long way, but it was still a hundred times better than being trapped in the seedlings, and immediately the few of us decided to go upstream along the river and leave here through the Akashi Bridge.
After thanking the old man, we went all the way along the river, during which we walked all the way and stopped, and finally in the afternoon of the next day we walked to the place where the Akashi Bridge was located, looking up, the width of the river here has narrowed a lot, only a few tens of meters wide, the Akashi Bridge is erected on the river, and there are no seedlings or mature seedlings around the town here, it seems that we can leave the seedlings as long as we pass the Akashi Bridge smoothly.
Full of joy, we walked quickly towards the direction of the Akashi Bridge, but as the footsteps got closer and closer, I vaguely found that there was something wrong with the Akashi Bridge, the bridge was filled with a bubbling white mist, as if it was yin, seeing this, I fixed my steps, and pulled Ning Nanxi next to me, and then whispered: "Miss Ning, do you feel that there is something wrong with this Akashi Bridge, there seems to be a yin aura on it?" ”
As soon as these words came out, Ning Nanxi immediately stopped and looked in the direction of Akashi Bridge, and after a few seconds, her face showed a gloomy face, and she said in a low voice: "This Akashi Bridge is indeed full of yin qi, it seems that there must be evil spirits around, but there is a dead silence around here, where are the evil cults hidden?" ”
Just as Ning Nanxi was scanning left and right, Chen Xiaohu suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the river under the Akashi Bridge, and said coldly: "If I guessed correctly, these yin qi are coming from the river, do you know why I only told you the two roads of the eagle's beak stream and crossing the river, and did not tell you the reason for the road of the Akashi Bridge?" ”
Hearing this, I sighed in my heart, and there are indeed some problems after thinking about it, Chen Xiaohu's nickname is Wanjin Oil, which means that he knows everything about the world, and he has been here many times, in this case, why didn't he tell us that there is still the road of Akashi Bridge, is it possible that there is really something wrong here?
"Isn't this Akashi Bridge unclean?" Chen Xianglin looked at Chen Xiaohu and asked curiously.
"Yes, the bridge is not clean, which is why I didn't tell you there is still a way to go." Chen Xiaohu responded.
Hearing this, I took a look in the direction of the Akashi Bridge, and I didn't find any anomalies except for the yin qi that was permeating the bridge, so why did Chen Xiaohu say that this place was not clean?
I told Chen Xiaohu what I thought, and Chen Xiaohu smiled bitterly after hearing it, saying that there was another rumor about Akashi Bridge.
When the bridge was built, workers hit pillars into the river, but they couldn't do it anyway.
So the workers tried it with bamboo sticks, but there was nothing else below but sand and gravel.
In desperation, the workers had to tell the leader about the incident, and the leader hurriedly arrived at the construction site to see what was going on.
Unexpectedly, this was the case, the stone pillars that fixed the bridge could not be beaten, and other things could be used, so the construction leader had to invite a local master to crack it.
After the master came here, he observed the mountain and water potential here, and found that this is the head of the river after some calculation, and the dragon head must not let people hit the pillar, so the stone pillar can not go down, the leader was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said that the construction plan has been formulated, and this section of the river is the most suitable place to build a bridge, once it is necessary to change the place to consume a huge amount of work, they are too late, so it is necessary to build a bridge here.
After hearing the master, he said that it is not impossible to build a bridge here, but there is a condition, only if this condition is met to be able to build a bridge here, the construction leader hurriedly asked what the conditions are, and the result of this master said that the construction leader was suddenly frightened, according to the master, if you want to lay a stone pillar on the dragon head, you must worship the dragon head, the construction leader laughed after hearing it, said that the offering is not simple, and when he goes back, he will go to the market to buy live chickens and live pigs, and then it will definitely be a good offering, the master heard this and raised his hand, It is said that the dragon head does not want live chickens and pigs, but it is a living person, and only the living can calm the anger of the dragon head, and to beat a stone pillar is to sacrifice a living person, and the more stone pillars are beaten, the more living people will be sacrificed.
The construction leader was so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground, and then he asked the master if there was any other way, the master shook his head after hearing it, saying that this is the only way, if there is no living sacrifice, then the bridge can not be built even if it is said to break the sky, it was the sixties and seventies, the level of social development was low, and there were often many people in the family who could not afford to raise children, so many people would sell them at a low price in order to let the children live, so that they could continue to live.
The construction leader saw that there was no room for negotiation in this matter, so he had to nod and agree, and then sent people to the remote mountainous areas to buy children, and finally bought a total of eight children, four boys and four girls, and then poured them into the stone pillars.
I thought that this matter would pass like this, but what I didn't expect was that just a month later, when the construction leader came to inspect the site, he was caught by an invisible force, and then thrown into the river.
"Isn't it just a dead person, what's wrong with this?" Hearing this, Li Hai looked at Chen Xiaohu and asked puzzled.
"You listen to me first, after the death of the construction leader, more than a dozen people died on the bridge one after another, these dead people without exception committed suicide, all jumped into the water from this Akashi Bridge and drowned, you said that one or two people committed suicide on this bridge may be a coincidence, but more than a dozen people committed suicide on this bridge This is a problem, and then the local leader invited a feng shui master to come to see the feng shui here, but the feng shui master left without saying a word, and his face showed a look of horror when he left, In desperation, the leader invited a master to come to see the feng shui, but the master came here to see the expression of shock, saying that this is the feng shui pattern of the dragon and phoenix pillars, if you want to crack this pattern, you must demolish the bridge, the leader did not agree when he heard this, the bridge was not easy to build, and it cost the lives of eight children, so he absolutely did not agree to this matter, the master had no choice but to leave after hearing it, and in the days that followed, the bridge died seven or eight people one after another, For a time, the people who were raw and ripe were panicking, and no one drove away the bridge since. Chen Xiaohu looked at a few of us and said earnestly.