Chapter 2 Niutou Mountain Niutou Mountain, also called Qingniu Mountain, the mountain is more than 1,100 zhang high. From Qingniu County, 200 miles away, you can see it from a distance, like a green cow lying horizontally, and the head of the cow is facing south, like a green cow turning its head, lying quietly. Legend has it that this mountain is the mortal body left in the world by Lao Tzu's green ox after his journey to the west, turning into a high mountain peak, and the immortal body entered the fairy world with Lao Tzu, and lived with the sky. Qingniu County also got its name from this.

Liujia Village is facing the head of the cow, looking at the huge head of the cow in the middle from a distance, one on the left and one on the left and one towering into the cloud mountain peak on both sides, like two horns obliquely piercing the sky, extremely steep. The blue-eyed golden-eyed clam mentioned by Lang Zhong is on the top of the mountain peak on the right.

Because he often accompanied his father to fetch mountain spring water, Liu Chang was no stranger to Niutou Mountain, but at most, he came to the mountain spring and spring, and he didn't need to go deep into Niutou Mountain. The blue-eyed golden-eyed clam is actually a kind of toad, the size of an adult's fist, the cry is like a cow, the eyes are relatively large and turquoise with a slight golden yellow, so it is called the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam. After Liu Chang went out just now, he quickly caught up with Lang Zhong and asked in detail about the appearance of the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam. Standing at the foot of Niutou Mountain, looking up, it seems that this is borderless. Liu Chang took out the firewood knife, pulled it left and right, and climbed up along the gap between the trees.

In the morning, the sun has just risen, and the forest is full of hums and apes, fragrant flowers and plants, and clouds and mist. But Liu Chang didn't have the heart to appreciate this beautiful scenery, he climbed up with his hands and feet, his pants had already been scratched by thorns, there were blood marks on his legs, and his hands were also worn out by mountain stones, dripping with blood, and his heart hurt, but when he thought of his father's painful appearance, Liu Chang was full of strength again, wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand, and continued to climb up.

By the time Liu Chang gritted his teeth and climbed to the top of the mountain, it was already three hours later, his clothes and pants had almost become strips of cloth, his hands and even his arms had been scratched, and the pain was unbearable. When I went out, thanks to a firewood knife, I used a firewood knife to solve a few snakes that escaped when I was halfway up the mountain, and I was able to cut through thorns and thorns, and the speed of going up the mountain increased a lot. Liu Chang was lying on the ground, panting heavily, hungry, and forgetting to eat because he was in a hurry to go up the mountain to catch blue-eyed golden-eyed clams.

After slowing down for a long time, Liu Chang got up tremblingly, leaned under a tree, closed his eyes and rested for a while. When I opened my eyes and looked up, I saw that it was a wild peach tree, full of green peaches. Liu Chang didn't know where he got the strength, so he stood up, quickly picked two of them, and devoured them. After a while, Liu Chang ate six or seven, but the peaches were not ripe and bitter, but Liu Chang was really hungry, and he didn't care about the deliciousness.

After eating the peaches, Liu Chang held the firewood knife in his right hand, carefully observed the surroundings of the peak, but Lang Zhong said that most of the people who came up did not go back, which shows that it is very dangerous on the top of the mountain. Not far away, there was a pile of white flowers next to a pile of rocks, I don't know what it was. Liu Chang bent his waist, moved cautiously, and looked at it intently, ah, Liu Chang was so frightened that he took a few steps back and sat on the ground! It was a pile of white bones! The flesh and blood were long gone, only ants went back and forth from between the bones, gnawing on the spotted white bones!"This ...... This ......" Liu Chang was uncertain, turned around and was about to run, after all, he was only a twelve-year-old child, but his father's painful expression and his mother's tearful eyes appeared in his mind. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Liu Chang muttered to himself, "I just need to quickly grab the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam and go down the mountain, there should be no danger." ”

Liu Chang clenched the firewood knife with both hands, staggered around the pile of white bones, and looked around for the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam. "Moo......" A cow's cry came from behind a rock, Liu Chang hurriedly bypassed the rock, and saw a toad squatting by the rock, as Lang Zhong said, the cry was like a cow, the two frogs had green eyes with gold, and they were all green and green, if it wasn't on the rock, they wouldn't notice it when they were put in the grass. "Blue-eyed golden-eyed clam!", Liu Chang screamed and pounced, holding down the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam with both hands, isn't it just for it to climb the mountain so hard, and how did he let it escape. Because I left in a hurry, I didn't take the cloth bag to pack the blue-eyed clams, what should I do? Yes, Liu Chang saw the rattan on the ground and came to pay attention. He pressed the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam with his left hand, picked up the firewood knife with his right hand and cut off the rattan, pierced it through the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam's mouth, skewered the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam like a sugar gourd, tied it around his waist and continued to look for it.

