"Hey, brother, have you heard about it? Yesterday, the foolish man Li Zhuang from the east end of the village picked up gold by the water hole in the barren mountain!"
Early in the morning, Liu Ergou from Xintian Village Standing at the entrance of the village, he said to his cousin Liu Daquan, who was squatting on the roadside for breakfast.
As soon as these words came out, several people from the same village gathered around with their rice bowls.
Villager A swallowed the food and said vaguely: "Why didn't you hear about it? Then Li Zhuang is usually a person who likes to show off. I'm afraid everyone in the village will know about the gold he picked up. Well, "
" Yes, yes, listen to Li Zhuang, there is a golden toad in that cave! I plan to go there to see after dinner, I am afraid that many people have already We're there."
Liu Ergou glanced at the village and found that it was different from before.
Except for these few people who surrounded them and their two brothers, no one else appeared.
There are a few people who should have a fire to cook at this hour, but the chimney hasn't moved yet. I guess they have gone up the mountain long ago, and they don't even bother to eat breakfast!
"Then what else do you eat? Hurry up and go!" After Liu Ergou finished speaking, he grabbed the bowl of his cousin Liu Daquan and put it on the stone pier beside him, pulling his brother to the mountain.
Liu Daquan held him back and said to him, "You don't understand this, right? It's so easy to find gold. If it's easy, why did Li Zhuang only pick up one piece? We might as well go first. When you're full, wait for those who come forward to try the water first."
Liu Ergou just wanted to say that he has a big heart, but it's too late, I'm afraid he won't even get the gold scum.
But he suddenly thought of something, his body trembled obviously, and then nodded in agreement.
then asked Liu Daquan if there was still food at home? It's not too early for him.
When Liu Daquan's daughter-in-law heard it, she slammed the door shut. When Liu Ergou saw it, he laughed a little embarrassedly. Fortunately, the head of another family immediately told him that he still had some meals and called his daughter-in-law. Bring it to him.
Liu Ergou thanked him twice in a row, and the couple next door said that it was just a bowl of rice, no, it's not that they want him to eat it and then serve it.
As soon as these words came out, Liu Daquan's face became more and more unbearable.
Who knows that he has a great wife, she is a miser who can only get in and can't get in, but he is still a strict wife, and when his wife shows her arrogance, he doesn't even dare to fart, not to mention how useless he is .
At this time, Liu Daquan's daughter-in-law opened the door and came out, holding two large sewed cloth bags in her hand.
She threw one of them into her husband's arms and urged him to leave quickly.
Poor Liu Daquan was not even full of food, so he hurriedly took a few bites and took the bowl back to the house.
Originally, my daughter-in-law thought he was late. If she hadn't woken up in the morning and she was too hungry, she would have gone up the mountain to pick up gold without even cooking.
So I was anxious at the moment, for fear that I would be picked up if I was late, and she even scolded people severely when Liu Daquan said something to her.
As soon as they entered the mountain, they saw many people carrying cloth bags and sticks pulling at the mouth of the hole.
Even the places far away from the stagnant water hole were scraped so that not even a turf was left.
But looking at their expressions, it seems that they haven't gained anything yet, so Daquan's daughter-in-law feels a little more at ease.
At this time, Liu Ergou and the other villagers also came, and soon joined the gold hunt team, but one day passed, and everyone still found nothing. Some people could not help but doubt the authenticity of the gold Li Zhuang picked up. Come.
Could this be a lie?
is also not right. Many people have seen the piece of gold, so it cannot be fake.
Until it gets dark, people get nothing.
Many people have lost patience, plus they have been hungry for a day, their eyes are exhausted, they can no longer hold on, and they go back in groups.
In the end, only Liu Ergou and Liu Daquan were left.
At this moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew out from the hole, and Liu Ergou, who was close to him, was blown all over, and two of them were timid and ran away, and the rest of the people also I can't hold it anymore.
"I, let's go quickly. It's good that there are many people in the daytime. Now, there are only a few of us left. No, it's not safe."
Liu Ergou licked his dry lips and said.
The people also nodded in agreement, "Let's go, let's go, come back tomorrow, tomorrow." Looking at the distance, it turned out that his wife was still pulling in the grass over there, and she didn't seem to want to leave at all.
Liu Ergou hurriedly persuaded him, "Brother, it's not like you don't know the rumors here, hurry up and tell your sister-in-law to leave."
But Liu Daquan sighed and said helplessly: "You guys go first, the mother-in-law will find you today. If you don't get it, you won't give up."
"But here...!"
Liu Ergoumao looked around, as if he was afraid of offending something, so he swallowed the following words.
When the others heard it, they only felt that they were getting colder and colder, so without waiting for Liu Daquan to agree, they pulled Liu Ergou and ran down the mountain...
As soon as the next day was slightly bright, Liu Ergou hurriedly got out of bed climb up.
