Hearing the restaurant owner's words, Zhang Fan's eyes lit up slightly, and he looked at the restaurant owner with interest and said, "Then let's talk..."
Seeing Zhang Fan's expression, the restaurant owner smiled and nodded. It seemed that his work last night was not in vain.
"My grandfather is 90 years old this year. When he was 20 years old, that is, 70 years ago, this place had not yet been set up as a scenic spot. There were no stone steps up the mountain or flat roads, and the road was very difficult to walk.
Moreover, there are many wild animals on the mountain, including many ferocious beasts.
That day he and two friends came to the area around the Herringbone Waterfall. They went up the mountain in the morning and arrived at 4:00 pm. After they finished picking tea, it was already 7:00 pm.
It was dark, the road was difficult to walk, and there were many ferocious animals, so they had no way to go down the mountain, so they stayed one night on the mountain.
In order to avoid wild beasts, they found a very secret cave, and placed a lot of vegetation on the outside of the cave as cover. After doing this, they fell asleep in the cave.
In the middle of the night, bursts of heavy breathing woke my grandfather up. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a terrifying scene. Two male lions and two evil tigers were baring their ferocious fangs.
, staring at the three of them eagerly.
Immediately afterwards, his two friends also woke up. Behind them was a hard stone wall with nowhere to escape. At that moment, the three of them were filled with fear.
Then, these four beasts slowly approached the three of them. When these four beasts were less than half a meter away from the three of them, they opened their bloody mouths and were about to take away their lives.
A wolf howl came into the cave, and the four beasts paused for a moment. They glanced at my grandfather and the three of them unwillingly, and then quickly ran out of the cave.
After my grandfather and the three of them recovered for a while, they ran out of the cave directly, but they did not dare to go down the mountain. The road down the mountain was even more dangerous. They looked for another habitat. On their way to find another habitat, they saw
A strange scene.
A large number of various beasts gathered in front of the Herringbone Waterfall, and they were arranged very neatly. After the Herringbone Waterfall lit up with a yellow light, the beasts jumped into the Herringbone Waterfall one by one.
Whether these beasts were washed under the Herringbone Falls or entered the cave behind the Herringbone Falls is unknown."
The hotel owner said.
Zhang Fan raised his eyebrows slightly. Is the yellow light that the hotel owner's grandfather saw back then the same as the yellow light that he sees today?
If it is the same, the yellow light flashing on the Herringbone Waterfall back then should be much richer than the yellow light flashing on the Herringbone Waterfall now. Not to mention the yellow light flashing on the Herringbone Waterfall, it is the Baizhang Waterfall.
And the yellow light flashing on the Jiulong Waterfall is difficult for ordinary people to detect.
"Then what?"
Zhang Fan answered.
"My grandfather and the three of them found a new habitat, half asleep and half awake, resting in fear all night. When it was just dawn, the three of them quickly went down the mountain."
The hotel owner replied, "Since then, my grandfather and the three of them have never gone to the mountain to pick tea."
"Let's talk about the second strange thing."
Zhang Fan answered.
"This second thing did not happen to my grandfather, but to my grandfather's brother."
The restaurant owner said, "The thing is like this, when my great-grandfather was 32 years old, in order to obtain the medicinal material of antlers, he went up the mountain and shot a sika deer. His arrow hit the sika deer's neck.
The next day, an arrow scar appeared on his neck.
After he used the sika deer antlers as medicine, all his hair fell off overnight. From then on, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, my uncle would wear a hat whenever he went out.
Therefore, not many people in the village knew about the fact that my great grandfather was bald.
Two years later, my great-grandfather died, said to be of tuberculosis. At that time, there seemed to be no treatment for tuberculosis in our country.
In fact, I am quite confused about my uncle's death. Isn't tuberculosis contagious? Moreover, there were no protective measures at that time. Everyone who came into contact with him should be infected, even if some people have strong resistance and are not infected.
, but there will always be some people with weak resistance who find it difficult to resist the tuberculosis virus.
But according to my grandfather, during the period when my eldest grandfather was ill, no one in our family or in our village got tuberculosis.
I feel that there is something strange about my great grandfather's death. Did he die of tuberculosis?
What caused his death was that he shot the sika deer?"
Zhang Fan glanced at the hotel owner and said: "It's not impossible as you mentioned, but your understanding of the issue of tuberculosis is still not comprehensive enough.
There are two types of pulmonary tuberculosis, smear-positive tuberculosis that clears bacteria is contagious, and smear-negative tuberculosis that does not clear bacteria is not contagious.”
"Is there any non-contagious form of tuberculosis?"
The hotel owner subconsciously answered.
Zhang Fan nodded lightly.
“I really didn’t know about this before, but today I learned more about it.”
The restaurant owner smiled sheepishly and scratched his head.
"Little sir, these are the two strange things I found out from my grandfather. Of course, I will also pay more attention to the strange things about Huangshan in the future. Once I find something new, I will come over and report to you immediately."
The hotel owner continued.
"Thank you! Thank you for your hard work!"
Zhang Fan thanked him.
"Little sir, I would like to ask, why are you asking about these things?"
The restaurant owner asked curiously.
Zhang Fan touched his nose and did not answer immediately.
Seeing Zhang Fan like this, the hotel owner laughed dryly and said, "Sir, I'm sorry! I was presumptuous..."
Then, the hotel owner quickly changed the subject and said, "Sir, it's getting late now, so I won't stay here."
Zhang Fan politely sent the hotel owner out of the door, then returned to the room to rest.
After Zhang Fan woke up on the second day, he had a light meal in the hotel and went back upstairs to practice. He continued practicing until 6:30 in the evening. After dinner, he went directly to the Huangshan Scenic Area.
The reason why Zhang Fan went there so late was to avoid being disturbed by the staff of the Huangshan Scenic Area again. It was dark at night, so as long as he hid well enough, he would not be easily discovered by the staff.
After entering the scenic spot, Zhang Fan went directly to the Herringbone Waterfall. At 7:30 in the evening, Zhang Fan came to the location five meters away from the Herringbone Waterfall again. At this time, the sky had completely darkened. The climbers