"How do you say this?" It was Xiao Mufeng who spoke first this time. "Dragon is a legendary animal. Why is there such an unrealistic animal on the Jingtian Mountain?"
Seeing Xiao Mufeng's disbelief, the elder smiled bitterly and said: "Little brother, actually I don't believe in dragons either, but we have regulations here. Most people can only climb up to the rooftop, and can't go any higher. Even we villagers are only allowed to go up a little further when we collect special medicinal materials. [No pop-up novel website]"
"Then we can secretly climb up from the rooftop." Zhang Xiaohua said with a smile on his face.
"No!" The strongest mountain farmer next to him interjected, "There is a temporary hut next to the rooftop, which is guarded by a few of the strongest people in our village. Whether they are villagers or tourists, as long as they don't get the village chief and Ah With Uncle Liang’s permission, we simply can’t continue climbing up.”
"Why can't you continue climbing up? This mountain doesn't belong to you, why don't you let others go up?" Zhang Xiaohua blurted out these words. After finishing speaking, he felt that he was a little too impulsive, and looked at the four people in front of him a little uneasily.
"Haha!" The four of them looked at Zhang Xiaohua's embarrassed look and smiled heartily. The older one continued, "The little brother is right. In fact, our village was not like this before. After all, this mountain is not ours. It’s just a matter of living off the mountain, but someone set such a rule twenty years ago.”
"Twenty years ago? Didn't this rule exist a long time ago? What about the legend about dragons? It only started twenty years ago?" Xiao Mufeng was still very curious about dragons.
"It's a long story! I'm afraid it will delay the three little brothers." The elder looked at Chen Feifan and the others who had already stood up.
"We're not in a hurry. We should be able to stay half an hour late. Right?" Chen Feifan's curiosity had already been aroused and he sat back in the pavilion again.
"Yes!" Xiao Mufeng and Zhang Xiaohua nodded in agreement and returned to the pavilion.
"Okay!" The older man said with a smile, "Since the three little brothers are so interested, I will keep the story short, so that it will not delay the three of them's appointment time, but also can tell the whole thing completely."
The eldest mountain farmer took a water bag from his side, drank some water, and then began to say: "Our village is called Luofeng Village, and it is the only village around Jingtian Mountain. I don't know about the legend of dragons either. It is not known how long it has existed, or whether it has been passed down from generation to generation, and when it started. There was originally a legend about dragons in Jingtian Mountain, and Wolong Pond is because it is said that a dragon once lived in that pond. It is named after sleeping peacefully. We in Luofeng Village have been living on this mountain for generations, eating and using it. At that time, many people also yearned to climb to the top of the mountain, because as long as anyone could successfully climb to the top of the mountain and pick the Tianwei If you use grass, you can be elected as the next village chief immediately. But twenty years ago, a senior official came to our village, hoping to save his wife’s life with the Skyweeping Grass from the top of Jingtian Mountain. At that time, our village was the most popular mountain climber. The most powerful one was Uncle A Liang, he was only 20 years old at that time, and he was still young and strong, so the next day, he set off with several of his good brothers."
"What was the weeping grass that day?" Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but interjected.
"It is a kind of medicinal herb. It is said that it can not only dispel cold and detoxify, but also save half-dead people. But it can only be found on the top of Jingtian Mountain. It can only be found with good luck. And since twenty years ago, After what happened, you can no longer buy this rare medicinal herb anywhere." The slightly thin mountain farmer answered helpfully.
After the slightly thin mountain farmer finished his answer, the eldest mountain farmer continued: "At that time, the wife of the high official suffered from a strange disease. Her whole body turned black, and her appearance seemed to have changed. There is only one breath left. I heard that even the imperial doctors in the imperial city could not find out what the disease was, so they could only take some expensive medicine to prolong life for ten days and a half. This matter of life and death, even if Even if the official didn't say anything, we in Luofeng Village would try our best to help him find the Tianwei Grass. As a result, five days later, Uncle A Liang and his brothers were found unconscious at the foot of the mountain. At that time, the villagers felt strange, and then He took them all back to the village and asked them what happened when they woke up. As a result, Uncle Aliang said that he was the only one who reached the top of the mountain. None of his brothers went up, but at the top of the mountain, he encountered When he arrived at the dragon, it seemed that the dragon had said something to him, and then he couldn't remember anything. When he woke up, he found himself lying on his bed. Because of this strange thing, the Tianwei Grass could not be found. The high official's wife also lived in the village for a few more days, then her whole body rotted away and died. On the night when the high official's wife died, I seemed to have heard a terrible scream, and even now when I think about it, I'm still a little scared. "
The medium-sized mountain farmer obviously still remembered it, and couldn't help but said: "Yes! That scream is really scary."
