What are you going to the mountains for?
Of course I’m going to see Bai Su and Hui Hui!
Since they followed me to Lianghe Town, they have been living in the nearby mountains.
Sometimes at night, in the dead of night, he would come down the mountain to the coffin shop to look for me - mainly because this guy Hui Hui always yelled for Bai Su to take him to me to play.
It also likes all kinds of human snacks and foods, especially sweets.
So every time I come, I eat a lot of sweets such as lollipops and chocolates. I'm worried that it might have cavities?
But considering that he is a monster, it shouldn’t be a big deal...
The mountains near Lianghe Town are undulating and continuous.
Although it is located in a hilly area at the junction of Sichuan and Chongqing, there are no too tall mountains.
But because there is a big river flowing through it in the north, and it also branches into two tributaries that meander into the town and surround it. The Feng Shui pattern around Lianghe Town is very good.
Although Bai Su is a rabbit monster, he is the "demon pet" of the Feng Shui master after all. His attainments in Feng Shui are no worse than those of ordinary Feng Shui masters!
So she chose a feng shui treasured land nearby, a hilltop with a "good luck" pattern for monsters to live in.
This mountain is Luojiaopo in the northwest of Lianghe Town!
Lui, which means fall, represents death.
Luojiaopo, as the name suggests, is the hillside where the dragon died - this is related to an ancient local folklore in Lianghe Town.
It is said that hundreds of years ago, at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Lianghe Town has just formed the prototype of a small town settlement, with only two to three hundred households.
The Sichuan River at that time was much larger and wider than it is now!
In the river basin just north of Lianghe Town, the width of the river is several kilometers. It is not comparable to the current three or four hundred meters wide.
In addition, the population at that time was much smaller than now, so there were many more troublemaking spirits in Sichuan River than now.
At that time, the so-called "Sichuan River God" was probably just an ordinary river monster in the Chuanjiang River in Fubei County...
Legend has it that during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty—that is, when Zhu Youxiao, the second-to-last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was in power, there was heavy rainstorms in Lianghe Town for several days in a row.
The rain is unusually heavy!
Not only did the Chuanjiang River flood, but flash floods near Lianghe Town also broke out.
The rolling reddish-brown water flows out from the mountains, creating ravines on the ridges and valleys, and then merges crazily into the surging river...
On the fifth night of the heavy rain, everyone in the town seemed to hear deafening roars coming from the mountains to the northwest.
Moo moo!
The sound was like an old cow braying, but I don't know how loud it was.
Even the pouring rain couldn't cover up the sound.
People in ancient times thought it was the cry of a dragon!
Some old people with a little knowledge said that this might be the giant python turning into a dragon and going out of water...
The giant python in the deep mountains and swamps, after practicing life for a long time, can go one step further and have the opportunity to become a dragon!
The most important step is to walk through the water.
What is water leakage?
That is to say, the water essence of one's own body is connected with the water essence of the great rivers. Then, in the violent water spirit, he successfully entered the river from the deep mountains and swamps, and transformed from a giant python into a real dragon!
Therefore, as the old saying goes: When a dragon passes by, it will be flooded for hundreds of miles.
If the giant python wants to turn into a dragon, it needs to cause a large enough flood to help it enter the river.
Because in this way, enough water spirit energy can be attracted from the world, and then absorbed by Taoism, merged with the water spirit energy in the body, and take the opportunity to completely transform into a dragon in one fell swoop.
But even if an ordinary giant python has been practiced for hundreds of years, it is incredibly powerful for ordinary people.
In front of the world and nature, he is still incomparably small!
Even if the giant python has the power of a real dragon, it cannot really cause heavy rain and flash floods.
Therefore, when a giant python transforms into a dragon, it most needs the cooperation of the weather - for example, during the season when heavy rains lead to major floods, it is the best time to transform into a dragon...
According to the ancient legend of Two Rivers Town, some well-informed old people at that time speculated.
This five-day heavy rainstorm during the Tianqi period at the end of the Ming Dynasty provided a certain giant python that was practicing in the nearby mountains with an opportunity to turn into a dragon!
So on the night of the fifth day, everyone in the town heard a roar like a cow--the roar of a giant python that was about to turn into a dragon.
Of course, no one knows the specific process of turning water into a dragon!
After all, it was pitch black outside and it was raining heavily.
Let alone ancient times, even now no one dares to wander around in the mountains outside the town under such circumstances.
Not to mention, the giant python is still turning into a dragon.
Even if some extremely skilled people could manage to run through a heavy rainstorm in the dark, they would most likely die... Only fools would lose their lives out of curiosity.
Although no one saw the giant python turning into a dragon with their own eyes, they could only listen to its huge roar from a distance.