Half an hour later, Liu Chang had already caught six blue-eyed golden-eyed clams, touched the toad belt around his waist, and smiled with satisfaction, it was time to go back. "Roar ......" There was a loud noise, so frightened that the firewood knife in his hand almost fell to the ground, Liu Chang looked back, and suddenly his soul was scattered. I saw a beast standing ten zhang away in front of him, like a wolf and a tiger, two eyes like the size of a fist, a big mouth like the size of a basin, a gust of fishy wind blowing, a huge body, about two zhang high, about three zhang long, staring at Liu Chang with a fierce light.

"Don't come here, don't come here!" Liu Chang waved the firewood knife with both hands and slowly retreated, but the monster moved forward unhurriedly, like a victor playing with his prey. At this time, Liu Chang already understood the reason why Lang Zhong said that he did not return it, and the origin of the pile of white bones. Eighty percent of these people have become food for monsters, not to mention that they are only a twelve-year-old child, it seems that today is more than auspicious, and they are going to die in the mouth of this monster. Thinking of this, Liu Chang was not so scared. "That monster, I'm just here to catch a few toads and leave, and I'm going to leave soon, if you don't eat me, I'll send you two chickens another day, not three, five chickens for you!" Liu Chang shouted at the monster.

"You little human is quite interesting, and you have to bargain, you humans have repeatedly come to grab my food, how can I let you go!"

What the...... What's the situation! Liu Chang's mind went blank. Animals actually speak human language!" "You...... You...... I...... I ......" Liu Chang pointed to the monster and said incoherently. "You, what are you, it's better to be my ration!" The monster pounced suddenly, Liu Chang was shocked, stumbled under his feet, and fell from the mountain peak with a thud.

The mountain wind was whistling in his ears, and his body was falling rapidly, but Liu Chang's mind was still surprised how the monster could speak and understand human words. "Not good!" When the branch scraped his face, Liu Chang realized that he was about to fall to death, and at this time he had fallen halfway up the mountain, where the trees were lush and the rattan was dense. Liu Chang first hit the tree that stretched out diagonally, and grabbed the rattan with both hands indiscriminately, finally stopping the momentum of the fall, but the inertia still took him and hit a rock protruding from the middle of the mountain.

At the moment of touching the rock, Liu Chang's left hand pulled the rattan, and his right hand propped it to the ground, "click", "The arm is broken!" This was Liu Chang's last thought before he fainted, his eyes were dark, and he fainted. What Liu Chang didn't know was that at the moment when his right hand touched the ground, he was pierced by a small triangular gravel on the ground, and the blood flowed like an infusion. The flowing blood quickly passed a ball the size of a grain of rice next to the gravel, and the blood seeped in, and the ball kept sucking Liu Chang's blood like a hungry thirst. After a while, the round ball that had turned blood-red floated up in the bloodstream, slowly moving towards the wound on Liu Chang's hand, and finally penetrated into the triangular wound on Liu Chang's right hand, and the flowing blood actually stopped, all of which Liu Chang didn't know at all. The entire Qingniu Mountain was quiet again, as if nothing had happened, only the broken branches and chaotic rattans halfway up the mountain showed everything that had just happened, and Liu Chang's chest was lying together, suggesting that there was still a living person in Niutou Mountain.

The sun is slowly coming to the end of the day, and although it is reluctant to sink under the mountain, the sun and the moon alternate, and the stars change, and no one can change it. As the sun faded, the temperature in the mountains dropped, the birds and beasts stopped singing, and only the streams in the mountain streams still flowed. With an "um", the figure lying on the protruding rock halfway up the mountain moved. "How can animals speak human language?" Liu Chang turned over and did it, still thinking about the incredible thing in his mind, "What kind of monster is that? It's so hard that it's a dream?" Liu Chang looked at the wounds all over his body, and there was a heart-wrenching pain in his right arm, it turned out that all this was true! Falling down from the mountain, the firewood knife was gone, and the rattan with blue-eyed golden-eyed clams was not lost, it was on the ground 1 zhang away from Liu Chang. "Why is it dark? It's so late, my father and mother should be worried and anxious!" Liu Chang looked at the sky and got anxious, but how could he go down the mountain in this halfway up the mountain.

