I couldn't calm down. My master didn't follow me on this mission. He was in seclusion at a critical point. Now he was asked to come out every now and then to preside over important events. It was already a taboo. If he followed us again and got hurt, his life might be in danger!
We had such a big thing. I didn't want to listen to the fellow villager for a while. I needed time to calm down. I looked at the sky outside. It was already very dark. The fellow villager was also exhausted. I guessed that he was already hungry. So I told him that there was a hot pot shop opposite the teahouse. We could have a bite first and chat while eating.
The fellow nodded repeatedly. He was a very honest person. When he saw the food at the table, he immediately put everything behind his mind and ordered a large table of food. He didn't know what politeness was. It looked like he had been hungry for a long time and had a scary appetite. Before Lao Bai and I could eat a few bites, he swept the whole table of dishes in one breath. In the end, he even drank the sesame sauce soup in one gulp before he stopped. I was stunned and wiped the sweat from my forehead. I thought that it was a waste to come to this hot pot restaurant today. It would be better to take him to the buffet. It is guaranteed not to lose money. With this consumption, it would be a waste of money to pay the bill when we go out.
Zhang Xinya is the boss now. Lao Bai and I have limited funds for this trip. I guess we have to eat a lot for this meal.
However, the food had already been eaten. Even if I put my fingers into his throat to dig out the food and put it on the plate again, the store owner would not take it. I had no choice but to accept it. I thought that I should be a good person to the end and send the Buddha to heaven. I simply asked for two more bottles of white wine and started drinking with this fellow. As soon as the wine went down his throat, the fellow was drunk and his face was red, but there was a black and blue mark on the bridge of his nose, extending from the center of his eyebrows to the tip of his nose.
At first I didn't care, but Lao Bai's eyes changed, and he pushed me hard and winked at me.
I knew Lao Bai must have something to say, so I patted my belly and told the fellow to wait for us for a while, and we went to the bathroom together.
After leaving the table, Lao Bai pulled me up and hurried to a corner. He looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he said anxiously: "Brother, have you figured out the face of this fellow?"
I shook my head and said that I didn't know physiognomy, so how could I tell anything.
"Brother, I know a little bit, but not very well. But even if I don't know much, I can see at a glance that this fellow is probably going to die soon!"
Lao Bai said quickly: "Didn't you notice the black and blue streak on his nose? That's the aura of a fierce ghost demanding his life! The aura on the tip of his nose is the most severe and the largest, just like ink falling on rice paper, spreading out a little bit, indicating that his troubles were caused by money. The black and blue aura extends along the bridge of his nose all the way to the life palace between the eyebrows, and the end is curved like a hook, which hooks the life palace, indicating that this matter will definitely take his life. This is a typical sign of people dying for money! It means that he provoked ghosts and gods because of greed for money!
In my opinion, this person is most likely to be lost. Don't look at his honest appearance. Do you know what he is thinking? This kind of thing that is provoked by money is the most difficult to deal with. Don't you know what people can do for money? I am afraid that he will do things to the extreme, so the backlash of the ghosts and gods he provoked will be the most brutal. This is a fatal job! "
Lao Bai also said that if he hadn't drunk alcohol, his body was hot, and his yang energy was strong, which stimulated the evil spirit to take his life, so that it would emerge, otherwise the two brothers would really be deceived by the appearance of this fellow villager.
"We are cultivators, we only care about ghosts and gods, not about right and wrong in the world."
After thinking about it, I said this against my will, but seeing that Lao Bai had already shown signs of giving up, I hit him hard with my fist and said in a low voice: "Don't forget, this is the first mission of the Tianmeng. Brother Yaozi said it long ago, the mission is real, and the pledge of allegiance is also real. Don't you know what kind of role the Tianmeng is? Now they have just emerged, and it is the time to establish their prestige. If we run into the gun, we will all be unlucky, and we will also implicate my master! Anyway, we have to do this whether we can do it or not. There are wolves in front and tigers behind. No matter how you look at it, the wolves are easier to deal with!"
Lao Bai thought about it, and finally sighed and nodded silently.