But the final result was still known to the ancient residents of Lianghe Town.
That giant python... failed to transform into a dragon!
Because the rain stopped the next morning.
After the rain, the sky clears and the sun is high.
Except that the Sichuan River outside the town is still roaring and rolling, and some parts of the town are still flooded by river water, everything seems to be back to normal.
Some hunters couldn't help but go up to the mountains to hunt.
After all, the heavy rain had been falling for five days, and some hunters had been resting before the heavy rain, so there was no more meat at home - of course they wanted to go hunting in the mountains to provide meat for the family.
According to the experience of hunters, various wild animals will come out to look for food after heavy rains. And because they haven’t eaten for several days, they will be even weaker and easier to catch.
Wild animals are not like humans in that they do not store food. In such a natural disaster, one can only starve.
But the hunters never expected that when they went up the mountain in groups, they unexpectedly saw an astonishing scene from a distance.
That is, a huge python that has died on the mountain in the distance!
That giant python is really too big...
Roughly speaking, it looks about sixty or seventy meters long!
It's thicker than a large bucket, and the scales on its body are bigger than a washbasin. There are several sarcomas in the abdomen that look like they are turning into feet.
The head was bigger than a whole cow, and there was already a long, long, large sarcoma protruding from the center of it, which looked like it was about to turn into a horn.
A python corpse dozens of meters long was lying across the hilltop opposite.
Even though they were separated by several mountains, the hunters could see clearly. It shocked them hard.
It's just that this giant python has many wounds on its body, and some places are even scorched - possibly caused by being struck by thunder.
Legend has it that when the giant python transforms into a dragon through water, it not only has to rely on itself to merge with the water spirits of the rivers, but also to break through its own constraints. You still need to face the attack of thunder and lightning...
Failure in any aspect may lead to death.
This giant python obviously failed to transform into a dragon. Hundreds or even thousands of years of practice were destroyed in one day!
A few brave hunters began to prepare to climb over the mountains to have a look, and some hunters hurried back to Lianghe Town and told the rest of the people the news.
Then go to the county government to report it to the imperial government, and quickly send someone here to check on the situation...
How the python's body was disposed of in the end is not included in the local legends of Lianghe Town - it is not known whether the people were ordered by the imperial government at the time to keep it secret and not to spread it everywhere.
In short, the whereabouts of the python corpse is unknown - but it was probably taken away or disposed of by the imperial government.
But the hillside where the python finally fell and died has since been called "Luojiao Slope" by the residents of Lianghe Town.
After so many hundreds of years, from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the new society and the new era, many locals in Lianghe Town have long forgotten the origin and legend of "Luojiao Slope".
Only people like Lao Cao, people in the Taoist world who feed off evil people, will always remember it and pass it on word of mouth...
I only found out about this while chatting with him.
So when Bai Su finally decided to choose "Luojiao Slope" as the location of the cave where she and Hui Hui lived, I came over curiously to check it out.
I want to see if there is anything special or something left over from a legendary monster like the python...
The result is of course disappointing, nothing!
Apart from the good Feng Shui pattern, this mountain peak is not much different from other mountains.
Not just me, even Bai Su said that she couldn't feel even a trace of the powerful monster's aura.
The theory that the python died here may really be just a false story and legend...
Of course, maybe it's just too old.
In hundreds of years, even if a python does die here, all traces will be erased by time.
Cease to exist.
With these things in my mind, I slowly walked to the top of Luojiaopo.
Here is a flat piece of ground, very strange and abrupt, as if the top of the mountain was forcibly flattened by some mysterious force.
The hillsides near Lianghe Town are very rare.
Legend has it that this was caused by the anger and destruction of the giant python that failed to turn into a dragon before it died.
Naturally, I don’t believe this statement now!
But the top of the mountain does have a wide view and a gentle mountain breeze. Looking far into the distance, you can overlook the entire meandering Sichuan River.
It was like a giant dragon wandering wildly between the mountains, splitting the mountains apart and squeezing out a river. and the small plains of the river valleys on both sides.
Because it is a river valley plain formed by alluvial sediment, the soil near the river beach is extremely fertile.
The banks of the Chuanjiang River from Xinlin Town in the upper reaches to Lianghe Town are very suitable for growing various vegetables and fruits.
Therefore, Fubei County is also one of the vegetable planting bases in the entire Sichuan and Chongqing region...
On the east side of the top of Luojiaopo Mountain is a steep stone cliff with no grass growing on it.
Bai Su's cave is on the stone wall about two meters down on the east side of the slope. It is a cave that was drilled inwards by taking advantage of the cracks in the original mountain.
Very secluded and safe!
And, it's also very comfortable.
