Chapter 31
Chen Chou opened his mouth: "This, this gauze is her, she gave it to me." He scratched his head with an irritable look on his face, "Brother Zhang, even if I tell you, you may think I'm lying."
Zhang Ping said affirmatively: "No." He dragged the stool and sat in front of Chen Chou with his eyes bright, "Tell me about that matter."
Chen Chou scratched his head again: "Oh, I've said it so many times... I'm afraid you'll get annoyed." He raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Ping pitifully, "Then I... let me say it simply?"
Zhang Ping said: "More details."
Chen Chou was inspired by him and sat upright: "Oh, if you want to go in detail, where can I tell you... Well, let's start talking about it from that day when I got drunk. It was more than two years ago. Chunshen, one of my mother's aunts died. My mother was taken care of by her when she was a child and was very close to her, so she asked me to attend the funeral..."
The aunt was a widow, and later remarried to an oil dealer. She followed the oil dealer back to a small town in Fulin County, his hometown to open an oil shop.
The town was pitifully small, not much bigger than the vegetable market on the West Street of Beijing. It was surrounded by poor villages and there was no decent place. Chen Chou felt uncomfortable there. After paying his condolences, he wanted to take a detour to the city of Fulin County to go to the city of Fulin County for two days.
It was extremely inconvenient to travel between the town. Chen Chou brought the map and walked on the official road. He was still confused by the undulating hills and the paths. He accidentally turned into a fork and fell into a ravine.
He had been in the cave with bats and flies all night, and finally met a woodcutter the next morning. The woodcutter sold him half a gourd wine and told him to walk along a small road and could see a river or a ferry. There was an old boatman at the ferry. He spent up to fifteen cents and swam up the boat. He could not walk a few miles of water and reach the nearby county town.
Chen Chou followed the woodcutter's guidance and walked southeast along the path and passed through a forest. Sure enough, he saw a small river that was slightly like a river than a mountain stream, winding through the cracks of the mountain. In the depression outside the woods, there was a dilapidated small pier, but there was no old boatman. There was only a small sampan with a canopy tied to the bamboo piles on the pier.
Chen Chou waited and waited, but he could not see the old boatman. It was getting closer and it was hot and hard to bear. He simply climbed onto the small sampan, sat under the tent, and waited while drinking.
The woodcutter's wine was very strong, and he was tired from the journey, so he fell asleep under the tent. When he woke up, he was suddenly shocked. He was still on the boat, but the boat was in the middle of the water, with steep mountain walls on both sides, and he was the only one on the boat, and the boat was moving slowly.
"I was almost scared to death at that time. I really thought I was on the ghost ship."
Zhang Ping said: "It's not a ghost, it's the boat cable that has been opened." The small sampan is not big, and the boat cable is definitely not strong enough. Chen Chou was in the boat and he took the boat up and down, which would easily make the boat cable open.
Then the boat will float downstream along the water flow.
Chen Chou said: "I think it's the same now, but I was afraid at that time, so I thought I had seen a ghost."
He picked up the oars at the stern of the boat and rowed desperately. He couldn't row, and the more he rowed, the faster he drifted downstream.
When he arrived at a bend of a river, Chen Chou wanted to take the opportunity to use his oar to block the mountain wall next to him. However, the boat was stopped and was washed into a large reed marshal. He was spinning back and forth in the reed sway, turning into a water whirlpool. The boat hit the mountain wall and overturned. He remembered that he tried his best to dig the water, and vaguely climbed into a cave, and then his eyes turned black and he fainted.
Chen Chou said with difficulty: "Then, when I open my eyes again, I will see apricot blossoms and large patches of apricot blossoms. At that time, the leaves of the apricot tree should have grown very big, and the apricot trees there are still blooming. Do you think it's a god? There is a village in the apricot flower forest..."
Every time he talks about his adventure, when he talks about it, others will laugh and then say, "Is that village called Xinghuayuan? With this strange fate, Brother Chen will definitely become a poet who is not inferior to Tao Wuliu!"
Chen Chou said sadly: "Brother Zhang, this is indeed true, I have never lie."
Zhang Ping nodded: "I believe it."
Chen Chou looked at him with emotion, then sighed: "This is not the most magical one, the most magical one in the land is... the whole village is full of women, not half a man."
