Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 89 Fengtian Bone River
I remember when I was looking at the mobile phone map in the car before, the location of this land temple was in the south of the city, and it was just after noon now. If I set off immediately, I would still have time to reach the north of the city before dark.

"What is that river called?" Liu Wangzhi always thinks more comprehensively than me, even if he is in a hurry, he still remembers to ask such details clearly.

Fortunately, he asked, otherwise, if we went directly to the north of the city, we might not be able to find the river for a while.

"Hiss, what's it called..." The land master scratched the broken hair exposed under the brim of his hat, "Oh yes, it's called Bone River."

"Bone River?" I poked my head out from Liu Juzhi's shoulder, thinking the name was strange.

Tu Tu blinked at me, and was about to open his mouth to speak, but Liu Wangzhi turned around and walked between me and him, and directly blocked his words: "Bai Tingyue, let's go."

"Oh." I was called by my name, even if the two of us were still arguing, I had to answer his call.

Seeing Liu Juzhi, he stepped out of the threshold without looking back, stretched his waist in front of the altar, put his head back and shouted at him: "Hey old snake, the sweet-scented osmanthus wine I brewed for you last year, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is free, remember to come Take it from the temple."

Liu Wangzhi was very indifferent, he left as soon as he said it, and he didn't give him the slightest response.

When I heard the young land mention sweet-scented osmanthus wine, I couldn't help but turn my head and look back. I didn't expect that those people who can make Liu Wangzhi so calm can also get drunk for it. It turns out that it all came from this person. hands.

He also saw "Old Snake" on the left and "Old Snake Demon" on the right, Liu Wangzhi was not angry at all, presumably they have known each other for a long time, and their friendship is not shallow, right?

I was still depressed last night, but today I unexpectedly met his friend, and my unresolved heart became much brighter. I couldn't help but take a few more glances at the small earth temple.

"Why, a few compliments to you, everyone looks pretty?" Liu Wangzhi was walking, and suddenly threw out such a sentence with a blank face.

As soon as I turned around, I was taken aback by his words, almost tripped over the rocks under my feet, and couldn't help but glared at him: "What nonsense, I just saw your friend for the first time, and I was a little curious about what kind of people."

"Friend?" Liu Wangzhi didn't know where his eyes fell, and rolled the two words on the tip of his tongue, his tone was still cold, "He is not my friend, but an old friend of an old friend."

"Huh?" I was dazed by his words, and when I realized the meaning of the words, the snake had already surpassed me by several steps.

Speaking of which, the Earth Temple is quite out of the way. After waiting for a long time to get a taxi, the two sat in the car without saying a word, and neither of them took the initiative to talk to each other along the way.

When the driver heard that we were going to the Bone River, he immediately guessed that we were going to find the Shen family of the Yin family. After arriving at the northern outskirts of the city, he left us in a wilderness, pointed to a stone arch bridge in the ravine ahead, and said yes. Crossing from there, walking into the mountains is the Bone River.

Seeing that the sky was slowly swaying and it was sunset, we didn't delay too much. We looked at each other silently and walked towards the arch bridge in front together.

The bamboo in this season is still green, but there is little rain in the north, and the ditch under the bridge has dried up, revealing old dead bamboo leaves, a little moss, and dark wet mud that has not yet dried out.

The stone bridge made of bluestone slabs spans the ravine, like a crescent moon sinking into the mortal world and eroded by time and wind.I stepped on the bridge covered with dead leaves and dust, took out a bag of rice cakes given by Jin Duo from my bag, and ate them as I walked behind Liu Wangzhi.

Liu Wangzhi heard the crisp sound of me nibbling rice cakes, he kept walking, and turned his head slightly, revealing a smooth and beautiful jawline: "Bai Tingyue, do you think this is a spring outing?"

"?" I still had rice cakes in my mouth, and when I heard his cold voice, I shifted my eyes from the bamboo forest to his side face, "What's the matter... I ate a bowl of wontons with fried dough sticks all day long, and now If it wasn't for accompanying you to find that Shen family, I wouldn't have gnawed on this dry thing."

I followed him here and there today, I haven't even drank my saliva, I haven't complained wrongly yet, so this snake started talking about me?
"Really." Liu Wangzhi turned his face back, and his tall back blended into the sparse bamboo forest in front of him, "I thought you were the same as yesterday, and you didn't know you were hungry if you got awkward."

"..." I was startled with the hand holding the rice cake, the emotional snake was turning over old scores with me, teasing me about what happened last night.

Looking at it from my perspective, Liu Juzhi has broad shoulders, long legs, long legs and a graceful figure. Walking in the bamboo forest seems to follow a picture scroll, with a kind of natural beauty.

Jun is very handsome, but his words are also very annoying.

I didn't intend to just give in, I took a bite of the rice cake, and continued walking in silence.

The two passed through a long bamboo forest and suddenly entered a wild valley. The scenery in front of them suddenly opened up. They saw green mountains on both sides like barriers, enclosing a river about ten meters wide. , like a tortuous jade belt, you can't see the end in the distance.