He worried all night last night, and he didn't know if his cousin and his wife had come back from the mountain. At this moment, he didn't even have time to wash his face, so he opened the door and ran to the entrance of the village, where his cousin Liu Daquan lived. , he has to hurry to see it.
After waiting for Liu Da's family, he hurriedly knocked on the door to confirm, and he didn't care about being scolded by his cousin. After all, he was in a mess, and he hoped that the two of them would be fine rather than being scolded.
But he knocked for a long time, and there was no movement in the room, but he woke up the two families next to him.
When I went out, I saw Liu Ergou, one of the head of the household asked him, "Why did you come knocking on his door before it was clear that day? It's not that you didn't know your cousin's temperament and put her to sleep. It's messed up, we can't live in peace, don't knock, come to my house and have a seat, we'll have dinner here later. "
The person who left him to eat was the same family who gave him food yesterday. His surname was Liu, his name was Da Liu, and he was his brother who gave him five clothes.
"I don't want to eat it, I want to go to the mountain to see it, and I knocked on it. It's been a long time, and I've woken you all up. There's no reason for the two of you to wake up. I'm afraid that something will happen to them, so I'll leave first. "
After Liu Ergou finished speaking, he was about to go to the mountain. Da Liu hurriedly stopped him and persuaded him to wait until it was brighter. Maybe many people would go up the mountain, it would be safe. He also started to retreat, but he is a person who values love and righteousness. Now that his cousin and sister-in-law have not come back, he is really anxious, and he finally gritted his teeth and walked up the mountain. In the water hole, he always felt gusts of overcast wind blowing towards him from all directions. In order to strengthen his courage, he deliberately hummed a folk tune, but he didn't dare to be too loud. .
This old man said that there was a strange scene in this stagnant water hole before, and said that anyone close to it would be blown into the hole by a gust of wind, and when they came out, only bones were left, and they said that there was only a goblin's cave inside. , and told future generations not to go there.
Although Liu Ergou only heard about it, he, like other villagers, grew up listening to this story, and there is still a shadow in his heart.
What's more, just last year, the dog of a family in the village went into this mountain and was never seen again. That family asked a lot of people to help strengthen their courage, and some of them even laughed at him and said no. It's just a rumor, it scared him.
then volunteered to join the team, and the group came to this stagnant cave, but as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the cave, they saw a corpse floating up from the bottom of the cave.
The farmer saw that this was his own dog, because it also had fracture marks on its left leg, so he recognized it at a glance.
At this time, they heard the sound of "woo woo woo" coming from the cave again, like the roar of a ghost, which scared them, and even the few who said they were daring were scared to death. just run.
If it wasn't for Li Zhuang, a fool who is not afraid of ghosts, came here and picked up gold to go back, I'm afraid no one would come here yesterday.
Liu Ergou thought all the way, and his courage became more and more numb.
But when he thought that his cousin and his wife were still in the mountains, he had no choice but to cheer himself up and continue walking inside.
At this moment, a shadow suddenly appeared not far away.
As soon as Liu Ergou was afraid, he reflexively hid.
As it was getting brighter again, Liu Ergou could vaguely see through the weeds in front of him that this person was Li Zhuang who picked up the gold.
Just as he was about to stop him, the man suddenly disappeared in place.
Liu Ergou looked at the empty mountain road not far away in disbelief, and said that he had hit an evil, and he didn't dare to go any further, so he simply stayed in the grass and waited for dawn.
Because there will be people coming at dawn, it will be better to go together.
Liu Ergou, who made up his mind, had to give up temporarily to go to Liu Daquan and his wife alone. In this way, after staying in the nest for about half an hour, he saw a few villagers walking towards this side.
He hurried up to meet him, and when a few people saw it was him, they joked: "Er dog, you are here so early, why? I don't see you being so active on weekdays, it seems that you are also affected by Li Strong excitement, jealousy, come on, let's go, let's go to the top."
The rest of the people listened and laughed, Liu Ergou felt less cold in an instant, even the terrifying Yin Feng also suddenly withdrew, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief! But when
arrived at the back mountain, Liu Ergou didn't even look at the ground, so he hurriedly searched for Liu Daquan and his wife.
At this time, many people went up the mountain again. They looked suspiciously at Liu Ergou who was circling around, thinking that this was some kind of gold-seeking method that they had never seen before. The trend of mountains and rivers, and then another gold-pointing point?
Just when someone felt fresh and wanted to ask him, suddenly there were bursts of exclamations from the crowd, and then, more and more people gathered in front of the water hole and faced the hole. Point to point.
Liu Ergou suddenly felt chest tightness and panicked for some reason.
He quickly turned around and ran over, pushed aside the crowd and walked to the hole. When he saw the two corpses floating in the hole, he couldn't help crying.
Because the two corpses were wearing the same clothes that my cousin and sister-in-law wore yesterday.
