Chapter 26: The Zhao Family's Golden Toad Ancestral Tradition Add more to (灬亾傢窮的皇冠)
Listened to Wang Junhui's question, Zhao Kuan was very surprised to look at a few of us said: you will not come to find that thing, right?
What thing? My heart is also a moment of confusion, turned his eyes to look at Wang Junhui.
Wang Junhui smiled and said: Zhao big brother, we are looking for what, you do not have to ask, as long as you know all tell us on the good, the money, will not give you less.
Zhao Kuan froze for a moment and said: you really are here to find that thing. Said Zhao Kuan fell into silence, in search of something.
Wang Junhui was not in a hurry to ask.
Li Yajing took a cup of water beside him and poured a lid of water for him and handed it over, he took the lid and drank it all in one go and then returned the lid.
Looking at Wang Junhui and Li Yajing so calmly, I was a little anxious in my heart, and I couldn't wait to go over and urge Zhao Kuan to speak quickly for them.
Zhao Kuan froze for a while and said: In fact, when Lao Lin looked for me to be a guide, told me that you are learning Taoism, I felt at that moment that a group of people to come here is definitely not to look at the bottomless pit in our mountains so simple.
Zhao Kuan paused for a moment and continued to say: In fact, to go to the small west side of the sky, you look for other people in the town as a guide, they will not go, because there are not only wild boars, wolves, long worms (snakes), and living dead, crawling out of the bottomless pit of the living dead.
Living dead! That's a living corpse, in other words, a zombie!
There are zombies in the mountains, I look at Wang Junhui and Li Yajing with a face of suspicion, these two people's expression is very calm, not the slightest surprise, as if they already knew all this.
At this time I suddenly remembered that before Li Yajing asked me if I would give the corpse to read the matter, it turned out that they have long known some of the secrets of the mountain.
And Wang Junhui this time looking for me to come is also thinking to find the so-called living dead person, let me from its body to see some what to.
My side is thinking about these times, Zhao Kuan continued to say: in fact, the legend of the living dead, we have always been here, do not know how many lifetimes have been passed on, but the people who saw him with their own eyes are not a few.
Zhao Kuan said not a few, that means there are still people who have seen, I could not help but ask a question: that has seen him, said what the living dead look like?
Zhao Kuan froze for a while and said: dry, long black hair, nails and teeth are very long, no eyes, with the TV zombies almost, but it is not jumping, but running, very fast, scurrying in the forest, than the monkey is still smart, all the people who have been targeted by him, none of them can live out of the forest.
I asked Zhao Kuan curiously, since there is such a terrible thing, others refuse to take us there, why is he willing.
Zhao Kuan laughed bitterly and said: it is not because of the old forest to give a high price, my family has a son in college, my family since the forest is not contracted, and then for the children to go to school, the family money has been unable to make ends meet, the child graduated, but also for the child to get married, think about it I have to be worried about the death!
Indeed now parents are very hard, especially raised a son, whether in the city or the countryside, for the children after the university, you have to take out almost half a lifetime, or even a lifetime of savings to the son to get married.
Thinking of these I suddenly increased a lot of sadness in my heart, my parents left early, and my grandfather rolled up most of my wife's capital and ran away, I'm this
No one noticed my emotions, Zhao Kuan side continued to say: In addition I dare to take you into the forest, but also because I know a safe path, I have been along that path three times to the bottomless pit side of the small western sky, I also picked up a wooden lump from there, and then some people say it is a medicinal herbs, a hundred dollars a catty to collect away.
Li Yajing asked what the shape of that wooden lump, heavy or not.
Zhao Kuan thought for a moment and said: not heavy, very light, is a pile of rotten wood like, and like a lot of tree moths (a kind of edible fungus in the mountains) hold together, the shape of the strange, I picked up back, that time I sold less than two hundred dollars, and then thought of coming back to pick up here to earn a little money on that thing, did not pick up.
Said here Zhao Kuan paused for a moment to continue to say: the third time, but also before I last went to the small western days, I always feel something followed me, did not go to me halfway back, back, I also had a high fever, or my wife went to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha to me to seek a good, and then I never again did not go to the small western days.
At this time I heard Li Yajing whispered to Wang Junhui said two words, after finishing the two faces at the same time show regret expression, I know they are in regret Zhao Kuan two hundred dollars on the sale of that wooden lump.
In other words, that wooden pimple is likely to be worth a lot of good things.
The two of them didn't say anything because they were afraid that Zhao Kuan would be upset.