"Is this the Bone River?" I stepped on the river beach paved with natural cobblestones. I didn't see anything different about this river except that the stones were a bit harsh.

Liu Wangzhi didn't answer my words, raised his eyes to look around the valley, pointed to the upper reaches of the river beach: "This is west, go this way."

I couldn't tell the direction in the wild, and he said that was west, so I had to follow him upstream.

So the two started trekking again, heading west along the river bank, but they walked for a long time without knowing it. Seeing that it was dark, the surrounding mountain walls were still lush and dense, and they still hadn't found an exit.

Not to mention the stone steps up the mountain, I'm afraid there is not even a road.

"Liu Wangzhi, are we going in the wrong direction..." I couldn't walk any longer, so I bent down and supported my knees with both hands, and stopped to rest for a while.

Liu Wangzhi stopped a few steps ahead, turned around and looked at me: "Probably not." Then he turned around and walked towards me, and before I could react, he had already picked me up with one hand on his buttocks, " Hold on, maybe it's almost here."

My feet hurt from walking, it was rare for this snake to take the initiative to be considerate of me once, so it stopped fighting with him, wrapped his arms around his neck, and nodded docilely at him.

Liu Wangzhi's physical fitness has always been excellent, even after walking several miles, his breathing is still so steady.He walked forward quietly with me in his arms, staring at the upper reaches of the river, and patiently observing the changes in the surrounding mountains.

I wondered who this family of wandering ghosts were, and why they lived in such a strange place, much more remote than the mountain people in the countryside.

As we walked, the temperature by the river gradually became cooler, and the vision suddenly became blurred.I raised my head and looked forward, only to find that white mist like thick smoke began to rise on the river beach, like a sea of ​​clouds falling into the river, rolling faintly against the bottomless black water.

The cold water is covered with smoke, like a ribbon covering my eyes. I raised my hand to brush the fog in front of my eyes, but the smoke did not disperse at all.

I was afraid that Liu Wangzhi's vision would be affected by the dense fog, so I quickly searched for my backpack, trying to take out my phone to light the way under my feet.

But before the thing was found, Liu Juanzhi suddenly stopped in his tracks. He stood silently for a while, and suddenly asked me: "Did you smell it? There is a smell in the wind."

"What?" I took the cell phone I just took out in my hand, sniffed and frowned, "I smell...it seems to be a fishy smell."

This fishy smell is obviously not like the smell of ordinary riversides. Apart from the wet stench from the water plants and moss on the river beach, there is also a faint weird rotten smell.

Liu Wangzhi put me down, and quickly made a tactic with one hand, and saw a sudden gust of wind blowing across the river, and the white mist churning against the gurgling black water quickly dissipated like a cloud of smoke.

My vision suddenly became clear, and my eyes just fell on the river beach. At this moment, I was so shocked that I felt a chill down my spine!
The icy moonlight trickled into the dark valley, illuminating the creepy and eerie scene by the river.

Numerous large and small, broken, or complete animal bones were piled up in white on the entire river beach in the middle of the valley, and the dense dry bones kept converging towards the river. The high tide of the river washed away the bones near the water's edge mess.

I was so terrified that I couldn't speak for a long time, I subconsciously lowered my head and looked down at my feet, only to see that I was stepping on a section of buffalo bone that was as thick as a forearm, my face turned pale with fright, and I jumped to Liu Juzhi's side , hugging his arm and tremblingly said: "What's going on here! Where are so many bones!?"

Liu Wangzhi remained calm, his eyes skipped over the pile of bones on the river beach, and his voice was emotionless: "But I still remember the name of this river."

"Remember, remember, Bone River..." I was too nervous, and when I realized it, I was dumbfounded, "Bone River! This is Bone River?!"

"Yeah." Liu Wangzhi let me hold his arm, and said in a low voice, "The river water is yin, and it can also channel spirits. There have been sacrifices in this river, and the animals were sacrificed alive by the water, and then the bones were sunk. into the water to sacrifice to the spirit of the river and relieve the debts on oneself."

"Probably because the Shen family wandered in the underworld all year round, so through this kind of sacrifice, they achieved the meaning of curing diseases and eliminating disasters. Over time, bones accumulated, and this river probably got its name."

It turns out that the name "Bone River" is actually such an explanation.

Leaning against Liu Wangzhi, I gradually became less afraid, so I let go of his arm, stood up straight and said, "So, the hill where the Shen family is located should be nearby?"

"En." Liu Juanzhi nodded lightly, "Let's go, it shouldn't be far away."

Carefully avoiding those bones, I followed Liu Juanzhi and continued to walk in front of the Bone River, but I didn't go far, and suddenly stopped in my tracks again.

"Did you hear Liu Wangzhi..." I looked at the river and carefully tugged at his sleeve, "It seems...someone is crying..."

(End of this chapter)