Chapter 126 Shortcuts at night
"My purpose here was to explore the secret treasures. Now I haven't found the secret and the treasures are not found, but how can I lose the fun of traveling with you with my old friend? This is my trip. Mr. Fang, I will accompany you. Haha, and I will also see how you have the 'Xuantian Borrowing Life' method!" Yang Tiancong smiled at me.
Perhaps there is a person who is a little fengshui metaphysics by my side, which can always help me from time to time. However, Yang Tianchao's body has just recovered and needs to be carefully maintained and not too tired. And it is still far from Zhangwang Village to where I want to go. It is said that I have to cross mountains and rivers again, so how can I let him take this risk? At that moment, I shook my head and said, "No, your body must be maintained. Moreover, I am very anxious about this trip. After I finish, I will hurry back to Shanghai again, and I really have no time to stay. It is best if you and Xiaolan are careful at Village Chief Yao's house for a few days."
Yang Tiancong smiled and said, "Then, let's go early tomorrow morning. Mr. Fang, I have learned about the terrain of several mountain villages in Wuwei County in the past month. They are all steep mountains and steep places, and it is extremely inconvenient to travel. You have to cross mountains and ridges, just like the Shipeng Village you are going to. You have to walk a day's mountain road from Zhangwang Village. You can also go back to Wuwei County from here and take a bus there from the county town. But in this way, it will take half a day to delay. It's better if you have someone to lead the way for you. If you walk this afternoon, you're afraid that it will be dark halfway through the road. It's really hard to be in the wild mountains and ridges."
I still shook my head and said nothing. At this time, Village Chief Yao's family had already held several sumptuous banquets, and we immediately took the banquet.
The famous elders and old people in the village have already attended the banquet, so I am very grateful to me. It’s no problem. However, after drinking two cups of sorghum and strong wine, I can no longer bear it, so I quickly drank strong tea.
During the meal, everyone heard that I was leaving Zhangwang Village after lunch and went to Shipeng Village. Everyone was in a difficult mood. An old elder said, "Tianshi, Shipeng Village is too far from our village. The mountain road is rugged. It is really inconvenient for a city man like you. If you walk this afternoon, you will probably walk less than one-third of the road, and it will be dark. Let's go tomorrow morning and you will be able to reach Shipeng Village when the sun sets tomorrow afternoon."
Everyone agreed.
It seems that this Shipang Village is too far away, and it is no problem to be far away. The key is that starting from Zhangwang Village, there is no straight road, so it cannot be opened to traffic. You can only cross mountains and ridges and walk on the mountain road.
"Tianshi Master Tian is too tired to walk on the mountain road, so he should go to the city first, and then take a ride from the city. There can be open to Shipeng Village. However, after a while, you will have to go half a detour. You will leave early tomorrow morning. It is estimated that it will be late at night when you arrive in Shipeng Village. Although you have to take more detours, we still recommend that Tianshi Master go like this. If you sway your feet and walk on the shortcuts, you will often have blind bears and leopards in the old mountains, and there will be many injuries. In addition, you are afraid, just afraid..." A man who was somewhat insightful said this and realized that his eyes were different around him, so he stopped.
I naturally heard some of my mistakes. Seeing that they all said they would not be able to leave this afternoon, I decided to leave early tomorrow morning.
After lunch, Yang Tiancong asked me whether to take the mountain road or return to the city to take a bus. I thought for a while and said, "Go as you get close. Because the family I had agreed with me earlier agreed that they were rushing back from Hainan. They were busy dealing with their daughter's funeral and waiting for me. I really couldn't let them take care of them. I had to get to their place as soon as possible."
"In other words, you decided to walk on the mountain road?" Yang Tian checked me.
I nodded.
"But, haven't you heard from the old people that the mountain road is rugged, and you, a city man, can't bear the hard work for a day; secondly, wild animals in the mountains hurt people, and if you get lost, it will be very troublesome and it's difficult to contact."
I smiled and said, "Our ancestors walked from the mountain to the flat ground, ate raw meat and drank blood, sacrificing fire and plowing. How could they not bear it when walking on the mountain road? If you don't offend it, it won't offend you. Besides, I have a way to let it avoid it when you see me. Besides, have you ever heard of a person in the Xuanmen who will get lost? Haha, the stars in the sky are my lantern for guidance! I decided that walking on the mountain road can save half a day."
"Okay, I'll take another rest tonight and recuperate. I'll go with you tomorrow morning." Yang Tiancong looked at me again with a pleading look.
"You really want to go with me?" I looked at him, "I'm just afraid that your body should not be overworked."
"You guys, how boring you told me to lie on the bed! I, Yang Tiancong, have been willful and active throughout my life, and have come here freely. I think that I was accidentally caught by a local hunter's animal trap in a Yi mountain in Guizhou two years ago. I dragged my body and climbed back to the Yi village step by step. The blood was dragged for several miles and was injured for only two days. Then I went to the ground to say goodbye. That time, I thought I would die there, but it turned out to be fine. I was lucky. This time, I was only poisoned by a wave of evil, which was not as serious as that time? Haha, it's okay, Mr. Fang, if you can meet you in this small mountain village, this is fate. I will accompany you and it's good to have a fight for you." Yang Tiancong looked at me, very generous.
