Chapter 496: Kunlun Ghosts (1)
Abandoned baby?!
"Yes!" Xiong Da took out a cigarette from his pocket. It was the cigarette I handed him just now. He held one by himself and dispersed one for each of us. He stared at the words "China" on the cigarette box and looked at it: "This cigarette is quite expensive!"
Xiong Da took out the matches and lit a cigarette. The outside world used advanced lighters, but Xiong Da was still using the most primitive matches.
Xiong Da took a sip of the cigarette hard, and the smoke spurted out of his nostrils, half-squinted his eyes, looking very enjoyable.
"Good smoke! Good smoke!" Xiong Dalian praised repeatedly, and then turned the topic back to Xiong Er.
Xiong Da vomited smoke and said, "Xiong Er is a Tibetan child. Seventeen years ago, I discovered him while going up the mountain to hunt. He was still a small baby at that time, wrapped in a broken felt and half hidden in a snow pit. He was already frozen to the point of being black and purple, and his limbs were stiff.
I think this child is pitiful. I haven't gotten married anyway, so I just took the child back as a companion. As for whether he can survive, it depends on his luck. Fortunately, the child is quite successful. After I took him home, I put it on the side of the fire, baked it for three days and three nights, fed him some milk, and snatched him back from the god of death!
Unexpectedly, the boy Xiong Er was still in good health. Although it was really hard to be a father and a mother over the years, it was far less easy to deal with by himself, but at least he had pulled him up and I was very pleased to have been with me for so many years!"
"Brother Xiong, you are a good person!" After hearing Xiong Da's story, I felt a little admiration for Xiong Da from the bottom of my heart.
Xiong Da waved his hand and laughed: "These are all old events. Let me tell you something else. There are so many strange stories on Kunlun Mountain. Do you want to hear it?"
"Okay!" We nodded. Anyway, we are still far from Menba Village, and the road is boring. It is also good to listen to Xiong Da talk about the strange stories of Kunlun Mountain. It not only passed the time, but also deepened our understanding of Kunlun Mountain.
At this time, the cigarette in Xiong Da's hand had burned to the end. Xiong Da was still very addicted to smoking. After smoking a cigarette, he immediately took out another cigarette and put it in his mouth habitually.
Xiong Da scattered the smoke for us again, and we waved our hands to refuse. The speed of smoking was as fast as a chimney!
Xiong laughed: "This is a bad habit left when he was a soldier, haha! At that time, he was a soldier at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. Every day after returning to the barracks, he was so bored that he felt lonely and empty in his heart. He really couldn't describe it in words. Later, he learned to smoke. Only in the hazy state of smoke can he fall asleep peacefully!"
When Xiong Da was saying these words, a picture automatically appeared in my mind:
At the foot of Kunlun Mountain, the night is as sank as water, and everything is silent, with only the chilly sound of the cold wind.
In the cold barracks, dozens of soldiers were curled up in the quilt, and the kerosene wind lamps hanging on the wall emitted a dim light, falling on the head of the bed, adding to the feeling of loneliness and desolation.
There is no TV, no chess and cards, and no entertainment activities here.
The young soldiers tossed and turned in bed and were bored to waste their life.
Later, the wind lights went out, and in the dark, a little spark lit up, which was the light emitted by the burning of cigarette butts.
One, two, more than ten...
More and more cigarette butts were burning, and the barracks were filled with smoke, and young and tender faces were hidden in the darkness behind the fire.
No one knows what kind of longing he had for life at that moment in the minds of the soldiers?
When his thoughts returned to the carriage, Xiong Da was already excitedly starting to tell:
"I was only 16 years old when I joined the army. In the early 1970s, the whole country was carrying out a "going to the countryside" campaign. In order to respond to the Chairman's call for the "rural countryside is a vast world, and there can be great achievements there", I actively applied to transfer to the Kunlun Mountain station, where the conditions are most difficult.
You may think we were stupid at that time, but people in that era were like this. Everyone’s revolutionary enthusiasm was very high. Don’t think that no one was willing to come to Kunlun Mountain. At that time, there were many new recruits who applied to come to Kunlun Mountain. The selected soldiers were very happy, and the soldiers who were not selected were still very sad. I clearly remember that there was a young man from the Northeast who was unable to be assigned to Kunlun Mountain. He drank three bottles of Lao Baigan alone, and cried so hard!"
Although we have never experienced "going to the countryside", we still have some understanding of that movement.
That movement caused great damage to China's economic and cultural construction.