Liu Chang checked it, and fortunately, except for the fracture of his right arm, the rest were scratches, including his face, and there was no major problem. With the faint moonlight, Liu Chang looked around, looking for a way out. After some inspection, he found that there was a cave leaning against the mountain wall, but it was dark inside, and he couldn't see his five fingers, so Liu Chang didn't dare to go in. On the right side of the cave, five or six feet away, there is a path overgrown with weeds, which winds and stretches down the mountain. "No matter, let's go and try it first, otherwise the wolf will be over" Liu Chang muttered to himself, and went straight to the sheep intestine path.

The path is really going down the mountain, but you can only go to a place more than 300 zhang away from the bottom of the mountain, and at the end are two * locust trees, each locust tree has three people surrounding the thickness, and the diameter of the crown is more than ten zhang. If you hadn't walked through it once, it would have been impossible to find that there was such a trail halfway up the mountain. Liu Chang secretly wrote down this location and walked down a stream next to him, since the water is flowing down and to the bottom of the mountain, then you can go down the mountain by following the stream, Liu Chang thought.

"Changzi, where are you, Changzi?" Liu Chang descended for more than two hundred zhang, and there was a shout in the distance. "I'm here! I'm here!" Liu Chang jumped up and shouted loudly, his exhausted body actually burst out with amazing energy, and rushed down the mountain quickly. When I rushed to the bottom, I found that the stream water that was used as a benchmark was actually the mountain spring water that I usually came to take, but when I reached the bottom of the mountain, it was blocked by a mountain rock, and it flowed out from the gap in this mountain rock, and it was regarded as mountain spring water by people.

There was a bang, and when Liu Chang pushed aside the leaves and rushed out with the last trace of strength, he saw a crowd of people at the water intake place of the mountain spring, and the torches crackled, "I...... I'm ...... here," Liu Chang shouted in a weak voice, and his body staggered down. He was so tired, after all, he was a child, covered in wounds, hungry and afraid, and he ran all the way up the mountain, and he was able to persevere to the end with a belief: I am a man, I want to save my father!

"It's raining!" Liu Chang had a dream last night, dreaming that he was making tofu with his father, and suddenly it rained heavily in the sky, Liu Chang dragged his father and mother to the house, and the pain was unbearable, especially in his right hand, which hurt into the bone marrow. But it's not like a dream, because it feels like my face is wet, but it's salty in my mouth, and it's not rain, and it's not salty, what is this? Liu Chang slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed at home, and his mother, Sister-in-law Liu, was crying beside him.

"Mother, what's wrong with Dad?" asked Liu Chang in a low voice. "Changzi, you're awake!" Sister-in-law Liu felt wiped her tears, "You kid, why are you so bold, Lang Zhong said that Niutou Mountain went to nine deaths, but you still go, in case there is a good one, what will you do with your mother!" After speaking, the tears that had just stopped flowed down again. "Don't I want to help my father, I don't want him to suffer so many crimes, I want my father to get better soon! How is Dad?" "Lang Zhong boiled the blue-eyed golden-eyed clams you caught overnight last night into oil, and applied it to your father, and the effect was very good, your father didn't sleep in the middle of the night when he was in pain, and he fell asleep after applying the oil. Lang Zhong also treated and bandaged your wounds, so that you can rest more, especially if your right arm is fractured, you can't move!" Liu Chang found that all the wounds on his body had been bandaged, and his right arm was also fixed with a wooden clip.

"Then ...... last night" "Last night, the village chief brought more than 20 people to look for you, I have to thank the village chief for them!" It turned out that Liu's sister-in-law took care of Liu Tofu's craftsman, and she didn't notice that Liu Chang didn't come back until the evening, so she hurriedly went to Mr. Dongguo to ask, but Mr. said that Liu Chang hadn't come, and Mr. Liu Chang thought that Liu Chang was going to punish him. Sister-in-law Liu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that Liu Chang was walking with Lang Zhong on her front and back feet, and found Lang Zhong, when Lang Zhong heard Liu's words, he patted his thigh, and the child must have gone to catch the blue-eyed golden-eyed clam, Sister-in-law Liu almost fainted, and she was at a loss, or Lang found the village chief and explained the situation, and the village chief immediately summoned more than 20 villagers to look for Liu Chang together.

After chatting with his mother for a while, Liu Chang fell asleep again.