Zhao Kuan nodded, sighed and said: " you came to look for that thing."Then Zhao Kuan fell into silence, apparently thinking about something. Wang Junhui is not in a hurry to ask, but quietly waiting.
Li Yajing poured him a glass of water nearby and handed it to him. He took the water glass and drank it out, and then gave it the lid back. Looking at Wang Junhui and Li Yajing so calm, I feel a little worried, anxious to urge Zhao Kuan quickly said for them.
Zhao Kuan froze for a while, and finally said, " In fact, when Lao Lin asked me to be a guide, he told me that you learned tao. At that time, I thought you would not simply look at the bottomless pit in the mountains."
Zhao Kuan paused for a moment and continued: " In fact, go to the little sky, you will guide the others in the town, they will not want to go. For there are not only wild boars, wolves and snakes, but also the living dead, the living dead who climb out of the bottomless pit."
"a dead-alive person!?"This is a living corpse, in other words, a zombie! There are zombies in the mountains, I looked at Wang Junhui and Li Yajing with a face of surprise, the two people are very calm, not surprised, apparently knew all this.
I suddenly remembered before Li Yajing asked if I would give the body to see the things, so they had known some of the secrets in the mountains. And Wang Junhui this time to find me, the estimate is also thinking about to find the so-called living dead, let me see something from its body.
When I was thinking about this, Zhao Kuan continued: " In fact, the legend of the living dead, we have always had here, we have not known how many generations passed on, but few people have seen it."
Zhao Kuan said a few, that means that someone has seen. I could not help but ask: " The person who has seen it, said what a living dead looks like?"
Zhao Kuan thought for a while and said, " Dry, with black hair, nails and teeth are very long, no eyes, just like the zombies on TV. But it is not jump, but run, fast, more clever than the monkey, anyone it targets, no one can live out of the forest."
I was curious to ask Zhao Kuan: " Since there is such a terrible thing, others refuse to take us to, why are you willing to?"
Zhao Kuan smiled wry and said, " It is not because of the high price of Lao Lin, I have a son who goes to college, my family did not pack the forest farm, for the children to go to school, the family money is unable to make ends meet. The child graduated, but also to marry the child daughter-in-law, think I have to worry dead!"
Now parents are really hard, especially to raise their sons, whether in the city or in the countryside, for their children to go to college, they will take out almost half of their lives, or even life savings to their son to marry a wife. Thinking of these, my heart suddenly added a lot of sadness. My parents left early, and grandpa swept away most of my wife.
No one noticed my mood, and Zhao Kuan continued: " Besides, I dare to take you into the woods, but also because I know a safe path. I along the path to the three days of the bottomless pit, I also picked up a wooden pimple from there, later someone said that medicine, 100 pieces a jin collected away."
Li Yajing asked the wooden knot is what shape, heavy not heavy.
Zhao Kuan thought for a moment and said, " not heavy, very light, just a pile of rotten wood, and like a lot of tree moths held together, the shape is very strange. I picked it up, and I sold it for less than two hundred dollars. Then I thought I came here to pick it up to make some money, but I never picked it up."
Zhao Kuan continued: " The third time, and the last time I went to Little West, I always felt something follow me and I came back halfway. After coming back, I also had a high fever, or my wife went to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha for me. Then I never went to the Little West Day again."
At this time, I listened to Li Yajing whispered to Wang Junhui said two words, after finishing, the two people face at the same time to show the expression of regret. I know they are lamenting the wooden knot sold by Zhao Kuan for 200 yuan, which obviously may be a good thing of great value. Two people do not say to break, but also afraid of Zhao Kuan worry.
Zhao Kuan continued: " There were several old people here who knew about the path and had been to the small west sky, and one of them met the 'living dead'. The old man is practicing hong boxing, casually raised the millstone of 200 or 300 jin. The guy in the hand fought for a while, broke an arm and ran down the mountain, but he died a few years ago. He is ours, and I know, the only one who has ever seen the living dead."
Here, Zhao Kuan stopped, I guess he did not know what to say.
Wang Junhui said, "Oh," and asked, " In recent years, besides you, has anyone else ever been to Xiaotian?"
Zhao Kuan shook his head and said, " Now the people in the town are better, who is nothing to go to that dangerous place. Even I didn't go three times afraid to go again."
