Yunqing just ate some flatbread and a few wild fruits that took the mountain up at noon, and when he heard Li Fu say this, he felt that his stomach was "growling". "Nice note. Ready-made appetizers, Brother Chu and I haven't had a good time together, it's better to pick up the day than to hit the sun, today we have to have two drinks. After speaking, he beckoned and said to Yun Chong: "Chong'er, let's go home." ”

Yun Chong saw his mother again, not to mention how happy he was. Hearing that he was about to go home, he was even more happy, and he didn't wait for Yunqing and the others, he said a few words to the red-tailed squirrel, and the red-tailed squirrel disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Except for Yun Qing, the other three had never seen anyone who could run so fast. Chu Yun saw the red-tailed squirrel running away with Yun Chong, and asked uneasily, "Big brother, what kind of animal was it just now? Chong'er wouldn't be in any danger following it, right?"

Hui Niang preemptively said: "Say that you scholars are stupid, you are really not smart." Didn't I just say it, it's a squirrel. There will be no danger for Chong'er to follow him, you don't see how intimate Chong'er is with him, but I'm afraid that Brother Yun and him have never been so affectionate. ”

Yun Qing laughed and said: "Yes, this squirrel and Chong'er have been together all the way, and I see that this squirrel is quite human, and can actually understand what I'm talking about, and this time thanks to it saved Chong'er." So, he went hunting the fawn himself, only to come back and find that Yun Zhong was missing, and so on.

Chu Yun pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "It seems that this nephew of mine is really extraordinary. ”

When Yun Qing heard this, he was puzzled and asked, "Oh, how do you talk about this?"

Chu Yun smiled: "Although I haven't seen a squirrel, I have read a lot of ancient books, and I don't remember seeing the kind of squirrel just now in that book." The squirrel just now should be called a red-tailed squirrel, which is one of the ancient divine beasts, and it is afraid that it has a lifespan of nearly a hundred years. ”

Yun Qing only felt that the squirrel was a little spiritual, but he didn't expect it to be an ancient divine beast, and said in surprise: "There is such a thing! It's really unbelievable, I thought that the legend was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be true." ”

Chu Yun said: "I'm not sure either, but this matter is very likely to be true." ”

Yun Qing said with emotion: "No wonder my father said that Qingyun Mountain is a treasure mountain. I didn't think much of it before, but now it seems that what my father said is most likely true. ”

Chu Yun asked with interest, "Oh, did my uncle say that? Then it seems that this must be a divine beast." By the way, what did my uncle say?"

Yun Qing replied: "When I was young, I used to listen to those stories. Then he continued, "Let's go back first." Wouldn't it be better for us to talk while we were drinking. With that, he walked down the mountain. The other three also felt that the weather was a little cold, and they all went down the mountain with Yunqing.

When they returned home, Yun Qing and the others saw Yun Chong and the red-tailed squirrel eating wild fruits from the mountain. The three of them had already heard Yun Qing say just now, and Yun Zhong jumped steadily from his arms to the ground, and his movements were agile. At this time, seeing that Yun Chong was able to eat wild fruits by himself, although he was a little surprised, he didn't feel shocked.

Li Fu and Hui Niang cooked together, stir-fried a few hot dishes of pheasant, fried a plate of peanuts, and stewed some rabbit meat. In the end, Yun Qing dug up his best daughter Hong, who had been exchanged for a tiger skin a few years ago, from the ground. It takes some time to stew rabbit meat, but Hui Niang is anxious to hear the story, so she encourages Li Fu to add some firewood to the stove and listen to Yunqing tell those stories.

The four of them sat around the dinner table, Yun Qing found two wine cups for Li Fu and Hui Niang, while he and Chu Yun filled one bowl with a large bowl. The four of them had a drink together.

Hui Niang was an anxious child, and seeing that Yun Qing was only concerned about drinking and eating, she hurriedly urged: "Brother Yun, you should say it quickly." We're all waiting to hear it. ”

After Yun Qing drank half a bowl by himself, seeing that everyone was eager to try, he didn't sell Guanzi.

