Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 89

Yazai immediately reassured me that these glutinous rice were all fresh, selected by Lao Yan himself, and the quality was absolutely fine.

I waved my hand to tell him not to talk, the more he talked, the richer my associations became, so I tried my best to get rid of the strange things in my mind and drank a bowl of porridge.

After drinking the porridge, Yazai helped me to lie down, and said in a heavy tone: "Sister Qiu said that she didn't hear your voice at all, and she wanted to see you because you didn't come back for a long time, but found out that something happened. .”

Didn't hear the sound?
Impossible, I was screaming at the top of my throat, and the sound could at least penetrate tens of meters away, and besides, I didn’t hear my voice, and it didn’t make sense that I couldn’t hear the howling of the wolves!
Yazai said he didn't know about it, anyway Miss Qiu said so.

Of course I don't doubt Miss Qiu, because even if she can't hear, Lao Yan and Kumbu should be able to hear, so they really didn't hear the sound.

I remember that this happened once before I entered Taibai Mountain. It was raining heavily at that time, and they didn’t hear me calling Laoyan, and it was because Tashi wanted to find me at that time, so did it have something to do with Tashi this time? ?
I thought about it slowly, and finally fell into a drowsy sleep.

I just ate and slept day and night like this, and after another two days, I finally felt that I had regained some strength, and I could get up and move around by myself. The startled kid praised me for my good physique.

"We've been delayed for so many days, shall we start as soon as possible?" I drank the glutinous rice porridge specially cooked for me, and looked at Lao Yan beside me.

Lao Yan took a look at me and told me not to be brave, I smiled and said: "It's almost recovered, if you don't move, it will go moldy."

He thought for a while and nodded: "It's fine, but if you feel unwell, you have to stop!"

I reassured him, after all, my life and his life are connected now, even if it's not for myself, I won't act recklessly for him.

So after resting in place for another day, we set off again.

In the next few days, under Lao Yan's frightened eyes, my body recovered faster and faster. Originally, this was a joyful thing, but I don't know why I feel heavy in my heart.Injured like that, now it looks like a normal person, I always feel that it is not normal, but it saves a lot of trouble, otherwise dragging a body that will fall down at any time, I am afraid that this trip to Sichuan will be difficult. It's over.

We headed west all the way, but after walking for so many days, we were still wandering in the woods, so we didn't have any clue about the 'bird path'.

Lao Yan began to study every word and every word of his "The Difficult Road to Shu", but he didn't find out why. He only said that it seemed to be on the high mountain in the west.

"Look, 'Xidang Taibai has a bird path that can cross the top of Emei', so it seems that there should be a path that can directly lead to the top of Emei, so let's look for it!"

Lao Yan thought about this sentence, pointed to a slightly higher place to the west and said.

We didn't have any other ideas, so we did as he said. After walking for two days, the altitude was getting higher and higher, but we still didn't see the so-called "bird path." '

However, my throwing knife skills have improved a lot in the past few days. After my health recovered, Miss Qiu took me to train when she had time. I completely understood what the boy said about the gradual increase in escape skills!Because Ms. Qiu directly regards me as an enemy, the only weapon that both sides can use in the forest is a throwing knife.

She wasn't kidding. In the first few days, she poked a few holes in my body. If it wasn't because of my serious injury, I doubt there would be a few more holes.

Lao Yan expressed dissatisfaction with this, but Miss Qiu didn't take it seriously at all, saying "If he had practiced his knife throwing skills earlier, he wouldn't have made such a ghostly appearance when he encountered wolves" and blocked Lao Yan back.

I also know that she is doing it for my own good, so I have no complaints. After a few days, I have suffered a lot less injuries, and I can find opportunities to fight back.

In this way, we practiced throwing knives while rushing on the road. Five days passed. In the evening, we pitched a tent among several trees, lit a fire and rested separately.

jingle jingle bell...

Just when we were about to fall asleep, a distant bell rang. The ringtone sounded very strange, hitting the soul intermittently. I sat up suddenly, and when I got out of the tent, I found that the old smoke was also coming out.

He just nodded when he saw me, and then listened carefully with his ears sideways.

After listening to it for more than ten seconds, his face suddenly changed, and he quickly dug the soil to extinguish the fire, and asked me to tell other people not to make any noise!
I called out everyone, the sound of jingle jingle was getting closer and closer, Lao Yan's face became even worse, he called us to put the tent away quietly, and let us all climb the tree, and then we loosened tone.

I was surprised, but seeing Lao Yan like this, I knew it was not the time to ask, so I could only hold my breath and listen to the ringtone getting closer.

About 10 minutes after we climbed the tree, I saw the source of the bell and about six people were walking in our direction.The one at the front held a bell in one hand and a flag in the other, and seemed to be muttering something. Behind him were five people following...

No, those five are not people!

When I saw it clearly, my eyes narrowed, and I saw that the five people were all wearing tall felt hats, and there were talisman papers on their foreheads. They were clearly five corpses.

I quickly covered my mouth, not daring to make a sound for fear of alarming them.

This is a corpse exorcist, the most famous one is the Xiangxi exorcist, they have a corpse exorcist family, specializing in this business.Legend has it that as long as the bell is rung and the talisman paper is pasted, the corpse will automatically follow behind them, and other people can't learn it even if they want to.

Generally speaking, the exorcist is to drive the dead back to their hometown for burial, so that they can return to their roots. They usually choose to arrive at the hometown of the deceased in the middle of the night. The family members of the deceased will know that the deceased has returned when they hear the bell, and they will set off firecrackers. meet.In the era without firecrackers, it seems that gongs and drums are used to greet people, while other residents close their doors and windows to prevent the breath from breathing, otherwise the dead will easily change into corpses if they inhale the breath.

But this road is obviously going up the mountain...

I stared at the corpse driver walking up the mountain, feeling weird in my heart.Walking through this road, the road will only become more and more difficult. How can anyone live in this deep mountain and old forest?

After the corpse chaser's bell sounded far away, Lao Yan called us to climb down from the tree, and then nodded his chin in the direction of the corpse chaser: "Let's follow, there are weird things inside."

Sure enough, Lao Yan had the same opinion as me, thinking that the exorcists did not exorcise these corpses to let them return to their roots.

We touched it quietly and didn't dare to approach it. Fortunately, because of the sound of the bell, we didn't lose track of it.

We were right, the roads chosen for the corpse removal were very rugged, obviously driving the corpse deep into the mountains.But what surprised us was that although the road was rugged, it was surprisingly smooth along the way, and we didn't even encounter a single snake, rat, insect, and ant that often haunted the forest.

After following around midnight like this, the corpse driver stopped. There was a depression in front of him. In the dark, I couldn't see the specific situation clearly. I only felt the stench coming from inside, so I couldn't help covering my nose.

"It turned out to be black water." Lao Yan whispered, and I saw clearly through the moonlight that the black thing covering the depression turned out to be water.

I asked him why there was black water, and he frowned and said that it was caused by bones rotting here for a long time.

As soon as he finished speaking, the corpse driver rang the bell, and the bell's voice became sharper, as if urging something, and the corpses behind him jumped into the depression one by one.

"Brutal!"

No sooner had the body landed in the depression than I heard two bursts of birdsong.Looking up, under the moonlight, two huge birds spread their wings and circled towards them, and even started to peck at the corpse...

(End of this chapter)