Now, everyone doesn't want to look for any gold anymore, and they run down the mountain one by one.
ran and shouted, making those who were halfway down the road and had no time to climb the mountain quickly ran back, and said that there were corpses emerging from the stagnant water hole again, and there were still two, and I don’t know which two were unlucky. , I was reluctant to go back at night, and fed myself to monsters.
"What a sin!"
"Woooooooo..."
Several timid people cried out in terror, and within a few moments, most of the people ran away.
And the rest of the people didn't want to run faster, but their calf was so frightened that they couldn't run, so they were so anxious that they cried.
Everyone involved him, he involved you, and there were still many people rolling down along the way. The scene was very chaotic and disturbing.
At this time, Liu Ergou, he looked at the bones floating on the water and didn't move. After crying enough, he found the stick that was thrown away by others, and stunned the two bones. Until they tied them with cloth belts, carried them to a hillside not far from the ancestral grave, and buried them crying.
He knelt before the grave for a long time, and now he is very remorseful. He hates himself for not persevering and persuading the two of them to go back. He really regrets it!
After Liu Ergou returned to the village, he locked himself in the house and did not eat or drink for several days and nights. In the end, as if he had made up his mind, he made a fire to cook, and after filling his stomach, he went out.
That's right, he is going to the Shande Temple not far from here, to ask the old Taoist there to come to Jishui Cave to get rid of the demons, and he wants to avenge his relatives!
It's just that after he arrived, he was catching up with the absence of the Taoist priest. The Taoist who was watching said that he would convey it when he came back. Liu Ergou quickly thanked him and turned around and left.
He went to town to get some wine and some delicious snacks. He was going to pay homage to his cousin and sister-in-law, telling them that he had asked the Taoist priest to come and help.
As soon as he came back from the cemetery, he saw a lot of people gathered at the entrance of the village. He vaguely heard them say that Li Zhuang picked up gold by the water hole again yesterday, and it was still two pieces.
This time, some people are starting to make a move. If you want to say that some of these people really want money, they don't listen to the persuasion. They say they want to try it together.
Liu Ergou felt that things were too strange, so he hurried to persuade them, but no one listened to him, who said that the temptation of gold was so great.
And the more Liu Ergou listened to it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Why did so many people in the village go without finding the gold? Li Zhuang just picked it up if he wanted to.
Besides, that morning, he clearly saw Li Zhuang come down from the mountain and then disappeared, could it be...
Liu Ergou seemed to want to understand something, but this time he kept his composure until he waited until the next day. Old Taoist, he just started his own actions.
They quietly followed the few gold-pickers who were not afraid of death up the mountain, and then hid in a bush not far from the Jishui Cave, where they could see the entire Jishui Cave.
The people just searched for a while, and sure enough, they saw Li Zhuang coming from the other side. When everyone saw him, they seemed to see the God of Wealth, so they all gathered around.
I just listened to Li Zhuang telling them that the place where I picked up the gold was in the water beside the hole. Those people were scared at first, but in the end they couldn't stand Li Zhuang's repeated temptations and slowly moved towards the cave. Walk in shallow water.
At this moment, Liu Ergou saw with his own eyes that Li Zhuang had turned into a big golden toad, as big as a basket. Roll it into your mouth.
At the critical moment, the old Taoist took a shot in time, and a whisk threw it, just hitting the toad's tongue.
I saw that the tongue was smoking so much that it ran into the cave in pain.
At this time, the few people who came back into the water were all pale and scared, and they were all knocked into the hole by the toad spirit.
"Go and save people!"
only heard the Taoist master shout, his figure had moved to the entrance of the hole, and the whisk automatically flew back to his hand, and then rolled up the slippery toad spirit. Rolled out of the hole.
is worthy of being a Taoist priest, but before Liu Ergou could pull out those people with a stick, the toad spirit twitched its tongue and died.
Everyone was rescued, only to find out later that they had just played around in the gate of hell, and they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to come out.
They thanked the Taoist priest and Ergou for their life-saving grace, and staggered all the way to the village. They were going to tell everyone that there was no gold in this hole at all. It was Li Zhuang's big toad. Deceptive.
As for the good-looking Li Zhuang, how did he become a toad? They couldn't even say why.
In the end, Liu Ergou solved the puzzle, saying that the toad was not high in cultivation, so he wanted to eat people to increase his cultivation, and Li Zhuang, a foolish man, went to the water hole for some reason. After being eaten by the toad spirit, the toad spirit turned into his appearance and came down the mountain, saying that he had picked up gold.
So people are deceived by him, but it can't eat so many people at a time, and it is afraid of showing off, so it bewitched Liu Daquan and his wife, saying that his gold was picked up at night.
Who is Daquan's daughter-in-law? As soon as I heard it, I wanted to swallow it alone, but I was devoured by the toad spirit.
If Ergou didn't happen to find the clue that day, no one would have thought it was him.
and I have to ask why Ergou is so sure? Because, that day, he had already seen the corpse wearing Li Zhuang's clothes in the water hole.
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