"I think you all know that our Yun family ancestors have guarded Qingyun Mountain for generations, and no one can enter the mountain except for the men of our Yun family. ”

Li Fu continued: "I also heard you say that if the Yun family brought an outsider into Qingyun Mountain, then that outsider would be dead. ”

Yun Qingdao: "There is indeed such a clause in our Yun family's ancestral training, but I have never taken it seriously. Didn't I always promise to take Brother Chu into the mountains to find some herbs. Seeing Chu Yun nodded, Yun Qing continued: "There are some things you know, but you definitely don't know about this matter. ”

The three of them said in unison: "What?"

Yun Qing took the remaining half bowl of wine and drank it all, and then said: "Actually, the first family in our Yunshui Village is our Yun family. You may not know that the reason why our village is called Yunshui Village is not only because of the couplet at the entrance of the village, but also because the name of the ancestor who moved here from our Yun family was Yunshui. ”

Chu Yun said: "There is such a thing, why have I never heard anyone mention it." ”

Yun Qing continued: "It's no wonder, I'm afraid that no one except the descendants of our Yun family should know that there was such a person in Yunshui Village. Because he left his wife and children a few days after moving his family here, he told his wife and children about something before leaving, which was about Qingyun Mountain and our Yun family. ”

Li Fu has lived with Yun Qing for so many years and has never heard him mention it, and asked, "What is the matter? About Qingyun Mountain and the Yun family? Why have you never told me?" ”

Yun Qing smiled awkwardly: "I never thought of it before, but today I remembered this when I saw Brother Chu say that the red-tailed squirrel was actually a legendary divine beast." After a pause, Yun Qing continued: "According to that old ancestor, in the past, Qingyun Mountain was a flat land, and there was no such Qingyun Mountain at all. One day, the old ancestor had a strange dream. He dreamed that a man who could not see his face clearly told him that a sacred mountain would descend here, and that the old ancestor should wait for the mountain to come down and stay at the bottom of the mountain. ”

Chu Yun interrupted Yun Qing's description and asked, "Just let him stay at the foot of the mountain, didn't he say anything else, like why did he descend a mountain or something?" ”

Yun Qing said: "That ancestor asked the same question as you, and that person said that when the time comes, the descendants of the Yun family will naturally understand." ”

Hui Niang blamed Chu Yun for interrupting Yun Qing's story, gave him a blank look, and then asked Yun Qing again: "And then?"

Yun Qing continued: "That ancestor also knows some divination techniques. When he woke up, he divined several times in a row, but none of them could detect whether what the person in the dream said was true or false. In order to verify the words of the dreamer, the ancestor immediately set off to the location of our Yunshui Village today. After waiting here for a few days and not seeing any strange ideas, he blamed himself for believing too much in the words of the man in his dreams. But in the night, when he was about to leave and go home the next day, he suddenly heard a 'bang' outside, and the sound was so continuous that even the ground began to shake with the sound, and it took about a quarter of an hour before it finally subsided. The ancestor waited until the ground was no longer shaking, and hurried out to find out what was going on. When he saw what was happening outside, he was taken aback. ”

Hui Niang hurriedly said: "Is it really a mountain down?" After asking, I felt speechless. If not, then where Qingyun Mountain is coming from now.

Sure enough, Yun Qing said: "It is a mountain that has descended." This mountain is our current Qingyun Mountain. But it wasn't this one that surprised my ancestor the most. ”

"What's that. Li Fu, who has always been gentle and elegant, couldn't help but ask.

As if he was about to sell it, Yun Zhong poured his bowl full of wine unhurriedly, sipped it gently, and then continued: "It is said that the mountain that had just descended began to slowly become smaller, until it finally became a hundred times smaller, and finally became today's Qingyun Mountain. ”

Chu Yunqi said: "How can the mountain become smaller?

Yun Qing said again: "Now that I think about it, those descriptions that stayed behind seem to be true. In the past few years, I have been hunting in Qingyun Mountain, and I found that Qingyun Mountain is much bigger than it looks outside. I've never walked the whole of Qingyun Mountain over the years, and I feel like there are still some places I can't go. ”

Chu Yun asked suspiciously, "What do you mean by 'where you can't go'." Li Fu and Hui Niang also stretched their necks, looking curious.

