Chapter 817: The truth about the origin of the crowd on the mountain
Then, there was a period of chasing each other; a scene of joy, and it was completely impossible to tell that they were in danger at this moment.
Only the man standing on the edge of the cliff seemed to have been abandoned by the excitement. He was "lonely" but looking persistently at the bottom of the cliff, which was still bottomless.
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A group of villagers were walking in the forest pushing piled carts in twos and threes.
"Aunt Ahua, are you back too?"
When Aunt Ahua heard the voice, she let go of the hand pushing the trolley and stood up. She followed the sound and beat her sore waist, "Hey, she is Aniu's wife. The government has allowed her to go home. I won't go back and see her right away."
look."
A Niu's daughter-in-law came over in a hurry, and said with a lingering fear on her face as she walked: "No matter what, our court is so powerful. We can even know when the earth is shaking, and we don't care about poor people like us."
Aunt Ahua also agreed with her words and bowed several times in the direction she came from, and Aniu's wife followed suit and bowed in the same way.
"I don't know what's going on at home now?"
A Niu's wife pulled her aside with a mysterious look on her face, "I asked around in the city and heard that our village is far away from places with severe earthquakes. I also heard that in places with severe earthquakes, there are no people or government officials.
Let them go back. It seems that the village is no longer habitable and we have to make other arrangements."
"Oh, this is really unlucky. Where can I be better than at home?"
In addition, the government has special control over this area, monopolizing the market, and bullying of the people is not common. Therefore, the people here are living a pretty good life.
Otherwise, how could so many villagers disappear when they enter the mountains?
The villagers were originally afraid, but after what he said, they thought about it carefully...
But it was impossible to completely ignore the people on the mountain, so I went around to inquire about them.
Therefore, except for the villages close to the official road, that is, close to the river, which make a living by growing grain, the people here rely on the mountains to make a living.
Their ancestors have made a living by hunting for generations, and every household has at least one or two people with ancestral hunting skills. Moreover, every time they go to the mountains, they never go alone, but in a team.
Under this premise, even if they encounter fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards, they are still capable of fighting.
There are many mountains and forests here, but there is not much water on the ground. There are only occasional small streams and rivers in the mountains and forests, and the largest river is located on one side of the official road.
As far as the iron pillar in front of them was concerned, he was Aunt Ahua's niece and son-in-law. This marriage made many people in the village envious.
At this time, an old man came from nowhere and claimed to be the messenger of the mountain god. He said that the mountain god was angry because they were hunting and collecting herbs in his territory but did not sacrifice to him.
They live so widely scattered in the mountains, and their ancestors had more or less plans to draw their own territories.
There is not much water on the ground, but groundwater resources are abundant, so the materials in the mountains and forests are very rich, and precious medicinal materials are not scarce here.
Hunting, gathering herbs, etc.
However, the information they received from their inquiries all told them that not only did such a thing happen in their village, but the same thing happened in many other villages like theirs.
.... "Ah, Aunt Ahua, look over there. Is that person Tie Zhu?"
Tie Zhu went missing after going hunting in the mountains.
"But no, a golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as your own doghouse."
Even though they are only separated by two villages, the distance between their villages is not very close. It takes at least two or three hours to walk on the mountain road between any one village.
The village chief gathered the strong villagers and went up the mountain to look for him, but none of them came back, including the village chief.
This is a very strange thing:
It can be said that the status of the old Taoist has skyrocketed, and his identity as the messenger of the mountain god has been completely established among the villagers.
However, she was not frightened like A Niu's wife. Instead, the smile on her face grew bigger and bigger in an instant, with her big white teeth bared: "It's true that Tiezhu is back."
And here, like the iron-shu villages, there are many villages stuck in the mountains.
This was something that had never happened before. It was so weird and terrifying that the villagers naturally did not dare to go up the mountain to look for it.
It is precisely because of this that even though Tiezhu's village is quite remote compared to Aunt Ahua's village, every household in this village is richer than the people in Aunt Ahua's village.
It's enough to imagine how mountainous Tiezhu's village is.
The Tiezhu they were talking about was not from their own village. It was quite far away from their village. There were two villages in between, the kind that ran from the official road to the mountains.
Not only Tiezhu, but also the group of young men who went together were missing.
How could the government take care of this god's affairs? No one from each village went to look for the government, but all worshiped the so-called mountain god.
But this envy suddenly turned into sympathy two months ago.
The two of them were chatting, and suddenly A Niu's wife pointed in a direction as if she had seen Piao, and her hands were trembling.
These people have lived in the mountains for generations and have skills passed down from their ancestors. They are excellent at hunting and gathering herbs.
"Are you being deceived? Tie Zhu is not..." Aunt Ahua's voice was stuck along with the smile on her face.
In other words, Tiezhu's village is located in a relatively remote mountain.
But Aunt Ahua didn't believe in the old man from the beginning. It wasn't that she didn't believe in ghosts and gods, or that she was very knowledgeable, but that she had been defrauded of ten cents by the old man, so she always remembered the face of that damn liar.
But when Aunt Ahua heard this from her niece, nothing she said was of any use. No one believed her. Even people in her own village thought she was blaspheming the messenger of the mountain god, and some people shouted to drive her away.
Leave the village.
And because of the special situation here, every year when the time comes, vendors will come here to collect animal skins and medicinal materials. Animal skins are usually sold in places in the city that specialize in collecting animal skins, and medicinal medical clinics will also collect them.
After the worship ceremony, the effect was immediate and no more people disappeared.
Even if you are unfortunate enough to encounter a herd of beasts, one or two can always come back, right?
If no one from one team can run back, it can't be that no one from all the teams in each village can run back and report it, right?
How could it be that people from several villages who went up the mountain were all missing?
The old Taoist is right, the mountain god must be angry.
The reason why A Niu's wife asked her, "You are back too," was not a casual greeting, but when the government was evacuating their village, the people in the village did not want Aunt A Hua to follow them.
Aunt Ahua's family was squeezed out and had no choice but to squeeze in with her daughter-in-law's natal family.
But my daughter-in-law's mother-in-law's family is also a firm believer in the mountain god, and Aunt Ahua's life has not been easy these days.
Now seeing that the iron pillar that the old Taoist said was swallowed by the mountain god because the mountain god was angry is back, can Aunt Ahua be unhappy?
First, I am happy that my niece no longer has to look at other people’s faces;
Second, this can always prove that what she said was not a lie. The real lie was that bullshit mountain god messenger, right?
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Meng Meng reminds you: Remember to collect after reading this