When I looked up, I saw Ingzi looking at the meat buns in my hand eagerly, and his saliva was almost dripping.
This child is the child of a forest guard. He usually lives deep in the mountains with his parents, so he definitely doesn't have anything delicious to eat. This meat bun is even more rare to him, and he has probably never seen it before.
What's more, the reason why the forest guard works so hard is for the better future of the village and to do good deeds.
Thinking of this, I shook the buns in my hand and said with a smile: "The meat buns are so delicious. Do you want to eat them?"
"Think!" His eyes immediately shone like black beans for giving birth.
Grandma brought me four steamed buns. I just ate one and gave the remaining three to my baby.
As soon as the baby took it, he started to devour it. He choked several times and his little face turned red from holding it in. I quickly gave him a pot of mountain spring water and he drank it, and then he recovered.
The three meat buns were swept away, and the child was burping.
"Slow down, no one will compete with you."
"Thank you... thank you big brother..."
Seeing the birth of a child like this, I couldn't laugh or cry.
After eating the buns, Shengzi licked his fingers with some unfinished content and thanked me in every possible way.
"I have never tasted such delicious food! Brother, will we meet again in the future?"
"I will often come to the woods to collect herbs. If we are destined, we will meet again."
"Okay! I'll leave first, otherwise my parents will be anxious. Goodbye, brother!"
The child skipped away, so I cheered up and continued looking for the rare thousand-year-old ginseng.
But the sky turned dark, and a basket full of common herbs was collected. Not even a hair on the thousand-year-old ginseng was found.
Seeing that it was getting dark, I had to prepare to go home first and wait until tomorrow.
"Help...help...wuwuwu——"
I vaguely heard the cry of a child, so I stopped and listened.
Before I had time to react, my left eye suddenly felt sore. It wasn't very painful, but it was so sore that I burst into tears.
"Quack quack——"
Suddenly, a burst of sharp laughter came from behind, with a bit of pride and sinisterness, but it didn't sound like it was coming from a human being, and it hurt people's eardrums.
There's something around here!
There were naughty children in the village who went to play in the mountains. Thinking that there might be great turmoil in the village recently as mentioned during the day, I immediately went back to look for them.
Following the sound, I came to a large locust tree. The scene in front of me made me sweat!
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the trunk of the huge century-old locust tree can be hugged by more than a dozen people. In the shadows, the trunk begins to shake crazily, and its countless branches are waving around, with the green leaves rustling. the sound of.
And in the middle, the figure hanging around by the vines turned out to be a little boy!
I found out that he was actually giving birth to a baby. When he saw that it was me, he cried even harder.
"Help, big brother... Wuwu - I'm scared!"
"Quack quack——"
The cry of giving birth was heartbreaking, and at the same time, I suddenly realized that the laughter I heard just now... was actually coming from the old locust tree.
The old locust tree is actually smiling?
This is a tree spirit!
There will be mountain spirits in every deep mountain and old forest. According to the cultivation time of different plants, their abilities are also different. This old locust tree has a very strong yin energy and is more likely to attract ghosts and become spirits.
It's just that these tree spirits usually not only don't attack humans, but some even become a sacred tree to help the villagers.
But it's really strange that this tree spirit would attack and tease a child!
Seeing me appear, the laughter of the Sophora japonica tree spirit stopped abruptly, and countless branches began to change direction and stretch towards me.
After being exposed to it for so long during the day, my ability to withstand this terrifying scene has become much stronger. Although I am still horrified, I can calm my mind and hide back flexibly.
While hiding, he shouted: "If you have anything to say, please tell me! Put the child down first!"
A shadow with facial features slowly appeared on the trunk of the old locust tree. Its mouth opened and closed, and the scene was extremely scary.
"Are you from this village? That's just right. No one can leave today. I'll kill every villager I see!"
I could actually hear the hatred in the tone of this locust tree spirit.
As soon as the words fell, all the branches tightly closed, and a hurricane was wrapped around it, pouring madly in my direction.
For an instant, the sky was filled with the stench of tree roots rotting in the soil. My sight was obscured by dark green, but I found that although the locust tree was over a hundred years old, the roots had some signs of rot, which was completely unlike it. As vibrant as it should be.
And because of the tightening of the branches, the baby's little body was completely strangled, and she could almost lose her breath, and her little face turned as purple as an eggplant.
"not good!"
I was shocked. It seemed that the tree spirit had a lot of resentment in his heart. With quick eyesight and quick hands, I immediately took out a yellow talisman and stuck it on the trunk of the sophora tree spirit.
During the day, she asked me to go up the mountain to collect herbs. She said there were many little monsters on the mountain, and this charm was very useful in dealing with wild monsters in the mountain forest.
I didn't expect it to be so useful to this behemoth.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
There was a violent shaking, and all the branches opened quickly as if they had been burned by something.
Shengzi's body relaxed and he fell from a high place. "Ah!" he cried and closed his eyes. I quickly went over to catch him.
"It's okay, it's okay."
The baby narrowly escaped death, his little mouth shrank, he threw himself into my arms and burst into tears.
I was extremely curious and saw that this tree spirit did not look like a vicious thing, so I asked more questions while comforting the child.
"I know you don't harm others easily. Tell me why you do this? Maybe I can help you!"
The Sophora Tree Spirit saw that I was somewhat capable, and his facial features showed an expression of extreme anger.
"The people in your village are really too much. We tree spirits have been guarding the village for hundreds of years, but they trample and destroy nature, causing the Feng Shui pattern in the mountain forest to be changed. Now every plant and tree in the forest is gone. Affected by Feng Shui, it’s almost lifeless!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding trees and seedlings began to tremble, accusing him.
As I was holding my baby in my arms, I suddenly remembered something and asked, "There has been a plague among the villagers recently. Is it you who caused it?"
"That is the retribution given to you by the mountain god for seeing that you humans are unrepentant! If this continues, we would rather die together with humans!" The tree spirit was furious, and the leaves began to fall.
I feel ashamed. Human beings have not paid much attention to environmental protection in recent years, and deforestation has often occurred in the mountains and forests. Unexpectedly, the mountain god has come to take revenge.
After telling me about looking for ginseng to cure the seven-day plague, I said that I would ask the villagers to protect the mountains and forests in the future, but the old locust tree spirit laughed coldly: "You think simply! You think that if you find ginseng, everything will be fine." ? That’s treating the symptoms but not the root cause. If you want to truly eliminate the plague and return mankind to the past, you need to use the magic circle to restore Feng Shui, otherwise everything will be in vain!"
