CH.075 Shadows Everywhere
More than ten years ago, Liuwa was still a real Liuwa. Five young people came to Kaihua Village, slightly older than Guan Song and the others. They first arrived, but they were wearing smooth and bright clothes, one of them had a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he might be Ji Yunxiang Ji Master Ji when he heard the description of his appearance. The other people didn't know each other, and they should be some of Master Ji's senior brothers.
When they first arrived in Kaihua Village, they were not very accustomed to it. The villagers of Kaihua are simple and simple, they do not close their doors at night, and they only have one bed in the house, which is very short, and they eat, sit and sleep in the same place. The mats are all woven with reeds and wefts, and the warp and weft are distinct. The villagers eat corn every day, and sometimes they go to the river to fork some fish, hunt some game, and stew a big pot of soup in the open-air square in the center of the village, and each person takes a jar to get some, although it is very lively, but it does not have any manners.
On weekdays, most of the men in the villagers farm and hunt together, and the women find some nettles and weave some linen cloth at home. Men plough and women weave, chickens and dogs smell each other. There is no bazaar in the village, and if there is a need for something, it is only bartered. There is nothing particularly admirable in the village, the precious wood on the mountain, and even some of the jade found in the jade, the colored stone is no different from ordinary stone. To live here is to live, that is, to eat, wear, and live, to trade for profit, to use the mind to get something for nothing, or the concept of jewelry and jade does not exist here.
Ji Yunxiang and his brothers stayed, and for the first few days, they followed the villagers up the mountains to hunt and go into the water to fish. They are agile, quick and ruthless, with swords and knives, three strikes and five divided by two can easily kill a deer and a wild boar. At half a day, the number of animals caught is often several times that of the previous villagers' hunting. There is also more and more wild meat that cannot be eaten in the village, and it is made into wind wax. Even fishing, they have their own way, they don't use harpoons, but teach the villagers to cast nets everywhere, and the number of fish is enough for the villagers to eat for several days. The fish that can't be eaten is pickled and made into salted fish.
Due to the arrival of Ji Yunxiang's brothers, the villagers spent less and less time hunting, and many people began to have free time, and they preferred to gather around Ji Yunxiang and listen to them describe how colorful the outside world was. And the only junior sister among their brothers and sisters has to show her necklaces, step rocks, bracelets, and colorful silks to the women in the village every day, and accept the envious eyes of the others.
Among them, a girl asked his sister for bracelets and other accessories, but she couldn't get anything to exchange. After Senior Sister Ji Yunxiang saw this situation, the five of them discussed, and after a few days of hard work, all kinds of wooden hairpins, jade chains and pearl bracelets appeared in a small-scale market. The trade is not gold, but a sheep and a cow.
The market is becoming more and more popular, and on such a day when the sun rises and the sun sets, it becomes a place for many people to communicate and relax. Gradually, some people began to stop plowing the fields and hunting, but learned to mine some stones, polish them into bead chains, and sell things for women to dress up and so on. Some of them are getting smarter, they don't go up the mountain, they just barter and barter, the more they change, the better, the more they change, the more they are not tired, and they are not dangerous.
Everyone learns to use their wisdom and ingenuity in order to get more goods without having to work on their own.
In Ji Yunxiang's view, this situation is normal, if you don't pursue better and interests, you will have no goal in life. The profession of merchant also officially appeared in Kaihua Village.
"Unexpectedly, there is also a market in this village, so let's go shopping after changing our clothes. "Xiangyu is a girl, and she is very interested in jewelry.
"Not anymore. Liuwa's words were splashed like a basin of cold water.
Xiangyu looked at Liuwa suspiciously, "Is something going on?"
When Ji Yunxiang and the others lived in Kaihua Village for almost a month, a mudslide occurred on the peak of the falling moon in Kaihua Village, most of the houses in the village were washed away, and the crops were doomed to be lost. Autumn is followed by winter, most of the animals go into hibernation, the river freezes, and fishing is not possible. The mudslide on the side of Luoyue Peak was because many towering giant trees were cut down, and the villagers made many wooden utensils that Ji Yunxiang described as they described. During this period of business for all the people, the mountains that were mined and excavated also rolled off a lot of rocky sediment.
Overnight, Kaihua Village became completely different.
At dawn the next day, there was no one in the two lonely houses at the east end of the village and the market next to them. Ji Yunxiang and the others saw the scene of the houses in the west of the village being washed away by the mudslide, and the villagers seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no one. It's just that in Luoyue Peak, there was a person with a sickle in his hand, shouting at Ji Yunxiang and the others.
The mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the faces of people cannot be seen clearly, only the sound wafts back and forth between the mountains.