Listen to Zhao Kuan said these things, we also rest almost, began to continue on the road. We still have several days to go.
As I walked, I asked Zhao Kuan, " How much money can you earn in a day by digging and selling medicinal herbs in the town?"
Zhao Kuan way: " good luck, a day about 100 yuan is not a problem."
I "oh" a, continue to ask him: " you go to a small west day back and forth to half a month time, even if can pick up that wooden knot to sell money, also did not in your town near that day a dig medicine to earn more, why do you risk to small west day?"
I have followed my grandfather since childhood, pushing and solving the gua. Everything has a clear truth. Therefore, once I have a little problem in logic, I will feel very uncomfortable and I must ask clearly, otherwise I will have a bad day. It's also a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
After listening to my words, Zhao Kuan hesitated: "This..."
Obviously, there was something here. I immediately felt that Zhao Kuan followed us into the mountains not just to guide the money, he might also find something, probably like what Wang Junhui wanted to find.
When I thought so, Wang Junhui said to me, " Lin Feng, you don't have to guess. He went into the mountain to seek money, and I am not. I'm different from what he wants to find."
Then Li Yajing also said to Zhao Kuan: " Brother Zhao, in fact, we have heard that legend here, we are not there for that legend, you can rest assured. Now that Lin Feng wants to know, you can tell him something."
Wang Junhui and Li Yajing talk one more mysterious than one, including Lin Sen who has not spoken, as if they know the purpose of their trip. In addition, Zhao Kuan as a guide, to the forest seems to have their own other purpose, but I am a aimless person.
After listening to Li Yajing's words, Zhao Kuan said, " Also, even children can tell my story. Since you want to listen to it, I will tell you about it."
Zhao Kuan wanted to tell me about this place, so I naturally hurried up to join him, so that I could hear it more clearly. About the small west sky bottomless pit, Baiyu here there is such a legend.
The bottomless pit is the home of the living dead, who keep many golden toads in it. The toads climb out of the bottomless pit every day, and when they climb out of the hole, the golden toad turns into a gold nuglet. That gold who want to pick up, for money, estimated that a lifetime will not spend.
This legend sounds a little ridiculous, so after Zhao Kuan said that, I laughed: " Some people believe such a legend?"
Zhao Kuan also smiled: " This legend, other families do not believe, but we old Zhao family is to believe. Because the first person to pick up the golden toad is the ancestors of our old Zhao family, is at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The golden toad was taken away by a county magistrate of us and dedicated to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, the Empress Dowager Cixi gave him an rank. The county magistrate was overjoyed, and after coming back, he gave us a large sum of money, so that my family became a rich man in this area. After the liberation of the whole country are criticizing the landlord old wealth, my family business also gave a clean."
Zhao Kuan said here, I was curious to ask him: " the path is also handed down from your ancestors?"
Zhao Kuan nodded his head and said, " Yes. But we generations to the mountains for more people, there are many people died in the mountains. But no matter who, also have never found the golden toad. So this legend is very famous here, but almost no one believes it."
Indeed, the credibility of this case is too low. How can living things become dead gold nuggets?
Even if Zhao Kuan told me that it was something that his ancestors had personally experienced, I still couldn't believe it. I don't think this kind of thing is going to exist. Either Zhao Kuan's family has problems, or their ancestors have been fooling their children and grandchildren.
On this thought, I couldn't help laughing. Other ancestors are to protect the descendants, this old Zhao's ancestors how changed to "cheat"?
Zhao Kuan asked me what I laughed at, but I naturally can't say what I thought, and said: " I still feel a little strange."
Zhao Kuan also smiled and said, " If my family had not been too poor and I was unable to do any hard work, I would not have believed it. I just think in my heart, hoping that I can find the 'golden toad' and let my son finish college and then marry a good wife. Even if I do die in this deep forest, I am satisfied."
This should be the so-called "poor world parents heart" it!
Zhao Kuan looked at the dense forest in the distance and continued, " But, I also know that this is just my own wishful thinking. How is it so easy to find the legendary golden toad? But you know, if you don't look forward to, that life is really impossible."
Li Yajing patted Zhao Kuan on the shoulder and comforted him, " Brother Zhao, you can rest assured, we will certainly find a solution to the problem."