Chapter 711: Luoyi Mountain Village
Dong Huangting woke up from the bed and felt extremely painful all over his body.
"Young man, you finally woke up. Yesterday afternoon I went to the river to wash clothes and found you in a coma on the river bank. You must be very hungry now. Come and have a bowl of porridge." The old woman pushed the door and entered, holding a bowl of porridge in her hand.
"Grandma, where is this place? Was I the only one at that time? Are there any other unconscious people?" Dong Huangting took the porridge bowl weakly and asked impatiently.
"This is Yinyang Mountain, a small village in the border. At that time, I didn't see anyone other than you. What's wrong, do you have other companions?"
"Yes, I don't know how they are." Dong Huangting said, and then started eating porridge with big mouthfuls.
"Don't worry too much, I believe your friends will be lucky and have a good appearance." The old woman comforted.
"Does the auspicious person have their own appearance? What the old lady said is the same." Dong Huangting thought of the words of the weapon spirit, so he had to temporarily disperse his worries.
"Young man, I think you are not an ordinary person. Are you a warlock?"
"Warlock? Is that true, did you encounter any strange things that cannot be solved by old lady?"
"It's not me, it's just that something strange happened to our Yin-Yang Mountain before."
"Strange things? What's strange things?" Dong Huangting asked.
It turned out that there were towering ancient trees on Yinyang Mountain, and there were only dozens of families living at the foot of the mountain, and a mute lived on the hillside.
The mute is a bachelor, and the only valuable thing in the family is the big buffalo. This big buffalo not only gives him the effort to plow the land, but also the mute's companion for his life.
On a dark and windy night, the mute got up to the cottage and suddenly heard a burst of rapid footsteps coming from the road in front of his house.
The mute lay on the wall of the courtyard and saw more than a dozen people on the road, several people holding torches in front and behind, and seven or eight big men in the middle were carrying a coffin that had not been painted yet, heading towards the top of the mountain.
"Um...um...um..."
The mute heard a sound from the coffin. Strangely, the group of people didn't speak, just bowed their heads to rush forward. The mute wanted to find out the truth, so he followed quietly.
When they arrived at a chaotic grave, the people put down the coffin and started digging holes after a short rest. The shouts in the coffin were sometimes high and sometimes low, and they were not clear. It was probably that the people inside were blocked.
Gradually, the sound in the coffin became less and less, and finally there was no movement. After about half an hour, the pit was dug. The group of people put the coffin into the pit.
"Lan Gu, I'm sorry! We have no choice but to come to the underworld and don't come to us. You can reincarnate in the next life to a good family!" An older old man said to the person in the coffin, and then signaled to the others to start shoveling soil.
The people in the coffin shouted again, and the mute saw the coffin shaking violently in the pit with the light of the torch. The people accelerated the shoveling of soil, and soon, a new grave was piled up. After burning some incense and money, the people hurriedly left.
When the group of people walked away, the mute quickly digged the mound of soil. He opened the lid of the coffin and vaguely saw a woman lying inside, her mouth was blocked by rags and her whole body was tied tightly.
The mute put his hand in front of the woman's nose and tried her breath. Fortunately, the man was still alive, but he fainted. The mute didn't have time to think about it, so he hugged the woman and ran home.
When he arrived at home, the mute put the woman on the bed and then lit the oil lamp. When the mute brought the oil lamp to the woman on the bed, he saw that a small part of the flesh on the woman's face had been festered, and the mute was frightened.
After calming down, the mute untied the rope on the woman's body, then brought a basin of clean water and gently wiped the wound on the woman's face.
The woman slowly opened her eyes, suddenly sat up, and said in panic: "Who are you, where is this?"
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The mute quickly supported her and kept waved his hand.
Only then did the two meet each other. The mute gestured and asked the woman why those people wanted to bury her alive?
The woman said that her name was Lan Gu, and she was from a nearby village. She said that she didn't know why not long ago, but found that some parts of her face were rotten, and some people in the village said it was leprosy.
Because Lan Gu and her village had a leprosy disease more than ten years ago, many people died, it caused a lot of panic in the village. Her family was also afraid of infection, so they tied her up with the people in the village to bury her alive. Fortunately, the mute saved her.