"And the sound was so loud that almost the whole village heard it!" the slightly thin mountain farmer added.
Hearing someone start to interrupt again, Xiao Mufeng couldn't sit still and said hurriedly: "Then what does this have to do with the current inability to go to the top of the mountain? And what the elder brother said about Uncle A Liang meeting a dragon, I don't know. Is it true or false? Can you please continue to finish the sentence?"
The older man also smiled and said: "Haha! It has delayed the three of you a lot of time! Okay! This time I will finish the sentence in one breath, and no one among you is allowed to interrupt!"
Looking at the few people who had just interrupted and nodded, the elder said again: "It is now forbidden to go up to the rooftop! In fact, it was what the high official said. His wife died at that time, and he was in grief. Absolutely, coupled with the unbelievable thing like Uncle A Liang's encounter with a dragon on the top of the mountain, the official thought that our village had failed him. As a result, he submitted a memorial to the court, saying that it was us who had failed him. Fengcun occupied the mountain owned by the imperial court and wanted to take it as his own. After this memorial was presented, the imperial court still treated us more generously. No one was imprisoned and they just sent people to seal the mountain. Get up and ban us from going to Jingtian Mountain. However, after Jingtian Mountain was sealed off, many of us who relied on the mountains left our homes and went to Jingtian City. When the prefect of Jingtian City learned about this, he hurriedly submitted a few This memorial pleads with the imperial court. It was not until the following year that the imperial court issued an order prohibiting anyone from going to places above the Cathedral Tower. At that time, officers and soldiers were sent to guard the Chongtian Tower. However, later, the court was too lazy to take care of it. In the end, the guarding matter Let us, the villagers of Luofeng Village, take over."
Seeing Chen Feifan and the other three wanting to speak again, the elder raised his hand and said, "You may ask whether the dragon that Uncle A Liang said is true. In fact, the whole village knows that Uncle A Liang never said It's just that the incident was so bizarre that the whole village couldn't believe it at the time. However, there was no way to explain why several people were unconscious at the entrance of the village overnight, so they could only half-believe it. Until half a month later, Uncle A Liang accidentally pulled out a strange stone from his pocket. He said it was a strange stone because the stone was extremely cold. Even in the very hot summer, the stone was always cold. It was very cold. A long time ago, the ancestors who had climbed to the top of the mountain also brought a stone like this. They said that this stone could only be found in the Longyan Cave near the top of the mountain, but the previous stone had already been there. Thirty years ago, it completely turned into a puddle of ice water. So, basically the villagers later believed that what Uncle A Liang said was true."
"So is this strange rock still in your village?" Zhang Xiaohua is always so curious about strange things.
The elder nodded and said: "Still, at Uncle A Liang's house. Every summer when it's the hottest, there are always people from our village who go to Uncle A Liang's house to escape the heat."
Hearing that the stone was still there, Zhang Xiaohua quickly said happily: "That's great! I want to see it!"
Seeing how happy Zhang Xiaohua was, Xiao Mufeng hurriedly pulled him aside and said to the four mountain farmers in front of him: "So that's it. It seems that you can't go to the top of Jingtian Mountain in the future, but now I'm starting to be curious about this dragon. Change I will go to Luofeng Village someday when I have time, but I don’t know if Uncle A Liang is willing to show us the stone?"
"Haha! Don't worry about that, Uncle A Liang is very hospitable." The mountain farmer with the thickest build smiled.
"Well! Come to Luofeng Village when the time comes! We will treat you well!" The elder nodded.
Chen Feifan stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Then let's thank the big brothers here! It's getting late, it's time for my two brothers and I to go down the mountain! We'll see you later!"
"See you later!" The four mountain farmers also stood up and said goodbye.
After saying goodbye to the four mountain farmers one by one, Chen Feifan and the other three began to go down the mountain. . ..
