Chapter 4 The little black cat that greets her arrival

After going down the mountain, Zhu Xiaoshi suddenly remembered that it had been a long time since he came out this time.

Hurry up and go home, otherwise Uncle Shan won't be in a hurry if he can't find himself.

Intuition told Zhu Xiaoshi that the time he came out was definitely not as simple as a short meeting. Because when I just went up the mountain, a farmer next to the road was digging the foundation to build a farmhouse yard, and seeing the red double happiness posted on the roadside, the son of the farmer's father should be marrying his daughter-in-law. But now, Zhu Xiaoshi clearly saw a little daughter-in-law in a built farmhouse, coaxing his two younger sons to play games.

"How is this possible?" Zhu Xiaoshi was also muttering in his heart, when he went up the mountain, he was still digging the foundation to build a new house to marry his daughter-in-law, and after going down the mountain, the house had been built, and the new daughter-in-law gave birth to two big fat boys. Have I been on the mountain for years?

"Don't think about it so much, let's go home first." As soon as I came down the mountain, I saw an incredible scene, and I don't know if there will be any changes in the family. Zhu Xiaoshi immediately set off to return to Zhuyang Village and return to his home.

When he came to Zhuyang Village, Zhu Xiaoshi was even more surprised. It used to be a familiar village that I played every day, but I didn't even know it. The roads in the village look like they were newly built and the houses look like they were built not so long ago, and the rows of thatched houses that used to be made of mud and thatch have now been turned into green brick and green tile farmhouses.

Moreover, the little daughter-in-law who sells vegetables on the road in the village, the old farmer who drives the cattle to the fields, and the children playing on the side of the road are all unfamiliar faces, and none of them are known to me.

"Where are you going, young man? Lost? Just when Zhu Xiaoshi was confused and didn't know where to go, suddenly an old woman's voice came from the side of the road.

Zhu Xiaoshi hurriedly turned his head to take a look, and finally saw a familiar face. Grandma Geng in the village was sitting on a bench on the side of the road, looking at Grandma Geng's face, which had not changed from the last time I saw her.

"That's not right!" Zhu Xiaoshi took a closer look and found that it was obviously a hot summer, how could Grandma Geng be wearing thick cotton clothes in winter like the old woman she saw on the mountain.

"Grandma Geng, how did our village become different from before? I can't find my way home. Since finding one's own home is the most important problem to be solved, so why do you wear thick cotton clothes in winter in summer, Zhu Xiaoshi just stayed in his heart and didn't say.

"In the past few years, the village has been rebuilt differently than before." Grandma Geng looked at Zhu Xiaoshi with a kind face, "You go to the third intersection in front and see an old locust tree turning in the right-hand direction." Then you see a little black cat, follow this little black cat and you can go back to your home. Grandma Geng patiently and meticulously guided Zhu Xiaoshi's way home.

"Little black cat?" Zhu Xiaoshi felt very strange when he heard Grandma Geng tell him the route home, but he didn't expect that he still needed a flower cat to guide him on the way home.

"Go back and don't grind, your uncle is sick and needs you to take care of it now." Seeing that Zhu Xiaoshi didn't move immediately, Grandma Geng urged again.

"Uncle is sick!" As soon as he heard Grandma Geng say this, Zhu Xiaoshi couldn't care about anything else, and immediately rushed home. I was raised by Uncle Picker since I was a child, and Uncle Picker is like my father in my heart.

But out of curiosity, when Zhu Xiaoshi walked to the third intersection and saw an old locust tree on his right hand and was about to turn, he still looked back at the place where Grandma Geng was sitting just now. The strange thing is that Zhu Xiaoshi didn't see Grandma Geng sitting there at all, just now Grandma Geng was sitting on the bench, obviously there was only a stone grinding plate.

But I can't take care of it so much, it's important to go home and take care of the mountain picker. Zhu Xiaoshi saw the old locust tree walking in the right hand direction and was about to turn around for a while, and really saw a small black cat. And this little black cat was just lying on the side of the road enjoying the sunbathing, as soon as he saw Zhu Xiaoshi coming, he immediately got up and ran slowly inside, and the Buddha was lying here to welcome Zhu Xiaoshi's arrival.

Zhu Xiaoshi followed behind the black little flower cat and trotted all the way. After about two or three minutes, the little cat finally stopped, and then lay on the side of the road and sunbathed leisurely.