Ji Yunxiang and a few people climbed the Falling Moon Peak and saw the village chief who didn't talk much. Before the village chief could speak, the whole person and cat stepped forward, and the sickle was retracted and cut, and a broken sleeve of Ji Yunxiang's clothes had already been scraped. The village chief's move was very simple, but it was sharp and fast, and it was a sudden attack, which immediately suppressed Ji Yunxiang and the others.
Ji Yunxiang and they dodged again and again, first, it happened suddenly, and second, there must be a reason for it, without figuring out what happened, Ji Yunxiang and they were not willing to fight back.
But dodging is never a good way, Ji Yunxiang practices hard kung fu, hand-to-hand combat moves are fierce and ruthless, and he is not as dexterous as other senior brothers in dodging, and a piece of flesh was taken away from his arm, and he was suddenly drenched in blood. He suddenly felt pain, and couldn't help but shout, and when the other people saw it, they hurriedly showed their weapons, and in a few moments, they restrained the village chief.
Ji Yunxiang and the others just wanted to ask the village chief what the reason was, but the village chief actually stood up straight and laughed a few times, "You haven't broken the formation after a while, the moon peaks tonight, and the moon is at the peak, you come here, I'll send you away." ”
"Where did those villagers go, and why did the village chief attack Ji Yunxiang and the others?" asked Liuwa.
"I was still a child, the village chief was not so old, he was still a young man, all the villagers were arranged by the village chief to live in a cave before the mudslide occurred at the Falling Moon Peak, I was more melon-skinned, quietly followed the village chief, hid behind a bush, only to see the village chief and other people fighting. As for the reason, it was not known at the time. Liuwa's expression fell into the memories of her childhood.
It was night, on the peak of the setting moon, the full moon was like a disk, the clear light was like water, and the cold light shone holyly on the body of every villager and village chief.
On the side of Luoyue Peak, under a natural big rock, the villagers sat straight and upright, it was a group of people who followed Ji Yunxiang and they played a big show, and now it was time to reveal.
"Cloudy and sunny and full of moon, cloudy and sunny, round and missing, the same is true of schemes, where there is revelation, there is concealment. People generally see the light that is revealed, and they do not know the darkness behind it. When a person absorbs the brilliance that is revealed before him, but forgets that hidden evil is like a hidden disease, which will follow him for a lifetime. If it is revealed to the world, it is like a disease being revealed, and there is a time for treatment. The same is true of hidden evil, only if people know about it, you can eliminate karma. Therefore, the person who points out your mistakes is your nobleman. Although the name of our village is Kaihua, I am illiterate, but I know that when you bring the convenience of trading into the village, laziness, demanding, and unearned ingenuity also breed and spread in people's hearts. With comparison, understanding beauty and ugliness, and knowing respect and inferiority, people's hearts have a choice and more greed. Do you remember the first fight at the bazaar? for a wooden hairpin. As a result, strife will arise. The village chief's words were very calm.
Ji Yunxiang and the others didn't understand the intention of the village chief, the village chief smiled slightly, and drew the word "civilization" on the stone cliff, "These two words are the only words we know in the village, they were left by a doctor in the past, and a formation was set up here, your arrival triggered the civilization formation, but the occurrence of this mudslide predicted the failure of your formation." ”
Ji Yunxiang and the others nodded, and the village chief continued: "The mudslide is actually an illusion, and tomorrow this place will be restored as before, and we will send you away tonight." The village chief turned to the villagers and said, "Our life here will be as simple as ever, and those of you who are willing to go out can also go out with them, and it will take several years after this circle is triggered to reopen the barrier." ”
"At that time, did any villagers leave the village?" Guan Song asked Liuwa.
"Naturally, my parents died when I was very young, and my uncle and aunt disappeared along with several other villagers. ”
"Why didn't you come along?" asked the cuckoo.
"I was very young and didn't have the ability to make such a big decision, so I kept regretting it, and this regret has been with me for more than a decade, and if you guys go out this time, please take me with you. Liuwa grinned.
After listening to the story told by Liuwa, Guan Song smiled slightly, as if he was confident and in sight.
"Brother, what are you laughing at?" asked Guanfeng.
"It's nothing, the people here are simple, not happy and smart, everyone has their own place, and we can spend this month to enjoy some comfortable time. "Guansong's voice is very pleasant.
Qing Chong shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and went into the room to change his outfit, and the others followed suit when they saw this.
"In the morning, we are usually busy with farming, and in the afternoon we go hunting and fishing. It's the season of mango planting, and farming is very busy, but I heard what this Ji Gongzi said just now, I'm afraid you will be victorious this time. It's just that I know that there is a cave on this mountain, which we call the Tiger Wolf Cave. There is a flag in front of this cave, and there are two words on it, but I don't know it, I wonder if you want to go and see it?"