"Everyone, stop and rest, eat something before leaving."
Liu Ruxiang greeted her and found a big rock to sit on. She took out two rice balls from her bag and handed one to me.
The rice ball was stuffed with sour beans, green chili peppers and sausages. Although it was cold, it still tasted rich on this hot day. I ate another apple to fill my stomach.
Meng Laoer bought some steamed buns from the bun shop at the entrance of the village in the morning. He ate some first, then broke the buns into small pieces with his hands and fed them to Fang Xiaomei bit by bit.
Judging from his caring attitude, he seems to be a responsible man. Why is he so stupid?
It was almost time to rest, so we continued walking up the mountain.
"Today, you must rush to the top of the mountain in the afternoon, and then perform sacrifices to ask for forgiveness from the mandrill. Otherwise, it will get angry, and I won't even be able to stop you if it kills you."
The group of people couldn't help but quicken their pace, and soon came to a dark dense forest.
Liu Ruxiang suddenly became alert and looked around.
"Zhizhi——zhi——"
There was a commotion in the trees not far away, and a group of big black monkeys appeared out of nowhere, grinning and shouting, jumping from one tree to another, moving quickly towards our group of people.
"Zhizhi——" The monkey's cry was filled with anger. Climbing to the tree above us, we suddenly saw a few black spots falling from the sky.
"Get away!" Liu Ruxiang immediately reminded several of us.
Quickly moving out of the way, he saw a few more egg-sized pebbles on the ground. When they fell on the muddy ground, they made many small craters.
"These dead monkeys." I looked up in panic, for fear of being hit on the head by a stone thrown down.
"Monkeys have good minds and hold grudges. I guess they saw Meng Laoer coming to avenge the murder of his son two years ago. Let's run to the mountain first and spread out." Liu Ruxiang's face was calm, He just frowned slightly.
"Hey, you shouldn't have done anything wrong back then." Meng Laoer covered his wife's head behind him and immediately panicked.
"Squeak, squeak!" The monkeys saw us running away, and they were chasing after us.
As a result, because we brought a lot of things, the monkeys quickly surrounded us.
A very strange thing happened: the monkeys jumped up and down to attack Meng Laoer. A majestic monkey used its claws and scratched his shoulder, and immediately tore his coat to pieces, with several skin and flesh wounds appearing inside. There were marks on his body, and blood flowed downwards.
Fortunately, these monkeys did not attack Liu Ruxiang and me, but Meng Laoer put his wife on the ground behind him, covered Fang Xiaomei with his body, and used his body as a blanket to withstand all attacks.
Another lean monkey jumped out, opened its mouth, and bit Meng Laoer's butt. Blood immediately spattered everywhere, and no matter how hard he hit it with his fists, it had no effect.
Seeing this, I was a little worried and looked at Liu Ruxiang with a look of help. If Meng Laoer was bitten to death on the mountain, it would be difficult to explain to his family when he went back.
At this time, I don't need to tell the cook to understand what I meant. She pulled out the dagger from her waist and thrust the sword out, hitting the monkey in the back.
The monkey finally let go, screamed and staggered away.
"叽-嗷--" At this time, a monkey's roar came from above the head, and a big monkey with shiny black fur jumped down in three steps.
This monkey looks extremely ugly, with a sarcoma as big as an egg on its face. What's incredible is that it actually held a woodcutter in its hand. It howled and rushed towards us. It raised the knife and slashed at Liu Ruxiang.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Liu Ruxiang blocked with her dagger, but every inch was longer and every inch stronger, so she had to retreat continuously.
The monkey quickly stopped his hand at this moment, turned around and struck hard at Meng Laoer's neck.
"Ah!" I exclaimed, my face turned pale with fright, and I couldn't bear to look directly at this bloody scene.
But there was no head rolling down as I imagined. The monkey seemed to have deliberately released the water. The blade struck the ground next to Meng Laoer's head hard, causing earth and rocks to splash out in an instant.
It slashed many times in succession and bared its teeth at us.
It didn't climb up the tree until it couldn't cut anymore and roared loudly.
The monkey group slowly retreated, and a thrilling fight finally came to an end.
Meng Laoer got up from the ground, his eyes a little dull, as if he was remembering something.
He suddenly asked me: "Did the monkey holding the knife just now have a tumor on his face and look ugly?"
I nodded.
He looked bitter and murmured: "I just said it this morning. Two years ago, I went up the mountain to catch monkeys. After mistakenly catching two small mandrills on the top of the mountain, I let go of the half-grown ugly monkey. That monkey There is a sarcoma on my face, that's it..."
After being reminded like this, I suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the monkey was slashed several times, and the blade was struck next to the head, otherwise any murderous intention could directly kill him.
Tit for tat, his unintentional act two years ago actually saved his life today, which is really sad.
Seeing that the movement around us disappeared, a group of us sat down to rest. The group of monkeys were quite smart. They probably came here to obstruct us this time for revenge, or in other words, they came to teach us a lesson.
Fortunately, Master and I were not injured. Liu Ruxiang took out a small white porcelain medicine bottle and handed it to me, asking me to sprinkle some on Meng Laoer's wound.
There is yellow powder inside, with a very strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine. Not long after I sprinkled it on, Meng Laoer stopped complaining about the pain and said he felt much better.
I was a little surprised and turned to look at Liu Ruxiang. I didn't expect that my beautiful master knew so many things at such a young age. I instantly became curious.
Cooking lady, cooking lady, what else are you capable of?
After drinking some water and resting for a while, Meng Laoer's wounds were treated. He put Fang Xiaomei on his back again and walked toward the top of the mountain.
As they were walking, Liu Ruxiang asked: "Meng Laoer, apart from going into the mountains to collect herbs, have you been in the mountains recently?"
Meng Laoer said solemnly: "Yes, I helped my second uncle go up the mountain to collect firewood more than half a month ago, and three days ago. The walk was not high, it was probably only half the height of where we were just now."
Liu Ruxiang thought deeply for a moment and told the bad news: "I thought you didn't go up the mountain much before, and this monkey came here specifically to take revenge. Now it seems that the mandrill drove all the beasts to come to stop it, so everyone cheered up. , but you must not take advantage of it again."
Liu Ruxiang told me when he first went up the mountain that mandrills are monsters and evil spirits in the mountains. They have strange abilities and can drive immature beasts in the mountains and fields.
