"Little brother, this is a good thing. It was a tribute to Lafayette Qianlong.
This precious thing is called the Dragon Whip here.
To put it mildly, my father is seventy-nine this year, and it was because of this baby that he gave birth to a younger brother for me last year.
My son is twenty years older than my brother.”
An old farmer squatting on the ground, spitting like stars, selling me a pile of hay-like medicinal materials in front of him with a wicked smile.
I patted my chest and said:
"Man, I'm only twenty-six,
It’s your prime year, so there’s no need for this thing.”
The old farmer still refused to give up, holding up the hay and saying:
"You don't need it, just go home and ask your dad.
It would be nice to give you a little brother, so that we can keep you company.
If you are bullied, your brother will help you fight."
Before I could continue grinding my teeth with this old guy, a fat man in sportswear behind me shouted at me:
"Shen Lian! Get in the car!
Hurry up, there's a car full of people waiting for you."
Fatty Wang's shouts saved me. He threw a cigarette to the old farmer, and I ran over and followed him to the travel agency's bus.
My name is Shen Lian, and I am a salesperson for a small company in Northeast China.
Fatty Wang, who just called me to get in the car, is the company's sales manager.
Two days ago, I experienced a major life event.
My newlywed wife and I had the fruit of our love. It was also on this day that the company notified me that I and Fatty Wang would go to this small place called Luoshen County to ask for payment.
Although he was unwilling to do so, for the sake of the few pieces of silver he had every month, he and Fatty Wang took the train together for a day and a night and came to Luoshen County.
Originally we thought this was a difficult task, and we were both prepared to spend time here for a long time.
All the bedding and bedding have been packed, and as long as the other party doesn't pay, they will make a floor in their office.
What I didn't expect was that asking for payment this time turned out to be quite smooth.
Fatty Wang and I didn't put much effort, and the other boss transferred the payment to our company's account that day.
Neither of us thought it would be so easy, and we didn't even prepare a train ticket to go back.
Because Heyuan County is a small place, there was no train home until two days later.
Anyway, I have to get my money back, so I have nothing to do, so Fatty Wang decided to take me here for two days.
He spent 100 yuan and signed up for a one-day trip with two local people bringing lunch.
At this time, I was sitting on the tour bus. Most of the people on the bus were elderly people in their 60s and 70s. After listening to the tour guide talking about health care products for middle-aged and elderly people for a while, I finally started the day's travel itinerary.
After visiting the Luoshen County Jade Workshop, Beishan Stone Style Street, Shengde Health Care and Li Wancai Painting and Calligraphy Institute, we finally arrived at the only free tourist attraction today.
The tour guide used the loudspeaker and said in the bus:
"Dear group members, today we are going to visit the fifth tourist attraction - Luoshen Mountain 1A-level tourist attraction.
Luoshen Mountain is a well-known tourist attraction.
As the name of Luoshen Mountain suggests, people have met gods here more than once since ancient times.
What about Erlang Shen Yang Jian and Tota Li Tianwang?
The Queen Mother's Third Girl, Sixth Girl and Seventh Fairy all stayed at Luoshen Mountain.
And what about Lu Dongbin and He Xiangu among the Eight Immortals?"
Before the tour guide could finish speaking, Fatty Wang suddenly interrupted and said:
"Sister, this is too much.
You said that they, a pair of lonely old immortals, came to have sex in the deep mountains and old forests. Isn’t it time to dig into the corn fields?
What a fairy tale, you can tell it so erotically."
After Fatty Wang finished speaking, the people in the car burst into laughter.
Fatty Wang and I didn't spend a penny in the previous payment sessions, so the tour guide naturally didn't have a good face.
She glared at Fatty Wang and said:
"You outsiders know a lot, but gods have really come down from Luoshen Mountain.
Before the little devil trouble, the chief spy in the puppet government named Dai had sent spies to look for the gods.
Dozens of people went up there, and almost all of them died.
If you don’t believe it, just ask any old man in Luoshen County when you come back and they will all know.”
I followed up by saying:
"Then have you found the immortal?"
"Of course I couldn't find it."
Before the tour guide could answer, Fatty Wang spoke first:
"Don't even look at who owns the world now?
If they really find it, what's the point?
Sister, what happened to Lu Dongbin and He Xiangu in the end? Is the child born a girl or a boy?"
While Fatty Wang was talking, the tour bus had already entered the winding road up the mountain.
The driver honked the horn, parked the car on the side of the road, turned back to the tour guide and said:
"It's getting foggy,
This winding mountain road is difficult to walk in the fog, otherwise we have to go up the mountain from here.
There is no need to go to the top of the mountain anyway, just walk halfway up the mountain and look at the footprints of the gods.
There’s nothing else on this mountain, if that doesn’t work, let’s just go back.”
There is only one free attraction in Luoshen Mountain in today’s itinerary. The previous ones were all consumption items.
It would be really unjustifiable if even this only real tourism project was cut off.
After hesitating for a while, the tour guide asked the driver to open the door and said:
"Dear group members, this is the last stop today, the famous 1A-level scenic spot Luoshen Mountain.
Due to the weather, we went up the mountain here.
Let's go up the mountain early and come down after taking a look.
Have you seen the steps at the intersection? Legend has it that these were the steps built by the Barefoot Immortal himself when he descended to earth."
Following the group members from the travel agency, Fatty Wang stepped on the steps, then turned back and made a face at me and said:
"The concrete floor built by the barefoot immortal"
I also laughed and said to Fatty Wang:
"Just take it as a joke and you take it seriously.
What is Luoshen Mountain? The moon has gone up, who has really seen Chang'e?
This is just a gimmick, there is no such thing as a magical tiger or dog."
We followed the tour guide and walked up the concrete steps towards the mountain.
Luoshen Mountain is not high, and it looks like you can reach the top in less than an hour.
We were going to the mountainside, and we were able to get back before dark
But not long after we hiked up the mountain, the originally thin layer of fog became much thicker.
By the time our group reached the halfway point of the mountain, our sight had dropped to the point where we could only clearly see objects more than ten meters away.