Chapter 73: The Treasure Born of Thunder
The summer rain is the most passionate, it falls on the leaves, on the eaves, making a 'boom' sound, like a crazy insect scurrying around, it falls on the face like a fine grain of sand stone on the face, a burst of pain.
A sudden rainstorm appeared out of thin air in this world, and four men who went into the mountains to hunt were trapped by the rain and ran into a dilapidated mountain temple in the mountains to take shelter from the rain.
Several of them are farmers in a small village outside the mountains and forests, because the wind and rain are not good this year, and the harvest of crops in the fields is not good, in order to make a living, they went into the mountains and forests to hunt.
None of these four are too old, the older one looks to be about thirty, and the younger one is only in his early twenties, and the relationship between them is that of cousins.
Among the four people, the older man is called Liao Ping, the second man is called Liao Ji, and the other is named Liao Huang, and the youngest is called Liao Bujin.
"Now not only is the harvest in the fields bad, but there are fewer and fewer wild animals on the mountain. ”
Inside the broken temple, the eldest brother Liao Ping looked at the rain curtain outside the temple with a low face.
It's no wonder he sighed like this, the four brothers have been in the mountain for two days, and now they have only hunted two pheasants.
Just these two chickens, they still took a lot of hard work to hunt, but for the four of them, each of them could not share much if they sold these two pheasants for money.
"Yes, the fields have not been completed in recent years, and most of the people have gone to the county seat to find work, and those who stay in the village don't all point to this mountain forest. Liao Ji opened his mouth and agreed
"Brothers, don't be discouraged, before we go up the mountain, didn't the Wang brothers hunt a big deer, and our luck on this trip up the mountain will not be bad. Liao Bujin saw his brothers with sad faces, and opened his mouth to comfort them.
"Yes, don't think about it, eat something first, and when the rain stops, we'll go to the mountains to hunt two big deer. Liao Huang beat the bag of dry food he had brought up the mountain, took out a few hard flatbreads from it, and handed them to his brothers.
The four of them ate dry cakes in the ruined temple and waited for the rain outside the house to stop, but they didn't stop until it was dark, and the heavy rain outside showed no sign of stopping.
"Hey~ It looks like we're going to stay overnight in this broken temple tonight. ”
Liao Ping let out a soft sigh, and then the brothers lit a bonfire in the ruined temple, sat around the fire and made sentimental remarks.
The rain outside the house did not stop until midnight, and three people in the broken temple had already fallen asleep, only Liao Ji, who was keeping vigil at night, was alone at the gate of the broken temple, looking at the dark night outside the temple in a daze.
Although it is dog days now, the cold air in the mountains is still a little cold at night.
Liao Ji, who had been at the gate of the temple for an unknown amount of time, leaned on the edge of the door and fell asleep, when suddenly a cool rain wind blew on him, blowing away the drowsiness on his body for seven or eight minutes.
Shivering from the rain and wind, Liao Ji turned back to the broken temple, added a few sticks of firewood to the fire that was about to be extinguished, and sat down by the fire.
The firewood crackled, and not long after Liao Ji sat down at the fire, drowsiness came back again, and he tilted his head and dozed off.
'Boom~'
At this moment, a thunderous sound sounded violently, shaking the sleepy Liao Ji to wake up, he yawned, turned his head to look at the night outside the temple.
After this glance, Liao Ji's eyes did not leave the outside of the temple, he turned around and walked to the gate of the temple, staring at the dark night outside the house, his face full of surprise.
Because just now, before this thunder sounded, there was only pitch black outside the temple, and there was nothing else, but now, in the darkness outside the temple, he saw a ray of light.
The light was certainly not a fire, because it was raining heavily in the mountains at this time, and even if the thunder and lightning caused the wildfire, it was extinguished.
In addition, the mountain they are on now is a small hill that surrounds the mountains, so there are no people around, and the light is naturally not the light of the lights.
In the dark mountain forest, after the thunder and lightning, a flash of light appeared, which made Liao Ji's first thought was that the treasures buried in the mountains were struck out by lightning.
Just as Liao Ji was looking at the light in the mountains and forests, Liao Bujin was awakened by the thunder just now.
"Second brother, what are you looking at? Liao Bujin stood up and yawned, and said, "You go to rest, second brother, I'll keep vigil." ”
"Come on Fourth Brother, come and see. ”
Seeing that someone woke up, Liao Ji hurriedly summoned Liao Bujin to the temple gate and pointed to the light in the dark mountain forest.
Seeing the moment of light, Liao Bujin was also quite surprised in his heart, he asked a few words puzzled, and finally came to the same conclusion as Liao Ji, thinking that the light should be a treasure hidden in the mountains.
The two brothers summed it up, and then woke up Liao Ping and Liao Huang, who were asleep, and the four of them stood by the temple gate, while looking at the light in the dark mountain forest and discussing.
At present, the rainstorm outside the temple is pouring down, although the four brothers have the intention to find the glowing treasure, but now the mountain is extremely dark, and the forest is slippery and steep, if you are not careful, you may slide down the hillside and be seriously injured or lose your life.
Therefore, although the mood of the four people at the moment was impatient, it hindered the current situation, so they had to gather around the temple gate to look at the treasure and sigh.
Liao Ji, who was still a little sleepy, no longer had a little sleepiness at this moment, and the other three were also shocked by the glowing treasure.
The light in the mountains and forests that appeared because of the thunder and lightning kept shining under the eager eyes of the four brothers, and I don't know how long it took for the torrential rain outside the temple to stop for six or seven hours under the eager eyes of the four brothers.
As soon as the torrential rain stopped, the four of them each carried a torch and walked into the mountain forest outside the temple.
They walked straight in the direction of the light, and at last they came to a cliff that was shining on the opposite side of a mountainside.
The mountain road was already rough, and it was late at night, and there was a long rainstorm, and the mountain was even more muddy and difficult to walk, but the four brothers decided to go around to the opposite side overnight to get the treasure.
Because it was not only the four brothers who came to hunt in this mountain forest, but also the other hunters, if they waited until tomorrow after dawn to go around the opposite side of the mountain, then the treasure would be taken by others, and the gain would outweigh the loss.
Driven by the wealth and glory of their lives, they turned into a small mountain road and detoured towards the peak on the other side of the cliff.
Finally, when the sky was about to break, the four of them came to the glowing mountainside in embarrassment.
When they came here, they found that halfway up the mountain, there was a boulder that was originally leaning on the mountain, four or five feet high, and the thing that gave off the light was an unknown object that was attached to the mountain wall and resembled a gourd.
If it weren't for the fall of the boulder, the glowing object attached to the mountain wall would not have been revealed.