Journey to the West: Reverse Buddha

Chapter 270 Quicksand Village

Jisheng walked out of the room and came into the courtyard. Old Chen noticed that he quickly stood up and smiled at Jisheng, showing his white teeth, and said, "Are you ready?"

"Yeah." Ji Sheng smiled and nodded.

"Little brother, it's almost noon now. Look, I'm almost done with lunch. How about we go after lunch?" Old Chen suggested to Jisheng, and said, he lifted the table and put it in the middle of the courtyard. .

"Old Uncle Chen, let me help you." Ji Sheng stepped forward to take the table from Old Chen and said, "And don't call me little brother, just call me Ji Sheng."

"Well, Jisheng." Old Uncle Chen nodded and smiled. He was always alone at home, but now there is a rare person who is more popular and can talk to him. He is very happy and will not be idle. The cooked food was served and put on the table.

Jisheng looked at the food on the table, it was very simple, one bowl of rice per person, a few side dishes, nothing fancy, but it made him feel very warm.

"Come on, Jisheng. Try my handicraft!" Uncle Chen greeted Jisheng warmly with a smile.

"Yeah." Jisheng picked up the rice and started to eat it with big mouthfuls. It looked delicious.

After the meal, Lao Chen packed up the dishes, took Jisheng out of the house, and set off for the back mountain of the village.

Jisheng looked around casually, and found that there were houses all around him. The houses were well arranged, and there were also small inns, medical clinics, and all the necessities for life were complete. I was preparing lunch and waiting for the man who had gone out to plow to go home.

When they came to the entrance of the village, Jisheng suddenly found a group of playful children. At this scene, Jisheng couldn't help but recall the Gushan Village at the foot of the Gushan Mountain, Fat Tiger, Goudanzi... How are you guys from back then? ?

"Old Uncle Chen, what's the name of this village?" Ji Sheng followed Old Chen, having nothing to do along the way, so he asked him about some local things.

"Oh, our village is called Liusha Village, because there is a big river one mile outside the village, called Liusha River." Old Chen explained to Jisheng.

"Liusha River..." Ji Sheng murmured thoughtfully.

"Well, the Liusha River has a diameter of [-] miles and a water depth of [-] miles!" Old Chen said with a wry smile, "In this way, there is a big river in front of it, and a big mountain in the back. In the end, our village is the only one around."

Jisheng frowned when he heard the words, and thought to himself: If the people who cross the river are practitioners like themselves, they can easily cross the river by riding the clouds and fog, but it is difficult for such ordinary people to cross the river. , as difficult as climbing the sky!
"Then old Uncle Chen, did you usually pass this mountain when you go out?" Ji Sheng pointed to the faintly visible mountain in front of him and asked Old Chen. Since the waterway is impassable, it should be the mountain road.

However, Lao Chen shook his head, more helplessness and sadness welled up in his eyes, and his eye sockets became moist as he said: "There is a mountain behind our Liusha Village, called Eight Hundred Li Huangfeng Ridge, which is extremely steep and blocked. Our back road, and in recent years, people in our village went to the mountains to collect firewood, but there were frequent deaths. There were no corpses at all, only a pile of bones at the foot of the mountain. My poor son died just once when he went up the mountain. My wife couldn't accept this reality, and died in depression, leaving only me, a lonely old man..."

"Old Uncle Chen, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it..." Ji Sheng noticed that when Lao Chen said this, his expression showed extreme sadness, and he burst into tears. He didn't expect that his unintentional question would arouse his heart In such a painful scene, I wanted to comfort but didn't know how to speak.

"It's okay, Jisheng." Lao Chen wiped away his tears indiscriminately, and forced a smile at Jisheng, with deep sadness still remaining on his face, and then continued: "Such things happened, which caused us to I hardly dare to go up the mountain."

"What about the daily necessities?" Ji Sheng wondered. If so, wouldn't this Liusha Village be isolated from the world?How to solve the daily needs?
"The men farming and the women weaving here are self-sufficient. For hundreds of years, this has been the case since our ancestors. We have had little communication with the outside world. But since that happened, we have decided to spend a fixed amount of time It's not dangerous for the whole village to collect firewood together." Old Chen explained.

While talking, the two walked along a zigzag path outside the village, and after a while, they came to a big mountain before they knew it. Old Chen pointed to Jisheng and said, "This is the mountain. I usually collect firewood here to make a living, although there have been people killed here, but I have been cutting firewood outside, so nothing happened."

Jisheng raised his eyes and found that the mountains in front of him were continuous, like a big dragon lying in front of him. The high mountains, steep cliffs and deep ravines were extremely sinister!
At the same time, Jisheng's eyes burst out with golden light, his wisdom eyes opened, and he looked up the entire mountain. After seeing this, Jisheng's expression became serious. The vegetation on this continuous mountain is exuberant, which should have been full of vitality. But there is a sinister aura pervading, and there is a bit of evil in the vagueness, which is very unusual and very weird!
"Well, old Uncle Chen, take me to have a look." Jisheng nodded and said,
Walking along the mountain road to the mountain, Lao Chen held a sickle in his hand and bare his arms, and opened the way ahead, cutting down the ancient vines growing in front of him from time to time, clearing the way for them to move forward.

Finally, they came to a dense forest surrounded by towering old trees and lush branches and leaves, like gorgeous and huge umbrellas.

Old Uncle Chen came to an old tree and pointed to a place above it, and said to Jisheng, "Jisheng was here when I found you."

Hearing this, Ji Sheng raised his head and looked in the direction of Lao Chen's finger, and found that some thick branches there had been broken, and the top was even bare. Those jade leaves had already fallen to the ground, and they were still hanging from his clothes. The torn strip of cloth made Ji Sheng sure that he had indeed landed here.

But what about Xiaofeng and the others?where will it beJi Sheng withdrew his gaze and looked around, his eyes filled with anxiety, he kept scanning, looking for their traces.

However, the result disappointed Jisheng after all. Except for the ancient tree he fell and hit, the other trees were all intact, with luxuriant branches and leaves.

"Xiaofeng, Xuan'er, and everyone, where have you all gone?" Jisheng stared at the unknown place, the light flickered, and his face was a little worried. Are you seriously injured like this?Under the gestation of the power of the Dao, my body has a strong recovery ability and can recover itself in a short period of time, but what about them?Maybe it will be life-threatening, right?
(End of this chapter)