I patted his face and asked him to pay attention to his expression, then I forced a smile, pulled him back to the table, and asked about the business.
The fellow villager was red in the face and hiccups while telling me his story intermittently.
This fellow villager is indeed a Mongolian. I can't remember his full name. Who can understand it if I say such a long list? But he has a nickname in the underworld, called Qiye. People who know him call him Laoqi.
But this old man is very generous. Maybe he has something to ask of me after eating and drinking with me. He is a little too polite to me and asked me to call him Xiaoqi. I see that he is old and can't afford this, so I respectfully called him Qiye. This made this old man flattered and started to brag to me. He talked about his heroic past happily. He even put the cart before the horse. After drinking a little wine, he almost forgot why he came to me. Later, I reminded him twice, and he finally came back to his senses. He got back to the point and talked to me about his problems.
Speaking of this Seventh Master, although his name carries a bandit vibe, he is actually not engaged in murder and robbery. He is a decent man, and his main livelihood is herding. In the past, the government allocated grasslands to herders, and the grasslands allocated were hundreds of hectares. He raised a lot of cattle and sheep. Originally, his life should have been happy, but unfortunately, every industry has its own hardships. The cattle and sheep business in the past two years is different from the first few years. It is not easy to do. A sheep is only three to five hundred yuan, and the milk cannot be sold. Several large dairy factories do not accept it and can only dump it. A sheepskin is only five yuan. The market is sluggish. After a year's work, it is not enough to pay for the fodder. Every year, the herders lose money. The livelihood is not good.
As for the pastures with good locations, they were all contracted out for tourism, but Qiye still couldn't catch this favorable boat. His pasture was too remote. It was said to be in front of the Xiliao River, but in fact, the real location was almost far away from his grandmother's home. Going north, it was near the Xilamulun River and the Greater Khingan Mountains. That was already the northernmost part of our country. Tourists were too lazy to go to that place where no one lived. No matter how fertile his pasture was, he couldn't open a scenic spot. In the end, he almost had no way to make a living. Helplessly, Qiye could only do some side jobs. The forestry resources there were well-developed. He could only contact the herdsmen of several surrounding grasslands to go into the mountains to hunt, just like their Mongolian ancestors.
But in this way, it would be a taboo. First, poaching is not legal in modern times. Not to mention the Mongolians, even the Ewenki people who have been hunting for generations have moved down from the mountains, right? However, it is normal for herders to ignore this rule because they have no way to make a living. Secondly, they have violated the taboo of their ancestors!
The only mountain around the pastoral area where Qiye is located is the Greater Khingan Range. According to Qiye, the mountain area is vast and boundless, with a primitive scene. There is only Qiye's pastoral area around, and there has been a legend circulating in the pastoral area since ancient times.
It is said that the mountain they are leaning on is their "backer", a sacred mountain. Every blade of grass and every tree in the mountain is a sacred object. They must protect the sacred mountain for generations, and cannot let outsiders wantonly destroy it, and their own people must not run there to make trouble, otherwise it will bring disaster!
However, at that time, the people in the surrounding pastoral areas had no harvest and had long been poor, so how could they care about this? Cattle and sheep don't sell for money, but game can. These days, those rich people are tired of eating chicken, duck, fish and meat, so they crave game. A pheasant can sell for hundreds of yuan. In the Greater Khingan Range, people can sweep it down with sticks. There are so many of them. The profit here can make people red-eyed! Anyway, Qi Ye and his friends were jealous. At the beginning, they hunted some rabbits on the grasslands in the surrounding areas, and they made a lot of money by taking them to folk restaurants in Chifeng. Later, their desires snowballed, growing bigger and bigger, and they could no longer control themselves. They completely forgot the legends and taboos left by their ancestors, and went into the mountains in groups of three or five.
When did the strange things start?