I felt a little emotional and nodded and said, "Okay, have a good sleep tonight. However, Xiaolan is afraid that she will stay here alone. She originally wanted you to stay here with her. Forget it, I will tell Village Chief Yao. After Xiaolan's body energy recovers, let them find someone to send her back-"
"No! I want to go with you!"
Yang Tiancong and I were shocked, Xiaolan!
The girl climbed up from the bed at some point and heard our conversation behind her back. Looking at her expression, she had gradually regained her luster. The water spirit of the past also decorated her again, and she was charming. There is no doubt that since Luo Qingyang's wronged soul was removed, she could recover so quickly in such a short time. It was entirely the effect of my "Nine Life Pill"! Otherwise, based on my past experience, people who were born with the wronged soul would usually be in a coma for two to three days, more than three days.
Those who have not yet woken up are afraid they will never wake up again. After waking up, they will be able to walk vigorously for at least ten days and half a month before they can walk vigorously. However, Xiaolan has only walked down the ground in just a few hours, and her complexion has recovered so quickly. I have to admire the effect of "resurrecting the soul" of the divine pills refined by Master Yan! My old naughty boy said that the pills refined by Master Yan have the effect of "resurrecting the dead". I have never believed it, and I only thought that this was a deliberately exaggerated word in the classics. But I knew it was really so magical!
"Xiaolan!" Yang Tiancong and I looked at each other, and were very surprised. When we walked up, everything was completely normal and strange. We couldn't help but sigh: "Recover quickly! Well, Xiaolan, go have some food and have a good night's sleep. Maybe we can really travel far tomorrow!"
"Yeah! Hehe, Brother Fang, Brother Yang, I want to go with you, have you agreed?!" Xiaolan clapped her hands, her pupils were filled with the light of expectation.
"Okay?" Yang Tiancong looked at me, obviously, he didn't believe that Xiaolan was recovering so quickly.
I nodded and said, "It's really beyond my expectations. She is full of Yuanyang now, but her complexion is still a little unstable. I'll take some food to supplement it. I'll have a good sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow. I'll be completely normal. I haven't tested it before, so I never knew that my 'Nine Life Pill' would have such a miraculous effect!"
Yang Tiancong was surprised and said, "Well, we just happened to send Xiaolan back to her house. In addition-" He looked at Xiaolan, turned around and whispered to me, "I just heard the old people's words on the table. It seemed that there were some taboos when walking on the mountain road, and I don't know what it was..."
I nodded and said, "I heard it too, but I have decided to take a closer look. Haha, even if there are bulls, ghosts, gods, snakes, bandits, Tai Sui, in the ambush ahead, they cannot stop me."
When it was getting dark, I saw the old elders coming home one after another, so I asked Village Chief Yao: "Captain Yao, during the meal, everyone has something to say to me. At this time, after you tell me, I can walk the mountain road with confidence. What are the considerations for walking the mountain road? I, a foreigner, can prepare for it."
Village Chief Yao had a strange face and frowned slightly, "Master Tian, the key is that there are many wild animals on the mountain road and hurt people. You don't have hunting rifles or dogs around you, which is really dangerous. Of course, there are some old allusions that say that the mountain road cannot be walked at night, but these are all legends that we have never seen in person."
I became more and more weird and smiled, "What old allusion, can't leave at night? Village Chief Yao forgot what I do?"
"Hehe, yes, yes! Tianshi is a ghost-catching man, what else can scare you!" Village Chief Yao scratched his head and smiled, "Our area borders Jiangxi Province. When fighting, yes, in 1946, the "Northwest King" of the Democratic Party, General Chen Geng, came to us with a million troops. He fought with General Chen Geng's People's Liberation Army in our area, and killed the most fiercely in Yaozigou, the ** Mountain. My God, I was only one year old that year. I heard from my grandfather that Yaozigou became a river of blood. Blood flowed down the valley for three days and three nights! The bodies of the soldiers filled a valley that was about ten miles long! If you want to go from our Zhangwang Village to Shipeng Village, you must pass Yaozigou. Moreover, most of the time you walk there, it is almost night. It is said that the ghosts are so haunted there at night. There is an allusion. One person walked at night and saw groups of people there.
The soldiers in the team were digging holes in the trenches, and their tweets were shouting everywhere, unable to tell whether it was scraping the Democratic Party or the People's Liberation Army... The man went up to help, but he patted a soldier on the shoulder and prepared to ask more details. Unexpectedly, the soldier turned around and scared the man to lose his soul on the spot: the soldier had no face at all, just a hat alone... This story was very mysterious in several villages. Over the past few decades, many people encountered "ghost-killing walls" when they passed there at night. A few years ago, there was a madman in our village who was the most powerful. He bumped into "ghost-killing walls". As a result, he walked around and walked around until the next morning when his family found him. He was already crazy. He had been crazy for so many years, and he told everyone that he had seen ghosts and could not cure them... Haha, these old allusions. Master Tian was originally a ghost-catching ghosts, and these old stories could not scare you."
Chapter completed!