Yun Qing shook his head and said, "I don't know very well, but every time I hunt, I always feel that there are many pairs of eyes looking at me." At first, I asked my father, and he said that he felt this way, but I didn't need to worry about it because it didn't hurt him. Later, I gradually got used to it. Today I walked forward looking for the footprints left by my son, but when I came between the two cypress trees, the footprints suddenly disappeared. At first, I thought it was a python coiled in a tree that swallowed Chong'er. Now it seems that Chong'er probably got into that place that I couldn't reach. ”

Chu Yun asked, "Is there any basis?"

Yun Qing said: "I have been hunting on Qingyun Mountain for so long, and I have never seen a squirrel with a red tail, and after I found Chong'er, I found that his pace was brisk, and he didn't look like before going up the mountain at all. Is there any explanation other than Chong'er strayed into that place and then had some adventures that we don't know about?"

Li Fu followed and said: "Yes, Chong'er walked swaying before going up the mountain. Just now I saw that he was very skillful in walking and running in the yard, and he didn't look like he was before going up the mountain. ”

Hui Niang said impatiently: "You two know that there is a problem. Brother Yun, you are about to say that after the mountain becomes smaller, what happened to the ancestor of your Yun family?"

Seeing that the question she asked was so simple, Chu Yun smiled and said, "What else, I must have moved my family here according to what the man in my dream said." ”

Yun Qingdao: "Exactly." The ancestor saw that a mountain came down from heaven as the man said in the dream, went home overnight, packed some things, and then moved to the foot of Qingyun Mountain with his wife and children. ”

"Wait. Chu Yun suddenly interrupted him and asked, "You just said that a mountain fell from the sky. How could such a big movement not alarm the others? Could it be that everyone else has become deaf?"

Yun Qing replied: "At that time, there were no people in this vicinity, and even Fengyun Town was only developed after we built Yunshui Village. Thinking back to what he had said about being there just now, Yun Qing continued: "A few days after moving here, that ancestor said that he would leave for a while. He never came back. That is, after he was gone for about a year, the ancestors of your Chu family moved here. ”

Chu Yun exclaimed, "What? Our Chu family is actually the second family to move here. ”

Yun Qing nodded and said, "That's right." It is said that there were about a dozen families with the surname Chu who moved here at that time, so until today, the surname Chu has the largest number of people in our village, followed by the surname Yun. ”

Hui Niang nodded and said, "No wonder there are so many people in their Chu family, I didn't expect this to be the case." ”

Li Fu suddenly asked, "You just said that Chong'er may have entered that place that you can't see." You can't even get into that place, so how could he get into that place with a child?"

Yun Qing sighed and said, "This may be the will of heaven." Then he said: "Our Yun family has been guarding at the foot of Qingyun Mountain for generations, maybe we are waiting for the birth of a heavy child. Yun Qing also meant what he meant when he said this. The Yun family has been here for generations, and the person waiting for it is definitely not an ordinary person. If that person is really heavy, then he will definitely have something to accomplish. Then there will be no need to lie in this small ravine.

Chu Yun smiled: "There is a great possibility. If you think about the fact that ordinary people can give birth in 10 months, but my sister-in-law is pregnant with her son for six years and 9 months, and the vision in heaven when she was born, doesn't that explain the difference between her son? ”

Li Fu glanced at Yun Chong, who was playing outside, and said slowly: "I don't expect Chong'er to do anything big, I just hope that he will have a safe life." ”

Hui Niang suddenly exclaimed, and said, "Sister-in-law, there is still rabbit meat stewed in the pot." Li Fu only cared about listening to Yunqing's story and forgot about it. Hearing Hui Niang's reminder, he hurriedly ran to the kitchen with her. ”

Then Yun Qing and the others ate and drank until midnight, and Hui Niang thought about her son at home, so she called Chu Yun to say goodbye and go home. Yun Zhong was tired from playing with the red-tailed squirrel all day, and went to bed alone and fell asleep.