According to Qiye's recollection, it should have started from the hunting trip three months ago. At that time, Qiye and several herdsmen were walking all the way to the mountains. On the way, they happened to meet an An Dahan, which is what we call a moose. That thing has basically disappeared in the past two years. Occasionally, a few of them would come from Outer Mongolia and go into the forest along the grassland to find a habitat. The price has been very high in the past two years. If Qiye and his team could kill one, they could basically go home and rest. So Qiye and his team were also furious at that time. After a few arrows missed, they chased the An Dahan directly into the woods. They chased it for a whole day and couldn't catch up until the evening. It was dark in the forest at night and they couldn't see anything at all. They had no choice but to give up. However, when they looked back at this time, they didn't know how far they had run. They had already entered the deep mountains and lost their way. They were completely lost.
The temperature in the deep mountains and old forests is not the same as outside. Even in the dog days of summer, the temperature is still very low. They are wearing only single clothes and are shivering in the cold wind at night. They are numb and almost can't hold on. Suddenly, Qi Ye hears someone whispering in the forest, which makes him sober up.
So Qi Ye called his companions and walked in the dark in the direction of the sound. Finally, he came to an open larch forest, but where was the person? The moonlight was still bright at that time, and Qi Ye saw that there was clearly a nest of foxes playing together in the snow!
Qi Ye secretly said that it was his luck. It was clearly the mountain god who led the way just now. Seeing that he was pitiful, he guided him here and sent a nest of foxes so that he would not return empty-handed!
As the saying goes, if you don't take what God gives, you will suffer the consequences. If you don't do it when the time comes, you will suffer the consequences.
Qi Ye was a down-to-earth person. Seeing so many foxes coming to his door, he was not polite at all. He called his companions and rushed to shoot arrows at the foxes. He shot and killed more than ten foxes. In the end, one escaped and was hit by an arrow. It was estimated that it was dead. However, Qi Ye did not chase it. It was dark in the forest at night and it was easy to get lost. He was afraid that he would not be able to come back after chasing it. Anyway, more than ten foxes could be sold for tens of thousands of yuan. Qi Ye simply carried the more than ten dead foxes and endured the night with his companions in the forest. He went out at dawn the next day!
"Silly roe deer!"
Lao Bai was already unhappy, and when he heard this, he cursed rudely: "If you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences. I say you are courting death to the extreme. Wait, anyone who touches those foxes will die in the end!"
"Hey...you..."
Qi Ye also drank some wine. He is a Mongolian and has a straightforward temper. When he heard Lao Bai's impolite words, he was a little anxious and said, "I also know that I have made mistakes and touched things that I shouldn't have touched, but this big brother's words are not nice to hear. What do you mean by not surviving? Really..."
Seeing that he was excited, I quickly held him down and made a round, then frowned and said, "My brother speaks like this. It's not nice to hear, but it's the truth. Qi Ye, you have indeed provoked something that you shouldn't have provoked!
To put it bluntly, you have violated a taboo.
First, most of these folk tales have their origins. Although some of them are made up, most of them are not groundless. Since you said that the mountain is a holy mountain, I think there must be something extraordinary in the mountain. This extraordinary place must have extraordinary things. The wild spirits are very active, and the things in it cannot be hit.
Second, it doesn't matter if you hit something in it. Although it is an extraordinary place, the wild spirits are not everywhere. But why did you hit something else? You hit the fox. If there is no problem, it will be strange, and it is a big problem! Haven't you heard of Hu Huang Liu Bai Hui? The fox is the boss of these five extremely spiritual things. Don't touch it! You hit the fox in the extraordinary place, not to mention killing them all. You may have a chance of survival if you did it cleanly, but you let one run away in the end. If I ask you, you are nine out of ten likely to run into Hu Daxian to make trouble for you..."
"This..."
Qiye's face was drooping, and he looked like he was about to cry. He didn't care about arguing with Lao Bai anymore. He sat down, sighed, and said, "Actually, what you just said was also said by others after the problem. But in fact, it was not the fox that was causing trouble for us, but..."
I was shocked and asked hurriedly, "What is it? Keep talking!"
I didn't expect that when I said that, Qiye's eyes turned red, and the big man suddenly lay on the table and cried "woohoo". My heart was chilled by his crying, and I knew that this matter might be more complicated than I thought...