Zhao Kuan continued to say: before we have a few old people here know that path, have been to the small west side of the sky, which there is an encounter with the living dead, the old man is practicing Hong Quan, hand lifted two or three hundred pounds of mill in no time, by virtue of the hand of the guy with the living dead around for a while, broke an arm and ran down the mountain, it is a pity that he passed away a few years ago, he was also our piece of the, I know, the only one to see the living dead. He was also the only person I know in our area who had seen a living dead person.
Here Zhao Fuan stopped, I guess he did not know what to say.
Wang Junhui asked: In recent years, in addition to you, there are other people who have been to Xiaoxitian?
Zhao Kuan shook his head and said: now the town's life is better, who have nothing to go to that dangerous place, even I did not also go three times after not dare to go again.
Listening to Zhao Fuan said these things, we also rested almost, began to continue to rush, the next few days we still have to go.
I asked Zhao Kuan while walking: How much money can you earn in a day when you are here at the edge of the town to plow herbs and sell them for money?
Zhao Kuan said: If you're lucky, a hundred or ten dollars a day won't be a problem.
I oh a continue to ask him: you go to a small western days to half a month time, even if you can pick up the wood lumps to sell money, but also in your town near the day a round trip planing medicine earn more, why do you have to take the risk to go to the small western days.
I have been following my grandfather since childhood to push hanging, interpretation of the trigrams, everything is concerned about a clear adjustment, so once the logic of a little problem, I will be very twisted in my heart, must ask a clear, or I will not be a day of pain.
This is also a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hearing my words Zhao Kuan hesitated for a moment: this
Obviously there is something he did not say, I instantly felt that this Zhao Kuan followed us into the mountains is not only for the guide that money so simple, he may also be looking for something to come, it is likely to be the same as Wang Junhui to find the same thing.
When I think so, Wang Junhui said to me: Chuyi ah, you don't have to guess, he went into the mountain is to seek money, and I'm not, I'm not the same as what he wants to find.
Then Li Yajing also said to Zhao Kuan: Zhao big brother, in fact, you here that legend, we also heard, we are not for that legend, you can rest assured, and now the first want to know, you tell him.
Wang Junhui and Li Yajing spoke more mysteriously than one another, including Lin Sen who hadn't said anything, as if they all knew the purpose of their trip.
In addition, Zhao Kuan, as a guide, seemed to have his own separate purpose for coming to this forest, and I was the only one who was aimless.
Zhao Kuan heard Li Jingya's words and said: also, I have a story in this area that even children will tell, since you want to listen to it, I'll tell you about it.
Zhao Kuan want to tell me about here, I naturally hurry up to go up and hit the head side by side with him, so listen more clearly.
About the bottomless pit in the small western sky, there is such a legend here in the Park Valley.
The bottomless pit is the home of the living dead, the living dead in the bottomless pit raised many of the golden toads, these toads will climb out of the bottomless pit every day, and when they climb out of the hole, the golden toads will become a gold nuggets, that gold nuggets who want to be able to pick up for money, it is estimated that a lifetime of spending is not finished.
This legend sounds a little ridiculous, so after Zhao Kuan said I laughed: such a legend is also believed?
Zhao Kuan also laughed: this legend, other people do not believe, but our old Zhao's family is believed, because the first to pick up the golden toad is our old Zhao's ancestors, is at the end of the Qing Dynasty, that the golden toad was a county official here, a heavy collection, dedicated to the Empress Dowager Cixi, so the Empress Dowager Cixi also gave him an additional title, the magistrate rejoiced, and came back to give us a large sum of money to our ancestors, so that my family has become a big moneymaker, after the liberation of a piece of the world. After the liberation of the whole country in the fight against the landlords, my family's family business is also divided a clean.
Zhao Kuan said this I was curious to ask him: that path is also your ancestors handed down?
Zhao Kuan nodded and said: Yes, but our grandparents into the mountains to find a lot of people to go, died in the mountains are also a lot of people, but no matter who, and never found the golden toad, so this legend is very famous in our here, but almost no one believes.
Indeed, the credibility of this matter is too low, how can a living thing become a dead nugget?
Even if Zhao Kuan told me that this is his ancestors personally experienced things, I still can not believe, this kind of thing I think it is impossible to exist, either Zhao Kuan's family's ancestral training is problematic, or their ancestors have been fooling their own children and grandchildren.
Thinking about it, I can not help but laugh a little, other ancestors are to protect the children and grandchildren, this old Zhao's ancestors how to change into a fool?
Zhao Kuan asked me to laugh at what, I naturally can not say what I think in my heart, said a: I still think some incredible.
Zhao Kuan also laughed and said: If my family is not too poor, my body is not good, can not do what strength work, I will not believe this thing, my heart is now such a thought, I hope to find the golden toad, let my son finish college, and then marry a good daughter-in-law, even if it is to let me die in this deep forest, I'm also satisfied.
This is the so-called poor parents' heart!