The mute didn't know what leprosy was, but she was poor Lan Gu and even her family didn't want her anymore. So she comforted her to rest first and then talk about it when dawn.
The next day, Lan Gu asked the mute to take her in. She dared not go home because she heard that people who had leprosy would be killed by rocks or burned to death by people in the village.
The mute didn't say anything, but just wrapped a layer of cloth on Lan Gu's head, led the big buffalo and took Lan Gu down the mountain.
The mute led the cow to a market far away from home and sold it. The moment the buyer pulled the cow away, Lan Gu saw the mute crying, and could see that he was reluctant to leave the big buffalo.
Afterwards, the mute took Lan Gu to see the doctor again. At this moment, Lan Gu realized that the mute sold cattle to treat her.
After the doctor carefully examined Lan Gu, he told her that the rotten part on her face was just a skin disease, and it would be cured if she took some medicine. Lan Gu was so happy that she almost jumped up with the mute holding the mute, and the mute followed her silly.
Later, Lan Gu married the mute.
One day, Lan Gu took a few bites of rice and vomited. The mute had long regarded Lan Gu as a treasure, so he could not bear to suffer and suffer, so he wanted to take her to see the doctor.
Lan Gu told the mute shyly that he might be happy! The mute who understood picked up Lan Gu and shouted happily, and the cheerful laughter echoed in the valley.
The next day, the two went to the top of the mountain to collect firewood. The mute asked Lan Gu to sit on a stone to rest. He was working nearby. When the mute was working attentively, he suddenly heard Lan Gu screaming "Ah".
The mute quickly turned around and saw a big tiger holding Lan Gu in his mouth!
The mute waved the axe to chase, but the big tiger ran so fast that it disappeared into the woods in a blink of an eye. The mute cried while looking for Lan Gu everywhere, and he didn't see Lan Gu until it was dark.
For several days, the mute grinded the axe and went to find the tiger, but there was no trace of the beast at all.
Without Lan Gu's mute, people at the foot of the mountain often heard him shouting desolately like a lonely wolf on the hillside in the middle of the night. People knew that the mute was thinking about Lan Gu again.
The mute bought another calf, one year...two years...four years have passed, and the calf has grown into a big buffalo, but the mute still has not found the big tiger that ate Lan Gu.
On that day, on the way home, the mute passed by a dense bush when she passed by the mute, the big buffalo suddenly stopped and couldn't leave, raised his head and listened to something alertly.
The mute didn't take it seriously and took the small branch and sucked the big buffalo a few times. The big buffalo not only did not move forward, but instead took a few steps back, almost stepping on the mute behind it.
The mute was a little annoyed. When he raised the branch and was about to beat the big buffalo, he saw a yellow shadow flashing in front of him, followed by a "saut" roar, which made the mute's ears hurt.
The big tiger pounced on it and bit the big buffalo's neck, but was suddenly thrown away by the big buffalo. The big buffalo reacted very quickly. He turned around and pushed the big tiger against the stone on the roadside with its horns. He swung his horns left and right, and kept piercing into the big tiger's body. Slowly, the big tiger's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally the big buffalo was gasping for breath.
It is said that killing a tiger is exhausted to death. Even if the tiger is already dead, no matter how the mute shouts, the big buffalo kept burying his head and stabbing the big tiger with its horns until it fell to the ground with its tiredness and could never get up again.
The big buffalo who avenged the mute was exhausted in the end. Even though the mute was sad, he still invited the butcher from the village to chop the big buffalo. Unexpectedly, the butcher found a treasure in the big buffalo's body: natural beef yellow!
That night, the mute dreamed of Lan Gu. Lan Gu said to him in the dream: "She has taken revenge and killed the tiger, but the mute's kindness, she can't repay it anymore."
"Young man, are there really gods and ghosts in the world?" the old woman asked begging.
"Of course, good and evil will be rewarded in the end. In front of the gods of heaven, no evil will be able to escape."
"That's good. My son who used to die to save a drowning child can return to peace."
The next day, Donghuangting, who had recovered his strength, left dozens of shell coins for the old woman. After saying goodbye, he came outside the village, and then drove to the Donghuang family. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!