Nowadays, it is difficult to understand the thoughts of those generations at that time, but when I think about it from another perspective, as Xiong Da said just now, the social atmosphere at that time was like that.
"When I first came to Kunlun Mountain station, I felt fresh about everything here, and felt that it was like a paradise on earth, with blue sky and snow-white peaks. Everything here was as beautiful as a picture scroll. Although the days were harder and the natural environment was harsh, our hearts were hot.
At that time, our camp would send a small team to patrol the mountain every once in a while. Check out the safety hazards of the snow-capped mountains, crack down on poachers, and prevent criminals from invading them. These are all our jobs.
Once, it was our turn to patrol, but it started to snow heavily on the way. In order to avoid the wind and snow, we entered a cave and prepared to return to the camp after the wind and snow became light the next day.
That night, a little warrior nicknamed "Rat", was a Sichuanese. He got up and ran to the depths of the cave to pee. As a result, we soon heard his screams. We thought something had happened to him, so we quickly carried the torch and chased him into the depths of the cave.
When we arrived at the depths of the cave, we realized that there was a crack in the depths of the cave. The mouse must have not paid attention to his feet, but he fell into the crack in the ground.
So we quickly organized rescue, fixed the hiking rope on it, and then sent two soldiers down, one of which was me. We tied a hiking rope around our waists and slowly slid down against the cracks of the ground.
We held up a powerful flashlight and slid into the crack below the ground, and soon found the mouse.
The mouse was not seriously injured, but his forehead was a little bit broken and his feet sprained, and he moaned and moaned below.
I took the lead in unbuttoning the mountaineering rope on my waist and tied it around the mouse's waist. I signaled the person above to pull the injured mouse up first, and then I waited below, and after pulling the mouse up, I threw the mountaineering rope down.
Another soldier took the mouse up first, leaving me alone below.
I held up the flashlight and shook it around. It was like an underground cave. Just as I turned around inadvertently, with the light of the flashlight, guess what did I see?"
Xiong Da is quite talented in telling stories, tells them vividly, and controls the sound adjustments very well, which makes our curiosity high.
"Let me guess, well, it might be a female ghost with disheveled hair!" Lei Zi said with her chin in her arms.
I gave Lei Zi a blank look: "Vulgar, there seems to be nothing else in your mouth except for women!"
Leizi asked me back: "Then guess?"
I said, "It could be a frozen mummy!"
Ku Junwei said: "Is it impossible to tell if it is a treasure hole? There are boxes of gold inside!"
Xiong Da shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "If it was a treasure cave, would I still be penniless now?"
Chen Shiba said: "I won't see aliens anymore, are you?"
Lei Zi laughed and said, "And he was an alien woman. He forced Brother Xiong into the cave, took away Brother Xiong's first night, ingested human sperm, and went back to do research..."
"Damn, you guys have watched too many science fiction movies? This is too big of a brain, but... I like it!" Chen Shiba and Leizi looked at each other, and they laughed in a lewd way.
Looking at their dirty smiles, they knew that their minds were full of yellow waste.
I said to Xiong Da: "Brother Xiong, I think you should not let them continue guessing. The Jade Emperor will come out later!"
Xiong Dayouyou vomited a mouthful of smoke, which covered his face. He squeezed out two words from his teeth: "Head!"
Head?!
The expressions on our faces suddenly stiffened: "You saw the head in the hole?!"
"Yes!" Xiong Da took a deep breath. After so many years, Xiong Da recalled what happened back then, and still couldn't help but a chill flashed across his face.
Xiong Da said slowly: "In that cave, there was a bronze cauldron. The cauldron was filled with human heads, all of which were covered with flesh and blood. There were hundreds of white skulls, and there were only a few hundred, filling the entire bronze cauldron! As soon as I turned around, I saw a pair of black eye sockets, which scared me so much that I staggered back and dropped the flashlight to the ground!"
Is the bronze tripod full of skulls?
We were really creepy about the picture by ourselves.
We had been guessing for a long time before, but we could not imagine that there would be a bronze cauldron in the underground cave. What is even more incredible is that the bronze cauldron is filled with white skulls?
"What kind of bronze cauldron is that?" Ku Junwei asked with a frown.
Xiong Da vomited smoke rings and recalled: "It's too old, and I can't remember it very clearly. Anyway, a very large tripod was cast in bronze. It looks very old, with a faint glow on the surface, a round belly, and three legs below. There are some strange patterns engraved on the body of the tripod, like some mysterious words, and I can't understand it!"
"What happened later?" I asked impatiently.
Chapter completed!