"It's home." Zhu Xiaoshi stood at the door of his house and stopped slightly, the whole village became completely different from before, and he saw that his home was still the same as when he went out, Zhu Xiaoshi hurriedly walked into his house.

Walking into the house surprised Zhu Xiaoshi. I saw that Uncle Picker was lying on the bed coughing constantly, compared with before, he was much older, white hair had grown on his head, and the original wrinkles on his forehead were deeper than before.

There is also a bowl of Chinese medicine on the table at home, and there is still a little residue of medicine residue in the bowl. However, the items in the house are well organized, and it seems that someone has been taking care of the old man on the hospital bed.

"Uncle! What happened to you? Zhu Xiaoshi couldn't suppress his inner emotions anymore, and ran to Uncle Shanshan's hospital bed crying and knelt down. The reason why he knelt down was because Zhu Xiaoshi felt that he was blaming himself in his heart, and Zhu Xiaoshi blamed himself for why he had to go out to Zhushan Mountain. If he hadn't left home to take care of his uncle at home, Uncle Picker wouldn't have been sick like he is now.

"Little stone!" Uncle Shanshan, who was still lying on the hospital bed and coughing just now, saw that Zhu Xiaoshi was back, and hurriedly hugged Zhu Xiaoshi tightly, and the uncle and nephew hugged each other tightly at the moment. At this moment, there was no one in heaven and earth who separated the two of them.

"You bear child, where have you been running away for three years, why don't you say a word to your uncle!" Uncle Picker raised his palms high and posed as if he was going to hit Zhu Xiaoshi, but in the end he was reluctant to fight, and finally fell gently.

"Three years?" Zhu Xiaoshi was surprised when he heard what the mountain father said, but he didn't expect to go down the mountain after he went up the mountain, and it had been three years since he went down the mountain. No wonder I returned to Zhuyang Village, the village was completely different from before.

But then many things seem to be unraveled, no wonder when I climbed the road on the way up the mountain, I felt sometimes as cold as the winter wind, sometimes as hot and rainy as the summer. It turns out that the road to the temple of the final mountaineering stone doctor on the top of Zhu Mountain is the legendary time tunnel. After this road, it is a three-year time.

"Uncle, I went up to Zhushan Mountain. I saw the Shi Dafu Temple, there are murals about Taishan Shi Dangdang in the Shi Dafu Temple, and the golden axe used by Taishan Shi Dangdang to subdue demons and subdue demons on the mural is exactly the same as the axe used to chop wood at home. ”

Because Zhu Xiaoshi saw that Uncle Jiaoshan was still sick, Zhu Xiaoshi didn't mention the magical things such as killing the meat man and meeting a beautiful little girl. And about the horizontal meat man saying that he is the son of Taishan Shi Dadang, and he fell from the top of Mount Tai more than ten years ago, he didn't mention it, but just talked about Taishan Shi Dadang.

"Have you gone to the Shidafu Temple on the top of Zhushan Mountain?" As soon as he heard Zhu Xiaoshi talk about Taishan Shi's daring, Uncle Picker stopped coughing, but barely stood up.

"Kid." Uncle Picker looked at Zhu Xiaoshi affectionately, "There are some things I originally wanted to tell you when you are an adult at the age of eighteen, but now that you are sixteen years old, and it seems that you have become a real man on this trip up the mountain, it seems that I should tell you everything about the past thirteen years ago." ”

"Uncle, why are you so sick? How did you get through the days when I was away? Compared with his past thirteen years ago, Zhu Xiaoshi is currently more concerned about the health of Uncle Picker and the situation at home.

"Son, I have had an incurable terminal illness since thirty years ago. Fortunately, I became a mountain picker of Mount Tai, I walked on the steps of Mount Tai every day, it was the aura of Mount Tai that temporarily suppressed my illness, so that I could live until now, otherwise I would have died thirty years ago. Daddy couldn't help coughing again as he spoke.

"Now the Chinese sacred mountain Mount Taishan is shrouded in an evil force, so I am afraid that time is running out. It's a pity that Taishan Stone is not there, otherwise this catastrophe would not have happened. Dad couldn't help but feel a little emotional as he spoke.

"In the three years that you have been away, there is a little girl who claims to be your friend and has been taking care of me at home, and the Chinese herbs on the table are made by this girl herself. This morning the girl said she had important business to attend to, like I quit and left. But I've asked her many times about where you've been, and she laughs and doesn't answer each time. Dad coughed and talked about his experience at home.