When Chen Chou opened his eyes, there was a woman beside him. Chen Chou stared at the silk handkerchief in Zhang Ping's hand and said quietly: "It's Li Wan, how can she say it? For example, if the appearance of the court courtier Qianwu is compared with her, she is a ball of donkey dung balls."
Zhang Ping has never seen the legendary courtesan Qianwu, but he can calculate the difference between a beauty and a ball of donkey dung balls.
"Li Wan is in that village, she can only be considered an ordinary person and a real beauty. She is the village's Zhangshan Lilong..."
Chen Chou's eyes drifted to an unknown place, and he remained silent for a while.
Zhang Ping had to wake him up: "Is Zhangshan the leader of those women?"
Chen Chou was shocked, withdrew his gaze and nodded: "Zhangshan is the village chief of that village. They are all called Zhangshan. She has the final say in the matters of all sizes in the village."
He sighed, and a blush appeared on his face: "I think about it now, I might as well stay in that village at that time... It is better to say that it is like a country, a small country. A paradise town, Xingshen daughter country."
Yes, Zhang Ping remembered that he had heard Chen Chou say several times that the king of the Kingdom of Women would recruit him as the royal husband.
He asked tactfully, "Who is interested in you, the female leader?"
Chen Chou's eyes flashed twice: "Actually... I am just an ordinary person... But they said that they have only women for generations, and they have never seen men..."
Zhang Ping said: "If you haven't seen a man before, how can you have ancestors and descendants?"
Chen Chou said that Li Wan told him that when the woman in the village was born, she would hold an apricot kernel in her hand. Her mother buried the apricot kernel outside the village to plant an apricot tree. The apricot will grow for at least seventeen years before it blooms. If a woman wants a child, she will eat the first flower of her apricot tree every year and bear the first fruit, and then she will be able to conceive. She will also be pregnant for ten months, give birth, and give birth to a daughter.
Chen Chou was frightened by this statement at that time. He thought he had fallen into a den of apricot flower spirit and was going to be taken by the female fairies to collect yang and replenish yin.
He touched the path around the village and wanted to escape in the middle of the night, but was discovered by Li Wan.
Li Wan was very sad and told him that their clan was living here because he was afraid that this habit would not be tolerated by the world, and treated them as monsters and destroyed them.
"She said she only wanted to be an ordinary woman, stay with her husband, and live together until old age. But I said she didn't want to take her away."
Li Wan told Chen Chou that they were destined to be unable to leave this village from birth to death. Just like an apricot tree planted in the soil, if they dig out the soil, they will die.
"I think she is not like a ghost. She has a shadow. She eats and sleeps like ordinary people and will get cold and fever. Once, her fingers were cut and blood was flowing out..."
Zhang Ping listened attentively. He thought this matter was quite subtle. According to Chen Chou's always said, Li Long, the Zhangshan of that village, should have called him as his husband, but after he mentioned it, it was all the woman named Li Wan.
Chen Chou lowered his head: "And then, I encountered another scary thing..."
One night, he had a stomachache. He got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and found that Li Wan was not in the house. The sky on one side was red, as if there was a fire in some place in the village. He tiptoed to the place with fire, and his soul flew away.
A fire was burned on the open space in the village, all burning yellow paper and paper money. The women in the village were all wearing white clothes, sitting cross-legged around the fire, and the paper ash was scattered. The women all closed their eyes and said nothing.
Chen Chong looked at it with his legs trembling for a while, and ran away tremblingly.
I don’t know if this matter was discovered, but the next day, Chen Chou was taken to Li Long, a few older women in the village. Li Long told him that there should be no man in the village. If he wants to stay, the only way is to get married to her.
Chen Chong asked, is it okay to get married to other women?
Li Longdao, no, the only woman in the village who can get married to a man is Zhangshan.
She asked Chen Chou again: "Am I not beautiful? Will you like other people when you see me?"
Chen Chou sighed and said to Zhang Ping: "Brother Zhang, it's not my pretending to behave. Although I love beauty, you know, sometimes in this world you can't just look at beauty. To be honest, that Li Long is too beautiful, but it's a bit scary."
It’s so beautiful that it’s so beautiful, how can you do it? Zhang Ping couldn’t help but think.
Chen Chou had just rejected Li Long, and then he smelled a sweet fragrance, and then his eyes turned dark and he fainted.
Chapter completed!